Massive thanks to all of my reviewers! Big grin the size of Jupiter Just for reference, The Hut is Hagrid's Hut, but I couldn't really call it that with Sirius there too. Also, I couldn't face Sirius being about 80, it's not right! So what happened was when he had the near miss or whatever in the Department of Mysteries he remained that age forever. Anyway, here's chapter 4! :-)
Lily watched her siblings, heads bent in the corner of the common room, with suspicion. They were definitely up to something… She wandered casually over until she was standing behind Ruby, then struck. Her sister broke out in screams of laughter.
"Lily!" yelled James. "We're trying to have a private conversation here."
"Ok, ok! Just got some interesting news for you…"
"What?" James asked, his attention diverted.
"Depends whether you tell me what you're doing first…" Lily teased.
"We'll tell you Lily!" Ruby cried. "But I wanna know your secret first!"
"Guess what? Mark and Ally are here- I saw them go into The Hut about 10 minutes ago!"
"And you didn't tell us, why?" James inquired, trying to sound offended.
Lily smiled sweetly. "You didn't ask."
The threesome sprinted across the grass, snowflakes falling softly in their hair, until they burst gasping through their uncles' door.
"Where…where are they?" said Lily, breathlessly.
Sirius and Hagrid exchanged knowing looks. "Who?" asked Sirius innocently.
"You know who! Mark and Ally- we saw them arrive."
"Surprise!" A tall, dark haired man with sparkling green eyes bounded out of the shadows, closely followed by his identical twin.
"You're here!" Ruby ran up and jumped into Mark's arms. Lily embraced them both warmly whilst James strolled across, gave Ally a quick, embarrassed peck on the cheek and Mark a short bear hug.
"So, what's been happening since we were away?" Ally asked, with her arm around Lily's shoulders.
"Lily's got a boyfriend!" teased James.
"No I haven't!"
"She's dating Kyle Zabini."
Hagrid looked up worriedly at this. "Are ya now? Yer don't want to mix with them Zabinis, girl. Friend of that Druicien Malfoy, in't he?"
"He's really nice… he's not like the evil Kyle you hear about when he's with me," Lily tried to explain.
Sirius stood up, his chair scraping against the cold stone floor. "So he has a reputation?"
"NO! Uncle Sirius, he's not like that. He's-"
"I think I've heard enough. No one messes with my god daughter and gets away with it."
He stormed out into the grounds, slamming the door behind him. They watched him fight through the blizzard that had risen up since their arrival, wearing only a thin jumper.
"Well…" said James to the twins. "Welcome home?"
The next day
The five siblings burst wet and laughing into the common room, Ruby clutching Ally's hand with a soggy woolen mitten. They stopped when they saw Kate Longbottom looking at them with a serious expression on her face. They glanced around and saw everyone become quiet. "Didn't you hear?" she asked them solemnly.
"Hear what?" Mark asked, shaking his wet black hair like a dog and making Ruby giggle.
"Your parents arguing down in the Room of Requirement. We could hear them in the library."
"But…they never argue. Well, not seriously anyway," James protested.
"This one sounded pretty serious to me," Kate said.
"We'll go check it out." Ally led her siblings back out again.
Ok, bad ending, but the argument might not be what you expected…
Mwahahahahahahaha!
I love these:
-One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
-Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
Hehe. :-)
