Wulfric: Tobias, I swear you even think of planning anything, and your hair will never change.

Phoenix: What makes you think he's planning something?

Wulfric: Because I, unlike some, am not a moron.

Phoenix: ... HEY!

Wulfric: Here ya go guys, yet another chapter of yet another fic of mine.. I still don't own Harry Potter.. and does that ever suck..

Albus had been planning, and planning, and doing some more planning. Of course, Harry wasn't in on this planning, he had been in on the one to scare Minerva, but not this one. For this one, involved the young Mr. Potter. Albus was doing something he had wanted to do in ages, and that was plan a party for his child's birthday.

He'd made most of the arrangements though the help of Minerva, and of course the twins were estatic that he asked them to help him. The less people that knew about it in the beginning, the better of a surprise it could become for Harry, is what they'd thought.

Albus knew one thing for sure, and that was Harry was becoming used to having him always around when he needed him. So, for Harry's birthday, he had an extra gift here at the house, that he'd give to him in private, that was if he'd accept it.

The night before Harry's birthday, the nightmares were being horrible again, and Harry knocked on Albus' door.

"Alby?" came Harry's voice, sounding scared and childish.

"Come Harry, " said Albus as he led Harry into his room and to the bed. "Do you want to talk about it?" Harry shook his head no. "Do you want to stay with me tonight?" That one got a nod from Harry. "Alright child, climb in," he said as he pulled the covers back. Harry climbed in and as soon as Albus as in with him, he grabbed ahold of him and tried to calm himself.

"Harry, child, you're safe, you're with me, and nothing is going to harm you. I'm never going to leave you alone, I want you to be safe, and I want you to know how much I love you child."

"T-thank you Alby. I love you," Harry said softly as he fell asleep, knowing he was loved.

After Harry was asleep, Albus pressed a kiss to forehead, and whispered, "Oh child, I love you more than anything. I hope you accept my gift tomorrow when we're home away from all the others."

The next morning, Harry woke feeling better than he had the night before. He rolled over, intending on grabbing a few extra minutes of sleep, but it looked like his guardian had other plans.

"Get up Harry!" Albus said, chuckling at the muffled response he got in return. "Oh come on Harry, we need to pick some things up at headquarters."

"Fine, " said Harry as he rolled from Albus' bed. He headed to his own room to get dressed and when he came out Albus was almost skipping around the room. "Alby, you didn't by any special grass from any muggles have you?"

Albus took a moment for what Harry said and then laughed. "No, I haven't been getting any 'special grass' as you call it. I'm just happy."

"A muggle would think you were high, Alby."

"Oh forget that, just floo to headquarters," said Albus as he handed the floo over.

When Harry arrived in the kitchen, it was empty. A sound behind him signalled Albus had arrived. Looking around, Albus said to Harry, "What we need to get is upstairs in the study."

"Righty-o, lead on."

Albus and Harry walked though the house until they were at the study. Opening the door showed a dark, quiet room, but as soon as Harry entered there was light and huge amounts of sound.

"Happy Birthday Harry!"

"Happy Birthday Mate!"

"Lookie at this dear brother, the young Boy-Who-Lived is finally sixteen," said Fred.

"Took him long enough!" exclaimed George.

"W-What's this?" Harry asked, finally coming out of his shock.

"It's your birthday party Harry. Did you forget your own birthday?" Ginny asked.

"Um, I think I did."

"Time for cake!" came a voice from the back, it was probably Ron, and everyone headed to the huge cake. Albus had made the cake himself pretty much, and it was a replica of Hogwarts, Quidditch Pitch included.

"Wow," breathed the majority of the people. Harry just looked around, until he found the headmaster's office and hacked it off. Looking up at Albus he said, "I already destroyed your office, might as well eat it too."

That caused Albus to laugh, as he cut the Gryffindor Tower off, "If you're eating my office, I'm eating your room!"

The other people around them all of a sudden dissolved into laughter as they grabbed whatever piece of Hogwarts they wanted to eat. Fred fought with Professor McGonagall over the eating of her office, needless to say, McGonagall won.

After everyone had stuffed themselves full of cake, Harry was pushed into a chair and a bunch of colorfully wrapped presents were put into his lap. He grabbed one and just started opening and opening and opening all the gifts in front of him. When it was all said and done, and Albus had vanished all the paper, Harry felt he had made a huge haul. From the twins, he got a huge box of tricks, even some they hadn't started selling yet. Hermione, of course got him a book titled "Ancient Dark Arts", which Harry felt would be helpful. Ron, ever the Quidditch fan, got for Harry some new Seeker gloves, as Ginny bought him a new pocketknife.

Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had for him a new cloak, a deep red one, that looked almost black. Remus and Tonks handed Harry a box with more pictures of his parents from their days at Hogwarts.

When Harry had opened McGonagall's gift, everyone but Albus was confused, for the box contained a cat bed and some cat toys. Harry sat the items on the floor and changed into Godric to inspect them, after playing with one of the mice for a bit, he changed into himself and gave McGonagall a huge hug.

"Y-You're an animagus!" came Hermione's voice.

"Yup, that cat is Godric, I haven't started on, well he doesn't have a name yet," answered Harry.

"You have another form?"

"Yea, a phoenix." After hearing that, Hermione almost fainted, but caught herself.

Albus' gifts were, just what Harry could have wished for, a pensieve that he could use, but also that Albus had copied some of his memories from when Harry was young and when his parents were at school. There was also a necklace with a phoenix charm on it.

"This, " Albus explained, " is a protection necklace with the symbol of my family. It'll tell me if you are in trouble, if you're ill, those kinds of things."

There was also a book on dual forms for an animagus and one on dueling. After everything was cleaned and everyone thanked, and of course all games they could think of played, it was time to go home. When Harry and Albus were alone, Harry turned to Albus and said very softly, "Thank you Papa, it was the best birthday ever."

Albus heard that one word out of everything. His child had called him Papa. Pulling Harry into the biggest hug he could manage, and said "There's still one more gift for you child."

"What is it?"

Albus walked over to his desk and opened the bottom drawer. He pulled out a stack of papers, that seemed as though they'd been there for a very long time. "This is my other gift to you child," said Albus as he showed Harry the papers.

As Harry read the top stating these were adoption papers, he began to cry, but not in sadness, in happiness. He was going to have a family, someone who loved him and was there for him at all times.

"Thank you Papa."

a/n: doesnt that want to make you go "awwwwwww!" ? This chapter is again basically for Abby, because one she begged, even worse than last chapter, and she helped me a bit with some gifties.. tehe. But I think the begging really caused this chapter.. :) but that's okay.. cause I was going to post this anyways today..

Wulfric

Phoenix: I am not a moron.

Wulfric: Um, yea..

(Phoenix hits Wulfric, which causes Wulfric to become angered)

Phoenix: Whatcha gonna do?

(Wulfric just pulls her wand as Phoenix pulls his and the duel begins..)