Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling and her associates do. There is a slight crossing with NCIS but it's so small I'm labeling this just Harry Potter. But I don't own NCIS either.
AN: Just a short kind of sad little one shot I wrote. It's about Sirius, FemHarry, and Teddy. I didn't give FemHarry a name but it would be some Fem version of Harry. Like Harriet Lilith Potter. I just changed a little tibit of it because I realised something wouldn't work. Thanks for reading.
Stealing Children Runs in the Family
"Daddy?" the little girl, no more than four, cried as she looked at her godfather. The man winced as soon as the name was called. "Princess, we talked about this remember. I'm not your father, James was remember?" he asked. The little girl shook her head and stomped her foot. "Daddy!" she yelled. The man winced again and sighed. "Did you need anything, Princess?" he asked. "Nightmare!" the girl shrieked. The man lifted up the blankets and the girl scrambled under them and cuddled up against him. The man stayed up and watched as her breath evened out and knew she was once again sleeping. He rolled over slightly so that he was looking at the ceiling.
"I'm sorry James, I didn't mean to steal your little girl. But she won't stop, no matter what I say. I've tried James, I really did but she just won't stop." The man whispered to the ceiling, as a single tear rolled down his face.
~*8*~
The little girl had now grown into a beautiful young woman, was training to become a Federal Agent in America. She was a renting a room in a house owned by one of the best field Agents around. Her Godfather couldn't bear to leave England permanently so he hadn't moved to America with her. "So you're renting out the extra room to a probie and you're still paying the house off right?" one of Tony's teammate asked. "Yep, she's paying me and I'm using the money to help pay off the house." The young woman couldn't see him but she knew he was grinning. She suppressed a giggle as the house belonged to her godfather and he insisted on sending the rent from the house to her so she could have some spending money even though she was all set and would be until the day she died even with all the charity her family did.
"You better not get too drunk Tony, my Godson's flight is going to get in at eleven and you promised to give me a ride to pick him up from the airport." The woman said. "Do you not have a license?" the teammate asked. "I don't have a car and I don't have a helmet that would fit him and I don't have a sidecar right now and there's no way he's riding on just the main part of the bike." The woman replied before she went back upstairs.
~*8*~
The young woman was sitting up in her bed crying, holding the little boy close. A sharp rap on the door was all the warning she got before her housemate opened her door. "Any reason why you're crying?" the older man asked. "He called me Mommy." She whispered. "Coagulations" the man said smiling. He just barely missed the flying cup sent towards his head. "You don't understand. I stole her little boy!" she replied harshly, before sobbing again. "They made you his Godmother so that if anything happened to them you could take care of him right?" he asked. The young woman nodded. "Then what's the problem?" he asked. He was on the receiving end of a look that if looks would kill he would have died a hundred times from it. "I stole his mother's title, I stole him from her!" she said angrily. Tony confused just closed the door. The young woman sighed. "I'm sorry Cousin, I didn't mean to steal your little boy from you." The young woman whispered upwards before she fell into a fitful rest dreaming of her cousin and the harsh words she imagined her saying.
~*8*~
"I'm sorry. I never understood why you wanted me to stop so much until Teddy started." The woman said looking at her godfather's grave. "I can't imagine how hard that must have been for you. That most of been the hardest part huh, excepting that I wouldn't stop calling you my father." She said. "I'm going to go talk to Nymph, okay, Daddy? And I'll probably go say hi to Remus too and Mum and Dad then I'll have to go back home. But I'll come and see you real soon okay? I love you Daddy." The woman said rising from her spot on the ground and walked to her cousin's grave.
~*8*~
"Hey Nymph, it's me, I know you probably don't want to talk to me but I just wanted to say that I'm really, really sorry I didn't mean to steal your little boy. I just wanted you to know that. I know I tell you every night but this is different. I fell like you can all hear me best at your… graves." The woman said tucking away some her hair and sighed. "I love him as much as I would love my own children if not more if I had any. I hope that doesn't make you hate me more than you already do. I got to go, my dear cousin. I love you, even if you hate me." She said before once again rose and walked out of the graveyard after visiting her birthparents and pseudo-uncle.
~*8*~
The aging woman stopped in front of the gravestone marked as Nymphadora Lupin nee Tonks "He went back to being your little boy, you know. He stopped calling me his mom. I…I didn't think it would hurt so much to lose him but it does, it really does. I've gotta go, love you Nymph." She said before leaving.
"I was wrong Dad. I was so very wrong." The woman said tucking her graying hair. "It's when they stop calling you their parent that's the hardest. Teddy hasn't called me mom in ages. I'm glad I only ever stopped once, Dad, because I don't think I could live with myself if I had stopped permanently." The aging woman said. A hand on her shoulder shocked her but what she heard next was the best thing she ever heard in her entire life. "Mom," her godson started "it's time to go. You have a plane to catch." The aging woman nodded and rose to her feet. "Bye Daddy, I love you and I'll come and see you again soon, okay? I'll miss you!" The aging woman said. Then she turned to her godson and gave him a big hug. "I love you Teddy, more than I love Dad, and that's very hard to beat."
"Mom, I…I. Tony's son, he named me the Godfather of his daughter. I don't want to have to go through what you and Granddad Padfoot did but he's my best mate and I can't turn him down. I don't know what to do." The young man said. The old woman smiled and pulled him into a big hug and whispered in his ear. "Accept it Teddy but just remind him stealing children runs in the family, after all."
