The Next Generation-Dark Marks and Troublemakers

Author's Note: This is a third part to The Next Generation. If you've read the first two, you'll know what's going on in here. But, there are four new kids, and a set of them are twins, one you'll know if you read Trouble Continued, and the third showed up in the last Chapter of Trouble continued. So read on and tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: I don't own HP of its characters, but I do own all the original characters that aren't from the books, but from my imagination. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~* Chapter 26

Alex was sitting at the kitchen table twirling a piece of hair around her finger and listening to the radio. Hermione was cooking and Janet was over as well, sitting at the able with Alex. She let out a sigh. "They've been gone for so long. I wonder if they are ok." Janet looked at Alex and smiled reassuringly. She had to have been just as worried as Alex since her relationship with John was just starting to advance.

"I'm sure they'll be home soon. Dean, Seamus, Ron, and Harry have all trained their recruits pretty well." She informed. Hermione let out a small laugh and the girls looked at her.

"I'm honestly very worried about them. It's been three weeks and I've been to their sessions. Jessica and Sharon will most likely come back in one piece." The girls looked at each other and Janet sighed.

"It's too lonely around. I mean, I have Ted, mum, and dad. but it's a bit lonely at night without." she stopped and began blushing at the look Alex and Hermione were giving her. "Never mind."

"Don't worry, Janet. We know you love my big brother!" Alex piped. Janet went redder. "And if it makes you feel better, he loves you too." Hermione turned away and wiped her face, getting the girls attention.

"Mrs. Weasley, are you crying?" asked Janet.

"I miss all those knuckle heads so much!" she announced. "When are they coming back home?!"

"Excuse me. am I interrupting something?" they all jumped and turned around.

"Mr. Diggory!" Hermione quickly cleaned her face and looked at the older man. He smiled at her.

"I've got some news for you." He said. The women all looked at him expectantly. "Our aurors have returned."

"Are you serious!" cheered the girls and began rushing around, grabbing their cloaks, ignoring the fact the old man was trying to tell them something. They vanished and he let out a sigh.

"Unfortunately, some of them are missing."

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Darnel went shoving through the large groups of people that had gathered around outside the ministry of magic. There were news reporters for the Daily Prophet and all kinds of family members and friends. All her wanted was to see his older sister. When he spotted her, she was getting healed. He ran up to her and threw his arms around her waist. "Jessica, you're ok! I've missed you so much back at home." He said. She blinked and a small smile touched her lips. She patted the top of his head and hugged him back.

"I've missed you too, twerp." She talked a little to the medi-witch and got up.

"Who are you looking for?" Jessica looked at her brother and smiled.

"Dad, John, and Chris." Darnel nodded and helped her look out. There was suddenly a large crowd forming. "Looks like Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley are back with some more of our people." They ran back to where they had come from and tried to look through the crowds. There were a lot of gasps heard as well as whispering, but Jessica was determined to see who was brought back. She shoved through the crowd and when Darnel made an attempt to, some one grabbed hold of him.

"Hey!" he yelled and looked over his shoulder. "DAD!" Dean grinned and picked his son up off the ground, hugging him tightly.

"Hey kid, I've missed you. Where's your mum at?"

"She and the other mums are helping out with healing and everything. Haven't you been over there?"

"No, I was healed as soon as Ron, Harry, and I came back."

"Seamus didn't make it back?" Dean sighed.

"We were all in separate locations. I'm hoping that that's Seamus and Chris they got right now."

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"Chris!" Jessica shoved everyone out of her way and ran, throwing her arms around the sandy haired boy when Harry and Ron had returned for the third time, this time with Chris, Patrick, and John. He groaned in pain when she did this, but she didn't let go. She tightened her hold on him and began crying. John looked at his friend and gave thumbs up before Alex and Janet showed up and hugged him and Patrick. Chris tried to get Jessica to let go.

"Hey Jess, calm down will you! I'm perfectly fine!" She let him go and shoved him, a scowl on her face. "What the hell!?"

"You jerk! You have no clue how worried I was about you, do you?" she yelled. Hi face went red.

"Not really." he answered.

"Chris!" Jessica turned around and looked to see Chris's little sister come running up. She cheered and jumped into his arms, hugging him tightly around the neck. "Hey you big jerk. We've missed you SO much at home!" she piped.

"Is that right, squirt? I thought you would be happy with me not around." He raised an eyebrow at her. She waved her hand at him dismissively.

"Only if I know you aren't dead and buried some where." She said and grinned innocently. "So what happened? You look like you got beat up real good." She said, touching a cut on his cheek.

"I honestly don't know. We were doing just fine and out of no where the death eaters knew everything. I mean, I thought no one outside of our family that's here right now and the ministry knew about this mission."

"Unless there's a leak among us." Suggested Jessica. She looked over her shoulder at John, who had an arm around a beaming Janet while Hermione fussed over him. "Maybe we should bring this up to John some other time." She suggested as Chris set his sister back on the ground.

"Sure. Hey Jessica, would you mind taking me to get fixed up?" he asked. She nodded and put his arm around her shoulder and her arm around his waist, helping him over to a medi-witch.