Double Trouble

Harry is 9

"Harry, you go around those trees. Bo, you're on shed watch. April, you stay at the doors. Emma, Rhia, Kara...you're the watchers, you see either of them you shout then you chase. Orion, you and your BMX. You're the cowboy." Sirius said. Orion grinned and pulled his helmet on his head. "Lily, you hold those ropes ready, James, you and I are gonna help Orion." Sirius said. Everyone nodded and spread out through Sirius' Garden. "Jenny, you get the bath ready, Remus...you use that wand of yours if you need to, you try catch them and give them to Lily." Orion placed himself on his BMX. This was war. Bo and Harry had disappeared. Lily and Remus were ready. April was standing by the doors and locked them once Jenny had gone into the house.

"Good luck." Jenny whispered. Kara, Emma and Rhia spread themselves out in the garden.

"Go." Sirius said in a whisper. They all started searching for the people they were looking for. They searched the garden fruitlessly. Meanwhile, in two large trees at the bottom of the garden, Jessie and Kaylee clung to the trunks of the trees and sat on some branches watching the adults and their friends with interest. Jessie looked over to Kaylee and they grinned. Unknown to the adults, they could reach each other's minds. Jessie could read everyone's minds but Kaylee could only read Jessie's mind. Jessie was silent, Kaylee was loud. Jessie was the angel of the twins, Kaylee was the devil. Together they were the children from Hell. And they were only three, going on four.

"Make them pay." Kaylee said. Jessie grinned and gave her a thumbs up. They were quite advanced for children their age, simply because of the number of older people they had a tendency to stay with. The adults were like big children. Their older bother and sister and their friends were hyperactive and never seemed to calm down. Bo and Harry were clever and were relatively normal. Jessie held onto a branch above her and pulled herself up. Kaylee watched and put a hand in the bag she had on her back. They had snuck into Orion's room earlier and stolen a few of the things he'd been preparing for practical jokes on Harry's ninth birthday. Come Harry's birthday, everything was gone and no one could find anything. Kaylee and Jessie had hidden them in the trees. Rhia, Emma and Orion had tried to get up these trees so many times but they were too heavy and too big to climb them and they weren't allowed to use brooms or ride Pegasus. Kaylee held a water balloon filled with some mushy doughy stuff that Orion had invented. Kaylee watched below her and slowly began to climb down. She was as silent as a cat and as agile as a monkey.

"Where the hell are they?" James muttered below her. Kaylee hooked her legs around a branch and hung just above James. She raised her hands and then threw the balloon at Uncle James. "AH!" He shouted. He looked up as Kaylee dropped onto James. James fell to his knees and Kaylee ran into the garden.

"KAYLEE ALERT!" Shouted Kara as a dung bomb hit her

"Jessie is free!" Emma shouted. Jessie looked across the garden at Kaylee. Hide in the bushes. Jessie grinned and dived into the nearest bushes.

"AH!" She hissed. She looked at her hand as a bead of blood formed on it. She looked around, the rose bush! Great! She saw Orion cycle past then skid to a stop.

"Jessie." He said in a high voice. "Come out wherever you are." Jessie grinned and crawled underneath the rose bush and got a tube of glue out of her pockets. Orion had both his feet on the grass and was looking around. Jessie glanced around quickly before poking out of the bush and quickly squeezing out all of the glue onto the pedals of his bike. She threw the tube away. She knew it was strong glue. Aunt Lily used it when she was too lazy to get her wand from her bedroom.

There was a rustle and Kaylee appeared next to Jessie. Jessie looked at Kaylee.

"Orion?" She breathed. Jessie nodded, "Sister next." Kaylee asked. Jessie nodded. Kaylee grinned and gave Jessie a few sugar cubes. Everyone knew that when Jessie had sugar she was too fast to catch. Jessie ate a few and sucked on one as she felt her energy build up. Soon she shot out of the bush.

"Got ya!" Orion said. He began pedalling on his BMX bike frantically, trying to catch up with Jessie. Jessie caught a one of the legs of their swings, turned and ran straight for Rhia and Emma.

"Got you!" Emma said lunging to get Jessie. Jessie slid under Emma's legs and into another bush.

"Oh-" Rhia turned. Orion put on the brakes of his bike and tried to take his feet off the pedals.

"OH SHIT!" Orion shouted as he crashed into Emma and Rhia. They fell in a pile, all stuck under Orion's bike.

"Orion!" April snapped at her son. "No swearing!" She said walking towards the children

"Three down!" Harry called with a laugh. Kaylee's eyes narrowed and she looked at Lily, who was idly swinging the rope around. Kaylee ran out and grabbed one end of the rope and started running down the garden with it. Lily got her wits in time and pulled on the rope, jerking Kaylee backwards. Kaylee fell over and Remus pounced on her and held her around the stomach with his arms.

"Got One!!" He said as Kaylee struggled.

"Let go!" She screamed, "LET GO!! NO BATH!!" April hurried over and took Kaylee off of Remus.

"Open the door." April said. Remus unlocked one of the doors and April ran in with Kaylee and ran straight to the bathroom where Jenny was ready with a bath.

"Ok, one down, on more to go." Remus muttered to Lily.

"They're exactly like Sirius." Lily muttered back. Remus grinned as a waist high girl zoomed past them. Lily whipped out her wand.

"Petrificus Totallus!" She said. The spell hit the young girl. Jessie's eyes widened as she fell to the floor, unable to move.

"Coool" Kara said with a grin.

"Uh oh." Lily muttered, the worst thing about Kara was that she was a muggle. "Remember what I said about when you see strange things Kara?" Lily asked. Kara nodded.

"Don't tell and one day I can do it." Kara said.

"Well done. JAMES! SIRIUS! GOT THEM!" Lily said.

"Mum! Help me!" Emma shouted. "Orion get off!"

"My feet are stuck!" Orion said. He slipped his feet out his shoes and tripped over Rhia's head

"Orion!" Rhia snapped.

"Sorry." Orion said. He pulled his bike free with difficulty. Sirius came over and helped Orion. Rhia and Emma got to their feet looking rather annoyed. Sirius and James looked at Orion's bike.

"Well this is new." James said with a laugh. Orion's shoes were hanging on the pedals and were stuck there. Orion frowned and turned to look at Jessie, who was being lifted and taken into the house by Harry and Bo.

"Come on. Lets take her up." Bo said. Harry smirked at Jessie.

"Good run." He said to Jessie. Jessie would have smiled but she was frozen in her position. Harry and Bo clambered through the house.

"Mum!" Bo shouted.

"Upstairs...KAYLEE!" Jenny shouted. They heard Kaylee laughing, almost manically.

"Aunt April, we have Jessie." Harry shouted. April came onto the landing and took Jessie. She freed her from the confines of body bind spell. Jessie gave April an innocent look.

"Room, now!" April said.

Harry sat in the living room trying to read the latest copy of Quidditch today but he decided to listen to his parents instead. They were talking to Bo's parents and Rhia's parents.

"I think we should all go to the beach." Lily said, "I haven't been on holiday for a while."

"That's because you're always working." Sirius said as he put an arm around April's shoulders.

"Well I have three weeks of holiday." Lily said leaning back in the chair. Harry sat up and looked at Lily happily.

"You do?" Harry asked. Lily nodded with a smile.

"And I have a few weeks holiday soon." James said with a frown, "Come to think of it." Emma looked at her dad.

"How do you forget holidays?" Emma asked. James grinned and shrugged.

"They're not as important anymore." James said. Emma looked at her dad sceptically.

"Anyway, Beach. Who's up for it?" Lily asked.

"Cho is arriving tomorrow" Jenny said. "She's coming to live with us."

"Oh, why?" Sirius asked.

"She is?" Remus asked.

"Yeah, because she wants to go to Hogwarts. So she's living with us for a year" Jenny said.

"Can she even go to Hogwarts? She's Chinese!" April said.

"Well, the Chinese school is full and Dumbledore said it would be an honour to have a Chang in the school again." Jenny said with a grin.

"Can she even speak English?" Sirius asked. April hit Sirius lightly.

"Of course she can speak English. She's very fluent in it." April said.

"How do you know?" Sirius asked, looking at April suspiciously.

"I've been over to China a few times to talk to the Chinese ministry, and I drop by the Chang estate. I see no harm in visiting them."

"And Zhao and his family do come over to England every year." James added. Sirius scowled at them for being caught out.

"Well I don't see why Cho can't come as well." Lily said with a smile. "I haven't seen her since she was seven." Bo grinned at the thought of his cousin coming to stay. They always had a lot of fun together.

"Who's Cho?" Kara asked Rhia and Emma quietly.

"Bo's cousin." Rhia said. "She's strange."

"She looks funny as well. Like Aunty Jenny." Emma said.

"Emma!" Lily snapped at Emma's remark. Emma turned to look at Lily.

"Yes." Emma said. She didn't think she'd done anything wrong. Lily was about to say something when there was a large crash from above them.

"Damn." Sirius muttered.

"Those twins." April said tiredly as the two got up and went up the stairs and entered the twin's room. It was a total mess, the twins weren't there and April was so tempted to scream.

"Kaylee, Jessie" April called. The two twins ran into the bedroom. April stood with her hands on her hips, Sirius was with her looking quite annoyed.

"Uh oh." Kaylee said.

"What happened to your room?" April asked.

"Orion wrecked it." Kaylee said. Jessie nodded.

"Kaylee!" Sirius said, "Tell us the truth."

"He did!" Jessie said, Sirius looked at Jessie slightly confused. "Orion wreck the bedroom, thought it be funny!"

"But Orion is downstairs, he can't have done it Jessie." April said.

"I'm Jessie." Kaylee said. April and Sirius looked at her.

"No you're not." April said.

"Yes, me Kaylee" Jessie said.

"Enough you two, what happened to your room?" Sirius said.

"Orion wrecked it." Jessie said. Kaylee nodded.

"Jes- I mean Kaylee stop lying to us." Sirius said. "Orion is downstairs playing in the garden and your room wasn't like this earlier!"

"Ok, ok" Jessie said rolling her eyes. "It was Rhia."

"Kaylee!" April said.

"Jessie actually." Jessie said. April gave the twins a stern look.

"Jessie's the silent one isn't she?" Sirius asked. April nodded. Sirius turned to Kaylee. "Ok, Jessie, what really happened?"

"I'm Jessie!" Jessie said.

"You talk to much to be Jessie." Sirius said. Jessie crossed her arms.

"Maybe she's telling the truth." April said. She bent over slightly and looked into Jessie's eyes. "Yep this one is Jessie." April said pointing at Jessie.

"Stop using magic, mum!" Kaylee said. "You should know without magic!" April closed her eyes in frustration. Sirius turned to April so that his back was towards Kaylee and Jessie. They quickly swapped places and switched expressions.

"Ok, Jessie, Kaylee." April said. "For the last time, what happened to your room?"

"Rhia and Emma set off some fireworks" Kaylee said.

"I don't think they did Jessie, I don't see any burn marks."

"I'm Jessie, mum." Jessie said.

"And I'm Kaylee." Kaylee said. April and Sirius looked at them confused.

"No, you're Jessie." Sirius said pointing to Kaylee. "Aren't you?" Kaylee and Jessie shook their heads in disapproval.

"And you call yourselves our parents!" Rhia said from the doorway. She was laughing with Emma and Kara. They had come up to see what had happened.

"Kaylee, Jessie." The twins shook their heads. "Jessie and Kaylee." They nodded their heads. "You two are grounded."

"Why?" Kaylee said innocently.

"What have we told you about confusing your parents?" Sirius asked them. "Every time you confuse us or your teachers you will be grounded for a week."

"NO!" The twins shouted together.

"Yes!" April and Sirius said.

Kaylee and Jessie's grounding didn't last long as they went to the beach with the others a few days later. Harry held a football in his hands and tossed it in the air. He felt a bit weird, as did his sister and Rhia, when Cho was around. They liked her but it was weird, her coming on a trip like this when usually it was usually just the three families. Also, it meant that Harry had to talk to his sister and her friends or to Orion. Whenever Cho was here she and Bo spent ages talking, and in Chinese! Why did they talk in a language Harry couldn't understand!? Harry adjusted his new glasses on his face and looked over to where Orion was struggling with Emma. They were fighting over who should be buried. Kaylee and Jessie were building a sand castle. Bo and Cho...well Harry didn't really know what they were talking about, which left him with Rhia. He liked Rhia and there was nothing wrong with her but...she just wasn't a boy, or Harry's age.

"I'm bored" Rhia said as she dug her toes into the sand. Their parents were laughing and talking up on the beach behind them.

"Same, do you want to play football?" Harry asked.

"Can't play football." Rhia said, "I hurt my leg last time." She said.

"Well this will be different, we're on sand, not concrete like at school." He said as he put a hand into the sand. Rhia went slightly red.

"Um..." She said for a moment then nodded with a slight smile. "Ok." Harry grinned.

"Cool" He stood up and pulled Rhia after him. They wondered off for a little bit to find somewhere flat to kick the ball around in. Harry would have preferred to play quidditch against Rhia. Sometimes she played against him while he was on his broom and she was on Pegasus, that always made for an interesting match. But most of the time Pegasus stayed in the paddock and watched while Rhia and Harry fought over the quaffle, in the air, high above the Potter lake, as it was now called. Harry kicked the ball, he loved football but it was sooo boring sometimes. He bounced it from one foot to the other then passed it to Rhia. Rhia tried to copy Harry but ended up falling over while laughing. Harry laughed as well and ran after the ball as it went to the water. Rhia followed him, not wanting to get lost on the busy beach. They went to the water and Harry jumped for the ball and missed as a wave took it back up the beach towards Rhia. Harry plunged into the cold water and let out a yelp of surprise and shock. Rhia started laughing as she picked up the ball.

"It's cold!" Harry said. Rhia laughed.

"Scardy cat!" Rhia said. Harry looked at Rhia and smiled evilly. Rhia's eyebrows rose slightly, she'd seen that look on Orion. Harry suddenly started splashing her. Rhia screamed and kicked the water back at Harry. What followed was a water fight in the sea that involved several children that they didn't know. Rhia turned at one point and saw a fairly large, fat boy bending over to pick up Harry's football. Rhia tensed and ran out of the water to pick it up.

"My ball!" The fat boy said and pushed Rhia down into the sand. Harry saw this and ran up to Rhia to make sure she was ok. The fat boy had blonde curls and was fatter then any boy that Harry had ever seen before.

"That's my football, and say sorry to my friend." Harry said.

"No!" The boy said, "And it's my ball now. Finders keepers." He said. Harry felt anger rising inside of him.

"No, give me my ball please." Harry said holding his hands out and taking a step towards the boy though he really didn't want to. The boy pushed him away and Harry stumbled back. Rhia crossed her arms.

"Don't hurt Harry you pig!" Rhia said loudly. The boy didn't seem to like this. He approached Rhia and dropped the ball. His hands clenched into fists. Harry, noticing this put himself between Rhia and the boy. Rhia held onto the back of Harry's wet shirt uncertainly.

"You know, you're not a nice boy at all." Harry said.

"Mum says I'm the best boy ever and that all other boys aren't nice." The boy said angrily. Despite being fat and wobbling at every step Harry took a step back nervously. This boy was really scary. Harry ducked a blow from the fat boy.

"Ah!" Rhia let out a short scream. Harry wanted to run away from this boy but the fat boy lunged forwards and grabbed Harry by the front of his wet shirt. Harry closed his eyes ready for a punch. He'd never been in a fight but he knew what to expect.

"Harry!" Lily shouted as she ran to him. At the same time came another voice

"Dudley! What have I told you about fighting?" Came another woman's voice. "I know you like to fight but not on the beach Duddy." A thin woman with brown hair and a long face pulled Dudley away from Harry. Harry was released and he stumbled into Lily. Rhia held onto his arm worriedly.

"Petunia!" Lily asked. The woman. The woman looked up at being addressed to. As soon as she saw Lily she sneered.

"Oh, it's you freak." She said coldly.

"What...how...why are you here?" Lily asked. Harry hurried to pick up the football and held it tightly and protectively.

"It is possible for us normal people to have a holiday you know." Petunia sneered, she put an arm around the fat boy, apparently named Dudley. Harry really hated him already and they hadn't even met. He never wanted to see that boy again. How did his mum know Dudley's mum.

"I am normal but in a different way" Lily said tiredly. "How have you been?" She asked with a very slight, forced smile.

"Like you're interested anyway." Petunia sneered.

"We haven't seen each other since mum and dad's funeral, of course I'm interested." Lily said. Harry nodded as he figured that they were sisters, if they were sisters why hadn't Harry met this woman before?

"Well, I was great, until I saw you. Actually it's a good job we bumped into each other, as much as I hate to admit it." Petunia said.

"What? Why?" Lily asked suspiciously, "What do you want?" Lily pulled Rhia to her protectively and made sure Harry was close to her.

"You're going to look after Dudley for two weeks." Petunia said. Lily coughed in shock and looked at Petunia.

"WHAT!" Lily nearly shouted.

"Sh, mum." Harry said. Lily glanced at Harry then looked back at Petunia.

"No! I'm not looking after that lump of fat." Lily said, nodding to Dudley. Petunia puffed up slightly and was joined by a thick set man with a thick neck and a bristle like moustache.

"Anything wrong Pet?" He asked. "Ah, I see you found Dudders." He ruffled Dudley's blond curls and looked at Lily. "Oh, you. What are you doing here?"

"Family holiday." Lily said coldly. Harry and Rhia looked at Lily at that tone of voice. Was that really Lily? "And no, I'm not looking after your...Dudders" Lily said vehemently. "Why don't you get the poor babysitter that you usually use?"

"Dudley shot her with his BB gun." Petunia said, "So she refuses to look after him. So, I've been trying to get in contact with you to tell you you're looking after Dudley while Vernon and I go on a business trip to France" Petunia said. Lily glowered at her sister.

"Then why didn't you send me an owl?" Lily said with a sly smile on her face. Petunia went white while Vernon started turning a bright red. He was already red from the sun, so was Petunia. The differences between the sisters were remarkable. Lily was beautiful, had green eyes, lovely hair and nicely tanned skin, Petunia was ugly, thin, long faced and slightly sunburnt.

"Don't you dare mention your...freakiness in such a place like this!" Vernon hissed at her.

"You can't control me Vernon." Lily said coolly.

"Who are they?" Rhia whispered up to Lily.

"She's my evil sister." Lily said with a smirk. Rhia nodded and smiled at Petunia.

"I'm Rhia." She said, holding her hand out. Petunia looked at Rhia disdainfully like she was the scum of the earth.

"Freak, you are going to pick up Dudley at seven o'clock tomorrow and you will look after him without using any of that freaky stuff you do." Petunia said.

"And you will pick him up using the usual methods." Vernon said.

"You don't have a fireplace, how can I get Dudley home without using the Floo network?" Lily said innocently. Petunia looked like she wanted to slap Lily. Lily smirked at her expression.

"No Freaky stuff ok!" Petunia demanded. "Come on Dudley." She said, pulling the fat lump of a boy behind her. Vernon followed after giving Lily such a look of hate that if looks could kill, well, Lily wouldn't be alive. Lily simply sniffed absently and looked at Harry and Rhia with a smile.

"Come on you two, I came to see if you wanted Ice creams." Lily said. Harry and Rhia grinned.

"Chocolate!" They both said together.

"That's what I thought." Lily said with a laugh

"-And he was HUGE, like a big fat creature with legs!" Rhia said to Emma as they ate their ice creams. "And he tried to punch Harry but Harry was really brave and he tried to fight back and-" Rhia carried on with her account to Emma and Orion. Orion looking at her with awe. He turned to Harry as Rhia continued to talk.

"The force is strong with you." He said. Harry raised an eyebrow and patted his head. James looked at Lily curiously.

"A fat creature with legs?" James asked. Lily frowned helplessly.

"We've got to babysit my darling nephew." Lily said.

"Who?" James asked.

"Dudley, Petunia's son." Lily said.

"Petunia?" James asked slightly confused. "OH, her." He said, remembering who she was talking about. "Witch hater?"

"Oh, joy, you're going to have fun." Jenny said with a laugh, "Especially if her son is anything like Petunia."

"Merlin, I hate her." April mumbled. Everyone jumped, they'd all thought April had fallen asleep while sunbathing.

"Um, yeah, we all do." James said.

"Well we've never met her." Sirius said, "Me and Remus."

"Lucky you." April muttered, "She can't even get my name right. She calls me every month of the year except April, and no jokes Sirius." She said lifting a hand to point at Sirius before he could say anything. Sirius looked at her disappointedly.

"Mum." Emma said. Lily looked at Emma. "We have a cousin?" Lily nodded. "Is he nice?"

"No, he tried to kill me." Harry said with a scowl. He liked his hand as chocolate ice cream dripped down it.

"But you're ok." Rhia said with a smile. Harry smiled back and they both laughed. Lily and James both looked at April and Sirius. They had always suspected Harry and Rhia. They seemed very close a lot of the time, Rhia certainly preferred Harry's company after Kara and Emma. Harry was always quite protective over Rhia and Emma, but everyone expected it for Emma but not Rhia. Well, yes they were still very young, Rhia was only seven and Harry was nine, but that didn't seem to make much difference. Lily smiled at April, who grinned back. April let out a sigh and pulled on her sunglasses.

"Have fun with Petunia's family Lily." April said with a grin. Lily's frown returned and she seethed silently.

A/N:-Ok, after such a sucessful double update...I'm only giving you one chapter, :P I can't keep writing as much as i do at the moment, cause i was 4 chapters ahead...now i'm only 1 chapter ahead...grr...I'm not updateing again until i have chapter 24 written....which'll be sometime tomorrow. Anyway, thank you all so much, you're all the most wonderfullest people on this earth. If i were a published author...I'd give you all a free copy of my book, but seeing as i'm not JKR or a published author i can't....watch the bookshelves for a book by Anna Sheldrick in the future :) Also, a slight confession....i've messed up all the ages. Before i started this story i had decided that...by this point Bo would be 10, HArry 9, Emma and rhia 7, Orion 6 and the twins are 4 but i've messed up the ages and Orion isn't yet 6 and the twins are 3...grumble...so in the 'Hogwarts' years when HArry's in hist 6th and 7th year, i'm changing the ages but i'll keep it as it is for now. grr...i hate this story sometimes!