Harry stared down at the letter in his hands, reading it for what seemed like the hundredth time. It was from Gringotts, informing him that there had been some withdrawals from his vaults, along with the removal of select family heirlooms. He could have sworn that he taken back all of his keys that Dumbledore had given to Mrs. Weasley. "What's going on, Harry?"
Bill had come into the kitchen and started making a cup of coffee. "I got a letter from Gringotts. Somebody's been in my vaults."
The red head paused in picking up the coffee pot, "What?"
Harry just nodded, "My thoughts exactly. How in the hell did they get one of my keys?"
Bill sat down with his coffee, stirring it absentmindedly, "They could have had copies made while they were in possession of the others."
Harry sighed, laying his head on the table, banging it slightly, "I'm going to have to go to Gringotts, aren't I?"
"Yeah, you will. There's one in Ozette, so you don't have to go back to England to fix the problem. All the vaults are connected."
"Oh, thank Merlin. I'll apparate there in a little bit. Do you need me to pick something for you while I'm out?"
"I need some things from Skin Deep, if that is alright."
Fleur came into the kitchen carrying Teddy. "Yeah, that's alright. Just give me a list. And my godson. Give."
He held out his arms as the blond laughed. "Fine, fine. You spoil this child."
He just gave her a cheeky grin as he took the baby from her. "Hey there, Teddy bear. Have a good sleep?"
A happy coo came from the infant as he grabbed onto free hanging black hair. "Hey, hey, hey, no pulling."
Bill smirked, "I don't think he'll ever get over the fascination with your hair."
"Shut it, you. Nobody asked you."
Fleur let out a tinkling laugh as she prepared breakfast. Harry sent a mock scowl towards Bill as Luna drifted into the kitchen. "Good morning. While you're out, Harry, I need some things from the apothecary."
She sat and handed him a list. "You'll have to set it on the table, Tic. Kinda have my hands full."
Luna just smiled and set it down, "You're going to have a good time today, when you go to Port Angeles."
Harry blinked and looked over at her, confused, "What do you mean? I'm going to Ozette."
"I know, but you're also going to Port Angeles. Have fun."
She took a sip of tea and look out of the window, smiling dreamily. Used to her cryptic responses, he just shrugged it off and went about eating what Fleur just set in front of him. Bill was just amused by everything. Those two always did have the weirdest conversations. If it wasn't about some fantastical creature that Luna knew about it was it was theories on what magic was, where it came from and why the heck it chose humans to be it's main wielders.
An hour later found Harry behind the house, preparing to apparate to the bank. He turned sharply on his heel, spared a moment for concentration and let him magic do the work. The unpleasant feeling of being squeezed through a rubber tube came before he appeared at the apparation point in front of the bank.
He moved out of the way before somebody else appeared and quickly made his way up the steps. It didn't take him long to meet with a goblin and request a new set of keys and locks for his vaults. He spent a grand total of two and a half hours in the bank, infusing his magic into this locks, along with Luna's, with her permission, and Teddy's. He also opened a trust fund for his godson for when he got older.
The goblin's cast a spell to magically repossess everything that was taken, money included. It would take up to two weeks for everything to be returned and anything that was bought with his money would be put into a separate vault for him to go through at a later date.
Stepping out into the overcast marketplace, he headed for Skin Deep, just to get it out of the way first. It was a rather good thing that he was gay, even if he wasn't flamboyantly so, otherwise he wouldn't have been caught dead in the store. He quickly found everything that Fleur had asked for, somethings that he knew that Luna would love and some somethings for himself. Stocking up on everything, so they didn't have to return too soon, he made his way to the counter, stopping everything he found something interesting.
For some inexplicable reason, he thought of Rosalie Cullen while he was in the store and found himself picking up somethings that she would like. He didn't know her, she didn't know him, but for some reason he felt the need to have her like him. Which was odd because he didn't do things like that. Shaking his head, he went to the counter and let the girl there ring everything up. She seemed to think that he was buying things for his girlfriend when he said rather bluntly, "I'm gay."
She blushed furiously and stuttered the total of three hundred galleons, forty-seven sickles and nine knuts. Wordlessly, he handed over the magical credit card that was rather popular in magical America and let her swipe it before he picked up the small blue bag that had an expansion charm on it, took his card back and walked out of the store.
He went to the pet shop next, hoping to find an owl again, or an animal he felt a connection to. It had been several months since Hedwigs death, since his seventeenth birthday actually, and he felt that he had mourned enough. He entered the store, feeling an odd calm settle over him. Animals always seemed to have that effect on him. He spent a good half hour looking around, chuckling when he wandered past the snakes as they hissed insults at the people that gazed into their tanks.
He had no interest in the snakes, though, nor the fish or canines or birds. The crups, though, one would be a good pet for Teddy. They lived for a long time and were fiercely protective of their masters. Rather glad that he had his godson's magical signature with him, he went towards the crup puppies and held out the charm that held it. "Which one of you would like to come home and bond with my godson?"
The puppies crowded around, sniffing eagerly at the charm before they started to break off one by one, returning to playing and napping until there was one left, it's split tail wagging happily as it panted, excitement shining in it's eyes. He reached the pen and picks it up, checking it's gender. It was a girl, which really didn't matter. Fleur and Luna would spoil her though.
He went to the last section, bypassing the other magical pets before he made it to the cats and other felines. Mewing surrounded him, begging him to pick them and take them home. The crup was looking around, tongue lolling out of her mouth as she sniffed around them. Harry stopped in front of a seeming empty cage and peered in, wondering if something was in there. Bright blue eyes looked out from the shadows as a tiny mew sounded out. A tiny, hesitant kitten inched out from it's hiding place, it's fluffy black coat blending in with the darkness. He waited until it was right in front of the cage door before fitting two finger through the bars and petting it.
A rumbling purr resounded from it's tiny body which startled a laugh from the teen. He opened the cage and picked the kitten up and carried both to the counter where a bored looking middle aged wizard was sitting, perking up slightly at the sight of a customer. Fifteen minutes later, he left with another bag filled with various things for both animals along with a years worth of food. The wizard assured him that it would be safe to apparate with them, which was a rather good thing.
His last stop was the apothecary where it took him a short time to pick up everything that his blond pseudo sister needed. After a short walk to the apparation point, he turned heel and, a pull of magic later, was home.
As soon as he appeared, he heard the screaming cries of an upset Teddy. With an exasperated sigh, he went into the house, set the bags down, put the animals in Bill arms and scooped up Teddy from Fleur's. Almost immediately, the baby quieted down. The look that the half-veela gave him cased both him and Bill to break out into laughter. She muttered under her breath in French about how she spent the past hour trying to calm him down. "Don't worry about it, Fleur. He just loves me more."
"Tais-toi, débile." (1)
"Ow, that hurts," he said sarcastically, hand over his heart as he held Teddy in the other.
A happy bark caught the attention of the two as the crup puppy squirmed in Bills arms, trying to get to her new master. Harry walked over and let the puppy sniff his cub. After she did, she then proceeded to lick him face. Fleur cooed at the cute scene, forgetting what happened moments before. "You got him a crup."
"Yeah, figured he'd like a companion. I got a cat."
Said cat then jumped onto his shoulder, curling up against him neck and purring up a storm. "Well, as glad as I am that you're home, I need you to go pick up something I ordered a little while ago, since you're basically the only one who can drive," said Bill.
"Let me guess, it's at a store in Port Angeles, right?"
"Yup."
After giving him the store name, Harry gave Teddy back to Fleur, set his cat's stuff up in his room (he needed to find out it's gender and pick and name) and let Bill set the stuff up for the crup.
It was a rather long drive, one in which he barely paid any attention to. He was busy thinking about what Luna had told him. What was going to happen to him there that would be fun?
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A.N.: Hey, look, an update lol. Wow, four days. Another chapter that didn't want to be written lol well, yay that it did! ^^
(1) It means, 'Shut up, moron.' I wanted to put something meaner, but... (shrug)
