Disclaimer: Ah the usual. This chapter though, some characters and plots are thanks to Mystic Weirdo and Roxy Lupin. Read their fics!!

A/N: Need reviews! And I don't really like this chapter as much as I like some of my other work. It gives too much away. Oh well.

Chapter 3: The best birthday present ever

It was, like always just after Midnight on July 31st. Harry had never fallen asleep, he never did on his birthday, but this time for a different reason. He had stayed up thinking about what Cedric had said in his letter about Cho. As he glanced at his clock, he noticed that it was 12:10 in the morning.

'Happy Birthday, Harry' He thought '16 years old and, with my luck, the Dursley's are probably going to go to a theme park and leave me behind.'

Then he decided that he should get some sleep for the day ahead. Aunt Petunia would probably make him clean the whole house as a birthday present.

Harry woke up the next morning from a bloodcurdling scream that was no doubtedly by Aunt Petunia. Before she could call him down, Harry quickly got changed and went downstairs where he heard Uncle Vernon screaming bloody murder. Harry, still no clue what was going on, advanced forward, but stopped abruptly when he heard his aunt screech "L-l-l-l-l-Lily? James? And who the hell are you?" Then Harry came storming down the stairs and whispered,

"Mum? Dad?" and as they came forward to embrace Harry, he noticed who was behind them and cried, "Sirius!!!!!" and, completely ignoring his parents ran into his Godfather's outstretched arms.

"Sirius! How did you get back?"

"Well, before I answer that" Sirius said, "I think you should give your parent's a proper 'Hello.' They've missed you so much, Harry"

And with that, Harry went over to Lily and James a little awkwardly, because he scarcely knew them, and went into his arms.

"Harry, darling, we've missed you so much." Cried Lily "I am so sorry that we couldn't come back sooner, but we really wanted to. Oh, look how much he looks like you James! He even has the hair that was never neat. I bet he has your talent in Quidditch, too. Oh Harry!" Lily started crying right then leaning on James's shoulder.

"What do you mean, you couldn't come back sooner?" Harry said uncertainly. He was still shocked that his parents were there after being dead all those years. "Couldn't you have just left like Cedric did?"

"Well, you see Harry" James started, sounding just like Harry "It's not as simple as it seems. You see, first off it's hard enough to find the porthole to get out. Luckily though, Sirius knew right were it was because he fell through it. But, when you're killed by You-Know-Who himself, it's even harder. We had to wait for a true friend to guide us out. That's where Sirius came in. When he fell through the porthole, the first thing he did was look for me and your Mum. Once he did find us, we couldn't find out way back to the porthole. We did find it eventually, though. But when we came out, we figured we'd go find Remus, just as kind of an, ahem, get together with the Marauders. Of course Wormtail wasn't originally going to be there because he knew we would have should I say, ratted him out to the ministry, and he was perfectly aware of that ever since your 3rd year. It was quite a shock to all of us when he did show up and . . . Sirius, do you want to take it from here?" James asked. Harry glanced over at Sirius and noticed that he was beaming.

"I'd love to Prongs" was Sirius's reply. "Well, when Peter did come, we all cornered him.

"'Peter' Remus had said 'if you even think of turning into a rat again we swear to squash you' with that Peter whimpered into the corner.

"'Get him' I yelled before he could do anything, so the four of us, Remus, your Mum and Dad, and me all grabbed gin so if he did turn into his rat form, there'd be no way he could escape.

"From there, we took him to the Ministry of Magic, where everyone was shocked to see me, I'll tell ya.

"'Seize Him' Fudge had screamed.

"'Wait!' I had called before they could do anything. 'Why don't you just question Pettigrew here to see what he has to say?' By then, he had turned into his rat form, but Remus was still holding onto him for dear life. 'Go on Peter, change back so everyone cam see who you really are.'

"At first, he didn't, but when Remus tightened his grip a little, he did. The whole Ministry gaped at him. From there, Peter told the story about how he was the Secret-Keeper and how he wiped out the whole street. After hearing that, Fudge cleared my name and I was free,"

Sirius concluded with a little emphasis on free. Harry had noticed that Sirius couldn't keep a straight face through the whole story. This all seemed too good to be true to Harry. His parents and Sirius were alive, and Sirius was, at last, cleared. Harry pinched himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

"Does this mean I can't call you Snuffles anymore?" Harry smirked. James on the other hand, snorted.

"You mean you want to…WHAT?" Sirius asked James, who was still snorting.

"Snuffles! How the hell did you get that, Padfoot?" said James trying to suppress his laughter.

"He does have a point, Snuffles " Chimed Lily, who was now laughing as opposed to crying.

"Not to be intruding to your, err, chat, but I hade a dream that you went to see Lupin a the Shrieking Shack when he was a werewolf. What about that?" asked Harry.

"Oh yeah, the night we went to see Remus, it was a full moon. So we waited a few days." Replied Sirius.

"Well then, why didn't you come see me instead?"

"Because we thought that, since it was so close to your birthday, we'd give you the best birthday present ever." James answered

"Well I can't disagree with you on that one." Harry said, glancing at the Dursley's. Petunia and Dudley were crouched in the corner, while Vernon was giving him threatening looks.

"Err – I guess I should get back to my chores then." Harry said finally, afraid of Vernon's look. "Bye err Mum, Dad, Snuffles."

James cracked up again as Lily said "Oh no you don't. You're coming back to Godric's Hollow with me and your Dad. Oh for the love of god James, would you give Snuffles a break?" But Lily was trying really hard not to smile when she said that.

"Really?" asked Harry. This has to be a dream, I'm finally moving away from the Dursley's he thought. "Well I should go pack."

"Already done," Sirius said " Accio Trunk " and Harry's trunk came right to Sirius. "All right, lets head out."

"Ok, let's go!" chimed in Harry.

"Welcome home Harry" Lily whispered. Harry couldn't believe his eyes! His new home was two floors high, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and even a study room for Harry to do his homework in. It was better than he imagined! As Harry went from room to room looking at everything that was there, Lily and James unpacked Harry's stuff. "Wow, he has the map and my cloak" James exclaimed in a soft tone.

"He still has that old map?" Lily asked

"Yup, and it still works too!" James answered, " I solemnly swear I am up to no good, " he said as he pointed his wand at the map.

"Well, that's the understatement of the year" Lily answered

"All right!" Sirius Cried "He's taking the path of the Marauders!!!!"

"Sirius, you are unbelievable" James sighed.

"Yup, and Pizza is yummy. Now that you think of it, Pizza's greasy, just like Snape, except Snape's not tasty or good. Hey I've just learned something!"

"WOW!" James cried "Are you sure your brain can handle it, Snuffles?" He burst out laughing again.

"Hey Jamsey, I bet Lil would like to know that you slept with your teddy bear, what was his name? Oh yeah Mr. Squiggly Wiggly, until 5th year!"

"Aww, isn't Jamsey such a cutesy? James, my Mr. Squiggly Wiggly." Lily cooed. Before James could get Sirius back, the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it!" Sirius said as an excuse to get away from James who was about ready to strike him. As soon as Sirius opened the door, James and Lily heard a clunk, as Sirius must have "fainted." After he got up (about 5 seconds later) he said "KAYLIA? Is that really you?"

As Lily and James went over to see what had happened, they saw in the doorway a girl about 28 years old with brown wavy hair and auburn highlights elbow length and pale blue eyes that looked as if you could see her soul. She was about 5 foot 7 with a nice tan on her thin body, and a beautiful flirty smile.

"Unless you don't want it to be, yup it is." The girl, whose name apparently was Kaylia, said.

"Hang on," James butted in "Kaylia, as in the Kaylia that was practically Sirius's sister?"

"Nope," Kaylia said sarcastically. "The other one!"

"Kay, what happened? Why didn't you come back to Hogwarts in 4th year?"

"Well" Kay started "I was in Azkaban for the last 15 years."

"Since you were 12?" Lily exclaimed

"Well it all started when . . ."

Flashback

"What's wrong, Kaylia?" a young girl, probably about 4 years old, asked.

"Not now Adriatic, just go hide, I'll explain everything later" I answered "If there is a later" I added under my breath.

"But, sis!" She started "Where's Mummy and daddy?"

"Not NOW Adriatic!" I snarled, "Just hide and be quite for the love of God!"

"Oh no, shoot!" I cursed silently as the Magical Law Enforcement Squad came to the door. "Not now, anytime but now." They went to cuff me as I heard Adriatic scream "BIG SISTER!!!"

"NO!" I screamed, trying to convince them that I wasn't taking my parents footsteps "I'M NOT LIKE THEM!!!! I'M DIFFERENT!!!! I NEED TO STAY TO WATCH ADRIATIC!!!! NO YOU CANT TAKE ME!!!"

End Flashback

"I never knew!" Lily whispered.

"That's deep!" Sirius said. "Swimming pools are deep, and if you fill them with peanut butter, they taste yummy! But then you couldn't go swimming in them, because you'd get really sticky!"

"Sirius, you have a way of ruining every deep moment, don't you?" Kaylia sighed, but then laughed. "That's why I love you, though, isn't it?"

"Yup, I'm your Sirius, no one else's!" Before Kaylia could say anything else, Remus, and an unfamiliar looking girl to Sirius, James, and Lily came in. She had shoulder length, natural auburn hair with natural red streaks. Her eyes were dark brown, with dark, black, long eyelashes. She was short, only about 5'1, average weight, with a beautiful tan, and beautiful, full lips that were always smiling.

"Hello, everyone," Remus started. "I'd like you to meet…"

"Camellia!" Kaylia finished for him.

"You've met?" Remus asked

"Well, Remy," Camellia said, "She's my cousin and best friend. Where were you all those years? I came across your sister not too long ago, and she didn't even know!"

"You've seen Adriatic? Where is she?" Kay cried

"Actually, she's going to be working as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and, if I remember correctly, she wanted you to help her." Camilla explained. Kaylia screamed, causing Harry to come down to see what was wrong.

"Whaaaa?" Harry said absent-mindedly, but as he saw Camilla and Kaylia he asked

"Who the hell are these people? They aren't like aunts are they?"

"No Harry dear" Lily said, mortifying Harry. "This is Kaylia" She pointed to Kaylia, who had stopped screaming and was now flirting with Sirius, "And this is Camilla" She concluded pointing to Camellia who was snuggling on Remus's shoulder, as he stroked her hair.

"Err, ya, I'm going back to my room, so you can do… whatever it was you were doing." Harry said as he went back to his room.

"Omigod! You two are married?" Kaylia exclaimed pointing to Lily and James. "That's GREAT!! I've always thought that you were the perfect couple. James, your son looks just like you!"

"Yup!" Sirius chimed in "And I was their best man!" He concluded proudly

"Oh, so you know all about marriages, don't you?" Kay replied.

"Yup!" Was Sirius's answer. "Are you planning on having one soon?"

"Eventually" Kaylia answered kissing Sirius lightly on the cheek.

"C'mon, is that the best you've got?" Sirius asked.

"Well, I wouldn't want Harry to come back down and see us." Before Sirius could say anything in response to that, he was distracted to the corner where Remus and Camellia were flirting like mad. James looked over and, sick of their small talk, "accidentally" pushed Remus right up to Camellia. Remus took that as a hint and went over to kiss Camellia tenderly on the lips.

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Sirius swooned. "Camellia and Remus sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!!!!!"

Remus broke away from the kiss saying, "Shut up Sirius, or else you'll be the one sitting in the tree! Literally!"

"Oh, is that a threat?" Sirius asked mockingly "Oh I'm so scared!"

"Chill, Siri" Kay said. "Hey, Lily. Do you mind if I bunk here tonight? It's a long way back to my place."

"Ya sure, Kay" Lily answered.

"Ya, can I too?" Camellia asked. Eventually it turned out that everyone bunked at Godric's Hollow for the night.

A/N. Hey, I said that it was going to be long. And I was right! YAY!! SIRIUS IS ALIVE!!!!!!!! Of course he was going to be. I love him. Yeah – I'm not proud of this chapter AT ALL!! But I promised myself that I WOULDN'T change any of it. I'm afraid to read it again. IT just sucks so bad.

So – if you wanna stop reading it – please just DON'T FLAME!! I'm begging you! I wrote this last year – when I was young and stupid.