A/N: Sorry for the week long wait again, at least it's not as long as the last one. But you know I love you all so thank you with your patience with me and my spazy updating.

You can thank today's update for the lovely Buck Full Moon that was a few days ago. As soon as I saw that moon hanging in the sky it brought a huge smile to my face and I instantly thought of our beloved Moony. I realized that I had deprived you all of our precious Moony for so long. Thus brings me to this presentation of this chapter.

Slight warning for this chapter, just a little bit of language, nothing too big. Some more Wolfstar fluff, don't like to bad, it's part of my plot. There was a warning at the beginning of the story.

If anyone is ever confused by the layout of Grimmauld Place, let me know and I will include it in the next chapter.

Enjoy, read, review, all that lovely jazz.

Chapter 10 talking and running

Emma stared at Sirius and Remus for a few minutes in silence. Neither of them were saying anything, each waiting for the other to say something. Emma could see that they had the book held tightly in Sirius's hands.

"Um right well I have had a really long day and am really tired… so I think I will go lie down… and um let you get back to reading." Emma said trying to edge around the two men.

They backed up slightly and let her in the house, but followed close behind. When she reached the stairwell she paused and looked back at them waiting to see if they were going to say anything to her.

Remus looked between her and Sirius who was still holding the book tightly with a slightly panicked expression on his face. Sirius looked imploringly at him, the silent questions the man had, practically spilling over.

"We'll talk in the morning Emma. I think it would be better for us to finish the book before we talk over anything. Don't you agree Sirius?" Remus said looking at the man beside him. Sirius looked torn for a moment before nodding his head in agreement. He still had not said anything.

Emma briefly wondered where it was that she had interrupted them that would cause Sirius to be this quite.

Emma looked at them both warily before nodding her head and dashing up the stairs to her room.

"Just out of curiosity which room is she staying in?" Remus asked as she left.

"I think she is in Reg's old room. She's been trying to clean the upstairs rooms since she got here and started exploring." Sirius answered as they went back into the study and sat down. Taking a deep breath, he looked at the book.

"What about you? Where have you been sleeping?" Remus said sitting down next to him causing Sirius to look back at the other.

"In here so far, haven't gotten around to fixing any of the other rooms up yet."

"What about your old room?"

"Emma's cleaning it out. I think her plan is to have Harry stay there whenever he is here."

"Sirius you can't stay in the study forever. Have you even been to other parts of the house yet?"

"Nowhere past the second floor."

"Sirius!" Remus sighed.

"Hey don't worry about it, me and Emma talked. We plan on redecorating the entire house starting with my parent's bedroom. She says that since I am now head of the house or whatever I should get the master bedroom."

"Really?" Remus questioned, he couldn't see Sirius going into that room willingly.

"Yeah but if she insists on that then I am completely demolishing the room before any renovations." Sirius said with a smirk.

"Does she have plans for all of the rooms already?" Remus asked.

"Who knows what she has planned. That's what I know for the moment."

"Does she have a room in mind for me?" Remus asked while trying not to sound to curious. Sirius looked at him and blinked.

"What do you mean? Your own room? I thought that after the other day…" Sirius said trailing off.

"Oh well I … wasn't… I wasn't sure… that is if… I wasn't sure if you would want it like we had before. I thought maybe you would want to wait some." Remus answered slowly after much hesitation.

"Moony, stay with me. I want you to move here with us and I am sure Emma feels the same way." Sirius said staring at his friend and ex-lover, hopefully soon to be reinstated lover.

Remus blinked slowly at Sirius and nodded his head. He was overcome with emotion, after all this time Sirius still wanted him here with him. Even after all that had happened between them Sirius was still willing to give him a chance.

"Thank you for giving me this chance Padfoot."

"No chance, you don't need it." Sirius said confidently with a smile and taking Remus's hand. Remus smiled back and squeezed his hand.

"Thank you Sirius, this means so much to me."

"No problem, besides we are the only ones who would ever understand each other. No one else would ever be able to handle me and no one knows you better than me."

"You sap shut up." Remus said with a smile. "Come on we need to finish the book, we're already halfway through Harry's second year. Let's finish this tonight and then go to bed. We can talk to Emma about everything tomorrow."

"Yeah I want to find out how her little shopping trip with Snivellus went."

"Sirius you can't keep calling him that, if he is going to be around and helping us with Emma you need to treat him better. It's time to put this schoolkid grudge behind you."

"Fine but only because you asked so nicely my dear Moony," Sirius said drawing the sentence out and sweeping down into a bow.

"Idiot, get over hear so we can finish this book."

Sirius looked at Remus suddenly all traces of laughter and joking gone. He looked solemnly at the book.

"Remus I don't like how this all is going. The first year was bad enough, he went up against Voldemort. But this year is just too much, the Chamber of Secrets. I mean really, do you remember when we were in school and came across that legend. We tried to find out as much as we could but came up with nothing. Look at what these kids have found, I am scared to see what happens at the end. If its anything like Harry's first year I almost don't want to know."

"Sirius its fine, I am sure it can't be too bad, I mean Harry did make it to his third year. Whatever happened can't have been too bad." Remus said trying to reassure the other, but ended up sounding like he was trying to reassure himself also.

"That's what you're saying now, but you just wait. I am sure it's going to be just as nerve racking as the first year was."

"Sirius—"

Don't deny it Remus, you were ready to go storming his relatives house to take him every time they were mentioned. Don't even get me started on how you reacted at the end of his first year."

"Sirius."

"yes Remus darling?"

"Shut up."

"Of course darling, shall you continue reading?"

"Idiot give me the book."

"What the fuck! Harry has the worst luck ever. A freaking basilisk, how does this keep happening to him?!" Remus screamed.

"I am going to have a heart attack by the end of this year." Sirius groaned. "I could deal with him being a parselmouth, but this is too much."

"At least they had some luck with Lockhart, after all that he has done I can't say that I am disappointed with how it turned out for him."

"Remus I am so proud to see you regaining your Marauder spirit." Sirius said seriously.

"That bastard!"

"Sirius?! Whatever is the matter now?" Remus exclaimed looking at his friend concerned.

"Dumbledore! He knew, he knew who Voldemort really was! How come he never shared any of this information with the Order!" Sirius shouted.

"Sirius you know how the headmaster is—"

"No Remus, I don't know how much it would have helped, but sharing something like that would have helped. Maybe not much but I would have certainly felt more secure knowing he was more than just some dark lord we were fighting."

"What could you have possibly done with knowing his name?"

"I don't know anything! We could have looked up information about his past, see who he was before. Anything could have helped, I mean look at it he admitted to Harry that he was a half blood. No matter how powerful he was when he was just starting out, any pureblood in their right mind, no matter how much pureblood supremacy crap he was sprouting, would have followed him a half blood."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Positive, I know for a fact that my father would have never let Regulus join if he knew that Voldemort was a half blood. He would have tried to stop Bellatrix also. The Lestrange's and Nott's were also very well established families, if they had known his heritage they would have never joined, same goes for the Malfoy's. That right there takes away from his major following base. Without some of those big names some of the others would have never of followed him." Sirius replied.

"You think that it would have made a difference during the war if those families knew about that?" Remus asked mind spinning.

"I think some would have thought twice about sending their kids or joining themselves. My father and Abraxus Malfoy for certain would have withdrawn their support."

"If he did come back Sirius, and Emma seems to think he will, I doubt that telling the purebloods about him will be able to change anything. He would probably kill them if they turned from him." Remus spoke.

"I hate that you are right about that, while I hate Bella with a burning passion, Narcissa is not to bad and she has that son of hers in Harry's year. They are still family and if I could do something for them I would."

"You really mean that Sirius?"

"Course, I mean look at how the brat acts in these books. He's spoiled rotten and his greatest come back is to yell about telling his father." Remus laughed at that, the mood considerably lightened.

"Maybe before anything happens you can work at mending a relationship with your cousin. And you could try and get in contact with Andromeda, remember she has a daughter."

"Oh yeah, remember Andy used to have us come and watch little Nymphadora. Her meteamorphagus abilities were so cool, remember when she used to change her hair to look like James. Her favorite color was always that bright pink." Sirius said with a wistful laugh.

"I miss those times, no matter how dark they were, they were filled with happy times."

"I remember how she was always so attached to you, she would say that she would marry you when she grew up. No matter how many times I would tell her that you were with me."

Remus laughed the sound brightening up the room. "I remember, she said that she didn't care, if anything ever happened to you she would be there waiting."

"Come on let's finish this book and get to the next year I want to see how Harry saw me this past year."

Emma opened her eyes waking up slowly, she rolled over stretching. She smiled when she saw her wand laying on the bedside table next to her.

It was amazing it was really starting to hit her that everything was really happening to her, she was here in Harry Potter's world and was in Grimmauld Place with Sirius and Remus. She had a wand now and was really a witch.

It was all like a dream come true.

All she had to do now was to make sure as little people had to die as possible and get to the happy ending. Emma sat up glumly, why did depressing thoughts have to come to her so early in the morning. It wasn't like she purposely tried to think these things.

Shaking her head, she looked at the door in apprehension, she wondered what was in store for her downstairs.

Opening her door she crept out of the room and down the stairs to the study. Peering in she saw that Sirius and Remus were curled up on the couch the book on the floor.

Stepping forward Emma winched as the floorboard creaked.

"My father had that done so he would know if anyone was approaching and he could look like he knew someone was coming."

Emma looked at Sirius who had sat up and was rubbing his eyes, Remus blinked next to him and rose slowly.

"Sorry didn't mean to wake you both."

"Its fine."

"How long did you stay up reading?"

"We finished a few hours ago, couldn't stay awake any longer." Sirius groaned.

"You finished?"

"Yeah, it finished right as Harry and his friends went down to Hagrid's."

"That's where I came in, the book was only going to take you as far as things had happened, when I came in the story diverged."

"Makes since."

"No it doesn't Moony, I wanted to see what happened before." Sirius whined.

"You really don't want to know what happened before Siri."

Suddenly they were interrupted by the sound of someone knocking at the door.

"Kreacher answer the door!"

"Wonder who that is?" Remus said.

"That bloody house elf of yours is working on cleaning the place right?" Snape said coming into the room.

"Nasty greasy potions man is insulting Kreacher. Of course Kreacher is cleaning the house ever since the nice mistress is coming and giving Kreacher such good news." The elf mumbled from the other room as he went below to work on breakfast.

"Hush Kreacher and bring us food!" Sirius yelled at the retreating elf.

"Sirius what have I said about being nicer to him?"

"I can't be completely nice to him he might have a heart attack," Sirius responded in mock indignity.

"Well?" Snape droned from the study doorway where he had been forgotten.

"Sni… Snape come in have a seat." Sirius said through clenched teeth. Remus and Emma looked at him proudly.

"They finished the book last night, after they get a quick bite to eat they are going upstairs to rest while you start reading. Sirius I have your old room cleaned up some, it's in slightly better condition than your parents old room. You and Remus use that room while the other is being cleaned out." Emma sais looking at the other man.

"Yes sir!" Sirius said in mock salute giving a tired smile to Emma.

Snape nodded as he accepted the book from Remus. "What are your plans for the day?"

"I was going to look over some of the Hogwarts books and take some notes. I saw Regulus's old books on the shelf over there so I can start studying. I can do that in here while you read. After Severus here has read and is caught up then we can talk about things and I can answer questions."

The three men nodded. After eating a bit of food that Kreacher had brought up, Sirius and Remus went upstairs to sleep and Snape settled to read.