Written for: Stratego - Task/Scenario: Your character/s are forging someone's signature but it's for a good reason. What is that reason?


Prompt: Persuade.

So, let's just imagine that Sirius actually got along with his father...


Sirius took a deep breath, before knocking on the door to his father's study.

"Come in," his father called, and Sirius pushed the door open, heading inside and shutting it behind him.

"Sirius," his father said, pouring himself a drink in preparation. Dealing with his son usually required some firewhiskey afterwards. Especially when him and his mother were in the same room, though those required a whole bottle.

"Can I have one?"

Orion looked at his son for a moment.

"Oh come on, I'm sixteen," Sirius insisted, looking at the alcohol eagerly. He watched in delight as his father poured him some and set both glasses onto the desk, sliding one over to his son.

"What do you need?"

"I want an account with Honeydukes."

"When you say an account..."

"I want a subscription," Sirius insisted, reaching for his glass.

"Why?" Orion asked.

"I need one!"

"Sirius, you do not need a Honeydukes subscription!"

"I do! This way, Remus will love me!"

"But your mother..."

"Fuck her!"

Orion reached for his own glass at the look of anger on his son's face. There was no love lost between his wife and his eldest son.

"I did! Twice!"

Sirius stared at him in disgust.

"Right, what I meant to say was... if it's not urgent, I have to say no."

Sirius pulled out the form and looked at his father pleadingly. "I need to get Remus -"

"You know we're not to discuss him," Orion said, frowning. "If you mother were to hear -"

"I know," Sirius muttered. "Marry a pure-blood and have a heir and I've done my duty as long as I keep things with whichever man I choose to be with on the quiet." He hated the words that came from his mouth, but he had no choice. A lot of pure-blooded families wouldn't allow such an arrangement, but his father understood.

Orion met his gaze. "Exactly."

"ORION, COME HERE AT ONCE," came a screech from outside of the room. Orion sighed and quickly downed the glass of firewhiskey before standing up.

"Just stay here, don't come out, it'll only antagonise her more," he said. "Or go upstairs." He disappeared from the room.

Sirius waited a few seconds before slipping up from the seat and smoothing the parchment out onto the desk. He had suspected that his father would turn him down, and if he couldn't persuade Orion, he'd have to do this behind his back.

Sirius reached for his father's quill and signed his father's name. He grabbed the wand Orion had left and tapped the parchment, the signature glowing gold for a second. He quickly rolled it up again and slipped it back into his robes.

He headed out of the room, ignoring the screeching his mother was doing. He felt pity for his father, determined that his life wasn't going to be like that.

Well, he hoped not. If he had Remus, he could live through anything.

And Remus would love him forever when he found out that Sirius had a subscription to Honeydukes.


Review please :)

And thanks to Raybe for giving me a bit of that conversation.