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Chapter 3: seen
Remus and Isidora woke to screaming coming from Lily and James's shared room at four in the morning. Remus and Isidora ran from their bed dressed only in their night gear and flew to the large oak door with the 'Brats' written in gold block letters upon it. Fumbling with the door handle Remus finally opened the door fearing the worst.
Lily and James were both in the one crib they were put to sleep in last night. Lily was wearing a light pink sleeping suit and James in pallid blue. Both were in their shared crib crying for no reason. Lily's hair had grown to be long enough to make tight curls against her head. James's hair had also grown and was unceremoniously standing up in all directions. James's was wailing loudly while Lily watched in horror.
What really caught the attention of the two carers was the fact that Lily was standing up against the headboard of the crib while James sat sobbing at the other end.
"Holy Cheese and Whiskers!!" Is hollered "they've grown"
That night Baby Lily and Baby James had experienced their first growth spurt. In the crib where newborns were at the start of the night now laid a pair of 3 year olds yelling and crying.
Lily's eyes had remained her characteristic bright green, while James's had changed from a new born dark blue to a light brown. Both children eyes were full of tears; James's which had already spilled
Is picked up James, who was closest to her and rocked and comforting him to calm him down, Remus doing the same for Lily.
"Hey hey hey. What's the matter little guy?" Is whispered reassuringly in James's ear as she held him close to her body.
"Kicked me" James said while crying on her shoulder.
Is was shocked, but still managed to rock back and forth comforting the child while silently signalling to Remus about her discovery. They can talk!! Jeez how old are they now?
"That's truly is Lily Evans" Remus scoffed. "Now Lily why did you kick James?" Remus asked Lily drying the tears from her eyes with the ends of her sleaves
"Coz he won't be quiet" Lily said sobbing.
"I was sleep. I was quiet"
"Uh-uh. You kept talkin'" Lily said angrily
Remus and Is chuckling over the argument the two toddlers were having.
"Lily dear" Remus said fatherly "James was sleep talking. He didn't mean to. If he wakes you up again call for someone instead of kicking him. It was very wrong. James has no control over his sleep." Remus said sternly while Lily looked ashamed.
"Lily what do you have to say to James?" Is asked the guilty stricken girl.
"I'm sorry James" she said sincerely and hugged James when Remus and Is had put the toddlers on the ground.
"Aw they're so sweet. We have to get a picture." Is said excitedly and ran off to grab her magical camera.
The two babysitters were soon putting the 'Brats' down in the common room with crayons, parchment, toys books and anything else to entertain themselves with. Remus and Is then cast the Maximo Dupilco charm on pictures of Lily and James and sent them on their way to Herbology. Next they copied themselves and each copy went off their own way. Remus and Is settled down for a day with the 'Brats'. It was rather uneventful and the two children amused each other for the rest of the morning with breaks every now and then to have a snack or to talk to their carers about nonsense. Remus and Is had no homework to complete (they had already done it) and so they spent parts of the day watching the magical TV in the head's common room, reading, Is taught Remus to make a sandwich and Remus taught Is the rules of Quidditch.
Lunch was the most eventful time of the day with the 'Brats' not wanting to eat the food that Remus had cooked for them. It consisted of a few pieces of fruit and a sandwich each that he was just taught how to do. To sandwich was slightly messy, and cut crookedly but it was still suitable for eating.
"I can eat my own food" Lily said regally looking at the muddled sandwich and roughly cut carrots.
"I want what Lily eats" James said once Lily wouldn't eat.
Isidora saw a droop in Remus's friendly confidence and so got to work.
"Lily Kate, James Michael can you please join me in the kitchen?" Is said resolutely. Remus stared at Is but returned back to his own lunch while reading the Quibbler – it was a fellow seventh year's school magazine and had quiet a few interesting theories about the gossip around the school.
In the kitchen Lily and James were both sitting on stools at the breakfast bar watching a pacing Is. She turned on the two children who were looking at her confused at her change in demeanour.
"Do you know how long Remus took to make that lunch for you?" she asked the duo.
Both shook their heads looking scared adn upste at the now rampaging Is.
"Do you know how upset he is that you refused to eat what he made especially for the two of you?" she asked once again getting rather irritated that they were that rude. Remus had spent excruciating hours trying to perfect the art of sandwich making and then these two just shot him down. She was furious at how they had treated the man that a few hours ago held one of them in his arms and soothed her crying. He was the man that fixed up James's cut thumb from a piece of parchment. Is knew she was using a guilt trip on the two youngsters and frankly she didn't care. He mother had always done it to her and it made her feel horrible but it always worked.
"What do you think you should be doing right now?" Is asked the two sullen children after ranting at them for the last five minutes. Both children were beyond guilt, they felt horrible.
Once released from Isidora's storm they ran out of the kitchen and stood each side of Remus, who was still reading his paper.
Remus noticed a tug on either side of his sleeves, looking down he saw Lily and James staring back up at him with tears in their eyes once again. He looked in Is's direction. She was leaning against the doorframe of the kitchen watching the two 'Brats' and Remus with a small smile on her face.
"Yes Lily? James?" he answered the tugs.
"We wanted to say sozzy. We didn't know you made them specially for us." James apologised looking down at his feet, Lily copying the motion.
"It doesn't matter that I made them. It matter's that you refused food that anyone could have made. It was very impolite and I hope to never hear of you doing it again." Remus explained.
The 'Brats' stared at him with understanding. Each moved away, back to their seats and they each finished their meals, put their dishes away and cleaned the table of the cutlery and placemats it held.
Remus and Is were tucking the 'Brats' into bed that night when lily stopped them in their tracks with only five words: 'good night Mummy and Daddy'
The babysitters sat on the end of Lily's bed and signalled James to join them. Once both James and Lily were tucked in Lily's bed Remus answered Lily's good night.
"Ah kids were not your parents. We're just looking after you for a while." Remus said after recovering from his shock.
"But in all the stories the princess always had a Ma and Da. Same with prince." Lily added as an afterthought looking towards James.
"If you're not our Mum and Dad then who are you?"
"We're student at a magic school and you're in our care till you grow up" Remus said to the three year olds.
"So you are going to be like our Mum and Dad then?" James asked innocently.
"Um. Uh. Urgh. I guess so" An irresolute Is still trying to recover from her best-friend and her best-friend's enemy thinking she was their mother.
Remus looked as Is as if she was insane. But decided to play along and ask her about it once the 'kids' had gone to bed.
"Sure kids we'll be your temporary parents until you grow up and are our age" Remus said looking at Is if she understood the double meaning of his words.
The kids soon forgot the conversation and with their 'mummy' and 'daddy' sleeping in the room next to them the children drifted off to sleep with warm milk, a teddy (or doll in Lily's case) in one hand and a short story.
Lily and James slept through the morning and woke up to a tall boy with Black hair and a tall girl with blonde hair.
James was woken by Lily's scream.
"Wahl sa mader Lil?" James asked sleepily. Seeing the tall boy in front of her bed he hurried over and shielded her behind his body.
"Where Ma and Da are gone?" Lily asked the tall boy while frighten out of her wits.
"Ugh who?" the tall boy asked Lily.
"Our Ma and Da. Our Ma had bwack hair and Da has wallow hair." Lily described. A minute later the boy and girl laughed at the two children and ended up on the floor holding their sides.
"Watz so funni" Lily asked with her hands on her hips.
"You think Remus and Is are your parents" Sirius and Jo laughed together.
Taking pity on the two children Jo comforted them.
"I'm Aunty Jo and this is Uncle Sirius. We're going to be looking after you today. Your mum and dad are going to class today and so they asked if we could help look after you." Aunty Jo explained to the two frightened children. Lily peaked around James, who had been shielding her from the two big people.
"You sure?" Lily asked uncertainly.
"Yes we're going to be playing in here. Uncle Sirius and I are going to be sitting right over there." Aunty Jo pointed to a large bed which was piled high with pieces of parchment and homework the two students were meant to have finished.
Lily and James played in the common room for the most of the day. Uncle Siri as he was christened played with James and Lily. Aunty Jo often found him in the playpen – which had been turned into a cubbyhouse – with Lily on one side and James on the other, both tickling Uncle Siri without mercy. Aunty Jo often helped after he was breathless with the assistance of a tickling charm on both children and Uncle Siri.
The day was an entertaining one for the children and for Uncle Siri and Aunty Jo. The children had healthy food for lunch, which Uncle Siri surprisingly suggested and the children didn't dispute. Aunty Jo taught James and how to play Quidditch: the board game. At around 9 at night Ma and Da came 'home' to see once again all three children, Uncle Siri included, rolling on the floor in laughter with Aunty Jo standing with her back to the door an her wand trained on the three laughing kids.
Da saw the golden opportunity to try and get back at her for torturing the marauders and so shot her a tickling charm also, not the first charm for the day. Is eventually persuaded Remus to take the charm off all 4 kids as the 'Brats' were starting to go blue in the face from laughter.
The terrible twosome rushed at their parents and hugged their legs while they tried to walk. The other terrible twosomes were once again rolling on the floor laughing hard.
Is gave Remus an I'm-not-happy looks and said "I thought you took the charm off them?"
"I did" Remus pleaded.
"Is we're laughing at you" Aunty Jo managed to blurt out in between laughs.
"Huh?" Is asked confused.
"You gained two children in the space of a day. Why did you tell us about you and Remus?" Uncle Sirius laughed at the red colouring of the two young parent's faces.
"They asked us." Is and Remus defended while their cheeks reddened. "They were so cute and were asking about their parents." He said while getting defencesive, crossing his arms and setting a scowl on his normally genial face.
"We said we were their carers and they took it as parents. We couldn't change it after that it was a stuck name." Remus pleaded his and Is's case as their cheeks had reached their peek of tomato red.
"Ok ok. We'll believe you for now" Aunty Jo told them with suspicion clearly written on her face.
While the four teenagers were discussing the parent ship of the two chidlets the two children took the opportunity to explore outside of the confines of the Heads common room. They toddled down the stairs and through the corridor. Luckily enough for the teens it was at night and no-one was walking around. Unluckily for them though was that the 'Brats' walked to the Gryffindor common room where it opened to reveal the contents of the common room. The Gold and Red house were celebrating the Great Prewitt Twins Prank Festival and were having a Gryffindor famous party. Butterbeer, food and decorations had appeared from no where and a party was in full swing when the 'Brats' opened the portal.
The Gryffindors' turned to the opening common room door getting ready to be told to go to be from an angry professor McGonagall. Instead no-one stood there. After some confused whispers the door once again closed and the party resumed. Soon everyone was shushed again as crying was heard from behind a arm chair with its back to the common room entrance.
A stunned silence amplified to crying of the children. A prefect finally took control of the situation and picked up the kids and comforted them.
"Hey, hey, what's the matter?" the girl prefect asked the little red head girl and the hazel eyed boy.
"We got lost" Lily sobbed into the prefects uniform as James tried to help comfort her.
"Oh what's your name?" another prefect asked nicely. Before Lily could answer the common room opened once again and in it stood a very livid professor McGonagall. She took in the scene and ordered everyone to bed. The children ran to the professor and wrapped their little bodies around her legs.
"Aunty Magy we got lost" Lily cried into the professor's leg as the Gryffindors' of the school looked on the scene. The professor picked up the two children and walked out of the common room and made her way to the headmaster's office.
"Headmaster!" McGonagall said while barging in the office. Professor Dumbledore was sitting peacefully watching his deputy headmistress sit down in a fluster. "Lily and James have been seen."
AN:
Shetlandlace: thankyou for reviewing and encouraging my writing.
Serenity12345: ha ha ha I love your reviews. Yeah I wanted to show what the youngsters were like now that they were young. Also you don't know what they are like just yet. They really do live up to their names.
Ari-Moon: ah my faithful reviewer. as you can see i am once again updating for you. i'm glad to hear you still love it.
i want to know from all the readers is do you want to have more stories about their adventures and trouble-making when they are younger or do you want to get to the main of the story?
please review and tell me.
This chapter is the last of the already written ones. I have to write and re-write the next chapter. I have almost finished but I want to add more things to it and want to change a few things around. It may be a little while before I can put up the next chapter. then again it may not.
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