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Silver Asters	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Snape/Remus Views: 4868 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter franchise so I'm not making any money writing this. If I did, Ginny would have died instead of Fred.

Chapter List
- 12
- 13
Title: Silver Asters
Pairing: snupin, LuciusxNarcissa, AndromedaxTed, various implied relationships
Fandom: Harry Potter
Summary: A little more than four years after Severus and Remus' boys are born, comes their next challenge: School…
A/n: The title come from the meaning of Asters, Patience…
For Staar who wanted sequels to A Godfather's Duty...

Chapter 12

They let Harry and Cora go about their usual holiday habits, with the exception of insisting that they finish their more difficult holiday homework after returning home. As well as Cora teaching Teddy brewing and Harry scrubbing the cauldrons. Since it was a lesson every three days, it was only perhaps two cauldrons on average a week.

It wasn’t until three days before solstice that they let the first real punishment fall.

Harry and Cora were required to stay inside with Severus scrubbing cauldrons that were left from his last-minute orders from St. Mungos. Cora had overseen a potion lessons for her younger siblings and Harry had scrubbed the cauldrons but this was the first punishment that they were going to be truly upset about.

Sera, Nemia, Teddy and Fili were allowed to go with Remus and Severus to choose a tree.

It was the first time that Harry and Cora weren’t allowed to go with them to choose the tree.

Even when they celebrated their first solstice, they had taken them to pick the tree, even if they were too young to remember.

It was too late to write lines and while their hearts had been in right place, they put themselves and others in danger.

Severus still had yet to broach the idea of keeping the children at Merrivale, while Remus and only Remus returned to Hogwarts.

Severus could have chosen to use his timeturner to teach their children as well as his students but he didn’t want to stretch himself. It didn’t help that Remus still hadn’t given his back.

It may have been twenty years since he was a First Year but he was in his own way, sulking.

Sera tugged on his hand, “Papa, Teddy asked you a question?”

“He did?” Severus frowned.

Remus gave him a penetrating look that said ‘we’ll talk about this later’, “He asked if you liked his tree.”

Severus turned his attention to the tree his Metamorphmagus son was indicating impatiently. “Yes, it is a fine tree. Your dad will have to shrink it…”

Fili snorted.

Every year they picked a very large tree that had to be shrunk to fit in their drawing room. It kept the younger trees from being cut down too soon and Merrivale did have a bit of forest even if it was in Dartmouth. His ancestors must have anticipated generations of children wanting Yule trees to celebrate solstice.

Severus cut down the tree while Remus used his charms to shrink it just enough so their star fit between the tree top and the drawing room ceiling as well as levitating it back.

Their girls Nemia and Sera had grown too independent to climb all over them but Teddy hadn’t. Fili occasionally wanted to be carried but usually only when he was tired.

The star tree topper was a relic from Remus’ childhood, his mother had been a Muggle and had died when he was in Hogwarts.

Having grown up with Mrs. Evans’ angel, it wasn’t odd to have a tree topper. They were raised Halfbloods and well, this tiny concession was understandable.

They returned to the house, stripped out of their winter outerwear before Remus conducted the tree into the drawing room.

They found hot drinks like chocolate, coffee, tea and cider waiting for them along with biscuits as usual.

XooooooX

Remus glanced at Severus, before he set about to shrink their tree a little bit more and set it in the self-locking/stabilizing charmed stand. “You should go fetch Cora and Harry, they’ve been punished enough. They can help decorate the tree.”

It might have been a bit too harsh to not let them help choose their family tree but Remus wanted to try to ensure that they were never so reckless again.

They were a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin; Cora should ‘know better’ and Harry should ‘want to preserve his own skin’ to quote stereotypes.

If Dudley and Greg wanted to be reckless and rush off to promote their version of justice, fine. They just should leave Harry and Cora out of it. Even if Harry protecting another student proved somewhat that he was growing beyond the effects of his trauma at the hands of those nasty muggles.

Cora was sulking and Harry wilted when they appeared to help decorate the Family tree.

Severus looked like his spine had turned to stone, he was so stiff.

Remus worried that he was not dealing with the emotional blows that they had suffered this year.

Perhaps, he needed to see Ted over the holidays just as much as Harry did…

Teddy and Nemia were far more into decorating their tree then Fili and Sera were, Teddy was bouncing like a jackrabbit again while Nemia was vibrating with quiet excitement as usual.

Fili acted put out about being pulled away from his art for this while Sera acted as if she’d rather be brewing. But even they had excitement in their eyes, like Severus they seemed to have acquired his issue with being honest with their emotions.

Remus watched Nemia hurried over to grab Cora and Harry’s hands, pulling them towards the tree.

The ornaments were a mixture of the Lupins, the Howells, the Evans and the Princes as well as a few they had received over the years as gifts or the children made.

Remus remembered making clothespin reindeer because St. Nicolas in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe had reindeer, then there the Christmas balls that they made using fabric scraps from his mother’s quilting that were pressed into odd shapes with a popsicle stick before being painted over with glue that had glitter mixed in, paper birds made from his hand prints, the paper snowflakes she cut out, garlands of popcorn and cranberries. He’d taught his kids, all of them to make some of these to go with the ornaments that he and Sev had from their childhoods.

Instead of electric lights or real candles, Remus used the same fairy lights charm that Filius had used on the Hogwarts solstice trees.

The fancy glass ornaments that everyone had, were charmed unbreakable and placed near the top of the tree so they would be out of reach of small hands.

Even Teddy had learned by now not to try to climb the tree, when all else failed they called in Dora who used her Metamorphmagus magic to put him in a warded square that functioned as a timeout stool in his corner. It of course had to be recast once in a while because it was linked to a muggle kitchen timer and interaction with non-Metamorph magic users who set the timer usually degraded the ward.

Remus absently used his wand to place the glass balls on the tree with sticking charms of course, he had over eleven years of parenting under his belt thanks to his blood adoption of Cora.

“Dad!” Teddy said abruptly.

Remus chuckled, “Yes Teddy.”

“It’s Star time!”

“I see…” Remus mused, the star came just before the fairy lights after all. “So, whose turn it is this year?”

Before they had played stone, knife and parchment to decide but now that they were all in school the qualification changed. In August, they had declared that since all of them would be in school that whoever had the highest marks would be picked.

“Oh…” Teddy sulked.

“It’s between Cora and I.” Sera said smugly.

Of course, it was…

“Well then, I suppose you’ll have to decide how to determine who has the honour.”

Cora sighed, “As childish as it is, we’ll have to play for it.”

Sera worried her lip with her teeth in concentration and held her hand behind her back.

“Alright, one. Two. Three. Go!” Remus said chuckling.

Their two elder girl twins had determined looked that clearly were learned from Severus.

Harry cheered on Cora, while Nemia backed her own twin. Fili was sulking because his marks weren’t high enough in comparison while Teddy bounced his support with his glances from one to the other.

Remus expected Cora to win but surprised when Sera pumped her fist, “Stone smashes knife, I win!”

Cora hugged her, “I thought I would out think you but you proved me wrong, go on. You worked hard.”

Remus held out his arms and Sera leapt into them before he levitated her up with the star from Teddy.

Sera methodically glanced at the tree trying to determine the best placement before setting the family heirloom down gently. Grinning to herself, Sera called down, “I’m ready to come down now.”

Like Severus, Sera wasn’t that fond of heights but she had worked hard to earn the right to place the star.

The children returned to their refreshment while Remus cast the Fairy lights to make the tree glow, satisfied he turned back to Severus only to note that his mate was once more lost in thought.

He sighed, he was definitely going to need to have Ted arrange a session with Severus when he came to see Harry.

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?
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