A/N: I can't say I'm sorry enough!! Everything caught up with me last week (2 finals) and this week (final and project that I really don't want to do!). I know this is a little short, but I wanted to get something out to my beautiful readers soon! I apologize again for the delay, and I'll try to get another chapter up this weekend (Memorial Day weekend!!). I'm not making any promises.

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Harry, disguised as James, arrived at Mutt's Domain Monday morning with a smile. Ginny, Nicole, and Dylan had stopped by the Burrow the day before and had gotten reacquainted with her family. They knew that she was engaged to the father of her children, but she had refused to say any more.

"You'll find out soon! There are a few things that need to be worked out, and then you will be the first, well, maybe not the first, but you'll know!"

"But Ginny,"

"Mum, you've waited six years, I think you can wait a little longer."

And surprisingly, Molly Weasley had nothing more to say. For an hour.

"Good morning Sirius, Remus!" Harry yelled as he walked in the door.

"James? I thought you weren't going to be here until next week?" asked Remus as he walked into the entry.

Harry smiled. "It went a little faster than I thought it would. Dudley hired help."

"Dudley? As in Dursley?" Sirius asked as he joined them in the entryway.

"That would be the one. Why, do you know him?"

"You can say that. So, what are you doing here?"

"Working," Harry said very slowly. "You do want your house finished don't you?"

"But we thought you were going back home for a while."

"Oh, the people I was going to go home to see came here." Harry's face erupted with a huge grin as he remembered what exactly he did that weekend.

"Somebody must have had a good weekend."

"I got engaged."

Sirius started chocking on tea (at least that's what he blamed it on, even though there was no tea in sight) and Remus had to hit him on his back to get him to breath again. "What? To who?"

"The love of my life, the mother of my children, the woman who I have known for fourteen years, loved for nine, and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with."

"What's her name?" asked Sirius as he gestured to the kitchen.

At this, Harry froze, he was already digging himself a hole. 'Just tell him, it will be good to get it all out in the open.'

"Harry, what's her name?" Sirius asked again with a slight smirk on his face.

Harry sighed. "Its Ginny, I'm engaged. Wait a second, did you just call me Harry?"

"Maybe," answered his godfather with a distinct twinkle in his eyes.

Harry looked over at his godfather, caught the twinkle, and gasped (a manly gasp of course). "You know! How long have you known!"

"Draco and Seamus told us on Saturday. Why didn't you tell us, Harry? We could have helped you."

"Are you sure? I had killed a man and then mutilated his corpse. At the time I was so ashamed of what I had done that I couldn't face myself, let alone my family."

"Harry, you didn't do anything wrong. You had too many years of anger that needed to be let out. I probably would have done the same thing."

"Why didn't you tell us when you came back?" Remus asked quietly.

"I was still ashamed. I didn't know what you felt about what I did and by the time that I did know, it was too late. I promise you that now I'm back for good, except when I have to go back to Portland to get my stuff."

"You had better be because I'm not letting you out of my sight. You are not leaving this house until I feel confident that you won't run out on us again. We're your family and it's our duty to hold you captive."

Remus rolled his eyes. "Padfoot, be reasonable. He just said that he's not going to be leaving. Besides, didn't you hear earlier when he said that he was engaged to Ginny? I don't think the Weasley's are going to be letting her go anytime soon. Especially considering the fact that there are grandkids involved."

"That's right, when do I get to meet my grandgodkids?"

"Grandgodkids? Is that even anything?"

"Of course, and if I don't see their heads today, you can bet that nobody will be seeing your head ever again," threatened Sirius.

This time it was Harry that rolled his eyes. "Ginny said she was going to stop by for lunch anyways. She wants to see you guys anyways. Why, I don't know," Harry finished with a smirk.

"Joke all you want Talon, you're not leaving. You still have a whole house to finish."

"Well, then what are we standing around here for? Lets go paint!" Harry paused. "On second thought, Sirius, why don't you go to the Burrow and tell Ginny to get our stuff and bring it here, if that's alright with you?"

"Are you trying to get rid of me?"

"Yes."

"Fine. Can I just ask you one thing though?"

"Sure."

"Can you take the Glamour or whatever off. I want to see what you really look like."

Harry pulled out his wand and quickly took off the spell to reveal his ebony black hair and troubled emerald eyes. Sirius' eyes became a little misty before he nodded his head and turned towards the fireplace. He only got two steps before he turned around and wrapped his godson up in a huge bear hug. "I'm glad your back Harry."

"I'm glad I'm back too Sirius."

Remus couldn't stand being on the outside so soon he gave both Sirius and Harry a bear hug. "Well, I'm glad that there is someone else to pick on Padfoot here. He's getting a little cocky."

Harry laughed. He really had missed this. "Remus, how about we go paint? You can catch me up on what's been happening for the past six years."

"Hey, what about me?" whined Sirius.

"I don't trust you to tell me, you'll go on and on in detail about Quiddich, which I already know about, and then you'll tell me things I really don't want to know. I can trust Remus to give me the honest story about what I want to know."

"Fine. I'm going to go see my goddaughter-in-law. To be," he quickly added. He huffed his way to the fireplace only to apperate right in front of it.

"Does he do that often?" Harry asked shaking his head at his godfather's weird (weirder than normal) behavior.

"Only when he's happy and excited. It really is good to have you back Harry," Remus said.

"I am really sorry that I just ran away like that. I felt so ashamed." "You don't have to explain to us. Let's just move forward to the next chapter of our lives and forget about what happened."

"Sounds like a plan."