Chapter 10
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July 2, 1995 7:39pm
"Kingsley, could you please try not to wake up Sirius's mum next time?" Remus asked, letting the auror inside.
"Sorry mate. I couldn't open the door, my hands were full," Kinsley replied, setting his two very heavy looking bags down, then helping Remus close the curtains around Mrs. Black. "Anyway, I got some food for you guys, since none of you can cook. I also got some stuff for Buckbeak and Sirius's 'new best friend', whoever that is."
"We'll let him explain that to you," Tonks said, appearing in the doorway of the sitting room. "He's down in the kitchen."
The three of them went down to the kitchen, where they discovered Sirius still fast asleep in his bowl of ice cream. Remus chuckled at the writing over his head.
"Old man napping, huh?" Kinsley said in his slow, deep voice, while setting his bags down on the counter. The noise woke Sirius up.
"Wha...? Oh, it's you. Did you bring food?" Sirius mumbled sleepily.
"As a matter of fact, I did," Kingsley replied. He started unloading the first bag; there must have been an undetectable extension charm on it, because inside there was enough food to feed an army.
"Biscuits!" Sirius squealed, grabbing a box and shoving the first five biscuits in his mouth at once.
"After dinner," Remus said, taking the box away.
"Moony, stop acting like my mother," Sirius whined.
"What about some soup?" Kingsley asked.
"Yuck, soup," Sirius said.
"Soup will be fine," Remus told Kingsley.
Two hours later, Remus was still trying to convince Sirius to eat something other than ice cream and biscuits. He had succeeded in getting his friend to eat the meat in the soup, but the vegetables were a different matter all together.
"But I don't like vegetables, Moony," He whined.
"Stop acting like a five-year-old and eat, Sirius," Remus ordered.
Sirius hesitantly took a bite and then grimaced. "Moony, they're nasty!"
"Fine, then, die because you don't eat any healthy food," Remus said. "I'm tired, I'm going to bed." He turned and went up the stairs, although he could hear his friend calling after him. What was wrong with Sirius? Ever since he'd come back from Azkaban he'd been acting like a child; not doing anything for himself, always complaining... perhaps prison had altered his mind? Or maybe it was just so horrible that he felt the need to be mothered? Was Remus being too harsh with him?
Remus had reached his bedroom. It had been a long day, and he was tremendously tired. He collapsed into his bed, too exhausted to even undress. He pushed all thoughts of Sirius out of his head and tried to go to sleep.
There was something aside from Sirius however, that was bothering him. Tonks. When she had been asking to see his pictures he had noticed her eyes; they were the precise shade of Honeydukes best dark chocolate. Thinking about this made his heart beat a little faster; she was so pretty, so funny, and an auror, too...
"Stop it," he mumbled to himself. He would not allow himself to think of Sirius's baby cousin like this; it was inappropriate. She was thirteen years younger than him, for Merlin's sake. Plus, he was dirt poor and also a werewolf. Woman were off limits to him, whether they cared about his condition or not. With this thought, he drifted off to sleep.