After she had changed Harry out of his wet nappy, Charity set the little boy down into his new bed and went downstairs to make lunch. They were having pizza for lunch today and Charity was wondering what Harry would make of it. Hoping pizza wouldn't be too much on the boy's tummy, but it's been a little while at least since the boy had joined their family.

Both Oliver and Thomas thought that their mother's homemade pizza was the best ever so Charity made it a frequent meal in the house. Since it was homemade, it took a while to make. That would mean Harry could nap for at least an hour.

Once Charity had put the pizza in the oven, she snuggled in with Severus on the couch and they started to watch a movie together. It's nice to have a bit of quiet time as a couple without being interrupted by little people.

An hour later, they called Oliver and Thomas down for lunch, which with it being pizza they stood back as Charity let her two boys race down the stairs like a herd of elephants. While Charity went to dish up Pizzas on plates, Severus decided to go wake up Harry.

Entering the boys' bedroom, Severus gently shook Harry while cooing the boy awake. "Harry get up. it's time for lunch." Harry slowly opened his eyes and then reached his arms up so that Severus would pick him up. Cuddling into the man's shoulder as soon as he has gotten settled on the man's waist.

Severus brought him downstairs and put him in his high chair, Charity putting a slice of pizza on Harry's plate. Harry had no idea how to eat pizza, or if there was a way to eat such a thing. So he looked around the table to see how it was done.

Charity had seen what he was doing and explained to him that you hold it in your hands instead of using a fork. Calling it finger food. Harry nodded and picked up his pizza. Although Charity didn't tell him which end to bite so he ended up eating the pizza crust first.

It's not like it mattered of course.

That was okay with Charity. 'As long as he eats it' she thought, eating her own helping of pizza.

Once everyone was done with lunch, Oliver and Thomas asked Harry if he wanted to play upstairs in Thomas's room. He nodded and they brought him up. The first encounter of playing with the boys had Harry fall asleep. When they were in Thomas's room, Oliver ran to the Legos and started to build. Thomas started to build as well.

Harry, who had no idea how to build with Legos, was very confused. He looked questioningly at Thomas and tapped his knee. Thomas looked over and realized that the only other time they had played Legos with Harry, he had fallen asleep as soon as they started to build.

So being the good big brothers they were, Thomas and Oliver taught Harry how to play with Legos. They all worked together to build a castle and the three boys all agreed, their castle was pretty awesome. It even had some secret rooms! They were all super happy with their castle so they brought it downstairs to show Charity and Severus.

Harry needing help to get down the stairs, gripping onto Thomas's hand as if his life depended on it.

Severus was out getting some things for dinner but Charity said she liked it.

"Wow, the three of you are great builders!" Charity clapped her hands and picked up Harry into her arms, noticing Harry's nappy feeling a little wet. The boy didn't seem to notice it which surprised her. It seems that the boy's toileting habits have gone downhill recently, but she wasn't going to pick up on it until it does become more worrying.

"Why don't you two go tidy up the legos while I change a certain someone's nappy eh?" Charity bounced the boy in her arms who has taken to chewing on his fingers. "No change!" Harry whined wiggling in the woman's hold. "Yes change, you did wee wee's and I don't need you to get a rash" Harry shook his head and wiggled, even more, whining that he didn't want a change.

"Shh, baby boy. Come on lay down for mu...me" Charity stuttered, attempting to lay the boy down on the changing mat she had laid under the sofa, however, she had to pry the boy's hands from his grip on the woman's shirt.

Thomas came up with an idea, instead of going upstairs to clean up, he decided to lay on the floor next to Harry, Oliver laughing and following his older brother's antics and laying on Harry's other side.

"He's just tired, he'll get over it you two" Charity stated now lifting Harry's legs into the air to pull the nappy from underneath him.

About five minutes later, Severus walked through the door with bags of things for dinner. "Well, what do we have here?" He asked. "Oh hi honey I was just changing Harry." Charity replied as she handed Harry over to Severus. "He's been a little fussy." She whispered to him. Severus knew that this would happen again at one point in their time with Harry. He knew that no child was perfect all the time.

So he just rocked Harry a bit and the boy was on the verge of sleep when Charity decided he needed to sleep for a while. The woman took Harry out of Severus's arms and took him to bed. Maybe she should have kept him for another hour when it was his nap time.

An hour later, she went upstairs to wake Harry up. This was a hard task. Harry was comfortable and didn't want to leave his bed, but Charity told him that he needed to eat and picked Harry up despite his struggles for her to put him down so he could go back to bed.

Once Charity put Harry in his high chair though, he calmed down and ate his dinner in silence. Having help every once in a while when his coordination with his knife and fork wasn't working.

When they were all done eating dinner, Harry told Charity he wanted to go to bed. Charity told him that he needed a bath and he would have to wait to go to bed. So with some help from Severus, Charity undressed Harry and started to give him a bath.

Yet again, this became a very difficult task because Harry kept nodding off in the middle of the bath.

Eventually, Charity just gave up and dried him off. Though she worried about how much he's been sleeping today but shrugged it off.

Once Harry was in bed, Charity went down to the living room to read a book she was about to finish. Severus and the boys were watching football. They were getting really into it. Although they always did.

Charity closed the book she was reading and sighed tiredly. With a little one in the house, it gets harder to get through her day without wanting to collapse, but it's all worth it in the end.

"I'm getting an early night tonight, come up when you're ready boys" Charity stood up and kissed her two boys and husband before making her way lightly up the stairs, heading for Harry's newly decorated bedroom first to check on the boy.

Peeping the door open, Charity saw the boy sat up in bed with red puffy eyes. Nightmares are still a regular thing for the boy, which within time will hopefully fade away.

"Hey baby boy, you have a nightmare?" Charity cooed going over to the boy and kneeling next to the bed. At the boy's nod, the woman lifted the boy into her arms and began to rock him from side to side, one hand on his head while the other supported his wet bum where the nappy had leaked.

"Oh dear, let's get you taken care of then shall we?" Harry whined at being put down on a mat, he was tired but couldn't go back to sleep. He wanted the nice milk he got the other night as they forgot to feed it to him tonight.

Charity rubbed the boy's now exposed tummy. "Shh little one, come on let me get you out of this wet nappy. Oh, it's gone through your bottoms too, never mind eh?" Charity lifted the boy's bum to slip the nappy away, too late for a bath now and so just decided to use wet wipes as best she could to make sure the boy's rash doesn't worsen.

Harry meanwhile kept rubbing at his eyes and yawning cutely, closing his eyes only to have them open up at the feeling of cold wet wipe hitting his bits and bum. "Wan' 'ilk!" Harry fussed, pulling at his hair. "Okay baby boy, I will send a message to Sev and he will bring one up, let me get you sorted out first" Charity replied fastening up a new nappy on the boy and getting a pair of clean bottoms on the boy.

Having Harry still laid on the mat, Charity sent a quick message to Severus via text to bring a bottle of warm milk up.

A few minutes later, Severus brings up the bottle. Charity had already taken Harry off of the changing table and was holding him and rocking him back and forth. Severus handed Charity the bottle and she went over to a rocking chair they had put in Harry's room and started to rock the young boy as she fed him.

Once Harry was done with his bottle, Charity handed the bottle back to Severus and put Harry in his bed, Charity lightly kissed him on the forehead and left the room with Severus. "Thanks for helping me Sev." She said. "No problem," Severus replied. After that, Charity went to bed and Severus went back downstairs to finish watching the game with the boys.

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"Right, Emily and Alex will be here any moment, is everyone dressed and ready, presentable yes?" Charity worried, hoisting Harry up on her hip who had his head laid on her shoulder. He was still a little tired and grumpy.

"Darling, stop worrying the place is tidy, the boys are presentable and it's more a less childproof anyway" Severus tried to calm his wife down, she's been worrying since she woke up.

Typical.

"But the stairs, we need to buy baby gates for them! Oh gosh!" And when there can't possibly be anything else to fret about. "Honey, it's fine we can finish babyproofing the house when Harry is officially ours, yes?" Severus laid a hand on his wife's shoulder and one on Harry's head.

A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Charity shot up and practically ran to the door. "Hello." She greeted the two. "Come on in!" The young man and women came in and sat on the couch opposite the small family of four soon to be five.

"So Harry, have you enjoyed your stay here so far?" Asked Alex. Harry buried his head into Severus's shoulder and only nodded. "Harry honey, you have to use your words." Charity told him. He reluctantly lifted his head and looked at Alex. "I like it here." He said. Alex looked over at Emily and nodded. Emily then looked at Harry and asked the most important question that would change the boy's life.

"Would you like to live here for the rest of your life?"

Harry didn't hesitate to nod. Charity and Severus smiled at each other. "Okay. Then Charity and Severus can you please sign these papers? They all went to the dining room table to sign the papers with Harry smiling all the way. He was finally going to have a family that loved him. One that didn't abuse him and loved him and his imperfections.

When Charity and Severus were finished signing the papers, they turned to Harry and hugged him. "Welcome to the family Harry!" Oliver and Thomas said together. A little bit after that, Emily and Alex left the happy family to celebrate on their own.

"He's finally ours" Charity smiled, hugging Severus on the couch as she watched her three boys play together on the carpet, the three of them playing cars again as Harry seemed to love the metal things on wheels as he so calls them. "He is indeed. Ours to love, ours to protect and ours to keep" Severus finished, turning his head to kiss his wife's lips.

"Ewwww! Get a room!" Thomas pulled his tongue out and looked away, Oliver doing the same. Harry however just looked over and clapped his little hands, cheering all the while. "Dear little brother, how can you like it when they do that!" Thomas stated as if Harry had betrayed them.

The boy however just shrugged and toddled over to Severus and attempted to climb onto the man's lap. "Hello monster, what do you want huh?" Severus cooed, only receiving a small head buried underneath his chin.

Severus pulled Harry up onto his lap and snuggled with him for a few minutes. He felt Harry's breathing start to become slower. "Hey Charity, I think someone needs a nap," Severus whispered to Charity so that he didn't wake Harry. "But he hasn't had his lunch yet." She whispered back. "Then make him some lunch and we will wake him up to feed him." So Charity got up and started to make lunch.

Which was just simple Mac and cheese.

Once she was done, Severus picked up Harry and woke him up. Harry didn't want to get up. But he knew he had to. Severus placed him in his high chair and turned it to face Charity. Charity then started to spoon the Mac and cheese into Harry's mouth. He started drifting off at one point but they shook him awake.

Having successfully finished his lunch, Harry fell back asleep in his high chair. Charity took this opportunity to clean his face and then picked him up and brought him upstairs. Once she tucked him in for his nap, she went back downstairs to enjoy lunch.