A/N: Hey guys.

*insert Hermione's tirade when Ron came back from the comforts of the Burrow back to Harry and Hermione's campsite.*

I am so sorry. I just didn't feel like writing. *audience gasp*

So, I am planning on finishing everything already. They might be crap. You have been warned. In addition to everything I've said, I may have once or twice mentioned that both SIHA and GP are ending in five chapters. Scratch that. I might even reach ten as a maximum. [For now.]

For all you Jily shippers, hopefully, after a while [finishing GP § SIHA and a hiatus after.] I will be starting a fic as a request from IceLumos963. You can send me requests on one-shots or multi-chapters but I will have to decline if it's a pairing that I don't like, though. [They just take a while to finish though.]

Anyways, without further ado, Chapter... 4?

Take two.

Without further ado, Chapter 4!


"Albus, please?"

I tried to pry my brother's hand - or claw - as his fingernails dug into my forearm but not deep enough to hurt.

"No! You've got to tell the family!"

Goddammit.

My brain fumbled for an excuse and noticed some students rushing for class.

"We don't have time! Classes are about to start and I need to go!"

His hand tightened around my arm as he emphasized his point thought manhandling me.

"But you have to promise that you'll be going to the Room of Requirement immediately after classes?" He said adamantly.

"Fine, Albus. Expect Lily and I," Lucy intervened.

I gave Lucy a look that portrayed my what-the-hell-are-you-thinking look.

"Thank you," Albus smirked.

He ruffled my hair as I stood with my mouth agape.

"See you later and hurry, you're going to be late for class!" He bade.

"W-what?!" I asked, shocked.

"There's no point quarreling with your brother unless you'd like him to tell the coterie instead and get you late for classes too. That's double the trouble," she pointed out quite cleverly.

I just grumbled and quickened my pace towards the greenhouses as our next class was Herbology with Uncle-

No. Scratch that.

Professor Longbottom.

".. it contains ingredients such as powdered moonstone, powdered unicorn horn.." Rambled on by Professor Halecatcher.

I was in Potions, dying of boredom as it was only a lecture today. The professor was discussing the Draught of Peace which we were going to concoct in the following meeting.

This was the penultimate of the classes, so I was also anxious at what was going to come.

Stupid Albus.

He just had to prattle on about telling the family. The world would've been less complicated.

Merlin.

She tuned in the Potions teacher to see where they've progressed.

"Creating this potion indeed is a difficult job as to put in too much of the ingredients could put the drinker in a possible irreversible sleep. So.."

Hm. Taking care and all that shite.

I tuned the teacher out once again to ponder on what I'd be doing to rectify the situation at hand.

"So class, I shall be expecting a minimum of a foot long essay on how to use of the Silencio charm properly by tomorrow. Class dismissed."

I just finished an hour long of Charms and was relieved that it was the last class as I could just lay down on my bed after this.

I waited for Lucy to pack her things into her satchel and we walked out discussing on how we'd head up to the dormitories first before supper when reality came crashing back in.

Albus stood at the foot of the door, tapping his foot impatiently, waiting for us.

"Well? Let's go!"

All I could hear in my head was a resounding "Fuck."

What a frigging start to my evening.

We took a short route towards the Room of Requirement with the use of the hidden passages. Albus then paced in front of a deceivingly blank wall. As a part of the clan, you couldn't grow up without knowing the Room of Requirement.

The door appears and we all push it open. He'd conjured up several sofas that could seat at least five people each.

A room that was meant for conversation.

I will murder you in your sleep, Albus.

My git of a brother sat himself on one of the cushy sofas and pointed to the ones directly in front of him.

Lucy walked over and I followed suit.

"Now, what would my lovely arse of a brother want to know?" I said in a dulcet tone.

"Everything. From everything related to a certain Lorcan Scamander to waking up in my best mate's bed."

I am in deep shit.

Argh.

I breathed in a deep breath and looked meaningfully at Lucy.

"It all started.."

"That's where you came in, I suppose." The long reiteration ended.

"Hm." Albus's mumble as his reply.

"So, you're telling me, that from being sexually assaulted by Scamander to finding Scorpius and perpetually snogging him-"

"I wasn't 'perpetually snogging' him!"

"That's besides the point. But continuing on, you kissed him or whatever you did, and woke up the next morning in his bed?"

I confirmed everything with a small nod and adding that nothing happened.

He hung his head and clenched his fists in an obvious attempt to dash out of the room and kill Lorcan.

He looked up and said, "You will tell the others about this."

"What?!" I asked appalled.

"Of course not!"

I felt Lucy's hand on my arm in an exertion to calm me down.

Unfortunately, it wasn't working.

"Yes, you will," Albus forced tersely.

"No, I won't."

Lucy's vain endeavors to rub my back to avoid the upcoming explosion that sure was to occur weren't working as I was going to snap any second now.

"And what? Keep it all bottled to yourself?!" His voice rising an intonation.

It wasn't Albus's cadence that had changed. I was half-yelling myself.

"Albus!" Lucy chided.

"Well, then Mr. Bossy! You aren't the one to rule me as you wish! I'm fifteen! I can make my decisions ll by myself! I don't need a fucking faggot of a brother to tell me what to do!"

Lucy's arm was hooked to my waist to keep me from pouncing at him.

"Lily!" She reprimanded.

Albus, obviously knackered and distressed, tried another approach.

Whilst rubbing his temples in a way to will his temper to hold, he muttered placidly, "Would you rather I would tell the family or you explain it yourself?"

I was taken aback at his peaceful tone and slacked back on the couch to think about the ultimatum he's offered her.

"He has got a point, Lil. If he were to tell the house, that would bring bouts of disgruntlement and actually cause bigger of an issue," Lucy reasoned.

"Finally. Someone who und-"

He was cut off by Lucy giving him a glaring daggers at him.

The twat just sat back on his seat, awaiting an answer. Addition to that, he didn't want to provoke more trouble ensuing.

I couldn't give in!

But you don't want to have Albus do the job for you, now, don't you?

No..

Then, just tell the folks yourself then! We'll ease up the trouble you'll get in. Affirmative?

Argh. Affirmative.

"Okay.." I mumbled incoherently.

But Albus still caught on it.

"Yes!" His voice filled with victory.

If he was doing a happy dance or whatever, I wasn't looking. I was sitting with my head bowed down in dread for what was to come.

"Now, we just need to round up the relatives," Lucy reminded.

"Fuck.. Yeah," said Albus dubiously.

Ha! They must be scattered across Hogwarts.

"But.."

Fuck it all.

"With the three of us and the predictability of all the brood, it'd be easy."

The conversation drifted to everyone's predictability of whereabouts and where they'd ought to be.

"Now, just to plan on who is where.."

"Dinner would have probably finished and.."

"So, common rooms or roaming around could.."

"Rose is in the library, obviously.."

"Anyone in detention?"

"..and guys, I'm hungry."

"..just nick the password from one of the.."

"What time is your curfew, by the.."

"Hugo might be with his friends.."

We'd come up with a list on where everybody could possibly be.

Whereabouts -

Louis Weasley - Hufflepuff Common Room

Hugo Weasley - Gryffindor Common Room

Molly Weasley - Ravenclaw Common Room

Roxanne Weasley - Gryffindor Common Room

Rose Weasley - Library

Dominique Weasley - Ravenclaw Common Room

"We don't have passwords to the Hufflepuff Common Room, much less the Ravenclaw's," Lucy pointed out.

"If we're lucky enough, we'd find them just on the grounds. But if this fails, we'd have to take a much more drastic measure."

"What are you planning, Albus?" I asked threateningly.

He raised his hands up in surrender.

"I was implying that we could find a prefect or someone of Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw." He explained hastily.

I narrowed my eyes in suspicion but let it go.

For a while.

We split up and we were each given an assignation. Albus was in charge of looking for Rose and Louis. Lucy and I were given Dominique, Hugo, Roxanne, and Molly.

I had thought of asking Albus on inviting Scorpius but I thought better of it.

It would only cause much more pandemonium that there is already.

Listing their whereabouts wasn't as quick and easy as looking for the actual people.

We climbed up the stairs to where both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw towers were. Lucy and I made a beeline for Gryffindor first as most of the occupants were people they were looking for and they knew the password.

Hugo was the first one they found. He was walking down the staircase, his intentions unknown.

"Hugo! Er- Emergency family meeting!" Lucy stumbled with her words.

"What? Why? What happened?" He was all questions.

But these were queries that couldn't be granted an answer until later on.

"Um. You have to wait until later to know what happened." I informed him.

"We, including you, need to look for the others. Okay? And have you seen Roxanne?"

"Sure. And no, she's not in the common room either if you were going to check there," Hugo shrugged.

Together with Hugo, they roamed the corridors to look for Roxanne. Everyone stayed silent, not wanting to be the first to break the overwhelming tension.

Goddammit.

Where the hell is Roxanne?!

We've scoured the whole of the sixth floor and she still wasn't to be seen.

Time to head down to the fifth.

With Rose following me, we headed to the Hufflepuff Common Room.

The only probelm with Rose was that she had kept pestering me for answers that wouldn't be granted until we had gotten everyone.

"I promise, Rose. I will tell you lot later."

Her prissy voice just kept reverbearating in my head as she kept ranting soliloquies about the meeting that was to be held later this evening.

"..or probably Uncle Harry had something to tell us. Albeit, that would be unlikely as I am the most responsible out of all of.."

Argh. I hope Lily and Lucy found the missing quartet already.

We found Roxanne snogging her boyfriend, Scott Finch-Fletchley.

"Roxanne!" Hugo exclaimed.

Scott and my cousin caught in flagrante delicto.

How cliché.

She looked at us shocked. Her eyes wide and lips swollen from the snogging. Roxanne jumped from her boyfriend and hurriedly fixed her haphazard uniform.

"Fuck." She muttered quietly.

"You can finish your snogging sessions with dear Scott later. We have to get going," Lucy stated frankly.

She muttered sweetly into her boyfrined's ear, kissed his lips once again and exited the classroom with us following behind her.

"What was something that was so important that would interrupt my tryst?" Roxanne stopped and spun on the spot to face us.

Her face was flustered and was quite furious.

"A meet-up of relatives for something that occurred."

"That I may have nothing involved with!" She shrieked indignantly.

My temper was slowly flaming up again. I breathed in a deep breath and spoke to her in the softest tone I could muster.

"It's all for one and one for all, right?"

She simply huffed and continued on striding angrily.

"We'll just take another staircase to head to the Ravenclaw common room. Molly and Dominique are the last people on our list.

I, Albus Severus Potter, pledge that I will not succumb to the tempation of strangling Rose Weasley's throat as she is exasperating the hell out of me.

I honestly don't know how she managed to keep gabbing about the possibilities of what this assembly was about.

"Albus, don't you think that this maybe involved with someone who was extremely or even fatally hurt? If that was the case, the Headmistress must be the one who has delivered the news to us and not just.."

For the love of Godric, shut the fuck up! I wish they've found the others already. I might go insane from listening to Rose.

Ignore that.

I am crazy already.


End A/N:

Summary for the Jily multi-chapter:

[Title suggestions are appreciated.]

A faint sound of a bell chiming, carols sung as they passed from door-to-door, and a perfect epitome of a White Christmas. But what if Lily's flawless plan to spend quality time with her family is ironically flawed as disaster ensues? R&R?


P.P.S

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LittleMissBrownEyes.