Harry landed in a large kitchen where a young boy and girl were kneeling next to the fireplace with brooms and scrubbers.
"Mom, why can't the house elves do it?" The young boy whined to his mother who had come to stand in the doorway.
"Because you and Jane are in trouble." His mother said, "Now hurry up." Their mother left the room in time to miss the face Jane had made at her mother's back.
"You know James it was your idea to try and trick a muggle into flying on a broom with us." Jane said.
"You didn't have to go along with it." He said.
As Jane reached in to scrub one corner of the fireplace emerald flames sprang up in her face. A dark haired boy covered in soot was lying on top of her where he had fallen out of the fireplace.
"Do you mind getting off?" Jane asked the boy. She didn't seem the least bit bothered by the fact that a strange boy had fallen out of their fireplace. The boy just stayed there staring at her. "James make him get off."
The boy got off quickly. Jane stood up and looked down at the dress she was wearing. It was covered in soot.
"Who're you?" Jane asked once the boy had helped her stand up.
"Sirius." He said. He acted like he expected her to yell at him.
"I'm Jane and that's my brother James." Jane said cheerfully.
"Hey." James said. He looked curiously at the other boy.
"Come on let's get you some clean clothes." Jane said taking Sirius's hand and leading him up the stairs to James's room. The walls were plastered with various quidditch posters and other quidditch related things. Jane went over to the closet and started digging through the clothes.
"Here wear- I like this shirt- wear it." Jane said tossing a quidditch shirt at Sirius. "And these jeans might fit you. You are a bit bigger than James."
"Umm thanks?" Sirius said.
"No problem, now I have to go change out of this dress." Jane said leaving him alone.
Jane walked downstairs and into the kitchen. She stood in the doorway waiting for her mom to notice she was standing there.
"Mom?" She finally said growing impatient. "A strange boy fell out of our fireplace and he's staying for dinner."
"A boy? Is he hurt?" Her mother asked looking up at Jane.
"No he's fine. I gave him some of James's clothes. They're upstairs talking about quidditch." Jane said snatching an apple off of the counter.
"What's his name?" Her mom asked.
"Sirius." Jane said then realizing her mother wanted to know more she looked up, "That's all I know."
"Well then why don't you bring him downstairs so we can sort this out." Her mother said wiping her hands on her apron. "We'll probably need to owl his parents."
Jane ran upstairs to James's room and walked in on the boys as they were sharing quidditch stories. Jane sat down next to Sirius and waited for them to pause.
"Sirius, mum want to talk to you." Jane said watching him with her chin on her knees.
"O-ok." Sirius said standing up. Jane led him down to the kitchen where her mother waited with plates of food for each of them. She sat Sirius down at one of the spare places at the table.
"Is daddy on his way home yet?" Jane asked looking at the empty spot at the head of the table.
"No Jane he has to work another hour tonight." Her mother said kindly. "Now Sirius, what's you last name?"
"Black." He mumbled.
"Oh you're Rosalia's son!" She said with sudden understanding. "No wonder you tried to leave."
Sirius mumbled something that didn't sound too pleasant about his family.
"So how did you end up here?" James asked.
"Said anywhere but here." Sirius said shrugging.
"Sadly I'll have to tell your parents where you are." Mrs. Potter said, "You're quite too young to be running off."
"Can't he stay mom!" Jane asked suddenly. She stared up at her mother with pleading eyes.
"It depends on his mother." Mrs. Potter said.
Jane crept downstairs to the small guest room next the kitchen. She edged the door open and poked her head in.
"Sirius? Are you still awake?" She whispered into the room.
"Huh?" Sirius said drowsily, "Yeah."
Jane came the rest of the way into the room and sat on the foot of the bed. Sirius was wearing some night pants he had borrowed from James. Jane sat there watching him for a second.
"So why did you run away?" She asked quietly. Her dark brown eyes seemed to be far away but at the same time completely focused on Sirius.
"My family's a load of gits." Sirius said.
"James can be a bit of a git sometimes." Jane said, "Do you want to be our friend?"
"Sure." He said smiling. Jane lay down and curled up next to him.
"You can be another brother for me." She said smiling up at him. "Then I'll have two brothers."
Jane and Sirius fell asleep curled up together.