Doesn't time fly when you are having fun, well here we are again with another chapter of my little.
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This chapter will show a bit of Harrys fragility emotion wise, there will be ups, and down but it's all part of the story.
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Chapter 24
Living together
The occupants of The Founders box waited till most of the stadium had emptied and then they started to head back to the castle.
"Wotcher ladies, looking good rocking those new hair do's!" said a chuckling Tonks.
"Tonks, what you doing here" said Susan pulling her into a hug.
"Well your Aunt was kind enough to give me the day off to see Hubby play, and now I can escort you to your new home, and I must admit, it looks bang on" the Auror said, as she saw a small group of older Slytherins melt away into the crowd. "Friends of yours Daph?" she asked.
Daphne shot a steely glance towards the pink haired woman.
"Do not call me that. I don't like my name shortened, just as you do not like your name lengthened" she snapped squinting her eyes.
"Point taken Daphne, so do you know them?" Tonks asked again still tracking the group.
"Yes, potential death eaters. They gave us a blood purity lecture the other day, we are glad to be out of that place and now they are worried knowing they have admitted their loyalties to Harry's soon to be wife and Lady Slytherin. So either they will beg forgiveness or threaten us some more" Daphne explained as they carried on walking, "but I think the sooner Harry and I are married the better. I need the power of Slytherin house behind me".
Just then Harry and Ginny came flying over.
"Ladiessss, and my darling Tonksie, everything ok?" he said jovially.
"Hey hubby, good catch and nice thong by the way, I bet that's riding high about now" Tonks said making the group chuckle.
He beamed.
"oh yes, so high it's catching on my back teeth! but thanks for coming, you going to hang at the fort for a bit?" he asked shifting position on his broom with a wince.
"Of course, Hubby. Oh by the way Daphne doesn't like being called Daph, just thought I'd give you a heads up, and let you know, as you should've done for me" she said with a hint of warning.
"Well you learn something new everyday" he said, giving the stony-faced Daphne a wink, "well Ginny and I are going to enjoy a brief but fun victory party in the tower. We shall see you in about an hour, after you winner" he gestured to Ginny.
She shook her head.
"Oh no no, you're the captain of the wining team, after you" Ginny replied with a wink as she heard grumbling coming from the group.
"Then my co-captain we shall depart together as winners" he shouted, as they sped off under a hail of spell fire, "touchy aren't they" he shouted to a giggling Ginny.
The party was hard at it when they arrived at the tower, butterbeers and firewhiskey were doing the rounds, some people were still unhappy about Harry and the whole girl thing, but Gryffindors were nothing but fickle, give them a win at Quidditch they will love you, and enjoy it because tomorrow they will hate you.
Harry and Ginny just spent most of their time alone in the corner snogging each other while taking shots of firewhiskey in between kisses and swapping the drink via the kiss. In fact they were having the time of their lives alone, because they knew tomorrow the shits were back.
Back in the fort the rest of Harry's girls were all gathered around the roaring fire, Tonks was pacing back and forth.
"Where the bloody hell is he?" she spat, "it's been 2 hours".
Hermione gave her a look over her book.
"Oh the parties do tend to go on some, I'm glad to be out of it, all those drunk students are so noisy" she said, sounding like an old maid.
Milly snorted.
"How old are you Granger? You sound like old McGonagall for fuck sake" she said making the room roar.
"Oh Tonks, they are just having a bit of fun, Harry needs it" Tracey said.
"Hmmmmm a drunk Ginny and Harry. What's the worst could happen?" Hermione said looking around. "And don't forget they won, and they're very competitive, so you may have to hear a bit more about the match than you really want" she concluded, and saw the Slytherins cringe.
Tonks smiled.
"A drunk Harry at school? Wait till I tell Amelia," she chuckled.
Susan looked shocked.
"You wouldn't?! She would rip down the walls to get at him if she found out" she said.
The pink haired Auror just leaned against the wall, wearing one of Harry's old quidditch jumpers that she had liberated from his trunk.
"Well if he behaves himself, he will be safe" and as she said that they heard a door being kicked open and a very drunk pair of quidditch players come stumbling down the stairs arm in arm, with an almost empty firewhiskey bottle in hand.
"HEY HEY WINNERS IN THE HOUSEEEEEEEE!" shouted the drunk pair and pulled each other into a big deep kiss.
"Hey hubby…..how ya doin?" Tonks asked softly but with an edge.
Harry pulled himself away from Ginny who seemed to be very worse for wear.
"Hey Tonskie baby, how ya doin baby?" he said brightly.
"Not as good as you hubby, don't you think you've drunk enough?" Tonks asked.
"HELLLLLLLLLL no, we're are winners Nympie!" he said suicidaly .
"WINNERSSSSSSS" shouted Ginny now grinning stupidly.
Tonks and the Slytherins faces fell.
"What did you call me Harry?" tonks said slowly and dripping with poison.
Harry just waved it away.
"Nothing, nothing my dearest NYM -PHRA-DORA" he chuckled and with Ginny they threw their hands up and shouted "WINNERS" and then they saw a flash from a camera and two beams of red light.
Tonks and Daphne stood over the prone pair both with wands out, and Pansy had her camera out checking the picture.
"Oh this will cost him some" Pansy chuckled.
"Right, what shall we do with them then?" asked Tonks, giving Harry a nudge with her foot.
Hermione stood up and levitated Ginny up.
"I'll take her to our room and give her some hangover potion" she sighed, "Why do I feel like this won't be the last time I have to do this?" and trudged up the stairs.
Milly stood up and picked Harry up bodily and threw him over her shoulder.
"I'll look after old lover boy here" she said smacking his arse.
That's when Tracey stood up.
"Oh Milly, he'll enjoy that way too much, pump him full of potion and leave him to me" she said with a big grin.
They all gathered around the table having a nice lunch. They were entertained by harmonised snoring from both Harry and Ginny. It took a few hours for the potions to work and when Ginny walked down from her room she was looking very very second hand!
Once again, they were lying around the living room reading and chatting while the wizarding radio played away in the corner.
"Well well, look who's up" chuckled Pansy.
Ginny gave a shy grin and slumped down into a chair.
"Hey, how the hell did I get back here?" she asked confused.
"Don't you remember?" Daphne asked with a knowing smile.
Ginny shook her head.
"Nope, I remember entering the party, then we got a bottle of booze. Then we decided to swap the drink while we snogged, and that's it" and then Ginny looked around. "Where's Harry?" she asked and saw everyone smirk. Tonks pointed upwards to a suspended Harry once again completely naked, painted silver and green as well as the yellow and black for the Puffs, including the Slytherin thong.
"Hey Gin" he said slowly.
Her mouth dropped open.
"Hey, why, err what, you ok?" Ginny asked.
"Peachy, you?".
"Living the dream Harry" she said and looked around the group. "Any reason why he's still up there?" she asked.
"Well our husband to be, and to be honest yourself came home drunk as hell, and you were both a bit gobby to our very own Slytherin sister wives, bless them" Tonks explained " How could you be so cruel?"
Ginny winced, and Tonks continued.
"But no that wasn't enough for our dear Harry, he crossed the line, he called me by the name that I should never be called, and you both paid a price. But as it should be, Harry's was a heavier sentence" She concluded and beamed.
Ginny looked up.
"Could have been worse Harry, I suppose" she said to him.
Ginny was then handed a photo by Hermione who didn't even look up from her book. It showed Ginny slumped against Harry's shoulder and holding a bottle of booze!
"oh shit". Ginny exclaimed
"Yep" came from above "and guess who they sent it to?" Harry added.
Ginny's eyes went wide opened.
"No no no no not my mom, she'll kill me" she stuttered.
Everyone beamed.
"Nope I think you're safe" Harry said "but me? I'm not so sure" and by lucky chance, just at that moment Amelia strode out of the fireplace holding a photo, closely followed by Professor McGonagall.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER, WHAT IN MERLIN'S SAGGY BALLS DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING" shouted Amelia, making everyone flinch, and consider that maybe they had made a mistake.
There was another flash from the camera as the Professor added to her growing collection .
"Detention Mr Potter and Miss Weasley, every weekend night for a month" she announced sternly, turned on her heel and headed out.
Amelia just looked up at Harry.
"A brief word Harry, NOW" she shouted and strode into the kitchen.
Tracey waved her wand and Harry hit the deck with a thud. He started to put his clothes on slowly, trying to drag out the time.
"NOW!" which made the young wizard hurry up.
They strained their hearing, but they could hear nothing.
"Auntie only puts up silencing charms when she's really going to rip a new one" Susan explained and looked around to see Tonks nodding. "If I was you Tonks I would go now, these things tend to spread, and you don't want to be in Aunties sights when she's on one".
"ON ONE WHAT, SUSAN" said a very angry Amelia, with a much-subdued Harry behind her.
Susan dipped her head instantly.
"Nothing auntie" she said softly.
"Hmmmmm quite! This matter is now closed, but if this happens again there will be trouble" she warned before giving Harry a kiss on the cheek and a hug and then likewise with Susan. "Nymphadora, we'll have words when you get home" She stated, and stepped into the fire.
Ginny looked at Harry.
"How was it?" she asked.
"Your mums howler, but times ten" he said which made Ginny blanch and Susan nod. "But the worse bit was the tears, she said she was disappointed in me, and that was it" he said softly "I'm going for a shower" and strode off slowly.
Tonks looked at the dejected back of her husband to be and felt like a right shit.
"what have I done" she whispered.
"Nothing the rest of us wouldn't have done. We just didn't realise it would affect him so much" said Milly, looking upstairs and wondering how he was, "We've all had bollocking from our families, it's just part of growing up".
"Oh shit" Tonks said with tears in her eyes, "But Harry's never had that, he only had his bad relatives. Amelia and ourselves are the only ones who have ever showed him love" tonks stood up and went to the floo and called Amelia to come back.
"What!" spat Amelia.
"I think we have a problem. Harry looked destroyed about how he has disappointed you" Tonks said.
Amelia looked confused.
"It's just the same thing I've said to sue all this time, when she doesn't listen" she growled.
"But Harry isn't Sue, she had you all her life, Harry's had no one, and now the one person who has adopted him has just shouted at him about disappointing her, knowing his past what do you think is going on in that head of his?" Tonks asked, looking her boss in the eye and watching all the other's add two and two together.
"Oh shit" Amelia said "you all stay there" as she saw them all rise before running up the stairs.
She knocked on the Harry's bedroom door and nothing. She tried to open and then unlock it.
"HARRY" she called and then kicked the door. She pointed her wand at the lock. "bombarda" and blew the door off it's hinges and ran in. She looked around and nothing. She went to the bathroom and slowly opened up the door and the sight she saw caught her breath. he was curled up in a ball in just his shorts crying his eyes out with claw marks down his face from his own nails.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I won't do it again" he kept saying as he cried, rocked and kept on shaking.
Amelia ran straight in and pulled the boy into a hug.
"Harry stop now, I'm so sorry" she cried, which made Harry cry even harder. "TONKS!" and Amelia heard the pounding of feet.
"Yes boss? Oh shit Harry, what can I do?" Tonks asked.
Amelia looked distraught.
"Get Poppy here now" she ordered
Tonks, wide eyed pulled out her wand.
"Expecto patronum, Poppy emergency in the founder fort, Harry's room" she said and sent her now silver doe go flying off 'that's new' she thought.
With a crack Poppy appeared holding Dobby's hand.
"Ok Tonks, close the door. Amelia what the hell is going on?" Poppy demanded as Harry continued to wail in tears and distress. "Let him go Amelia".
"But"
"Do it now" the Matron demanded, and saw Amelia slide out from under him. "Stupefy" and Poppy knocked him out before levitating him onto his bed. "Ok, now tell me" Poppy said as she sat next to Harry and healed the nail marks down his face.
Amelia sighed.
"Tonks showed me a photo of Harry drunk with Miss Weasley, and I lost my temper. I came over and shouted at him like I do with Susan, and then I said he had disappointed me" she explained.
Poppy looked angry.
"Oh Amy, how could you be so silly? You know his past, and you know that you are one of the few adults he trusts, and you say that to him?!" she barked.
Amelia had tears running down her cheeks.
"I just forgot Poppy! He did something stupid, so I bollocked him, just like I do with Susan and my Aurors" she begged for understanding.
"But he's not like them, and you should know that. God only knows what damage you have done, and right before those shits come back tomorrow. Now go home, and I'll speak to you later" Poppy ordered.
Amelia shook her head.
"No, I have to be here" she pleaded.
"I said go, and I'll call you when he's ready." Poppy repeated "Amelia, go before I get mad, and just remember how many times I gave you the hangover potion in your last years, now go" she said and turned her back, "Dobby, take us to the infirmary, his normal bed" and with crack they were gone.
Amelia walked out and looked at Tonks.
"We've fucked up boss, haven't we?" Tonks said softly.
"No Auror you didn't, I failed as a Mother" she said sadly and walked off down the stairs.
Milly ran up first to Amelia.
"How's Harry, is he ok?" she asked desperately.
"Poppy has taken him to the infirmary. I won't sugar coat it, I fucked up, and I fear that I have damaged the trust between Harry and I, and maybe more" she said in tears as Susan hugged her, "I stupidly forgot how damaged that young man was, and I went too far. I just hope he will forgive me" she said, then gave them a weak smile and Susan hugs before walking into the fire, closely followed by Tonks.
In the infirmary Poppy had poured calming draught down Harry's throat. Luckily her stunning spell had worn off and he was just resting normally. She had added a little dreamless sleep just so he could doze quietly.
Just then Minerva came bustling in.
"How is he?" Minerva asked as she sat next to him and started to stroke his hair.
Poppy sighed.
"Physically he's fine, emotionally I won't know till he wakes up, but I'm glad you are here. I'll have to go and see Amelia once he's awake" she said.
"How was Amelia when you left her?" Minerva asked.
"Distraught, but she was in the wrong. Shout at him? Fine. But tell him that he's disappointed her? god, what was she thinking?" Poppy wondered. Just then Harry started to stir, his eyes flashed open and he started to look left to right in a panic.
"Calm down Harry, shhhhhhhhh Son, everything is going to be ok" said the Matron softly "now drink some more of this" and she poured some more calming draught.
"Mmom, what happened? How did I get here?" he asked and grabbed the hands of Minerva and Poppy.
The two adults looked at each other.
"What do you remember Son?" asked Minerva gently.
Harry had a flash of guilt.
"Errrr Ginny and I may have had a bit too much to drink at the tower. Then I remember being tied up and painted again" he explained, and tried to bring back the memories. Then suddenly his head dipped. "Amelia came over, and she was furious, and" then he stopped speaking as tears started to fall. "I've ruined everything, Amelia won't want to be my mum anymore, and if she goes the others will follow, I know it, everyone leaves me in the end, I don't deserve anything" he sobbed and started to curl up in a ball with his head resting on Poppy's lap as she stroked his hair which soothed him slightly.
Minerva got up and walked to the floo and disappeared as Poppy continued to sooth her doting but troubled Son.
"Harry c'mon now, you know that's not true, Amelia just let her temper get the better of her. She didn't mean it, sometimes adults say things that they don't mean to scare the kids straight, and I think she just wanted to treat you the same as Susan. For you to think that Amelia and the girls would leave you is borderline stupidity" she said giving him a slight tap on the forehead, and received a watery chuckle from her lap.
The occupants of Bones Manor were quiet and just staring into nothingness. Amelia was distraught. How could she get it so wrong? He always seems to be the roguish fun boy and that nothing could touch him, but in a single moment of time she had crushed him, though unknowingly, and it took Tonks to tell her, and now she couldn't shake the image of Harry curled up in that shower.
Suddenly the floo flared up and in strode a very agitated looking Minerva. Even though Amelia and Tonks were adults, they still sank down into their chairs feeling the wrath pouring off the Scottish teacher.
"Well aren't we all in a pretty pickle?" Minerva said, taking a wee dram of whiskey before having a seat.
"How's Harry?" asked Amelia, with tears filling her eyes.
Minerva sighed.
"Well he's awake, and Poppy is trying to calm him down, as the draft isn't quite strong enough" she explained to the pair.
"Has he said anything yet?" Tonks asked while picking her nails.
The deputy headmistress nodded.
"Yes, he said you were furious, and he felt that he had ruined everything, that you wouldn't want to be his Mum anymore, and that you would leave him" She said as she dabbed her eyes. "He thought when you leave everyone else would follow, leaving him all alone again. I think that's his greatest fear, being alone. He said everyone leaves him in the end, and that's when he broke down again."
"I would never leave him, ever!" Amelia said sternly and started to pace up and down, "I need to speak to him".
"Poppy will call us when he's ready" Minerva reassured her. "Tonks can you go and tell the girls he won't be back tonight" she asked the Auror.
Tonks stood up and pulled her boss into a hug.
"It'll be alright, look at the plus side, he called you Mum" she said which brought a smile to Amelia's face.
"He did, didn't he?" Amelia said hugging the young auror back before she flooed away.
Minerva smiled at her.
"Welcome to the mum club" she chuckled.
"Why would he think I would leave him? That we would all leave him?….why?" Amelia asked giving Minerva a pleading look.
"I think it goes back to the Dursleys. They always said his parents never loved him, that James was a drunk and Lilly was a whore. He's never known love. Then he got Sirius in his life, and he was taken away in the ministry, and Harry still blames himself for him dying, and I think with the more love he receives from the girls, the fear of losing it grows, and now he has a mother and a big family. I think your misplaced word tore him down, and his fears seemed to be coming true, and it became too much" explained Minerva.
"I might pay those Dursley's another visit in Azkaban for fun, those shits" Amelia spat, when the floo flared up again and out walked Harry with tears in his eyes. "HARRY" Amelia screeched and ran to him as he ran towards her.
"MOM" he called out as they collided and hugged, tears were already coursing down his face as they embraced. "I'm so sorry, I'll never let you down again mom, i promise" he sobbed into her shoulder.
"Now shush yourself Son" she whispered to him, as her heart was soaring because even after such a short time he thought as her as he surrogate Mum. "Is it ok for me to call you son?" She asked and received a nod into her shoulder. "Good, now listen, I think we both did something wrong today. The only difference is that I should've known better, and the two worst things about today are... can you guess?" she asked.
"No" he whispered, and increased his embrace to his new Mom.
"One, I upset my new son, albeit by accident, and the worse, number two was that Tonks had to be the one to tell me what I had done wrong! Do you realise how long that little bitch is going to lord that over me?!" she said making Harry chuckle.
"But I am sorry Mum" he whispered again.
She kissed the side of his head.
"I know love and I'm sorry too, this is all still new to both of us, but we have a long future ahead and we are going to have a huge family, and I'm sure myself, Poppy and Minerva, are looking forward to many many grandchildren" she said to bring a big smile out of Minerva.
"Oh yes Harry, lots of little green eyed and scruffy haired monsters, running about the place" chuckled the Scottish teacher.
"Hopefully, they will have their mother's hair" he laughed, still tucked into Amelia's shoulder.
Amelia pulled back.
"C'mon you two, let's have a nice cuppa in the kitchen, before the quiet is stolen from us by your Lady Black" she said taking Harry by the hand and walking him into the kitchen to sit down.
Back at the Founders Fort Lady Black walked into turmoil, surrounded by distraught and angry witches, she pulled her wand and sent out a huge bang.
"NOW SIT DOWN, AND SHUT THE FUCK UP" shouted the Auror, making all the kids scatter. "Right. Harry is ok, he just got a bit over upset that's all. We all know of Harry's past, unfortunately the things Amelia said played to all his fears of abandonment. But we have calmed him down, and he will spend tonight away at Amelia's" she explained.
"In whose bed I wonder?" said Daphne raising an eyebrow and giggles from the crowd.
Nymphadora just smiled.
"Well, Daph Daph" she said making the blonde Slytherin wince then scowl "He will be sleeping in his own bed I'm sure" she said as she walked towards the fireplace, threw in the powder and said "Bones Manor" and looked at Daphne with a bright smile, "But I wonder who he will wake up with, who is to say" she said and winked and disappeared just after hearing "BITCH".
They were still in the kitchen when they heard the floo alarm go and the smashing of a vase followed by swearing.
"Jesus, that girl's going to cost me a fortune. I can't wait for you to finish school Harry, then she's all yours Son" Amelia said with a chuckle.
"I'll get Kreacher to stick everything down, that should save us some money" Harry said making the two elder witches laugh.
"I heard that 'oh husband that will never see my bed' " Tonks growled.
Harry saw her hair was now jet black,and he knew he was in trouble…...again, he saw her point out a finger and beckon him to her.
"Yes dear?" he whispered and got up to follow the scowling witch.
They reached Harry's bedroom and that's when Nym turned around and hugged her betrothed.
"Oh Harry, I was so worried" she whispered, and kissed him deeply. "Are you ok? You feeling ok?" she asked peppering his face with kisses and then they pressed their foreheads together.
"I'm fine my darling, just bad thoughts. I'm sorry to worry everyone" he whispered back and placed his hands on her hips.
She pulled Harry close into her and let their bodies become one, she flicked her wand out, locked the door and added a silencing charm. She pushed Harry back into the bedroom, and in another swift movement pulled off her top to reveal her red bra, she giggled as she saw his eye's grow wide, her bra and jeans followed quickly, she then placed Harry's hands onto her bare breasts.
"Hold me Harry, squeeze me, that's it" she moaned as he gently massaged her, "I love you Harry" she said softly and slowly pushed him back onto the bed, and made him her own, and from him being at his lowest point, he was now at his highest.
Amelia and Minerva decided to put the radio on as they were both blushing.
"Silencing charms are ok, as long as you do them all over the room" said Minerva as they could still hear the rhythmic creaking of the floorboards and the moans of the young couple upstairs.
"Fancy a drink at Hogwarts, in my office?" said Minerva and strode out of the kitchen, quickly followed by Amelia who was now giggling like a schoolgirl.
"OH GOD OH GOD" Tonks shouted from upstairs.
Amelia had just activated the floo and frowned and looked at the chuckling Minerva "never thought Tonks was religious" and they left for Hogwarts.
Well there we have it my friends, i hope you enjoyed this chapter, and i will see you in another two weeks.
Live long and prosper.
Nickp41.