It was the day before April first, April fool's Day, and Tirza was leaning against the door of Remus' office, her ear pressed to the door. Suddenly the door was opened and she tumbled into the office. "I thought I heard someone out here," Remus commented. "Have you been eavesdropping again Tirza?" She giggled. "Well I was coming to talk to you, but I heard someone else and I thought it might be Snuffles, but I wasn't sure," she explained. She poked her head around Remus' legs and did indeed see the familiar shaggy black dog. Snuffles went over to her and she hugged the big dog, and then scratched behind his ears. As soon as Remus closed the door, Snuffles was back to his human form. "So we meet again, little Snape," Sirius said with a smile. "I very much enjoyed those cookies by the way." Tirza beamed. "I'm glad. I just wanted to let you know Uncle Remus that I'm not gonna play any pranks on you tomorrow; I dunno what the others are up too." Remus chuckled and ruffled her hair and Tirza gave him a hug in return. "Well I gotta go; we're all having a meeting in a few minutes about pranks tomorrow," she said, turning to go from the room.

"Tirza?" Remus said softly. She turned around, trying her best to look innocent. "I'd like my wand back," he told her. She sighed and reached into her back pocket and pulled it out, surrendering it to him. "That was an excellent try though Moony," Sirius spoke up. "Indeed; looks like we've got a rather skilled little pick pocket on our hands," Remus said with a chuckle. "Don't tell my dad I tried to borrow your wand, okay?" Tirza asked. Remus smiled at her and nodded. "I won't. But what did you need my wand for?" She giggled and plopped back onto the sofa. "Well, I wanna turn daddy's clothes and his office and his classroom pink. I found the spell in a book in the library, but I gotta have a wand and daddy will kill me if I try and take his again and Draco would figure it out if I tried to take his again." The men laughed. "Perhaps I could be of service? I'd love to pinken up Snapey's world," Sirius told her. "Would you really?" Tirza asked excitedly. Sirius nodded. "But it has to last a while, cuz I want him to have to wear the pink robes for most of the day. Come down in the morning, like 6, when daddy showers and we'll do it, okay?" "Sounds good," Sirius decided. Tirza said a quick goodbye and bounced out of the office. "She's cute," Sirius commented. Remus nodded. "She definitely is."

Tirza said hello to the fat lady and gave the password to enter the Gryffindor tower. She spotted her fellow conspirators in a corner of the common room and hurried to join them. "Where's Hermione?" she asked the twins, Ron and Harry. Ron shrugged. "She didn't want to get into trouble," Harry told her. Tirza nodded. "I brought that book though," she told them, pulling a rather large book from her pink bag. Harry and Ron sat beside her and peered at the book. "Did you write all this stuff in here?" Ron asked. "No way; Madame Pince is cranky and she'd KNOW if I wrote in one of her precious books... someone else did, see?" Tirza pointed to four names in the back of the book: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. "Do we have everything we need?" she asked. The twins nodded, smiling mischeviously. "Sure do; except for the glue." "I got that," Tirza assured them. The five of them laughed; tomorrow was going to be a blast!

Tirza up at five o'clock the next morning thanks to her kitten alarm clock. It felt weird to be up at that time of the morning; even Jinn Jinn was still asleep. Tirza quickly pushed some clothes under covers to make it look like she was in bed, in case her dad might check on her. She planned to be back by six and he never got her up until six-thirty, but she didn't want to take any chances; if her dad found out that she was involved in all the stuff they had planned for today, she would be in BIG trouble. She quietly snuck out of their chambers and headed for the Great Hall, brining every bottle of glue she possessed. She smiled happily when she spotted Hermione waiting with the boys. "Hey, I thought you didn't wanna play pranks?" Tirza asked. Hermione shrugged. "Well I wanted to have fun too and I guess if we get caught and I get detention, life will go on." Tirza, Harry and Ron stared at her in amazement. "Don't look at me like that! Come on, we're wasting time!" Hermione stated.

Tirza began handing out her glue bottles and everyone began spreading it on every seat in the Great Hall; including the teacher's seats. Dumbledore's was the very last chair done and it was also the very last of the glue. "I'll have to have AJ send me some more," Tirza commented. Hermione quickly used a charm on each of them that would prevent them from being affected by any of their pranks. They left the Great Hall and spread marbles in the hallway outside the Slytherin common room; Tirza wanted to play pranks inside the common room, but knew Severus would kill her if she did that again. The prank book was filled with all sorts of ideas (as well as names of victims... Snapey was often written along side a prank) and the kids had picked out the best ones, saving the rest for future use.

The first was a simple color changing spell; every time someone passed the portrait that they put the spell on, that person would become a new color. Not just clothes, but hair and skin as well; Hermione cast the spell, making the portrait choose colors at random. Next they headed to the owlry, their arms full of howlers. The howlers would scream the name of the recipient, then yell April Fools and stick a tongue out. By the time they tied the howlers to nearly every owl in the tower, it was a quarter to six. "I gotta go do the pink stuff to my dad. I'll meet you at the Fat Lady at ten after," Tirza told them, taking off. She ran all the way to the dungeons, and was relieved to see Remus and Snuffles waiting for her.

She whispered the password and cautiously stuck her head into the chambers. She heard the shower running and sighed; the coast was clear! She motioned Remus and Snuffles to follow her. The three of them crept into Severus' bedroom; Remus pointed his wand at the closet. "Flamingus" he said. The clothes instantly became a bright pink. Tirza held her hand over her mouth to keep from giggling. He pointed to the bed, the carpet and the walls and repeated the spell, drenching the room in pink. The office was transformed into a pink wonderland as well before Remus and Snuffles left. Tirza quickly scribbled a note and taped it to the door of Severus' bedroom before running out of the chambers.

A few moments later, Severus came out of the bathroom in his robe and noticed the note. "Hanging with friends, catch ya later. Love, Tirza." He chuckled and entered his bedroom; he instantly stopped chuckling and let out a long strain of obscenities. He found his wand and began using various spells to try and change the pinkness of the room; soon he had used all the spells he could think of and none of them had worked. Grumbling and cursing, he dressed in one of the many pink robes that used to be black. He had no choice but to wear the robes if he wanted to wear clothes, but he was NOT happy about it.

Tirza met the twins, Harry Ron and Hermione outside the Fat Lady and they headed for the Great Hall. They sat at the very end of the Gryffindor table, nearest the door in case they had to make a quick exit. They tried hard not to laugh as several students came in, looking like lemons and limes, thanks to the portrait and its rainbow colors. Students and teachers filled the Great Hall, sitting down unsuspectingly on the seats covered in glue. The pranksters happily ate their breakfast, being careful not to discuss the rest of their plans in front of the other Gryffindors.

Severus came last into the Great Hall, wearing the bright pink robe. Gasps were heard to echo around the room and a few students were brave enough to point. Anywhere a whisper was heard, Severus would scowl in that direction, quickly silencing whoever was talking and those around him or her. He stalked, and stomped a few times, up to the teachers table and sat down in his chair with a huff. Remus burst out laughing; he laughed long and hard, causing tears to come to his eyes, despite the looks of death he as getting from Severus. "Remus Lupin, if you don't shut that trap of yours, so help me I'll put a silencing charm on you-PERMANENTLY!" Severus bellowed. He looked around the table and discovered that nearly all the teachers we chuckling, hiding snickers and smiles, or making very poor attempts to keep from laughing.

With a growl, Severus tried to stand up, but found he couldn't. "What is this?" he asked as he reached down and touched the chair, getting some glue on his hand. He attempted to stand again, but couldn't. The students, who had been watching their bright professor closely, also began to try and stand; they found that they too were stuck to their places. In the confusion of everybody yelling and trying to free themselves of the glue, Tirza, George, Fred, Harry, Hermione and Ron slipped out of the Great Hall. The teachers all pulled out their wands and unstuck themselves, then began going around the room and unsticking the students. When everyone was free and all the glue cleaned up, Severus glanced around the large room. The only people missing were three Weasleys, Potter, Granger... and Tirza. Severus scowled and stalked from the Great Hall, intent upon finding Tirza and taking back whoever's wand she stole. Little did he know that he would not see her until supper time, but the whole of Hogwarts would see the work of her and her accomplices.

Invisible buckets of water hung all over the hallways, portraits were charmed to spit green slime whenever someone walked by. In the Slytherin and prefect bathrooms, there was absolutely no water in the showers and the toilets refused to flush, instead making bubbles of water float around the room. By lunch time, no one had been able to avoid being victim of a prank and were lucky to be a victim of only one. Severus had searched high and low for Tirza, extremely angry that she had again taken a wand. There was no sign of her however and he figured she was hold up in the Gryffindor tower. But she and her fellow pranksters were no where near the Gryffindor common room. Instead, they were outside, gathering the materials for their next series of pranks.

Six buckets of worms, seven stupefied frogs and one stupefied squirrel later, they were set. Since Tirza and Hermione weren't skilled enough on their brooms, they became the look outs. The boys all mounted their brooms, each with several things in hand and flew up to a series of windows. The first was a window in the Hufflepuff common room; George said a spell to open the window and the boys put all seven frogs into the common room before they were able to wake up. The next was the Ravenclaw common room, and in the window went the stupefied squirrel; they watched as the squirrel awoke and began tearing around the room, looking for a way to get out and upon not finding one, began wrecking everything in sight.

Last, but not least, were the windows to the Slytherin dormitories. In the windows of the girls' dormitories went all six buckets of worms, crawling across floors, beds, books and clothes, filling the rooms with an awful stench. The boys flew back down and they all headed towards the Great Hall for lunch. Being pranksters could give you a big appetite! They were late on purpose and again sat at the very end of the Gryffindor table. Tirza peeked up at the teacher's table and didn't see her dad; she sighed in relief, not wanting to deal with his frustrations at being pink at that moment. An instant after they sat down, the owls swooped in with the dozens of howlers for the students. The howlers dropped on people's plates and began screaming out the name of the recipient, yelled April Fools and doused the person with a spray of water, before sticking its paper tongue out. The pranksters quickly filled their pockets with food and took off before someone noticed that they did not receive any howlers.

George, Fred, Tirza, Harry, Ron and Hermione howled with laughter as they headed for the Astronomy tower. It was a safe place to hang out until the next phase of their pranks, which would take place at supper time. "God, that was so loud," Tirza said with a giggle as they sat by the window and munched on the remnants of their lunches. "Did you see their faces when they got squirted with that water?" Ron commented. "This is the best April Fools ever!" Tirza announced. Tirza didn't stop to think of what might happen later when her father caught up with her.

The group of pranksters arrived at supper, their arms loaded with food from the kitchens. They entered the Great Hall, smiled at each other, and then shouted in unison "FOOD FIGHT!!!!!!!" They immediately began tossing rolls, donuts, cream filled pastries, bowls of spaghetti and anything else they could get their hands at. The Great Hall was silent for a moment as the food started to get thrown, and then erupted with noise as all the students stood up and began tossing food as well. A plate, thrown like a Frisbee by Tirza, hit Percy Weasley smack upside the head, knocking him out; he slumped over and fell off the bench. Cups and plates began whizzing around the room; students used their wands to aim food and make perfect shots against their targets.

Within moments, everyone except the six pranksters was covered in food, including the adults. The room was bursting with laughter and shouts of "Got ya!" "Sucker!" and "Special delivery!" McGonagall was laughing so hard she could hardly stand herself, while Dumbledore and Remus were right in there with the kids, tossing plates and rolls and everything in sight. Tirza rushed over and doused Remus in pumpkin juice, then giggled hysterically. "Not so fast," he said with a chuckle. He grabbed her and attempted to pour pumpkin juice over her head; only the juice fell to the floor without getting a drop on her. "Now that's a neat trick," Remus commented. "It helps to have friends with wands," Tirza told him before tossing a cream filled pastry at Dumbledore.

Nearly ten minutes later, the food fight was still going strong, despite several Slytherins who had been knocked cold by flying plates. Tirza winked at Fred and George just as the large doors opened; without looking to see who was coming in, Tirza threw a large cream filled pastry at whoever was entering. Snape barely ducked out of the way and a little bit of cream lodged itself on top of his head. "TIRZA JADE SNAPE!" he bellowed. Tirza stopped in her tracks, looked over at him and, upon seeing the look on his face, took off running towards the teacher's table. Snape was hot on her heels, but she launched herself into Dumbledore's arms.

"I want it and I want it now!" Severus ordered. "Want what?" she asked carefully. "The wand; I know you have one, so do not deny it and do not lie. Give it to me now." She shook her head. "Seriously, I don't have a wand daddy." "I promised you a spanking the next time you took a wand young lady and that is exactly what I am going to do; so unless you want your spanking right here, right now GIVE ME THE WAND!!" Severus shouted. "Really Severus, did you think I didn't know who was behind these pranks? Except for the squirrel, they were all harmless pranks, nothing to get so upset about," Dumbledore spoke up. "I do NOT want to hear it Albus," Severus spat back. "I am counting to three and so help me if you don't give me the wand..." Severus was cut off as Remus stepped between him and Dumbledore holding Tirza. "She really doesn't have a wand. She asked for my help earlier so she wouldn't have to take a wand. Anything that's been done today with a wand has been done by myself or one of her friends," Remus told him.

Severus stood there for a moment, calming himself down. "Alright, I apologize for wrongly accusing you; but for the squirrel in the Ravenclaw common room, you will be going to bed at eight o'clock," he decided as the food fight came to a halt and the teachers began to clean up using their wands. Tirza nodded. "Uh, daddy, you got cream in your hair," she said, peeking around from behind Remus. "And I assume the pinkifying of my things was your idea?" Severus asked. Tirza giggled and nodded. "But uncle Remus helped me." "Don't worry, it'll wear off in about ten minutes; it was only a twelve hour spell," Remus added. Severus took Tirza's hand and began leading her from the Great Hall. "Well I'm sure you had an incredible amount of fun today," he grumbled as they walked down the hallway. "Yep," she answered happily. Severus just sighed; one of these days she was going to be the death of him!

Two weeks later, Severus sat in his office, working on a Thursday afternoon. He heard a fluttering of wings and looked up to see an owl deposit a letter beside him. Severus picked up the letter and examined it, not recognizing the hand writing. He quickly opened it and scanned the letter. His aunt Matilda on his father's side had passed away and there was going to be a three day mourning for her, starting tomorrow and his presence was requested. Severus sighed and rubbed his forehead. He had always disliked his aunt, but for propriety sake, he supposed he would have to go. But what to do with Tirza? He certainly was not going to bring her there among his father's side of the family!

"Albus, would you be up to watching Tirza for me tomorrow until Sunday night?" Severus asked that night at supper. "Daddy," Tirza said, tugging on his sleeve. "I wanna stay with uncle Remus," she told him with a pout. "You and I already discussed this and I told you no," he replied. She stomped her foot. "I wanna stay with uncle Remus," she repeated, louder this time. "I wouldn't mind if she really wants to," Lupin piped up. "NO." Severus answered firmly. "Then you can't go without me!" Tirza declared, crossing her arms over her chest. Severus sighed. "Fine. But if anything happens to my daughter when I'm away, I'll hold you personally responsible Lupin and you won't live long enough to regret taking her, understood?" Remus chuckled and nodded. "Yippy!" Tirza shouted. Severus groaned and rubbed his forehead. What do I have the distinct feeling that this is a mistake, he asked himself.

A/N: Tirza's gonna spend the weekend with Remus! Lots of fun coming up... let's just say without daddy around, Tirza's going to go wild and give poor Remus a run for his money. Stay tuned!!

Harriet Potter: Nope, haven't read that one... have to give it a try sometime.

Elfmoon87: Glad you're still here! I'm really getting up there in chapters! Good thing the next part will be starting soon.

Luinthoron: Was it too sad for you? I'm sorry... lots of happy stuff on the way, I promise!

Padfoot1979: Draco would miss picking on her if she wasn't around... I also think Snape would strangle the kid if he ever DID kill Tirza.

Raclswt: A little blood lust towards Draco? LOL! I'll keep those well kept chains in mind... (hee hee hee)

Fire'N'Ice: Tirza is really going to test Remus' patience when she stays with him... Daddy goes away and Tirza goes WILD! And about the belt vs. cane thing; I've been hit with a belt more times then I want to remember but have never been hit with a cane. Tirza's reaction to the belting was a little more sensitive, just because I am a little more sensitive to it and I can't really compare it to the cane, since I've never been hit with one.

Venus: I love it when Snape gets all mushy; too bad Tirza wasn't awake to hear it!

Slitherin-Sweetie: Glad you like it; stay tuned! Thanks for the compliments!

Kenomee: You never know what kind of trouble Tirza will get into! I imagine Remus as a very patient man, but I'm sure even HE has limits!! And you just might be surprised at some of the things she'll pull!

Oasis gir: I love the times that Severus muses to her while she's asleep; it's so cute!

Sapphire: Glad you liked it!

MissLKid: Hope Tirza's April Fools Day made your day!

Obsessedwithbritishpeople: Any prank ideas you come up with, write them in a review and I'll save them and try to use them!

Weasleyweasle: Nice to see a new comer/reviewer! Hope you continue to like the story!

Alrick: Nice to hear from you again! Hope life isn't too incredibly busy or stressful for you!

Stay tuned all! Hugs, Kerry