Denial
Chapter 36 - Sirius, the Oh Spiked One
*****
My beam almost made my face burst.
"Do you take Sirius Ewan Black to be your lawfully wedded husband?" Did they even have to ask quite frankly? It was quite hard to keep myself from exploding - from delight of course - as I said "I do!"
"You may now kiss the brides." My smile grew. This was rather awkward, as it made kissing difficult. Sirius seemed to be having the same problem, and I was too preoccupied to even snatch a glance at how Lily and James were getting on. I was married to Sirius! Married! To! Sirius! This was the best day of my life. I know most people's best day of their lives is when their child is born, but, much as giving birth to Ruby (minus the pain) was very pleasurable, the rest of that day in general wasn't all that brilliant. And anyway, it was all kind of hazy as Sirius picked me up and carried me out of the hall. I gently fingered his spikes, trying not to mess them up. He made no comment, surely a first for him. I hadn't even had to ask him to keep them for our wedding. I don't know whether he remembered the prediction as well, or he just wanted to have spiky hair this time, it meant that this was his foretold destiny. Cheesy, maybe, but I really couldn't have cared less.
As I rested my head on his lap as the car drove us to the reception I had "He loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah! He loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah!" kind of jumping about inside my head. I'd always disliked those lyrics as they seemed too unimaginative, but now I knew that it didn't matter. They were exactly how I felt.
I felt breathless. Really breathless. Unbelievably happy to be alive, and to be married to Sirius. He was smiling down at me, and gently stroking my neck with a finger. "Oh, I love you." He sighed. Suddenly the volume of "He loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah!" went right up, and I could feel myself shaking. "You ok?" He asked, frowning a little but still beaming.
"I'm just so happy, and I love you so much." I said, shakily, as he pulled me into a tight hug. I sighed contentedly. Well, more than contentedly, but you know. This was what hugging some one for as long as you wanted was. The power of a hug is truly astounding, and we didn't leave each other's embrace until the driver pulled up outside the restaurant we were having our reception. We'd had to keep the wedding quite muggle because of the muggle guests, but muggle or wizard, it didn't matter. I was married to Sirius. I was officially Mrs Chloe Black. Oh, it felt so good.
Plus Ruby no longer came from a broken home. It had hardly been a home in the first place, but that was beside the point. Now the home was well and truly fixed. Speaking of homes, Sirius had sold Jessica their old house, and I'd sold my half of my house with Kira to Kira, and we were looking for a house together, meanwhile renting a small flat nearby where Sirius had used to live.
Sirius took my hand, and helped me out of the car, and we climbed the steps together. Lily and James had arrived just before us, and were already standing in the entrance hall waiting to greet the guests. We stood opposite them, and stared around at each other grinning manically until Lily burst out "We're married Chloe!" And ran over to hug me, very tightly. I didn't really care though. I was as happy as she was. If not more so. She and James had clearly been destined to marry, but Sirius had gone and foolishly married Jessica.
Actually we had been destined to marry. but I still never thought it would happen.
"Hey." Said James as we broke apart. "I thought we were married." He said, pointing to Lily, and then to himself.
"Yeah, how come you never told me about your true sexuality." Sirius asked me, just as Kira, cradling Ruby in her arms, came in.
"What's this about true sexuality?" Kira asked, standing in the doorway.
"Never mind." I said, giggling.
"What's Sekshalty?" Ruby asked, frowning.
"Never mind." Kira said loftily.
There was a short silence.
"Oh my God you're married!" Kira said, rushing over to give Ruby to Sirius, and hug me, almost as tightly as Lily did, before hugging Lily, James, then Sirius (Ruby getting slightly squashed in the process) before going to stand by Lily. Together they began to chat excitedly about how the wedding had gone. I decided it would be more fun to get off with Sirius instead (which I'm sure Ruby enjoyed, but I couldn't have cared less).
About halfway through our kiss we heard a disturbance outside, and stopped abruptly.
"Just go in, Remus!"
"No, I don't think we're meant to-"
"Yes we are! Go in."
"No."
"Oh my God, at least check."
"No, because we shouldn't go in until they're all here, because it's their wedding."
"Fine, I'll check then."
The next moment Peter's head popped around the door.
"Oh, Reeemuuus." We heard a low grunt from outside. "They're in here already. Dumbass."
"You clutter this fine day with foul words." Sirius gasped as Remus sidled in, blushing a little.
"Perhaps I do." Suggested Peter, walking to stand beside James.
"Cor Blimey, Remus." I said in a cockney accent. "What on earth was all that about? You stupid or summat?"
Remus looked around shiftily. "No, not really."
"I don't believe him meself." I said.
"Oh yeah!" Remus suddenly burst out, interrupting me.
"I remember. I am a moron!" Sirius exclaimed, imitating him.
"No, I was thinking more that congratulations were in order. If I remember correctly you just got married to this lovely lady here." Remus said gesturing to me. "Well done mate." He said clapping Sirius on the back, and hugging me. "And you." He said doing the same with Lily and James. "Although I couldn't describe your lady as lovely." He whispered loudly to Lily.
"Hey, I'm a very lovely lady." James protested as Peter began to do the same as Remus.
"Don't count on it." Remus advised.
*****
"Dad, why are your teeth blue?"
This was just freaky. My dad (who had done me the great honour of turning up to my wedding) had gone outside five minutes earlier, and now he'd come back in with blue teeth. Not a normal occurrence.
My dad froze momentarily, before blinking twice in quick succession and saying "Shit, they're still blue?"
"Yes, they are most definitely still blue." I informed him.
"I'll go and clean them again. I ran out of Dazzle just yesterday." Dazzle was a wizard brand of toothpaste, was it not? As my dad began to walk away I asked again;
"Dad, why are your teeth blue?" He stopped still.
"Well, why do you think?" He asked, before turning around and heading off to the gent's.
I blinked a number of times and turned to Sirius who was of course sitting beside me.
"Do you have any idea why my dad's teeth are blue?"
Sirius thought for a moment. "He's either been chewing Drooble's, or he's been smoking Black Slash." He told me.
"And Black Slash is? Class A illegal drugs?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
"No, fruit flavoured cigarettes with coloured smoke." Sirius explained. "Hell to get off your teeth. Not that I've ever had to but James had a nasty incident once when Snape reported him to have been smoking, 'cause he came in with orange teeth. He almost beat my detention record with the number he got for that."
"Wizard made, right?" Sirius nodded. "But dad's a muggle. And how come Kira doesn't smoke them?"
Sirius shrugged, and put an arm round me. "Here's a suggestion. Why don't you ask your dad why his teeth are blue?" He proposed.
"I did. He ignored my question. Twice. Well, second time he just asked me why I thought they were in a 'isn't it obvious?' way. Then he went off to clean them again, because apparently it didn't work properly the first time." I muttered.
"Drooble's comes off easy." Sirius commented.
"So you think he's been smoking this fruit thing?"
"When he comes back see if he smells of fruit."
"Ok." I sat thinking for a moment. I needed someone muggle born. And with some sort of brain. So they would remember stuff. Such as. Lily! Mais oui. "Lily?" I said, leaning over Sirius's lap.
"Yes?" She said, snapping her head round to me.
"What muggle things make your teeth go blue?"
Lily frowned in confusion but didn't question my sanity - not out loud at least. "Uh, blue lollipops? They make your tongue go blue anyway. Blue paint?" Oh yes, because my dad is not crazy, he has simply painted his teeth blue. As you do. Well I do. On a regular basis.
About 30 seconds later the father returned sporting newly gleaming teeth - snow white. I turned to him and began breathing heavily through my nose. He did indeed smell of fruit.
"Dad. Why are your teeth blue?" I tried again.
"We've been through this." He sighed.
"No we haven't." I stated simply.
"Why do you think they're blue? How many ways can you think of to make your teeth blue?" He said, exasperatedly.
"Um. four. And quite frankly the most likely seems to be that you painted them blue. Which I can assure you seems a foolish thing to do."
"I'm not that stupid." He told me.
"You ate a blue lollipop?"
"No."
"But the other two are impossible." I said, despairing. "Well, not impossible just exceedingly unlikely." I said, correcting myself before he or Sirius could.
"What are they?"
"You've been chewing Drooble's,"
"Don't like gum." He said, interrupting. I decided that for the time being I'd let it slip that he knew what Drooble's was.
"Or, you've been smoking Black Slash."
"Well that took you long enough." He said, sighing in relief.
I was very confused however.
"Wu- Bu- Ha- Uh. I'm so confused." I groaned. "How did you get hold of Black Slash, when I'm a witch, and I never heard of it before Sirius explained to me just now."
There was a long silence. Dad froze, I frowned, and Sirius glanced from one of us to the other.
"You mean your mother's kept you in the dark all this time?"
"I don't know. But that implies that she has." I said.
"Oh."
"So, would you like to tell me what's going on?"
"Erm. Perhaps." He decided.
"Go on then." I said, very curious, and still utterly confused, though I was beginning to get some idea.
"I'm a wizard?" He offered.
"Really. That explains my entire life then. Thank you. So, how come I don't know?"
"I don't know. I thought your mum had told you. Especially after you started at Hogwarts. Perhaps she was waiting until Toby was old enough. Perhaps she just didn't want you to know."
"How rude." I commented. But I wasn't particularly angry. A little annoyed, of course, that I'd had this secret kept from me for eighteen years, but all in all I'm the type of person who is so excited by finding out secrets - especially as massive as this - that forgetting that it's been kept from me is no problem. It wasn't dad's fault anyway, and I'm sure mum had her reasons. Even if it was just that she didn't want us to know. she'd have reasons for not wanting us to know. And that seemed fair enough.
After all everyone's different.
*****
AN/: Wahoo! Another chapter! Aren't you proud of me? Twice as long as the last one. Twice as long as it was going to be. It still didn't take two months! God, I'm good.
I hope you enjoyed the second part. That took a lot of genius thinking. Actually her dad was never going to turn out to be a wizard before, I just wanted him to come in, and needed something I could make a story of. Don't you just want blue teeth? No? Really? Oh. Fine.
Anyway, much thanks to all who reviewed:
Miyukisetsu
Zeldagrl436
Nothing lasts forever - I don't have any chocolate chips or mustard. Sorry.
Lady K4 - they're my three favourite colours as well! :O
ANNE( v )79 - Have you read Order of the Phoenix? I wanted to ask just in case. It was called Sirius the Dead One because of the little thingie-ma- bobby where James killed Sirius so Chloe killed James so Lily killed Chloe.
Aalina
Elvencherry07
Sweetgirl
Captain Oblivious - Here you go! Here, here, here! Told you I'd update, even in it isn't as soon as I said it might be.
MWPPMoonyPadfootProngs - Both Sirius and Remus in this one.
Freakygroggurl22 - a blue lollipop?
Lady Matsu
Magicrules
A lot of people apparently got worried when they saw the title of the last chapter. Hah hah. Moving swiftly on, I do hope you review, I do hope you try your hardest to give me an interesting review, and I do enjoy suggestions and predictions.
Love Mai
Chapter 36 - Sirius, the Oh Spiked One
*****
My beam almost made my face burst.
"Do you take Sirius Ewan Black to be your lawfully wedded husband?" Did they even have to ask quite frankly? It was quite hard to keep myself from exploding - from delight of course - as I said "I do!"
"You may now kiss the brides." My smile grew. This was rather awkward, as it made kissing difficult. Sirius seemed to be having the same problem, and I was too preoccupied to even snatch a glance at how Lily and James were getting on. I was married to Sirius! Married! To! Sirius! This was the best day of my life. I know most people's best day of their lives is when their child is born, but, much as giving birth to Ruby (minus the pain) was very pleasurable, the rest of that day in general wasn't all that brilliant. And anyway, it was all kind of hazy as Sirius picked me up and carried me out of the hall. I gently fingered his spikes, trying not to mess them up. He made no comment, surely a first for him. I hadn't even had to ask him to keep them for our wedding. I don't know whether he remembered the prediction as well, or he just wanted to have spiky hair this time, it meant that this was his foretold destiny. Cheesy, maybe, but I really couldn't have cared less.
As I rested my head on his lap as the car drove us to the reception I had "He loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah! He loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah!" kind of jumping about inside my head. I'd always disliked those lyrics as they seemed too unimaginative, but now I knew that it didn't matter. They were exactly how I felt.
I felt breathless. Really breathless. Unbelievably happy to be alive, and to be married to Sirius. He was smiling down at me, and gently stroking my neck with a finger. "Oh, I love you." He sighed. Suddenly the volume of "He loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah!" went right up, and I could feel myself shaking. "You ok?" He asked, frowning a little but still beaming.
"I'm just so happy, and I love you so much." I said, shakily, as he pulled me into a tight hug. I sighed contentedly. Well, more than contentedly, but you know. This was what hugging some one for as long as you wanted was. The power of a hug is truly astounding, and we didn't leave each other's embrace until the driver pulled up outside the restaurant we were having our reception. We'd had to keep the wedding quite muggle because of the muggle guests, but muggle or wizard, it didn't matter. I was married to Sirius. I was officially Mrs Chloe Black. Oh, it felt so good.
Plus Ruby no longer came from a broken home. It had hardly been a home in the first place, but that was beside the point. Now the home was well and truly fixed. Speaking of homes, Sirius had sold Jessica their old house, and I'd sold my half of my house with Kira to Kira, and we were looking for a house together, meanwhile renting a small flat nearby where Sirius had used to live.
Sirius took my hand, and helped me out of the car, and we climbed the steps together. Lily and James had arrived just before us, and were already standing in the entrance hall waiting to greet the guests. We stood opposite them, and stared around at each other grinning manically until Lily burst out "We're married Chloe!" And ran over to hug me, very tightly. I didn't really care though. I was as happy as she was. If not more so. She and James had clearly been destined to marry, but Sirius had gone and foolishly married Jessica.
Actually we had been destined to marry. but I still never thought it would happen.
"Hey." Said James as we broke apart. "I thought we were married." He said, pointing to Lily, and then to himself.
"Yeah, how come you never told me about your true sexuality." Sirius asked me, just as Kira, cradling Ruby in her arms, came in.
"What's this about true sexuality?" Kira asked, standing in the doorway.
"Never mind." I said, giggling.
"What's Sekshalty?" Ruby asked, frowning.
"Never mind." Kira said loftily.
There was a short silence.
"Oh my God you're married!" Kira said, rushing over to give Ruby to Sirius, and hug me, almost as tightly as Lily did, before hugging Lily, James, then Sirius (Ruby getting slightly squashed in the process) before going to stand by Lily. Together they began to chat excitedly about how the wedding had gone. I decided it would be more fun to get off with Sirius instead (which I'm sure Ruby enjoyed, but I couldn't have cared less).
About halfway through our kiss we heard a disturbance outside, and stopped abruptly.
"Just go in, Remus!"
"No, I don't think we're meant to-"
"Yes we are! Go in."
"No."
"Oh my God, at least check."
"No, because we shouldn't go in until they're all here, because it's their wedding."
"Fine, I'll check then."
The next moment Peter's head popped around the door.
"Oh, Reeemuuus." We heard a low grunt from outside. "They're in here already. Dumbass."
"You clutter this fine day with foul words." Sirius gasped as Remus sidled in, blushing a little.
"Perhaps I do." Suggested Peter, walking to stand beside James.
"Cor Blimey, Remus." I said in a cockney accent. "What on earth was all that about? You stupid or summat?"
Remus looked around shiftily. "No, not really."
"I don't believe him meself." I said.
"Oh yeah!" Remus suddenly burst out, interrupting me.
"I remember. I am a moron!" Sirius exclaimed, imitating him.
"No, I was thinking more that congratulations were in order. If I remember correctly you just got married to this lovely lady here." Remus said gesturing to me. "Well done mate." He said clapping Sirius on the back, and hugging me. "And you." He said doing the same with Lily and James. "Although I couldn't describe your lady as lovely." He whispered loudly to Lily.
"Hey, I'm a very lovely lady." James protested as Peter began to do the same as Remus.
"Don't count on it." Remus advised.
*****
"Dad, why are your teeth blue?"
This was just freaky. My dad (who had done me the great honour of turning up to my wedding) had gone outside five minutes earlier, and now he'd come back in with blue teeth. Not a normal occurrence.
My dad froze momentarily, before blinking twice in quick succession and saying "Shit, they're still blue?"
"Yes, they are most definitely still blue." I informed him.
"I'll go and clean them again. I ran out of Dazzle just yesterday." Dazzle was a wizard brand of toothpaste, was it not? As my dad began to walk away I asked again;
"Dad, why are your teeth blue?" He stopped still.
"Well, why do you think?" He asked, before turning around and heading off to the gent's.
I blinked a number of times and turned to Sirius who was of course sitting beside me.
"Do you have any idea why my dad's teeth are blue?"
Sirius thought for a moment. "He's either been chewing Drooble's, or he's been smoking Black Slash." He told me.
"And Black Slash is? Class A illegal drugs?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
"No, fruit flavoured cigarettes with coloured smoke." Sirius explained. "Hell to get off your teeth. Not that I've ever had to but James had a nasty incident once when Snape reported him to have been smoking, 'cause he came in with orange teeth. He almost beat my detention record with the number he got for that."
"Wizard made, right?" Sirius nodded. "But dad's a muggle. And how come Kira doesn't smoke them?"
Sirius shrugged, and put an arm round me. "Here's a suggestion. Why don't you ask your dad why his teeth are blue?" He proposed.
"I did. He ignored my question. Twice. Well, second time he just asked me why I thought they were in a 'isn't it obvious?' way. Then he went off to clean them again, because apparently it didn't work properly the first time." I muttered.
"Drooble's comes off easy." Sirius commented.
"So you think he's been smoking this fruit thing?"
"When he comes back see if he smells of fruit."
"Ok." I sat thinking for a moment. I needed someone muggle born. And with some sort of brain. So they would remember stuff. Such as. Lily! Mais oui. "Lily?" I said, leaning over Sirius's lap.
"Yes?" She said, snapping her head round to me.
"What muggle things make your teeth go blue?"
Lily frowned in confusion but didn't question my sanity - not out loud at least. "Uh, blue lollipops? They make your tongue go blue anyway. Blue paint?" Oh yes, because my dad is not crazy, he has simply painted his teeth blue. As you do. Well I do. On a regular basis.
About 30 seconds later the father returned sporting newly gleaming teeth - snow white. I turned to him and began breathing heavily through my nose. He did indeed smell of fruit.
"Dad. Why are your teeth blue?" I tried again.
"We've been through this." He sighed.
"No we haven't." I stated simply.
"Why do you think they're blue? How many ways can you think of to make your teeth blue?" He said, exasperatedly.
"Um. four. And quite frankly the most likely seems to be that you painted them blue. Which I can assure you seems a foolish thing to do."
"I'm not that stupid." He told me.
"You ate a blue lollipop?"
"No."
"But the other two are impossible." I said, despairing. "Well, not impossible just exceedingly unlikely." I said, correcting myself before he or Sirius could.
"What are they?"
"You've been chewing Drooble's,"
"Don't like gum." He said, interrupting. I decided that for the time being I'd let it slip that he knew what Drooble's was.
"Or, you've been smoking Black Slash."
"Well that took you long enough." He said, sighing in relief.
I was very confused however.
"Wu- Bu- Ha- Uh. I'm so confused." I groaned. "How did you get hold of Black Slash, when I'm a witch, and I never heard of it before Sirius explained to me just now."
There was a long silence. Dad froze, I frowned, and Sirius glanced from one of us to the other.
"You mean your mother's kept you in the dark all this time?"
"I don't know. But that implies that she has." I said.
"Oh."
"So, would you like to tell me what's going on?"
"Erm. Perhaps." He decided.
"Go on then." I said, very curious, and still utterly confused, though I was beginning to get some idea.
"I'm a wizard?" He offered.
"Really. That explains my entire life then. Thank you. So, how come I don't know?"
"I don't know. I thought your mum had told you. Especially after you started at Hogwarts. Perhaps she was waiting until Toby was old enough. Perhaps she just didn't want you to know."
"How rude." I commented. But I wasn't particularly angry. A little annoyed, of course, that I'd had this secret kept from me for eighteen years, but all in all I'm the type of person who is so excited by finding out secrets - especially as massive as this - that forgetting that it's been kept from me is no problem. It wasn't dad's fault anyway, and I'm sure mum had her reasons. Even if it was just that she didn't want us to know. she'd have reasons for not wanting us to know. And that seemed fair enough.
After all everyone's different.
*****
AN/: Wahoo! Another chapter! Aren't you proud of me? Twice as long as the last one. Twice as long as it was going to be. It still didn't take two months! God, I'm good.
I hope you enjoyed the second part. That took a lot of genius thinking. Actually her dad was never going to turn out to be a wizard before, I just wanted him to come in, and needed something I could make a story of. Don't you just want blue teeth? No? Really? Oh. Fine.
Anyway, much thanks to all who reviewed:
Miyukisetsu
Zeldagrl436
Nothing lasts forever - I don't have any chocolate chips or mustard. Sorry.
Lady K4 - they're my three favourite colours as well! :O
ANNE( v )79 - Have you read Order of the Phoenix? I wanted to ask just in case. It was called Sirius the Dead One because of the little thingie-ma- bobby where James killed Sirius so Chloe killed James so Lily killed Chloe.
Aalina
Elvencherry07
Sweetgirl
Captain Oblivious - Here you go! Here, here, here! Told you I'd update, even in it isn't as soon as I said it might be.
MWPPMoonyPadfootProngs - Both Sirius and Remus in this one.
Freakygroggurl22 - a blue lollipop?
Lady Matsu
Magicrules
A lot of people apparently got worried when they saw the title of the last chapter. Hah hah. Moving swiftly on, I do hope you review, I do hope you try your hardest to give me an interesting review, and I do enjoy suggestions and predictions.
Love Mai