Chapter 2

Once Dobby was gone the three of them looked at each other and then at the three children that they were holding. Finally Ron broke the silence, "This is a little awkward." Hermione smiled up at him and handed him one of her crackers. Awkwardly he took the cracker and ate it.

"We should probably put them back in the living room with the others," said Harry as he noticed that Neville was almost finished with the peanut butter and he didn't want to be holding him when he spit the spoon out. Sirius nodded and they walked down the hall to the living room and put them down with the other three, who had remained in the room.

"I have an idea," said Sirius as he started to look around through the supplies Dumbledore had left them. "Ah ha!" he said triumphantly as he pulled a baby gate from under the pile and went to putting it on the door frame so that the munchkins couldn't get out, theoretically. "This will keep them in here so that we can re-group and figure out a plan."

With the baby gate up the three of them went back to the kitchen and tried to figure out a game plan for taking care of the little monsters that were currently in the living room.

"Alright," started Sirius. "I have about as much experience with kids as you two do so we need to figure out how to do this."

"We could each take turns watching them," put in Ron.

"I don't think so," said Harry. "That's six on one. Why don't we just pair them up and we each watch two."

"I like that idea," said Sirius. "but the other problem is food. I can kinda cook." Sirius looked at Ron and just gave him a confused look while Harry did a "kinda sorta" movement with his hand. Sirius thought a moment before continuing, "alright how about I go out real quick and just get fast food for lunch and a few frozen pizza's for dinner. Then after we put them to bed we can plan out a weeks worth of meals and just follow that. It's almost lunch anyway."

"Sounds good to me," said Ron and Harry nodded in agreement.

"Alright then," said Sirius. "I will go to the store so just wait here, I should be back in about 30 minutes so nothing to dire should happen." Sirius was gone with a crack leaving Harry and Ron alone in the kitchen.

"What should we do while we wait?" asked Ron.

"Probably go back into the living room and watch them so they don't do anything," sighed Harry as he stood up and headed towards the door. Ron followed him out and down the hall to the living room.

At first they though that everything was fine since the baby gate was still in place, but they soon saw otherwise as none of the toddlers were in the living room. Both of them just looked at the empty room with the TV still on in shock, as if staring at the empty room would make the little escapees come back into the room.

"Split up. I'll go upstairs, you down stairs," said Harry as he ran towards the stairs.

"What do I do when I find one? They will just get out again if we bring them here" asked Ron.

Harry stopped and thought for a moment before answering, "improvise."

Ron sighed and went back down the hall to look around in some of the side rooms, as well as closets, bathrooms, and back to the kitchen. At first he thought that maybe that all of them had gone upstairs but then he heard giggling behind him. 'I know I checked all of the rooms on this floor where are they?'

He turned around and he heard the sounds again and saw movement out of the corner of his eye. Ron quickly turned and ran towards the movement, but then suddenly tripped and fell flat on his face. Looking down he saw that his shoe laces had been tied together. Sitting up he started to untie his shoes when he noticed that the potted plant next to him was giggling.

Pretending not to notice it he finished untying and retying his shoes before he stood up, "now where are they," he stated out loud before quickly reaching into the bush and grabbing at the first of the little monsters. It turned out to be Hermione, her ears flattening against her head when she had been caught.

"Got you! Now you will be good right?" asked Ron as he carried her back to the living room and started to dig through the pile of supplies until he found something that would keep her occupied. Ron put her on the couch, but kept and eye on her so that she wouldn't run off again.

As she waited for him she started to fiddle with the TV remote and changed the channel a few times before giggling, and clapping as she pointed at the TV. Confused Ron looked up to see what appeared to be a severed hand running around a creepy old house. "I probably should let you watch that," stated Ron, "but I still have to find the other escapees, so whatever keeps you happy."

Ron left he room in time to see one of the said monsters close the closet door. Upon opening it something suddenly bit his leg. Ron yelled in pain before pulling Neville from his leg. "Don't do that!" he snapped as he carried Neville at arm's length back into the living room.

As He stepped over the baby-gate and looked at the TV again he saw two creepy children dropping a baby and a bowling ball off of a roof. Another voice had joined Hermione's giggles and as Ron was putting a chew toy in Neville's mouth he saw that Severus had come back into the room and was sitting next to Hermione on the couch. Ron sat in the chair and sighed, "whatever keeps them happy I don't really care."

Meanwhile Harry was upstairs having a few problems of his own. When he had first gone upstairs he hadn't had any trouble finding the first little monster since he heard the toilet flush. Before he opened the door it flew opened and Remus and Lucius ran out of the room covered in toilet paper chasing each other as they threw toilet paper roles at each other.

Off hand he looked into the bathroom in time to see Draco drop a rubber duck into the toilet and flush it. Harry watched as the toilet overflowed and Draco looked over at him, "Uh oh." Draco then quickly climbed into the tub so that he wouldn't get wet. Harry was thankful that he was allowed to use magic as he quickly cleaned up the mess and unclogged the toilet before retrieving Draco from the tub.

Harry followed the toilet paper trail down the hall and into one of the guest rooms. Both of them were jumping up and down and back and forth between the two beds that were in the room all while throwing the paper rolls that they still had with them. Draco wiggled out of Harry's arms and jumped up onto the bed to join them. Harry just watched stunned as a role of paper sailed over his head leaving a trail of paper across his face. As if the three of them had just made a wonderful discovery they started to run circles around Harry and cover him in as much toilet paper as they could.

Ron heard yelling from up stairs as well as struggling and before long Harry came down the stairs completely mummified in toilet paper all while carrying a large pillowcase over his shoulder. "Are we having fun yet?" asked Ron trying not to laugh as Harry put the large lumpy pillow case in another chair and pulled each of the little monsters out of the pillow case one by one.

"Obviously were having loads of fun," snapped Harry as he waved his wand and mumbled as he got rid of all the toilet paper. "Can you watch them while I clean the upstairs. I think they destroyed about a dozen roles of toilet paper." Ron just nodded as Harry went back upstairs.

When he came back down stairs he sat in the living room and watch random movies with Ron as they took turns standing in front of the baby-gate so that none of the rug rats tried to escape.

Finally they heard the door open and Sirius called down the hall as he carried a couple bags to the kitchen. Severus peeked over the couch and sniffed the air before jumping over the couch, climbing up Harry so that he could jump over the baby gate, and ran down the hall towards the kitchen where Sirius had taken the food.

Sirius walked into the living room to help them herd all the munchkins into the kitchen. "Snape already ran into the kitchen," said Harry as they walked down the hall.

"Really?" said Sirius. "I didn't see him when . . ." Ron and Harry looked at Sirius with a questioning look but when they looked past him into the kitchen they saw what he was staring at. Severus was sitting on the table already halfway through eating one of the foot long subs that Sirius had brought home.

"I got that to share you little garbage disposal!" snapped Sirius. Severus didn't pay him any mind as he continued to eat the rest of the sandwich.

"Its kind of amazing he can even get it into his mouth let alone eat all of it," noted Ron.

Severus had just finished the sub and started to dig around in one of the other bags and pulled out one of the other three subs that was on the table. "Oh no you don't," said Sirius as he picked up Severus by the back of the shirt and pulled him away from the sandwich.

"No! No mine!" squealed Severus as he tried to get back on top of the table so he could eat the sandwich.

"Just let him have it Sirius," sighed Harry. "We can just make the pizza now and then figure out something for dinner later." Sirius just nodded and put him down in one of the chairs, but Severus wasn't able to get his sandwich since the other little kitties had climbed up around the table and were currently after the sandwich.

Harry quickly took the three pizza's off of the table so that they wouldn't be torn into as well. "It kinda looks like feeding time at the zoo," said Ron absentmindedly as the six of them devoured the remaining sandwiches.

"Maybe they wont be hungry for pizza once they are finished, "said Sirius hopefully. He was hungry and been hoping to have some of the sandwich. However after the subs were gone they all stayed at the table waiting for the pizza, or at least they seemed like they were waiting for the pizza.

Severus curled up on the chair and took a nap, but once the pizza was done he woke up again. Luckily for Harry, Ron and Sirius the fact that they had all eaten quiet a bit already they weren't as hungry and only ate one or two pieces of pizza each and leaving the rest for their watchers.

"Looks like its nap time," said Sirius as he noted that all of them were curling up in their chairs. Eventually they got all of them back into the living room and covered them with blankets before finishing their own lunch in the kitchen.

"Looks like where going to have to take into account that just because they are small doesn't mean that they don't eat a lot," said Sirius as he got out a pen and a few sheets of paper, and they brain stormed meals that they could make, and a list of things they would need to make said meals.

"Well at least it should get easier after today," said Ron hopefully, but Sirius and Harry suddenly felt dread fill them.

AN

Sorry this took so long. Work, Dancing, teaching, and pet projects as well as becoming violently ill for a week really put a kink in my free time to get this done.

So here it is please review they keep my little black heart beating ^_^. Next chapter will be up with in a week or two I swear cause I have a week off before school starts.

PS – you need to listen to "Keep Awake" by 100 Monkeys. Why? Because that is what I listened to on repeat while writing this.

PPS – yes a small child can eat that much its kinda scary to watch.