Author's Notes: Well this is it, the final chapter! It's just a couple of little moments in the next few days. Sorry it took so long. In celebration of my last days of college classes, I decided to update all of my fics at the same time. Thank you so much to everyone who has read and reviewed!

A few days after the full moon, Teddy bounced up and down in anticipation, watching the sitting room fire closely.

"HARRY!"

Teddy's godfather barely had time straighten up and dust a bit of soot off his shoulder before Teddy collided with him and attached himself to Harry's leg.

"Well hello to you too, Teddy," Harry chuckled, prizing Teddy off of his leg and scooping the boy into arms.

"Hi Harry!" Teddy squealed excitedly.

Harry chuckled again. "You think we never saw each other," he said, "but I was just here last weekend, remember?"

"I missed you," Teddy told him.

"Well you know what, kiddo? I missed you too."

Harry put Teddy down and went to sit on the couch. Teddy jumped up to sit next to him.

"So," Harry said, "tell me what's been going on with you, Teddy."

"My daddy is a werewolf," Teddy announced.

Harry blinked several times. "Yes…yes he is," he said finally. "Err, how long have you known?"

"I saw him when he was a wolf," Teddy said.

Harry's eyebrows shot up. "You saw him as a wolf?"

"Yep," Teddy said happily. He briefly recounted the story of waking up from his nightmare and venturing downstairs to find his mummy and the large grey wolf, and how he had made friends with the wolf.

"And then Mummy told me that Wolfie was actually Daddy!" Teddy finished his story excitedly.

Harry, having stayed silent as he patiently listened to Teddy's story, finally spoke again. "And you, you're not frightened at all? Now that you know that your dad turns into a wolf?"

"Nope!" Teddy said cheerfully. "Daddy thought that I would be scared, but I'm not. That's why Mummy put up the banner."

"Yes, I was wondering about that," Harry said, looking over at the huge black banner that was hung on the wall over the fireplace. The banner was so big that it stretched several feet on either side of the mantle. Eye-aching, multicolored neon letters spelled out the phrase, "I TOLD YOU SO".

"Is that Harry I hear?" Mummy said. She and Daddy came into the sitting room and sat down.

"Hello Tonks. Hello Remus. Teddy was just telling me about the banner."

Mummy laughed while Daddy groaned.

"It's a terrible eyesore is what it is," Daddy said.

"No it isn't," Mummy said. "It is a proclamation of my victory and a symbol of my eternal glory in the Hall of Being Right!"

Harry laughed. "Well, given what you are celebrating, I'm surprised there's only one of them."

"I know! I think I should get more," Mummy said.

"Nope, one is plenty," Daddy said shortly to Mummy. "Don't encourage her," he told Harry.

Harry raised and eyebrow at Daddy. "Surely your not upset that she was right, Remus?" Harry asked. "I would have thought with this, more than anything, you would have been very than happy to be proven wrong."

Daddy smiled. "I'm extremely happy, Harry."

"'Course he's happy to be wrong," Mummy said. "He just doesn't like that it comes at the expense of me being right."

They all laughed.

"Have you ever seen Daddy when he's a wolf, Harry?" Teddy asked.

The awkwardness in the room was palpable enough that even a four-year-old couldn't miss it.

"Err, just once," Harry answered.

Teddy looked around all of the grown-ups acting weird. "What?" he asked.

"Oh, it's just not a very good story," Harry understated. "Not nearly as good as your story, Teddy. It sounds like you and Greeny had quite the adventure."

"And I didn't even tell you about when I got to ride on Daddy!" Teddy exclaimed.

Daddy covered his face with one hand while Mummy burst out laughing.

"That sounds like a lot of fun, Teddy," Harry said, his face twitching as he fought to keep it straight.

"It was," Teddy confirmed.

"Now, Teddy," Daddy said, looking up, "I think there's something that we need to talk about."

The seriousness of his daddy's tone surprised him. "What's that?" Teddy asked.

"You…Teddy, you cannot just go around to telling people that I am a werewolf," Daddy said, looking uncomfortable. "Now it's perfectly alright that you told Harry, of course. But Teddy, other people, you shouldn't tell them."

"Why not?" Teddy asked, feeling his lip start to quiver. He hadn't meant to do anything wrong. Why did Daddy looked so uncomfortable? Why did he sound so sad?

But then Mummy chimed in, and she didn't sound sad or uncomfortable. Her tone was excited and mysterious as she said, "You can't tell anyone, Teddy, because it's a secret!"

Teddy's eyes widened. "A secret?" he whispered.

"Oh yes Teddy," Harry said. "It's a very secret secret that only super cool people like you and me get to know about."

"Is that true?" Teddy asked, looking at his daddy for conformation.

"Yes Teddy, it's a secret," Daddy said heavily.

"Well why didn't you just say that?" Teddy asked.

"Sometimes grown-ups forget things, sweetie," Mummy said. "But never mind, eh? Just make sure you don't tell anyone, and it will all be fine."

"Okay, I won't tell," Teddy said. "And I'll tell Greeny not to tell anyone either."

"Excellent," Harry said, smiling. "Now why don't you tell me more about riding on your dad?"

Teddy missed the look that Daddy shot at Harry. "I drawed a picture of it!" Teddy exclaimed. "Wanna see it, Harry?"

"Of course I do!" Harry said.

Teddy jumped off the couch and grabbed Harry's hand. He pulled Harry out of the sitting room and up the stairs to show him the array of pictures that he and Daddy had fixed to a wall in Mummy and Daddy's bedroom, only just catching what his parents back in the sitting room said as he and Harry climbed the stairs.

"It's not actually a secret," Daddy muttered. "Just not something he should be blurting–"

"I know, love," Mummy replied. "But four-year-olds don't get subtle distinctions like that, do they? So for now, it's a secret."

A few evenings later, Teddy found his daddy sitting on the couch reading a book. Without invitation, Teddy hopped up on the couch and climbed into Daddy's lap. Daddy didn't seem to mind. He smiled as he carefully marked his page and set the book aside.

"Hello Teddy," he said.

"Daddy, when I grow up, I wanna be a werewolf just like you!"

It would be years before Teddy could comprehend the levels of horror his words had inspired in his daddy. For the moment, Daddy kept a remarkably calm, if rather closed expression in place, but Teddy would look back on this later and realize the horrible battle that was being waged behind his stoic frown. He didn't want to scare the boy who had accepted him so easily with terrible stories about what being a werewolf was actually like, but at the same time, his soul was being ripped apart as his son, his beautiful, healthy son, who had, by some shear miracle, escaped the curse that had plagued his whole life, wishing the dreaded curse upon himself.

But fortunately for Daddy, Mummy was there with the quick save.

"You are just a little power-hog, you know that?" she teased her son as she leaned against the sitting room doorframe with her eyes twinkling. "You can already morph yourself to look like anyone in the whole world, and now you want to turn into a wolf too? Leave some magic for the rest of us, won't you?"

Teddy pouted. "But I wanna be like Daddy!"

Mummy smiled as she entered the room and came to sit on the couch next to them. "Well of course you want to be like your daddy!" she said, settling in. "Your daddy is really cool. But you know, you're already a lot like Daddy, what with you two always conspiring against me!" she said with a mock glare. Teddy giggled. "The point is, sweetheart, that there are lots of ways you can be like Daddy that don't have anything to do with being a werewolf, okay? And if you want to be just like Daddy in those ways, than you can be just like Daddy in those ways. Well, actually, not just like Daddy. Do try to stop short of almost getting expelled for blowing a turret off of the side of Hogwarts."

"I didn't do it," Daddy said automatically.

"Uh-huh," Mummy said disbelievingly.

"Sirius did it."

"Is that right?"

"It was all James's idea. I wasn't even there."

"Lines like that may have worked on old McGonagall a quarter-century ago, dear, but no one around here is buying what you're selling, are we Teddy?"

Teddy giggled again and shook his head.

"And you accuse me of turning him against you," Daddy said to Mummy.

"But I still wanna be a wolf!" Teddy insisted.

"No you don't, Teddy," Daddy said quietly, but Mummy looked thoughtful.

"Well, if you really want to be a wolf, I suppose that's possible," she mused, ignoring her husband's horrified glare. "But you don't want to be a werewolf, Teddy," she continued. "No, what you want to be is an Animagus."

"A what?" Teddy asked.

"An Animagus is a witch or wizard who can turn into an animal at will," Mummy explained. "Trust me, its much better than being a werewolf. Daddy can only change at the full moon, but if you were an Animagus, you could be a wolf whenever you wanted, and you could also change back into a human whenever you wanted. Doesn't that sound better?"

"I guess," Teddy said, but he still pouted a little.

"Lots of really cool people are Animagi," Mummy continued. "Your daddy's best friends Uncle Prongs and Uncle Padfoot were both Animagi. Professor McGonagall is an Animagus and she's the headmistress of Hogwarts! No Teddy, I think being an Animagus is much more what you want. And you and Daddy could still be wolves together at the moon."

Teddy thought about it. "Okay," he agreed, "being an An-magus does sound pretty cool."

"It's the coolest," Daddy said encouragingly.

Teddy was getting excited now. "I wanna be an An-magus!" Teddy said, bouncing a little on Daddy's lap. "How do I do it?"

"Sorry Teddy, but you have to wait until you're a grown-up before you can do that," Mummy said.

"Unlike Uncle Prongs and Uncle Padfoot…" Daddy said under his breath.

"Not really point of the story, Remus," Mummy interrupted. "Teddy has to wait 'til he's grown up, and it's, oh what's the word, legal."

Teddy slumped and pouted again.

"Don't be like that, Teddy," Mummy said. "You might not be able to be a wolf just yet, but you and Daddy can still have lots of fun at the full moon. If you like, I'll get you a ball and you can teach your daddy how to fetch!"

"Haha," Daddy said humorlessly.

Teddy yawned.

"Bedtime," Daddy said, drawing Teddy into his arms and standing up.

Teddy closed his eyes and rested his head on his daddy's shoulder as he was carried up to bed, his mind full of thoughts about werewolves and Animagi. He would become an Animagus when he grew up, he decided, though part of him still wanted to be a werewolf instead.

Because Teddy Lupin was only four-years-old the first time he saw his daddy as a werewolf. He didn't know then that it was a curse. He didn't know about the hate and the fear. He didn't know about Ministry laws. He didn't know his Mummy had put silencing spells on the blanket so that Teddy would not hear his daddy's agonized screams as he transformed. He didn't know about a time before the Wolfsbane potion.

No, all Teddy knew at that time was the he loved his daddy. He knew his daddy was the coolest, smartest, most awesome-est person in the whole world. And he knew that if his daddy was a werewolf, then a werewolf was a pretty great thing to be.

The End.

Author's Notes: That's all for now! My first completed fic! Thanks you to all readers/reviewers/fav-ers/followers!

Okay, so I originally intended to just write this out and get the plot bunny out of my head, but I really have enjoyed my time playing in this little AU corner of the Harry Potter sandbox, and with so much positive feedback (I love you guys!), little sequel bunnies have started hoping on the edges of my mind. Right now I want to focus on my chapter fics, but there is a strong chance that other Teddy Lupin/werewolf firsts related stories will be written some time in the future, so keep an eye out!

In the meantime, my two other fics have just gotten updates too! Morph, my canon-compliant Teddy fic *sob*, is much less fluffy than this, but you might still like it. And Werewolf Among Wizards is my (rapidly approaching epically long) Remus-centric MWPP fic. If you like Teddy and Remus as much as I do, be sure to check them out!

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