Chapter 27
"Double double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble"
Anne, Linda, Sirius and Remus were sitting in the taxi that would bring them to their hotel.
"Look," said Sirius suddenly to Linda and Anne. "That's where I lived when we left Hogwarts. It's a bit smaller than the house we're living now, isn't it?"
"It sure is, Sirius," answered Remus. "But we have had much fun there."
"Even without our wives," said Sirius.
"Your wife was at the other side of the world then. And I didn't know Linda yet," said Remus.
"True, and I'm sure I didn't want to know you then!" grinned Linda.
"There are far more worse things than a 18-years-old Remus, you know." Said Anne.
"There are?" asked Linda, although she didn't believe her friend.
"Yes. A 18-years-old Sirius for example…" she'd better not said that, because Sirius looked at Anne in a faked pissed off way.
"Did I say something wrong, dear?" she asked, with twinkling eyes.
"No… no, not at all…"
"Good!"
"Hey, we arrived at our hotel," said Remus, who watched out of the window.
"Wow… very impressive building…" said Linda. And it was. It looked like a small palace in the middle of London. When they entered it, they were in an entrance-hall, which had a very high ceiling. The floor was made of marble, just as the ceiling and walls.
"Good afternoon," they suddenly hear a voice say. Remus watched at the owner of the voice, and thought it had to be someone from the hotel.
"Good afternoon. We would like to check in," said Remus.
"Yes, follow me, please," said the man. They followed him to a counter, which was also made of marble.
"Your names, please?"
"Lupin and Black."
"Yes, I see… room 711 and 713. Here are the keys. You can leave your luggage here, it'll be brought up to the rooms by one of my colleagues," said the man.
The four of them left to their rooms.
"I think you want to have room 711?" asked Remus.
"Yes," answered Sirius. "Was that so obvious?"
"Well…"
That night…
"It's been a long time since I saw such a great play!" said Remus, after they'd been to William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
"Yes," agreed Anne. "The last time I saw a good play was…"
"When we were watching Macbeth for school, a musical which turned out to be a play," said Linda.
"Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble…" said Sirius. "no wonder you and Severus are good friends."
"And what is that supposed to mean?" snapped Anne at her husband.
"Well, he's a Potions Master, and your favourite Shakespeare-play is Macbeth," said Sirius.
"I never said that!" argued Anne.
"But you just said – "
"I know what I just said!"
"Anne! Sirius! Quit it!" yelled Linda. "Please!"
"Alright," sighed Anne. "Hey, I don't know what you're planning to do, but I'm going to take a nice hot bath!"
"Good idea!" said Sirius, and followed Anne to their room. "I think we'll see you tomorrow morning, Remus and Linda?"
"Yes!"
When Sirius entered the room he saw Anne taking her clothes off, while walking to the whirlpool. Then she jumped into it, but she didn't realise…
"Ouch!" yelled Anne. Sirius took a look, and saw his wife lying in the whirlpool, with no water in it.
"Are you alright, dear?" he asked.
"Yeah, I just forget there was no water in it…" and she opened the tap.
Next morning Anne woke up, and noticed Sirius' side of the bed was empty.
"Good morning Anne. I go downstairs for the breakfast, alright?" asked Sirius, who already was awake.
"No," replied Anne. "I ordered a breakfast with room service."
"At the same moment there was a knock at the door, with a male voice saying "Room service!". Sirius opened the door, and took the breakfast.
"What kind of breakfast is this?" asked Sirius when he saw it.
"A Dutch one. Don't you like it? Real Dutch coffee and toast and of course hagelslag!" answered Anne.
"And cooked eggs… bon appetite, I'd say…" said Sirius.
Anne grinned. "Eet smakelijk, do we say. Bon appetite is French."
"Whatever…'
Linda and Remus were sitting in the dining room, having breakfast. An English breakfast.
"Why do those English people eat things for breakfast we use to eat at dinner?' said Linda, looking at her white beans and sausages.
"I wouldn't know," answered Remus. Then Sirius an Anne came in.
"Good morning folks!" said Sirius.
"Good morning," answered Remus.
"Anne, have you ever given Sirius a real Dutch breakfast?" asked Linda.
"I just did. But I'm afraid he didn't really like the eggs…" said Anne.
"He enjoyed the rest then?" asked Linda.
"Not really, after eating one egg, he didn't want to try the rest…"
"Why not?"
"Well, the eggs were cooked as my grandfather used to do, the so-called 'granddad-eggs'," grinned Anne.
"Is that bad?" asked Remus.
"You bet it is!" as my grandfather used to forget to set the time…"
"Sounds worse indeed! Shall we Apparate home?" suggested Linda.
"Good idea."
And so they packed their trunks and Apperated to the Black's living room, where Alex, Chris, Luna and Stella were playing.
"Where are Rachel and Harry?" asked Sirius.
"In Rachel's room," answered Alex. Linda, having a bad feeling about this, went upstairs and threw open the door of her room….
A/N: in the next chapter's a big plot twist coming up! I bet you all like it! At least Linda's jaw had to be picked up from the other side of the world when she first heard about it, but she liked it…