DISCLAIMER: everything is owned by J. all I've done is written a plot.
Chapter 10: Potio Recindo
The next morning Remus and Is were woken to two children banging around the common room; James playing with his train set and Lily playing tea party with her dolls. Remus and Is heaved themselves off the couch they had once occupied and started to make sure the 'Brats' were ready to go to breakfast. Lily was dressed in a light green and white checked dress which splayed out at the bottom with a tied around her waist. Her hair was half up and half down and had a dark green flower hair pin keeping back one side of her fringe. James had made her the pin in their Soul rooms. They had found out that anything they made or did in their soul rooms would affect the outside. Lily was gaining strength through all the gruelling Quidditch training at night and when she painted she would find her painting leaning against her bedside table when she came out of her Soul Room. James was the same. His cooking skills stayed with him and the extra Flying lessons had toned his body quiet nicely.
Remus and Is were cleaning up after sending the kids up to get dressed for breakfast when they noticed a book with moving pictures all around the margines. Hmm… What's this? Is's picked up the book eyes widening a the realisation of the book. it was Lily's and contained the very answer they had been looking for.
"REMUS!!" Isidora yelled out in excitement at finding the cure. Remus came running at her shout.
"What?" Remus asked while trying to look over Is's shoulder at what she was holding.
"I think I found Lily and James's cure" Is told her loving boyfriend, her eyes shining with unshed tears.
Remus noticed the tears and started to worry. What's the matter? Why's she crying? Is she hurt?
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing" Is said while wiping away a tear "It's just that they won't be the 'Brats' anymore. They'll be fighting again and this time we can't tell them to hug and make up."
Remus realised she was just upset to see them going – their child selves anyway. He pulled her into a tight embrace and hugged her and whispered sweet nothings in her ear until her breathing had calmed down again and she was left with sniffles.
"It's alright." He soothed "I think this might have taught them something. Think about it. They have just spent about 3 – 4 weeks as brother and sister with minimum fighting. They will remember stuff from when they were kids and realise that each other are not that bad a person. I think everything will work out. Now where's that smile your hiding?" Is wiped her nose on a cloth and showed Remus a weak smile. "There that's better. Now what did you find?"
"Lily has a potion to reverse potion effects. If we can make it Lily and James can go back to their original sizes." Is croaked, her throat still tight from crying.
"Of course" Remus smacked himself on the head "the Potion Recindo. We learnt about it in year four." Remus picked up the book frowning slightly at the ingredients.
"What's the matter?" Is asked worriedly after seeing him frown.
"Some of this stuff isn't the easiest to get." He told her while still reading the instructions. "The potion it's self is not hard, just the ingredients are hard to find."
"I'm sure Professor Dumbledore will lend us some if we're helping them" Is rationalised to Remus. He had to agree. Dumbledore wouldn't want Lily and James to stay like this would he? This question made him think. If this potion is so easy, why didn't he think about it? They must have some around here and it only takes an afternoon to make. Something fishy is going on here and I'm going to find out once Lily and James are back Remus decided setting his goals.
"yeah that should be fine."
The day with the 'Brats' was the usual, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and classes in-between. Lily and James were dropped off to their Aunty Jo and Uncle Siri's common room for the afternoon because their parents had to see Uncle Al. Lily and James tried to get Ma and Da to take them along but Ma and Da just looked at them like they were never going to see them again. Aunty Jo and Uncle Siri were their favourite Uncle and Aunty. They always played with them and were really good to practice pranks on. Uncle Siri was worried about the two of them when they went silent and didn't move around – not knowing that Lily and James were talking in their rooms about how to pranks their Uncle. Sirius took the time he had while they imitated statues to also create pranks on them. While working on his future pranks to play of James and Lily Aunty Jo came out and saw him in deep concentration, he looked like he was doing… Homework!!
Aunty Jo ran up to her room and grabbed her camera to record this momentous feat. While running back up the stairs she tripped on her robes and managed to start falling down the stairs. Sirius saw her falling and jumped up out of his seat – his papers flying everywhere – and ran to the stairs. He reached her just in time to catch her as she finally fell backwards in slow motion.
Jo looked down at her saviour. His dark eyes, her silky hair, his broad shoulders and tanned face. She now understood why all the girls melted when around him.
Sirius stared at Joanna White; the tomboy of the school; the chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and the chased of many males. Her white blonde hair falling out of its ponytail contrasted against his dark locks, her bright blue eyes opposite from his stormy grey her saintly face leaving no wonder why she was pursued. Although she was beautiful her looks were horrendous compared to her personality. She was a good person, had a loving family that had supported her all her life and brought her up to be confidents, kind and head-strong in her judgments. Sirius noticed for the first time in his life he was thinking of a girl because of her persona instead of her looks – although he did admire them. She was wild and spirited and he had never noticed. He racked his brains to figure out why.
While staring at his first crush, Jo was becoming increasingly uncomfortable at their positions. It was late at night so the twins were in bed and Lily and James were awake waiting for Remus and Is to return. Sirius was still sitting on the stair holding onto her while she sat onto of his lap, contemplating a way out of the suggestive position. Sirius noticed her fidgeting and realised that he still had a vice grip on her arm. Slowly coming to his sense he let go of the angelic limb and helped her up to a standing position. Jo was standing up a step from Sirius so they when she turned back she was the same height as the young man in front of her.
She had never considered him to be a man – more of a boy than man she would say – but tonight something was different. He was kind and gentle and wasn't making anymore smart arse comments about her falling and him coming to her rescue. He had stumped her.
Aunty Jo and Uncle Sirius continued down the stairs after a mumbled 'thank you' and ' your welcome' from both parties. Uncle Sirius returned to his scattered papers and neatly aligned them on the desk so he could work through them. Aunty Jo sat down near the 'Brats' and watched the healthy flames in the fireplace of their common room. Remus and Is returned to pick up Lily and James not long after the stairs incident. Both noticing the unusual amounts of blushing and shy grins in the common room. Lily and James walked quietly out of the room after Uncle Siri and Aunty Jo gave a report of their behaviour to their 'parents'. 'They were well behaved, they coloured, they played with Araya and Leigh, they… yada… yada… yada.'
None of the teens noticed the badly hidden smirks on their faces as they left the room, Lily holding Da's hand and James holding Ma's. That's what the 'Brats' thought anyway.
Once they all reached their common room Remus and Is yanked them over to the couches near the fire and sat them down in front of them.
"What did you do?" Is asked hoping to intimidate the 'Brats' to confession. Although knowing Lily and James's older personalities they knew that each child was fairly determined and crafty. James had once been able to confuse Lily – with a charm – that she walked down to the Great Hall wearing hear pajaymas. Of course Lily got James back by doing the exact same, but it went a little differently. James slept in little or nothing most nights, that night he wore his bright red boxers with a lion roaring in silence on the front area – if you get my drift. James walked out into the Great Hall wearing these boxers without a care in the world. Lily finally lifted the confundo charm off him and to her dismay he kept walking. She started to panic thinking that she had done something wrong and now couldn't reverse the effect of the charms. James in reality noticed his less than acceptably clad body and figured when in Rome. It's not everyday you can walk around the school wearing practically nothing and get away with it. Unfortunately for Lily he stayed the entire day like that – of course he put charms on the teachers so they saw his uniform – and put her to her wits end. She stayed up all night and didn't finish her homework looking for the cure to her confundo charm. The next morning Lily arrived in the Great Hall expecting to see those red lion boxers and instead saw a fulling clothed James siting eating breakfast with his friends. Ding! The light bulb went off in Lily's head. From then till the end of the year they had been at war changing each other's hair, making each other speak gibberish for a day or two, being unable to find anything when it was in their hands and all manners of different revenge tactics over one morning of bad dress sense. Although Remus and Is both knew of Lily and James's personalities they hoped to every god they knew that they weren't that determined as nine year olds. To bad the gods weren't listening
"Nothing" James and Lily sang innocently to their parents who look like they were going to blow a gasket at their answer.
"What did you do?" Is tried once more. Seeing the smirks on their faces did nothing to quench the fear for the school's population in her gut.
Remus seeing that this wasn't going to get anywhere came down to their level and addressed them both sternly with a serious expression on his face.
"Is it going to hurt anyone?" The 'Brats' shook their heads
"Is it going to create havoc in the school?" The 'Brats' once again shook their heads
"who? Aunty Jo? or Uncle Siri?" the 'Brats' looked at each other before their eyes fogged over and they continued staring. Remus and Is became afraid of the suddenly cloudy eyes of the two nine year old in front of them. The clouds cleared and the children turned back to face their parents with identical smiles on their faces.
"Uncle Siri" one said with a smirk to match their sibling's
"Aunty Jo" the other said with an identical grin and a wink at their father
Neither parent knew what to make of this so they just sent them to their beds and decided to see what the next day held in store for them. Little did they know the next day was going to come very quickly.
Two pairs of feet scrambled through the common room hole and snuck up the stair and into a room. In there one slipped into the small pink bed and the other in the sky blue one and they each fell to sleep with large smiles on their faces.
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