OH the Woes of Being a Teenager
By Azorilla
Disclaimed.
A/N: So sorry for the delay people. Just so no one thinks I'm ungrateful or anything I appreciate every single one of your reviews, they greatly motivate me wink wink.
However, I wont be responding to them unless you have a direct question (I don't think anyone has asked me anything yet checks nope), because in my opinion 50 bazillion lines of review responses is slightly ridiculous, and id never get this story finished. So yeah.. on with the story!
Chapter 4: Reactions
For the third night in a row Harry sat in a small bathroom puking his guts out. The only difference this time was that both Sirius and Remus were there rubbing his back and talking encouragingly. This irked him to no end.
Sirius sighed, "Harry, what's happened to you? What're you doing to yourself? Getting tattoos, drinking, smoking..." He trailed off hopelessly.
Remus raised an eyebrow and looked over at his best friend. "My Sirius, sounds a bit like you."
"Stuff it, Moony" Sirius growled.
Harry, (whose head was inside the toilet bowl) rolled his eyes. 'Bloody perfect' he thought irritably, 'just what I need, them bickering while I have a roaring headache!' After he was finished with a fresh bout of dry heaves, he sat up abruptly and said quite cheerfully:
"Well now that that's over with I think ill be on my way now!"
And with that he got up and made his was out of the bathroom and through the living room to the door. He didn't get far though, as Sirius and Remus had both jumped up and followed him.
"Oh no you don't, Harry" Remus said.
"Your staying with us" Sirius snapped, "So don't think your going anywhere, we're going to sort this all out in the morning."
"I'm not staying here with you two." Harry said nastily, "You can't make me stay here if I don't want to, neither of you are my legal guardians." He added with a smirk. Sirius and Remus exchanged glances, then Sirius smiled grimly and said, "'Fraid not Harry, I'm still your godfather and therefore I still have some authority over you. Now don't make me put you in a body bind to get you to go upstairs and go to sleep"
"You wouldn't." Harry said uncertainly.
He did.
Ten minutes later saw Harry laying stiff as board on comfy blue covered bed.
"Goodnight, Harry" Sirius said softly as he turned off the lights, "and I'm sorry about this, but it's necessary."
Harry groaned, he had absolutely no choice but to sleep now, it wasn't like he could get up and tango if he felt like it. As he slowly drifted off he thought about the next day and what surprises it might bring.
The next morning dawned bright and cheery. Harry dearly wished the sun would explode at the moment.
"Good morning, Harry!" Remus said cheerfully as he walked into his room unannounced, "I'm going to take the body bind off of you now so that you can come and have breakfast with me and Sirius!" he paused to smile here.
Harry looked at him and slowly counted backwards from 10 so that he didn't lose his temper so early in the bloody morning.
"I'll just leave you to change and get washed up now" Remus said happily.
'Bloody twit must be on fricking drugs' he thought grumpily, as he looked at the clothes that had been left at the end of his bed. He wrinkled his nose as he looked at the light pastel colored polo shirt that he was holding up. He looked at the khaki pants that accompanied the horrible shirt. He proceeded to shudder, and then drop the offending items back onto the bed, opting to stay in the clothes he's worn last night.
He quickly made his way out of the room and into the bathroom off to the right of his room. After he was finished in there he made his way down the stairs and into the kitchen. He was greeted with a sight he considered to be most unpleasant.
Remus Lupin, his former DADA teacher was standing at the counter cooking eggs and bacon and humming along to something that sounding suspiciously like the Rocky theme. He looked around and saw Sirius sitting at a small table with a steaming cup of hot coffee. Sirius looked up when he entered and smiled tiredly.
"Morning Harry"
Harry sat down next to him and asked as quietly as he could "Is Remus on drugs?"
Sirius snorted. Remus turned around and asked cheerfully "All right there, Padfoot?"
"Yes, Moony"
Satisfied with his answer, Remus turned back around to his cooking, but not before Harry caught a glimpse of the apron he was wearing. It had a picture of hot pink wolf on it saying 'howl if your mad' on it.
Harry turned to Sirius again, "He's either gay, or he's on drugs. Which is it?"
Sirius chuckled, "Its neither, he's just a VERY happy morning person."
"Understatement of the century" Harry muttered under his breath.
After breakfast was over, Harry looked up at Sirius and Remus to see them both watching him. He looked at them nervously and asked
"What?"
"Harry, we need to talk..." Remus trailed off uncertainly.
"I don't want to talk." Harry said instantly, looking away.
"Fine, we don't have to talk right now, at this second, but we ARE going to have a talk later." Sirius said firmly, "I'll make you a deal. If we let you go back over to the place you were staying at to get your clothes and belongings and you come back here we'll stay off your back for awhile"
Harry turned around and stared at Sirius for a minute, before he broke into a wide grin and eagerly agreed. 'And this way, I can just take off again. They'll never know what hit them' he thought with a smirk.
Remus seemed to know exactly what he was thinking, because he raised his eyebrow and said "Of course if your not back here before dark then we'll just use the tracing spell we put on you last night to find you."
'Damn' Harry thought with anger, 'Of course he has to think of EVERYTHING.'
10 minutes later though, Harry was walking along the desolate road to The Factory. 'What am I going to do? I can't just leave all my friends behind' Harry thought, 'And Kylie... What's going to happen to her?' Harry didn't have time to pursue his thoughts or feelings about her right now though, as he had finally arrived at The Factory's crummy door.
Pushing aside the rotting door he walked inside only to be barreled over by two girls with way to much energy.
"Harry!" They both shrieked in unison.
"Oh my god, we were so worried about you!" Magda, a girl with short red hair and an even shorter skirt exclaimed.
"Did tha polic' catcha Harry?" Riley, the girl with blue hair and a long nose asked.
Harry tried to sit up but Magda was straddling his chest. "Mags" he gasped, "If you'd get off my chest ill explain what happened."
"Oh right." She blushed getting up and giving him a hand up, "Kylie was frantic, said you tripped and such. You should come see her so she'll stop talking 'bout you. Say you guys dating yet?"
Harry rolled his eyes, Magda was a fast talker. "Not were not going out" He replied evenly knowing it could start a fight between Magda and her.
"Oh" Magda said smiling, "That's good to know"
Music floated out from the dining room, Harry curious as to what was going on walked in and laughed. Kylie was dancing on the table with two other girls to the song "In the Jungle" it was such a funny sight to see three girls pretending to be lions that Harry couldn't help but laugh. Suddenly Kylie caught sight of Harry, she gave a loud shriek jumped off the table and jumped up again and wrapped her legs around his waist.
"Harry your all right! I was so worried" She cried kissing his nose.
Harry was suddenly very aware that she was wearing a skirt and his hands were very close to her butt. He coughed and tried to put her down but she shrieked again and jumped out of his arms.
"I LOVE this part!" She cried, "In the Jungle the Mighty Jungle the Lion sleeps toniiiiiiight, a wheeeee...." She sang very off key and loud dancing around the table.
Harry laughed again and shouted over her, "I'm gonna go get my stuff and then I'm heading out, ill talk to you later, Ky" Then he left then room.
Kylie, however, had stopped dancing and was doing a very good impression of a fish. "Stuff? Heading out? HARRY POTTER! Where do you think your going?!" She screeched running after him.
Up in his room Harry had almost finished packing when Kylie burst in. One look at her face told him that he had better prepare for another fight.
"Where the hell are you going?" She demanded.
"My godfather and ex-teacher found out where I am, now I have to go back." Harry said rubbing his temples.
"Go back?" She whispered, her eyes filling with tears to his horror.
"Not back to Dursley's, just down the street, they've bought a duplex or something" He said hastily, "We'll still be able to hang out."
She sniffled. "Yeah, whatever"
"Oh come on don't be like that" Harry said.
"Just shut up and go Harry" She yelled, "It's obvious you like Magda better then me anyways!"
Harry groaned. "That's not true and you know it! I like you both the same"
She glared, "Oh so you can kiss me but you like us both the 'same'?"
"Now if I'm not mistaken, you've been doing all the kissing first..." Harry instantly knew it was a mistake to say that.
Her eyes spilled over with tears, and she gave an angry shriek she seized one of his books that was closest to her and hurled it at his head. Harry ducked and shouted
"OY! What was that for?"
Kylie gave another shriek and grabbed another book and this time her aim was true. She nailed him right above his left eye. Out of the corner of his eye Harry saw her lift her hands to her mouth and run over to him.
"Oh Harry, sweetie, I'm so sorry!" She exclaimed grabbing his head and examining her handiwork
Harry groaned, "You'd make an excellent beater with an arm like that" He rubbed his forehead and grumbled some more.
"I've really got to get going, Ky" Harry sighed.
He looked down into her eyes and smiled briefly before leaning down and pecking her on the lips.
"I'll try and get out later this week, don't worry we'll see each other again."
Back at Sirius' and Remus' duplex....
"Harry! Where on earth did you get that nasty bruise from?" Remus exclaimed as he opened the door for him. He grabbed him by the arm and led him into the kitchen.
"Sit" He ordered, and then proceeded to examine his forehead.
Harry rolled his eyes as Sirius came in, and leaned over Remus' shoulder and watched Remus examine Harry.
"Did you get in a fight, Harry" Sirius suddenly asked.
:"Not unless you count some girl chucking a book at my head a fight." Harry muttered pulling out of Remus' grip.
"A girl did this to you?" Sirius chuckled, "Shes got some arm."
Harry glared at him and walked into the living room and flipped on the television. Jerry Springer was on so he settled back into the couch. Unfortunately he was interrupted by Sirius sitting next to him and staring at him.
"What" he bit out irritably.
"Who was the girl? Was she your girlfriend?" Sirius asked.
"None of your business"
"But—"
"Sirius! I don't want to talk about it!" Harry snapped.
"Okay, okay. Take a chill pill kiddo."
Harry rolled his eyes skyward.
The rest of the day passed much in the same manner, with both Sirius and Remus trying to pry for details about what he had been doing these past few weeks, and Harry giving no answers at all. But by nightfall Harry had had enough, and politely excused himself to go sit out on the porch to 'think about things'. In all reality, he just needed a smoke. So as he lit up and breathed in deeply he felt himself relaxing and gave himself a small smile. It wasn't there for long however, as Remus had just stepped out onto the porch too.
Harry groaned for what felt like the hundredth time that day. Remus raised an eyebrow and took the cigarette out of his hand and dropped it onto the porch floor crushing it with the heal of his shoe.
"Those things will kill you, you know" Remus said lightly, "Sure you don't want to talk about things?"
"Positive" He said between gritted teeth.
Remus opened his mouth to say something else when they suddenly heard the sound of feet pounding on the hard pavement. They both looked up and were shocked when a dark haired girl came running up their front walk.
"Harry!" Kylie gasped, tears running down her face, "Harry, they tried- tried to make me.." she cried as she collapsed into his arms pulling them both to the ground with her in his lap.
Remus was thoroughly startled, but Harry wasn't. "Shh, just take deep breaths and tell me what happened." He could feel her shaking and rubbed her back, he was to engrossed in her that he didn't even notice Sirius come out onto the porch and stand beside Remus with a bewildered look on his face, one glance at his friend told him that he was just as confused as Sirius was.
"They- the death eaters, they tried to make me—make me o-one of them!" She sobbed, "But I couldn't! I couldn't, Harry. Because I thought of you, and I just couldn't!"
"It's all right, Ky" Harry said softly, "Your safe now."
"And- and then I tried to run, and they grabbed me, but I escaped and I came here." She cried burrowing her face into his chest.
Harry looked up at Sirius, "Can she stay here Sirius? She hasn't got anywhere else to go. Please" he added.
"We'll see Harry," Sirius said exchanging glances with Remus, "Lets just get inside and finish this conversation in there, its dangerous out here."
A/N: This chapter was obviously more of a filler then anything else, I no longer am having writers block though, so the next chapter should be out by Sundayish.
Next chapter: New living arrangements for everybody; Ron and Hermione; Harry and Kylie fess up to why they both left their homes; Dangerous habits emerge; teenage angst; Sirius and Remus panicking etc.
By Azorilla
Disclaimed.
A/N: So sorry for the delay people. Just so no one thinks I'm ungrateful or anything I appreciate every single one of your reviews, they greatly motivate me wink wink.
However, I wont be responding to them unless you have a direct question (I don't think anyone has asked me anything yet checks nope), because in my opinion 50 bazillion lines of review responses is slightly ridiculous, and id never get this story finished. So yeah.. on with the story!
Chapter 4: Reactions
For the third night in a row Harry sat in a small bathroom puking his guts out. The only difference this time was that both Sirius and Remus were there rubbing his back and talking encouragingly. This irked him to no end.
Sirius sighed, "Harry, what's happened to you? What're you doing to yourself? Getting tattoos, drinking, smoking..." He trailed off hopelessly.
Remus raised an eyebrow and looked over at his best friend. "My Sirius, sounds a bit like you."
"Stuff it, Moony" Sirius growled.
Harry, (whose head was inside the toilet bowl) rolled his eyes. 'Bloody perfect' he thought irritably, 'just what I need, them bickering while I have a roaring headache!' After he was finished with a fresh bout of dry heaves, he sat up abruptly and said quite cheerfully:
"Well now that that's over with I think ill be on my way now!"
And with that he got up and made his was out of the bathroom and through the living room to the door. He didn't get far though, as Sirius and Remus had both jumped up and followed him.
"Oh no you don't, Harry" Remus said.
"Your staying with us" Sirius snapped, "So don't think your going anywhere, we're going to sort this all out in the morning."
"I'm not staying here with you two." Harry said nastily, "You can't make me stay here if I don't want to, neither of you are my legal guardians." He added with a smirk. Sirius and Remus exchanged glances, then Sirius smiled grimly and said, "'Fraid not Harry, I'm still your godfather and therefore I still have some authority over you. Now don't make me put you in a body bind to get you to go upstairs and go to sleep"
"You wouldn't." Harry said uncertainly.
He did.
Ten minutes later saw Harry laying stiff as board on comfy blue covered bed.
"Goodnight, Harry" Sirius said softly as he turned off the lights, "and I'm sorry about this, but it's necessary."
Harry groaned, he had absolutely no choice but to sleep now, it wasn't like he could get up and tango if he felt like it. As he slowly drifted off he thought about the next day and what surprises it might bring.
The next morning dawned bright and cheery. Harry dearly wished the sun would explode at the moment.
"Good morning, Harry!" Remus said cheerfully as he walked into his room unannounced, "I'm going to take the body bind off of you now so that you can come and have breakfast with me and Sirius!" he paused to smile here.
Harry looked at him and slowly counted backwards from 10 so that he didn't lose his temper so early in the bloody morning.
"I'll just leave you to change and get washed up now" Remus said happily.
'Bloody twit must be on fricking drugs' he thought grumpily, as he looked at the clothes that had been left at the end of his bed. He wrinkled his nose as he looked at the light pastel colored polo shirt that he was holding up. He looked at the khaki pants that accompanied the horrible shirt. He proceeded to shudder, and then drop the offending items back onto the bed, opting to stay in the clothes he's worn last night.
He quickly made his way out of the room and into the bathroom off to the right of his room. After he was finished in there he made his way down the stairs and into the kitchen. He was greeted with a sight he considered to be most unpleasant.
Remus Lupin, his former DADA teacher was standing at the counter cooking eggs and bacon and humming along to something that sounding suspiciously like the Rocky theme. He looked around and saw Sirius sitting at a small table with a steaming cup of hot coffee. Sirius looked up when he entered and smiled tiredly.
"Morning Harry"
Harry sat down next to him and asked as quietly as he could "Is Remus on drugs?"
Sirius snorted. Remus turned around and asked cheerfully "All right there, Padfoot?"
"Yes, Moony"
Satisfied with his answer, Remus turned back around to his cooking, but not before Harry caught a glimpse of the apron he was wearing. It had a picture of hot pink wolf on it saying 'howl if your mad' on it.
Harry turned to Sirius again, "He's either gay, or he's on drugs. Which is it?"
Sirius chuckled, "Its neither, he's just a VERY happy morning person."
"Understatement of the century" Harry muttered under his breath.
After breakfast was over, Harry looked up at Sirius and Remus to see them both watching him. He looked at them nervously and asked
"What?"
"Harry, we need to talk..." Remus trailed off uncertainly.
"I don't want to talk." Harry said instantly, looking away.
"Fine, we don't have to talk right now, at this second, but we ARE going to have a talk later." Sirius said firmly, "I'll make you a deal. If we let you go back over to the place you were staying at to get your clothes and belongings and you come back here we'll stay off your back for awhile"
Harry turned around and stared at Sirius for a minute, before he broke into a wide grin and eagerly agreed. 'And this way, I can just take off again. They'll never know what hit them' he thought with a smirk.
Remus seemed to know exactly what he was thinking, because he raised his eyebrow and said "Of course if your not back here before dark then we'll just use the tracing spell we put on you last night to find you."
'Damn' Harry thought with anger, 'Of course he has to think of EVERYTHING.'
10 minutes later though, Harry was walking along the desolate road to The Factory. 'What am I going to do? I can't just leave all my friends behind' Harry thought, 'And Kylie... What's going to happen to her?' Harry didn't have time to pursue his thoughts or feelings about her right now though, as he had finally arrived at The Factory's crummy door.
Pushing aside the rotting door he walked inside only to be barreled over by two girls with way to much energy.
"Harry!" They both shrieked in unison.
"Oh my god, we were so worried about you!" Magda, a girl with short red hair and an even shorter skirt exclaimed.
"Did tha polic' catcha Harry?" Riley, the girl with blue hair and a long nose asked.
Harry tried to sit up but Magda was straddling his chest. "Mags" he gasped, "If you'd get off my chest ill explain what happened."
"Oh right." She blushed getting up and giving him a hand up, "Kylie was frantic, said you tripped and such. You should come see her so she'll stop talking 'bout you. Say you guys dating yet?"
Harry rolled his eyes, Magda was a fast talker. "Not were not going out" He replied evenly knowing it could start a fight between Magda and her.
"Oh" Magda said smiling, "That's good to know"
Music floated out from the dining room, Harry curious as to what was going on walked in and laughed. Kylie was dancing on the table with two other girls to the song "In the Jungle" it was such a funny sight to see three girls pretending to be lions that Harry couldn't help but laugh. Suddenly Kylie caught sight of Harry, she gave a loud shriek jumped off the table and jumped up again and wrapped her legs around his waist.
"Harry your all right! I was so worried" She cried kissing his nose.
Harry was suddenly very aware that she was wearing a skirt and his hands were very close to her butt. He coughed and tried to put her down but she shrieked again and jumped out of his arms.
"I LOVE this part!" She cried, "In the Jungle the Mighty Jungle the Lion sleeps toniiiiiiight, a wheeeee...." She sang very off key and loud dancing around the table.
Harry laughed again and shouted over her, "I'm gonna go get my stuff and then I'm heading out, ill talk to you later, Ky" Then he left then room.
Kylie, however, had stopped dancing and was doing a very good impression of a fish. "Stuff? Heading out? HARRY POTTER! Where do you think your going?!" She screeched running after him.
Up in his room Harry had almost finished packing when Kylie burst in. One look at her face told him that he had better prepare for another fight.
"Where the hell are you going?" She demanded.
"My godfather and ex-teacher found out where I am, now I have to go back." Harry said rubbing his temples.
"Go back?" She whispered, her eyes filling with tears to his horror.
"Not back to Dursley's, just down the street, they've bought a duplex or something" He said hastily, "We'll still be able to hang out."
She sniffled. "Yeah, whatever"
"Oh come on don't be like that" Harry said.
"Just shut up and go Harry" She yelled, "It's obvious you like Magda better then me anyways!"
Harry groaned. "That's not true and you know it! I like you both the same"
She glared, "Oh so you can kiss me but you like us both the 'same'?"
"Now if I'm not mistaken, you've been doing all the kissing first..." Harry instantly knew it was a mistake to say that.
Her eyes spilled over with tears, and she gave an angry shriek she seized one of his books that was closest to her and hurled it at his head. Harry ducked and shouted
"OY! What was that for?"
Kylie gave another shriek and grabbed another book and this time her aim was true. She nailed him right above his left eye. Out of the corner of his eye Harry saw her lift her hands to her mouth and run over to him.
"Oh Harry, sweetie, I'm so sorry!" She exclaimed grabbing his head and examining her handiwork
Harry groaned, "You'd make an excellent beater with an arm like that" He rubbed his forehead and grumbled some more.
"I've really got to get going, Ky" Harry sighed.
He looked down into her eyes and smiled briefly before leaning down and pecking her on the lips.
"I'll try and get out later this week, don't worry we'll see each other again."
Back at Sirius' and Remus' duplex....
"Harry! Where on earth did you get that nasty bruise from?" Remus exclaimed as he opened the door for him. He grabbed him by the arm and led him into the kitchen.
"Sit" He ordered, and then proceeded to examine his forehead.
Harry rolled his eyes as Sirius came in, and leaned over Remus' shoulder and watched Remus examine Harry.
"Did you get in a fight, Harry" Sirius suddenly asked.
:"Not unless you count some girl chucking a book at my head a fight." Harry muttered pulling out of Remus' grip.
"A girl did this to you?" Sirius chuckled, "Shes got some arm."
Harry glared at him and walked into the living room and flipped on the television. Jerry Springer was on so he settled back into the couch. Unfortunately he was interrupted by Sirius sitting next to him and staring at him.
"What" he bit out irritably.
"Who was the girl? Was she your girlfriend?" Sirius asked.
"None of your business"
"But—"
"Sirius! I don't want to talk about it!" Harry snapped.
"Okay, okay. Take a chill pill kiddo."
Harry rolled his eyes skyward.
The rest of the day passed much in the same manner, with both Sirius and Remus trying to pry for details about what he had been doing these past few weeks, and Harry giving no answers at all. But by nightfall Harry had had enough, and politely excused himself to go sit out on the porch to 'think about things'. In all reality, he just needed a smoke. So as he lit up and breathed in deeply he felt himself relaxing and gave himself a small smile. It wasn't there for long however, as Remus had just stepped out onto the porch too.
Harry groaned for what felt like the hundredth time that day. Remus raised an eyebrow and took the cigarette out of his hand and dropped it onto the porch floor crushing it with the heal of his shoe.
"Those things will kill you, you know" Remus said lightly, "Sure you don't want to talk about things?"
"Positive" He said between gritted teeth.
Remus opened his mouth to say something else when they suddenly heard the sound of feet pounding on the hard pavement. They both looked up and were shocked when a dark haired girl came running up their front walk.
"Harry!" Kylie gasped, tears running down her face, "Harry, they tried- tried to make me.." she cried as she collapsed into his arms pulling them both to the ground with her in his lap.
Remus was thoroughly startled, but Harry wasn't. "Shh, just take deep breaths and tell me what happened." He could feel her shaking and rubbed her back, he was to engrossed in her that he didn't even notice Sirius come out onto the porch and stand beside Remus with a bewildered look on his face, one glance at his friend told him that he was just as confused as Sirius was.
"They- the death eaters, they tried to make me—make me o-one of them!" She sobbed, "But I couldn't! I couldn't, Harry. Because I thought of you, and I just couldn't!"
"It's all right, Ky" Harry said softly, "Your safe now."
"And- and then I tried to run, and they grabbed me, but I escaped and I came here." She cried burrowing her face into his chest.
Harry looked up at Sirius, "Can she stay here Sirius? She hasn't got anywhere else to go. Please" he added.
"We'll see Harry," Sirius said exchanging glances with Remus, "Lets just get inside and finish this conversation in there, its dangerous out here."
A/N: This chapter was obviously more of a filler then anything else, I no longer am having writers block though, so the next chapter should be out by Sundayish.
Next chapter: New living arrangements for everybody; Ron and Hermione; Harry and Kylie fess up to why they both left their homes; Dangerous habits emerge; teenage angst; Sirius and Remus panicking etc.