AN: Thanks for reviewing! I hope this chapter turns out good… It's Lily, Sev, and Peter…. Ooh… And little Harry finally gets to meet Lily! Later in the story is when Lily's parents meet Harry, probably Christmas break. So anyway, without further ado… Chapter 3!

Disclaimer: I don't know anything Harry Potter

James's POV:

Sirius and I had stayed up pretty late and it was about 1 in the morning when the monitoring charms on my bed went off. I ran upstairs, Sirius right on my trail. As we got closer we could hear the word daddy being screamed. I opened the door to see Harry sitting on the bed, tears pouring down his face. He was screaming daddy over and over again. Mum and dad had arrived at the door but I ignored them in favor of helping Harry, who had spotted me and held his hands up pitifully. I ran over to Harry and scooped him up, sitting down on the bed.

"Shh, Harry, hey, hey what happened? Did you have a bad dream?" Harry nodded weakly. I rubbed his back soothingly. "I need you to calm down so you don't get sick alright?" I was getting worried, he was coughing and crying, snot was coming from his nose, his face was red and he was gulping down shuddering breaths.

Mum came over and touched my shoulder. I looked up from my crying son. She pointed to where she had transfigured my desk chair into a rocking chair. I got up, wrapping Harry in a blanket, and walked. Mum smiled at me before leaving with dad. Sirius shut off the light as I turned on a lamp, and he got to bed. I just rocked Harry, trying to calm him down.

"Daddy? Are you gonna send me back?"

"Never Harry. You are never going back. I've got you now. No one will hurt you, not if I can help it." I promised him immediately understanding the question. "Do you want to tell me what happened? It might make you feel better." He hiccupped.

"Uncle Vernon was mad at me and he hurt me daddy! It hurt!" He cried again. I looked up to see Sirius sitting in bed, watching us intently. He gestured for me to hang on and left the room. I got Harry calmed down again and Sirius came back up with a small mug of hot chocolate. I smiled at him, taking the mug.

"Hey Harry? You want some hot chocolate? Sirius brought it for you." Harry peaked out from my neck and nodded a bit. I smiled and handed him the mug. He took a sip and gave the smallest of smiles, but it was still there.

"Hey Prongslet, I also got these for you, from our shopping trip today." Sirius held up the stag and dog plushies that he had picked out at the toy store today. I took the mug from him as he tentatively reached out for them and held them close.

"Thanks Siri." He whispered.

"Anytime Prongslet." He ruffled Harry's hair and went to lie down again after saying goodnight and handing me a stack of book at my request.

After Harry was done with his hot chocolate, I set the mug down on the desk beside me and looked down at the messy mop of hair just like my own. Harry had rested his head against my chest, holding his stag and dog that he had named Prongs and Padfoot respectively. I kissed his head and he looked up at me.

"Hey kiddo, want to go back to sleep?" I whispered, as I noticed Sirius was asleep judging by the snores. Harry shook his head and snuggled deeper into me. I squeezed him in a hug. "Then how about we read some books? How does that sound?" He nodded at me, not wanting to talk I guess. I reached over and grabbed a book called Green Eggs and Ham by some guy named Dr. Seuss. We got a whole collection of this dude's books, we had been looking at them in the store, and Harry had fallen in love with them.

The rest of the night was spent reading books and just rocking back and forth. I was tired. I wasn't going to get any sleep that night and I could only hope that I would be able too if everything goes smoothly on the train. Then Lily could watch him, if not, well, then Sirius could watch him.

-Time Skip-

We got to the station early because we didn't want a big crowd to be there for the sake of Harry. He was half-asleep but we didn't want him freaking out. He was scared enough with only Dumbledore and McGonagall yesterday. Only a few people were on the platform so we found an empty compartment pretty easily. Sirius and I were at the back of the train, that way no one would bother us hopefully. Dad had helped with me and Harry's trunk, and Sirius said he would go wait for Lily.

We had decided last night, before the nightmare, that Sirius would intercept Lily and tell her we had to talk, it was not some trick. My parents would be there to back him up as well, and they could talk to Lily's parents. I sat down in the corner by the window and held Harry, with his blanket wrapped around him. He was trying so hard to fight sleep.

"Harry, go to sleep. I'll be right here, and mummy should be here when you wake up." He nodded and he was knocked out within a minute, though I wasn't to far behind him. My arms were wrapped around him protectively as I fell asleep.

~oOo~

Lily's POV:

I had just ran through the barrier with my mum, dad, sister, and Sev. Severus was able to come with us since he lives so close. I was really looking forward to going back to Hogwarts, and my day was going great. That is, until Black came up to us. His friend Remus, (the only one I could tolerate in their little group) with him. I was happy Potter was with him, he is such an arrogant bullying little toe rag. Sev and I both glared at the two.

"What do you want Black?" My parent's looked at me curiously, about to say something but Black interrupted.

"Look, Ev-Lily." I was a bit shocked at that. "I- well, you see. Oh this was much easier to explain to Remus."

"What? Where's Potter? Surprised he isn't here."

"He- well, you see. The thing is Lily. We really need you to sit with us on the train today." He said hurriedly. I blinked. "Sni-Severus can come too, it's not a trap or prank or anything. I swear."

"Why would we want to sit with you?" I asked.

"Look, it's hard to explain, and we don't want a lot of people seeing him yet, as he get's rather frightened…"

"Who?" He can't be talking about Potter.

"I have to let James tell you."

Just then, who could only be Mr. and Mrs. Potter came up behind Sirius.

"Sirius, why don't you go check on them? My guess would be that James fell asleep, he didn't get any last night. We will talk to them alright?" He nodded, biting his lip, and turned around, only to see Peter Pettigrew.

"Hi Sirius! Remus." Sirius only scowled and pushed past them, muttering something about traitors, Remus walking off with him. Peter looked terribly confused at all of us. I could tell the adult Potter were trying not to glare at him and wondered what in the world was going on. Peter turned and hurried to his parents and the Potters looked at us, more so, me.

"You're Lily Evans aren't you?" I nodded and Mr. Potter smiled warmly. "I need you to trust me on this. Go to the last compartment. What they are going to tell you, show you… Keep an open mind about it. I know it will seem unbelievable, but it's true. James can show you proof, and you can ask the headmaster and your head of house for confirmation. Please Lily. James is going to need your help with this if you are willing."

I looked to them, to Sev, who shrugged, to my parents.

"Why can't you just tell me what this is about?" I asked.

"This is for James to tell you. Lily I know how James can be, but he really is very sweet, and he will need you… they both will."

"Both?" I asked Mrs. Potter. What were they talking about?

"Lily, why don't you two just go sit there, see what they have to say?" Dad said.

I looked to Severus, he looked skeptical, like myself. But surely his parents wouldn't help prank us? Sev nodded at me and we agreed. Mr. Potter offered to help with our trunks while I said goodbye to my parents and sister. She only sneered at me. I sighed and we followed Mr. Potter on the train. He led us to the last compartment where Sirius and Remus were standing guard. Peter was trying to get in.

"Why can't I sit with you?" He asked.

"Why don't you go sit with those slithering friends you were talking to last year. I didn't want to believe the rumors last year Peter, but I know they were true." Sirius bit out nastily. (So I'm gonna pretend that Peter started talking to Slytherins about death eater stuff in 3rd year kay? Kay. Great! Happy reading!)

"That's not true! What did I do to you?"

I felt bad for him. Surely whatever he did couldn't be that bad? Although, even Remus was glaring at him, and Remus never got very angry.

"Where's James? He will want me to sit with you guys."

"No he won't! Go away Pettigrew, before I hex you." Sirius snarled, wand in hand. Peter scampered off, past us. We had been held back by Mr. Potter's hand so Sirius and Remus would deal with it.

We moved closer to the compartment, but we couldn't see in it as Remus and Sirius were blocking it extremely well.

"How are they?"

"Asleep, both of them. I figured it would be fine to let them sleep for now." Sirius said, glancing nervously at me. Remus just looked at Mr. Potter.

"Is it- Is he really-"

"Yes." He answered without waiting for the rest of the question.

"Okay, what is going on?" I asked.

The three males sighed as they opened the compartment door. I was shocked to see not only James Potter, but also a very young boy who looked just like him, asleep on his lap in the corner of the compartment, right by the window. Mr. Potter put our trunks on the railing above and shook James a bit, careful not to do the same to the boy on his lap.

"Hmmm?" James hummed.

"Lily is here James." His dad said. "And her friend Severus. I'm going to go alright? Owl us if you need too." He said as James nodded and rubbed his eyes, upsetting his glasses in the process. Mr. Potter kissed both the boys on the head and left. James started to wake up more.

"Lily, Severus. How are you?" He asked. My eyebrows shot up in surprise as his politeness to the both of us. "Good holiday?"

Sev didn't answer, so I chose to.

"Yes, it was pretty good. And yours?"

"Great, just different as of yesterday." He said glancing down at the boy who looked to be about 3 or 4.

"I didn't think you had a little brother, and why is he on the train?"

"He isn't my little brother, er… he, well, he is my, um." He cleared his throat. "He's my son… from the future." My mouth dropped open, Sev's too.

"You can't expect me to believe you."

"Lily, please."

"And by the way everyone is acting, I suppose you think I'M the mother? No way would I marry you let alone have a son with you." I said. I had to restrain my self from yelling. Sirius had closed the compartment behind us, so no one else heard the conversation we were having.

"Lily, please. You've got to believe me. And please be careful what you say. What if he had been awake?"

"You're lying, and we are leaving."

"I have proof…" He said as he reached in his robes. The little boy stirred and his eyes fluttered open for a second before closing again. I gasped as I saw his eyes. They were the exact same as mine. James had pulled out a parchment. "Lily, here is from his diagnostic scan we took yesterday, he well. He was pretty beat up. I'll tell you the whole story. Just please. Please believe me. He sounded desperate as I took the parchment and scanned it. It had my name as mother. He was born 6 years from now. Sev was looking over my shoulder. He had sucked in a sharp breath, my guess would be he read the injuries. Much like I had. I handed the parchment to Remus, who had been trying to read it as well, and sat down across from James and the little boy named Harry, Sev right by my side.

"I'll let you explain. Then I'll decide whether or not I believe you." I told him. He gave a relieved sigh along with a tired smile, and started to tell the story.

-Time Skip-

James's POV:

I was relieved when I saw that Lily came, the butterflies were all over my stomach as cheesy as that sounds, even if she brought Snape. I was being nice to him for Harry's sake mostly. Late last night we had been talking, he asked if we would see Lily and Snape. I had been shocked when he said that last bit. I told him probably. He had looked at me with big, pleading eyes, and asked if I was going to be nice to him. I told him I would, and I told Sirius to as well. It had taken all my will power to be nice when I saw him.

I was jealous. I admit it. I like Lily, a lot. But he was her best friend. He was the one she always hung around. I guess the pranks in the past had always been about me trying to show Lily he wasn't that great. It was doing pretty much the opposite.

I was grateful when Lily agreed to stay in the compartment and let me explain. She listened as I went into detail about everything. I even told her about her sister and her future husband's treatment of Harry, to which Lily seemed very, very. Angry, putting it lightly anyway. I think she was starting to believe me, but I had to drive it home somehow.

"I still don't know…"

"You think I could make this up? You think I would make this up? Lily, I'm not lying. I know you haven't talked to him yet or anything, as he is still asleep, but don't you feel this overwhelming urge to protect him? You know… He has your eyes…"

"I saw them." I stared at her. "When you were reaching for the parchment, his eyes opened for a second before closing again… They are just like mine… You're not lying are you James?" I smiled at the use of my name.

"Nope."

She turned to Severus, who had been really quiet, listening intently. He just looked back at Lily, and just shrugged. My guess is he didn't want to say anything in front of us, maybe he was worried he would anger us and we would try to hex him. This was going to be hard, but for both Lily and Harry, I was going to try to befriend him. Maybe starting tomorrow though. This was too important right now.

"Would you like to meet him Lily? He really wants to see you. When we told him you would be here… He got really excited." I said as I finished my tale.

"I don't want to wake him…" She said, though she looked as if she wanted to do nothing but wake him up and meet him. I smiled at her.

"Don't worry Lily, he can go back to sleep after."

"If you're sure."

"I'm really sure. He wants to see you, and Remus." I said, glancing over at my friend, who had immediately perked up. He ha been horrified by Harry's abuse, I could see it in his face. But him knowing Harry in the future made him feel better. So I gently shook Harry. "Harry, Harry, kiddo, time to get up."

"Sleepy daddy." He slurred out sleepily. I laughed quietly.

"Come on Prongslet! You got to see who's here!" Sirius's loud voice came as he crouched down in front of Harry, so Harry wouldn't see Lily until he moved.

"Who Siri?" He asked, rubbing his eyes.

"I'll show you." With that he moved and Harry's face lit up like a Christmas tree.

"Mummy!" He yelled out before launching at her, blanket and all, gripping his arms around her neck, much like he had done to me the day before.

Lily looked at me, startled. I gave her an encouraging smile as she wrapped her arms around him, hugging him back tightly. She pulled him on her lap and he looked excitedly up at her.

"Mummy I missed you! Daddy and Siri told me you would be here today! And you are!" He sounded ecstatic, yet still sleepy as he told her this, as though he thought we were lying but not lying at the same time.

"Ya, I'm right here Harry." She told him.

"Hey Harry?" He looked over at me, and I smiled. "Why don't you go to sleep huh? You can stay on your mum's lap this time if she is okay with it."

"Of course! Go to sleep Harry, you need it." Harry snuggled more into Lily and fell asleep pretty quickly.

"Lily, I think I already know your answer, but I have to ask. Will you help me with Harry? Please?"

"Of course. He's… He's my son too isn't he?" She asked. He stumbled a bit on her sentence, but it was more out of shock than anything else.

"Then maybe we should work out a schedule. I already told you about what McGonagall and Dumbledore said."

She nodded.

"How about he changes dorms once a week, that way it's not constant change, but he get's to see each of us." She started. I nodded but glanced at Remus and Sirius.

We had to still master our animagus forms, but once we did, we were going to be going out on full moons… We would cross that bridge when we come to it. Sirius's voice rang out in the compartment.

"What about Pettigrew?" He spat out the name. The compartment was silent.

"Why don't you tell McGonagall you don't want to share a room with him anymore." The quiet voice of Snape spoke up. "I mean," He continued when we all turned to stare at him. "If she already knows what he does… She would understand. He would get his own room. It would be better than just Lily and Po-James getting a different room, as he would obviously want to see Remus and Sirius." He had stumbled a bit, but made it through his small speech okay. I thought about it before nodding.

"You're right. Peter needs to leave, If I leave, not only are Sirius and Remus stuck with the little traitor, but Harry would want to see them both." I said aloud. Sna-Severus looked shocked at my agreement and I smiled at him. We would have to talk soon. Privately.

-Time Skip-

The rest of the train ride went by smoothly, we talked schedules and things like that, and basically wherever Harry was sleeping was who he was going to classes with. We had classes together of course, but not all of them, so this worked out. We would split all of his clothes up between the two of us and duplicate his toys and books. We decided that I would take him this week, as he had already spent one night with me. We would of course spend breaks and meals together, and Lily said she would come down to quidditch practice and after Harry could go on his kid broom. But I knew I would take him up on my broom as well as Sirius.

We even got along with Severus. He was actually nice, different yes, but nice all the same. Sirius and I bought some of each thing off the trolley when it came around, and we woke Harry up to eat some before he fell back asleep. I was happy he didn't have a nightmare, maybe it was because he was with some one, or it wasn't dark, or maybe he doesn't get them often. I was hoping for the latter.

Harry woke up when we were close to arriving, after I put his blanket in a bag that I kept with me now with snacks and some toys for him, we played some games, and he got a kick out of exploding snap. Harry had waved rather shyly to Severus but he had moved over to Remus when he had seen the werewolf. So when we arrived, that's whose lap I was moving him from. We had already changed into robes and we were getting ready to get off the train.

"I want Padfoot and Prongs daddy!" Harry said suddenly while I had him in my arms.

"I'll get them for you Harry." Sirius said as he pulled the two plushies out of Harry's trunk. Harry squealed with glee and hugged them close. The train whistle went off as we stopped moving, and we were the last ones off the train. There was still quite the crowd around the carriages, and Harry was clinging to me and hiding like no other. We got a few weird looks from the people that saw us.

"Oi! Potter, what's with the kid?" My quidditch teammate, a 6th year named Terrance Wood, yelled out, effectively drawing attention to our small group. Noise erupted at not only Harry, but at the fact that Lily and Severus were with us, and no wands were drawn, nor insults thrown.

"Finally score Evans?"

"What's Snape doing with you?"

"Whose the kid?"

"Didn't know you had a brother?"

"He can't come to Hogwarts, he looks to be 3 or 4."

"He's five." Sirius snapped back at the crowd. I would have, but Harry was shaking, and crying.

"Make 'em go 'way daddy." He whispered.

"Hang on kiddo, we gotta get in a carriage, it's going to be alright." I said soothingly.

Sirius, Remus, and Severus had made a sort of barricade around Harry and I; forcing people back as we made our way forward. Lily was next to me, rubbing Harry's back and telling him it would be alright. We passed Peter on our way and I sent an icy glare at his shocked face. He cowered back, looking a bit confused, but I didn't spare him a second glance. I didn't feel guilty at all. He is the reason my son was abused. We finally got through the gawping crowds and into a carriage.

"Harry, hey bud, we're in the carriage now. No more people until we get to the castle." I told him.

He took his face out of my neck and my heart broke. He was so scared. I hugged him tighter and rocked him back and forth, ignoring Lily's shocked face, though she looked pleasantly surprised. He still hadn't calmed down during the carriage right and was bursting out in tears when he saw all the people filing into the school, all of whome, where staring at him openly. He hid his face in my neck after dropping his plushies in fright, and had me in a chokehold, leaving me just enough room to breathe. Lily was doing her best at calming him down, but it wasn't working. Remus picked up Padfoot and Prongs and Sirius and Severus were shooting Harry sympathetic looks, not that he could see.

~oOo~

Harry's POV:

I couldn't handle all the people. I NEVER liked people staring at me, or crowds or anything like that, but this is… I don't have words for it. I was attracting quite a bit of attention from all these people I don't know, and many of who were probably dead or death eaters in my time. It was scary, especially with my five-year-old mind, which is not fond of people. This was because of my relatives mostly.

I found that I did have a bit of control, not much though. I was able to use my mature mind to make my young mind tell my dad that he needs to be nice to Snape. But with emotions, my mature mind doesn't help hide them. I was terrified.

We had gotten to the Entrance Hall, people staring from all directions. I was hiding so I couldn't see them, but I knew they were, I could practically feel them. I had taken a hold of my mum's hand while still clinging to my dad's neck. She was rubbing my back gently while telling me it would be okay. We walked into the Great Hall and I peaked out, and screamed, drawing even more attention to myself, but I couldn't help it.

"NO! No! No people! To many people! Daddy I don't wanna go in there! To many people! All big people."

~oOo~

James's POV:

If it weren't for Harry's crying I would have screamed myself. He practically just announced to the Hall that I was his dad. No, not practically, he did. People were already talking with their friends, staring openly. I caught words like 'daddy?' 'James… son?' Things like that. I told them to go save us a seat before walking out of the Hall. I didn't know that Lily followed me though.

~oOo~

Lily's POV:

I had followed Harry and James out of the Hall, poor Harry was terrified, and now rumors were starting to go around. Remus had given me his stuffed animals and I smiled and thanked him. I spotted McGonagall and headed her way as James went to a spot away from people to calm Harry down.

"Professor?" I asked. She spun around and smiled at me.

"Miss. Evans. I hope Mr. Potter and yourself got the chance to talk?" I nodded slightly.

"That's sort of what I wanted to talk to you about Professor. You see, Harry freaked out in the Great Hall, and he sort of announced that James was his dad. I was wondering… Well, are you telling everyone tonight about Harry?"

"Yes we will do it right after the sorting."

"James told me I didn't have to tell people I was his mum, but I would lie it if you would. Harry needs me too. I've got to help James calm him down." I left without waiting to see what she would say. I walked over to the wall James was now sitting against, rocking Harry and trying to calm him down. I have to say I am very impressed with how good James is with him. I knelt down in front of them, James seemed surprised to see me.

"Harry? Sweety?" I tried. "Can you look at me Harry? I have something for you." He sniffled and looked at my with tearful green eyes. Same color as mine. I smiled at him and he gave a small one back. "You see, Remus saw that you drop something earlier, so he wanted me to give them back to you." I held out his stuffed animals, and he tentitavley took them.

"Thank you." He whispered, his voice hoarse from the crying. He still had a few stray tears, but that was all.

"Your welcome, but you have to give Remus the credit for getting them too alright?" I asked and he nodded. "Harry, we really want you to get some food, so why don't you come with us to the Great Hall, you can stay with me or daddy, and we will protect you. We won't let any of those people hurt you. And we have Sirius and Remus at our table, and Severus is only a couple of tables away."

He started to shake his head but James spoke up.

"Harry, most of those people are really nice. All of the teachers are, and most of the students. You don't have to talk to them if you don't want to, like mummy said, you can stay with me or her. Professor Dumbledore will be telling everyone about you tonight too. But we got you, don't worry. And after we can talk to the teachers about getting Peter out of our room."

"To many people." He whimpered.

We spent a few more minutes reassuring him and talking to him before he finally agreed. He was already with James, so he stayed there. He hid his face in his neck again as we walked into the Great Hall. People were staring at us as we walked to wear Sirius and Remus had saved a seat, right by my friends I noticed happily. I gave an icy glare to all of the people staring and pointing as we sat down. I sat next to James, who sat by Remus and across from Sirius, On my other side was my friend Alice. She was sending me questioning looks and I mouthed 'later' she nodded and let it drop, much to my relief.

I looked back over to Harry, who was still hiding from all the people. Though He peaked out at Remus, who smiled at him.

"Thanks for getting Padfoot and Prongs Moony." He said quietly.

"It's no problem Harry." He responded and I smiled at him, so did James.

"I'm hungryyyyyy." Sirius whined suddenly. Can we get this sorting over with please?"

James laughed. "You're ALWAYS hungry Padfoot."

"Exactly, so we need to eat like, now."

"Here Padfoot." Harry said quietly. He reached into James's shoulder bag and pulled out a bag of apple slices. "You can have this." He said handing it to Sirius. Sirius was stunned.

"Prongslet, that's okay, it's yours."

"But I want you to have it. You're hungry." Harry said.

Sirius hesitantly accepted the food from Harry, who smiled widely at the fact that he got to share his things. I smiled at him.

"Thanks Harry, why don't we share it with everyone?" Sirius asked him.

Harry nodded excitedly, I was glad Sirius was distracting him from the obvious staring that wans going on from not only our own house, but the others as well. Sirius opened the bag and held it out for Harry, who grabbed one and held it out for Remus.

"This one is Moonys." He stated. Remus thanked him and I made a mental note to ask James about the nicknames another time. I looked around as Harry grabbed another apple slice. Kids were still coming into the Great Hall. Despite being the last off the train, we were not one of the last ones in the Hall.

"This one is Daddy's." Harry held one out for James. The students who heard that either gaped or started whispering about it to their friends.

"Thanks Harry." James smiled, making Harry grin as he reached for another one with his small hands.

"This one is mummy's." He gave one to me.

"Thank you Harry. It looks yummy." I told him.

If people hadn't talked before, they were now. They had heard mummy directed to me. Now people were not hiding their talking by whispering. Harry was shifting around uncomfortably and looking around at people staring at him, and pointing. He looked ready to cry.

"Ignore them Harry, here." Sirius said as he held out the bag. Harry grabbed one and looked to me.

"Mummy, this one is for Severus, but he's over there…" Harry pointed to Sev at the Slytherin table. I smiled at his kindness and thoughtfulness.

"Well, why don't we save one for him for later hm?" I suggested.

"Okay." And with that Harry gave one to Sirius and one for himself.

The students stopped filing in not long after that and the first-years came in. Once everyone was sorted Dumbledore stood up.

"Now I'm sure you have all noticed we have a new member at Hogwarts that is not quite 11 years old."

"Not quite? He's gotta be 3 or 4!" A Ravenclaw shouted out.

"He's 5 actually." I stated loudly. Harry was hiding in James once again. His breathing was becoming heavier. James was rubbing his back whispering words I couldn't hear in Harry's ear. I could tell Harry was on the verge of crying if he wasn't already. I looked up as Dumbledore spoke again.

"Well, as Miss. Evans has pointed out, he is 5. Now. I must inform you that a spell was put on the platform and the school. What is told to you about this young boy, you will not be able to share with anyone who doesn't already know. This is for security reasons." Confused looks and shouts were heard and seen throughout the Hall. Dumbledore sent up sparks for silence. "Now. This young boy is named Harry James Potter. He is not from our time. We have discovered that he is not supposed to be born until 1980, so 6 years from now." He had to send up more sparks to quiet the students down. "His parents, had you not yet figured it out, are our own James Potter and Lily Evans." I turned beet red as the stares and whispers were directed at us.

"Harry has been through a traumatic ordeal, so I caution you to be careful around him, with what you say and how you act. The punishments for deliberately going after any of the three mentioned in any way, will be severe. He will be joining his parents in Gryffindor, alternating who he is with during classes. That is all. Tuck in." With that plates of food appeared in front of us, but Harry wasn't having any of it.

~oOo~

James's POV:

"Harry, please eat. Then we can go up to the tower and go to bed. Please? For me? Will you eat something for daddy Harry?" I whispered.

"I don't wanna. Too many people." He whispered. I noticed that he was shivering so I got out his blanket again and wrapped it around him.

"Harry, why don't we go up to the tower and get a house elf to bring us dinner. Is that okay?" He nodded to me, so I explained to our group what was happening. Remus promised to talk to McGonagall and Dumbledore after dinner about Peter, who was sitting among the 2nd years, looking uncomfortable. I nodded my thanks and stood up.

Lily insisted on coming, causing little butterflies to start in my stomach. So Lily went to get the password from a prefect and we left the Great Hall, all eyes on us. As we were walking Harry fell asleep. All the crying tired him out.

"My sister… I can't believe- I mean, she avoids me, calls me a freak and other names, and- and she isn't as pleasant as when we were kids, but to take part in abusing a child, her own blood too… I don't- I don't get it." Lily said suddenly through the silence.

"Lily, you can't help how your sister turns out. I can't say I understand how it feels, because I really don't. But I know it must be hard, I mean, look at me, my own friend sells us out to Voldemort and lands Sirius in Azkaban. I'm sure my parents have talked to your family already, and I'm so sorry for you Lily. It must be really hard… If you ever need to talk, I'm here."

"Thank you James. I may just take you up on that offer sometime. And I am still going to owl my parents tomorrow. I know they will want to meet him." She nodded to Harry.

"Maybe over Christmas break we can visit your house, or you could come to ours."

"Maybe." She said with a smile. I smiled back. "It's weird. I just met Harry, but I already feel so much love for him, and the need to protect him ya know what I mean?"

"Yeah. Last night… I was scared out of my mind. Harry had this nightmare about… you know… the abuse. The monitoring charms went off and I raced upstairs with Sirius. He was calling out for me… Lily, I felt so… so… I don't even know. I wanted to hold him and hide him from the world, to keep him safe forever. We ended up staying up the whole night. He wouldn't go back to sleep."

"You know James, this is… this is nice. This side of you I mean. I've never really seen you act this way before. Normally you're-"

"Such an arrogant little toe-rag?" I finished for her. She blushed a little bit and smiled at me. Her smile was dazzling. It could light up a whole room. "Don't worry about it. I know I can be like that sometimes. Especially to Severus. I need to talk to him about it though, you know, apologize personally, and explain myself. I had reasons for targeting him, not good ones mind you, but hey I m only a teenage boy after all." I told her. I didn't tell her what my reasons were, and thankfully she didn't ask.

We talked until we reached Gryffindor tower, where Lily gave the password and the fat lady allowed us entrance, looking at Harry adoringly. I guess the headmaster told her about him. I led the way up to the 4th year boys dorm, noticing there were 4 beds, but one was smaller and had Harry's trunk in front of it, and it was closer to mine. I guess McGonagall and Dumbledore already thought about the Peter situation.

I called a house elf and it brought us the food from the feast.

"Harry." I found myself, once again, waking up my son. "Harry time to eat, then you can get a bath and go to sleep." It took a minute, but Harry eventually woke up and we started to eat.

"Daddy, will you read me a bedtime story tonight?" Harry asked timidly.

"Of course I can Harry. I can read you one every night if that's what you want. And I'm sure mummy won't mind either when you're with her." He looked over at Lily excitedly.

"Of course I won't mind Harry! We are going to duplicate your toys and books so you have them in my dorms too."

"Yay!" He clapped his hands together before going back to eating. Not to long after that he put down his fork. "Daddy I'm full."

"Full?" I asked, faking shock and winking at Lily. "What about desert?"

"No, no James, he is much to full for desert."

"No I'm not! I promise! I didn't know I could have a desert! Please!" He begged. I hugged him close.

"Relax Harry, we were just teasing, we should have known better, you can have a desert, but only one okay? Since it's almost bed time."

"What would you like Harry?" Lily asked him kindly. I could tell that she felt just as bad as I did.

"Could I have a treacle tart? Please?" He asked.

"Of course." Lily called the house elf and got us treacle tarts, since they were my favorite too, and herself some pudding."

The door opened as we were finishing desert and Sirius and Remus came in.

"The professors already dealt with Peter they said he will be in his own room at the top of this tower." Remus told us.

"He didn't seem that confused anymore to be honest. I saw him with some Slytherins after the feast, he only looked angry." Sirius said.

"Well we noticed that his bed was gone and Harry has his own now." I explained.

"I think I'll go to my dorms now, I'm rather tired, you all should get sleep as well. Especially you James, if you were really up all night that half hour you got before the train ride isn't enough I see you all tomorrow. Goodnight Harry" She said to our son. He just stared up at her, tears filling his eyes again.

"You're leaving?" He asked.

"Harry." She knelt in front of him. He reached his arms out and wrapped them around her neck and she lifted him off my lap. "I'm going to my dorm now, but I'll see you in the morning, we can eat breakfast together. But you need to stay with daddy right now and get ready for bed so he can read you that story alright?" She said gently. Her voice was so calming, so loving so…. Motherly. Lily was a perfect mom, even at 14.

"You promise you'll be here tomorrow morning."

"I promise Harry. I'll meet you two in the common room in the morning. Is that okay?"

He reluctantly nodded and let go.

"Prongslet! You get to stay with us tonight! We are the fun ones, the best dorm in the castle even." Sirius said as he hopped all over the room.

"Padfoot, you're going to scare Harry if you keep bouncing like that. You're rattling you're brain even more than usual." Remus said from his bed.

"Are not. Harry isn't scared of me see?" He pointed to a laughing Harry in Lily's arms.

"You're right Padfoot, he just thinks your crazy." I told him seriously.

"That I am." He agreed, holding his arms out for Harry, who allowed Sirius to take him after giving his mum a kiss on the cheek.

"Night night mummy. I love you."

"I love you to Harry." She said sincerely, kissing the scar on his forehead before saying good night and leaving.

"Bath time!" I told Harry.

Sirius ran into the bathroom before I could even grab Harry. I heard water running and Sirius talking about bubbles. Shaking my head with laughter I grabbed some nightclothes and a towel for Harry before turning to Remus.

"I'm worried for Harry's sanity if he hangs around Padfoot to much."

"Heard that!" Sirius yelled.

"It's true." I yelled back.

"I wouldn't worry about that Prongs." Remus told me. "He is Lily's son too. He might have inherited her temper and smarts."

"Hopefully not the temper." I murmured before heading into the bathroom and stopped dead in my tracks. The room was bigger, like the size of the prefect's bathroom from what I've heard, it must have been enlarged, and it was covered in… bubbles.

The walls, the floor and the tub were filled with bubbles of every color. Blue, pink, yellow, orange, green, etc.…. Sirius was soaking wet and Harry was grinning goofily.

"You've been in here for like 10 seconds. What happened?" I asked, truly bewildered. I know we are marauders, but not even we could manage this in such a short amount of time.

"Daddy! Siri started to turn the knobs and bubbles came out! And they were ALL different colors! Daddy it's so cool! And then they sploded! All over the room! It was so cool! Then Siri fell in the tub 'cause he slipped on the bubbles when he was running to turn them off!"

"I think excited accidently magic was involved." Sirius told me after he stopped coughing.

"I think your right. Hang on, Oi! Moony! We need your help! You're the best at cleaning spells!" I shouted through the now closed door. Remus came in and gaped.

"Honestly, can't any of you look after yourselves without making a mess? What happened? You've not even been in here for a minute."

"We think Harry got over excited about the bubbles and had a spout of accidental magic by accident. Sirius went to turn off all the water and he slipped and fell in the bath." I whispered to him. I didn't want Harry to think he was in trouble for something he couldn't help, especially because he didn't know he probably caused it.

Remus nodded and with a flick of his wand and some spells, all the water and bubbles were in the tub, and Sirius was dried off.

"Yay Moony!" Harry shouted, clapping and jumping.

"Yeah! Yay Moony!" I clapped Remus on the shoulder and thanked him before turning back to Harry. "Bath time kiddo, then we can swim some if you want."

Harry got very shy all of the sudden. "I don't know how to swim. The Dursleys said I wasn't worth the time or money."

My blood boiled. How dare they, I walked over to Harry and knelt down. I used my hand to grab his face that was looking down at the floor. I lifted his chin so he was looking into my eyes.

"Harry. I want you to listen to me very carefully. You are worth all the money and time in the world. You are so loved. I love you, mummy loves you, Sirius and Remus love you, and your grandparents love you, and so many more people. You're such a special boy Harry, you have the ability to see the best in people and open even the coldest of hearts, showing others love. And Harry? We all love you and we will protect you, and we will prove all of this to you. For now, we are going to help you okay? Would you like for me to teach you? Or at least be in there with you right now? I bet Moony and Padfoot would as well."

He had tears of happiness and hope in his eyes and he hugged me, I hugged him back tightly as I felt his head nod. Remus, Sirius and I all changed into our swim trunks and got Harry into some as well. We got in the water, Harry was sitting on the edge of the swimming pool-like bathtub.

"Do you trust me Harry?" I asked him. He nodded and I grabbed him from under his arms and lifted him into the shallow end. Harry was in my arms, his arms were wrapped around my neck and his legs around my waist. "I'm going to put you down now okay? It's really shallow here, so you can stand up and your head will still be above the water okay?" He nodded with slight fear in his eyes, and allowed me to put him down. I knelt down in the water and started to get him clean.

Once he was all done getting cleaned up we decided to play in the shallow end and start to teach him to swim tomorrow. Remus transfigured a piece of parchment into something called a beach ball and based on Harry's squeals of laughter, he really loved it. We laughed and played for about half an hour before deciding to get out. Remus, Harry and I were out and drying off while Sirius got the ball that had ended up on the deep end of the pool.

"Oi Prongs, a little help up?" He asked and held out his hand. I wrapped the towel around Harry and turned to Sirius, taking hold of his hand. Only to be pulled in. Harry laughed and Remus, who was fully dressed joined him. I resurfaced and looked round, Sirius was already out of the tub.

"Oi! You'll pay for that!" I yelled and chased him out of the bathroom, I heard Remus talking to Harry.

"Come on cub, this will be interesting." But that was all I heard as I chased Sirius out of the bathroom, out of the dormitory, heading for the common room, shouting at how he should sleep with one eye open tonight.

~oOo~

Lily's POV:

I had gone down to the common room to ask my dorm mates if they knew anything about our enlarged bathroom when we heard shouting and footsteps on the boy's dorm staircase.

The majority of Gryffindor was in the common room, catching up with friends and stuff like that, and all heads turned as they heard James yelling and Sirius laughing.

"Get back here you mangy mutt! You better sleep with one eye open Padfoot! I'll get you for that one! I was all dried off!"

That was when the two 4th years showed up. Soaking wet, and in swim trunks. They didn't seem to notice us, Sirius was running and James was chasing him. They were both rather fit, especially James, I suspect it was do to quidditch, I couldn't help but to look at the very obvious 6 packs and well toned muscles. My attention was drawn to the stairs where a fully clothed Remus was carrying Harry, who was wrapped in a towel. Remus sat down on the steps, Harry in his lap, and watched James chase Sirius on and around the tables, couches and so on. Harry looked fine, though I suspected it was because no one had noticed him, everyone was to busy watching James and Sirius. He finally caught and tackled Sirius to the ground.

"Come on Prongs! It was just a joke!"

"Ha-ha Really hilarious." James said dryly with a mischievous smile. He pulled out his was and muttered a spell, causing Sirius's hair to turn green and silver.

"No! Oi! That's not fair! That's just cruel! Undo it! Now!"

"Nope. Don't worry it will wear off… eventually." With that James got up, and looked around, as if just noticing now that he was in the Gryffindor common room, soaked and half naked. He didn't even blush.

"Right, sorry for interrupting, go back to your chatting, nothing to see here." He said before going over to the stairs, grabbing Harry, and heading up to their dorm with Remus, leaving Sirius to get up on his own and chase after him shouting.

"James this isn't funny! Fix this! What spell did you use!?" He shouted frantically. I looked around the common room at the trail of water that they left… pretty much everywhere, and rolled my eyes.

AN: Wow! SUPER long chapter there for you guys 8+ thousand words! I've never written anything this long before! I hope you liked it! For all of you reading my other stories, I've been struggling with them, but they are getting along, so please bear with me. The chapters are coming soon, I started writing this chapter because I knew what I wanted it to have in it, so it was easiest, I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON ANY OF MY STORIES, and I never will. And PLEASE REAVIEW! I LOVE them! They motivate me! And please give me any ideas or suggestions. Petunia will have a bigger role during Christmas for all of you who were disappointed by her lack of role in this chapter! So review please! Thanks! Until next time!