Dorea opened the book and began to read.

Chapter 1. The Beginning of the End

"I'm not liking this." "I'm not either Prongs." "Both of you shut it." "Yes, Moony."

Sirius Black was in over his head.

"What did you do now Black?" Lily Evans asked derisively. Shizuka glared at her fiercely. "Watch your tone Evans." Shizuka warned. "And you are?" Lucius drawled. "Shizuka Kagawa." Regulus looked gob smacked. "As in the Noble Kagawa family of Osaka, Japan?" He asked shocked. She nodded as she turned back to Lily Evans. "I'll warn you this once. Watch what you say about my friend." She said with a dangerous glower that silenced every Slytherin and Evans.

He had brilliantly agreed to watch his godson Harry along with his son Leo and his nephew Aries.

"I have a son?" Sirius and Regulus asked at the same time. They looked at each other, dumbfounded, before looking away, to be congratulated by their friends.

And now, he's glad Prongs, Moony, Lana and Shizu were not here to laugh at him. He had baby drool in his long black hair, baby food remnants from the boys' food fight, was missing a shoe, and lost sight of his nephew.

Sirius was not so lucky now. "What do you mean you lost my son?" Regulus asked his brother sternly. Sirius shrugged. " I don't know this is the future ."

He had Harry under his right arm, giggling like mad. Leo was gumming his fist while Sirius had him under his left arm. Sirius put them in the crib he conjured from the nursery to the living room.

"You better be looking for my son brother." "I'm pretty sure that I am."

He placed the two black haired one year olds in the crib, as he went to find his two year old nephew.

All the parents groaned. "What?" Sirius asked nervously. "The terrible twos." Augusta moaned, her face in her hands. "The time when kids start to argue back and cause mayhem." Ted mentioned rubbing the back of his neck. Sirius started to sweat a bit.

He followed the sound of giggles and stuff breaking, to the kitchen. What he saw gave him a heart attack.

"What?" Sirius and Regulus asked nervously. "Perhaps if you would stop interrupting we would find out." Professor McGonagall said sternly. The Black brothers shifted their eyes sheepishly.

Aries was on the counter, trying to climb the fridge.

"Please get my son down." Regulus said into his hands.

Sirius ran and snatched him up, much to Aires ire. "NO!" Aries yelled pulling Sirius' long hair.

"Ouch." All the parents chorused.

"Aires you can't climb everything, you could get hurt." Sirius said, trying to ignore the pain in his scalp.

The adults nodded at how Sirius was dealing with his nephew so far.

"No! Play! Wanna Play!" Aries said pulling his hair more.

"The terrible twos." The parents moaned.

Sirius walked the both of them over to the couch and sat down. "Aries can you let go of my hair?" Sirius asked, pain creeping up in his scalp and neck. "No!"

"Nice try Sirius." Charlus acknowledged. "James did the same thing to Dorea. She refused to wear her hair down again until he was five." Charlus mentioned nostalgically, much to James' embarrassment. "Dad!"

Sirius sighed and was trying to think of a solution. Sirius got a bright idea.

"Oh dear." Remus said to Sirius' ire. "What's that supposed to mean?" "Nothing Padfoot."

He looked at his nephew with a mischievous smirk.

Now Regulus got nervous. What was his brother planning. Or better yet, why was his son with his disowned brother at all?

"Well Ree, do you want to play with Padfoot?" Sirius asked.

"I'm confused, aren't you Padfoot Sirius?" Frank asked the fifth year. "Yes…" Sirius trailed off nervously, sharing a brief worried look with his two friends.

"Pa'foo! Pa'foo!" Harry and Leo cheered from the crib. "Yesh." Aries answered, finally letting go of Sirius' hair. Sirius took the babies out of the crib, before "bringing out" Padfoot.

The Marauders grew pale at those words. Would their secret get out? But what they were most worried about was James' parents' reaction. James and Sirius were getting the feeling that they won't be able to sit right for a month.

Where Sirius was stood a large shaggy black dog with pale eyes.

Everyone, minus the Marauders, Lilianna and Shizuka all looked at Sirius with shocked expressions on their face. "You're an animagus?" McGonagall asked shocked. Sirius looked down and nodded. James stood up, a serious expression on his face. "I'm an animagus too. It was my idea in the first place so if you want to punish Sirius you gotta punish me too!" James defended his friend. "There will be punishment James, but that can wait." Charlus said solemnly

"How long have you been animagi?" Moody asked them. "We started in our second year, but only this year we've managed to complete the transformation." Sirius said solemnly. Many went slack jawed at that. "May I ask your animagi forms and why?" Moody asked. "I'm a stag, Sirius is a Grim and Peter's a rat." James answered him. "They became animagi because of me." Remus said bravely. "And why would that be?" Moody asked locking eyes with Remus.

"Because he's a filthy werewolf!" Snape bellowed. Many of the occupants in the room lurched back. "It's not his fault! Frenrir Greyback bit him when he was five to get revenge on his parents! He's Remus Lupin, our best friend and you're a prejudiced git whose hell bent on ruining our lives!" James yelled at Snape.

"Look who's talking about prejudice, Potter." Lily sneered. "You hate Slytherins for no good reason. "My mother was a Slytherin Evans, get your facts straight." James told her off coldly, much to her shock. "You lot tried to have him kill me!" Snape screeched hatefully. "YOU THREATENED TO KILL MY BROTHER AND HANG HIS CORPSE FORM THE ASTRONOMY TOWER IF I DIDN'T TELL YOU WHERE REMUS WENT DURING THE FULL MOON!" Sirius bellowed angrily. The entire room grew quite.

All the other Slytherins looked shocked. "What?" Regulus asked quietly, staring at his brother. Sirus had a sad look in his eyes as he turned to look at Regulus. "He said he'd gut you like a fish and string you up from the Astronomy Tower." Sirius said in a tight voice. "Mr. Snape is this true?!" Professor McGonagall hissed angrily. Snape looked away. All the Blacks, Lucius and Barty Crouch Jr. looked furiously at him. "Stay the hell away from my family!" Bellatrix screeched at him drawing her wand. " SIT DOWN! WE'LL DEAL WITH THIS LATER." Professor McGonagall said sternly. She did so grudgingly. Lily sat there in total shock.

"Pa'foo!" Harry cheered wobbling towards the dog.

That lifted the mood up a bit. It got some smiles from McGonagall, Dorea and Augusta.

The large dog licked all three boys before laying down, to let them pet his fur. It hurt a bit but Padfoot didn't mind too much for the boy's sake.

The parents nodded at how Sirius handled the boys.

His son Leo was giggling happily. Leo was, as his mother would say, "absolutely adorable." He had dark brown, almost black hair, dark grey angled eyes, and pale skin. Shizu always said that Leo looked like Sirius, with a bit of his mother's Asian features.

"We get together?" Sirius asked happily looking at Shizuka beseechingly. She returned his smile.

"Awww." The girls cooed. Remus and James were pinching Sirius' cheeks, making mock-cooing sounds. Sirius smacked both of their hands away calling them gits, and arseholes.

Aries was in fact an exact look alike to his dead younger brother.

"WHAT?" Sirius asked in a mix of sorrow and shock. Regulus wasn't moving. "You okay Regulus?" Barty asked his best friend, shaking his shoulder a bit. "I'm… dead." Regulus said in shock. "I… don't get to be there for my son?" Barty patted his shoulder a bit. "We're going to change the future, remember." Barty encouraged his friend. Sirius looked conflicted, he wanted to go to his brother but he wasn't sure if his presence would be welcomed.

Aries had the Black family looks, the dark hair and eyes, the pale skin. He looked like Regulus as a kid, except Aries smiled more often, such as right now.

Regulus walked over to Sirius and hugged him. Sirius was rigid with shock. "Thank you, Sirius." Regulus said. Sirius returned the hug, both of them missing the smiles on the rest of the Marauders' Lilianna's, Shizuka's and Barty's faces. Regulus walked back to his seat.

Harry had his father's face, messy hair, knobby knees, and his mother's green eyes. James would always gush about how his "faun" had his beautiful Lana's eyes.

"YES!" James yelled happily, punching the air, before picking Lilianna up in his arms, and spinning her. "We have a son!" James said happily. Sirius and Remus rolled their eyes good naturedly at their friends antics.

Charlus and Dorea absolutely loved the boys, and relished the fact that all three had a Marauder streak.

The Marauders looked estatic and Regulus had a horrified look on his face. "You managed to corrupt my son." Regulus said to Sirius. "Hey, I'm his Uncle, what do you expect."

Padfoot gave a bark like laugh at the thought of his brother's face should he have heard those words.

"Probably along the same lines as his face now." "Shut up Siri." "Fine Reggie."

Padfoot yelped as Leo pulled his tail, with that all so innocent look on his face.

"Ouch." Sirius moaned rubbing his backside. "If he looks like you he has no innocent face." Regulus playfully jabbed at his brother. "Shut it Reggie." "Stop calling me that." "NOPE." Sirius said popping the 'p'.

"Papa!" Leo giggled, and Padfoot couldn't help but smile.

Same could be said for current Sirius.

He barked and licked his face again, earning squeals of laughter.

"Ugh, dog breath." James and Remus shuddered. Sirius changed into his animagus form and licked both of their faces. He changed back with a smirk on his face. "Really?" Remus exasperated. "I'm serious Moony." "I know you are. Want a dog treat for remembering you name?" Sirius hit him upside the head.

After giving the boys rides on Padfoot's back, playing fetch and hide and go seek, they all tired themselves out.

Frank snorted. "Could you imagine all the old wizards' faces watching a Grim babysit three little boys?" He asked. "They'd have a heart attack and call it a sign." Alice snorted.

Padfoot changed back into Sirius and put the boys on the couch to nap. When he put them down there was a knock at the door.

"What is it?" Moody growled. "Calm down Alastor." McGonagall told him sternly.

Sirius went up to the door after cleaning his appearance up. "Who goes there?" He asked in a serious voice.

"Oxymoron." Remus muttered.

"It's us you git." A familiar voice answered. Sirius opened the door with a grin as James, Lilianna, Remus, and Shizuka walked in. "How were the boys Paddy?" James asked quietly as he walked towards the couch. "Tadaima, Sirius." Shizuka greeted him with a kiss. "Okairi." Sirius returned before turning to James.

Sirius had a smile on his face and Shizuka was blushing. James and Remus mimed vomiting.

"Well, they loved Padfoot and no accidental magic today." Sirius said putting his arm around his wife.

"Do you think they have bouts of accidental magic often?" Dorea asked her husband. "If they do they're pretty powerful wizards."

Remus snickered. "Didn't Aries stick you to the ceiling last time, when he got a hold of your wand?"

Regulus looked proud at that. "Sounds like Aries is a powerful boy, cousin." Narcissa said to the youngest Black.

Sirius mock- glared at his best friend and son's godfather.

"ME?" Remus asked shocked. "Of course you, you're the mature one, and I trust you." Sirius said. "But-but- too dangerous-not allowed…" Remus stuttered. "Remus your like family to us, we trust you completely." Shizuka told him. "But- I'm…" "But nothing!" Shizuka said and that ended it.

"Didn't Harry turn you into a poodle last time?" Sirius countered.

James laughed heartily. "That's my Faun!" "I thought you'd call him prongslet." Lilianna told James. "Why not both? Knowing us the boys will have lots of nicknames from us." James answered her happily. Lily was a bit green with unknown envy.

Remus returned the mock glare. "I still say James had the worst incident of accidental magic while babysitting." Lilianna said with a small smirk.

"What happened?" Sirius asked as earnestly as a puppy. "It must have been bad if Lana's smirking." Remus noted. Sirius rubbed his hands together in anticipation. Regulus was looking at his brother like he was going to go on a killing spree. He knew that motion meant trouble.

"Hey! Leo's the son of a Marauder!" James countered.

Sirius beamed at hearing this. Regulus moaned, putting his face in his hands. "The future of Hogwarts is doomed." He moaned dramatically. Sirius did the mature thing and stick his tongue out, not noticing a pale McGonagall at the possibility of a future generation of Marauders.

"Yes, and he made you look like Snape." Lilianna retorted.

The Marauders were laughing hard. Several of the Slytherins smirked, still hostile after finding out about the death threat. Only the adults and Lily disapproved of it.

Sirius and Remus were struggling not to laugh at the memory. It took him a week to wash the grease out of his hair.

Those mentioned just laughed harder.

"Not funny. How did he know what Snape looked like, anyway?" James asked.

"Good point, cause I wouldn't let the boys near him with a ten foot pole." Sirius said to the ire of Lily and Snape.

"Remus' story of the Greasy Snivillous and the Four Pirate Kings." Shizuka answered.

Lily looked stricken. "Remus!" She chastised. Remus held his hands up. "He treated my only friends and I like garbage, threatened other students, and sent James and Sirius to the Hospital Wing on several accounts." He retorted with a gold gleam in his eyes, the wolf inside him not liking how he harmed his pack. Professor McGonagall turned her head to Snape. "We will have words about this, boys." She hissed angrily.

"Huh, and here I thought you were the good one, Moony." Sirius told him crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow.

Sirius mimicked his future self's actions.

"What do you expect me to do? Treat him kindly when he was a horrible person to everyone and everything? No, I think The Greasy Troll Snivillous was fitting at the time." Remus said coolly, mimicking Sirius' actions.

As he did now.

"We'll let's get the faun back to Godric's Hollow." James said picking Harry up gently. Shizuka petted Leo and Aries' hair. "We can watch them for the night." Lilianna offered.

"I wouldn't want to cause trouble." Shizuka muttered. "Shizu, you're talking to a book." Sirius said. She had a frigid, polite smile on her face as she slowly turned her head to Sirius. "What was that, sweetie?" She asked him with a tone that could be mistaken as polite, but it sent fear down Sirius' spine.

"Nothing, nothing at all, did I ever tell you how wonderful you are Shizu dearest?" Sirius said nervously. "Whipped." Ted chuckled. Andromeda turned to him. "What was that, dear?" She asked him. "Nothing love." Ted answered his wife, much to the amusement of their infant daughter, who had woken up from her nap.

"I don't want to impose or anything." Shizuka said politely. "Nonsense. The boys can sleep over. Shizuka, you and Sirius can take a break tonight." Lilianna said kindly.

"You're so sweet." Alice praised. "Thank you…" "Alice." "Thank you Alice." And they shared a smile. Lily scowled.

"Are you sure it's safe?" Shizuka asked nervously.

"Excellent question." Moody growled. One can never be too careful.

"I'm sure it's fine Shizuka." Remus said confidently. "Dumbledore himself put the Fidelius Charm up himself, and with Sirius as the decoy, Peter will be safe from those who're after the Death Eaters."

"Huh, not a bad plan." Charlus said contemplatively. "But why Peter?" Shizuka asked with a frown, trying to think of a good reason for it. "Well, no one would expect him would they?" Alice asked. All the students nodded, there was no other explanation for it.

"You sure it's safe to have Peter as the Secret Keeper?" Shizuka asked. Sirius held her hand as he said "Peter might not be the smartest or strongest wizard, but he's still our friend. There's no way Peter would betray us." Shizuka wasn't convinced but let it go for now. "Alright."

"Never doubt your instincts, lassie." Moody growled. "That can get a wizard killed in a time of war."

"Excellent, Harry's second Halloween with his friends!"

"Halloween! Aww! I hope you lot have photos of them in costumes." Dorea interrupted herself, and hit full on adoring grandmother mode. The future fathers nodded nervously, as the future mothers were whispering about costumes. Oh those poor boys… All the men thought at the embarrassing coddling they'll get in the future.

James said cheerfully, as he and Lilianna got Leo and Aries in their arms to floo back to Godric's Hollow. "Happy Halloween, boys." Sirius said to the boys before they left for Godric's Hollow.

"That's the end." Dorea said closing the book and putting it down on the table. "Who would like to read next?" She asked. "I'll read dear." Charlus said picking up the book. He cleared his throat as he began to read.