I'm sorry that this first chapter is so short, I'm not trying to tease you, my first chapters are always short like this. I have always wanted to write this story and you could definitely say that this is a sequel to 'The seduction of Mr. Moony'. Sirius and Remus are back together, they have been apart quite long with Sirius being sent to Azkaban and all, and the question now is: does Harry have to know about them?
I hope you enjoy this sequel, if I find inspiration I will write the 8th chapter of
Mr. Moony soon, but for now I wanted to get started with this sequel.
Love - Jessica
It was at the beginning of summer after Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts. Sirius's name still wasn't cleared and both he and Remus were living at Grimmauld Place 12, Sirius's heritage from his family. He did not like that gloomy old house at all, just thinking about it gave him the creeps. He had too many bad memories from his time there, he had been glad to leave when the Potters had offered him to stay with them during the summers when they were not at Hogwarts.
But now Sirius Black was back at his family home, he did not like it all, but what other choice did he have? The ministry was still hunting him, believing that he was a murderer. Sirius would much rather have gone to live with Remus but Dumbledore had insisted on Grimmauld Place. Dumbledore had no objections to them living together but the Blacks' house was far more magically protected than Remus' small cottage on the country side. Sirius's father had been quite paranoid and had put every magical protection on the house that he could think of.
So, against his will, Sirius had moved back into a house that he had loathed his entire life. The only comfort was that he didn't have to be alone; he had suggested to Dumbledore that they could use his home as a secret base for the Order. Dumbledore had approved, he wasn't sure that it was good to let Sirius live alone, he was afraid that the ministry would find Sirius if he ventured outside the house, so with people from the Order there most of the time, Dumbledore didn't have to worry anymore.
Moving in had been quite an adventure. Sirius had almost forgotten that slimy old house elf Kreacher that had always worshiped his mother like a goddess. And to have that damned old portrait of his mother hanging on the wall, screaming insults at everybody who set their foot in the house, wasn't really what Sirius would call fun.
His first week in the house he and Remus had tried just about anything to remove the portrait from the wall, but his mother had cursed it somehow so it was irremovable. It annoyed him as hell so in a moment of anger he had taken a blanket and hung it over the painting. And it worked quite well to his astonishment, the screams were muffled and she screamed lesser when she couldn't see what was going on. Later Sirius exchanged the blanket for curtains that you could close. When she got really angry the curtains would fly open and the usual insults were directed at people close by. But if you managed to close them she would stop screaming.
A short time after school was over, the Weasleys and Hermione Granger came to stay with him. It was some comfort to have all these people with him, but the one he truly wanted to stay with him was out on a mission for the order and wouldn't return in a week. Why Harry hadn't come with his two best friends was a mystery to Sirius. When Hermione and Ron had showed up on his doorstep he had expected that he would be able to see Harry too. He had asked them why Harry wasn't with them but they had no answer to give him. Later that night when Dumbledore had arrived he had explained to Sirius that it was better if Harry lived with the Dursleys.
Sirius hated the Dursleys of course, after all they had done to Harry he couldn't be expected to like the fact that Dumbledore found it necessary that Harry lived with those people. Sirius knew about the magic protection that kept Harry safe if he lived with his mother's sister, but Sirius figured that Harry would be just as safe if he lived with those who actually loved him. Harry was for God's sake James's son, Sirius could've died for James and naturally he could die to save his son. He was his goddamned Godfather. Sirius had tried to explain all this to Dumbledore, tried to persuade him to let Harry live with him, but Dumbledore wouldn't budge.
Harry had been at the Dursleys for about a month when he suddenly arrived outside Sirius's house in the company of some people from the Order. He had already heard all about the dementor attack against Harry and his cousin Dudley. And Sirius had been furious and outraged when he had heard about it. He blamed it all on Dumbledore, what good a help could Mrs. Figg and Mundungus Fletcher be to protect Harry? Mrs. Figg, a squib, and Mundungus, a wizard that cared more about his own interests than anybody else's. If Sirius had protected Harry, this wouldn't have happened he told himself.
But when Harry came he showed none of this anger. He was far too happy to see him. And he was perhaps even more happy when he saw that Remus was with Harry. His two favorite people in the world under the same roof, could things get any better?
However, the same day Harry had arrived, Sirius took Remus upstairs to the attic were Sirius locked the door behind them. "Remus, now that Harry's here we really need to talk."
"Talk about what? The attack? He's quite angry at the ministry you know, he'll have to be at a ministry hearing because he defended himself and Dudley against the dementors."
"I didn't mean that talk… Harry is fifteen now, don't you think that he will notice something when he is living here with us?" Sirius said wringing his hands.
"Oh, you meant that talk…" Remus said and nodded.
"He has grown up so fast, if James had been here he could've explained, I'm definitely not suitable for talking about important stuff…" Sirius said and shook his head. "Couldn't you do it? I mean you're a teacher, you should be good at stuff like that you know!"
"I was a teacher." Remus corrected. "And I don't think I'm suitable either, I mean… what should I say? Dear Harry, I'm fucking your Godfather, and now we're going to have the birds and the bees talk. I can guarantee you that it would freak him out to find out that the last two real father figures that he's got are a couple. I don't think he's ready to know that just yet… but on the other hand it feels so wrong to lie to him!" Remus said and fell back on the bed they were sitting on.
"It's going to be hard to have him live here now that I think about it… No more cuddling outside the bedroom, no more occupying the shower for an hour… damn, this is going to be hard." Sirius exclaimed.
They both lay quiet on the bed for a long time. And it felt like forever when the room was quiet. The only sounds came from the bed that creaked whenever one of them changed their position.
And then Sirius's face was lighted up. Remus had a worrying look on his face when he looked over at his boyfriend. Normally when Sirius looked like this he was up to something.
"You know…" Sirius finally said. "We could always sneak with it… wouldn't it be fun? Just like when we were at school and made out in the dorm and in the dungeons and everywhere when no one was looking?" he said and stroke Remus' chest with a finger.
"Are you sure that it's a good idea? It was fun back then I admit but Hogwarts is way bigger than this house, there are not many places were we can hide…" Remus objected.
"Come on, we're the masters of stealth!"
"Oh really? Since when?" Remus said and laughed. "And besides, I would feel bad about it, lying to Harry like this…"
"Hey…" Sirius said and kissed him. "What Harry doesn't know won't kill him. Right?" he said with a devilish grin on his face.
"No, it probably won't… but things like these are sure to come out sometime… you know that we will have to tell him if he figures it out…" Remus said still sounding a bit unsure about this.
"I promise, if we get caught we will tell him… that's a promise."
"Define 'getting caught' first…"
"If he would find us fucking I swear I will tell him." Sirius said with his hand on his heart.
Remus laughed at that promise, Sirius had never been picky with his choice of words. Thinking to himself he realized that it would be a very long summer.
So, what did you think? I know that it probably doesn't seem that promising yet but tell me anyways what you thought.
Liked? Loved? Hated? Anything else? Any ideas you want to share?
