"There is no need to feel upset about anything." Jenny said to Sirius. "It's perfectly normal to feel annoyed when your daughter is upset."
"Or not talking to you." Lily muttered as she had another drink. The adults were getting rather tipsy. It was dark outside, the snow was falling thickly outside. James gave Lily a kiss and hugged her.
"Don't worry, Emma will come round." He said. April gave Lily a sympathetic look.
"Yeah, she's just going through a difficult time." April said.
"If that's what you want to call it." Lily muttered.
"Well she's not talking to me either." Bo put in as he went to the fridge to get a drink. He was on his way out when the adults looked at him.
"What?" Jenny asked. "Emma's not talking to you?" Bo shook his head.
"She hasn't been for a month or so now. No big loss." He said as he headed out. Sirius sighed and was about to say something when they heard Orion shouting in alarm.
"AAAAAHHH!!!" Orion shouted. The adults got up and head into the hallway to see Orion and Emma wrestling over the door.
"Let me see!" Emma said.
"No, it's too disturbing!" Orion said, keeping the door closed.
"Oh come on, I'm older then you." Emma said.
"What's happening?" James asked. Emma and Orion suddenly both turned to look at the adults innocently.
"Nothing" They both said together. Lily scowled and went to the door.
"What's happening?" Lily asked.
"No, don't go in there." Emma said as Lily opened the door. She opened the door and saw Rhia pulling on one of Harry's jumpers while Harry was pulling on his t-shirt. Lily closed the door and looked at James.
"Ok." Lily said slowly. "Um…"
"What's going on?" Sirius asked. "It's Rhia isn't it?" He asked. He reached for the door as well. Lily tried to stop him but he opened the door. The first thing he noticed was Rhia's shirt half way across the room. He looked at Harry and Rhia on the sofa.
"Hi dad." Rhia said almost nervously.
"You!" Sirius said to Harry. Harry scrambled to his feet and ran from the room. Sirius caught him around the waist and they both fell to the floor
"I didn't do anything." Harry said.
"Sirius!" April shouted in alarm. She went to Sirius to help Lily pull him off Harry. James pulled Harry to his feet while Jenny just tried to keep the children clear. Harry stumbled back into the wall and looked at Sirius fearfully.
"Where did you touch her!" Sirius asked Harry angrily. The two mums trying their hardest to keep Sirius back. Rhia ran out of the room, earning a curious look from Bo and Emma. Rhia stood next to Harry.
"I didn't touch her anywhere…" Harry stopped slightly, "dodgy." He finished uncertainly. Sirius struggled against Lily and April.
"Sirius! Remember what we talked about." April said.
"He touched my daughter, I won't let that happen."
"That's it." Jenny said tiredly. "Impedimenta!" She said pointing her wand at Sirius. Sirius froze and Lily and April let go of him.
"Thank you." April said as she straightened properly.
"Um, I'm going to my bedroom." Harry said slowly. James gave him a warning look and he stayed where he was.
"Kids in the living room." James said. Harry started for the living room but James forced him to stay. April stopped Rhia from going anywhere.
"Bo, do you mind looking after them?" Lily asked him kindly.
"Of course not." Bo said. He went into the living room. "Nice knowing you two." Bo said to Rhia and Harry with a smirk. Rhia gave him a sneer and went back to Harry.
"Harry, you better stand back a bit when we unfreeze Sirius." April said. Harry nodded and made sure that Rhia was between him and Sirius. "Finite Incantatum." Sirius stumbled slightly and got to his feet. He glared at Harry but didn't make any movement towards him.
"Ok." April said, "We're going to sort this out."
"Fine. Harry stay away from Rhia." Sirius said.
"Sirius!" April said.
"No, lets do this this way." James said. He looked at Rhia and Harry. "No sex until you're married. Not under this roof, not under Sirius' roof, at Grimmauld place, Hogwarts or anywhere else until you two have a made a life long commitment." James said.
"What?" Harry asked.
"But we're not going to get married…I think." Rhia said.
"We love each other." Harry said.
"Your dad and I waited." Lily said.
"But my parents didn't." Rhia said. Glaring at her parents.
"How do you know that?" James asked.
"Oh come on." Rhia said. "I'm fifteen and they've been married for fourteen years. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what that means." April scratched her head as Sirius looked at April.
"You told her?" Sirius asked
"Um, yeah." April said uncertainly. The other adults looked at April. "Well I don't see the harm in them sleeping with each other." Harry grinned at April.
"Take that look off your face Potter." Sirius snapped at Harry. Harry wiped the grin off his face immediately.
"But we do." Lily said. "Harry you are not to have sex with anyone until you're married."
"Who said we were going to have sex?" Rhia asked.
"Why do you have Harry's jumper on?" Sirius asked Rhia. Rhia shifted uncomfortably and returned to Harry's arms. "No sex and that's final! No touching inappropriate places, no kissing anywhere but the face and no pieces of clothing is to be removed from each other's bodies, understood!" Sirius demanded.
"Yes." Rhia muttered.
"Harry?" James demanded.
"Fine. Alright." Harry grumbled.
"Good." Sirius said. He returned to the kitchen with James. April and Lily looked at each other before Lily returned to the kitchen as well with Jenny. April hung back slightly and looked at Rhia and Harry.
"For all it's worth, I really don't care as long as you don't get pregnant." April said. She put her hand into her pocket and took out a scrap of parchment. She put it into Rhia's hand before joining the other adults. Rhia looked at Harry and then opened up the parchment.
"Point wand at abdomen and say the following charm. Inhibitus Pregnatum." Rhia read. She started laughing and looked at Harry.
"What do you want to do after that highly embarrassing encounter?" Harry asked. Rhia grinned and kissed Harry on the lips. He wrapped his arms around her and then picked her up. "I thought so." He said. He lifted her up the stairs, while Rhia laughed.
"Don't. I'm too heavy." Rhia said.
"No you're not." Harry said with a smile. He pushed the door to his bedroom open and went to the bed. Rhia grinned and pulled him on top of him as he kissed her.
"Well it's time that we left I think." Sirius said.
"Yeah, me too. As of today I am in hiding from Voldemort." Jenny grumbled.
"No talk of Voldemort today please." James said. Lily had long since gone to bed. Something had made her feel a bit ill. That and she'd had a bit too much to drink.
"I'll get the children." April said with a yawn. Sirius nodded. Jenny and April went to the living room and opened the door. There were sleeping children all over the room. Jessie was asleep with her head on Bo's lap and she was using his arm as a kind of teddy bear. Kaylee was curled up on a large comfy chair. Orion was sprawled out on the floor and Emma had her head on Orion's back. The only two people missing were Harry and Rhia.
"Bo." Jenny whispered. Bo frowned and opened his eyes.
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Home." She whispered. Bo nodded and slowly slid from underneath Jessie's head and tried to pry her grip on his arm loose. April smiled and went in and picked up Jessie with a little bit of difficulty. Jessie put her arms around April and was content sleeping on April with her head on April's shoulder.
"I'll see you soon." Jenny said.
"Alright, have a good journey. I think there may be an order meeting soon." Jenny nodded and disapparated. Bo grabbed his coat and said bye to April before disapparating. Sirius came in tiredly and looked at April. He scanned the children on the floor.
"We'll take the twins but leave Orion here." He said. April laughed silently.
"He'll feel loved." April said. Sirius shrugged.
"Where's Rhia?" Sirius asked.
"Three guesses." April said. Sirius turned and went up the stairs to Harry's bedroom. April followed and watched as Sirius opened the door. Rhia was cuddled in Harry's arms under his duvet. Sirius frowned at first but then he broke into a smile.
"We'll leave her here as well." Sirius whispered. April nodded and went past Sirius.
"You can take Kaylee, she's heavier." April said.
"That's fine." Sirius said. They met James in the hallway.
"I'll see you tomorrow." James said to Sirius.
"Yeah, I will." Sirius said. They gave each other a brotherly hug before Sirius went to pick up Kaylee.
Lily sat at the breakfast table uncertainly the next morning, how to tell James, how to tell James. She watched as James got some left over bits of turkey and sat next to Emma.
"James." Lily said. He looked up with a smile.
"Yes." He said.
"Um, I have something to tell you." She said.
"What's that?" James asked. His smile disappearing at Lily's seriousness.
"We're having guests for dinner" Lily said. James laughed slightly.
"That's something really bad?" He asked.
"Yes." Lily said. "We haven't seen them for a long time and they're in town so I invited them to dinner. Now don't get angry with me, I know you hate them but please just make an effort." She said quickly. Emma looked at her mum curiously.
"Who's coming to dinner?" James asked curiously.
"Petunia-" Lily didn't get to finish her sister's name when James stood up so quickly he knocked the table slightly.
"Whoa!" Orion said putting his hands on the table and grabbing his glass of cola.
"What!" James asked. "I thought I said I never wanted to see that bitch again. Especially after when we had to-" Lily stood up and took James' hands.
"Please James, for me. I haven't had the chance to actually talk to her since mum and dad died." Lily said. James looked at Lily stiffly.
"Why do they have to come here? I thought you hated her." James said.
"Who's Petunia?" Emma asked. Lily tore her gaze off James reluctantly.
"I've invited your aunt and uncle to dinner." Lily said. Emma looked at her curiously
"I have an aunt?" She asked.
"Yes." James said, "Please say you didn't invite Dudley!" Lily winced slightly. "You did! Lily!"
"I had to invite the entire family. I want Harry and Emma to know that they've got some family!" Lily said.
"I'm happy with this family." Orion said.
"I know Orion but you're not in my family." Lily said with a smile. Orion shrugged.
"Well whoever your family is can't be worse then Nick, my cousin, because last time I saw him, he bit me!" Orion said.
"Well, you were poking him with a snooker stick." Lily said. Orion nodded in agreement as Emma burst out laughing. Lily turned back to James.
"You know what happened last time Dudley came round." James said, "I don't want to have to buy Emma another guitar. Do you know how expensive they are?" James asked.
"What?" Emma asked. The mention of her name sparking some interest in her,
"It's nothing Emma. Just last time your cousin came round he broke your guitar." Lily said. She turned back to James. "Please, just be civil. You don't have to talk. You can glare at Vernon all you like."
"I can't believe you're still making efforts after everything that Petunia did to you." James said.
"Please James." Lily pleaded. James sighed and hugged Lily.
"Alright." He said. "I'll make an effort but I'm not saying anything if I can help it." He said. Lily smiled and looked at James.
"That's all I ask." She said. James smiled and kissed Lily.
"EW! No! Not here please." Emma said suddenly looking away. Orion was also looking away. Lily laughed very slightly.
"You haven't kissed me like that for a while." Lily said. James grinned and started to kiss Lily again.
"MUM! DAD!" Came Harry's voice from the door. "PLEASE! There are innocent eyes here!" He said covering Rhia's eyes.
"I'm not innocent." Rhia said pushing his eyes away. "But not in that sense." She added quickly as Lily and James broke apart and looked at Rhia and Harry. Lily rolled her eyes.
"Ok, who wants a fry up?" She asked.
"ME!" Orion said putting up his hands.
"Please." Harry said with a grin. Lily looked at James who was looking at Lily with an approving look.
"Took you nearly eighteen years but you're finally a good house wife." James joked. Lily narrowed her eyes and hit James around the back of the head before turning to the stove. Harry looked at James with a raised eyebrow. "Yep, your mum loves me." He said with a laugh.
Harry sat in a chair in the living room while Emma sat on the arm of the chair. They both looked at each other apprehensively.
"Is he supposed to be related to us?" Emma whispered.
"Yes." Harry said back.
"How?" Emma asked. Harry shrugged. They both looked back at the boy on the sofa. He nearly took up the entire sofa on his own, hence why Emma and Harry shared a chair. Their cousin, Dudley Dursley, was looking at them with what Harry could only think of as disgust. Dudley turned his eyes to Emma and smirked slightly.
"Are you supposed to be my cousin?" Dudley asked. Emma shrugged. "You look too fit to be a freak." Emma narrowed her eyes and was about to get up but Harry held her down.
"Don't or you'll be in more trouble with mum." Harry hissed to Emma.
"If he says something like that again I will kill him." Emma said.
"Same." Harry said.
"Harry, Emma, Dudley." James said poking his head in. "Dinner's ready." He said. Harry and Emma left the room as quickly as they could. They sat down in their usual seats at the dinner table before Dudley could push them away. Lily was sitting at the table trying to talk to her sister. Emma and Harry found it difficult to try and find any sort of resemblance between the two. Their uncle Vernon appeared to have no neck as well. Emma loved his moustache though. It just made her laugh every time she looked at it. Harry had to nudge her to stop it. Dudley waddled in and plopped himself in the seat next to Harry. Harry looked at Emma who was pretending to be sick. Harry laughed and looked at his parents.
"What's for dinner?" He asked.
"Roast." James said, nodding to the chicken in the middle of the table. It appeared to have already been carved and ready to eat. Harry started to serve himself and soon the dinner was well under way.
"So how's your drill company?" James asked Vernon with a fairly tight sounding voice.
"Oh it's doing rather well. Just got a large order into the company from a Japanese company called Samsung. But I doubt you'd know who Samsung is, you being one of them and all. What is it that you do? Law Enforcement?" Vernon asked politely. Lily was watching anxiously.
"No, politics." James said.
"Oh, you're one of them. Politicians are the lowest scum of the earth." Vernon said. Emma nearly choked on a bit of potato at this comment.
"No they're not!" Emma said.
"Emma." Lily said. Emma scowled at Lily and settled down to eat again. Harry smirked slightly and looked at his parent's response. Lily looked at Petunia.
"Actually, James is the minister, the magic equivalent of the prime minister." Lily said. Petunia looked at Lily rather evilly.
"And you're what? Still a nurse." Petunia asked.
"Effectively." Lily said, "It's nothing to be ashamed of."
"You were suspended mum." Emma said. Lily looked at Emma with a warning look. Petunia smirked.
"And our parents had such high hopes for you. The perfect little daughter." Petunia said. "You've disappointed them so much haven't you?" Lily looked at Petunia coldly.
"Anyway, Dudley-" James said trying to change the conversation topic.
"What are you talking about?" Harry asked Petunia.
"Mum, a disappointment? Unlikely." Emma said. Petunia looked at Emma and Harry then at Lily.
"So you didn't tell them how you killed our parents?" Petunia asked. Lily closed her eyes.
"Petunia, that was nearly twenty years ago." Lily said. Harry and Emma looked at each other confused. Vernon was leaning back and drinking his wine and Petunia looked rather smug. For once she'd have a one up on her sister. Dudley was focused on the food and was shovelling as much as he could into his mouth.
"Lily didn't kill your parents." James said to Petunia. "Now can we not talk about this."
"No, lets talk about this." Emma said with a smile. "Hear how mum screwed up."
"I didn't do anything." Lily said, "Emma, please stay out of this. I didn't kill anyone." Lily said to Petunia as she got up and left the room. Emma was about to say something but Harry covered her mouth with his hand. Petunia smirked slightly.
"You were just looking for an excuse to hurt Lily weren't you?" James asked Petunia. "Honestly, she's trying to fix things and all you do is make them worse?"
"I suppose things could have been different if she hadn't gone and killed them." Petunia said bitterly.
"Lily never killed anyone and you know that Petunia, just because you're jealous." James said. He stood up and went to the door. "You can show yourselves out of the house" James went upstairs to find Lily. Harry and Emma sat at the table very aware that they were sitting with people who obviously hated magic folk.
"Um, so…dessert?" Harry asked.
"What did mum do?" Emma asked curiously. Petunia looked at Vernon who shrugged.
"Your sister." He said. "You agreed to come here." Petunia looked to Emma and seemed slightly startled at the resemblance between Emma and Lily. She hadn't actually looked at Emma.
"She killed our parents, our family, our cousins, aunts uncles." Petunia said. Emma's eyes glittered mischievously.
"How?" Emma asked.
"By not doing anything. She knew and still knows how much danger our families are in and she didn't do a thing to protect them." Petunia said. "Which is surprising seeing as our family actually worshipped the ground Lily walked on. A witch in the family was a good thing. Didn't turn out well for our parents or anyone else when they died." She said. Harry's grip on his cutlery tightened while Emma was rather enjoying herself. "She couldn't even be bothered to come to the funerals, let alone help organise them. She always made her life out to be some sort of ancient Greek tragedy. Oh the dark lord was after her, or someone was trying to kill her again, or her son was in danger and my parents supported her and called her strong and brave. Then they took pity on Potter, just because his family had died in some fire or something. Apparently losing his sister was enough to get accepted into the family straight away. Lily's just a stupid little good for nothing, getting hurt and hospitalised the number of times that she did."
"Mum is not like that, you don't know the first thing about her!" Harry snapped as he stood up. Petunia looked at him coldly.
"And what do you know about her?" Petunia asked. "Her or that dad of yours, what they do on these mission things? Did they ever tell you?" Harry looked at her.
"What do you know about that?"
"Plenty." Petunia said.
"Oh, what happens?" Emma asked eagerly.
"Emma, shut up. The order is kept secret for a reason, we're not told for a reason." Harry said. "Get out of the house like my dad said!" Harry said. Vernon nodded and stood up.
"That was a lovely dinner, despite the fact it was cooked by your kind." Vernon said. Harry glared at him.
"We're witches and wizards." Harry said.
"Freaks." Vernon said. "Come on Dudley." Dudley got up and sneered at Harry before plodding out of the room and then into the hallway. Emma followed Petunia to the hallway and watched as she put on her coat.
"Are you older then mum?" Emma asked Petunia.
"Yes." She said distantly.
"Was she always treated like they treat Harry?" Emma asked. Petunia looked at Emma as Vernon and Dudley left and got into their car outside. "You know, like he's their only child, or comparing you to him." Petunia allowed a smile to escape her lips.
"They did." Petunia said. Emma nodded and gave Petunia a smile.
"See you again sometime." She said. Petunia nodded and left the house. Emma closed the door behind her. Harry came out of the dining room and looked at Emma.
"I wonder if mum's ok." Harry said looking up the stairs.
"Who cares? I learnt loads about mum today. Enough to stop mum being unfair to me." Emma said.
"Mum is never unfair to you." Harry said.
"Tell that to me next time you get praise and I get the other end of the stick." Emma said coldly.
James held Lily in his arms as she sobbed quietly. He didn't understand why she kept trying. She did everything to get on good terms with her sister but it never worked. Why couldn't Lily just give up with her? James kissed her cheek and stroked her hair.
"Why does she always bring them up?" Lily cried. "I've never done anything to hurt Petunia but she tries to hurt me every time I try and make peace. I didn't kill my parents! Why won't she accept it?" Lily asked James.
"I don't know. Petunia is just…she's different, she's a muggle." James said. Lily looked at James.
"And being a muggle is a bad thing? I was a muggle for eleven years of my life!" Lily said.
"I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm just saying she doesn't understand the things you've been through Lily." James said. "She doesn't understand the importance of having a strong family like you do." James said kissing Lily. He wiped Lily's eyes as he pulled away. "She's not worth it Lily, you should just forget about her."
"I can't. She's my sister." Lily said quietly. James sighed and brushed some of Lily's hair out of the way. There was a knock at the door.
"Come in." James said, not taking his eyes off Lily. The door opened and Lily shifted her eyes from James' to the door. Harry stood at the door.
"Are you ok mum?" Harry asked rather concerned. James turned to look at his son. Lily nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm going to bed, will you be ok tidying up?" She asked Harry and James.
"Are you kidding? It was what I was born to do." James said with a grin.
"Oh dear god." Lily muttered. "Maybe I should tidy up." She said getting up. James held Lily in the bed. He pushed her back down.
"Lily, stay." James said. "Harry, Emma and I will sort it all out." Lily looked slightly reluctant to let them tidy the dining room on their own but stayed under the duvet and nodded.
"If I hear anything out of the ordinary, like a crash, I'm going to be downstairs." Lily said. Harry smirked.
"I'll make sure dad does it correctly." Harry said. Lily smiled and lay back in her bed. She picked up a tissue to wipe her nose as she felt it start to run. She didn't want to think it but she thought that she might just be starting to catch a cold.
Harry was walking through the Hogwarts library stacks again. He slipped behind the ropes that separated off the restricted section of the library. He looked around before going to a bookshelf right opposite where he was standing, he took out a book with a dark green binding. He opened it up to a page that had a number at the bottom, page 593, he looked at the page. There wasn't anything on the page but as he looked closer he saw a scene unfolding below him. He seemed to fall into the image and landed on his feet in a large empty room. As he turned to look around through transparent images seemed to be flickering into life then disappearing. Bellatrix Lestrange cursing Remus and making him fall through the veil. There his mum lying in a hospital bed, peaceful and calm. Another there, Emma lying bleeding in some mud with Rhia standing over her looking determined, her robes ripped and torn, mud and dirt on her face and a trickle of blood going down her face, spells firing from her wand but disappearing into nothing as they left the image. The images all disappeared and Harry turned to see the veil hanging in front of him, an invisible force making it move in the windless room.
"He's still there Harry. You know how this will end so why fight?" came Voldemort's hiss like voice.
"You won't win Voldemort." Harry said.
"We'll see about that." Voldemort's voice said. Harry turned again like some force was making him do so. He was suddenly in his back garden. There was a figure standing in the gloom with a bunch of flowers in her hands. She bent over and placed them on the ground by what looked like a gravestone. Harry walked forwards and tried to put a hand on the figure but he couldn't for some reason. He walked around and saw it was Rhia, maybe a year or two older then she was now. He looked at the Gravestone.
HARRY POTTER 1980-1997
LOVED SON, CHERISHED BROTHER, TREASURED FRIEND
SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR WIZARDKIND
"It's not going to end like this." Harry said into the darkness. He heard Voldemort chuckling.
"We'll see Harry Potter, we'll see" Harry faded into the blackness as the Rhia in his dream gave a sob.
A/N:-This took like forever to read over again and post cause i'm talking to one of my frends over the net. It's soo fun talking over hte net but the mic reception is a bit fuzzy, haha. Anyway, I have a bit of time now to do this A/N. OH MY GOD PHANTOM IS SO GOOOD!!! sorry, i got the movie companion guide is absolutely awesome!! it's completely wiked!!! Thank you for all your great and brilliant reviews, I love you all so much and Charmerbelle/lisa You will get more in time. Trust. KEep up the long reviews, I LOVE them so much, cause they give me something to read and seeing as Bo has stolen the book i was reading and keep teasing me about it, i need something to read...grumble...I hate the real Bo sometimes (by the way, I named Bo Bo before the real Bo took the nickname Bo so it was total coincidence that Bo and Bo share the same name, Confusing? i thort so). Keep an eye on that dream, I totally forgot i put it there but hey! it's a cool dream don't you think? it has inspired me to write about a few more things, i got a few more storylines planed....teehee....