Harry and his daughter were eating some canned chicken noodle soup. Harry had learned Arushi's food preferences. She hates crunchy things, tough meat and anything that smelled strongly. She was pretty good with veggies if he cooked them. Harry mostly just ignored meat as it wasn't necessary according to what he read. Harry knew he needed to get more clarity on what he suspected had happened to Arushi.

"hey love," Harry asked

She looked up

"can you tell me about your other dad?"

A flicker of fear ran across her face. "he wasn't nice"

"I know. What did he do?"

"he'd lock me up if I misbehaved. He said I was too strange and stupid. Mommy would try and do things help me. But then he would get mad at her. He'd use bad spells. Throw things."

She started to shake and then she went deathly quiet and covered her ears silently vibrating. Harry stood up and sat next to her. He rubbed her back trying to give her something like comfort. She slowly uncovered her ears and met Harry's gaze.

"Need a hug?" He asked quietly

She nodded.

Harry hugged her. She laid on him holding him around the neck.

Harry warmed up her soup with a flick of his wand.

They finished their soup. Harry was ready to fucking murder Arushi's father. Lucky for him he was already dead. Arushi and he watched movies with low volume to help keep Arushi from shutting down or melting down.

Arushi's birthday was upon them. Harry felt very unsure about this. They decided to do or outside the burrow under a tent. Teddy was already with him. They were getting dressed together. Teddy had spent the night there as his grandmother was visiting with Narcissa at her home, where she was under house arrest.

They got dressed in their nice robes. They went out into the living room. Arushi was dressed in a sundress. It had sunflowers that shown multicoloured sparkles and a pale blue background. Her long black hair was in too long ponytails hanging in front of her shoulders. Harry smiled. Her breathtaking grin shown up at him. He picked her up and spun, she laughed. He put her down. Teddy pulled a face. Harry sighed and took teddys hands and spun him a circle making him smile. Teddy had his shaggy hair coloured bright bubblegum pink like his mom had loved.

They got to the Burrow and looked around. The tent was set up with balloons in the corners. The long table had pink and yellow table clothes. Flowers were in the middle. It was a tea party birthday as that should be quite and she liked tea. Mrs Weasley, Ginny, Luna, Hermione, Ron, Neville, fleur and Victoire were the guests besides the three who had just arrived.

They all wished Arushi a happy birthday. Six presents were stack on the edge for Arushi to open later. They sat down around the tables and poured tea. Victoire, Teddy, and Arushi sat at one end of the table. Victoire had turned five the previous month so the three kids were all basically the same age. Teddy and Victoire did most of the talking. Arushi mostly ate her food. She would rock back and forth as she did. Harry kept looking at her checking she was okay. Fleur, Mrs Weasley and Hermione talked pregnancy and babies. Ron and Neville talked about plants that could be good for joke products. Luna filled Ginny and Harry in on some of her quibbler things. Harry noticed how Ginny looked and Luna. It was similar to how Ron looked at Hermione. Harry smiled. They would be good together. Harry then thought to himself, wait they're both girls. He then mentally said fuck it. Too many people were dead, to many people have been hurt. Who gives a crap if two girls have sex.

"Oh, Harry! Guess what! I found this for Arushi but I forgot to give to wrap it." Luna gasped.

She added a string with beads on it. Harry gave her a confused look.

"Spin the beads." Luna prompted.

Harry did. All the beads would change the texture.

Luna beamed. Harry smiled, Arushi would like this she was always fidgeting with stuff.

"Oh! Guess what. They made me starting seeker." Ginny said looking at Harry with a big grin.

Harry hugged Ginny. She smiled at him when they pulled apart.

Harry then discussed quidditch with Ginny excitedly.

The party went fine and Harry was glad they had it.

Harry spent more time with the Weasleys after that. And it no longer felt like something he was obligated to do, and again felt like something he wanted to do. He still did a lot better with a smaller amount of the group than a lot. And it still seems stressful to Arushi but Harry made sure they took a long break after spending time with them. She would often go into her room and close the door needing complete quite for a while.

Mrs Weasley offered to teach Arushi some things about wizard culture and things. They tried this but Arushi would just get extremely frustrated as she could not grasp the concepts the way Mrs Weasley taught them. Mrs Weasley commented Charlie had had a lot of the same problems. But that with everyone else this had worked perfectly. This stressed Arushi more. Harry decided to have Andromeda work with Arurshi and Teddy. It went slightly better

Most things were better but Harry would still have bad days and often felt like he was still in the war, his fight or flight response always up. He would wake up scared, and every moment he was away from Arushi he would be attacked by images of her dying.

However two months later Harry was Holding baby Rose Weasley in his arms. She was adorable. He kissed her head and Knelt so Arshui could see.

"That's your cousin," Harry told Arushi. She smiled. Arushi called all the Weasley boys and Neville uncle. And the Weasley girls and Luna aunt. As far as Harry was concerned they were all family. Harry breathed in the smell of the hospital, felt the warm body in his arms, the feeling of Arushi grasping his leg. The sound of his friends breathing, Hermione's drooping eyelids, Ron's giddy expression. He felt calm, he felt like he was really and truly there in that hospital room, nowhere else.