A/N: This is the final chapter… Finally!
Enjoy!
Harry's blood turned into ice. Vernon Dursley just screamed, and Albus was missing.
He could put two and two together. Albus looked exactly like Harry did when he was little, except Al didn't have the scar. Harry dropped the sweater he was currently holding and bolted to the sound of the scream.
When he got there, his eyes widened.
There was Albus, his little blankie tucked up into his arm, quivering in front of his great-uncle, who currently looked like a purple walrus. He would've laughed if this situation was amusing at all.
Teddy and James were on each side of Albus, defending their brother, and Petunia was hiding in the back, confused as ever.
"Uncle Vernon," Harry stated. It wasn't a greeting, just a statement.
He looked from Harry to Albus in confusion. Vernon pointed at the green-eyed boy and started spluttering.
"He… you… Harry… exactly…"
"Yes, Uncle Vernon. I'm Harry," he stated, somewhat amused.
"B-b-but… him…" he stuttered again, shaking his finger in Albus' direction.
"That would be my son," Harry stated, bending down to scoop the quivering child as Teddy and James went to stand by the newly-arrived Ginny.
Petunia stepped up from the shadows and uttered her first four words towards him since he was seventeen.
"Who are these people?"
Harry was taken aback by his Aunt's gentle tone, but quickly got over it. "This is Ginny, my wife. This is Teddy, my godson, he's nine. His dad died in… the battle. This is James, my eldest son, he's six. This is Albus, he's three. And this iss Lily, she's just barely a year," he stated, pointing to the correct person in turn.
Petunia's eyes got a little misty as he said the last name, and she went over to pick Lily up.
"She's… beautiful," Petunia stated.
There was a moment of silence before Vernon cleared his throat.
"Well… Now this is over…" he started, but Harry cut him off.
"Hey, Gin? Will you take the kids and Petunia somewhere? I'd like to have a private word with Uncle Vernon for a moment," Harry stated, his anger rising as he remembered the events that occurred in his childhood because of Vernon.
She gave him a shaky smile, a chaste kiss, and took the kids and her aunt-in-law to the women's department.
Vernon looked onto Harry with terror. "What do you want?" he asked gruffly.
"An apology," is all Harry stated. He wasn't usually a selfish person, but he deserved this.
"And why is that?" Vernon replied.
Harry gave a humorless laugh. "Uncle Vernon, don't tell me that what you did to me as a child was right! Even you should have the sense to know that it wasn't!"
"I think it was perfectly fine."
Anger boiled onto Harry's surface. "What do you mean? Locking me into a cupboard, giving me no food for weeks on ends, locking away my homework, not letting Hedwig out? How is that perfectly fine? To a child, no less," he said in a deathly whisper.
Vernon gave a snort of laughter. "Child? No. You were a wizard. A powerful wizard."
"And I was still a child! I still had feelings! I wasn't invincible! I was lonely! I was abused! Mentally and physically! I was nothing but a servant!" He shouted, not caring what scene he was causing, for before his tirade, he has silently cast a Silencio.
Vernon couldn't reply to that. He finally realized that Harry was right. He was still a human being.
"Yes, but you were a wizard, too," Vernon stated lamely.
"And that makes any difference? It makes it so I'm not a human?"
"No… but…"
"Exactly. I want only one thing from you. Just one. The only thing you'll ever actually give me in my life. I want an apology. I already got one from Aunt Petunia, but I want one from you Vernon," Harry said.
Vernon winced at his nephew's tone, and lack of the word "Uncle". "I'm sorry," he apologized sincerely.
Harry's eyes widened. He didn't think it would actually work.
"Thank you," and with that, he walked away.
"Harry! Harry, wait!" Harry heard his uncle shout.
"Yes?" he turned around expectantly.
"Would you and your family like to… I dunno… Maybe… come over for dinner sometime?" his uncle asked hopefully.
"Yeah. Yeah, I think we would like that."
A/N: Yay! I finally updated and finished it! Hope you guys liked it.
And I'm sorry, but this will not be continued.
It was very hard to even finish this, for I got caught up in school, and it kind of bored me.
Anywho, R&R?
~NinjaBuddy
