Title: Trick of the Light
Author: smolder
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Angel the Series belongs to Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling.
A/N: These drabbles won't always be in strict chronological order.
A/N 2: Some of these drabbles will be about people surrounding Winifred's life or who will come into her life at a later date.
A/N 3: Reviews are Good. This has been a subtle hint from the author - Please return to your regularly scheduled reading.
It was funny how they only got their marriage to start working when they stopped trying so hard to be a couple, and instead became partners working together. When they remembered again that they were friends. That they always worked better as friends.
Now it was so much lighter in the house, so much less tense, and Harry knows this has to be better for their children than when they were attempting to force their relationship. They actually smile at each other, actually talk now – not just the stilted "conversations" that were tightly controlled cover for yelling.
When they go over to the Burrow now they hold hands easily and grin knowingly while Molly talks. It no longer feels like a trap that they're suffocating under - all the stares and expectation. It feels like a big game, a trick. But it's them playing it against the world, not against themselves and each other anymore.
And it's all thanks to Luna.
Luna who is not only raising his first born child, but apparently is fixing his family, too. Has been supporting his wife through her relationship with him since its infancy, if he got the conversation with Ginny right.
Shit, as if he needed another thing to feel guilty and indebted towards Luna for a dark part of his mind whispers.
An image springs to mind of a little girl with wavy brown hair and a surprised and happy look on her face screaming, "Bio-Dad!" and raising her little arms for him to pick her up. Luna looking hopeful and uncertain slightly off to the side.
He can't breathe for a moment and his chest feels constricted as if he's been hit by a curse.
Go see her, you idiot (The voice sounds suspiciously like Seamus Finnigan).
Harry bit his lip. No, he was finally starting to do better with his own family: Ginny, James and the new twins - Albus Severus and Lily Luna (God, Luna). He should just concentrate on that. He could go see Fred when everything was on a bit steadier ground.
Yes. Yes, that made sense.
He tried to ignore the voice with the slight brogue that whispered, Coward.