Written for:

Women's History - Write about a mother fighting to gain or regain custody of her child or children.

Disney - Write about someone manipulative

365 - Plot point - getting a letter from someone important

1000 - 350 words

Custody

Remus looked at the letter in his hand and couldn't help but smile. "Sirius, there's a letter," he said, walking away from the postbox and headed in where his lover was sitting at the kitchen table of their cottage. "It says we're finally getting custody of Harry - what happened?"

Sirius glanced at the letter as Remus passed it over. His eyes moved slowly over the words as he tried to focus. "They came to their senses," he muttered, a smile forming on his lips.

"No. It was voted that he would have to stay with Petunia," Remus insisted. "He's been there for four years - why would they change their minds now?"

Sirius smiled. "It says here Petunia is unable to look after Harry anymore," he said. "So of course he'll come to his Godfather - as James intended."

Remus stared at Sirius for a long moment as the man turned back to his tea. "You didn't… do anything, did you?"

"Love, I've been here with you all day every day," Sirius insisted. "How could I do anything?"

"I know," Remus murmured, though he recalled Sirius slipping out of their bed the previous night and not coming home for a couple of hours.

...oOo...

Remus stood in the Ministry next to Sirius.

"Due to the injuries that Petunia Dursley sustained on the twelfth of this month, she's unable to look after Harry James Potter for the foreseeable future. Therefore the five-year-old will be passed into the custody of his Godfather, Sirius Orion Black."

The paperwork was quickly signed and the small boy was brought through. It had been four years since Remus had seen Harry and the boy wasn't recognisable. The once excitable boy now appeared meek and scared and Remus wondered why he had changed so much.

"Petunia and her husband were neglecting him," Sirius muttered, as they left the Ministry with Harry.

"They did?" Remus felt anger stir but pushed it away. He knew without a doubt that Sirius had done something about that. Sirius would never let anyone mistreat Harry after all.

And he found that he was okay with that.