A/N: Hello everyone! New chapter as promised! (unlike my other story, sorry to anyone who reads that one, next chapter is coming I swear) I guess I'll answer reviews at the bottom this time so that people who want to skip them can. Also, if you haven't done it yet, please go read "I Wanna Puppy" It is the prequel to this and you'll get kind of confused in a few chapters if you don't read it. So, for both stories; read and review!

After dinner was set on the table, Kate turned to Remus and wrapped her arms around his neck. She gave him a quick kiss on the lips and looked adoringly into his amber eyes.

Remus gave her a goofy grin. "Hello beautiful, fancy meeting you here." He said right before he kissed her back.

Kate's eyes were dark with passion, she gave a weak sigh and moved her hands to straighten his shirt. "I think you should get Sirius before we get out of hand."

Remus gave a pouty look worthy of a first year Hufflepuff. "Please Kate." He pleaded in between brushing light kisses across her face. "Please, please, please..." She stepped away but he dropped to his knees and began in a dramatic voice "Being around you is addictive. I need you, I want you, I can't go on without you." He threw himself at her knees and wrapped them in a hug in an act of exaggerated melodrama. She laughed hysterically but he continued. "You are warmer than the warmest sunshine, you are softer than a sigh, you are brighter than the brightest star that shines every night above." As he ended his silly declaration, he leaned back and brushed a stray hair from his eyes. He then flashed her a charming smile.

Kate giggled, "You will not win this one, even with the cunning use of Petula Clark." He gazed at her with puppy dog eyes and she shoved him playfully. "Come on, you know we have to eat sometime tonight." she gently admonished.

"Fine" he huffed as he got up off the floor and stuck his tongue out at her. He winked at her as he left to head down the hall. Remus entered the guest room and saw Sirius wasn't there. He went to Paige's room and knocked on the door.

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Sirius hesitated outside her door for a minute before knocking. She didn't answer, not that he expected her to so he went in. Surprisingly, she was wearing a pair of wire-rimmed glasses, something Sirius never thought she'd have, and was sitting at her desk, quill in one hand, and parchment in the other. She held up her parchment to get a good look at it for a minute, intent on ignoring him.

Sirius closed the door and leaned against it. "Paige, can we talk?" he asked in a quiet voice. She set her jaw and Sirius knelt down in front of her. "I'm sorry, love. I lost my temper a bit. I guess I just need to work on my patience level."

Paige's resolve crumbled and she set the quill and parchment down. She turned to face him and responded, "Yes, you do."

Sirius took her hands into his own and looked into her eyes. "I just want to know what's bothering you, Paige."

She opened her mouth to answer when there was a knock at the door. Instead she said, "Yes, come in."

Remus opened the door and smiled. "Dinner's ready." Paige jumped up and all but ran out of the room.

He watched her leave and looked at his friend, concerned. "What's wrong, Padfoot?"

Sirius sighed. "I don't quite know." He stood up and straightened his clothes.

Remus gave him a reassuring smile. "Well, things will work out for you, they always do."

Sirius nodded. "I certainly hope so. Let's go eat."

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Dinner was a relatively quiet affair. Paige was very tense and only spoke when asked a question. Sirius was silent and picked at his food. Kate and Remus made quiet conversation discussing possible contacts but seemed somewhat distracted by one another. At one point, Paige mumbled under her breath for them to stop acting like teenagers.

After they finished with dinner, Kate and Remus headed to the kitchen to clean up, leaving Paige and Sirius to talk this over. Paige returned to her room without saying a word to Sirius, who just went to the living room.

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When they were finished with cleaning, Kate and Remus found Sirius sitting in an armchair. Kate turned to the animagus, "Go talk to her." she said as she pulled him out of the chair and pushed him in the direction of Paige's room.

He turned to protest but was faced with his Kate and Remus giving him matching parental glares. Sirius barked out a laugh, "Okay Mum and Dad, I will go talk to Paige." Kate stuck her tongue out at him as he disappeared into the hallway.

Remus chuckled and watched as Kate pulled out a box of tarot cards and set them on the table. "You know how to play?" she enquired.

He gave her a playful smile, "Why as a matter of fact, I do...Oh wait, you meant cards." He laughed and ran his fingers through his hair. "Yes. I know how to play though it has been a while."

"Good, then I stand a chance." She smirked. "Basic rules, take the fool through the major arcana cards to achieve the world." Kate said as she laid the cards out on the table. At one point in the game Jack called, but Kate quickly answered his question and the pair continued to play in companionable silence.

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Sirius knocked on Paige's door and went in without waiting for a response. "So, are you going to tell me what is bothering you?"

Paige was sitting on her bed and looked like she had been crying. She wiped her eyes and shrugged. "Um, I don't know."

Sirius closed the door and leaned on it. He crossed his arms and asked, "Oh really?" Paige looked away and nodded. "Well then, Paige, if you won't tell me why you're mad at me then I'll go somewhere else so that you don't have to talk to me."

Sirius was about to leave when Paige whispered, "It's not about you."

He quirked an eyebrow at her, "Oh really, then what is it about? You certainly seem to be taking it out on me, whatever it is."

Paige whipped her head around and glared at him. "You don't know what you're talking about, Sirius. If I'm being such a bitch, why are you trying to talk to me? You don't have to, you know. I get along just fine by myself."

Sirius sighed. "If you want me to leave, I will. All you have to do is tell me so. Do you want me to?" Paige wiped her eyes again and shook her head and Sirius sighed. "Then what do you want me to do, Paige?"

She gave him a sad half smile. "Would you just comfort me for a little while?"

Sirius walked over to the bed and sat down next to her. She shuddered when he out his arms around her and he pulled her in tight. Paige sighed gratefully and Sirius kissed her forehead. "What is it? Would you at least tell me what bothered you? That way I won't do it again."

Paige gave a soft, embarrassed laugh. "I don't really know how to tell you."

Sirius responded, "Well, how about just being straight forward like you normally are? I rather like that about you, you know."

Paige sighed and gathered her thoughts. "Well," she stated. "I guess it's because I'm kind of confused about us. I mean, I like everything just fine, but I've never had any sort of relationship that started out like this. I'm not just talking about long-term, although I haven't really had very many of those, I'm talking about one-night stands too."

Sirius knit his brow. "What do you mean? Are you telling me that you don't have feelings for me?"

Paige shook her head. "No, that's not it at all. I mean we've started off so abrupt, you know? Everything just seemed to go so fast."

Sirius finally understood. "Oh, okay. I guess that's mainly my fault."

Paige nudged him. "If there's any fault in that it's our fault, not just yours."

Sirius shrugged. "Well, I'm the one who's not quite practiced in how to treat a woman like you. I've been in Azkaban too long, my skills have dwindled." Paige laughed and nestled into his neck. Sirius laid his head on hers and continued. "I need to know what you want me to do to make you feel better. Do you want us to back down somewhat?"

Paige nodded. "I guess so. I just don't want things to move so fast that they end up not working out. That happens to me pretty often and I like you a lot."

Sirius smiled and ran his fingers through her hair. "I understand. I like you a lot, too."

Paige pulled her head up and grinned. "Really?" Sirius nodded and she went back to his neck. "Good, 'cause Jack would have a fit if you lied. He gets kind of protective of me. At least I don't have it as bad as Kate. He gets completely psycho over her."

Sirius laughed. "I'll bet. Well then, I've got to tell Remus. He'll want to know something like that."

Paige giggled. "Naw, let him find out on his own. It's funnier that way. Besides, he's a big boy, he can very well take care of himself."

Sirius shrugged, jostling Paige from his shoulder. She sat up and wrinkled her nose at him and he grinned. "Oops, sorry about that."

Paige folded her arms across her chest and sniffed. "Yeah right, that's why you're smiling." Sirius tried to give her a sympathetic frown and she shoved him. She laughed and gave him a playful glare. "You prat. Hey, you want to see some pictures?"

Sirius nodded and Paige pulled out a huge album and sat back down. She opened it up to reveal various pictures of her and Kate. "This one," she pointed to a picture of Kate in a sombrero, "is from when we went to Mexico. Jack got caught doing something he wasn't supposed to and we had to spend five hours bailing him out of jail." Sirius laughed, imagining what Jack could have done to get himself jail time. Paige pointed to another one, this time of her hugging a little boy while he laughed at a big dog circling around him. "This is my nephew, Corbin. Isn't he cute? He'll be five next month. That's Rose circling around us."

She turned the page and indicated a huge photograph of people standing around a woman in a bridal gown. "This is my sister, Elizabeth, at her wedding. You wouldn't believe how much work went in to gathering all of us for this shot."

Sirius smiled and realized how much Page looked like her sister. "So, where are you in this?"

Paige blushed slightly. "I'm not telling. I look stupid."

Sirius gave her a look and responded, "Oh come on. I promise I won't laugh."

Paige pouted for a second and weighed the sincerity of his words. She gave a resigned sigh and pointed to a girl with brown hair, braces, and the ugliest powder blue dress Sirius had ever seen. His eyebrows went up and he stifled a chuckle. Paige smacked his arm and gave him a dirty look. "You aren't supposed to do that. You promised! I look stupid."

Sirius conceded that with a nod. "Well," he said, "The head full of ringlets does make you look like a poodle." He couldn't stop a laugh when Paige glared at him.

She turned the page and barely concealed a smile. "Shut up."

Sirius noticed many of the same people standing around an old man in a wheel chair with a huge birthday cake in front of him. He was trying to blow out the candles, many of which kept re-igniting while everyone looked on and laughed. He pointed to it and asked, "Who are all of these people?"

Paige smiled. "These are all of my aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, and sisters standing around my great-grandfather at his 125th birthday party. Poor guy, I used trick candles. It's hard enough trying to blow out 125 candles, but when I made them trick ones..." She laughed softly and shook her head. "It cost a lot to buy that many, too."

Sirius picked her out of the crowd of people. She was laughing the hardest of all of them, along with a girl who looked quite tired. "Who's that?"

Paige giggled. "That's my cousin, Susan. She and I stayed up all night rigging my brother's car to sing 'I feel pretty' whenever he passed a group of girls. I'm glad I paid attention in Charms."

Sirius laughed and filed that idea away for future use. "Merlin! How did you think that one up?" Paige giggled harder.

"We had just watched West Side Story and thought it up. He was so mad when he found out what we did." She yawned and stretched, reminding Sirius of her cat form.

He stood up. "Well, I think I'll go to bed. We have both had a long day and Kate wanted to get started on those contacts tomorrow." Sirius made a mental note to ask Paige more about her family in the morning.

Paige nodded and stood up on her bed. She grabbed his shoulders and placed a small kiss on his lips before getting off the bed and disappearing in her closet. She rummaged around for a minute and pulled out a pair of flannel footie pajamas. She smiled at Sirius and said, "I do like sleeping in the same bed as you, but under the circumstances, I'll just have to see you in the morning."

Sirius nodded. "Right. I'll be up early so I'll knock you up around eight?"

Paige smiled, "Sounds good."

He hadn't had much at dinner as he had been thinking about the way Paige was acting, so he went out into the kitchen and got something to eat.

After he had finished two bowls of Fesenjan and rice, he looked in the fridge for something to drink. He found the stuff Paige had that night at dinner, something called Vernors. Deciding it was worth a try, he opened a can and took a sip and immediately started coughing. He held the can up to read the ingredients, a lot of stuff that he didn't even know how to pronounce much less know what they were. He thought for a minute and decided to try again. He held his breath as he brought it up to his lips, when he didn't start coughing he sipped some. Again, he started coughing. He tried to look inside the can, but he couldn't see much.

Sirius went out into the living room and looked at Kate. "How on Earth does Paige drink this stuff? I can't stop coughing."

Kate looked up from her cards. "Which stuff?"

Sirius held up the can of soda. "This stuff. Vernons, or whatever it's called."

Kate smiled at Sirius over her cards, "It's Vernors. You inhaled didn't you? The trick is not to inhale right before you drink."

Sirius nodded and took a drink then smiled at her. "Wow, this is pretty good stuff, once you know how to drink it."

Sirius thanked her and said his goodnights to both of them, before turning to head back to the guestroom.

He paused and looked at Kate, "Do you want me to knock you up in the morning so we can get an early start?"

Kate startled for a moment and looked up from the game. "Pardon?"

"Do you want me to knock you in the morning?" he repeated.

Kate blushed and glanced at Remus. "Do I want him to knock me up in the morning?"

Remus smiled, "Sounds lovely. Sirius, you can knock me up as well."

Sirius grinned. "Great."

Kate swallowed hard. "Are you going to be knocking Paige up as well?"

Remus noticed the color draining from Kate's face. "Is something wrong, dear?"

Kate gave a vague nod and started to gather the cards for the night, either she was losing it or knocking up meant something other than to be knocked up. She gave a wane smile "Remus, why can't you just knock me up in the morning?"

Remus blushed, "Well, I assumed I would be sleeping in your room again. If not, I'm sure I could knock you up in the morning."

Kate froze for a minute as a feral voice in the back of her head snickered, Come February you could take him up on that offer.

She worried her lip in thought for a moment, and finally asked "What does knocking some one up entail?" Sirius and Remus looked at her as if she were quite mad for a moment. Kate continued, "It's just after the misunderstanding over 'pants', I think I'm a bit confused."

Sirius gave a short laugh. "It means that I'll knock on your door and wake you up. Is there a reason you would rather I not wake you up Kate? Would I be walking in on something?" He gave her a big smile and winked.

Kate blushed and shyly replied. "No, that's fine, thank you." Sirius nodded and headed down the hall.

Sirius was almost to the guest room when he turned and went back to the threshold to the frontroom. "Kate, just out of curiosity, what does it mean here?"

Kate averted her eyes from Sirius's gaze. "It means to impregnate someone." She stammered out, while quickly fixing her gaze on the coffee table.

Sirius barked out an incredulous laugh in the hall and went almost as red as Kate. He cast a sidelong glance at Remus and shrugged. "Well, I'll leave that decision up to you and my counterpart. Goodnight."

"Good night" she replied.

Remus was amused and wished Sirius goodnight again then helped Kate gather the cards. The pair then took their potion and retired for the night.

A/N: Goodnight Clementine, goodnight Pa, goodnight Jebediah.... Oh sorry.

Lightning Rain: Once again you stole my duck. But since I now have another one, I'll forgive you this little indiscretion. So, you want us to fight over dickies? Sounds to me like you're reading the wrong fic! I don't do that stuff here. :p

Surfergurl: Yeah, that was half. We were giong over it and found that it was 23 pages long. We thought that 14 was a much better number.

Sassafrass: No, Jack knows exactly who he is. This takes place in '96 so he hasn't seen the movie... yet. I'll make Prof write a short story depicting that scene. I can just see it now...

"He stole my name! That bloody git! That's my line!!!!"

We did, however, base him partially off of Jack Sparrow, so you were half right. 

Okay everybody, now please review. All it takes is a little click and something as short as "I like your story" to make my day. (No, really, you can ask Rosi and Prof, I spend all day being happy about it.)