November 1st 1981

Ryan was sitting in the wreckage of Potter manor looking around where his brother had died. Anyone would have thought that it was nothing going on in the house as that was the problem with the killing curse there was no lasting damage to the house like there would be if the house had been burnt down like it had been with other death eater attacked houses. Ryan had not looked around the upstairs and dreaded it seeing the were the woman who he had loved like a sister just as much as he loved Sarah as a wife.

"Ryan," he heard a voice say and he turned around to see Remus and Marie standing there. Marie's face was covered in tears and Ryan already shook his head.

"Don't Marie," he said "don't tell me you're sorry or that it will get better."

"Ryan," Remus said shortly "don't take this out on her."

"JAMES IS GONE!" Ryan said and then blasted a hole in the wall with his hand "and so is Lily and god knows where the fuck Albus has taken Harry."

"We know," Remus said "but you being like this is not helping matters."

"Don't you dare," Ryan said "I am the one who has lost his brother and sister in law."

"We know," Marie said "but we loved them two."

"Ok," Ryan said standing up and the bottle of firewhiskey was now visible "if you loved them just as much as me tell me something, what was James most scared of?"

"Losing Lily" they both said instantly.

"Wrong" Ryan said "losing anyone, Lily, me, you two, Peter ... Sirius," Ryan said and then smiled sadly "James always did make some mistakes when it came to people didn't he?"

"What are you talking about Ryan?" Marie said "we all loved them"

"Yes but I know them best" Ryan said "Lily liked James in her third year, I bet she never told either of you that did she?"

"She told me in their fourth," Remus said truthfully "she told me that you had told her not to fight it to put aside her petty pride and just go with it."

"She saw sense in the end" Ryan said with a grin and Marie walked over and hugged him and when she was in his arms she broke down into tears being in the usual safe haven she had needed from the first time that she had met Ryan Potter, who had been seen as a rebel and the bad boy of Slytherin yet the with the name Potter still attached to him he was seen as a loyal friend and someone who would never stray too dark into the dark arts.

"Are you sure you are going to be ok?" Remus asked seeing Marie sobbing in Ryan's arms "are you going to need anything?"

"Not right now," Ryan said "between you two and the others I am going to be able to get back on my feet I just don't know how long it will take me to do so."

"You'll be ok" Marie said "we will look after you Ry I promise."

"I know you will" Ryan said "and I will be here you crazy lot, always."

Present

"Hey babe," she said opening the door to Ryan's common room "what's up?"

"Not much," Ryan said "oh, Daphne Greengrass genius that she is worked out that we are together."

"How did she do that?" she asked.

"I am not completely sure," Ryan said "Hales I understood working it out because of her whole cat senses but Daphne not so much."

"I don't like Haley knowing to be honest," she said "I mean a 16 year old girl would give away the secret more than a 34 year old woman."

"I trust my nephew with her," Ryan said "a secret is just as important to me especially when it is to do with you."

"We have been together 8 years," she said "do you think your family will just accept it when you tell them."

"if they did I would check them for polyjuice potion," Ryan said with a teasing grin "but honestly they know they wouldn't be able to make me choose between the two of you."

"I wouldn't make you," she said "they need you more."

"But I need you," Ryan said "if I told you to run with me right now you wouldn't do it because my nephew needed me maybe you aren't as Black as you're name suggests"

"Shut up," she said and pecked him on the lips as the door opened.

1989

"We should really stop meeting like this," Ryan said teasingly from where he was standing.

"You think I enjoy being chased by my ex husbands goons around London?" Narcissa said dryly.

"Well when you say it like that," Ryan said with a grin "I guess not no."

Narcissa had ran into Crabbe and Goyle again like she had done s few years before and again Ryan had rescued her this time however though it hadn't lead to them sending back a warning message to Malfoy he killed them both quickly with severing hexing.

"How about I buy you a drink after all you have saved me twice now," Narcissa said "what do you say?"

"Ok" Ryan said and allowed Narcissa to lead him into a bar.

2 hours later

Ryan and Narcissa where currently both naked and in Narcissa's bedroom and Ryan was glad that he had left Harry with the house elves.

"Well that was fun," Ryan said with a grin.

"What do we do now?" Narcissa said wrapping the sheets around her body "I mean my ex husband is a death eater and my sister is looked down upon because of her marriage"

"I know," Ryan said "but I don't care who you're family are."

"Me neither," Narcissa said "all I care is how you and me deal with this."

"I think we are going to be ok," Ryan said with a grin.