Ides of March: 002. Earth
Title: 002. Earth
Author/Artist: desiqtie
Fandom/Pairing/Prompt: Harry Potter, none, Earth
Rating: PG
Summary: Father and daughter spend some quality time together. Note: girl!Harry & alive Marauders.
Disclaimer: Not mine. JKR owns all.
Highlight for Warnings: * Like pretty much everything I write, this has a girl!Harry and alive Marauders. Not Betaed, but nothing else. *
Beta: No Beta, but if you want to volunteer, I'd be grateful!

002. Earth
Giggling, both father and daughter gently toppled to the ground after dismounting from their brooms.
Sighing, James stretched out and fisted his hands in the grass. He brought a hand to his chest and gently ran a hand through his daughter’s silky, black hair. Six-year-old Maria snuggled into his chest, breathing deeply. Eyes closed, bare toes digging into the earth, she curled her fingers in his shirt, and sleepily asked, “Daddy, where do babies come from?”
James continued running his hand through her hair, then processed the question and abruptly stopped, eyes snapping open to stare in horror at his little girl, half-asleep in his arms. “Uh. What?”
Yawning, she asked again, “Where do babies come from? I asked Mummy before but she told me to ask you.”
In a high-pitched voice, James asked, “She did?” Wide-eyed, he cleared his throat, and then continued, “Um. Babies. Welll…it’s a long story actually. Very complicated. You seem pretty tired sweetheart, how about I tell you later? Maybe, in oh, say twenty years?”
Maria frowned and turned over, eyes opening to sleepily glare at her father as she whined, “Nooo…pleaaaaaase Dadddddy!”
“Alright. Alright. Um. Babies. Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much, they…get married.” He swallowed hard and looked into the curious green eyes of his only child. “Right. So, they get married. And then, uh, eventually they decide they want a baby. So, they…go outside, and dig a big hole in the ground. Then, they go to…the Apothecary in Diagon Alley and buy…baby seeds.”
“Baby seeds?” Maria gave her father a suspicious look, a disbelieving expression plastered across her face.
James firmly nodded, “Yes, now don’t interrupt. Where was I, oh yes, baby seeds. So, the husband and wife buy the baby seeds and then they go back to their house and plant the baby seeds in the big hole in the ground that they dug earlier. Then, they fill the hole back up and every day for a few months they have to water it and take care of it. Eventually, the baby grows big enough that it’s not safe inside the ground anymore so the parents move the baby into the Mum where it grows until it’s time for it to be born.”
“They move the baby?”
”Yes.”
”How?”
“Um. Magic.”
“Really?”
“Really really.”
Maria gazed at her father, expecting him to start laughing, but when he didn’t she merely shrugged and said, “Oh. I thought you just had to have sex.”
“WHAT! How do you know what sex is?!”
“Sirius told me.”