Chapter 5

week 3

After several days inside Mrs. Weasley decided that the kitties needed to spend some time in the sun. After a brief fight with the toddlers they got them into clothes that were already ratty and torn up so that they wouldn't be destroying their other clothes. Molly and Narcissus stayed inside since Molly had given the knitting bug to the other woman and they wanted to work alone for a time; without a toddler running off with a yarn ball every few seconds.

To Sirius, Harry, and Ron's surprise when Severus and Draco ran straight into the lake and started to play around in the shallow water; this surprised them since he always freaked out just as much as the others did when it was bath time. Neville got close to the water but ended up spending most of his time along the edge tormenting frogs. Meanwhile the other three went to the sandy edge and started building a sand castle.

Seeing that the group was actually keeping themselves busy they allowed themselves to relax. It wasn't long before Sirius transformed and started chasing the two that where in the lake. This quickly escalated into a game of tag that the other children on the beach joined into as well. Harry and Ron laughed as Sirius tried to get away from the group but to no avail and ended up running back onto the shore and collapsing onto the ground where he was easily dog piled.

"Run?" asked Hermione when they noticed that Sirius had given up and was just letting the group crawl on him.

"He is tired," said Harry. "You should let him rest for a bit."

All of the kitty children made sounds of disappointment as they climbed off Sirius and went back to playing in the water or on the beach. Once they where gone Sirius changed back and groaned, "Its like they are chugging down energy potion when we aren't looking!"

However before either of the boys could answer him there was yelling from the lake, "Fwish!" screamed Draco as he held up a decent sized fish. The three sitting in the grass just stared stunned as all of the children quickly rushed him and tried to look, touch, or steal the fish that he had caught.

Harry quickly decided to intervene when he saw Draco take a bite of the fish and try to eat it before the other kitties could get it from him. "Don't eat that!" he snapped as he tried to take the fish from the toddler.

"Fwish!" scream Draco as he continued to hang onto the fish even as Harry lifted it up.

"Fiwsh chorused the others as the tackled Harry.

"Help!" yelled Harry as he was pulled down into the shallow muddy water. He was glad it was only about five inches deep otherwise he might have had more of a problem as the children tore the fish away from him and started to fight over it. Ron was the one that went to Harry's rescue as he pulled him out of the muck and tried to ignore that the children had actually eaten the fish.

When they where back on the bank Harry glared at Sirius, "You know you could of gotten up and helped."

"Eh," shrugged Sirius, "Looked like you had everything under control.

Harry just snorted and sat down and let the sun dry his wet muddy clothes. It wasn't long before he heard snoring coming from Sirius, and had a thought to wake him up but then when he looked up and saw that Lucius was covering Sirius in mud he decided to let his godfather sleep. Ron and Harry where actually kind of surprised that Sirius didn't wake up when Remus and Hermione joined and stared to burry the man under a foot of sludge they had gotten from the frog infested lake.

When Sirius did wake up he was really confused since he couldn't lift his arms up, "the hell?" He knew something was definitely wrong when he heard an uproar of laughter from not just Harry and Ron but from the toddlers as well. "ha, ha," muttered Sirius as he worked to get his arms free and sit up. "Disgusting," muttered Sirius as he stood up and saw that everything was soaked with mud and only god knows what else.

"Maybe we should go back up to the house now?" suggested Ron since the toddlers also seemed to have worn themselves down.

Sirius and Harry nodded before doing a quick cleaning spell so that none of them, kitties included, would bring in an obscene amount of mud. The three of them also noted that this was one of the first times none of the children fought getting a bath before they where put down for their afternoon nap.

When they entered the living room ware the women where knitting they three of them all but collapsed on the couch, floor, and in a chair. "Was it really that exhausting?" muttered Molly in a bored tone not even looking up from what she was working on.

"They where evil," muttered Sirius from the couch. "As they always are."

"They aren't evil," sighed Molly.

Even Narcissus starred for a moment before saying, "I don't know Neville is pretty close to evil."

Again Molly just rolled her eyes, "he isn't evil. Just a handful. Some children are like that." The others in the room just snorted as they recalled all the trouble that the little ball of evil had caused them. Not long after that they heard snores coming from the couch and noticed that Sirius had fallen asleep again.

"At least he doesn't have to worry about being buried under a huge pile of mud," said Ron as he leaned back in the chair. However soon sound from the stairs revealed that Severus and Remus had gotten up. Both tottled over to Sirius and poked at him a few times, but nothing seemed to wake him up. Seeing that they weren't going to get anything from him the ended up crawling up with him and using him as a pillow and continue their nap.

"Aw," said Molly. "Isn't that cute."

Sirius passes out on the couch and the kids try to wake him up so he would play with them, but in the end Severus and Remus end up curling up on his back and sleep.