"Jamie!" James, Sirius, Dumbledore and Jamie looked up as Lily, Severus, Remus and Harry entered the office. Harry wiggled around until he was set down then ran over to his brother and hugged him. "Jamie, I miss you! Did you get the picture of mommy I sent you?"
"He did." James said, a little un nerved. "He keeps it on the wall beside his bed."
"I have all of your pictures on my push board in daddy's classroom."
James flinched and they all saw it. They also all noted that Jamie was hugging Harry back and didn't seem to want to let go.
"Guess what, Jamie?" Jamie tilted his head to one side. "Mommy says, that you'll be living here in the castle with us so you and I can see each other every day! We never have to be apart again." They were all shocked when Jamie beamed happily and went to just holding Harry's hand. "I think that's great! We can play together and we can share all my toys! and I can teach you to ride my bike!"
"Bike?" Sirius asked, "What do you mean?'"
"Don't worry it's a Muggle toy." Lily said, smiling at her boys. Suddenly, the bike appeared. "Harry has a habit of making it appear out of thin air."
"See, Jamie?" Harry walked Jamie to it and helped him sit. "You put your feet on the peddles." he put his brother's feet on the peddles then began pushing him so the peddles would move Jamie was soon doing it on his own and laughing happily. "It's really fun isn't it?" Harry asked when Jamie stopped. Jamie nodded hyperly. "Mommy and daddy bought for me when I potty trained. "
"Me!" Jamie said, "Me!"
"You gotta potty train."
"K."
Harry smirked at a put out James making Severus smile and Remus and Sirius snort into their hands.
"He's already turning into a Slytherin." James complained, "I never thought to do it that way. "
"Because you aren't a Slytherin." Severus replied, leaning in the door frame arms crossed over his chest. "Though we didn't need to pull that trick. He trained himself. "
"Mama." Lily looked down then scooped up Jamie and began hugging and kissing on him. "Mama!"
James grimaced. He'd been keeping Jamie away from Lily and now he was wondering if that was a bad thing. His son looked so much happier.
"I have a condition." James said and everyone in the room looked at him. "I want Sirius to teach them during the day."
"I don't know about that." Lily said. "It's not that I don't trust Sirius I do... "
"I don't." Severus muttered, she hit his arm.
"But Harry is on a schedule and he doesn't like it when we divert from it. "
"Play with Jamie!" Harry pulled on his mother's jeans. "I want to play with Jamie!"
"Okay, Harry." Lily set her youngest son down. Jamie happily went to Harry. " Well, maybe with Jamie there it would make the transition easier. "
They all noted that she looked worried but was smiling with tears in her eyes.
"Well, give me the pup's schedule and I'll see what I can do." Sirius shrugged, "But I'm warning you now I'm going to be teaching them the Pure-Blood stuff. I wont teach them the way I was taught but well, they are Potters."
"My name is Snape." Harry said looking up at Sirius. "I'm going to be a Prince! Daddy told me so! "
"Well, the Prince's are a Pure Blood family as well, little guy." Sirius chuckled cocking an eyebrow at a smirking Severus and a fuming James. Nether said anything. "So you have to learn to act according to Pure-Blood standards. "
"Blood is blood." Harry said as if thinking. "If I cut my finger I bleed. If I cut your finger you bleed. It's just red gooey stuff that if we loose enough of we die. "
"I did not teach him that." Severus said instantly.
The next day Harry got himself up and dressed. He even did his own hair before going and waking Lily and Severus.
"JAMIE!" he yelled startling them awake. "I WANT JAMIE!"
"Okay, calm down." Lily moaned summoning her dressing gown and putting it on before she let the sheet fall. Severus was doing the same. Harry could guess that they had both been naked. He was quickly taken out of the room by Severus as Lily made her way to the shower.
"Jamie!" Harry demanded loading toys and books by the door. "Jamie, will like this. Jamie, will like this."
Severus was already getting a headache .
"Harry, you can't take your whole room to Jamie." Harry blinked at him then at his pile. Sure enough it looked as though his whole play room was sitting by the door. He screwed up his face and sent most of the pile back to his play room. "Much better, but next time call a House-Elf I think you use your magic too much."
Harry was berating himself. He'd been acting his age because he was excited to get to know his brother. He'd always wanted a brother or sister. Someone to share with someone to grow up with. Harry made his choice right then and there if James got too bad he'd suck his soul and they'd take Jamie. Nodding to himself he sat down and waited to be taken to breakfast.
It was three days later when James went berserk. Apparently, Harry had saved their lives, not that anyone knew that, because the wards around Potter Manor had been breached and James kept screaming and yelling about a rat! He then lashed out at Severus screaming it had to be his fault because he was a Death Eater and he'd probably tipped his Death Eater buddies off about the trap they had set.
Surprisingly, both Sirius and Remus came to Severus' defense but that didn't stop James from throwing curses as the Auror's tried to take him away for questioning. Harry having had enough sucked James' soul and the man dropped. The Chaos stopped and everyone stared for a full ten minuets before anyone did anything. Then everyone began talking at once and ignoring James' body. With no one paying attention and some heavy Invisibility spells he'd learned from the first guy Harry robbed his father blind before reappearing at a bawling Jamie's side.
Lily scooped them up and ran down to their quarters before breaking down in tears.
Phase Three: Complete.
There was no way Jamie would be raised the way Dumbledore wanted him raised now.
