Wards and Two Flashbacks

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"So Padfoot…When are you going to start going over to James and Lily's again?"

Sirius sighed.

"Moons, we have had this conversation too many times."

"I know, but Lily called earlier to see if you'd come over. The remodel is done on the house and we all need to go over there to put the wards back on it."

Sirius nodded, remembering when they had to take all the wards down to let the workers in.

"Yeah. That's fine. When do we need to be there?"

Remus smirked innocently.

"25 minutes."

Sirius scowled at his friend and ran upstairs to take a shower.


James Potter smiled at his red-haired wife, who was pacing the kitchen.

"What's wrong love?"

Lily jumped at the noise in the originally silent kitchen.

"Merlin James! Give me a heart attack why don't you?"

James waved his hand in a dismissive manner and gave her a look that clearly said 'I'm waiting for an answer.'

Lily sighed and stopped her pacing, flopping into a chair.

"I'm nervous. What if I cant get through to Sirius?"

"Lily, he loves you. He's just scared that you don't love him."

"Why does he feel like that?"

James shook his head.

"Nice try, but I already told you. You want to know what's going on, you have to talk to him."

Lily nodded and resumed her pacing.


"Hey Potters, your knight and shining armors have arrived."

Lily and James looked towards the living room, and in the doorway stood a werewolf and a dog animagus.

"Hey Moons! Hey Pads!"

Remus smiled at the bespectacled man.

"Hey James, Hey Lily."

Sirius merely waved before getting right down to business.

"So what all wards are we putting up?"

"Well, we are putting up an anti-apparition ward of course. To use the floo network out of here, you have to say the password that we designate. To floo into here you have to state your name and the password before you can come in. The last one is anyone with a ministry symbol on their robes will be allowed in. It saves time for Sirius, James and I to get in and out of there without taking a long time."

Sirius and Remus both nodded at the witch.

"Okay, well Moony and I will work on the anti-apparition ward. Lily and James, you two work on the floo network one. Then we'll do the ministry one together."

James winced internally, knowing what Sirius was trying to do and quickly put a stop to it.

"No. Lils hates the floo network. Moons and I will do the floo, you and Lils will do the apparition one."

Sirius sighed and nodded.

"Alright Mrs. Potter, let's go."

As the two walked outside, Lily touched Sirius' arm.

"Sirius, please talk to me."

"About what?"

"About what's bothering you."

"There's nothing wrong Lily."

Lily looked at Sirius incredulously.

"That's bull and you know it."

Sirius sighed and rubbed his hands on his eyes, desperately not wanting to get into this conversation.

"Lily, it's nothing. Now we need to work on this ward."

"Siri love, talk to me."

"Don't call me love. That's James. Not me."

"Your both my loves. I love you and James equally. Why don't you believe me?"

Sirius closed his eyes and sighed.

"Because I heard what you said."

When the black haired man opened his eyes and looked at Lily, she did look honestly confused.

"What are you talking about? You heard what I said? What did I say?"

"You called what we had disgusting. I understand that you never wanted me Lily. You wanted James. Well, you have him. Now can we please get to work?"

Lily remembered that day well.


FLASHBACK

Lily Potter sighed and walked into her and her husbands bedroom.

"Hey Love."

Lily smiled at her husband.

"Hey James. Why aren't you at work?"

James Potter smirked at his wife.

"I didn't want to be away from you for too long."

Lily just rolled her eyes, completely used to his flirting. How could she not be? After all, he had done this since their 1st year at Hogwarts.

"What's the real reason Potter?"

"Well if you must know Evans, I'm waiting for my darling partner."

"What? Your partner in crime?"

James smirked again.

"Well, you could say that. I mean, some of the things we do in the bedroom with you could be considered a crime."

Lily cringed at her husbands crudeness (A/N No idea if that is a word but if not, I'm making it one.).

"James, could that be any more disgusting?"

"Actually, yes I probably could. Besides, you don't think it's too disgusting when it's going on."

"That's not what I mean. Of course I don't think it's disgusting. But that's not the point."

END FLASHBACK


"Oh baby, how much did you hear?"

"I heard up until you said it was disgusting, then I left. I didn't mean to eavesdrop on a private conversation…I just…I don't know."

Lily put on her lover's chest gently.

"Sirius, If you would have stayed one minute longer, you would have heard me say that I wasn't talking about the relationship between the three of us, I was talking about James' tendency to be a crude perverted bastard."

Sirius snorted at her slide at her husband.

"Your so nice Lily. I'll make sure to tell him you said that."

Lily shrugged, not wanting to get side tracked.

"Something else is bothering you."

Sirius sighed, feeling slightly embarrassed at his internal feelings.

"You want to know the main thing? I'm jealous! There! Are you happy!?"

"What are you jealous of love?"

"Of you and James! Merlin Lily! How could you not know? Do you have any idea how hard it is to constantly hear jibes about how "I try to be a 3rd in the great marriage of the Potters because of me not having a serious (A/N he's upset so he's ignoring the pun on his name) relationship'? Do you have any idea how much it breaks my heart to know that one of these days you and James are going to have kids? And by that time I'll be Uncle Padfoot, some guy who lives with Uncle Moony, who sees the kids once a month because their parents are so busy taking them to school, teaching them how to play Quidditch, and teaching them how to play some Muggle sports. And there I'll be. The same place I am now, except without you two there with me."

Lily desperately tried to keep the tears at bay at her lover's confession.

"You're scared we're going to leave you behind?"

Sirius sighed and nodded slightly, trying to look anywhere else but at the face of Lily Potter.

"Siri, look at me."

Sirius looked up slightly.

"Sirius, I love you. So does James. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. But I do know one thing, We will always be by your side. And that's a promise."

Sirius smiled at the young witch.

"Don't make promises you cant keep."

"I don't."

Before Sirius could say a word, Lily pushed her lips on his, kissing him gently, but pushing all the love that she had for him into that kiss.

Sirius kissed the woman back, wrapping his left arm around her waist, while his right hand went up and ran through her long red locks.

James walked out the back door and stopped in his tracks, smiling brightly at his two lovers kissing, glad that things had worked themselves out.

"Oi! As glad as I am that you two have made up, we do need to put these wards up sometime before Christmas!"

Lily and Sirius pulled away and smiled at him.

"Yes Prongs!"

James walked back inside and smiled at his werewolf friend.

"They made up."

Remus smiled brightly.

"Thank goodness! He was driving me crazy!"

James frowned a little bit, knowing Sirius as he did, he knew that he wasn't the type to talk about his problems.

"I'm surprised he even said a word about it to tell you the truth."

Remus put his hand on his friends shoulder.

"He didn't. That's what was driving me crazy. He wouldn't even tell me what the problem was at first. It took all my will power not to kick his mutt ass from here to next week when he was moping around the house. And that wasn't the worst part. You heard about what he did two weeks ago right?"

The black haired man racked his brain trying to think of something that would have made Moony mad.

"No, can't say that I do."

"You mean Moody didn't inform you of your idiot partner's stunt?"

"No."

"Well Prongs, sit down, because you may not like what you hear. Sirius told me what happened, and I was livid."


FLASHBACK

Voldemort looked at his 'friends' with a grave look on his face.

"We still do not know anything?"

Lucius Malfoy stepped towards him slowly.

"No my lord. We have heard nothing of the whereabouts of the ring." (A/N: Starting here there may be some very slight spoilers of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows. But they will be very slight unless otherwise noted.)

Sirius looked at the man standing next to him. The two men were standing in a cluster of trees, spying on the Death Eater meeting.

"Any ideas on what he's talking about?"

The black man shook his head.

"No idea, I think we need to report back to Moody, maybe he'll know."

Sirius shook his head.

"I have a better idea."

Before Kingsley could say a word, Sirius jumped out of the brush and started firing curses every which way. To say the Death Eaters were shocked was an understatement, especially since they did not have their masks on. Most dis-apparated as to avoid getting caught by two ministry officials. Those who stayed fought Kingsley as he had jumped out after his partner for the night.

Sirius however, went up to Voldemort.

"Black! How good of you to come. I knew you'd eventually go to where your blood calls you."

Sirius glared at the dark wizard.

"I'll never follow in your footsteps. You half-blood twit!"

"Why you insolent little worm! How dare you accuse me of being anything less than a pure blood? I'll teach you some manners! Crucio…"

Kingsley heard the black haired man scream and stopped attacking the three Death Eaters long enough for them to disappear.

Voldemort smirked at his victim before taking the curse off of him. Sirius sighed in relief, trying to will the feeling of the stabbing pain to leave his body.

"Hurts doesn't it? Now, join me! Join your family!"

"NEVER! Those things that you call my 'family' are nothing more than a waste of space!"

Sirius spat.

"CRUCIO!"

Sirius screamed again, he knew that this was the end. He was sure of it. After Voldemort was done torturing him, he would kill him. At least he stood up for what he believed in and told the 'darkest lord' where to shove it.

Voldemort let up the curse again.

"Oh shame shame shame. I thought you could take more than that Black! But then again, hanging around with a no good Potter must have softened you up."

Sirius glared at the 'human.'

"Don't you dare talk about James like that! He's more a man than you ever will be!"

Voldemort's eyes flashed red.

"Avada…"

Before he could finish the curse, Kingsley shot a trip hex at him. Knowing he needed to get them out of there before Voldemort regained his footing, he raced over to tortured man and disapparated with him quickly.

Sirius didn't wake up until the next day, and when he saw that he was in St. Mungos, he groaned.

"Why am I here?"

"You're here because you attempted to take Voldemort on by yourself you freaking idiot!"

Sirius winced as he heard his boss. He hadn't really known there was anyone else in the room when he had asked himself the question.

"Oh."

"YES OH! What were you thinking!?"

Sirius sighed and shook his head.

"I was trying to get rid of him sir. He started talking about this ring and I saw his Death Eaters there and I don't know, something snapped. After all the chaos he has ensued, I just wanted him gone."

Moody sighed and looked at the young wizard.

"I understand that Black. But you should know by now that one person cannot take him on by himself. You needed backup."

Sirius nodded, feeling as if he was 8 years old again, being lectured because he stole a cookie before dinner.

"Yes Sir."

"You are being released today. I would advise you to rest, because I expect you to be back at work tomorrow. I am not telling the other Aurors what you did, nor am I telling the minister. I wouldn't want to have to put you on suspension as you are a good wizard and we need all of those we can get."

Before Sirius could say another word, his boss stalked out of the room.

END FLASHBACK


Remus looked at the black haired man sitting in front of him, and winced as he saw his friends angry face.

"What the hell was he thinking?"

Remus shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know Prongs…I"

Before he could even continue his train of speech, he had to cover his ears.

"SIRIUS ORION BLACK!"


Meanwhile, Sirius and Lily had finished putting up the ward around the Potter's property and were walking back towards the house when they heard an angry yell of…

"SIRIUS ORION BLACK!"

Sirius winced. Lily looked at the man next to her.

"I wonder what his problem is?"

Sirius shook his head. He had a fairly good idea what was making his friend scream his name, but he prayed it wasn't the case.

Before either one of them could say another word, James stalked out of the house, followed by the werewolf.

Lily walked towards James slowly, trying to calm him down. James merely walked by her and walked straight up to his lover….

And punched him in the face hard.


TBC! Okay, I know that wasn't the greatest ending to this chapter. However, I think it was long enough here and I wanted to get this out tonight because I'm probably not going to be able to get another chapter out until Wednesday…So here it is. By the way, sorry for not answering my reviews, I'm going to try and get better about that. But as for the last chapters, let me just say this. THANK YOU!!!! I really love to hear from all the readers, you are what keeps me writing. So if you want the next chapter…PLEASE REVIEW!