Eternal Sunshine - James Potter

Chapter 76

October 31st 1981

I stood in the doorway to the bathroom watching James recount his cup winning match to Harry, who seemed to be eating up every word his dad was saying. James was crouched down in front of the bath, the remanence of a bubble bearded still present on his face while Harry modelled a bubble Mohawk.
"That was when mummy told me she loves me for the first time" Harry slapped his hands to the water splashing his dad
"mumeee!" James, although now soaking wet just laughed.
"yeah bud, Mummy is pretty great isn't she?" I laughed at my boys causing both of them to turn to look in my direction
"I will remind you both of this conversation when your sulking because I don't let you have any more cookies"
"cookeeee" Harry squealed yet again splashing James
"let's get ready for bed first Harry, then we can see what we can do about a cookie" James said blowing the bubbles from Harry's head before lifting him out of the tub, wrapping him in a towel. We were hoping for Harry to have an early night tonight, he had a very busy day pretending to be a snitch in his Halloween costume. I had made sure to take loads of pictures as all our friends were on duty today and wouldn't get to see him before his bedtime.

We were interrupted by a loud bang at the front door. James and I immediately going into high alert.
"take Harry to his room" I instructed moving to leave the bathroom only for James to call me back.
"please be careful Em" I looked into his worried eyes giving a small nod before running down the stairs. I gripped my wand tightly as I peeled open the door, the air escaping my lungs as I saw who it was.
"I am Regulus Orion Black. I know where your house is as you brought me here after kneeing me in the balls in an alleyway" I opened the door wider yanking Regulus into me
"I missed you so much" he squeezed me tightly
"I missed you too Em but I need you to get James. Moody and Dumbledore are bringing everyone here" it was only now I saw the frantic look in his eyes
"what's going on Reg?"
"please just get James. I will explain when everyone gets here. We don't have much time"

I shouted up the stairs to James, letting him know it was safe. He came down with Harry on his hip. At the sight of Regulus pacing the living room, he pulled Harry closer to him sensing something was wrong.
"he said Moody and Dumbledore are bringing everyone here. He will explain what's going on then. Somethings wrong James. Something big" James wrapped an arm round my shoulder pulling me close just like he had with Harry.
"cookee?" At the sound of Harry's voice, Regulus froze turning to face us. I pried Harry from James and made my way over to Regulus, forgetting whatever was going on just for a moment.
"Harry, this is uncle Reggie" Harry, the ever-sociable baby that he is, stretched out of my hold and leaned towards Reg. I gave a small nod of my head encouraging Regulus to take him
"Regee" Harry had clearly mastered the 'ee' sound. Regulus just started at Harry while he tugged on his chain around his neck
"he has your eyes" James who had moved next to me chuckled
"he got her temper too" before I could scold James, we were brought back to the present with a knock at the door letting us know everyone had arrived.

When Sirius entered the living room to see Regulus stood there, he quickly ran towards his brother. Regulus just had enough time to pass Harry to James before embracing his older brother. The brothers had barley spoken a word to each other in years, yet even though they may deny it at times, they never stopped loving each other.
"as lovely as this reunion is. Why were we all pulled here? What's going on?" Lucy asked the question on everyone's mind. Moody and Dumbledore had arrived not only with our group of friends but a lot of other order members, even Minnie was here.

The room went silent turning to Regulus
"you have a mole in the order" Sirius rolled his eyes 
"I already knew that" When Regulus gave Sirius a sombre look, I took a quick look around the room noticing one person in particular was missing. My heart sinking at the realisation.
"James pass me Harry" I whispered. Not wanting James to be holding Harry if Regulus revealed what I was thinking he might. Confused, James passed Harry into my arms. I think Harry could sense the tension in the room as he had gone very quiet and clung on tightly to me.
"Peter Pettigrew is the mole"