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"Hey."

Sirius black sat up and looked towards the doorway of the guest room. Well, his room, now. He had moved into the Potter's manor only yesterday, and it was strange knowing that he had been disowned, just like that. A flick of a wand and then off the family tree. He smiled.

James Potter looked at his best mate, and, as of yesterday, a house mate of sorts. Sirius smiled at him again, gesturing for him to come into the room that technically will belong to James in the matter of a few years. James stepped through the threshold, walking over to where Sirius lounged on his newly attained bed.

"I like what you've done with the place," James joked, seeing that he had just shoved his clothes into various drawers, a poster of the Puddlemere United Quidditch team was magically attached to the wall. That was the extent of the decorating though, as Sirius had left most of his sentimental belongings at the Black's house.

"I found that my poster doesn't take up four walls, it seems I'll need to do something about that," Sirius replied without missing a beat.

"Well, if you aren't still busy with your remodelling, I as wondering if you wanted to have a quidditch match, minus the whole 'We only have five players' thing."

Sirius nodded. James' cousin Gabriella Elise Potter had lived with the rest of the Potter's for five and a half years, although Sirius had never really seen much of her. At Hogwarts, although being a Gryffindor herself, she was a year younger than the Marauders. Even though she and James were related, and technically, mates, she never really hung around with them. Occasionally she came up to the boys dorm and played wizard chess with James. She wasn't on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, because the last four years of her being at Hogwarts the team had been entirely full. She looked like James, but her hair was slightly more behaved and two or three shades lighter and browner rather than black, her eyes green to James' hazel ones. She also had breasts and was about three inches shorter.

There was only one thing Sirius really new about her, she was an extraordinary flyer.


When both teenagers had grabbed their broomsticks and arrived at the back door that lead to the expansive back yard, Gabriella was floating in the sky, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew were standing a fair distance away, Remus reading and Peter, well, no one really knew what Peter was doing.

Gabriella flew to the ground and landed softly beside James and Sirius.

"Afternoon," she said, smirking at both of them. "And how are the Mister and Missus this fine sunny day?"

"Well, Mister is good."

"Wait, who says you're the man in this relationship?" Questioned James.

"I did, because the man has the authority."

"So I'm the woman?"

"Well, yeah, I very well can't be, it would ruin my reputation."

"No, you're the woman, I'm the man."

"Are not."

"Are too."

"Are not."

"Are too."

"Are not!"

"Are..."

Gabriella coughed.

"When you two are finished, I would like to actually get on with it."

Both scowled at the younger Potter, then in turn began making rotations and teams for their five player Quidditch match.

James, being Quidditch Captain at Hogwarts was dubbed Captain here as well, so he constructed the teams.

"Okay, so, there's three good players and two, to be generous, mediocre players. So how will we split this up?"

"Well, the three will have to rotate between referee and teams," Remus said, answering James' question.

"Right, so Sirius, Gabby, and I will rotate, and Remus and Peter will be on separate teams."

They all nodded.

"I'll ref first," Gabriella said, walking over to their bewitched objects to act as the main Quidditch components.

James was with Remus on one team, Sirius and Peter on the other.

Gabriella sat on her broomstick, James' last one before his brand new Nimbus, and tossed the 'Quaffle' into the air, as well as the 'Snitch'.

The game went on, rotating Sirius reffing, Gabriella with Peter, Potter vs. Potter. Another rotation went to James as ref and Black vs. Potter Jr.

They played until sunset, Remus and Peter abandoning the game early, leaving Sirius, James, and Gabriella tossing the object they had labelled the Quaffle between the three of them. James and Sirius were keeping a steady conversation, Gabriella just piping up every so often or laughing.


It was, eventually, too dark to see what they were doing. Peter and Remus had left sometime beforehand, as Mrs. Potter had informed them when the house elves brought out dinner.

"So," began Grace Potter. "How was everyone's day?"

"Good," the three adolescents chorused together. They were too famished to engage in conversation at the moment.

Grace Potter laughed at the three of them.

"You three are eating like I haven't fed you for months."

"Technically mum, Sirius has only been here a day."

"Yes, but honestly he was practically living here anyway."

Sirius full out grinned at Grace, his mouth still somewhat full when he spoke.

"Wemph Mshush Puttsher I apprieshiatemd isht."

"English please," Gabriella mocked, pointing her fork at him.

Sirius chewed and swallowed before repeating what he had said.

"Well Missus Potter I appreciated it."

Grace Potter just smiled at him and patted his hand before standing up and clearing her dish.

"James dear, did your father tell you when he would be home?"

"Mum. Do you honestly think I would have been awake at the time?"

"He got up at three today," interjected Gabriella.

"Thank you Gabby, that was my point exactly."

Gabriella turned towards her Aunt and answered her question intended for her son.

"He owled around noon saying he would be home later than normal and to not wait up for him with dinner. 'Said the house elves would give him dinner when he got home."

"Thank you, dear."

"No problem," she said, grinning and turning back towards her meal.

"Oh, you lot got your letters for school today," Mrs. Potter said, pointing to the yellow envelopes sitting on the counter. "I reckon we can go on the weekend, I need to get more floo powder."

They all sat there, letting the food sit more comfortably in their stomachs, then proceeded to grab their envelopes and head upstairs.


They all sat in the 'common room', as that was where they would ususally lounge around in, rather than any other room in the expansive house. That was, of course, only when they weren't at Hogwarts. James and Sirius tore their envelopes open without noticing the younger Potter freeze at the small pin that landed in her hand.

"I need quite a few things for Defence..."

"Guys," Gabriella said in a mere whisper.

"Oh no, Herbology OWL isn't good..."

"Guys," a little louder.

"Wait- six OWL's, that's good, yeah?"

"Guys," normal tone.

"Who would give us that book. Idiot."

"Guys!"

Finally, both boys eyes were on her, and she slowly lifted the badge with an engraved 'P' on it.

They all stared at it, wide-eyed. They had all seen one exactly like it previously, Remus had one. Sure, Gabriella Potter had good grades, behaved nicely, and was, well, friendly. But it never occurred to, it seemed, any of them that she would find that badge in her Hogwarts envelope. She pulled out the congratulations letter and frowned.

"What?" Said James, trying to catch a peek from over her shoulder.

"I don't know, just, why me?"

They both looked at her and sort of tilted their heads.

"Huh."

"Yeah."

"I don't really know."

"Can't answer that one."

She rolled her eyes. Mrs. Potter came into the room.

"So glad you could 'Grace' us with your presence!" Said Sirius, slapping his knee. The other three stayed straight-faced, already used to his bad puns.

"Oh, ha ha that's so funny, really," said Grace, messing up Sirius' hair.

"Oi, mum, Gabby's gotten a badge in her letter."

Mrs. Potter looked between her son and her niece, a confused look turning into an excited one.

Gabriella looked at her Aunt.

"Surprise?"

Grace Potter walked over and hugged the young girl, smiling and making promises of a celebratory dinner tomorrow.

She exhaled as her Aunt left the room, then turned towards her cousin and his mate.

"She's going to make a big deal of it, isn't she?"

James patted her on the shoulder.

"Oh Gabby, it's like you don't know her at all."


Three days later, when they arrived in Diagon Alley with Remus and Peter, it was sunny.

Not just sunny though. Sunny with overwhelming heat. And wizard robes aren't an option on extremely hot days, so they were all sporting muggle clothing. Once they had finished their book shopping and what not, they were famished. The stop at Florean Fortescue's was necessary, that was certain.

"Uh, what's this?" Gabriella said while she was eating her ice cream, pointing at the item on her list.

All four boys leaned in to read the script but in the process managed to all hit their heads together. Gabriella just sat there laughing, her head thrown back. They all glared at her.

"There...wasn't even...anything I needed...you to see... That was priceless." She let out between her giggling, one arm wrapped around her stomach. One by one they all joined in, a chorus of uncontrollable, contagious fits of laughter.

An elderly wizard couple that sat in the corner glared at them, and honestly, they couldn't blame them. What started out as a small amount of chuckling turned into a large amount of tears-and-stomach-hurting-in-the-name-of-Merlin laughing.

When the laughter died down a little bit, they got up and out of the shop, walking down towards the Leaky Cauldron to meet Mrs. Potter.

Sirius looked at Gabriella who looked at Remus who looked at James who looked at Peter who looked at Sirius, and they all exploded into laughter again.

"I think this heat is getting to us!" Peter said, while wheezing.

They all nodded, unable to talk due to their struggle to breathe.


Once they had made it (miraculously) to the Leaky Cauldron, Mrs. Potter was waiting for them.

"Oh dear," she said, staring at the group who were clutching their stomachs and laughing, tears in their eyes. "It looks like you five are insane. We'll have to go home now I guess."

They all just went into the fireplace, sobering up long enough to say 'Potter Manor'.

When they had arrived back at the house, it was only just past four, so they went upstairs to their common room, lounging around on the various pieces of furniture, or else, the floor. The stifling heat was overwhelming to the five teens, so they were stretched out, hoping for the occasional slightly cool breeze that would pass through the room.

And they realised that this was the beginning to a new school year and the end to their summer.

They all laid there in silence, not knowing what that year would bring.


A/N: I deleted my last fanfiction. I think I was doing everyone a favour. This one will be (hopefully) regularly updated, and I have another one that is in progress.

so yes. That is all.