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The next day when Mrs. Weasley came over, Lily let her know that James was still sleeping and probably wouldn't wake up for a couple of hours.
"Did he stay up late last night?" Mrs. Weasley asked sounding concerned for James. "He was having nightmares most of the night, so I gave him something to help him sleep. He's still under the effects of the pill," Lily replied looking embarrassed that she had to give her own husband something to help him sleep.
"Don't be embarrassed about it, he was probably scared about sleeping in a strange place, since it has been a long time since he's lived here. I'll take care of him when he wakes up, you can go ahead and get ready to go to work," Molly reassured Lily.
Lily then reluctantly fixed her and the kid's breakfast before waking the kids up before she went to work. Remus arrived just as Lily was going out the door to work, but before she left she gave him instructions to make sure that he kept the kids out of Mrs. Weasley's way though they can visit with their father if he was up to it. She then let him know what time she would be coming home for work, unless she was held up at work. The kids wanted to naturally know where James was and Mrs. Weasley let them know that he was still sleeping and that they shouldn't interrupt them since he had a hard night last night and needed his rest. Remus gave her a questioning look, but Mrs. Weasley looked like she would answer his question later on. After breakfast, the kids immediately went outside to play while Remus had a few minutes to speak with Mrs. Weasley alone. "Now that the kids are gone, do you know why James is still sleeping this late, since I know that he would of wanted to see Lily go off to work?" Remus asked her.
"I don't know why maybe, this is his first morning here, maybe he's just tired from being in a new place," Mrs. Weasley answered him trying to hide the truth from him.
Remus seemed to take her at her word, "Let me know when he wakes up so that the kids can visit with him."
"I will, but he will need to be fed and dressed first, maybe they'll get to see him this afternoon, do you have any definite plans to do today?"
"No, but of course the kids may want to go over to your house today in order to visit with their friends."
"I don't mind as long as they've done all of their chores,"
A few minutes later both Jamie and Harry came back inside to see if their father had woken up yet since they both wanted to visit him and were disappointed to find out that he hadn't yet. They're father woke up half an hour later, though he didn't come out of his room almost an hour later because it took Mrs. Weasley that long to get James bathed, dressed and situated in his wheel chair. During this time both Harry and Jamie were listening to a show on the wireless to pass the time until they were able to see their father. When Mrs. Weasley did bring out James she immediately gave him a bowl of porridge that she warmed up and spooned it into his mouth, since he couldn't feed himself. The kids were almost shocked that their father was being fed like a baby. Of course they waited patiently until James had finished his breakfast and Mrs. Weasley had pushed him into the family room. After he was finished Harry and Jamie quickly greeted their father, while asking Remus if they could go over to the Burrow to play. He immediately looked to Mrs. Weasley to see if it was alright with him.
"It would be alright if they're finished with their chores and I can floo them right now to see if they are."
She did and when she came back, she went ahead and let them know that it was alright for them to go over to the Burrow to spend the day there. Both Harry and Jamie were excited at that news since they were bored just sitting around waiting to be able to see their father. Remus hoped that James would be able to get up earlier tomorrow, to at least be able to see Lily off to work. Molly decided to let Bill and Charlie know that the Potter kids could stay for lunch if they wanted to, since James was going to take his lunch much later in the day because of his lie in. When Harry and Jamie arrived at the Burrow, Bill looked like he was frazzled with having to watch all of the children by himself, even though he had Charlie helping him it still seemed to be too much for the older Weasley. Of course Harry and Jamie knew that the twins always tried to take advantage of their older brothers when they were assigned to watch them whenever their parents had to leave for a few hours. Both Harry and Jamie immediately found their friends and got caught up in the game of hide and seek that they were playing, which was Fred's idea much to Bill's dismay, since he worried what little tricks the twins had up their sleeves this time. Bill wondered if the twins were going to sneak off and try to find the Christmas presents that their parents had hidden away like last year, when they got into their presents and were playing with them while mom was out for a couple of hours and dad was at work. Hopefully they weren't trying to recruit the younger kids in assisting them in looking for the Christmas presents, since they were impressionable and looked up to their older brothers. Of course Ron and Ginny might even try to find their own Christmas presents and of course their mum always knitted something for them every year, which those gifts weren't really a surprise to the kids. As usual Percy was being roped into trying to find the kids at least they weren't playing Aurors and Death Eaters in which the twins try to tie up Percy and hold him hostage. A couple of hours later, Remus came back by to pick up Jamie and Harry, since it was almost time for Lily to come home and he wanted them back before then since Mrs. Weasley was being nice and helping to start dinner for them. When they did get back home they found James sitting outside near the kitchen window, where Mrs. Weasley could keep an eye on him in case he needed her for anything. Both Harry and Jamie went back up to their rooms to get ready for dinner while Remus spent a few minutes alone with his friend. James didn't even seem to notice his old friend when he entered into the room, Remus wondered if he even still remembered who he was and what he was. Remus noticed that he was looking outside, just staring into space.
"What are you looking at?"
"The outdoors," James typed.
"Do you see anything that's interesting out there?"
"The trees."
"Anything else?"
"No."
Just then the kids came downstairs and greeted their father with a peck on the cheek, and James seemed to look at them when they did this. Tonight though when they did try to find a show that they wanted to listen to on the wireless, James did express his opinion of the different shows in his own way. When he didn't like a particular show he would make a grunting sound and bang on his communications board and when he liked it, he remained quiet. They finally settled on a show that they could listen to together while waiting for Lily to come home from work and they could eat dinner. They hardly noticed when Mrs. Weasley gave James his pills that he was scheduled to take at that time. Though shortly thereafter she did wheel James away to have his nappie changed, since it would be nice if Lily would come home with James having a fresh nappie on. Therefore when Lily came home James was ready for her arrival in his chair with the kids eagerly waiting for dinner. Mrs. Weasley offered to stay and help Lily with James during dinner, but she refused sending her home to her own family. Lily knew that Harry and Jamie could be trusted to behave during dinner while she helped to feed James and she placed a warming charm on a plate of food for herself. Lily didn't have a chance to eat until after James was fed, but she enjoyed in listening to the kids talk about their day and how they were able to spend the day with the Weasleys at the Burrow. Lily listened to them with interested and wondered how much of that James understood, since he couldn't even feed himself. After dinner the kids pushed James into the living room, giving Lily time to be by herself and for her to eat her dinner. She was willing to go the extra effort in order to have James home for the holidays, because she knew that he would want to spend time with his family. At least she already had her holiday shopping done and hid the gifts from everyone. Though after the first night she did learn her lesson and tonight when it was James's bedtime she gave him one of the sleeping pills, so that way he wouldn't wake up in the middle of the night scared of his surroundings and that he would be awake before she went to work in the morning, since she missed seeing him this morning when she left.