Chapter II: The Boy Who Got Suspended

When Harry woke up on that random morning, he wasn’t ready to be facing Dumbledore at the end of the day for a fight, when Harry woke up that morning, he also wasn’t ready to be send home before the summer break. When he opened the door, we wished no one was home, instead he wished he had time to plan what he wanted to tell his parents, and later his uncles.

“Well, hello to you too” A known voice woke him up from his thoughts “Care to tell me why you’re back home already?” he turned to face Regulus, who widened his eyes as soon as Harry faced him “Harry, what the fuck happened to you?”

Harry let out a long breath, not wanting to face the subject at that time, his face was probably still kinda swollen and red, his face matching his hand.

“Dad- Please- I’m ok…” Harry tried to mumble to assure him, but Regulus was already gently holding his face, as he closely looked at him “it was just a fight, Dumbledore sent us home…”

“Harry James Potter you’re going to tell me what happened and you’re going to tell me now” Regulus sounded strict, almost scaring himself  “And what do you mean us?”

“Wayne is getting ice from the kitchen…” the smaller boy said, as he lay down in the coach next to Regulus “But it wasn’t our fault!” Regulus rolled his eyes

“Oh it never is… You’re just like your father” The older one mumbled “You can choose, you either explain it to me and maybe I can calm down your mother, or I’ll let her take care of this”

“Please, Malfoy talked, I acted, I know I shouldn’t have done it, but there was nothing I could do!” Regulus could feel there was something Harry wasn’t telling him

“Should I expect an angry call from the Weasley’s too?” Harry denied it and Regulus sighed “Go upstairs and shower, I’ll find your cousin and make us something to eat, and both of you will explain me what happened”

Harry just nodded. He got up, wishing nothing more in that second than to leave, and went to his room leaving Regulus alone with his thoughts for a while

“You know, he was trying to protect you” Regulus jumped, as he totally forgot about his nephew being at the house too “we all were”

“If he doesn’t tell me, I can’t help” Regulus crossed his arms “is it broken?” He asked as he watched Wayne holding his right hand, like he was trying to fix it

“It’s getting there, madame Pomfrey took care of it before we left” Wayne shrugged taking a moment to think while his uncle nodded “he doesn’t want to hurt you by telling you, so he will happily face auntie Lilly”

“Go upstairs and shower too” Regulus just said “I’ll let you both think in the talks we’re about to happen when everyone gets here later.”

Wayne and Harry showered and as he said Regulus made them something to eat, he was thinking about what Wayne told him, and even tho everything inside him wanted to know what happened, he didn’t push any of the boys to know more than they told him.

Lily was the first one home, when one of them was home, the other two always tried to check in at lunch, or even the three of them, when Harry was home from school. Lily was furious, but Regulus calmed her down even tho, he was just the same.

“Well, I would love to punch Malfoy too” Lilly told Regulus, as she entered the kitchen after talking a bit to Wayne and Harry “I bet James and Sirius will too, even Remus with his no fighting policy”

She held the man’s waist and pushed her lips gently on the back of his shoulder moving them to his neck, making a little trail of kisses

“He will tell you” Lily reassured Regulus knowing he was probably overthinking it “you’re his father, he will tell you. But he wants to do it” she continued the kisses as Regulus moved his head to give her more access to his neck

“Dad?” Harry’s shaking voice caught their attention, making Regulus and Lily turn to face him, Lily with a small smile on her lips and Regulus with nothing but concern on his face

Lily took a step to leave them alone, but Harry put his hand up as he shook his head, asking her to stay, she nodded holding Regulus hand, walking him and later Harry to sit down

Harry started to speak, he had a complete confused monologue, but everything that Regulus understood was a me, Wayne, Ginny, punch, Malfoy and a sincere I’m sorry. He was almost sure that he also heard something about Hermione stopping Ron. Harry’s cheeks were bright pink, his eyes were watery and as Regulus was facing him, he could almost see his father piecing the words as a puzzle.

Malfoy made fun of Regulus and his relationship with James and Lily, Harry punched him, his friends tried to make a three on one, Wayne intervened taking them off of Harry, and when Hermione hold Ron, Ginny just punch one of Draco’s friends. They could feel Harry’s anger as he talked, they could also feel that he was genuinely sorry, but he would punch them again if they ever did it again.

“Harry…” Regulus started, but the words disappeared “Come here” he opened his arms, holding his kid tightly, when Harry practically jumped on him “Even tho I love you and that I’m really thankful for you and that you were sticking your ground for me and our family, I don’t want you to punch anyone, you will tell us, and we will fix it” Regulus mumbled almost crying his words on Harry’s ear “I love you”

Harry just nodded, whispering an I love you, as he held Regulus tighter, Lily hugged them both, and they let Harry go. Harry went to the living room, where he and Wayne played something as Lily made them lunch. Remus later showed up for lunch too, letting them know that he was informed about the fight and the suspension where he also deducted that his kid would be here, after telling the story again, both Harry and Wayne wished that James and Sirius were home to hear it, especially Harry, he hated the idea of hurting his father telling that story.

“Me and your father are going to talk to them” Lily assured the boys “now leave and go enjoy your summer” the redhead smiled.

(…)

As the group came close to Grover, Harry asked himself how weird could his day get, the unknown girl and boy were both on their knees trying to inspect the broken arm of the Goa-Grover. Since they got there, they could hear them whisper, the blondie was panicking for his friend, the girl seemed a bit like Lily, when she was mad but worried and even tho he was hurt, Grover was trying to calm both of them down.

“So, we got away without no punishment for being suspended” Wayne started while looking at the three “you reckon we can also get away with this?” he asked

“No way” Harry laughed “Besides, how are we supposed to explain this?”

The boys kept a little conversation as the other three were still in their own little world

“Ok I need you both to calm down!” Grover requested a little bit louder, getting Percy and Annabeth’s attention “thank you, now I’m hurt and there’s nothing we can do other that wait for me to heal, and to do that I need you both to try and not kill each other, deal?” they both nodded “great, not help me up, please”

“Wait…” Percy whispered again when a thought hit him

“How do they see your legs?” Annabeth was the one finishing his thought

“The mist sometimes just doesn’t work on people, look at your mom” Grover explained “I don’t sense any monster, so we have no reason to overthink it, ok?”

Percy and Annabeth looked at each other, not entirely buying his story, but decided not to fight it, they helped Grover up, facing the two boys who stopped their happy conversation when they noticed

“I’m guessing no hospital, right?” Harry asked, and the three nodded

“Especially because of the goat legs” Wayne mumbled, not really thinking about it before talking “I mean not the muggle hospital at least, maybe St Mungo's…” he kept rambling, confusing the trio, as Harry rolled his eyes

“Will you shut up?” He hit the other boy’s arm “let’s take them inside!”