Safely back home

April apparated to Remus and Jenny's house. She had risked leaving her own children with Sirius, which considering his past with them, probably wasn't a good idea. She was just going to check on Harry and Emma. She didn't think that it would be a good idea to let them go home today. April knocked on the door of their bungalow, cottage thing and the door opened. Jenny stood in the doorway.

"April!" Jenny said moving aside. "Is Lily and James alright?" April gave Jenny a reluctant look.

"I'd say they are." She said tightly. Jenny looked at her curiously.

"What does that mean?" Jenny asked.

"They want you to look after Emma and Harry for a few more days" April said. Jenny raised an eyebrow then smirked.

"I see they're getting their old passion back" Jenny said.

"When did they ever lose it?" April asked.

"True, you want a drink or something?" Jenny asked.

"Um, I don't know. I left Sirius with the kids." April said uncertainly.

"Oh, you have to trust him" Jenny said, "He's not going to end up letting them set themselves on fire" April went pale.

"Shit, maybe I shouldn't leave them together" April said. Jenny put a hand firmly on April's arm.

"April, Relax, Sirius isn't going to kill your children, he loves them and you too much."

"Then why did he get me pregnant?" April muttered darkly

"Well you've gotten your revenge haven't you?" Jenny asked with a twinkle in her eyes. She knew. April gave a slight smile. "Aren't you feeling tired at all?"

"A bit but Auror work all day, kids at night...Sirius" April said. Jenny gave a slight frown.

"When's your pregnancy leave?"

"In a week. I'm going over to Mum's for dinner that evening" April said. She sat in the living room.

"That should be fun."

"Apparently Becky's adopted" April said.

"Really? I never thought she'd have children." Jenny said.

"She didn't, she adopted" April said. Jenny nodded. At that moment Emma came running in and jumped onto April. April sat up properly.

"Be careful." April said.

"Why?" Emma asked.

"Because she's pregnant again." Jenny said. Emma looked at Jenny then turned to April.

"What Pegnant?" Emma asked confused.

"I'm having another baby." April said. Emma's eyes lit up.

"Where?" Emma asked. "Can I see?" Jenny grinned and April laughed.

"No you can't. It's in my belly" April said. Emma looked at April with a set face. April knew that face. Emma rummaged through April's robes and then found her shirt. She lifted it slightly and looked at April's belly.

"Nuffing there." Emma said. "Bellybutton." She poked April's belly button and laughed when April squirmed. She didn't like people touching her there. Only Sirius.

"Stop it Emma." Emma gave April an innocent smile. Jenny picked up Emma and put her on her lap. Emma leant against Jenny with a thumb in her mouth.

"I really should go and stop Sirius from mutilating my children." April said.

"It's only six." Jenny said.

"Yeah, but I'm tired as well. It's been a really long day." April said. "We've had to rescue Lily, James, Lily again. Fight a dragon..." April faded to silence.

"You just can't have a normal life can you?" Jenny asked. April shook her head.

"Nope, not really." April said. She gave a yawn. "Anyway, I'm off. See you tomorrow hopefully." Jenny gave April a small wave while Emma gave her a smile.

"Bye aunt April." Emma said.

"Bye"

The next morning Lily lay in the bed with her head on James' chest. Her eyes were still closed and she was still on the fringe of sleep, until she felt James' hand on the small of her back. She opened her eyes sleepily.

"James?" Lily muttered.

"Hey." He said quietly into her hair. Lily put her arms around James even tighter.

"Never do that to me again." Lily muttered against his skin.

"Do what?" He asked.

"Leave me." Lily said. James pulled Lily closer.

"So you're not angry with me anymore?" James asked.

"No." Lily said, she propped herself on James' chest slightly. "I'm not upset anymore but just keep a better watch on Harry next time." James smiled and leant up to give Lily a kiss.

"Don't worry." James said. Lily smiled, or attempted to. James frowned and wrapped his arms around her. "We'll be fine, I promise. I was just a bit distracted that night, that was all. As long as we don't fight, I'll be ok." James said. Lily sighed and closed her eyes. She loved the feel of James' skin against hers. She kissed his chest quickly before nestling in a comfier position in his arms.

"GOOD MORNING!" shouted Sirius. James bolted upright, taking some blanket with him. Lily grabbed onto the duvet to stop Sirius from seeing anything.

"Sirius!" James shouted at him. Sirius gave them a grin.

"So what have you two been up to?" He asked.

"Get lost Sirius." Lily muttered as she lay back down.

"Aw, Lily, but I need breakfast!" Sirius said.

"Go ask April."

"I did." Sirius said.

"And what did she say?" James asked rather annoyed. He sat back in his bed, against the headboard. Lily rested her head on his body again. Sirius sat on the dressing table chair dejectedly.

"Go find my own food. And I would go and get my own food but She's got all the muggle money, and I really can't be bothered to go and get some gold out of gringotts"

"Give him some gold and shut him up" Lily muttered to James. James smiled and threw a bag of coins at Sirius. Sirius looked in it.

"Could you do that downstairs?" Lily asked. "James and I were talking!"

"I'm sure you were." Sirius said looking through the bag. Lily sighed and reached over James for her wand. She aimed it at Sirius and sent a stinging hex at him.

"OW!" He shouted. He jumped off the seat and looked around.

"Get out of the room Sirius." James said with a smirk. Sirius glared at them.

"Fine! But you two are boring now. Kids have made everyone boring!" Sirius said.

"We were always like this." Lily said, "You were always complaining about us" Sirius sneered at them and left the room. He slammed the door as if to make a point.

"Now what were we talking about again?" James asked. Lily grinned and pushed herself up a bit so she was level with James. She put her lips against his when the door opened again.

"Hey you two-" Lily pulled the duvet up again to cover herself. Sirius made a slight face and began to inch out. "Just stopping to say that James gets the day off-"

"Sirius BLACK!" Lily shouted angrily but Sirius had darted from the house

"You can't catch me!" Harry shouted at Emma. Emma glared at him and chased him around the house. They'd been playing IT for some time now and it was driving Jenny around the bend because not only was it just the Potter children but Bo had decided to join in as well and all Remus did was levitate things out of the way. Well, she supposed that was ok but still! Harry ducked under the kitchen table and then through the door into the hallway. He was about to run for the nearest door, Bo's room when Bo blocked the hallway.

"Get him Emma!" Bo said. Emma grinned and tried to run faster. Harry stopped and had to think quickly of a way to get past Bo. In the end he just lunged for Bo. Both boys started play fighting in the hallway with Emma looking vaguely confused. What happened to their game?

"Harry? Bo?" Emma asked slightly confused.

"Ah!" Bo growled while Harry tried to get his arm around the bigger boy's neck.

"No!" Harry shouted as Bo managed to get up with Harry's stuck in a sort of headlock. "AH! Let me go." Harry said. Emma grinned and started giggling.

"Only if you don't fight me again" Bo said.

"Alright!" Harry said. Bo let Harry go and Harry looked at him with what dignity the five year old had left. Bo shook his head slightly. Emma laughed and went to Harry and hugged him. Harry struggled slightly but figured that there was no way he was going to get his sister off so let her hug him.

"Where's your mum?" Bo asked. Harry shrugged. "Dad?" Harry shrugged. Bo thought for a while.

"Do you know how to fly?" Harry asked.

"A little bit." Bo said. Harry's eyes lit up. Bo grinned. "Mum! DAD! Can we go flying?"

"No!" Jenny said, "Not without your dad with you."

"Where's dad?" Bo asked.

"He's having a shower." Jenny said.

"After he's had his shower?" Bo asked.

"Then you'll have to ask him." Jenny said.

"Coool." Bo said, making the word longer then it should be.

Lily placed some of the files down at the nurses station. So much for a day spent with James! About ten minutes after Sirius had left an owl had come with a letter saying Lily was needed at the hospital. Someone had come in with a rare condition and Lily's superior felt the need to bring Lily in to show her. Lily's superior seemed to love her. After everyone had finished their training there were Healers that were given the newly trained Healers just to see them through their transition from healer-in-training to fully fledged healer. Lily was nearing the end of this transition and soon she'd have a ward of her own but for now, she was stuck under the influence of Gordon Ramsay, a fairly young Italian healer. Lily didn't really have anything against him, he was a nice man, but like every other male healer in St. Mungos, he'd hit on Lily more then once. St. Mungos was a slightly perverted place!

"Ok, I've just given Miss. Ben a few counter-jinxes and she should be ready to leave in about two hours, just giving her some rest" Lily said to Janice, at the Nurses station.

"Ok, and what about Mr. Kinery?" Janice asked.

"Oh, him. Well...I've tried to figure out how to cure him but he's just so difficult, he won't let me try anything on him." Lily said

"I'm sure he would if you asked really nicely." Janice said with a cheeky smile.

"Does anyone here remember that I'm married and I have two children?" Lily asked.

"Evidently not." Janice said with a smirk. Lily turned around to see the same two wizards from the day before giving her some rather obscene sexual gestures. Lily gave a tired sigh and slammed her files and things down on the desk before turning around and walking up to the wizards.

"May I help you?" Lily asked.

"Yeah," One of them said, he had floppy brown hair and a face covered in freckles. "I have an itch just here and I'm worried it's a disease, could you check it out for me?" He asked with a laugh as he indicated to his crotch. Lily didn't look at all amused.

"You'll be wanting a different ward then, this is spell Damage." Lily said in a strained voice.

"Oh right." Said the other one. "Well, I got something jammed up my arse could you-"

"Lily!" came a voice Lily was so happy to hear. She turned to see James walking down the corridor.

"James." Lily said with a smile.

"Yeah, anyway, so what are you going to do about this itch?" The first wizard said. Lily turned to look at him.

"I said go to a different floor. What are you doing hanging around here. Are you here to see a patient or what?"

"My fabulous Uncle Kinery has been injured, we've come to see him." Said the second wizard

"Figures" Lily muttered. James came up to her and put an arm around Lily's shoulder.

"Hey, you ready to go to Lunch?" James asked, giving Lily a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Yeah, let me just-" Lily started to turn around.

"Whoa, wait. I thought we had plans." Said the first Wizard, "That itch I was talking about." He gave a cocky smile to Lily. Lily looked at James pleadingly. She loved it when James got...revenge on those who hit on her. She could tell James was trying not to blow his top already.

"Ok, who are you?" James asked the two wizards. "Get moving or stop harassing my wife!"

"Wife? Ain't you a bit young to be married?" One of the wizards asked.

"No I'm not. James, do your auror thing on them." Lily said waving a dismissive hand as she returned to the nurses station.

"Shit, an Auror?" the second wizard asked, James nodded and got out his wand "We didn't mean anything. Honest. It was just some playful-"

"Move along before I curse you." James said. The two wizards hurried along the hallway and through the doors at the end. Janice was laughing with a trainee nurse that had joined them. James returned to Lily, who was cursing under her breath.

"Nice one." Janice said. James gave the two nurses a quick smile. The trainee nurse went slightly red and looked at the files she had to sort.

"You ready?" James asked Lily.

"Give me a minute. I just have to sort out Mr. Kinery." Lily said. She picked up a file and headed towards the ward. James followed her and sat on a chair, just inside the ward door. Lily went to the first bed on the left. "Ok, Mr. Kinery. I'm off duty very soon so I just need you to let me do this quick spell and you'll be ready to go." Lily said to the man in the bed. James sat back in his seat and enjoyed the view. The man in the bed looked at Lily with a smirk.

"And what if I refuse to-"

"I would usually stun an uncooperative patient but you see that man over there." Lily said nodding to James, Mr. Kinery nodded. "He's an auror waiting to take me for lunch, so if you make me late he won't be pleased at all." Mr. Kinery scowled and nodded. "Finally" Lily breathed. She got out her wand and tapped various bits of My. Kinery that had been subject to curses and muttered the counter jinxes. Mr. Kinery soon resembled a normal human being.

"Thank you, now you have to stay here for another hour or so then you can leave." Lily said. Mr. Kinery nodded. Lily gave him a smile then turned to James. "Coming?" She asked sweetly. James grinned and got up. He put an arm around Lily as Lily returned to Janice and gave her a file.

"Ok, here's Mr. Kinery's file. He's all done. Give him an hour before you kick him out of the hospital" Lily said. Janice smirked.

"Alright. Have fun. Remember you need to be back in an hour and a half for that operation thing on David Peters." Janice reminded Lily.

"How could I forget." Lily said. She left with James, who put his arm around Lily even more and pulled her closer. Lily giggled slightly.

"So where are we going?" Lily asked.

"I was thinking, Diagon Alley." James said.

"Oh, that's brilliant. I wanted to get Emma that cat she wanted." Lily said. James looked at Lily.

"You're getting a cat?" James asked.

"Why not?" Lily said. James shook his head.

"No reason."

"James, you agreed with me the other day." Lily said. "You said, lets get a pet for the kids so I'm getting a pet for the kids."

"Yeah, but a cat? You know what Padfoot will be like?" James asked.

"Then we'll just have to ban Padfoot from the house." Lily said. James chuckled.

"Alright." He said kissing Lily's forehead. "Um, as much as I love you in your uniform, do you think you could change before we go to Diagon Alley?" James asked. Lily gave him a curious look.

"Why?" She asked.

"I don't want more people flirting with my wife." James said, giving Lily a kiss on the lips. Lily grinned.

"Alright, let me go and get my bag, stay here." Lily said, giving James another kiss before going into a door behind her.

"Can I come?" James asked. Lily laughed.

"It's a girl's changing room James."

"So?"

There was a loud knocking at the door. Remus detangled himself from the pile of children and managed to get to the door.

"Bloody hell, those kids are violent." He muttered as he straightened his clothes. Jenny had offered to take Orion and Rhia and all five children had formed a huge bundle on the floor, then they'd turned against Remus. Remus opened the door to see James gazing curiously in a gap between the roof and the wall.

"May I help you?" Remus asked.

"Um, yes. I believe my children are here. They're about this tall. One has black hair the other has red." James said. Remus frowned.

"Hm...I don't think I've seen them around." He said. James grinned and Remus laughed. "They're probably at the bottom of the bundle." Remus said.

"Bundle?" James asked. He followed Remus into the living room, "Ah."

"Daddy!" Emma shouted.

"Where!" Harry asked. Both children crawled free, making Rhia and Bo nearly crash on top of Orion.

"Ah!" Rhia screamed as she rolled backwards. James hugged both his children. Oh it felt good to see them.

"Do you want to go home?" James asked.

"No." Emma said. "Rhia, Bo and Orion here."

"But presents at home." James said. Harry and Emma looked at each other, their eyes sparkling.

"Lets go home!" Harry said. Emma started pushing James.

"Go home Daddy! Go home!" James laughed and picked Emma up.

"See you around mate." He said to Remus, "I hope they weren't any trouble."

"Oh, not really, same as you and Sirius would have been at that age." Remus said. James laughed.

"Did they break anything?"

"Thankfully not. I think thanks to those two and my son my levitating skills are about ten times better!" Remus said. James laughed.

"Well see you." James said. He went to the fireplace and soon he stumbled out of the other side with Harry landing on top of him. Emma was laughing and turned to see her mum sitting on the sofa.

"Right. I vaguely remember you saying you were going to take a portkey." Lily said as Emma ran up to her and climbed onto the sofa.

"Well I was but then I remembered it was illegal." James said.

"And when has that ever stopped you?" Lily asked with a smirk. She cuddled Emma as James and Harry got to their feet. Harry was beaming at James.

"Can we do that again?" Harry asked.

"Not right now." James said. Harry nodded.

"Can we go flying?" Harry asked.

"After I've given Emma a small present." Lily said.

"But I want to go now!" Harry complained. Lily looked at James.

"Alright, get changed into something clean and we'll go out." Harry grinned and ran off.

"Present please." Emma said with a wide cheesy grin. Lily laughed and put Emma on the sofa and left the room for a moment. Emma looked at James slightly confused.

"Where mummy gone?" Emma asked.

"Getting your present." James said. Emma grinned. Lily returned with what looked like a Wicca cat box. Emma stood up curiously.

"Ooo." Emma said. Lily put the box on the sofa. Emma knelt down and looked in it. "CAT!" She screamed with delight. There was a tiny mewing from inside the cat box. She hurriedly opened the front of the box and put her hands in. "Here kitty." She said. A tiny black kitten with a white underbelly and white paws stepped out. It had a tiny pink nose and another small patch of white around it. Emma picked it up carefully like it was a very delicate doll. The kitten purred slightly and Emma grinned.

"Do you like him?" Lily asked.

"Kitty pretty" Emma said. Lily smiled and put the cat box on the floor.

"What are you going to call him?" James asked. Emma looked at the kitten

"Phibi" Emma said. Lily scowled.

"Phibi?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, like school teacher."

"Oh, Pheobe." Lily said. Pheobe was what the leader of Emma's playgroup was called. Emma nodded frantically then shifted gaze back to the cat.

"But it's a boy." James said. Emma thought for a moment.

"Baloo" She said. Lily smiled.

"Alright." James said. Emma had recently been pretty obsessed with the Disney movie The Jungle Book. Lily had only bought it to see what the kids would make of it. She said she'd loved Disney when she was Emma's age. Emma gave the kitten a soft kiss on it's nose and the kitten mewed. Lily looked at James very pleased with herself. James got up and gave her a kiss.

"Good choice." James whispered.

"Now, it's your turn." She said, "Lets see how well you can teach Harry to fly."

"I promise I won't let him fall." James said.

"I trust you." Lily said. James gave her another kiss, it was slightly more passionate then the last one. They only broke apart when Harry dragged in James' broom.

"Dad!" Harry said. "EW!" Lily and James broke apart and James grinned.

"Ok, come on."

James had flown Harry out near to an area near a small lake near their house. It was the safest place to be and it was fare away enough so they wouldn't be seen by any of the Muggles. James had Harry's Kid's Comet 120 on the floor next to his own Comet 260. Ah, his trusty old broom that had won him how many Quidditch championships at school?

"Ok, Harry stand next to your broom and put your hand over it like this." James showed Harry. Harry copied him. "Now say up."

"Up." Harry's broom shot into his hand. Harry grinned. James smiled.

"Great now ride your broom like me." James said. He put a leg on either side of the broom. Harry copied. "And kick off slowly." James showed Harry then hovered a few feet above Harry. Harry kicked off and he slowly began to rise in the air. Harry gripped onto his broom as tightly as he could.

"Don't hold the broom too tightly Harry." James said. Harry began to relax slightly and the broom hovered a few meters away from James. James flew over. "Very good." James said. "I think I'll buy you something next time we go to Diagon Alley." Harry looked at James and grinned.

"Really?" James nodded.

"Yes!" Harry grinned. "Can we play Quidditch now?" James laughed

"No, not yet." James said. "You need to get better at riding a broom first." James said.

"What did Emma get?" Harry asked.

"A new pet cat." James said. Harry's mouth dropped open. "Well you got a broom." Harry's mouth stayed open. James went over and pushed Harry's moth closed. Harry grinned. "Ok, and now I'll teach you how to move around a bit."

After an hour Harry was flying ok. He was still rather shaky on the broom but he was doing well for his first time. He'd fallen off his broom once when he'd accidentally done a turn that was too sharp for him to keep his balance on. James decided to see if Harry could fly back to the house, so after he'd returned to the ground to get their things James led the way back to the house. Harry was a bit shaky at first but after a while he was flying confidently.

"Ok, remember how I told you to land?" James asked. Harry nodded and pushed the front of the broom down slightly. The broom slowly returned to the ground. James touched down before Harry and then grinned with pride as Harry managed to land and only lose his balance as he tripped over a rock. It was better then when he'd almost collided with the ground earlier.

"Well Done Harry!" James said. He bent over and gave Harry a hug. Harry was beaming. James picked Harry up and put him on his shoulders.

"Can we go flying tomorrow?" Harry asked. James thought for a moment.

"Um, when I get back from work." James said. Harry nodded.

"Why do you have to go to work?" Harry asked. James laughed slightly.

"Because I have to make money so your mum and I can buy you and Emma nice things."

"Oh, alright." Harry said. "Can I see Emma's new cat?" Harry asked

"Yeah, sure." James said. They went through the kitchen and into the hall. They went into the Living room where Emma was sitting with her new pet cat, Baloo. They seemed to be getting along brilliantly. Lily wasn't in the room, James figured that she must trust Emma enough.

"Oh," Harry said, he struggled off James' shoulders and James lowered him onto the floor. Harry went to the sofa.

"My cat." Emma said, picking up Baloo and hugging him. The kitten struggled free and stood carefully on Emma's shoulders. Emma laughed as Baloo's tail stroked the side of her face.

"What's he called?" Harry asked.

"Baloo." Emma said.

"Oh," Harry said, he reached forwards to stroke the cat.

"Emma, where's mum?" James asked.

"Bedroom" Emma said. James nodded and left the room.

A/N:-Ok, I'm sure many of you are like ARG!! I have no idea why, coz i am. I completely messed up my set plans when i gave Emma that damned cat! oh well, it can be adapted. Oh and then there's the stuff with Sirius. I'm going through a Sirius-bashing mood right now. Also, there's a reason why Sirius isn't working. He's gonna help out around the house a bit more then I'm gonna do something really bad to Sirius. I just feel like being really evil to a character right now and Sirius got the short straw, I'll try and not be too harsh on him. Also, April changed when she had Rhia, she didn't want a child, so effectively, Rhia, Orion and baby to be are all unwanted pregnancies and weren't wanted but April loves them all the same. Also, April and Sirius have a love hate relationship. One minute they'll love each other, the next they'll hate each other. I have no idea why i got them to get married but hey! who cares, they're together! Hope that clears some stuff up a bit, I'm just in a really wierd mood at the moment. I'm just really wierd like that, please dont hurt me. I swear it'll make for some interesting storylines if you let me carry on the way i am going