The Family
'Man, what a busy November we've had. I'm so pooped.' Sirius sighed as they settled in his old apartment in London. 'War, losing my friends, got chucked to prison for nothing, nearly lost my niece...but you saved the two of us Jack.' said Sirius with a wistful sigh. 'You saved Serenity and me.'
'We won't be here for long.' said Jack. 'We were only here for our only wish. If we're gone, who'll be there for Serenity?'
'Yeah...I see what you mean.' Sirius blanched. Very few people were trusted by James and Lily because Serenity would soon be Lady Potter, Heiress to the Ancient Noble House of Potter. If she was unprotected, poor girl would be raised in a way that she would be easily exploited as a cash cow, and stripped of everything rightfully hers and leave her with nothing.
'So...what now?' Jack asked him.
'Well, what do YOU want?' Sirius asked her pointedly but kindly. 'I know how to raise kids since I learned how from decent relatives of mine who adopted me as a kid, but a good adult should listen to the wishes of their kids since its the kids themselves who knows what makes them happy.' he chortled, patting her head.
'Ummm...what kind of lives do happy kids get? We were always in the dark at night...if not trapped in the river we were bound to.' Jack wondered aloud.
Again, Sirius winced.
How the heck did anyone magical NOT sense 80000 children's wraiths in the river? Is it because as a collection, they're weak thus not worth anyone's notice?
But when they merged as Jack the Ripper as the fused form of the children, they became powerful. Sirius bet they can easily kill Peeves and be done with it.
'Well...I better do my own research.' said Sirius, scratching his head. 'Lily once told me that muggle childhood is loads more fun than magical childhood.'
'What's a muggle?'
'What my people call ordinary humans.' said Sirius. 'I'm a wizard.' he said as he used his new wand to turn a table into a pig and back into a desk that got Jack slack-jawed from disbelief.
He got his new wand by lying to Ollivander he mistakenly sat on it on his couch when in reality, the Ministry snapped his wand in half.
'Oh...different from a magus?'
'What's that?'
'Well, we found out about it when the Magi's Enforcers were looking for us...originally, we couldn't use our mist to glean information by touching magicals but with Serenity's power, we gained that ability. It was possible with her power and our wish.' Jack explained. 'Its a long story about these people.'
'We got all week Jackie.' Sirius grinned. 'My boss gave us a week off now that the loose ends of the War is finally dealt with.'
Its indeed, a complicated society...
But...
Sirius was interested.
He went and purchased books off of Clock Tower using Jack's directions.
He's glad for his EEs in Ancient Runes now because these people writes in Runic Alphabet!
He and Jack thus studied together while waiting for news about Remus coming back home from abroad.
Sirius then diagnosed himself using a number of tests. Both their elements were Ether. Sirius then sought out books relating to these Elements by using spells to point him in the right direction...while leaving Jack to study stuff that would make her Anti-Magus and Anti-Exorcist since they COULD deal with Wraiths like her.
Considering half her torso was where baby Serenity was, they weren't taking any chances so book-brushing it is.
(it played a role years later as Jack was still alive and YET got summoned into a conflict...)
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It took a year for Remus to go home, but Sirius got married within that time to a lady magus who's not stuck up, and won't kill Jack at first sight.
Sirius had to explain why he has no Magic Crest, but more than made up for it by belonging to a society with access to parts of magical beings, tools and jewels at a cheaper price despite same quality boasted by Clock Tower.
His wife complained that his society has 'unusual naming senses' however.
But nonetheless, her family used gold bars to purchase lots of jewels off the goblins to make up for the fact that they don't have Galleons. Her family is ridiculously wealthy, easily obtaining a warehouse's worth of gold bars just to buy jewels and other things in Diagon and Knockturn Alley.
Really, how rich are these Magi? His wife's family essentially out-riched both the Potters and Blacks combined...
Well, his wife is spending money so fast he's pretty sure she'd be broke in a few years before dipping into his money...but at least she was a good wife. Just that being a magus makes one burn money akin to throwing wads of bills to a bonfire.
The goblins also decided that 'Lady Black is our favorite human'.
However, 'Newly-married Lady Vieno Black' made headlines in the Prophet that she bought about 'a warehouse's worth of jewels' off the goblins.
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'Congrats on your marriage Padfoot.' said Remus as they met in Leaky Cauldron for drinks. 'How's the missus?'
'Well, she's a very studious one willing to shell out cash for needed goods to get results sooner.' said Sirius. 'Serenity's also well-protected and taken care of.'
'I see...I'd like to visit her.' said Remus.
'Maybe after we clean up our house a bit.' Sirius snickered. 'My wifey made a mess out of her experiments last night in our living room. It looked like our childhood mega slime bomb went off.'
'Uggggh...' Remus made a face.
'Well, Vieno's at least a good affectionate wife I can see a good mother in her.' Sirius sighed wistfully. 'She's doing right at home when not experimenting with making magical tools and potions.'
'Er, what about social functions and events Purebloods have to go to?'
'She knows what to do and expect. Normally I don't care for these events but I got nagged to go to them eventually by those lousy elders of mine. All they cared is that my hunny is a Pureblood and showing her off like some showpiece without even meeting her for crying out loud! Bloody people...'
'How'd they know when you haven't spoken to your relatives since our OWL years?'
'That effing tapestry. Vieno registers as Pureblood there. Never even knew she was Pureblood. I mean, we dated and hit it off to the altar with her folks.'
Sirius would wait to drop onto Remus about Magi and their society.
His in-laws were DROOLING at the idea of what he could do to their bloodline since he has a Magic Core, not Magic Circuits. He warned them of his society and issues that can come with it, but he was glad they have a way out of it so at least, his children won't be...compromised.
Why, he used 'dear old Bella' and some of the more inbred ones as prime example that he desperately wanted to change his family. They were also amazed with the Pensieve technology. He could care less about other families so dead-set in their ways and inbreed to extinction for all he cares, he is sooo getting his family out of the ashes into rebirth.
Vieno has two older siblings, also a set of triplets. She, the youngest of the triplets can do as she pleases as long as she doesn't bring shame to the family and the older two are squabbling over the Family Crest since they have more compatibility percentage than she did. By marrying him, she didn't 'fail' her family's expectations.
'...convenient.' said Remus dryly.
'Well, Vieno's family is notorious for Triplet Pregnancies sooo there will be little Blackies running around in a couple years...she wants to stop at 12.'
'Morgana's tits, twelve?!'
'Yup. That's why after lunch, help me decide on a Nanny Elf or two...'
What Remus doesn't know is that due to inbreeding, Sirius' fertility level sucks.
They had to do the equivalent of a magical in vitro. When Vieno ovulated, they took Sirius' modified sperm to get rid of his bloodline's undesirable genetic qualities before injecting them into her ova. Once it was done, they then had a happy sex life as having sex enables Mana Passes. And they need a healthy sex life to keep sending magical energy to the growing embryo for at least, a month straight to expose the growing embryo to magic to be magically healthy.
But after a month of diagnosis, two of their children have powerful and plenty of Magic Circuits, one was similar to Sirius.
If Magic Circuits is a machine producing magical energy in differing quality and quantity, a core was akin to a nuclear reactor, disregarding quantity but quality is affected by obvious factors.
But by conceiving with fresh blood...the results were fantastic.
Despite her family having a prestigious 600 years of history, the stronger ones wouldn't marry one of them. So their Circuit quantity remained the same while quality improved over the generations. But even then, marrying a spouse with more circuits than them, was impossible...until Sirius Black happened.
However, the one with the Core will be the Black Family Heir. And all her triplets have the Black Family Sorcery Trait of Metamorphosis(Sirius' people called these users 'metamorphmagi'). This only happens to kids with great potential in Transfiguration and Transmogrification.
Vieno Black nee Ervasti was excited.
Her children, are all powerful! What more of next three triplets?!
She was about to pen a letter home when Jack showed up in her usual ghastly manner.
'Must be nice in there...' Jack pouted, looking at Vieno's stomach. 'Its warm and comfortable in there until nasty cold things yanked us out and threw us away.'
'I heard from Sirius that you wanted to be in a warm womb again, right Jack?' Vieno asked the little girl who was also Victorian England's Serial Killer. She was the merged, fused form of 80000 souls of aborted children of prostitutes who didn't want them because they'd cause a cut on their profits. They desperately searched for their mother among the women of the Victorian Era but due to their grudge, kills the prostitutes they meet, and caress the remaining warmth of the wombs of the cooling corpses.
When Vernon Dursley threw her husband's goddaughter into the river, Jack used her as the nexus to be alive again and would keep Serenity in her body until she's three years old too big for her torso. By then she's old enough to be taught need-to-knows and Jack no longer needed her as the nexus by that time, she would have fully-recovered from being defeated by a magus. 'How about I make you an artificial womb?' she offered. 'Its warm in there for you to sleep in but it'll also mean you'll get up from bed all slimy because what keeps the womb warm is the birth fluids within a pregnant woman.'
'Really? You'll make me a womb?' Jack asked excitedly.
'Its the closest thing you can get to a womb since the real one is too small for you.' Vieno chuckled. 'You're a big girl now.'
'Yay!' Jack was happy.
Her wish was that simple after all.
Well, Vieno sometimes has no idea what to feel about Jack. Her husband wanted to do well by the Wraiths, after saving him and Serenity from their unfair fates. All Jack wanted was a parent's love and the warmth of a womb and Sirius felt its not their fault they became the children of heartless money-grubbing whores over 90 years ago and their fate was out of bad luck when they could have possibly been born to good parents. The kids are innocent with every right to be pissed as no children are conceived to be killed.
Sirius wanted to think that children are born out of love idealistically but he knew the better and dark truth. Children are also born out of politics and as unwanted sexual tryst 'accidents'. It really makes him wonder what kind of parent he'll have in the next life actually he just hoped that after having 'nutters for parents', he would score good parents in his next life. He told her that his parents are 'nothing to write home about' and she should be glad her parents are good folks.
Sirius would gladly continue to be their parent until Jack's souls are fully satisfied and pass on properly as if they are killed, they'll end up back in Thames, trapped, being earthbound there until their next opportunity to incarnate again. He wanted to free the kids. He also asked her to try her best to love them as they wanted a mother more than a father. If they felt the genuine maternal love they wanted, they can perhaps, move on.
She finds it weird but at least her husband's nice and a jolly fellow with a big goal to aim for. He is also a Spellcaster, not a Magus. He prefers being a Family Man and lets her do as she wishes as a magus as long as she has time for family as a wife and mother as she has people who needs her in her new home. Its not like he can make her leave what she's known for so long, can she?
Its simply Time Management as he puts it.
Easily done she thought. Sirius works as an Auror by day and Jack goes to school so she can experiment all day, and be a proper wife and mother after that.
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In Finland...in Ervasti Estate...
'Dear, Vieno sent us a letter.' Mrs. Ervasti spoke to her husband.
'Its been about three months since she married Sirius right? What did she say?'
'She has a lot to say about her new husband...and their little situation at home.' said Mrs. Ervasti. 'That, and Vieno's triplets are born powerful! Why, one of them can be our next heir after one of her siblings...are they done squabbling yet?'
'Just about dear, just about. Now about that letter...'
Upon reading of their daughter's life in her new home...their eyebrows rose.
