Ch.6 - Long Time, No See...

"You want me to forgive you, Black? Are you joking? After the way you treated me in school? Those pranks? The humiliation? Even the Shack Incident?" Sirius lowered his eyes. "After every thing you've done to me? The teasing, childhood rivalry, the nicknames, the taunting? You want my forgiveness for all of that?" everyone was holding their breath, anticipating what would happen next. Remus saw, Sirius on the brink of tears. Already anticipating rejection.

"Well... I don't think it would do any good, not to forgive you. Don't you think Black?" Severus smirked, amused, as Sirius stared at him, like he was wearing a pink tutu and dancing the ballet.

"Didn't you listen to the song I put out Sirius? Did you pat attention to the words?" Severus asked quietly.

"I - I did, but.. but I thought, you still wouldn't even forgive me. I was so horrible to you Severus..." Sirius shook his head.

"It's in the past. You were always nagging me about dropping my rivalry for James Potter, and treat his son differently. I guess I was just doing what you were doing. And that was holding onto the past. Because that was something we actually knew. And nothing would be different. Like the present. We don't know what's going to happen. If you could bring yourself to offer to forget the past, I could at least forgive you for it." Sirius walked up to Severus, and looked him in the eye.

Sirius hugged Severus so hard, he thought he'd die from lack of air. Remus started laughing at the look on Severus' face. Soon the room was echoing with laughter. When Sirius stepped back, Severus gave him his death glare, top notch. Everyone just laughed harder at that.

"Alright! You've all had your laugh! Now come on up stairs. I would like your opinion on this new song I'm writing/recording. Come on!" Severus commanded. Severus leads everyone upstairs, while Marissa silently laughed as they went. Severus lead them to his recording room. Bill had left already left. Sev sat down at the controls, and messed with the knobs and dials, then pushed a big green button (I like big buttons .). Everyone quieted as the music started. They all listened with great interest.

"I guess it's ok. But I need to work on Section 3." Severus spoke, when the music died away. "What do you guys think?"

"Well, I like it Severus. No matter what you say you have to fix. I think it sounds good." the group agreed with Remus' statement.

"Why thank you. I had wanted others input on it before I sent it to be published."

"So, Severus. Tell us, fore we are quite curious. How was it like living with Muggles?" Albus asked, eyes twinkling.

"Actually, Albus. Not much has changed. I'm still able to my magic freely, and I -"

"You mean you've been using magic? In front of Muggles?" Moody nearly screeched.

"No, Moody listen-" Severus was cut short once again, but this time by Marissa.

"Severus! Come quick! Death Eaters!!"

TBC..

A/N: dun dun dun... can you guess what happens...? I know... :-) Review pwease? And sorry for the short chapter...

P.S. um..one person reviewed that in Chapter 4, I said that Sirius wasn't Padfoot. What I meant, and I don't know if you guys understood this, but I meant that he wasn't in his animagus from...so yeah, just thought I'd let you know.