Lisa: Okay guys four day weekend coming up, but I have some plans; I'll try and get this out.

Heather: Try... the word that means won't.

Lisa: Does not, but I'm going over my friends house later today and then I'm going to go see Phantom of the Opera in New York. I love that show, this would be the second time me seeing it. But last I saw it I was like eleven so I don't really remember it too well.

Heather: Yay! But that's three days out of the four day weekend taken so...

Lisa: Yeah...

Full House

Heather returned to her house, or to be more precise her parents house, late in the evening. Today had been the funeral for Remus's sister, Charlotte; one week ago today she had died. She had to admire how Remus was handling it, he went up and he spoke for her, their mother and sister did. But that was it. She never realized before how small his family was. It was him, Daina their mother, what looked like an aunt and uncle, maybe a few cousins but they were young and they looked a bit out of place.

However one thing she did notice throughout his family was their eyes. All of them a striking blue, save for a woman who she met that had married into the family and an old man who looked to have married into the Lupin family as well. Some of the relatives she wanted to hit, some gave Remus disapproving looks, like he shouldn't be there, at his own sisters funeral. Maybe his father wasn't the only prejudice Lupin.

But she was there for him, as well as the rest of their little family. And they were family; they were family in everything but blood. She may have entered the Marauderetts a bit late in the game and true she wasn't dating any of them, anymore that is, she felt just as at home with them as she did with her own family.

She walked into her room quietly not wanting to wake her parents, or the dogs for that matter. She stripped off her black coat and threw it on the nearby chair before plummeting down on her soft bed. It was cold outside, it usually was December nineteenth... it happened so close to the holidays, she hoped maybe the approach of Christmas would cheer Remus up, Christmas was always a fun time for the group.

As well as being a weeks since Charlotte passed it was also a week since their homes were destroyed, okay well not destroyed but it was pretty close. She didn't plan on going back to the apartment complex; she wanted to move somewhere where she didn't pay a rent. An actual home. Her parents weren't thrilled with her moving back in, but they knew she had no other choice.

She could have gone with Andy, her mother would welcome her in but she knew they didn't live off much; she didn't want to stress them when she had other options.

Sighing she kicked off her shoes and laid down on the bed. She was just a little bit drunk. Not enough to have not taken the floo network but not entirely sober either. She fell asleep right there, didn't even bother getting out of the funeral clothes.

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The sunlight poured through her window and into her room, directly on the sleeping face of one Heather Fortresn. She moved her face over and into the pillow, realizing quickly that this was a bad idea; she did after all need air.

Taking a deep breath and pushed herself off the bed and sat up. Looking down she remembered that she still wore her funeral clothes from the day before. She decided it probably wasn't the best idea to re-wear clothes. Especially ones worn to a funeral the previous day.

She wandered off in a still half asleep daze into the bathroom; even though she came in fairly late she was still one of the first ones up. She always was. It must have been around nine o'clock now. Yawning she roamed into the bathroom and remained there for almost and hour. Not all the time was spent in the shower, some was spent staring at herself in mirror waiting for some Tylenol to kick in. When it finally did she wandered out and trudged into her room.

Ten minutes later she came back out and almost fell down the stairs as her dog bolted past her. "Blimey Trigger... what's your rush?"

The white dog ignored her and continued to run down the stairs slobbering everywhere. When she arrived another little bundle of joy ran up to her. The new puppy, Rita, Heather thought it ironic her mother bought the dog home just after she moved out...

"Wanna go out?" She sighed and looked at the two dogs who began jumping up and down excitedly. "Of course you do..."

She opened the door and steadied herself as they both ran out almost knocking her over. Closing it she walked over to the refrigerator and grabbed the gallon of milk from the shelf on the door. She poured herself a glass and waited until the dogs were ready to come in. She did so and wrote a quick note for her mom, telling her she went out for a while.

Grabbing the hoodie from the chair she pulled it on and walked over to the large fireplace. "See ya." She said absent mindedly to the dogs as she threw a hand full of floo powder in and called out James's address. She usually went over there a few times a week, everyone did. It was the 'hang out'.

She appeared in the fire place of their home and stepped out. James's parents were already up, his mother was in the kitchen, and his father was at work. They were going on late in their years; they had James when they were in their forties, one of the reasons why he was an only child.

"Hello, mum." Heather said, she, like everyone else, called them mum and dad rather then Mrs. And Mr. Potter.

The hazel eyed woman turned and smiled when she saw Heather walking in. "Oh! Hello, Heather, you're just in time for breakfast. I have eggs, bacon and waffles." She said as she waved her wand around a little to lift the fried eggs out of the pan.

"My favorite, where is everyone? As I recall Lily and Laura were always up first in the dorm." She said as she helped her clean up the kitchen counter. It was true, Lily was up then Laura would wake up then Heather at around nine to ten o'clock. Andy was last, depending on when she fell asleep... but usually she was up by noon...

"The boys are still sleeping," she rolled her eyes. "However, you are right; the girls are in the garden. Why don't you go get them and wake up the boys for breakfast?"

"Sure thing." She replied happily and left the kitchen.

She walked briskly to the back doors which lead to the backyard. From there they were lead to the garden, the pride and joy or Mrs. Potter. Heather quickly spotted the two girls sitting on a bench bundled up in heavy coats watching icicles fall from the trees. Heather wasn't quite ready for the cold, she had after all flooed here, she saw no need for any boots or a jacket, she was mistaken.

"'Ello!" Heather said brightly as she walked up to them.

Lily looked up first. She was getting used to living at the Potter's, she was like one of the family now. Of course she'd been there before but not this long. Mrs. Potter adored her; she said it was live to have a helping hand around the house rather then two Quidditch obsessed boys. "Oh, hello Heather, I was hoping you would show up today." She said, her breath was showing in the cold.

"Heather!" Laura cried and went over to hug her, her heavy boots kicking up snow as she shuffled through it.

"Oof..." Heather said as the smaller girl gave her a hug. "Please... off... now..."

"Oh, sorry." She said and she and Heather walked back to Lily.

"I was sent out here to tell all of you breakfast is ready and we have to go and wake up James and Sirius." She said rolling onto her heals and onto the balls of her feet.

"They're not awake yet?" Laura asked as she and Lily began walking over to Heather and begin leaving the frozen over garden.

Lily shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Of course not, it's not lunch yet."

The three ladies walked up the flight of stairs to the second story, the Potter house was big and it took them a couple minutes to reach their rooms which shared a door. Something they added in when Sirius moved into their home.

They passed several portraits of past Potters and several decorative things Mrs. Potter had decorated the home with. When they reached the two doors that sat side by side they immediately recognized them as the boy's rooms. One was obvious Sirius, a muggle poster was on the door of a woman in a skimpy outfit leaning over a motorcycle and slightly overlapping it was a wizarding poster of a popular rock band. On James's was a Quidditch poster and there were chipped paint marks next to it where a poster was taken off recently. They had all seen it before; it too showed a picture of a woman muggle model, he took it off when Lily moved in.

They barged in the first room which was James's; Lily crawled on his bed and nudged him on the arm a few times. She didn't stay in the same room with him here; they thought it inappropriate with his parents so close.

"That's not how you do it." Heather said firmly and walked over to the bed; she pushed her hands under the mattress and sighed. "This was so much easier when Andy was around." She muttered realizing she could never lift it on her own. "Come on both of you." She said and they both walked over and stuck their hands under the mattress as well.

The three girls heaved and lifted the mattress up; lucky for them James was already rolled near the edge so he fell off easily.

"AH!" He screamed as he hit the floor and shot up quickly in his boxers and t-shirt. He looked around like a startles animal confused and jittery. "What happened?"

"Time to get up, honey." Lily said walking over to him and pecking him on the cheek.

James lifted his hand and scratched his head, he was unfazed by the kiss, he was still very confused. "Uh... Sweetie... did you have to flip my mattress?" He asked Lily.

"Of course." Heather said answering for her and began walking into the next room where Sirius was still lying.

The three people followed her quickly and when they entered the room they saw Sirius sprawled out and lying on his stomach on the bed. He, unlike James, didn't wear a shit when he slept, only his black silk boxers. His hair was standing up straight on his head and a wet stop was forming around his mouth.

"Ew..." Heather moaned. "Laura, you went out with that?" She asked.

"He looked different from the on-the-bed angle..." She said tilting her head to the side and looking at him.

"Okay, if we're going to flip his mattress I'm not touching that." Lily said folding her arms and looking at the bed. "Merlin knows what's been on it."

"He wouldn't bring a girl into my parent's house." James said rolling his eyes.

Heather raised an eyebrow. "Wouldn't he?"

James stared at her and then at Sirius for a moment. "Okay so, what do we have to wake him up?" He said without voicing the conclusion he came to, although it was fairly obvious he had to agree with Heather.

"Do we have a fog horn...?" Lily muttered as she carefully walked through the room careful not to touch any of the mess.

Laura smiled as she picked something off of the table." Well... we do have this." She smirked and turned around, showing off the blow horn. "Remember when he wouldn't put this thing down? That was a summer I'll never forget."

The brunette gave it to Heather who smile her thanks and then walked over to the still sleeping figure of Sirius. She pushed the button and a great wind came out of the horn along with an unholy noise. He had, after all, bought it at Zonko's Joke Shop.

Sirius began thrashing in the bed, getting himself tangled in the sheets. The three watched in amusement as after several seconds he ended up on the floor. He poked his head up and looked around. "What's wrong with you?" He asked as he spotted Heather with the joke shop item.

"Oh many, many things." Heather said as she placed the horn down on the night table. "Now put a shirt on, we're going down to breakfast."

"Yeah, no one needs to see any of that." James said as he hopped back into the room pulling on a pair of pants he had grabbed from, possibly the floor, of his room.

Sirius grinned and sat up straight, rubbing his wash board abs with his hands as he stretched. "Oh you're enjoying it." He responded.

"I wish, be down in one minute." She ordered him as she left the room followed by James, Laura and Lily. Sirius was left behind to search the mess of his room for pants and a shirt.

As they made their way down the stairs they smelled the inviting sent of breakfast floating down the hallway. "Sirius better hurry up, I'm not too sure there's gonna be any breakfast left for him." James said dreamily as he smelled his mothers cooking.

"She always makes enough though." Laura said happily. "Sometimes too much."

They walked into the kitchen to see Mrs. Potter placing some plates on the table. She was humming a tune to herself. "Hi, mum." James said as he plopped himself down in his seat. "It looks great."

"Thank you, dear," she smiled and placed a plate in front of him. "Where's Sirius?" She asked looking around.

"A little held up." Lily said rolling her eyes.

"Am not!" Said Sirius as he bounded into the room dressed in black jeans and a muscle shirt, he sat down next to James and Heather and immediately began shoveling food onto his plate. "I'm right here." he said right before he began digging into his full plate.

"What do you kids plan on doing today?" Mrs. Potter asked as she sat down after a minute or two and started eating herself.

James smirked, she still called them kids despite the fact they were far from children anymore. Fighting an ongoing war against a dark wizard proved that. "I dunno, I wanna send a post to Remus, ask how he's holding up."

"No, no, don't do that." She replied. "Just see if he wants to come over, he'll never tell you if you ask. Let him open up on his own. He will when he's ready. He could come over and help us decorate the tree and see if Andy can too; the holidays are just around the corner you know." She smiled.

"I dunno if Andy can come over until later," Heather said between mouthfuls of bacon. "I was talking to her yesterday before she left. Her and the twins are going shopping. Apparently she says that the twins say they never spend time with, and I quote "the bestest little sister in the whole world" anymore."

"And they mean Andy?" Sirius asked raising his eyebrow.

"Be nice." Mrs. Potter scolded. "Alright then, send a post to Remus; send one to Andy a little later." A big grin spread across her face. "Oh we're going to decorate the tree this is so exciting! Before you know it it'll be Christmas! The perfect thing to get all these horrible things out of our minds."

Lisa: Phantom was awesome! Far better then I remembered, but the guy who played Erik, aka the Phantom, wasn't there his understudy was doing the part but he was just as amazing.

Heather: Gone aaaaalllllll day wandering the streets of New York.

Lisa: Yes I was, oh how I love shopping in New York, you find the right store its real cheep.

Heather: But anyway a little while ago me and Lisa were looking for songs that matched the characters in this story. We want a list of all eight of them with the song but we only found two so far...

Lisa: Yes, and if you're interested here they are as follows. The song 'Night Drive' from The All-American Rejects for Andy and the song for Remus is like his wolf half talking to his human half. That song is 'Sad but True' from Metallica. We, or she, came up with some others but they're kinda eh...