It'll be alright
"Hey Lils?" James calls as he steps inside.
He hears a door being closed and then Lily's voice answering, "Yeah James, what's up? How did it go with your mum?"
"Yeah it was ok," James sighs, "but Lils I found something."
"You found something?" Lily asks amused.
"Yeah, could you come downstairs?"
He hears Lily chuckle but she walks downstairs anyway. "Ok what is it Ja-" Lily stops as she sees the cat in James' arms.
"Why do you have a cat?" She cuckles.
"I found it," James smiles his big wide smile, "and I'm keeping him."
Lily grins, "ok, but at least let me give him a bath."
James huffs and hands the cat over to Lily. She takes him over to the kitchen sink before checking him over. "Oh dear." She mutters when she sees the scars and dirt.
She turns on the water and grabs soap before picking up the cat to put him in.
The cat Howls and tries to get out of Lily's hold when she puts it near the water.
"Hmm," Lily hums, "what's wrong little guy? Do you not like water?"
The cat howls again and climbs up Lily's arm, away from the water.
James frowns, "What's up with him?"
"I don't know, come on little guy you're dirty." Lily softens her voice like she's talking to a baby.
The cat looks between James and Lily before slowly shuffling towards the water. He puts on foot in before he slips and falls into the water.
"Oh no!" Lily calls as the cat yowls and tries to crawl out of the water.
James starts laughing while Lily frantically tries to calm the cat down.
Harry starts crying and James runs up to check on him while Lily is still trying to get the small cat under control and stop it from getting out of the sink.
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After calming Harry down James notices that there is no sound of the cat coming from the kitchen.
James picks Harry up and walks downstairs where he sees Lily sitting on the couch with a blanket in her lap.
"Lils?" James calls.
She turns around and gestures him over.
James slowly walks around the couch and notices the little cat bundled in the blanket. It looks like it's sleeping very heavily and it's purring softly.
Harry also notices the small cat and he tries to reach out to it while smiling. James and Lily look at each other while cooing softly at Harry's antics.
The cat stirs and opens one of its eyes to look at Harry. It reaches out a paw and lightly taps Harry on the nose before starting to purr again.
James feels his heart squeeze as he looks at the cute interaction. He sits down next to Lily with Harry in his lap.
The cat crawls over to Harry and sits on his lap. Harry laughs at the cat before putting his hands on his fur.
The cat closes his eyes again visably relaxes.
Lily look over to James and taps him on the arm.
"Hmm?" James asks looking over at her.
Lily smiles softly before she says, "Wiskers."
James tilts his head, "What?"
"We should call him Wiskers. You know, because he's a cat."
"Hmmm, that's not a bad name. Sure Lils, whatever you want." James replies.
Lily places her head on James' shoulder as she looks down at Harry and Wiskers.
"Welcome to the family Wiskers." She says softly and everything in the world seems alright for now.