Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny sat in front of the fire almost five months
later; Christmas break just started and most of the people were at home
with their family. They; however were asked to stay there; the Order was
too busy to watch them. They didn't mind though, they were the only ones
left in Gryffindor and were pleased to do whatever they wanted, but were
much too tired to do anything at the moment. Harry took off his Head Boy
Badge and laid it down on the table much to Hermione's disagreeing glare as
she kept her Head Girl bade mounted to her chest in pride. Ron and Ginny
had also retired their badges, there was no one to keep an eye on so why
should they bother. They heard a voice wafting through the walls, although
not very audible, they were brought to attention to it.
"Did someone just say 'Stupid Rob' or am I just hearing things?" Ginny asked as she looked around the empty room. A smile crawled across Ron's face as he got up shaking his head. He walked over to the portrait hole and pushed open the door; his smile growing larger.
"Now there's something I wish I saw everyday." Ron said as they heard someone groan.
"Stupid Rob made me wear this today." Nikki walked inside with Ron's help wearing a short red dress with white fur trim, a matching red hat, and high heeled boots.
"That monster," Ron said sarcastically as Nikki glared at him.
"I swear I never want to be in charge at the bar near Christmas again. Ginny, Hermione, do you have anything I can change into?" She asked hopefully. The girls nodded as they escorted her upstairs to their dorms in hope of better clothing for Nikki.
"Don't get rid of it!" Ron advised before he sat back down beside Harry on the couch. Harry raised an eyebrow and looked at Ron.
"What? She looks good in it." He reasoned. The girls came back downstairs a few minute later with Nikki in pants and a big sweater. "It's not as good as the dress but I guess it'll do," Ron said as Nikki sat under his arm.
"So what are you doing here Nikki, coming back to school?" Harry asked as the other two girls sat back down.
"My mom's visiting Lé Anna; she picked me up and brought me here before I could change." She said. Before they all went back to looking at the fire.
"Nikki," Hermione broke the silence a few minutes later. "I've always wondered; if you don't mind me asking, did you and Ron ever sleep together? I mean you have known each other for quite a while now."
"Now do you sleep as in actual sleeping or the other sleep?" Nikki asked as she peered around Ron.
"The other, but if you don't want to answer you don't have to." Hermione said quickly.
"No we didn't," Ron said bitterly. "Not until she says 'I love you.' That's the rules."
"You made rules?" Harry asked thinking it was rather odd to have them.
"Yeah, it helps us know what's going on with each other; and the 'I love you' thing, we came up with that a while ago. She's been saying everything from 'I lub you' to 'elephant shoes.' It's crazy but it works."
"That's what I did too" Ginny said as she referred to her ex-boyfriend from Ravenclaw. "Nikki suggested never say I love you until you're ready; then when we did break it off it didn't feel like a big deal because I never told him that I loved him."
"When will you?" Ron asked, obviously wishing for soon.
"When it feels right;" She told him, obviously not being her first time to remind him.
"Soon" He asked hopefully.
"Never," she snapped at him before she grinned. "Ever"
Ron pushed her head to the side as Ginny laughed at them. They quieted back down as they became captivated by the fire once more. They listened to the freezing rain pound against the windows that surrounded them. Harry closed his eyes as he listened to the soothing rhythmic sound. He opened them slightly to look at his watch when he noticed that it was several hours later. He looked around the room and saw Ginny and Hermione both asleep in the same positions they were in earlier and Ron asleep with Nikki getting up, careful not to wake the others. She waved good night to Harry before she laid some parcels underneath the tree that got set up while they were sleeping. She walked out the portrait door and closed it quietly behind her. Harry got up off the couch before he fell back to sleep and decided to keep himself busy by doing his homework from Defense. They had a different teacher every two weeks and it was starting to get aggravating. Once the teacher seemed to have gotten on track; they left.
"Where's Nikki?" Ginny asked through a yawn as she looked around the room.
"She left a few minutes ago." Harry told him as he began to write.
"Anybody else hungry" Ron asked as he stretched.
"Now that you mention it, I am." Hermione said as she, too, woke up. The four left the common room and stopped outside of the Great Hall as Nikki and Daemon walked out.
"Enjoy your new teacher," Daemon advised as Nikki nodded. "He's going to be here for a while."
"Okay," Ginny said as she pushed open the heavy oak doors so they could get through. Up at the High Table, talking with Lé Anna, was Remus who seemed to be looking tired.
"What are you doing here?" Harry asked as they walked up.
"Teaching," he smiled causing them to smile back at him as they took their seats.
"Having any visions Harry?" Remus asked as he began to eat his turkey.
"No not yet," He sighed. "I don't know whether to be worried or relieved."
"I'm not sure either." Remus replied as he thought about it. "What do you think Lé Anna?"
"I'd be both; relieve that I'm sleeping through the night but worried about what he's plotting. That man's crazy." She said as she spooned her self some potatoes.
"I'm not sure if 'crazy' is the appropriate term Lé Anna," Dumbledore chuckled. "But it certainly is accurate."
"Gee, thanks," She said sarcastically.
"What do you suppose he's planning?" Hermione asked in a worried voice.
"I'm not sure..." Harry said as he felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. "But whatever it is I'm sure it's going to be big."
*
Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione sat in the basement bedroom at Nikki's house a few months later during Easter Break. Daemon invited them over in order to get some fresh air instead being stuck in the school all years long. Nikki came bounding down the stairs a few minutes later overflowing with joy.
"You won't believe what I just found; I can't believe that I found it. I thought that I lost it." She cried happily. "This is so great."
"What is it Nikki?" Ginny asked from her bed.
"It's my favorite video. It's of Mom, Dad, Remus, Lé Anna, Lily and James. I think that Peter's in here too..." She said in a slightly darker tone. "Oh I didn't watch this since I was at least five." She slid the tape in to the VCR and sat down with them. Harry always loved how although her house was filled with magic that all the Muggle devices still worked. The screen went fuzzy for a minute but cleared up quickly and showed them in the common room at Hogwarts. Harry saw his Dad sitting in the chair he usually sat in reading a book about Quidditch. He turned towards the camera and got a sour look on his face.
"Get that camera away from me Peter." He snapped. "I'm trying to read."
Harry saw a hand smack his father across the back on his head swiftly as the camera moved to show Lily storming up the staircase towards the girls' dorms.
"Ow... Lily what was that for," He asked as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Like you don't know," She yelled as she marched up the stairs.
"I don't. Daemon what did I do wrong this time?" James called across the room as the camera swiveled to show Daemon sitting on Sirius' lap apparently going over plans.
"Birthday," Daemon sang as Sirius pointed something out and James cursed from off camera. "I suggest you take her out for supper."
"I though that her birthday was next week." Remus said as he looked up from his homework in the background.
"Yeah, you thought. And Lé Anna's not for another three months." She told him as she took her turn to face the camera. "Is it working yet Pete?"
"I'm not sure, let's turn it off and check."
The screen turned blue as the outside of Daemon's yard came into view. Everything was decked out in white; clearly for a wedding. They could hear a sound, like an ostrich choking on a drowning cat, wafting in as Sirius belted out a James Brown song. Everyone one was screaming at him to stop but he obviously couldn't hear them over himself.
The screen flashed and showed his Mom panicking about her Dad not being there no matter how much Lé Anna and Daemon tried to calm her down, the screen changed to his Dad, Sirius, Peter and Remus, obviously on a buzz from the empty Butterbeers bottles scattered across the floor singing as Remus strummed along on his guitar.
"Oh I never stayed awake this long, I have no idea what's coming on next." Nikki squealed excitedly as the screen went back to blue as the next scene came on. Ginny, Ron and Hermione started to laugh as a one year old Nikki and Harry were fighting over a block in the middle of a room that Harry didn't remember seeing before. They had their little fingers tightly clasped around the cube of wood as Harry tugged it from her and fell down, destroying his tower. Nikki began to giggle uncontrollably, on and off the TV, as Peter walked in to the room.
"Worm," Nikki said happily as he jumped over to him. Little Harry stood up and biffed the block at Nikki's tower causing it to crumble to the ground as Nikki's little face fell. She walked over to the small boy and pushed him down and fell down herself.
"What's going on?" James asked as he and Sirius showed up.
"Pongs," Nikki said sternly as she pointed to her pile of wooden pieces. Harry saw himself put on a plastic mask of a Muggle werewolf and growled as he ran towards Nikki.
"Dadfoot," Nikki cried as she tried to evade Harry and buried her face in his chest crying. "Scary Moony,"
"Harry," James sighed as he took the mask off of his son. "Apologize to Nikki, you know she doesn't like that mask."
"'Pologize," Harry sighed as Nikki peeked out at him.
"We should probably put them down for a nap." James suggested as the two picked up their kids and Peter picked up the camera and followed them upstairs where James laid Harry in the crib and handed him a bottle. James asked Sirius if he was going to sing as Sirius sighed saying that he had to if he wanted Nikki to sleep. He gave his little girl a bottle
"Holding you, I held everything. For a moment I wasn't I the king? If I only know, how the king would fall, then who's to say 'You know I might have changed it all'. And I. I'm glad I didn't know. The way it all would end, the way it all would go.... Our lives; It's better to leave to chance. I could of miss the pain, But I would of have to miss the dance."
Harry looked over and saw Nikki smiling weakly as tears were streaming down her face. "I'll shut if off" He told her as she grabbed his wrist.
"No, let it play. He sang me this song last time I saw him." She said as Ron put his arm around her and pulled her close.
"You miss him?" Ginny asked as she nodded.
"So much it's crazy," She sighed as the television showed another scene of Nikki and Harry when they were small.
"No way," Ron exclaimed.
"What is it Ron?" Hermione asked as she turned towards him.
"That's me,"
They all turned towards the TV once more and showed them upstairs at Nikki's house playing with a large blown up ball rolling it back and forth as Fred and George were fighting with plastic baseball bats and Percy was trying to get them to stop.
"Where am I?" Ginny asked.
"Well, we look no older then one so you either not born or you're just a few months old." Ron said as a young Bill and Charlie came in telling Percy to stop yelling at the twins.
"That so cool," Harry said as the movie stopped it self and automatically began to rewind. "We knew each other when we were small. I thought that we met for the first time when we were on the train."
"Me too," Ron said grinning. "We were friends for life then."
*
A/N: I had to throw the Easter Break thing in there to make it longer. It was so short. I had no idea what to do in this chapter but I do know what I'm doing in the next one so it shouldn't take so long to write once I start.
Sailor PPearl – Thanks for the complement, and I updated as soon as I could.
Super Poet Gurl – Thanks, it would be so cool if we had a Juice bar here in PHK, wouldn't it. And they weren't doing more then kissing...I swear.
I should probably get this posted before the damn wind picks up and we loose power again. Damn storm.
"Did someone just say 'Stupid Rob' or am I just hearing things?" Ginny asked as she looked around the empty room. A smile crawled across Ron's face as he got up shaking his head. He walked over to the portrait hole and pushed open the door; his smile growing larger.
"Now there's something I wish I saw everyday." Ron said as they heard someone groan.
"Stupid Rob made me wear this today." Nikki walked inside with Ron's help wearing a short red dress with white fur trim, a matching red hat, and high heeled boots.
"That monster," Ron said sarcastically as Nikki glared at him.
"I swear I never want to be in charge at the bar near Christmas again. Ginny, Hermione, do you have anything I can change into?" She asked hopefully. The girls nodded as they escorted her upstairs to their dorms in hope of better clothing for Nikki.
"Don't get rid of it!" Ron advised before he sat back down beside Harry on the couch. Harry raised an eyebrow and looked at Ron.
"What? She looks good in it." He reasoned. The girls came back downstairs a few minute later with Nikki in pants and a big sweater. "It's not as good as the dress but I guess it'll do," Ron said as Nikki sat under his arm.
"So what are you doing here Nikki, coming back to school?" Harry asked as the other two girls sat back down.
"My mom's visiting Lé Anna; she picked me up and brought me here before I could change." She said. Before they all went back to looking at the fire.
"Nikki," Hermione broke the silence a few minutes later. "I've always wondered; if you don't mind me asking, did you and Ron ever sleep together? I mean you have known each other for quite a while now."
"Now do you sleep as in actual sleeping or the other sleep?" Nikki asked as she peered around Ron.
"The other, but if you don't want to answer you don't have to." Hermione said quickly.
"No we didn't," Ron said bitterly. "Not until she says 'I love you.' That's the rules."
"You made rules?" Harry asked thinking it was rather odd to have them.
"Yeah, it helps us know what's going on with each other; and the 'I love you' thing, we came up with that a while ago. She's been saying everything from 'I lub you' to 'elephant shoes.' It's crazy but it works."
"That's what I did too" Ginny said as she referred to her ex-boyfriend from Ravenclaw. "Nikki suggested never say I love you until you're ready; then when we did break it off it didn't feel like a big deal because I never told him that I loved him."
"When will you?" Ron asked, obviously wishing for soon.
"When it feels right;" She told him, obviously not being her first time to remind him.
"Soon" He asked hopefully.
"Never," she snapped at him before she grinned. "Ever"
Ron pushed her head to the side as Ginny laughed at them. They quieted back down as they became captivated by the fire once more. They listened to the freezing rain pound against the windows that surrounded them. Harry closed his eyes as he listened to the soothing rhythmic sound. He opened them slightly to look at his watch when he noticed that it was several hours later. He looked around the room and saw Ginny and Hermione both asleep in the same positions they were in earlier and Ron asleep with Nikki getting up, careful not to wake the others. She waved good night to Harry before she laid some parcels underneath the tree that got set up while they were sleeping. She walked out the portrait door and closed it quietly behind her. Harry got up off the couch before he fell back to sleep and decided to keep himself busy by doing his homework from Defense. They had a different teacher every two weeks and it was starting to get aggravating. Once the teacher seemed to have gotten on track; they left.
"Where's Nikki?" Ginny asked through a yawn as she looked around the room.
"She left a few minutes ago." Harry told him as he began to write.
"Anybody else hungry" Ron asked as he stretched.
"Now that you mention it, I am." Hermione said as she, too, woke up. The four left the common room and stopped outside of the Great Hall as Nikki and Daemon walked out.
"Enjoy your new teacher," Daemon advised as Nikki nodded. "He's going to be here for a while."
"Okay," Ginny said as she pushed open the heavy oak doors so they could get through. Up at the High Table, talking with Lé Anna, was Remus who seemed to be looking tired.
"What are you doing here?" Harry asked as they walked up.
"Teaching," he smiled causing them to smile back at him as they took their seats.
"Having any visions Harry?" Remus asked as he began to eat his turkey.
"No not yet," He sighed. "I don't know whether to be worried or relieved."
"I'm not sure either." Remus replied as he thought about it. "What do you think Lé Anna?"
"I'd be both; relieve that I'm sleeping through the night but worried about what he's plotting. That man's crazy." She said as she spooned her self some potatoes.
"I'm not sure if 'crazy' is the appropriate term Lé Anna," Dumbledore chuckled. "But it certainly is accurate."
"Gee, thanks," She said sarcastically.
"What do you suppose he's planning?" Hermione asked in a worried voice.
"I'm not sure..." Harry said as he felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. "But whatever it is I'm sure it's going to be big."
*
Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione sat in the basement bedroom at Nikki's house a few months later during Easter Break. Daemon invited them over in order to get some fresh air instead being stuck in the school all years long. Nikki came bounding down the stairs a few minutes later overflowing with joy.
"You won't believe what I just found; I can't believe that I found it. I thought that I lost it." She cried happily. "This is so great."
"What is it Nikki?" Ginny asked from her bed.
"It's my favorite video. It's of Mom, Dad, Remus, Lé Anna, Lily and James. I think that Peter's in here too..." She said in a slightly darker tone. "Oh I didn't watch this since I was at least five." She slid the tape in to the VCR and sat down with them. Harry always loved how although her house was filled with magic that all the Muggle devices still worked. The screen went fuzzy for a minute but cleared up quickly and showed them in the common room at Hogwarts. Harry saw his Dad sitting in the chair he usually sat in reading a book about Quidditch. He turned towards the camera and got a sour look on his face.
"Get that camera away from me Peter." He snapped. "I'm trying to read."
Harry saw a hand smack his father across the back on his head swiftly as the camera moved to show Lily storming up the staircase towards the girls' dorms.
"Ow... Lily what was that for," He asked as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Like you don't know," She yelled as she marched up the stairs.
"I don't. Daemon what did I do wrong this time?" James called across the room as the camera swiveled to show Daemon sitting on Sirius' lap apparently going over plans.
"Birthday," Daemon sang as Sirius pointed something out and James cursed from off camera. "I suggest you take her out for supper."
"I though that her birthday was next week." Remus said as he looked up from his homework in the background.
"Yeah, you thought. And Lé Anna's not for another three months." She told him as she took her turn to face the camera. "Is it working yet Pete?"
"I'm not sure, let's turn it off and check."
The screen turned blue as the outside of Daemon's yard came into view. Everything was decked out in white; clearly for a wedding. They could hear a sound, like an ostrich choking on a drowning cat, wafting in as Sirius belted out a James Brown song. Everyone one was screaming at him to stop but he obviously couldn't hear them over himself.
The screen flashed and showed his Mom panicking about her Dad not being there no matter how much Lé Anna and Daemon tried to calm her down, the screen changed to his Dad, Sirius, Peter and Remus, obviously on a buzz from the empty Butterbeers bottles scattered across the floor singing as Remus strummed along on his guitar.
"Oh I never stayed awake this long, I have no idea what's coming on next." Nikki squealed excitedly as the screen went back to blue as the next scene came on. Ginny, Ron and Hermione started to laugh as a one year old Nikki and Harry were fighting over a block in the middle of a room that Harry didn't remember seeing before. They had their little fingers tightly clasped around the cube of wood as Harry tugged it from her and fell down, destroying his tower. Nikki began to giggle uncontrollably, on and off the TV, as Peter walked in to the room.
"Worm," Nikki said happily as he jumped over to him. Little Harry stood up and biffed the block at Nikki's tower causing it to crumble to the ground as Nikki's little face fell. She walked over to the small boy and pushed him down and fell down herself.
"What's going on?" James asked as he and Sirius showed up.
"Pongs," Nikki said sternly as she pointed to her pile of wooden pieces. Harry saw himself put on a plastic mask of a Muggle werewolf and growled as he ran towards Nikki.
"Dadfoot," Nikki cried as she tried to evade Harry and buried her face in his chest crying. "Scary Moony,"
"Harry," James sighed as he took the mask off of his son. "Apologize to Nikki, you know she doesn't like that mask."
"'Pologize," Harry sighed as Nikki peeked out at him.
"We should probably put them down for a nap." James suggested as the two picked up their kids and Peter picked up the camera and followed them upstairs where James laid Harry in the crib and handed him a bottle. James asked Sirius if he was going to sing as Sirius sighed saying that he had to if he wanted Nikki to sleep. He gave his little girl a bottle
"Holding you, I held everything. For a moment I wasn't I the king? If I only know, how the king would fall, then who's to say 'You know I might have changed it all'. And I. I'm glad I didn't know. The way it all would end, the way it all would go.... Our lives; It's better to leave to chance. I could of miss the pain, But I would of have to miss the dance."
Harry looked over and saw Nikki smiling weakly as tears were streaming down her face. "I'll shut if off" He told her as she grabbed his wrist.
"No, let it play. He sang me this song last time I saw him." She said as Ron put his arm around her and pulled her close.
"You miss him?" Ginny asked as she nodded.
"So much it's crazy," She sighed as the television showed another scene of Nikki and Harry when they were small.
"No way," Ron exclaimed.
"What is it Ron?" Hermione asked as she turned towards him.
"That's me,"
They all turned towards the TV once more and showed them upstairs at Nikki's house playing with a large blown up ball rolling it back and forth as Fred and George were fighting with plastic baseball bats and Percy was trying to get them to stop.
"Where am I?" Ginny asked.
"Well, we look no older then one so you either not born or you're just a few months old." Ron said as a young Bill and Charlie came in telling Percy to stop yelling at the twins.
"That so cool," Harry said as the movie stopped it self and automatically began to rewind. "We knew each other when we were small. I thought that we met for the first time when we were on the train."
"Me too," Ron said grinning. "We were friends for life then."
*
A/N: I had to throw the Easter Break thing in there to make it longer. It was so short. I had no idea what to do in this chapter but I do know what I'm doing in the next one so it shouldn't take so long to write once I start.
Sailor PPearl – Thanks for the complement, and I updated as soon as I could.
Super Poet Gurl – Thanks, it would be so cool if we had a Juice bar here in PHK, wouldn't it. And they weren't doing more then kissing...I swear.
I should probably get this posted before the damn wind picks up and we loose power again. Damn storm.