Harry awoke that morning to the feeling of being carried, he didn't want to wake up, this was it he was being taken to the orphanage, tears leaked out of his closed eyes but were gently wiped away with a voice whispering kindly to him "shhh, baby boy, everything's ok, Mummy's got you, I know Charlie painted on the walls, you're not in trouble, open those beautiful eyes for Mummy." Harry slowly opened his eyes to see Cassie peering at him sadly, she smiled and in that moment he did believe that everything would be ok. As he was dressed and readied for the day he couldn't help wonder how they had found out and what was going to happen to Charlie now.
He was surprised when he was carried downstairs, he was given his breakfast and no one else seemed to be around. Had he slept late? He looked around to find it was still dark. No one else was up yet, she fed him his breakfast then took him to the sitting room where she played with him, 'this was amazing she was actually getting up early just to spend time with him, no one had ever done that for him. As Charlie woke up he was told his breakfast was on the kitchen table and to eat it like a big boy, he sulked and headed to the kitchen to eat. As they were playing he decided to try and impress her again, he had been practising his standing and had even managed to take a couple of wobbly steps when he was practising on his own, he dropped what they had been playing with and Harry crawled to the sofa Cassandra was sat on, he heaved himself up easily and then turned to smile at her, this was going to be good, he let go of the sofa and took one wobbly step to his toy box, he heard Cassandra shout for Daddy and as Daddy entered the room Harry took another wobbly step towards the toy box, he then took a third step before falling over. Severus was straight over to him grinning and covering him in kisses, the doctors told them that this might not be possible but Harry was proving them all wrong.
To top off this wonderful moment Harry went for the finisher, "Mama, Dada" he said pointing at them. Cassie and Severus were both crying tears of happiness at this point before Severus put Harry onto his feet and held his little hands letting him walk through to the kitchen and around the downstairs showing off to his brothers and sister. What a great morning!
As they family went out to work Charlie and Harry were both helped into shoes and coats and Harry was lifted into his stroller, they were going out again. Harry slept in his stroller walking was hard business when you were this small. When he woke up he discovered that they were in a village hall, Mummy was talking to a nice lady and Charlie was playing with some little boys that looked to be about four. Mummy noticed Harry awake and came to get him, the nice lady smiled at him and waved "hello what's your name?" she asked, Harry smiled, he liked this woman.
"This is my youngest Harry, say hello Harry." Cassie showed him off proudly as Harry smiled and waved at the lady "ewo" he tried,
"he just started walking and talking this morning, he's suddenly decided to be little mister grown up." Cassie said with a smile.
"So Mrs Snape when did you want to book Charlie in for?" Harry was confused were they sending Charlie away?
"Every morning except Friday we can pick him up at lunch time and my husband will drop him off in the morning." Cassie said remaining polite.
"Will you be booking this cutie in?"' the lady asked politely, Cassandra smiled at Harry,
"no, this one will be getting some quality time in the mornings but we may start dropping him in if he wants to join in. He's still a little too young to be playing with the big boys yet though." Cassandra carried on talking to the lady about prices and boring stuff so Harry was having a nosey around the room trying to spot any toys that might be fun to play with, he was really enjoying being able to play with toys now and being cuddled. He spotted a little girl with curly ginger hair, he was immediately mesmerised by her caring for her dolly's, she looked about his age and was crawling around gathering cushions to sit on. As he was staring an excited "oo" escaped him and Mummy looked in the direction that he was to see the little girl.
Cassie laughed "he's just like his older brother, completely taken with girls, except his brother is almost a teenager. Is there anything else that we need to do?" Cassie asked.
"No, you have to stay for the first morning to make sure that Charlie and our playgroup is a fit, for both us and Charlie but after that it's just paying weekly for the sessions he has attended. Feel free to let Harry play with some of the other children if you want although he will be your responsibility for first aid and safety." Cassie smiled said thank you and went to sit Harry with the girl he was looking at earlier. Harry smiled at her before starting to play families with the little girl. It was all going well until he tried showing off, he wanted to show her how clever he was and stood up using the pram the girl had been playing with, as he went to pull himself up the pram rolled away and he fell forward smashing his face and head against the hard wood floor, Charlie laughed but he was the only one.
Cassie saw the fall of what had happened and rushed over to her baby boy, he had a cut on his head that was bleeding and he felt blinding pain, this was the most painful thing he had ever experienced. The woman from earlier came over to see if there was anything that she could do but Cassie told her she was just going to take Charlie and take Harry to the nearby health centre to get him checked out. Putting Charlie in the pushchair and carrying a bleeding and crying Harry she rushed down the street to the health centre where they ushered them into a nurse's room and procured a doctor to see them. Harry was still crying and shaking, this really hurt. When he thought it couldn't get much worse he felt his vision swimming and vomited all over Charlie who was sat on the floor reading a picture book. He blinked heavily he was very tired, this was when the doctor walked in.
"What happened?" he asked shining a torch in Harry's eyes and cleaning the head wound.
"He was trying to stand up and tried t push himself up using a toy pram but the pram moved forward and his head hit the wood flooring," she rushed out hurriedly trying her best not to panic.
"Ok well the good news is that he will be fine, no lasting damage, the bad news is that this will leave a bit of a scar and he has quite the concussion"' The doctor said putting some butterfly stitches over Harry's cut and cleaning his bloody nose.
"Here is a leaflet on how to handle his concussion and if you could visit reception on your way out to book a check-up for three days' time." Harry was strapped into his pushchair and with the doctor telling his Mummy how much head ache potion to take he fell asleep wanting to forget about that embarrassing fall.
When Cassie arrived home she flooed Molly to ask if she could take Charlie and explained what had happened and then sent an owl to her husband to tell him what had happened as well. She had to wake Harry every hour for the next twelve hours and make sure he was orientated before he was allowed to go back to sleep. She checked the time and found it to be half past the hour so woke the grumpy baby to ask who she was and then put him back to sleep on the couch. As she was just about to sit down and relax after this morning's stress Severus came running through the door throwing his briefcase into a corner and giving his son a quick once over, once he had checked the small body over and reassured himself that the little boy was indeed breathing he went to sit beside his wife on the floor. They hugged for a while before the story was told and Snape explained how he had been let out of classes once he told Minerva what had happened, Minerva had also promised to come around tonight to see if they needed any help.
The evening passed slowly for the family, Harry was woken once an hour had three bottles of milk, three doses of headache reliever, was sick five times and had been hugged more times than he could count by various family members who had come to visit. After the final wake up at 2 am Harry was finally left to sleep for the night.
Author Note- Thank you for the comments, I am not very good at this whole writing buisness but have tried to use the comments and split up the speech and found where to find the " on my new computer keyboard. I think this is what was mean't. Hope you're all still enjoying it x