Missing the point

"Honey, I'm home!" James shouted.

"-ook for da bear nesity, simple bear nesity-" sang Emma as she walked from one room to the other. James shook his head as he heard her. Lily came down the stairs.

"Where have you-" She stopped when she saw Harry, "Oh Harry. Are you ok?" She rushed to James and pulled Harry from his arms.

"Hey." James said, "No congratulations or anything for finding him?" James asked, rather annoyed. Lily looked at him and slapped the back of his head.

"That was congratulations for losing him! That's the last time I let you take any of the children anywhere without me!" Lily said. She turned back to Harry. "Are you ok? You weren't hurt?"

"Ron's mum gave me food." Harry said with a grin. He held up the empty paper bag.

"Who's Ron?"

"My new friend, and Ginny." Harry said. Lily turned to James for an explanation

"The man who found Harry for me, Arthur Weasley took Harry back to his house. Ron and Ginny are two of their many many children." James said. Lily nodded and the walked out of the room with Harry. James was about to say something but gave up.

"I'm going to work." He shouted.

"Good!" Lily said back. James was about to shout a retort but decided that probably wouldn't be the wisest thing to do. He picked his auror cloak up from the chair and apparated to the ministry.

"If you pick paw paw, or pwickely pear, and you pick waw paw-" Emma sang as Harry sat in the living room.

"Shut up." Harry said. Emma grinned, she loved to annoy Harry sometimes. She sat next to Harry

"Where you went?" Emma asked.

"To Ron's house" Harry said.

"All night?" Emma asked.

"I went to a strange man's house. He put me in a big dark scary room." Harry glanced around. "He said he wanted to kill me." Emma's mouth dropped open.

"But I not want you dead!" Emma said. She suddenly hugged Harry, knocking them both off the sofa.

"AH!" Harry shouted as he hit the floor. "Emma!" Emma sat on Harry's back as he tried to stand up.

"Piggy back." Emma said.

"No," Harry said. Emma put her arms around Harry.

"Please" She said in a very very childish voice. Harry rolled over, causing Emma to fall off.

"You not nice to me. I telling mummy" Emma said with a pout.

"Tell mum" Harry said. Emma looked at Harry slightly annoyed and ran out of the room. Harry simply shrugged and headed towards his own room. He was bored. His adventure had been fun but he wanted to do something else now. He turned in the middle of the hall and headed to the kitchen. His mum was making lunch and Harry ignored her as she asked where he was going. He just about managed to open the back door and went out into the garden. He started searching for the hole he'd filled up with jelly earlier. He found it and looked in it. Someone had been in there! Harry shrugged and went to get his spade to dig another hole. He found it behind the shed and was about to stick it in the ground when a large black dog ran around the side of the house and stood in front of Harry. Harry grinned and pointed at the floor.

"Dig Padfoot!" Harry said. The dog gave a bark and began digging, spraying Harry with dirt as he did so. Harry laughed and covered his face as Padfoot dug into the ground. Padfoot gave a bark and then stopped. Harry looked at Padfoot and looked into the hole.

"Wow!" He gasped. Padfoot turned into Sirius and reached into the hole. He put his hand around the top of a small box. He caught the handle and pulled it up. Harry watched him carefully.

"We found some treasure Harry." Sirius said. Harry looked at Sirius curiously.

"What is it?" He asked.

"I don't know" Sirius said. Harry scowled. Sirius put the small chest on the grass next to the hole and got his wand out.

"What doing?" Emma asked from the door.

"Grown up stuff" Harry said. Emma came out anyway and crouched next to Sirius.

"Oh, what that?" Emma asked.

"It's a chest." Sirius said. "Here let me open it." He pointed his wand at it. "Alohamora" The lock glowed slightly and the lock clicked open. He opened it cautiously. The lid moved smoothly. Sirius scowled slightly and looked into the box. Emma and Harry peered into it as well.

"Oh, picures" Emma said reaching into the box. Sirius didn't stop her and she picked up the pictures. They were photos. "It me." She said with a smile as she pointed at a Muggle photo of a young girl with red hair and green eyes. She looked a lot like Emma but Sirius knew it wasn't. Emma put the photo down.

"It's me!" Harry said wide eyed. This was a moving wizard photo of a scruffy boy with scruffy black hair and hazel eyes. He was being hugged by a girl with long black straight hair who also had hazel eyes. Sirius bit his lip slightly. That was Eleanor Potter James' sister.

"No that's your dad." Sirius said, "And his sister Eleanor."

"We don't know Eleanor." Harry said.

"She died when your dad was at school." Sirius said. Harry looked at Emma, who was poking a photo of Lily and James in their seventh year. Why was there a box with their photos here? Oh wait, Sirius remembered now. It was a stupid thing they'd all decided to do when Lily and James had first moved here. Which meant there should be baby photos of him as well.

"Hey Lily!" Sirius shouted. Lily appeared in the doorway. "Look what we've found!" Sirius shouted.

"Harry, will you stop digging holes!" Lily said as she walked over and saw the big hole in the ground. "Oh, what's that?"

"Picures" Emma said. Lily sat down next to them and put Emma on her legs. Emma showed Lily a photo of a young Chinese girl who was laughing into the camera. She was only about seven but she still looked clever.

"You know, you're the odd one out Lily." Sirius said, looking at Lily's child photo. "Your photo doesn't move." He said moving it around in circles.

"Well moving it around like that isn't going to help!" Lily said, rather amused. Emma laughed.

"Where Rhia?" Emma asked.

"At her grandmothers." Sirius answered as he picked up another photo.

"Where April?" Emma asked.

"Work."

"Bo?"

"Don't know."

"Where-" Lily put a hand gently over Emma's mouth.

"That's enough." Lily said with a slight laugh. Emma gave her mum an innocent look.

"Oh look!" Harry said, "Dad's playing quidditch!" He said looking at a picture

"I can't believe you lost Harry Potter" said a man with thick black hair. He had dark, seep set eyes and his brow came forwards like a sort of ridge that covered his eyes. He had a permanent sneer on his face that made him look somewhat unfriendly. He stared at Lucius Malfoy like he'd kill him at the nearest chance he'd get.

"I still don't understand why I have to take orders from you. The dark lord is gone."

"And I'm his second, now how could you let Harry Potter get away!" The man said.

"I wasn't expecting the Muggle loving fool to come for a raid. How was I supposed to know that my house had been chosen for a raid?" Lucius Malfoy spat at the man.

"You are their top suspect for everything Malfoy, you should be more alert."

"Yes but I'm also the one who gives most of their funds!" Lucius snapped. "I would rather get on with my life and wait until the Dark Lord comes back. I don't know why we're trying to kill Harry Potter. If the Dark Lord couldn't do it then no one can"

"We're killing Harry Potter so the Dark Lord can come back to power." The man said.

"And how do you know that he will. The Potters all said they saw the Dark Lord get killed. He may never come back to power at all." Lucius said. He pulled his robes around him tighter.

"He will come back and by killing Harry Potter we will enable his return to be more swift, now are you going to help or not? If you do not want to help then I will have to take some drastic action against you." The man said pulling out his wand and slowly pointing it at Lucius. Lucius straightened and looked at the wand. He looked down his nose at the wand. He crinkled his nose in distaste and looked at the man.

"Fine. What do you want me to do? After last Harry Potter is going to be impossible to get to." Lucius said.

"I want you to get to those who protect Harry." The Man said.

"Fine Travers but I hope it's worth it. Do you know how many times people have tried to kill the Potters?" Lucius said.

"Yes I do, that's why I'm trusting you Lucius, you're cleverer then most people" Travers said. He apparated away with a pistol like crack. Lucius took a sharp breath before turning and heading towards Malfoy manor. He pulled his cloak about him, it was summer and it was incredibly hot but Lucius didn't notice.

April leant against the door looking into the ward. The beds there should have been covered but they weren't. The nurse was going down giving each of the patients their medication. April looked at two particular beds. She heaved a sigh as she watched a young boy, with a round face and brown hair, sitting on a bed talking to a woman with a similar round face and whispy greying hair. The boy was just talking to the woman and a man in the bed next to her and he wasn't getting a reply back. April could see that he was getting rather distraught.

"Hey, April. How's it going?" James asked, as he approached from behind.

"It's unfair, you know." April said, not taking her eyes off the boy.

"What is?" James asked. He looked at the boy. "Oh, the Longbottoms. Yeah. But there's a reason we have to look after them"

"Do you think that maybe, if they, you know, did die it wouldn't be so bad for Neville?" April asked, looking at James.

"Maybe but we're under orders to protect them. It's why we became Aurors in the first place" James said. April sighed.

"I know but if I have to watch Neville like that I think I might adopt him." April said. "So that he can have some proper parents."

"I'm sure he's alright, besides, I thought you were getting stressed about having another child?" James said. They sat on some chairs just inside the ward. April sighed again. Her anger from earlier that day and the previous day had evaporated, yes she hated Sirius for getting her pregnant again but was it really his fault? Not completely, she had to take some of the blame as well.

"Yeah I was but I can't stop it now. I'm just going to have to go through the morning sickness again, and the tiredness, and the back ache, and the stiffness" April sighed.

"And at the end of that, you get a shiny new baby" James said with a grin. April looked at him. "Ok, maybe not shiny, but a new one anyway." James said. April smiled.

"Yeah I know. I'm actually sort of looking forwards to having this kid but at the same time I'm scared"

"You were scared with Rhia and Orion. I mean, you were half starved, tortured and nearly raped when you had Rhia and she's still all healthy and perfect" James said. April frowned.

"How do you know about the Rape thing?" She asked, "I haven't told anyone-"

"But Jenny, Jenny told me. Lily knows as well." James said. "We didn't want to cause you any more distress, don't worry, Sirius doesn't know." April nodded hesitantly. She looked back at Neville and his parents. Normally she wouldn't feel so affected by this but because of the new hormones going through her she felt a bit too emotional.

"Anyway, I came to say it's my shift now. You can go. Your shift is tomorrow night, all night so rest up." James said. He paused for a few moments. "And please take Sirius back. I'm a bit uneasy about what he might be up to in my house." April chuckled.

"Lily and Sirius aren't going to do anything." April said.

"It's not Lily I'm worried about. I'm worried about his influence on the children." James said. April rolled her eyes and got up.

"Good night James." April said "Buy Neville something from me." James nodded and April left the ward. She pulled her auror robes off and fanned herself with her hands. It was too hot to wear them but she had to when she was working. She was now officially off work. April started counting the days until she would get Maternity leave. For an Auror Maternity leave was incredibly long. They normally gave it after two weeks of being pregnant until three months after you gave birth. April went into the lobby of St. Mungos. It took a few moments for April to realised she was going the wrong way. She headed for the entrance and stepped out into the hot dark street. She went into an alleyway and glanced around. No Muggles, good. April apparated into a room that was cooler then the street. She was facing a wireless radio. She turned to see her mum sitting on the sofa with Orion fast asleep on her lap. April's mum smiled at her.

"Back from work?"

"Yep." April said. "Where's Rhia?"

"In your old bedroom, reading." April's mum said. April frowned.

"Rhia can't read yet."

"I know. She's making it up." April's mum said. April smiled, she bent over and picked up Orion. Orion gave a sleepy moan before putting his arms around April's neck and cuddling up against her

"I don't understand why you don't get Sirius to look after Rhia and Orion." April's mum said.

"Because I don't trust him with the kids." April said.

"Then why did you marry the man?" April's mum asked with a serious expression.

"Well since he dropped Rhia when she was born I just kind of felt he wasn't really supposed to be a dad." April's mum put a hand on April's back.

"You weren't meant to be a mum but you're doing great." She said with a smile. "As much as I love Rhia and Orion being around, maybe you should let Sirius have a chance."

"I think I might have to. I'm pregnant again." April said to her mum. Her mum smiled and gave April a kiss on the cheek.

"Congratulations." Her mum said. "At least one of my daughters is giving me grandchildren." April gave her mum a long look. "You're only enjoying yourself April. Having children is a natural thing" April looked like she was going to be sick.

"Please never say that again." April said.

"How do you think you were bor-" April got up and left the room. Her mum started laughing.

"Rhia, get yourself down here, we're going home." April called up the stairs. Surprisingly Orion stayed asleep against her shoulder. Rhia came down the landing and sat down on the top step. She pushed herself off and bounced all the way down the steps. She made a small noise every time she hit a step.

"Rhia" April said tiredly. Rhia grinned at April.

"Sorry." Rhia mumbled.

"Go and get your things, we're going home." April said. Rhia nodded and ran into the living room. April's mum joined her in the hall.

"Will you be ok?" She asked. April nodded.

"I will be." April said with a sigh. April's mum kissed April's forehead.

"Becky is coming back to England for a few days next week, we're hoping that maybe you'd be up for a dinner?"

"Do you want me to bring the kids?" April asked.

"Bring the whole family." April's mum said. "She's bringing her son." April looked at her mum surprised.

"But Becky didn't get pregnant."

"She adopted." She said with a smile.

"Ready mum" Rhia said, pulling on a small back pack with a few of her things in it.

"Ok, bye Rhia" April's mum said.

"Bye nana" Rhia said. April led Rhia outside and to a phone booth in the street. She picked up a coin. Rhia held it tightly and suddenly everything turned into a blur. There was a tugging sensation at April's navel and she couldn't move. She could hear Rhia going:

"WEEEEEEE!!" As they sped through the country via portkey. They suddenly landed somewhere outside their house. Rhia let go of the coin and ran up to their front door. April placed the coin under a rock and followed Rhia tiredly.

"Come on." April said opening the door. "Go straight to bed."

"Ok." Rhia said. She clambered up the stairs and disappeared into a room and closed the door. On the door was painted a large sign saying RHIA. April went to another room and put Orion into the bed and tucked him in. He let out a small contented moan. April went downstairs and sat on the sofa. She missed Sirius, why did she kick him out again? She leant over to the small table by the sofa and picked up the phone. She didn't know why she had a phone but it came with the house. She dialled Lily's number and let the phone ring. The phone was picked up.

"House of War and Love" Came Sirius voice over the phone.

"Sirius, shut up." April said.

"Oh, um April, hi." He said uncertainly.

"Can you come home?" April asked him.

"Oh, yeah, there's a problem with that" Sirius said. April sat up straighter

"What problem?" April asked.

"My wife doesn't like me." Sirius said, "So at the moment I'm shacked up with my best friend's wife"

"Sirius please come home." April said.

"Alright. Be there in a minute" Sirius said. He put the phone down. Before April could even put the phone down Sirius had apparated in front of her.

"Hey." April said with a smile. Sirius gave her an uneasy smile. April stood up and put her arms around him and put her lips against his. Sirius returned the kiss for a few moments before pulling away.

"What's with the sudden change of feeling towards me?" He asked with a smile. April shrugged.

"I don't know." April said, "I suppose work just got to me today." Sirius gave April a slightly sympathetic look and led her to the sofa. April leant against him as she told him about what she'd been up to. Sirius sighed and pulled her closer.

"Well, isn't that why you became an auror in the first place?" Sirius asked.

"Will people stop saying that to me!" April asked. Sirius laughed lightly. April grinned and leant up and gave him another kiss.

James sat on the chair watching the beds. They were all hidden behind the hangings that divided the beds. He still wasn't entirely sure why he had to guard the Longbottoms. The threat to kill them had gone when the Lestranges had been put into Azkaban. James shivered as he thought about that place. He had to go next week to do his monthly check. All the Aurors had to go around Azkaban for a few hours every month, the Head auror didn't seem to trust the Dementors. Neither did James, come to think of it. They had worked for Voldemort during the war and had switched sides a bit too grudgingly. That meant he had to see Wormtail again. James felt an anger and hatred build up as he thought of the pathetic man he used to call his friend.

There was a sudden moan from one of the beds making James start. James stood up and went to the source of the noise. He pushed the curtains aside and glanced in. There was the patient on the bed, probably just a nightmare. James closed the curtain and was about to return to his seat when he heard a creaking, like a creaking of a door. He got his wand out and held it tightly. He turned slowly and looked at the door. There wasn't anyone there. He took another step towards his chair when he heard the noise again. He turned and pointed his wand at the door.

"Reducto!" He said. The door shattered and there, behind it was a figure in a hooded cloak. "Expelliarmus"

"Protego." James jumped to the side and pointed his wand at the Death Eater.

"Confundus"

"Stupefy"

"Protego" James said. The spell rebounded off James' shield and hit the Death Eater. James stood up and started for the Death Eater when he felt something warp tightly around him. He looked down and saw that there were some magical ropes being tied around him.

"Shit." James muttered. He struggled against the ropes and tried to get free but they just seemed to get tighter.

"Silenco" Someone said behind him. James couldn't speak. His voice had completely gone. He was turned around and found himself looking at a Death Eater.

"Ah, Potter, we meet again." The Death Eater said. James' eye brows went up slightly. He tried struggling again but the ropes got tighter, so tight they were crushing his chest and he was finding it difficult to breathe. He dropped his wand as his hands went slightly slack. "Don't worry, we'll take good care of your family" The Death Eater said. "Stupefy!"

Lily was checking her patients in the Johansan Poxley ward in the Hexes department. There had been a patient who had come in who looked like he'd been on the receiving end of about a thousand hexes, the challenge now was figuring out which ones.

"Mr. Kinery, I'll be back in a moment. I just need to file this and I'll be back with the counter spells." Lily said with a smile.

"Take all the time you want darling," The man said. Lily forced a polite smile then turned around and rolled her eyes. It was one thing being a healer, the St. Mungos medi-witch and Healer uniforms was enough to provoke unwanted attention, but when you were as pretty as Lily it was just a cause to be bombarded by it. Lily had just coped with four years of training with those kind of comments. She left the ward and went to a small desk just outside the ward where some nurses were busy filing and logging Patient's information.

"Good morning Janice." Lily said coming up to the desk. A witch with wispy brown hair and a thin slightly chubby face gave Lily a smile.

"Good morning Lily, who have you got today?" She asked.

"Oh, a smooth playing hex victim." Lily said. Janice and the other nurse both chuckled slightly.

"Ever the charmer" said the other witch. This witch had dark brown hair that fell to her shoulders, it was well cared for and her face was a similar shape as Lily's. She was quite young, she'd probably just come out of training. Lily raised her eyebrows.

"Yes, well, I need you to process Mr. Kinery's information and give him the dreamless sleep potion. He's been hit by a nightmare hex which could cause some unwanted side effects." Lily said.

"Will do that." Janice said.

"Hey hot stuff." Came a voice followed by a wolf whistle. Lily turned around to see two young cocky looking wizards grinning at her. Lily rolled her eyes and turned back to Janice and the other nurse.

"And then I would like you to get some cooling potion. My godson is coming down with a heat rash." Lily said.

"Sure. Ok." Said Janice, taking everything down. Lily ran a hand through her hair and turned around. The wizards were still there. Lily rolled her eyes and headed towards the stairs. She was supposed to be meeting April. April had sent her an owl that morning asking to meet her by the Janis Thickley ward. Maybe Lily could visit James in there if April was a bit late. She'd seen him in there on the way into work that morning. Unfortunately April was there on time. Damn those Aurors!

"Hi Lily." April said. Lily gave April a smile then glanced in the Janis Thickley ward to se if James was there. He was standing by a bed and smiled when he saw Lily.

"Come on." April said, pulling Lily through the doors and into the stairway.

"What did you want to meet about?" Lily asked.

"It's Sirius." April said as they headed up the stairs.

"What about him? I thought you two made up." Lily said.

"We did but I feel like showing him what it's like to be me" April said. Lily rolled her eyes.

"Um, why are you wearing your Auror robes?" Lily asked as she saw a Male healer walk past and give them a look. April looked at Lily with a slight look of confusion.

"Lunch break." She said. Lily nodded. "Anyway, I was wondering if you could do something for me." April said. Lily looked at April.

"What is it? I'm not giving Sirius Dragon Pox." Lily said as she stopped. April giggled slightly.

"I don't want him ill." April said.

"What do you want then?" Lily asked. April pulled Lily closer and put her mouth to Lily's ear and whispered her plan. Lily covered her mouth with her hand to stop herself from laughing. When April moved away Lily looked at her.

"You realise you won't be able to stop it until you've given birth right?" Lily asked. April nodded, "And he'll feel all the pains as well." April nodded "and he wont be able to give you any support when you give birth"

"That's what you're there for" April said. Lily rolled her eyes. "Oh please Lily? It'll teach him not to get me pregnant again, please please please?" Lily looked at April. She knew what April was doing, April was searching her mind so she'd know the answer before Lily said it. April pulled Lily into a tight hug.

"You owe me" Lily said. A middle aged wizard went past, behind April. April suddenly stiffened and looked behind her. "Yeah I know. Everyone in the hospital is a pervert." Lily said. April straightened the back of her robes.

"I wish Sirius was here." She muttered. Lily grinned and shook her head.

A/N:-This story might be a bit random coz i keep thinking of random little things but i will have a main storyline (which i hope you can identify soemtimes). Ok, I thought i had a LOT few reviews then i actually have. As to the thing regarding my picture, I'll try and get it up but i can't make n e promises, my server person is a bit wierd, i've been trying all day. And what else did i need to say....um.....I can't really remember but yeah. Next chapter will be up on sunday coz i'm going away for the weekend to do some windsurfing. Oh yeah, i remember what i was going to say. This is in reply to....draddog. Ginn said he was cute and then it was followed up with something like, "mummy said so" so she's just quoting her mum. Don't worry about it really. I was just having some fun. This story isn't going to be serious in the least. I'm just gonna have fun with it but i'll try and keep it as realistic as possible....i u can even do that with HArry Potter. Anyway, hope you enjoy...I'm expecting at least 1 comment about this chapter.