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 35

Harry stepped through the fireplace of the Burrow and looked around, half expecting someone to show up. He had gotten a letter from Ron about a week ago on a plan Fred had to come to the Burrow for Christmas since Christmas at everyone else's homes was driving them mad. Sirius appeared in the fireplace and stepped out, soon followed by Remus. "No one's here... You think this was some kind of merry joke?" he muttered. Harry shrugged. He couldn't honestly think of a joke Fred and George would come up with that'd involve the Burrow three days before Christmas. There was a sound and they turned to see Ron come stumbling forward and out of the fireplace, soon follwed by John, Josh, and Alex.

"Brilliant. I didn't think you'd make it." he piped and turned to the fireplace. "Michael and Matthew Weasley!" he called. At once, Matt came through the fireplace, closely follwed by his twin. The boys stumbled and fell, Mike following directly onto jis tin

"That was wicked." said Matt with a grin and Ron grinned before looking in the fireplace again.

"Jordan Weasley!" Jordan arrived in seconds, clutching tightly to a package. He stumbled a bit, a dizzy look on his face. "You alright?"

"I think I'm gonna puke." he answered and quickly moved across the room and dropped onto his grandparents couch. Alex apparated in the room a few moments with Hermione, all with the luggage.

"Merry Christmas all!" Hermione piped and went over to all the others and hugged them. "Where is Ginny with the kids?"

"She'll be here soon." answered Harry. "So, where are Fred and George at? This was their idea." There was a loud pop and the twins arrived, holding all the luggage. Fred grinned widely.

"Wow, you guys made it here fast. Now all we need is Percy, Penny, mum, dad, and our other darling older brothers." Fred piped. He dropped the luggage and like Ron, he and George called for their children through the fireplace. Kevin had actually thrown up when he made it through. "Happens almost everytime."

"So, we're all here?" asked Angelina, allowing her son to lay his head in her lap. "I could have sworn you said the WHOLE family, Fred."

"I did... but I also put a time, so we may be waiting a while."

"Well we might as well work out the sleeping arrangments, right?" asked Harry. Hermione raised her wand and did a head count.

"That shouldn't be hard. We've got Jake, Jordan, Matt, Mike, Kevin, Jackie, Jenny, Lily, James, Josh and Dennis." said the woman and nodded. "They can all sleep in one room."

"And I suppose we'll have to sleep with them." sighed Alex, nodding over at John and Josh. Hermione smiled at her daugher.

"Of course. You seem to strike fear into their young hearts." she teased and Alex scowled. "Then we'll have to figure how we;re all going to sleep.. After all, the Burrow doesn't have too many bedrooms."

"Simple, we women will split up and share a room and the guys will split up and share a room." answered Angelina. "Its simple and sounds a bit fun."

"Yeah, that does seem like it's be fun." piped Alicia. That's when George spoke up.

"Hold on! I don't wanna share my room with ANYONE except for my wife!" he announced stubbornly.

"Oh please George. You act as if you'll be sharing aroom with complete strangers." said Ginny. "You, Ron and Fred use to always have to share a room until mum and dad added that extra room."

"I have no probem sleeping in a bed with the kids. I'll just transform." said Sirius casually.

"No way Sirius, this is the holidays and everyone is gonna be comfortable!" announced Harry and turned to Hermione. "You work out the sleeping plans, eh."

"I think you should let Sirius do it. After all, he'll end up climbing in the bed with one of the young one's anyway." informed Remus knowingly.

"Are you serious?" asked Josh, raising an eyebrow at the two men. Sirius shrugged.

"You can get into both warm and comfortable positions that way... And i have found it to be quite relaxing to have a small child cuddled against you at night." Alicia laughed.

"I bet you would have made a great father, Sirius." she said and he nodded.

"Yes, but James beat me to the marriage and parenting thing." he said. Remus looked around and turned to Harry.

"There's no tree. Maybe I should take the kids out to find one." he suggested.

"Yeah!" cheered the kids immediately. Kevin had instantly jumped out of his mother's lap, though a bit too fast and causing himself to be dizzy.

"And we can work on food." piped Penelope.

"Right, now we need to give the husbands somthing to do" said Angelina. "Sirius will most likely be going with Remus and the kids."

"They could work on the rooms. conjuring up the cots and making more rom in the rooms." suggested Alicia. "Some one has to do it after all."

"Why can't YOU girls do it?" asked George. The women all glared at him nad Fred quickly got up, grabbing his twin and Ron.

"We'll be getting on it now." said the red head brightly. Harry grinned and follwed the Weasley boys up the stairs while the girls began wrapping the kids up warmly so they could go with Remus and Sirius to find a Christmas tree.

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Remus looked over his shoulder at Sirius, who was in his dog form, Dennis riding his back and the kids running excitedly around him, looking at the souroundings and tossing snowballs. "Hey Remus!" called a voice and John ran up to the older man. "You know, you should become an auror." he informed. Remus raised an eyebrow at the young man.

"And why do you think this?" he asked. John shrugged, kicking at the snow.

"You and Sirius just seem like the auror type... Plus, dad says we're all driving him mad and he needs someone who can strike some more fear into us."

"Strike more fear into you?" John nodded.

"Our group he's training is like a bunch of kids. He teases us and says there is a more likely chance that he'd manage to get Matt, Mike, Kevin, and Dennis to produce a proper Patronus before we could master the shieling spell correctly."

"Sounds like you all bit off a bit more than you could chew."

"Well Chris, Jessica and I are pretty good... but Jessica and Sharon are the top of it all."

"Hey, i'm pretty good!" Josh came running up to John's side. "I'll have you know, dad thinks I'm doing better than he did when he was a rookie."

"I thought you were getting extra practice from Sharon." said JOhn. The boy went red suddenly, and looked at the ground.

"Actually, we weren't getting together for anything involving auror training." said Josh queilt. John and Remus raised their eyebrows at him.

"What were you meeting for?" Remus asked curiously. John went even redder, if possible.

"That's really none of your business." he muttered. John quickly stepped in front of his young cousin and looked at him with shinning eyes.

"Are you two sleeping with each other?"

"WHAT!"

"Hey guys, we found a tree!" called James excitedly as the twins ran around it, singing a song they had made up and their mothers wouldn't approve of. Remus came over and looked up at it.

"So, what do you think of it Sirius." His friend barked and sat down, causing Dennis to slip off his back and fall into the snow.

"It's great. And maybe we should get some mistletoe and invite Sharon over!" called John, causing Josh to growl and storm angrily away, back towards the Burrow. Sirius transformed back into his human form and watched as the boy marched away.

"What's his problem?": he asked.

"And who is Sharon?" asked Matt.

"It's nothing." answered remus nad pulled out his wand. "So, let's get this tree home, shall we?"

"YEAH!" cheered the kids.