its all about blood - angelrider93

Chapter 4 - Surprises

Everyone tensed in readiness when the box glowed with a green light. When the light dissipated all that was left was an enormous ancient picture frame. The portrait inside was of a life sized stag with a beautiful red haired woman sitting astride it. Silence ensued as the adults lowered their wands, then the silence was broken by Sirius who spoke in a shaky whisper,

"Prongs?"

The figures in the portrait didn't move, it was almost as if they were frozen, then, the woman's hand twitched, her eyes blinked and she shook her head, her red hair cascading behind her in a shimmering curtain.

"Oh my god! I can move! James! James! I can move, the spell is broken!" The woman cried as she slapped the neck of the stag before climbing off and groaning, "Oh Merlin! James Potter you need to lose some weight, my legs are killing me! I feel like I've been sitting on a fat elephant for ten years" she glanced at the stag who still stood there, though his ears were twitching, "Well don't just stand there looking stupid, hurry up and transform" the woman scolded. The stag twisted its head to look at the woman before it transformed into a man with messy black hair, brown eyes and glasses perched on the bridge of his nose, he was holding his back and groaning loudly,

"Merlin Lily, I haven't ached like this since my first transformation, I think my back's broken" groaned the man as he straightened his body and heard a crack coming from his back.

"James stop being so melodramatic, you sound like Sirius!" Lily scolded

"Lily didn't you hear it when I straightened up? Are you sure you lost all that baby weight after you had Harry?" James asked, then grimaced when Lily turned and slapped him upside the head,

"James Harold Potter how dare you! One more word like that and you will be sleeping on the couch for the next six months!" Lily snapped,

"We can sort that out later, first thing I'm going to do is hunt down that rat and skin him alive!" James growled,

"James, first we have to find Harry, Sirius, Remus and Albus!" Lily retorted

"That's if we ever get out of here, I don't even know where we are..." James trailed off as he noticed the group of people surrounding their portrait, "Sirius? Remus?" he asked,

"James? Lily? Oh Merlin! I can't believe its really you!" Sirius cried as he rushed towards the portrait of his best friend and his wife,

"James, we didn't know that you and Lily had a portrait painted of yourselves" Remus said as he moved to stand next to Sirius,

"We didn't! Voldemort captured us and trapped us in this bloody thing" James answered,

"But you're both dead! Voldemort killed you both! We saw your bodies" Sirius stammered,

"He didn't kill us, and the bodies you saw were most likely fake" James replied

"Sirius, where's Harry? Is he safe? Please tell me that Voldemort didn't kill him" Lily begged,

"Harry's fine, he's right here" Sirius answered, as he took hold of the stunned Harry's arm and pulled him forwards till he stood between him and Remus. James and Lily's eyes opened wide as they stared at their teenaged son,

"Harry?" Lily asked tentatively, tears streaming from her eyes. James wrapped an arm around her shoulders as he took in his son's appearance,

"Mum? Dad?" Harry whispered, still shocked to his core that his parents were talking to him,

"Yes Harry, its us" James answered, then he turned to Dumbledore, who had approached and was standing behind Harry, "Albus!, how long have we been trapped in this thing?"