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Not Alone Anymore – Grandma Lily
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Sighing, Harry attempted to rid his mind of the image his former mate left with him. The sight of Remus, his eyes laden with barely contained lust and desire was almost too much for Harry to take. All he wanted to do was jump the other werewolf right there and then; pretend the last five years hadn't happened at all. Instead, he settled for drying himself and getting dressed, figuring he'd sort it out at a later date. He pulled on some loose black trousers, a black tank top and a plan white shirt with only four of the buttons buttoned up.
When he'd retrieved his daughter's clothes for the day he made his way back to the main living area of his chambers and as he entered, he saw Remus, James and Sirius all sat on the sofa with their gazes facing towards the far wall. Opening the door a little wider, he stopped dead at the scene he laid his eyes on.
His daughter was in the arms of a small woman with auburn hair flowing down her back. The child didn't look too happy about being picked up by the strange woman but 'played nice. Harry suspected that she was only behaved because he'd told her to behave or fear the lack of pancakes for breakfast, otherwise Harry had absolutely no doubt that the four year old would be standing on top of the coffee table singing her little heart outs.
"Pup." He called out, getting the attention of everyone in the room. His daughter looked in his direction and her expression brightened considerably. She wriggled out of the woman's hold and ran to her father, attaching herself to his legs. Harry looked down ad the head of black hair, ruffling it affectionately with his hand. He then looked up to the now party of four sat on the sofa's.
"I asked you to watch her, not introduce her to strangers." He spoke coolly to the group before reaching down and hoisting Lily up into his arms then carrying her to the bean-bags still sat in front of the fire place.
"Harry, Lily isn't exactly a stranger." James said, sitting on the edge of his seat. "She's the girl's grandmother for Merlin's sake. Give her a chance!" If Harry heard what James had said, he didn't outwardly acknowledge it, instead he dressed his child, getting her ready for the busy day they both had coming up.
"Harry please!" The woman from before spoke up desperately but Harry didn't respond. He pulled up the child's tights then repeating the process with the skirt he'd picked out for her to wear. He then turned her around so she faced him. She looked a little disgruntled at being dressed in front of the other adults but didn't complain. She'd sensed her father's mood as he'd started to dress her and at the moment, it wasn't something to be messed with.
"How do you want your hair today, Pup?" asked Harry, now sitting on the edge of the coffee table. The girl shrugged. "Alright then. I'll stick it in a pony tail and when we go out today, all the leaves that have fallen from the trees can be blown into it and it'll get all scraggly and horrible. So, you'll have an extra long bath tonight." He teased gently then laughed at the look of disgust that played on her face at the prospect of being in the bath longer than she absolutely had to be.
"Um... braid?" The child suggested with a smile. She saw Harry put on a mock- thinking face and frowned at his indecision, completely forgetting the chuckling adults around the pair. "Stop if it hurts Daddy." She said cheerfully as she patted her father's head in an almost patronising manner.
It was at that moment that both Sirius and Remus burst out laughing. The sentence that had spilled from the girls mouth had been simply too much for their self control.
"Alright then missy!" Harry exclaimed happily, ignoring his daughter's remark as well as the two wizards currently leaning on one another for support in hysterics to his left, and picked up his wand. He waved it once over Lily's hair and it immediately went from the tangled mess he always named 'bed hair' to the shiny, loosely curled mass it had been the previous night. Then, with a final wave of his wand, the hair braided itself and tied at the end with a white ribbon.
"Now, Pup. Go brush your teeth. We're leaving in five minutes." He watched her retreating, then disappearing form as it stepped into the bathroom.
"Where are you two going today Harry?" Sirius' voice cut through his musing and Harry turned to look at his Godfather. The man was wiping his eyes free of the tears he'd shed whilst laughing at Lily.
"Fear not dearest Dogfather." He grinned at the other man's scowl. "We will be eating before we depart. I'm taking Lily to Diagon Alley and since classes don't start until tomorrow; I'm getting as much time in with her as I can." Suddenly a thought struck him. "Come to think of it, who'll be looking after her? I don't want her around any unfamiliar faces." He looked over at the now calm Remus. "Will you take her while lunch please? Get to know her a bit better?" The older werewolf smiled.
"Need you ask? I'd love to." He then shot an apprehensive glance at James and the woman sat beside him, and then looked back at Harry. "Harry, they just want to talk to you. They are you parent's. Just hear them out, please?" He said in a pleading voice. The younger wizard sighed and turned to the pair behind him.
"You have to understand this is more than a little difficult for me. I mean with Sirius and Remus, I can grasp the concept of their being back a lot better." A smile flickered over his lips. "Sirius because he'd been the only decent father figure I've ever known." He noticed James' saddened expression and sighed again. "James, I'm not faulting you for not being able to bring me up, because I know that given the chance you would have done. But you didn't get that chance and I'm saying that when Sirius was finally out of Azkaban, he became a sort of father figure for me... once he got out from under Molly's watchful eye that is." He heard Sirius snort but continued to look at the couple before him.
"And Remus... well, him being my mate made the whol-'' he was cut off however by the woman jumping up from her seat.
"Mate?" She exclaimed. "What kind of mate? Please tell me that my son and you are only mates in a purely platonic fashion Remus." Her eyes were fixed on her school-time friend and the man shifted uncomfortable under her gaze.
"You mean to tell me she doesn't know anything?" Harry asked whilst looking at James. The man opened and closed his mouth and Harry thought he was doing an awfully good impression of a goldfish. "Why would she even be here if she didn't know? How did you think you were going to answer her when she asked where Lily's mother is?" He rose to his feet. "Why weren't things explained to her before she arrived?" He demanded, still staring at his young father.
"Lily's mother? What about her mother? Where is she?" Harry groaned, rolling his eyes and hitting his head with his hand. This woman was supposed to be smart! He noticed that Sirius was biting his lip to keep himself from laughing at Lil's comment (I'm referring to James' wife – Lily – as Lil's to avoid the obvious confusion I've created by naming them both Lily.) and threw Lily's pyjama's at his face.
"I am her mother technically. Being in the respect that I carried her for nine month... well, eight and half anyway. I gave birth to her." He explained as if he was talking to a 6 year old but it seemed the woman didn't notice. Although Sirius was biting his lip again so Harry threw the bean bag at him to shut him up.
"You're her mother? How? How can a man carry a child?" Ok, she was shocked but this was going far beyond a joke. How can one person... one person that had been in the top five in her graduation year act this, dumb? Harry ran a hand through his hair in frustration.
"Think about it! I'm a 'wizard'." He pronounced each individual syllable of the word wizard as he spoke; causing the woman he was speaking to, to frown. "Magic was used to create the womb inside me so I could carry Lily."
"Then who is the father?" Harry could now hear Sirius' muffled laughter through the beanbag and kicked his Godfather's feet in a vain hope that he'd shut up before Lil's blew a gasket.
"Remus is the father. Obviously! We were mated! Life-mates! Soul-mates whatever the HELL you want to call it, we were it! We had sex, I got pregnant, and the war happened, I thought Remus had died, so I moved away for five years to raise Lily on my own. Now I'm back and I find out the man I loved wasn't actually dead, my godfather, who I saw die, be alive, here, not. Shutting. Up. AND the mother and father that died when I was ONE YEAR OLD alive too! Not only that! But both four years younger than me! My mother doesn't seem to be grasping the fact that I bore a child. Her grandchild! And my father is acting like a goldfish!"
Sirius could now be seen hugging the beanbag tightly, causing it to shake with his muffled but still loud laughter. Even Remus had a smile playing on his lips. Harry couldn't see the funny side, the woman was infuriating!
"Daddy?" the voice of Harry's daughter was heard from the direction of the bathroom and the wizards head snapped around to look at her.
"Pup?" The girl walked into the room with a perplexed look on her face.
"What's sex?" This time Sirius didn't care about the bean bag being there to muffle his laughter. He threw it over at the still in goldfish state James and laughed out loud... very loud. Harry sent him an annoyed look before turning back to the girl.
"I'll tell you when your older pup. You ready?" She frowned at him slightly but nodded and moved closer to him, casting frightened glances at her father's godfather. Sirius was now on the floor, still laughing and in tears. Lily prodded Harry's leg, getting his attention.
"Is he alright Daddy?" she pointed at the floor-bound animagus and Harry shrugged.
"He will be. When he calms down and finds we've left, he'll come looking for us no doubt. Now, come on sweety, breakfast time." He picked her up and after casting a withering glance as the still hysterical Sirius, left the room. He was followed by a very pale Lily Potter and her husband James as well as the smiling form of Remus Lupin.
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My apologies... this chapter was v.short and I aim to make future chapters longer... just give me time. I've at least tried not to make any mistakes in this chapter... if I have, please notify me and I'll curse myself for my stupidity, yet again. Enjoy!
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Not Alone Anymore – Grandma Lily
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Sighing, Harry attempted to rid his mind of the image his former mate left with him. The sight of Remus, his eyes laden with barely contained lust and desire was almost too much for Harry to take. All he wanted to do was jump the other werewolf right there and then; pretend the last five years hadn't happened at all. Instead, he settled for drying himself and getting dressed, figuring he'd sort it out at a later date. He pulled on some loose black trousers, a black tank top and a plan white shirt with only four of the buttons buttoned up.
When he'd retrieved his daughter's clothes for the day he made his way back to the main living area of his chambers and as he entered, he saw Remus, James and Sirius all sat on the sofa with their gazes facing towards the far wall. Opening the door a little wider, he stopped dead at the scene he laid his eyes on.
His daughter was in the arms of a small woman with auburn hair flowing down her back. The child didn't look too happy about being picked up by the strange woman but 'played nice. Harry suspected that she was only behaved because he'd told her to behave or fear the lack of pancakes for breakfast, otherwise Harry had absolutely no doubt that the four year old would be standing on top of the coffee table singing her little heart outs.
"Pup." He called out, getting the attention of everyone in the room. His daughter looked in his direction and her expression brightened considerably. She wriggled out of the woman's hold and ran to her father, attaching herself to his legs. Harry looked down ad the head of black hair, ruffling it affectionately with his hand. He then looked up to the now party of four sat on the sofa's.
"I asked you to watch her, not introduce her to strangers." He spoke coolly to the group before reaching down and hoisting Lily up into his arms then carrying her to the bean-bags still sat in front of the fire place.
"Harry, Lily isn't exactly a stranger." James said, sitting on the edge of his seat. "She's the girl's grandmother for Merlin's sake. Give her a chance!" If Harry heard what James had said, he didn't outwardly acknowledge it, instead he dressed his child, getting her ready for the busy day they both had coming up.
"Harry please!" The woman from before spoke up desperately but Harry didn't respond. He pulled up the child's tights then repeating the process with the skirt he'd picked out for her to wear. He then turned her around so she faced him. She looked a little disgruntled at being dressed in front of the other adults but didn't complain. She'd sensed her father's mood as he'd started to dress her and at the moment, it wasn't something to be messed with.
"How do you want your hair today, Pup?" asked Harry, now sitting on the edge of the coffee table. The girl shrugged. "Alright then. I'll stick it in a pony tail and when we go out today, all the leaves that have fallen from the trees can be blown into it and it'll get all scraggly and horrible. So, you'll have an extra long bath tonight." He teased gently then laughed at the look of disgust that played on her face at the prospect of being in the bath longer than she absolutely had to be.
"Um... braid?" The child suggested with a smile. She saw Harry put on a mock- thinking face and frowned at his indecision, completely forgetting the chuckling adults around the pair. "Stop if it hurts Daddy." She said cheerfully as she patted her father's head in an almost patronising manner.
It was at that moment that both Sirius and Remus burst out laughing. The sentence that had spilled from the girls mouth had been simply too much for their self control.
"Alright then missy!" Harry exclaimed happily, ignoring his daughter's remark as well as the two wizards currently leaning on one another for support in hysterics to his left, and picked up his wand. He waved it once over Lily's hair and it immediately went from the tangled mess he always named 'bed hair' to the shiny, loosely curled mass it had been the previous night. Then, with a final wave of his wand, the hair braided itself and tied at the end with a white ribbon.
"Now, Pup. Go brush your teeth. We're leaving in five minutes." He watched her retreating, then disappearing form as it stepped into the bathroom.
"Where are you two going today Harry?" Sirius' voice cut through his musing and Harry turned to look at his Godfather. The man was wiping his eyes free of the tears he'd shed whilst laughing at Lily.
"Fear not dearest Dogfather." He grinned at the other man's scowl. "We will be eating before we depart. I'm taking Lily to Diagon Alley and since classes don't start until tomorrow; I'm getting as much time in with her as I can." Suddenly a thought struck him. "Come to think of it, who'll be looking after her? I don't want her around any unfamiliar faces." He looked over at the now calm Remus. "Will you take her while lunch please? Get to know her a bit better?" The older werewolf smiled.
"Need you ask? I'd love to." He then shot an apprehensive glance at James and the woman sat beside him, and then looked back at Harry. "Harry, they just want to talk to you. They are you parent's. Just hear them out, please?" He said in a pleading voice. The younger wizard sighed and turned to the pair behind him.
"You have to understand this is more than a little difficult for me. I mean with Sirius and Remus, I can grasp the concept of their being back a lot better." A smile flickered over his lips. "Sirius because he'd been the only decent father figure I've ever known." He noticed James' saddened expression and sighed again. "James, I'm not faulting you for not being able to bring me up, because I know that given the chance you would have done. But you didn't get that chance and I'm saying that when Sirius was finally out of Azkaban, he became a sort of father figure for me... once he got out from under Molly's watchful eye that is." He heard Sirius snort but continued to look at the couple before him.
"And Remus... well, him being my mate made the whol-'' he was cut off however by the woman jumping up from her seat.
"Mate?" She exclaimed. "What kind of mate? Please tell me that my son and you are only mates in a purely platonic fashion Remus." Her eyes were fixed on her school-time friend and the man shifted uncomfortable under her gaze.
"You mean to tell me she doesn't know anything?" Harry asked whilst looking at James. The man opened and closed his mouth and Harry thought he was doing an awfully good impression of a goldfish. "Why would she even be here if she didn't know? How did you think you were going to answer her when she asked where Lily's mother is?" He rose to his feet. "Why weren't things explained to her before she arrived?" He demanded, still staring at his young father.
"Lily's mother? What about her mother? Where is she?" Harry groaned, rolling his eyes and hitting his head with his hand. This woman was supposed to be smart! He noticed that Sirius was biting his lip to keep himself from laughing at Lil's comment (I'm referring to James' wife – Lily – as Lil's to avoid the obvious confusion I've created by naming them both Lily.) and threw Lily's pyjama's at his face.
"I am her mother technically. Being in the respect that I carried her for nine month... well, eight and half anyway. I gave birth to her." He explained as if he was talking to a 6 year old but it seemed the woman didn't notice. Although Sirius was biting his lip again so Harry threw the bean bag at him to shut him up.
"You're her mother? How? How can a man carry a child?" Ok, she was shocked but this was going far beyond a joke. How can one person... one person that had been in the top five in her graduation year act this, dumb? Harry ran a hand through his hair in frustration.
"Think about it! I'm a 'wizard'." He pronounced each individual syllable of the word wizard as he spoke; causing the woman he was speaking to, to frown. "Magic was used to create the womb inside me so I could carry Lily."
"Then who is the father?" Harry could now hear Sirius' muffled laughter through the beanbag and kicked his Godfather's feet in a vain hope that he'd shut up before Lil's blew a gasket.
"Remus is the father. Obviously! We were mated! Life-mates! Soul-mates whatever the HELL you want to call it, we were it! We had sex, I got pregnant, and the war happened, I thought Remus had died, so I moved away for five years to raise Lily on my own. Now I'm back and I find out the man I loved wasn't actually dead, my godfather, who I saw die, be alive, here, not. Shutting. Up. AND the mother and father that died when I was ONE YEAR OLD alive too! Not only that! But both four years younger than me! My mother doesn't seem to be grasping the fact that I bore a child. Her grandchild! And my father is acting like a goldfish!"
Sirius could now be seen hugging the beanbag tightly, causing it to shake with his muffled but still loud laughter. Even Remus had a smile playing on his lips. Harry couldn't see the funny side, the woman was infuriating!
"Daddy?" the voice of Harry's daughter was heard from the direction of the bathroom and the wizards head snapped around to look at her.
"Pup?" The girl walked into the room with a perplexed look on her face.
"What's sex?" This time Sirius didn't care about the bean bag being there to muffle his laughter. He threw it over at the still in goldfish state James and laughed out loud... very loud. Harry sent him an annoyed look before turning back to the girl.
"I'll tell you when your older pup. You ready?" She frowned at him slightly but nodded and moved closer to him, casting frightened glances at her father's godfather. Sirius was now on the floor, still laughing and in tears. Lily prodded Harry's leg, getting his attention.
"Is he alright Daddy?" she pointed at the floor-bound animagus and Harry shrugged.
"He will be. When he calms down and finds we've left, he'll come looking for us no doubt. Now, come on sweety, breakfast time." He picked her up and after casting a withering glance as the still hysterical Sirius, left the room. He was followed by a very pale Lily Potter and her husband James as well as the smiling form of Remus Lupin.
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My apologies... this chapter was v.short and I aim to make future chapters longer... just give me time. I've at least tried not to make any mistakes in this chapter... if I have, please notify me and I'll curse myself for my stupidity, yet again. Enjoy!
Review!
Thank you!!