DISCLAIMER: everything is owned by J. all I've done is written a plot.

Chapter 11: the prank

Remus and Is woke to banging on their common room door and much shouting in the corridor. They snatched up their wands, Is going to check on the children and Remus to check the source of the noise. Outside the common room were Araya, Leigh, Jo and Sirius. Jo and Sirius were having a yelling match while Araya and Leigh looked on amused. The 'Brats' friends had grown recently to 9 years of age and were entertaining themselves by humming a popular Weird Sisters tune. Sirius and Jo on the other hand were having a shouting competition over who could yell the most obscenities in one breathe without fainting. So far Jo was winning.

Neither was dressed to their normal standards. Jo who was usually sporty but in a classical way that made her stand out was standing in a pair of baggy tracksuit pants and a large grey sweatshirt. Sirius who always was dressed to impress was wearing a pair of chequered red and emerald green pyjama bottoms and a dark blue dressing gown - he had conveniently forgotten his shirt.

Neither of their hair hygiene was up to standards either as they looked like they had just woken up. Jo's hair was out of its ponytail and was resting down her back in disarray and curls. Sirius was very much similar but because his hair was shorter it was messier. His hair was standing up on one side where he had obviously slept and the other was plastered flat against his head - With this hair-do he very much looked like James's brother.

Remus and Is were stunned at the looks of the two students. Although Jo was never looking after what she looked like she always managed to look her best. This morning Is noticed she looked horrible for a better word. She still had sleep in her eyes and bed sheet prints on her face. Remus saw that Sirius was very much the same although he had a red hand print on his cheek the same size as Jo's delicate hands.

With a look at each other they raced up the stair and heaved Lily and James out of bed. The two sleepy children were surprised to say the least. Last time they had been pulled upwards was when the dark men were stealing them. As a matter of protection both children retreated into their minds and set up a conference. They could still see out of their eyes through a TV set up in Lily's room. Noticing that it was their parents heaving them upwards and not the sinister men they slowly came out of their clouded state to hear shouting and yelling down stairs in their common room.

"You pig headed, egotistic freak"

"Me? pig headed? Have you looked in the mirror this morning?"

"What about you? Are you so sad that you're trying to copy James's hair style because you couldn't come up with your own?"

"What are you talking about I have impeccable hair?" a girly scream was followed after this shout from downstairs.

Remus and Is assuming that Sirius had somehow attempted something against Jo ran out of the 'brats' room to inspect the damage. In front of a full length mirror was Sirius, mouth gaping like a fish and eyes as wide as dinner plates. His face was permanently stuck in an expression of shock.

Sirius stood there staring at the mirror with Jo standing behind his with a satisfied smirk on his face. He swung around to face her demanding her to make his hair back to normal.

"oh but honey this is normal for you" she replied sweetly. Sirius just gapped and stomped off Remus and Is's bathroom to fix himself. Jo turned around to her two friends as though nothing had happened that was out of the ordinary.

"hey guys" she said cheerfully.

While this interesting display was being shown the 'Brats' made a run for it down the stairs and almost out the front portrait. Too bad Remus noticed the two of them trying to sneak out.

"James! Lily!" he thundered. They cowered in fear of their father's anger. Slowly they turned around, guilt written clearly on their faces. His face harsh and tempered broke into a grin and he scooped the two clearly confused children into his arms and gave them a back breaking hug. While hugging them he whispered "well done" into their ears. He quickly put them down before Isidora turned around and pretended to scold them.

Remus eventually got the entire story out of the 'Brats' and had a small congratulate party for a prank well done.

Lily and James had found some voodoo dolls of Remus's and decided to make one of their favourite uncle and aunty. They didn't steal they borrowed some hair from them when Jo was staring into the fire and Sirius watching without seeing his upside down writing. Later that night just before they went to bed both kids gently picked up their delicate dolls and added their hair to the head of the dough like mannequins. The tiny figures were surrounded with shimmering red light turned into exact mini replicas of Aunty Jo and Uncle Siri, right down to their closed eyes while they were sleeping.

The 'Brats' made them a bed out of a tissue box and a few hankies and put them to bed. Aunty Jo and Uncle Siri were positioned in a rather presumptuous way. They were facing each other with Jo curled in his arms, their heads pressed against each other and their legs entwined.

The next morning Jo and Sirius woke up with their two separate single beds fused together to make one king sized bed. But that wasn't the biggest thing.

Jo slowly woke up from the best sleep she had while living at Hogwarts. The sun was shining through the curtains onto her face and tickled her nose till it twitched. Waking properly she noticed the strong arms encircling her body and the disorientated face that was inches away from her own. She was confused to say the least. What happened? Was all she could think as she lay there in the stranger's warm arms. She tried to get out of the awkward position without waking the person but found she couldn't move. She could squirm to get in different positions but she couldn't essentially get out of the bed or move to far away from the stranger. She was silently screaming to herself as she realised something was not right.

She tensed as she realised the other person was stirring. A beady silver eye opened and turned towards the alarm clock before it came back to rest on his sleeping partner. The person with eyes wide with shock and mouth slightly agape tried to wriggle out of their situation before realising just as Jo did that they were stuck.

Jo still couldn't see the person very well as they were blurred because of the closeness of their faces. Their eyes locked and Jo was slightly taken back. His eyes were beautiful. They were a silver grey that sparked of mischief and fun. They also conveyed a feeling of warmth and friendliness. Jo decided she didn't care if this guy was a Slytherin she wanted to know him.

As if there weren't enough surprises today the stranger shuffled his face closer to her's and met her lips with a soft and sweet good morning kiss. It was a nice, simple good morning kiss that your parents share each morning. It wasn't forceful but still powerful enough to leave her stunned. Another factor to that being that she just kissed a random stranger. They continued laying there not able to do anything. The stranger decided to start a conversation since she was still gobsmacked at her predicament.

The stranger uttered some words that left her in even more amazement and bamboozled then she had been in a long time.

"Morning Jo" Sirius Black whispered.

Sirius Black woke to being lightly moved as though small angels were shaking him and telling him to wake. She slowly turned his head, opened one beady eye and looked at his alarm clock. Too early he thought miserably. There was that feeling again as though something was wriggling in his bed. He figured he should listen to these cherubs and properly opened his eyes to be laid on a beautiful figure in his bed. Although her face was obscured because of the closeness of their heads he could still see the long locks that were slighting curly and light blue eyes. Panic shot through him he was meant to be acting the responsible father figure and he goes off and sleeps with some random girl. He cringed imagining Jo's reaction at him not being in his bed in the morning. He lifted his head again and looked around him. He was lying in his bed but it seemed as though it had been extended with another bed sitting next to it. His heart lifted as a relieved sigh that he was in his own bed and not some strangers only to be followed by a longer plummet at his heart and stomach hit the dungeons, he would now have to sneak the girl out without Jo seeing him which was pretty much impossible.

Sitting there contemplating what to do about this girl he tried to get out of the bed but found he couldn't disconnect himself with the girl. Something about this girl did remind him of someone but he got rid of the thought considering he had gone out with almost every girl in the school. Still struggling he had a sudden urge to lean over a kiss her and did. It felt as though he was seeing it through a smoke screen like he had no control over himself and instead he was listening to his instincts. She was a very good kisser was the only thing he recognised until he put his hand through her mass of golden waves did he realise who the mystery woman was.

His heart for unknown reasons lifted and when the smoke lifted from his eyes he continue to kiss her knowing that he would get away with it for she was as stunned as he was.

Reluctantly he broke the kiss and leaned over to kiss her earlobe and whisper in her ear

"Morning Jo"

From there on the charm or whatever held them let go and they both rolled out of the bed to their separate sides. Breaking the spell their beds spilt apart and they found themselves in their own rooms once again with the twin's room in between them.

Jo was gobsmaked. Sirius Black just kissed her and she let him. She ran over to her bathroom and searched for her toothbrush to clean the taste out of her mouth. She got to the bathroom and it was bare with only toilet paper and a towel left in the room. She ran over to her wardrobe to find something more suitable to leave the room with and to go and scream at Sirius Black only to find it empty of clothes not even pair of socks were handy.

Sirius was having similar problems within his own room. He had run to his own mirror to check his hair that was in disarray and to find that it no longer existed. He scoured high and low to find his favourite mirror – it complimented him – but it wasn't anywhere to be found. He tried to smooth out his hair with his hands and then decided he would go and ask the house elves where they put it but first he needed to be dressed accordingly. He wouldn't have dreamed of walking around in his pyjamas and dressing gown. Opening his double door wardrobe his eyes almost popped out of his head with the contents of his closet. It was empty, not a thing was in there, a moth ball rolled on the ground and a small ball of lint floated down from the shelf, it was empty not even a sock to wear.

Hurriedly bundling the twins out of the bed Sirius and Jo made their way to the only people who would know what happened, Remus and Is. Finally reaching their portrait they continued fighting while the twins looked on in amusement.

Is hollered upstairs for Lily and James. Walking down the wooden stairs with clear innocent eyes and big broad smiles they greeted their Aunt and Uncle as though nothing was out of place. Jo and Sirius just waved them off too busy fighting to wonder at the Brats' knowing smiles.

"Lily Evans and James Potter what did you do"? Is demanded

"We didn't do anything specifically." James replied evasively however Is turned to Lily who she knew had a hard time lying to her. She assumed it came from being one of her best friends.

"We were just helping that was all" she replied while James crossed him arms a little miffed that Is had broken her. He never understood why all that his mum did was ask a question but Lily always answered.

Is eventually persuaded Lily and James to explain and apologise to their uncle and aunt. Sirius and Jo continued their glares at each other until Remus pulled out his Spaghetti Bolognese for dinner. Is had been teaching him more about cooking and he had only just learnt how to cook the noodles, Is made the sauce and Lily and James served. Both Sirius and Jo scrambled over each other for the biggest plate of dinner. Araya and Joseph shook their head ashamed of their parent's behaviour.

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