A/N: This is a response to the challenge issued by Prongs, so it is
obviously a SLASH story ^_~
WARNING: This story contains m/m slash, f/f slash, betrayal, abuse, fluff, sappiness, bad puns (from Sirius, of course!) fun, pranks, gumballs, and so much other stuff ^o^v
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters featured in this story except for Christmas Holiday, who I ripped out from my story "Tainted Blue" and threw in here ^_^; All the other characters belong to J.K. Rowling, duh! The Song "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" belongs to the Smashing Pumpkins, and can be found on the "Batman and Robin" soundtrack...I just liked the title, so I used it for this story ^_~ Plus I can use the sequel song for the sequel to this!
Dedication: Prongs, because without your challenge this story probably wouldn't be here, and to my Mom, who a long time ago gave me a talk about how cruel people can be to those who are different.
^^^***^^^***
Send a heartbeat to
The void that cries through you
Relieve the pictures that have come to pass
For now we stand alone
The world is lost and blown
And we are flesh and blood disintegrate
With no more to hate
~ The Beginning is the End is the Beginning (Smashing Pumpkins, verse 1)
^^^***^^^***
Sirius Black scowled at the man sitting before him. He just couldn't understand him, even after all this time of knowing him, Albus Dumbledore was a mystery to him. You could never tell what his words meant, because they always had two meanings. He never did anything without a reason.
Sirius shifted his gaze to Minerva McGonagall, who sat on his left. She looked just as he remembered her. Stern, tall, brave, somewhat snobby.that was Minerva for you. She did look a little disgruntled though, she wasn't aware of what was going on either.
Sirius let his mind drift to some events of his past, as he knew Dumbledore would take awhile before he was ready to tell the two why they were there, that and his other friend Remus Lupin was still to show up, bringing with him another old classmate Christmas Holiday.
Life had been great while he was at Hogwarts...he had everything he could want. He had been a beater on the Quidditch team, he had been one of the most popular people in his class, he had been handsome, and he had been lucky enough to fall in love with James Potter, and what was even better was that James had loved him back.
The two had been happy together; Sirius could clearly remember those as being some of his happiest times. The two would have continued to be happy together, if it hadn't been for one little problem.
James was stuck with an arranged marriage.
Yep, his parents had decided he just *HAD* to get married to a muggle-born witch by the name of Lily Evans. Lily had been good friends with Sirius and James, but didn't want to marry James...the same went for James. His parents were close to Lily's, so there wasn't much they could do at the times.
They had however, ended up going through with it. They had planned to separate once their fathers died, which wouldn't be that long, as James father was terribly ill. In the meantime they had to act like a married couple all the time, which meant, much to their dismay, they had to have sex.
Who could have thought something they didn't want to do could end up giving them something they, along with Sirus would be able to love so much. Yes, Harry had been a mistake...a great one.
After Harry was born, he could remember Lily and James saying if anything good came of them being forced into it, it was that lively bundle of joy. He agreed totally...his "son" was something he cherished.
Then the dark times had came, Lily and James were killed because they, along with Sirius had made one other mistake...believing that Remus Lupin was betraying them. If they hadn't made that mistake, things could be some different now. Thinking back to that, Sirius really wondered how he could have thought Remus would do that. Remus had always been so sweet, caring, gentle, and soft-spoken. Perhaps that was what made them think that...after all, wasn't there an old muggle saying, something like "It's always the quiet ones?"
Sirius shook his head, they had never suspected him because he was a werewolf. No, they didn't discriminate like that, at least Sirius hoped they hadn't. Although Remus had forgiven Sirius, he knew their friendship would never be the same...never as close as before.
He drifted to some newer, happier memories. The day he had been legally declared innocent by the ministry of magic. That had been a mixed effort. Though it had happened almost a month ago, it was still fresh in his mind.
It had been near the beginning of the school term; the school carriages had been on their way back to the school with the students, when a small, but strong group of deatheaters had attacked them. A group of students fought against them, trying to hold them off until the Professors could get there. Harry, Hermione, and Ron had been among the group, along with Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, and Ginny Weasley. What surprised Sirius the most was the fact that Draco Malfoy had been fighting against the deatheaters as well!
Nonetheless the small group of deatheaters had almost been overpowered, and that's when Wormtail had begun to run away, being the cowardly rat he was. Harry and Draco had both sprinted after him, both shouting hexes at the top of their lungs, finally Draco hit him with "Stupefy" and he was knocked out cold.
Both boys had worked together to drag the body to the school. After I had finished scolding Harry for doing something so stupid, I had taken to hugging him repeatedly and shouting my praises. It had finally taken Severus and Remus to pull me off of him.
Arthur Weasley, the new Minister of Magic (he had been appointed after it was proved the dunderhead Fudge was a deatheater) had gladly given him a trial, in which he had been set free.
Harry was now, or would be living with Sirius once his fifth year was over. Much to the delight of many, Sirius had been offered the position of Astronomy Professor at Hogwarts, and had gladly accepted. Dumbledore was still looking for a new Flying and Charms Professor though, and though many had applied, he kept turning them down. Sirius vaguely wondered why.
Sirius sighed and returned his thoughts and gaze back to Dumbledore. The man was looking at him, eyes twinkling as usual...he looked as though he knew exactly what Sirius was thinking. Sirius groaned inwardly, he was getting annoyed.
Minerva opened her mouth to say something to Albus, when suddenly the fireplace roared to life. All three turned their gazes towards it, and about two second later two figures came flying through it, one male, the other female.
Professor Remus Lupin stood up and brushed the ash off of his robes, and muttered something under his breathe, all the while point his wand at the ground. Instantly the trail of ash removed itself from Dumbledores floor. He then turned and offered his hand to the other person who had come through the Floo Network.
Christmas Holiday stood up with his help and brushed herself off. She gazed around and once her eyes landed on Sirius, she let out a sound of happiness and launched herself at him, capturing him in a large hug. He grinned and returned the hug.
"Sirius! You still look so handsome, after all that time in Azkaban!" Sirius smiled at the comment...though he wasn't AS handsome as before (he doubted he ever would be) he was still quite attractive...being free for almost a month had done him well.
He gazed at Christmas for a moment, and smirked slightly. Her dark black hair was still done up in two balls on the top of her head, with small strands framing her face and falling from the buns. (Think Tsukino Usagi and Tellu from Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon or Miaka from Fushigi Yuugi) her aqua eyes were no longer filled only with happiness, much like his own. Both eyes held anger, happiness, sadness, love, and peace in them.
"Hey! Is it Christmas time already?" Christmas punched him in the arm, she had always hated that joke.
She grinned suddenly, "I was being serious, black!"
Sirius held in laughter in. "How can you be? I'M Sirius Black!"
Christmas laughed again, and Sirius saw Remus shaking his head with a faint smile there. Sirius smiled to himself...it had been a long time since Remus had smiled.
Dumbledore clapped his hands, and they all turned to look at him. "Well! Now that almost all of us are here, we can begin in a few moments, as soon as our other two guest arrive."
Sirius and Minerva scowled. Remus gaped at him, and Christmas looked confused.
"I don't have to Floo anyone else here, do I?" Remus asked quietly. Sirius gazed at him and noticed that he did look a bit green.
"No, no! These two are already here!" Everyone, especially Remus, sighed in relief.
Finally Minerva spoke. "Who are we waiting for, Albus?"
A new voice spoke. "Why, us of course, Minnie! I'm sure you remember us!"
Sirius froze, he only knew of one person who had ever had the spine to call Minerva Minnie...he slowly turned around, his eyes wide. He gaped at what he saw.
Nothing.
The room was empty except for Albus, Minerva, Christmas, Remus and himself. Well, at least it looked empty...he suddenly froze again, he had heard a giggle. A familiar giggle.
He shot a look at Christmas, who had also froze...she of all people would recognize her spouses giggle. She glanced at him in confusion.
Remus looked thoughtful then muttered something under his breath. "Invisibility Cloak!"
Sirius spun on Dumbledore, his eyes blazing. "WHAT is going on? First you drag us here, in the middle of our classes. Then you send Remus to Liverpool in the Floo Network, when you KNOW he can get sick from that! Now we're hearing the voices of the DEAD? Are we going mad, or are you going to explain?"
Christmas was glaring at Dumbledore just as hard as Sirius was. Remus chuckled to himself. 'If looks could kill! Albus would be six feet under by now...'
Sirius looked ready to launch himself at the older man, when he felt a pair of arms wrap around his torso. "Honestly Siri! You're going to have a heart attack!"
That did it, Sirius spun around and grabbed at the air and pulled. He gaped at what he saw...
James Potter. Alive, the same age as Sirius.
Sirius stared. "J-j-j-j-j-am-am-am..." James smirked at him.
"James." He supplied his name. Sirius stared at him for a moment, then his eyes lit up and he launched himself at James.
He sighed happily as he felt James strong arms wrap around him. He could hear Christmas crying in the corner, he turned his head slightly to see her choking Lily Potter to death. He grinned.
He turned to James. "How are you alive?" He managed to croak out.
James suddenly looked confused, "Ask Albus...he brought us back."
Obviously Christmas had heard this as well, for she rounded on Dumbledore along with Sirius. Dumbledore chuckled at them.
"If you will all calm down and take a seat, I will be happy to explain."
No one noticed Remus sneak out of the room, tears running down the sides of his face.
^^^***^^^***
Okay, that's chapter one. In chapter two the following questions will be answered:
-- Why is Remus upset? Why was he crying?
-- How Dumbledore brought Lily and James back
-- Lots of concerned and comforting Harry, slight traces of the beginning of the Remus/Harry love, and we learn Harry's been having a bad day as well
-- Fluff between Lily/Christmas, and LOTS of Fluff between James/Sirius ^_~
Authors NOTE: This story will revolve mostly around Sirius/James and Harry/Remus...though most of the time it will be Sirius/James. I may write a sequel for Remus/Harry! I will call it "The End is the Beginning is the End." But that won't be started until this story is well began ^_^ maybe chapter six or so of this...I plan on THIS story to end up being thirty- forty chapters long, maybe a little less, maybe a little more. It will definitely be more than 25 chapters though.
Dun think it's gonna be easy street for our three couples...I'm gonna make it hard for them...especially for Harry and Remus (but only because I love them!) and Sirius and James won't have the best time either...but in the end it will all work out! ^_~
Read & Review
WARNING: This story contains m/m slash, f/f slash, betrayal, abuse, fluff, sappiness, bad puns (from Sirius, of course!) fun, pranks, gumballs, and so much other stuff ^o^v
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters featured in this story except for Christmas Holiday, who I ripped out from my story "Tainted Blue" and threw in here ^_^; All the other characters belong to J.K. Rowling, duh! The Song "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" belongs to the Smashing Pumpkins, and can be found on the "Batman and Robin" soundtrack...I just liked the title, so I used it for this story ^_~ Plus I can use the sequel song for the sequel to this!
Dedication: Prongs, because without your challenge this story probably wouldn't be here, and to my Mom, who a long time ago gave me a talk about how cruel people can be to those who are different.
^^^***^^^***
Send a heartbeat to
The void that cries through you
Relieve the pictures that have come to pass
For now we stand alone
The world is lost and blown
And we are flesh and blood disintegrate
With no more to hate
~ The Beginning is the End is the Beginning (Smashing Pumpkins, verse 1)
^^^***^^^***
Sirius Black scowled at the man sitting before him. He just couldn't understand him, even after all this time of knowing him, Albus Dumbledore was a mystery to him. You could never tell what his words meant, because they always had two meanings. He never did anything without a reason.
Sirius shifted his gaze to Minerva McGonagall, who sat on his left. She looked just as he remembered her. Stern, tall, brave, somewhat snobby.that was Minerva for you. She did look a little disgruntled though, she wasn't aware of what was going on either.
Sirius let his mind drift to some events of his past, as he knew Dumbledore would take awhile before he was ready to tell the two why they were there, that and his other friend Remus Lupin was still to show up, bringing with him another old classmate Christmas Holiday.
Life had been great while he was at Hogwarts...he had everything he could want. He had been a beater on the Quidditch team, he had been one of the most popular people in his class, he had been handsome, and he had been lucky enough to fall in love with James Potter, and what was even better was that James had loved him back.
The two had been happy together; Sirius could clearly remember those as being some of his happiest times. The two would have continued to be happy together, if it hadn't been for one little problem.
James was stuck with an arranged marriage.
Yep, his parents had decided he just *HAD* to get married to a muggle-born witch by the name of Lily Evans. Lily had been good friends with Sirius and James, but didn't want to marry James...the same went for James. His parents were close to Lily's, so there wasn't much they could do at the times.
They had however, ended up going through with it. They had planned to separate once their fathers died, which wouldn't be that long, as James father was terribly ill. In the meantime they had to act like a married couple all the time, which meant, much to their dismay, they had to have sex.
Who could have thought something they didn't want to do could end up giving them something they, along with Sirus would be able to love so much. Yes, Harry had been a mistake...a great one.
After Harry was born, he could remember Lily and James saying if anything good came of them being forced into it, it was that lively bundle of joy. He agreed totally...his "son" was something he cherished.
Then the dark times had came, Lily and James were killed because they, along with Sirius had made one other mistake...believing that Remus Lupin was betraying them. If they hadn't made that mistake, things could be some different now. Thinking back to that, Sirius really wondered how he could have thought Remus would do that. Remus had always been so sweet, caring, gentle, and soft-spoken. Perhaps that was what made them think that...after all, wasn't there an old muggle saying, something like "It's always the quiet ones?"
Sirius shook his head, they had never suspected him because he was a werewolf. No, they didn't discriminate like that, at least Sirius hoped they hadn't. Although Remus had forgiven Sirius, he knew their friendship would never be the same...never as close as before.
He drifted to some newer, happier memories. The day he had been legally declared innocent by the ministry of magic. That had been a mixed effort. Though it had happened almost a month ago, it was still fresh in his mind.
It had been near the beginning of the school term; the school carriages had been on their way back to the school with the students, when a small, but strong group of deatheaters had attacked them. A group of students fought against them, trying to hold them off until the Professors could get there. Harry, Hermione, and Ron had been among the group, along with Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, and Ginny Weasley. What surprised Sirius the most was the fact that Draco Malfoy had been fighting against the deatheaters as well!
Nonetheless the small group of deatheaters had almost been overpowered, and that's when Wormtail had begun to run away, being the cowardly rat he was. Harry and Draco had both sprinted after him, both shouting hexes at the top of their lungs, finally Draco hit him with "Stupefy" and he was knocked out cold.
Both boys had worked together to drag the body to the school. After I had finished scolding Harry for doing something so stupid, I had taken to hugging him repeatedly and shouting my praises. It had finally taken Severus and Remus to pull me off of him.
Arthur Weasley, the new Minister of Magic (he had been appointed after it was proved the dunderhead Fudge was a deatheater) had gladly given him a trial, in which he had been set free.
Harry was now, or would be living with Sirius once his fifth year was over. Much to the delight of many, Sirius had been offered the position of Astronomy Professor at Hogwarts, and had gladly accepted. Dumbledore was still looking for a new Flying and Charms Professor though, and though many had applied, he kept turning them down. Sirius vaguely wondered why.
Sirius sighed and returned his thoughts and gaze back to Dumbledore. The man was looking at him, eyes twinkling as usual...he looked as though he knew exactly what Sirius was thinking. Sirius groaned inwardly, he was getting annoyed.
Minerva opened her mouth to say something to Albus, when suddenly the fireplace roared to life. All three turned their gazes towards it, and about two second later two figures came flying through it, one male, the other female.
Professor Remus Lupin stood up and brushed the ash off of his robes, and muttered something under his breathe, all the while point his wand at the ground. Instantly the trail of ash removed itself from Dumbledores floor. He then turned and offered his hand to the other person who had come through the Floo Network.
Christmas Holiday stood up with his help and brushed herself off. She gazed around and once her eyes landed on Sirius, she let out a sound of happiness and launched herself at him, capturing him in a large hug. He grinned and returned the hug.
"Sirius! You still look so handsome, after all that time in Azkaban!" Sirius smiled at the comment...though he wasn't AS handsome as before (he doubted he ever would be) he was still quite attractive...being free for almost a month had done him well.
He gazed at Christmas for a moment, and smirked slightly. Her dark black hair was still done up in two balls on the top of her head, with small strands framing her face and falling from the buns. (Think Tsukino Usagi and Tellu from Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon or Miaka from Fushigi Yuugi) her aqua eyes were no longer filled only with happiness, much like his own. Both eyes held anger, happiness, sadness, love, and peace in them.
"Hey! Is it Christmas time already?" Christmas punched him in the arm, she had always hated that joke.
She grinned suddenly, "I was being serious, black!"
Sirius held in laughter in. "How can you be? I'M Sirius Black!"
Christmas laughed again, and Sirius saw Remus shaking his head with a faint smile there. Sirius smiled to himself...it had been a long time since Remus had smiled.
Dumbledore clapped his hands, and they all turned to look at him. "Well! Now that almost all of us are here, we can begin in a few moments, as soon as our other two guest arrive."
Sirius and Minerva scowled. Remus gaped at him, and Christmas looked confused.
"I don't have to Floo anyone else here, do I?" Remus asked quietly. Sirius gazed at him and noticed that he did look a bit green.
"No, no! These two are already here!" Everyone, especially Remus, sighed in relief.
Finally Minerva spoke. "Who are we waiting for, Albus?"
A new voice spoke. "Why, us of course, Minnie! I'm sure you remember us!"
Sirius froze, he only knew of one person who had ever had the spine to call Minerva Minnie...he slowly turned around, his eyes wide. He gaped at what he saw.
Nothing.
The room was empty except for Albus, Minerva, Christmas, Remus and himself. Well, at least it looked empty...he suddenly froze again, he had heard a giggle. A familiar giggle.
He shot a look at Christmas, who had also froze...she of all people would recognize her spouses giggle. She glanced at him in confusion.
Remus looked thoughtful then muttered something under his breath. "Invisibility Cloak!"
Sirius spun on Dumbledore, his eyes blazing. "WHAT is going on? First you drag us here, in the middle of our classes. Then you send Remus to Liverpool in the Floo Network, when you KNOW he can get sick from that! Now we're hearing the voices of the DEAD? Are we going mad, or are you going to explain?"
Christmas was glaring at Dumbledore just as hard as Sirius was. Remus chuckled to himself. 'If looks could kill! Albus would be six feet under by now...'
Sirius looked ready to launch himself at the older man, when he felt a pair of arms wrap around his torso. "Honestly Siri! You're going to have a heart attack!"
That did it, Sirius spun around and grabbed at the air and pulled. He gaped at what he saw...
James Potter. Alive, the same age as Sirius.
Sirius stared. "J-j-j-j-j-am-am-am..." James smirked at him.
"James." He supplied his name. Sirius stared at him for a moment, then his eyes lit up and he launched himself at James.
He sighed happily as he felt James strong arms wrap around him. He could hear Christmas crying in the corner, he turned his head slightly to see her choking Lily Potter to death. He grinned.
He turned to James. "How are you alive?" He managed to croak out.
James suddenly looked confused, "Ask Albus...he brought us back."
Obviously Christmas had heard this as well, for she rounded on Dumbledore along with Sirius. Dumbledore chuckled at them.
"If you will all calm down and take a seat, I will be happy to explain."
No one noticed Remus sneak out of the room, tears running down the sides of his face.
^^^***^^^***
Okay, that's chapter one. In chapter two the following questions will be answered:
-- Why is Remus upset? Why was he crying?
-- How Dumbledore brought Lily and James back
-- Lots of concerned and comforting Harry, slight traces of the beginning of the Remus/Harry love, and we learn Harry's been having a bad day as well
-- Fluff between Lily/Christmas, and LOTS of Fluff between James/Sirius ^_~
Authors NOTE: This story will revolve mostly around Sirius/James and Harry/Remus...though most of the time it will be Sirius/James. I may write a sequel for Remus/Harry! I will call it "The End is the Beginning is the End." But that won't be started until this story is well began ^_^ maybe chapter six or so of this...I plan on THIS story to end up being thirty- forty chapters long, maybe a little less, maybe a little more. It will definitely be more than 25 chapters though.
Dun think it's gonna be easy street for our three couples...I'm gonna make it hard for them...especially for Harry and Remus (but only because I love them!) and Sirius and James won't have the best time either...but in the end it will all work out! ^_~
Read & Review
