Kitchen Surprises
Name of Short Story: Kitchen Surprises
Original Characters: Bailey Griffiths, Bella Hawking, Elizabeth Hawking (mentioned)
Characters: Harry Potter, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin
Setting: Summer of 1994 at Grimmauld Place
Bailey Griffiths woke up easily on a warm August morning. Bella Hawking was missing from the room that she shared with Bailey, but Bailey didn't mind. Sometimes, the dark-haired Italian was noisy in the mornings. Bailey stood, pulled on her robe, and brushed her messy light brown hair out of her light brown eyes. Many people said she looked like her father, Remus Lupin, but Bailey barely saw it. She didn't mind, though, for she thought her father a handsome man and wondered why he wasn't married yet.
Just as Bailey left the room, Remus Lupin was descending the staircase leading from the floor above them, where his bedroom was located. He appeared quite disgruntled, as the effects of the recent full moon were still upon him.
"Ah, good morning, Bailey!" he said to her. Bailey looked up and smiled slightly after she had placed her glasses on the bridge of her nose.
"Good morning, Daddy. Sleep well?"
"Quite well, actually, and yourself?"
"Could have been better, had Bella not possessed the ability to snore." Remus laughed.
"Very much like her father... Well, c'mon, then. I'm sure Elizabeth has breakfast waiting." Together, Bailey and Remus descended the last set of stairs to the first floor.
"I've been working on that advanced Wolfsbane and Lacewing Fly potion to help you with your werewolf problem, but for some reason, it doesn't want to work," Bailey was telling her father as they made their way down the short hallway.
"If it's too challenging, dear, you don't..." Remus began to say, but Bailey cut him off.
"Oh, no, no! Nonsense! I'll practice it and at some point, I will-AAAHHH!" Bailey was cut off as she suddenly fell and what felt like a cool, wet sensation overcome her. Remus reached out to grab her, but it was too late, as she had already fallen in. He grabbed onto the doorway so as he didn't follow her in. As Bailey resurfaced, she looked around her to find the dining room table, chairs, multiple plates and dishes floating around her, and found herself standing in roughly four feet of water. Just last night, the kitchen floor was level with the floor going out into the hallway! What could have possibly- "What did you do?"
Harry Potter, Bailey's current boyfriend, was sitting on a nearby chair when Bailey fell in, and he had hopped off to help her up. Bailey's infuriated brown eyes met with Harry's innocent green ones, and he laughed.
"We turned the kitchen into a pool! You like it?" he asked.
"Like it? Do I like it? No, I do not like it! I came in here this morning expecting to eat my breakfast only to fall into a pool and be soaking wet!" Bailey screeched.
"Well, you can still eat your breakfast in here!" Harry told her.
"I wanted to eat it dry..." Bailey growled, and she climbed out of the pool and retreated back to her room. Remus sighed, and followed her to make sure that she was all right. After they were out of hearing distance, everyone in the room broke out into fits of hysterical laughter.
"Did you see her face when she fell in?" cried Bella from the table. She, James Potter and her father, Sirius Black were sitting on the table laughing. Harry swam over and joined them.
"She's really mad about it..." he said. James rested a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't you worry, son, if she's anything like her mother or father, both whom I know well, she'll get over it," he told him. Harry laughed.
"It was still funny..." he muttered, and everyone began laughing again.
"Well, we'd better get this place cleaned up before Elizabeth walks in. She'll be furious if she sees this..." Sirius muttered, and the four got to work on turning the pool back into a kitchen.