Third Person POV

The taxi drove away from the furious faces of Ron and Hermione while Harry just stood there in silent amusement. In truth, he was surprised that they had stayed as long as they had.

"I cannot believe this!" Hermione shrieked as they walked back to the Burrow. "They are corrupting our kids!"

Harry fought back a laugh. "You know, this is all your fault," Harry reminded as they walked inside.
Hermione faced him with her hands on her hips, steam practically coming out of her ears at this.

"Excuse me?!" She exclaimed. "How is this my fault?!"

"They never would have even talked to each other if not for the project that you just had to place." Harry tried his hardest to remain serious. He had tried to warn Hermione that things weren't always going to go her way, especially when it came to kids. Did she not remember all the times Ron, Harry and her deliberately went behind adults' backs?

"What happened?" George asked, walking into the hallway to see his brother and sister-in-law raging while his brother-in-law seemed as if he was going to start laughing his ass off at any moment. He looked around. "And where is Romana? I need to congratulate her."

"She kidnapped our children!" Ron yelled.
"OK-that's taking it a little far," Harry reasoned. "Aladdin, Albus, Anna, James, Rose, Romana and Scorpius all left like Lily said-we were too late."

At this, George doubled over laughing to Ron and Hermione's annoyance.

"Would you care to enlighten us on what the hell is so funny?" Hermione seethed.
"It's just," George gasped between laughs. "Harry and I always…warned you that…everything…the decrees and the projects…were one day…gonna…bite you in the butt."

At the yelling, Grandma Weasley walked in. "George, dear, are you OK?" She asked worriedly, placing a hand on his back as his face turned red from the laughter. He waved off his mum as he tried to calm himself.

Grandma Weasley turned to the other three. "Where are the children?" She asked inquisitively. It had been a surprise when Lily had run out shrieking that they were all running away.

"Gone!" Was Hermione's response. "And we have no way to get them back! They're gone forever!" She wailed.

"Hermione!" Harry exclaimed, getting annoyed at his friend's reaction to this. "Stop being so damn melodramatic! I know where they're going and they will be fine."

"You do, mate?" Ron asked in surprise. "Well, we need to get going so that we can get them back!"

"We're not getting them back." Harry stated. "We'll get them at the end of the break so that we can at least say goodbye to them."

"Well, at least they will be alright," Grandma Weasley sighed. "I have to say, though, even though she was talking about Slytherins not being Gryffindors…that was a rather Gryffindoric thing for her to do."
"No, it's not, Grandma," Lucy spoke up quietly from the doorway. "It's a Slytherin thing to protect your family. Aladdin and the rest are her family." With that, she turned around and left the adults in silence. Well, mostly silence. Seeing his little, Hufflepuff niece say that and Hermione and Ron's reactions set George off into another round of laughter.
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Romana's POV

Albus and Aladdin fell asleep quickly and quietly, Aladdin wrapped up in his arms. I had a feeling it had something to do with the fact that they had both been up so early in the morning. Anna had curled into Scorpius while Rose leaned on him while reading a book. Scorpius had his right arm around the younger child while leaning his cheek atop of Rose's head. James was sitting next to me, his phone in his hands as it vibrated violently, seemingly angry at having been silenced.
He abruptly turned his head to me. "Do you think Mr and Mrs. Malfoy will like me?"

"They will-though they'll laugh at you if you call them that. Their just Draco and Astoria." I smiled. "They like everyone."
"Yea, but the way you talk about them, every Slytherin is like their son or daughter," James explained. "How will they take to me dating you?"

My smile softened. James always seemed to put up a tough, over-confident front with other people. It was only with me that he revealed how insecure he could sometimes be.

"Astoria will be pleased," I decided. "Draco…he's probably going to take me dating you better than Albus dating Allie. He doesn't have favorites, exactly, but Aladdin holds a very protective place in his heart. Now, Teddy-he is the person that should really scare you."

James groaned. "Great."
I laughed slightly at his dismay and patted his shoulder comfortingly. "You'll be fine." When he looked more relaxed, I muttered loud enough for him to hear. "I think."

The look on his face was priceless!

Aladdin's POV

I woke up when the road turned bumpy and rocky due to the Malfoy's unpaved driveway. When we pulled up, I laughed to myself as I saw all the younger Slytherins playing outside in the front yard playing kickball with Mr Dursley. It was nice to see that Mr Dursley was being involved in his children's witch-y lives. Many parents of muggleborn children like to pretend that their kids are "normal".

I was surprised to see a rental car parked in the driveway and by the look of surprise on Scorpius and Romana's faces they were too. The taxi man tossed out our trunks, complaining about how heavy they were and took some muggle money Romana had stashed.

The kids were too engrossed in their game that they didn't even notice us walk into the house. Romana, Anna and I carried our trunks to our room, bringing Rose along. It was decided that she could bunk with us on one of the cots until we were able to make the room bigger and get her, her own bed. James and Albus would bunk with Scorpius in his room since Walker and Josh were made slightly uncomfortable by them.

I set my trunk at the edge of my bed, and saw Rose in shock.
"His parents spent money so that each of you could have your own bed set?" She gaped.

I laughed slightly, "Yea. Their explanation is that they have enough money to do so."

Rose collapsed on the cot that we had stuck between Anna's bed and my own. I had never been so grateful for the cot that the first years used until their own stuff came in.

"You know," Romana said thoughtfully as she collapsed onto her bed. "I'm surprised that we haven't run into Draco or Astoria yet. They usually have ears like a hawk."

That was very odd. Heading out of the room, I ran into the boys who had apparently just had the same thought.
We made our way to the kitchen where low and behold, both of them were talking animatedly to two people that had their backs to us…wait a second-

"Uncle Blaise?!" Scorpius gaped causing Blaise and Pansy to turn around. "Aunt Pansy?!"

"Look whose back from the states!" I laughed as I gave Pansy a hug. Blaise ruffled my hair.
"Look who can't stay out of trouble for two seconds," He joked as he turned to give Romana a hug.

"Aunt Pansy!" Anna exclaimed launching herself at Pansy.
"Well, hello there, Anna," Pansy laughed.

Once Scorpius, Romana, Anna and I were done saying our hellos to Pansy and Blaise, Draco coughed.
"Oh, I see who the favorites are," He said mocking hurt. "I guess I'll just sit here, lonely and sad."
"Dad," Scorpius groaned giving his dad a half-hug. "We were gone for two days!"

"Speaking of which," Astoria said, crossing her arms and looking at the three of us with her what-the-bloody-hell-have-you-done-now look. Yes, she has a look for that. "Why are you here and not at the Burrow?" I opened my mouth, but she raised a hand to silence me. "Never mind. I want you six to go to the parlor so we can discuss this rationally. Anna, the rest of the kids are playing kick ball outside." Anna ran off at the word kids.

We all headed to the parlor. "The parlor" was where all serious discussions were set. It was a bare room with no furniture and white carpet and walls. No windows, so no distractions.

The Gryffindors were surprised when we sat down on the floor like we always did, but followed. Astoria, Draco, Blaise and Pansy came in soon after we had all settled down.

"OK," Astoria sighed. "What the hell happened?"
And so the story came forth. First starting with Albus and I not being able to sleep, then me having an argument with Professor about the decrees. Romana took over and said that, at lunch, Hermione was talking badly about me and Romana stood up for me. Finally, she explained that she just wanted to have a normal holiday and was going home. Rose spoke up, saying that she suggested all of them leaving and that is what lead us here.

At the end, Blaise looked about ready to crack up. Pansy was smiling fondly at us. Astoria was rubbing her temples muttering under her breath, asking what she had done that deserved for her to be punished with so many teenagers. Draco…

"I knew there was a reason I liked you, Miss Rose Weasley." Well, that was Draco.

"I hope so because we're kind of dating," Scorpius mumbled just loud enough for Draco to hear.

At this, Blaise did start laughing. "Oh my god!" He gasped. "I wish I could see Weasel's face when you told him that!"

Rose squirmed uncomfortably. "We didn't actually tell him..."

"OK, so, you're Weasel and Beaver's kid, right?" Pansy asked trying to get everyone straight. Rose nodded. "And you two are the sons of Potter and Weaslette?" Nods from James and Albus. Pansy turned to us Slytherins. "Not that these people aren't awesome, because running away from the Burrow is something that has earned a lot of respect in my book, but…how the hell are you all friends?"

I chuckled. "Well, we have Professor You're-All-Evil to thank for that."

Blaise raised his eyebrows at me. "Who?"
"A Miss Hermione Granger-Weasley," I sighed. "She decided to conduct a 'buddy' program this year. Every Slytherin in years fifth through seventh was paired with someone in Gryffindor."

"That," Blaise stated. "Is just bloody karma. You know, in America, we stated what had happened here in England, all they said was that we have to visit an Auror every other month because we stated under veritaserum that we had been forced by our parents."

Scorpius sighed at this and leaned down onto his elbows, his legs stretched out in front of him. "Sounds wonderful. I would like to ask, though, why are you two here?"

That was the question I had been waiting for someone to ask. It had been two years since we had last seen the Zabini couple in person.

The adults became solemn, causing Romana, Scorpius and me to perk up. Something was up, something that they weren't telling us.

"You remember our son, Alexander, right?" Pansy asked.
We nodded while Albus and Rose looked confused. James furrowed his eyebrows.

"I thought he graduated when I was a first year." James said, looking at us in confusion.
"Yeah, he did." Romana said. "But us snakes are a family, I know Slytherins that graduated years before I came to the school."

"Anyway," Blaise interrupted. "Being the Slytherin he is, he found it rather hard to find work."

"That's not anything new…" I muttered.

"We came to warn you that there will be a rebellion coming," Pansy looked uneasy.

"We knew that already." Albus said.
"It's not just graduates from after the war, though." Pansy explained, rubbing her temples. "The wizarding world has pushed the Slytherins away again and again. Right into the waiting arms of people who want revenge for being imprisoned." A thick, cream folder was handed to me. "Those are letters that have been sent to and from Azkaban. Alexander sent them to me, saying that what they were fighting for was changing."

I looked through the folder. Sure enough, it started off just saying that they would remove the decrees. Slowly, but surely, the letters changed to saying that they would need to get rid of the muggles. That the muggles were to blame for what had happened and if there were no muggles, there would be no muggleborns like Hermione Granger who created the decrees. That was when the Slytherins seemed to become hesitant, but continued along with the planning. Then, to eliminate the muggleborns altogether. That was when the Slytherins got annoyed, saying that some of them were muggleborns. The inmates changed their tune, saying that they meant Gryffindors. It was obvious that the Slytherins were starting to wonder what they had gotten themselves into. However, their anger at having to live in poverty because of a stupid hat that made a decision years ago kept them going. Their plan was to slip a special potion into the professors' drinks through a spy that they had planted in the kitchens. This potion would block the professors' magic until they got the antidote. They would take the castle under siege and use the children from Hogwarts as a bargaining chip against the Ministry. When the Ministry was in the palm of their hand, they would free the inmates of Azkaban and allow them to take over.

"This doesn't make sense, though," Scorpius said disbelievingly. "What are the inmates holding over them to make them do this?!"
Blaise sighed, "We don't know."
"We think that maybe since there are so many that only a few of them actually believe in the cause and the rest are just going along out of fear." Pansy suggested. "Obviously, we only have bits and pieces of the plan. We still aren't sure how they plan on keeping the Ministry out of Hogwarts itself."

"Why don't you take these letters to the ministry?!" Rose exclaimed. "They need to know."

Draco sighed and put a hand on her shoulder. "It isn't that simple, Rose. Telling the Ministry about this is just going to make life that much harder for Slytherins still in school. Somehow, we need to fight this battle without anyone with political power knowing. It's too much that even beaver knows. I mean-Granger. Wait, Weasley? Ugh, never mind. Sorry…"

"No problem." Rose shrugged.

I put my head in my hands, "What the bloody hell are we going to do?!"

"We let them strike first," Scorpius decided. "Then retaliate with the Basilisk. It doesn't matter who knows after the fighting is done. Hopefully, we win and then they have to thank us."

"Or they come up with some messed up reason about how it was our fault and expel us." Romana shrugged. "Either way works."
Scorpius and I glared at Romana while James slyly put his arm around her and covered her mouth.

"That's a good idea, Scorp." Rose smiled causing him to blush.

Astoria just shook her head. "There isn't much else we can do. It isn't like we can help you practice magic and Allie is hopeless at potions so…"
"C'mon!" I groaned, throwing my hands up in the air. "I am not that bad!"

Romana raised her eyebrows at me, "You turned your hair pink with the fumes. The actual potion turned your whole body red."

"What potion was that?" Rose asked, looking at me worriedly.

"Some camouflage potion," I grumbled crossing my arms.

Astoria coughed to get our attention. We hadn't noticed that she had left the room and was now standing in the doorway holding what looked to be our diner uniforms.
"You six have the first shift, by the way." She said, tossing Scorpius, Romana and I our uniforms and the other three extras.

"What?!"
"Why?"
"You don't even usually open the diner during winter!"
"Because that is your punishment for running away." She decided. "And it will earn extra money we can use in case they decide to sue us for kidnapping."

...ugh, I knew that we wouldn't get out of this scot free...

...hi...

I am so sorry that it has taken me for freaking EVER to update! But the truth is that I have been just so FREAKING BUSY. I was just in Denver for the last week and now I'm going to London so...shemurr. I am excited though!

By the way, the person who stole my story line has taken it down so...yay!

I hope you all enjoyed that chapter and the Gryffindors reactions to the Runaways...hehehe.

Anyway, my computer is about to die so-BYE!