A little skit about Remus and Teddy's mornings in my au. I was writing and I thought it was a cute moment so I share it
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The sound of awakening filled Remus' room.
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/7:00 am/
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He had a schedule that he followed, or at least tried to, every day. And his days started at 7:00, an hour before Teddy woke up.
He lazily got up from his old but comfortable bed heading for the shower, he couldn't really be considered a person until he had his daily shower and coffee.
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/7:50 a.m./
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He had taken extra time in the bathroom this day. His bones still ached from last night and once he collapsed in the bathtub it was impossible to get up until considerable time had passed.
When he was able to get up and finish the bath he quickly knew that he was running late and that today was not going to be a good day.
He walked slowly shuffling his feet all the way to the coffee pot until he realized the kitchen wasn't tidy, he remembered that before he had to drop Teddy off at the Weasleys the boy had craved some chip cookies of chocolate. Cookies that he had bought her the day before but on a whim before the full moon he had devoured by himself.
He also remembered Teddy's disappointed face when he didn't find his cookies, and how guilty and bad father he felt about it.
They ended up making the homemade cookies that Hope made for her in her childhood days after the full moon as her method of making up for not being there. His mother was not to blame, Remus knew that since he was a child, but his 5-year-old self was not stupid so he ate them with his mother in the fireplace while they hugged every day after full moon.
He loved that recipe and so did Teddy.
What neither he nor Teddy loved so much was picking up the mess they made every time he took to cooking father and son together. Yesterday he had the excuse that he was late at Molly's so he didn't bother to pick her up.
He was now suffering the consequences of her actions.
"By Merlin Remus, you're a 26-year-old adult, show a little responsibility. You eat your son's cookies and to make it up to him you make a mess in the kitchen and move past him leaving the problem to Future Remus. Well guess what, you're Remus from the future and now this is probably yours, you have to…” As Remus mentally scolded himself, what he knew would happen happened. He had spent 5 years in a row and today would not be the day that would change.
Teddy woke up crying from a nightmare.
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/8:00 am/
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Like every morning since he was born, at exactly 8:00 Teddy woke up from a nightmare and cried until Remus came to his room and calmed him down.
Remus didn't know that he spent every night in his little girl's dreams, he couldn't get much information between Teddy's sobs.
When he stopped and calmed down he didn't want to talk and the slightest mention of his nightmare made him cry again.
He didn't talk in his sleep, he knew, as Remus had tried to stay in the boy's room all night in case he said anything that would give him any hint of what happened to him.
He couldn't afford a Muggle psychologist either, the librarian's salary wasn't enough to support him and his son, he definitely couldn't add extras.
At least this year he had gotten Teddy to sleep only in his room and not in Remus's bed, that was progress.
"Teddy darling don't cry daddy is here" At the voice of the eldest, the 5 year old boy stopped crying to look at him with teary eyes, these views broke Remus' heart every morning.
"Daddy?"
"Yes, little one, it's me, here I am, don't worry, it was just a bad dream" Remus extended his arms towards Teddy, who without hesitation rushed towards his father, he picked him up and stroked his little head.
After a few minutes of silence and hugs, Teddy stopped crying, returning to being the happy boy he was for the rest of the day.
"Yesterday I was very worried, I thought I would have to sleep over at Mrs. Weasley's house" Remus had been moving down the hall with Teddy in his arms and now while they were in the kitchen, Teddy sitting on the counter and Remus preparing breakfast more specifically, the little boy began to converse.
"I don't know what's wrong with Molly, she takes care of you every full moon and she has 7 children, I think she knows how to take care of unruly children. The little one is even your age, you can play with her"
"Ron wets the bed," Teddy mentioned. Remus spit out all the coffee that had just been made and started laughing, not expecting that comment. "Daddy you're supposed to clean the kitchen, not make it any more dirty. Mrs. Weasley gets mad when you make a mess of everything."
"I have? This, buddy" Remus pointed to the kitchen "It was our doing, in the plural. I don't know why I'm telling you this, you don't even know what plural is. The thing is, it's as much my fault as yours, no one is safe here to clean"
The doorbell suddenly rang.
"I'm sure it's Mrs. Weasley coming to punish you for being such a mess as an adult."
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‘Aftersun’ Remus and Teddy
By likeafunerall, and reposted with permission.
“Sometimes at playtime, I look up to the sky. And if I can see the sun, then, I think about the fact that we can both see the sun. So, even though we’re not actually in the same place and we’re not actually together, we kind of are in a way, you know? Like, we’re both underneath the same sky, so... we’re kind of together.” —Sophie, to Calum.
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