"Where the bloody hell are you keeping my daughter?" Regulus asks Sirius in a deadly, quiet voice. Sirius knew immediately how angry Regulus had to be to both show up on his door and not shout.

"Oh, you have a daughter? How lovely! I do hope she turned out better than you. Of course, I'm not quite sure what you mean by where am I keeping her. I was unaware that you even had a daughter, so how would I be hiding her from you?" Sirius responds, crossing his arms and firming his stance. He knows that this could get ugly, and he wants to be prepared. He is also attempting to send Remus mental messages, to keep Romulus out of the potential line of fire and to send Elle back to the Potter's immediately if she came home. All he could hope was that the connection that they once had was still as strong.

"Where else would she have gone?! You ran away to our wayward uncle, why shouldn't she have done the same?!" Regulus said, yelling now.

"Well, I hardly doubt that you talk about me often. Even if she did want to come here, how would she have known where to find me? Besides, you're mistaken. I ran away to Remus and James. Elle's probably staying with a friend. Unless, of course, sending her to Durmstrang means she doesn't have those." Damn it. As soon as he said it, he realizd his mistakes. If Elle hadn't shown up, he wouldn't have known her name or that she attended Durmstrang. He knew that Regulus is too intelligent for Sirius to be able to step back and explain away the knowledge that he shouldn't have.

"Until I knocked on that door, you knew neither that I had a daughter, nor that she is named Electra and attends Durmstrang. You are clearly harboring her. You're the logical choice." Regulus's voice was frighteningly cool again, and Sirius desperately wished that he hadn't assumed that the knock on the door was his muggle boyfriend, thus leaving his wand in the kitchen.

"Regulus, you're my brother. I wouldn't lie to you. She's not here," Sirius said. He technically was telling the truth – Elle wasn't there, at least not right then. "Come in and see for yourself," he offered further, opening the door all the way and ushering his brother inside. Regulus rather limped in, and Sirius knew that he was in intense pain. He only wished he knew where the pain was so that he could take advantage if necessary.

Remus knocked on the door of the Potter house rapidly, fervently, harshly. Nash immediately recognized her husband's panicked knock and flew to the front door. "Darling, what's going on?" She asked as she opened it, allowing her husband to enter.

"Where's Elle?" He demanded, looking around wildly.

"Dear, she and Gen went back ours to talk about boys and play with clothes and makeup and do girl things. Why?" Nash's voice was calm and quiet to Remus's frenzied and frantic voice.

"She needs to stay there. Regulus is looking for her, and I quite suspect that he's ready and willing to kill her if he finds her. Sirius doesn't know I left, I imagine he thinks I'm protecting Romulus. I snuck out the back and apparated here as soon as I realized who the visitor was."

"You get on back to Sirius's. I'll Floo home and make sure that Electra stays there." Nash says, offering Remus a quick kiss.

"And I'll send James. He's out in the garden with Harry, Merlin only knows what the two of them are up to," Lily says. Remus hadn't even noticed her before, but her serious expression combined with the offer to send James told Remus that she had heard and knew exactly what was happening. "Remus, go," Lily said, giving him a little push towards the door. With that, he turned on his heel, saw himself out, and disapparated with a small pop, totally unconcerned with whether any muggles saw him or not.

Shortly after returning to Sirius's home, James also appeared. "Lily told me that Regulus is here?" He whispered in Remus's ear, the two men half-hugging so that they could speak privately. Remus nodded wordlessly. The fact that they couldn't hear either of the brothers screaming was vaguely disconcerting, as each was usually very loud and silence was never a good sign.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU WANT TO OFFER HER TO ME? DO YOU THINK THAT SHE WANTS TO MARRY HER OLD UNCLE? DO YOU THINK THAT I WANT TO MARRY MY NIECE?" They suddenly heard Sirius shout.

"I probably shouldn't be surprised that they wanted to keep the old Black family bloodline alive and well, but I'd think they'd want to do that with someone who isn't a half-blood-werewolf-loving-Gryffindor-homosexual-blood-traitor," James mutters to Remus. Remus turns to James, shock in his eyes. "What, you think Pete and I never knew? You two shagged for almost a year," he responded with a shrug. "Besides, Sirius lived with my family. We were practically brothers. He told me – multiple times, and with far greater detail than I never needed to know, Mr. Eleven Inches."

"Can we get back to the matter at hand, please?" Remus muttered, utterly shocked and embarrassed. "Sirius is the purest male Black left, even if he is a half-blood-werewolf-loving-Gryffindor-homosexual-blood-traitor. The only other option would be for Regulus to marry Electra."

"I wouldn't put that past them, Remmy," James said with disgust.

"Regulus did try to procreate with her," Romulus said quietly. He was staring at Remus with intrigue, both men having forgotten he was there.

"What? Rom, how do you know?" Remus asked, sitting at the kitchen table and demurely placing his hands in his lap, covering where both Romulus and James were now staring.

"She told me," he said, matter-of-factly. "Last night. I could hear her tossing and turning and whimpering so I went in to see if she was okay. She woke up as soon as I opened the door. I asked her what was wrong, and she told me."

Before either James or Remus could respond, there was another knock on the front door. "You're the only pure-blood, James, you'd better get it. Regulus doesn't need to see either one of us half-blood werewolves right now."

"And what exactly am I supposed to say if it's Matt? Sorry, you can't come in, Siri's niece, whom he never knew existed, was disowned from her horridly abusive family and showed up at his door and know her deranged father, Siri's younger brother, is here screaming because he knows that his daughter is going to tell her uncle all about the horrendous things he did to her?"

"You're smart, you'll think of something," Romulus said, patting James on the shoulder as he hopped off of his chair and walked over to the tea kettle.

"I WILL KILL YOU IF I FIND OUT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN CORRESPONDING WITH MY DAUGHTER," the three hear. Forgetting about the knock on the door that was most likely Sirius's muggle boyfriend, James grabs his wand and practically flies out of the kitchen and into the living room. He's pointing his wand at Regulus, who's pointing his wand at Sirius, who has his hands in the air and is staring apologetically at Matt (who had apparently come bursting through the front door at the sound of the death threat).

James, ever the calm one, lowers his wand. "Regulus, I quite think that's enough. Your daughter is not currently here, and murdering your brother will not fix the familial dysfunction. Go home." Regulus looks startled by the sight of the head auror standing next to Sirius. He turns on his heel and, as best he can with his apparent injury (damn it, Sirius still wants to know what happened), storms out of the house. "You okay, Sear?" Sirius nods.

"What the hell was that?" Matt asks, shell-shocked.

"Perhaps you should come sit down, have a cup of tea. Re, one cup of tea with extra brandy, please." James requests, leading Matt and Sirius into the large kitchen.