Disclaimer: My name is The Munchkin, not JK Rowling. Any character that you don't recognise ain't mine.
Chapter 4: Is That Another Planet?
April 30th 1981.
Lily had immediately agreed to a trip to Australia, but Remus neglected to tell that to James, who begged his wife to let them go on a holiday. When Remus and Lily burst out laughing, he knew he had his answer. Sirius, on the other hand…
"Australia? Where's that? Is that another planet?" Sirius was completely confused.
"No Sirius. Australia is a country near New Zealand and Indonesia," Remus said, slipping into teacher mode.
He would make a fantastic teacher one day, James thought. Hope he would teach Harry.
Sirius was still confused but he knew that if James was going, it would be fun. Heck, would be fun even if it was just Remus and I.
Sirius agreed and three days later they were nearly ready to go.
May 2nd 1981
Sirius was at the table eating ice cream when he heard a familiar popping noise. He put his hand on his wand at looked at the doorway that separated him from the room where everyone Apparated to. He watched as the door slowly opened and a small, raven haired child crawled through. He transformed and slowly crawled over to Harry.
"Padfoo!" Harry cried.
The door opened wider and a brilliant white stag entered.
"Pongs!" Harry was happy to see the two Animagus but when they transformed back into the two men, he bounced up and down.
"Whoa! Someone's had red cordial," Sirius said, looking accusingly at James.
"He most certainly has not."
Sirius pick Harry up and the two men walked into the Lounge, collapsing into armchairs.
"All packed?" James asked.
"Yep. Where are we Apparating from?" Remus had neglected to tell Sirius of this fact.
"Uh… Sirius? We aren't Apparating."
"What? Then how are we getting there?"
"We are flying on a plane. We can't Apparate with Harry, Sirius."
"Plane? What's that?"
It was 7pm when James got home that night. After telling Lily that he was explaining something to Sirius, he put Harry to bed and got something to eat. Lily understood that explaining something to Sirius could take a while and she magically heated up James' soup. They talked about the forth coming trip, Lily reassuring James that planes were perfectly safe and that she was sure that he would have fun in Australia.
Over at Remus and Amy's flat, there was a discussion about whether Helen's house could hold everyone.
"Remus, you of all people should know what James and Sirius are like. They will destroy her house!"
"Amy, calm down. Helen married a millionaire and they have a huge house. She also has five kids, four boys, so I doubt anything James or any of us do will shock her."
Amy put on her sulking face and stepped over to Remus, slowly putting her hands around his waist. She smiled as he kissed her on the nose.
"Do you know what today is?" Amy asked.
"May 2nd," Remus replied, containing his smile, knowing what was coming.
"No, it's a Thursday, and you said every Thursday, we do something"
"Ok. You go up to bed," Remus said again kissing Amy's nose, "and I will get the…how do I put it? 'Proper equipment'"
TBC
(Yet another cliffie. Mwahahahah.) I am soooo evil. Hey, that's a new name. Munchkin the Evil. Haha. Oh well, I'm over it.