He was now forty five minutes late. James was bracing himself for the tantrum of the century.
The receptionist at the front desk told him how to find the reception classrooms from inside the school with a soft, sympathetic smile, and he babbled out a thank you before hurrying down carpeted corridors in search of his son; and by the time he reached the trio of doors he’d been directed to, he could hear music, simple piano and a pair of voices singing softly.
“Five little speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log, eating some most delicious grubs,” the first voice sang, smooth over the melody being picked out, and James heard a voice he immediately recognised as Harry’s shout yum yum! as the nursery rhyme continued. He approached the door he could hear the singing coming from quickly.
“One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool,” whoever was looking after his son sang, and James’ fingers closed around the handle to the door, and he pulled it open; only to freeze in the doorway, staring at the scene before him.
“Now there were four green speckled frogs!” Harry declared happily, both hands thrust into the air; and from where he was sitting on the piano bench beside him, Regulus Black grinned down at James’ four year old, before he pulled a funny face and replied solemnly with glug, glug.
Harry burst immediately into giggles, and fell against Regulus; and James watched him pull his hands back from the piano to instead wrap his arms around Harry, and pet through his hair gently.
“Very good, Harry,” he praised him softly, smiling down at him with warm, happy grey eyes; and James felt like he was losing his mind, wondered whether he’d stacked it coming out of his car after all, and was hallucinating or dead.
“Haz?” He called, through a voice clogged with more emotion than he could put words to; and the pair sat on the bench looked up at the same time, Harry’s face breaking into a grin while Regulus’ smoothed over into cool indifference, all the soft happiness from the moment before disappearing behind cool grey eyes.
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