Disclaimer: As ever, the world of Harry Potter and its inhabitants belong to JK Rowling. And this belongs to Moonsign
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Prison Breaks – A Godfather's Legacy
"Remus, you really should have mentioned it before," Harry said as he climbed off the Knight Bus on rather wobbly legs (no matter how often he rode it, his knees and stomach always rebelled).
Harry hadn't really considered before how much Remus must have been longing for contact with his son. It was stupid, but Harry had been dealing with so many other things, it just hadn't crossed his mind.
Remus had been buzzing with nervous excitement ever since they planned to go and visit the Tonks's. It had created for Harry the rather distressing impression of having a bee fly into his head through his ear and then proceed to batter itself against the inside of his skull in an effort to escape again.
Although the Marauders had lived in Harry's head for a full year following the war without his knowledge, they had been shut off in a distant place at the back of his mind. Now that they had been freed, Remus would be able to effectively hold his son through Harry once again, rather than merely watching him through the filmy gauze separating the Marauders from the living world.
:-I didn't want to be a bother,-: Remus said, and Harry felt him make a concerted effort to calm down as he headed up the path to the Tonks's front door. :-It's enough that you're giving up your privacy and allowing us to squat in your head. It wouldn't be right to ask any more of you.-:
:-Of course it would!-; Harry protested. :-I'm only one person. I have so much to think about I sometimes miss important things. Not only should I have made sure you got to see Teddy, but I am his godfather and I should have made sure that I saw him more often.-:
:-It's not your fault, Harry,-: Sirius put in. :-It's hard being a godfather. Especially under extenuating circumstances. Believe me, I know. And don't worry about Moony. That's just Remus being Remus – eh, love? You say to him, 'Well, if you didn't want us to tie Snivellus to the Hogwarts flagpole dressed in women's underwear and wearing a sign saying 'feel free to laugh at me, I'm God's idea of a joke', you should have said something.' And he says 'I didn't want to be a bother. I thought I'd just mope around and hope you'd notice instead.'-:
:-Consider yourself lucky you don't have a pair of testicles right now, Padfoot,-: Remus said mildly. :-I'm feeling the irresistible urge to neuter a certain mutt.-:
:-You wouldn't,-: Sirius said cheerfully. :-You'd lose out as much as me.-:
:-Ew,-: the Potter family chorused in unison.
:-A little too much information on the sex lives of my father figures, thank you,-: Harry added.
"Harry!" The door to the Tonks's house was flung open before he even had a chance to knock and Andromeda held out her arms to embrace him, her face lit up in welcome. It was still rather disconcerting to see that expression on the familiar heavy-lidded, aristocratic face that Harry had associated only with Bellatrix for so many years. It took a conscious mental shift to convince his instincts that this wasn't someone who came under the heading 'Curse First and Ask Questions Later if There Are Any Intelligible Bits Left'.
"Hey, Andromeda. It's good to see you. How's Teddy?"
"Come inside – here, let me take you coat. Teddy's well. Toddling around chatting away. He's learned a lot of words since you last saw him over summer. He's been asking for you."
