Mirkys Drabble Chain

Title: Drabble 30 - The Stork

Pairing: Harry.

Fandom: Harry Potter Xover Twilight

Warning: Gen, Major AU, potential future One-Shot.

A/N: Drabble 29 is Incomplete so it wont be posted. If ever. for the curious it was to be Neville/Riddick but it isn't quite working.

 

It was an affair fueled by long sleepless nights and a booze fest of celebration. The muggle bar had been convenient and James had left early in the evening for some reason or another leaving Lily surrounded by colleagues who didn't question the young Auror why she left the bar with a stranger of a man - a muggle at that.

A single fumbled night of drunken passion couldn't be kept a secret as nine months later a child was born. One with a darker complexion and features not at all like her doting husband who she prayed would be the father. Lily was quickly handed a divorce with nothing to show for her years of devotion. She had lied, bore a child not of her husbands, and being a muggleborn she had no friends when it broke to the public.

Humiliated, stressed, and forced to resign her post or be demoted she was left with little savings. She had no choice but to return to the muggle world and live with her only remaining relatives until she came up with a plan and a job. A screaming child was not wanted, not by her or the Dursley's so she did the sensible thing.

She got rid of the cause of her problems.

Simple.

With the use of a stork, some questionable magic, Lily placed her sleep induced child in a wicker basket secured with several warm blankets and a quick spell held a blue sheet under and over the bundle and knotted at the four corners allowing the stork to carry it with ease.

Magic was a curious thing and as the stork soared high through the air well above the clouds it swooped low when it reached the sea only to ascend once land was in view. Its mission was simple, return the infant to its blood parent. Coming to a sleepy town the stork circled a clearing catching the attention of the napping wolves until ears were perked at the wail of a child and wary eyes followed the bird.

A great beast of a wolf changed into a man uncaring of his nudity. The bird seeing its chance gently swooped down wary of the rising four legged beasts but its piercing gaze was on the man, the muggle. Lowering the basket as gently as could be the stork opened its mouth wide letting the knotted ends slip from its beak.

Purpose complete it left as silently as it arrived.

The wailing continued and the man unable to stand such a cry moved forward. Soon another wolf shifted followed by another while the others inched closer ready to defend. "It couldn't possibly... Billy?"

Billy knelt on the grass and the knot unraveled itself with a simple touch to the fabric. Pulling aside the faded fabric he could feel the magic touching and caressing him and tugged at a part of him that had him gasping. Wanting to pull back he forced himself to remain and with shaky hands Billy flicked a simple lock making half the panel open just enough for the muffled wails to seem much louder, more distressed.

The strings on his heart tugged and moving quickly the basket was opened completely revealing a red faced child hungry and wet. The smell of urine and bowel was strong but Billy removed the cloth nappy that surprisingly held it all in. Using one of the fleece blankets he wiped at the boys bottom before holding him closer ignoring the questions flung at him as all of the pack transformed to their human guise.

A child... a babe... the flailing limbs and hungry scared screams had tears gathered at his eyes and without shame he allowed them to fall because he knew what that tug at his soul meant. This child was his. Brought from the heavens, swaddled in magic, was a precious gift and he swore to protect his bundle of joy with all he had.

One of the men beside him searched through the basket finding a slip of paper between the fold with one word, "Harry?" Billy's eyes swiveled to the man, "I think that's his name, Harry."

Wrapping a clean blanket the deepest color of burgundy around his son Billy told one of his pack members to run and retrieve him a bottle and a clean diaper. Pressing his nose against his child’s ear he hummed an old lullaby and soon the infant made hiccup sounds before being lulled to sleep in a way an alpha could do to young and this child carried the shifter gene.

Pride.

A warm bottle and clean diaper arrived and expertly Billy fastened it around the infant as Harry suckled the nipple like a starving cub he introduced the boy, "Harry Black, our newest member to the pack."

Confused but unwilling to question their alpha the pack shifted and howled to the hidden moon accepting the young cub into the fold.