Welcome Back James

James breathed a sigh of relief when they finally reached the front stoop of #4 Private drive. His son was in this house and would be back with him and Sev very soon. He just hoped that his son could accept both his parents.

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Harry upon hearing the locks opening acted quickly. He jumped off the bed and began prying up the loose floorboards next to it. He grabbed his father’s old invisibility cloak, pulled Draco to the small space between the desk and the wall, and pushed him into it covering both of them with the cloak praying it covered them completely. It was a tight fit but the two didn’t mind having to be so close to each other. Draco was in the back by the wall with Harry in his lap and their arms wrapped around each other trying to take up as little space as possible.

Just then the door opened and Draco saw what he thought were Harry’s uncle and cousin walk in. The two men were huge and the older of the two had a purple face and bushy mustache. Draco decided to play it safe and cast a silencing spell on him and Harry to make sure even their breathing couldn’t be heard. Seeing the two he wondered how his love had survived with them.

“Where are you boy? Dudley had decided to take part in our fun. You wanted to be with men; well we will show you what it is like to be with real men. You enjoyed our last four times together, come out and we can have even more fun.”

Draco was shocked to hear what the big man had to say. He knew what was being implied and really hoped the man was trying to scare his love and hadn’t really raped the young man in his arms four times. Judging by the way Harry trembled though he knew he was hoping in vein, Harry really had been raped by the man. He tightened his hold on Harry and prayed they were not found. He knew he couldn’t use magic on muggles or else he would end up in Azkaban and then Harry would be alone.

He then noticed how the two men began searching the room when they didn’t see Harry out in the open and tried to make the two of them even smaller. He pulled out his wand suddenly not caring about Azkaban; he would only use it to defend himself and Harry. When Harry’s uncle was in front of them about to reach his hand out and touch them Draco heard the noise of someone coming up the stairs and breathed a sigh of relief, they would have some more time to think of an escape.

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James and the others had just entered the house when he heard what Vernon was saying in an upstairs room. He too figured out what Vernon was talking about and took off up the stairs to save his son with the other three on his heels.

When they entered the small room the first thing he noticed were the two men who were easily bigger than all four of them in the room, though the men were not as tall as Sev and Lucius. The next thing he noticed was his son was nowhere to be seen.

“Where is Harry Potter?” growled Severus from his right. He looked at his lover and noticed the fury in his eyes. He also looked around and saw brownish stains on the floor. He could also smell the scent of blood and sex that hung in the air and felt his eyes well up with tears.

“I was just looking for the boy myself. Who are you and what do you want with him?” Asked Vernon.

“We are his parents.” James said motioning to himself and Severus, “And we are here to take him away from this place.”

It was then both Harry and Draco looked at each other in shock. Draco saw the resemblance between Harry and the stranger with Severus and from the look in his eyes Harry saw it too. Their eyes were drawn back to the scene when Vernon spoke again.

“The boy’s parents are dead. We are the ones with custody of him, we own him and will do with him as we please. You are not taking him.” Said a smug sounding Vernon.

He never expected to be hit with a crucio thrown by Narcissa Malfoy. It was then Lucius threw up a dark mark to make it look like a Deatheater attack and Severus modified the muggles memories to make it so they could give details of an attack, but not the identities of the four of them. They had all gotten tired of waiting and decided to take revenge upon themselves while framing the remaining deatheaters for it. James then stunned the two muggles and called to his son.

“Harry if you are in here come out son. We got to get out of here now before the Aurors come.”

Imagine everyone’s surprise when it was Draco who answered from the two’s hiding place after having removed the silencing charm but still under the invisibility cloak. “How do we know you are not trying to trick us?”

“Harry do you know of my animagus form?” James asked.

“Yes”

With that James transformed into a stag and back again. “Is that enough proof for the two of you?” James asked hoping it was.

With that the pair of stunned teens pulled off the invisibility cloak they were hiding under and looked at the four adults.

“Draco Lucius Malfoy you have a lot of explaining to do.” Draco’s mother practically yelled.

“Narcissa that will have to wait till we get the boys out of here.” Severus said before turning to his son, “Take only what you want to keep as we will never be coming back to this place again.”

Harry was even more stunned when Snape talked to him civilly but did as he was told. He grabbed Hedwig, which James took from him, and went to the loose floorboards and pulled out his photo album, marauders map, wand, and summer homework, which he had already finished.

The others were a bit saddened to see how little the boy owned though Draco wasn’t surprised. Harry had told him everything in the year they had dated and that was the reason he came tonight, as it was the first night he could sneak away.

Seeing Harry had everything they all left the house and walked to then end of the apparation wards. Severus took the belongings out of Harry’s hands and handed them to Draco. “We are going to have to apparate to Hogwarts and as you are the only one of us not allowed to do magic you will have to apparate with someone. Will you trust me enough to get you there safely?”

Harry thought a second and realized he really did trust Snape and nodded.

“Harry I am going to have to hold you close to do this without splinching either of us.” He said before he wrapped his arms around his small son. He had never realized Harry was this small. The thing that saddened him most was that there was no potion to undo the affects of malnutrition, his son would always be this small.

Harry was surprised how safe he felt with Snape. The only other people he felt like that with were Sirius, Remus, and Draco. Though this felt more like the way either Sirius or Remus would hold him. He wrapped his arms around his professor and held on tight not knowing what to expect.

Severus was shocked at the feelings he got when his son wrapped his arms around him. He wished he and James could have more children, but knew that was impossible. After all the years of serving the Dark Lord and all the crucios he and Lucius were both infertile. Oh well there were always grandchildren.

With that thought he apparated to Hogsmede with his son, the other following close behind.

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They were all back at Hogwarts and James had just finished explaining everything to Harry, Severus, the Malfoys, Albus, and Minerva. They had also called Remus and Sirius and the two were there also.

Remus and Sirius had been overjoyed to see their friend was alive, but furious to see the state Harry was in. The two saw him as the child they would never get to have as Werewolves were not allowed to reproduce. The wolf in Remus had even accepted Harry as it’s cub and was fighting to get out and hurt who ever touched his cub. It wasn’t long however before they had called Madam Pomfrey to heal Harry, and then James explained everything.

By the time they had finished it was almost three in the morning and everyone looked like they were ready to fall asleep where they sat. Seeing this Albus invited everyone to stay at Hogwarts for the night, which everyone readily accepted.

Severus led his son and lover back to his quarters in the dungeons. He opened the portrait after giving it the password, “Prongs”, and held it open for the other two to enter.

The rooms were nothing like Harry imagined Snape, his father, living in. There was a sitting room with a fire going. The room was done in cream and navy and had a couch with two chairs facing it with a coffee table in the middle of them. Harry then noticed there was a small kitchen off to the side and four doors that were closed. It was then Snape started showing him and James around, he really needed to find out what he was supposed to call the two of them, he didn’t think he was ready to call them Father or Dad or any other form of those titles.

Severus showed them his lab, the bathroom and the only things left were the two bedrooms. He led them to the smaller of the two and motioned them inside. The room itself was done in blues and greens with a queen-sized bed in the center of it. There was a wardrobe, which was empty and a desk with Hedwig and her cage on it, though she was perched on top of the cage.

“Harry this will be where you sleep. James will be in the room right next to this and I will be on the couch in the living room.” Severus wasn’t sure if James still wanted to be with him after all the time they had been apart. It broke his heart not to share a bed with James, but he would take things at the pace his love was ready for.

Harry was about to protest to Snape having to sleep on the couch when James beat him to it. “I don’t think so Mr. Snape. You will sleep in your bed with me, or I will sleep on the couch.” James said while glaring playfully at Severus. He smiled when he heard Harry let out a small laugh.

“Very well then, we will both be right next door if you need anything.” Severus told his son.

He and James were about to leave when they heard a quiet voice say, “What am I supposed to call you two?”

James answered for them, “Call us whatever makes you comfortable. You may call us father, dad, or if you are not ready to do that then you may call us by our first names.”

They were about to leave when Severus noticed what their son was sleeping in. The shirt was worn, torn, and dirty with bloodstains on it. He knew Harry didn’t leave the Dursley’s with any cloths, so he told him, “Wait here I will bring you something to sleep in, you may also shower if you like before you go to bed.”

That said he led James to the master bedroom. When they had entered he went over to the wardrobe and pulled out two pairs of silk pajama pants for them and a t-shirt for their son. He then tossed one of the pairs of pants and another t-shirt to James and headed back to Harry’s room with the other shirt. He knocked on the door and waited for Harry to open it.

“Here you can use this though it may be a little big. The towels are in the cabinet in the bathroom if you want that shower.” He said as he handed his son the shirt. He got a soft thank you in reply and left to room to go back to James.

As he entered the room he heard the shower turn on and was not surprised Harry had decided to take one. He looked over at the bed and saw that James was laying there watching him and had decided not to wear the t-shirt to bed. Deciding to just wear the pajama pants he changed, climbed into bed, and actually smiled when James rolled over and rested his head on his chest.

“Do you ever think Harry will call us Dad or Father?” James asked him.

“Maybe someday, but not till he is ready. Harry has never had parents and doesn’t know how to act now that he does. He may at some point feel comfortable, but until then we will take things one step at a time.”

He felt James’s head nod and looked down into the blue eyes he had dreamt about for the last 16 years. Leaning down he captured the other man’s lips in a soft kiss, which soon turned more heated. He rolled them both over so he was now on top of the smaller man and felt just how aroused his partner was. Stopping the kiss long enough to throw up a silencing charm he began to grind their erections together relishing in the moans of his partner. All too soon both reached their climax and he rolled back off James and listened as the other man muttered a cleansing spell. He pulled him back into his arms and soon both were asleep.