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XX

Chapter fifty one- Sirius is a Prat.

-Sirius' POV-

I knock on the office door, "Enter." I pull open the door and turn towards Mrs. Dechamp, who narrows her eyes at me.

"She's a wonderful girl." Is all she says before she points towards the Minister's office and gestures for me to go in. I step inside the office and greet the minister even though he hates me (as do many other's here.).

"Take a seat Black." I sit in the chair right in front of his desk. "I suppose you're wondering why I've called you in here."

"Yes sir." I reply.

"I wanted to let you know I received a letter for Xeomara today." I make my face as blank as possible.

"That's good." I say dryly. He rolls his hazel eyes at me and stops playing the minister roll, he leans forward in his seat and gives me a knowing look.

"Honestly Black, everyone knows you still love her. You just made a stupid mistake, which I'm sure, is fixable by the way." I stare at the wall behind his head not wanting to meet his eyes. "I know you didn't ask me to but I'm going to read you what she has written to me:

Dear Gaspard,

There are a number of reasons I'm writing you this letter firstly because I heard through the grapevine that you've been giving my husband-ex husband- ah whatever the hell he is right now, a hard time. Now as much as I appreciate you doing that for me, I'm going to have to ask you to let up a bit. Sirius is a great person and an excellent wizard. Just try and get to know him, you two are more alike than you think and trust me you'd like him. Besides according to Remus he already gave him a good talking too-"

"Talking to? More like a punch on the mouth." I grumble. Mr. Franco grins slightly but continues on.

"The second reason is I'm replying to the letter you sent me while I was in St. Mungo's. Everything you heard was indeed true. And it's left me with quite a bit of scaring, which now makes those French girls probably ten hundred times prettier than me. Remus has been taking care of me since I got out which you know I absolutely hate. I would have written you earlier it's just that my knuckles were- well you get the point and besides Remus wouldn't let me. He doesn't let me do anything by myself. Even though the stab wound on my back as pretty much healed he's still carrying me just about everywhere, the kitchen, my bedroom, the bathroom, around James' house. I'll never admit this to him but I'm actually glad he does. Ever get stabbed in the back? It hurts like a bitch.

Now for the third reason I'm writing you. Frank and I miss you. We were wondering if you'd like to meet us for dinner tomorrow night. I know it's short notice and all but James and I are going on a mission for the order the day after and besides I'll be quite busy now that today is my first day back at work. So as of right now July First is my favorite day! Anyways back to the dinner plans, I was wondering if you'd come here because well even though we miss you, we don't exactly miss France. Just owl me if you can make it. I have to cut this letter short or I guess long because Moody's actually yelling at me at the moment telling me to wrap it up so we can go search for the slippery bastard (Karkaroff) Oh and tell Sirius, him and the other aurors better step their damn game up and find the Carrows. And warn him not to make me come up there because I will, I can guarantee I'd find them faster. We're sending James, Lily, and Alice up there now so look for them.

With love,

Xeomara.

P.S. Frank says hello.

"This owl came about five minutes ago." He informs me. I nod my head. "Wonderful girl isn't she?"

"Yeah."

"She seems to like going to work." He adds.

"Franco what are you getting to?" I ask him beating around the bush.

"I will be letting up on you, only because Zee has asked me. But I don't care when you do, but your arse better go back to her. Now go meet your friends and get the hell out of here!" He yells.

"Yes sir." I say all but running out of his office. I collide with James in the hall way bit catch his shoulders before he falls.

"Hey mate." He says clapping me on the back.

"Lily." I say kissing her cheek.

"Sirius."

"Alice." I say kissing her as well.

"Hello Sirius, are you done being a prat yet?" she asks the smile not leaving her face. I ignore the question.

"How is she?"

"Better." James says. "A lot better actually, I think she's happy because she gets to work again. Personally I would have kept her off for another month; the wound on her back is probably really painful."

"She said that it hurt like a bitch and still does and is glad that Remus carries her around."

"Dammit, I knew she lie- How do you know that?" James asks narrowing his eyes.

"Franco read it to me in his letter, because apparently he thinks I should know what she's been up to." Lily nods her head.

"She seems to think she isn't beautiful anymore." She says.

"Well she only got stabbed on her back right it wasn't-"

"Pads, it was worse, much worse." Alice says giving me a small smile.

"Well uh- we actually told Moony not to tell you how bad it was but to narrow it down she's lucky to be alive." My face is heating up in anger.

"And none of you decided to tell me this?" Lily bites her lip.

"I'm sorry, it's just that-"

"I don't care; let's just go find the damn Carrow's." Lily nods and starts handing me supplies.

"Alright, we'll split up now. Lily, Alice call us if you need us. Got it?" Lily nods not even bothering to say good bye as her and Alice start sprinting towards the other side of the woods.

"She also mentioned in the letter that you two are going on some mission for the order?" I say after it's quiet for a few minutes. James points his wand behind the tree and finds nothing then answers,

"Yeah we leave the third, Lily's pissed naturally and everyone is mad that Maurie is going. Molly and Remus almost had a fit. But it the end Albus allowed her to go." He says as I check behind another tree.

"Where are you going?" James shakes his head.

"Sorry pads, can't say." I figured as much. "We should only be gone a week, I'll owl you when we get back." I don't say anything and I guess he takes that for an okay. We both continue to search the woods looking for any sign of things. We'd only been in the woods for two hours when a slivery doe is standing in front of us.

"You might want to come see this." It says in the voice of Lily, than we follow doe exchanges looks as we go. We're taken to a large clearing. In the middle of it are a grinning Lily and Alice and tied up at their feet are Alecto and Amycus Carrow. I look over Lily and Alice and see no sign of struggle or injury.

"Merlin, how easy did they go down?" James asks with a smile.

"Too easy." Alice comments giving Alecto a little kick in the ribs.

"We should take them back to the ministry." Lily says. "Sirius it's been fun but I doubt we'll come over anytime soon." Lily says kissing me.

"When are you going to stop being an idiot and come home?" Alice asks kissing me as well.

"I don't know." I reply truthfully.

"Well we miss you pads." James says. "Before careful and hopefully I'll see you soon." He kneels down and touches Alecto before apparating with a soft pop, Lily does the same with Amycus and Alice is left standing there.

"She's a right mess without you. Frank said she's not the same, since we wouldn't know because she won't see anyone but him, Remus, and Molly. I just wanted you to know what you did to her." She says before turning on the spot. I run my hands through my hair in a way of frustration before I also turn on the spot and land outside the French Ministry.

XX

"She was a right mess Black." Franco says as a way of greeting as I walk into his office two days later. "Nothing like the Xeomara I remember." I just stare at him, waiting for him to continue. "She has a scar that goes from her the top of her eye brow down over top of her eye lid to her cheek bone. She's damn near lucky she closed her eye." I cringe as he says this, imagining Zee getting cut like that. "She's covered in scars, her arms, legs, chin, and shoulder. But she's still as beautiful as I remember." He adds.

"Is she healed?" I ask nervously wringing my hands.

"Her back still hurts, and since your friend Remus was worried about her, since she had been working all day and the day before that, that Frank actually had to carry her. She wasn't too happy about the public embarrassment. She hit Frank on the back of the head the second he placed her in a seat."

"Sounds like something she would do."

"She was stressed out because she's yet to find Karkaroff, though she's extremely happy those two girls caught the Carrow's. She said and I quote 'I've been so stressed out that I actually enjoyed their screams when I took them to Azkaban.' Sweet girl, huh?" He says on a laugh. "Well I just wanted to let you know what you did to her. Have fun at work!"

XX

-Lily's POV-

"Hesita they've been gone for three days already and I haven't heard a word." I say as I take another sip of tea.

"Lils, it will take some time. You can't expect them to be done sooner and I'm sure they probably aren't allowed to contact you."

"You're right, they're just probably not allowed."

"No one else is worried and you shouldn't-"

"They haven't contacted us once! Once!" Remus screams pushing open the kitchen door.

"Okay I take that back." Hestia says looking at Remus' clearly worried facial expression.

"She shouldn't have gone, she was still injured. I can't believe I let her go!"

"James will take care of her; you know how protective he is of her." Hestia says trying to make him feel better.

"Well I'm protective of her too! And Sirius and Wormtail would be worried if they were here right now to, except-"

"Sirius is being a prat?" I fill in.

"Yes." He says unconsciously. "I mean not actually." He adds on. I give him a knowing look. "Okay, okay he's being a prat." I smile.

"He's been gone for what? Three months?" They both nod. "He'll be back, he could never fully leave her."

"Yeah but the thing is, what happens when he comes home? He can't just go to Xeomara and expect it to be the same." Remus says. "She is really torn up Lily." I rub a hand over my face.

"Maybe it will all work out." Hestia says. "They seem to really love each other." I shrug my shoulders. "Okay Lils, I have to get back to work. See you both later." She says standing up and walking towards the door.

"I'd hate night shift." I grumble. I refill my tea cup and conjure one for Remus.

"Thanks." He says looking down.

"You're really nervous aren't you?" He nods his head.

"You know everyone always just assumed that she was closest with James and Sirius but she wasn't. We were all close to her, James a little more so but we are all protective and we all care about. She's the sister I never had, just like you turned out to be when you started dating James." I look up at him in surprise. "We were each other's family. That's the way it's always been with us, but we all knew that Sirius and Zee didn't see each other the way I saw her or the way she saw me or James. We all knew they'd end up together." I smile, I never really heard about the stories of them when they were younger.

"Tell me about when you guys were younger." He smiles widely.

"I'm not sure what happened before I went in their compartment, I suspect that is a story you know." He says his eyes twinkling. "Well Peter and I walked in and the was the three people there, two tall black haired kids with untidy and messy hair and a small black haired girl with the brightest blue eyes I'd ever seen. They were all sharing a bench and laughing madly. I was a little nervous the full moon had only been a few days ago. So I asked if we could sit there, the boys didn't answer but Zee got up, took my hand and pulled me and Peter both into the compartment." I smile thinking of an 11 year old Zee. "So we exchanged names and which houses we wanted to be in which obviously the house of Gryffindor. It was like we sort of just clicked, we all got along so well and then we spent every day together."

"So that's how the great Marauder's became friends." He nods his head.

"Yeah pretty much. It was a great first year, except for the night when I made excuses to leave."

"Who figured that one out?" I ask taking another sip of tea.

"Xeomara of course, her family wasn't the best to her as you know so she had only a few books which she could read and seeing as she barely left her room she read them each many times. She came across werewolf in one of the books and compared the symptoms to me. First week back to school she barged into our dorm and demanded that I tell them."

"How shocked were you?"

"Completely, so she held my hand while I told them, both of us were crying. And Sirius was mad because we didn't tell him, James was shocked, as was Peter but she took Sirius' anger for being disgusted. She pointed her wand at his chest and threatened to hex him. Then she told them how angry she was at all of them and we started to head down towards the door when Sirius started yelling, he now had his wand pointed at Zee and was saying how he didn't care what I was and he was mad that she thought that way, and after that she ran to Sirius and he caught her and they both sat on his bed crying. James then came up and hugged me, and well after that we all basically just cried." I give a little laugh.

"We were a family, if one of us cried the others did too."

"You guys all have an amazing friendship. I wish I had friends like that." He looks at me and takes my hand.

"You do."

XX

"Moody, do you have that file on the McKinnons?" I call to him the next day at the office.

"Yes." He says and then sends it my way. I nod my head in thanks and start reading over the report, the deaths, the times and such. "Little Potter we have to go to the department of mysteries soon." I nod my head, and continue reading the file so I could hand it over to Crouch when we arrived.

"Travers!" Crouch barks from the stands only a few rows in front of me. I hear Moody chuckle when Travers flinches, and Dumbledore who was also sitting next to me shoots him a look. "I want to get right to the point today; we don't have time to waste. These are the known charges against you: Murdering the McKinnons, One of the people that helped murdered the Prewett brothers, assisted Evan Rosier in fatally injuring auror Xeomara Black, torturing of muggles Mandy and Alex Medea and are known to be one of You-Know-Who's biggest supporter."

"His names Voldemort." I snort under my breath.

"Atta girl." Moody whispers from beside me. Dumbledore shoots both of us a look this time.

"I-I was under the imperius curse! I did not know!"

"LIE!" Barty screams. "You will be given a lifetime sentence at Azkaban Prision, should you find some way to escape which I highly doubt that, you will be killed." Travers doesn't even nod his head. "Take him!" He shouts. Moody and I get up from our seats and walk down the aisle til we reach him; Moody jerks him up to his feet while I point my wand at him. The dementors give of an uneasy chill but I focus on Travers wanting to do nothing more than to kill him right now. Once we get outside we apparate to Azkaban. The prision that is located completely around water stands talk and shaky. We give the name at the desk and I grab the key from the lady as we walk up to the high protected prision floor.

"Don't have anything to say now, do ya boy!" Moody barks to the shaking man as we walk. This is the first time I have ever been to Azkaban and I never wanted to come here again even though I knew I'd have to. Dementors glide around everywhere, the prisions are chained and look completely mad, talking to themselves, whistling or humming, and some just scream continuously, they don't stop. I hurriedly stick the key in the door, and Moody pushes him inside.

"Good luck Travers." I say closing it. I turn the lock and put the key in my pocket, we walk down the hallway and only after a few minutes do I hear his screaming.

XX

"Eat some chocolate." Remus says to me when I come home shaking madly. He breaks off a piece of chocolate and hands it to me; I can barely put it in my mouth because I'm shaking so badly.

"I-I h-hate it there." I stutter out. While I bite a piece of chocolate and take a sip from my tea.

"At least you didn't pass out; most people do the first time they walk in there." I nod my head.

"Have you ever been there?" He nods his head.

"I went, when I worked for the French Ministry. Wormtail passed out the second we walk through the doors." I nod my head. I shiver again and bite of another piece of chocolate. "The chocolate will help, it always does."

"Remus did you ever think about becoming a teacher?"

"W-what?" He asks shocked.

"You're brilliant; you'd make a great teacher." He shakes his head.

"Lily, no one wants a werewolf to teach their children." I smile widely.

"Where is that Gryffindor courage?" He narrows his eyes at me. "When you finally decide that you are worth something, be a teacher."