Remus looked up from his book when he heard a knock at the door, and moved quickly to answer it before whoever was there woke his child. He was more than a little shocked to see Michael Potter standing there shuffling his feet. "Can I help you with something Michael?"

The youngest Potter looked up and then back at his feet. "I, well, I was wondering if I could see Harry?" The boy looked up long enough to see if Remus was listening. "After what mum and dad did, I would understand if you said no, but I wanted to see how he was doing."

"I'm sorry Michael, but Harry is asleep right now, maybe if you came back later you'd be able to see him." Remus said with a smile, glad to see that at least one person related to Harry cared about him.

"How is he?" Came a new voice, and Remus turned to see the Potter twins, and Bill and Charlie Weasley.

"I won't lie to any of you, Harry is a very sick little boy." He couldn't keep the sadness out of his voice as he informed them of this.

He saw Lucinda digging around in her bag, and was shocked when she pulled out a small stuffed black dog. "Paddy?"

"Harry left it when mum sent him away. I've been carrying it around with me trying to figure out how to get it back to him." The girl replied, tears filling her eyes. "He always had trouble sleeping without him."

Remus was about to take the toy from the girl, when he heard a small voice calling out. "Daddy."

"It seems Harry just woke up. Why don't you all come in." He stood to the side and let the five students enter, and showed them to the sitting room. "I'll go get Harry, if you don't mind waiting."

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Remus smiled when he entered his son's room, and Harry stretched his arms out to his daddy to be picked up. "You have company cub."

"Is Papa and Father home?" Harry asked, not being able to think of anyone else who would come and visit him.

"No, your brothers and sister are here, and they want to see you. Would you like that?" Remus smiled when the little boy nodded his head, a huge grin on his little face.

Remus put Harry down, and held his hand as they walked into the sitting room. He saw all three Potters look up, and concern flash across their faces. He was worried he'd made a mistake letting them see Harry, but that was dashed away when Lucinda stood and walked over to them before kneeling in front of Harry.

"I've missed you so much." She said as she pulled the child into a hug, and Remus could see she was crying. She picked him up, carrying him on her hip, over to where her brothers were standing.

"I've missed you too little brother." James said as he saw his brother. Remus could tell Michael wanted to say something, but the boy was too shocked by everything, and ran from the room, passed a shocked Severus.

"Will you watch them, I'm going to go after Michael." Remus said to his husband as he pulled on his cloak.

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Remus had been glad he'd grabbed his cloak when he finally caught up with Michael outside the castle. He saw the boy was crying and angry, throwing the snow as hard as he could.

Finally he seemed to tire and just collapsed on the ground. "Care to talk about it?" Remus asked settling down next to the boy.

Michael whipped his eyes, but didn't look at him. "It's not fair."

"What's not fair?"

"Everything." Remus could hear the anger in the boy's voice as he said this. "Why does it have to be Harry who's sick? Hasn't he already had enough shit to deal with, now he has to be sick too? Why couldn't I be the sick one?"

"Sirius, Severus, and I ask our selves that all the time. Sometimes things happen, and there is nothing we can do to stop them, no matter how much we may want to. Every time I watch the doctors stick my cub with needles, I want to scream at the injustice of it all. But getting upset isn't going to change anything; it's not going to make Harry get better. So we've got to be strong, and ready to help him through this."

"But it still isn't fair. Hasn't he suffered enough having my parents as parents?"

"Yes the hand he was dealt was a poor one, but I for one am glad it has worked out as it has. If it hadn't, I would have my cub." Remus said with a small smile.

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When the two returned from outside, they walked into the sitting room, to find Lucinda and Harry curled up under a blanket on the couch reading a book, Severus in the corner grading paper, and the other boys, trying to make Harry laugh by making faces at him.

"It's not going to work," Remus said when he saw the boys were not getting the reactions they were hoping for. "That's his favorite book right there. If you want to make him laugh, you're going to have to wait till it's over, until then he will pay attention to nothing else."

He watched as the other boys settled on the floor to finish listening to the story, and Michael settled on the couch next to Harry and his sister. He smiled when Harry tried to pull some of the extra blanket up and cover Michael with it. It was then he saw the stuffed dog sitting in his son's lap; it's head the only thing visible from under the blanket.

It was the same sight Sirius came home to an hour later.

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I'd like some input on this story as to who'd you like to see Harry paired with. So here are your options.

Ron/Harry

Draco/Harry

Bill/Harry

Charlie/Harry