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All mistakes are my own
There will be slight OOC on Harry's part.
Warnings: Boy/Boy action, swearing, and all that other 'adult' stuff. I'll warn you if anything major happens in the chapter. Oh slight cross-dressing on Kurt's part and a lot of cross-dressing on Harry's part. Mentions of child abuse.
Pairings: Noah (Puck)/Harry or Putter as I like to name them, Klaine, Finchel, Bartie, Tike and I have no idea who to pair Sam, Mercedes, Santana and Quinn with.
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Chapter Three: Birthday
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Birthday:
1. The day on which a person was born
2. An anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
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Birthdays were supposed to be joyous occasions; A day in which the person who was celebrating their Birthday was lavished upon with gifts, love and sometimes a party. Now Harry had never experienced much enjoyment in the way of birthdays, from when he was two up until he was ten he spent his birthdays either in his cupboard or doing twice the amount of chores than usual. Harry supposed getting more chores was the Dursley's way of (not) acknowledging his birthday. But other than the increase in chores they seemed to refuse to acknowledge his day of birth.
Actually even after he joined the Wizarding world his birthday's weren't that much more special, as he spent his summers at the Dursley's doing what he had done on previous birthdays: Chores or being locked in his cupboard. He only received gifts off a handful of people, and he had to be careful about them, least Uncle Vernon confiscated them.
After all naughty, disgusting freaks didn't deserve nice things, especially on said freaks Birthday. Harry unfortunately learnt this the hard way. As soon as he was old enough to understand the concept of birthdays, he had always wondered why Dudley got loads of presents, wrapped up in lovely shiny paper when he got nothing. After he believed they just simply forgot when his birthday was Harry asked them if he would get nice new toys too and after being screamed at and slapped around he soon stopped asking.
He quickly learnt that he wasn't worthy enough to receive presents.
Even now, Harry didn't wholly believe that he was worth much. Though his friends tried at every possible chance to prove that he was worthy and that he did deserve gifts, he still had that niggling feeling that wormed its way uncomfortably into his mind.
Harry sighed as he looked out of his window; he was curled up on his window seat, stroking Hedwig's feathers. She looked up at him with her big, round amber eyes and hooted softly.
"Happy Birthday to me, eh Hedwig" He murmured, as he let out a heavy sigh.
His room suddenly exploded with light as the sun had climbed its way out of its resting place. Harry had been up since 5.30 am, he had been unable to go back to sleep so he had stumbled sleepily over to the comfy window nook. Hedwig had quickly joined him, as if sensing his depressing thoughts.
Not long after the sun rise Harry heard movement outside of his room, the landing creaked and he heard the patter of footsteps, trying to creep their way downstairs. Suddenly he heard a thump and then hushed voices followed. He thought he heard Blaine telling his dad to shush, but he couldn't be sure.
He was debating on whether or not he should investigate, but silence had resumed outside and he shrugged it off and looked back out of the sash window.
Harry had no idea how long he was there but when his stomach rumbled he figured it was time for breakfast.
He made his way downstairs, cocking his head in curiosity when he encountered an array of balloons filling the hallway. They were all the colours of the rainbow and were bobbing happily in their places, ringed plastic weights preventing them from floating to the ceiling.
"What in the world" he mumbled in shock as he weaved his way through the balloons and into the kitchen, where he stopped in shock.
"SURPRISE" a series of short blasts were heard and the next thing Harry knew, he was covered in birthday confetti. When the streams of paper had settled on the floor he took in the three who had yelled surprise.
Blaine, Rose and Jackson were standing facing the open entry way, party hats on their heads and massive grins taking over their faces. Harry glanced round the room and noticed that the kitchen table was covered out in brightly wrapped presents.
Harry felt his eyes water as he realised they were for him.
Blaine swept him up in a hug whispering "Happy Birthday baby brother" into his ear. Before Harry had the chance to reply a flash went off causing black spots to form in his vision.
"Rose don't blind the boys" Jackson admonished jokingly. Rose just giggled and continued to take a series of shots of the birthday boy.
Harry felt the tears pooling in his eyes stream down his face. No-one had ever gone to this much trouble for him before. For the first time ever Harry actually felt worthy enough to warrant the special attention.
"Hey now, what's with the face" Blaine said softly as he raised his sleeve on his pyjama top and gently wiped the tears away.
"They're just happy tears, I promise. This is my first birthday party" Harry stated with a watery smile. Blaine just pulled him into another hug, and started to pull him towards the table.
"Harry, Happy Birthday" Rose said, smiling at the now sixteen year old. After getting hugged by Rose and Jackson, Blaine pulled Harry down to sit in his 'Birthday Boy' chair. All that was different was that there was a foil helium balloon tied loosely around the back proudly exclaiming 'Happy 16th Birthday'.
"You guys didn't have to go to so much trouble just for me"
Rose waved the comment off "What trouble? Everything we did was fun!" Blaine nodded enthusiastically in agreement as he placed a birthday crown on Harry's head, his tongue poked out the corner of his mouth as he cocked his head and closed one eye, trying to get it at the perfect angle.
Harry just smiled softly and rolled his eyes in amusement, just as another flash went off.
Blinking away the black spots Harry was shocked to find a present sitting in his lap, wondering how it got there he looked at the others at the table, Blaine shrugged with an innocent expression, which immediately gave him away.
Harry shook his head and read the tag that was attached to the square box. Another flash went off.
'Little Brother Bear,
Have a totally awesome 16th Birthday!
Love,
Big Brother Bear'
"Little Brother Bear?" Harry questioned with his head tilted, looking at Blaine.
Blaine just shrugged looking sheepish "Open the present" Another flash and Jackson just shook his head at his click happy wife.
Harry lifted the lid off of the shiny silver box and lifted the tissue paper up out of the way. He smiled happily as he took in the assortment of little individually wrapped gifts that were placed in the box.
He picked up the first gift and unwrapped it lovingly discovering a bottle of perfume 'Purrs' by Katy Perry. Harry giggled "Katy Perry, really?"
Blaine looked affronted "Don't judge it smells really nice"
"I'm just joking Blaine, thank you!" Harry sent a smile and went back to the other gifts. There were six in total and he discovered the next four to hold his favourite shampoo, bubble bath, sweets and a framed photo of him and Blaine asleep on Blaine's bed. Harry smiled fondly at the picture and placed it back in the box with the other four presents. He picked up the last one, which was a long rectangular shaped box. Frowning in curiosity Harry opened it up to reveal a beautiful necklace, he gasped in shock and hesitantly reached his hand out to trace the charm.
It was a pair of silver angel wings, overlapping at the bottom with the word 'Freedom' etched in between them.
"Oh Blaine, it's beautiful" Another flash went off and Harry launched himself at Blaine, wrapping his arms around him tightly. And yet another flash.
Rose had a tear in her eye and was smiling lovingly at her boys, while Jackson tried to wrestle the camera out of her hands, to no avail.
After everyone (mainly Harry and Rose) had calmed down and after Harry insisted on putting on the necklace. Harry resumed to his seat and continued to open his presents.
He had received a red iPod which Blaine already stated that he had put all of Harry's favourite music on for him, an Apple mac and a Blackberry.
Harry stated his thanks to Rose and Jackson, pulling one of the last boxes towards him. He didn't notice the hush of anticipation that had fallen over the kitchen and he pulled back the lid to reveal a crisp white document.
He reached into the box and quickly scanned it, his face morphing into shock.
"You want to adopt me?" Harry exclaimed as his mind slowly processed the words he was reading.
"Yes Harry, we want to adopt you. If you'll let us" Jackson's voice was laced with uncertainty and Blaine and Rose held their breath in anticipation to Harry's response.
"You want to adopt me? Why?" Harry cocked his head to the side as he observed Rose and Jackson.
Jackson opened and closed his mouth a few times, frowning when he couldn't get the words out, so Rose spoke for the both of them.
"Harry, sweetie, we have been thinking about it since half way through your correspondence with us and when you arrived and settled in so well it only cemented our decision that we wanted you to officially become our son, a part of our family. We don't want to replace your parents Harry, but we do want you to be our son. You can consider us an extra set of parents" Rose reached out and grasped Harry's hand and looked into his eyes. Green clashed with blue and Harry was soothed by the soft smile that was aimed at him.
Harry looked at Blaine and Jackson, and then looked back to the paper in his hands; everything was filled out except for Rose's and Jackson's signature. Harry realised with a soft swell of his heart that the only reason that they hadn't already signed on the dotted line was because of the fact that they wanted his input and his decision. Harry nodded to himself and bit his lip, trying to ward off a smile.
"Okay" He stated.
"Okay what sweetie?" Rose asked, wanting to be sure of Harry's decision.
Harry looked up at them and smiled. "Okay, adopt me!" Harry exclaimed and then he laughed when all three of them jumped up and pulled him into a hug.
"As long as I become an Anderson" He said amongst the number of arms that had enveloped him. He still thought it slightly unfair that even Rose was taller than him, but felt slightly justified in the fact that Blaine was smaller than her too…. Only by a fraction of an inch, but it still counted!
"That goes without saying Mr Anderson" Blaine smirked as he ruffled Harry's silky hair.
"Hey, hands off Mr Anderson" Harry's hands flew up to his hair to soothe the locks back into place.
"Blaine you're going to give him a hair complex if you're not careful" Their dad said as he chuckled and ruffled both Blaine's and Harry's hair.
Rose kissed Harry's cheek as she handed him the last box that was on the table. Harry shook the little box and smiled when it jingled slightly.
He pulled the lid away and cocked his head in confusion when he saw a pair of keys.
"Err, I already have house keys" He stated as he lifted the keys from there resting place.
Laughter echoed around the kitchen, and Harry huffed and crossed his arms.
"Sorry Harry, we don't mean to laugh, but they're car keys" Blaine stated as his recovered from his laughing fit, Rose and Jackson not far behind.
"Car keys, but I can't drive!" Harry cried out "How do you expect me to drive without a licence?"
"Ahh Baby Brother Bear, that's what driving lessons are for" He stated wisely as he placed his hands in a position that mimicked a martial arts master.
Harry just rolled his eyes and followed Rose and Jackson out to the front of the house.
Blaine sneaked up behind Harry and placed his hands over his eyes.
"Hey Blaine, let go" Harry reached up to try and pry Blaine's arms away, but the teen was stronger than him so his efforts were futile.
"Nope" Blaine popped the 'p' and shuffled Harry towards the now open door. Harry let his hands flop down to his sides and trusted Blaine to not walk him into anything. Though the balloons couldn't be helped as Harry felt them repeatedly bumping against his body.
Blaine laughed and thanked Harry for being his shield, which promptly earned him a soft jab in his stomach, courtesy of Harry's elbow.
Blaine smirked and shook his head in fond amusement at their mom as she got the camera ready in position.
"Okay, one, two, three" Blaine let go of Harry with a flourish and Harry blinked at the sudden light that poured into his eyes. After rubbing his eyes, he saw a 1960's Mustang sitting, gleaming on the drive, the sun glinted of the soft blue metal making Harry quint slightly. It was the car Harry had drooled over when he saw it in a parking lot of a supermarket when he went shopping with Rose.
Harry let out a decidedly girlish squeal and tried to ignore the continued flashes. He ran over to the car and started petting the bonnet.
"Do you need to be left alone with your car Harry?" Blaine said lewdly.
"Says the guy who kisses his car"
"Touché"
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Harry's day passed by with a hive of activity, Blaine seemed to engage Harry with endless activities and Harry was exhausted, their final fun activity ended up with all four family members in the outdoor pool.
The two oldest Anderson's had gone out earlier to hand in the adoption papers and had changed Harry's name, of course being as rich and influential as they were, the paper's got pushed through quicker than they normally would have. For once Rose and Jackson were grateful for their 'fame' amongst the 'elite' circle. Plus it also helped that Jackson was one of the top lawyers.
"Okay everyone, gather round. I want to take a group picture" Rose shouted as to be heard over the two boys shouting as chasing each other around in the water. Due to the fact that Blaine was a much stronger swimmer meant that Harry was continuously being caught.
Rose swam to the edge of the pool and leaned out plucking the waterproof camera off of the beach lounger. The others swam up to her and posed for the picture, the flash went off and blinded all of them causing Harry to giggle and swim away as fast as he could, while Blaine was still recovering. Harry hid behind the wall that jutted out into the main area of the pool that marked the entrance to the Jacuzzi. He giggled again when he saw Blaine scan the pool for his location.
Being small had its advantages and Harry waited till Blaine had swum a decent amount past him till he swam back to Rose and Jackson and hid behind the pair. All three of them laughed as they saw Blaine look round in confusion. He whipped his head towards them and glared when he saw his parents with innocent expressions on their faces. He noticed a flash of black and realised it was Harry's hair as he peeked out from behind Rose.
Blaine smirked to himself and swam towards his parents.
"You haven't seen Harry have you?" He asked as he edged his way closer to his mom.
Rose and Jackson smiled as they cottoned on to what Blaine was doing.
"No, we haven't I'm afraid"
"Oh, okay then" Blaine splashed around a bit to make it seem as though he had swam away, when in actual fact he had swum behind Harry.
Harry giggled as he heard Blaine swim off, he was about to poke his head around his parents when he was suddenly grabbed from behind and lifted out of the water and into the air.
Harry screamed in shock as he was suddenly elevated above the water. He glanced down and glared at Blaine.
"Blaine! Put me down right now!" Harry demanded and was caught unaware as he was suddenly plunged under water.
He broke the surface, coughing and spluttering and his eyes began to water from the lack of oxygen.
Blaine mistook his tears and his face instantly morphed into worry.
"Oh my god! Harry I am so sorry. Are you alright?" He swept Harry up into his arms and hugged him, whilst treading water. He missed the mischievous look that Harry threw their parents and Rose and Jackson had to muffle their laughter.
Harry sniffled and buried his face into Blaine's wet shoulder. Even though he was playing Blaine up, Harry loved hugging his older brother.
"It's alright Big Brother Bear" with that said Harry darted out of Blaine's hold and splashed him with water.
Blaine spluttered in shock not only at being suddenly doused in water but because of how Harry had played him.
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Dinner that night was fun and light hearted. Rose had cooked up a feast and Harry was once again shoved into the 'Birthday Boy' chair and Blaine had placed the crown back on his head.
Once the plates and dishes were cleared and Blaine was distracting Harry the lights were suddenly doused and the only light in the kitchen was coming from the flickering of the birthday candles.
Blaine, Rose and Jackson started singing 'Happy Birthday' to Harry and Rose placed the ice-cream cake in front of Harry. She the swung the camera up into her hands; it was dangling from her wrist on a strap.
She took a series of photos and made sure to capture the moment when Harry blew out his candles.
"Make a wish Harry" Jackson stated as he beamed at his son.
Harry closed his eyes, and then opened them as he blew out all sixteen candles.
'What else can I wish for? Everything I ever wanted is right in front of me'
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Birthday:
1. The day on which a person was born
2. An anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
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Please tell me what you thought. Was it good? Bad? Mediocre?
A/N: Oh by the way Harry's car is heavily based on the one in Princess Diaries (the film) but only shiner and better!
