Welcome Back James

The Malfoys had gone back to their manor a couple of days after the trip to Diagon Alley leaving James, Severus, and Harry some time alone to get to know each other. So far the three had just spent time talking about Harry’s childhood and the two parents were ready to kill the Dursleys. They had also spent some time telling Harry about James’s parents, who contrary to popular belief were still alive and had no idea James was as well. They found out that James’s parents had been fighting for custody of Harry, but had been denied as the Dursleys were younger and had a son his age. They had been forbidden to even have contact with their grandson, though none of them could figure out why.

James had been trying to reach his parents since he had gotten back and was beginning to wonder if the two were ever going to come back. Severus had kept in touch with them over the years and had told James that they had some business out of town, but would be back any day now.

The Potters had known about the relationship and had been extremely surprised when James and Lily had married instead of Severus and James. They didn’t understand as they knew their son loved Severus. Eventually James had told them that Sev was a Deatheater and it all made sense to them why he would move on. They had apologized when they found out Sev was a spy and had treated him like they would their own son since. They often regretted that James had never known the truth.

Severus and James had also told Harry about the Snape family andwho they were. Severus had been the youngest of ten, which Harry found funny as he was always making fun of Ron’s big family. The Snapes had always been in Ravenclaw or Gryffindor and had been furious when Sev was put into Slytherin. They had disowned him at the age of 15 and moved to Spain, which was where they had originated from, never allowing any of their children or their children’s children to return to Hogwarts. He had been taken in by Albus from that time on and Albus had paid for his schooling. They told how he had taken the mark so there could be a spy on the inside and how Albus was furious the boy he saw as a son would put himself into that kind of danger.

They had also had Ron over a couple of times and Albus had asked Dobby to go to the cottage James and Severus had lived in before the misunderstanding and make sure it was in order as the James wanted his son and lover to live there for the rest of the summer. They had moved in a couple of days ago and Dobby had begged to stay with them and serve their family. He now worked for them and they paid a gallion more than Albus had.

As it were James and Harry were sitting with Ron at the coffee table going over the boys’ homework while Severus was at his desk working on lesson plans. He was enjoying listening to his lover and son trying to explain DADA to Ron. He was brought out of his musings when the flames turned green signaling they had someone trying to call them. They all looked up expecting to see Molly Weasley asking if Ron was coming home for lunch when Victoria Potter’s head came into view.

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Victoria instantly saw Severus sitting at his desk and smiled at him, not seeing the other three in the room.

“There you are Severus, I was wondering if you would ever come back to this place and was surprised when I couldn’t find you in your rooms at Hogwarts. I just thought I would call and let you know we are back and see how things are going.” Severus knew what she really wanted as this had become routine over the past six years.

“Yes I have them if you and Harold want to come through.” He told her and had to laugh as her face lit up.

“I will just go and get him and we will be right through.” She said as she pulled her head from the flames.

James looked at his lover and couldn’t help but ask, “What do you have for her?”

“This has been happening since Harry came to school.” He said as he pulled a small box from his desk and handed it to James. “I give her a new one of these every summer.”

James opened the box and stared in shock as he saw all the pictures inside. He felt his son look over his shoulder and study the contents.

“How is it I never knew about this?” He heard his son ask.

“I was not a Slytherin for nothing you know.” Sev said smirking at their son.

Ron stared in shock at all the pictures. There were pictures of Harry and his friends studying in the library, flying, playing quittich, and all sorts of things.

“You know professor, had I not known you were his father and likely doing this for his grandparents I would find this really creepy.” Ron said there had to be at least a hundred pictures in there.

Severus just laughed and looked at the three on them. “ Victoria said if she couldn’t be near her Grandson then she would have to find another way to watch him grow up. I was the one she suckered into helping her.”

Just then two people stumbled from the fire place.

“Well mate, I see where you get you floo abilities from.” Ron said as he watched the two people get off the floor.

It was then Victoria and Harold saw the other three occupants for the first time.

“Hi Mum.” Was all James had time to say before she fainted into her husband’s arms. “Well I guess we could have expected that.”

“James, is that really you?” Harold asked looking at who he hoped was his son.

James nodded and stood to help his dad put his mum on the couch. When they had gotten her situated he was pulled into his dad’s arms and had the life squeezed out of him.

When he was finally let go he saw his dad had tears in his eyes and Severus had revived his mum. He didn’t get any time to react before he was pulled into her arms and almost strangled again.

“How is this possible?” Harold asked as his wife released their son.

They all sat as James explained everything about how he had been held prisoner. He then went on to explain how Lily had never been Harry’s mother and that he had carried him. He told them the reasons they had done things this way and that Severus was Harry’s biological father.

“And then Albus told us where Harry was, we went and got him, and he has been with us since.” He said finally finishing with the long tale.

It was at that point Victoria and Harold began searching the room for their grandson as they hadn’t realized he had been there. They found him sitting on a couch with his father and were about to give him a hug when Severus stood in front of them.

“Both of you will calm down now as I like my son being able to breath. I know how your hugs go when you are excited and I don’t want my son strangled like yours was.” They knew he was joking, but still listened and clamed before they gave their grandson a hug for the first time since he had been a baby.

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The rest of the day was spent with Harry getting to know his grandparents and them telling him embarrassing stories about some of the things his parents had done when they were younger. He and Ron had laughed hysterically when they told about the first time they had walked in on the two making out. They laughed even harder when they saw how the two colored at this. Before James’s parents left they had set up a time to have the dinner with their family.

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Time went fast and soon it was the day of Harry’s birthday. It had been decided his father would be the one to take him to test for his apperation license while his dad stayed to make sure everything was ready for the surprise party. (Harry just thought they were going to celebrate his birthday just the three of them.)

He passed the test with no problems and Severus told him there were some things he needed to pick up in Diagon Ally as long as Harry didn’t mind taking the time to do that. Harry of course didn’t mind and gladly went with this father.

Their first stop had been the apothecary where they picked up the ingredients Severus had been low on. They finished quickly and pulled out the list of things James had needed. It had taken them until almost noon to get everything and Severus had been told to keep Harry out until 1 so he decided to buy something he had wanted to ask his son to help him pick out.

He ushered Harry into jewelry store and asked him if he would mind helping him find an engagement ring for James. Harry happily agreed and soon the two were searching. They had been looking for almost twenty minutes when Severus saw the one he wanted. It happened to be their son’s birthstone and he found that fitting. When he asked Harry what he thought he was happy to find out his son liked it as well. After purchasing the ring they decided to head back to The Leakey Cauldron so they could floo home.

They were almost there when they ran into someone Severus thought he would never see again.

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Severus looked in shock when he saw his oldest brother, Darien. Darien had always been the meanest of all his siblings because he was the heir and would be head of their line someday. Darien was constantly beating on Severus when he was little and had no problem practicing curses on him.

Well things were different now, and Severus was not going to let these things happen again, especially in front of his son.

“Well, well, well if it isn’t the traitor to the family name. Tell me, how is it on the dark side little brother?” Severus had to fight the urge to pull his wand on the man.

“For your information I haven’t ever been on the dark side.” He sneered while subconsciously stepping in front of Harry incase any curses were thrown.

“Right, you were always dark, we all knew it, the first to end up in Slytherin. Mum and Dad had never been so heartbroken in all their lives. To have their own flesh and blood turn dark. Such a disgrace.”

“You are more of a disgrace than he is.” Severus heard a forceful voice come from behind him. He recognized the tone and knew that his brother was in for it. Harry had only used that tone on Draco when the two were enemies and he was about to curse him.

“So you have to have a child fight your battles now do you.” Darien sneered. Severus was surprised when a tall boy about Harry’s age laughed and walked up behind his brother. It was obvious this boy was Darien’s son.

Severus couldn’t handle it any more. “You leave my son out of this.” He was not going to let anyone talk bad about his child.

“Your son? Kind of pathetic isn’t he?” Darien had the nerve to turn up his nose at the sight of Harry.

“You know, that is what Voldemort said right before I finished him off too.” Harry said while smirking at his father. They both had to fight the urge to laugh when they saw the looks of shock cross Darien and his son’s faces.

“You’re Harry Potter?” Asked his cousin.

“Yes, as a matter of fact I am. Now if you will excuse us we have to be getting home before dad decides to kill us.” With that they two pushed passed the stunned pair.

When they out of hearing distance Severus reached out and put his arm around his son. “You know, maybe there is a little Slytherin in you after all.”

“Dray says that all the time.” Harry said while smirking at him.

“And just how is it you get away with calling him that? He never lets anyone call him by a nickname.” Severus knew this for a fact as he had tried to call his godson by a few in the past.

“You will just have to wait and find out wont you.” Harry responded with a mischievous glint in his eye. “I will demonstrate the next time I see him.”

“Why do I have a bad feeling about this?” Severus asked as he stepped into the fire place to floo home. He always went first as he found neither his lover nor son could floo without needing to be caught by someone on the other end.

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He didn’t realize just how soon he would find out how his son did it. Like all the times before he caught his son when he arrived home and the two went outside to find James. There they Draco and his parents, Blaise, the Weasleys minus Percy, Remus and Sirius, and Harold and Victoria.

After everyone wished Harry a happy birthday he looked at his father who was standing next to his dad and mouthed ‘watch.’ James looked at his partner with a raised eyebrow and Sev quickly filled him in as the Malfoy parents listened. They all watched as Harry and Draco talked and Harry used the nickname Dray. They all had to laugh when Draco was about to scold his smaller lover, but was cut off when Harry kissed him senseless. They laughed even harder when the other young people there started whistling and cat calling the two.

It was then James said, “So he does exactly what I had to do to you when I first started calling you Sev.” That got everyone going as Severus made a grab for James, who quickly sidestepped him and shot off to hide behind Sirius. He made to chase him when he heard a groan of frustration come from his godson.

“You mean I will just someday get used to your son calling me Dray?” He said while glaring at the potions master.

“No, you will just figure out that he isn’t going to stop and it is best not to waste your time trying to make him.” He had to stop himself from laughing when his godson’s face fell. But couldn’t hold it back when he son decided to add his “two cents worth”.

“Oh, but don’t I make it worth your while?” Harry asked while giving Draco the puppy dog eyes.

“Of course you do love.” Draco said while wrapping his arms around the smaller boy and kissing him gently.

The moment was broken when Severus said, “What is it about the Potters that they can get anything out of a Slytherin with just one look.”

“Thatisn’t a Potter trait as those two got that from Victoria.” Harold said while laughing at how his grandson could manipulate a Malfoy. Something thought to be impossible.

“Well it isn’t as though you mind either.” James said while wrapping his arms around his partner’s neck. He then leaned in and kissed him senseless, he pulled back when he heard one of the Gryffindors speak.

“Harry can you make sure you bring your dad with you this year. I think he could help us not loose so many points from your father.” They all laughed while the teenagers all shook their heads in agreement.

Over all it was a pretty good birthday.