A/N: I've had this idea running around my since I read loukritia's review on To Be A Lupin, which has been distracting me like crazy. So I wrote it up and decided to share it with the rest of you. As usual I do not own Harry Potter in any such way.
Shock
I stared at my best friend in utter bewilderment. "I'm sorry I didn't catch that. Can you please repeat it, I'm not too sure on what you just said," I mumbled in shock.
"Well you see the thing is, you know that bird you've been teasing me about – the one I wouldn't tell you much about? It's your daughter…" Sirius trailed off awkwardly. I blinked once… twice… opened my mouth to say anything at all but ended up snapping it closed not even two seconds later.
"Moony, are you alright buddy?" Sirius asked worried for his long-time friend as well as himself. Who knew how the werewolf was taking the news.
I crumpled into the seat I vacated when I first heard the news. "I can't believe you! You're dating Hermione, my daughter! Do you have any boundaries?" I started. Sirius tried to interject to say something in his defense but I cut him off continuing my tirade. "I teased you about her. I made jokes that no father in their right mind would make about their daughter. Merlin, why didn't you say something sooner? Why didn't she?"
After I said that Sirius handed me a glass of Fire Whiskey that he had insisted we have with us for this discussion. Just as I was finishing the glass, I heard the front door open and close.
"Hello? Dad are you here?" Hermione called moving through the house.
"Yes. I'm in the library. Sirius is here too." I responded.
Hermione walked into the library all smiles until she took in how the occupants of the room were acting. "Uh… Why does it look like Padfoot had an accident in the house?" She asked, thinking that to be the only logical explanation to Sirius' guilty look and my frustrated and somewhat angry one.
"I'm sorry, love." Sirius started.
However, I interrupted him, "So, is there anything you want to tell me about Sirius and yourself?"
I heard her mutter "Oh bugger." Before trying to give me the most innocent expression she could.
"Well the thing is…" she started.