The Marauders: take two

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, all credit goes to JK Rowling.

Chapter 3-angry parents

Sirius Black was awoken at the rather early time of 7:00am to the irritating sound of an owl tapping on his bedroom window, Marline rolled over, slapped him on the chest and demanded that he answer it. With a sigh, Sirius pulled the window open before watching the tawny owl fly away. "Who's it from?" Marline asked groggily from her place on the bed and Sirius let out a groan.

"It's from Hogwarts" he told her and she sighed "well, we'd better open it"

James Potter was cooking breakfast for his wife who was pretending to be pleased with her husband's burnt bacon and raw eggs. There suddenly came a high pitched tapping on the window and Lily went to fetch the letter from the owl waiting there. "James" she announced quietly in a worried voice, he turned to face her, concern evident on his features "it's from Hogwarts".

Remus Lupin was reading rather contently in the library when Dorcas ran into the room with a letter clutched in her hand and a frantic expression on her face. "Remus!" she shouted over to him "it's from Hogwarts! Do you think Teddy's ok? I hope he's not hurt!" Remus gathered his wife into his arms and chuckled.

"I'm sure he's fine. Now let's open the letter shall we."

Dear Mr and Mrs Black/Potter/Lupin,

I was awoken at 0:30am this morning by a rather upset Mr Filch. He came mumbling to me about students in the trophy room, upon entering such a room I found a group of students who had been previously duelling. Regulus/Harry/Teddy was among them, I require your presence at the school immediately to discuss this very pressing matter. Your son is currently staying in the hospital wing.

Best regards, Minerva McGonagall.

Six pairs of eyes went wide and three men stepped away from their angry wives.

Harry, Regulus and Teddy were all patched up in the hospital wing, the Slytherins had been taken away by their furious parents during the night and now the trio were anxiously awaiting the furious shouts from their own parents. The white curtains that separated their section of the hospital wing away from the rest billowed in the cool air that ran through the whole infirmary. Suddenly, their ears were filled with the thunderous clicking of heels on the tile floor, their eyes went wide and all at once, three angry, female voices sounded in their ears, perfectly in sync. "DUELING IN THE TROPHY ROOM?! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!?" The curtains flew open and into the room strode a trio of furious mothers. Lily Potter was in the lead, her fiery red hair was billowing out behind her and her green eyes were alight with anger. Behind her was Marline Black, her blonde hair was perfectly curly, despite the early hour and her aristocratic features were pulled into a mask of ferocity. Lastly came Dorcas Lupin, her face was a mask of unnerving calm, but if you were to look into her chocolate brown eyes then you would see the silent rage bubbling there. Lily clouted Harry above the head whilst Marline squeezed Regulus' shoulder in a death grip and Dorcas just continued to glare at her son. The fathers came next, each one looking equally as outraged as they frowned at their sons. "Up! Now!" Marline demanded, before yanking Regulus to his feet and leading him away, Sirius following swiftly behind her. Dorcas didn't even talk to Teddy, she just pulled him from the bed and marched him off to a quiet corner, Remus walking after her with a frown still firmly in place. This left Lily and James with Harry, who couldn't move because of the bandage around his middle.

"Harry James Potter! I have never been so angry at you! You have been here one day! That's all! And you manage to do this to yourself!" she was looking more angry by the minute and James had to stride over to confront his son.

"This was horribly irrisponsable! One day Harry! That's all! Well I'll tell you what, no broom over Christmas!" Harrys jaw dropped in horror and he began to splutter incoherently, but the expression on his parents' faces clearly told him to shut up, so, with a sigh, he did just that.

Sirius Black looked down upon his young son with a fire in his grey eyes "what the hell did you think you were doing?" he asked through gritted teeth, but Regulus didn't get chance to respond "you weren't thinking, you acted on impulse and we won't stand for it any more Regulus Sirius Black!" the boy nodded his head frantically and Marline stepped in.

"Harry was hurt! He's now got to stay in the hospital wing for two days whilst the potion kicks in!" Regulus looked very crestfallen with this news "if this happens again Regulus then we will bring you straight home and we will teach you ourselves!" Regulus' eyes widened at the thought and he looked up at his parents with a leading expression.

"It won't happen again" he whimpered, staring at the floor.

"Be sure that it doesn't, young man!" Sirius snapped in response.

In a quiet corner of the hospital wing, Teddy Lupin was crying hysterically. "Teddy. Teddy. Teddy. Oh for god's sake Teddy!" Dorcas finally snapped, effectively gathering her son's attention. "Now listen to me, Teddy Remus Lupin. You have been here for one day and you have already got yourself in trouble. This isn't like you Teddy and I can assure you that it won't happen again or you will be in big trouble mister." Teddy nodded, his sobs had stopped being hysterical but the tears were still running down his flushed cheeks.

"Why did you do it Teddy?" Remus asked and the disappointment in his voice made Teddy cry harder.

"He said-he said that I was 'tainted with my dad's werewolf blood! I had to do something! I couldn't let him say that about you!" dawning appeared on the Lapin couple's faces. They exchanged a glance before turning back to their sobbing son and Remus pulled the boy in for a hug.

"Teddy" he whispered "you have such a bug heart, but people say that about me all the time. That doesn't mean its ok to hex them. I love you Teddy and as long as you think that my blood isn't tainted then I don't care what anyone else thinks" Teddy looked up at his father and Remus wiped away the boy's tears. "No more crying now cub." He said gently "I appreciate what you did but you still shouldn't have done it. Therefore, you are grounded for a week over Christmas" Teddy looked crestfallen, but there was one question that he still had to ask.

"So….so you're not disappointed in me?" he asked timidly and was immediately hugged by both parents.

"No Teddy" Remus whispered "we love you, always have, always will."

Lily patted her son's leg and sighed "Where does it hurt?" she asked gently and Harry lifted up the blanket to show her the blood speckled bandage, she gasped and held him close "oh little fawn" she whispered gently and Harry blushed. She mussed her fingers through his messy hair whilst James watched in with a smile "you do like to scare me Harry" she muttered "please stop it" he nodded his head and she gave him a quick kiss on the forehead "feel better soon little faw" she called as she left "we love you".

Sirius looked his son over critically "what hurts?" he finally asked gently and Regulus lifted his arm to show the purple bruises surrounding the long gash. Sirius sighed and quickly bandaged the arm "I'll talk to Poppy about getting you some bruise salve ok?" Regulus nodded and Sirius pulled him in for a hug. "Pup, you do some stupid things, don't you?" Regulus nodded and Sirius gave him a quick peck on the head "it's a good thing that we love you anyway, isn't it?" again Regulus nodded and Sirius released him. "We'll see you later pup. Feel better and no more trouble" Regulus nodded for the last time and watched his parents leave, his mother blew him a kiss and his dad waved before joining with his aunties Dorcas and Lily and his uncles Remus and James.

The three marauders met back behind the curtain, they smiled sleepily at each other before crawling into bed and falling into a healing slumber.

A/n: short chapter, I know. So, who's everyone's favourite mini marauder?