Rhia and Emma watched as Dudley plodded from the kitchen to the living room. They looked at each other, a plan formulating in their minds. They needed Orion's help, as well as Harry's but both boys were willing to help if it meant getting revenge on Dudley for sitting on Rhia's keyboard. Fortunately Sirius had fixed it almost immediately but Rhia wanted revenge.
"Come on." Emma whispered. They crept down the stairs and into the kitchen. Orion was sitting on the work top with Baloo on his legs. He stroked the cat gently.
"What took so long?" He asked.
"Sorry." Rhia said. "Here" She said handing Orion a bag. Orion grinned and put the bag next to him.
"Where's Harry?" Orion asked. Emma shrugged.
"In the loo." Rhia answered.
"Ok. We can carry on though." Orion picked Baloo up and handed him to Emma. He slipped off the work top and landed gently on the floor.
"Where are mum and dad?" Emma asked.
"They went to see Dad's new bike." Orion said. He took the lightsaber that he carried with him most of the time. It was the one that James had bought him for his birthday years ago. He spun it in his hands and let it light up.
"Go Orion!" Rhia snapped. Orion nodded and left the room humming the James Bond tune. Rhia and Emma looked at each other. Orion was the weirdest boy they knew. Orion went into the living room. He had to get Dudley back into the kitchen.
"Oi, fatty!" Orion said. Dudley grunted at him but otherwise ignored him. Orion scowled. He went up and hit Dudley with his lightsaber. He grinned and darted away before Dudley could lash out. Dudley slid off the sofa and glared at Orion.
"Don't hit me" He said.
"Then don't ignore me." Orion said cheekily. He tried to hit Dudley with his lightsaber again. All the children had learnt that it didn't matter if Dudley got hurt, he didn't get hurt by it. In fact they seemed to have realised that he was so fat that anything that hit him just made the fat wobble and made Rhia feel slightly ill. That was enough to get Harry and Dudley in fights regularly over the past week. It didn't help that Dudley seemed to think it was funny to pull Baloo's tail.
Dudley caught the lightsaber. Strangely the heat that it gave off didn't seem to annoy Dudley. He tightened his grip on it. Orion tugged at it trying to get it free.
"Let go." Orion said. Dudley grinned and the lightsaber broke. Orion's jaw dropped as Dudley dropped a piece on the floor. "You idiot!" Orion shouted. He launched himself at Dudley and started attacking him. "That was my favourite toy!" Orion shouted.
"Well you shouldn't have hit me Brian!" Dudley said.
"My name is Orion, you evil-" Dudley pulled Orion off him easily and threw him at the door. Orion just got up again and attacked Dudley again.
"Get off me you rat!" Dudley said.
"You pig!" Orion retorted. Orion let go and darted out the room. Dudley followed, no one was going to start a fight and not finish it. He followed Orion into the kitchen. Orion was standing by the work top looking at Dudley angrily.
"You broke my lightsaber!" He shouted before Dudley tried to swing a fist at Orion. Orion ducked and grabbed Dudley around the neck from behind. Dudley spun around trying to get Orion off him.
"Now!" Rhia shouted. Emma dropped a saucepan and it hit Orion. Orion dropped off Dudley and fell to the floor stunned.
"Oops." Emma said with a frown.
"Emma!" Rhia said worriedly. Dudley grinned.
"Thanks." He said to Emma. He picked up the stunned Orion. Rhia turned around quickly and picked up a frying pan. She threw it down and hit Dudley on the head. He swayed slightly so Rhia picked up another one and threw it at Dudley. This time Dudley fell to the floor with a resounding crash.
"Night night." Rhia said waving a few fingers in the air.
"Baaaa"
"Right." James said uncertainly. He looked at Lily and Sirius, who were both scowling. "How do we solve this?" Lily walked around the sheep that baa-ed uncomfortably.
"Um..." Lily said, she tapped her wand against her chin.
"What I want to know is..." Sirius said. "How did Dudley get his head up the sheep's arse in the first place?" He said. James nodded.
"There's that as well." James said.
"Um..." Lily said. James put his arms around Dudley's huge bulk and put a foot against the sheep. He tugged as hard as he could. The sheep Baa-ed loudly and they heard muffled screams coming from inside the sheep. James ended up letting go and rolled on the floor at Lily's feet.
"That was a great idea James." Lily said. James smiled at her sheepishly.
"Maybe we could try shrinking Dudley." Sirius said.
"We could try that, but what if we can't get him back to normal size?" Lily asked.
"Trust me, it'll be good for him. Have you see the size of that nephew of yours?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah but..." Lily said uncertainly. She turned to Sirius then nodded. "Ok. Gloves!" She said. James, Sirius and herself summoned a pair of surgical gloves each and put them on.
"Lily, will you do the honours?" James asked. Lily scowled.
"Reducio" She said. Dudley immediately began to shrink until he was literally a small blob sticking out of the sheep's rear end. Lily crouched down and closed her eyes as she held Dudley between two fingers and pulled her free. The sheep immediately ran off to freedom as Lily stood up, holding the tiny Dudley.
"Urgh, this is gross. So gross." Lily said holding Dudley out at arms length. James and Sirius both took a step back in disgust.
"Keep that thing away from us." Sirius said. Lily glared at him.
"Then get the bath running!" Lily said.
"Oh, I'm not seeing that thing naked." Sirius said.
"Sirius! Just do it!" Lily snapped, "Before I'm sick." Sirius darted off to the house. Lily and James followed.
"Well done." James said clapping Lily on the back. She looked like she was actually going to be sick.
"Don't do that again." She said to James.
"Alright." James said with a frown. They entered the kitchen. Rhia and Emma were watching them with curious expressions. Harry had a smirk on his face. Lily took Dudley up the stairs and plopped him into the rising bath.
"Finite Incantatum." Lily said pointing her wand at Dudley. He grew to his usual size. His head was slightly browner then usual. That was too much for Lily. She threw herself at the toilet and put her head over it. James bit his lip and Sirius closed his eyes.
"I hate this house!" Dudley said.
"Just wash your head, mate." Sirius said. "And quickly before we're all sick." He had actually gone pale. The only sounds in the room now were the splashing of the water and Lily retching in the loo.
"Ok, Dudley, who stuck your head up the sheep's...bottom." James said, trying to be serious. He looked at the wet boy.
"I don't know." Dudley said with a sulky look. "Rhia threw a thing at me and then when I woke up I was in the sheep" He said.
"Rhia?" Lily said as she wiped her mouth. Dudley nodded. "Oh Merlin!" Lily said.
"Do you remember anything else?" James asked. Dudley shook his head. James looked at Sirius.
"What do you think?" He asked. Sirius beamed.
"I think Rhia's a genius-ow-I mean she will be punished." Sirius said, rubbing his arm where Lily had sent a stinging hex at him.
"They're horrible to me." Dudley said.
"Well, Dudley, if you're nice to them, they'll be nice to you." Lily said. Dudley scowled at her.
"I'm not being nice to those freaks." Dudley said. The mirror above the sink shattered and James jumped out of the way.
"Apologise for calling them that now!" Lily snapped at Dudley. Dudley looked at his infuriated aunt.
"No!" Dudley said, "They're freaks, and you are all freaks! Mum and Dad were right-" Dudley stopped as Orion walked into the bathroom.
"Daddy!" Orion said sternly. Sirius looked at Orion.
"What is it Orion?" Sirius asked as he lifted up Orion.
"My Lightsaber is broken." Orion said with a quivering mouth. His eyes were quite watery as he held up the end of his lightsaber. Sirius took a sharp breath.
"Who did it?" Sirius asked. Orion turned and glared at Dudley.
"He did!" Orion said. "He broke my Lightsaber, and he broke Rhia's piano and tried to break Cho's hand and-" Orion threw the end of the lightsaber at Dudley in anger. Dudley ducked and stood up.
"Dudley! Wash yourself now!" Lily said.
"No! I'm not taking orders from a freak!" Dudley snapped back at her.
"Orion, it's wrong to throw things at people, even if you don't like them" Sirius scolded. "Dudley, what do you have to say about this?" He asked.
"I'm not sorry" Dudley said. Orion seemed to growl at him and struggled in Sirius' arms.
"I'll kill you!" Orion shouted at Dudley. Dudley clenched his fists. James got out his wand.
"Impedimenta!" He said to Orion, who froze promptly. "Spongify!" He said to Dudley. Dudley immediately became clean. He turned to Lily. "That's it. Get your sister, he's leaving this house. I want him out by tomorrow evening!" James said to Lily. Lily opened her mouth to say something in defence but she couldn't because she wanted him out as well.
"Fine." Lily said. She apparated out of the house. James freed Orion from the spell.
"Orion!" James said. Orion looked at James. "Go and do some flying, let out some steam."
"No, I want to kill Dudley!" Orion said, turning his fierce eyes on Dudley. Sirius tightened his grip on his son.
"We'll get you a new lightsaber." Sirius said, "Killing is wrong"
"No it's not." Orion growled. Sirius looked at James.
"I'll take Rhia and Orion home. It might be safer." James nodded his agreement. Sirius managed to get out of the house as Orion got free and ran at the bath. He had some angry fury that James was scared about. He grabbed the back of Orion's shirt. Orion struggled against it. James picked him up and handed him, with difficulty, back to Sirius. Sirius managed to get Orion out and called for Rhia. James turned to Dudley. Dudley glared at him.
"I hope you're happy Dudley." James said. He closed the door and left Dudley to do what he wanted.
Lily returned that night and looked at James.
"Petunia's in Cardiff!" Lily snapped at him. "That Bitch is in Cardiff! That's only ten miles away!" She nearly screamed. "I spent all day looking for-" James pulled Lily into a hug.
"It's ok. But Dudley's going right?" James asked. Lily nodded.
"Tomorrow." Lily said, "Petunia will be here at about lunch time" James sighed with relief.
"Thank god. The sooner he goes that happier all of us will be. He's destroying everything." James couldn't finish the sentence before there was a scream and a crash.
"GIVE IT BACK!" They heard Emma screaming. Lily and James looked at each other before running up the stairs and to Emma's room. Emma and Harry were trying to get to Dudley, who was pushing them away with relative ease.
"What's this?" Dudley asked. He held Emma's guitar. He pulled on a string to see what would happen.
"No!" Emma shouted as the string broke and snapped. Emma winced and her face went slightly red.
"Dudley!" Lily said walking into the room. Dudley looked at her and smiled.
"Hello aunt Freaky!" He said. Lily took a long steady breath.
"Put the guitar down" She said. She was using all her willpower not to curse the living daylights out of this nine year old that was really testing her patience. Dudley pulled on another string. At this Harry rushed at him and pulled at the guitar.
"Let go of it!" Harry said through gritted teeth as he wrestled Dudley over the guitar.
"Harry!" James snapped. "Get it off him now!" Lily looked at James at those words of encouragement. James shrugged at Lily. Emma joined in when her parent's weren't looking. When Lily turned around again Dudley had Harry puling on the guitar and trying to kick Dudley while Emma had her arms around Dudley's neck. Dudley was starting to go slightly red.
"Emma!" Lily said slightly alarmed. Harry managed to get the guitar free and rolled into a large mound of toys. There was a large cracking noise and Harry and the guitar got buried under a pile of soft toys. Emma was still holding onto Dudley. She looked about as angry as Orion had been earlier that day.
"Uh oh." James said. He and Lily went to the two fighting children. Lily managed to pry Emma off Dudley as Harry emerged from under the toys.
"Will you all stop fighting!" Lily snapped at them all. Emma was breathing heavily. Harry held the guitar in one hand. He looked at it. It was in three pieces. He frowned and pushed it under the soft toys.
"Harry, where's the guitar?" James asked.
"I don't know." Harry said quickly. James and Lily looked at him sceptically. Harry frowned and closed his eyes as he picked up the guitar. "I didn't do it!" He said. Emma's mouth dropped open and she started to cry.
"My guitar is broken!" She cried.
"We can fix it." Lily said. She picked it up. "Harry, go to your bedroom now!" She snapped. "Dudley! You're going to sleep as well now!"
"But it's only eight o'clock." Dudley said.
"I DON'T CARE! GET TO BED!" Lily said, losing her patience. "NOW!" She screamed at the two boys. Harry jumped in surprise. He'd never heard his mum shout like that. He quickly left the room. Dudley also started in surprise and slowly plodded out of the room. Lily's emerald eyes were blazing with anger and frustration. James seemed reluctant to go near Lily.
"Lily." He said hesitantly.
"Just leave me alone." Lily snapped at James. James nodded and left the room. He closed the door behind him. Emma held onto Lily, sobbing over her broken guitar. Lily put the guitar on the desk in Emma's room that was covered in drawings and pictures that Emma, Rhia and Kara had drawn. Emma looked at it despairingly. Lily set Emma on the bed and got out her sleeping clothes.
"Mummy." Emma said hesitantly.
"Yes Emma." Lily said, trying to calm herself down.
"Will I get a new guitar?" Emma asked. She looked at the guitar on the desk. Lily started to change Emma's clothes then put a hand on Emma's hair.
"I'll buy you a new one tomorrow." Lily said. Emma nodded. Lily began to tuck Emma in.
"Mummy, don't be angry. You're scary when you're angry." Emma said. Lily smiled gently at her daughter.
"I'm sorry Emma. It's just your cousin was really...never mind. I'm sorry Emma." Lily said. Emma smiled a fairly wet smile. Tears still glistening on her cheeks. Lily picked up the corner of the duvet and wiped Emma's face. She flicked Emma's nose playfully afterwards, making Emma laugh slightly. Lily smiled.
"Can you read me a story?" Emma asked. Lily nodded and stood up to get a book. "The red book with the fairytales." Emma said. Lily smiled at her and picked up a red leather bound book from the desk. She went to the bed and Emma moved out of the way so that Lily could get onto the bed. She climbed over Lily's legs and leant against her body. Lily opened the book and began reading the story. She could feel herself calming down as she did. She didn't remember getting so angry before. Well, yes, there had been one time, in her fifth year at Hogwarts, when James was picking of Severus Snape. But that was over ten years ago. It was a strange feeling and one that Lily hoped would never return.
Breakfast the next morning was a pretty quiet affair. Dudley was scoffing his face in front of the TV in the living room. Harry was pretty quiet and James felt slightly worried about Lily, who'd also been quite quiet. Emma was the only one who was talking, she was talking to Baloo who pawed Emma's piece of toast curiously.
"I'm ok James. I promise you." Lily said to him. James frowned like he didn't believe her.
"You're not going to get angry again?" He asked nervously. Lily smiled slightly.
"No I'm not." She said. James still scowled. "What's wrong?" Lily asked James. He shrugged. He did actually look rather upset about something. "James, do you want me to shout again?" Lily asked with a smirk. James smiled and looked at Lily.
"I don't know. It was weird, last night was the first night we haven't slept in the same bed in ten years." James said. Lily laughed lightly.
"Is that all that's worrying you?" She asked. James smiled sheepishly. Lily brushed his hair back and kissed his cheek. "I just fell asleep in Emma's bed." James pouted.
"But how could you forget about me?" James said. Lily hit him playfully and James grinned.
"Is Dudley going home today?" Harry asked with a hopeful look.
"Hopefully." Lily said, "Then it'll be just our family again." Lily said with a smile.
"I don't understand why you agreed to baby sit that brat." James said pulling Lily over onto his legs and putting an arm around her waist.
"Petunia's my sister and I can't just ignore her." Lily said. "Plus she's always been able to make me do things I don't want to do." Lily said with a slightly downcast look.
"Yeah, you have to stop her from doing that." James said. Lily smiled.
"Well, I did embarrass her in front of everyone yesterday." Lily said. "I don't think she'll ever speak to me again." Lily said with a grin.
"What happened?" Harry asked.
"Well, I sort of shouted at her in front of the entire crowd at the drill convention. Talking about how badly behaved Dudley is and how he's destroyed what and she just got so angry with me." Lily said with a gleeful grin. James laughed and kissed Lily cheek.
"That's my girl." He said. Lily gave him a look of warning and James went back to eating his breakfast.
"You are the worst person alive!" Petunia shouted at Lily as she took Dudley out of the house.
"Me! I'm not the one who's raised a boy who thinks it's good to destroy other people's property!" Lily snapped at Petunia. James put a hesitant hand on Lily's shoulder. Petunia looked at Lily with hate and looked like she was trying to think of a come back.
"At least he's not a Freak!" Petunia snapped.
"I'm not a freak!" Lily said, "If anyone is a freak it's you!" She snapped.
"Lily." James said. Lily shrugged him away.
"Me? A freak! Have you looked in a mirror recently! At least I have a normal husband, a well behaved son-" Lily scoffed at that "-and I have a normal job!"
"I do have a normal Job! I'm a Doctor! More then you've every tried to do." Lily said to Petunia.
"I don't want to work. I want to be a proper mother and stay at home to look after my boy." Petunia said. Lily took a deep breath and picked up a bag. She threw it at Petunia and slammed the door. James burst out laughing, Lily looked at him sharply.
"What are you laughing at?" Lily snapped. James tried not to laugh.
"Well, you." He said. Lily looked at him confused. "Don't worry. You're beautiful and better then your sister." Lily started laughing
"I should hope so" Lily said with a smirk. James gave Lily a quick kiss.
"Lets go and repair the damage that Dudley has caused." James said.
"A new guitar then." Lily said with a sigh. "The less I see of Petunia the happier I'll be." James grinned and they went to hunt for Emma to take her shopping.
Orion sat on the curb of the road just outside his school. Rhia was in trouble again with the head mistress, this time for managing to climb onto a roof of the school and start dancing with Emma and Kara. It had been entertaining and it had taken the teachers about half an hour to get them down. No one knew how they all managed to get up in the first place. Now Emma and Kara's mums were talking to the head mistress with Orion's mum. He sat on the curb and sighed. He put his chin in his hands and looked down the road. It wasn't very busy, in fact, it was more of a dirt road. There were a group of boys standing on the corner. They had with them some skateboards and they were jeering at each other as they tried to jump on them and did various things on the skateboards. They looked like they were about fifteen. Orion looked at them curiously as they all started skateboarding down the road and did a jump in front of Orion.
One boy, with fairly long curly light brown hair and a baseball cap jumped and flipped the skateboard in front of Orion and landed on the skateboard neatly. Orion watched him in awe. He would love to do that. He had a BMX bike which he made his mum buy him after he'd seen on e on TV. They skateboarded for about another ten minutes before the boy with curly hair spotted Orion and came over.
"Hey." He said. Orion looked up.
"Hello." Orion said.
"What ya doing? Isn't your mum here?" He asked.
"Yes. She's talking to Mrs. Hardy" Orion said.
"Oh, that old bat." The boy said. "What's your name?"
"Orion." Orion said.
"How old are you?"
"Six."
"Cool, I'm Fez." He said. Orion gave him a smile then looked at Fez's skateboard. Fez noticed where Orion was looking and put the skateboard on the floor.
"You want a go?" He asked Orion. Orion looked at Fez and grinned. He stood up and dropped his bag on the pavement.
"How do I do this?" Orion asked. Fez helped Orion stand on the skateboard and held his hands while Orion tried to balance on it.
"Ok, that's good. Now point one foot forwards, your front foot, that's good. Now with your other foot push on the floor." Fez said. Fez held one of Orion's hands as Orion tried to do as Fez said. He moved slightly and Orion nearly fell off. He felt slightly unsteady on the skateboard. Fez let go of Orion and let him try on his own.
"Oi, Fez, what the hell-" a boy said skating up to him but Fez made him be quiet and smirked as Orion grinned and went down the road. Orion jumped off the skateboard and turned it around then started back to the school
"That's really good." Fez said.
"Thanks." Orion said.
"You're a natural. Now if you want to turn lean to one side. Show him Kelso." Fez said. The boy that was next to Fez scowled then nodded. He threw his board on the floor and jumped onto it and went down the road. He showed Orion how to turn on the board the came back. He did a quick jump, a manual and then jumped off the board. He stamped on the end and flipped the skateboard into his hand. Orion looked at him with his mouth slightly open.
"That was good." Orion said. Kelso smiled and ruffled Orion's hair.
"Thanks kid." He said. "You're cute." He said. Orion grinned and tried to skateboard again. He went down the road and leant to the side. He leant a bit too far and the skateboard slipped from under him and he fell over. He started laughing and tired again.
"How old is he?" Kelso asked Fez.
"Six." Fez said.
"He's quite good." Kelso said.
"I know. Well, we've converted another kid to our cause." Fez said with a grin. Kelso laughed.
"Yeah, whatever." April came out of the school with Lily. Emma, Rhia and Kara were behind them talking while Kara's mum was a few steps behind.
"Orion!" April called.
"Coming." Orion said. He pushed himself towards April and tried to stop by pressing down the back part of the skateboard. Fez laughed as Orion picked ut he skateboard and gave it to him. "Thanks." Orion said.
"No problem kid." He said.
"Orion." April said curiously. "Who are you?" April asked. Fez and Kelso looked at April and grinned.
"You're the lady who's like, really cool." Fez said. April frowned and looked at Lily.
"I don't know about this reputation." Lily said.
"Kara always says how cool you are. You sound really cool lady." Kelso said.
"Kelso, be quiet and get home. You should be home by now." Kara's mum said. April looked at Kara's mum curiously. "April, Lily, this is my eldest son Kelso and his friend Fez."
"Hi." Kelso said. Lily smiled and April shook her head in amusement. "Is Orion yours?" He asked April.
"Yes he is."
"He's really good on a skateboard. I'll give you one of my old ones when we get home." Kelso said.
"I'm sure I can buy him one." April said.
"No, let him, he's got too many anyway," Kara's mum said with a smile.
"Alright then." April said.
"Yes!" Orion said. "Mummy, I love you!" Orion sad hugging April's legs. April took a step back in surprise. Lily laughed.
"Come on children" Lily said.
"Where's Harry?" Kara's mum asked.
"Oh, he's visiting a friend, um, I think his name is Jeff." Lily said.
"Ok. Well, I'll see you later. Do you want me to pick up Kara at six?" Kara's mum said.
"Oh, whenever. We don't mind." Lily said. Kara's mum smiled and gave Kara a quick kiss before looking at Kelso to go home.
"Coming mum." Kelso said. "See ya kid!" He said waving at Orion as he left.
"Bye!" Orion said waving manically. April laughed and took Orion's hand.
"Come on." She said
A/N:-Ok, i swear i DO NOT watch that 70s show, but me and KAylee were talking about it and somehow the names appeared in the story.....don't ask how or why cause..I DON'T KNOW!! Ok, some important bits happened in this story....well one important bit...actually it's not that important but it leads to a funny scene with snape in the future stories....well it's not that funny but still. I tried to extend the scene where Lily just went mad but i didn't know how really. This chapter would have been up sooner but a) Jessie was mean to me so i said i wudn't update till today, b)my stupid brother decided he wanted to steal my Teneacious D album so he hijacked my computer while i was trying to update! stupid brother, and c) there's this really annoying fly that keeps buzzing around my desk and its really really really irritating it's like...."Here it comes" bzzzzzzzzzz (fade to nothing)..."Here it comes again" (from nothing) bzzzzzzzzzz(really loud) zzzzzzzzzz(fade to nothing).....stupid fly..grrr....anyway, school starts...today so fewer updates cause less time to write...hehe..anyway. Hope you have a good day.....signing off at 00.14am...not a good time to deciding to sleep