I hadn't mentioned this before but...I don't own any Harry Potter stuff...the only things I own are a few in later chapters and my characters Sabin and Jill Remus...so...yeah back to the story...
"Remus?" Sabine muttered against Remus's bare chest sometime after the incident at Andromeda's house. After they ate lunch and talked for a bit, Remus and Sabine felt an intense urgency and desire for one another. It was begining to interrupt their conversation and spoil a good moment so they decided to retire to the Black Manor. After a few hours of talking, laughing and making love they finally got some much needed rest. But Sabine's mind would not let her rest for long, she began to dream of the future and of the past. Back to the past where she and Sirius would lay like this for hours after making love. Remus stirred and rested his cheek on her cheek and his hot breath caressed her ear.
"What?"
"Do you remember your first day at Hogwarts?"
Sabine felt Remus slump against her as he remembered the day vividly. He was such a scared skinny child when he first went to Hogwarts. Shaking like a leaf as each name was called he watched as the first name on the list was called out, Sirius Black. He was tall for his age, incredibly lean and slightly muscled though he was only 11 years old. He had a way about him that attracted many and left the girls in tears when they realized they had no chance with him. But that was always how Sirius was; proud, strong, powerful and somewhat arrogant. This was the way he was raised although most of things that he was raised on he didn't act on, otherwise he and Remus never would have been friends. Sirius flirted constantly as he grew older and more adept with the understanding of women but Remus and James knew that in his heart of hearts there was only one girl for Sirius Black; that was Sabine Snape.
The names on the list continued until with a sickening lurch he heard his name called, "Remus Lupin!". Remus felt like crying as he walked up the steps and sat down but this would be the day he would remember always as a good memory. He kept thinking he hoped he could be in the same house as Sirius Black but didn't care if not as long as it wasn't Slytherin. A few seconds later the sorting hat called out, "Griffindor!" and Remus ran happily to that house's table and sat next to Sirius. The next name they heard was some kid they really didn't like then, "James Potter!" was called out and that was how it started out. James, Sirius, and Remus were the best of friends. They were great friends, they did things for Remus that Remus never would have dreamed of being done for him. He loved them like brothers but now, they were both gone, James and Sirius and there was no way around that. Sirius was in Prison for the murder of another "friend of theirs", one Sabine and Lily liked to call "the stalking rat". Now it was down to Remus and Sabine, Remus didn't mind that much, not too much anymore anyway.
"Remus? Did you hear me?"
"Yes Artemis, I heard you, I was remembering."
"Heh, Remus do you remember my first day at Hogwarts?"
"Of course I do, Sirius was mesmerized by you, as were we all. You're so amazing Sabine, and what's more amazing is that you picked me to love when I thought no one could love me the way you do."
"How could they not Moony? You're such an inspiration in patience and perfectly placed love." Remus blushed and hid this by kissing her passionately, starting up the rythme they had abandoned for awhile.
Sirius Black, murderer, mad-man, right hand man of You-know-who. He was aprehended at the scene of the crime, the murder of one wizard, and old friend of this and 3 muggles. After one quick trial, consisting of two other You-know-who supporters, Sirius Black was convicted. The two other people also on trial were his relatives, His cousin Bellatrix Lestrange and her husband Rodolphus Lestrange.
"Sirius Black, you are hereby found guilty for the crimes of working for You-Know-Who and for the murders of Peter Pettigrew, 3 muggles and the invovlment of the Potters death."
"No! No-"
"You're wrong! You're wrong! Sirius would never work for Voldemort! He would never betray his friends or kill innocent people! He is a good man! A great man!"
"Ms. Snape I will ask that you remain silent. I am sorry but we found your husband guilty and he shall spend the rest of his mortal life in Azkaban Prison."
"You are condemning an innocent man Mr. Fudge."
"You may think that Ms. Snape-"
"I do think that Mr. Fudge and I know I am right, in time you will see this too. As the wife of the heir of the Black House I now take responsiblity of managing the House and it's expenses as per my husband's wishes and I will tell you this only once, Mr. Fudge, call me Sabine Black from now on, Mrs. Sabine Black. Never forget it."
This is what Jill saw in her mother's Pensieve, her father's trial. Sometimes she wished she had never snooped in her mother's room and looked in to the shimmering memory but now she understood that her mother believed that her father was innocent and that she loved him. But the images she couldn't get out of her head no matter how hard she tried was he father fighting to break free from his capter perhaps to imbrace his wife and the look of her mother when she told Mr. Fudge, now Prime Minister of Magick Fudge, that he would see her way sometime in the future.
"Call me Sabine Black from now on, Mrs. Sabine Black. Never forget it."
"Jill Remus Black! Ms. Black please come up here."
Jill was jabbed out of her musings by her friend Malfoy and she took a deep breath and walked up the steps to the old woman named McGonagall.
"I'm sorry Ma'am."
"It's quite alright Ms. Black,"
"Mrs. Black."
"please sit on the stool."
Jill nodded and sat on the stool as McGonagall placed the hat on her head and it began to speak to Jill.
Never, in the history of the Blacks had a member been anything other than a Slytherin.
That is, not until Sirius Black.
After only a few minutes of deliberation the Sorting Hat had come to a decision, "Gryffindor!" It hollered and that is when history was changed.
"I have come to my decision. Jill Remus Black shall be in..."
