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Chapter 29

Harry sighed as he looked at his watch again, they were late. He grumbled as he took another drink from his cup. "Is it to much to ask for them-"

"Calm down Harry," Hermione said, nodding her head towards the entry of the small coffee shop. "You knew from the beginning when you chose a non-magical spot that it may take them a bit longer than they expected to get here."

He sipped his coffee again. "Yeah… well it doesn't mean I like it."

"Harry, I know you don't want to do this but we said we would talk to them," she said softly.

He sighed. "Yeah… I know… It doesn't mean I need to like the fact that they're late." He glanced up at the menu above the counter. 'Possibly a bite to eat?' he thought, then shook his head and turned back to the conversation.

"At any rate, what did you think of the news about the fall of SHIELD and Fury's death?" Harry asked.

She sighed. "It's horrible! He did so much for us! Then to find out he had been killed by Steve's best friend, and what had been done to him over the years as the Winter Soldier… It's all so awful!"

Harry nodded. "It is and then to find out that Hydra was festering inside of Shield… We can just be glad that Fury kept our secret."

Hermione nodded. "And that of the wizarding world… could you imagine what would have happened if Hydra had known?" She shuddered.

Harry grimaced. "Let's just be thankful that they didn't."

"Harry? Hermione?" asked a hesitant voice from a man approaching them, a tentative smile on his face.

"Mr. Lupin," he replied coldly.

The smile dropped from the tired looking man's face, a hurt look replacing it.

"Hello, Professor," Hermione said. "Please, join us. Where is Tonks?"

He glanced over his shoulder as he moved to sit at the small table. "She stopped by the loo… she'll be along."

"You wanted to see us, Mr. Lupin?" Harry asked, sitting back against the thin cushion of the booth.

"Harry…" he began, then paused taking a deep breath. "I-I don't know what has made you so angry at me… us," he said glancing towards the restroom. "Will you please tell me what we did?"

Harry scoffed. "It's not what you did," he said, his anger evident, "but what you didn't do."

The man looked confused. "What didn't we do Harry?"

Remus sat under the younger man's glare for a long moment before Harry spoke again. "Where were you?" he asked. "Where were you for the ten years I was left with the Dursleys?"

Remus flinched when he spat the name out like a curse. "Harry, I-"

Harry's growling voice cut him off. "Why didn't you tell me you were friends with my parents during my third year? You had all that time to say something but not a word! Then for this last Merlin forsaken year you were again nowhere to be found! Give me one good reason-"

A woman's voice from the edge of the table stopped him cold. "Harry, I'd like you to meet our son, Teddy."

Harry's eyes widened as he looked up to find Tonks standing next to him, a small child in her arms.

He glanced between them. "Your son?" he asked stunned, his eyes finally settling on the small baby head, capped in a blue knit cap. "How? When?... I knew you were together but not…" He gestured to the child.

Tonks sat and handed Teddy to Remus, who smiled widely and bounced the boy lightly, in his arms, before settling him in with his bottle. "He was born in May," she said, watching the scene before her with a growing look of pride. "We found out just before the wedding and your disappearance… we didn't want to say anything and take away from Fleur and Bill's ceremony… We wanted to tell you, but we couldn't find you after that."

Harry looked pained, as he looked back and forth. "I-I'm sorry…" He stammered. "I-I was just so… so angry… We needed help with Dumbledore's task… I-I… You couldn't have helped…" Tears filled his eyes. "Congratulations…"

Tonks smiled at him softly. "It's fine…" Tonks said softly. "Wolfie and I have talked a lot about what may have made you angry and-"

Remus cut her off at that point. "Harry," he said, adjusting Teddy slightly. "I realize now I made a lot of mistakes in the past. Ones that I can only hope you forgive me for."

He took a deep breath, then continued. "I met Petunia once, at your parents' wedding, I should have known…" He sighed. "I should have come and found you… and never listened to Albus, that was a mistake… and so was not talking to you earlier your third year… I was…" He looked down at the child in his arms and seemed to somehow draw strength from seeing him. "I just didn't know how to bring the subject up… It seems so stupid now…"

Hermione took Harry's hand in her own. "Congratulations, both of you," she said with a genuine smile. "We're happy for you both."

Tonks's face broke out in a wide grin. "So you are finally together?" she asked, almost giddy.

Harry and Hermione both blushed, Hermione was the one to answer. "For about a week now…. One of our friends…" her voice trailed off.

Harry snorted. "She yelled at us one night to 'either get together or fucking shag and get it out of our systems'."

Hermione's face darkened. "Yeah… that."

Remus and Tonks broke into laughter. "Told you someone would need to hit them over the head with it Wolfie," Tonks said, calming down.

Harry smiled. "His name is Teddy?" he asked, looking at the baby.

"Edward, actually," Remus said. "Edward Remus Lupin… Tonks insisted."

Tonks chuckled. "You bet, you were going to go along with Mum... and I will not have a child of mine named Eridanus…after a constellation!" she said sternly.

Remus chuckled. "Yes dear," he said, leaning over and giving her a peck on the cheek.

"Harumph…" she said crossing her arms, "It's a stupid tradition! Giving children such horrid names!"

Remus smiled at his wife and sat back adjusting the now finished eating Teddy to burp. "As for the other times…" he said sadly. "I-I trusted Albus. He said you were safe."

Harry shook his head. "He told so many half truths in his time…" Harry grumbled. "Did you know I was already at the Dursleys' and under blood wards before Sirius caught up with Peter?"

Remus's eyes widened, and he shook his head. "Hagrid actually saw Sirius that night, he gave him the motorbike he took me there on. If he had wanted me dead he had ample chance right then."

Tonks looked at him stunned. "B-but that doesn't make any sense!"

Harry nodded. "It took him two days to find Peter, he told us himself at Headquarters… Why didn't Dumbledore stop him? Why was I placed there before he had ever done anything? I should have been left with him."

The couple across from them looked at each other stunned as Harry continued. "All he would ever say was 'it was for the Greater Good' or 'it was for your own safety'. I think it was all crap," he said.

Hermione nodded. "We've done a lot of thinking about this and the prophecy, we have come to the conclusion that Dumbledore's interpretation… well, it… he was wrong."

Remus's eyes widened. "What? Why would you say that?"

Harry sighed and told them the prophecy, who made it, where it had been made, and what had actually happened afterward.

"Snape!" Remus growled, handing Teddy back to Tonks as his anger grew. "I'll-"

Harry waved his hand cutting the man's tirade off. "He'll get what is coming to him, they all will when the trials start."

Calming, Remus sat forward. "Why do you believe he was wrong?"

She shrugged. "Because, despite the fact it was given in a pub by a woman who drinks more sherry than a restaurant uses to cook leads us to question its validity, it was most likely complete the night harry was attacked. Riddle had been vanquished, and steps could be taken to be ready for someone like him ever rising again."

Remus looked between the young couple, his eyes wide. "You vanquished him that night…"

Harry nodded. "And he marked me as his equal the moment he decided it was me and not Neville. I survived and had a chance to start living again at that moment, but was denied it by placing me at the Dursleys'. Unfortunately it is only now that I truly feel like I'm living," he said, squeezing Hermione's hand.

Hermione continued. "Dumbledore may have interfered with the actual conclusion of the prophecy…" she said sadly. "Placing him with the Dursleys… it kept him from living."

Tonks gasped. "Neither can live, while the other survives…"

Harry nodded. "And then he didn't stand up for what was right when several of the Pure Bloods were tried, he had the power but not the will to stop them from bribing their way free and back into society. He was more concerned with redemption than preservation of the innocent… Even within the walls of Hogwarts… Just look at Malfoy and his goons."

Remus looked stricken by the thought. "You've given us a lot to think about Harry," he said. After a quiet moment he spoke again. "But we wanted to see you about something else today, as well."

Harry nodded. "Okay."

Remus hugged his wife to his side. "We wanted to ask you to be Teddy's Godfather."

Harry's eyes widened. "Me?" he asked. "But… I'm… I-I can't… I'm too young!"

Remus chuckled. "We've thought about this a long time Harry, this is what we want. We don't think we could find someone better suited."

Harry glanced back and forth between the older couple then at Hermione, who gave him a tender smile and a nod. Looking back at them his face broke out in a wide grin. "I'd be honored."

Tonks stood and walked around to his side of the table placing the bundle in his arms. "Then it is about time you were introduced to your godchild don't you think? Harry this is Teddy. Teddy meet your Uncle Harry!" she said happily.

Harry looked down at the small child in his arms, as his hand wrapped around Harry's finger and pulled it to his mouth. He couldn't help staring at Teddy's brown eyes for a moment, then suddenly, in the blink of an eye, they were green just like his.

"Something tells me he takes after his mother," he said with a chuckle.

Remus laughed as well. "He did the eye thing, didn't he?" Harry nodded. "Yeah, well he does that to his grandma too… Sometimes his hair as well. I think he knows you're family."

Harry's smile widened. "Hello Teddy. It's nice to meet you."

"So, it's agreed then?" Dane asked the group sitting around the ornate dinner table.

The group nodded. "Alright then, I'll contact Steve and Tony to see if they will help us set something up. Between all of us we should be able to figure out who we need to talk to in Her Majesty's Government, to offer our help."

As the group stood Jackie asked the others to stay behind for a moment. "You three have a decision to make. One that I want each of you to consider carefully," she said sitting again. "Once we do this there will be no going back, so think about what I am about to say."

She looked at each of them in turn ensuring she had their attention. "You need to decide if you want to hide your true identities or not." The three young people across from her looked at each other.

"I have hidden my identity for years," she said with a smile. "It hasn't been easy all of the time, but it has allowed me some semblance of a normal life… despite the added hurdle of my apparent age."

Harley quirked an eyebrow. "Just how f-old are you J?" she asked, actively trying to curb her habit.

Jackie smiled, showing her full fangs. "Much older than I look, I assure you," she said, sitting back into a relaxed position. "The speed is my own… and as for being a vampire infused with… well never mind that, it was an accident and I really doubt it could happen again. Just be glad that I do not suffer from the hunger or other issues my cousins do."

Harley gulped. "Right… I never hid who I was before-"

"But remember, my dear," Jackie said holding up a finger. "It is for the protection of those you will grow close to as much as your own. Especially as Tony has said he does not think your dimensional abilities are going to be available for some time, possibly several years."

Harley froze; she had never had to worry about that before. Everyone she had been around had been able to fend for themselves or they had not been around enough for them to become a target. "I-I'll think about it."

Harry nodded. "I think it will be for the best… I'll need to think up something.

Hermione shrugged, "I'll be big and green, I think that will be plenty of change."

Jackie smiled and pulled out a heavy looking silver watch. "Something Tony made, he didn't want you to going through any issues because of your connection to the Hulk." She turned on the screen beside her. "It will place a holographic overlay over your body, and you will look like this in your She-Hulk form."

Hermione looked at the rotating picture. It would cover her green skin tone with a normal looking tan, and her hair with deep red. Her costume however looked the same.

"Tony told me that lots of people would gain an interest in you if you became widely known as the She-Hulk, and this may be a better choice for you, though you would need a new code name," Jackie said.

Hermione nodded. "Titania… We'll call me Titania."

Jackie looked stunned for a moment. "As in the queen of the fairies?"

Hermione nodded. "For now… at least until Harry and I are done from Uni."

Jackie nodded, handing her the watch. "As for you Harry..." She reached below the table and pulled out a heavy looking leather bag. "I- I want you to have this. My brother wore this many years ago… and I think he would have liked you… you remind me a lot of him. His name was Brian Falsworth, but the people knew him as… Union Jack."