Teddy's Lullaby Chapter 2, a harry potter fanfic

A/N: sorry for the time its taken to update this. i have been really busy and i have had a real lack of inspiration. i know there are several differences between this and the first chapter, but thats because i don't like the first one and i am going to change it to match this one when i get around to it.

if you want, to make it easier for me, review this just to let me know if you see any differences and what they are, to make it easier for me to change it.

Disclaimer: i dont own harry potter or any of the characters or anything. okey dokey?

Teddys Lullaby, Part 2.

Teddy knocked on the door of Harry's study room.

"Come in" came a voice from within.

As Teddy opened the door, Harry said "you don't have to knock you know"

"I know," he said " but I like to anyway. It wouldn't feel right not to."

Harry chuckled. Teddy reminded him so much of Remus. "I suppose you want to see that video tape?"

He nodded eagerly.

"Alright come in then." Harry said, clearing a pile of parchment off one of the armchairs so that they could both sit down to watch it.

They plugged the video player into the TV and slotted the video into it.

A blurred image of Andromeda came onto the screen, as the camera tried to focus. She spun it around to face a little baby, wrapped up in a blue blanket, with matching hair.

"Aaww baby Teddy" Harry teased, and Teddy felt his face blush.

"Sshhh Teddy" said Andromeda, "lets play a trick on mummy and daddy. If we cast this little spell" she explained "they wont see us. For benefit of the camera it's a disillusionment charm"

She must have put a charm on the camera, because a minute later they could both see Andromeda and Baby Teddy clearly, and Andromeda was holding her wand.

An arm came into view of the camera and picked Teddy up, and the camera, along with Andromeda and Baby Teddy moved into the next room. They waited and suddenly the door opened.

Tonks came in holding a tape player in one hand, and the other was firmly clamped around the wrist of a slightly reluctant looking, Remus.

"Oh come on Remus it will be fun!" Tonks said. "Teddy isn't going to think anything to your singing voice at the moment anyway"

"Yes but-"

"No buts!" she said. "This has to be done. If we don't survive-"

"Please don't talk like that Dora" Remus said, hugging her. "I do want to do this. I mean, look at Harry. All he knows of Lily and James has come from photographs and a few shady memories. He saw one once that didn't exactly show James in good light. I want Teddy to know who we are. This is why we are doing this"

"Yeah. I want Teddy to know what kind of people we are" Dora nodded in agreement.

"Right. That the way to think. Even when we grow old, it will be funny to look back on what once was." Remus said. "I wish we had done something like this before"

"Yeah. Did you put a tape in here Remus?"

"Got a fresh one in there just a minute ago" he said, looking slighty nervous about what he was about to do.

She started pressing random buttons trying to get it to work. "Remus you know about muggles how do you turn this thing on?"

He picked up and examined the top if it "I think it is on"

"What?" she asked with a confused expression on her face "How do you know?"

"The little red light is flashing" he said, Pointing to the top of the tape player, as she turned to see for herself.

"Oh right. I knew that" she said in an all knowing kind of voice, she appeared to be thinking for a moment before saying "anyway Remus d'you think we should introduce ourselves?"

"Well why not? Teddy this is your mother Nymphadora" he grinned.

"Remus don't call me that." she slapped him lightly across the shoulder. "Teddy I think you should just stick to "mum" or Dora to everyone else. And this is you father, Moooooonneeyyyyyy!" she said, tilting her head back in a wolf impression.

"You did that on purpose!" he said, feigning a hurt expression.

Dora just grinned mischievously. " I know I did. I thought you were supposed to be smart remus, you don't have to state the obvious"

"Well teddy" he said, sounding and looking very business-like "you can know me as 'Dad', Remus and/or Mooney to everyone else."

He looked around at Dora who was grinning at him.

"And no rude jokes please!" he added as an afterthought. Aiming this comment at both the tape recorder and Dora.

"You know I wouldn't dream of it!" she said.

He looked apprehensively at her, like he was going to say something, but changed his mind. "Anyway, there is a reason for this. There's a war on right now, and we thought that you might want something to errr, well, if things don't go as planned…"

Dora rolled her eyes at him. "we just thought -" here Remus gave her a very shocked look, which she ignored with a smile and carried on "-that Remus might want to show you his singing voice, before you get too old to tell him to stop singing. I'm only joking Remus, you have a lovely singing voice.

She put her hand up to her mouth, and whispered "he's a little sensitive about his singing voice" into the speaker of the tape recorder.

This made Teddy and Harry laugh. She was generally quite good with muggle stuff, but she had picked up a few of her mothers habits.

"Yeah sure I do" said Remus, who from the looks of the video, was trying to conceal a smile. He suddenly mock frowned at Dora "hang on, I'm not sensitive!"

"You do have a great singing voice!" she said to him. Remus's cheeks turned slightly pink. "and you are a bit sensitive."

Dora grinned again at the chance to be able to tease Remus again "your blushing!" she giggled. "look you agreed to do this so come on!"

Remus looked as if he was regretting agreeing to doing what they had agreed, but at the pleading, puppy eyed look that Dora gave him, he softened.

"Alright.I don't think I'm that good. don't judge me by this Ted. Please." the grim look returned to his face.

Harry looked over at Teddy, whose eyes were transfixed onto the screen, and he looked as if judging his father for singing was completely out of the question.

"This is your Lullaby, I swear it nearly always works on getting you to sleep." Remus said.

Dora brought her hand up to her mouth, and coughed "hem hem" very loudly and obviously to hurry him along.

Remus rolled his eyes at her, but smiled all the same. "alright I'm rambling now so here we go"

As he began to sing, Andromeda moved the camera, which was still invisible to both Remus and Dora, so that it faced Baby Teddy.

Oh my dearest Teddy boy

You showed me never ending joy

Oh boy

Baby Teddy on screen began to fall asleep. Watching this, the teenage Teddy began to blush heavily.

And close your eyes don't watch the sky

Fall asleep to this lullaby

My boy

When you wake I will be there

To make sure life is more than fair

Oh boy

You stand as a reminder of

The victory of true love

My boy

Oh sleep you well

Oh my little perfect son

Cant understand what you have done

For me

You showed me what my life was worth

Changed every colour with your birth

My boy

For many years from now you hear this song

Know I'm next to you, I'm never gone

Oh boy

You are who I'm fighting for

So let them come to our front door

Ill stand

Oh sleep you well

Sleep you well my son

We'll be home for you when the battles done

Sleep you well my son,

We'll be home for you when the battles done

Sleep you well my son

We'll be home for you when the battles done

The camera turned back up to Remus and Dora. There was a few seconds pause, in which neither Remus or Dora knew what to do. Dora looked up at Remus.

"See Remus you are a good singer."

He pulled a funny face at her, saying "im not that good"

She swatted his arm "you must be good because it always works"

Baby Teddy had decided that he was no longer tired, and that he wanted to be with mummy and daddy, and maybe daddy would ding him another song, and mummy would play a game with him. Or maybe both. He wanted to be over there with them, so to let everyone know this …..

On the camera a baby cry is heard. Confused, Remus looked at Dora "hang on" he said "isn't Teddy supposed to be with your mother right now?"

"Yes he is with her" she replied "hang on a minute, it sounds as if he is quiet close. She got up and moved towards where Andromeda was, a look of concern for him etched on her face.

Andromeda decided to uncover herself, as she knew how concerned she would have been if she had heard Dora cry from somewhere she wasn't supposed to be. Baby Teddy gurgled at the sight of his mother. Dora's look of shock was a picture to see.

"MUM!" she exclaimed, looking completely at a loss for something to say. "how long have you been standing there?"

Andromeda's voice came from behind the camera, but Teenage Teddy and Harry could tell that if they could see her face, they would see her smiling.

"I have been standing in here since you started recording," she told them. Spinning the camera around with her wand, so that it faced all of them, she said "you're a very good singer Remus, why did we not hear this talent earlier?"

He looked at a complete loss for anything to say, looking absolutely mortified, he burst out with "you recorded me singing?"

Dora tried to comfort him slightly "oh Remus it doesn't matter. We had already recorded you on this tape anyway. It's a good thing, because now there is two versions of us."

Andromeda joined in by saying "its not the only recording on this tape anyway, I have loads of recordings of Dora when she was little…."

"Well we shall have to have a look won't we Remus" it was at that point that Dora saw that Remus had turned away to look at teddy, and wasn't listening to a word.

"Earth to Remus!" she said, waving her arms about in the air.

"Sorry I am listening honestly," although as he said this he still looked rather distracted, "I was watching Teddy, im used to seeing you change your hair, but I still havent got used to him doing it. Its yellow now."

"Emotions control hair colour when they are babies, and usually assign a colour to a particular person, and the colour they use the most is their colour. It goes Yellow when he sees you, Remus, Purple when he sees you, Dora, and orange when he sees me. His own colour tends to be blue."

At this point, teenage Teddy realised that his hair still generally tended to be blue. As it was at the very moment.

"How do you know all that?" Remus asked incredulously.

"You're forgetting that I raised Dora"

A look of dislike crossed her face "thank you mother," she said, blushing "but we don't need to hear anymore stories from my childhood yet. Maybe another time. Teddy Daddy completely loves you, and don't you ever doubt that."

Remus looked kind of uncomfortable as he spoke, "Yeah. And I have a confession to make. I nearly left you. And your mum. In fact, I did leave you. Only for a few days and please don't take it that wrong way! I was trying to protect you! But after Harry gave me a talking to I finally came to my senses. I came back. And I wish I had never left. I wont blame you at all if you hate me because I'm such a coward. I won't say what he said, ask him when your older, but he was right."

" I didn't know I had that much of an effect on him" Harry said.

"You must have said something right to him." he said in a quiet voice "Can I ask you about it afterwards?"

"Yeah sure. I think you need to know"

"I don't know what was said, and I don't need to know. It must have been good. And you are not a coward. You came back didn't you?" Dora told him.

"Yes. I suppose so. But anyway, since I came back I have not been so happy in such a long time. Nothing is ever going to change that, and both me and your mother-" here Andromeda gave him a look of deep hurting "- and your grandmother, and I'm pretty sure Harry would rather have himself be killed before any harm comes to you, we all love you Ted."

Dora glanced at her watch, and then turned to face the camera "we have spent so long on this, its almost past your bedtime, so we had better be going now"

"This is one of the random things I have ever done, well, not including the stuff I did at school with James and Sirius but they really were random. I wish they could have seen you, and gotten to know you. They would have loved you too." Remus said.

Harry nodded to Teddy in agreement.

We love you Ted! Hugs and kisses from both of us!" and with that, Dora got up, took baby Teddy out of Andromeda's arms, and hugged and kissed him. Remus put his arms around both of them.

Baby Teddy looked a bit confused, but perfectly happy with being fussed over.

Remus smiled "yeah, and you are now giving us very odd looks, so goodbye for now, maybe we will make a series of video's or something." I chuckled "I can see it now, the saga of Teddy Lupin"

Dora looked at him weirdly.

Anyway, bye Ted! Love you!!

After a moment of trying to turn the tape off, the screen went blank.

A/N: what do you think? should i carry on with this? ill add more memories of Remus and Tonks if you want.

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