Selenophile // Marauders

|136| Babysitting

They both froze as they slowly let go of each other.

"Oh — er — I'm sorry," mumbled Riley. "I didn't mean to—"

Will kissed her back. Riley giggled quietly, then saw Will smiling.

***

1st of October, 1980

Riley and Will grew closer, even though it had only been four days.

She arrived at the Potter Manor by using floo powder, then walked to the living room. She realized she was the last one to arrive there.

"All right," said Lily. "I think we are ready to go."

"Yes," said James. "We'll be back... by morning, I suppose." He nodded and avoided looking at them. Harry sat in Sirius' lap on the ground, and Peter looked at James and Lily rather suspiciously.

"I didn't think you'd be doing missions after Harry," muttered Sirius. "Y'know..."

"Me neither," agreed Lily. "But we have to do something, right?"

"Right," said James. He squatted next to Harry, bopping him on his little nose as the green-eyed baby giggled.

"Where are you going?" asked Peter abruptly.

"We'll let you know if anything goes wrong, but I don't think we should tell anyone, just to be safe," said James. Peter nodded disappointedly.

"Stay safe," said Riley. The two nodded, then disappeared from the fireplace. The rest had arrived to babysit Harry when Lily and James were out on a mission.

As Lily and James left, Harry's eyes darted around the room for a moment. Remus raised his eyebrows, knowing what was about to come.

"Oh no—" he mumbled.

"What?" asked Sirius in confusion. But Harry had started crying.

"What do we do?!" asked Remus as he looked at Harry as if he were a creature. "How the fuck do we stop him from crying?"

"Don't cuss around Harry!" said Peter.

"He doesn't know what it means!"

"Stop screaming! Harry is screaming enough!" yelled Riley.

"You stop yelling, then!" said Sirius.

"So mature, Black."

Peter's eyes widened. "Er — hug him? Or swing him around?"

"What?" said Sirius. "I'm afraid I'll crush his bones when I hug him!"

"Cut the shit!" yelped Remus. "You won't crash his bones!"

Sirius quickly gave Harry to Remus, who froze for a moment. He stared at Harry, who was still crying.

"Why are you giving him to me?!"

"You stop him if you're so clever..."

"Again, so mature," said Riley quietly. Remus slightly swung him around in his arms, but Harry didn't stop crying. He tried softly putting his hand on his back.

"Nope, I suck at this," said Remus. He gave Harry to Riley.

"Moony — what the fuck?!" cried Riley. "I'm not good with babies!" Riley loved Harry, she loved babysitting him — when he wasn't crying. She tried the same thing as Remus, but it didn't work. Harry was eager to cry his eyes out.

"This is so fucking dumb!" said Riley. "He doesn't stop crying!"

"Again, don't cuss while you're around Harry!" repeated Peter. "Give him to me!"