Welcome Home (Chapter 25)
"We're going home Siri. Duh!"
Sirius rolled his eyes.
"That's my question though Prongs. Right now we live in different homes."
Lily sighed.
"How about this. We'll go to Godrics Hollow and let Remus sleep for a while. Then tonight we'll floo him and he can come over for dinner. Afterwards the two of you can floo back to your flat. Okay?"
Sirius nodded and kept his mouth shut as James grabbed his arm, apparating them back to Godrics Hollow with Lily following right behind them.
As soon as the trio got into the house Sirius let out a huge sigh.
"What's the sigh for Siri?"
Sirius smirked.
"It's just good to be anywhere that doesn't smell like a damn hospital."
James laughed while Lily rolled her eyes.
"Are you two boys hungry?"
James nodded while Sirius shook his head.
"No thanks Lils."
Lily glared at the long haired man.
"Sirius you know you need to eat."
Sirius just rolled his eyes.
"Yes Mother, I'm aware of that. However I have been on A LOT of potions recently and they make me full. Besides, aren't you inviting Moony over later for dinner?"
Lily nodded.
"Okay, fine. James can you wait until we eat dinner before you have to eat or do you need something now?"
James pouted.
"I'm reallllly hungry Lils."
The red-headed woman just rolled her eyes and walked into the kitchen, muttering something under her breath about her useless husband.
"So Siri, think we should invite Wormtail for dinner?"
Sirius nodded.
"It'd be nice to see him since he never came and visited me in the hospital."
James winced. He knew that Sirius was still upset about that. The stag animagus had to admit that it was sort of strange that Peter hadn't visited him but just chalked it up to him being busy.
James and Sirius sat in comfortable silence for a few minutes before Lily walked back into the living room, handing her husband a sandwich as she passed him.
"So Sirius, now that your moving in here we need to build a storage shed for your motorbike."
Sirius quirked an eyebrow.
"We do? Why cant I just put it in the garage?"
Lily rolled her eyes.
"Because James and I are going to be getting a car."
James looked over at his wife and quirked an eyebrow as well.
"Since when are we getting a car?"
Lily shook her head.
"James we JUST had this conversation not a week ago! I said I wanted to get a car for whenever we do have kids we will have a way to take our child/children with us instead of constantly flooing or side apparating with them."
Sirius sighed inwardly. He knew that they were going to get back on the child conversation as soon as he moved in here.
"Okay I'll build a storage shed tomorrow out back for my bike. Also I'll clean up the downstairs bedroom so I can start moving my stuff in there over the course of this week so I don't have to do it all in one day."
Lily rolled her eyes and James glared at his lover.
"Why would you put your stuff in the downstairs bedroom?"
Sirius groaned.
"James, I know that you want me to move in here and I'm fine with that. But there is no way we are telling your parents that I am your and Lily's lover. I will have a regular room here for my stuff with a bed and a dresser for my clothes and that's final."
James got up at the same time as Sirius did.
"Why wont we tell MY parents that the three of us are together?"
Sirius sighed and looked down.
"James, your parents have been like my parents for years. They were the ones who let me move in with you when my parents almost killed me over that Christmas. Your parents were the ones who made sure they had legal custody of me until I turned 17 so my parents couldn't make me move back in with them. James, your parents have been like parents to me for years, and I really don't want to lose that."
James kneeled down in front of his lover and brought Sirius' chin up to meet his eyes.
"Siri. My parents love you as much if not more than me."
Sirius laughed a little. He knew that wasn't true, but it was nice to hear anyway.
"They wont abandon you. You will always be like their second son whether or not your with me and Lily or not."
Sirius shook his head.
"You don't get it James. I love your parents more than I love my own! Hell if I could of I would have let your parents adopt me when they wanted too!"
James quirked an eyebrow.
"Wait, my parents wanted to what now?"
Sirius laughed at his lovers confused look.
"Back after that Christmas when I came back all bruised and beaten, remember?"
James nodded.
"Remember when Dumbledore called your parents and when they got up to Hogwarts he told me to come up to his office alone?"
James nodded again.
"When I got there your mom saw me and burst into tears. She saw how badly my father had hurt me and as soon as she saw me she ran to me and pulled me into her arms. She told me I'd never have to go back to that retched house again. Your dad actually had to basically drag her away so I could breathe."
James and Lily both laughed, it was a classic Mrs. Potter move.
"Anyway, we all sat down and I told your parents and Dumbledore what happened. Your father automatically wanted to go and curse my parents. It took Dumbledore putting him in a body bind for five minutes before he'd calm down enough to be released. Your mother then asked me if I wanted to become a Potter. I told him thank you for offering but I couldn't do that. For months afterwards your mom constantly bugged me about letting them adopt me. I always told that while I may not like my parents, I still was a Black by blood and I wanted to stay that way if only to try and salvage the Black bloodline. I don't think they ever truly believed me but eventually they let it go."
James stared at his lover like he'd never seen him before. He knew how hard it must have been for Sirius to say no to getting away from the Blacks legally forever.
"Why didn't you let them adopt you?"
Sirius shot the other man a dubious look.
"You and I had already been together before that. That would have been way to weird. Great story to tell Your and Lily's children one day. "By the way guys, you know that Daddy and Uncle Padfoot used to shag on the side at Hogwarts?" "But wait Uncle Padfoot, I thought you two were brothers." "Oh we are but before we were brothers we were shag buddies." James I don't think that would have worked well."
Lily glared at her lover, he could be so crude sometimes.
"Okay, point taken."
Sirius just nodded and then smiled innocently at Lily to make the tense environment go away.
"So you know what I just realized kids?"
James snorted at the kids comment, since both Lily and himself were a few months older than Sirius.
"What's that Siri?"
Sirius smiled and walked over to Lily and ran his hand up her leg.
"You two have a huge bed upstairs, we are all three here and we have a while to kill before Moony will be up."
James smiled and jumped up, putting both arms around his lovers and quickly apparating them upstairs to formally welcome his lover into the Now Potter-Black household.
TBC! I know this was short but at least it was longer than the last chapter! And it came out a whole lot quicker. Thank you everyone for their reviews! This chapter is dedicated to dregonicewing35 for leaving a nice long review and making me continue this story. I love all my reviewers and the more reviews I get, the quicker I update!