A/N: Family fluff. RL/NT. It has been really long since I have managed to write anything... So I'm pretty excited. Please read and review (please don't be too harsh on me... I'm pretty scared...) Hope you enjoy! :)
A Different Kind of Lullaby
I wake up middle of the night to noise of my son crying. My son. The thought still amazes me; I'm a father. I have a son... I feel how a goofy grin, the one which Dora has teased me about in these couple of days, forms to my lips. I'm already half out from the bed when I hear Dora saying "Don't bother, I'll go. I bet he's hungry". I feel the bed strings spring as she rises from the bed and makes her way to the crib.
"Shhh..." I hear her sweet voice hushing Teddy. The room is quite dark, but I can still see her silhouette against the window as she lifts Teddy from the crib to her shoulder and makes her way to the door, hushing the baby gently. "Try to sleep", she calls before leaving the room. After she has closed the door the noise fades a little bit. I lay down again and feel how the tiredness takes me over once again. Oh how much I love them, i think before I fall back to sleep.
A screeching noise splits the air. Someone is screaming... Oh God...Dora! Teddy! What's happening!? In seconds I have jumped from the bed, grabbed my wand and heart pounding fast in my chest, rushed to the livingroom, where's the noise is coming from. The screaming is still going on when I run in the room, wand ready to save my family. But before I can locate the intruders, I hear a voice saying:
"Oh sorry, sweetheart, did the music wake you up? "
Music?
Now I can see Dora sitting on the sofa, holding Teddy. Both unharmed. So the screaming (which is still pounding my eardrums) is'nt coming from them but-
My eyes flicker to the old radio which is placed next to sofa. And top of the radio is a record bearing the name Weird Sisters.
The screeching and screaming was music?
I must look baffled, because Dora is starts explaining: "I tried everything, but he didin't calm down. So I tried music. He must remember it from the womb, because look at him now!"
To my utter horror, Teddy looks completely content in his mother's arms, yawning a little bit and looking like he's going to fall asleep any minute now.
Oh, God. He actually likes that racket, does he?
"Y- you have corrupted our son to like that horrible screeching you call music?" I manage to stutter out.
"Corrupted? Oh, come on Remus, it's not that bad" Dora says, smiling. She carefully rises from the sofa and makes her way to me. "Besides, how anything could corrupt something this perfect?" she asks, looking at Teddy, whose eyes are beginning to droop, with a look holding in so much love that I have to smile, despite the ear splitting noise.
"Come here" I say, and she does. I embrace them both, kiss Dora on the top of her head and then stroke Teddy's (who's now fast asleep) turquoise hair. "I love you both so much" I say. And I know it's true. Even if they both like horrendous, loud music, I could not love them more.