Silver Asters

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 Teddy and Fili are born, comes their next challenge: School…

A/n: The title come from the meaning of Asters which is Patience…

Chapter 4

Waking up in Greece was a bit disconcerting for the extended family at first...

It wasn't all that surprising when the boys were all bullied out of bed by Ted to go for a run on the beach.

A healthy body and a healthy mind were something that both Healers Tonks prided themselves on giving all of the children but especially those they called family.

Harry and Draco weren't as used to these dawn runs and they didn't have the stamina that Ariel and Dudley did.

Dudley's tiger Shani, Harry's wolfhound Accalia, Sam's lion Leonides, Ariel's eagle Aurel and Uncle Ted's own Golden Retriever Leo were more eager for the 'run' compared to their humans.

Teddy thought running was great fun but Fili complained almost as much as Draco did...

Harry wasn't as athletic as his Tonks cousins or as active as Fili, he was more shy and bookish like his sister Nemia.

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Severus who was a morning person, spotted the boys running knew that himself on the other hand preferred to do his running on full moon nights, the first and the last full moon nights were his.

Sirius had reluctantly been granted the middle night, while Severus would never count Sirius a true friend after their school days since Remus was the only remaining friend from those days that the imbecile had Severus was willing to be generous and prove the more adult of the two.

Besides, he was secretly smug about the fact that unlike Teddy, who never met a person he didn't like; Harry, Cora and his other blood children disliked and distrusted Sirius.

Cora because she'd overheard a fight between them when Severus blamed Sirius for the lack of relationship that the Head of the House of Black had with Harry; it was obvious that even as young as Harry had been, his nephew/son understood that he had been abandoned by Sirius. Sirius had the stronger claim for custody at the time and he gave it up without a true fight which was how Harry ended up being abused by Muggles. Had Sirius fought harder to keep Harry, they might not have to still be trying to help Harry recover from the emotional and mental scars from his traumatic few weeks in Muggle Care.

Sera, Nemia and Fili were perceptive enough to know that Harry didn't trust their 'uncle'; Cora disliked him and as their parents merely tolerated the man.

For all of his adolescent faults, Sirius had like James grown up after he was married and became a father.

It was strange to know that Sirius' daughters Rina, Tani and Cassie were of an age with Severus' Sera, Nemia, Teddy and Fili. After all Carina was only five months younger than his Sera and Nemia while were just over a year and an half younger than his own Teddy and Fili.

It was stranger to know that Sirius, his schoolboy tormentor was bonded to a distant cousin whom he hadn't even known was a cousin until the trial against Dumbledore all those years ago.

That Dumbledore trial had brought Remus' grandfather Lyall and Severus' cousins Faith Burbage-Johnson, Constance Flitwick, Irma Prince and Charity Black nee Burbage into their lives along with Severus Great-Uncle Aurelius Prince and his wife Hope Burbage.

It was somewhat disconcerting that they'd lost relatives only to have them come out of the woodwork at such a stressful time.

Now that Harry and Cora were at Number Four attending primary school, things were changing a little.

Next September Sera and Nemia would be attending there but in three years Harry and Cora would be at Hogwarts while Sera, Nemia, Teddy and Fili would all be at Number Four.

Time was going so fast...

Severus just hoped that Harry was more emotionally prepared to go to Hogwarts than he had been Number Four...

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

Jan - Even though Teddy reminds Lyall how old he is, by that same token the boy keeps him young? Due to his own workaholic nature, Lyall missed much of his children's childhoods and all of his grandchildren's childhoods, he had a sort of redemption with his great-grandchildren if he takes it...