Thank you to the betas of this chapter, icedawn12193, and Willofhounds.

Chapter Eighteen - Yucky Candies

Harry started therapy with the Mind Healer a few weeks ago and in Severus' opinion, it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be.

In the past few days, he was able to get Harry to wear his leg braces, and getting Harry dressed in the mornings didn't involve a meltdown from the child all thanks to the Healer's help.

The Healer even got Harry to open up about his uncle and Albus through play therapy. The Mind Healer charmed little puppets to look like his uncle and Albus along with one that looked like Harry and Harry would act out what had happened to him.

Severus found it disturbing how Harry would put the Harry puppet into a small toy cage and use the other two puppets to torture it. But because of this, the child was having fewer nightmares. Harry still wouldn't sleep in his own bed but Severus was hopeful that it would be the next step.

Severus had no problems in admitting he was wrong about the Mind Healer. He was sure that she would try and get Harry taken away from in, saying that he was unfit to look after the boy but she had done no such thing, all she had done was help. And Harry was doing much better because of it.

"I will be gone for a few hours picking up supplies, you sure you will be alright?" Severus asked, addressing Remus who was sitting with Harry on the floor. He needed to pick up supplies to make a couple of potions for Poppy for the Hospital Wing and against his better judgment he asked Remus if he could babysit for him, the wolf was more than happy to.

"We are going to be just fine, isn't that right Harry?" Remus asked with Harry giving a small smile in return.

"If you have any problems, Minerva…"

"I know what I am doing...nothing bad is going to happen," Remus cut Severus off.

"Just try not to kill him when I'm gone," Severus said with a sigh before saying his goodbyes to Harry.

"You be good for Remus," Severus said, hugging Harry, "I'll be back before you know it," Severus said before going through the floo.

"Bye," Harry muttered as he watched the green flames fill the fireplace.

Remus gave Harry a smile once Severus went through the floo.

"Now that he's gone, we can have some real fun," Remus said before taking out small quidditch players from his bag along with the quidditch balls that were no bigger than the size of a marble.

"This is something I used to play when I was your age," Remus said as he turned his back for a second.

Harry's eyes landed on the quaffle, picking it up and popping it into his mouth, believing it to be candy, coughing a little as it went down.

That wasn't a good piece of candy, Harry thought as he picked up one of the bludgers and popped it into his mouth, couching once again as it went down.

These aren't good candies Harry thought as he pushed the rest aside as Remus turned back around, placing the quidditch hoops on either end of the table.

"Alright, all you need to do is pick what color you want. You want to be red or..." Remus suddenly stopped as he looked at the quidditch balls, seeing that two were missing. Searching the table and the floor before panic started to set in.

"Harry? Where are the balls?" Remus asked afraid of the answer that the child might give him. Harry shook his head.

"Not good," he muttered, not wanting any more of the candy.

"No, no, no," Remus said in a full-blown panic.

"Harry? Did you...eat the balls?" Remus questioned, wanting to make absolutely sure.

Remus felt his heart jump out of his chest when the child gave him a small nod, Severus was going to kill him.

"Please tell me you didn't swallow," Remus spoke, reaching over the table and sticking his fingers inside of Harry's mouth in hopes he could find the toys, earning a small bite from Harry.

"Alright..." Remus said as he tried to think of what to do when he couldn't find the toys.

"Hospital Wing," he decided, picking the child up and going through the floo.

"Poppy!" Remus said in a panic as he stepped out of the floo, setting Harry down on one of the beds.

"Remus?..."

"Please, you need to help me, I don't know what to do," Remus said in a panic.

Poppy looked down at Harry who was giving her a smile."What's wrong? He seems fine to me," Poppy said, confused.

"Those old quidditch players that we used to play with as a kid, I wanted to show Harry...He ate two quidditch balls" Remus explained. "I need you to take them out before Severus finds out what I did."

"And how do you want me to do that?" Poppy inquired, somewhat amused by what was happening.

"I don't know, I'm not a Healer!"

"Remus, kids swallow things all the time and they always return," Poppy spoke calmly.

"I can't wait, Severus is going to be home in a few hours. I will never be allowed to look after Harry again once he finds out what happened."

"Harry isn't in any danger so it will be irresponsible of me to do surgery for two little toys that would pass on their own," Poppy explained.

"Can you at least check, make sure he isn't in any danger?"

Poppy let out a small sigh but nevertheless, she laid Harry down on his back and pulled up his shirt. "Harry I need you to lie still, just like when we do therapy together," Poppy said before taking out her wand and waving it over the child's stomach with a piece of parchment appearing in the air.

Taking the parchment, Poppy read the results. "He's not in any danger, the toys will pass on their own, just like I said,"' Poppy relaid back before fixing Harry's shirt.

"As long as you are here I did want to talk to you," Poppy added as she sat Harry up.

"About Sirius?"

"No. I haven't been to see him and I have no plans to and I don't want to talk about it." Remus answered the questions that he knew were coming. " ...are you sure there is nothing you can do?"

"It will pass," Poppy replied. "Try not to panic, I'm sure Severus will understand." Poppy tried to reassure.

"Have you not met Severus?" Remus said, picking the child up back into his arms.

"Thanks anyway," Remus said with a sigh before going back through the floo. He had around three hours to fix this, he quickly cleaned up the toys before leaving Harry in the living room as he went to the kitchen to fix Harry a drink, he needed to get those toys back.

He poured pumpkin juice into Harry's cup along with a potion that worked just like a muggle laxative, pouring a few extra drops then what was recommended before putting the lid on the cup and handing it to Harry who took it immediately.

Remus spent the next three hours gagging as he went through the child's diapers only to be disappointed when no toys were found.

He knew it was only minutes until Severus returned so he sat Harry on the couch and kneeled down so he was face to face with Harry.

"Alright...so we are not going to tell daddy that you had candy today. What are we going to tell daddy?" Remus asked, making sure Harry understood the plan.

"We play...outside" Harry answered.

"That's right, we played outside. And what are you going to ask when daddy comes home?" Remus asked for the fifth time.

"...You..stay for….dinner" Harry spoke softly.

"That's right," Remus said, knowing that Severus wouldn't be able to say no to the child. His plans had changed, he was going to stay for however long it took to get the toys back and if that meant using Harry to manipulate Severus then he would. He only hoped that Harry would pass the toys before the night ended.

Remus took a deep breath when he heard the floo warring, turning around to see Severus entering his chambers.