Disclaimer: Really. If we've gotten this far and you haven't figured it out yet... JK Rowling's characters.

His Boy

Chapter Thirteen: Hotel

"Well, here we are guys." Sirius stretched his arms upwards as he climbed out of the car. The last couple hours of the drive hadn't been bad at all, the joys of nap time had affected him as well. He'd been able to get in some sleep along with the three kids in the backseat. He turned to find that while Harry was awake now, Ronnie and Hermione were still conked out. He suspected this was due to two things. Firstly, he and Remus had discovered that the Weasley kids could sleep for long periods of time quite happily. And secondly, Hermione's mother had said Hermione had been up late out of pure excitement for their trip. "Shhh… Harry, let's be very quiet so we don't wake them alright?"

Harry nodded, placing a finger to his lips as Sirius undid his buckles. He then undid Hermione's and lifted her up out of the car, holding her so that her head lolled onto his shoulder. Remus did the same with Ronnie and Harry climbed down out of the car, toting all three stuffed animals.

"Now, Harry…" Remus began, coming around the other side of the car. "The parking lot is very busy and cars aren't going to be able to see you until you get a bit taller, so you need to stick close to Padfoot and me, understood?"

"Mhm." Harry nodded, not wanting to get run over by a car anyway. He knew the rules from when he used to play out of doors on Privet Drive. He didn't think he could run very well with his arms full of plushies and his legs still a bit wobbly from nap time and sitting in the car for so very long.

"Good, now then, let's get inside." They traipsed across the parking lot to the hotel entrance. They could come back down for the luggage once they got checked in and settled the two sleepers down into a bed.

The lobby of the hotel was nice and cool after the heat of the outside. Harry kept close to his Padfoot and his Moony, not wanting to get lost here. It was quite a big building and he was sure he'd never find his way out if he did get lost.

"Good afternoon!" The woman behind the desk beamed brightly at them as they came in. They went up the desk.

"Hello." Sirius grinned at the woman, shooting her his most winning and handsome smile that he reserved especially for the ladies. And she was quite a pretty lady at that. "We have a reservation under the name 'Black.'"

"Alright, let's see then…" The woman flipped through a book on her desk for a moment. "Ah yes, here we are. S. Black, three nights, a suite with two singles and one double?"

"Yes, ma'am. That would be us."

"Wonderful! Here are your key cards… You're up on the third floor, number 34C. And might I say, what lovely children you have."

"We like to think so." Sirius beamed, placing a proud hand on top of Harry's hat clad hat. "This one is mine, the other two are his best buddies. Their parents needed some alone time, so we decided a trip to the beach would be a nice little holiday for them."

"Oh! How kind of you! They're all just so precious. If they get bored with the beach though, there's a zoo not that far from here as well. My son just loves going there."

"Oooh! Paddy! Can we go to da zoo too?" Harry asked, his eyes wide with wonder at the very idea of it. He knew what zoos were, Dudley got to go to them sometimes and he always came home boasting about how he'd seen so many animals Harry would never get to see.

"Of course, Prongslet. That sounds like a wonderful idea." Sirius beamed down at him, confused as to why he was suddenly being referred to as 'Paddy' instead of 'Padfoot'.

"Yes, it sound brilliant. Thank you very much. We'll be sure to check that out as well then." Remus grinned at the woman, shifting Ronnie to his other side to give his arm a bit of the break. The kid slept like a rock. They took their keys and headed down the hallway to the elevator.

"Alright Harry, can you push the up arrow?"

"Yeah!" Harry laughed and slammed his little palm against the up button. The elevator took a moment to come down and when it did, it dinged open, letting a family with a couple of haughty teenagers out. Harry climbed in closely followed by the other. "Which one now?"

"The number three. You know which one is three right?" Moony asked brightly, knowing Harry did.

"Mhm!" Harry nodded proudly and pushed the number three, having to stand up on his tiptoes in order to do so. The button lit up and the doors dinged shut. The ride to the third floor was smooth and uneventful, the doors not opening up on either the first or second floors. When they got to the third floor, they got off and started down the long corridor.

"Can you find number thirty-four, Harry?" Sirius asked, having caught on to this opportunity for teaching without Harry even knowing it. "A three with a four."

"Ok." Harry nodded, looking at the doors, pointing at them. "Three-zero… three-two…. three-four!"

"Thirty. When three is before another number, it's a thirty. Thirty, thirty two, thirty four." Remus explained pointing to the numbers each and Harry nodded again, pointing to door next to their's.

"Thirty six?"

"Yes! Very good Harry." Remus slipped the keycard into the door, the light blinked green and he pressed it open. Harry bolted inside excitedly.

"Wow! Lookit Paddy! Lookit Moony!" Harry laughed, running about the room excitedly. Sirius blinked, there it was again. That 'Paddy'. There was a little kitchen area by one wall across from the bathroom, a small sitting area and then the room was split by a small wall that went halfway across it and had long poles to the ceiling from about waist height. Harry thought they looked kind of like neat staircase railing poles. Beyond the wall were three beds. Two single ones sat against one wall, head to head and a big double bed jutted out towards them from the opposite wall.

"We probably won't be using this much at all." Remus motioned towards the little kitchen section. "It'll be more of a holiday if we eat out, but the fridge will be good for our picnic things." He carried Ronnie into the bedroom portion of the room and placed him down on the big bed. He and Sirius had already decided it would be easiest for all three of the kids to share the one large bed. They were small, so they would fit just fine.

"No, but it's nice to have, just in case." Sirius nodded and set Hermione down next to Ronnie. Hermione rolled over, cuddling up to Ronnie quite contently, her thumb in her mouth again. Ronnie snuggled her back, flinging an arm over her like she was his bear, both of them dead to the world."Ok, now that… is cute." Sirius admitted with a smile.

"Way better than having them fighting all the time. Well, do you want to get the luggage or do you want to stay here with them?"

"I'll get the bags. Harry, want to come help me?" Sirius asked brightly, lightly whacking the brim of Harry's had to make it go downwards. Harry laughed and pushed his hat back up.

"Yeah!" He bolted for the door again and he and Sirius made their way out, heading back down in the elevator (Harry learned that the letter 'G' stood for ground floor) and to the lobby.

"Have you got a trolley?" Sirius asked the woman behind the desk and she smiled, pointing to the doors.

"Right over there, but I can call the bag boy if you'd like…"

"Oh, no, that won't be necessary, will it Harry? I've got mister muscles here!" Sirius lifted Harry up and the little boy laughed. He was strong, at least he liked to think so, just as all four year olds did. "Can you show the lady your muscles, Prongslet?"

Harry lifted his arms, flexing them proudly. The lady seemed nice, and Sirius seemed to like her. He was getting better at discovering that not all adults were going to be jerks like the Dursleys. In fact, so far, most of them had been really nice to him. "I'm strong!"

"Yes, you are! Wow, look at those big muscles!" The woman laughed.

Sirius laughed and set Harry on the trolley, wheeling it out of the automatic doors and into the parking lot. Harry stood on the trolley, holding onto one of the bars to keep himself steady. "Lookit the big truck, Paddy!" He laughed, pointing to a large tractor trailing driving along the main road.

"I see it. It's a very, very big truck." Sirius nodded and Harry grinned back at him. They got to the car and Sirius unlocked the boot, opening it and beginning to load the backpacks onto the trolley along with the cooler and beach things. The beach was just on the other side of the hotel where they could walk to it, so it would be more convenient to have them inside. "Hey Harry? Why are you calling me Paddy?"

"Because…" Harry grinned brightly, as though it was a silly question. "Cher my goddaddy, right?"

"Yes, that's right."

"So cher not my Daddy, but cher like a daddy, so cher my Paddy!" Harry laughed at him, beaming so brightly now that Sirius couldn't help but laugh with him. Four year old logic was so simple and straight forward. The world was a magical place and if Harry didn't understand something, he made it understandable with his imagination.

"I suppose you're right." Sirius nodded, scooping Harry up and hugging him tightly. "And you're my boy, you know that, right? Forever and ever. You're not my son, but you're as good as."

"Right!" Harry nodded, glad Sirius had understood. "Not my Daddy, but as good as!" He wrapped his arms around Sirius's neck and kissed him sloppily on the cheek, burying his little face against his neck happily, Padfoot's hair tickling his face.

Once they'd loaded what they'd needed to on the trolley, Harry helped Sirius push it back inside. They waved at the lady behind the desk as they passed and then headed to the elevator. It took a couple seconds to figure out how to get the wheels of the trolley over the doorjamb of the elevator, but they managed it and before they knew it, they were back at the hotel room. Sirius opened the door and push the trolley in.

"Alright, let's get this unloaded so we can bring it back downstairs in case someone else needs it soon."

"Ok!" Harry gave the things on the trolley a push so they fell off of it and onto the floor. "All done!" Sirius laughed and turned.

"You stay here, I'll bring it down. You can help Moony put things away."

"But, I wanna go with chu, Paddy." Harry pouted for a second but then Moony gave him a tickle.

"I can't put everything away on my own, Harry. Padfoot doesn't need any more help, but I could really use some!"

"Alright." Harry nodded, waving bye to Padfoot and helping Moony tote the backpacks into the bedroom area. They put the clothes away in the dresser, everyone getting one of the six drawers and then the extra shoes (in case trainers (sneakers) were needed at some point instead of sandals) going in the bottom one. Hermione had two extra pairs of shoes, but then, Harry decided that was probably because she was a girl. And Ronnie didn't have any, just the trainers that sat by the door with Hermione's dress shoes. "Moony?"

"Yes, Harry?"

"How come Ronnie doesn't have sandals?" From what Harry understood, one needed sandals to go to the beach. If Ronnie didn't have them, would he be allowed on the beach? "Did he forget them?"

"No. I don't think he has sandals at home either, Harry. But that's ok, because he has lots of brothers and a sister instead. That happens sometimes."

"Can Ronnie go to the beach widdout sandals?"

"Sure he can." Remus patted Harry's head and Harry smiled, feeling a bit better, but he was still confused. Why would having lots of brothers and sisters make it so you couldn't have sandals?

"Ok, but…" Harry frowned again and held up his own sandal clad feet. "Moony, you made anudder car seat with magic, right?"

"Yes, I did. Would you like me to made sandals for Ronnie from yours?"

"Yes!" Harry nodded, glad that his Moony understood. He took his sandals off hurriedly and set them down on the floor. Remus pulled out his wand and tapped Harry's sandals. In an instant, another pair, identical to Harry's appeared beside his. He laughed brightly. Moony made the second pair a bit bigger and then pondered for a moment.

"What do you think, Harry, should we make them orange too?"

"Yeah!" Orange was Ronnie's favorite color. Harry knew he would like that. Remus tapped the sandals again and they changed from brown to orange. There. Now they were perfect. Moony then tapped Harry's, making them red. Harry squealed in delight. He hadn't been expecting that!

"Where's Sir Snuggleston de Fluffners?" Hermione was awake, rubbing at her eyes and looking around curiously for her otter.

"Here!" Harry laughed, pointing to where the worn out purple plushie was sitting on the bed right near her.

"Oh. Thank you." Hermione smiled and hugged her otter to her chest happily. She looked around, sliding down off of the bed, her socked feet padding across the carpet. "This is the hotel?"

"Yup!" Harry laughed, running a circle around her. "Chu missded it, 'mione. We rided an elebator and I got to rided a trolley!"

"Wow!" Hermione looked impressed. "Hehe, Ronnie's still asleep." She giggled, pointing to where the redhead was beginning to drool.

Harry grinned and climbed up onto the bed, prodding Ronnie in the cheek. "He's really really sleepy."

"But if he keeps sleeping, he's going to miss everything." Hermione frowned, crawling back up onto the bed as well and giving Ronnie her own prod to the face. Ronnie groaned and rolled over.

"Okay." Harry nodded and poked Ronnie harder before sitting on the other boy's back and bouncing. "Wake up, Ronnie! It's time to wake up!"

"Up up up, Ronnie!" Hermione laughed, lifting Ronnie's head and patting his cheeks. "If you don't wake up, you're going to miss all of the fun."

Ronnie flailed, groaning and opening his eyes at last. He blinked, rubbing at them and sitting up so that Harry slid off of him and Hermione let go of his face. "Twas sleepin…" He murmured but did not make to lay back down.

"Hey, nice to see you awake!" Remus beamed, sitting down on the bed. "So, it's a bit late to be going down to the beach, so we're going to wait for that until tomorrow."

"Awwwww…." Harry pouted slightly. He was really looking foreward to going to the beach.

"But we can go downstairs to the pool. So let's get your swim suits on."

"Yay!" Ronnie laughed, getting up and bouncing on the bed. "Pool! Pool! Pool!"

"Here's your suit Hermione." Remus tossed it to her. "Head on into the bathroom and get it on. If you need any help, just give me a call."

"Alright, Mr. Lupin." Hermione smiled and bounced off of the bed, trotting away to the bathroom.

"How come Hermione hassa change in the baffroom?" Harry asked curiously as he tugged off his shorts and shirt to put on his swimmy trunks. Remus held them out for him and he stepped into them with ease. Once they were on, Moony helped him put on his green water wingies.

"Because she's a girl."

"Oh. But… why is she a girl? She could be a boy, if she wanted to." Harry nodded to himself, as though this made all the sense in the world. If he were to put on a dress, he'd be a girl too.

"No she can't." Ronnie stated simply, shaking his head and stepping into his own very bright orange swimmy trunks and letting Remus tug them up for him and then held out his arms for his blue water wingies. Having a sister, he knew a thing or two about girls. "She dun have a weewee. Dat's why she's a girl. Ginny doesn't has one."

"What?" Harry's eyes grew wider and he glanced in the direction of the bathroom. "But… Moony…" He looked up at Remus, so full of confusion. "If 'mione has no weewee, how does she go potty?"

Remus winced, having wished this conversation could have waited a few years. "Well… she sits on the potty, of course. Girls have weewees too, but they look different from boys. That's all."

"Oooh." Harry nodded, feeling a bit satisfied with this answer. He turned his head to Ronnie. "What does it look like?"

"Well, it…"

"Annnnd we're all set to go down to the pool!" Remus cut him off.

"Yay!" Harry and Ronnie hopped up and down, running for the door. Hermione came out of the bathroom wearing her own green swimmy suit. Harry was slightly jealous because it had neat little fishes on it, though he wasn't jealous of the frill around her waist.

"Mr. Lupin, I believe I'll be needing my water wingsies as well." She stated, poking at Ronnie's.

"But of course." Remus grinned at her and slid a pair of pink ones up her arms with ease.

"Thank you."

"You are very welcome, now you lot wait here while I get my suit on." Remus smiled, heading into the bathroom.

The hotel room door opened and Sirius came in. He looked down at the trio of swimmers and grinned. "I take it we're going down to the pool tonight?"

"Yes!" Harry nodded brightly, hugging his godfather around the leg. "Hey, Paddy? How come girls has different weewees?"

"So they can make babies." Hermione answered with a laugh, shaking her head and looking amused that he didn't know. "I read all about it in a book my mummy got me."

"But… babies… come from… a bird…" Ronnie blinked, looking quite impossibly confused.

"That's…"

"And we're almost set!" Sirius shook his head, torn between horror and laughter. "Let me just get my suit on and we'll be on our way."

Remus came out of the bathroom wearing his suit and carrying three white hotel towels. "We'll save our beach towels for tomorrow. For now, we can use these at the pool. Here, everyone take one." He held out the stack as Sirius went into the bathroom with his suit and the three four year olds each took a towel.

"Don't forget our toys, Mr. Lupin." Hermione state after a moment of hugging her towel.

"Ah yes." Remus nodded and picked up the bag containing all of the swimmy toys. "Oh… here… You'll be wanting these too." He pulled out three deflated ring floaties and prodded each with his wand. They sprung up full of air.

"Yay!" Harry laughed, grabbing at his green one. He pulled it on over his trunks excitedly. Ronnie and Hermione did the same with their blue and pink ones.

"Ah! Now we're stylin'." Sirius laughed as he came out of the bathroom.

"You too, Paddy!" Harry laughed, holding up a large, red ring. Sirius pulled it on and then posed.

"How do I look?"

"Awesome!" Harry squealed in absolute delight at the sight of his godfather wearing a floatie as well.

"I'm not sure where this ring came from…" Sirius stated, eyeing Remus. "But I dare say I look smashing in it. Well then, troops, let's be on our way down to the pool."

"Oh yes please!" Hermione bounced from one foot to the other, quite ready to go for a swim. Remus held onto one room key while Sirius took the other. They all made sure they had shoes on and then left the room, going down the hallway and into the elevator.

"May I press the button?" Hermione asked politely when they reached it.

"No, me!" Ronnie bounced forward, his arm outstretched. Hermione yelped and pushed him back out of the way and they both ended up sprawled on the floor, glaring at one another.

"I want to do it, Ronnie!"

"I'm taller, I should!" Ronnie shot back at her, getting up and heading for the button again. Hermione grabbed him about the leg, pulling him down.

"Hey hey hey!' Sirius tugged them apart and held them at arm's length by the backs of their round floaties. "Hermione asked first, so she gets to push the outside button. Ronnie, you can press the inside button."

"Alright." Hermione nodded, beaming that she got to go first. Sirius set her down and she reached up on her tip toes to push the down arrow button while Ronnie spent the time waiting for the elevator pouting. When the doors dinged open, he was bouncing right in front of it, ready to get on. A second later, before Remus had a chance to pull him out of the way, an older woman had bumped hard into him, too intent on her conversation to watch where she was going.

"Ow!" Ronnie tumbled over, his knee hitting the metal doorjamb of the elevator.

"Well I never!" The older woman scoffed. She brushed her perfectly clean skirt of invisible dirt and glared at Sirius and Remus. "Really! You ought to teach this little hellion of yours some proper manners!"

"You knockded him over! You say sorry!" Harry stated angrily, stomping one small foot on the ground, his fists clenched. He scowled up at the woman, not the least bit pleased. Ronnie was rubbing at his bleeding knee and sniffling… he'd gotten hurt. Couldn't this mean lady see that? It wasn't Ronnie's fault… it was the lady's. Normally he would have been too afraid to dare speak to the lady this way, but the sight of his friend in pain really made him very mad. He couldn't help it. He was so full of four year old rage.

"Don't you dare speak to me like that, young man! I am related to the royal family."

"You is an old ugly hag!" Harry shot back at her, his little face bright red, chin jutted out. He pointed to Ronnie on the floor and stomped his foot again. "You hurtded him! You say sorry! Say it right now!"

"Harry!" Remus outburst, but he was busy checking to make sure Ronnie hadn't done any serious damage to his knee. Luckily, it looked as though a bit of magic and a kiss would do the trick, both of which he had on his person. He could heal Ronnie's knee once they were alone in the elevator.

"I never! You little demon! Do you not teach any of them manners? Parents these days… what you need is a good spanking, young man." The woman huffed, swinging her bulky purse about as she turned around. It wooshed, quite accidentally clonking Harry in the head. He yelped.

"Oi! Watch it!" Sirius stated angrily, reaching down and scooping up Harry who was rubbing at his head in shock. The woman spun back around.

"Maybe if you kept them on a leash, then we wouldn't be having this problem."

"They're children, not dogs." Sirius glared at her, snuggling Harry and giving him a quick kiss. "And he's right. You really should apologize because you weren't paying attention. It has nothing to do with their manners, yours could use some work though."

"I have impeccable manners, thank you very much."

"Excuse me, ma'am." Hermione stated quite sweetly, smiling up at the woman innocently.

"Ah, now see there… this one has manners. What a good girl you are."

"Of course." Hermione sweetened the deal with a perfect curtsy. "But, begging your pardon, you were not using your manners. If you were, you would have apologized to my friends for hurting them, even though it was an accident. It's no one's fault if it's an accident. You can either apologize, or walk away like a rude old cow."

"A… I…" The woman's jaw dropped as Hermione's smile disappeared and she glared up at her."You're all mad! I will be speaking to the manager about this incident, you just wait! He'll throw you and your rotten spawn out of here!"

"You hurt two four year olds. I suppose that'll make the manager really glad to hear." Sirius shot back. "Come along now then, loves." He pressed Hermione into the elevator while Remus scooped up Ronnie. The doors closed on them and Sirius sighed. "What an old b-" Remus caught his eye. "…lubbering baboon. Are you alright, Prongslet?"

"Yeah." Harry nodded. His head hadn't hurt for very long, just for a minute. "Paddy, can she really kick outta da hotel?"

"Nah." Sirius chuckled, patting Harry on the back. "You were very brave back there, standing up for Ronnie. I'm very proud of you."

"Really?" Harry blinked, quite sure he would have been mad. He had called an adult a mean name after all.

"Yup. You were right to tell her to apologize. She really should have, though you shouldn't have called her an old hag. That wasn't very nice and I'll expect better of you in the future, understood?"

"Yes, Paddy." Harry nodded. He knew calling names was bad, but he hadn't been able to help it. The lady was being a big old meanie face and he had been really mad about it.

Ronnie pushed the button for the ground floor and the elevator wooshed downwards slowly, taking them all to the little hallway beyond the lobby.

"The pool is this way." Hermione grinned, pointing to the sign indicating that the pool was just down the hallway a bit. "And the gym, and the snack machines…" She hopped along the tiled hall, jumping each crack and waiting for Remus to put their doorkey into the pool door to unlock it. It was a good idea to have the lock there… it would keep younger children out of danger if they should wander off on their own and try to go swimming.

The pool room was humid and smelt strongly of chlorine. There was a diving board over the deep end and a small twisty slide towards the middle. It looked as though it went from being three feet deep, to five feet deep, and then on to a full twelve feet in the deepest end with buoys along the middle to separate the two varying sections of depth. A smaller round baby pool sat off to one side of the shallow end and a hot tub sat at the other, steaming and already containing a couple of older gentlemen.

"Oooh! Paddy! Paddy! A slide!" Harry exclaimed in absolute joy as they took off their shoes and placed them in a couple of cubbies along with their towels. Remus put the room keys in his shoes. "Can we go down it? Please?"

"Sure thing." Sirius laughed as Harry grabbed his hand and dragged him off towards the slide. He wasn't too worried about the kids going under with their water wings and floaties to keep them above the water, but he wasn't about to take his eyes off any of them for a second. After all, you never knew when a floatie might pop. He slid his own floatie off and set Harry down in front of the ladder to the slide. "Alright, Prongslet. You head up first and I'll be right behind you. We have to go down together, so wait for me."

"Ok." Harry beamed, scaling the ladder without any hesitation. He wasn't the least bit scared of heights. After all, if he wanted to be a professional Quidditch player when he was older, he wasn't allowed to be afraid of heights. And really, there was no reason to be afraid of much when he had his Padfoot with him. Once he reached the top, he stood there, waiting for Padfoot to join him a moment later.

"Well, here we go Harry." Sirius sat down and tugged Harry into his lap, holding onto him tightly. He didn't want him to under and not come back up. "Remember, hold your breath when we get to the bottom in case we go under the water, alright? But don't worry, it'll only be for a second."

"Ok!" Harry laughed, quite prepared for this. He wasn't much of a swimmer, but he did enjoy playing in the fishy pond at him. This would be fun too.

Sirius pushed off and down they went, the wind whipping at their black hair. It wasn't too long before they were hitting the water with a great splash. Harry caught his breath and closed his eyes just in time. He felt himself sink under the water, the sting of it up his nose… and then he was above the surface again, floating quite contently on top of it in his floats and Sirius's arms. "That was fun, wasn't it Harry?"

"Yeah! Can we do it again?"

"In a minute, it's Ronnie and Hermione's turns now." Sirius chuckled, patting Harry on the head and bringing him over to the shallow end so that he could stand better. "Look, here they come!"

Remus had Ronnie on his lap and they shot down the slide fast, splashing when they hit the water, just like Harry and Sirius had. Hermione was waiting anxiously at the bottom of the ladder.

"Whew! That was neat!" Ronnie laughed as Remus brought his over to the shallow end as well.

"You or me?" He asked Sirius, nodding to Hermione.

"Me!" Sirius laughed, getting up quickly. He headed over to the slide, and helped Hermione up the ladder.

Harry watched them go down it, noting that Hermione kept her eyes covered the entire time. When she joined them, she was looking a bit green. "I do not think I would like to go down the slide again very soon. It's way too tall."

"You dun like tall stuff?" Harry asked curiously and Hermione shook her head.

"I like high stuff." Ronnie grinned proudly, receiving a splash to the face. This resulted in a great splashing war that lasted a good fifteen minutes in the shallow end of the pool before Harry was begging for a turn on the slide again. Remus took both him and Ronnie at the same time, keeping one on each of his legs while Sirius and Hermione held what she referred to as a water ballet.

It was past dark before the gang finished up at the pool, the three little ones all yawns, everyone's fingers and toes pruney from being in the water so long.

"I think that's enough for today." Remus stated as he lifted Harry out of the pool and set him on the edge.

"Awww…"

"Well, we've got to get to dinner and then to bed guys. We want to be able to get down to the beach tomorrow, remember? If we don't sleep, we can't go."

"Alright." Hermione nodded, climbing out of the pool and heading for the cubby where the towels were. Once all of them were wrapped tightly in their towels, they trudged back upstairs to the room and changed into their pajamas. They feasted upon room service macaroni and cheese while watching a little bit of the telly before it was time to settle down completely. Hermione spoke to her mother and father on the phone for a couple of minutes, to reassure them that she was perfectly fine.

"Alright you lot, in you get." Sirius smiled, tugging the blankets on the big bed down. Hermione trundled up in her soft pink night gown trimmed with lace, a happy looking blue dinosaur on the front, otter gripped tightly in one hand. She yawned, flopping down on a pillow and hugging her otter close. Harry followed in his train jammies. He laid down beside Hermione and reached his arms up to take his lion from Sirius. Ronnie was last, jumping from the chair beside the bed with a laugh and landing with a thump on top of the other two in his Chudley Cannon night shirt. It was technically Bill's old shirt, but he'd given it to his brother when Fred and George had gotten hold of Ronnie's Cannon jammies. He rolled off of them onto Harry's other side and snatched his teddy bear off the bedside table. Sirius pulled the blankets up over the three of them, tucking it under their chins and smiling. "There now, don't you look all snug." He gave them each a kiss on the forhead and clicked off the light beside the bed, flipping open Harry's music box instead. He'd made absolute certain to pack it. "Good night you three, I love ya."

"Good night."

"Nighty night."

"I love you, Paddy." Harry grinned up at him, reaching his arms out. Sirius gave him a good hug and then kissed him again. Yeah, he was really liking this whole parent-hood type deal.

Yay! Another one! I rather enjoyed writing this one... It has a little bit of extra cute added to it. I hope you enjoyed it as well, and please let me know what you thought of it! I'd love to hear from you!

With lots of loves,

S.Q.O.