Harry's green eyes were pensive as he sat brooding over his tea. He wasn't exactly sure of the day or precise hour, but he knew that with the coming dawn he would be leaving Grimmauld Place and returning to Hogwarts. While Hogwarts had been his favorite place and nearly the only place he had considered home since he was eleven, he found himself loath to return. While he did miss his friends and the peculiar aura of the magical castle, he knew he would miss Sirius even more.

"You will not stop me Lupin!"

"Bastard!"

Screams echoed from the parlor again and Harry sighed tiredly.

He could not have truthfully said how long he had sat there, only that his tea had long since gone cold. Being that the room he was occupying had no windows no light filtered in to betray the hour. It was bland with slivers of white wall showing above bookshelves. He sat at a large desk coated in dust. The room was actually rather cold and eerie, but it seemed to be the only place he could go to find peace when Remus and Sirius fought. The pair had been looking for any excuse to start a row over the last several days and Harry had been plagued by their screams almost constantly. The room seemed to have been charmed to block out noise once the door was shut.

"You simple-minded son of a whore-"

"Bloody fucking werewolf! Always sticking your great dirty snout in my business…"

Harry got up, shut the door, and sat in the ominous looking black chair before the dusty old desk. Soon he fell asleep in the silence the room granted him, oblivious to the battle raging a floor below.

"That is a horrible idea Black! Do you not understand the implications-" Remus cried as he dodged the cup of scalding tea a furious Sirius black had chucked at his head. The china crashed against the wall behind him. "I won't let you! I cannot in good conscience-"He stopped as the leg of a chair collided with his thigh. "Bastard!" He cried as he grabbed the offending chair as one of its legs came close to his left eye. It splintered in his inhumanly strong grasp. His eyes blazed preternatural amber. He growled as he lunged forward and pinned a flailing Sirius Black to the kitchen floor.

Black and tawny hair mingled as Remus kept the larger man pinned against the floor. "No." The werewolf howled as he forcefully slammed the other man's clasped wrists against the floor. "You will not do that to Harry." The sound of his wrist bones against the floor and his stifled pained grunts made a sickening cadence.

Sirius nodded mutely in acquiescence as he nearly felt his wrists start to break under Remus' attack. Unlike the majority of the days he had spent since coming to Grimmauld place he had better things to do then be pulverized by an irate lycanthrope. He tried to keep his anger in check as Remus peeled himself away and stood, looking almost guilty.

"Sirius…" He said softly. His eyes became brown as the shy young man returned. He looked shaken. Sirius only sat on the floor, panting heavily as rage wracked his frame.

"Sirius…" Remus said quietly as he cautiously stepped forward. He was too blinded by his own shame to fully realize what the dangerous flash in his former best friend's sere eyes meant.

"Siri-"

"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!"

The next thing Remus knew he was laying petrified beneath a determined looking Sirius Black.

"It shouldn't have come to this." He intoned sadly and watched as anger flared in the petrified man's eyes. "I never would have expected someone like you to be so judgmental."

Sirius sighed as he grabbed Remus by the ankles and dragged his leaden body into the nearest long-since-empty cupboard. He took his wand and performed a locking charm on the door before stowing away both wands and going off to find Harry.

Author's Note/ Review Replies:

moony-is-a-werewolf: No problem. And thanks.

KatAndMonkey: There's no exuces really. My own emotions got in the way, hence the plot hole. Similar things happen in the real world all the time.