A/N – Hello everyone! I am going on vacation tomorrow and will be gone for two weeks, so this will be the LAST update for that time. But do not worry, I will have some chapters written up and when I do get back I will make sure to upload them all for you! With that in mind, please enjoy.

By the way, I switched to 'Tom' when I refer to Lord Voldemort, but only because it is easier to type! Lol! but sometimes the Characters will say 'Voldemort', but it's practically the same thing!

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Harry Potter and the Story of Secret's

Part 19

When Lupin finally got the basement all ready, he sat down heavily in a chair beside the fire place; the full moon was waning and soon he would be a slavering beast! Remus had put several strong silencing charms on the basement, and he had doubled the repelling charms on the basement door. All that needed to be done was the locks on the door. Sirius would do that.

"Moony? Are you all right?" speaking of which, Sirius quietly entered the sitting room and sat on the floor across from his best friend.

"I'm fine, but I always feel sick around full moon,"

"I know; I wish I could be there with you, but…"

"You need to stay with Harry, Severus will be around tomorrow evening with the anti-biotic potions in a week, Harry should be as good as new," Remus smiled.

"Yes, I'm just surprised that he hasn't gotten sick before this, I mean, with the way he was living at those blasted muggles house and everything…"

"Sirius, don't blame yourself, if you should blame anyone, you should blame me,"

"Why?"

"I should have stayed with Harry when Dumbledore called me up to his office; I should have done something to make sure that Harry hadn't been taken away,"

"It isn't you're fault either, Moony, you trusted Dumbledore and he betrayed you, he betrayed me, he doesn't deserve our trust,"

"I know, but tell me why I can't help but feel guilty? I mean, he let me come to school and he knew I was a Werewolf, he knew that I was dangerous and yet he still let me come,"

"He just did that so you would feel indebted to him,"

"I was thinking along those same lines, but…am I?"

"No," at this, Sirius got onto his knees and hugged his friend about the shoulders.

"No, you're not, Dumbledore is trying to control you with these feelings, please don't leave me? Please don't leave Harry? We need you," Sirius pulled back.

Remus smiled at him; "I won't, I won't ever leave you all if I can help it,"

"Good, now, want some tea? Harry is sleeping and you need something," Sirius said. The two stood and went to the kitchen, a friendly silence hanging about them as they moved through their new home.

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"He must take this every two hours," Severus pulled out a huge bottle full of grey-green slime, "Its lemon flavored, that was the only flavor that works with this potion,"

The potion in question was one of many that Harry would have to take, it was thick slimy goo and Sirius made a face. Yet, he knew that somehow he would need to get Harry to take the stuff. Severus glared at Sirius but didn't say a thing.

"This is a calming potion, only give it to the child if he is very upset, some times Wizard Pox can make them hallucinate strange things,"

"Right," Sirius nodded his head, he remembered when Regulus had Wizard Pox during his summer before fifth year, that hadn't been pleasant for anyone involved.

"And these…" Severus pulled out several other potions, but each had a name on them, but not Harry's; "These are for Lupin, Werewolves have a tendency to be stubborn after a full moon, just slip the sleeping potion to him first and then you can take care of his wounds, if you need my help, just fire call, I'll be at the Riddle House," Severus said.

"Thank you, Remus won't like it, but I think it'll help," Sirius said.

"I figured that while I was brewing anyway, that I aught to do something for Lupin," Severus glared.

"Awww! Sevvie! You are such a softie!" Sirius said, he threw his arms around Severus.

"GET OFF ME YOU MUTT!"

"Sevvie, Sevvie, Sevvie! Sssshhhhssshhhh, you'll wake Harry," Sirius laughed, putting a finger to his lips.

"Shut up, Black," Severus glared and then he entered the fireplace and was gone in a flash of green light.

"Did Severus just leave?" Remus asked, Sirius jumped, almost dropping all of the potions, but he had wonderful reflexes and saved them just in time.

"Yes, he had something to do for Voldemort and so he had to leave, but he left detailed instructions for everything!" Sirius waved a load of parchment under Remus' nose.

"Good, I don't think I'll be able to help you much this evening or tomorrow to be exact," Remus sighed.

"Hey! I may act like I'm ten! But I can handle this!" Sirius pouted.

"Sure you can!" Remus rolled his eyes.

"Whatever Moony, now, let's get the basement ready," Sirius said, he went first to the bath room and dropped off the potions before checking on Harry. Harry was sleeping, his stuffed stage snuggling under his chin and blankets pulled up to his shoulders.

Sirius smiled; he couldn't believe how lucky he was.

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Moony howled! He could smell them! He could smell the human's! but one smell was very, very musky, that of a dog, almost. While the other smelled like a deer, a male deer. But, Prongs was dead! The smell of the young one was not that of Prongs…maybe Prongs had offspring, maybe….

Moony didn't know, but that smell was driving him wild! His protective side came into play! And he howled again, he wanted to get to the young one, he wanted to smell the young one and he wanted to feed the young one. However, here was something else about the young ones smell…..was the young one sick? Maybe….? But Moony couldn't tell without actually seeing the child.

He howled once more, and ran at the basement door; the charms that had been out on the door, threw Moony back, he landed hard against the wall and then rolled down to the floor where his breath whooshed out of him in a loud "Whoof!"

Moony whined then, he could smell Padfoot, but the large black dog was no where in site, there wasn't anyone here with him, and he felt lonely, he always felt lonely. He could remember the last time he was so lonely but over the last year Padfoot had always been there with him.

Moony let out a loud, long, lonely howl…..

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Sirius didn't like what he was hearing, which, mainly, wasn't anything. Remus had put up strong silencing charms on the basement, and had explained that he didn't want Harry to get scared. Sirius had to admit that was a very good idea, Werewolves were scary! If you were human, but other animals didn't feel all that threatened.

Mainly because Werewolves went after human's as prey most of the time; Sirius had no doubt that Moony could smell him and Harry even if he was in the basement and even though Harry hadn't been down there.

"Padfoot…?"

"Hey Kid, how are you feeling?" Sirius asked, he reached for the bottle of green slime and a spoon that he had set on the bed side table.

"Better, but still tired," Harry replied.

"Here, this will make you feel better," Sirius said, he poured the potion into the spoon. Harry took it without complaint.

"This is the first time anyone has every taken care of me when I was sick," Harry said.

"Really?"

"Yes, Aunt Petunia never wanted to take care of me, but you and Moony have and I'm happy that I am here with you and not back at the Moogles house," Harry explained in a very serious manner.

"Muggles," Sirius corrected.

"That's what I said, Moogles!" Harry rolled his eyes.

"Hey, kid, if you aren't careful you'll turn out to be a Minni-Moony,"

"Moony is so cool! He can do that swish and flick thing to make things float!"

"Oh, so Moony is cool and I'm second rate?" Sirius gasped and fell on to his side on the bed.

"You're cool too! You can make jokes and make me laugh!"

"Well, good!" Sirius sat up, now, how about a story…lets see, what have I not told you…?"

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"C'mon Moony! Please! Let me help you?" Sirius winged as he watched Remus trying to bandage himself up, which was a hard feat, but Remus had plenty of practice at.

"I can do it," Remus huffed.

"Fine, how about I get you some tea?"

"All right," Remus acquiesced, Sirius hid his smirk as he bound off into the kitchen. A few minutes later, Remus' tea was ready, Sirius took out the clear liquid that had been bottled by Severus. This was a very powerful sleeping potion, it should give Sirius enough time to get Remus to bed and all of his wounds cleaned and bandaged.

Sirius poured the potion into the tea with a smirk; Remus would never know what hit him!

"Here you are Remmy!" Sirius said as he walked back into the sitting room, Remus wasn't any farther along, Sirius knew he'd get it when Remus came around, but this was what best friends do anyway! So, Remus couldn't be all that mad at him when he did wake up.

"Thank you," Remus said with a sigh, he took the cup and drained it in one gulp. Remus went back to his bandaging; Sirius sat on the floor before him and just stared. It was then that Remus noticed that the room was spinning and that his mind kept drifting off.

"S-Sirius…?" Remus couldn't finish his question before his eyes closed and his body went limp, before his mind shut down with sleep, he felt strong hands pick him up.

"It's all right Moony, I'll take care of you, what are best friends for anyway?"

That was all Remus heard before he fell into a deep, calming sleep.

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"Uncle Remmy? Are you alright?" a small, tentative voice came through the fog that blocked Remus' head. Remus groaned a bit, the feeling in his damaged hand was coming back, and his ankle felt better, but…he knew that it had been broken and that he hadn't even gotten around to it yet. What could have happened?

"He'll be fine kid, he just needs to wake up, I didn't know how long that potion lasted, but I didn't know it would last this long," Remus heard Sirius say.

"H-how long…?"

"A day and a half," Sirius replied gently, Remus opened his eyes to a sun lit room. A soft breeze coming in through the window, and Harry sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Uncle Moony sleep for a very long time," Harry said, tears in his eyes, "I wasn't sure you would wake up,"

"It's all right, Young One, I'm all right, see? I'm awake now," Remus said, he sat up, with help form Sirius.

"Look, Remus, I slipped you a sleeping potion, but it was only because I wanted to help and I knew that you wouldn't let me…"

"It's all right, Padfoot, but you still owe me!" Remus smirked.

"Yes, Moony," Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Is the Werewolf alive?" a call from the sitting room startled the trio.

"In here!" Sirius yelled. Remus groaned and lay his head back on the may pillows decorating his bed.

"Hmmm…I see that it was a rough night," Severus said, he held a satchel in his hands.

"Most any full moon night is rough," Remus said.

"What happened?" Harry asked, his eyebrows slanted upwards and a pout was on his lips.

"Harry, its sort of hard to explain…" Remus started.

"Try,' Harry said, crossing his arms.

"Well, you see…I'm a Werewolf….when the Full Moon comes, that's once a month, I turn into a dangerous animal," Remus said.

"But, you're nice!" Harry cried.

"Of course he is! Remus is nice! He turns into an animal is all," Sirius tried his hand at explaining it to Harry.

"Oh? So…you're nice when an animal too?"

"Yes, Harry, exactly," Remus smiled.

"That's all right then!" Harry smiled.

"Come on, kid, let us take you back to your own bed, Sevvie-Poo needs to look over Uncle Moony," Sirius held out his hand, Harry took it. Severus took a swipe at Sirius' hand but the man ducked.

Severus went about muttering under his breath as he set up his supplies; Remus caught phrases such as – "Don't know where he gets it from!" , "Bloody Black, can't help but pun-around with names!" and "Wish I could hex him…"

"I do as well, Sirius can be a bit immature at times," Remus agreed.

"Well, at least we are on the right page," Severus said.

"Now, what did you do to you're hand?" he asked, unwrapping the gauze.

"Chewed it, probably," Remus said.

"What is it with Mutt's and chewing on things?" Severus asked. Remus chuckled.

"You have a sense of humor? Well, I never would have guessed by the way you go dourly about the place," Remus smiled. Severus got a look at the wound, the hand was still bleeding, and it needed stitches.

"Drink this, it will help with the pain," Severus said, and then he took out a sterilized needle and some thread. Remus obediently drank the potion. It must have been a strong pain killer potion, for it put him right to sleep.

Severus smirked; the Werewolf had no idea what sort of potion he drank, he would be out for quite some time, but he had made a mess of himself and needed to be healed as soon as possible.

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"What news have you?' Tom Riddle asked Bellatrix Lestrange, she was bowing before him, but looked up in order to give her report.

"My Aunt and Uncle have made contact with Fudge, they are black mailing him in order to get him to step down and name my Uncle his successor," she said.

"What about the search for Harry Potter and his guardians?" Tom asked.

"Muriel has held them off but Dumbledore is getting closer to the truth, he has sent a team to the northern hemisphere of France,"

"Hmmm…that will ruin everything….make sure to put out that Harry Potter and his guardians were seen in Germany, I don't want those meddling Order members to catch him or Black and Lupin," Tom said.

"As you wish it, My Lord, it shall be done," Bellatrix said, she then stodd and ran out of the room, she had a job to do.

"Lucius, inform Snape, Black and Lupin of these turn of events, make sure that they know not to go out at all, not for anything,"

"As you wish, My Lord," Lucius Malfoy said, he also exited the room.

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"What do you mean? They're getting closer?" Black asked, Malfoy sneered at him.

"You know exactly what I mean, the Order is getting close and Voldemort doesn't want you to go out, for anything, if you do need something just contact someone at the Riddle House and we'll get it for you," Lucius replied.

"Damn it! Damn it all!" Sirius growled, and then started pacing in front of the fire place.

"They are insistent on finding you, we are putting it out that you were spotted in Germany, they should follow that, and we'll make sure that someone will glimpse you," Lucius said.

"How?"

"Polly juice potion of course!" Severus snapped.

"That means….but what about the kid? You can't put a kid in that sort of situation!" Sirius cried.

"We aren't, we are going to make sure that someone, a wizard no less, will either see you or Lupin, and then they'll report to the Ministry; it's the perfect plan," Severus said.

"Right, it is actually, it'd be funny too if I could see Fudge's face when he found out it was a prank!" Sirius smiled evilly.

"You're going to need our hair," Remus said from his bed. He was not allowed up, under pain of death, but that didn't mean that he couldn't contribute to the conversation.

"Yes, we will," Lucius said. Sirius crossed to the door, he looked down the hall and saw that Harry was playing with his stag in his bedroom. He then closed the door slightly.

"There is some things that I need picked up," Sirius said to Lucius.

"What is it?"

"Birthday presents, Harry's birthday is soon, just in two day's! we need something for him, I don't think he's had a birthday since his first," Sirius said.

"We'll see what we can do,' Lucius said.

"Thank you," Sirius smiled.

"We must go," Severus said to Lucius, who nodded.

"…And you!' Severus turned to Remus, "If you even think of getting out of that bed, Sirius has permission to put you under Petrificus Totalus," Severus glared.

"I understand," Remus smiled at him. Then the two left without another word, though Severus did glare at Remus and Sirius gave a wink to the Slytherin who-wasn't-such-a-bad-guy-after-all-but-still-a-git!

"Well, you heard the man!" Sirius sat on the edge of the bed.

"Then go get me a book!" Remus replied. Sirius laughed and bound out of the room in search of a book.

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A/N – This is the longest chapter yet! I am so excited! This is so cool! All right, Like I said, this is the LAST update for two weeks, I'm sorry, but it has to be, but hey! At least you all have something to read before you all go to you're relatives for Christmas! LOL

See ya'll!

Ta,

Poppy

I'm a man,

But I can change…

If I have too,

I guess…

The Man's Prayer from "The Red Green Show" on PBS