//AN// Thanks for all the reviews, I'm glad you're all enjoying the story! For some reason I had a hard time writing out this chapter, but here it is, finally. I already have the next one basically written in my head, I'll just have to find the time between running errands tomorrow, to type it out. ////
The first week of classes flew by for the new professors at Hogwarts. Not a single student fell off their broom, exploded their cauldron or accidentally (or on purpose) hexed another student during any of their classes. All the students loved having a potions teacher who didn't scare them half to death, a werewolf for a DADA teacher, and the famous Sirius Black to teach them to fly and coach their quidditch teams.
Remus, Sirius and Hermione spent every spare moment together during the week, after classes, before classes, and they always sat together during meals. So, it was a big surprise when Sirius left after breakfast on Saturday morning, refusing to tell the other two where he was going and forbidding them to follow.
Remus and Hermione went for a walk around the Black Lake holding hands, and had a picnic under their favorite tree while Sirius was gone. They had delicious sandwiches prepared by the castle's elves, and fed each other fresh fruit for desert.
Meanwhile Sirius was in the finest jewelry store in Hogsmead looking for a triple bonding wedding set.
"May I help you sir?" The witch behind the counter asked.
"I'm looking for a triple bonding set," Sirius told her, "The finest one that you have available. Only the best for my loves."
The witch smiled and took Sirius to the back of the shop and showed him a case where they kept the rings in sets of threes, instead of twos. The moment the witch opened the case, he knew exactly which set to buy. It was a beautiful set of platinum with tiny rubies and tiny diamonds in the men's rings, and one big princess cut diamond surrounded by tiny rubies on the ring for Hermione.
Sirius handed the witch his Gringots key and she charged the rings to his account, and then wrapped them up, and handed them to him. Sirius walked out of the jewelry shop with a giant grin on his face, and headed back up the path to Hogwarts.
Remus and Hermione were leaned back against the tree reading, and considering heading back inside the castle for a little privacy, when Remus noticed Sirius coming through the gates toward the castle with a huge smile on his face.
They both jumped up, dropping their books, and headed toward him.
"So, where've you been Sirius?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, no where," he said with a smile.
"Come on Padfoot, you can't keep a secret from us," Remus complained.
"I don't plan on keeping it a secret for very long, so you don't worry about that my dear Moony."
Remus and Hermione followed a still grinning Sirius back up to the castle, stopping only for a moment so that Hermione could summon their books and picnic things from under the tree before heading inside.
Once they made it back to Sirius' rooms and were snuggled together on their bean bag, reading their books again, Sirius said "So, I talked to Minerva today, and since no one else asked for tomorrow, we're all going off on a date after dinner tonight and won't be back until tomorrow night."
"But we're supposed to supervise meals tomorrow," Hermione protested.
"Ah, but no one else is going off the grounds tomorrow, so Minerva has switched you and I weekends with Vector and Flitwick, and Remus wasn't assigned to anything this weekend." Sirius explained.
"What in the world are you up to Sirius?" Hermione asked.
"Oh you'll find out soon enough, my beautiful little witch," he answer with a grin, kissing her on the nose.
Hermione flopped back on the bean bag, stuck her bottom lip out and pouted, causing both Remus and Sirius to laugh at her.
After a couple of minutes of pouting, sat up, grinning when they both looked at her and said "Well, it was worth a try."
Just then they heard a scuffling outside the door and Sirius walked over to the door and peeked outside.
"Hey! Hey! Knock it off you two," he shouted as he walked into the hallway.
Remus jumped up and went into the door to see if he could help Sirius. Together they pulled the two fifth years apart. It seemed to be another Slytherin/Gryffindor brawl, so Hermione firecalled Professor Sinstra for the Slytherin while Remus took the Gryffindor up for a chat with Professor McGonagall.
Once the students were taken care of, Hermione went back to her rooms to shower before dinner, and Remus and Sirius stretched out on Sirius' bed to take a nap. Sirius laid down on his back, and Remus scooted close, putting his head on Sirius' shoulder and throwing a leg of him. The two slept peacefully until Sirius' watch began to screech "Dinner, dinner. Time for dinner."
They got up and met Hermione in the hallway, and went to the Great Hall together.
Dinner went peacefully and afterwards Sirius sent Remus and Hermione to their rooms to pack a bag for the night, instructing them to bring muggle clothes for the day, and something "nice" for Sunday night.
Once they were packed the three of them walked out of the castle and down to the edge of the grounds to the point where they could apparate to their destination. Since Sirius refused to tell Hermione and Remus where they were going, they each grabbed one of his arms, and he side-along apperated them.
When they landed at their destination, Hermione gasped. "Oh Sirius! It's so beautiful! Are we really in…."