Yay I posted them all before Christmas, it didn´t feel right any other way…

I posted only yesterday, now this really has to be my personal record

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I can't believe we hit 20 chapters, and it hasn´t even been half a year in their world

DISCLAIMER JK owes it, I think you already know, but whatever.

Last time: Sirius 'celebrate' Christmas with his family, he is starved most of his time at Grimmauld place. The break is finally over but he is afraid to talk about his problems with James.

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A new home

The train stopped, the boys decided the wait a bit to avoid all the crowding, mostly Remus but Peter didn´t mind. Remus didn´t want to be at the crowded platform, he hated many people and loud noises. When they had waited five minutes, Remus and Peter had to leave the train

There weren´t many people left on the platform. Lily Evans was busy informing her parents all about Hogwarts, another girl stood grumpily next to them. Remus followed Peter to two people waiting for him, they were both waving.

The woman who was probably his mother weren´t very tall, she had dark brown hair and blue eyes, she was kind of chubby like Peter. The other one who was probably his sister had light hair like Peter, and blue eyes as well, she had the most beautiful curls Remus had ever seen. Despite it being December, they were both a bit tanned.

"Hi" Peter greeted.

His little sister took one look at Remus and quickly exclaimed; "you are so small."

They both also had a weird scent to them, just like Black on their first day, though not as strong. Peter´s mom sends her a stern look, the turned to Peter again. "How was Hogwarts?"

"Good," Peter told, "this is my friend Remus Lupin" he quickly added. Remus sensed something almost proud in his voice.

"Hi, it´s nice to meet you" Remus greeted and raised his hand to shake it. Peter´s mom took it and smiled.

"I´m Gisele. Where are your parents?"

"Uhh…" Remus looked around the platform, they were the only ones left, it was strangely quiet. "My mom is probably at home… and my dad should be here any minute" he tried to not sound worried, but was actually a bit, why wasn´t he here yet?

"Do you want us to wait with you?" Peter asked seriously and a little bit worried.

Remus instantly turned a little bit happier, it was so nice that Peter cared so much for him. "It´s okay, he will be here any minute, but thanks" Peter seemed to study Remus´ face. "I´m fine" he added.

Peter pulled Remus in for their first hug, it was such a nice feeling and Remus happily returned it. It didn´t last long, but Remus was glad they were on hugging-level. "Owl me when you´re home," Peter said as they had pulled apart.

"Of course," Remus replied.

Peter, his little sister and mom went through the barrier, just a moment before Peter walked through, he looked back and waved to Remus, who waved back. Peter had a little smile on his face as he walked into the wall.

Remus sat his trunk down next to a wall, he opened it to find a book, he then sat on his trunk and waited patiently for his dad. The little boy waited for many hours, he even finished his book, then he just sat and stared into the air. Where was his dad?

He found another book in his trunk, and almost finished that one too. Remus became really tired, but he shouldn´t sleep here, his dad should be here any minute.

His butt had begun to hurt from sitting down for so long, but he was too tired to begin walking around. Then finally someone walked through the barrier.

"Remus?" the voice asked, he recognized the voice and smell, it belongs to his dad.

"Here" Remus called and raised himself from the ground. He felt like he could fall asleep anywhere right now, and he was hungry as a wolf. Pun fully intended.

Lyall smiled when he saw his son. "Hi, I´m sorry I first come now, there has been some… difficulties, and uhh, we have moved" Remus stared shocked at his father. "I know, I know, we also moved last summer, but… I´ll tell you when you are older, right now…" he motioned towards the barrier.

Remus sighed and grabbed his trunk. He hated to move. He had never really had a place that was their place, they moved so often and Remus couldn´t even remember all the houses. On the other side of the platform, they took a train.

"You will like the house" Lyall promised. "There is a big room, your room, and it got a nice view of the sunset, the garden is big, and right next to a forest, there is a lake, and our neighbours say that they swim in it every summer."

"Hmm."

"There is also a solid basement, for you, the house has two floors, the living room, your room and our room are upstairs. The bathroom has a bathtub, there is a room downstairs, that we made into a nurse-room, it´s also where the kitchen is. You know, downstairs."

"Hmm."

Lyall sighed. "I´m really sorry Remus, but this will be the last time."

"That´s what you said last time too" he mumbled.

"I´m sorry Remus," Lyall said again, he didn´t know what else to say. There almost weren´t any people in the train, it was probably way past midnight, his stomach began to growl. "Oh right," Lyall said and found a chocolate bar in his jacket, he gave it to Remus. "Mom has made dinner when we come home" he offered.

Remus bit his lip, he was being unfair, it wasn´t his dad´s fault that they had to move all the time. It was his own. And plus, the house didn´t sound so bad. "Are there any kids my age?" he asked finally.

Lyall smiled. "Our neighbour has two boys, the one is twelve and the other is ten, it´s them who bath in the lake every summer, but don't worry, their mom wants them to have a t-shirt on because of the sun, so you can too."

He nodded.

"I think there are other kids too, but I haven´t had the time to talk with other neighbours yet, though it sounds as if they are all very nice. And the house is not far from a train station, so it will be easy to get to Hogwarts."

"It sounds great dad" he agreed.

Lyall smiled, he really was lucky with his son. Not many others would understand the situation and be helpful, this was hard for Lyall too. "Oh, and I forgot to ask, how is Hogwarts?"

Remus smiled, see this was something he could talk about forever. "I love it, though I hate when everyone is in the great hall at the same time, it´s very noisy. The teachers are really cool, our defence against the dark arts professor works for stopping discrimination against werewolves, she is really cool and has helped me a lot. And I got a really nice friend, his name is Peter Pettigrew, he asked if I could hang out some day during the holiday… can I?"

"Of course. We got a man from the ministry coming tomorrow to connect our fireplace to the floo network, so after that it´s great. Is he Gryffindor too?"

"Yeah."

"Have you… considered… telling him?" Lyall asked carefully.

"No" Remus exclaimed. "He would just hate me" he suddenly turned sad.

"You can´t know that" Lyall comforted. "Your defence against the dark arts professor doesn´t hate you, and she knows."

Remus crossed his arms. "It´s different!"

Lyall was about to answer when the train stopped, he took a look at his son´s stubborn face, then sighed. "Anyone who loves you will be able to see past it" he promised. "Come, we have to get off the train."

They both left, Lyall took the trunk and showed Remus the way to the house. All the houses on the street looked fine, so Remus wasn´t so worried about the house. That was until he saw it.

His dad suddenly turned and walked up to a house. It looked like anything but steady, Remus even spotted a few holes in the roof. Several windows were broken and the front door didn´t even look like a door. The garden was big that was true enough, but there was growing all sorts of plants and the grass was at least twenty inches long.

It looked nothing like home.

"Coming Remus?" his dad asked enthusiastically.

"Dad… what in Merlin´s name is that even?!" he gestured to the house.

Lyall sighed and bit his lip. "It was the only thing we had the money to… but I know a guy who can fix it in no time, he will come in a couple of days."

"A couple of days?"

"Come on Remus… please just try and make it feel like home. Please" his dad begged.

He stared helplessly at the house, then sighed. "Fine, fine… I´ll try."

Lyall smiled again. "You are the best, come one, I´ll show you your room."

The house looked even worse from the inside if that was even possible. The walls were dark and mouldy, the tapestry was coming off almost everywhere, there weren´t even any lamps in the house. Everything had a weird scent that Remus felt sick of.

The nurse room wasn´t exactly what you would call healthy, it looked even worse than the rest of the house. The floor in the kitchen was the dirtiest thing Remus had ever seen. And he hadn´t even begun on the walls. Their bathroom smelled like someone had been throwing a hundred dungbombs in there.

Remus did not like it at all.

Especially not the stairs, they seemed like the most unstable thing in the entire world. His parent´s room wasn´t that small, it was bigger than their old one at least, the living room only seemed empty, and there were big spider webs in the corners. Remus´ room didn´t even have tapestry at all, it was big alright, but the window was really small. The only thing in there was a mattress and a blanket.

"It´s going to be great, Remus, don´t worry."

He had a really hard time believing them.

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Remus really looked forward to getting away from the house, he had liked their old house really much, and this didn´t really speak to him. At first it didn´t seem friendly in any way, and secondly, he hadn´t even had time to say goodbye to the old one. He loved his parents but hated the house. He hated that they had to move all the time, so getting to Peter´s place and forgetting it all for a bit seemed very nice.

He cast the floo powder into the fireplace and then stepped in while saying; "Acacia drive 260" he felt the familiar sensation of travelling with the floo network, Remus remembered to close his eyes and hold his elbows close into his body.

In a few seconds, he was on the other side and coughing. Floo wasn´t really his favourite way of travelling, but it was the fastest way he could. Remus landed in a living room, the walls were white, and the floor was made of tree. The ceiling was far up, it gave the room some more space, but on the other hand, there was a two-meter-tall Christmas tree. Three girls were sitting on the floor and played with their toys, they all just looked at him.

"It´s the small guy I told you about" one of them exclaimed, Remus recognized her as the girl from the platform.

"Oh, hi Remus," a voice said from the other side, it was Peter´s mom; Gisele. Remus quickly raised himself from the floor.

"Hi," he greeted.

She smiled a bit and then removed the dirt on his clothes with her wand. "By the way, this is Taliyah, Florence and Leena."

The first girl, Taliyah, had the same hair colour as the others, though her eyebrows were really thick and dark, she had freckles painted on her face, and was about as pale as a ghost, she was a bit chubby and almost had a double chin.

Florence had extremely long hair, she was the thinnest of all of them, Florence was the only one who didn´t stare rudely at him, she looked a lot like Leena, though wasn´t as tanned as her. Leena was the girl Remus had seen on the platform.

"Peter is in his room, come with me," Gisele said, Remus quickly followed her. There wasn´t a door between the living room and kitchen which was the next room he entered. There were three different doors in there, though Gisele walked past all of it. They came past another four doors and finally walked out of the fifth. They came all the way to the garage, and then Gisele opened the door to Peter´s room. "Remus is here" she announced.

Remus walked in and closed the door behind him. Peter´s room was a rectangle, there was a door to outside in front of the normal door, and a window in the opposite end. There even was a disco ball in his ceiling. It was very messy.

"Hi Remus" Peter exclaimed happily and raised himself from his bed.

"Hi" Remus greeted. He took out a present and showed it to Peter. "Your present" he explained.

"Thanks" Peter sat it on his desk, and also found a present in his wardrobe, and placed it on the desk as well. "Yours," he said.

Both boys sat down on the bed, there was an awkward silence for a bit. "Uhh… how are you doing?" Peter asked after too much awkward silence for the both of them.

Remus bit his lip and eyed Peter. He sighed, why shouldn´t he tell? "Honestly? Not the best, we moved again."

"Again?"

"We did so last summer too" he explained. "And lots of times before that, I´m really tired of it."

"Oh," Peter said. "I have moved before too, but I have lived here since I was seven. Is it a nice house at least?"

He snorted. "You won´t believe how crappy it is. Though luckily, we will be back at Hogwarts soon, then they will hopefully fix it all before I come back…"

Peter nodded. "I´m sure they will. But why did you move so suddenly? Shouldn´t your mother rest more?" he asked concerned.

Remus shrugged his shoulders. "My dad said they will tell me when I´m older…" he didn´t really believe that they would, they would probably forget about it, or they will move again and then it doesn´t matter. "What about you?"

"Hm, could be worse" Peter stated.

"I think it always can."

They decided to play wizards chess, Peter was surprisingly good, he had apparently learned a lot from his mom who got the third place in the Great Britain chess competition, in muggle chess.

"So… all those girls in the living room, are they your sisters?" Remus asked when Peter had slain his queen for the second time in two games.

Peter thought a little. "No" he then answered.

"Oh," Remus said confused. "Who are they then?"

"Well, Taliyah, Leena and Chili are my half-sisters, and Florence is my step sister."

Remus widened his eyes. "There´s four of them? Merlin, I don't even have one."

Peter made a frown. "Lucky" he stated.

"How 'lucky'? at least you have someone to hang out with all the time" Remus had often wished for siblings, it was hard for him to get friends, so having a sister or brother would be excellent.

"At least you don´t have a Kayson."

He looked confused. "Kayson? Who is that?" Remus sensed that Peter didn´t really want to talk about it, cause he continued to drag the time out before he answered.

"My mom´s boyfriend" Peter replied. "He is the father to Florence and Chili, a guy named Marko is the father to Taliyah and Leena. My mom is the mother to Taliyah, Leena and Chili" he explained. It made things less confusing for Remus, though one question wasn´t answered.

"What about… your… dad?" Remus asked carefully.

Peter huffed and gave a wry smile.

"He is dead."

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His parents insisted that they celebrated Christmas at their new house because 'they had to make it feel like home', they probably should, but Remus didn´t want to. he would rather spend it with some relatives, even his muggle relatives.

It looked a lot nicer than when he had seen it the first time, but he still hated it. His parents could clearly see that he did not enjoy it but tried to get the best out of it.

Peter had given him chocolate frogs and a bag of Bertie Botts every flavoured beans, and he had given some muggle sweets such as candy canes, he found some funny brown ones.

His parents gave him a new copy of 'Hogwarts; a history'.

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The full moon took place a couple of days before they had to go back to school, so Remus floo'ed there. Though as soon as he laid on the floor in the hospital wing, Remus had regretted doing so, he always got sick travelling with floo, and around the full moon, it was just worse.

Madam Pomfrey came. "Bucket" he pleaded, she immediately understood and quickly found a bucket for him to vomit in. His stomach felt empty after.

"Are you alright?" she asked, he nodded. "I´ll have someone get the trunk to your dorm, come, we have to get you to the shack" she helped him stand up and directed him to the shrieking shack where he had to do his transformation.

First, they had to go past the whomping willow and walked down a secret tunnel, then he was led to the bedroom on the first floor, where Madam Pomfrey left him.

Remus took off all his clothes and placed them in the wardrobe as he would usually do. Then waited under the duvet, he almost managed to fall asleep before the full moon came and forced his body the become a wolf. He screamed and screamed turned to howls quickly, though it never felt quick.

A wolf was in the bedroom where Remus had just been.

Wolf hungry. Wolf food. No food. Wolf hungry.

As always, the wolf scratches itself, not caring about all the pain, only caring about the freedom it could never get.

Wolf out. Wolf run.

Desperately the wolf began to scratch the door and walls.

Wolf out.

Remus woke up in the hospital wing with a ginormous headache, he groaned and touched his head, which only made it worse. Madam Pomfrey quickly came and gave him some chocolate and a potion for the headache.

He wasn´t released before all the other students came back. Remus ate dinner in the hospital wing that day, he spotted Peter in the great hall, sitting with Frank Longbottom and others. Remus was too tired to do anything about it, so he just walked to the dorm, he hadn´t unpacked yet.

Remus was delighted to find that no one was in there, though it was short lived as Black and Potter came not long after. Black sat down on his bed and Potter sat next to him. Neither of them was in a very good mood, and Remus noticed that Black had smelled darker than the first day they had met.

"Sirius please let me help..." Potter whispered though Remus had no trouble hearing it. Black didn´t answer him. "Can't we just play exploding snap in the common room or something?" he begged as quiet as he could.

"I don't want to" Black mumbled.

Potter put his arms around Black and mumbled into his ear; "I will send an owl, then I'll come back, okay?" Black must have nodded or something because Potter grabbed a quill, a piece of parchment and left the dorm.

Remus couldn´t control himself, he hated to see people sad.

"What are you upset about?" he asked without looking at Black.

Black raised his head suddenly and asked with an annoyed tone; "Why do you care?"

"I don´t" Remus lied. "But you look sad, and maybe you want to talk with someone who isn´t your friend" he turned around. "Is there?" he asked carefully.

To his surprise, Black actually answered. "It´s just some family problems" he mumbled.

"Ahh I know about that" he confessed thinking about their new house.

Black looked up in surprise. "You do?" he suddenly seemed interested.

"Well…" Remus dragged out the 'e'. "I have a family, who has problems, with my mom being sick and all… but I assume that´s not the kind you have?"

He shook his head.

There was a long silence, Black looked down again and seemed to ignore Remus. His mind raced to think of something that could make Black happy again. His gaze caught a book and suddenly Remus knew exactly what to do.

"I found this spell… it would be good for a prank, but I can't cast it, maybe you can?" Remus suggested.

Black raised himself from his bed and walked towards Remus, though he stopped in the middle of the room. Hesitantly. "What kind of spell?"

"Sticking charm, not the permanent kind, so it´s a bit easier" Remus took the book and showed it to Black who walked over there so they stood next to each other. Remus felt a bit weird standing this close to Black, usually, he would cast spells from distance.

"Yeah, yeah I think I can…" he said when he had read it. "What was your plan?"

"I happen to be exceptionally good at the levitation charm… so I thought maybe we can levitate stuff, so it touches the ceiling, then you can use the sticking charm to make it stuck there" Remus suggested.

Black got a wicked grin on his face. "Come on" he exclaimed and walked towards Potter´s trunk. "We can unpack for him."

The two boys levitated practically his whole trunk to the ceiling, even some of his underwear with small snitches on them. They laughingly waited for Potter to return on Remus´ bed. Black turned serious for a moment.

"I´m sorry that James and I have been so mean to you. You are cool" he said while glaring rather much at his hands.

"I´m sorry too" Remus admitted, they might have started it, but he hadn´t been very kind himself.

Black smiled, and then the door to their dorm opened. The look on Potter´s face was priceless, first, it was really weird for him to see those exact boys on the same bed as if they were friends, but then he noticed all his clothes and even underwear that was stuck in the ceiling. His face turned completely red.

Black roared with laughter while Remus gave a more relaxed laugh. Though it only got better when Peter entered the dorm too, he had the same expression as Potter had had when he saw Remus and Black on the same bed. He then saw the underwear in the ceiling and decided he wouldn´t deal with it, he sat down next to the others and they all laughed at Potter who tried to get his stuff down.

Suddenly he laid down on Remus´ bed, his face was still red, but it could be from all the jumping. "Looks like someone needs to cool off" Peter laughed.

Potter send him a daring look. "Snowball fight on the grounds?" he asked all of them, which they agreed on.

All four boys quickly put on robes, gloves and hats for the cold weather, luckily there were lots of snow. Before they walked out, Potter grabbed Remus´ arm and stopped him. Black and Peter didn´t notice, they just continued to walk.

Potter waited a few seconds before he began talking. "Thank you… for making him feel better."

"That was nothing. It seemed as if he needed it" Remus said a bit awkwardly, the only time they had been talking alone was in the defence against the dark arts class where Remus had helped him with the body-binding curse.

"I know, he wouldn´t talk to me the whole trip up here. You are truly amazing" Potter stated, and Remus blushed slightly. "I think it´s about his family."

"He mentioned that" Remus confessed.

"But hey, that´s what friends are for am I right?"

"Are we-" Remus began shocked, but Potter cut him off.

"I mean, if you want to" he offered humbly.

Remus smiled. "I would very much like that."

/Nurgh they are finally friends, 1k words longer than usual, watch out guys, it's getting wild.

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