apple picking - wolfstar raising teen harry (anon request) - hint at drarry - CW: mention of jily death - @wolfstarmicrofic - word count: 408
“Harry James Potter, we are going apple picking if it fucking kills me!” Sirius found himself shouting, his arms crossed, as he stomped his foot and scowled at his godson.
“But why?” Harry asked from his spot sprawled on the couch, with an eyeroll that happened so commonly now, Sirius could have sworn the sixteen-year-old deserved an award for the skill. “I’m not a kid anymore, Padfoot, I don’t care about–”
“About what? Time together? Family bonding?” Remus, who was standing in the doorway of the sitting room, said both lightly, but Sirius could sense the hurt under his husband’s casual tone. Who had allowed Harry to grow up to be such a moody teenager, anyway? He was so like James, sometimes.
Luckily, he was also like Lily, because Harry’s scowl softened and he sat up, staring at his hands. “No, I just…it’s childish. M’not five anymore, you know?”
Sirius’s heart broke a little, knowing all too well how true the words were. Soon, Harry would be in his twenties, older than his parents ever had been. He sent Remus a pained look.
“Alright,” Remus agreed slowly. “What if we make a new before-school tradition? Sirius, you Floo Narcissa and cancel, and–”
But now Harry was staring at both of them with a very curious look on his face. “Narcissa? Malfoy?” he asked, voice breaking a bit. His expression reminded Sirius comically of the one James used to use when trying to be cool around Lily. “She was coming? Er…alone?”
“No, she’d decided to bring Draco,” Sirius said slowly, a smile stretching onto his face. “From what she said, he was just as enthusiastic about it as you are, but she’s trying to spend time with him more, since her and Lucius’s div–”
“I mean, we can go,” Harry cut him off, rubbing his hand on the back of his head, messing up his hair even more than it’d been before. “Er…yeah, bonding is cool.”
It took everything in Sirius not to exchange an amused look with his husband. “Bonding is cool?” he repeated dubiously.
“Yeah,” Harry said shortly. “I’ll change.”
And with that, the teenager walked off toward his bedroom, leaving Sirius and Remus to collapse into each other in a fit of laughter.
“Should’ve led with that part, love,” Remus muttered, eyes dancing with amusement. “We’re obviously worth nothing, but Draco?”
Sirius fake-gagged. “If only James could see him now,” he rolled his eyes and grinned.