Author's Note: Hey there guys, sorry for the wait! Here is another chapter, finally we get to see more of the family dynamic, as opposed to friend dynamic. Maybe even show something other than plot progression (Not this chapter, but soon!) PS. I meant to get this up on Tuesday, but my laptop decided that it would be funny to play let's not connect to the internet. Which meant that I couldn't get on to the site to post, but I figured out the problem, not really, and got it fixed. So, here's to hoping it doesn't happen again!) :D

POV Change (3rd Person)

Harry touched down, got off the plane, and got into his car to go home. By the time that he got home, he seemed much more relaxed than he had in quite some time. He had spent the time talking to himself, about how his trips as of late, weren't as relaxing as he had wanted. They were full of adventures, and new friends.

POV Change (Tonks' POV)

Harry warned me before he left that he had an early return flight, and then he told me that I wouldn't need to stay up for him, but I'm anxious for his return. I can't wait for next week, when he leaves and then returns and stays for the first time in a year or two! I'm cooking up a little breakfast, a small portion of his favorites, but not too much food. Despite the early time (4:30am) Teddy is roused by the smell of breakfast. I know that now that he is awake, he will stay awake, at least until he gets to see Harry. I get Teddy a plate of food, and make sure the rest of the food is covered, and I sit on the couch. A moment later, the door opens, and the rest of our little adopted family walks in. I look hopeful until I see them, and they look back, with the exact same looks of their faces. Regardless, I offer them some food, although only Luna takes any. Out of all of us, she is the only one who seems at all calm this morning. We sit in a silent bubble, all of us waiting for our friend and adopted brother to come home. The door opens again, and Harry walks in.

Teddy is away from the table, and in Harry's arms before Harry really has a chance to register his whole family is in his front room. Then Hermione and I are screaming his name, and running towards him. Harry catches Teddy after scooping down to do so, then pops back up to catch 2 of his female friends in his arms for a hug. Luna walks over much more serenely, and Fred follows hesitantly. Harry happily yanks all of us into his arms for a little family group hug. Finally we break apart, and I offer some of the breakfast to Harry, who happily gobbles it up. He's been awake for longer than any of us, and hasn't had anything to eat until now apparently. After he finishes eating, we all move to the couches. Harry, Teddy, and I sit on the couch, with Harry in the middle, Hermione and Luna sit on the loveseat, and Fred sits on the chair. All of our apartments have the same seating, and we always sit in basically the same places. Our apartments all have a connected silencing charm on them, meaning we can hear one another, but no one else can hear us. This is for privacy, our secret, and our nightmares (or night terrors as we sometimes still get). That is what allows us to yell despite the early timing of the day without worrying about our neighbors in the other apartments in this building. Once we are all comfortable, all of the adults in the room (except Harry) look at Harry, expecting an explanation. Teddy, in the meantime is snuggled into Harry, asleep once more. Some might say that I should be jealous, or even try to say that I am, that my son is so obviously close to someone else as a parent, but fact of the matter is, I asked for Harry's help with Teddy. I asked for this, and I personally am just glad that Teddy hasn't called Harry daddy. I keep waiting for it, but it hasn't happened yet.

Harry looks at us, and then starts to regale us with the tale of Alaska and the friendly monster who is afraid, of himself. As I listen, I have to agree with Harry's description of Bruce Banner. Banner is a nice man, who is burdened more than most people on Earth are. He reminds me of Remus, and his curse, seeing as Banner has the Hulk. We continue to talk about his adventures over the years, including back in our world. It's hard, but getting easier week by week. After we exhaust stories of our past, we move on to stories from this last week. Hermione explains that she is going to go to school (in the fall) to become a teacher in our new world, and Luna says almost the same thing, but she's going to become a doctor. For now, I'm going to continue to stay at home with Teddy (I have no clue what I'm going to do once Teddy goes to school, maybe I'll take some classes), and Fred wants to look around and continue to heal, for a while longer. Teddy is looking forward to going to school in the fall, and then we turn to Harry, who says he wants to think about maybe getting into the bakery service. I have been working hard with Teddy, teaching him to control his powers, because he can't go to school with his hair flashing, and changing as it so often is now. He's making good progress, and I have high hopes for him to be able to go without problems in the fall.

POV Change (Harry's POV)

Once we finish talking about futures, and careers, I head to my room to unpack. It only takes about 30 minutes, but I know that I'll get about another ½ hour before I need to rejoin them once again. So I decide to call Tony and see if he'll answer. I get lucky, and he does answer the 1st time. I start the conversation by asking, "Have you had your appointment with Dr. Rylo yet?"

"Not yet, but I'm scheduled for later today."

"That's good, he's a really nice guy, and a good listener."

"Yeah, but I'm slightly nervous about it. I don't remember ever doing this before, so I'm not sure what's going to happen."

"He will probably just have you talk about times when you were younger, maybe when you can remember being anxious for the first time. He might even guess as to when you first started to become anxious, and maybe even why."

"Oh."

"So, how has your week gone, other than the anxiety that you've more than likely been feeling about this therapy appointment?"

"Eh, lots of boring meetings that I don't want to go to."

"Then why do you go to them?"

"Because I am the CEO of my own company, and need to be in the loop."

"Why don't you just let somebody else take that job on, regulate what you have to do?"

"That is certainly a thought, I definitely prefer simply getting to tinker with electronics and the like, to going to boring meetings and talking business with kill-joys."

"Oh Tony, you should most certainly get someone else to take on your current responsibilities."

"Maybe I'll get my business savvy PA, Pepper to take on the duties, she'd be happy enough being able to stop trying to force me to go to the boring things, and just go herself."

"Alright, that sounds like a good idea to me."

"So, now you've heard about me, what about you?"

"Well, I went to Alaska, met someone else."

"Alaska, weren't you just in California last week with me?"

"Well yes, and this week I'm going to New Mexico, I have been traveling for quite some time, 1 trip per week. Next week's trip to New Mexico makes all 50 states that I will have traveled to."

"Well that's something to be proud of, I guess. Why did you do it though? Travel to all 50 states?"

"Well, when me and my family first moved to the States, we settled down in New York, and were ok there, but we always felt something was missing, so I went looking to see if maybe somewhere else in the States would be better. So far, Malibu was the closest and it still felt off."

"Any idea why? I think it would be fun to live closer to you, you have good ideas."

"Ha ha, I know, but I get the feeling that we will be staying in New York for the time being."

"Ok, well don't be a stranger, and don't forget this phone!"

"Most assuredly Tony, I won't, don't worry!"

Then we say our good-byes, and hang up. I look around my room, see that I'm basically out of time to unpack and recuperate, so I head out to the living room again. I sit down in my usual spot, in between Tonks and Teddy. I look at my family, and I decide something in that moment. So I say, "We really need to start to implement our ideas for our lives now, we can't just keep living like this." While the whole family looks to be thinking about this, Hermione seems to have already thought about it, and turns to Luna to start talking schools. Fred looks at Tonks and they discuss random things that they could do, once they are ready for their lives to truly move on. I look down at Teddy and say, "Let's go work on your control while everyone else talks about boring adult stuff."

Teddy looks thrilled, and races off to his room. I follow more slowly than he was, but still moving quickly. While I'm helping him with the exercises that Tonks gave him, I'm also thinking about my own future, and in the end I decide that the best thing to do would certainly be waiting to see Bruce before actually doing anything drastic, but I do warn my family that we might end up taking a year of "vacation" somewhere else, get us out of this one place.

We continue to think about our futures, and Hermione is forced to realize that her work of looking at the schools around us, might end up being for nothing if we go away for a year. I reassure her that we will return to New York, so they should pick a school in the area, and could even apply if she wants (Luna too), just tell them that she's going on a family yearlong vacation in California, and that she would appreciate it if they would hold the spots for them. I also start looking at elementary schools for Teddy in the area around Malibu, and houses. It'll be good for us to stay together in a house, read mansion, instead of separated in apartments. We will still keep the apartments for when we return, but for one year, at least, we will be in a house.