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As soon as the both of them heard Ginny enter the kitchen again they continued to chat about girls and their behaviour until they got another unexpected visitor.

James had knocked on the door before entering which was something that both Harry and Teddy found a bit hard to believe. If there was one guy in the house who wouldn't care for manners like that it would be James.

"Something wrong James?"

"Euhm no… say dad, you wouldn't happen to have a wooden stick from about four inches would you?"

Harry got up from his chair again and walked to one of the cupboards where he started to look.

"Why would you need a stick from about four inches?" Teddy asked James.

"To decorate my room with." James said without looking at Teddy directly.

Teddy raised his eyebrows, he didn't know wetter or not James was lying or just being ashamed that he would do something like decorate his room because usually he was way better at lying than this.

Harry didn't seem to hear or notice his son's strange behaviour as he was to busy to look for a stick that matched his son's description.

"This one ok?" Harry asked when he finally found one.

James looked at it for a few seconds and than nodded happily.

"Thanks dad!" He yelled as he was already running of.

Harry smiled shortly until his eye fell on the car again.

"You know I could really use some help with that one."

"Wait! Is this really happening? The famous hero, also known as Harry Potter. The one who defeated the dark lord Voldemort himself asks for help from a teenager?"

Harry smiled. "How do you think I defeated Voldy in the first place?"

"Well ok than, but on two conditions. One, you don't tell any one younger than me about me and Victoire. Two, you will protect me from uncle Bill."

Harry opened his mouth to speak but at the same moment they heard Ginny yell.

"I'm afraid that I don't think James needed that stick to redecorate his room."

"She's going to kill me for giving it to him isn't she?"

"Yep!"

The next moment Ginny entered the garage.

"I guess I'll need to thank you for giving this thing to him. And are you still busy with that men-stuff?"

Harry tried his best puppy-eyes noticing to late how Teddy tried to sign that he better didn't do that.

"I don't know what he would use it for and two, I just found a very, very cheap employee so we have all the time we need."

Ginny folded her arms in front of him, remained quiet for a few seconds and Teddy who realised that this was just the silence before the storm, hurried out of the garage.

"DON'T KNOW WHAT HE WOULD USE IT FOR? HE USED IT TO LOCK ALBUS UP IN THE CELLAR BECAUSE HE GOT AN EXTRA CHOCOLATE FROG FOR DOING HIS TASKS RIGHT! YOU KNOW LONGER THAN TODAY THAT YOU CAN'T TRUST HIM SO WHY WOULD YOU GIVE HIM A STICK?!?!"

Sure enough when Teddy entered the kitchen he found Albus sitting at one of the tables, tear marks covered his face.

"Hey buddy, what happened to you?"

"James locked me up in the cellar and I'm scared of the dark."

Teddy looked at his godson and smiled.

"Hey, that's nothing to cry for. In fact I think there's an actual hero in front of me."

Albus shook his head.

"Heroes aren't afraid of the dark. They fight dragons and all kinds of monsters."

Teddy grabbed a sugar quill out of his pocket and handed it to Albus.

"And you don't think that they're afraid when they do that? You know what dad did don't you? He defeated the most evil and powerful wizard of this century and you think that he wasn't afraid? He was scared to death. But the thing that made him a hero is that he confronted those fears just like you did."

A smile crept on Albus' face and Teddy knew that his message had gone through him.

"Now, I'm going back to the garage but if you need me." Albus nodded and Teddy walked back to the garage.

"I DON'T SPOIL THEM TO MUCH! HE ASKED ME FOR A STICK! DO I HAVE TO DENY HIM EVERYTHING JUST BECAUSE HE DOES A FEW THINGS WRONG SOMETIMES?"

"YOU COULD'VE ASKED HIM WHY HE NEEDED IT!"

"I did." Teddy said as he entered the garage again. "He said he needed it to redecorate his room."

"AND YOU BELIEVED HIM?"

"He didn't exactly look as if he lied!"

Ginny calmed down and Harry looked at her.

"Now, if you don't mind I'll have a word with James."

Ginny nodded while Harry got up, he pointed his wand at his car and mumbled reparo.

Working on cars the muggle-way was for people who knew how to.

That evening Harry entered the bedroom and smiled at Ginny before he run to the bed and jumped in it.

"You'll always be a child won't you?"

"Yep! I had a little chat with James about his behaviour; I think we're safe for a week or so. I don't know what's wrong with Albus but he refused to sleep with his night-light on. Said he rather want to sleep in the dark. Lily behaved like an angels as always. Wanted me to read the same bedtime-story like every evening."

Ginny smiled at he exhausted husband. "And what about Ted?"

"He's sixteen! Don't tell me I need to report you about him as well! He's probably asleep dreaming about his 'Vicky' as we speak."

Harry remained quiet for a while and than looked back at Ginny. "He's sixteen… remember when he was three and he ran around in this house with his teddy bear and those knitted sweaters and pants?"

"Or at the wedding, with his teddy-bear costume."

"Don't let him hear that, he hates it now."

Harry fell silent again, to busy with his own thoughts until another smile appeared on his face.

"I fell in love with you when I was sixteen."

"And what about now?" Ginny asked softly while she lay her head on his chest, smiling softly.

"You mean when you're not yelling my head of?"

She hit him in the arm and started to laugh.

"I still love you as much as I did back than, even more."

They started to kiss each other and Ginny softly removed his shirt revealing the scars he only showed to her.

The scars she could not heal physically but she did managed to heal them emotionally by being patient, by loving him, by giving him a family.

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