I think I've lost her again... Angie, you might want to be careful... Again...

PAMS before Alicia finds you!

Abi... xox

Oh My God! You can't do that to James! Oh by the way...Abi you'd better stop that Alicia from hurting Angie, not that I care about her so much, but how we are going to find out if James lives or who Apostollo is if she gets hurt? lol...PAMS please!! I'm actually begging here...
*Kate*

Oh nooooo!!!!!!!!!!! James!!!! We love yooooouuuuuu!!!! Don't die!

This was soooo good!

Oh...my...golly...umm...OW! Poor james...that really...sucks....wow. for once im sorta stunned into not babbling...congrats Angie, you get an award

Oh and as for the whole cliffie thing...i love peoples reactions...If i ever wrote a story it would be full of cliffies...but they still arent my favorite. I mean, i did start screaming and jumping up and down when if found out there was a post....my sister is still looking at me stragely...*sinks down in chair*

PAMS!

~Amelia

Oh my goshhhhh! Amazing! Pooor James! -huggle-
And Amelia- I'm not so sure I like that you think it's funny that I was hyperventilating.....

Emily, i love you. you know that.

Oh, come on already!!!!! When are you gonna post again??!! I want more!!!!
Maria

Thanks for posting guys...I loved how you all yelled at me for what I did to James! So read this next one and tell me what you think...Abi it's okay, you can let Alicia read it as well...lol!

Chapter 16

They've reached the small house half an hour later and Ron helped Harry carry the still unconscious boy inside, while Draco and his son trailed behind them. They placed the boy on the only bed and Harry run to the bathroom and came out seconds later holding a bottle of dittany. He knelt by the bed and looked at the others.
"Ron, someone should go bring some woods for the fireplace; it will get cold at night", he said and Ron nodded.
"Now, wait a minute!" Draco interrupted. "What night? Patch up the boy and we'll get going!"
"We can't", Harry said shaking his head. "Even if I manage to stop the bleeding, I don't thik he would take the trip...at least not until tomorrow".
"So we'll spend the night here? It's a safety house for one person and we're five!"
"Look, you can leave if you want!" Ron said irritated.
"No", Scorpius said. "No, we'll stay and help".
"What?" Draco exclaimed looking at his son raising his eyebrows.
"Please father...they've helped us", the boy said and his father rolled his eyes and grunted.
"Fine!" he said irritated and Ron smiled at Scorpius. "Come on, then" he added elbowing the boy out.
"Where are we going?"
"You wanted to help, so move it, we'll go find woods", he said and the boy followed him outside. Ron turned to Harry.
"How did he get to have a child like that, is beyond me", he said. "I'll go to the city to bring food or you need help with James?"
"No, it's okay", Harry nodded, carefully putting some dittany on the boy's bleeding wrist. "I don't think that two of us can do anything more than one of us...plus I'm sure that he could use some food when he wakes up".
If he wakes up...Ron thought, but then pushed that horrible idea out of his head, gave an encouraging nod to his best friend and left the house with one last look of concern to James. Harry didn't even notice; he was examining James' hand. The dittany had thankfully stopped the bleeding and the cuts seemed several days old. He sighed relieved and took his other hand.
Half an hour, one and a half bottle of dittany and several healing spells later, James was in a much better condition. Harry had mended his leg completely, his broken nose and the bruises under his eyes. However he was so weak by the loss of blood that his father didn't dare to use more spells on him in order to heal the bruises and the cuts on his torso. And he still hadn't waken up.
He was still kind of feverish and Harry had placed a napkin on his forehead, which he soaked in cold water every now and then. Now he was cleaning the dirt and the dried blood off the boy's face with a cloth, trying his best not to aggravate the scratches and cuts on his face. As he replaced the napkin on his head, Harry took his son's sore and raw hand. It was still scarred and Harry rather thought that it will stay like this for some time.
It seemed unbelievable to Harry. He had seen a lot of horrible things in his line of work but never had he thought that one of his kids would get to be subjected to something like this; and it still hadn't completely hit him. Harry rather thought that he would find it hard to control himself when he really did understand exactly what they did to his son. He sighed and then squeezed the boy's hand.
"Jamie" , he said. "Jamie, wake up".
The boy moved and Harry caressed his clean from bruises and dirt now cheek with his other hand.
"Come on son, wake up", he said again and the boy blinked. Harry felt his heart lose a beat as James' chocolate brown eyes met his. The boy looked at him for a while and Harry wasn't sure if he realized who he was or what was happening. After some moments though he let out a scream and sat up quickly terrified.
"Jamie..." Harry started but as he placed his hand on his shoulder the boy flinched and shrugged it off and started fighting against him clearly unable to recognize him or to understand where he was. "James, stop..." he said trying to catch his hands, as the boy was trying to hit him and stand up at the same time.
"LET GO!" the boy yelled with a hoarse voice.
"James, it's me!" Harry exclaimed.
"LET GO OF ME!" he yelled again trying to free his hands from Harry's grasp and this time there was the hint of pleading in his voice. Harry exhaled and against his better judgement he pulled his boy in his hug, rubbing his back as he fought to free himself.
"Please, let me go", the boy sobbed hitting his captor's chest with his fists but Harry only held him more tightly and after a while he started calming down. When Harry felt it was safe, he let go of the boy and looked at him as he was finally catching up with reality.
"What...where...dad?" he said in his rasped voice looking around and then at his father with eyes widened from shock.
"It's okay...you're okay..." Harry said but the boy didn't calm. Harry felt his chest clench as he noticed how fiercely the boy was trembling while tears seemed to be forming at the corners of his eyes.
"The Death Eaters...what...how...?" he mumbled while he breathed fast looking around; his eyes were welling up.
Harry stood on his knees and placed his hands on the boy's shoulder and face.
"It's okay; you're not in that castle anymore. You're safe now", he said soothingly and James closed his eyes taking deep breaths.
"We're not in the castle anymore?" he asked when he opened his eyes.
"No", Harry replied shaking his head.
"It's over?"
"Yes", Harry nodded and the boy let out a sob and hugged him again.
Harry was holding him tight as the boy cried in his hug. In spite the fact that the boy was shaking with sobs, Harry couldn't help but feeling relieved that he seemed okay and that he was finally safe. He almost couldn't believe that he had him there talking and moving and breathing. He was alive; battered, tortured, scarred but alive. After some minutes James calmed down and let go of him; his eyes red and his cheeks wet from the tears.
"Better now?" Harry smiled and the boy nodded half heartedly.
"Water", he croaked and Harry got up, only to return in a few seconds with a goblet full of water. James took it gingerly and tried to bring it to his lips, but his damaged hands were trembling too much, so Harry helped him drink it. After James had sipped the goblet dry, Harry tossed it aside and looked at the boy, waiting for him to say something again; but the boy wasn't looking at him.
"Dad..." he whispered shakily at last, with his eyes fixed on the floor. "I'm sorry".
Harry didn't understand why he said that at first but then he realized that they hadn't talked to each other since their big fight, that day that James had ran away. He shook his head; the last thing he wanted to hear from the boy right now was an apology.
"James, let's just..."
"No", James interrupted him. "No, let me tell you please. All...all I could think about was that I'm gonna die in there and that I'd never have the opportunity to...to apologize to you", he said still avoiding to look him in the eyes.
"James, you don't need to..." Harry started feeling that if someone should be apologizing it should be him. It was his fault that James got caught and it was because he was his father that they had tortured him so badly; to Harry every bruise and every cut on the boy hurt ten times worse than if they were on his own body.
"No, I do", the boy said determinded; his voice shaking and new tears shining at the corners of his eyes. "I didn't...I never meant to yell at you the way I did...I'm so sorry for what I said...and I'm sorry for going through your stuff and for running away...and I want you to know that I...I never wanted...I don't know why I said it...it's not true...I don't...I don't hate you dad...I never did...and I'm so sorry for saying this to you...I'm sorry..."
Harry sighed and took the boy's face in his hands, raising it up, so that he would finally look at him in the eyes.
"Jamie, it's okay, really", he said but the boy shook his head.
"It's not okay", he said. "I don't know why I am such a jerk; I only..."
"You're not", Harry said. "You just wanted something so much that you couldn't think of anything else".
"I wish I could take it back", the boy said, tears running down his already wet face and on Harry's hands. "I wish you could...you could forget it...you could forgive me..."
"I have forgotten it and I sure as hell have forgiven you", Harry said and the boy managed to give him a watery smile.
"Really?"
"Really", Harry nodded. "How couldn't I?"
"I thought that you'd be too angry with me and that you wouldn't want to come and save me from the Death Eaters".
"What?" Harry said in disbelief. "Jamie, how could you possibly think that? I would never leave you to them. No matter what we say to each other, you're still my son, you'll always be my son; either you like it or not", he finished with a smile.
"I'm sorry...for everything", the boy said again.
"I'm sorry too", Harry said taking his hands into his. "I'm sorry you went through all of these because of me...I won't let them touch you ever again, I promise".
"And I promise never to yell at you again", James said and Harry supressed his urge to sneer.
"Don't give promises, you can't keep", he said. "You're a teenager, if you don't yell at your parents, who are you gonna yell at?"
"But..."
"Let's just promise never to hurt each other...not deliberately at least", Harry said and the boy nodded.
"I promise", he said and his father smiled broadly.
"Lion's promise?" he said and James laughed; his smile in total contradiction with his watering eyes. Harry smiled at him as he pushed the hair back from his face and wiped the tears from his cheeks, just as some new ones fell on his hands.
"Lion's promise", he whispered back and Harry felt his chest filling with affection for his son.
They stayed like this for a few seconds but then the boy gasped and Harry took his hand off of his face in fear that he would lose it again and start fighting against him like he was a Death Eater.
"What?"
"Dad, they had Scorpius too...you know, Malfoy's son? We have to..."
"He's okay", Harry stopped him, feeling relieved. "His father was with me...they've gone to bring some woods for the fireplace and Ron is in the city for some food".
The boy fell silent for a few moments taking in all the information; his headache wasn't helping.
"What city?" he asked finally.
"Salzburg...it's in Austria".
"When are we going home?" James asked.
"Tomorrow morning. I figured that it would be better for you to rest tonight", his father said.
"No, dad, I want to go home, can't we go home now?" James said; he sounded childish but he didn't care, he didn't want to spend another moment so close to that castle.
"Jamie, you've lost too much blood...you're too weak to take a trip like this", Harry said but the boy shook his head.
"No, I'm okay, look..." he said and before his father could stop him, he stood up. The next moment the world was spinning around him, he couldn't control his legs and if his father hadn't grabbed him, he would have fallen down. Harry helped him back on the bed and looked at him with exasperation as the boy groaned closing his eyes.
"Why can't you just listen to me for once?" Harry asked and James shrugged.
"I'm stubborn?" he suggested and his father laughed.
"You don't say", he said ironically. "We'll go home tomorrow...until then you need to rest", he said strictly and the boy sighed.
"Fine", he nodded defeated. Then his eyes fell on his hands and he stared at the deep scars on them.
"They'll go away after a while", Harry said in a low voice as the boy felt the scars on his right hand with his left. James just nodded silently; his eyes seemed unfocused and his father realized that he was replaying in his mind eye how the scars had happened to him. Harry bit his lower lip, got up from the floor and sat next to him, placing his arm around his son's shoulders and pulling him into an embrace, feeling relieved that the boy didn't resist it. "It'll be okay", he whispered stroking the boy's hair soothingly and James looked up at him.
"I know", he said quietly.
"I'm proud of you, Jamie", Harry said and the boy's eyes widened.
"You are?"
"Yes, you are the bravest fifteen year old I've ever met", he smiled but the boy shook his head in disagreement.
"I'm not brave", he said. "I was...I was scared and terrified in there and..."
"Jamie, fear doesn't make you a coward, it makes you human", Harry said. "True courage is not the absence of fear; it's the willingness to proceed in spite of it, to stand tall and I know you did", he said and the boy smiled relaxing in his chest.
"I love you, dad", he said then.
"I know", the man smiled back and kissed his son's forehead. "I love you too".

Scorpius was watching them through the window from outside. He was cold outside but he didn't want to get in and ruin their reunion. He turned and looked at his father, who was carrying a bunch of wooden sticks and sighed; one and a half hour in the forest and they hadn't say a meaningful word to each other. Then he looked back at the two Potters and his mind drifted back to something James had said when they were locked in the cell: how people have that weird tendency to want what they can't and won't have...

-Angie-

Did I had to threaten you to make you post? Anyway I'm glad you posted and I'm really, really glad that James is okay and that he worked things out with his dad! That chapter was so moving!!! Love it!! PAMS!
Maria

Hey guys I forgot......HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
-Angie-

Great post! I feel sorry for Scorpius though...

I'm sorry about shouting and then trying to hurt you... And that vision was a fake... Your still Fred's girl XD

He he



Abi... xox

Awwwww, that made me want to cry. Very emotional reunion. And poor Scorpius. Can Draco ever give the boy a break, or is it just not in his nature?
I hope Ron's ok!

PAMS

Great post. I'm so glad that James is ok. I hope that Draco will lighten up on Scorpius, all kids need affection from their parents. PAMS!!!!

~Tori

great post so happy james is ok, now Draco and Scorpius have to sort things out lol

xlillyx

Aw... so deep... I loved it..
Poor Scorpius, why is Draco so mean??
PAMS soon please...

Harry is the best dad ever!!! Draco sucks at it though!!!! PAMS!!!!!! What's going to happen with Apostollo now?
*Kate*

Thanks for posting everyone...this chapter is a happy one too, since I kind of overdo it with the sad ones and since there are more sad ones coming...:evillaugh.... anyway post and tell me what you think.

Chapter 16 continue

"Hey", Scorpius said as he came in. Harry had just gone out helping Draco and James was leaning against some cushions on the bed. He turned and looked at him.
"Hey", James smiled as the boy sat in an chair.
"So are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine", James nodded. Scorpius tried not to stare at James' bruises but he really couldn't help it, they were everywhere on the boy's face. He was rather clammy and just by looking at him you were getting the feeling that he was too weak and tired to stand on his feet; it was also rather easy to tell that he had been crying. He knew that James would never admit it but it was evident that he was far from fine and Scorpius couldn't help but feeling shame for abandoning him rush through him.
"James, if I knew what they'd...I...I wouldn't have left..." Scorpius said apologetically and James rolled his eyes.
"Why? So you'd be hurt as well? How would that have helped me, Scorpius?"
"Yes, but..."
"It's okay", James stopped him and the boy laughed.
"You just can't stand it when someone has more interesting things to say than you do, can you?" he said mockingly, knowing that, that was exactly what James needed at the moment.
"Oh, shut up!" James said and threw a pillow at him, which Scorpius caught in the air and threw back at him. "Dude! I'm still hurt!" James exclaimed, avoiding the pillow. "How can you be throwing pillows at an injured man?" he added laughing.
"Oh, that is so dramatic!" Scorpius smirked ironically. "So, did you hear?"
"What?"
"We're in Austria...Salzburg", Scorpius said.
"Yeah, my dad told me...so what?"
"So what? Well, if you leave out the Death Eaters aren't you excited to be in Mozart's hometown?"
"Who's Mozart?" James asked and Scorpius rolled his eyes.
"Oh, my God! How can you be a musician and also be musically retarded at the same time?"
"He's a musician? Then how don't I know him? Wait...he's a Muggle?" James asked.
"Well, yeah he was, but..."
"Then how would I know him? How do you know him anyway?"
"Hello, Muggle Studies!" Scorpius said waving at him.
"I'm not taking that lesson", James shrugged.
"I do, but don't tell my father. Anyway, still you're supposedly a singer and a guitarist", Scorpius pointed out.
"Supposedly?" James repeated narrowing his eyes.
"Yeah, Mozart is a legend of music and you don't..."
"I know all about music in the magical world, if you have to know!" James said irritated.
"You know...I'm gonna miss arguing with you", Scorpius smiled and James looked at him with his left eyebrow raised.
"Don't worry we'll have a lot of time to do that at school", he said and Scorpius looked at him.
"James, we don't talk at school", he pointed out and James smiled.
"No, we didn't talk at school", he corrected him. "You won't get rid of me so easily, now that I know how fun is to tease you...and given the fact that you're friends with my brother I'd be able to mock both of you together!" James said but Scorpius didn't laugh, instead he looked at him seriously.
"You mean it or did you just bang you head too hard?" he asked.
"Well, as a matter of fact I did bang my head too hard, but I mean it. Believe it or not, after all of these, I actually came to like you". James said seriously and Scorpius smiled.
"So, I take it that you've changed your mind about Slytherins?" the boy asked James.
"Not really", he replied shaking his head. "I just decided to add you to my list".
"List? What list?"
"The Slytherins I do not hate list", James explained with casualty.
"Oh, you really do live in your own little world, don't you?" Scorpius said sarcastically.
"No, it's more like that this right here is my world and the rest of you just happen to live in it, so I won't be getting bored", James corrected him with a rather serious face, which only made Scorpius laugh more.
"You really are crazy!" he said when he stopped laughing.
"Well, thank you", James said narrowing his eyes again just as Harry and Draco came in, followed by Ron. "Uncle Ron!" James exclaimed.
"Hey, there's my favorite nephew!" Ron smiled and walked over to hug him.
"Where's the food?" James asked when he let go of him. Ron laughed and opened his backpack.
"Well, I got you hotdogs and chocolate!"
"Hotdogs and chocolate? How are those two related?" Draco asked taking a box with chocolates.
"Well, they're really hot for hotdogs around here, but the whole city was also filled with little shops that sold chocolates, so..." Ron shrugged.
"Who's the old man on the box?" Draco asked.
"It's Mozart", Harry and Scorpius said together.
"Whatever", James said. "I'm famished".
"Yeah, me too", Ron nodded. "We should have eaten something in that strip club because my stomach is so empty that..."
"Wait", James interrupted him. "What strip club? You went to a strip club?"
"Yeah, because that was where Dolohov send a letter from...that's how we found you", Harry explained.
"I have only one thing to say", Ron said seriously. "You two are really lucky that I went with them, because they couldn't take their eyes off the stripping ladies".
"Ron!" Harry exclaimed.
"Dad!" James exclaimed back before his uncle could say anything.
"Don't believe him...he's lying!" Harry said angrily. "About me at least!" he added turning to look at Draco.
"Yeah, he is", Draco nodded. "I behaved and you...well, I'm sorry Harry, but you couldn't stop drooling!" he said to Harry, whose mouth fell open.
"Wow, dad, seriously? What's mum gonna say?" James asked.
"Don't listen to them!" Harry shouted. "Ron, tell him the truth!" he demanded.
"I can't...Draco already said it", the man shrugged.
"I did", Draco nodded.
"Okay, just so you know, the only thing that stops me from committing a double murder right now, it's that I cannot decide whom I should kill first!"
"You shouldn't kill us...how are you gonna go back to the strip club if get locked up in Azkaban?" Draco asked.
"I'm not gonna go back!" Harry yelled outraged. "You two were the ones who were drooling! I wasn't even in the stripping room! I was upstairs with that Monica!"
"Upstairs with a woman in a strip club", Ron said to James.
"Wow!" James exclaimed.
"Ron!" Harry yelled. "Stop saying nonsense to my son!"
"But Harry you always say that we shouldn't lie to kids!"
"Ron!"
"It's okay dad...I'm not gonna tell mum", James said reassuringly.
"What? You believe him?" Harry asked.
"Well...", the boy said raising his shoulders. His father hit his foot on the floor and James burst into laughing. "Sorry, uncle, I couldn't help it", he said to Ron.
"It's okay; he was ready to hex me anyway!"
"You guys had agreed to play me? When did that happen?'
"A wink was enough for me to play along, dad", James shrugged.
"Oh, really?" Harry said and before either of them could react he had hit each of them with a pillow.
"Ouch! Why are you people keep hitting me with pillows? I'm hurt for God's sake!" James said dramatically.
"Hey, my pillow didn't get you", Scorpius reminded him and the boy stung out his tongue at him. Harry though threw Ron off the bed and then pushed James back on it.
"You're right; you are still hurt", Harry nodded. "You need to rest and we should be ashamed for stretching you!" he added giving Ron a murderous look.
"What? Come on, dad, I was joking!" James said indignantly trying to sit up again but Harry kept him lying down.
"Yes, but I'm not", he said warningly.
"If you don't want the bed, maybe somebody else should..." Draco interrupted but stopped when Harry looked at him angrily. "Well, okay, where the rest of us are going to sleep?"
"We can sleep in the car", Ron suggested. "It's big enough for the four of us".
"What?" James said worriedly; he didn't want to be left alone.
"No, I'll stay here with Jamie", Harry said and the boy sighed relieved.
"Okay then", Draco said as he ate a hotdog. "And by the first light we're out of here!"

A while later, Ron, Draco and his son had gone of to sleep in the car, leaving Harry and James back. Harry was still cleaning off the mess they left behind and James was watching him lying on the bed.
"Dad?"
"What?" Harry said immediately averting his eyes to his son with an alarmed look on his face.
James wanted to say something and yet he seemed unable to find words to do so. Harry stopped everything he was doing, walked around the table and sat down beside the bed; his head slightly over James and his pillow.
"What is it?" he asked him again unable to shake the alarm off his voice. James sighed.
"Dolohov...he said...he said that Apostollo wanted me to join them".
"What?" Harry said incredulously.
"He said that it would be the best way to hurt...well, you", James said. Harry didn't respond to that, but he couldn't help but agree with it. "So, what if, since I didn't agree, they go for Al or Lilly next time?" James asked him concerned.
"That's what you're worrying for?" Harry asked him and the boy nodded. Harry shook his head rubbing the boy's arm. "Ever since they took you, we doubled the protection around our house, there is no way that they'll be able to get in or get to any of you again".
"Right", James nodded rolling over to his back and starring at the ceiling. "And it's not like they'll be so stupid as to run off, like I did".
"Jamie", Harry said shaking his head. "You can't blame yourself for what happened; it wasn't your fault".
"Well, whose fault was it then?" James challenged him. Harry bit the inside of his bottom lip, knowing that he couldn't say 'mine' and expect James to agree with it.
"Theirs", he said. "They're the only ones to blame that we can't live our lives properly and that's why we have to stop them".
"I would never have joined them", James said vehemently turning to him again. Harry smiled at him, his chest filling with pride.
"I know", he said and then he got up, picked up the blanket and covered the boy with it. "Go to sleep, you need it".
"Where are you going to sleep?" James asked him.
"On the armchair", Harry replied pointing at the small, armchair at the corner of the little house.
"Are you sure you don't want to go with the others? I'll be okay", James lied easily, while wishing that his father wouldn't accept the offer.
"No, it's okay", Harry shook his head. "I want to stay with you".
"Dad?"
"What?" Harry asked as he sat in the armchair.
"Thank you", James whispered, but before Harry had a chance to reply, the boy had drifted off into sleep.

It was still really early in the morning when Harry, Ron and James arrived home. Draco and Scorpius had gone off to their place, but they would see them tomorrow again, because the two kids had to testify to the auror office.
When they apparated in the kitchen, James lost his balance, but Harry held him. His face was getting paler and paler every time they apparated, but still when they arrived, he looked around excited.
"So here we are", Ron smiled.
"I can't believe I'm back home", James said and Harry rubbed his back.
"Believe it", he told him. "And no one is taking you away again".
James smiled at his father and nodded; his eyes welling up.
"Actually no one did take him away from here; he run away", Ron said.
"Ron!" Harry said rolling his eyes as James lowered his head; Ron bit his lower lip. Harry gave him an exasperate look before turning to James again. "So what do you say we go find your mum?" he said and James' face brightened almost immediately.
"Yeah, okay", he nodded. "But she will be sleeping".
"Oh, I'm sure she'd want us to wake her up", Harry said and led the boy upstairs as Ron drifted to his and Hermione's room. "Stay here", Harry told his son and he opened the door.
He walked in to find Ginny sleeping on his side of the bed, her red hair falling on her face. Harry smiled and sat on the edge of the bed next to her. He leaned down so that his face was so close to hers that her warm breath landed on his neck.
"Gin", he whispered stroking her cheek. "Ginny".
She blinked scared by the presence of someone else, but when she saw the bright green eyes above her, she smiled.
"Harry!" she said hugging him, as she was sitting up. Harry hugged her back but after a few seconds she let go of him and smacked him on the head.
"Ouch! What was that for?"
You've been gone for almost two days! I've been worrying sick!" she said angrily.
"Oh, come on Gin, I was looking for something to lead me to our son", he said.
"So did you find anything?" she asked with craving in her voice. He smiled.
"Well, yeah, I did find something..." he said and kissed her, before she could ask him what.
"That's gross", a voice said and Ginny turned to see James standing at the door. Her eyes widened in shock and then she screamed and run to him.
"JAMES!" she exclaimed hugging him tightly. "Oh, honey, you're here! You're back! Are you okay?" she asked letting go of him and looking worried at his pale face, as she took his hands into hers.
"Yeah mum I'm fine", he smiled, feeling his eyes sting with tears again. She smiled back excited but then her eyes fell on his hands and on the deep scars on them and her smile faded.
"Your hands...oh baby, what did they do to you?" she whispered.
"It's okay mum", the boy shrugged. "The scars will go away by time".
"I'm gonna kill them", she said quietly shaking her head, while hot tears started running down her face. Then she kissed his cheek and hugged him again more tightly.
"Mum, you're suffocating me!" James said laughing just as the rest of the house residents run into the room, after obviously Ron woke them up. Ginny let go of her son, so that the rest of them could hug him and turned to her husband, who was watching them from the bed. He smiled at her and she hugged him.
"You brought him back alive!" she whispered in his ear.
"I had promised you", he whispered back kissing her neck. She sat next to him and he looked at her just as Hermione was suffocating James too. "I've been gone for two days and you've gotten bigger!" he said smiling.
"Well, get used to it, because for the next six and a half months I have left until I give birth, I will be big!"
"And you'll look beautiful", he said kissing her cheek and she smiled pleased. "How's our little one?"
"What little one?" James asked having heard of him.
"Oh, that's right, you don't know!" Ginny smiled.
"Know what?"
"Mum is pregnant", Albus said and James' mouth fell open.
"Shut up!" he exclaimed.
"Yep", Lily nodded. "We're gonna have another sibling!"
"That's great!" James smiled and walked to his mother, to give her another hug. "I mean it will be great if the baby isn't like Al, because having two problematic kids in the family..." he said but he didn't finish his sentence because Albus picked a pillow from the floor and threw it to him. He avoided it and looked at his dad pulling a sad face. "Why is everyone keep throwing pillows at me?"

-Angie-

LMAO. That really made me laugh. The pillow thing, he he he. Great chapter! Really funny. I loved it when Draco and Ron were winding harry up about the Strip Club. That was hilarious.

PAMS

Aw shame the pillows are attracted to him! LOl.. Loved it.. PAmS please!

Sooo funny!!!!!! The part with the pillows and the other with the strip club were hillarious!!!!!! I'm glad that James is back home and safe and that he's gonna be friends with Scorpius from now on, but...what was that thing you wrote in this chapter's intro? More sad things are coming? PAMS!!!! Can't wait!!!!
Maria

OH NO I MISSED TWO POSTS! omgly!! Im terrible!! *smacks self in forehead* how could i?! I don't even have a really good excuse, except for the fact i am currently in an ice rink watching a championship game for my sister's hockey team's tournament, and my mom is yelling at me to get of the freaking computer...oh well. im going to stay on it. Aww theres a little boy running around with his juice cup, saying "juice, juice, juice, juice." its cute!! HEY MY SISTERS ON THE ICE! *runs off momentarily* GO ABBY GO! *runs back* shes off. so anyways, done with the babbling. i hope.

I loved the pillow part, and i am happy james is safe. but i feel bad for scorpius still...his dad is so not...loving. Im not sure thats the word i want....but still

PAMS
~Amelia

P.S. Sorry if im wearing off on Emily...

OMG! I missed a post! I love how James is a pillow magnet XD

Scorpius will be okay... If Draco ignores him again, Alicia will look after him.

WHAT?! NO I WILL NOT! THERE IS NO WAY I'M LOOKING AFTER A MALFOY!

Ignore her, I do...

I hate you.... Take that!

OW... I'll see you later...I have a war beginning here!

Abi and Alicia... xox

Great post! So hillarious! Haha, James really needs to get smacked by pillows sometimes, doesn't he? PAMS soon!
*Kate*

I missed TWO posts?! Gahhh. They were both good, though (:
I love the whole 'throwing pillows at James' thing. Reminds me of this time in NC with my cousin James and we were throwing sand at him...kinda like the same thing, only different...okay done rambling...NOW.
Pams!


-Emily (:

so funny lol, everyones got what i was going to say covered so i'll just say PAMS !

xLillyx