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A/N: sorry it took me so long to update!! I've had a global project and dance and cheer …. but enough of my excuses! Thanks so much for all of your encouraging reviews it means so much to me to get someone's opinion, more than just an alert. So anyways, I now present to you chapter 2!


"Ww-what?" stuttered Ernie …. It's not possible! He couldn't believe it! How could he? When for most of his adult life this man was a mass murder and then, he turns out to be innocent and dead … and yet he's right here …

"Come again?" said Mickey looking at the man who claimed to be Sirius with pure disbelief

"My name is Sirius Black" said the man, this time more coherently, his long wavy black hair was down to his shoulders and his clothes were burnt and torn. Yet his face was clean, his teeth were white … it was strange. It appeared as though a normal clean man put on the dirtiest clothes he could find. But they both knew this wasn't the case. They had both worked at the ministry since they'd gotten out of Hogwarts in 1985 and everyone knew who Sirius Black was. Everyone knew what Sirius Black looked like, and this man had an uncanny resemblance to him.

"Are you really?" asked Ernie in awe.

"Ernie you idiot! We have to bring him to the Auror office, we need to know the man's identity before we go questioning him!" said Mickey angrily. He was stressed right now. Everything had always been routine. Sure the ministry had gone through it's ups and downs but checking at night had always been alright ….. this is the first time anything had come up since he had worked there!

"What do you mean bring him to the Aurors? They're at home asleep Mickey!! There's nothing we can do right now." said Ernie disagreeing completely with his best mate's plan.

As the two security guards bickered back and forth about what to do about him Sirius became absorbed in his own thoughts. How could they not believe it was him? He hadn't been in the veil that long? I mean maybe a few days … it didn't feel like it had been a long time. Yet his memories of the veil were slipping away … it had been strange. Like seeing the dead, those you really wanted to see, without being dead. He supposed you came back after a while, just as he did. Lily and James … how good it had been to see them! Sirius could just barely remember seeing them in the veil yet at the same time he remembered it so well ….

"Harry!!" Sirius thought out loud suddenly remembering his godson. How could he have left Harry? Even for a few precious moment with Lily and James he should have never left Harry! He was his responsibility … he had always left Harry behind ….

"You talking bout Harry Potter?" asked Ernie suddenly intrigued by the man's scream.

"Yes! Yes I am!! You know Harry Potter?" asked Sirius, suddenly excited … excited to have his life back. He never thought he would be happy to be away from James but the idea of seeing Harry again made him feel overcome with joy in ways he hadn't felt since he was twenty years old.

"Course! Who doesn't know Harry Potter?" asked Ernie "Defeated You- know- who didn't he?"

"He did it?!" asked Sirius, who was now looking for the nearest exit to leave the dark cold room in which he had a memory of his dear cousin, Bella, he would rather not revisit … besides he could see Harry and Harry had killed Voldemort!

Noticing the suspect eying the door Mickey got a hold on him.

"Where do you think you're going?" he asked, still not truly believing this man was Sirius Black. "Of you're really who you say you are Harry Potter would know, you're supposed to be his godfather aren't you?" asked Mickey.

"Yes I am his godfather, but if I'm going to prove myself to anyone it's going to Harry himself or Fudge." said Sirius with a sense of finality

"Fudge?!" said Ernie with disbelief "Are you kidding me?! That guy hasn't been minister for what two years now?!" he said.

"Huh?" said Sirius. None of this made sense. Who was minister? What year was it? How old was he? How old was Harry? All of these thoughts consumed Sirius' mind, so much so that he didn't even notice the crowd of aurors and a tall dark man in dark blue robes standing around him.

"Get Potter over here stat!" said the deep voice of Kinglsey Shacklebolt, bringing Sirius out of his thoughts.

He began to feel uncomfortable with all the aurors watching him. It's not that he wasn't used to people looking at him, they always had. First for being a Black, then for being the Hogwarts Casanova, then for being a 'murder' and now … well now he wasn't quite sure what.

Sirius looked up when the big doors that lead into the Department of Mysteries open and in walked a tall, slightly muscular teenager with dark hair and messy glasses walked in and stood in front of Sirius looking at him with the same look of disbelief the security guard had.

"Harry … Prong's Jr …. you've grown so much!" Sirius said, his eyes involuntarily watering. Harry … this was Harry. Obviously a few years had gone by … not days! The once scrawny fifteen year old was now more muscular, looked very much of a boy in his late teens.

"Can I have a moment alone with him?" Harry asked to the group of aurors behind him.

"Alright, clear out! Give Potter some room" said Head Auror Thomas Gasker.

Once the room had been cleared Harry turned back to Sirius

"What was the first thing you said to me about my mother?" he asked in a steady voice, but Sirius could tell he was nervous, he shifted his feet just like James did.

"I told you that you had your mother's eyes." Sirius said with utmost certainty.

With that Harry and Sirius and hugged a much belated hug. To feel his godson with him again … there could be no better feeling.

"Well things have changed, haven't they?" asked Sirius looking Harry over for the tenth time

"Yeah … things have changed a lot in the past couple years." said Harry, not sure where to start explaining everything … Fudge, Dumbledore, Ginny, Snape … there was so much to tell it was all so complicated.

"There's a lot that's happened. But I suppose you should have a run down." said Harry meeting Sirius' eyes, they both still found it strange that Harry was about the same height as Sirius, give or take a few inches.

"Alright, give me the condensed version, you know I never did have much patience" said Sirius smiling at the young man in front of him.

"I'm just not sure if now is the right time." said Harry quietly, almost as if he wished Sirius wouldn't hear him.

"Why?" asked Sirius putting a hand on Harry's shoulder, worried his godson didn't want to open up to him, was angry at him for leaving. If he was, Sirius couldn't blame him. Being gone for nearly two years can't have been easy on him or the Order …

"I've just got you back … I don't want things to get complicated just yet." said Harry suddenly seeming much more like a five year old boy then a seventeen year old.

"Mate, you've got all the time in the world to tell me whatever you want to tell me" said Sirius his eyes watering looking at his godson.


A/N: so there's chapter 2! I hope you enjoyed. The next chapter will be Harry and Sirius really reconnecting and meeting the Weasley's again. There will also be a HUGE plot change coming up in either chapter 3 or chapter 4 I haven't decided yet, it depends on how long chap.3 gets when I'm done.

If you haven't noticed this story is post DH just if anyone was confused.

Thanks for reading and please, please, (with a cherry on top) REVIEW!

- Kate