Harry Potter

"Albus Potter, get back here!" Harry yelled as his son ran up the stairs two at a time. He'd just been suspended for the fourth time! He broke a kids arm and nose because he called him a name. Was that the kind of man he was raising?

"Fuck you, Dad, fuck you!" Albus shouted and then he slammed his bedroom door. Harry was too stunned at first to be angry. Albus had never said something like that to him!

"Harry? Was that Albus screaming at you?" Ginny set her bag down on the table and pulled her hair up on top of her head.

"Yes. He was suspended. Again." Harry took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes tiredly. He was really worried about Albus.

"Are you serious? This is the fifth time!" She fell silent for a moment.

"What? This is only the….Ginny?"

Ginny sighed, "He begged me not to tell you. He was in tears! I…what could I do? He was punished!" Ginny defended. Harry glared at her.

"What did he do the last time?"

"I won't say. He wants to tell you himself. But I believe he was right to fight back Harry. If he wasn't such a fighter he wouldn't be your son." Ginny said seriously and left before Harry could interrogate her.

Harry made his way up to Albus's bedroom and pushed open the door. His son was laying in the center of his room on the floor, staring dejectedly up at the ceiling.

"Al? Mum told me this is the fifth time you've been suspended and she won't tell me why you were suspended last time. Will you tell me?"

"Fuck no. Get out of my room, Dad." He muttered, but his eyes never blinked. Harry flabbergasted and reacted quickly. He gripped his son's upper arm and jerked him to his feet. He stared into the identical emerald eyes with fury.

"Don't you ever speak to me like that again, Albus. Not ever."

His son was just as fearless as he was and the threat didn't faze him for a second.

"Do you know lily has nightmares about you? Someone at daycare told her you were a murderer and showed her newspapers from back during the war. She's convinced that you're going to kill us all. Mum's been hiding it from you because she didn't want to hurt your feelings."

Harry let go of his son as if he'd been burned. "I killed a monster to keep everyone safe!" He whispered harshly. He was hurt. His own son!

"I know that, but you never talk about it, never tell us what happened. What are we supposed to think, Dad? We don't even know who you are! Do you know that I haven't made one fucking friend in my six years at Hogwarts? because they all think I'm going to kill the Slytherin's? Do you have any idea what my life is like because you're my father? And of course when people say things like that I have to break their fucking faces! Do you think I'm going to let them get away with that?" Albus ranted, looking half crazed.

Harry closed his eyes, memories flashing through his mind. "It might be bad Albus, but it's nowhere near as bad it would be if I hadn't killed him. You wouldn't be alive! I would be dead. Your mother would be dead! What do you want from me! I can't take it all back, I can't be anyone else!"

Albus's eyes were tearing up, "I don't want you to be anybody else! I want you to be my dad and not Harry Fucking Potter, the boy who lived! I want Lily to not come to me crying every not, afraid to sleep in the room next to yours!"

Harry fell onto his son's bed. "Alright then. I'll work on that."

Albus gaped at him. "What did you just say?"

"I said I'll work on that. All I can do is try, Albus. That's all I've ever done. But here's warning, it seems that no matter how hard I try I'm still not good enough. Go to bed."

For once his son didn't talk back and Harry left his room feeling as If something big had just changed.

He was crazy for thinking he would ever be free of Voldemort. He was haunting him even in death.

A/N: This is a longer piece! Hope you like it! Review!