Chapter Nine
"Explain." Both boys were sitting on the cushion-less couch, pink in the cheeks from being awakened from their cuddly position.
"Let me just start by saying that this is all Remus's fault. Because he filled Gracie up with sugar this morning she was bouncing off the walls all night long. She just wouldn't calm down so we decided to take the two of them for a walk."
Sirius picked up here, "We were just walking aimlessly along, Peter in the stroller happily and Gracie skipping up ahead when it all started-"
"-Peeves came floating through the wall and decided to start chucking balloons filled with goo at us-"
"-he didn't get any of us but one of the balloons didn't pop when it hit the floor-"
"-Peeves had only thrown a few and then continue on his way to torture some others. Gracie got a hold of the balloon and wanted to keep it. It didn't seem like it would cause any harm and we were very adamant about not popping it-"
"-which she never did."
Remus and I looked around the room at the goo covered walls.
"Now, now I know how it looks but just hear us out. So we get back to the common room, and then everything started to go wrong...
"Hey Sirius," James said, picking Peter out of his stroller and holding him at arms length, "you've got a bit of a situation here, Code Brown I'd say."
"I will give you three galleons if you take care of it."
"No way, Padfoot. I don't do poopy diapers."
"Well neither do I! That's what Sonnie's for!"
"Yeah well she's not here so this is your problem."
"Oh common you gotta at least help me out here," Sirius pleaded.
James sighed, "Oh alright. Gracie come in to Uncle Padfoot's room for a minute, we gotta change the baby."
"Ewwwwy!" Gracie shrieked running into the room.
"Watch you don't pop that thing or else you'll be cleaning it up!" James yelled after her.
"No Daddy James," she said climbing into the bed and bouncing on it. "I don't pop it!"
"Oh Merlin he reeks," James said standing beside Sirius, Peter was on the changing table in front of them grabbing at his own feet. "Imagine what it'll be like when you take the nappy off!"
"I've got a plan Prongs. I'll undo the little tab thingies, you lift Peter up and I'll levitate the nappy into the trash bin. Sound good?"
"Alright, let's do it."
Sirius slowly undid the nappy, using one hand to plug his nose. James put his hands under Peter's armpits and then lifted him straight into the air, holding him as far away from his body as possible.
Sirius levitated the nappy across the room into the trash. "What now?" he asked, one hand still plugging his nose.
"To the lavatory!" James shouted.
"Daddy James I-"
"Not now Gracie, we're a little busy. Come with us," and he led the two of them across the room.
Once in the lavatory James held Peter above the sink while Sirius made water come out of his wand to rinse all the poop off baby Peter.
"Daddy James-"
"Gracie we're still in the middle of this, just wait till we're finished."
"But th-"
"Gracie not now!" the little girl hurrumphed and continue to watch her balloon swell.
It took quite awhile before the baby was clean seeing as the stream of water coming out of Sirius' wand didn't have very much pressure and both boys refused to wipe off any part of their friend. Finally Peter was poop free and the boys went back to Sirius's room to put him in his pajama's. James sent Gracie to go get her pajamas also. When both children were changed and in the common room with their 'Daddy's' James noticed something odd.
"Hey Gracie, has your balloon gotten bigger?"
The little girl looked annoyed, "I try to tell you Daddy James, it get bigger and bigger and bigger."
Now that the boy's really looked at it they noticed that the balloon was slowly increasing in size.
"That's probably not good."
"No I don't thi-" James was interrupted by Peter starting to wail.
"Oh Merlin! Gracie can you just put the balloon down and we'll deal with that in a minute. James grab his pacifier out of the bag will you?"
Sirius stood up, grabbed the baby and started to bounce him around a bit.
"What the hell are you doing mate? You look like got a a stick up the arse and a real bad limb."
"Well that's what Sonnie does when he screams!"
"Don't think your doing it right Pads, give him here. I'll try."
"Yeah 'cause you have so much experience with babies! Give him the pacifier."
James popped the pacifier into Peter's mouth and started to rock him, he looked much less stupid then Sirius had. Peter stopped crying, "See! I'm a natural." Of course Peter chose that moment to spit out the pacifier and scream even louder. James screwed up his face, "Maybe he's hungry?"
"I'll grab a bottle."
He wasn't hungry, he wasn't wet, he didn't want to be put down and he didn't want to be picked up.
"I've got it! Remember that peek-a-boo story Sonnie told me? Let's do that, conjure something."
"Uh...okay!" And James conjured a bunch of little yellow twittering birds. No matter how many times James made them invisible Peter continued to cry.
"Well maybe he doesn't like yellow birds, let's make them something else." Both boys pointed they're wands at the birds and each said a different incantation. Next thing they knew they had fuzzy little things hopping around their feet.
"What did you do?"
"Tried to make them frogs, what did you do?"
"Mice, what kind of kids like frogs?"
"Why wouldn't he like frogs? Who likes mice?"
"Well they're cuter then frogs and I figured Wormtail could relate to them better!"
"Yeah okay, that makes sense," by this time Gracie, who had been trying to get the boys attention, was pulling on James's shirt. James looked down at the little girl, she opened her mouth but he cut her off before she could speak. "Gracie, can you help Daddy James and Uncle Sirius catch the frog/mice."
"But-" James and Sirius weren't listening though, Sirius was pulling the cushions off the furniture and James was lent across one of the tables, spilling papers and ink all over and narrowly missed a neon pink frog/mouse.
Since her Daddy wasn't listening to her anyways, Gracie just tried to catch the frog/mouse at her feet and she ended up catching him as he hopped into the unlit fireplace. Soot flew up and covered the toddler and the reptile/rodent. Coughing, the little girl dropped the creature. Peter was still crying, the weird animals were hopping around and Gracie was getting soot all over everything.
"Do you hear that?" Sirius suddenly stood straight up and looked around. "Or is that whistling noise just in my head?"
"No, no. I hear it, what is th- ARRGH!"
The balloon, which had gotten larger and large until it was stretched so much that the weight of one of the frog/mice jumping onto it cause it to explode. Causing the entire common room and all of its occupants to be covered in green goo.
The room was silent. Even Peter stopped crying to giggle at the goo covered boys and soot covered little girl.
"I give up! That is it!"
"Ditto." Both boys flopped onto the couch staring around at the disaster they created...
"...and next thing we knew we were waking up and here you were!"
"I...I just, have no words. No words at all," shaking my head I thanked Remus for the 'tutoring' and left the room to get ready for bed. They had better have that room clean by morning...
A/N – Sorry for the long wait everyone! Took a bit of a break over Christmas and had to cancel all my New Years plans 'cause I got really sick. Hope you all enjoy this, hopefully the next one will be up quicker.