Teddy's Excellent Adventure

I own nothing, especially not HP. Shout out to Chaos Snow Kitsune again for coming up with this idea and letting me do stuff with it. Italics are thoughts and Bold is for spells.

Privet Drive 1995

Harry Potter, when all was said and done, was a remarkably adaptive teenager. He had a son, a six-year-old with his hair and eyes lay on his bed drooling. He even, according to what he'd learned, had a girlfriend, or possibly wife three years in the future. She was currently standing before him, stretching her back and muttering about the shoddy mattress he had. He considered it a point of pride that he hadn't woke up screaming.

"Lousy cheap Muggle jackas- I mean jerks." Tonks said as she dug her thumbs into her back and groaned with relief as Harry heard several loud pops, "I can't ruddy believe, they think you can sleep on this ruddy mattress."

"I've had worse." Harry said simply, thinking back to the cupboard, "At least here I have a bed and not a mattress on the floor." He could feel the waves of anger coming off of Tonks when he said that, "Probably shouldn't have mentioned that."

"No, I think it's very important information for me. After all, we have a kid together. I need to know how your relatives treated you." Tonks said, "As it stands, they aren't getting close enough to hear his voice when he's yelling at the top of his lungs."

"Will you be alright to work? I hope you're not too sore." Harry said frowning at the mattress. It was a cheap, shoddily built mattress that Vernon Dursley had gotten when a department store had gone out of business for two pounds.

She smirked, "I sent a Patronus to Kingsley, I'm taking the day off for 'family business', specifically the fact that I have a family. I want to take you and Teddy to meet my mother and dad, and then arrange for you to stay somewhere better than here."

She turned and began to gently shake Teddy awake. The little boy murmured something that could have resembled 'five more minutes please' before burying his head deep into the pillow. Tonks smiled softly, "Nope, come on, we need to get you and Ha- and Daddy over to M- to Grandma Andi's."

That got his attention. Teddy hadn't seen his grandmother since she died back in his original timeline. Teddy popped his eyes open and shot out of bed, "Let's go see Grandma Andi!"

Harry looked at the boy and smiled, as his moved to the woman behind his son, he realized she had the same smile on her face. This is our son... He thought, "I'd love to get out of here, but how can I leave?"

"Let's take the Knight Bus, can we take the Knight Bus? Please please please please please?" Teddy shouted. Harry found himself thankful for the silencing charm Tonks had put on the room before she got dressed this morning.

Harry looked at Tonks who shrugged, "It's easier than trying to side-along the both of you." She said with a grin.

Teddy pumped his fist in triumph. "Yes! Knight Bus!" He shouted as he took Harry and Tonks' hands and began to pull them towards the door. When Harry opened the door he found his aunt standing there.

"Why haven't you started breakfas-" Petunia stopped mid-diatribe as she noticed that there were two others in the room, "What is going on in here? Vernon! He's brought more of his kind here!" She shouted to her husband.

Harry sighed, "Don't worry Aunt Petunia, we are leaving."

"Too right, and you won't see him until next summer, C'mon Harry," Tonks flicked her wand and grinned as she saw the color leave Petunia's face. All of Harry's school things flew into his trunk. Petunia shrieked as the trunk then began to shrink down until it was no bigger than a matchbox. Tonks bent to pick it up and handed it to Harry, "Here we are."

Harry pocketed the trunk and then walked to Hedwig's cage. "Could you help her too?" He asked Tonks. The Auror grinned and tapped the lock with her wand opening it. Harry took Hedwig out and walked towards the window, which Tonks then vanished the bars from.

"Number 17, Watchbell Street-" Tonks began but was surprised when Teddy finished it for her.

"Rye, East Sussex!" Teddy said proudly, "That's where Grandma Andi lives!" It was further proof, Tonks thought, that Teddy was, in fact, her son. Our son. She thought to look over at Harry with a smile.

The owl flew off and the trio brushed past the insensate gawping of Petunia Dursley and further past Vernon, who seemed to be, if Harry wasn't mistaken, turning a shade somewhere between Eggplant and Nightshade.
"Ta for now!" Tonks said, throwing a casual wave behind them.

"Bye, Great Uncle Vernon! Bye, Great Aunt Petunia!" Teddy said, which caused Harry to wince. Three two one and...go

"HARRY POTTER! WHAT DOES THAT BOY MEAN BY CALLING US HIS 'GREAT AUNT AND UNCLE'?" Vernon shouted as he stormed towards the door, stopping when Tonks turned around wand in hand.

"Careful what you stay Dursley. You insult me, I'll hex you. You insult Harry, and I'll hex you." She said evenly, the tip of her wand glowing, "You insult Teddy, and I'll kill you. I'm an Auror, so all I'd have to say is you tried to attack us."

Harry put a hand on hers, "It's okay, they aren't worth it. Come on, we're leaving."

Teddy was quiet as they stood outside of Number Four, Uncle Harry was right...They were mean when he was a kid He thought. After a moment or two of quiet, Teddy took Harry's hand, "Daddy?" He said gaining Harry's attention, "I love you." Teddy hugged Harry tightly. After a moment, Harry knelt and embraced the little boy.

"I-I love you too Teddy." Harry said softly. He did love the boy. He wasn't sure how he already considered Teddy his, but he did. Maybe it was the allure of having a family, a real one, for the first time in his life. He didn't know and he didn't care.

Tonks blinked back a tear and then held out her wand. In a moment the purple Knight Bus had arrived and one transaction of twenty sickles the trio were on their way to the home of Andromeda and Ted Tonks.

"Whee!" Teddy shouted as the Bus bolted forward, "This is my favorite way to visit Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione," he explained, "Daddy takes me this way to see them every weekend!"

"Hear that 'Daddy'?" Tonks teased Harry, "You get this special joy every weekend." She grinned only to blush when the Bus took a sharp turn and she practically fell into Harry's lap. She looked up into his eyes, I guess a girl could fall for those..they are very pretty green eyes...

She's so beautiful...she really chose me? Harry thought as he likewise stared into her brown eyes. Tonks' eyes were a beautiful caramel brown color. He had a distinct feeling that he could look into them forever and never be able to count each little fleck of black and gold among the brown.

"Watchbell Street, Rye!" Came the voice of Stan Shunpike. Harry and Tonks got up and helped Teddy off of the bus. Number 17 looked to Harry the same all of the other little homes along the street.

Teddy raced up to the front door, he wanted to fling the door open and race inside, but he knew he needed to wait for his mother. When Tonks got to the door, she looked down at Teddy, "Alright, let me talk to Mum, and then you and Harry can come in, alright?" Teddy nodded and Tonks took in a calming breath before opening the door.

"GRANDMA ANDI!" Teddy cried, bursting past Tonks and throwing himself into the arms of a very confused Andromeda Tonks.

Tonks groaned and rubbed her temples, "I guess there's no sense in trying to ease into this. Let's all go into the living room and talk..." She said, motioning for Harry to come with her.

A Half Hour or so Later

"So that's it...he showed up in Aunt Walburga's study...said he was our son from the future," Tonks said, looking from her mother to her son who sat between Harry and herself beaming at his grandparents. "He can change like me, but he prefers Harry's hair and eyes..." She said as Teddy proved it by switching to bright green hair then back to the messy black he had come in with.

"But by the time he came back, we were all dead, except for Harry here?" Ted Tonks didn't know what to make of any of this. He thought back to his youth when he'd fallen in love with the most beautiful witch he'd ever seen. The idea that in three years or so he would be taken from her, along with their daughter terrified him.

Tonks nodded, "Mum and Harry take care of him...until she passes..." She really did not like this part of the conversation, "I don't want to die, I don't want you to die, so I'm going to talk to Dumbledore. Maybe he can figure out something."

Andromeda was curious about how her daughter could end up with a partner so much younger than herself. She'd been head over heels in love with Ted during their time at Hogwarts, but she'd also been three months older than him.

Her daughter was six years older than Harry Potter.

Andromeda looked at Harry then, "So, Harry, please tell us what you think about all of this..." She was very interested in the views of the young man who had apparently won her daughter's heart. The fact that he won her heart in the near future was still something she had to get used to.

"He's our son. That's really all that matters." Harry said, ruffling Teddy's hair fondly, "Tonks and I can figure out what we are to each other later. For now, we are just...friends who have a baby together." He could handle that.

Teddy, however, wanted more from his newly regained family, "Daddy, I remember how you were before Aunt Ginny gave you the juice that made you marry her," he said looking from Harry to Tonks, "You told Grandma Andi that you missed Mummy every day..." That was true. Harry had missed Tonks, they had been very good friends in the years leading up to the final battle.

Tonks frowned at the second mention of 'juice'. "Teddy, will you please tell me more about the 'juice' Aunt Ginny used on Harry?" The Auror in her wanted to get to the bottom of this. There's no way I'm going to let some love potion using hussy around the father of my son. She thought, grinding her teeth quietly at the thought of Harry losing his free will in addition to losing her.

"Aunt Ginny used juice to make Daddy marry her. She also used juice to make Daddy sleepy when she wanted her nighttime friend to come to visit." Teddy said to Tonks. "I didn't like her nighttime friend. He said I was a 'stupid kid'."

Harry saw Tonks' hair turn deep crimson, a crimson which matched her eyes. He placed a hand over hers to try and calm her. The fact that it did make her hair slowly turn back to its previous pink hue was not lost on Andromeda. "She hasn't done it yet Tonks," Harry said quietly, "We can't blame her for something she does in the future."

"Maybe we can't," Tonks allowed, "But she's not getting near either of you. Especially not until I've taught you the charm to test for potions in your food and drink." She then looked down at her son and put her arm around him, squeezing him with a one-armed hug, "As for you Mr. Theodore Edward Potter, you were smart enough that you managed to get a magical artifact to bring you here to us, so I'd say that her 'nighttime friend' is the stupid one."

"That's right." Harry said, "You're very smart, and you're also very observant. I want to be an Auror like your mother, and I think you would also be a great Auror some day." He smiled to the boy. Teddy hugged Harry and Tonks, his hair flashing from black to pink and back again.

Ted held a small grin as he looked at his wife and then over to his daughter and her new family, "Well, what is on the agenda for the day?" He asked Tonks, "Do you have anything special planned?"

Tonks thought for a moment and then looked at Teddy, "Hey, did anyone ever take you to the Castle?" She grinned as Teddy shook his head, "Well, Rye Castle isn't just a pile of stones with a gift shop, if you are a witch or wizards like me and your dad, you can get into the special part just for us. Do you want to go see the Castle?"

Teddy nodded furiously and Tonks laughed. Harry laughed as well and for a moment their eyes met. Yeah, Tonks thought, I can see how me in the future could have ended up falling for him...

Rye Castle

Tonks led Harry and Teddy past what appeared to be a broken turnstile into the Castle proper. Checking that there were no Muggles nearby, she tapped the brickwork beside a painting of Henry III with her wand and stood back. Like with Diagon Alley, Harry watched as the bricks began to vanish, revealing a small doorway.

"Welcome to the magical side of Rye Castle." She said taking Teddy and Harry's hands and leading them inside. Harry found that he really liked the feel of her hand in his. Tonks' hand was, if he was being honest, dainty compared to his own. Her skin was much softer due to the work the Dursleys had him perform during the summer. The part he found liked the best was the way she squeezed his hand very softly just before letting go again.

The magical side of the Castle was full of shops, "This is where the magical families who live in Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, and Surrey do a lot of their shopping when they don't want to go to Diagon Alley." Tonks explained, "When I was your age, my dad would bring me here every weekend to buy the things that Mum would confiscate if she found them. Namely-"

"Sugar Quills!" Teddy shouted, "Grandma Andi told me about when you rotted your teeth with too many Sugar Quills!" He then giggled at the look on his mothers face. Harry started to laugh but stopped when he saw Tonks turn to face him.

"Careful 'Daddy'," She said, the low tone mitigated by the twinkle in her eye, "I can use magic and you can't...I don't think you'd like your nose showed up beside your nethers.." She winked at him and made her own nose vanish, showing him what it would look like.

Harry grinned and stepped in, "Alright 'Mummy', what do I get if I'm good?" Harry wasn't sure where the slight huskiness of his voice came from. Maybe it was the knowledge that he had proof standing beside him that he'd gotten her to like him before, maybe it the fact that Tonks was already kissing him and wait a second...

Tonks, Harry was learning, tasted like bubblegum. He liked bubblegum, or maybe it was just that he liked kissing Tonks.

When the kiss broke she looked into his eyes, "Something like that. Normally I'd wait a few dates in, but I think given the circumstances that we can skip ahead to this stage." She said softly. She wasn't quite sure why she kissed him. She'd told him the night before that she liked her boyfriends to be older, not six years younger than her. But she had kissed him, and she had enjoyed it. Maybe this was the moment we decided to be together the first time... She thought as she stepped back and took their hands again.

Teddy mentally pumped his fist in celebration. Mummy and Uncle Harry kissed! All I have to do is keep them happy like this and they'll be together and then I'll have my family! He allowed his mother to lead him and Harry through the shops. This day was already better than he could have dreamed of.