Just Add Water |James Sirius Potter| SDWAM fanfic

Chapter 1 James, trains, and other odd things

       It was still dark when Sirius Black stumbled into his kitchen, he put on a pot of coffee knowing that their was no way in hell that he was going to even attempt to wake his wife without it.  Nixie and Henry both slept like logs and tended to strike out at anyone who tried to disrupt their sleep.  He blearily peered out the window unsurprised to find that MJ was already up and down at the water's edge.  She had been doing that lately, waking up early only to spend hours staring at the water.  He cleared his throat, "MJ!" he called.  She looked up at him for a moment but didn't respond as she picked herself up and dusted the sand off of her legs.  

She walked in the door with a frown, "Yeah?"

"Morning."

"Morning."

Sirius paused for a moment before grinning, "So are you ready to start Hogwarts today?!"

MJ's expression brightened considerably, "I suppose.  But you and Mum better not meddle like you did with Henry." she said very seriously.

"Okay but honestly if we hadn't helped, Henry and Hope would still be avoiding each other." Sirius explained.

MJ gave her dad a look that made him shiver.  It was the same look Nixie gave him when she was around that age, the same look Nixie still gave him.  "Yeah, suuuuure.  Just promise you won't help me.  I'm going to have enough trouble getting a boyfriend as it is without you two stalking him." she made air-quotes around the word 'help'.

Sirius paled, "Boyfriends?!  You're not allowed to date!  Not till I die!"

MJ rolled her eyes and laughed, "I'm going to go shower before we go to King's Cross.  Have fun waking up mum." she said with a smirk.

Sirius paled again and as the girl left laughing.  He grabbed the biggest mug he could find and filled it with coffee, "Merlin help me." he prayed as he went back to his sleeping wife.

      At King's cross MJ was greeted by the sight of Harry Potter and his three children and his wife.  She groaned as James pranced over to her, "Morning MJ!" he said excitedly.  The boy looked almost exactly like his father but the strong Weasley red hair gene had not missed him.

"Morning." she said staring at the boy.  He was practically vibrating as he bounced up and down in excitement.  

"Are you as excited as I am?" he asked.  She highly doubted that, she was in fact excited but the boy looked ready to wet himself.  His smiled so wide and bright that she was sure that the image would be burned into her retinas.  

"Yeah?" if it was possible his smile got even bigger.  James had always been like this-so unbelievably chipper.  Every play date, every birthday party, every holiday was filled with the same inexhaustible energy.  She was beginning to wonder if he ever slept.  "So uh, how has your summer been?" she asked randomly not knowing what else to say.  They had't seen each other much that summer as Harry and Ginny took them to Romania to visit their uncle and cousins.  

"It was unbelievable!  The dragons were huge and Uncle Bill was riding one and so was Aunt Anora and it was insane!  I even got to pet one!" 

"Really?" MJ asked in genuine interest.  She had seen dragons before but never had she had the courage to up and pet one.  She kept a safe distance even from the friendly ones.  

James looked pleased at the question, "Really."

     "Look at us Harry!" MJ's dad's voice shook her out of the conversation.  Both preteens looked over at where their father's stood.  "I'm sending off my youngest, you're sending off your oldest!  What a pair we are!"

"It's not like you'll be far from MJ you're her teacher."

"Yeah but it won't be the same.  This morning-this morning she talked about boyfriends!" her father said sobbing into Harry's shoulder.  Harry gave her a surprised look that made MJ's face heat up.

"Little young for that isn't she?" the man said awkwardly patting her dad's back.

"Right!  Right!" her dad looked over at her.  "I forbid you from having any boyfriends!  Ha, now you can't!"

MJ grinned as she looked over at James.  She slipped her hand into his and smiled sweetly up at her dad.  "But Dad I already have one." Sirius blinked and actually staggered back a step not noticing the bewildered look on James's face.  

"Potter!" he bellowed making Harry jump.  "Get your boy away from my sweet innocent little girl!  I will not have him corrupting her!" MJ let out a cackle and drug James onto the train and into a compartment.

She waved from out of the window, "Bye Mum, bye Dad!  Bye Mr. and Mrs. Potter!"  She waved to her mum and Ginny who both had amused looks on their faces.  Harry however looked mortified and her dad scandalized.  She turned back to James as she sat down, "Thanks for the help!"

"Yeah..." he trailed off, "You don't-we aren't?" his cheeks were as red as his hair.  

"It was a joke." she explained and he slumped down in relief.

"Thank Merlin!" he said then looking up at her he balked.  "No offense I just-"

She smiled, "I know.  I don't like you that way either.  No offense.  I just wanted to give Dad a heart attack."

"Yeah well now he's going to kill me.  Thanks for that by the way."

"Anytime!" suddenly the compartment door slammed open and MJ jumped up thinking it was her father come to kill James.  However it was only two other first years.

"Er hi, do you mind if we sit with you?" a blonde boy asked as a dark skinned boy stood behind him.  

"Not at all!" MJ piped."

"Thanks." the boy said shuffling in.  "I'm Gillian Thomas and this is Oliver Wood the second-who is as obsessed with Quidditch as his father was."

"It's not an obsession!" Oliver said defensively, "Quidditch isn't just a sport, it's a lifestyle." he trailed off contradicting himself.

"Excellent!" James said rubbing his hands together.  "I'm James Potter and this is MJ Black and we're the newest pranking duo!"

MJ smiled and opened her mouth to agree before she processed what had just been said.  "Excuse me?  Who said that?"

James looked over at her as if she was crazy, "What?  You're Sirius 'Mad Dog' Black's daughter and I'm the grandson of the craziest most buck-wild prankster there ever was!"

MJ laughed momentarily at the pun, "Okay that was funny but one, no-nobody calls him 'Mad Dog' he made that up.  And two, my dad was so the better prankster."

James recoiled giving her a look, "Yeaah-I'm going to have to agree to disagree on that one."

MJ scowled, "My dad broke into Hogwarts, did your granddad do that?"

"No but my dad did-and he broke into Gringotts!"

"Well my dad asked McGonagall on a date!" MJ said smirking as James's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.

"Did he really?"

"Beat that!" The two other boys in the compartment looked at each other wondering if they had made a grievous mistake by choosing that compartment.