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Chapter 10

Home

Unshed tears sprung to his eyes when he touched the small, quivering boy and he flinched beneath his fingers.

"Harry, love just come here." His wife said in a soft voice from the door.

He gently lifted his hand away and walked out of the room.

"I…I don't know what to do. I don't even know what happened, he just went hysterical. And he sassed me and cursed I didn't pop him hard, I know I didn't." he stammered.

She placed her hand on his chest.

"It is fine, he will be alright, go take care of Jamie before he tears apart his nursery and I will calm this down."

He nodded forlornly and left the room. She knew her husband needed reassurance but right now the heartbroken little boy needed it more. She walked in and flipped her wand once quickly settling all of the toys off of the floor and into their boxes as she made her way around the maze of boxes to the bed. She sat down gently and ran her fingers across the nape of Teddy's little neck. He squirmed a bit and tried to stifle his sobs.

"Teddy love, I know you are upset, I can see that. Talk to me baby mine."

"No mummy. I'm not talking to no one. I'm stayin here and I'm livin here by myself." He whimpered.

"Oh, I see. But I will miss you so much if you don't come with me."

"Nu-uh you gots Jamie and the baby. Two boys just like now. You won't miss me." He argued.

"Well that's not right, I love three little boys and if you leave I will only have two little boys and big ole empty spot right where my Teddy bear goes. Who will I run and play with when Jamie gets all crazy? And who will teach the new baby how to be a sweet boy rather than a rotten little imp like James? We can't leave that up to daddy, he trained Jamie." She said, laying down on her side and rubbing his back.

She couldn't stop her smile when he wiggled up next to her as close as her belly would allow.

"Daddy doesn't want me to go no more." He sniffed.

"I bet he does want you to go. You are his little man, he loves you very much."

"Nope." His little lips popped on the p. "He spanked my bum and he called Jamie little man this morning at breakfast. He has a new one, he doesn't need two."

"Oh, I see. Well, I am certain that Daddy didn't mean to use your name for James, he loves you very much, that's why he gave you that name and he loves Jamie just like he does you which made it very easy to use your name. I don't think he even knew he hurt your feelings. And yes he spanked you, you said some very bad words, and some very mean things to daddy."

He shrugged his little shoulders, and rolled to face her, burying his face in her shoulder. She could feel his hot tears pooling on her shirt and the raped rise and fall of his back under her hand. She maintained her silence waiting for him to respond when she felt his body go limp and he sobs subside into sleep. She lay there beside of him for a long time until she felt Harry's presence in the room. He walked over and helped her stand before placing a throw blanket over Teddy's sleeping form. He levitated the boxes from the room to the sitting area with all of James' things and held out his hand to help Ginny down the steps.

"Is Jamie napping?" she asked looking around at all of the boxes.

"Yeah, he conked out about a half hour ago." He said miserably. "Is he alright?"

She sighed and sat down at the table.

"You called Jamie little man this morning."

Harry looked at her in confusion.

"Ok, I have always said that…I have called Teddy that his whole life, why would that matter?"

Ginny smiled at her husband.

"Precisely, you have called Teddy that for years. It hurt his feelings that you gave his name away, add in that we are moving him from the only home he can remember so quickly, the fact that we are bringing in another new baby, and he was absolutely worn out, he just flew off the handle. He is only seven Harry."

"I shouldn't have smacked him. I didn't know he was upset about James, it never even occurred to me."

"You should have smacked him, he said terrible things and was absolutely disrespectful. He needed corrected quickly. And I know you wouldn't have realized that his feelings were hurt. Why don't you get all of this to the manor, since this is all that is left. I will get Jamie and floo over when you get back and then you can grab Teddy. I think if we go ahead and move him while he is asleep it will be a bit easier."

Harry nodded and started moving the boxes and all of the furniture, excluding the boys' beds, which they were in. An hour or so later Ginny left clutching a partially asleep James and he walked to the nursery and waved his wand, sending the crib to the manor.

He was beyond nervous to pick Teddy up. A feeling he had never known before. Before lifting him he laid his hand on his back testing to see how asleep the little boy was. He did not move at all his breathing deep and even. His hair had fallen into its natural sandy curls as it only was when he was completely unaware of anything. He didn't think he could every explain to Teddy what he meant to him. Teddy was the only link to the last person that had loved him unconditionally as a child. He was the only living link to Remus and as such to Sirius. He tried not to let that show, he didn't want Teddy to feel burdened by the fact but he knew he needed to know that he was important but he had thought that Ted already knew that.

With as much care as possible he lifted the sleeping boy into his arms. Completely asleep he snuggled deeper into Harry's chest. Harry pressed his face into the sandy ringlets and inhaled, he smelled of little boy, chocolate biscuits, crayons, and a hint of dirt, all mixed up to make a father sigh in contentment.

"I love you baby boy." He whispered softly, kissing the crown of his head.

He couldn't stop the smile or the sigh of relief when, still blatantly fast asleep, Teddy buried his face into his neck and mumbled,

"Daddy."

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Ginny was charming all of her kitchen supplies into their places when she heard a cry from upstairs, one that quickly escalated into screams of terror. Trying to be as careful as possible (she wasn't the most dainty thing these days) she ran up the stairs and to the family wing. She followed the cries to her room where she knew Harry had laid Teddy when they returned. She walked in and first saw James, sitting on the floor inside a protective bubble playing with a snitch and then she watched as Harry picked a sobbing Teddy up out of the corner where he was sitting.

"Sssshhhh, son, sssshhh calm down it is alright. Look mummy is right there." Harry said as he lifted the shaking boy into his arms.

She walked over and put her hand on his having back as he gasped for air.

"Teddy, love, it is alright. Did you wake up and not know where you were?"

He nodded his head frantically and gripped Harry's shirt.

"You're in mine and Daddy's room at our new home baby. It is alright. See Daddy was right here in no time." She kissed the back of his head and turned, picking Teddy up after removing Harry's charm and left Harry and Teddy alone.

"Ssshhh, it is alright Ted, look, this is the same bed and everything that we have always had. You are at home, just a new one."

"I wanna go back to my home." He wailed, still holding tight to his father's shirt.

"Well, even if you go back there it wouldn't be home little man, none of your things are there and your family isn't there. I know I am never at home unless you and mum and Jamie are with me, the little scamp that he is."

"I like my home and my room. I don't want to move here. I don't like it at all." Teddy whimpered.

"Well that's not fair, you haven't even seen it yet. Let's go look at your new room and I bet you do like it"

Keeping him in his arms Harry walked down the hall and opened the door to what was once the study. He sat Teddy down on his feet, all of the boy's toys were here, put onto the existing shelves along with his books and several pictures that he had drawn and Ginny had framed. His bed was set up as was his drawing table and a desk for school work.

"I didn't paint the walls yet, I thought you should help me with that. What do you think?"

"I miss my forest and trees" he whined looking out of the window that overlooked the front yard.

"Well, I can fix that." With a flick of his wand the walls were covered with murals of the forbidden forest, the trees swayed a bit as if being blown in the wind.

"Look in the trees." He whispered.

Teddy looked closely and watched as a big black dog, bigger than Paddy even, bounced in between the massive trunks and disappeared, after a few minutes a huge stag appeared for a minute, grazing at the edge of a forest stream that flowed along the base of the far wall. Then with a mess of leaves and dirt the dog reappeared scuffling and playing with a gray and brown wolf, a huge wolf. Teddy watched transfixed as the threesome played and then disappeared into the trees. Harry waived his wand and enchanted the ceiling to reflect the sky outside, just as he had done in the old house.

"See bud, I thought this room would be really cool for you because it is big and has places for all your toys, but look at this, put your hand right here on this tree." Harry pointed to a tree that looked just like the engraved tree in their old yard. Teddy placed his hand and Harry cast a charm, Teddy jumped as a door opened in the wall to his right and he walked in.

"This room will only open if you or I touch that spot. It can be like your own special clubhouse. No one else can get in. And you know what is really cool?"

Teddy shook his head walking around the small 8x8 room that already had four beanbag chairs thrown on the floor and a table in the corner.

"This room, your daddy Remus used to stay here. This was his room too. I thought you might like to stay in here where he used to live. My room used to be my daddy's too, I know it makes my happy to know he used to be there. I thought it might make you happy too."

Thanking merlin for his quidditch reflexes harry caught the little body as he flung himself into his daddy's arms.