A.N. Completely forgot to finally reply to your reviews but I promise I will...if my teachers have nice things to say about me on Tuesday...yikes!

Ages:-

Daniel - 15,

Krystal -16,

Isabella -1,

Ethan and Nathan - 8,

Natalie - 14

Chapter 7 - Family

Harry and Hermione stood outside after having rang the doorbell and waited. Not a minute later the door opened to reveal a woman with long brown hair and bright blue eyes balancing a year old baby, who looked just like her on her hip. Her eyes widened when she saw who was standing there and she squealed. Laughing, Harry and Hermione stepped inside.

"Hey Sammy." Hermione and Samantha hugged each other before Hermione pulled back and tickled the little girl. "Hello Isabella." Isabella smiled and hid her face in her mommy's dress.

Samantha turned to Harry. "You!"

Thinking quickly Harry grabbed Isabella and walked off. "Hey Sam!" He shouted over his shoulder to his father's wife, as he tickled his little sis.

Samantha and Hermione stood there for a while before bursting out into laughter.

Harry stepped into the living room talking to Isabella.

"HARRY!!" Two sets of arms encircled him and he smiled softly to himself.

"You know Izzy I'm not sure if they're hugging me or trying to kill me." Izzy giggled cutely at this and held on tighter to him.

They pulled back and Harry carefully viewed the rest of his siblings. Daniel was just as tall as him; he had the traditional Potter hair but his mother's blue eyes which still held that childish innocence. As opposed to Krystal who was a bit taller than both of them and had silky smooth, long black hair and hazel eyes. She had that I-Hate-The-World type of attitude. They were both slim and tanned and thankfully not rebellious like Harry. Standing beside each other, they could be mistaken for triplets.

"Miss me?" Harry just had to ask.

Krystal rolled her eyes and Daniel just grinned. The two of them looked at each other and said no. Their shouting had drawn the rest of the household and guest to the living room. James and Harry stared at each other while Krystal took Isabella from Harry. James swept his son into a big hug as Hermione's family crowed around her taking chances to squeeze her to death. Samantha cleared her throat.

"I'm glad you could as make it. Dinner's now ready and I'd love for you to help me Krystal." Krystal groaned and handed Isabella to Daniel before following her mother into the kitchen.

Laughter filled the house, almost drowning out the sound of someone running up and down the stairs and the slamming of a door. The atmosphere in the Potters living room was light and happy. James, Samantha, Jane and Kyle were drinking coffee and talking about god knows what. Natalie, with her dirty blonde hair, almost too much makeup and completely pink outfit, looked out of place sulking in front of the television with a drooling Isabella in her lap. Hermione was chasing her twin brothers, Nathan and Ethan, around the house.

"Izzy help!" Ethan shouted as Hermione cornered him.

Isabella jumped up and clasped her hands while laughing. With a yell Nathan threw himself onto Hermione who swung him around and started tickling him. Ethan took the chance to run into his mother's lap.

"Tr...tra...traitor!" Nathan screamed through his laughter making all the adults laugh.

"Hermione dear, why don't you put your poor brother down and see what's wrong with Natalie?"

Hermione made a face at her mother but did exactly as she was told. Sitting beside her sister Hermione leaned over and poked her.

"What?!"

Hermione glared angrily at Natalie. "What's with the attitude? I don't know what your problem as of late is, but you better get your act together. I haven't seen you in two months and I not only spend the night with you but I live close by also and you're just going to ignore me?"

Natalie held her head down and brushed Isabella's hair out of her face. "It's hard being a teenager, I know you know this but it's harder going through all these problems with parents who only ever seem to have eyes for the twins. You're lucky enough to have Harry 'cuz I know he's always there for you but there's never anyone for me." Natalie got up and walked off with a confused Isabella on her hip and all Hermione could do was to stare after her obviously depressed and ignorant younger sister. Leaning back Hermione muttered, "I'm getting too old for this."

Harry, Krystal and Daniel lay on the floor staring at the ceiling. Harry could swear that every time he came over, Krystal's room was a different colour. This time it started out the darkest purple imaginable at the bottom of the walls and lightened up as the walls got higher turning blue where the wall met the ceiling with silver lines creating the most curvaceous and graceful designs.

"Krissy?"

"Hmm?"

"What's with the multicoloured walls?"

Krystal jumped up and threw herself onto her king sized bed with an iron bed head that matched the silver designs on the walls. "What? You like it?"

Harry rolled onto his stomach and propped himself up on his elbows. "Yeah."

Daniel jumped up and shouted. "I did it!"

Harry and Krystal started laughing.

"Yeah, Danny and mom did it for my birthday."

"It's cool."

Daniel looked between the two of them for a while. Harry yawned and stretched, his shirt rode up exposing his flat stomach and slender waist.

"Hey, Har?"

"Yeah Dan?"

"What's with that bruise?"

Harry tried hard not to react to the question but he felt his body tense up and he knew Daniel would notice. His brother might act really immature but he was very observant and perceptive...when he wanted to be. Sighing he pulled his shirt down regretting that he had ever stretched.

"What happened?"

Harry shook his head. "Nothing happened. Well, nothing of interest. I simply wasn't playing attention while going over my music and ran into something."

Daniel and Krystal narrowed their eyes; the look alone told Harry that they didn't believe him. Sighing, Harry sat up and held his arms out motioning for them to come to him. Daniel leaned on his shoulder while Krystal sat in his lap and buried her face in his sweater so her voice came out muffled.

"Don't you trust us?"

Harry kissed the tops of his siblings head. "Of course I do but you need to trust me enough to know that when I say it's nothing, it's nothing. Ok?"

Daniel smiled and nodded and although Harry knew he wasn't convinced, he couldn't help but feel relieved that he was letting it go. Krystal on the other hand just stared at him.

"I hope I'm right in trusting you. We rarely see you but you're always here and I don't think I could live if something happened to you."

Harry smiled sadly and tightened his grip on both of his siblings. "I love you too."

A.N. Not my best, I know but I tried. Oh, I totally forgot to mention this months birthdays (I always do it). So happy belated birthday mommy, Karla, daddy and Jodi. I love October now, I gots to drink!!!...lol...review please.

P.S. please check out my story 'L'inizio e la risurrezione di vita e la morte ' it would mean a lot to me...thank you!