"Now let's see if this worked." Harry smiled as he walked down into the living room of Wood End Cottage and saw Sirius reading the Daily Prophet. A tiny amount of mana sent into his glasses and Harry grinned when a number appeared on the right lens. '4,688' was a marked improvement from what Sirius had had when they'd first 'officially' met at St. Mungos. His Godfather was obviously regaining the mana levels he'd had before his coma. The next good news was that his updated Runic Sequence worked. The original Scouter Sequence had no ability beyond counting and displaying a numeric amount. With a small addition to the sequence his glasses now showed the proper number with a comma place every three digits. This would make it a bit easier to glance at a reading and understand it as opposed to having to parse out any larger numbers. He'd stumbled over Flamel's number for a moment when he'd first read it; and not just from the shock of the old Alchemist's ridiculously high reading.
"Wotcher all! I've come for a visit!" Tonks announced loudly as she strolled through the front door without even knocking. Sirius had given her permission to do so after the first two times the Metamorph had done it. Tonks had been over nearly every day and Harry couldn't say he disliked it.
"Hello Dora, here to tease Harry again?" Sirius chortled as he looked over his second cousin.
"Yep!" Tonks admitted shamelessly as she looked up at Harry at the top of the stairs. "Harry doesn't mind, right?"
"I guess…" Harry sighed playfully making the bubbly teen grin brightly at him. A quick scan and Harry chuckled making the, currently purple-haired, girl tilt her head.
"What's up, Harrikins?" Tonks asked as Sirius looked on an amused grin on his face.
"You're mana increased again, Tonks." Harry stated and Tonks looked confused.
"Not that I'm not happy about that, but how did you know? You don't have your Scouter on you." Tonks questioned and Harry's grin only grew more.
"Oh? Don't I?" Harry questioned as he tapped the right side of his glasses. "I think you'll find that I very much do."
"You made your glasses into a Scouter?" Tonks inquired as he made his way down the stairs. Sirius looked surprised at the announcement and put down his paper.
"Yeah, took a bit to figure out a safe way to do it, but my glasses are now the newest upgraded Scouter." Harry smiled and swiftly rolled his eyes when both Tonks and Sirius gave a, rather patronizing, golf clap for his achievement.
"Nerd!" Tonks and Sirius exclaimed in unison before turning on each other and shouting. "Jinx!"
"Real mature you two." Harry grimaced and Tonks and Sirius both burst into laughter.
"So have I increased again? I still maintain that I've got more mana than Moony!" Sirius looked eager and Harry could only shake his head at his Godfather's competitiveness.
"You're at '4,688' now Sirius. That's much higher than when you were in St. Mungos, but still not quite at Remus' level yet." Harry informed his Godfather.
"Just you wait, I just need a little more recovery time, and then I'm totally surpassing Moony!" Sirius nodded with his arms crossed over his chest.
"You said my mana increased but then you don't tell me what it is? That's mean, Harrikins!" Tonks pouted at him and Harry smiled before telling her.
"You've gone up to '5,876' Miss Soon-To-Be-Auror." Harry informed and Tonks smiled happily, pleased with her increasing Magical Strength.
"What're you at Harrikins? You've been practicing since the last time you told us." Tonks wondered and Harry was happy to inform his friend of what his Test Frame had said when he'd checked his mana level this morning.
"I've increased a bit; I'm at '1,182' as of this morning." Harry proclaimed.
"Congratulations, Harrikins, you finally broke four digits!" Tonks cheered as she pulled him into a hug. Sirius clapped on the couch while Harry gently returned the hug.
"So, what did you want to do today, Tonks?" Harry asked and Sirius waved his hand widely like an over-enthusiastic student.
"Battle Royale!" Sirius declared before tossing a spell at each of them from his previously hidden wand. Bright letters appeared over both of their heads. Above Harry's head the words 'Nymphadora's Harry' appeared in bright multi-color. Conversely above Tonks' head, in the same multi-colored letters, appeared the words 'Harry's Nymphadora' and both of them turned a bit pink in the cheeks at reading the labels hovering over them.
"Sirius you're dead!" Tonks roared out at seeing her given name hovering in the air. The Metamorph's hair had turned red to match her indignation as she hurled a Stinging Hex at the Marauder.
"You'll never take me, Auror!" Sirius cackled as he deflected the Hex and dodged the cushion Harry had thrown at him.
"Let's get him, Harry!" Tonks cried out as she threw another Stinging Hex at the laughing man.
"Agreed." Harry nodded as he levitated more cushions to assail his Godfather with.
"You two are only proving my labels correct!" Sirius chortled as he dodged the cushions and mad his way out of the sitting room while emitting bright spots of light from his wand. The next few hours would be spent acting like children and Harry had to admit, it felt good to just let loose and relax with his loved ones.
-The Next Morning-
"This place is perfect!" Harry grinned as he looked around his new smithy. Sirius stood back with a large smile on his face seeing Harry so happy. The young Artificer was practically bouncing between the various areas of the new smithy with sparkles in his eyes. "Let's get to work!" Harry declared and Sirius could only shake his head at his Godson's gung-ho attitude when it came to Enchanting. But it would be interesting to watch Harry work, so Sirius settled in while Harry started preparing to use his new smithy for the first time.
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