He was a little more frantic then he thought he would be when this night came. But then again he was excepting it to happen at three in the morning.

" God, g godson sir I have no idea what you mean." Harry could hear his uncle say.

" I think you know exactly what I mean." Sirius said.

Harry opened his eyes and put on his glasses, he had given up completely on trying to get back to sleep when Sirius was there. Once his eyes were wide, he saw that not only his uncle's shadow was in the hallway but also those of Sirius and whoever were with him.

"Come on now Sirius there's no need to barge into their house like that."

"Oh come off it Remus, you want Harry with us as much as I do."

Remus! Of course, the other cam voice with Sirius had to be Remus; Harry could not believe how daft he had become in these last few days at the Durselys.

"There is no one by that name in my house, now if you would be so kind to leave at once!" his uncle thundered.

Harry heard a small whimpers coming from over his head. He guessed they were from the now awakened Dudley and Petunia.

Knowing that he might be leaving soon he quickly sat up the best he could in such a small space and looked himself over. Just to make sure the clothes were hiding every bruise ,scar, and abnormality on his body for when Sirius and Remus saw him.

He was in luck enough that his clothes did in fact hide everything he wanted them too. With the long over shirt and the baggy pants, almost all of Harry had been hidden. Well not the base of his throat, his fingers, of his feet but those had gotten the minimal damage of all. Except there still was the small scars that used to say "I must not tell lies". They had not faded yet but the words that were once on them had disappeared causing them to just look like regular cuts.

He was however thoroughly shocked when he heard what he uncle said next. " Oh very well, Petunia pet please escort these…" it seemed to Harry that his uncle paused because he didn't know if he should call them freaks or men. " men into our living room and I'll go and wake the Fr.. Harry."

Harry silently laughed to himself he wasn't quite sure if it was because his uncle almost let it slip he called him a freak, if it was that he practically had to choke his name out, or if it was that fact that he was just turning delusional.

Soon the sound of footprints could be heard and Harry saw the three shadows of Sirius, aunt Petunia, and Remus all going into the living area.

When the shadows were gone he heard the locks on his door becoming undone and he was roughly pulled out by his uncle.

"Boy those freak friends of yours are here." he sneered up close to Harry's face, in fact he was using the fact that he had the shoulder of his shirt to pull him up.

" The sooner you leave with them the sooner my house will be normal again so you better get in there and tell them your fine and nothing happened here or they'll come to their sense and realize I was right for punishing you, and I do not want you coming back!"

As that was said he let go of Harry's shirt and pushed him to the door. But Harry didn't wasn't to think about how much that hurt. All he could think about was Vernon's words that were swirling around his mind.

What did he mean they would realize he was right for beating him. That would never happen with Sirius and Remus would it. He couldn't believe that he was believing something his uncle told him but for some reason he did. Maybe it would be better if he kept it all quiet for a while till he was sure of what Remus or Sirius would do or think, yeah that would work.

The next thing he knew he was opening the door and was walking through it to find Sirius and Remus in their wizard robes sitting with his aunt at the table.

Harry summoned his Gryffindor courage and looked at Remus and Sirius from the door way. As always Remus had his usual calm and caring look, but Sirius had a different one. Sirius didn't look as carefree like he did the last time Harry saw him. In fact this time he looked more worried and nervous, Harry couldn't help but wonder if he had caused that.

Before he could think anymore it seemed that Sirius finally made his mind up of what he was going to do and got up from the table only to grab Harry into his arms for a hug and squeeze him a little. Don't get him wrong it felt very loving and comforting to be in Sirius's arms but he couldn't deny the fact that he did flinch and stiffen a little when Sirius did that.

It would seem that Sirius noted it too, for he lost his grip on Harry's waist a little and began to back up. But Harry didn't want him to get the wrong idea so he quickly wrapped his arms around Sirius's waist and hugged back before his godfather let go. In the back of his mind Harry could tell that he heard Remus laughing quietly for the table. But for what reason Harry had no idea about.

It was only once Sirius let go of Harry that Remus got up and gave a short side hug to him. Harry could tell Remus was trying to be comforting but when he began to rub the side of Harry's arm up and down he couldn't help but bite his lip. For Remus hand unknowingly was rubbing right over a new cut that his uncle gave him only hours ago.

" Harry you have no idea how crazy Sirius was going trying to get to you." Remus said at last when he pulled away.

Wait did Remus say that Sirius was trying to get to him? How could that even be possibly true when the man wouldn't answer anything Harry wrote. Once again with his courage he asked just that but in a less harsh way than it sounded in his head.

" not that I'm not happy you guys are here but… um if you wanted to get me then why didn't you respond to any of my letters?"

Wow. Harry thought to himself. Did I really just say something that insulting and stupid aloud?

But what was bugging him now was not the fact that the sentence he just said sounded so accusing but it was the fact that Sirius once again had a nervous look on his face. Almost as if he didn't know how things were going to turn out once he answered it. So Remus stepped in for him, he was the one who was smiling at Sirius so promptly looking so nervous.

" Harry why don't you, Sirius, your aunt and uncle, and I all sit down at the table for a moment hmm." he said as he put his arm on Harry's shoulder closest to him and started to lead him to a chair. Before Harry could even start to think about all the horrible possibilities that could go along with that sentence he found himself sitting and looking at Sirius. Who was clearing his throat and again worriedly looking down at the table cloth.

" Harry I'm dreadfully sorry that didn't respond to what you had written us but it would seem that we did not know you were writing at all till we got your last letter." Remus stated calmly.

" Wait what do you mean you didn't know I was writing? I sent Sirius a letter almost every day and never got a response." Right now he could care less if it sounded rude, he wanted answers.

He was however able to notice that both Remus's and Sirius's eyes had suddenly become very sad at this comment.

" We never meant to hurt you at all Harry in any way, but you should know that we had a very good reason to, for that I will let Sirius explain."

He shot a look at Sirius as if to tell him he should start from the beginning. And with another clearing of his throat that's just what Sirius did.

" Well I think we should start form when I last saw you at the battle in the department of mysteries. When I last saw you there Harry I…. well I realized how fast I could lose you and how much you've been through when I wasn't around." Sirius paused to catch his breath. The whole table was silent even the Durselys had shut up. Everyone but Vernon and Petunia could tell that this was getting hard for him to say., but he continued on nevertheless.

" So that night I came to grimmuald place told Remus I had a plan and we went to go after Peter." ok so this wasn't going the way Harry thought it would be but it was getting interesting, but he never excepted what he heard next, " and we caught him."

Harry practically choked on air, he couldn't believe what they were telling him. Finally after so long they had Peter in their grasp, but what did that mean for Sirius?

" But if you caught him then you, your." Harry couldn't believe that words were failing him now but he just couldn't manage to spit it out.

" Yes Harry Sirius is a free man." Remus added in completely ecstatic at the look on Harry's face.

" Then why didn't I get an answer?" Harry decided that this was as good of a time as any to ask.

" You see after we had him Remus and I brought him into the Minster of magic with Dumbledore's help and I finally I got myself a fair trial." Sirius continued on, but this still wasn't answering his question.

" There was however a cost to it," This was what Harry was wondering about, " I wasn't allowed to have any contact with the outside world other than Remus and Dumbledore due to them still thinking was a murder and was sending messages to other's trying to get them on my side if they ever were asked to speak in a hearing."

" You see Harry they were keeping your letters from Sirius and it wasn't until Sirius's trial was over that we got your last one." Remus explained, it was all suddenly becoming very clear to Harry.

" But Harry you must understand that Dumbledore had nothing to do with this, he just knew that if you sent a letter to me they would take me away from Sirius tell his trial was over." Remus continued then looked over at Sirius, " I think that you had something to say about this didn't you old friend?" he asked.

" So Harry now the only question is do you… well do you," he stopped completely getting that nervous look back on his features. So he decided that maybe he should take a whole other approach to it, " Harry in your third year I made you a promise, for a different home.. Would you take me up on it?"

Harry couldn't speak for a minute, finally he had all the answers and the one thing he wanted the most in this world a home where people wanted him around.

Another thing also became very clear to Harry. Sirius wasn't nervous about seeing Harry or something Harry had done, he was nervous that Harry wouldn't want to live with him.

But the pause as this came to Harry's sense said something different to Sirius and Remus than Harry would want.

" Look Harry I get it and I understand that you want to be with your aunt and uncle, they've been there for you longer." Sirius said next with a heart broken look.

He could almost laugh out loud, the Durselys actually being there for him was one of the most humorous things he had heard in a while, and in fact he had laughed out loud.

" Sirius, Remus are you guys crazy!" he said once he stopped laughing. He wanted to tell them what his uncle had done to him, to tell them the Durselys had never cared for him enough to be there for him. But he decided that he would save that for later, later when he knew for sure that they wouldn't mind.

"Of course I would want to live with you." He declared happily. For once Harry was smiling a real smile, it was one that hadn't been on his face for a long time.

Sirius practically leaped out of his chair and shouted in elation. Causing both Harry and Remus to enjoy a laugh about it while he sat down looking quite sheepish.

" I have the papers here Harry, all we need is your aunt and uncle's signature if that's all right with them." Remus said as he threw a glance to Harry's uncle.

Vernon was grinning very broadly and said, " of course we'd be happy to get rid of that boy, you can leave tonight if you wish, Harry go upstairs and get your things and never darken our door step again."

Remus's eyebrows rose and looked very taken back by this comment. Sirius however looked not only shocked but angry too. Harry though could care less what his uncle said about him he was too happy about getting a real home. Somewhere where he would leave all of his abuse in the past, where he would forget all about it and not bring it up. He wouldn't want Sirius and Remus to be disappointed when they realized how much not like his father Harry was. Because Harry knew even if he didn't know him that his dad would not let this happen to him.

So he just shrugged and got up from the table, only to look back at his godfather and the werewolf. "I can go up and get my stuff now if that's alright with you guys."

Remus nodded and began to get the papers that were needed out of the briefcase he had brought with him. Sirius however got up from his chair and walked over to the door that would let them out of the kitchen. He then opened it and gestured for Harry to walk through.

" I'll come with you kiddo, I've already signed the parts that I need to of that."

Harry had never been called "kiddo" before or any other nickname given out of love from a parent figure. If he wasn't so desperate for that kind of love he would have been insulted that someone was calling him a kid at his age, but with Sirius and Remus he would let it slide. Because truth was he like the attention he got form them thinking he was a kid. They didn't leave him alone like the others would, he knew that for sure.

So he made his way through the door with Sirius following behind him waiting for him to lead the way.

He lead him up to the second bedroom that he used to have. He was slightly worried that it would still be covered in blood like it had been when he was up there.

Once he reached the door his hands slightly shook as he reached for the door knob. It turned out that Sirius noticed this too.

" Harry are you alright?" he asked with a face full of concern.

" Yeah I'm fine it's just I can't believe that this is all happening." he responded.

Sirius chuckled to himself a little at the how fast his dream of taking care of his godson was coming true. " I know how you feel, but we'll catch up and have fun this summer."

Harry smiled lightly he had never had the promise of an easy summer in his whole life. And he liked the feeling of knowing he had some where to go. This was going to be his first carefree summer and he was going to make sure nothing interfered.

He stepped in with Sirius on his tail, he immediately went and got Hedwig and put her in her cage. Then he moved to his trunk and began to pack his stuff back in along with some of the drawings of Hedwig and cards that he had gotten from his friends, that along with some Quidditch ribbon awards.

Sirius chipped in and took down some of his awards for first, fourth, and third place from Quidditch that he had tacked on the wall.

Before handing them to Harry Sirius gently moved his fingers over the award ribbon as he looked at it with a smile.

" I'm going to have to come and watch you play aren't I?" he said as he looked back up to his godson.

Harry only nodded and smiled, no one other than his friends, and Hagrid ever cheered for him in the stands. It would be nice to have Sirius there rooting for him and the rest of the Gryffindor team.

He reached out to grab it from Sirius when his sleeve fell back, reveling some of the scars he got in umbridge's detentions that he had mentioned earlier.

He quickly took the ribbon and put it safely in his trunk. All the while praying that Sirius hadn't seen anything. But it seemed that he couldn't be that lucky for Sirius did see and promptly snatched Harry's hand back to only pull back his sleeve again and give him a clear view of the cuts on it.

He held Harry's hand firmly in both of his and took a minute to stare down at the evidence that a blood quill or knife had been taken to his godson or i Harry had done it all himself. Sirius just didn't know which one to guess did this or who did.

Meanwhile Harry was praying that he didn't lift up his sleeve anymore and see the scars that had not been done by magic itself.

Sirius looked up from Harry's hand and in to his green eyes, then said, " Bud you know you can tell me anything you want right, and ANYTHING." he said a little louder at the end to prove his point.

All Harry could do was nod that he understood as he got his hand back. Sirius was still staring in a concerned way at him.

Maybe this summer wasn't going to put his abuse in the past and be as carefree