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Tony woke up to soft cotton pressed against his face and tried to remember where he was. He'd awoken many times in the past with people, male and female, wrapped around him, but few were ever clothed. Lifting his hand, Tony reached up and was further confused when the body pressed against him was smaller than he expected, tiny even.

"Pa'to?" A small sleepy voice asked.

Suddenly, everything that had happened the day before came back to him in a rush and Tony slowly tugged Harry down into a more comfortable position. "Hey, sport, are you imitating a monkey there? Or maybe a koala?"

Huge green eyes stared at him for a moment, before they crinkled as the little boy smiled. "Papa!" Harry threw his arms around Tony's throat and hugged him hard.

Tony gave Harry a loud, smacking kiss on the cheek and sat up holding on to Harry. Light flooded the room and Tony groaned as he realized he'd been too tired to close the drapes. "Got to find a way to make the windows dim automatically," he groused.

Harry giggled at him, his fingers tracing the R2D2 on the leg of his pajamas. "It's real? I don't have ta go back there?"

"Nope, never, baby!" Tony ran his fingers through Harry soft hair.

His finger still traced the characters on his pajamas, Harry lowered his eyes. "What if I'm bad, Papa?"

"Then you will have to do one of those time-out things." Tony scrambled to remember what he knew about small children, which wasn't much.

"Even if I do something freaky or abnor'al?"

"Especially not then!" Tony exclaimed, getting up and tossing Harry over his shoulder. "I love freaky and abnormal things!"

"Papa!"

Tony carried his son into the bathroom, where they cleaned up before getting dressed. Happy seemed surprised to see Tony up at nine in the morning but greeted them as Harry walked out holding Tony's hand. Pancakes, eggs, and bacon waited on the table, along with a booster seat for Harry. Settling Harry into the seat, Tony put a pancake on a plate, cutting it into pieces and added a bit of syrup. He pushed it in front of Harry, before putting an egg and two pieces of bacon on a separate plate. He realized Harry hadn't had regular meals for almost 4 years and needed to start with several small meals a day, instead of trying to eat too much.

"Thanks, Happy." Sitting down beside Harry, Tony closed his eyes as he inhaled the cup of coffee sitting in front of him. He sighed. "Perfect. More please?"

Harry giggled and Happy yelped as Tony felt a brush of magic, snapping his eyes open to see his coffee cup had been refilled.

"Wasn't me, Boss," Happy assured him, saluting him with his own full cup.

Tony froze, his eyes searching the room even as his instincts told him there was no threat. The magical residue was familiar and Tony delved deep into his memory to identify its source. The image of a small creature, with large eyes and wiggly ears came to mind and Tony grinned. He'd forgotten all about house-elves. The Potters and the Black families had owned numerus of the little workers and Tony was always appreciative of their help. Lily had preferred to do things on her own and only rarely asked the Potter elves for help.

Tony frowned. Why didn't the Potter house-elves protect James, Lily, and Harry that October night? They should have been able to help! And why hadn't any of them protected Harry from that bitch and her walrus?

Tony absently ate his eggs, trying to remember the little house-elf James had named when he'd been just a little older than Harry—"Taffy!"

A soft ipop/i was the only warning he received and the small house-elf, clad in a worn red toga, threw itself at Tony's leg. "Master Tony! Youse remembered!"

Harry slid off his seat and peered around Tony's chair to get a look at Taffy, who had a strangle hold on Tony's knee. "Papa, whose that?"

Taffy gasp and began to bounce, jiggling Tony's leg. "Youse got Master Harry! Oh, thank you, Master Tony!"

"Taffy!" Tony yelped, halting the bouncing as he turned around and drew Harry forward to stand between his legs. "Harry, this is Taffy, who was your dad James' personal house-elf." Tony motioned Taffy closer. "Taffy probably remembers you as a baby, Harry."

Taffy bobbed her head excitedly. "Taffy remembers, Master Tony!"

Pausing to chug some coffee, Tony kept his arm around Harry's waist as Taffy looked between them. "Can you tell us what happened to you and the other Potter house-elves when Lily and James were killed?"

Taffy's demeanor changed immediately, her shoulders and ears drooping. "The morning of Samhain, Hoggywarty Wizard Dumbles came to Potter manor and ordered all the Potter elves to go to Hoggywarty to work, as he were becoming Master Harry's keeper. I's Master James personal elf, so I's hid and saw Wizard Dumbles put up ward on manor to keep us out."

Tony nodded, trying to work out the implications. "And you couldn't go directly to James due to the Fidelious, but why didn't you protect Harry?"

"Wizard Dumbles put bad magic on Master Harry so I's couldn't help." Taffy tugged hard at her ear. "I's been hiding at Hoggywarty."

Tony rubbed a hand over his face, glanced at Happy who was shaking his head, and took a deep breath as his mind put all the information he'd gathered in a logical order. It all came back to Harry and what Lily described as Dumbledore's unhealth obsession with him. He factored in the illegal imprisonment of Sirius and how that impacted Harry—

"That son of a bitch! He knew James and Lily were going to be attacked. The motherfucker!" Tony was livid. "Taffy, you are staying with us from now on."

"Papa!"

Harry looked scandalized at his language and Tony smirked, ignoring Happy's laughter. "No saying those words until you're thirty, son!" He tapped his phone. "JARVIS?"

"Good morning, Sir."

"Morning, J, start me a list of the things we need to do today." Tony watched as Taffy led Harry toward bedroom to wash up. "For Gringotts: Have Harry take a linage test; we need to see what the audit on his inheritance shows; check on the progress of Sirius' case—"

"Serious?" Happy interrupted with a puzzled look.

"Sirius Black, Harry's godfather," Tony clarified. "Think stars and constellations – Black family names it's kids after them."

Happy just shook his head as Tony paused to suck down half of his third cup of coffee, "Jarvis, add making sure all the custody documents in both worlds for Harry and myself are complete and filed; the documentation of what that—woman and her family did to Harry in the right hands; add Taffy to the vaults she'll need to supply the houses; have Gringotts warders set anti-Apparation and whatever protective fields they can over the penthouse and the Malibu house; and get a magical tutor for me and Happy."

Harry and Taffy wandered out, Harry immediately climbing into Tony's lap. "Taffy, you are in charge of the penthouse, keeping it clean, our meals, and everything Harry needs. Harry and I will need appropriate clothing and robes as well"

Taffy bounced before giving him a curtsy. "Yes, Master Tony."

Tony took a minute to gather his thoughts. "Do you think any of the other Potter house-elves would want to leave Hogwarts, Taffy? And can we do it without alerting Dumbledore?"

Taffy nodded and snapping her fingers cleared the dishes off the table, before popping away.

Tony grinned and Harry watched with wide eyes, his fingers curled around Tony's arm. "Okay, Jarvis, add to the list – buy the floor below us to be converted into a two-floor penthouse. Offer up to 25% over market value."

"Of course, Sir."

Tony stood and switched Harry to his hip. "Okay, lots to do today!"

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