I do not own Harry Potter and do please read the note from Chapter 1. Ignorance is SO NOT BLISS!

Chapter 75

Aftermath and Thoughts of a Wolf Mother

Three days later

Harry and Sirius waited patiently as Tonks pounced on Remus the moment he came into view. Laughter in their eyes as Remus is tackled to the ground with the exuberance of a woman in love; they take notice of the shyness of those coming out from around them.

Alexandre having come ahead, had warned them that these people, had been treated poorly by Greyback and honestly they were not surprised when they heard it. The children whom were more adaptable to change had already come with Amelia, Jacqueline, and Maria who were considered the universal pride mothers along with Isabel.

As each one stepped forth, they themselves found them being tackled and greeted by smiling and laughing kids. Each one babbling about toys and various other things a mile a minute, they look to Remus with surprise.

He just shrugs and points to Harry and Sirius. Both men looking a bit sheepish, they just shrug. "He's family."

That said the wolves found themselves being gently pulled by others to get cleaned up. Alexandre and his pride had agreed long ago and after talking with Remus. That with their not being enough room for two alphas as despite their friendship...

Well despite their friendship sooner or later Moony and Blackfell would clash.

It was only natural instinct.

But they would be close friends and would be visiting one another quite often. Especially if Isabel had anything to say about it as she would not be losing contact with her cubling. Even now that he had proven himself, the fact that the youth often acted as a cub in need of her love.

Well she would not deny him. As Ginny especially comes closer to giving birth, Harry had been coming to her more frustrated. He wants so badly to yell and scream at the young woman for not being Gabrielle. For not being the woman whom had earned his heart as the young woman had done. For being alive when Gabrielle was dead....

He needed to vent about Voldemort and those that depend on him to save them. Even though there were parts of him that did not want to. There were so many things, and so much pressure to bring peace. Even with the changes and the fact that now his fellow wizards were doing what they could to fight back.

He worried whether it was enough?

He worried whether or not he was sending to many innocents to their death. His pacing his needed to voice his thoughts. Harry was troubled and it was slowly breaking him. It was only with her and his family that was keeping him sane.

She and the shifters were praying that his son came soon now. The little baby was due to come within the next two weeks according to Madame Pomphrey and everyone was anxious. Perhaps that little bit of life would be the catalyst to bring the young man back to them.

Harry was slowly drifting away in mind and control. The loss of Gabrielle and the issue with Ginny.... The people wanted him to lead more and more despite the fact that he does not want to. Many still depended on him to save them and even though he did not care to. As others have said, in the long run his conscience would not have allowed it.

The stress of everything was finally beginning to get to him. But this time, this time he at least had a way of letting it out, thanks to those who care to love him.

You see even now as she watches; Sirius, Remus, and Alexandre were acting like a bunch of idiots as they fought over what toys to buy and even decorating what Harry had set up as the nursery. Each one stating that they will be the best Uncle that little James knew, and teach him how to do so many things a piece that Harry just shook his head and laughed at them.

Ron beside him as he had been visiting at the time, she could see that the two were becoming friends that they were once. Just stronger, then they had been years ago. Much like how Sirius and Remus explained it to her as she watched them argue over strategy once.

Both men having been in the position that these two were in years ago, they had not been as close as they were back then for a long time. They had a broken fragile trust between then that wanted to be repaired. But neither knew how until they started over.

By doing that, it opened a clean slate of sorts. One where the past was there, and would forever be so. But where it made them remember that this time they had to walk past that memory a fresh start...a change...

It was a change that was needed and has been helping Harry re-connect with his past in a way that did not hurt. Just listening to the three men bicker back and forth was enough to bring a smile to Harry's face. Ron joining in the arguing now as he was going to be the godfather to the baby...

Yes, during the time they had gotten to talking again both men had realized they had changed. In those years since his innocence was discovered, Ron had taken a look at the youth that he used to be.

And realized he did not like what he saw. He was a jealous ignorant young man who in believing so foolishly in what others told him. Thought all was right, yet it wasn't. It was stupid, it was wrong. He should have had faith.

Even Harry had done some soul searching as he grew and saw that he had weaknesses. The main one being he had trusted to easily in those who supposedly cared for him. His ability to trust was a plus but it was also his downfall.

You trust to easily, you get taken for granted.

Even now as Isabel remembers what he had told her, she can not help but agree with those words.

After all, it is how mistakes are made.