HUSBAND, WIFE AND BABY TAKE A BATH (husband and dad remus au)
"What the?" Remus exclaims as you suddenly enter with nothing but a towel wrapped around you and your naked son held up against your hip.
"Da!" little Alfie squeals in delight at the sight of his father and immediately reaches his arms out to him. At the sight of your son's tiny hands making grabbing motions at Remus, you promptly comply and hand him over to your husband. As Alfie immediately takes to the water and splashes about, disturbing your husband's peace and stretching an amused grin across his lips, you rummage around to get out a few of Alfie's bath toys. You settle with a classic yellow rubber duck, a blue spurting whale and a little floating plastic boat.
Remus watches as you place the toys in the bath before unwrapping the towel around you and hanging it up. As your husband helps your son sink (for the little bubbles) and unsink his little boat (to do it over again - for the bubbles), you slip into the water on the other side of the tub with another plastic boat in your hands.
"Alfie look~" you steal his attention in the midst of him hitting the plastic boat against the surface of the water over and over again. Once you have his full attention, you let your little boat sail peacefully across your side of the tub with a gentle push. Observing your actions, your son mimics what you do before clapping and looking up at you for approval, "well done Alfie~" you praise gently, watching fondly as your son smiles with a giggle before turning to your husband with the same look.
"Good job, Al," Remus muses in his deep, soothing voice. In his father's hold, Alfie attempts to climb up Remus's chest and does so with the help of your husband's supporting hands against his sides, "what are you up to buddy?"
"Da! Da!" Alfie calls.
"That's me," you smile at their adorable interaction and sigh in relief. This was the right choice. Remus had been quite exhausted after the full moon a few days ago, even when the boys came over to transform with him as animagi, you can tell that the recent transformation took a lot out of him. He's been so exhausted and lethargic recently that he couldn't bear you and Alfie catching sight of him outside your usual check ups and meal deliveries. But you and Alfie missed him dearly, he had been so fussy without his father, so this was your attempt at finally confronting Remus of his horrible avoidance habit without actually confronting him. It was then when Alfie placed a small hand over the uneven texture of a scar across Remus's cheek. Of course your son is smart, even from a young age — he is Remus's afterall.
"What a smartie pants," you coo, inching forward to kneel in between Remus's legs as you bring up a hand to lovingly stroke back his hair, "just like his father,"
Tears surface in Remus's eyes as he sees pure, unadulterated love filling your eyes and the guilt of it all makes his chest tighten. It's almost too much to bear and he makes the mistake of looking at his son again, who coos happily in his arms, gently patting at his scar with a smile, "I'm ashamed..." I should trust you more by now...
"Don't be Rem," you kiss his temple sweetly, "Alfie and I just missed you so much, didn't we, hon?" you ask softly, giggling at the look Alfie gives you after seeing how you kissed your husband. It's the look he usually gives you when he wants a kiss too so you lean down and comply with your son's silent plea. With a kiss on his tiny button nose, he instantly became a giggling mess.
"I missed you too..." Remus smiles and kisses Alfie's forehead before leaning forward to capture your lips in a kiss as well. It would have been a long, love-filled kiss if it weren't for your son attacking you with a spray of water using his Whale toy.
"I guess he just missed being a nuisance huh?" Remus says in amusement and raises his giggling son out of the water to blow raspberries against his plush belly.
"He gets that from you~" you tease and Remus smirks, all too proud of his origins as a Marauder, causing havoc throughout Hogwarts.
"He'll be sure to get a pretty lady in the future then," Remus hums thoughtfully as Alfie takes his whale toy and sinks it into the water, watching in awe at the bubbles that surface above it.
"Why's that?"
"Because causing trouble got me you and you're the prettiest lady around,"