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TAKES PLACE RIGHT WHERE "A FEW FRIENDS LESS" ENDED!!!!!!!!!!! Thought you ought to know. *faints*
Friend or Foe?
Chapter One: What the Beep?
"Tessa?" Jamie said, her eyes wide as she dropped the tea cups.
The woman in the doorway nodded with a small smile as Sirius bundled into the kitchen. "Jamie, are you all right? What happened?"
"S-S-Sirius," Jamie said, turning, but not taking her eyes off of Tessa. "D'you know who that is?"
Sirius looked at Jamie as though she had lost her mind, mainly because she was acting the part. "What? No, of course not." Jamie ripped her eyes off of Tessa and whispered something into his ear. "Holy shit. But she's- she can't be-can she?"
"Well, seeing as she's standing right there, apparently so!" Jamie said, folding her arms. She lowered her voice and said, "And she doesn't look seventeen. . . ."
"It's like she never died," Sirius said in a voice barely over a whisper.
Jamie nodded and said, "I'm sorry, Tessa, come in."
Tessa obliged and she looked around. "You two live together, I take it? Always knew that you were meant for each other. You look different, though. What year is it?"
Jamie ran her fingers through her hair and said, "It's 1996, Tess."
Tessa stopped dead in her tracks and said, "But. . . the last thing that I remember is dancing down in Hogwarts with a Hufflepuff. Then. . . I don't remember anything."
Jamie and Sirius shared a glance and Sirius said, "Well, Tessa, we'll talk about it later. You look like you could use some rest."
Jamie nodded in agreement and said, "The couch is a pull-out. You can sleep there, seeing that Harry is in the guest room, which is now his, I suppose."
"Harry?" Tessa asked.
"Potter," Sirius said without thinking. "Lily and James' boy."
"Lily and James, too?" Tessa asked with a smile. "Oh, how I'd love to talk to Lily."
"Erm, yeah," Jamie said. "You need to sleep. Sirius, take her into the living room and I'll go get some blankets and pillows. I'll call Harry and Alayna in as well."
Sirius nodded and led Tessa into the living room. Tessa was leaning on Sirius' arm to steady herself and Sirius felt a bit uncomfortable with it. When they got to the living room, Remus looked up at Sirius and Tessa with question on his face. Sirius cursed silently and mouthed, "Later."
"Um, Marcy, perhaps we should leave," Remus said, getting to his feet. "We'll just see ourselves out, Sirius."
Sirius nodded, but Marcy said, "Wait, Remus, maybe we can help Jamie and Sirius. Do you need any help?"
Marcy didn't notice, but she and her husband were the only ones breathing at the moment. Sirius was holding his breath because he knew what was going to happen and Tessa was holding her breath because she was positive that she had just heard that woman say Remus.
"Um," Sirius said in an unnaturally high voice and he cleared his throat. "I think we'll be find, Marcy. You can-"
"Remus?" Tessa asked quietly, looking at Remus. "Remus Lupin?"
"It's not exactly a common name," Remus said with a slight smile. "Have we met?"
Sirius sat Tessa in an armchair and gave Remus a look that said leave now, or I'll kill you, but Remus chose to ignore it.
"Remus, it's me, it's Tessa," she said, looking at Remus with her tired eyes. "Tessa Scott."
"Shit. . . " Sirius muttered under his breath as he pulled out the couch.
"Tessa?" Remus asked with a large smile. "Oh, God, I've missed you so much-"
"Gee, wouldn't think that you're married, eh, Moony?" Sirius said, shooting another look at Remus.
"Oh, er, yeah," Remus stammered. "Um, Tessa, this is Marcy. My wife."
Tessa looked at Remus, seemingly not knowing what to say for a second, then recovered with a smile. "Hi, Marcy. It's wonderful to meet you."
"You too," Marcy said, extending her hand in a handshake. Tessa took it, but took her hand back quickly. "I think we should go, Remus," Marcy announced, looking at her husband intently. "Thanks for everything, Sirius. Say goodbye to Jamie for me, will you?"
"Of course," Sirius said as the two Apparated. "Tessa, I'll be right back."
"Ok, Sirius," Tessa said, looking on the mantel at the pictures Jamie had scattered up there.
Sirius practically ran down the hallway to where Jamie was standing in front of the linen closet, some sheets in her arms. Sirius skidded to a halt right in front of her.
"Sirius, what are you doing?" Jamie asked, looking at him.
"Jamie, we can't keep her here," Sirius said, putting a hand on each of her upperarms.
"And why not?" Jamie asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Jamie, she's supposed to be dead!" Sirius said, his voice almost a hiss. "What is her mum going to do? She was devastated when Tessa died. Remember that, Jamie, DIED. You know, like not alive."
"Sirius, I know what dead is," Jamie said, looking Sirius in the eye.
"Good, then you'll agree with me when I say that we have to get rid of her," Sirius said.
"Sirius, she isn't a pet," Jamie said, getting out of Sirius' grip. "She was one of my best-friends, and I know that you didn't like her when we were in Hogwarts, but-"
"And for good reason!" Sirius said, his eye blazing. He pointed down the hallway. "That woman broke one of my closest friends heart, and you should have seen him fall over himself because of her in front of his wife!"
"Look, Sirius, that was twenty-one years ago," Jamie said.
"And she died a month later, Jamie," Sirius pointed out. "We don't even know how she's able to be in our house right now!"
"I know, Sirius," Jamie said, rubbing her temples with a hand on her hip. "I know. But what are we supposed to do? Throw her out on the streets?"
"We'll let her stay the night and deal with it tomorrow," Sirius said, turning Jamie around and massaging her shoulders. "It's all going to work out. Maybe she can stay with her mum or something."
"Yeah, sure," Jamie said, walking away from Sirius and down the hallway.
Jamie walked down to where Tessa was. She was standing by the mantel, holding herself up on the side of it. She had a picture in her hand.
"Oh, hi, Jamie," Tessa said. "I was wondering, why don't you have any more recent pictures of Lily and James? They all look like they are in their early twenties."
"That's because they are in those pictures," Jamie said, putting the pillows and blankets on the couch.
"But why?"
"It's a long story, Tess," Jamie said simply. "We can talk about it tomorrow. I need to get some sleep;
I've been up all day for Harry's birthday."
"Just one more question," Tessa said as Jamie helped her to the couch. "Who's the girl in those pictures? The one with black hair?"
"That's Alayna," Jamie said, "my daughter."
"Your's and Sirius'?" Tessa asked, sitting down on the bed-like couch.
"Mh hm," Jamie said and nodded. "I'm going up to bed. Good night, Tessa."
"G'night, Jamie," Tessa said, still looking over the pictures.
Jamie went up to her bedroom where Sirius was already changing. She closed the door and sat down on their bed. She sighed heavily and then Sirius said, "Did you get Alayna and Harry?"
"Damn," Jamie said under her breath.
"It's all right," Sirius said, pulling on a shirt. "I'll go get them."
"Thanks, Si," Jamie said, laying back on the bed.
She closed her eyes and listened to the air-conditioning kick in. It was pretty hot and humid, even if it was summer. Jamie rolled over onto her stomach and leaned her chin upon her hands. She lay there for about three minutes, until she heard someone yell outside. Jamie leapt to her feet and Aparated outside. She saw Sirius and Alayna, about six feet apart, yelling at each other and Jamie had Aparated in the middle.
"I don't have to listen to you!" Alayna shouted.
"Yes you do, Alayna, I'm your father!" Sirius yelled back.
"What is going on?" Jamie asked, her hands on her hips.
"Mum, he said that we have to go inside!" Alayna whined.
"Well, imagine that," Jamie said, putting a finger to her chin. "How dare he, hm?"
"Yes!" Alayna said. "It's Harry's birthday, so we should-"
"Get in the house," Jamie said in a no-nonsense manner. "Oh, and, Alayna, you're grounded."
"Why?" Alayna asked, glaring at her mother.
"Here's the thing, Alayna," Jamie said, facing her daughter. "Sirius is your father and you respect your father. Respecting your father would not be by screaming maledictions at him for the whole street to hear!"
"What's a malediction?" Alayna asked, scrunching up her nose.
"Get in the house," Jamie said, pointing at the doors to the house.
Alayna huffed, yet obliged. Harry, who was standing in silence at the side the whole time nodded to Jamie and Sirius and ran into the house. Jamie sighed heavilly and began to walk into the house. Before she reached it, though, Sirius grabbed Jamie's hand and held her back.
"Thanks," Sirius said.
"No problem," Jamie said. "You just have to out-smart her, I suppose you could say. Use big words is what I normally do."
"Ah, I see," Sirius said and pulled Jamie into a hug. "This morning she stated that I was not her father because you slept with someone while being engaged to me."
"How'd she know?" Jamie said, pretending to be shocked. "Well, she accused me of having an affair with Remus, so I wouldn't put it past her."
"To much Muggle TV, I take it," Sirius said.
"That must be it," Jamie sighed. "Soap operas."
"C'mon, let's go to bed," Sirius whispered into Jamie's ear.
"Works for me," Jamie sighed and they walked into the house.
"Er," Sirius said as he opened the door, "what does malediction mean?"
*****
Jamie awoke with a start the next morning. She glanced at the clock and was surprised to see that it was only 7:30. She decided to get up and be crabby all day since she didn't sleep until 9:00 like she normally did. It took her awhile intil she noticed that Sirius was gone.
She padded down the hallway in her slippers and pajamas and emerged into the kitchen. She put some toast in the toaster and poured herself a cup of already made coffee. The Daily Prophet was already on the table and looked as though someone has already read it. She glanced at the refridgerator and saw a note on it.
"I'll be right back. I have some stuff I have to do. Should be back around 9:00. -Sirius"
That explained where Sirius was. Then, with the impact of someone hitting her, she remembered that Tessa was in her house. Jamie set down her coffee on the table and ran into the living room. To her surprise, the bed was already made and Tessa wasn't there.
Jamie looked frantically around and then the front door opened. Jamie looked and saw Tessa coming in with an arm-load of groceries.
"Tessa!" Jamie almost shouted. "What are you doing? It's only 7:30! Why did you go out so early? Where did you get the money for those?"
Tessa looked at Jamie with an odd expression on her face and said, "Um, I just went down to the cornermart at the end of the street and bought some things for you. Is that all right?"
"No it's not all right!" Jamie said with urgency in her voice. "Look, Tessa, I think that it's time to tell you something. . ."
Author's Note: I know, bad ending, but I wasn't sure how to end it. Oh well. Anywho, here is your much awaited sequel. Are y'all happy? Of course you are! Hopefully I'll be able to figure out where to take this, lol. :) Anywho, thanks for reading!
-Jamie
PS: If you would, could you go read "Generation Gap" by Casualty of Society? Thanks!
TAKES PLACE RIGHT WHERE "A FEW FRIENDS LESS" ENDED!!!!!!!!!!! Thought you ought to know. *faints*
Friend or Foe?
Chapter One: What the Beep?
"Tessa?" Jamie said, her eyes wide as she dropped the tea cups.
The woman in the doorway nodded with a small smile as Sirius bundled into the kitchen. "Jamie, are you all right? What happened?"
"S-S-Sirius," Jamie said, turning, but not taking her eyes off of Tessa. "D'you know who that is?"
Sirius looked at Jamie as though she had lost her mind, mainly because she was acting the part. "What? No, of course not." Jamie ripped her eyes off of Tessa and whispered something into his ear. "Holy shit. But she's- she can't be-can she?"
"Well, seeing as she's standing right there, apparently so!" Jamie said, folding her arms. She lowered her voice and said, "And she doesn't look seventeen. . . ."
"It's like she never died," Sirius said in a voice barely over a whisper.
Jamie nodded and said, "I'm sorry, Tessa, come in."
Tessa obliged and she looked around. "You two live together, I take it? Always knew that you were meant for each other. You look different, though. What year is it?"
Jamie ran her fingers through her hair and said, "It's 1996, Tess."
Tessa stopped dead in her tracks and said, "But. . . the last thing that I remember is dancing down in Hogwarts with a Hufflepuff. Then. . . I don't remember anything."
Jamie and Sirius shared a glance and Sirius said, "Well, Tessa, we'll talk about it later. You look like you could use some rest."
Jamie nodded in agreement and said, "The couch is a pull-out. You can sleep there, seeing that Harry is in the guest room, which is now his, I suppose."
"Harry?" Tessa asked.
"Potter," Sirius said without thinking. "Lily and James' boy."
"Lily and James, too?" Tessa asked with a smile. "Oh, how I'd love to talk to Lily."
"Erm, yeah," Jamie said. "You need to sleep. Sirius, take her into the living room and I'll go get some blankets and pillows. I'll call Harry and Alayna in as well."
Sirius nodded and led Tessa into the living room. Tessa was leaning on Sirius' arm to steady herself and Sirius felt a bit uncomfortable with it. When they got to the living room, Remus looked up at Sirius and Tessa with question on his face. Sirius cursed silently and mouthed, "Later."
"Um, Marcy, perhaps we should leave," Remus said, getting to his feet. "We'll just see ourselves out, Sirius."
Sirius nodded, but Marcy said, "Wait, Remus, maybe we can help Jamie and Sirius. Do you need any help?"
Marcy didn't notice, but she and her husband were the only ones breathing at the moment. Sirius was holding his breath because he knew what was going to happen and Tessa was holding her breath because she was positive that she had just heard that woman say Remus.
"Um," Sirius said in an unnaturally high voice and he cleared his throat. "I think we'll be find, Marcy. You can-"
"Remus?" Tessa asked quietly, looking at Remus. "Remus Lupin?"
"It's not exactly a common name," Remus said with a slight smile. "Have we met?"
Sirius sat Tessa in an armchair and gave Remus a look that said leave now, or I'll kill you, but Remus chose to ignore it.
"Remus, it's me, it's Tessa," she said, looking at Remus with her tired eyes. "Tessa Scott."
"Shit. . . " Sirius muttered under his breath as he pulled out the couch.
"Tessa?" Remus asked with a large smile. "Oh, God, I've missed you so much-"
"Gee, wouldn't think that you're married, eh, Moony?" Sirius said, shooting another look at Remus.
"Oh, er, yeah," Remus stammered. "Um, Tessa, this is Marcy. My wife."
Tessa looked at Remus, seemingly not knowing what to say for a second, then recovered with a smile. "Hi, Marcy. It's wonderful to meet you."
"You too," Marcy said, extending her hand in a handshake. Tessa took it, but took her hand back quickly. "I think we should go, Remus," Marcy announced, looking at her husband intently. "Thanks for everything, Sirius. Say goodbye to Jamie for me, will you?"
"Of course," Sirius said as the two Apparated. "Tessa, I'll be right back."
"Ok, Sirius," Tessa said, looking on the mantel at the pictures Jamie had scattered up there.
Sirius practically ran down the hallway to where Jamie was standing in front of the linen closet, some sheets in her arms. Sirius skidded to a halt right in front of her.
"Sirius, what are you doing?" Jamie asked, looking at him.
"Jamie, we can't keep her here," Sirius said, putting a hand on each of her upperarms.
"And why not?" Jamie asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Jamie, she's supposed to be dead!" Sirius said, his voice almost a hiss. "What is her mum going to do? She was devastated when Tessa died. Remember that, Jamie, DIED. You know, like not alive."
"Sirius, I know what dead is," Jamie said, looking Sirius in the eye.
"Good, then you'll agree with me when I say that we have to get rid of her," Sirius said.
"Sirius, she isn't a pet," Jamie said, getting out of Sirius' grip. "She was one of my best-friends, and I know that you didn't like her when we were in Hogwarts, but-"
"And for good reason!" Sirius said, his eye blazing. He pointed down the hallway. "That woman broke one of my closest friends heart, and you should have seen him fall over himself because of her in front of his wife!"
"Look, Sirius, that was twenty-one years ago," Jamie said.
"And she died a month later, Jamie," Sirius pointed out. "We don't even know how she's able to be in our house right now!"
"I know, Sirius," Jamie said, rubbing her temples with a hand on her hip. "I know. But what are we supposed to do? Throw her out on the streets?"
"We'll let her stay the night and deal with it tomorrow," Sirius said, turning Jamie around and massaging her shoulders. "It's all going to work out. Maybe she can stay with her mum or something."
"Yeah, sure," Jamie said, walking away from Sirius and down the hallway.
Jamie walked down to where Tessa was. She was standing by the mantel, holding herself up on the side of it. She had a picture in her hand.
"Oh, hi, Jamie," Tessa said. "I was wondering, why don't you have any more recent pictures of Lily and James? They all look like they are in their early twenties."
"That's because they are in those pictures," Jamie said, putting the pillows and blankets on the couch.
"But why?"
"It's a long story, Tess," Jamie said simply. "We can talk about it tomorrow. I need to get some sleep;
I've been up all day for Harry's birthday."
"Just one more question," Tessa said as Jamie helped her to the couch. "Who's the girl in those pictures? The one with black hair?"
"That's Alayna," Jamie said, "my daughter."
"Your's and Sirius'?" Tessa asked, sitting down on the bed-like couch.
"Mh hm," Jamie said and nodded. "I'm going up to bed. Good night, Tessa."
"G'night, Jamie," Tessa said, still looking over the pictures.
Jamie went up to her bedroom where Sirius was already changing. She closed the door and sat down on their bed. She sighed heavily and then Sirius said, "Did you get Alayna and Harry?"
"Damn," Jamie said under her breath.
"It's all right," Sirius said, pulling on a shirt. "I'll go get them."
"Thanks, Si," Jamie said, laying back on the bed.
She closed her eyes and listened to the air-conditioning kick in. It was pretty hot and humid, even if it was summer. Jamie rolled over onto her stomach and leaned her chin upon her hands. She lay there for about three minutes, until she heard someone yell outside. Jamie leapt to her feet and Aparated outside. She saw Sirius and Alayna, about six feet apart, yelling at each other and Jamie had Aparated in the middle.
"I don't have to listen to you!" Alayna shouted.
"Yes you do, Alayna, I'm your father!" Sirius yelled back.
"What is going on?" Jamie asked, her hands on her hips.
"Mum, he said that we have to go inside!" Alayna whined.
"Well, imagine that," Jamie said, putting a finger to her chin. "How dare he, hm?"
"Yes!" Alayna said. "It's Harry's birthday, so we should-"
"Get in the house," Jamie said in a no-nonsense manner. "Oh, and, Alayna, you're grounded."
"Why?" Alayna asked, glaring at her mother.
"Here's the thing, Alayna," Jamie said, facing her daughter. "Sirius is your father and you respect your father. Respecting your father would not be by screaming maledictions at him for the whole street to hear!"
"What's a malediction?" Alayna asked, scrunching up her nose.
"Get in the house," Jamie said, pointing at the doors to the house.
Alayna huffed, yet obliged. Harry, who was standing in silence at the side the whole time nodded to Jamie and Sirius and ran into the house. Jamie sighed heavilly and began to walk into the house. Before she reached it, though, Sirius grabbed Jamie's hand and held her back.
"Thanks," Sirius said.
"No problem," Jamie said. "You just have to out-smart her, I suppose you could say. Use big words is what I normally do."
"Ah, I see," Sirius said and pulled Jamie into a hug. "This morning she stated that I was not her father because you slept with someone while being engaged to me."
"How'd she know?" Jamie said, pretending to be shocked. "Well, she accused me of having an affair with Remus, so I wouldn't put it past her."
"To much Muggle TV, I take it," Sirius said.
"That must be it," Jamie sighed. "Soap operas."
"C'mon, let's go to bed," Sirius whispered into Jamie's ear.
"Works for me," Jamie sighed and they walked into the house.
"Er," Sirius said as he opened the door, "what does malediction mean?"
*****
Jamie awoke with a start the next morning. She glanced at the clock and was surprised to see that it was only 7:30. She decided to get up and be crabby all day since she didn't sleep until 9:00 like she normally did. It took her awhile intil she noticed that Sirius was gone.
She padded down the hallway in her slippers and pajamas and emerged into the kitchen. She put some toast in the toaster and poured herself a cup of already made coffee. The Daily Prophet was already on the table and looked as though someone has already read it. She glanced at the refridgerator and saw a note on it.
"I'll be right back. I have some stuff I have to do. Should be back around 9:00. -Sirius"
That explained where Sirius was. Then, with the impact of someone hitting her, she remembered that Tessa was in her house. Jamie set down her coffee on the table and ran into the living room. To her surprise, the bed was already made and Tessa wasn't there.
Jamie looked frantically around and then the front door opened. Jamie looked and saw Tessa coming in with an arm-load of groceries.
"Tessa!" Jamie almost shouted. "What are you doing? It's only 7:30! Why did you go out so early? Where did you get the money for those?"
Tessa looked at Jamie with an odd expression on her face and said, "Um, I just went down to the cornermart at the end of the street and bought some things for you. Is that all right?"
"No it's not all right!" Jamie said with urgency in her voice. "Look, Tessa, I think that it's time to tell you something. . ."
Author's Note: I know, bad ending, but I wasn't sure how to end it. Oh well. Anywho, here is your much awaited sequel. Are y'all happy? Of course you are! Hopefully I'll be able to figure out where to take this, lol. :) Anywho, thanks for reading!
-Jamie
PS: If you would, could you go read "Generation Gap" by Casualty of Society? Thanks!