Home Is Where the Heart Is

Chapter Two

I woke up the next morning late and hung over; basically just like the rest of my family (James, Keira and Sirius stayed the night in one of the many spare rooms). I scratched my head and walked downstairs in my pyjamas like I do every other morning and I found that though it was late I was still the first one up; Keira struggled into the kitchen not much later with Sirius who wanted to be feed and all Keira seemed to want to do was sleep.

"Hey, I'll feed him if you like and you can go back to bed. I'm wide awake anyway." Keira looked at me as if I was crazy and I smiled.

"Are you sure?" I loved when Keira spoke she had this fantastic Australian accent. My brother met her right after Hogwarts when he went on a Healer exchange program there and she is this absolutely gorgeous blonde, tanned and fit woman; who looks fantastic even though she has had a baby.

"Positive it's fine." She smiled, hugged me and handed over Sirius.

"You are a lifesaver babe." I smiled and she trudged back upstairs. I looked at the clock and it was eleven, no wonder Sirius was hungry.

"Hey baby, what do you want for breakfast?" I held up two cans of baby food and he pointed to one.

"Okay if that's what you want."

I spent the next ten minutes feeding him and in between mouthfuls for him, I ate some of my toast and had some orange juice. I put my beautiful nephew in his rocker with the jingle thing on top and the door bell rang. It was eleven thirty and I told Kate to come over then so we could make our way to Aunty Fleur's house to today for the annual (yes another one) Weasley lunch in honour of my grandparents that I have never met that died saving mum, dad and everyone else in the war. It always happens the day after the ball and the day before we go back to school.

I walked to the door and I was still in my short shorts and singlet top pyjamas and decided that Kate probably couldn't care; she has seen me in less. I opened the door and when I was expecting a 5'7", red head, with brown eyes and cute freckles, I saw a 6'4" dark shaggy haired, tanned skinned and gorgeous smiling Jake. I was a little shocked and he looked at me a little odd because I was still in my pyjamas.

"Hey I um wasn't expecting you so early." Jake looked a little shocked, he always was a morning person.

"Jayne it's twenty to twelve. Anyway I just came over to give you your bag back, you left it in my jacket pocket and I only found it this morning." Shit I wondered where that had gone.

"Thanks heaps, did you want to come in; no one else is up yet." He shrugged and walked in the door and little Sirius began to cry. Obviously because I had left him unattended to for a whole two minutes and he was getting bored.

I ran to go pick him up and I rocked him trying to sooth him. It wasn't working so I got Jake to grab me a t-towel from the kitchen draw and I burped him.

"You're really good with him." Jake noted and I smiled.

"Well he is my godson, I love him to pieces and when Keira had to work last Summer; guess who was babysitter" He smiled and I looked at him, I had finished burping him and I frankly wanted to just put him down.

"Do you want to hold him?" Jake looked scared and backed up like he did yesterday when I asked him about the clothes.

"Ah no I'm really like not good with kids… I'll just upset him… you know…" I scolded him with one of my scarier looks and placed the baby in his arms.

"Shut up and stop making excuses, just put your hand here and support his head. See there you go there is nothing to it."

I looked at him and just how cute they both were, Jake was shocked at just how well he was doing with Sirius and Sirius was gurgling happily with all of the attention that he was receiving this morning. James came down the stairs with Keira and they smiled when they saw Jake with Sirius.

"Hey Jake, I didn't picture you for the nurturing one." Jake smiled and laughed.

"I'm not really; Jayne kind of just put Sirius in my arms and made me hold him." James laughed and punched me playfully.

"You've got to be careful with this one, she's forceful." I punched him.

"Shut up James, do you want me to baby-sit Sirius again?" James turned quiet and Keira laughed.

"Yeah I thought so." I saw dad come down the stairs with mum and Jake passed Sirius back to James.

"I better go mum needs me to do some things for her today or something like that." I nodded and we hugged and said goodbye. James was giving me this look and I questioned him.

"What?"

"Jaynie loves Jake, Jaynie loves…" I punched him really hard this time.

"Ouch" James said rubbing his arm.

"I do not; just remember what I said about baby sitting."

"I am bloody glad I do not have any sisters." Keira said and James looked at her funnily.

"I have brothers and they are much worse aren't they Jayne?" I smiled at her.

"Hell yes." We laughed and mum and dad came into room looking a little worse for wear. I gave them both a sobering up potion and they both took it, looking a little exhausted. Mum took Sirius off James and smiled at him.

"Hello my gorgeous boy, say hello Ginny." James looked at mum as if she was crazy.

"Mum why won't you just be called Nan?" Mum gave James the death stare and James backed away from mum.

"Because James Sirius Potter I am thirty-nine years old and I too bloody young to be a Nana." Keira and I laughed because every time James and Sirius are at our place mum and James have the same argument and mum always ends up winning; basically because she is mum.

Matt and Lilly trudged down the stairs next and Matt's black messy hair was rivalling dad's it was that bad this morning; I think that he drank too much of the firewhisky that I gave him last night.

"Morning sunshine's" I said to both of them and gave them part of the same potion that everyone of us had taken this morning with the exception of baby Sirius. Mum looked shocked when I gave the potion to Matt.

"What does he need that for?" Mum looked outraged and we all shrugged including dad.

"Mum come on we have all been drinking at that ball since we were like twelve, cut Matt some slack" Lilly said as she ruffled his hair.

Mum didn't look happy but she permitted it anyway and Matt sobered up instantly. Lilly came up from behind me and hugged me.

"So what players have you lost this year?" She looked at me and held on tight to me.

"Well I've lost Kieran Thomas who was one of the best chasers and that's it."

"Who are you thinking to replace him?" I thought for a second and I remembered Charlize.

"Charlize hopefully she only just lost out to Kieran last year and that was because she was eleven, so hopefully I can get her to play for me but as usual I have to go through the whole rigor of trialling." She nodded, let go of me and drank the rest of my orange juice.

"Good choice," dad said from the corner. I think the proudest moment dad has of me was when I was made Quidditch captain in my fifth year after being seeker on the team since first year just like dad.

"So, four Weasley's, a Potter and two family friends. That will go down well with the people who don't get in." My sister said from beside me and she was right but I couldn't give a fuck.

"Yeah but I don't really care, I'm sure they will shut up when they see our team play this season; it will definitely be better than anything the other captains have got going. I can assure you." Matt looked up and smiled at how confident I was.

"Little too confident aren't you Jayne? From what I heard all of the guys going on about last year; they reckoned that Malfoy was going to have a pretty kick arse team this year." Matt smiled as he saw the look on my face when he mentioned Malfoy.

"That's fine, I'm just saying that we are going to be better; I am going to have the quidditch cup again for the third and last year of my captaincy if it is the last thing I bloody do and no-one including Ben Malfoy will stop me."

I was ready to run upstairs to my room and everyone in the room had just gone completely silent and I mentally strangled my brother to pass the time until Kate got to my house but instead I turned around and saw Kate standing there in the doorway and apparently acting as the ice-breaker.

"Kate, how are you; would you like anything to drink?" My dad said to Kate as he kissed and hugged her and pointedly avoided me.

"Um no thanks Uncle Harry it will be fine." I looked at Kate and she looked straight back at me obviously confused, I gave her a look that said let's go to my room and as she was saying hi to everyone I grabbed her hand and led her up the stairs.

"What the hell was that all about?" Kate looked at me confused.

"Matt basically said to the entire room that Ben's team was going to kick my arse in Quidditch this season and then they wouldn't look at me when I said that no-one was going to stop me from winning that cup and they took that time to all then stare at the season; all except Lilly and dad because they seem to be the only one's that have any kind of faith in me, dumb family."

We reached the top of the stairs and entered my room where Kate collapsed on the bed and I began to sift through clothes to wear to Uncle Bill's today for lunch. Kate pointed to a tight fitting white shirt, a pair of brown cropped shorts and a pair of bright pink thongs and I began to get changed into them. I plaited the back of my long black hair and nudged Kate and we were ready to go downstairs, except of course we were the only ones ready to go.

"Guys come on we are already late as it is?" Kate asked us all and basically all they could do was shrug. Kate being completely anal retentive like her mum, cannot stand being late or not on time for anything it just isn't what she does.

"I know," Mum piped up.

"Do you recon we could send you two as like representatives until we all get there?" Mum smiled and everyone actually made the effort to nod their heads enthusiastically.

"Whatever." I said and my motion became the complete antithesis of their previous one.

"Ok good, see you later girls; we will be there in probably half an hour." With that dad smiled and went back to breakfast where as Kate and I aparated ourselves off to Uncle Bill's and Aunt Fleur's mansion in London.

As we were walking across the yard to their house, I remembered something that I had forgotten to tell Kate from last night and I knew I had to tell her because if I didn't tell someone else who would gossip about it with me. Chances are it would just explode out of me at some inconvenient time or place and basically I could say goodbye to life because my parents would murder me.

"Hey I forgot to tell you something last night and it is just too good; so I if I don't tell you I will explode with the information later and mum and dad will kill me." Kate came in close and whispered to me.

"What is it?"

"Mum's pregnant with twins." Kate laughed obviously not believing that it was serious.

"You're kidding me, is this some kind of joke?" I shook my head and she actually got serious for a moment.

"Shit what are they going to do?"

"Keep them, I mean what can they do?" She shrugged and pondered the thought for a moment.

"God, you are going to be one of six how revolting, I can't stand Emma and Aaron enough as it is." She was still looking sceptical of the idea as we reached the door and rang the bell. Less than five seconds later Rachael came to greet us at the door with hugs and kisses.

Kate and I could be seriously jealous of Rachael. For starters she's hot, part veela with the long blonde hair and the French sun kissed skin and well you name it. She lives in this huge massive mansion in the English and they also have one in the French country sides and her boyfriend Nat Harris was the hottest guy in not just our year but the entire school. It seemed to both of us that our cousin had everything.

"Everyone is already outside waiting to start lunch, where are Uncle Harry, Aunty Ginny and the rest of the family?" Kate started to um and r as she tended to get nervous under questioning just like her mum does; so I did the explaining for her.

"They all got really smashes last night and they are still partly hung over so they are on their way." Rachael nodded.

"That would explain it then."

We walked through the grande house and the place never ceased to amaze me, every time I am here I manage to find a new passage way or entrance to something and the excitement of childhood comes straight back to me. Kate as she always explains to me when I do this is not juvenile enough for this crap and that I should probably get Jake to do these things with me because he will have more fun. He probably would to, but sadly today is strictly family business.

Rachael opened the double French (of course) doors that led to where our family was, she walked through first and we followed with our entire family right in front of us. This is always a day that gets the entire family even us kids; when most of us with the exception of Will and James never actually met Grandma Molly and Grandpa Arthur; they are just part of the rest of our family's memories. From dad has told me that Grandma and Grandpa basically took him in from his muggle Aunt and Uncle at the age of eleven and took care of him every Summer and Christmas through to they died even with seven children they could barely afford to care for themselves but they took dad in.

I'm not exactly what circumstances under which they died; Kate tried asking her mum and dad and I tried to ask mine but every time either of us mentions it, it's too painful for us and they can never get out the entire story. Mum cries like Aunt Hermione and Dad goes silent and angry like Uncle Ron, so Kate and I have learnt to keep our mouths shut. The only part we have ever gotten from any of them is that our grandparents died refusing to reveal where our parents where, whether they actually knew or not was another story but they died for them and the rest of the family and my family generally has their lives to thank for the grandparents that we have never met.

Kate and I did the rounds of kisses, hugs etc and by the time we had gotten around and had talked to everyone; mum and the rest of the family had finally turned up looking in a lot better shape than what they had this morning.

Everyone sat down at their usual seats at the long table outside and every year a different child (including Aunt Hermione and dad) said something about Grandma and Grandpa and thanked them for everything that we had today; this year it was Uncle Bill's turn, hence why the event was held at his house. He stood up and he began.

"Mum and dad where ever you are we just want to thank you for letting us get so far today. Though we never had much money or expensive things we always made the best of times and picked up some of the best friends and partners along the way and you two in particular helped us with that. No matter what you did you were always supportive of us and as we grew older our families and you encouraged us to be who we are today. You needn't have sacrificed yourselves but if you hadn't we all wouldn't be sitting here today together and I know that that is the way that you would have wanted it too be. We just wish that you could see how beautiful and mature most… of your grandchildren have grown up to be and that you were here to share today with us. Thanks and mum we definitely miss your cooking and though the girls have made do except Ginny who is just crap at this kind of thing (mum looked outraged, but it was definitely true) no one would or could have done it better than you."

There were tears, laughter and clapping after that and mum of course hit Uncle Bill across the top of his scared head. Lunch progressed quickly as usual and Kate and I went down the back of the estate early as usual to avoid having to help with the washing up. We walked to where there was the small pond down the back and sat down together, with my head on her shoulder.

"So I saw you and Mark looking pretty cosy together yesterday, what happened?" Kate blushed as usual and I doubted that she would actually tell me anything.

"Well we snogged ourselves senseless in the hall cupboard and he asked me out to the next hogsmede trip if that what you meant by what happened." I smiled at her and laughed because she was looking pretty smug.

"What about you and Jake, you two were looking pretty close yesterday as well?" Jake and I as if, like the guy's hot but there is no way in hell that we would ever end up together; I mean how awkward would it be if we broke up?

"Me and Jake na, we are just friends; it would end up crap if one of us broke it off." Kate shrugged and poked me.

"If you say so but I personally since you broke it off with Ben thank God I might add; have been thinking that you two would be pretty nice together." She smiled and I poked her back.

"Give it a rest Kate it will never happen."

I sat there with my head on Kate's shoulder for the next ten minutes talking to her and then I got thinking could it actually happen? I seem to be getting so much closer to Jake and one thing could lead to the next and I definitely wouldn't mind if we hooked up but we're best friends and his dad is like friends with my dad and our mum's have got the same thing going on. It could never really work, but as Kate was telling me later; I could make it work with Jake and that would be the end of it.


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