A/N: Show of hands, who thought James' owl's name was Singapore pronto until after James got Sirius' letter?

Sirius approached the Potter's house. 'Call this a house? More like mansion.' The wolf scratched at him trying to break through his barriers to the surface. 'I swear if I were to die right now and they were to look at the inside of my skull they would find claw marks from you.' The wolf snorted and lay down. Sirius knocked on the door and waited. He heard a skid and crash from inside the house. The large oak door was flung open to reveal James. He was a bit dazed looking. "What'd you run into?" Sirius asked. "The door." James answered. If it had been anyone else he would have flushed but since it was Sirius he didn't. Both cracked up before James pulled Sirius into a tight hug. Sirius yelped and James pulled away. "What's wrong?" A concerned look washed over his face. Before Sirius could answer Mrs. Potter came to the door. "James who's at the door?" She stopped when she saw Sirius. "You must be young Sirius Black. James has told us about you." Sirius found the porch very interesting. "Mrs. Potter," He started. "Oh call me Brigit, Mrs. Potter makes me feel old." She smiled. "You're a healer right?" Brigit's smile fell. "You're not hurt are you?" Her mother instincts came bubbling to the surface. "I think I may have a few cracked ribs." He didn't know why but he trusted Brigit Potter immediately. "James pull his trunk inside. Sirius go sit on the couch while I grab my medical kit." Sirius stepped inside and looked around. "Whoa." He said as he saw how big each room was. Upon finding the living room he sat down. James entered the room followed by his mom. "Alright dear I'm going to have to ask you to remove your shirt." After Brigit said this Sirius looked away and bit his lower lip.

"What's wrong?" She asked him. "I have a lot of scars." Sirius said quietly. He didn't want his best friend's mom to see the scars, weather they be self-inflicted or not. She thought that he must have some pretty bad looking scars to be this self conscious about them. Brigit pulled out her wand and muttered a spell. "There now I won't see them." Sirius thanked her and pulled off his long sleeve muggle shirt. A few bruises were as plain as Lily's hair was red. The ribs weren't cracked they were broken; it was now obvious by the odd angle in his chest and noticeable labored breathing. "Sirius what happened? These are broken not cracked." Brigit was surprised that Sirius couldn't feel that they were broken, either that or he told the half-truth because something bad happened. "I don't really want to talk about it." Brigit let it drop but gave James a look that was screaming 'find out what happened.'

Just as Brigit was finished healing Sirius a thumping could be heard from the staircase. Sirius snapped his head around and almost gave himself whiplash. Feet were they only visible body part of the person coming down the stairs. Sirius growled softly. His eyes began to slowly go to liquid gold. "Julie either come down all the way or stay up there." James yelled. "Who?" Sirius asked. "Sister." James rolled his eyes. Julie came down stairs but froze with her mouth hanging open. The three kids sat and stared at each other, Brigit had left before Julie made it downstairs. "James can we go, Julie's getting little droplets of drool." Sirius asked quietly. "Yeah let's go. Now." Sirius and James got up and sprinted to James' room. "Uh James?" Sirius said leaning against the door. "Yeah?" James asked flopping onto his bed. "Were am I sleeping and my trunk, cat and owl are still downstairs." Sirius came and sat down. "Not to mention my shirt and I kinda need that if we want to go downstairs and not have to worry about Julie." James whistled shrilly. In a poof of smoke there was a house elf. "Missy can you and some others bring Sirius's trunk, owl, and cat to the guest room across the hall. Oh and send his shirt up to." James asked her. "Missy will do sirs. Missy is good house elf." Another poof of smoke and a small crack and Missy was gone. "Wait for it." There was a loud crack and then a smaller crack. A house elf bowed and set the now folded shirt on the bed.

Remus was reading when he heard a crash in the living room. He got up and went to said room. "Sirius?" The person that came through the fireplace looked at him. "I hate floo powder." Sirius smiled after brushing the soot off of him. "Maman! Sirius est ici! (Mama! Sirius is here!)" Remus yelled to his mother in French. "Oh il est, me laisser recevoir votre père et frère. (Oh he is, let me get your father and brother.)" Sirius stood there with a confused look on his face. "Was zum Teufel sagen Sie Rem? (What the hell are you saying Rem?)" Not knowing German Remus said: "One more time...in English." "What the hell are you saying Rem." Sirius repeated. "You must be Sirius." A plump woman said rounding the corner into the living room. "Hello Mrs. Lupin, yes I am Sirius." Sirius bowed slightly to her. "Ooh poli et élégant. (Ooh polite and handsome.)" Remus was thankful Sirius didn't know French. "Maman!" Remus yelled. "Oh Remus you mother is just playing." A tall pale-ish man walked into the room. "Hello Mr. Lupin." Mr. Lupin shook the offered hand. "Where's Romulus?" Mrs. Lupin asked. "Backyard." Mr. Lupin replied. "I guess you'll meet him later." She said and turned to Remus. "Remus show him were he sleeps and the you can do what ever."

Mrs. Lupin watched from her bedroom window as the two boys in the backyard screamed in pain of the transformation. Each piercing cry turned to a wolfish howl. The large black/gray 1 wolf dog through back his head and gave an irate cry. The smaller gray/brown 2 snarled at it. Suddenly they were clawing and biting each other. Mrs. Lupin cried out for her husband as the black bit down hard on the brown's ruff.

Moony rolled Padfoot off and stood above him. Using an old trick Padfoot pushed all four of his paws against Moony's throat. Moony back off of him but didn't give up the fight. Padfoot slammed his shoulder into Moony's, knocking Moony from his feet. Standing over him Padfoot bit down on Moony's muzzle and gave it a rough shake. After being let up Moony tucked his tail between his legs, lowered his body to the ground and licked Padfoot's muzzle. Happy with the submission Padfoot wagged his tail and set off towards the forest. Moony followed him.

Mrs. Lupin looked out the window 2 minutes before sunrise. She saw the two wolves uncurled themselves and stretched. Then the howls became screams as the wolves changed to boys. Quickly she grabbed her Wolf's Aid kit and went to the back yard. She went to work on Sirius first and then Remus. Sirius yawned. Mrs. Lupin suppressed a gasp when she saw how long his canines were. "You boys should go to bed, I'll wake you in a bit."

1 Sirius' coat is black with gray hairs thrown in. 2 Gray is the dominate color in Remus' coat but has brown in it.