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Anduin paused in the middle of the line he had just been reading when the door to their bedchambers was pushed open just a sliver, and in the little bit of the light that cast in from the sitting room outside and what his reading lamp offered he could see the small dark shape of the dragon slip in and hurry his way towards the bed with light scrapes of his claws against the floor.
His lips turned into a smile as Wrathion disappeared behind the edge of the bed, and after a moment of what he knew was the whelp measuring the force needed to make the jump he was lightly hopping up onto the edge of the mattress and finding his balance with his short clubbed tail and flared wings.
The dragon did not even pay attention to his mate though, as he turned to step over the covers with his short legs that threatened to sink him into the fabrics, and made his way to the two small bundled shapes that had been resting surprisingly peacefully next to Anduin while he read.
Wrathion stepped carefully between the two sleeping babies and reached out his snout to gently sniff them both as if to check that they were still both his and no one had come to swap them out while he wasn't looking. And then with softness that he seemed to reserve for his whelps only he rubbed his scaly cheek on them both in affection gently enough that they wouldn't wake up. It had them both twitch their tiny curled fingers hesitantly in their sleep as if they weren't sure if they should try to reach out for their father's warmth or not.
"They have been on surprisingly good behavior," Anduin said softly to not disturb the pleasant moment, watching as Wrathion evidently spotted something in the outer corner of Varia's eye as he reached out to gently lick her soft face clean with his rough tongue. Satisfied with his checkup of his children then the dragon was carefully stepping over Orion's sleeping form, his short legs barely long enough to reach without ending up kicking him in the process, and he moved to climb to Anduin's lap instead so he could flop over.
"Of course they have, they are mine after all," the whelp said with a pleased purr to his voice, making himself comfortable as he stretched his rear limbs out and pressed his front paws against the human's flattening stomach. The smugness drew a snort out of Anduin, who was automatically accommodating to the dragon's claim for space by moving his arms so he could possibly continue still reading even while Wrathion got comfortable on him.
"Ah yes, they clearly got that from you," he said dryly, thinking that their whelps showing their disagreement through temperamental biting must have come from him then and had nothing to do with the small dragon on his lap who was known for doing exactly the same when he wasn't this comfortable.

