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Summary: Tom Riddle was captured and put in Azkaban after he killed his father. Harry Potter is just a normal wizard. However, nothing is ever that easy. Live always throws in a few lemons. Having the surprise of her sister dumping her daughter and son at Lily's doorstep was one of those moments but sometimes the most sudden forks in the road turn out to be the best possible.

"Sunshine and Daises"

Chapter 1 "Upon A Rainy Night"

Lily sat on a hospital bed in St. Mungo's waiting to hear back on her results. James held her hand. They had left Harry with Sirius and Marlene for the doctor visit. Harry was five years old. He wasn't a silly little kid that was obvious anymore. They didn't want him to worry.

'Mrs. and Mr. Potter, we have the results,' said a young woman with curly brown hair pushing walking into the room.

'Please tell us we've been waiting long enough,' said James.

'I'm afraid Mrs. Potter, you can't have anymore children,' said the healer.

'Why?' asked Lily tears brimming in her eyes.

'Sometimes it just happens. Sometimes magic can help. But in your case I don't think it is in the best interest of your health. We don't really have much information. We can continue to do testing,' offered the healer.

'I don't want to do anymore. This was quite enough,' said Lily.

'It's okay love. I promise we'll figure it out. We can adopt,' whispered James to Lily.

The words don't have meaning at that point in time. She was still in shock. He just can't stand to see her hurting. He could care less if they couldn't have more children he still loved his wife.

Lily kept a smile on around Harry. She was truly devastated she couldn't have anymore children. She had wanted a little girl. She loved Harry. It was part of the perfect dream. James and her and two kids, a boy and a girl. That dream wasn't possible anymore.

She sat the table drinking her tea reading the Daily Prophet. She was quietly crying. James was gone at work already and Harry wasn't up. She just couldn't understand what she had done wrong.

'Mummy why you sad?' asked a small voice.

Lily quickly wiped her eyes seeing Harry standing in the doorway in his Quidditch footed pajamas. She didn't really know what to say.

'Mummy's not sad when you're around," said Lily getting up from the table.

'What would you like for breakfast?' she asked.

'Chocolate chip pancakes!' said Harry thing for a moment.

'Pancakes it is,' said Lily.

After pancakes, unsuccessfully brushing Harry's hair, making him brush his teeth and walking Harry to nursery school Lily was left alone once again. She forced herself through the usual chores. She tried to garden but she never seemed to have the talent for plants like her mother. She wrote a letter to Alice to plan a playdate with Neville soon. She found herself flipping through the wanted ads in the Daily Prophet. Maybe, she could consider going back to work.

The day was long and boring. Lily decided to go all out for dinner. She wrote a letter via express owl to James to have Marlene and Sirius over for dinner. She needed something to keep herself busy. She put fresh daises in a vase putting them in the center of the dinning table. She had a roast going in the cooker. She had a cherry pie in the oven. She turned the oven down before she went to get Harry.

The first thing Harry did was run outside. He tried to jump on the beams of light dancing across the lawn. Clouds were starting to roll in. Lily turned on the television to the news station.

'Expect a rainy night. Road conditions will be poor this evening, try not to be out unless you have to,' said the weather man.

Lily pulled her pie out of the oven. She walked out into the living room looking out the window to see Harry playing with a stick waving it around like a wand. She sat down for a minute to watch the news. All over the place counties were testing nuclear bombs. It was terrifying what was going on in the muggle world. No wonder wizards are still afraid of muggles.

It got darker outside. The wind was picking up. Lily turned of the telly. She didn't really want Harry exposed to television let alone the news. She put the remote out of reach and went to the mudroom off the side of the living room.

'Harry! It's time to go inside!' called Lily.

A few minutes later Harry crept into the kitchen smelling the food. Lily stirred the roast.

'Mummy I'm hungry,' whined Harry.

'You have to wait until dinner. Why don't you play in the living room instead,' offered Lily.

'Okay,' pouted Harry sulking into the living room.

POP! Lily added a bit of rosemary to the roast for my flavour.

'Honey, I'm home!' called James.

Lily rolled her eyes. James had been doing that saying for a solid week after hearing it on a muggle TV show. It was getting rather old.

'Hey buddy, how was school?' asked James.

'Fine,' said Harry.

James walked into the kitchen peering over Lily to see what was cooking. Lily swatted his hand away from the fresh dinner rolls. She had been working on this for hours she isn't going to let him eat it before Sirius and Marlene arrive.

'Sirius and Marlene will be here soon. Sirius wanted to go change first," said James.

'Alright' said Lily.

James kissed Lily's cheek before grabbing a slice of lunchmeat before going into the living room. He sat down on the couch kicking off his shoes and picked up the Daily Prophet. He was a bit baffled to find it on the wanted ads buts didn't say anything. He just flipped through different sections.

Lily brought the roast into the dinning room along with the pie. Harry was playing with his Quidditch action figures on the coach. Lily shook her head at her husband taking over the couch with his shoes off.

The fireplace crackled and lit up in green flame.

Marlene walked out first fallowed by Estella and Atlas. Sirius was the last to arrive. James sat up putting his shoes back on. Leo went over to Harry and started to play. Estella was clinging to Marlene today.

"Hello, Marlene, Sirius, kids,' said Lily bringing out a picture of a ice tea to the dinning room.

'Is there anything I could do to help?' asked Marlene.

'I could use an extra pair of hands with the dishes," said Lily.

Marlene got Estella to let go of her legs. Estella pouted and went over and attached herself to Sirius. Sirius was more then happy to spoil her with attention. Marlene walked into the kitchen.

"Lils, what did the healer say?' asked Marlene.

Lily didn't answer at first. She knew Marlene wasn't going to give up so what choice did she have. Part of her wanted to blurt it out too.

"We can't have anymore kids,' whispered Lily.

Marlene stood there reading Lily's facial expressions. Lily brought her hands to her face and tears start to fall again. She told herself that was okay but she wasn't.

'I'm so sorry, Lils,' said Marlene hugging Lily.

It was so hard to act like everything was okay. Wanting something you can never have was the worse feeling in the world. She certainly had Harry but she never imagined only having one child. She guessed it just wasn't meant to be. But that didn't ease the pain.

'I keep wondering if I did something wrong,' whispered Lily.

'I'm sure it was nothing you did. It's just out of our control,' said Marlene her Irish accent coming out, she sounded unbelievably like her mother.

'I know," sighed Lily.

After a few minutes both woman took the plates to the dining room. After setting up the plates it was finally time for dinner. Harry was the first at the table. Leo simply fallowed Harry. Estelle was hot on the heels of Sirius and James. It was pouring outside the wind howled and the rain pattered on the glass.

DING! DONG!

'I'll get it,' said Lily getting up.

Sirius was telling an animated story of one of the pranks the Marauders pulled back in school. Lily hoped Sirius didn't rub off too much on Harry. That is the last thing she needed.

Lily opened the door to find two little children on the doorstep. A little girl with a yellow raincoat and a little boy in a blue raincoat. There was no one else in sight. The little girl held out an envelope. Lily opened the envelope and read the letter.

Lily,

Take these freakish children. They belong with your kind. We can't have them around my Judith, They might rub off on her.

Petunia and Vernon

Lily felt her blood boiling. She looked at the two children gesturing them instead. The little girl held the boy's hand.

'James, can I barrow you asked?' asked Lily.

'Sure,' said James getting up.

Lily handed the letter to James. James's ears turned red the further he read. He looked ready to blow.

'That pig in a wig!' growled James.

Lily elbowed him. James looked down to see two pairs of eyes looking at him. The children looked petrified.

'What's your name?' asked Lily.

The little girl hid behind her brother. She stared with big blue eyes at Lily and James.

'I'm Dudley and that's Phoebe,' said the little boy.

'I'm Lily and that's James. You'll be staying with us now,' said Lily.

"Where did everyone go?' asked Sirius coming out into the hallway.

'And what are those?' said Sirius.

'Children obviously,' said James rolling his eyes.

'We'll explain later,' said Lily.

James pulled Sirius back into the dinning room leaving Lily to handle the kids. Lily took off their boots and coats. She hung them up on a coat hanger.

'Did you come with anything else?' asked Lily.

'These,' Dudley said holding up a pink and a blue backpack.

Dudley was a big boy compared to Harry. He was taller then Harry but was thin as a rail. He had blond hair and watery blue eyes. He had dark circles under his eyes. In his eyes Lily felt like she was looking at an old man.

Phoebe was shorter then Dudley, she looked a bit more well-fed but not nearly enough. She had curly bright red curls. It felt like to Lily like she was looking at a younger scared version of herself. The little girl looked petrified.

'Are you two hungry?' asked Lily.

'Yes,' said Dudley.

Lily took the pair of siblings to the kitchen to the breakfast nook so not to frightened them anymore. She got to small plates and got some roast from the dinning room and brought it back. Dudley started eating right the way. Phoebe played with her fork before pushing it away.

'Sissy donota like roast,' said Dudley with his mouth full.

'I see," said Lily.

Lily found some leftover Chinese food. She nuked it in the microwave and gave it to Phoebe. She played with and tasted it a few times before she started to eat it.

'I'll be back,' said Lily.

The kids ignored her focused completely on the food. Dudley was inhaling the food. Phoebe was focused on using her fork to pick up the noodles.

Lily came back and sat down at the table. She didn't know what to make of the two children. She felt anger raising in her gut. What was Petunia thinking dumping the kids off during a rainstorm on a doorstep. What if it had been the wrong house or they hadn't been home?

"We also have some news too," said Sirius.

Marlene poked Sirius with her fork and glowered at him. But he didn't really get the hint.

'We're expecting,' said Sirius.

Marlene hit her forehead with her hand. She had expected the news to upset her friend. But Lily didn't seemed phased. Actually she looked like she wasn't even paying attention.

'Sorry, what was that? I didn't hear you,' asked Lily.

'We're expecting,' said Sirius.

'That great!' said Lily.

Lily took the dishes back to the kitchen so she can get the desert plats. Dudley and Phoebe were playing with forks as swords. They were so quite no one even heard a thing in the room next door. If it was Atlas and Harry playing they would have been heard within three minutes. Lily looked over to see that Phoebe's hair was now golden blonde. She shook her head and went back to the dinning room. When she returned for another spoon she looked over to find Phoebe's hair to be black.

'Does her hair change colours?' asked Lily.

'Yeah," said Dudley as if it was nothing.

Lily returned a bit baffled. She knew what a Metamorphmagus was. But it seemed so strange that Petunia and Vernon could ever produce a witch let alone one with a rare ability. This was all just too much.

'Okay, what is going on? You looked like you've just seen a ghost,' said Marlene crossing her arms.

'Show them the letter James,' said Lily.

James handed the letter over reluctantly. He knew they would react poorly to it. He didn't want Harry to learn any more unfortunate words than James already let slip once and a while.

'Those bast..' said Marlene stopping herself seeing her kids from the corner of eyes.

'That whale and giraffe!' said Sirius banging his fist into the table.

The kids laughed. That just sounded too funny to them. Despite the true meaning of it even the adults started to laugh. Wizards had a lot of funny sayings but that just blew strange out of the water.

"They left the poor kids out in the rain," said Marlene.

"Yeah," said James.

'Bring them in, don't make them sit by themselves,' said Sirius.

Lily went and got the pair of siblings gently edging them inside. Phoebe clung to her brother for dear life. Dudley looked like deer in headlights.

"Hi, kiddos, I'm Sirius. What are your names?' asked Sirius.

'I'm Dudley and that's Phoebe,' said Dudley.

Phoebe's hair turned pure white as her eyes darted around the room. Her magic seemed to occur at a steady rate. Before Lily thought it was just her. But it was quite obvious that it was the true ability.

'Metamorphmagus, eh. They must have loved that,' spat Sirius rolling his eyes at 'loved'.

'Meta-what?' asked Dudley crossing his arms.

'It's someone who can change their appearance,' said Sirius.

'Did you kids eat?' asked Marlene.

'In the other room,' said Dudley.

'Would you like pie?' asked James.

'Sure,' said Dudley.

'No, pie makes tummy hurt,' said Phoebe softly.

'Too sweet?' asked Lily.

Phoebe nodded her head.

'Me too,' smiled Lily.

'We need to have Peter and Remus over for one of these dinners. I know Remus doesn't have kids but all of them adore him. And Peter could bring Dorcas and Jessie," said Sirius.

'It was a short notice plan. I'm sure we will soon,' said Lily.

'We've been considering moving. We've been living in my parents' summer home long enough. I mean this was only suppose to be short time while the Ministry had all that unrest with the squib and 'half-blood' rights movement' said James.

'We had traditionalist trying to break into our place. I refused to live with Marlene's parents,' said Sirius.

'It would have never worked,' said Marlene rolling her eyes 'we'd all kill each other off.'

'Once we decide if we want to go to James parents' house or get our own we will have a large dinner,' said Lily.

'She thinks the manor is too big,' said James.

'You won't be the one cleaning it,' said Lily.

'That's why there are house-elves there. They've been caring for the place on their own,' said James.

'Poor creatures,' said Lily crossing their arms.

'They are free, they can leave whenever they want and I pay them. We've always paid them, however they rarely ever use the money,' said James.

'Anyways,' said Lily.

'When dada comin' back? I want mummy,' said Phoebe saying the first words she had spoken since she arrived.

'He ain't coming back. Did you hear him?' said Dudley harshly.

Phoebe's eyes turned dark blue filling with tears. Her hair turned ocean blue. She started to wail. One of the wall lights shattered.

James picked up the little girl and put her on his lab. He gave her a mint from his pocket. She looked at it. Then unwrapped it popping it into her mouth. She instantly stopped crying.

Sirius's eyebrows rose up. Marlene was hiding a grin. Lily scowled at Dudley. Harry pouted looking envious of Phoebe. Leo still had his ears covered. Estella was back to clinging to Marlene hating the loud noise.

'Since when are you the child whisper?' smirked Sirius.

'Chocolate works on her it has to work on this one too,' grinned James.

Lily punched James's arm turning bright red. Marlene laughed, it was the fact it was so true that made it funny. Sirius shook his head his face turning read trying to keep his laughter in,

Phoebe really didn't like being on James lap and found herself her own chair. Dudley had found a chair away from everyone and pouted.

'It's getting late kiddos,' said Sirius looking at the clock.

'We have work in the morning,' said James.

'I'm sure I have a lot to figure out myself tomorrow. And Harry you have school,' said Lily.

'I don't want to go to school,' whined Harry.

'We'll do something fun this weekend, I promise,' said Lily.

'Fine,' said Harry crossing his arms.

'Come on, little man. Let's get you ready for bed,' said James.

Harry was more then happy to go with James. Lily sent the pie home with Marlene she certainly didn't want it. Sirius had to carry Leo through the fireplace being he was overtired and throwing a fit. Estelle got in and out on her own. Marlene was the last to leave. By the time Lily got back Dudley and Phoebe had made up on their own.

Lily spilt the queen sized bed in the guest room into two twin sized bed. Lily had Dudley brush his teeth and get dressed unpacking their backpacks. At least they came with clothes. Lily had to help Phoebe get dressed since she couldn't get her nightgown over her head without help. The nightgown as about a size too small. Dudley crashed right away. But Phoebe stay awake staring at Lily.

'My mummy and daddy aren't coming back?" asked Phoebe.

'I don't think so,' said Lily.

'We bad kids?' asked Phoebe.

'No. They're just scared,' said Lily.

'Night-night,' said Phoebe waving to Lily.

'Goodnight,' said Lily shutting the door.

Author's Note:

Thanks for reading. I loved writing this story. It is an AU so things are going to be different. I also may go back and fix Sirius and Marlene's son's name, I just couldn't come up with many celestial boy names. Let me know what you think or if you have an name idea. Please not improper grammar when the kids are talking are done on purpose. Remember Harry and Dudley are turning five, Leo is five, Phoebe are four, and Estella is three. They act like kids, and kids can be bratty at times no matter how good of a parent sometimes.