Writer: Azure K Mello
Title: A Bond Never Dies
Part: 70?
Words: 230
Warnings: Angst. Non-canon.
MRHG- I'm gonna tell Julia it's your fault my paper isn't written.
The floo system was almost too fast for James' taste. Before his lips were dry from Sirius' kiss he was stepping out of his parents' fireplace. His mother was hugging him and fussing over Harry and saying how tall he was, and how beautiful he was, and how much of a love he was. She asked if they'd brought their cossies and appetites. She had stroked Harry's face as she gave James meaningful looks. They wandered out onto the veranda where his father was barbequing. There was a frying pan on the grill frying eggs, and tomatoes, and bread. The man was pouring baked beans into another warming container on the grill as he pushed sausages, tuna, and mushrooms, around over the coals. He gave James a tight hug and whispered, "We'll be talking later, son."
"Yes, sir," James agreed quickly knowing that what his father really meant was that the man might cry if forced to address his son and didn't want to do so in front of his wife.
He realized that his mother had never let go of his arm since he'd come in through the grate. Looking at her, he dropped Harry to stand on the ground and wrapped his arm around his mother more fully. She breathed in his scent as she had when he was a baby. "My boy," she kept whispering, "my boy."