James pinched the top of his nose. He was so tired and his children were leaving tomorrow. As usual, he regretted not spending much time with Emma and Harry, next thing he's know, they'd be too old to have time for him. He looked down at the files and folders on his desk. These were complaints and reports of Death Eater attacks, people who claimed to have seen Voldemort though James knew people were getting paranoid. He was trying his best to try and ease the growing public fear. There was a knock at the door. James didn't look up.
"Come in!" He called. The door opened and his beautiful wife came into the office.
"Hey." She said with a slight smile. James smiled and looked up. He leant on the desk.
"Hi, what are you doing here?" He asked. Lily went to the desk and gave him a kiss on the lips.
"I got bored at home." She said, "The children are all asleep, or in their rooms. Sirius and April wanted to spend some time together. How is it that April has so much more time then you?" Lily said as she came around the desk. James pulled her onto his lap. He put his arms around Lily and weaved his fingers with Lily's. She put her head on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry. There's just so much work, being minister." He said. Lily kissed his neck.
"Can't you get some to help?" She asked, her breath tickling his skin.
"I would but there's no one I really trust enough." James said.
"You trust Sirius." Lily said, kissing the other side of his neck. James laughed silently as Lily let go of his hands and put them into his robes.
"Why do I get the feeling you've come to see me for a reason other then boredom." James asked.
"Is it that obvious?" Lily asked. James held a finger under her chin and raised her face to meet his. He pressed his lips against hers. Lily's lips responded as they always did but it still sent a shiver of excitement through James' body. He lifted Lily slightly and held his wand with his other hand. He pointed it at his desk and let Lily kiss his neck for a few seconds as he said a spell that cleared his desk.
"You have got to be kidding me?" Lily said as she turned slightly.
"Why? We used to do it everywhere." James said.
"Not here with the Children that we have." Lily said.
"Please" James whispered as he kissed Lily. She couldn't resist him, after nearly twenty years of being together, he could still cast some kind of magic on her. Lily shifted position and James' kiss grew fiercer as his hands went to her shirt, his hands going down her front to the bottom of her shirt.
"Don't tell anyone about it." Lily said. She lifted her arms so James could pull her shirt off.
"I'm going to miss you so much. Please don't go." James said. Lily pulled away.
"You know I have to."
"No you don't! I don't want you to move out!" James said stubbornly like a child.
"I'm not moving out." Lily said, she put a hand on James' face and caressed his cheek.
"You are, you're leaving me. How can you just do that?" He asked. Lily sighed.
"James, tell me honestly how many nights we've spent together since Christmas?" Lily said. James opened his mouth to reply, that was easy, every night. But he hadn't spent every night with Lily, he'd spent less then ten nights with her. Either she was at the hospital on his nights off or he was working. James sighed and looked away slightly embarrassed and annoyed wit himself. No wonder his children thought he neglected them, if he neglected his wife like that.
"Please don't go to Hogwarts." James said, "I'll come home more often, please Lily." James said, putting his hands on her bare sides. He stroked her smooth skin slowly as he looked into her eyes.
"You weren't around when I had to make a choice James. I'm going to Hogwarts, Madame Pomfrey is getting old and they need a replacement." Lily said.
"But why you?" James asked, "You know I can't live without you around."
"You can cope perfectly fine, you've managed since Christmas," Lily said bitterly. James pressed his lips against Lily's.
"I'm sorry, please please please stay at home, I'm begging you Lily. Don't go to Hogwarts! I'll have no reason to go home if you're not there." James said. Lily kissed his forehead and then left a trail of kisses along his hairline.
"I love you James, but you're never around and I'll do more good for the students and our children if I'm at Hogwarts." Lily said, "You have to spend a day with Harry. You never see him or even speak to him."
"I'll try." James said.
"You won't try, you will, James. I'll find out when the next Hogsmeade weekend is for them and you will spend some time with him." Lily said. "You're lucky he even loves you at all, just because you taught him to play quidditch." Lily said. James pulled her into another kiss.
"Lily-"
"No, I'm working at Hogwrats." Lily persisted.
"That wasn't what I was going to say." James said with a cheeky grin. Lily grinned broadly at the memories that grin brought back. She hadn't seen it in years and that shine in his eyes.
"Yes James?" She asked.
"I love you so much." He said. He got up with Lily and sat her on the desk. His hands going up and down her back while Lily searched for the fastenings on James' robes. James leant Lily down on the desk and lay over her slightly, kissing her urgently. Soon all their outer clothes were on the floor, by the desk, James pretty ready to show his wife how much he loved her when there was a knock at the door.
"Damn!" James muttered. Lily slid off the desk quickly and pulled on a top.
"Who is it, get them to go away!" Lily said urgently.
"Who is it?" James called.
"Attack at the Regulation of magical creatures offices in North London sir. Mrs. Black wants you there." Came a voice through the door.
"Shit." James muttered. Lily sighed as she pulled on her trousers.
"We'll continue this at home." Lily said, "If you get back before I leave." She added before disapparating. James quickly pulled on his clothes and let the man in. He gave James a suspicious look.
"My wife was here." James said. The man nodded. "When was the attack?"
"Half an hour ago." He said. James looked at his watch, it was well past two in the morning.
"Damn." James muttered. Lily had been here for three hours and neither of them had noticed. "Alright, go to April and tell her I'll be there as soon as I can. I just need to get a few things sorted here." James said
"Yes sir." The man said. He left. James quickly pulled on his new robes. He held his wand and apparated out of the office. He came to a building with aurors buzzing around it. There were muggles around as the building was in the middle of a busy Muggle street. Fortunately it was very late and there were only tramps and drunken teens out on the streets. James scowled and walked to a clump of Aurors. April was one of them. He walked up to her.
"What's happened?" James asked.
"Attack." She said.
"I know, could you elaborate?" James asked. "What did they keep here?" April scowled.
"This is another branch of the Regulation of Magical creatures office. They kept most of their records here." April said.
"What kind of records?" James asked.
"You're minister and yet you don't know what they keep here?" April mused. James looked at April tiredly.
"I'm not in the mood for this. Lily and I were in the middle of something" James muttered.
"What? And Sirius and I weren't?" April asked. "Hang on. Kingsley!" April called. Kingsley Shacklebolt walked over.
"Yes?"
"What happened? We haven't been briefed." James asked.
"Basically about half an hour ago, there was a report that there was an attack" Kingsley said. "Eight workers were killed. Three injured. The rest taken under the Imperious curse. There have been records taken and files have been destroyed." He said.
"What records have been taken?" James asked.
"Animagus records." Kingsley said. April looked at James uncertainly.
"Anything else?"
"Known stray vampires in the country, trolls, goblins, those kinds of files" Kingsley said.
"Do you know exactly which ones?" April asked.
"We don't know. We've been waiting for your authorisation to go in." He said.
"April and I will look at the animagus file room." James said. He started to move but Kingsley stopped him.
"Sorry James but you don't have the authorisation to look." He said.
"Why not? I'm your superior."
"You were my superior. You're the minister now." Kingsley said. April turned to hide a smile.
"What!" James said. April put a hand on James' arm.
"Don't worry Kingsley, he'll stay with me. James won't do anything" April said.
"I didn't think he would, it's just what I have to do. James' own rule." Kingsley said. James made a face at him and followed April through the lines of Aurors.
"Very mature James." April said with a laugh.
"Anyway, Animagus records." James said. They went down a dark corridor, their wands were out just in case there were still Death Eaters lurking around. They read the labels on the doors. They came to one that said Animagus records. The room wasn't very big. Very few people seemed to succeed in becoming animagus. James and April scanned the filing cabinets. They came to one that was open. There were dividers in the open draw. James flicked through them. The sections between the dividers were empty. S. Black, M. McGonagall, P. Pettigrew, J. Potter. James frowned, this couldn't be good. He knew that his animagus file contained what his main features were as Prongs. Anyone could identify him if they looked carefully. The fact that it was just those four files missing was very disconcerting. Why would they want them? James turned to April who was looking at some other files.
"April." James said. April turned and looked at him. "Our Animagus files have gone." He said.
"What are you talking about?" She asked as she came over. "They can't be gone." She looked for herself.
"What do you think they want with them?"
"I have no idea." April said. An Auror came to the room and called for their attention.
"What is it?" James asked. He looked at them.
"There are werewolf files missing" He said anxiously. "And a few Vampire files."
"Is that all?" April asked.
"Yes April. But the werewolf files...it's Bo Lupin's file that's gone." He said.
"Bo Lupin!" James asked.
"Yes sir." He said. April and James looked at each other before Apparating back to Grimmauld place. Scaring Lily from her reading at the dinner table. She put a hand to her chest.
"Bloody hell James, April!" She muttered.
"Where's Bo?"
"He's at Cho's." Lily said, "I thought you knew that."
"Oh yeah." April said, "James, I'll go and bring Bo back here. Lily could you look for Jenny?"
"What's happened?"
"And make sure Sirius is safe." April said. She apparated away. Lily turned to James.
"What's happened?" She asked with worry.
"Our files from the Regulation of Magical Creatures have been stolen. McGonagall's, mine, Sirius' Peter's and Bo's."
"There's a file on Bo?" Lily asked.
"As a Werewolf, yes." James said.
"Ok, I'll go and search for Jenny." Lily said. She gave James a lingering kiss before apparating out of Grimmauld place. James scowled. He sat down and wrote a letter to Dumbledore.
Emma and Rhia glanced at each other. If those files were gone, what did it mean for their dads? Emma glanced into the kitchen, a single streak of light lighting up her emerald eyes. Rhia seemed to have recovered and her bright blonde hair shone in the dark.
"Ok, I'll go and search for Jenny" Lily said. Emma watched her parents kiss before her mum went away. Her dad sat down and conjured some quill and parchment.
"What does that mean?" Rhia asked.
"I have no idea." Emma said. "It can't be good if Voldemort has the files on our dads. Or Bo." Emma said. Rhia scowled.
"What can we do?" She asked.
"Nothing I guess." Emma said. "We could tell Ha-"
"No." Rhia said quickly. "I don't want to speak to Harry."
"Fine, we'll tell...I don't know, who else can we tell?" Emma asked. Rhia scowled.
"Alright." She said. They snuck up the stairs, carefully avoiding Kreacher, who came muttering down the stairs. They knocked gently on Harry's door. Ron opened the door.
"Quick, someone wake him up." He said. The girls went into the room. Harry was shouting in his sleep. Rhia ran to the bed and shook Harry, limping slightly as she did.
"Harry, wake up." She said.
"I've tried that." Ron said. "I think he's dreaming of Voldemort again."
"Very well done. I'm proud of you." Voldemort hissed. Harry looked around uncertainly, where was he?
"Anything you say master" Said the woman in front of him bitterly. Harry turned to look at the woman. She had long black hair, a slim figure, Chinese features...Jenny. Harry's eyes widened.
"Well, now you know your next job don't you?" Voldemort asked.
"I wasn't told. Lestrange told me to come straight here and talk to you." Jenny said.
"Ah, ok." Voldemort said. He stood up from his seat and walked to Jenny. "We have a problem with Potter."
"Which one?"
"All of them." Voldemort said.
"I'm not killing them." Jenny said.
"You are the only one who can get close enough to them. They don't know that you're a Death Eater. They don't know that you're working for me."
"If I kill Emma my son will be heartbroken." Jenny said.
"And do you really think that'll bother me?" Voldemort asked. Jenny glared at him.
"No." Jenny said.
"You will do as I say or I'll kill the other one that you love." Voldemort said. "Crucio!" Jenny fell to the floor screaming.
Harry woke up shouting. His scar was splitting his head in two. He saw a blurred figure by him and instantly recognised her. Rhia!
"Harry!" Rhia said. She pulled him into a hug. Harry held onto her tightly. He remembered that she'd tried to help him through some of his visions last year. He felt her hands in his hair. Harry liked it, Rhia knew it, that's why she did it. Harry closed his eyes tightly and held onto Rhia.
"Harry, are you ok mate?" Ron asked.
"Yeah." He said quietly. He slowly let go of Rhia, who held onto his arms.
"Are you sure?" Rhia asked gently. Harry nodded. He rubbed his forehead. Rhia handed him his glasses and Harry put them on. Rhia and Ron suddenly became clear. Emma was standing by the door looking slightly worried.
"What did you see?" Emma asked.
"Jenny." He said. He looked at Rhia.
"Jenny? Jenny Lupin Jenny?" Rhia asked.
"The one and only." Harry said.
"Why did you see Jenny?" Ron asked.
"I don't know." Harry said, "Apparently she's a Death Eater."
"It's just Voldemort trying to play tricks on your mind again." Rhia said, "Jenny would never be a Death Eater."
"That's what I'm thinking" Harry said.
"Voldemort does specialise in breaking up friends and family." Emma said quietly. "You sure it was Jenny?" She asked. Harry nodded. "I'll go and tell dad you had a vision." She said. "Ron." She looked at Ron.
"Ok, yeah, I'll come with you. Rhia, don't let him out of the bed." Ron said. Rhia nodded and looked at Harry. He was rubbing his forehead furiously.
"Harry, don't." She said once the door had closed again. She took his hands and stopped him from rubbing his forehead.
"I want to get him out of my mind!" Harry muttered with frustration.
"I know, just try and block it Harry." Rhia said.
"I can't. I've tried and I failed!" Harry said. Rhia scowled. Harry looked at Rhia. "What are you doing here?" He asked, suddenly realising it was Rhia on his bed.
"Emma and I heard mum and your parents talking. There was an attack on the ministry earlier." Rhia said, "Well, on a branch of the ministry, some animagus and Werewolf files were taken" She said. She risked touching Harry's face and stroked it gently. Harry didn't seem to notice. He was thinking. Why? Why would Voldemort take files on Animagus and Werewolves? Was he trying to collect information? His dad was an animagus, Sirius was. Bo was a werewolf, was it those files that were missing? Harry looked at Rhia. He had to admit that she looked incredibly beautiful, especially in the gloominess of his room. She was kneeling beside him.
"You feeling any better?" She asked him. Harry smiled faintly at her.
"I'm sorry about blowing up at you the other day." Harry said. "I should have guessed you felt that way towards me." Rhia dropped her hands and turned away.
"Oh, um...would it be possible for you to forget about that?" Rhia asked. Harry smirked.
"No." Rhia looked at Ron's messed up and empty bed. Her heart was speeding up as usual. She knew she was going to blush soon. No, please no don't blush Rhia thought to herself. Harry didn't know what he was doing, he reached forwards and took Rhia's hand. She looked straight at him in surprise. His face was coming closer to her face. Could it be possible that he suddenly wanted to kiss her? Rhia hoped so, very very much
"What-" She started to say but Harry put a finger to her lips. He put his mouth near her ear, so close he could feel his breath.
"Parents." He said quietly. And sure enough they could hear their parents outside.
"What happened?" Asked Sirius.
"We can't find Jenny." Lily said breathlessly. "I've looked everywhere but since her house burnt down I don't know where to find her."
"Apparently Harry had a vision with Jenny in it." James said quietly. "Emma and Ron just told me"
"Jenny?" Lily and Sirius asked at the same time.
"Yeah, with Voldemort." James said. The door suddenly burst open and the light came on. Rhia and Harry were partially blinded by the sudden light. Rhia let out a small noise of annoyance and buried her head into Harry's shoulder to stop being blinded. Harry closed his eyes and shaded his eyes with his hands. James, Lily and Sirius were looking at him and Rhia.
"What's going on here?" Lily asked sternly.
"Nothing." Harry said. He was very aware of Rhia pressed against him. He let go of her and she slowly turned to look at their parents.
"Hi dad." She said with a soft smile. Sirius was looking at them curiously.
"I thought you were with Hermione." He said to Harry.
"I am. Rhia and I were talking." Harry said.
"Then why-"
"Sirius." Lily snapped. "Harry, what did you see?"
"Voldemort putting the Cruciatus curse on Jenny. He said she was a Death Eater or something but other then that I don't really remember. She'd done a good job with something and she's been ordered to kill us. But Jenny can't be a Death Eater." Harry said.
"Why not?" James asked. "It's very possible"
"Because she's good, she's Jenny!" Rhia said.
"They're right, Jenny couldn't possibly be a Death Eater." Lily said turning to James. "One of my friends would never turn!"
"That's what we thought about Peter." James said sombrely. Lily tensed. "At least we have warning about Jenny."
"But Jenny isn't a Death Eater!" Harry said.
"What did you say she was called in your vision?" James asked.
"Voldemort called her a Death Eater." Harry muttered.
"Therefore she is a Death Eater!" James said, Lily was about to protest but James silenced her. "Lily, we can't take any chances. No one in this house is going to talk to Jenny Lupin. No one is to have contact with her and she is to have, under no circumstance, contact with her son!" James said.
"James! She's my best friend! You can't just exclude her!" Lily snapped. "She hasn't done anything to hurt us!"
"Neither had Peter!" Sirius said. Lily looked at Sirius.
"You're siding with him as well?" She asked.
"Well, yeah. If Harry says that she's a Death Eater then she's a Death Eater." Sirius said, "Plus, no one expected Peter to turn and he did. There's nothing to stop Jenny from turning." Lily gaped at the two of them in disbelief.
"I don't believe you two." She said.
"Jenny Lupin is not a Death Eater dad!" Rhia said, leaning against Harry. Sirius turned to Rhia.
"Rhiannon, go back to bed!" Sirius snapped. Rhia jumped at the use of her full name. Her dad didn't use it unless he was very very stressed out and annoyed. Rhia looked at him rather annoyed.
"Fine but She's not a Death Eater!" Rhia muttered as she risked giving Harry a quick kiss on the cheek and left the room. Harry didn't stop her, he was too tired to. Lily glared at James and Sirius.
"I can't believe you two. Jenny would never turn against us, not after all this time, not after everything that has happened to her." Lily said. Her voice was low, dangerously low. Harry knew she was very angry when she used that tone. "Harry go to sleep, we have to leave early tomorrow. You two out so Ron and Harry can get some sleep."
"Lily, you are not to talk to Jenny at all, not one word." James said pointing an accusing finger at Lily.
"Just stop me James, just try and I swear-" Lily left the sentence unsaid. Everyone knew what she meant. She stormed out of the room. Harry rubbed his forehead. It was still very painful. Maybe his dream wasn't a manipulation. He felt a feeling of Anger in his gut and he hated it. He lay back in his bed and took off his glasses. He pressed his palms against his forehead and tried to sleep.
"Harry, could I have a word with you?" James asked. Harry glanced at his dad. Sirius had left and closed the door behind him.
"What do you want dad?" Harry asked tiredly. James walked to Ron's bed and sat on it. He rested his arms on his legs and looked at Harry. Why did Harry feel so uncomfortable being alone with his dad? He shouldn't feel uncomfortable. He was fine when he was on his own with his mum, April, Sirius or Jenny but why not with his dad?
"I've been meaning to have a talk to you about something." He said.
"What's that dad? If it's about school, I know I have to work harder, and try harder at Occlumency." Harry muttered tiredly.
"No, not school Harry." James said. James looked at Harry.
"What then?" Harry asked, he sat up in his bed.
"What was Rhia doing in your bed?" James asked bluntly. Harry spluttered.
"What?" He asked, "Is this about Rhia? I swear, everyone knew she loved me. I'm not with her. I'm with Hermione. Hermione is my girlfriend!" Harry said. James nodded.
"Yes but why was Rhia in your bed?" James asked. Harry looked at his dad incredulously.
"I was having a nightmare vision thing and she came in to comfort me I think. She was here when I woke up." Harry said.
"Really?" James asked, "What kind of comforting?" He asked.
"What are you trying to get at Dad?" Harry asked.
"Harry I want you to treat the girls well." James said, "Don't cheat on Hermione."
"I don't plan on cheating on her." Harry said.
"And don't play with Rhia's feelings. They're both very delicate girls, particularly Rhia, she's been in love with you since she was nine." Harry raised his eyebrows at this. "And while you're at school I don't want you to even look at another girl if you're with someone. Don't sleep with them before they are ready" James said, emphasising the word 'they'. Harry looked at his dad uncertainly.
"Don't you think you should be giving this talk to Emma?" Harry asked.
"Harry I'm being serious. Having sex with a girl can lead to very severe consequences that I myself never found out but Remus and Sirius did. Wait until you're married before having sex with a girl, when you're in a position to look after her." James said. Harry couldn't believe he was having this talk with his dad.
"I'm not going to have...have sex with anyone." Harry said. James was looking at him seriously.
"And no girls in the bed."
"I don't plan on doing that either!" Harry snapped. "Dad, I haven't seen you in weeks and this is what you want to talk about?"
"Harry I'm being serious. I meant to give you this talk last year but I forgot." James said. Harry looked at him rather annoyed.
"Dad, I'm not like you." Harry said, "I'm not going to sleep around and get off with every single girl I see. If anything Emma's like that. Do you know how many boyfriends she had last year? She had eight...in a month!" Harry said. James looked at Harry rather surprised.
"Harry, don't accuse your sister of doing things like that. She wouldn't do that." James said. Harry looked at his dad rather bored.
"What because she's a girl?" Harry asked, "You expect me to sleep around because I'm a boy and Emma not to because she's a girl?"
"No, because she's your mother's daughter." James said.
"And yours as well Dad." Harry said. "I thought you wanted to talk about something else like congratulate me on making Quidditch captain or to wish me luck for the year. Good night dad." Harry said, he buried himself in his bed with James looking rather stunned. Harry's words struck him hard. He was beginning to realise just how bad a dad he was.
"Harry," James said gently. Harry grunted a reply. "Well done and good luck this year. If you have any problems you know you can come to me." He said.
"I'll go to mum if I have a problem." Harry muttered. "Now can you leave." Harry said. James sighed and got up. He went to the door of the bedroom feeling rather depressed. He'd gotten his wife and son angry with him in less then ten minutes. He decided that he wasn't even going to attempt to talk to Emma for fear that she would get angry with him as well. No, he'd buy her something. It had always worked for Sirius with Rhia.
A/N:-Denial is not just a river in Egypt....see any patterns coming up again? dum dum dum.!!! Anyway, making good progress. I'm finally out of the Summer holidays and in the latest chapter i've written there's a lovely little scene between Rhia and Hermione concerning a certain HArry Potter. In the next chapter a brilliant scene between Malfoy and Bo Lupin. We see a few of Bo's classmates etc etc. If you haven't guessed. NExt chapter is Bo's PoV!!! It was fun to go back into first person again. I think the next one will be HArry or Ron....don't ask why, it just will be, unless you want someone else. Rhia will be in the christmas chapters. But he's the first of a series of First person PoVs. I might add in another Lily and JAmes PoVs as well as April Sirius and Jenny, I really dunno yet. All possible aspects. Sorry if i've been neglecting anything from the books like painful scars and dreams but hopefully i shood be getting back on track again. I'm hoping to anyway. My editor thingy wont work so I can't put things in bold or underline :( Hope you liked this chapter, i'm off to bed...DAY OFF SCHOOL TOMOZ!! YEA!!