Day 3: Gathering Supplies
Harry Potter lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling, trying to convince himself that he wasn't going crazy. "I did not see my father today, I did not see my father today, I did not see my father today," he chanted over and over.
"Harry, are you ok?" Ron Weasley asked as he entered the dorm. "You seemed a little... offbeat today."
Harry sat up and turned to his friend. "My dad's dead right?"
Ron gave Harry a look and said, "Uhh... yeah."
Harry nodded and replied, "That's what I thought." He inhaled deeply, then continued, "And there's only one of me, right?"
"Duh. Harry what the heck are you talking about?"
Harry leaned forward and hissed, "I swear I saw my dad earlier today. Either that or I have a twin that I didn't know about."
"Harry... that's impossible," Ron replied, clearly thinking that his best friend had gone completely insane.
Harry shook his head and answered, "I know that, and you know that, but my eyes apparently don't." Harry sat up for a second and blinked. "Why do I sound completely insane?"
"'Cause you are?" Ron said with a grin.
Harry glared at him angrily. "You should talk," he snapped.
"Ok, before y'all start arguing, you sound insane because I made you sound insane," said a strange, yet vaguely familiar, disembodied voice from the ceiling.
"Ok," Harry said, rather unnerved by the feminine voice coming out of the boys' dorm ceiling. "Who the heck was that?"
Ron shrugged and replied, "Must be the authoress who's writing this screwed up fic."
"Oh," Harry responded blandly. "Now what were we talking about?" Ron shrugged again and the two boys left the dorm.
.:*:.
"I saw my son again today," James commented as he and Sirius made a list of the supplies they'd need for their prank.
"So," Sirius said with a yawn. They had been up all night, the excitement of their plan being too much to handle. "You see him just about every day. Then you wet your pants because he reminds you that you end up getting married to Evans."
"Hey!" James exclaimed, offended. "That only happened once, and I had to go real bad, but the staircase changed on me!"
"Sure," Sirius said, rolling his eyes. "Just keep telling yourself that."
James glared at him angrily. "Atleast I don't pee on those muggle fire hydrants," he snapped. "Anyways," he continued as Sirius scowled, "I think Harry saw me this time."
Sirius stopped writing the list and replied, "You've got to be kidding."
"I'm not."
"Then we're sunk."
"I know."
"Yes you are," the girl replied as she walked into the Room of Requirement. "Just what, exactly, were you thinking?" The boys exchanged a look, but before either of them could say anything, she changed her mind.
"Nevermind," she snapped, "I don't want to know. However, I do know that he saw you. And now he thinks that he's going insane."
"It must be hereditary," Sirius snickered- only to be rewarded by a smack in the back the head, courtesy of James.
"Besides that," the girl continued, "you're going to have to be extremely careful from now on. We can't afford to have the twins catch wind of it and investigate. Or even worse: what if one of the teachers sees you? Then you'll really be asking for trouble."
"Isn't that what we normally do?" Sirius asked cluelessly.
The girl thought for a moment. "Good point," she said finally. "Anyway," she continued, "stay out of sight. Got it?" Without waiting for a reply, she disappeared from the room.
The two boys looked at each other blankly. "Ok," James said slowly. "We can do that. Right?"
Sirius nodded. "I think so. But back to our prank, we're gonna need to sneak over to Hogsmeade to raid for supplies."
"But what if we're spotted? Madam Rosmerta will recognize us for sure!" James pointed out.
"You have an invisibility cloak, stupid!"
"Oh. Yeah. I forgot."
Sirius rolled his eyes heavenward.
.:*:.
"This was a good idea, Ron," Harry told his friend from underneath the invisibility cloak. "A candy run to Honeydukes should hit the spot."
Ron nodded. "Yeah, this should be fun," he replied. The two boys proceeded in silence down the secret tunnel that exited in the cellar of Honeydukes.
An hour previous:
"I'm glad this tunnel is still around," James told his friend from underneath the invisibility cloak. "A prank run to Zonko's will be just the thing to fuel our project."
Sirius nodded. "Yeah, this should be fun," he replied. The two boys proceeded in silence down the secret tunnel that exited in the cellar of Honeydukes.
An hour later:
"Hey, do you hear footsteps?" Harry asked when they were about three fourths of the way down the passage. The two boys stopped and listened.
"Yeah," Ron agreed a few moments later. "What should we do?"
"Move out of the way and wait to see who passes us, duh," Harry remarked, slightly irked by his friend's lack of common sense. They did as Harry said and laid in wait for the owners of the mysterious footsteps. However, the footsteps came, yet the owners were nowhere in sight.
When they no longer could hear the unseen feet, Ron, ever observant as usual, said, "What the heck just happened here?"
"It must have been someone in an invisibility cloak too," Harry answered.
"So what do we do?" Ron asked.
Harry thought about it for a moment, then, being the ever-so-intelligent teenage boy that he was, replied, "We should sneak up on whoever it was and tackle them!"
"Yeah!" Ron agreed.
Ten minutes later:
"Hey, do you hear footsteps?" James asked when they were about halfway down the passage. The two boys stopped and listened.
"Yeah," Sirius agreed a few moments later. "What should we do?"
"Move out of the way and wait to see who passes us, duh," James answered. "And if it's someone we don't like and/or an invisible person, we tackle them."
"Sounds like a plan to me," Sirius replied. They did as James said and laid in wait for the owners of the mysterious footsteps. However, the footsteps came, yet the owners were nowhere in sight. "So we tackle them?" Sirius hissed in James's ear. James nodded, and after setting down their purchases from Zonko's, the two boys lunged at their unseen opponent.
"Hey!" someone shouted.
"What was that for?" another person yelled.
"It's two guys!" Sirius exclaimed as he and James tumbled with the unseen strangers. Suddenly, the invisibility cloaks fell off.
"Woah," Ron said as he and the three other boys pulled themselves up from the ground. "Am I seeing double?" He was, of course, referring to Harry and James, who looked almost exactly alike.
"Ha!" Harry exclaimed. "I knew I wasn't going insane! I did see another me!" Harry stopped for a moment, rethinking his statement. "Wait," he continued, "that's not right." He looked over James and Sirius and suddenly realized who they were. "Sirius?" he said, incredulous. "Dad?" he whispered, looking at James disbelievingly.
"Um..." Ron started tentatively, "I'm going to go out on a limb here and say something happened."
The three others looked over at the red head, giving him one of those looks. "Is he always this dim?" James asked his son.
"Yep," Harry replied. "You two better explain."
"We will," James answered. "Now where to start…"
AN~ Yay! Cliffy! I actually have the next chapter written and posted elsewhere, but I'll never tell!!! Teehee… I'm a little sugar high today.
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