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Camp Hogwarts - Pottery: Write about the Next-Gen making something for their parents.

All About You Challenge - Write about someone creative

Game of Life - White, Blank Page

Drabble Club - Word: awe

Quidditch Pitch - Word: silver

Father's Day

Teddy looked over the materials in front of him. He shuffled through the card, briefly pausing at a white one before continuing on. Teddy settled on a black piece and putting it in the empty space in front of him.

Teddy stared at the blank page for a long time, trying to work out what he wanted to do with it. Finally he reached for the pot of glue, pulling the lid off (his father had loosened it earlier) and setting the lid aside. He grabbed a glue stick and dipped it into the glue.

The boy spread the glue over the card, trying to cover every inch as best as he could, and he picked up the pot of glitter, turning the lid to the silver. He started shaking the silver over the card, before closing the lid again and smiling.

It already looked great. He just hoped his dad liked it.

His eyes moved across the table, over the stickers, gems, various buttons and coloured shapes. He reached into the bowl, his fingers pushing shapes aside until he found some stars. He withdrew them and peeled the backing off, sticking the stars across the top of the card in a line.

His eyes moved again, before he decided to pull out his chalks. Grabbing a light blue one, he touched it to the front of the card.

Before pulling it away again. He didn't know what to write on the front.

He considered writing dad, but his eyes fell on a card at the other end of the table, drying. That one already said dad, and it would get really confusing if this one did too.

Even if he wanted to put dad instead of Sirius.

The boy sat deep in thought for a few minutes, trying to figure out what to do. He could only think of Father, but that sounded so severe. He had heard Sirius talk about his own father, and he hadn't sounded nice. He didn't like the way Sirius said that word, and Teddy didn't want to use a word that Sirius didn't like.

Suddenly it hit him and Teddy smiled to himself, bringing the chalk back to the paper and writing over the glitter.

'Pops'.

...oOo...

Remus took the envelope that Teddy was offering to him. He smiled as he opened it, putting out a green card.

"It's lovely," Remus said, studying the front. "Thank you."

"Those are supposed to be moons," Teddy said, pointing to the row of circles across the top. "And that's our family."

Remus studied the front, his eyebrows raising slightly at the three characters Teddy had drawn. Usually the pictures had two people; not that Remus was going to push for more. Sirius hadn't been in their lives for that long. Less than a year in fact.

Just taking it slowly until Teddy got used to Sirius being part of the family. But maybe Sirius being on the card showed that Teddy was seeing Sirius as family and maybe Remus could start including Sirius more?

"I love it," he said, opening the card up and reading the messy writing.

"To Dad. Happy Father's Day. Love from Teddy. xx"

It didn't matter to Remus that a couple of letters had clearly been misspelt, with the correct letter redrawn over them. It was a wonderful card.

He put the card on the side and turned around to see Teddy holding another envelope. Sirius' gaze moved to it, before he looked at Remus expectantly.

"You've made two?" Remus asked, moving closer.

"It's..." he bit his lip before holding it out towards Sirius.

There was a pregnant pause before Sirius reached for the card, taking it out of Teddy's hand.

"For me?" came the hopeful words, and Teddy nodded.

Remus and Teddy watched as Sirius carefully opened the envelope, before carefully pulling out the card. His eyes moved quickly across it, taking in the similar picture to Remus' card, the glitter and the stars, before falling on the word written across it.

"Pops," Sirius said, his voice not hiding his awe and a wide smile taking place on his lips. Forgetting his shock at receiving a card, he opened it, his eyes moving over the words inside. Exactly the same as Remus', but with 'Pops' instead if 'Dad'.

"I love it," he finally whispered, setting it aside and turning his attention to Teddy. "So, I'm Pops?"

Teddy nodded shyly, and Sirius quickly got up, pulling the small boy into a hug, before proudly putting his card up next to Remus'.

Remus looked between Sirius and Teddy. "Let's go out to lunch," he suggested. He had been trying to save money with Sirius, but this day needed to be celebrated. "Should we show Sirius that place that we go to when we've been shopping in London?"

Teddy eagerly nodded, his hair rapidly turning blue in excitement. "They do the best chocolate cake," he told Sirius.

"Go get a jacket and put your shoes on, and we'll get going," Remus said. They watched the boy leave the room and Sirius wrapped his arms around Remus.

"He sees me as family," Sirius told Remus as though Remus hadn't been in the room.

"He sees you as a second father," Remus replied softly.

"That's brilliant," Sirius said. "You know I've thought of him as my son for so long, him seeing me as his Pops... well, I didn't expect it to happen so soon. I can't tell you how happy this has made me."

"I have an idea," Remus whispered, referring to his own joy at the words on the card, knowing that this was Teddy showing that he was accepting Sirius as part of his life.

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