Through the Veil

Lady Countryrose

Ch. 21

The next morning or in Sirius Black's case; three hours later, he woke up for the first time in years early and with a lovely woman next to him. He would have never believed that he would be the settle down type of man. As he watched Hermione slept; he knew that he did the right choice by doing the ritual last night, even though there would be people out to kill him for it.

He leaned closer to her and noticed the place that he had bitten which was at her left side collarbone; in order for the ritual to hold, he saw what looked like a tattoo of a Celtic cross with a dog paw, at its middle. Then he glanced down at his own left collarbone and saw a bigger looking tattoo of the same thing that he saw upon Hermione's body.

This had shown him that the ritual had taken affect and it was even stronger than anything that he could ever hope for; it told him that they were not only married by the eyes of the land, but also all forms of spiritual realms. Even though they were soulmates; it helped a lot to have the physical evidence to show for all life times to come that they belong together.

After a moment of pondering his wife; he saw that her eyes were flicking and then she opened her eyes, who gave him a warm smile upon her kissable lips.

"Hello," purred out Hermione. "Have you been awake, long?"

Sirius smirked softly, "No; not at all love. I'm going to have to call you something other than Kitten, for you didn't act like one last night."

As she stretched out her limbs; she felt a twinge of pain between her legs; something that she had never experienced before, "Ouch! I guess I'm going to have to take a bath before we head down for breakfast."

He leaned over and kissed her upon her lips for a quick kiss and pulled away, "Take all the time you need, love. I'll just get dress and meet you out in the common room."

Hermione smiled, "Alright." She then climbed out of bed with a nightshirt that Sirius had thought he had taken off, from the night before and made her way to the bathroom and closed the door.

Sirius grumbled, "She's going to kill me or have my way with her, to the point she wouldn't know what had hit her."

He then gotten out of bed; waved his wand upon himself and became clean again, brought out some jeans, a button up dress shirt, and robes and became a well-dressed Marauder. Then he made his way out into the common room; where his friends had crashed from the early hours before, as well as his brother Regulus and Severus Snape.

Sirius grumbled, "Great; you guys want to go round two with me, this morning?"

Lily spoke up from her spot upon a chair, with James Potter under her bum, "Yeah; how is Hermione this morning?"

The seventeen looking man answered, "She's fine; Lily. She's in the bathroom taking a bath as we speak; even though she woke up a little sore, which would happen to those who haven't done it before."

Lily gasped at what she was hearing from the old playboy.

Severus groaned, "Even though I'm really surprise that little Potter or Weasley hadn't done anything with that girl before you had your hands on her, I really didn't want to know."

James glared at Snape before he spoke up, "So what was causing the castle to shake last night?"

The elder Black heir sighed, "It was our magic fusing together; showing all that we are one and as one, we had managed to shake the earth beneath the castle."

Regulus smirked, "I'm glad to have a sister-in-law and all brother but have you told her the high percentage of have a child from this experience, even father warned us from using this ritual at any age."

Sirius groaned, "No; I haven't warned her. As far as I could tell; school lasts for nine months out of the year, and we are already planning on taking down Voldemort during the winter holidays. I really don't see the issue of worrying about it."

Lily glared into his eyes and asked, "Are you ready to become a father in a middle of a warzone and to have your wife in the middle of it all, getting herself and your child killed?"

"No but I wanted to be married before this war has made itself known, or I would never have a change again Lily. Hermione is it for me and if something ever happened to her; before said wedding, I would have killed myself with the what if's. How is that living?"

James wrapped his arms around the woman that he had married in one life time and said, "We of all people know how that is Sirius, but she has the right to know what she has gotten herself into."

"I'll tell her tonight; sometime after dinner and alone, I don't need any one of you to get in the middle of this. She does a red headed temper for someone who doesn't have any red within their hair."

This caused the group to laugh. No one was happy that Sirius had held something back from his new wife, but knew to stay out of it and let Sirius talk to her before any one of them had a chance to get their heads cut off.

A few moments later; Hermione came walking out of her bedroom in her blue flare jeans, purple button up dress-shirt and her Gryffindor robes upon her person. As a group; without Regulus who has to stay behind, went to the Great Hall together.

The group wen their separate ways once they had reached the Great Hall for breakfast and sat down. Sirius sat down next to Hermione and other side of her was Lily; while James sat across from Lily and also Remus sitting across from Hermione and Sirius. As they were about to dig in; when a couple of owls came flying in before the morning post was due, with a letter heading towards the head table and another heading for Sirius and Hermione.

Sirius took the letter from the owl and opened up and noticed that it was from the Ministry of Magic.

Dear Lord and Lady Sirius Black,

We on the behalf of the ministry are happy to hear of your marriage. We have noticed that you have you have used the Primal Marriage Ritual, which has not been performed since the 1869. We will be looking forward to any children that the two of you may share.

Sincerely,

Donna Jones

Records Department

Ministry of Magic

This caused Hermione to glance towards Sirius, "What do they mean about the children bit?"

Sirius gulped, "I'll explain later, my love."

At that moment he was saved by Headmaster Dumbledore; who stood up from the head table and made his way to the podium and faced the student body, "I have an announcement!"

Once all the students and teachers were done talking; he went on to say, "This morning about four fifteen; we had experience something that hasn't been seen since 1869, for this fact it had caused the castle to shake."

Hermione gave a heated glare towards Sirius; as she tried to hide her face from the entire hall from seeing, as Dumbledore went on to say, "Two of our students preformed the Primal Marriage Ritual."

This caused the whole hall to come alive with a lot of talking.

"They are now marriage to the eyes to the ministry and all of walks of life. I would like to announce our very own Sirius and Hermione Black, as husband and wife."

This had caused many to talk from what they had just heard. Many girls were either screaming out 'No' or started name calling towards Hermione and how she was a 'gold digger' for having someone like Sirius Black as a husband. To the boys gasping out with shocks, 'The player is now married,' to 'I thought he was making things up about marrying her.'

It was enough to cause Sirius and Hermione to become red in the face.

Headmaster Dumbledore went on to say, "I think school a break is in order; have fun on your free day." He then walked away from the platform and went back to sit upon his seat, once again.

Just as the headmaster sat upon his seat; another owl had flown into the Great Hall, which caused Sirius to dive under the table to hide from it. The letter was dropped into the spot that Sirius had been seating; and a spelled letter opened itself up, with a high screeching sound coming out of it, "WHAT! NOW YOU WANT TO BE MARRIED!"

After a moment of dead quietness, "Write back Sirius, you know who this is."

Then the holler ripped itself up after the voice had delivered its message.

Sirius then climbed out from under the table and sat down beside Hermione, once again and asked, "Who was that, because I don't think that was my mother."

Hermione sighed, "It was your mother; she just happened to be on a better mood than normal."

The rest of the hall had gone back to their eating and left the two Blacks alone.