The people have spoken and the people have asked for silly fluff. Don’t ask me where this goes in the universe timeline. I don’t know anymore 😂
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“Peekaboo!” Sirius said as he opened his hands up to reveal his face to Addie who giggled and hit her hands together in delight. Sirius beamed and closed his hands over his face again, pausing for a moment before another reveal. “Peekaboo!” Addie giggled and then flickered.
Sirius shook his head, certain it must have been a trick of the light. “Peekaboo!” He said again and sure enough there was that flicker, like a glitch in a video game she was there one second, gone and then back again. “Uh Remus?”
“Yeah?” Remus called from the kitchen where he was currently making them lunch.
“Can you come here for a second? I think I might be going mad.”
Remus wandered into the living room and crouched down to join them on the floor. “Not sure how much help I’ll be. I’m just as sleep deprived as you, but I’ll try.”
“Okay, just watch Addie.”
Remus nodded, keeping his eyes trained on their daughter as Sirius put his hands over his face again.
Remus watched his daughter disappeared and then reappeared again, giggling in delight as her parents stared on in confusion. “What the fuck?”
“Oh thank god,” Sirius said. “I know we’re both tired but I didn’t think we were that tired.”
“Hold on,” Remus said, as he rested one hand against Addie’s back. “Do it again.”
Sirius nodded, obscuring his face and revealing it again. “Peekaboo!”
Addie howled with delight and mirrored his disappearance and reveal with her own.
“She’s still there. I can feel her,” Remus sighed, and leaned back. “I guess her magic has come in.”
“Of course,” Sirius said. “The perfectly logical explanation to our daughter’s disappearance.”
Remus laughed. “How’d yours first appear?”
“I lit the curtains on fire.”
“You what?”
Sirius shrugged. “My mom always said I did because I knew they were last season. I know I would have been too little to remember, but I’m certain she wasn’t paying attention and I got tangled up in them and couldn’t get out. I think I just panicked and then boom - curtains en flambe. How very Oscar Wilde of little me.”
Remus smiled lightly. Sirius was always one to wrap his messy childhood up in a joke. Remus believed him that he knew the truth. Magic is just like that sometimes. You can feel it in your soul.
“What about you?” Sirius asked. A little surprised that they’d never had this conversation before, but happy that even after all these years they still had new things to learn about each other. He’d never get tired of getting to unwrap Remus. He was the most perfect gift.
“I had this stuffed dog, Brown. One day my mum was playing with us and Brown just started dancing all on his own.”
“What happened to him?” Sirius asked, recognizing the sad look in Remus’s eyes.
“He didn’t survive Fenrir’s attack. I don’t think there was enough of him left for my mum to sew back together. They got me a new one but it wasn’t the same, ya know?”
Sirius nodded and turned his attention back to Addie. Upon realizing she had an audience again she giggled and flickered once more. “We’re going to give her every once of our childhoods that we never got, aren’t we?”
“Absolutely,” Remus said as he leaned down to blow a raspberry on her cheek and she shrieked in delight.
Sirius tickled her toes playfully, pausing as the full reality of the situation dawned on him. “Remus. We have a disappearing baby. A disappearing baby who can crawl. What the hell are we going to do?”
Sirius just looked at him unimpressed.
“Come on. It’s a little funny isn’t it?” He looked at Addie. “Tell Papa it’s funny, little peekaboo.” Hearing her cue she flickered again, smiling up at Sirius.
“Stop trying to calm me down.”
Remus elbowed him in the side playfully. “It’s working at least a little bit, isn’t it?”
“Maybe,” Sirius grumbled.
“What about we make another map? It would be just like we did at Hogwarts except it would be our apartment. That way when she decides to go all invisibility cloak on us we can still see where she is.”
“Isn’t that a little helicopter parenty?” Sirius worried.
“This is for her safety though. We are mostly certainly burning it before she becomes a teenager. There are things I saw on The Marauders Map that I don’t need to know about our daughter.”
Sirius looked at Remus curiously. “You really don’t want to know if she’s sneaking out in the middle of the night?”
“She’s our child. You really think a magical map is going to prevent her from sneaking out in the middle of the night?”
Sirius smirked. “James is going to lose his mind when he hears about this.”
Remus laughed. “Ten bucks he accidentally puts the invisibility cloak on his future baby by accident and calls us in a panic.”
“The odds are not in my favour Moons.”
“Give him a call,” Remus said. “He’ll be so upset if we don’t let him help us with this.”
“Like when we waited a month to tell him we were together and he gave us the silent treatment for a week?”
“It was supposed to be a week,” Remus clarified. “He burst into tears after only half a day because he missed us so much.”
“Who wouldn’t?” Sirius said as he gave Addie one last tickle and then went to go give his brother a call.
James was in fact over the moon. He demanded on coming over immediately to see Addie’s newly developed magic in action. He wanted them to stay up all night working on the map, but Sirius and Remus had to gently remind him they were two very exhausted parents now instead of the exuberant teenagers they once were.
Either way they got the map finished quickly and life went back to normal minus the occasional case of the missing daughter.
Remus was in kitchen just finishing getting dinner ready when he turned to find Addie’s high chair sitting empty. A quick glance at the map showed him she was still there and so, not needing to worry, he faked surprise. “Now, where could my daughter have gone?” He said in an exaggerated tone. “Is she in here?” He exclaimed as he tugged a cupboard open. “Or under here?” he said glancing under the sink. “What about the fridge?” He flung the doors open, smiling to the sound of her laughter. See the thing was they couldn’t see her, but she hadn’t quite figured out yet that it didn’t mean they couldn’t hear her. Remus didn’t mind. If the sounds of her squeaks and squeals was enough to go by, she enjoyed their games of mock hide and go seek as much as he did.
Sirius watched from the doorway as Remus continued his fake search before seeming to bump into Addie accidentally, scooping her up into his arms as he asked if she’d seen his daughter by chance.
He grinned widely as he watched them. His heart, like his family, full of love and wonder and magic.
