A/N: Hey everyone! Here is the sequel you've all been waiting for! I'm so excited to bring you their third year! So I'm going to stop babbling now and get a move on…
Disclaimer: I do not own HP. I do own CP.
Catie wobbled a bit before regaining her balance. She had just side-along apparated with her mum to Diagon Alley. James would be there any minute with their dad. Today, August twenty-ninth, was their annual school shopping day third year in a row. Catie was very excited about the upcoming year; she would be taking Arithmetic with Lily and Remus instead of Divination. There was a pop, and James and Charles were a few feet from them.
"Catherine, James, let me see your lists dears." Their mother said holding out two open hands. The twins surrendered their lists and Ellen read over them several times before announcing,
"Madam Malkin's first. I can clearly see your ankles James. And it looks as if you've grown a bit too Catherine."
"Really mum? I can't see it…" James teased messing up Catie's hair.
"Mum!" Catie whined swatting away James' hand. Ellen rolled her eyes and began walking down the alley towards the robe shop, Charles following her. Catie turned and looked into a window of a shop to fix her hair,
"Thanks for that, I really hated that style Mum forced me to wear." Catie said bending over and flipping her hair into a high ponytail. James glanced down the street,
"We better get going, I can barely see Mum and Dad…" he said taking Catie's elbow and dragging her with him down the alley.
"Ah hello there Ellen, Charles. My James you must have grown four inches since last year." Malkin greeted while she tended to another customer. Catie smacked James' arm playfully smiling. Catie hated that James was taller than her but there was nothing she could do about it. They didn't have to wait long until Malkin got to them, Catie went first. She sighed as she stepped onto the pedestal, and stretched out her arms. The witch took several measurements then took off several robes from a rack.
"Try these on for size my dear." she said simply, "James get up here." Malkin said gesturing for James to step up. Catie went into the changing room and shut the door, she slipped on each set of black robes when she found a lavender colored one under the last black pair. The lavender robes were dress robes, very pretty dress robes in her size! Catie gently took the robes she was wearing off and threw the dress robes on and looked in the mirror. She looked stunning, in her opinion. Beaming she changed back into her first change of clothes and stepped out.
"These fit fine." Catie said cheerfully, "Can I um get the dress robes too?" she asked cautiously. Malkin looked up and accidentally stuck James with a pin,
"Ouch!" James cried.
"Sorry dear…Yes ma'am Catie. You'll need 'em at Hogwarts this year I'm sure." said Madame Malkin as she took her final measurement on James. Once Malkin stepped aside James hopped down and rubbed his side where the needle had stuck him. Madame Malkin disappeared behind some racks and returned with four sets of robes,
"Here you are. Go try them on." Malkin said smiling. They fit, Ellen paid the woman then the family left onto Flourish and Blotts for books. The bell tinkled as James pushed open the door and Catie just about squealed with excitement as she went in. With her book list in hand she ran off towards some bookshelves. First on her list was, 'Discovering Runes and Their Meanings' next was, 'Intermediate Transfiguration', 'The Standard Book of Spells: Grade Three' and a handful of other titles. Catie collected them all and presented them to her parents to buy. James, who had followed Catie around grabbing the same books as she, had done the same thing. Books packed away in Catie's new book bag, they continued onto the apothecary, which was an extremely brief visit. James and Catie both walked out with a new cauldron, and their ingredients needed for the upcoming term inside. Charles and the twins took a break at the Ice Cream Parlor while Ellen floated in and out of shops purchasing their final things.
"Dad, d'you think we could go to Quality Quidditch Supplies? Catie and I need new gloves and broom cleaners for our Nimbus one-thousand five-hundreds." James begged as he devoured his Chunky Chocolate ice cream. Catie shrugged,
"We do need new gloves dad…" she said finishing off her Cookies and Cream ice cream. Charles sighed and raised an eyebrow,
"Are you sure?" he teased. James and Catie smiled and nodded. Charles set down three galleons on the table and stood,
"Well let's get on with it then. We promised your mum we'd be here in ten minutes." James and Catie ran off for the store, their father walking quickly behind them. James took Catie's hand as they dodged through the thickening crowd. Finally they reached the shop, which was booming.
"Dad, could you just give us ten galleons each? We can slip in and out easily." Catie asked after examining the crowd. Charles sighed and pulled out twenty galleons from his pockets putting ten in James and Catie's hands.
"Go on now and hurry!" he said ushering them inside.
"James spill, we don't need to clean our brooms. Why do we need this extra money?" Catie asked as they slipped into the shop and headed for the gear section. James sighed,
"I want to get a pair of gloves for Sirius, he needs goggles too for when it rains." he explained. Catie nodded understandingly,
"Oh all right. Here are the dragon hide James…" Catie said pointing towards a shelf near her.
Catie and James walked out of the shop with one bag each. James slipped Sirius' stuff into his bag. Charles brought his hands out of his pockets and smiled,
"All right now back to the Parlor. Your mum should be there any time now." And sure enough Ellen was waiting for them at the shop ready to give them an earful.
"I was starting to get worried! Honestly Charles couldn't you have waited on me! I was so worried, and with this war going on oh my…" Ellen ranted pulling Catie close to her chest.
"Mum-I can't breathe…" Catie gasped. Ellen let her daughter go and grabbed James. Charles glanced around,
"Ellen, love we need to get home. It's almost dark, you know the rules." he said sticking his hand into his pocket. Catie guessed that's where his wand was. Ellen nodded,
"Charles get their things and I'll side along apparate with them." she instructed. Within a few minutes they were all safely back at the manor. Catie went on up to her bedroom, toting her things behind her.
Catie's room was more of a suite than a bedroom, mostly because of all the parties her parents held when she was younger. A suite gave her room to run around and play without leaving the room.
The first room in which you enter was Catie's bedroom, she had a canopy four-poster full bed like at Hogwarts, with purple sheets and comforter and then pink curtains. In front of Catie's bed was her cherry-oak two drawer vanity, the handles were silver, and on top lay a silver tinged mirror a chair sat pressed into the leg space of the vanity. The vanity top was organized and neat. To the left of the vanity, in the corner, sat a large five shelf bookshelf filled with all of Catie's favorite books. In front of Catie's bed by about five feet was a large window with soft cushions at the base. There was a little small space in between the window and Catie's bed where sat her nightstand. Catie dumped her new school things onto her bed and sighed. She ought to begin packing with only two days left until they left for Hogwarts.
Catie slowly walked out of her bedroom and into the next, her closet. There were racks lining one wall, shelves lining another, a mirror taking up the thinner wall, and storage bins stacked on the fourth and final wall. Catie walked to a storage bin on the bottom and pulled out her trunk. Catie's closet wasn't very big; it was seven by fourteen feet. (width and length.) The walls were scarlet in this room. Catie pulled her trunk behind her back into her bedroom. Cleo, her cat, ran out from the last and final room towards her into the bedroom. Cleo, running ahead of her mistress, pounced onto the bed. Catie smiled and slowly lifted the trunk onto the bed,
"Hello Cleo." she greeted before walking back into her closet and browsing through her muggle clothes for the much desired new Hogsmeade trips the upcoming year. She took three of her favorite shirts, and three pairs of jeans to pack. With the clothes in her arms she walked back to her trunk and set them in gently, and then Catie grabbed her new robes, and dress robe and set them inside also. Next she set in her textbooks, and other books, and then her supplies. In a half hour her trunk was packed, save for her broom and cauldron.
Suddenly there was a knock at her door; Catie whirled around to see James smiling,
"Dinner's ready. Dad was called off to the Ministry, and Mum went to volunteer a war-relief so it's just you and I tonight." he said walking in. Catie sighed,
"Again? Honestly, they spend more time working then they do with us…" said Catie flipping her trunk shut and setting it at the foot of her bed. Catie wiped her hands on her jeans and James nodded,
"Yeah really…Well come on, Tooky's waiting you know." he said motioning for her to follow him. Catie sighed and did so. When they reached the staircase James smirked at Catie evilly.
"Remember when we used to slide down the banister and drive Mum and the Governess barmy?" James said reminiscing, his eyes gleaming with cheer behind his glasses. Catie smiled and raised an eyebrow,
"Race you down!" she said jumping onto the banister and beginning to slide down at a fast pace.
"Oi! No fair!" James said hopping onto one on his side and also beginning to slide. Catie beat him and ran into the living room and took the book out from the bookshelf. The bookshelf slowly moved to the right revealing a door on the other side. Catie opened it and the two went into the delicious smelling kitchen. Tooky, their house she-elf, was levitating their meals onto the island smiling up at them,
"Good evening Master James and Mistress Catie." she said with a smile. Catie nodded,
"Hello Tooky, would you turn on the muggle telly?" she asked gesturing to the television that was on the wall facing them. Tooky nodded and snapped her fingers making the television go on.
"Thanks Took." James and Catie said in unison as their plates landed in front of them as well.
The next morning Ellen and Charles returned home to find their twins sacked out on the sofa in front of the television. Chuckling to themselves they drank down a cup of tea, compliments of Tooky, and went upstairs to bed.
Catie slowly lifted her eyelids; she had fallen asleep on James' shoulder. Yawning Catie sat up and looked around, things were a little blurry. She blinked several times and rubbed her eyes and then the blur was gone. Catie yawned again when she stood she began to walk out of the room until she was standing on the first step to the staircase. She gazed sleepily up it, Catie had never noticed before this moment how long and tall the staircase was. Shrugging slightly she lifted her foot and set it on the second step, repeat process. Eventually she made it to the second floor and Catie trudged towards her bedroom and slipped inside groggily. Later that day when she forced herself to shower and dress, Catie found out that her parents were gone again. Grumbling slightly she stalked downstairs for a late lunch with James. When she reached the kitchen however James was already halfway done.
"Hiya Cate." he greeted with a full mouth. Catie rolled her eyes,
"Afternoon James." she sighed hopping onto the stool next to him. Tooky set her sandwich down in front of her and James randomly asked,
"How 'bout playing a game of Quidditch today?" Catie glanced over at James as she took a bite, after she swallowed she responded,
"With just the two of us? No way." James smirked,
"Oh but my dear Catie it won't be just the two of us…Come on out Padfoot!" James called to the cupboard. The door swung open and a familiar dark haired boy stepped out and opened his arms wincing slightly,
"Hello Cate!" Sirius said cheerfully. Catie spit out her lemonade,
"Sirius!" she exclaimed.
"The one and only!" he proclaimed proudly.
"So you're saying that you've been planning this the entire summer without telling me? What's next is Remus going to suddenly burst through the door?" Sirius and James lowered their heads,
"Sadly that plan didn't work out…" James grumbled. Catie frowned, she actually had hoped that Remus was about to come through the door. She had found that she missed him this past summer more than before. Catie shook her head of her thoughts and took another bite out of her sandwich. While she wasn't looking James and Sirius exchanged winks, they had totally got her.
"Will you hurry up Cate? I want to play Quidditch!" James whined aggravated. Catie rolled her eyes,
"Oh shut it will you?" she said annoyed. Sirius raised his hands in surrender,
"We'll be out back Kitty." Sirius said smirking slightly as he joined James at the door. Catie's head shot in his direction,
"Kitty? Kitty? What kind of bloody nick-name is that?" stormed Catie as she got to her feet and ran after the boys to the back. James and Sirius went into the broom shed and came out on brooms soaring high into the air to get away from Catie. Catie glared at them then marched into the shed grabbed her Nimbus one-thousand five hundred, then soared up into the air after them.
"Sirius Black you call me Kitty one more time and I swear I'll hex you the moment we arrive at Hogwarts!" Catie shouted after them. James and Sirius soared over the manor and dived just out of sight, growling Catie did the same then she saw a sandy haired boy standing with James and Sirius in the drive. Catie almost whipped out her wand then and there. She was going to murder those two…After greeting Remus of course. Catie jumped off her broom, and ran towards the three boys shoving her broom at James before enveloping Remus in a tight hug. Remus hugged her back just as tight when they realized how awkward and strange it felt. Catie fit perfectly in Remus' arms, she noticed that right away, especially because he was as tall as James, which meant he stood five inches taller then Catie. Slowly the two let go of each other, neither smiling, neither frowning. Catie pushed the weird thoughts to the back of her mind and scowled at Sirius and James,
"Oh you three are terrible!" she exclaimed. Sirius threw an arm around her shoulders,
"Ah dear, dear Kitty. I honestly thought you would have known that by now." he teased. Catie threw his arm off of her and punched his arm Sirius let out a gasp of pain,
"How did I get stuck in the middle of this?" she asked no one in particular, as she walked back towards the house. Catie was so lost and confused by Remus' hug she hadn't even noticed Sirius used his new nickname for her.
A/N: And there you have it my faithful readers! The first chapter of Marauder's Rising Sun. :) I hope you've enjoyed it the next chapter will be posted tonight. Please, please, PLEASE review!