Re: Savannah/Jamie
"I..." Jamie opened his mouth to respond, then closed it. She wasn't wrong. Somewhere in working and talking together, Jamie had found his old childhood loyalty to his father again. "I guess I am. We've talked some while we're working, even about those emotional things you said we needed to, finally. It was...not really good, but I think he feels guilty for who he became, but I think we understand each other as we are now better. At least a little. I don't know. We'll probably end up fighting again in a month. But, I think we're in a better place than we were."
He shrugged. "He's happier now than I've seen him in...possibly forever, outside when he used to take me flying when I was five. More than anything I want to protect that." Laughed softly, he grinned. "Although, he'd probably be annoyed with me for doing the protecting. But, I am his kid, after all."
Taking his own breath to recentre, he put his hands in his back pockets again, then shook his head. "I think I switched what I meant as we kept going. At first, I did mean call it DA Day or something. But, it doesn't have to be. We could call it Harry Potter Day and include the DA in the history. They deserve the recognition and, I think it would more in line with what's important to Dad. Maybe I could take some of the burden of the speeches off him that way, too."
And his father could have his birthday returned to him as something private for him and his loved ones, without the world staking it's claim.