
Daycare horror
“Thank you so much Sirius”
“It’s totally okay, like I said”, Sirius said as kept the front door open with his other hand, while holding Harry on his other hip.
“Everything should be okay with you dropping him off and if anything comes up just call me”
Sirius rolled his eyes, but nodded. Lily was stressing too much about it.
Earlier that morning Lily had called him asking if he could drop Harry off to the daycare. James was out of town to visit his parents and Lily was supposed to take him, but then without any warnings her professor informed that the lesson that was supposed to be cancelled ended up not being.
Usually James was the one to take Harry to the daycare as his lessons usually started later than Lily’s. And in the afternoon they would go and get Harry together.
But because the world seemingly hates her today that wasn’t possible either.
“And if you don’t mind picking him up. I will come and get him after five, if that’s okay?”Lily asked, unlike normally she had school till four today. “I’m sorry, you’re supposed to be having a day off from school and here I am”
“Stop it, seriously! What could be a better way to spend the day than with my godson”, he said and glanced at Harry who was just staring at them, clutching to his black dog stuffie.
(Sirius and Remus had given it to Harry the day he was born and Sirius will till his last day be proud that it’s Harry’s favourite toy)
“Right Harry?” he asked the little boy in his arms. He looked at Sirius, mouth hanging open and let out a laugh as Sirius tickled his tummy. “See? We will be just fine, mommy is worrying too much”
Lily let out a sigh, but smiled and looked at the time from her phone.
“Okay I better get going now”, she stepped closer and pressed kisses to her son's dark hair. “Bye baby, be nice to uncle Sirius, okay?”
She kissed his chubby cheek, “I love you”
Harry waved his hand to Lily, “bye momma!” he said.
“Bye mommy”, Sirius said too and smirked as Lily rolled her eyes.
“He better be in one piece when I come and get him”
Sirius laughed, just a minute ago she was worrying and now already threatening him.
“He will be, Moony will make sure of it”
“Moony?” Harry asked as Sirius closed the door. They had an hour before they would have to leave. Lily didn’t really like the idea of Harry riding a bike with him, so they will have to walk.
Or Sirius will have to walk.
“Moony is not here right now”
Remus had left earlier that morning for his own lessons and straight after school he would go to work. Remus always worked too much for Sirius liking, they were both busy yes, but Remus was way too busy and some days he would go straight to bed after getting home. He was scared Remus would wear himself out with all the studying and working. And they weren’t even 25 yet…
It was something they will have to discuss later.
Sirius saw how Harry’s lower lip stuck out of his mouth, a pout stretching on his face. “But! He will be here after daycare”, he pressed a quick kiss to Harry’s hair and sat him down on their living room sofa.
“No need to pout, little man”, he said and went to lie on the sofa too. Harry climbed on top of him, resting his little head on his chest. Sirius let out a yawn and wrapped his hands around Harry.
“How about we close our eyes for a second? How does that sound?”
But he didn’t really hear if Harry answered anything to him
-
Sirius turned his head to the side as something poked his other cheek. He murmured something under his breath that was supposed to sound like ‘stop’.
“Paddy”, a small voice said and the same thing from earlier poked his cheek. That’s when he opened his eyes to see Harry sitting up on top of him, poking his face with one of his little fingers.
“Paddy”, he said again and this time smiled as he had succeeded to wake his uncle. Sirius didn’t have much time to smile back at the boy when his eyes widened and he quickly pulled his phone out of his pocket.
8:45
“Shit”, he muttered under his breath and he jumped up from the sofa, taking Harry with him.
“We are late Harry”, he said as he almost sprinted from the living room to the kitchen where he had left all Harry’s stuff earlier.
Harry was supposed to be in the daycare at nine and the walk was at least half an hour, so they won’t make it in time.
“Shit, I shouldn’t have fallen asleep”, Sirius said to himself as he sat Harry down on the floor to put both of their shoes on.
“Try wake Paddy up”, Harry said looking up to Sirius who was just putting his leather jacket on. Sirius glanced down at him and saw how his brows were furrowed down, a pout on his face once again.
“Oh no Harry no it’s not your fault”, he said as he threw Harry’s little backpack over his shoulder and lifted Harry up from the floor. “Paddy just didn’t realise to set an alarm.. Or something. But it’s okay, you did good!”
“Your mom will just kill me if she hears we were late”, Sirius murmured under his breath, making sure Harry didn’t hear him.
“What’s the first thing you usually do at daycare”, Sirius asked, trying to solve if it was bad to be late from daycare. It’s not like he knows what the kids actually do there. Do they study or some shit? No way, they’re too young to do that.
“Play”, Harry simply said as he was more focused on playing with the wild strands of hair spilling from the bun the rest of Sirius's hair was in.
“Play, okay so we are good”, Sirius said but still didn’t slow down his pace that was more of running than walking at this point. Sometimes he wished he could have Remus’ long legs so he wouldn’t have to run around the streets of London with a toddler on his hip.
Hell sometimes he wished he was Moony. It’s not like something like this would ever happen to him.
“Paddy hurry”, Harry said and squirmed in his arms. Now a little out of breath Sirius glanced at his godson mouth hanging open.
“Excuse me mister you will get to walk on yourself very soon with those tiny legs of yours”
But Harry just let out a high pitched giggle.
It took him twenty minutes to get to the daycare, which was pretty impressive if he was being honest.
“Okay Harry so do we just walk in or?”, he said as he set him down. He felt like the other side of his body was on fire, running and holding a child was pretty much a workout.
“Daddy go inside and leave fast”, Harry explained and took a hold of Sirius' fingers with his hand.
“What’s you mean buddy”, he asked the same time he opened the daycare's door to find at least seven moms standing inside, clearly gossiping over something. They all turned to look at them and whatever conversation had been going on died down the second they laid their eyes on Sirius.
And that’s also the moment when he realised what Harry meant by James leaving this place as quickly as he could.
Harry seemed to be excited as he pulled Sirius after himself inside and was almost ready to just run over to his friends.
“Wow wait a second there”, he said and scooped Harry to his arms before the little boy could run from him. He was very aware of the several eyes that were on him the whole time “Let’s take these off”, he said as he pulled the stickers from Harry’s shoes open.
“Hi, I’m dropping Harry off today. I’m sure his mom Lily Potter informed you guys about it?”, he said to the closest worker he could find. The guy looked at some kinda of a list before looking up at him again.
“You’re Sirius, right?”
He nodded
“Everything is good, she called here earlier. And am I right that you are picking him up later too?”
“Yeah that too”, he said and then turned back to Harry
“Where do I leave this?” he asked Harry and crouched down to be in level with Harry and took the backpack he was referring to off his shoulder.
“Just put it in Harry's locker” a voice said behind his back. Sirius turned his head to the side to look at the speaker. It was one of the mom’s. She had blond, clearly dyed hair. She was at least five years older than Sirius himself and the look on her face told him she wanted to eat him alive or something like that.
“Thanks”, he said wondering why the lady knew his godson's name, but then turned back to Harry. “Okay Paddy will go now, you have fun okay?”
Harry nodded his head and then wrapped his arms around Sirius’ neck. Sirius smiled and wrapped his own arms around Harry.
“See Moony after?” Harry asked as he squished his cheek to Sirius’ neck.
“Yes, we will come and get you”, he said, not actually sure if Remus will be able to come with him.
“Bye Paddy”, Harry said and kissed Sirius rough cheek. Sirius pressed a kiss to Harry’s wild hair and then the little boy was off, running to the other side of the room where a boy with bright red hair was playing with another boy with dark hair.
Sirius didn’t have much time before the mom’s from earlier got closer to him, ready to drown him with millions of questions.
“Well hello”, the same woman from earlier said. Sirius tried not to let out a sigh.
“Hi”
“Are you a friend of James and Lily?” another woman, this time with brown hair asked. Sirius felt like answering something stupid, because who else could he be? Some stranger who kidnapped their child?
“Paddy if I heard right?” the blond one asked before he had time to answer the previous question. He felt uneasy as he realised they all had listened to him and Harry talk. Not that it was a surprise. They all seemed like the type of people who didn’t have much happening in their own lifes, not more than their kids and some jobs they really didn’t enjoy.
“That’s me”, he said and played with the ring on his right hand nervously. He didn’t know why the situation was so nerve racking, maybe it was the seven pairs of eyes that were staring at him. Waiting from him to spill some kind of secret out they could spend the next three weeks discussing.
“I’m guessing that’s not really your name?” the blond one asked again. Sirius could guess she was some kind of a leader, if daycare mom’s had one. Seemed like they did.
“No, it’s Sirius”, he ran his left hand through his hair that wasn’t that neat anymore. He pulled the hair tie out of his hair and did the bun again. And it clearly was the wrong thing to do, because now all the mom’s in front of him looked at him like a piece of meat.
“Ah so you’re the godfather?”
Sirius nodded
He had never in his life felt as sexualised as in that moment, and he’d been hit on many times in the past.
Mom’s clearly were something different.
“And Sirius, how old are you? You look very young”
Is this some kind of job interview? He wanted to ask
“I’m twenty two” he said, keeping the answers short so that maybe, just maybe they would take the hint.
Approving hums and glances were passed between the women in front of him.
“Oh you’re very young”, the same blond one said and nodded her head slowly. “May I ask if Harry’s parents are the same age as you?”
“No um, they are twenty one, well twenty two this year but..”
Other glances went through the group
“How are you so young? When I was your age I didn’t even think about having kids”, one of them who hadn’t yet said anything now wondered out loud. She was clearly older than the blond one, at least thirty.
“You know what they say, they start early nowadays”, the brown haired from earlier answered the other one.
“Well I don’t know, it’s not like-”
“You have kids yourself Sirius?” the blond one asked again.
“No I-”
“Thinking of having one in the future?”
“Don’t know, haven’t really thought about that one”
More questions were fired to his way
“You have a wife? A girlfriend?”
Sirius shook his head, “No to both of those. I’m ga-”
“Oh wonderful”, the blond one said and smiled at him. That was the moment Sirius decided he must get out of this place before one of the lady’s in front of him forces him into marriage with herself.
“I really got to go now, I have a lesson to get to”, that was a lie and also the first thing that came to his mind.
“You picking Harry up in the evening?”
“Yeah..” he cursed himself for answering the question.
“Well see you then Sirius”, she said just as Sirius stepped out of the building.
The second he was far enough he pulled his phone out and pressed it to his ear.
“Hi Pads”, Remus' voice answered from the other side. Sirius hadn’t checked the time before he had called so he was lucky Remus answered.
“When are you off from school?” he asked, skipping the greetings.
“My last lesson ends at two, but then I have-”
“Great, please please please come and pick Harry up from daycare with me”
“I have work, Sirius. Everything alright?”
“Call and say you’re sick or something. I can’t go there by myself again or the mom’s will kidnap me and force me to marry one of them. I’m not even kidding Moony”
Remus let out a laugh,
“What’s going on?”
“The mom’s at Harry’s daycare are the worst. Asked for my age and if I have kids or a wife. Didn’t even get the change to tell I would rather suck their husbands off than go on a date with them before they got too excited”
Now Remus was full on laughing on the other side of the line,
“Okay I got it, I got it. I will come with you”
“Thank fuck”, Sirius let out a breath. “I will probably have to snogg your face off in front of them so that they will understand that I’m absolutely hundred percent gay”
“Okay calm down Pads, we won’t do that”
“Why not?”
“It’s a daycare, there’s kids there. Including your godchild”
“Well if the kids can’t take two people showing some affection to each other than that’s literally their probl-”
“Sirius”
“Fine!”
“Okay great. But I have to go now the lessons about to start”
“Love you Moony”
“Love you too, bye”
-
“Calm down Sirius, It can’t be that bad”, Remus said as he had to pull Sirius after him to get to the daycare. They were almost ten minutes early, because Remus has insisted they’ll have to be early after Sirius told him about how he had to pretty much run there in effort to not be so late.
“No Remus you don’t understand! They wanted to eat me alive and leave no crumbs”
“Oh you poor thing”, Remus said and lifted their intertwined hands to his lips to kiss the back of Sirius’ hand. “Good thing I’m here now isn’t it”
“Yeah, you scare all the mom’s away”
“Sure thing”, he said and opened the daycare's door.
Only to find the same seven women standing in the lobby where Sirius had dropped Harry off earlier that morning.
“I swear to god they fucking live here”, Sirius murmured as he walked after Remus. Remus gave him the dead glare and then turned to one of the workers there
“Hey, we are here to pick up Harry”
The worker couldn’t be much older than the both of them, she smiled sweetly to them and then went through a list.
“Right, Sirius I’m guessing?” the girl asked and looked at Remus. From hearing his name being said Sirius stepped next to Remus.
“Yeah, that’s me!”
“Great, um they’re in the middle of crafting at the moment. So do you guys mind waiting for a bit?”
“Not at all, take your time”, Remus said, smiled and turned around to sit on one of the many chairs in the lobby.
The moment they sat down the women were on them.
“Well hello again Sirius”, the blond one, once again, said
Sirius himself looked at Remus who seemed absolutely unbothered, almost bored by their present.
Should he like crap on Remus' hand? Or or… well do something that will tell the drooling women in front of them that ‘hey by the way I’m gay! Like hundred present gay and pretty much in a relationship with this man sitting next to me. Yup, you heard right that dick has been up my ass since we were seventeen and isn’t planning on not going there in a whi-’
Too much information, maybe?
“Hey”, he muttered, not meeting her eyes. Could the kids just craft a little faster so he can get out of here and complain to James on the phone for three hours and then to his wife when Lily comes to pick up Harry.
That evil redhead, she should have warned him.
“I saw you brought a friend with you this time”
Friend indeed
“Yeah um-”
“Remus, pleasure to meet you”, Remus interrupted him to introduce himself the same time he extended his hand for her to shake. It was in fact not pleasure to him to meet her, Sirius could tell by the tone of his voice.
“Hannah”, the woman said and shook his hand. “Are you friends with Lily and James too?”
“Yes, you know them too?” Remus asks to keep up a conversation with her so Sirius doesn’t have to deal with her.
Oh Sirius could kiss him for it
“Yes for sure, more Lily I would say. James doesn’t speak too much with us, he’s rather quick to drop Harry off every morning”
“I wonder why”, Sirius mumbles under his breath, Remus pinches his other shoulder with the arm that was resting on the back of his chair.
Casual…
“Well they’re both quite busy, you know school and work and well a toddler”, Remus flashed a tight smile and looks at Hannah more observing.
“It must be hard to be a young parent”, Hannah says, bringing out their age once again. What’s with these women and being young? Like Sirius understands maybe not everyone is ready to be parents in their early twenties, but fuck her with all the questioning.
“Lily and James are doing just fine, they’re awesome really”, Remus says, clearly as annoyed with her as Sirius is.
“Absolutely, not questioning it”
Expect that you’re, Sirius almost says but rather bites his tongue.
“So Remus, you have any kids yourself?”
There’s that question once again.
“No”, he simple says
And then it’s the moment Remus decides to drop the bomb.
“We haven’t really thought about that, have we?” Remus says and looks at Sirius the same time his fingers curl to touch his shoulder. Sirius looks at Hannah and all the other mom’s who all clearly connected the dots.
Bingo
“I mean sometime in the future maybe, huh?” Remus keeps going and turns his cage to Hannah. “You know we are only twenty one, well his twenty two, but maybe now isn’t the right time for us”
And because this isn’t enough yet Remus keeps going
“And then there’s the deciding of if we want to adopt… though I would love our kids to have Sirius eyes. Oh they would be some gorgeous babies with your genes love”
Sirius almost chokes on nothing after the last comment. Not because he would mind having biological kids with his and with Remus genes, but because that was unexpected. They really haven't talked about it before.
Also because the looks on the women’s faces in front of them are hilarious. Some of them are just simple shocked, one looks disgusted, fuck her. A woman with red hair sitting next to another woman with dark hair, who had been listening to their conversation from the chairs next to Remus and him are smiling.
“So you guys are together?” Hannah ask, she clearly is stupid.
“No we just have casual sex from time to time , but nothing more serious”, Remus says flatly, bored expression covering his face. Sirius is smiling his ears off.
No one gets to say anything when kids start to run to the room running up to their parents.
“Moony!” Harry is running up to them, moving as fast as his short legs let him. He crashed straight into Remus' waiting arms.
“Hey sweetheart. Did you have fun today?” Remus asks as he lifts Harry up to the air.
Harry giggles and nods his head. “Yes make painting”
“Oh wow, can we see it?”, he asks as he sits down again.
“It not here, it need to dry”, Harry says and proceeds to stand up from Remus' lap to rather stand on top of his thighs. Remus makes sure to hold Harry’s hands so he won’t fall and hurt himself.
“Well we will see it later, yeah?” Sirius asks and moves to sit closer to Remus. Harry turns to look at him and then decides to move over to him and wrap his arms around Sirius’ neck.
“Sleepy”, he murmurs and pressed his head to Sirius’ shoulder.
“Let’s go home then”, Remus says and gets up. “I’ll get his bag quickly”
When Remus got back with all Harry’s stuff they leave quickly before any of the mom’s decide to attack them with any other questions. Though they probably didn’t have many questions to ask anymore.
“When is daddy home?” Harry murmurs to his ear. Sirius smiles sadly and runs his hand up and down on Harry’s back.
“Tomorrow buddy. Until then you will have the best time with us and mommy”
Harry is quiet for a second, but then he raises his head from Sirius’ shoulder
“Promise?” he asks.
“Yes”
Then he looks at Remus who nods his head.
“Promise”
Then Harry grins and puts his hands to Sirius’ cheeks.
“Okay”
And maybe Sirius really does wanna have kids someday. He images a cute little boy with Remus’ chocolate colored curls and a girl with his piercing blue eyes. Or the other way around, it doesn’t really matter to him. What matters is that whatever daycare their kids end up going there won’t be any nosy moms ready to skin him alive.
And as if Remus is thinking of the same topic as him, he reaches for Sirius hand with his own.
Yeah he really does need a little head of chocolate curls to his life, that’s for sure.
For now though Harry is just enough for him,
but someday.