Chapter ten

The party went until the early hours the following morning. Everyone was having such a good time that no one wanted to leave. But all Harry's friends hugged him and Charlie before leaving, the Weasley family also hugged Charlie and Harry before they left. Charlie had offered to head to the Burrow to give Harry and his mother time alone, but both Lily and Harry wanted Charlie to stay, so he stayed. Harry walked his mother to the spare room, then nervously stood beside her.

'It will take time for us to know each other Harry. Just know I am your mother and I love you,' Lily kissed Harry's cheek then hugged him.

'I've always loved you, I still do. But we do need to get used to each other. Anyway, goodnight mum,' Harry gave her a small smile then waited until she closed the door before heading into his room to see Charlie already in bed, 'She seems nice.'

'She is, but take your time, you can't expect to be mother and son straight away. You're a grown man now and haven't had her in your life for a long time. Now come on, get out of those clothes and get in bed.'

Harry nodded, stripped his clothes off and curled up against his love with his head on Charlies chest.

'Even though I do love her Charlie, will we like each other enough to have a life together?'

'Yes, because I could see it tonight, you both want this. Your mother was talking to mum a lot, so she already knows more about you than she did. You know mum won't hold back that type of information from your mother. Now you have to get to know her since you never had anyone around to tell you, so from tomorrow on you start your new life with a mother in the picture.'

'Not just my mother, but you Charlie, you said yes. So we have to talk about that soon.'

'We will, there's no rush you know. I said I'm living here now, so let's just take our time, make plans and go from there. I'm sure your mum would love to help with the plans for our wedding, both our mothers will have it all organised before we know what hit us.'

'I know you're mum loves to put on her children's wedding, maybe my mum will be the same. Charlie, about her, she's still young, do you think after some time she might want to find someone else? No one should be alone.'

'If she does, it won't be for a long time. I think after what happened with Snape, it will make her wary, cautious. This is what I'm talking about, you don't know what type of person she is, but you will find out, starting tomorrow. Now let's get some sleep babe, it's late and the last few days has been emotional,' Charlie kissed the top of Harry's head.

'No sex,' Harry glanced up, 'that's unusual, is it because my mother is in the other room?'

'No, it's just late, we're both exhausted. I'm sure you'll survive one night without my cock.'

Harry chuckled, 'Maybe,' he sighs, 'I am tired though,' Harry put his head down under the sheet, kissed Charlie's member then put his head back on his chest but he felt Charlie's chest moving with his silent laughter, 'I love you Charlie.'

Charlie stared down at Harry, 'I love you too, now go to sleep Harry.'

'Yes dear,' Harry chuckled, then closed his eyes falling into a disturbed sleep. Dreams of his mother being held by Snape kept invading. He woke a few times but was able to shake them off before falling to sleep again.

Charlie woke to see Harry still asleep which wasn't like him, Harry always woke early. He dressed and headed downstairs to see Lily in the kitchen.

'Morning Mrs. Potter.'

'Charlie, good morning, is Harry still asleep?'

'Yep, normally he's up before me. But as I said to him last night, the last few days has been very emotional on him, but he also woke a few times last night, so he's exhausted.'

Lily nodded sadly, 'Hopefully everything will be fine soon. I'm making breakfast, would you like some?'

'Please,' Charlie smiled then watched as Harry's mother moved around the kitchen, 'It seems you're comfortable here, do you remember?'

Lily smiled, 'Yes, I do. I always enjoyed cooking for James, and Sirius as he was always here. So I worked the kitchen to my liking and it seems Harry left everything the way it was,' Lily placed a large platter on the table filled with everything anyone would want for breakfast, then she placed a tea pot, cups and milk on the table before sitting down, 'About Sirius, Severus didn't like him so I'm not sure I believe what he said about Padfoot.'

'I don't know everything as I was living in Romania most of the time. But when I met him I could tell he was a good bloke and he loved Harry. I do know Harry was tricked by Voldemort to go to the department of mysteries. Harry had this vision that Voldemort was torturing Sirius, Harry went to rescue him, he was only fifteen. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Neville and Luna were with him and they all ended up fighting death eaters. Bellatrix killed Sirius and he fell through the veil in the death chamber. He turned up with the order to help Harry.'

'He died because of me,' Harry said as he sat beside Charlie.

'He died because of Voldemort and Bellatrix. You have to get over this Harry, you can't keep blaming yourself for everyone's death. He wanted you there and was going to use anything to make sure you got there and get him the prophecy.'

'I know,' Harry sighed, 'But Sirius turned up for me, so even if I'm not to blame for everyone else, I am to blame for his death. But why are you talking about Sirius?'

'I wanted to know especially now I know Severus lied about you and about everything else. Sirius meant a lot to me Harry, he was a very close friend. I was told that he got reckless, went against Albus' orders and was trying to make himself important to the order.'

'Lies, all lies, but he shouldn't have left the house, Dumbledore did tell him to stay. But I think any of us would have done what he did for someone they cared about. I blame Dumbledore for this because if he just told me the truth then I would have known Voldemort would have tried to get me there. I might care about the old bugger but it was his doing that brought about Sirius death.'

'I don't mean to upset you Harry, I was just curious. That's the type of person I am, a curious one and I can't help asking about things.'

'Its fine, I'm sure everyone will tell you what you want to know.'

'Yes, don't expect much information to come from Harry, he usually leaves it to Hermione and Ron to explain. Harry will just say yes, no, maybe, sort of, things like that.'

Harry chuckled, 'See, you know me too well Charlie, but you are right, I'm not much of a talker,' Harry looked across at his mother, 'Maybe that will have to change. I can't have you believing Snape because nothing he would have told you would be true. So it looks like I might have to get used to explaining my life to my mother. Blimey I have a mother, how do I treat a mother, how am I supposed to behave, am I too old to be grounded?'

Charlie and Lily laughed, then both of them put their arms around Harry making him laugh. But to Harry this was the best, he had his mother and his lover, his family.

'Even though you have your old clothes, I'm sure you would like some new stuff. I can still get Hermione to go get you some things if you want.'

'Let's leave it for now Harry, when he's locked up, then you can take me shopping,' Lily heard Charlie laugh and saw his head lowered, 'Is something funny Charlie?'

'Yeah babe, what's so funny?' Harry scowled.

'Harry, shopping, that's hilarious. It took me ages to talk him into buying some new stuff, then it was just a few pairs of jeans, a few shirts, jumpers, then he was practically running away from the stores.'

Harry glared but heard his mother laugh, 'Oh great, you're going to gang up on me now are you?'

'No sweetheart, but that is your father all over. He hated shopping so I usually had to do it for him. If I didn't, he'd be in his old worn jeans with holes in them. Not that I minded the holes, my fingers had fun.'

'Mum,' Harry's eyes widen as Charlie laughed again, 'Blimey, I don't want to hear that.'

'Now you know how all of us feel when dad starts. Another thing you're going to have to get used to Harry, hearing things about your parents that you'd rather not, like sex.'

Harry shook his head, 'I get they had sex, but I really don't want to know. So how about we get off that subject.'

'Alright, tell me when you and Charlie met?'

'Harry was fourteen when we first met. I came over from Romania for the quidditch world cup. So I'm sitting at the table in the Burrow, my brothers step out of the fireplace, laughing so hard they were falling over, then Harry with dad after him. The thing was, Harry's eyes landed on me and he could hardly look away. I figured he must know he was gay by that look, but as I watched him that year I realised he had no idea. Nothing would have come of it anyway, Harry was too young and I had to go back to Romania.'

'I thought Charlie looked so good, but I figured it was because he looked so different. You saw all the other Weasley boys last night, Bill and Charlie stands out compared to them. But there was just something about Charlie, his long hair, the earring, his hard muscular body,' Harry groaned softly making Charlie and Lily laugh before Harry shakes his head, 'So I never picked up on the fact I was checking him out.'

'Why were your brothers laughing?'

'George and Fred, his twin who died during the fighting, well they gave Dudley Dursley a foot long tongue. They own a joke shop, so Fred pretended to drop these sweets. I'd mentioned to them how fat my cousin was and would usually take the food of my plate, he ate nonstop, he was such a pig. It was all planned because they knew he couldn't resist if he saw some sweets on the floor. So Mr. Weasley is trying to calm fat Vernon down while Petunia is trying to get this thing sticking out of Dudley's mouth not realising it's his tongue, I couldn't help laughing, it was hilarious. So Ron, George and Fred flooed to the Burrow, Mr. Weasley told me to leave and he'd deal with it. I saw Vernon throw something at Mr. Weasley, he vanished it as I was leaving. The moment I stepped out George asked if he ate it, when I said he did, George, Fred, Ron, Bill and Charlie were in hysterics, they were laughing so hard they had tears running down their faces. Oh but Mrs. Weasley, did she have a go at the twins when she found out, Ron and I took cover and ran for the stairs. Charlie and Bill just sat there laughing like it was a big joke watching their brothers being scolded by their mother.'

'It was funny Harry, but it was more the fact that they got your cousin for the way he treated you. Even in Romania I heard the stories.'

'He changed when I saved him from the dementors, he even apologised. I suppose it's the way he saw his parents treated me so he went along with it. When he realised he would have lost his soul that's when he knew it was thanks to me that saved him. So from then on he was actually nice.'

'So when you worked out you were gay, did you meet some boy?'

'No because I didn't work it out until recently. I dated a girl called Cho Chang in fifth year, she was here last night. Our date didn't go to well, she kept crying,' Harry shuddered, 'Then I dated Ginny for a few months, that's when I was sixteen, just before Dumbledore died.'

'So you dated Ginny and Charlie, brother and sister? Oh Harry, I don't think even Sirius would do that even if he was bi.'

Harry choked, 'Bi, I heard he shagged girls at Hogwarts, not blokes as well.'

'He liked both, but girls were his main conquest. He said the boys were too easy, they wanted sex, he said he liked to work at the seduction which he had to with the girls.'

'This is what I want to know, I never got enough time with Sirius or when I was with him we had other things to talk about so I never got to hear what he's life was like when he was younger. But about dad, I heard a few things about him?'

'You're father was popular with the girls, he did sleep with three before we got together.'

'I heard he was popular with the girls, they liked the fact he was quidditch captain.'

'Like you babe.'

'You played quidditch?' Lily asked looking surprised.

'Yeah, took seeker in my first year, captain in my sixth. Ron and Ginny were on my team. The twins were beaters when I first got seeker. The dark girl that was with George, she was my captain for a year before I was captain.'

'I don't know a lot about quidditch, but isn't it unusual for a first year to get picked for a team?'

'It is, Harry was the first in over a hundred years, he's a natural on a broom. I played seeker when I was at Hogwarts, Harry ended up beating my old record.'

'When everything settles down, maybe we could get a game going at the Burrow,' Harry grinned, 'We do if we can get enough to play, Charlie and I against each other this time though, both seekers.'

'I heard how you play Harry, I'm not sure I could compete against you. Not just the fact you always get the snitch from what Ron said, but you dive and get dangerously close to the ground. From what I heard you could have gotten ploughed plenty of times.'

'Nah, it just looked that way, but you have to go that extra length to beat me Charlie. The Slytherin's always cheated but they still couldn't get the snitch before me. I was good,' Harry chuckled making Charlie and his mother laugh. Charlie realised Harry was loosening up with his mother and showing a bit of that playful side. Lily was seeing so much of James in Harry, nothing like what Severus had told her. She was finally seeing her real son, a son she can't wait to know.