Christmas morning
Remus could hear the small feet running on the halls and then come to a stop in front of their bedroom door. Remus had to give it to him for actually trying to be quiet as Teddy slowly opened the door. Remus kept his eyes closed, but couldn’t help smiling as he imagined Teddy standing on his toes slowly pushing the door open.
Then Remus felt some shuffling and could feel the small boy standing next to the bed on his side. It had become a habit ever since Teddy was old enough to get his first ever big boy bed. Teddy had learned that if he ever needed something in the middle of the night he would tiptoe to Remus and Sirius’ bedroom and wake Remus up. The only reason for that was that Teddy knew Remus was the one that would wake up easier. Remus always joked that the whole world could explode and Sirius still wouldn’t wake up, meanwhile he only needed a small amount of unusual noises to wake up.
“Da,” Teddy whispered and gently nudged Remus’ shoulder. Remus breathed in deeply through his nose and pretended to just now wake up. He slowly opened his eyes to find Teddy’s wide eyes, almost identical to his own, way too close to his face staring down at him.
“Da,” he hissed again as a wide smile spread on his face. Remus smiled too and pulled Teddy to the bed, settling the boy to the spot between him and Sirius, before wrapping him in his arms. The two of them had been together for way too long to actually cuddle the whole night through. Usually at some point of the night Sirius kicked Remus further away from him. Maybe having a kid and having to actually stay up during the nights have made them both appreciate sleeping more than before.
“Daddy, it’s Christmas,” Teddy whispered, trying to keep his voice down beside his excitement. Remus turned to look at the clock on his nightstand that also showed the day and acted surprised.
“No way! I almost forgot,” he joked, the both of them knowing more than well how much Teddy had talked about Christmas the last four weeks.
“Can we go open presents?” Teddy asked and sat up. His hair was all over the place and it actually looked like the christmas themed pyjama shirt he was wearing was backwards too. Lately it’s been important for Teddy to be independent. So he always insisted, not only dressing himself, but choosing the clothes he would wear by himself. So Teddy’s outfits lately have been an interesting pairing of whatever he had found from his closet. Not to forget about the mix match socks.
“Don’t you think we should wake Papa first?” Remus asked and nodded towards the lump under the duvet on the other side of the bed. Sirius has a habit of sleeping completely underneath the duvet. Remus used to be scared the other man would somehow suffocate with the limited and stale air underneath.
Teddy turned to look at Sirius too before nodding his head. Before Remus could say anything or stop Teddy, the boy had already thrown himself on top of him. Sirius let out a pained groan as all the air probably left his lungs.
“Teddy,” Remus said, but tried to not to laugh as Sirius pulled the duvet off and looked at Teddy who was jumping up and down on top of his chest.
“Papa, it’s Christmas we have presents!” Teddy finally yelled. Sirius groaned tiredly and pulled Teddy under his arms before settling on his side pretending to be sleeping.
“Mhmm, don’t you think we could sleep some more?” Sirius murmured and opened his eyes enough to look at Remus with a smile. He opened his arm for Remus who took the hint and pressed himself to Sirius with Teddy between them.
“See, dad wants to sleep too,” Sirius said and squeezed both of them. Teddy let out a whine, but stopped fighting as he realised there was no way he could get off.
“But presents,” Teddy said and pouted, turning to look at Remus with worry in his eyes. Remus shook his head and ran his hand through Teddy’s hair.
“No, I think you’re right. We should go open the presents and leave Papa here,” Remus said and pulled away from the two of them. “He’s boring anyways.”
Teddy looked at Remus and then at Sirius, not knowing what to do.
“But… I want papa too,” Teddy said after a moment of silence. Remus pretended to think about it, trying to come up with a solution.
“How about you go ahead and I will drag him out of bed?” that seemed to work with Teddy, because he quickly nodded his head before sprinting out of the room. Remus turned to look at Sirius who was still laying in bed, his eyes still closed.
Remus leaned closer, “Happy Christmas,” he whispered to Sirius’ skin before kissing him. Sirius kissed him immediately back and hummed.
“Thanks for the present last night,” Sirius said with a teasing voice. Remus hummed too and pulled the duvet over the both of them. He ran his hands over Sirius’ bare sides as he trailed kisses down his neck.
“I have another present for tonight,” Remus said successfully and felt Sirius shiver under his fingers as he ran them over his chest and all the way down to his stomach. Sirius groaned quietly as Remus squeezed his waist.
“Mm, can’t wait,” he said and pulled Remus’ left hand to his mouth, kissing the wedding band on his ring finger
Then Remus stood up pulling Sirius with him, taking the other man by surprise.
“Come one, we have actual physical presents and one overly excited four years old waiting in the living room”
Sirius walked behind Remus to the living room and just before they reached the room Sirius slapped Remus’ ass as hard as he could. Remus let out a yelp and turned to look at Sirius while covering his butt with his hands.
“Happy Christmas, hubby,” Sirius smirked.
-
To say Teddy was over the moon about his present was an understatement. They hadn’t gotten too many gifts for him, because they didn’t want to buy him stuff they both knew Teddy wouldn’t actually play with after the few first days. And because they knew Effie and Monty always got him presents too.
So they got him a lego set that wasn’t too hard to build for Teddy, a couple of toy cars and couple other things they knew Teddy had wanted during the year. What Teddy had been the most excited about was the big black stuffed dog. Ever since Teddy had learned about Sirius’ silly nickname he had claimed that the specific stuffed animal they had seen earlier that year in a shop was Padfoot.
Sirius had also insisted on getting Teddy a pair of sneakers that flickered when you used them. Just because Sirius had wanted similar ones when he was little, but never got them.
And who was Remus to say no to that.
“Teddy you have to choose one,” Remus heard Sirius say from the other side of the shower door.
“But I want to bring them all!”
Remus shut the shower and then opened the shower door to blindly look for his tower that was second later placed to his hand.
“Thanks, love,” Remus said before starting to dry himself off. He listened to Sirius and Teddy debate until he stepped out of the shower with the towel around his waist, making sure to not slip on the tales.
“But why!” Teddy cried out and stomped his leg to the floor to get his point through. Sirius stopped what he had been doing to turn to Teddy and set the towel he had used to dry his hair on the closet toilet seat.
“Because I’m sure Santa Claus has brought you some presents there too so you’ll have those toys in Nana’s house”
Teddy seemed to think about it and Remus slipped behind Sirius, quickly resting his hands on his hips as he passed him.
“Da,” Teddy whined just as Remus was about to exit the bathroom. Instead he turned around and gave his son a pointed look.
“No, Teddy you can’t just bypass what Papa said by asking from me”
Teddy pouted and then looked to the floor. Remus stayed in the doorway to hear what Teddy was going to say.
“I’ll bring Padfoot then,” Teddy finally decided. “I wanna show it to Harry”
Sirius nodded his head and ruffled Teddy’s hair. “That sounds great, sweetheart”
With that Teddy turned around and made his way out. Sirius turned to look at Remus and leaned his hip to the sink.
”Was I being too harsh?” Sirius asked, worrying his lower lip between his teeth. Remus shook his head immediately.
“No, I think it was fair. We really can’t bring all the toys over,” Remus said and crossed his arms over his bare chest. ”Besides it’s good that you set some boundaries too,” Remus said and gave Sirius a pointed look. He was partly joking, but it was true that Sirius had a hard time saying Teddy no. Remus knew Sirius didn’t do it on purpose. It was a mix of trauma and other things from his childhood, so Remus didn’t make him feel bad about it.
“I do set boundaries,” Sirius argued and Remus didn’t feel like actually debating about it so he just shook his head softly with an amused smile. He walked closer from the doorway, knowing very well he should get ready, but still stopped next to Sirius.
He looked at Sirius as he went through his routine of putting, god knows what, things first to his hair before moving to his face.
“What?” Sirius asked with a laugh after a while of Remus just staring at him.
Remus didn’t say anything at first just looked at the amused look on Sirius’ face who looked back at him.
”Nothing, you’re just very beautiful and I like looking at beautiful things,” Remus said knowing very well how corny he sounded. Sirius rolled his eyes and went back to applying some overpriced serum to his face.
“You’re a sap,” he said with a shake of his head. Remus laughed and leaned closer to quickly peck Sirius on the lips.
“Da, help!” Teddy’s voice yelled from somewhere in the house. They both turned to look towards the door.
“He’s probably somehow got stuck to his shirt again,” Remus said over his shoulder.
“Just like his father then,” Sirius called after him. It had been one time, but Sirius never let him live it down. They had been sixteen and pissed, let Remus point that out. He had tried to get his shirt off, but ended up getting stuck. When they woke up in the morning they found the shirt ripped on the floor.
But it was one time.
Remus just scoffed as he made his way to Teddy’s room. Only to find Teddy with his head stuck in the sleeve hole, arm sticking out of the neck hole. Just like Remus had guessed.