Title: Life's a Bitch
Chapter 6: A big Move
Today is Saturday. {Note}
The next day James woke up at 5:30 in the morning. He got dressed quietly and grabbed his trunk and headed for the headmasters office. He was going to go and see Christiana.
What the Marauders, Lily and Fettie didn't know was that before he went to the Astronomy Tower he went to Dumbledore's. Lily might have gotten there only minutes before him. James went to Dumbledore's office about Chrissie. Dumbledore already knew and told James come back to my office in a week." James went back to Dumbledore's office on the day Lily woke up and that was the day that Dumbledore told James that he would be going to see Chrissie tomorrow.
When James reached Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore was already waiting outside. "Good Morning James." Dumbledore greeted. "Good morning Professor Dumbledore." James replied.
"James there is a little change in plans. You are still going to see your sister, but you must go to Gringotts and take some money out a buy a small apartment for the both of you to live in for a while."
"Huh?"
"I need you to go to Gringotts, take money out from your parents account, they already know that you will go today, and buy this apartment which is just a mile away from you old house. I have also hired a babysitter for Chrissie while you're at school. She was your mother's best friend, Alice Minnie. She is also a witch."
"Why do we have to do that?"
"Because your house was destroyed when Voldemort attacked them."
"OK. Should I go now?"
"Yes go now. Pick Chrissie up and then go immediately. If you need anything contact me." Here is the portkey." Dumbledore handed the portkey to James.
He took it and took two steps away from Dumbledore then pressed the button.
~Back with Chrissie, reunited~
James pressed the button and he started to spin around really quick then pop out of Dumbledore's view. James felt really sick so he closed his eyes. A couple of seconds later he landed on solid ground.
James opened his eyes and felt the air being knocked out of him as something grabbed him around the waist and knocked him to the floor.
It was Chrissie. "James!"
"Chrissie!" James held Chrissie while she still had her arms around him. "Are you alright? I'm sorry I couldn't get here sooner. Dumbledore said that I could come today."
"James, please let me go. I seriously need some air now."
Chrissie is 6 years old. She was a little bit tall for her age. She looked as different from James as you can get. She had straight brown hair with natural light red streaks, crystal blue eyes, and a light sprinkle of freckles.
"Oh sorry." James let go of Chrissie.
"It's alright. What are we going to do now James? Mom and Dad are gone, so is the house. Where are we going to live?"
"Dumbledore said that there was this little apartment a mile away from our old house that we could live in until I graduate. I still have to go to school, but mom's best friend is going to baby-sit you for the time being."
"Oh, well how are we going to get the money for that? We don't have the account number, only Mom and Dad did."
"Dumbledore gave it to me. Look where is your friend and her mom?"
James looked around the room and he spotted them in kitchen. James stood up because he was kneeling in front of Chrissie when he was talking to her. "Excuse Mrs. Uh-"
"Just call me Dawn." She said as she wiped her hand on a towel and shook James's hand.
"Well Dawn, I just want to thank you so much for watching Chrissie for me. I hope this didn't put a dent in any of your plans that you might've had."
"Oh no dear, it was a pleasure to have Christiana over. She was very well behaved. I'm just so sorry that your parents died. Is there anything I could do for you two?"
"No thank you. You've done a lot for us. We really appreciate it. Well Chrissie and I have to go now. But if you or your daughter ever wants to come over, we live just a mile from the old house."
"Alright dear. Well Christiana's things are all upstairs, so all she has to do is go and get them."
"Ok, and thanks again."
"You're welcome dear."
James walked back to Chrissie and told her get her stuff because they were leaving. Chrissie did as she was told. She grabbed her stuff, said thank you and good-bye to her friend and Dawn then they left.
~Back at Hogwarts~
Later that morning when Sirius and Remus woke up, they found that James bed was folded neatly; his trunk and belongings were gone.
Sirius and Remus shrugged thinking that he was probably out with some girl. They got ready and left for the Great Hall.
When they got to the Great Hall, Lily and Fettie were already there. Sirius walked over and sat across from Lily while Remus sat next to Fettie.
"Hey, where's James?" Lily asked.
"Awww, does our baby Lil-kins miss our Jamsie Pooh?" Sirius taunted. He received a whack on the shoulder from Remus.
"No when we woke up he wasn't in bed." Remus corrected.
"Oh, and no I don't miss James. I was just curious." Lily said. Fettie nudged Lily and winked, "Sure you don't."
Lily rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah, I don't."
~Back to James~
James and Chrissie took a cab to the apartment that was their new home now. When they got their first look of the house they thought it looked a bit small, but it will do.
They didn't need to live in a big house or a mansion now that there would only be two or three people living in the house.
They walked up to the door and James took out the key that Dumbledore had given him before he left.
He unlocked the door walked in.
The apartment had a nice warm welcoming feeling to it. The apartment was already decorated, so that they didn't have to spend money on that.
They apartment contained of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a small living room and kitchen. They washing machine and dryer were in the club house not far from them.
"What do you think Chris?"
"I think it's great."
"I guess its ok for now. When I get out of school and get a job, then we will be able to move into a bigger house."
"Ok. Well I'm going to take my stuff into the room I want."
Chrissie picked up her things and headed down the hall to put her things into the room that she wanted.
James walked into the kitchen to check if there was any food in there. James was now like a father kind of. He had to make sure there would always be food on the table for Chrissie, and made sure that she was doing well while he was away.
James opened the cabinets to find that there was food already in there. Same with the freezer and refrigerator. James shook his head, Dumbledore had thought of everything. The house must've been charmed so that you had whatever you needed always there.
The cabinets were always full, even after you take something out, another item replaces it; same with the freezer and refrigerator.
James sighed, he was happy that Chrissie was alive and she was pretty happy. She didn't cry yet, she was trying to be strong.
James was about to go and tell Chrissie that she can't unpack her stuff just yet. He still had go to Gringotts to withdraw some money for the house and Chrissie was going back with James to Hogwarts for a week because Dumbledore thought that they needed to be together to be there for each other. (Run-on sentence sorry)
The door bell rang. James walked to the door and opened it a little a afraid of how it might be.
James opened the door to find a short plump woman at least in her late 30's early 40's at the door. She was wearing a purple hat and looked very friendly. "Hello you must be James Potter. I'm your mother's best friend Alice Minnie. I now you haven't seen me before. That's because I lived in America. Your mother and I communicated a lot though. I'm surprised that you've never heard of me. Well that's ok- great. Here I am in front of my best friend's son babbling. I'm sorry; I hope that I didn't scare you."
"Oh no not at all. Well you see my sister and I were just about to go."
"Oh, I'm not here to stay today. I just wanted to make sure I got the right house and I wanted to see you. My you've grown up so big since the last time I saw you last.
I saw-opps their I go again. Babbling."
"That's alright."
"Well I guess I'll be seeing you in a week. Good-bye."
"'Bye."
James closed the door. Geez I thought I had finished seeing weird people after Dumbledore, but I guess I was wrong. James thought.
"Who was that at the door James?" Chrissie asked.
"Oh it was Mrs. Minnie."
"Ok."
"You've met her before?"
"Yeah the day right after the.well. after. She came over Tasha's {her friend. Mrs. Dawn's daughter.} and told me a lot of things. I like her. She's funny and nice."
"Yeah well uh get your stuff we're going to Gringotts and then we're getting something to eat and going back to Hogwarts."
"Ok. We let me go get my stuff."
"No, I'll get it for you."
"Are you sure James?"
"Yeah, no problem."
~Back at Hogwarts~
All day they didn't see James any where. At dinner, they still didn't see him so they decided that after dinner they would ask Dumbledore if he knew where James was.
They sat down and was about to start eating when they saw the Great Hall doors open. Everyone turned their attention to it and saw a James walk in. Next to him was Chrissie.
James and Chrissie walked over to the Marauders, Lily and Fettie and sat next to them.
"Hey you guys. Sorry that I wasn't here all day. I'll explain everything to you when we go to the Wreak Room. For now just let us eat. We decided to come back here to eat."
Everyone looked at James, but he and Chrissie just started wolfing down their food and ignored them.
Later on they headed back to the Wreak Room and James introduced Chrissie to Lily and Fettie and then he told everyone everything that happened.
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I hope you guys like this chapter. I'm sorry that I haven't posted in a while. It's just tat here has been raining a lot and the electricity has been flashing back and forth so I wasn't able to go online. Oh and that just gave me an idea! Important chapter next chapter Read ok ppl.
Alright people! Listen up. I'm getting a couple of reviews that say that I'm not really clear on everything that I say. I know that I'm not because I am so swamped with different ideas that come to me at night and I try to get it all down on paper but I can't. So in result I have to type it the next day. But I forget to put the important information into my writing so I'm sorry. So I'm going to get this cleared up. I hope the ppl that are sending me flames read this.
Lily did work out that Remus was a werewolf, but she never said anything about it. The Marauders don't know that she knows that, she wants them to be able to come to her and tell her. She didn't become an animagi because of him. She became one because of the Underground fighting that she had to do. She and Fettie used to fly to other places where the underground fighting was held.
I'm not the greatest writer in the world, so in result I don't know if you guys say whatever but I don't care. Maybe they didn't say whatever when they were in school (Harry Potter) but I don't know. I don't' think that you know a hundred percent, but I don't care.
If you're going to criticize me because of that well I feel bad for you cuz everyone who writes fanfics have a lot of mistakes in there writing. One thing back in James and Lily's years Dumbledore wasn't Headmaster. There are a lot more mistakes but I'm not going to go and say all of them.
Oh I'm sorry if you feel that Fettie is a horrible character. And for those who think that I'm going to make her fall in love with Remus well you're.... you'll just have to wait and see. I know that Fettie doesn't have a really big part right now but she does actually. She's actually really important to what is about to happen so just hang with me for a moment.
Also about my little idea of Underground fighting. Some people think that it's a great idea others think it's awkward. The reason why I have that is because Lily is a girl who is extremely strong, both physically and mentally. So is Fettie. I need that in my story because it plays a major part in this fanfic. You'll see.
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Smiley Mary The problem for Lily was that she was afraid that they would treat her like how Petunia treated her. She thought that she would be an out cast and so on. She had a lot of "what if" thoughts. Feel free to ask any other questions. Don't worry about it. I'll answer.
Tribal Leader Awww, I feel so special thanks.
Lisa Meunier Oh no they aren't going to met at the Astronomy tower still because Lily already told them that she was adopted and her personal story and stuff. Well actually they already knew but you get my point?
firehottie Thank you soooo much! You reviewed a lot for me and it helps. Thanks. Salma Awww thanks. Do you like mushy stuff too? I don't but if you want I'll include a couple more for you and a special anonymous that likes mashies too.
LooneyLover I glad that u love it. That makes me happy. Thanks.
Roxy-punk-princess I guez she's going to be dense. Lol. Thanks.
redlily Hey I'm talented. Thanks.
Catherine Hey gurl! Too bad we can't really talk but whatever. Thank you so much for reviewing and everything. Oh please don't send me any chains. I won't send you anymore if you don't want anymore I'm sorry. But thanks!
heather12345 OOOOOO you're fanfics are fabulous. You're a great Writer. I just have a suggestion to make. For chapter two please don't write anymore like that. Could you please put spaces cuz I'm a little ADD, I'll tell you later, and I can't really follow but I'll try. But thanks!
Bree Its unique! Wow, I never thought that ma story was unique. Thanks!
kat6528 Lol, thanks.
luvergurl01 I WILL. Thanks.
Reddragon I'm a terrific writer! Thanks.
Thanks you guys. Oh and here are some personal messages in there too. Lol. Well I have to go now. Peace out.
~AtwistedAngel13~
Chapter 6: A big Move
Today is Saturday. {Note}
The next day James woke up at 5:30 in the morning. He got dressed quietly and grabbed his trunk and headed for the headmasters office. He was going to go and see Christiana.
What the Marauders, Lily and Fettie didn't know was that before he went to the Astronomy Tower he went to Dumbledore's. Lily might have gotten there only minutes before him. James went to Dumbledore's office about Chrissie. Dumbledore already knew and told James come back to my office in a week." James went back to Dumbledore's office on the day Lily woke up and that was the day that Dumbledore told James that he would be going to see Chrissie tomorrow.
When James reached Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore was already waiting outside. "Good Morning James." Dumbledore greeted. "Good morning Professor Dumbledore." James replied.
"James there is a little change in plans. You are still going to see your sister, but you must go to Gringotts and take some money out a buy a small apartment for the both of you to live in for a while."
"Huh?"
"I need you to go to Gringotts, take money out from your parents account, they already know that you will go today, and buy this apartment which is just a mile away from you old house. I have also hired a babysitter for Chrissie while you're at school. She was your mother's best friend, Alice Minnie. She is also a witch."
"Why do we have to do that?"
"Because your house was destroyed when Voldemort attacked them."
"OK. Should I go now?"
"Yes go now. Pick Chrissie up and then go immediately. If you need anything contact me." Here is the portkey." Dumbledore handed the portkey to James.
He took it and took two steps away from Dumbledore then pressed the button.
~Back with Chrissie, reunited~
James pressed the button and he started to spin around really quick then pop out of Dumbledore's view. James felt really sick so he closed his eyes. A couple of seconds later he landed on solid ground.
James opened his eyes and felt the air being knocked out of him as something grabbed him around the waist and knocked him to the floor.
It was Chrissie. "James!"
"Chrissie!" James held Chrissie while she still had her arms around him. "Are you alright? I'm sorry I couldn't get here sooner. Dumbledore said that I could come today."
"James, please let me go. I seriously need some air now."
Chrissie is 6 years old. She was a little bit tall for her age. She looked as different from James as you can get. She had straight brown hair with natural light red streaks, crystal blue eyes, and a light sprinkle of freckles.
"Oh sorry." James let go of Chrissie.
"It's alright. What are we going to do now James? Mom and Dad are gone, so is the house. Where are we going to live?"
"Dumbledore said that there was this little apartment a mile away from our old house that we could live in until I graduate. I still have to go to school, but mom's best friend is going to baby-sit you for the time being."
"Oh, well how are we going to get the money for that? We don't have the account number, only Mom and Dad did."
"Dumbledore gave it to me. Look where is your friend and her mom?"
James looked around the room and he spotted them in kitchen. James stood up because he was kneeling in front of Chrissie when he was talking to her. "Excuse Mrs. Uh-"
"Just call me Dawn." She said as she wiped her hand on a towel and shook James's hand.
"Well Dawn, I just want to thank you so much for watching Chrissie for me. I hope this didn't put a dent in any of your plans that you might've had."
"Oh no dear, it was a pleasure to have Christiana over. She was very well behaved. I'm just so sorry that your parents died. Is there anything I could do for you two?"
"No thank you. You've done a lot for us. We really appreciate it. Well Chrissie and I have to go now. But if you or your daughter ever wants to come over, we live just a mile from the old house."
"Alright dear. Well Christiana's things are all upstairs, so all she has to do is go and get them."
"Ok, and thanks again."
"You're welcome dear."
James walked back to Chrissie and told her get her stuff because they were leaving. Chrissie did as she was told. She grabbed her stuff, said thank you and good-bye to her friend and Dawn then they left.
~Back at Hogwarts~
Later that morning when Sirius and Remus woke up, they found that James bed was folded neatly; his trunk and belongings were gone.
Sirius and Remus shrugged thinking that he was probably out with some girl. They got ready and left for the Great Hall.
When they got to the Great Hall, Lily and Fettie were already there. Sirius walked over and sat across from Lily while Remus sat next to Fettie.
"Hey, where's James?" Lily asked.
"Awww, does our baby Lil-kins miss our Jamsie Pooh?" Sirius taunted. He received a whack on the shoulder from Remus.
"No when we woke up he wasn't in bed." Remus corrected.
"Oh, and no I don't miss James. I was just curious." Lily said. Fettie nudged Lily and winked, "Sure you don't."
Lily rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah, I don't."
~Back to James~
James and Chrissie took a cab to the apartment that was their new home now. When they got their first look of the house they thought it looked a bit small, but it will do.
They didn't need to live in a big house or a mansion now that there would only be two or three people living in the house.
They walked up to the door and James took out the key that Dumbledore had given him before he left.
He unlocked the door walked in.
The apartment had a nice warm welcoming feeling to it. The apartment was already decorated, so that they didn't have to spend money on that.
They apartment contained of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a small living room and kitchen. They washing machine and dryer were in the club house not far from them.
"What do you think Chris?"
"I think it's great."
"I guess its ok for now. When I get out of school and get a job, then we will be able to move into a bigger house."
"Ok. Well I'm going to take my stuff into the room I want."
Chrissie picked up her things and headed down the hall to put her things into the room that she wanted.
James walked into the kitchen to check if there was any food in there. James was now like a father kind of. He had to make sure there would always be food on the table for Chrissie, and made sure that she was doing well while he was away.
James opened the cabinets to find that there was food already in there. Same with the freezer and refrigerator. James shook his head, Dumbledore had thought of everything. The house must've been charmed so that you had whatever you needed always there.
The cabinets were always full, even after you take something out, another item replaces it; same with the freezer and refrigerator.
James sighed, he was happy that Chrissie was alive and she was pretty happy. She didn't cry yet, she was trying to be strong.
James was about to go and tell Chrissie that she can't unpack her stuff just yet. He still had go to Gringotts to withdraw some money for the house and Chrissie was going back with James to Hogwarts for a week because Dumbledore thought that they needed to be together to be there for each other. (Run-on sentence sorry)
The door bell rang. James walked to the door and opened it a little a afraid of how it might be.
James opened the door to find a short plump woman at least in her late 30's early 40's at the door. She was wearing a purple hat and looked very friendly. "Hello you must be James Potter. I'm your mother's best friend Alice Minnie. I now you haven't seen me before. That's because I lived in America. Your mother and I communicated a lot though. I'm surprised that you've never heard of me. Well that's ok- great. Here I am in front of my best friend's son babbling. I'm sorry; I hope that I didn't scare you."
"Oh no not at all. Well you see my sister and I were just about to go."
"Oh, I'm not here to stay today. I just wanted to make sure I got the right house and I wanted to see you. My you've grown up so big since the last time I saw you last.
I saw-opps their I go again. Babbling."
"That's alright."
"Well I guess I'll be seeing you in a week. Good-bye."
"'Bye."
James closed the door. Geez I thought I had finished seeing weird people after Dumbledore, but I guess I was wrong. James thought.
"Who was that at the door James?" Chrissie asked.
"Oh it was Mrs. Minnie."
"Ok."
"You've met her before?"
"Yeah the day right after the.well. after. She came over Tasha's {her friend. Mrs. Dawn's daughter.} and told me a lot of things. I like her. She's funny and nice."
"Yeah well uh get your stuff we're going to Gringotts and then we're getting something to eat and going back to Hogwarts."
"Ok. We let me go get my stuff."
"No, I'll get it for you."
"Are you sure James?"
"Yeah, no problem."
~Back at Hogwarts~
All day they didn't see James any where. At dinner, they still didn't see him so they decided that after dinner they would ask Dumbledore if he knew where James was.
They sat down and was about to start eating when they saw the Great Hall doors open. Everyone turned their attention to it and saw a James walk in. Next to him was Chrissie.
James and Chrissie walked over to the Marauders, Lily and Fettie and sat next to them.
"Hey you guys. Sorry that I wasn't here all day. I'll explain everything to you when we go to the Wreak Room. For now just let us eat. We decided to come back here to eat."
Everyone looked at James, but he and Chrissie just started wolfing down their food and ignored them.
Later on they headed back to the Wreak Room and James introduced Chrissie to Lily and Fettie and then he told everyone everything that happened.
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I hope you guys like this chapter. I'm sorry that I haven't posted in a while. It's just tat here has been raining a lot and the electricity has been flashing back and forth so I wasn't able to go online. Oh and that just gave me an idea! Important chapter next chapter Read ok ppl.
Alright people! Listen up. I'm getting a couple of reviews that say that I'm not really clear on everything that I say. I know that I'm not because I am so swamped with different ideas that come to me at night and I try to get it all down on paper but I can't. So in result I have to type it the next day. But I forget to put the important information into my writing so I'm sorry. So I'm going to get this cleared up. I hope the ppl that are sending me flames read this.
Lily did work out that Remus was a werewolf, but she never said anything about it. The Marauders don't know that she knows that, she wants them to be able to come to her and tell her. She didn't become an animagi because of him. She became one because of the Underground fighting that she had to do. She and Fettie used to fly to other places where the underground fighting was held.
I'm not the greatest writer in the world, so in result I don't know if you guys say whatever but I don't care. Maybe they didn't say whatever when they were in school (Harry Potter) but I don't know. I don't' think that you know a hundred percent, but I don't care.
If you're going to criticize me because of that well I feel bad for you cuz everyone who writes fanfics have a lot of mistakes in there writing. One thing back in James and Lily's years Dumbledore wasn't Headmaster. There are a lot more mistakes but I'm not going to go and say all of them.
Oh I'm sorry if you feel that Fettie is a horrible character. And for those who think that I'm going to make her fall in love with Remus well you're.... you'll just have to wait and see. I know that Fettie doesn't have a really big part right now but she does actually. She's actually really important to what is about to happen so just hang with me for a moment.
Also about my little idea of Underground fighting. Some people think that it's a great idea others think it's awkward. The reason why I have that is because Lily is a girl who is extremely strong, both physically and mentally. So is Fettie. I need that in my story because it plays a major part in this fanfic. You'll see.
~!~!~ Personal thanks to:
Cathy1227 Yay! This is interesting! Thanks
kcchristian Thanks!
Smiley Mary The problem for Lily was that she was afraid that they would treat her like how Petunia treated her. She thought that she would be an out cast and so on. She had a lot of "what if" thoughts. Feel free to ask any other questions. Don't worry about it. I'll answer.
Tribal Leader Awww, I feel so special thanks.
Lisa Meunier Oh no they aren't going to met at the Astronomy tower still because Lily already told them that she was adopted and her personal story and stuff. Well actually they already knew but you get my point?
firehottie Thank you soooo much! You reviewed a lot for me and it helps. Thanks. Salma Awww thanks. Do you like mushy stuff too? I don't but if you want I'll include a couple more for you and a special anonymous that likes mashies too.
LooneyLover I glad that u love it. That makes me happy. Thanks.
Roxy-punk-princess I guez she's going to be dense. Lol. Thanks.
redlily Hey I'm talented. Thanks.
Catherine Hey gurl! Too bad we can't really talk but whatever. Thank you so much for reviewing and everything. Oh please don't send me any chains. I won't send you anymore if you don't want anymore I'm sorry. But thanks!
heather12345 OOOOOO you're fanfics are fabulous. You're a great Writer. I just have a suggestion to make. For chapter two please don't write anymore like that. Could you please put spaces cuz I'm a little ADD, I'll tell you later, and I can't really follow but I'll try. But thanks!
Bree Its unique! Wow, I never thought that ma story was unique. Thanks!
kat6528 Lol, thanks.
luvergurl01 I WILL. Thanks.
Reddragon I'm a terrific writer! Thanks.
Thanks you guys. Oh and here are some personal messages in there too. Lol. Well I have to go now. Peace out.
~AtwistedAngel13~