I just realized that Roxanne, Dom and Louis are nowhere in this story. Might add them sometime later, hmm?

This is the last part of Glitter & Explosions, and then I can get on with the rest of my little story things- [These don't seem to count as drabbles anymore…]

It was way too quiet upstairs. Ginny was starting to panic. Calm down, she thought, it's nothing. They're not doing anything. That was the problem. What in the name of all things magical was going on up there?

…Wait.

James and Albus were up there, Rose, Scorpius, Victoire, Teddy, Fred, Percy's annoying lot, Hugo… Someone was missing…

Ginny tiptoed up the stairs, -paranoia? Of course not, don't be silly- and peeked around the slightly open door into James' room. Lily wasn't there.
Ginny considered pretending she hadn't realized and just going on with her life, but Harry would eventually come home and ask for the little oddball and she'd have to tell him something. Why'd she have to marry a family man?

"So, I think that should pretty much solve our problem."

James' eyes had glazed over five seconds into her explanation. Scorpius liked to think he'd lasted reasonably longer but by the end of her mini-speech he was halfway through the Scottish anthem.

"Er," Teddy had been listening… mostly… kind of, "if you think that'll work then sure."

Victoire rolled her eyes at the boys who were trying to pretend they hadn't completely zoned out, "I think that's a feasible plan, Rosie."

"At least someone was listening," Rose huffed and sat down on James' bed.

"So we should just-"

"Where's Lily?" Ginny walked in, watching them suspiciously.

"Err," Teddy said hesitantly.

"Did she run away from home or something? Don't bother covering up for her," she warned.

"Err," Teddy repeated, backing away from her. Victoire and the others shadowed him while James and Fred made a break for the exit.

"I don't think so," Ginny said sweetly, closing the door behind her, "see, my daughter's kind of not here and I need to know where she is. No one's leaving until then."

Silence.

James considered jumping out the window. It was only three stories up, really. Breaking his neck wouldn't be so bad…

"Does anyone want to tell me where she is?"

Molly raised her hand and sat up straighter. Ginny sighed, "We're not at Hogwarts, Molly, no need to raise your hand."

"Traitor," hissed James.

Molly glared at him, "We should have brought this to an authority figure to begin with."

"Brought what?" Ginny asked exasperatedly. Authority figure? Seriously?

"Lily's been sent back in time," Molly answered dutifully.

Victoire face palmed again. This would be the last time she invited Molly anywhere, Lucy too, she was growing up to be just like her goddamn sister.

"Okay, how the hell do I get home?" Lily had returned Bellatrix's wand, it didn't quite work with her and she wouldn't need it anyway, pshh.

The unicorn tossed its mane haughtily and subtly shook the manacles around its legs as though saying, Well, you could start with setting me free.

"Only if you promise not to run away," and now Lily was talking to a unicorn, fantastic, she was losing her marbles too.

The unicorn snorted. "Shall I take that for a yes?" Lily asked. He snorted again. "Sweet."

She went back to the unconscious Death Eater and yanked the key off from the necklace around her neck.

"Stay still," and she was still talking to the prettyprettypretty unicorn. Garblegarblegarble-

"You're free." The unicorn took a few cautious steps then nuzzled its snout into Lily's hair.

SQUEEEE~

"So, you're trying to tell me that Lily ate your candy and got sent back in time?"

They nodded, afraid to speak. Ginny's face was changing colours, and then she seemed to calm down.

Ginny shrugged, "If you're all so afraid of me, you might as well go get her home before she gets killed. Do that and we'll just pretend this never happened?"

More silent nodding. Scorpius wasn't even certain what was so scary about her, she wasn't doing anything.

"Good." Ginny left.

"… Let's go save Lily before she changes her mind."

"I know right? Gosh, boys are so stupid… It's so hard sometimes, you know?"

The unicorn snorted sympathetically; at least she understood Lily's pain.

"And then they act like-"

"! I DON'T WANT TO DIEEEEEEEEEEE-!"

James, Victoire, Teddy, Rose, Scorpius, Fred and Al fell through what looked like a gigantic black hole unto the dungeon floor in a painful heap.

"Ow," said Lily watching her relatives scramble to their feet, "That must've hurt."

"You think?" James rubbed his head where he'd fallen.

"Don't worry about the brain damage," Rose said, "There's not much more to be done."

Scorpius and Al snorted. James glared and Teddy turned his attention to Lily who was pouting at them.

"What took you so long?"

What was he supposed to say? About that, we were actually considering leaving you here- Wait, was that a unicorn?

"Nice unicorn," Victoire ignored the others and went to stand next to Lily, "We should take her home with us."

"That's what I was thinking," Lily nodded approvingly.

"Where would you put it, though?" Scorpius asked, and then felt stupid because there were a lot of places in that huge goddamn manor of theirs that a unicorn could go. Hell, there was enough space for a bunch of little unicorn families…

Which brought him to wonder what the Potters needed in a five story- not counting their monster sized attic- house. Exactly how many kids were they planning to have?

The others just stared at him as he continued to ramble on to himself.

"Nice taste you got there," Victoire snorted.

"Shut up, you thought he was fit too," Rose huffed.

Teddy choked. Victoire tossed her pale vela hair over her shoulder.

"Yeah, yeah. Can we go now?"

Princess Prettypants- Lily had decided on this name for her unicorn- ducked her head- nearly gauging Teddy's eye out in the process, that's what you get for standing so close, boy- and nudged Lily's shoulder.

"So you do want to come with us then?" Lily thought she was going to explode with excitement.

So did the others as they decided to back away from her. The unicorn snorted and tossed its mane impatiently.

"You heard the lady," Lily said, turning to the others, "Let's go."

James regretted having to bring her home. She was a hazard to society, she was.

Rose took out more of the candy that Fred and James had made to bring them back to their original time. She'd labeled and colour categorized them, damn O.C.D wouldn't leave her alone sometimes.

"If you want to take the unicorn with you you're going to have to give her a piece of your candy which will make you both arrive a few minutes behind us, in which case you'll just have to stay hidden until you hear us arrive so that your mom doesn't blow you up or something."

"'Kay," Lily shrugged, broke off a piece of her taffy and fed it to her unicorn who promptly disappeared, "See ya later-" then she was gone too.

Harry walked in and froze. He couldn't hear any of the usual noises he usually heard when he got home. No screaming Ginny telling the boys to shut up so she could get on with her article. No sadistic cackling coming from Lily's room. No explosions from James' room… Harry felt suddenly very worried.

And then the noise came rushing back so suddenly Harry wasn't sure it ever even left. There was an explosion, this one louder than most. Ginny was shrieking at James inside his room. Lily was giggling and- was that neighing he heard?

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN'S MOST BAGGY FRONTS MADE YOU THINK YOU HAD TO BRING A UNICORN HOME? HAVEN'T YOU MESSED WITH THE FLIPPING UNIVERSE ENOUGH TODAY?"

"Err," Harry ducked his head around the door and saw just about all of his nieces and nephews gathered in his room being yelled at by Ginny. Then he noticed Teddy's turquoise- oh wait, no purple, it was changing colours- hair and Scorpius trying to pretend he was a tree… Okay, then.

Ginny paused in her ranting to turn and smile at Harry, "Hello, Harry. How was work?"

Harry who was used to Ginny being bipolar smiled back, "It was great, thanks love."

Ginny nodded and returned to her yelling. Lily winked and did the unicorn just wink too? Headache… James cowered and Al probably wasn't even paying attention.

Rose was pulling anxiously at her hair, hoping Aunt Ginny wouldn't be so cruel as to tell her parents what happened today. Ron would laugh it off with George who'd be proud of Fred, but Hermione would probably lecture her to tears…

Harry sighed and ducked back out again, whatever was going on he really did not want to know.

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT.

Sorry I took so long to put this up, I had a minor writer's block and I'm in the middle of writing for NaNoWriMo – which I'm sure you probably don't care about- blahblahblah. Vote on the poll on my profile?

[Hope this chapter made somebody smile. Thanks to Kira, who is the reason this went up today. Kira, review or I'll kill you. Thanks.]

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