Teddy's grief (Two Shot)

"Teddy? Can I come in?" Harry asked poking his head in through the small hole on the floor of his godsons tree house.

"Yeah." Came a small voice and some sniffles from the corner of the tree house.

Harry carefully climbed in to the tree house and looked around. Teddy was sitting on some pillows in the far corner leaning against the wall. He looked up from the picture he was holding as Harry walked over to him.

"How are you doing cub?"

"Okay."

"I have a present for you."

"What is it?"

Harry sat down next to Teddy and pulled him onto his lap. Teddy quickly dropped the picture he was holding onto the ground next to him. Harry caught a glimpse of it as it floated out of his hands and saw that it was one that had been taken a couple days after he was born. It showed Tonks, Remus, and Andromeda all cuddling a baby boy with turquoise hair who was laughing. Harry smiled at the picture and picked it up.

"You know, this was the picture that your dad brought with him to show us that you arrived. It was the first picture I saw of the little boy who would fill my life with happiness. "

Teddy looked up at Harry with a small smile on his lips. His dark brown hair grew a little bit lighter at the mention of a baby him.

"Whats my present?" Teddy asked a little shyly.

Harry laughed, "Of course you wouldn't forget about a present."

Harry reached into his back pocket, pulled an old looking piece of parchment and handed it to Teddy."

Teddy looked all over it and opened it up but couldn't see why this was a present.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Teddy, you remember how I told you about Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs and all the adventures they had? " He received a small nod. "Well, this was another one of their adventures."

Harry pulled out his wand and tapped the parchment saying "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Words began to form on the map

"What does it say?!" Teddy asked getting excited.

"It says, Messers: Moony, Foxtail, Padfoot and Prongs present, The Marauders Map."

"What about Wormtail? Who's Foxtail?"

"Teddy your a little to young to hear about Wormtail just yet, but I will tell you, he wasn't a very good man. He betrayed his bestfriends to a very bad man."

"You mean Voldemort?"

"Yes."

"Oh, but who's Foxtail?"

"Do you know why Uncle George is always so sad? He had a twin brother who died on the same night your parents died. He was a trouble maker and liked to prank people. So me, Aunt Mione, and Uncle Ron did some magic on the map and changed the name."

"Wow, that's so cool!"

"Do you want to hear a little secret?"

Teddy nodded eagerly.

"These people on the map, Moony, Padfoot, and Prongs, I knew them."

"Really!? Who were they?"

"Well, Padfoot was a guy named Sirius Black. He was my Godfather. Then Prongs, was James Potter."

"Uncle Harry, was that your daddy?"

"Yeah it was. Then the last man, Moony, his name was Remus Lupin."

"Wait, you mean?"

"Yes Teddy. That's your father."

"WOW!!"

"Haha its pretty amazing, huh?"

"Yeah it is!"

"Do you want to see what else the map does?"

Teddy nodded his head so much he looked like a bobble head.

Harry opened up the map and it showed lots of columns and dots with names on them.

"Teddy this is a map of Hogwarts. It shows almost every place in the school and everyone. You don't need this yet, but when you do, I'll give it to you."

"Its awesome!"

"This map is now yours Teddy. I'm going to keep it until you go to Hogwarts, but whenever you want to look at it, just come to me or Ginny and we will get it for you."

"Okay."

Harry tapped the map with his wand and said "Mischief Managed"

Teddy snuggled into Harry's chest and muttered "Thank you."

The two of them sat on the floor of the tree house as Harry slowly rocked the now happy turquoise haired six year old to sleep.