AN: I do not own Harry Potter

The coffee mug had left a water mark on the table. Lily took another sip of her now cold coffee before sighing. Rising to her feet she set the mug in the sink before padding silently up the stairs. She winced as the fourth step creaked and she heard Sirius' snoring cease from the downstairs bedroom, and the bedsprings creak in Holly's room at the top of the stairs.

Resigning herself to the now very busy morning that was coming her way she continued the rest of the way to Harry's room without bothering to be quiet. Pushing the door open she was unsurprised to find him still asleep. Like James he could sleep through anything. She took a minute before gently shaking him awake.

"Harry luv," Lily whispered. "It's time to get up. First day of school, and you don't want to be late." She laughed as Harry rolled over and faced the wall.

"G' way Mum, I'm sleepin'."

Lily smiled and ruffled his hair.

"Come on luv, it'll be fun. You'll meet kids your own age, and get to play outside and learn all sorts of new things," Lilly pulled Harry up into a sitting position as she spoke.

"Mummmmm," Harry groaned falling back and tugging the covers up over his head.

"Harry James Potter I asked you to get up, and now I'm telling you," she said poking his shoulder through the quilt. "Get up now before I get Sirius. And you know he'll get the water bucket and poor it all over you..."

That did the trick. Harry shot up out of the bed kicking his blankets aside and glaring at his mother. He pulled his shirt over his head still glaring at his mother, and threw it on his bedroom floor. He couldn't understand why Mum and Uncle Sirius insisted that he go to some school.

"Why can't I just stay home and play with Holly?" This sounded much more appealing to Harry; he could play with his sister and pull pranks with Sirius. And he could watch his mum try and catch them.

"Everyone has to go to school sometime Harry," the sleepy voice mumbled from the door. Lily smiled when she saw Sirius; he had grown on her since Hogwarts and even more so since Halloween.

"Sirius is right Harry," Lily said. "You'll have lots of fun there is nothing to worry about."

"I wanna sleep though," Harry whined running a hand through his messy hair. He picked up a shirt and put it on. "Holly gets to."

"Hawwy! Hawwy!" A little high pitched voice cried from the hall. "Come and pway with me." Holly came running into her brother's room in her feety pajamas clutching a tiny stuffed deer.

"Say again about Holly sleeping," Sirius muttered. Harry rolled his eyes at Sirius, and turned to his mother with pleading eyes only to receive a light swat.

"Go and get your breakfast Harry," Lily watched as Harry went for the door only to have Sirius throw him over his shoulder and carry him laughing down the stairs. She then bent to pick up Holly before she could run after them.

"You are coming with me, little lady, and we are going to get you ready for the day."

"Okay mummy," Holly nodded and allowed her mother to carry her back to her own room across the hall.

Holly's room was cleaner than Harry's – in that her clothes were tucked away neatly. Toys still littered the floor of the room, and stuffed animals grazed in groups in various places around the room. Neither one of her children were particularly neat, they would need to grow out of that reasonably soon.

"If Mum sees this she's gonna be really mad Padfoot," Harry laughed as Sirius set him down on the counter. Harry scrambled up on the counter and began to look for the sugariest breakfast cereal he could find.

"Then we had better find that cereal before she gets down here," Sirius winked at the boy, and pulled some bowls from the cupboard. Harry laughed pulling down the cereal from where it was hidden behind the bran flakes.

"She has to get squiggly Holly ready," Harry said. "She'll be awhile."

Meanwhile Lily was upstairs trying to dress Holly to no avail. If Holly had her way she would run around naked all day.

"Holly, come on now luv," Lily said resisting the urge to plead. "You need to get ready." Lily had been naïve enough to think that Holly would get ready without a fuss. After all she had taken off her pajama's without problem, but now she was hidden behind the chest of drawers.

"No mummy," she cried from her hiding spot. "I don' wan' t' go. Wan' t' s'ay and pway."

"If you put your clothes on you can play with Harry before he goes to school," Lily had caught the child's attention. "But if you don't get dressed there won't be any time." Holly came running out with a smile, and Lily slipped the dress over her head. Lily smiled and gave her – now clothed – daughter a tight squeeze. "There, that wasn't so hard luv, Now let's go see Harry and get some breakfast, yeah?"

Holly grinned and bolted out the door.

"Hold on to the railing," Lily shouted after her, and watched as Holly wrapped a tiny hand on the rail to support her on the way down.

"Come on Harry," Sirius said helping his godson off of the counter. "Here she comes."

"Should I pour Holly a bowl too Sirius?" Harry smiled from behind the cereal box.

"Of course," Sirius winked. "We wouldn't want her to miss out on the sugar rush now." Normally sugary cereal was a Saturday treat, but it was a special day. Sirius could deal with a sugar high four year old later. Harry nodded and poured a bowl of cereal for his sister just as she came running into the kitchen with Lily right behind her.

"Sirius," Lily had spotted the cereal right away. "They should be eating a healthy breakfast. They do not need all of that sugar."

"But mummmmmmmmmm," both kids had taken up the cry at the same time and put on their puppy faces.

"It is a special day Lily," Sirius reminded her gently not wanting to face the Evan's temper.

"Fine," Lily said with a smirk. "Then you can deal with the hyper child all day. Come on Harry it's time to go."

"Mummy you sai' we coul' pway," Holly said over a mouthful of cereal.

"We don't have time now luv, Harry has to go to school."

Reviews are golden, and help prevent that dreaded disease called writers block...