So, I lost steam writing this last piece, and I'm not content with what I wanted to write. But I still liked some pieces of it and I don't wanna leave this part empty handed, even if it's broken up. If you've stuck through this whole story I really appreciate it!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter series


The final guest arrived with a knock on the door. Andromeda opened it and in came a bundled up, shivering girl with a suitcase, covered with snow. She was wearing so much, it was a wonder she could see.

"Are you Lana?" The freezing girl could only nod. Andromeda grinned and quickly gestured her inside. The girl breathed a sigh of relief in the first couple moments as the warmth rushed to her.

"WOW" she exclaimed breathily, now that she was getting circulation again. "I don't think anything could prepare me for the temperatures outside right now! How does Sarah do this and not die of temperature shock? I mean I guess the summer weather is different here but how does she survive these winters? How did she survive our winter? How does she adapt so fast?" She rambled on and on to no one in particular as she jumped up and down, rubbing her arms, her whole body shaking as it tried to regulate its temperature.

Molly eagerly greeted her, "Well I am so glad you have made it safely. Everyone! This is Sarah's girlfriend Lana!"


"Where's Sarah? And Harry? Aren't they here?"

The Weasleys smiled. "They put the Teddy bear down for a nap a while ago." Grinny said. "They should be up within the hour."


In a bedroom in the Tonks' house, Sarah and Harry were curled up on the floor with little 3 year old Teddy snug in the middle of them. Each one was sound asleep. They each had a pillow; a big blanket was on top of them. There was no tension, no stress in the Potter siblings' bodies. Their faces had a content sereneness to them. They actually looked their age, two young adults instead of seeming decades older. Teddy appeared to fit between them perfectly, like he was the missing piece, like he was trying to fill them up again. This scene was unbroken for two hours, which is the limit Teddy has on his naps. He started to stir, and when the noise from the rest of the house reached him, he fully started to wake. The movement woke his two sleeping buddies, who also started to stir. Teddy patted Harry and Sarah on their heads and toddled out of the room, which made them chuckle.

"Morning" Harry said groggily but cheerful.

"Is it now?" Sarah laughed. She had been so at peace she had let the runes drop from her eyes, so she woke up blind. He chuckled and reached up for his glasses above his pillow. She reached for her wand and reapplied her runes. They laid there for a while, content in the silence of each other presence. Then they smiled and stretched and slowly made their way towards the living room, never expecting for an instant what they would end up finding.


They stood at either side of the door, quietly watching and admiring the room. Luna, of course, noticed them after a few moments, but Hermione was the first to say something. She grinned cheekily. "Well, looks like the sleeping beauties finally awake."

"We were starting to worry you got lost," Ron chuckled, "The only one with a good set of eyes and an affinity of taking things scampered ahead of you quite a bit ago."

Harry grinned, but Sarah just stared. "Does my heart deceive or does a familiar lovely lady great strides from home grace the room?"

Lana rolls her eyes and nearly fully suppresses her smile. "A lady who looks with her heart and not her head is sure cause mayhem."

"Love's mayhem strives to go unnoticed, for what grander gesture of affection than to take up one's whole world with it's power."

"What grander gesture of adoration than to understand that one's whole world can walk beside them, hand in hand. What grander sorrow and loneliness is there in knowing one's love is far away and yet feels so close."

"Perhaps then, Love is patient, and understanding, as much as mischievous and wild."

"Doubt I not, for love's triumph can thrive even in this snowy weather."

"It seems my love did not heed my warnings."

"It seems your warnings were not adequate and perhaps too distracted were your senses."

"Then forgive my senses and every other part of my aching body and soul that has wished to hold my love's once more for many eves."

"Mine has wished the same, and so I traveled. So is my love going to travel into my embrace and warm this chilled existence or shall I-" Lana was cut off by Sarah's swift hug.

"There is no force that could stop me."

"Beyond the end of time." They kissed passionately, out of love and longing and because they can. When it broke, they smiled and giggled to themselves.

Silence

Harry smiled sheepishly, "Well, don't I feel perfectly inadequate."

"Dear brother, that can't be a new feeling."


Thank you so much for reading A Potter's Tale!