James first saw her when he was exactly one year and one week old exactly, he was sitting in his father's lap while his mother was holding his four month old brother who was fussing slightly. They were waiting in their home for his little brother's Godmother to bring her new born baby over.
All his father would say when he asked what the baby looked like was 'A little Jack.' which made James bounce in anticipation. He liked his Godbrother Jack he was six years older and awesome. He was calm cool and collected and could control his cousins with an ease that Grandma Weasley couldn't.
He wasn't sure why his mother laughed at his father, or why his father grinned back. But he was sure it had something to do with what he said after his father explained what the baby looked like 'I can't wait to meet him!'. Or it could have been an inside joke. Teddy told James about inside jokes a week before that so now James was sure that everytime adults laughed it was an inside joke against him.
When the doorbell rang his father lifted him up and sat him by his mother who was grinning at him with the same grin his father gave her a couple weeks ago. A few moments later, Jack came in with a glare in his eyes until he caught sight of little Al, Albus born in January and a full month and half early was growing fast. And the protector in Jack wanted to check in on him.
After patting James on the head and cooing to Albus, a giggling sound from the entrance way caught James' ear. It sounded like his cousin Lucy. Was Uncle Percy coming over and his father not tell him. So he turned around and stood up, using the back of the couch for leverage and saw the three adults in the entrance way.
His father on the left smiling at the woman with black hair, he liked her, she was his Aunt Riley. She always bought him his favorate French chocolate every time she went down to France. He also liked how her hair could change colors like his Aunt Dora and Teddy. Today it was up in a black ponytail with a pink and white stripes in it on the right and left sides. Just behind her was a tall man, with a cold stare, Severus Snape. James didnt like him much, but his parents said he was a wonderful man, and that he shouldn't scream everytime he saw him. But he couldnt be that bad could he? Albus was named after him and he was Jack's father, and since Jack was awesome so could his dad.
Years later he would probably laugh at his year old logic. But at this moment it made sense.
Riley suddenly caught sight of James and smiled sweetly at him. And walked over with a cooing sound being emitted from the bundle she held in her arms. "Hello James want to see Kathy?" she asked and he blinked. Wasnt Kathy a girl name? Has his dad lied to him, obviously a girl couldnt be a little Jack, Jack was a boy!
"Kathy a girl?" He asked.
"Yes Kathy is a girl. She's very special to, she was born on your birthday." Riley smiled.
James' nose scrunched, he didnt want to share a birthday with a girl! What would Louis and Fred think of him? But his parents had told him to be nice so he plopped down on the couch and nodded. "Wanna see!" he said holding his arms up like he did when he wanted to hold Albus.
Riley smiled and put the emerald green bundle, like his dad's eyes, into his tiny arms rearranging him and the bundle until he had to sit cross-legged and had his back in the corner of the couch between the back and arm. With one of his arms safely keeping the head straight, Riley moved the cloth from the baby's face.
And James startled. She was obviously a girl, but she had the blonde hair of Jack and the lavender eyes as well. Her eyes were staring right up at him and she giggled.
He could get used to sharing his birthday with her, because after that little face grinning up at him, his father just said she was making faces and was only a week old and dont be silly James, she was his.
And James Sirius Potter protected everything that was his.
A/N: AU, Snape, Remus, Dora, and Sirius live! Riley and Kathlynn are obviously OC's, and a year old James is allowed to think what he wants, and if he thinks she's his, obviously she is... He is the son of Harry Potter afterall, he gets everything he wants! R&R please!
