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Chapter 3

Once Secrets are No More

"Ok Orion…Now let's get to work…" Sirius picked up his son and walked around the counter of LJSR and flipped the open sign. No sooner had he turned away did it ring as someone came it. He turned around, "Hey." He smiled at Marie and Joe as they walked in.

"Hey!" said Marie brightly.

Joe simply nodded at him as usual and headed to the back.

"So who is this handsome young man?" she smiled at Orion in Sirius's arms.

"Allow me to introduce you to Orion, my youngest son, I decided to nip him for the day and let Kristen only deal with the other two."

"That was nice of you."

"It would have been nice if I had taken Jade and Annelise…They are the trouble makers."

Marie laughed, "I'm going to have to meet Kristen sometime, not to mention Harry." She said as she walked away to the back.

Orion tugged on Sirius's jacket, "What?" Sirius looked down at the six month old baby. Orion just continued to tug on his jacket, "Oh…just one of your things…" he walked around the counter and seated himself on the stool as a few people walked through the door, and so the day began.

Kristen walked in around noon pushing a stroller containing the twins and gave Sirius a skeptical look as he was tending to something with his back to her. She watched as Orion grabbed for a spoon sticking out a container near where Sirius was making a cup of coffee.

"No Orion…" he took a break in making his coffee and took the spoon from Orion and replaced it, he finished making his coffee. Turning around he jumped at seeing Kristen making much of the hot coffee slosh over the side and onto his hand and the counter. "Gah!" he shook his hand trying to get the coffee off, "Damn…"

"Mummy!" shouted Orion gleefully as Sirius jumped around with him still in his arms.

Sirius suddenly stopped and looked at Orion in his arms, "You spoke! You spoke!" he smiled, his hand forgotten briefly.

"Oh my God! Orion!" Kristen smiled and jumped forward, planting a kiss on her son's cheek.

Sirius shook his head remembering that Kristen was there and turned to look at her as he put his hand under cold water. "What are you doing here?"

"I thought I'd come to see this store you've been talking about for so long."

Marie came out from behind a bookshelf and paused at seeing Kristen, "Hey, Sirius, do we have any more copies of Without Wings?"

Sirius thought for a moment, "Check in the back there might be some there."

Marie nodded and turned away.

"Well I see this place is getting along quite well." Said Kristen with a small smile, "What's with the name?"

"My past."

Kristen rolled her eyes, "I'm going down the street to get some things at the store, need anything?"

Sirius shook his head, "Me and Orion are fine." He wiped up the spilt coffee.

"Ok we'll see you around three then."

"Women and shopping." He shook his head.

"Did you hear that girls? He called you women." Kristen smiled as she pushed the girls out of the door and onto the boardwalk.

Five minutes later the alarm on the coffee machine went off making Sirius go still, a few seconds later there was a loud explosion that made the whole store shake. A few books fell off their shelf and Orion started to cry.

"Sirius?" Marie looked over at Sirius from her prone position beside the counter.

"Take Orion, go in the back and stay there."

"What's wrong?" asked Marie taking Orion as Sirius deposited him in her arms.

"Just do it!" Sirius grabbed the cloak he had hidden under the counter and hurtled over the counter like it was nothing and ran out the door leaving Marie shocked at what she had just seen. She never knew he had been able to do that.

Sirius was apparently running in the wrong direction because everyone was running in the other direction. He was going in the way that Kristen had gone in. It didn't take long to get to where the explosion had happened. It was just over a block away.

It looked as though a small bomb had exploded within a store and sent many of the contents from inside out onto the street along with several people who had been towards the front of the store.

"Kristen!" Sirius stepped over a prone body looking around for his soon to be wife. He spotted her on her knees laying over a majority of the twins carriage in hopes the shield them. "Kristen!" he shouted again more urgently as he ran towards her.

Kristen moved and sat back on her heels looking around slightly dazed. "Sirius!" She threw herself into his arms when he dropped to his knees beside her. "Oh God Sirius I thought…I thought we..." she couldn't finish.

"Shh…Relax you're fine…the girls are fine…" he said soothingly, he would have rubbed her back had she not of had many cuts on it. Beside them the girls were quiet and observing them.

"Sirius?" came a different voice.

The couple broke apart, but Kristen didn't let go completely. "Kingsley…" Sirius stood and brought Kristen up with him. He studied his coworker's darker face.

"Anyone you know hurt?"

Sirius shook his head, "I think is mostly minor injuries out here, inside on the other hand, I don't know. I don't even know what caused it…only that the m-word was involved. The alarm went off a few seconds before."

Kristen listened to the exchange with a confused expression. "What are you talking about?"

Sirius looked over at Kristen, "Um…I'll tell you tonight after I tell you a few other things…" he looked back at Kingsley, "Do you know of any motive?"

Kingsley shook his head, "They've been quiet for the past couple of months," his deep voice responded in a lower tone, "it doesn't make any sense."

Sirius nodded in agreement.

Kristen, who had been paying little attention to their conversation after Sirius's comment, looked over at Sirius with a stricken looked, "Sirius where's Orion?"

"He's back with Marie, plenty safe. Don't worry." He watched as her face relaxed. Sirens were starting to sound in the distance as Sirius thought. Looking around he watched as people struggled to get up and others who weren't so injured or who had been down the street further helped them. "It wasn't meant to be serious I don't think…"

Kingsley was watching the scene as well, "No…I think it was meant more to be a distraction then anything."

"No…" Sirius looked up at Kingsley panicked, "Harry!" he turned to go, "Kingsley, take Kristen and the girls to number twelve, I'm going to get Harry." He turned and looked at Kristen, "I'll explain everything to you tonight and trust Kinglsey, he's a good guy." He smiled slightly before turning and running off down the boardwalk and slipping into an alley and apperating as he ran.

Sirius was still running when he appeared in front of the preschool. He found Janet slumped back into her chair. "Don't be dead…" he went around the desk and felt for a pulse. He let out a sigh of relief before leaving her side and running into the main play room. All of the kids in that room were lying on the floor as if asleep. There was a scream outside that made a chill run down Sirius's back. His jaw clinched as he through the open back door only to run into Hermione, whom screamed upon contact.

"Shhh…its ok Hermione it's me."

Hermione whimpered and threw her arms around his legs. "Stay in here…" Sirius picked her up and set her inside. At a crouch he moved towards the play ground.

There was the sound of some people struggling and a muffled cry. Sirius straightened and looked over part of the wooden structure and saw the back of a large cloak. Moving around a slide he came up behind the cloaked man, over his shoulder he could see Harry trying to pull away from his captor, whom had a tight hold on Harry's wrist.

Sirius suddenly reached up and jerked back on the man's cloak. "So Peter you thought you could get away with another murder?"

Harry jerked away from Peter's grip and ran to the structure and lost himself in the hidden cubbies.

"Sirius…My old friend…" Peter cringed back at Sirius jerked his wand up higher to his throat.

"You betrayed them and you were about to kill Harry to make up for your mistake. For that you deserve to die."

"I d-didn't mean-"

"You did mean to Peter!" Sirius's face was twisted in anger and pain, "But I can't kill you. The dementors can have you!"

"Sir-"

"Stupefy!" Peter fell to the ground unconscious before he had had the chance to even pull his wand. Sirius turned around, "Harry…" he bent down and tried to look for him, "It's me Harry, Si."

Harry's messy hair appeared out of no where, once he was free from his hiding spot he threw himself at his godfather whimpering. "You're ok Harry…I'm here now, I'm not going any where…" There were two pops as other wizards arrived. Sirius looked up still holding Harry and gripping his wand.

"And here I was been thinking you had been lying all this time…" said an annoying voice.

"Be quiet Phines." Growled and older more commanding voice. "You didn't kill him did you Black?"

"No…I didn't Moody…I promised Dumbledore I wouldn't, and I won't, no matter how much I want to." He finished the last with a growl as he stared up at the old grizzled man and his student.

"Very good Black, very good. We'll take care of Pettigrew here, while you go and take care of young Harry."

Sirius nodded, "There are several others inside that need to be taken care of, as well as a very scared little girl. I'll be at number twelve Moody." He vanished holding Harry.

"What did he mean by number twelve?" asked Phines looking at Moody.

"Never mind you Phines, go get a team at the headquarters."

Phines grumbled something that Moody didn't quite catch as he disappeared.

Sirius appeared in a hidden room of his bookstore holding Harry. Looking around he stopped moving and listened for any noise. Once sure there was no one outside the room, he left and walked back to the room that he had told Marie to go into. Throwing open the door he heard a muffle scream that he took to be Marie's and baby beginning to cry. "Shh…relax Marie, it's me."

"Oh God Sirius you scared me!" Marie stood from behind a box holding Orion.

"Did anyone come in?"

Marie nodded, "After I came back here I heard someone moving around out there, but I stayed quiet not sure if it was you or not."

Sirius nodded, "Here, hand me Orion, his mom is panicking back at the house."

Marie hand over Orion, "Hey Harry."

"Hi…" said Harry shyly before burying his face into Sirius's coat.

The two shared a laugh, "I'll be in tomorrow, go ahead and close down the store for the day. See you tomorrow." Sirius left the room and ducked into the same room he had arrived in and apperated with a small pop.

Sirius appeared in the hall of his parents own home, it was more like his home now because there wasn't a trace of what his old family. His head whipped around as some one started yelling to his right in the kitchen.

"Where the hell is Sirius? You said he would be back by now!" screeched Kristen, "And where the hell am I?"

"Calm down Ms. Summerland-" began Kingsley's calm voice.

"How can I? The store I was walking into an hour ago exploded in my face, my husband suddenly runs off after his son, why I don't even know, and you brought me and my daughters here, I don't even know where here is or how you even got us here. For all I am concerned I don't have to be calm, not at all. Where is-"

Sirius pushed the kitchen door open and looked at his wife as he held Harry and Orion in his arms.

"Where the hell have you been?"

Sirius remained silent for a moment, "I will explain, let me just go pick up Aaralyan and Daniel first."

"I will take care of that Black." Said Kingsley quickly, "You explain everything to your fiancé before she kills you and she's not your fiancée any more."

"At least someone agrees with me!" exclaimed Kristen throwing her hands up into the air and turning away for a moment. Kingsley took that moment to disappereate. When Kristen turned back around and saw that Kingsley had gone but Sirius had not moved she began to look around wildly. "Where's he go?"

"To get the kids."

Kristen raised her eyebrows, "Oh…ok then. Explain to me how he left then if you haven't even moved?"

Sirius smiled nervously, "I hadn't exactly planned on telling you this right now, because I wasn't really sure how to say it and needed to practice a few times. It's kind of hard to actually explain, well no its not but I just don't know how to actually explain it." Sirius babbled on more to himself then Kristen in the end.

"Get on with it man!"

Sirius set Orion down in an armed chair but positioned it so they could both watch him. He would have set down Harry had the child of let go of his clothes. "For the past three years there has been something I have not told you, many lies came from it, but only for your own protection. But I alone am not the only part of this secret-"

"Ohmigod…You're married!" shrieked Kristen as her hands flew up to her open mouth.

Sirius's own eyes widened at her exclamation, "No not at all!" Sirius shook his head as he turned away, "I'm a wizard Kristen."

Kristen blinked a few times, "Excuse me; I thought you just said you were a wizard."

"I am…so is Harry and Kingsley."

"You're a wizard…a wizard?" Kristen started laughing.

Sirius watched her with a serious expression as she continued to laugh.

Once she realized that Sirius was being serious she immediately stopped and studied Sirius, "I can't believe you expect me to believe this. What are you really trying to hide?"

"It is the truth Kristen, except that fact that I am also not Harry's father."

Kristen's expressions went from startled to shocked, "What…how?" she opened her mouth to say more, but Sirius held up his hand to silence her.

"You must believe that I am a wizard."

"Ok…So let's just say for now that I believe you are a wizard as you say. What about this tale of yours."

Sirius rolled his eyes at her sarcastic tone. "Years ago," Sirius began, "A wizard rose to power by the name of Lord Voldemort. His reign was dark and horrible, he gathered people to him by either their long for power, his reason, or by force of the spells he used. He killed those who opposed him, and nearly all of those who fought him personally where killed in combat. But there was one family whom had managed to evade Voldemort three times, they were his main target. Because of this they took themselves and their son into hiding. They were the Potters, very good friends of mine. They made me their secret keeper, the only person who knew of their where-a-bouts. I did not trust this arrangement. Why? Because it was obvious that I was the closest person to the Potters, there for an easy target for Voldemort. For their safety, I switched my duties to another friend of the Potters. Peter Pettigrew." He spat the name as if it were poison making Kristen flinch. "Peter, it turned out, was two sided…He betrayed the Potters to Voldemort.

Nearly three years ago upon Halloween night Voldemort attacked them. He killed James and then went after Lily and Harry. When Lily gave her life for Harry she invoked an ancient magic. When Voldemort turned his wand upon Harry the spell was reversed and Voldemort was destroyed. Personally, I don't think he's gone completely." Sirius shrugged and turned away from Kristen thinking quietly. "I am Harry's godfather. Once we were found by the Aurors who arrived on the scene, after many accusations, I was ordered to go to head quarters, then finally into hiding with Harry. Though Voldemort was destroyed, his Death Eaters were not, they are still after Harry, and today was evidence of that. They destroyed that shop to distract me, that you were there was a coincidence, because they do not know about you."

Kristen was staring at Sirius when he turned back around, "You are telling the truth."

"Yes…I can not lie about something like this." Sirius heaved a sigh and sat down with a weary expression as if a very large burden had been lifted from his chest.

"What does this mean?"

Sirius looked up at Kristen, "Only that a few changes are in order…We'll live here for instance, rather then our old homes. You'll discover soon that it is a very large house and will be well able to hold all eight of us easily. Also that you will be running my shop from now on…if you don't mind," Kristen shook her head as he continued, "because I need to go work at the head quarters now and hopefully finish my Auror training."

"What is an Auror exactly?"

"Oh yeah sorry…We're what you could call police except we do a bit more really."

With a quiet pop Kingsley appeared with Aaralyan in his arms and a hand on Daniel's shoulder. His sudden appearance made Kristen squeak, as she was startled.

"Wicked!" yelled Daniel after realizing they had just appeared some where else with out the use of a car or anything of the sort.

"Thinks Kingsley." Sirius stood after relieving himself of a reluctant Harry.

"You need to come in and fill out a few reports." Said Kingsley as he set down Aaralyan whom immediately ran to her mother.

Sirius let out a sigh and nodded, "I'll be back later and we'll get what we need from the houses to bring back here. I'm going to have an old friend of mine come and help you out. Yes she's like me; she'll probably bring one or two of her own kids along. Her presence may even help you get used to the fact that there are wizards and witches." He kissed Kristen on the cheek, "Look around, I think you'll like it here."

Kristen nodded vaguely and watched as the two disappeared with simultaneous pops.

"Si!" Harry looked around for his Godfather with panic.

Kristen went to his side and picked him up, "Shh…I'm here Harry."

"I'm going to go look around mum!" Daniel ran for the door.

"Wait no! Stay in here…" Daniel was already out the door though.

With a heavy sigh Kristen prayed that Sirius's friend would be there soon. As if here prayer had been heard the doorbell rang. Freezing for a moment Kristen shifted Harry on to her right hip and walked to the door and looked out the peep hole and saw a fiery red-haired women standing there with a child in her arms and four others around her. "Oh God more kids…" she swore to herself before opening the door, "Hi."

The woman gave Kristen a genuine smile, "Sirius said you'd like some company, I hope you don't mind I brought along some of my kids, Arthur is at work."

Kristen nodded and didn't say anything as she stepped away from the doorway to allow them in. She studied the kind woman quietly. She wore robes that you didn't see in the normal world; she was slightly plump with a kind face, and seemed to handle her kids well. She looked at the other kids, the four that stood around her were all boys of various ages and the one in her arms was a girl. After taking in the sight she gathered herself once more and introduced herself, "I'm Kristen."

"Oh dear, I'm sorry I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Molly Weasley. This is Percy, he's nine, those two over there-don't you dare touch that Fred-are Fred and George and they are seven, this is Ron, he's five, and finally this is Ginny and she is three."

"Well this is Harry." Said Kristen looking at the child in her arms, she looked up again about to continue but stopped when she saw the looked on Molly's face, "What?"

Molly recovered by shaking her head, "He's Harry Potter?"

Kristen froze, "Oh…that…I'm sorry I just heard about it recently."

Molly nodded her eyes still on Harry for a moment. "Oh not at all…it is my reaction that is at fault…"

"The others are in the kitchen."

"Others?"

"Yeah, there's more then just Harry."

"We're going to have our hands full aren't we?"

Kristen smiled, "Well you know Harry… but not, Daniel, Aaralyan, Orion, Jade, and Annelise."

Molly's eyebrows arched up high. "How old are they then?"

"Daniel is seven, Aaralyan is five, and Orion, Jade, and Annelise are six months nearly."

Molly's eye brows arched but she didn't say anything, "Anyone hungry?" she asked looking at her kids then up at Harry and Kristen.

"Yeah!" rang several kids' voices.

"Then how about I fix us something to eat, all twelve of us…" she looked at them before walking into the kitchen and finding the rest of Kristen's family with the exception of Daniel who was still exploring.

Later in the afternoon, a few hours after the Weasley's had arrived, Kristen was having trouble handling the triplets, who were due for a nap.

Ginny made a small squeak as she finished off a big yawn in her mothers lap and then curled into her mothers arms. "Would you happen to have a room that I may put Ginny to rest in?"

Kristen looked up from Jade, whom she was trying to put to sleep in her arms. "I have no idea honestly. I need to put these three down to nap also, Sirius said to look around before he left." She stood, "If you could pick up Orion we can go see if we can't find a room for them." Kristen leaned down and picked up Annelise.

A few moments later the two women left the kitchen and began to make their way up the stairs to the second landing. It wasn't until they were on the third landing that they found a room occupied by three cribs for the triplets to sleep in. Once they had been laid down to rest the two women placed Ginny in the bedroom next door. Molly looked up at Kristen for a moment, "It is far too quiet."

Kristen started to say something, but there was a sudden crash of glass breaking and the sound of several light feet running up and down a set of stairs. The two women looked at each other, "Fred! George!" yelled Molly as they walked out of the room together.

Kristen looked over the banister of the third floor and down the stair way to the second floor. She saw Ron, Harry, and Aaralyan standing on the stairs looking down at Fred and George who immediately pointed at Daniel standing by a table. A broken vase lay shattered on the floor. "Hey!" Daniel protested to the blame. "I didn't do it! It was them!"

"Fred? George?" asked Molly walked down the stairs towards the two now, with Kristen not too far behind.

Both boys winced at Molly's glare and they both took a step back in spite of themselves. "We didn't mean to!" Said Fred, finally mustering the courage a six year old could to speak.

"You never mean to Fred, it's always and accident isn't it?" the two boys nodded with the slightest of hopeful smiles. "In some else's house it is not acceptable!" the smiles vanished. With a last glare at her twins Molly repaired the vase with a single word, this made Kristen's eyes widen in amazement. "I'm sorry about that, the shouldn't break anything else now." She said the last part looking at the twins. "Now off with you all, and stay clear of the third floor, the babies are resting." With that the six children scattered.

Kristen looked at Molly, "I think I'm going to need to take some lessons from you." The two women shared a laugh as they walked down the stairs to the first landing once more. They went into the sitting room and sat down by a warm fire that was already burning in the fireplace. It was here that Molly began to explain how she was handling all of her children.

A/N: Well I've been debating on whether this was a good ending lately…and whether Sirius' 'speech' was ok. But I think it turned out ok…I hope you guys won't kill me for the delay. I finished school two weeks back, since then I've been occupied with cleaning and band, so sorry about that. Anyways I know where the next chapter is going…I've even written one that's will come along in a little while. I'm so excited that I've got it all figured out now!  I won't be making separate years out of this, it'll stay under this one title, so you'll just have to wait and see what's up my sleeve! evil grin

I must say now that I'm sorry for any typos, I discovered I'm quite prone to those when I was reading over chapter two today. Sorry about that by the way. Any ways I'm off to work on the next chapter!