Recovery

chapter 34

Mary looked at Zachary who just shrugged his shoulders and Mary shook her head. "We haven't...had a place to call home in a really long time..." She mumbled. "We know, and we are going to do the best we can to help you with that." Narcissa replied and Mary nodded. "What happened to cast over there?" Zachary said, giving a point to Harry. "His name is Harry. He got hit by a car a couple months ago. Very stubborn, doesn't listen to well when he suppose to stay off his leg!" Narcissa said the ending part kind of loudly and Harry worked his way over to where the three of them were gathered. "Is that your way of trying to get me to lay down?" Harry raised an eyebrow. "The doctor was very clear, Harry. You need to rest. I'll have Ruth brought to you." Narcissa said, not giving Harry the option. He was going to lay down, even if she had to call Remus and Sirius here to make him lay down. "No. No. Leave the babies be. I have a book to finish anyway. I doubt I'll join dinner, so goodnight you two." Harry said to Mary and Zachary.

Harry felt the kiss on his cheek about an hour later and Ruth reach out for him all teary eyed. "Awe! Are you giving daddy a hard time?" Harry joked, but took the little girl form Draco's arms. Ruth quickly nuzzled to his chest. "She's your little girl when your home, you know that." Draco smiled lightly, easing to sit on the bed. Harry gave her a big pat on her back as she slowly started to claim down. "Yes, I do know. How are Zachary and Mary?" Harry asked and Draco let out a sigh. "At a disagreement. Thomas won't meet them anywhere but here or at his work. We can't travel that far right now, and Zachary doesn't want to see him. Even though Mary said Thomas said he did want to talk to Zachary." Harry let out a sigh. Zachary doesn't want to talk to Thomas, why?" Deal frowned. "I didn't tell you! Not sure how it slipped my mind. Seems Thomas doesn't agree with Zachary being gay...so having him here might not be very good either. I just...don't want to keep them from their brother if they want to see him." Harry nodded, giving Draco a light kiss. "I can take her, if she wants to meet up with him." Draco shook his head. "Mama won't let you drive on those pills. Maybe...talk to Zachary about talking to his brother again? It's been a few months, maybe they can work it out? His sixteen and legally an adult, but still just a teen to. They make mistakes...and they have lost so much." Draco whispered and Harry nodded. "I'll see if I can't convince Zachary to speak to his brother sometime." Harry replied, getting a big kiss.

The next morning? Harry eased down at the table. It was still early and most of the house was still asleep. "Er...coffee and newspaper man said I could just help myself..." Zachary said, taking a bite out of his waffle he heated up in the toaster. "Yes, that's fine. Dinner is the only meal everybody eats together. So as long as you don't have a lunch after three in the afternoon, you are fine. Just don't uses the stove unless an adult is here." Zachary raised an eyebrow. "I've...been cooking on a stove for sometime...and I'm fourteen..." He said kind of quietly. "I didn't say you couldn't. I'm telling you not too unless there's an adult close by." Harry order kind of, and after a moment, he nodded. "How hard would it be to convince you to meet with your brother so you'll sister will go?" Zachary let out a huff and lend back in his chair. "I don't want to talk to him." He mumbled and Harry nodded. "I understand all of that, I really do. However, you have a sister...who is somewhat stuck in the middle and I think you know that." Harry said and after a slow bite of his waffle. "Is there...somebody a bit more able body?" He whispered. "Are you worried about your brother?" Harry raised an eyebrow. "More...like some of the company he's around sometime." He asked and Harry shook his head. "Your brother will come here, alone." Zachary nodded and finished his breakfast soon after.

Zachary pushed opened the small closet in his sister's room. "How come you haven't put on one of those dresses?" He asked. "They...are too big...I didn't want to go to the mall, so she just guessed, and most of them are way to big..." Zachary was walking over holding a shorter pink dress. "Thomas liked when you wore pink and I remember how to fasten the safety pins." Zachary said and after a second she grabbed the dress.
Zachary was in the middle of putting up her hair when the open door got knocked on lightly. "Are you wanting to get back into cosmetology?" Narcissa asked. "How...did you find out?" He mumbled kind of. "I have your classes, because we have to try and work around our schedule to get the two of you to your school. I thought about homeschooling, but I'm not sure about how you feel about sitting with a lot of primary school students." Narcissa said walking over as Zachary was finishing up the last bit of Mary's hair. "Are we even allowed to be homeschooled? Because of the fostering system?" Mary asked and she nodded. "As long as the paperwork is in order, and Remus is able to teach Secondary level." Zachary looked at Narcissa. "Remus is?" She smiled lightly. "A long story, but by law now, Remus is Harry's other father. His god-father and Remus adopted him when he was a boy." Narcissa replied.