Chapter 3
Disclaimer: Again, I own nothing. I also forgot to put this on my last chapter, but it also stands for that one, too. I will never own anything of J.K.s'.
As usual, the narrow foyer was dark and foreboding. Sirius watched as Kreacher levitated his trunk up to his room, leaving him to himself.
'I wonder what I've done now? I don't remember having done anything too bad. Then again, there was that break into the Slytherins' common room and booby trapping it. But, we were never caught! Though everyone knew who had done it..'
Slightly nervous and confused, and not a little bit curious, Sirius strode towards the parlor, knowing that that would be were his so called "family" was. Upon reaching the door, he paused to listen to the conversation within, hoping to maybe gauge what he was in for.
"Mother, Father, thank you for your constant letters during the year. I oft waited, sitting at my desk, hoping to receive a letter filled with your motivating words and advice. Many a time, that was my sole motivation, the reason I kept going."
He heard the smooth, almost childish voice of his brother, Regulus, say.
"My dear son, it is times like these that we must band together to survive." He heard his father begin.
"To motivate, protect, and assist one another and our allies."
His father was talking louder with each syllable, yet never yelling.
"For soon, the Dark Lord will bring about our salvation from these, these...things, that pollute our homes, lives, schools, even our air!"
He could hear nothing as a small, electric silence came about.
"But, Father, if that is true, then why is my Elder Brother, Sirius, against our noble cause? I do not understand!" Regulus questioned.
He sounded like a seven year-old again. It angered Sirius, yet he stayed quiet as he listened to his Fathers' answer.
"Regulus, you being the noble and obedient son you are, it is only further proof of your noble and obedient soul that you do not understand his ways."
His Fathers' tone hardened as he continued.
"There is and, always will be, a disbeliever, even an occasional blood-traitor, in every Pureblood Noble House. Thus, it would seem, that Sirius is the one in our family."
Here, his tone changed to a determined, defiant tone.
"Yet, it is our duty, as his family, to do all that we can to guide him to the right path. That is what we are to do tonight."
He could hear his Father moving toward the area where he had heard Regulus' voice come from.
"Though, my boy, I must warn you, it may well be a horrendous site, and it may not work. But we will do all in our power to try."
Sirius couldn't take it anymore. Steering himself to the task he was about to undertake, Sirius grasped the doors' handle in his left hand. He took a deep breath and turned it quickly, yanking the door open.
"Mother, Father, Brother Regulus. I am glad to see you well."
He quickly strode to the center of the room, after having closed the door.
"I would have given you such greetings earlier, had you been there to receive them"
Here he looked his Father and Mother both in the eyes.
"But, instead, I was met by Kreacher, whom had the notion that I you were too busy to pick up your Eldest Son, but you were able to pick up his Younger Brother." Sirius stated coldly.
" That is because, Sirius, we needed to punish you and show you what you are without us, Nothing!" Came the almost roaring answer of his Father.
"And, to show you what we do to those whom associate themselves with mere half-breeds!" His Mother supplied, not too long after his Father.
Sirius paled. 'No, they couldn't have...they couldn't know about Remus, right?' He thought, terrified for the first time that night.
"What, are you implying? I daresay James is a half-breed! Or Peter!"
He kept calm on the surface, trying to play them out.
"Neither, though that Potter boy isn't exactly good company, neither is that Pettigrew. No, it is Remus Lupin. No doubt you have known about his..furry little problem? After all, you share a dorm with him, no?" Answered his Father, who went to stand in front of his son.
It was quiet for a few tense moments. Father looking down at his son, whom stood shoulder length to him, staring defiantly back.
" Don't worry, you won't break your promise of secrecy with us. We already know that he is a Werewolf."Spoke his Mother, dangerously.
'Still, I mustn't give his secret away. If I do, I would be betraying his trust, their trust in me.' He cocluded defiantly.
"He has a problem, so does every other person on earth. Even demi-gods such as you both, I'm sure. Then again, I am but a fallen angel which you keep in your midst for some unknown reason." Sirius all but spat quietly, dangerously.
They were insulting and threatening one of his most precious friends. He would have none of it, even from his parents.
His Father eyed him, he could see the raw anger and disbelief in his eyes, before he spoke.
"Sirius, whether or not you will admit it." His Father began to walk to the large lounge chair by the fire to Sirius' right.
" You have a choice to make. I all but know your answer for today. But, for the next month you will be given a choice once per day. And this is your choice."
Here his Father sat down comfortably, sitting to where he was eye level with Sirius before going on. " Either Remus and the other... Marauders, or us, your family to whom you eternally are bound by a linkage of blood. Which shall it be, Sirius?"
Sirius stared at him. He was not entirely surprised by the question, he knew it would come eventually. But the way his Father was asking him, it didn't make sense.
' A question a day?' Sirius thought. 'What in the world?'
Knowing his answer, though, Sirius spoke without any hesitation in his voice.
" It shall forever be the Marauders, for blood is not always as thick as water."
Authors Note:
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