Title: Least Expected
Authors: DemonessOfPunishment and The Demonic Duo
Rating: R
Disclaimer: We do not own Harry Potter.
Summary: Sirius leaves home for an all boys school, returning later to reunite with past friends and notices an unexpected change with one Remus Lupin. It seems that the librarian's tired of being "proper" and "prudish." AU, SLASH. SBRL.
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Sirius pulled up in front of the Potter residence, and paused beside the curb. He was sitting in a brand new, black mustang. Not only did he have a new car, but he had changed so much over the eight years he was gone. He had struggled through his new life at the all-boys school and his hardship at home with his Aunt and Uncle and ever-wicked cousin, Bellatrix.

Unfortunately, she had destroyed his contact list but he was able to save the gifts and stamp collection. Those were his memories, his favorite past times as a child growing up in Gryffin Falls, he wasn't about to watch her burn them away with a Bic lighter.

Sirius was now a successful animator of two popular cartoons and was ready to take a break and move business to the nearest city to his old home. He couldn't wait to see his friends and their families after so long.

Stepping out of the vehicle, Sirius straightened his black and long-sleeved shirt nervously. He had on a nice pair of blue jeans and CAT boots, ready to rock n' roll.

He knocked on the door, taking his sunglasses off and hanging them off the collar of his shirt. Frowning crankily, Mr. Potter opened the door and stared at Sirius.

"We ain't buyin' nothing." He said, turning slowly to go inside.

Grinning, Sirius laughed.

"Well, I'm not selling anything either, pops." Sirius tilted his head innocently at the surprised stare. "It's me, Sirius Black. You remember me, right?"

"MARON!" He bellowed with a toothy grin, walking aside and using the door as support. He had shrank considerably over the years but still held himself with pride. Mr. Potter had short salt and pepper hair that completed the charactered look.

Sirius strided in afterwards, looking towards the stairs for James's mother. She stepped down the steps and into the room wearing one of her old scarlet bathrobes, Maron stopped and stared impolitely, her white hair curled loosely down her back and over her shoulders.

"Harold, who's this?" she questioned, putting her fingertips to her mouth. One of her habits when she was curious or surprised, Sirius's grin couldn't get wider.

"It's Sirius." Harold said pleasantly and Maron's eyes widened. She looked him up and down, taking in his adult figure before taking his face in her delicate hands and turning his face side to side, slowly.

"Oh, Sirius, it's been ages." She sighed brightly. "I'll go call James! You know he married that pretty Lily Evans? I couldn't have been happier!"

"No kidding?" Sirius smiled. "We'll, I'm going to guess that Bellatrix destroyed my invite, since I never got it." he grumbled.

Maron nodded. "I know he would have wanted you to be there," she said, grabbing the phone. "So, how long are you staying?"

Sirius grinned. "I'm moving back! It'll be interesting to see what's changed."

"Wonderful!" Maron giggled happily, dialing James's number. It took three times before she successfully got through.

"James, why don't you and Lily stop by? It's very important." She said, barely hiding her excitation. Harold and Sirius waited, listening to the hum of James's electronic voice. "Now, James. I mean it." she added and hung up.

She beamed at Sirius, tugging his arm and directing him into the living room. She brought out a glass of iced tea for Sirius and sat in her favorite armchair. Harold sat on the loveseat, putting his feet up on top of the olive green hassock.

"It's been what, eight years since you left?" Maron asked, leaning forward joyfully. She eyed him with motherly affection. "Oh, you've grown so much..."

Sirius smiled sheepishly, looking at his reflection in the beverage. Sirius told them about the all-boys high school he attended and the college as well. He explained his profession in the animation business briefly and shyly admitted he had no real relationship with anyone. He hadn't met anyone he was interested in, but that didn't mean he wasn't looking.

As he finished the mild synopsis of his life away from home, James and Lily entered the home and stepped into the living room. They glanced hesitantly at Sirius, wondering if he was the owner of the Mustang in the front. Gazing curiously at his parents, James looked back at Sirius.

"Um...?" He managed unintelligibly. Sirius grinned.

"Keep going James, you've almost got it." He teased, winking at Lily. "I've just heard you and Lily got married, sorry I couldn't make it to the wedding."

James blinked in realization.

"Sirius!" he breathed, staring at him. "I...damn you've changed. Where are your glasses?"

Sirius chuckled. "I bought contacts, but I have glasses too." Sirius studied James and then Lily. "You both seem pretty much the same to me, anything I should know about?

Lily shook her head. "No, no." she chirped. "We haven't gone anywhere important but college. I'm a journalist and James here is still in college to become a doctor."

Sirius nodded approvingly. "That's cool, I make cartoons for a living. I have a complete copy of the two series I made, I'll show them to you some time."

"This is so neat!" James vocalized enthusiastically, sitting down on the couch next to his father. "So, are you just visiting or are you moving back?"

Sirius cackled. "I'm here for good and not even my mother can get rid of me, again." he quipped.

The group of friends stared at one another, taking every bit of past information in.

"So where's Remus and Peter?" Sirius finally inquired, pushing his surprisingly long hair over his shoulder absent-mindedly. Lily gasped, ignoring the question and staring at his hair in awe.

"It's good to know you learned how to use a brush, Sirius!" She said. "I'm surprised it's, well, so long!"

His countenance glowed in mild embarrassment and pride. He touched his hair again, glancing up at James and Lily.

"I like it long, and my cousin buzzed my hair before the private school," Sirius sighed, running his fingers through his hair more before pushing it away. "I grew it out to spite her, but I admit I like it better long."

James nodded slowly. "I bet you looked stupid with your hair short, especially when it was growing out."

"James!" Lily and Maron exclaimed in horror, their eyes wide from his blunt rudeness.

Sirius nodded. "I would have worn a hat if it wasn't against the rules," he stated. "But, growing it out gave me a chance to experiment."

James gave him an odd look. "Experiment, how?"

Sirius shrugged. "The normal, pony tails, spikes, pig tails...to freak everyone out." He added at their looks. "I even had weird hair gels in various colors. Had some fun with that."

"If hats were against school rules, how did you get away with all of that?" Lily chuckled.

Sirius shook his head. "I didn't. I was always getting detention for, um, expressing myself. They had some of the dumbest rules you could ever imagine."

"Even worse then the ones your mother had?" James questioned, both eyebrows raised.

Sirius thought about that for a moment. "They had some of the dumbest rules you could ever imagine." he repeated before they both started laughing. Lily rolled her eyes in amusement while Maron giggled to herself. Harold had his eyes glued to the television set, ignoring them all.

"So, where's Remus and Peter?" Sirius asked again, returning to the subject once again.

"Well," Lily started. "Peter works as a car salesman downtown."

James gave a grunt of disdain before shrugging it off and answering the question about Remus Lupin.

"Remus is still in college. He's planning to be a psychologist." He said. "Works where the supermarket used to be. He restored it and made it a library. It's really quite nice, if you want to check it out."

Sirius nodded. "We can always go now. My stuff isn't due to come in for a few more hours, and it would be nice to see the town again."

"Alright, we'll head out and be back in time for dinner!" James smiled and stood.

Sirius laughed at his friend. "You sound like Peter." he jested.

James frowned at his friend, looking at Lily before sighing in defeat.

"Peter isn't part of our, um, social circle anymore." He explained awkwardly. "He's into bad stuff, bad business to be near him."

Lily nodded her agreement. "We had to distance ourselves from him, we couldn't help him and we couldn't let it bring us down."

Sirius nodded, upset even though he wasn't particularly fond of Peter. He had been a friend, and he hoped the best for him but apparently Peter had chosen his own destination to the dumps. "Sorry to bring that up." he said, getting up from the chair, mentioning towards the door. "Let's go! I'm driving!" he commanded with a light-hearted grin.

"Sirius, since you're going out, I'd like my son and daughter-in-law returned in one piece." Maron said lightly.

Sirius laughed. "I'm a very good driver, I'll have you know." he said. "So they shall be returned in one piece, even if its in a body bag!"

"Ah, the price for riding in that beast of a car." James said, excitedly dragging his friend out the door. "Come on Lily."

Lily glanced at Maron. "Don't worry, if they get out of hand I'll use my pepper spray." They shared a secretive laugh and the red-headed woman left the house and closed the door. The car was already started and playing rock music quietly. She climbed over James and sat in between him and Sirius. Lily looked over the interior of the car and sighed with a smile. "I'll have to admit, Sirius, you have a nice car."

"Thanks, Andromeda paid for half of it, as a gift." He drove his way to the library, which was located on the corner of the small shopping center for Gryffin Falls. It had the usual convenience market, laundry matt, video store and dollar store. Even a nail and hair salon for the women's gossip. Down the road to the left some was a church and in the other direction was a tiny fishing pond. This town had everything a person wanted, in Sirius's biased opinion.

He parked in a spot towards the back of the parking lot, not willing to test his luck at getting dents and such. Sirius turned the ignition off and stepped out of the car, his friends climbing out afterwards. Lily and James turned to Sirius and smiled sheepishly.

"We're going to go into the video store, we're banned from the library...." Lily said, clearing her throat quietly, a blush spreading across her cheeks.

Sirius rose an eyebrow quizzically and turned his gaze to James, who shrugged.

"Lily and I ruined a couple books." he said. "It wasn't what you would call, um, pretty."

"Save it, I don't want to know." Sirius said, putting his hands up. "I'll go and check the library out myself."

"Well see you in a few!" James called, pulling Lily towards the video store.

Sirius didn't see a reason to respond. He walked into the brick building, the soft music playing throughout the giant room. Bookcases sat in there correct spots, labeled by number or author names. Smiling, Sirius went straight for his favorite authors, picking out Poe, Dickenson, Patterson, and a few others.

He carried the small stack of books to the check-out and read the fluorescent sign. It read; "All books, for sale, see me for prices."

"Why's everything for sale?" Sirius asked the young man behind the check-out desk. The librarian's face was beautiful, with orange-brown hair that curled around his ears and framed his face. Golden reading glasses were perched on the tip of his nose. He took in the person's outfit, noting the black zip-up vest and the white, button-up and collared shirt underneath of it. His pants seemed to be painted on and left very little to the imagination. Snapping out of his thoughts he looked at the man's face and grinned impishly.

"The library's closing, it'll be changed into something else." he said. "Will you be purchasing those?"

"Yeah." Sirius said, placing the books on the counter. He had collected a total of thirteen books, each of them around three dollars.

"Thirty-nine dollars, please." He said softly, smiling warmly. Sirius fished in his pocket and opened his wallet, plucking out two twenty dollar bills.

Taking the twenties, the man behind the counter put them into a bank bag and pulled out a one and handed it to him. He grabbed the stack of books and a large bag, putting them into the plastic bag then handed them back to Sirius. "Thank you and have a nice day!" he said with a delightful smile.

Smiling as well, Sirius took the bag, putting the dollar into his wallet then dropping it into his pocket. "You too." he said, walking towards the door. He stopped long enough to search one more time for Remus, but didn't find him. Sighing, he left and walked over to the video store, bag swaying next to him. he had been hoping to find Remus, but couldn't.

Once inside the video store, he found James and Lily in the back, looking at romance movies. Shaking his head, he went towards them and found Lily looking at the cover of "Gone With The Wind."

"Why are you looking back here, when you could be towards the front where the gore and action flicks are?" Sirius said, grinning impishly. James turned to him.

"Did you see Remus?" he asked, frowning once Sirius shook his head. "Ah, well that's too bad. Maybe some other time?"

"Of course, Remus couldn't keep me away from him even if he wanted to." Sirius exclaimed, feeling dramatic. "And I promised you all I'd be back, so here I am."

Lily clapped, not even looking at him, her eyes still attached to the films. "Bravo, Sirius, bravo."

Sirius bowed lightly, if only for his own amusement and then picked a video off the odd shelf. He handed it to Lily, and she read the back. Her eyes widened and narrowed, causing her to beat him with the DVD container.

"You." Whack. "Evil." Smack. "Pervert!" She yelled, drawing quite an amount of attention to herself. "You always were the worst, Sirius Black, always."

"Lily, you're giving everyone a show." Sirius murmured, his lips twitching in amusement.

Lily flushed, turning to see everyone staring at her. With one last glare, she threw the dirty movie at Sirius then made her way for the door.

James chuckled. "That was mean," he said, grabbing Gone With The Wind for Lily. "Now I'll have to smooth things over."

"...between the sheets!" Sirius added with a grin, returning the movie.

"Between the sheets." James confirmed, following Lily quickly towards Sirius's Mustang.

Cackling mischievously, Sirius unlocked the doors and let James sit in the middle for protection to, himself, the driver. He dropped them off with quick hugs, and a light slap from Lily, and made his way to the new home he purchased. Parking in the garage, Sirius locked up the car and garage before slipping in the house.

Gliding though the barren house, he flicked on the lights and was pleased at least some things worked. His things hadn't arrived, so he needed to find a way to entertain himself. Glancing at the bag, he sat leaning against the wall and pulled out one of the books and opened it to the first page. He relaxed there reading until he was tired and stopped, deciding it would be best for him to get a hotel for the night, and contact the movers in the morning. He locked up his little house and got in the car, driving towards the nearest bed and breakfast.

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TBC.