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The boy in the crib
For Sirius it seemed like any other day when another crib was placed in his nursery, he couldn't articulate his curiosity at the ripe age of 1 years old but he did stand up in his cot and watch intently as his father whisked his wand and a crib identical to his own appeared and then as quickly as he entered, he left with a soft click of the door handle.
Sirius wasn't used to his parents coming into the nursery at all, he only vaguely knew who they were, repeatedly told before, during and after their big stuffy parties where a bunch of people would fuss over the poor boy as he wailed for his nanny, the only person to understand his needs and his dislike for being handled too much.
Then, not even two months later another peculiar thing happened, there was quite a lot of commotion then his nanny brought an unfamiliar person into the room and placed them in the other crib then came over to Sirius with a smile.
“Hey mate, come’re, want to meet your baby brother?” Mrs. grace says and grabs Sirius out of his crip and walks him over to the other cot
“Baby” Sirius babbled and grace nods.
“Yup, his name is regulus, like the star, the heart of the lion” she says and Sirius giggles and squirms towards the bundle asleep in the cot.
“Oh, ok yeah you can get a closer look but be gentle Sirius” she said and lowered Sirius down into the cot with his sleeping brother he looked at the boy with a slight tilt of his head when the small bundle shifted and cooed softly making Sirius tense and pat him softly with a smile.
“Good baby” Sirius babbles and the bundle opens his eyes and smiles up at his brother and Sirius smile big.
“He likes you Siri "grace tells him and Sirius giggles, taking the now outstretched hand of his brother and he waves it up and down. Regulus smiles and coos happily and immediately Sirius squeals in delight, startling the baby and regulus starts to cry but Sirius pats him and lays down with him.
“It's ok wedgie, I'm sowwy” Sirius says and regulus hicks softly but calms, only looking at Sirius with big blue curious eyes.
Sirius never did let Reggie cry alone as long as he could help it, being one of two people who could ever truly comfort his little brother. The others neither boy had ever met, and wouldn't till they went to Hogwarts, which is the very thing that drove the brothers apart.
Lily flower
Lilly sat out in the field, plucking a bouquet of flowers, deciding that she wanted to gift them to her parents, she found a few lily flowers and she giggled, finding them fitting she grabbed a few a skipped off to the house, plopping them down on the porch, deciding she didn't want to go inside for the day till the sun set and that would not be for ages, she ran back out to the field to where he sister was playing on the swing
“Lilly, why don't you push me?’ Petunia suggested and lily obliged, giving the swing a running jump start making petunia giggled as she soared with the wind. It was then that lily saw a pretty flower a couple yards away. She looked at it and before she knew it a similar one had sprouted in her hand. She gasped in shock, making Petunia stop the swing to come over to check on Lilly.
“Look tuny i made a flower!” lily smiled, showing her the flower on her hand proudly, petunia looked at it, an odd expression on her face. Lilly looked at her curiously and petunias face down tuned into a frown.
“That's freaky Lilly, you're a freak!” Petunia cried, making Lilly tear up and the flower dying in her hand. Petunia just shook her head and ran to the house, Lilly sat down in the grass, forgetting to fix her dress so it wouldn't get dirty when a figure approached.
“Lilly? Are you ok?” the boy asked, and lily looked up at him, it was Severus, she wiped her tears and shook her head.
“I did something really cool but tuny thought I was a freak, sev, do you think I'm a freak?” Lilly asks, showing her hand, letting a flower sprout just as before and Severus looked at it in shock for a moment then shook his head, he offered her his hand and helped her up and outstretched his palm where an identical flower bloomed.
“I can do it too, it doesn't mean you a freak, it means your magic Lilly, your magic” Severus says smiling at her kindly and Lilly looked at him in awe
“Wow” she says looking at their identical flowers.
Severus then thought for a moment then plucked his flower from off his palm without even a wince and tucked it behind Lilly's ear, she then plucked hers, finding that it actually didn't hurt and placed it in his little shirt pocket and they both giggled at the gestures. Then, all of a sudden Severus plopped down in the grass, sitting up slightly to offer his hand to Lilly who took it and joined him as they both splayed out on the ground looking up at the clouds.
“Lilly I should tell you, the magic, the stuff me and you can do is so much more than flowers on your palms. They have schools, ministries and whole communities for it that you've never known about I couldn't tell you because i wasn't sure but now, your definitely one of us, you're a witch, and I'm a wizard and were going to go to Hogwarts together in a couple years” Severus says, and Lilly looked at him curiously.
“Severus, what are you saying? I thought there was no such thing?” lilly says and he shakes his head “no lills its real, it's all real. Mermaids, witches, dragons and magic. Hogwarts is a school for magic, when we turn 10, we get to go, learn spells and potions, and read books about wizards hundreds of years ago who went on daring adventures. We'll make our own adventure.”
“Sev, but what about my family?
“You'll see them on holiday, and when you grow up, you'll see them whenever you want!” Severus says and lily smiles ``why can't we go noooow!” Lilly complains and Severus laughs “just not how it works lils, we got to wait” he says, and she huffs.
“Well, tunys ten, is she going to go?” Lilly asks and Severus shakes his head.
"No, no she's not like us petunias, normal, nothing special about her, "Severus says and lily frowns in confusion.
"But if I'm Magic, wouldn't she be?” she asks, and Severus shakes his head making Lilly even more confused.
“No, it's not that simple, your parents aren't so you don't get it from them, for you it just happened the likeness it also happens to your sister are very low.” Severus says and Lilly huffs, not satisfied with this for some reason. But she didn't say anything, preferring to lay there with Severus dreaming of the adventures could have.