last chapter ever! oh my gosh, im so proud that i was able to fifnish it. for a while i thought i wouldn't be able to. i hope you enjoy!
oh, and i have a little epilogue written, but its not exactly an epilogue.. .it's a short one-shot about what hapens to molly and sirius... so i'll post that in a few days.
arwen02 ;)
Chapter Eleven
"All packed up?" Molly asked Sirius the day Easter Break began.
"Yeah," he said, running his hand through his hair. "I'd better go and find Andy or she might change her mind."
"Why would she do that?"
"She might remember how much I eat in the morning. That would definitely put her off. "
Molly smiled.
Sirius walked down the stairs with his bag and met James, Remus, and Peter.
"All right?" James asked.
"Yep."
"Where's Lily?" asked James, looking around, then at Molly.
"She's coming," said Molly.
On cue, Lily came trudging down the stairs with her large trunk and her purse.
James smiled. "Easter Break is only two weeks, Lily," he said. 'You look like you're packed for a year."
She shrugged as she reached them. "You can never be too prepared," she said. 'Now come on. What are we all standing around here for? Let's go!"
Sirius stared at her incredulously. "You are telling us to hurry?" But she was already out the portrait hole.
All students going home or the holidays gathered in the Great Hall. Andy walked over to Sirius.
"Ready?" she asked.
"We're not taking the train?" he asked.
"Are you kidding? That takes hours. We're apparating."
"Oh," he said. "Wait. I haven't taken my apparating test yet."
"Then we'll do side-along. I'm not taking that long on the train, Mate." She brushed her hair out of her eyes.
"Um, ok, then," he said. "See you, lads," he said the Marauders and the girls. Molly gave him a quick kiss, and he left with Andy.
He followed her out the doors and onto the grounds. They passed the lake, where the giant squid's tentacles were sticking out of the water, and they passed Hagrid's hut, until they reached the front gates.
Andy turned to him. "Ready?" she asked.
"I guess," replied Sirius.
Andy stuck out her arm, and Sirius hesitantly took it.
"One, two, three!" she said. Sirius had a strange sensation. and then they were outside a small little house with a nice little garden and a swing set.
"Aww," said Sirius. "How cute." Andy brushed herself off and stuck her hand into her pocket. She then pulled out a set of keys with a few key chains on it; one which was a picture of Nymphadora.
Sirius shook himself as he thought of that poor child's name. Andy walked up the path to the door and stuck in the key. The door opened and a squeal was heard.
"Mummy!"
Andy was barely in the door when a little girl was jumping all over her.
"Hey, sweetheart! I missed you!" Andy said, picking up Nymphadora and squeezing her tight.
"Daddy! Daddy, look! Mummy!"
"Yeah, I see her!" said the voice of Ted Tonks, voice emerging from the corridor. "Hey, honey," he said as he walked over to Andy and gave her a kiss. Andy put down Nymphadora, who walked over to Sirius. She stood before him and craned her neck to see him completely.
"Um," he said to her. "Salutations."
She laughed and stuck her hands on her knees. "Butt!"
"Um," said Sirius. "Yes." he raised his hand in an Indian-style greeting. "if that's what kids are saying these days, 'butt!'"
"Oh," Ted said. "I may have forgotten to mention— she's learned a new word."
"Butt!" Nymphadora said on cue.
Andy put her hands on her hips. "No, Nymphadora. Don't say that."
Nymphadora raised her hands in the air. "Butt!" she cried.
Andy shook her head and bent over to pick her up.
Meanwhile, Ted turned to Sirius. "Hey, Sirius. Long time no see."
"Hey, mate," Sirius said to Ted. "How's the fatherly life going?"
Ted laughed. "Well, Dora can be a handful."
Sirius laughed. "wait— you mean I don't have to call her "Nymphadora" all the time? Phew. I was afraid of that."
Sirius walked into the kitchen. 'What's this?" he asked, picking up tennis-racket-looking item.
"What?" asked Andy, not looking at him.
"This thing—" he hit it and then— "ARRRGGHHH!"
Everyone turned to Sirius and stared. 'What's wrong?" asked Andy.
"That was the worst feeling I've ever felt in my life!" he said, grasping his hand. Andy looked at what he had dropped. "Sirius! That's an electric fly swatter! You electrocuted yourself!"
"Great," said Sirius. "Another thing I can add to my list of 'Things that I have Done that No One Else Has.'"
Andy laughed. "Are you ok?" she said.
"Oh yeah, I'm great— I just had a surge of electricity run through my body and my chest is feeling a little odd, but yes," he said, "I'm great."
Sirius sighed and walked over to the refrigerator. He opened it, took out an apple and bit it, then threw it away.
Andy stared. She shook her head and lifted Dora into her highchair.
Sirius looked at the 'electric fly-swatter.' "Stupid muggle contraptions," he muttered.
"So," said Andy, sitting down and feeding Dora. "What're you going to do over the summer?"
"That's a bit far ahead," he said.
"Not really," Andy replied. "Will you come stay with us?"
"Nah," said Sirius, swinging around the fly-swatter. "I'll fix up the flat I have. Make it more live-able. OWWWW!" he said.
Dora jumped in her seat and Andy turned to Sirius. "What?"
"Dammit! I shocked myself again!"
Andy and Dora laughed. "you goof," she said.
0o0o0
When Easter Holidays were through, Sirius went back to Hogwarts with Andy.
"Hey, Mate," said James once he saw him in the Great Hall. "So how was your stay with the Tonks's?"
"Spiffy," said Sirius. "I think Andy especially loved the time when I nearly burnt down her kitchen while attempting to make toast."
James cracked up. "You're priceless, mate," he said.
"Who is?" asked Molly as she walked over to the two boys and kissed Sirius on the cheek."
"Padfoot. He nearly burnt down his cousins house trying to make toast.
Molly laughed. "Aww, you poor thing," she said, rubbing his back.
"Who's poor?" asked Lily who just walked up with Remus and Peter.
"I am," said Remus, looking through his wallet. "I spent all of my money on chocolate."
"Remus is going to own a sweet shop some day," said Sirius. "And he will make chocolate for everyone and give us some for free."
"Take out the 'r' in free," said Remus, "and that's what I'll give it to you for."
Sirius muttered to himself, "free… fee. Fee. Hey!"
"And what will I become?" asked Molly, looking up at Sirius. "Since you're predicting the future and all."
"Hmm." Sirius looked at Molly. "You'll be…. Living with me!"
"Great," said Molly in an annoyed tone, but she smiled.
"And James and Lily will be young forever… ageless. You'll never grow old!" said Sirius.
Lily smiled. "You flatter me," she said. "But I'm not giving you money, or whatever it is you want."
"Dammit," Sirius muttered. "Anyway, back to Remus. You will marry a young chick who's going to be….. Um…." Sirius tried to think of something mysterious sounding. "Not what she seems! Oooh!"
Remus rolled his eyes.
"Peter, you will… um… turn out to be extremely different than you are now. You'll… um…" Sirius furrowed his brow. "Man, it's hard to make up stuff for him," he muttered to Molly, who laughed. "You will… show the world another side of you. There you go."
"What about you?" asked James, his arm around Lily's waist.
"Me?" asked Sirius.
"You'll live somewhere out in the ocean," said Molly, leaning her head against his shoulder. "But then you'll decide that you liked us too much and you'll come back to us. And Remus will be with his hot young chick and Peter will be completely different and James and Lily will be gone somewhere off by themselves, where none of us crazy friends will be able to find them. And somewhere, where ever we all are, we'll sit down and think to ourselves, 'I miss the old days, when we were all just a bunch of kids, whose biggest worry was whether or not our Quidditch team will win or how hard the test was; back when we didn't have to worry about bills or money or bad guys, and we could just sit down… And be ourselves.
Sirius looked to Molly, and she looked at him. James held Lily's hand, and Remus gazed off into the distance, while Peter looked to the floor.
Suddenly Sirius smiled and said to his girlfriend, "Well, said, Molly. Well said."
The End
ack! finally.. i finfished it! it took me so liong and i apologize. yuo see, when i originally started writing it, the whole plot was supposed to lead up to the ball, but when i reached the ball, I had more to say... but after i wrote that, i didn'y know what to do. i knew it wasn't finished yet, but i had no clue how to end it. so i was finally able to wrap it up, and evenm if you didn't like the ending (im sorry, if thaqt's the case) im very pround of myself. yay! so if i could ask you all one very teenslt last favor... you know what its going to be... review? please?
thanks so much to everone who already has!
arwen02