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Going On	By : Relevant_Peach Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 6814 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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They each made their respective phone calls, but came up empty. Ron and Hermione flood through. “I’ve got the on-call Aurors starting to look. Let’s make a list of all of the places he knows”

“He’s nearly ten, Ron. He knows a lot of places”

“It’s a start, Harry”

The rest of the morning was a revolving door of people. They checked Andy’s cottage, Grimmauld Place, even, when they started getting desperate, Hogwarts. Harry was sitting at the kitchen table, a ballpoint pen in hand, making a list of every place that Teddy had ever seen. One by one, someone Apparated there, checked for his magical signature, apparated back in increasing defeat and panic.

Harry was sitting so still, as though if he moved too quickly, he’d break. Severus understood the feeling. He himself was a mass of tension, terrified that they won’t find Teddy. He was worried about a nine year old boy alone in the world, but he was also worried about how Harry might react if they don’t find him. We’ll find him, he told himself firmly. The alternative was unthinkable.

“Did anyone check Bill’s?” Harry asked suddenly. Nobody had. “I think he might be there.”

“Why, Harry?” Hermione asked.

“I dunno. He likes Bill. I always wondered if he felt drawn to him because of Bill’s Lycanthopy. I just have a feeling”

“Then what are we waiting for, Harry? Your feelings aren’t usually wrong” Hermione leapt to her feet, and just as quickly, fell to her knees. “Oh” she said in a small voice.

“What ‘oh’?” Ron asked suspiciously, the voice of a man who’s had two previous children.

“I don’t think I’ll be going with” Hermione said tightly. “My water just broke”

Harry kissed her forehead soundly. “Go. Give the new one a kiss for me, I’ll be by…I’ll be by” She and Ron bundled off through the floo to St. Mungo’s, and Charlie gave a longing look after them. “Charlie, go” Harry said. “You haven’t been here for the birth of any of them yet, and this one’s your Godchild. Go”

“I don’t want to leave you to-“

“I’m fine. Go. The Auror’s are doing what they can. I’ll find him. I’ll bring him home. Then we’ll come and kiss the newest Weasley” Harry hugged him and muttered “Thanks, Charlie” and he was off, leaving Harry, Draco and Severus.

“Someone needs to stay here” Harry said. “In case Teddy comes home” his voice cracked a little when he said ‘home’, but he swallowed and continued. “I need someone to side-along me”

Draco stood and held out his arm, but Severus interrupted. “Harry. I want to go”

For a moment, Harry’s face tightened, and Severus thought he’d reject his request, but then he nodded. “Fine. Dray, you’ll stay?”

“Are you sure, Harry?” Draco asked, giving Severus a bit of a hard look himself.

“Yeah. I just want to find him” They left the house, and cleared the wards, and then they were travelling through the dark. Severus had only been to Shell Cottage once before, and they ended up standing on a beach, quite a distance from Bill’s house.

Severus removed his wand, muttered “Point me Teddy Lupin” and his wand twisted and pointed away from the cottage. Harry was off and running down the beach before Severus had a chance to say anything. With a sigh, he followed, not running as quickly as Harry, but, in his terror for Teddy’s safety, he wasn’t far behind. Harry’s feet were pounding against the sand, struggling to gain purchase and suddenly he came to a halt, one hand reaching out in entreaty.

“Teds, oh gods, my Teddy, thank Merlin you’re okay!” Harry cried.

“Don’t come here!” Teddy called. He looked impossibly little, sitting on a rock in a little cove, facing towards the sea. Severus felt his heart give a little leap. Teddy looked a little damp and rumpled, and cold, but otherwise unharmed.

“Teddy, love, please, come with me and we’ll talk. I’m so sorry that you felt so alone. I’ll make it better. I’ll do better, or we’ll let you move in with someone who’s better at taking care of you” Harry had fallen to his knees and was pleading with the boy. “I was so worried about you”

“Just leave me alone!” Teddy screeched. “Why can’t you just leave me alone?”

“Because he loves you” Severus called. “Teddy, you don’t have the family that you should have. You should have your Mum and Dad, and your Gran, and Uncle Harry coming by on weekends to fill you with sugar and take you flying. But what you have is Harry. And he loves you so much”

“Shut up! You don’t understand anything. None of you understand anything. I’ll hurt you if you come closer” Teddy was trembling, his face twisted in anger. He was going to fall into the bloody water, Severus realized. He took a step towards the boy, and felt the unmistakable sensation of a binding hex. Falling to the sand, he thought to himself I believe we are well and truly fucked.

Harry regarded the boy for a long time. “Very well” he said. Severus couldn’t move his head, but through the corner of his eye, he saw Harry settle, cross-legged onto the sand.

“W-what are you doing?”

“You don’t want to come with me, you don’t want me to come closer. You’re obviously upset, so I’ll wait until you figure out what you want, and then I’ll try to give it to you” Harry said evenly.

“I want you to go!”

“Do you, Ted? I think you’ve felt alone for a while. I was a little older than you when my Godfather, the person who’d agreed to take me into his care, was killed in a battle at the Ministry. I was so angry, and I’ve never in my life felt so alone. I imagine you feel a lot like that. The person who’s supposed to keep you safe…well, I can’t, can I? That’s got to feel pretty scary. And you’ve lost so much, so many of people who ought to be here to love you. The night that Sirius died, I got really angry, and I wrecked Dumbledore’s office. And he fed me a lemondrop, the barmy old bastard, and sent me off to my bed. And I sat there, feeling so alone, just wanting someone there to try to understand me” Harry gave Teddy the most loving smile. “I don’t presume to know what you want, Teds, but I love you so much, that I’m happy to sit here with you until you figure it out”

They sat there for a long time, until the tide started to come in. The waves lapped at Harry’s pantsleg, and still he sat, quiet, shivering a little as the wind blew cold. Teddy didn’t say a word, but he was watching the waves, and watching Harry. “You’re getting wet” he finally said. Harry nodded. “You look cold” Teddy said, after a few more moments.

“A little”

“Why don’t you get up and move?”

“Because you’re still here. I won’t leave you”

“Don’t be stupid, Harry, get up” Teddy said in irritation. The waves were covering both of his legs now.

“You first” Harry said. A younger Harry might have said that sentence mockingly, or with the cocksure certainty of someone who knew that the other would blink first. This Harry had none of that in his tone.

“I don’t want you to drown”

“I know that. I think you’re tired, and cold, and you’d like someone to help you figure out why you’re so angry all the time. I can be that someone, if you like. But it’s your choice, Teddy. I’ll sit here until the waves cover my head, if that’s what it takes to prove to you that I’m going to be here for you. I don’t have magic anymore, and I know that scares you, and makes you think that I’m not able to take care of you properly. But here’s the thing…All of the things that I did when I was in school? None of those were because I was a powerful Wizard, or because I was smarter than anybody else. I accomplished things because I cared. I cared about protecting people, and I cared about making people safe, and I cared about making a world that was worth living in, for the people that I loved. And there’s nobody in the whole world that I love more than you. If I could defeat Voldemort, when he was older, and smarter, and more powerful than me, I believe that I can convince you that I’ll keep you safe.” Harry gave Teddy a beatific smile as the waves lapped higher and Teddy considered this.

And then suddenly, with a sob, Teddy threw himself off his rock, and sloshed through the rising waves, and he was in Harry’s lap, arms thrown around his Godfather. “Help me” he wept. “Help me, Harry”

“Of course” Harry said, placing a kiss on Teddy’s forehead. “Well done, sweetheart, you’ve been so brave.”

They were a ridiculous trio, heading back to Bill and Fleur’s. Teddy couldn’t figure out how to undo the spell that petrified Severus, and so Harry picked him up and carried him in his arms. Teddy was hanging from Harry, still sniffling, while Harry murmured comforting things to the boy. As they finally approach Shell Cottage, Severus was mortified. Bill came running out of the door. “What’s happened?” he cried, frightened.

“We’re all fine.” Harry assured them. “Can you cast finite on Severus, Bill?” Bill complied, and Severus’ frozen muscles relaxed. Harry set him down, but not before nuzzling at Severus’ neck a little, and if Harry didn’t realize that they’re going to discuss that later on, then he wasn’t as smart as Severus thought he was.
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