Disclaimer in first chapter: or I don't own anything :(
Harry had his ad in hand and was walking through Diagon Alley. He was making his way to the Daily Prophet when he literally bumped into a red-haired woman. Blushing profusely, he started muttering his apologies.
"Oh I am so sorry Madam," Harry said getting up.
The lady just chuckled. "Hi Harry dear, how have you been?" Mrs Weasley said smiling brightly at her adopted son.
Harry smiled widely at the woman. "Hello Mrs Weasley. I have been fine, how have you been? Haven't heard from you in the longest time."
The two now standing looked at each other brightly. Mrs Weasley sighed lightly. "I have been bored out of my skull. All my babies have left me. Even Ginny is on her way out of the house. And I don't seem to be cooking and cleaning as much as I use to. I was actually looking around the shops to see if anyone needed part time or full time help."
Harry couldn't believe the luck. Especially with her. He knew he could trust her with running the business while Sev and he were gone. "I must be incredibly lucky then because I was just on my way to look for an assistant." Harry smiled with twinkling eyes. "It's a very demanding job but paid well and I was looking for some one I could trust to look after the shop while Sev and I took a vacation."
Mrs Weasley smiled widely. "Why Mister Potter are you offering me a job?"
Harry just grinned. "Would you say no if I did?"
She just swatted his arm playfully. "Of course not. You're family after all and I would love to be working with you. Especially the things you will probably be having me do. It will keep me busy which is what I was looking for."
"Well come on and let's go tell Sev. I am pretty sure he's not going to be displeased with who I managed to snag." Harry said and pulled the older woman with him. The two talked about the vacation and she was offering her own places to go.
In no time at all they were standing in side the store. "Sev!" Harry said aloud. He still walked arm in arm with his adopted mom into the back room. "I found an assistant."
"So soon? I thought you were just going to put the ad in the paper today." Severus stated with out looking up. "Is this person reliable?"
Harry held his finger up to silence Mrs Weasley. "Very."
"Do you know this person?" Severus stated neutrally.
"Known this person since the second day I've stepped into the wizarding world." Harry stated honestly.
"It's not one of your Gryffindor friends is it?" Severus sneered out.
Harry looked at Mrs Weasley who mouthed out Gryffindor. "Well… this person is a Gryffindor but I don't know exactly what this person was like in school."
Still Severus looked down into the caldron. "You didn't answer the question."
Harry rolled his eyes at the man. "This person really isn't a friend per say."
"Per Say? What do you mean by that?" Severus said.
"What he means to say is that I feel he's like a son to me and you could look up at least once to see he was fine." Mrs Weasley said smirking lightly.
Severus instantly looked up at the lady. Then he glared at Harry who looked innocently at Sev. "Well I trust her with my life and my business." Harry stated firmly.
Severus sighed and looked back down at the potion. "It's nothing against you Mrs Weasley. I just had wanted Harry to be careful with who he chose. I know though that he made a fine decision."
Harry snickered and whispered at Mrs. Weasley. "He gets cranky when he's been behind a caldron for too long." She snickered lightly before looking around the place of her new job.
Severus glared at Harry. "I heard that."
Harry laughed at Severus and stuck his tongue out at him. "And there's nothing you can do about it either."
Severus thought about a number of things he could do about it but none of which he thought would be reciprocated. How he did let his mind wander sometimes. He didn't think jumping over the caldron and tying him up and tickling him or ravishing him with kisses or just shagging him senseless would ever be wanted by the other man from him. Severus shook his head and went back to the potion he was currently working on.
Harry watched as Severus drifted off. He was amazed at how relaxed the other man could get. Especially with him. Harry wondered what Sev was thinking about just then. He had such a look of longing in those beautiful coal eyes. He wished that the man would look at him like that but he didn't even know if the man liked him that way. Sure they played that huge prank on the school a few months ago but that didn't mean he was gay. Harry looked a moment longer at the man he was starting to fall for before turning around and helping Mrs Weasley around the store.