Fifteen year old Teddy Lupin-Potter kicked off his shoes and fell back onto his bed. Another school year, been and gone, and now time for his favourite time of the year, Summer!
"Teddy, will you play a game with me?" Lily asked, coming into his room.
Teddy sat up at the sound of his adopted sister's voice, "Sure, Petal, what's up?"
Lily's emerald eyes shone, " I want to pull a prank on James and Sirius," she pouted, eyes darkening a little at the mention of her older brothers, "they charmed my dolly's to walk around, and it scared me, but when I asked them how to get rid of it they said, Uncle Fred and Uncle George told them, and that it was a twin secret, and it's not fair!" she said, stamping her foot.
Teddy had to try desperately hide his laugher, Lily was only ten, and already she could give her mother a run for her money. Lauren Potter had met Harry about a year after the final battle, and almost instantly it was love. She had been the one to help Harry look after Teddy when he was a baby, and she has been the one to help Harry, not forget, but move on and cope with Ginny and Ron's deaths.
"Sure, Petal, what did you have in mind?" Teddy grinned.
Lily joined him sitting on the bed and began to whisper her plan, which involved a lot of ice and cold water.
"So, Harry, love, when are you going to tell him?" Lauren Potter asked her husband, conversing in hushed tones at the kitchen counter.
"I don't know if I will, I mean, there's still a chance that it won't happen." Harry sighed, his head in his hands.
"Oh, Harry, but it could be true, that is just like something Death Eaters and Voldemort would have done, a charm to make someone appear dead, so that their own friends, family and loved ones would be the people to send them to their death, burying them alive." Lauren argued.
"But even if it were true, all the bodies of those who died at the Final Battle are gone from the tombs at Hogwarts, and because no-one ever went in there, we have no way of knowing whether anyone was hit with that spell!" Harry said.
"But someone must have been, and whoever stole the bodies just didn't know who, so they took them all!" Lauren said.
"If they did, all the bodies have probably been burnt by now." Harry sighed defeated.
Anger flashed across her blue-green eyes, "Who are you and what have you done with my husband?" she growled, "He wouldn't have been a coward about something as important as this. This could give Teddy back his real parents, it could bring back Ginny or Ron, or anyone who died that night, and if you're too chicken to find out, then I'm not sure why I married you!"
Her outburst had it's desired effect. Lauren always knew when Harry was hiding something, you just had to make him angry enough to blurt it out.
"God, Lauren, you have no bloody idea! Remus was a father to me, he was the only one there for me when Sirius died, he saved my life I don't know how many times, but he died the last time he fought for me, and no matter what I did, I've never been able to thank him for that, so don't you dare suggest that I'm denying Teddy his father, I just don't know what to bloody well do!" he roared.
Lauren edged away a little, eyes wide, he'd never shouted like that before, it was lucky she'd put a silencing charm on the kitchen.
Harry saw the flicker of fear dance across his wife's eyes, and instantly regretted what he'd done. He stepped forward, face etched with disgust at himself and concern for his wife.
"Laurie, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it, I..."
"It's alright, love, you did mean it, but you needed to get it off your chest, otherwise it would have eaten away at you, I shouldn't have said those things, I'm sorry." she said quietly.
Harry wrapped his strong arms around her slender frame and smiled down at her weakly, "What on earth did I do to deserve you?" he whispered.
Lauren reached up and kissed him lightly, "Saving the world may have had something to do with it, or maybe it's just because I love you." she whispered against his lips.
Harry kissed her again, pouring all his love, his happiness, his peace, his power into that one kiss, that one passionate kiss.
Later that evening, Harry called Teddy into his office.
"Hey Dad!" Teddy greeted him casually, "Funny how this never happens in school!" he joked.
Harry inwardly winced at Teddy calling him dad, it reminded him of the times he'd referred to Remus as 'my dad' and although he knew Teddy understood Remus was his real dad, Harry had just adopted him, it still hurt him, but he couldn't tell Teddy that.
"Only because I gave you the map and the cloak, which I expect to be given to James and Sirius this year, no more late night strolls, at least during OWLs!" he smiled, "I have to talk to you about something quite important."
Teddy heard the seriousness of his adopted father's tone and he knew that this was not a time to be playing about, "I'm listening!" he said.
Harry took a deep breath, "The bodies of those who died at the Final Battle have been stolen."
"What? I kill the bloody freaks, my parents were there!" Teddy shouted.
"No, listen, we have been doing research recently and we have discovered that not all those who were there were hit with the killing curse. Some were hit with a jinx called 'simulatio mors mortis', it means that they were put into a deep sleep, there hearts slowed down so that it was impossible to pick up a pulse, and air was cut off, but part of the spell means they wouldn't have to breathe until they woke up again. The spell itself means, 'pretend death'" Harry said.
"So, you're telling me, that somewhere out there, being held captive by some loony, my parents could be alive?" Teddy said slowly.
"Yes," Harry nodded, "And I swear to you that I will do everything in my power to find them."
Somewhere, hundreds of thousands of miles away, a tall man with sandy hair, streaked with grey, opened his deep blue eyes wide and choked a breath, for the first time in fifteen years.
SO, my first HP fan-fic ever. What d'ya think?