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[lpotter]

Who: Lily and Harry Potter
What: Meeting for the first time again
Where: The Diner
When: After their journal conversation
Rating:S for SAD

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[aurorpotter]

Getting Teddy dressed was always a struggle. The seven-year-old wouldn't sit still long enough for Harry to even suggest he wear two socks not one and that his hair could not be bubblegum pink when they left the room. Sometimes, Harry wondered if Teddy would ever grow up

[lpotter]

Lily was on her third cup of tea and nearly bursting. He was coming. He wasn't coming. Her mind was all in a jumble. Was it possible that her son was not actually the same son she'd remembered? Lily wondered when he was from exactly. If Teddy was with him. Lily looked up at the sound of a door opening.

It was Harry. He looked the same and yet. Sort of different. Older? She didn't know. But he did have Teddy in tow and he was definitely older.

Fuck. Fucking fuck. Lily just sat there, staring.

[aurorpotter]

Red hair or black hair. Harry laid a hand between Teddy's shoulders and guided him through the doorway and stopped. A prickle of awareness stole over him, a sort of impossible itch that said someone was watching him.

Carefully.

He stole a peek over his shoulder and tensed. Teddy gazed up at him and tugged on his hand.

"What is it? Harry? I thought you said we'd eat. I want food," he moaned pitifully.

"We'll eat. I promise. We're just meeting someone first. All right?"

"Fine. And then we'll eat, right?"

"Pretty much, yeah."

At least one of them was. Food sounded very unappetizing to Harry in that moment. He swallowed around the growing lump in his throat and dragged Teddy through the maze of tables to the one his...

She looked so bloody familiar, if only not smiling, and it hurt just a bit that she might be a fraud.

"Hello," he greeted, uncertain what one was supposed to say to their long-deceased mother in the early evening at a random diner in the middle of nowhere.

[lpotter]

Lily was decidedly not crying when her son walked up to greet her. "Hullo," she replied quietly, standing up awkwardly. It was too clear that it was her son. He couldn't have been a fake. Not looking the way he did. She'd known her son since she'd been in town and there was no way that he could be false.

After what seemed like a very long moment, she looked down at Teddy, giving him a small smile. And then she hugged Harry. It wasn't fair that she'd gotten to know him and then disappeared. None of it was fair. "I'm sorry," she added quietly.

[aurorpotter]

Harry grinned nervously and rubbed his nose with his thumb, feeling sheepish and pleased. "I will, I promise."

He leaned back in his chair, amusing himself by watching Teddy try to leap from his chair and not succeeding.

"I almost asked my girlfriend to marry me last week. She's off with the Harpies training now."

[lpotter]

"Good," she smiled, finishing off her tea. At Harry's later statement, Lily's eyebrows went up. "You did?" Lily didn't know Harry had a girlfriend. In fact, Lily didn't care particularly if it was a girl or a boy who made Harry happy. So long as it wasn't Severus, Lily was more than pleased. "What's her name?"