Post Mortem

Chapter 22

HENDRIX’S POV

I can’t help but to think about my past life, especially with Harry here. I can’t help but to think of what I learned moments before my death, and the things that I had learned after my death. I have no idea how I didn’t notice how manipulative Dumbledore was, how I never noticed how he groomed me into the perfect hero golden boy, a perfect lamb for the slaughter, how nobody tried to stop him except for maybe McGonagall. Learning that my friends never actually needed me.

I sat in my desk chair contemplating all of this, thinking about how he raised me just to let me die in some absurd version of poetic justice, or to die for irony, when really he could’ve killed me when he realized what I had been. That manipulative bastard. Why didn’t he help to free Sirius when he knew he was innocent? Why didn’t he let anybody properly check up on me while I was at the Dursleys, why didn’t he take me away from them period.

Another thing that nags me is my friends. This Harry isn’t even friends with more than half the people I was friends with, and he’s in a completely different house. He seems to find Ron rather annoying and he seems to only tolerate Hermoine. This makes me think that maybe somebody pushed them to be my friends, a specific manipulative somebody.

I was drawn from my thoughts by a loud crash, one of the glass vases had shattered due to my anger, I glared at it before looking down. “What’s got you all worked up?” Tom asked as he walked into the room, “I bloody hate Dumbledore,” I hissed as another vase broke. Tom chuckled, “I’m glad you feel that way but maybe you should stop breaking things,”  he sighed as he came over to me and started to gently massage my shoulders. I sighed as I melted into his hands, “I’ll try,” I sighed.

“How about we go grab lunch with Remus and Sirius, I’m almost sure that they’re finally shagging,” Tom said as he began to walk to the door, I sighed and thought for a moment, “Alright. How about we make a wager, I wager that they started shagging last week,” I said as I stood, grinning. Tom snorted, “I wager two days ago,” he said as he extended his hand, I shook it before interlacing our fingers. “What about Harry?” I asked as we made our way down the corridor. “I don’t know if it would be good parenting to ask our ward to bet if his godfathers are shagging,” Tom said as he raised a brow.

I rolled my eyes as I gently smacked his chest, “That’s not what I meant and you know it, I meant for lunch,” I sighed. Tom chortled. “He’s at the Malfoy’s having some lunch with his friends,” he shrugged as he took his hand from mine to wrap it around my waist. I nodded as we made it to the floo. Tom stood in it gesturing for me to step in with him. Once we were side by side he called out our destination.

REMUS’ POV

I groggily woke up, slowly sitting up and taking in my surroundings, the body next to me still snoozing away. I yawned as I stretched, casting a tempus. All grogginess left me as I noticed the time, I shot out of bed and desperately started shoving some clothes on, tossing some clothes behind me at the person still lying in bed, “Sirius wake up! We have 30 minutes before we meet up with Thorstan and Hendrix!” I shouted as I chucked a shoe at him. I turned to see him slowly sitting up, rubbing his eyes as he did so and yawning. “It’s ok Remy, we’re flooring straight into the restaurant it’ll be fine,” he yawned as he slowly stood, he made his over to me and wrapped his arms around my waist rubbing his face into the crook of my neck, he gently began to kiss down my neck, I was just about to melt into him when I remembered why we were up. I shoved him away and tossed another shoe at him. “Get dressed, you horny dog.”

HENDRIX’S POV

Thorstan and I were patiently waiting for Sirius and Remus. We had already ordered some drinks for us all and were now waiting for the duo to show, when they came stumbling into the restaurant Remus already looking finished with Sirius’ shenanigans. “Well they certainly look refreshed,” Tom snickered. I chuckled as I took in their appearances, Remus looked like he had been thoroughly shagged and Sirius looked absolutely refreshed and was practically glowing. They came and sat down, I felt a wicked grin cross my features, I looked over to see Tom was bearing a shit-eating grin.

“You two seem refreshed,” Tom said, Remus blushed and spluttered for a moment whereas Sirius grinned and took a sip from his cup. “Yet Thorstan you don’t, even though I’m sure that you had a full night's rest,” Sirius was triumphantly grinning as Tom glared at him, “At least I wasn’t late,” he practically growled. “At least I wasn’t late to our lunch,” Tom spat with a sharp glare, Sirius’ eyes became sharp and yet his grin never faltered.

Sirius went to open his mouth but was quickly cut off by Remus, “So how was your night Hendrix,” he forcefully smiled, I smiled back at him, “Much more restful then yours I suppose,” I said as I took a sip from my glass. Remus spluttered causing Tom and Sirius to chuckle. “Anyhow, I was thinking of taking Harry on a small vacation for the last ten days of his break, any suggestions?” I asked as I took another sip.

Tom was just about to say something when the waitress came by to take our orders, we each told her what we wanted. We sat in silence for a moment before Tom finally spoke up, “Let’s take him to magical Greece,” he said, “There’s too much to do there don’t you think? We won’t be able to cover it all within ten days or less,” Sirius sighed as he leaned back in his chair slightly. “Well how about Ireland, the magic folk live there amongst the muggles and they’re none the wiser besides it normally takes about seven days so we’ll have plenty of time, besides I stayed in Ireland for a bit so I’m familiar with it,” Remus suggested.

Before we could agree or disagree, our food had arrived. The plates gently set themselves down, “I think that’s a brilliant idea, and in the summer we can go visit Greece when we have more than enough time,” I agreed, Tom nodded in agreement along with Remus, Sirius thought for a moment, “Fine,” he sighed. We all looked at him with raised brows, “Have something better in mind do you?” Tom asked. “I was thinking of the circus,” He shrugged, we all blinked at him, “Oh Sirius,” Remus sighed. We all laughed as Sirius began to pout.

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I was back home enjoying some quiet reading, Tom was sitting next to me gently rubbing my leg as he read his own book. We were both drawn from our books when Harry came strolling into the room out of the floo, “Hello Harry, How was Draco’s?” I asked as I returned to my book, “It was fun, Lord Malfoy let us play with the peacock’s! They weren’t overly fond of Ena though,” he pouted slightly as he sat on the couch across from us, “Aunty Ciss sends her regards by the way,” he smiled as began to swing his legs. I smiled as I looked up at him, “I really do need to get in touch with her,” I sighed as I set my book down.

Just then Nifty popped in a handful of trunks popping in with her. “Nifty packed for your trips, Nifty packed winter clothings for Ireland,” she said as she handed Tom a parchment, “Misters Remus and Sirius sirs will meet you at the hotel. Thats be your traveling papers for portkey,” she said as she smiled. “Thank you Nifty,” Tom smiled as he looked over the papers. “You’re going to Ireland?” Harry asked, an ever so slight pout at his lips, “No Harry, we’re all going to Ireland,” Tom smiled as he stood, “Are we ready then?” he asked as he offered me a hand. “No! Yous have to be eating first,” Nifty grumped as she snapped her fingers, allowing our dinner to appear at the living room table.

Tom sat back down, resigning himself to Nifty’s stubbornness. I snickered, Tom gave me an acquiring look. I thought for a moment before responding ^DO YOU SPEAK GIANT?^ I asked. Tom raised his brow at me, ^YES I SPEAK GIANT,^ he sighed. ^I FIND IT FUNNY HOW WELL NIFTY TAKES CARE OF ALL OF US ORPHANS. YOU WERE AN ORPHAN, HARRY WAS AN ORPHAN, I’M AN ORPHAN,^ I shrugged. Tom thought about it for a moment before chuckling. ^HONESTLY I DIDN’T KNOW THAT YOU WERE AN ORPHAN HOW INTERESTING,^ he grinned. I just rolled my eyes at him as I finished up my meal.

A/N - I'm backkk! I hope you enjoyed.