Disclaimer: Third chapter! The song 'Here Comes The Sun' belongs to the Beatles.
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Gains and Losses
Chapter 3
Years Since It's Been Clear
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Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right
Little darling
It's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right
A couple of hours later Romulus woke up and Remus took him back home. Sirius stayed with Harry and stroked the boy's hair as he slept. He was so cute.
At around four o'clock James finally got back from his auror duties. He put his cloak away and joined Sirius and Harry on the couch.
"Um… James, I have something very important to tell you," said Sirius.
"Okay, what?"
"I want you to change secret keepers"
"Why? What's wrong with you?"
"I'm just not sure that I trust myself anymore. Voldemort will suspect me to be your secret keeper and force me to tell about your whereabouts. I want you to use Wormtail, Voldemort would never think that he was your secret keeper"
"Wormtail! He's practically a squib and he's the weakest thing I've ever met. What help would he be?"
"That's exactly it! Voldemort would never expect someone as weak as him to be the secret keeper."
"I don't think that's a very good idea Padfoot"
"Prongs this is your life we're talking about! Wormtail is perfect! You'll be safe with him"
"Okay, okay, we'll do it"
"Good! Now you can't breath a word about this to anyone, not even Dumbledore, or even Moony. We'll tell Lils when she gets back from her party"
The next few minutes were silent, the Harry began to stir. The sight was so cute. Harry slowly opened his eyes and pulled his thumb out of his mouth. His eyes filled with confusion when he saw that James was there.
Sirius ruffled his hair and smiled affectionately.
"Good afternoon Pup!" Sirius said
"Daddy!" yelled the child
Harry threw his arms around Sirius' neck and kissed him on the cheek. Sirius looked over at James. He was wearing a look of shock, hurt, and most of all, fury.
"James…" Sirius started
Sirius let go of Harry and quickly got to his feet. James did the same. Sirius was about to speak but James pushed him to the floor.
"What are you telling my son, that you're his father?"
Sirius jumped up, though rather dizzy.
"James, I would never do that, I swear!"
James didn't care. He punched Sirius in the face, giving him a black eye. He pulled back his arm once more and punched Sirius on the side of the head. Sirius' eyes rolled back into his head and he fell to the floor like a rag doll. He was unconscious.
James immediately regretted what he had just done, what Harry said had been an accident. He dropped down to his knees next to Sirius and began taping him on his cheeks.
"Come on Siri, I'm sorry, please wake up!"
When nothing happened James picked Sirius up, with a lot of trouble, and laid him down on the couch. Harry threw his arms around his neck and cried into his shoulder. Miraculously, that's all it took to wake him up.
Sirius weakly opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Harry. A huge smile appeared on his face.
"Seewee!" yelled Harry happily with a huge smile on his face.
James came closer to the couch and sat down on the edge next to Sirius. He gave Sirius a guilty look.
"Sirius, I am so sorry! I shouldn't have hit you"
"It's ok you were mad. I would have done the same if my son called someone else daddy"
"You don't have a son"
"Well if I did have a son I'd do that"
Harry suddenly poked Sirius' eye, causing him to flinch.
"Seewee poople eye" said Harry
"What did he just say?" Sirius asked James
"He said that you have a purple eye"
Sirius pulled a small mirror out of his pocket and checked his eyes. He noticed that his right eye was rapidly swelling and was a dark shade of purple.
"That's a big one," gasped Sirius
"I'll get you some ice," said James
James ran into the kitchen. He emerged a couple of minute later holding a bag of ice. Sirius took the bag from him and held it to his eye. He noticed that Harry was staring at him with a sad look on his face.
"Harry, what's wrong?"
"Pafoo okay?"
Sirius smiled.
"Of course I'm okay, it's just a bruise, it'll go away"
Harry was about to respond but was interrupted by someone knocking on the door. James went to answer it. It was Lily. Lily walked in and kissed James. The she ran over to Harry and pulled him into a hug.
"Mommy!" yelled Harry
Lily ruffled Harry's hair and turned to Sirius. She raised an eyebrow.
"What happened to your eye?" she asked
"James punched me,"
"Why?"
Sirius and James began to explain what had happened. James hopped that Lily wouldn't be mad about him hitting Sirius.
"Aw that's so cute"
Suddenly Sirius remembered. He needed to tell Lily about the secret keeper switch.
"Lily I me and James have to tell you something"
Sirius and James told her about Sirius' idea to use Peter as secret keeper. She gave Sirius the same reaction as James but in the end she agreed.
"Now I just need to get Peter over here" said Sirius
Sirius quickly scribbled a note on piece of parchment and handed it over to Odranoel, the Potter's owl. The owl left at full speed. About ten minute later Peter arrived, he seemed very exited. He shooed Sirius out of the house.
Sirius rode his motorbike home. As soon he got inside he changed into some comfortable clothes and went to bed. He tried to fall asleep but he couldn't, something didn't fell right. He tossed and turned but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't fall asleep. He knew something was terribly wrong. He quickly grabbed his coat and drove back to the Potters.
When he arrived at the Potter he was shocked at the sight. What used to be a beautiful house was now a large pile of rubble. The dark mark was shining in the sky. Voldemort had been there.
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Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right
Little darling
The smiles returning to the faces
Little darling
I seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right
Disclaimer: Ooh cliffy. Next chapter up soon.