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Regulus: What made you updating today?
Sniffy: Ending the chapter thirteen. It's not what I originally planed but almost.
Regulus: You mean not whole 31st of July.
Sniffy: Yep. Only to breakfast but still surprising ( not for all ). And I LIKE that chapter very much it's very enlightening and quite funny.
Regulus: I think that you forgot about something.
Sniffy: Nope. Conversation between Sirius and the portrait lines from 'Shut it you infernal woman' to 'Sounds like it' was borrowed from scifichick774 fic 'Protector' ( if you are not 18 you hadn't chance to read it ) I loved that lines and I decided to use it in FP and it's working wonderful with Sirius reaction for next event.
Regulus: I still think that you forgot about something.
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Regulus: Poor Sniffy. If you like that chapter PLEASE REVIEW because she work very hard and wrote 11 pages of text during two weeks.
In our family portrait
We look pretty happy
We look pretty normal
Lets go back to that
In our family portrait
We look pretty happy
Lets play pretend, act like it goes naturally
Chapter thirteen: Birthday surprises.
Raven woke up suddenly around 5 am. 'It's my birthdays. Yep. And Regulus and Thabit's also' he thought to himself and tried to fall asleep one more time. No such luck. After fifteen minutes of tossing and turning in his bed Raven decided to leave the bed and get dressed. He decided to wear one of the pairs of jeans, which Regulus bought for him few weeks ago and a black t-shirt with overprinted 'Birthday boy', which he found on his bed. 'Perhaps mum left this here yesterday' he thought.
He thanked to his mother genes and his Metamorphomagi abilities when he combed his hairs. 'No more 'Harry Potter's' scar, thanks Merlin, so no reason to keep fringe' he thought when he tried three hair-dos and decided on expressing his heritage by growing his jet-black hair to his shoulder blades and combing it into a bun. For his luck he could count also the fact that he has contact lenses, which Regulus bought for him.
Raven decided to check if others are still asleep and left his room. First he decided to see how his parents are doing, he carefully opened the door and peeked inside. His mother slept peacefully with one of her hands tucked into a pillow and the other resting on definitely masculine hand. 'Dad' Raven thought. He was right because when he come nearer he saw his father with his face buried in his wife hair and embracing her with his arms. 'Wake them up or not?' Raven asked himself before he slowly withdrew from their bedroom. Next room he checked belonged to Regulus. As a bachelor Regulus possessed the bed to himself, to Raven astonishment Regulus has his head where rest of the people usually keep their foots and he was snoring… loudly. 'Mr. Snorer' Raven thought when he opened the door to Thabit's room. Thabit wasn't as bad as his father, he at last didn't snore, but he has Regulus possessiveness towards the bed and was lying face down in the foot of the bed. 'Like father like son' Raven thought closing the doors and went to check on Neville and Draco, both were sleeping peacefully in their bedrooms. After checking those two he went to Rowan's room and found her still sleeping in her bed. 'She look like an angel, so peaceful, I wonder if Remus talked with her yet' he thought when slowly withdrew from her room and decided to grab something to eat.
He slowly tiptoed the stairs down remembering the rule number one in Grim Manor 'Be quiet in the main hall' and was ready to go down to the kitchen when he heard a tentative knock on the front door. Raven gapped at it and the knocking get louder. Raven swallowed the lump in his throat thinking 'Death Eaters wouldn't be stupid enough to knock' and went to open the door. The worst thing about front door was the fact that you couldn't see the person standing outside. Raven tapped the door with his wand and he heard rattling of locks in front door. He hesitated about a second before opening the door ajar.
He saw a woman. He was sure that she was older than Andromeda and Andromeda was already 44. The woman standing in front of me has to have at last 50 if not more. She was tall, almost that tall as Mirzam was, but almost. Her very slim form was covered by beige dustcoat. She was wearing colourful head kerchief. Raven couldn't see her eyes because she was wearing dark glasses.
"Could you let me in?" the woman asked taking off her dark glasses and Raven saw her eyes.
They seemed familiar, like he had met them before. Then it hit him and he almost heard his father's voice 'You will not find a Black with other eyes than grey Raven. Except you'. The woman outside was a Black!
"Yes" Raven managed to extract a high pitch from himself and opened wide the door.
The woman got inside dragging a huge valise on wheels and a big bag with herself. Raven kicked himself mentally because of his manners and took the valise and the bag from her and put it on the ground before helping her taking off her dustcoat and hanging it on the hanger. She took of her head kerchief and Raven saw her greyish hair – which years ago perhaps were black – falling on her back.
"Excuse me my dear, but I think that I didn't saw you here before" she said turning to him with questioning look.
"Neither did I" Raven said before he even realised it.
She smiled at him and asked, "What's your name?"
Raven was about to reply when they heard a yell from the stairs "Raven Alrai Black I'm going to kill you!" and soon quick footsteps were heard on the stairs.
"You know what? If you really want to woke me up you don't have to use a flowerpot full of cold water to it" very wet and rather angry Thabit materialised on the ground floor.
"Wasn't me" Raven tried to not laugh.
Thabit send him a glare worth Snape then took a deep breath and yelled towards staircase "Dracon whatever is your second name Black you are dead!"
"Muliphen! The day without a quarrel is a lost day, isn't it Thabit…?" Draco appeared in the hall.
"Aldebaran, you git! Dry me, now!" Thabit snapped.
"Black temper we are having today, haven't we?" Draco smirked and waved his wand at Thabit.
"Hard to not have it when you are one" Thabit snorted.
"Temper Thab, we are having a guest" Raven smiled at his little cousin.
"At 5am in the morning?" Thabit asked glancing at the shocked woman.
"You are Blacks?" she asked timidly.
"Yep. Raven, Draco and Thabit at your services Mrs. Excuse me I didn't heard your name" said Raven.
"Talitha Shaula Black" she answered.
Thabit who was about to scratch his head froze with his hand hanging above his head and stared at her in disbelief "Excuse me, could you repeat yourself?" he asked.
"Talitha Shaula Black" she repeated smiling.
"Git. Your father is going to skin you off" Thabit told to Raven.
"Why?" Raven asked.
"Tell me, dear cousin of my, when was the last time when you took a look at our family tree?" Thabit asked.
"About year ago. Why you are asking?" answered Raven.
"I think that someone need a lesson about our family history" Thabit muttered.
"At last MY father is not crazy about it" Raven snapped.
"My mother was right. Like father like son. Your complete ignorance about our history is going to kill you someday," Thabit muttered.
"At last my father is not insane. Spending sixteen years as an animal does weird things to your mind," Raven growled.
"Just like spending twelve years in Azkaban, Furrytail!" Thabit barked.
"Mudblood!" Raven snarled before he actually thought about what he was saying, when he realised what kind of word left his mouth his hand shot to his mouth.
Thabit stared at him in disbelief before he made a movement towards Raven, but Draco caught him before he had a chance to throw himself at his cousin.
"And proud of it!" Thabit whirred at Raven at the same time trying to freed himself from Draco's embrace.
"Thabit?" Raven's voice was weak and almost a whisper "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to…" he mumbled.
"You better didn't! Imagine yours father's face if he would find out what did you just said" Thabit growled but stopped struggling in Draco's lap.
"I'm really, deeply sorry. I didn't mean to say it. I haven't thought about what I'm saying" Raven knew that he was mumbling incoherently at the same time trying to come closer to Thabit.
"You better didn't" Thabit repeated himself, his voice blank, just like his face "You didn't have to remind me who am I" Thabit added after Draco let him go "First proper half-blood in Black family since the beginning" Thabit voice was nothing but a whisper.
"I'm sorry. I mean it" Raven chocked from himself before he hugged his little cousin.
"I didn't mean it too, what I said about your father" Thabit mumbled into Raven's chest.
Raven's grip tightened and he pulled Thabit closer to himself "I'm sorry. Dad is going to burry me alive when he will find out" Raven mumbled.
"You mean if he will find out" Thabit pulled out from him and smiled at him.
"No I mean 'when' Thabit" said Raven "I know that what have I done was wrong and I have to face the consequences. I'm going to talk with him later" he added after few seconds.
"You don't have to" Thabit said sincerely.
"I have to Thabit. The rules we had to obey in this house are clear, this one especial: 'We are not bringing purity of our bloods if we really didn't have to'. I broke that rule and I have to face the consequences, just to don't feel disgusted with myself. I have to tell him and your father also" Raven said.
"We better take the measure at your coffin Rave. Dealing with both Black brothers at the same time is not something I would wish to an enemy, let alone a family member" said Draco.
"Thank you very much. You shattered my image about normal family Mr. Nightmare" Raven said sarcastically.
Draco shrugged. Thabit and Raven pulled away from each other.
"We are anything but normal" Thabit came to conclusion.
"That was understatement" Draco and Raven said at the same time.
"And it all had to happen because Raven is an early bird when Thabit is a night owl" said Draco.
Thabit shook his head and said "It all happened because Raven is a real ignorant when it comes to family history. No offence Raven"
"No one taken. But as an ignorant I would be really glad if you would tell me who Talitha Shaula Black is for us" said Raven.
"It's simple" Thabit said and motioned towards the portrait of Mrs. Black.
"It's impossible," said Raven.
"Why? Trust me I know what I'm telling and it's not my father fault. I studied family tapestry by myself and I know what which lines means, especial now when dad fixed it show even this banned Blacks. Talitha Shaula is wife of Achird Erakis Black and mother of Sirius Mufrid and Regulus Sadalmelik Black and this is making her grandmother of Raven Alrai and Thabit Aldebaran Black, in short words, us" said Thabit confidently.
"You are actually enjoying family history, aren't you?" Talitha asked Thabit.
"It's interesting, besides I feel an obligations to study it because I don't know too much about wizarding world. I mean what I said before, I'm half-blood raised in muggle world, just like Raven but he is a pureblood," answered Thabit.
"How old are you? I mean it's hard to picture you and your fathers especial when one of them is dead and another in Azkaban, last time I knew something about. I mean, I think that Raven is Regulus son and Thabit is Sirius son…" Talitha said.
"Nope, Raven is Sirius son and I'm Regulus son. Raven is sixteen, just like Draco, Rowan and Neville and I'm eleven, Kyle too. And I will answer your next question, yes our fathers are alive and quite well as far as I know" Thabit explained.
"I still don't understand," said Talitha.
"Shall we took it to a place with something to sit on" Thabit motioned towards the study.
"Now, if you could start explaining from the beginning I would be grateful," said Talitha when they sat down on the couch.
"Raven you should start, you are the one who know everything what had happened," said Thabit.
Raven explained what happened in the hospital with himself and what had happened later with Regulus and the Potters (who was Potters secret keeper and who killed all muggles on the street included), Sirius escape from Azkaban and years on the run until Grimmauld Place 12 become headquarter of the Order of the Phoenix and last month events, like finding Regulus, coming back to Grimmauld Place 12, finding Thabit and the fact that Thabit was Regulus son and his own Metamorphomagi abilities which lead into discovering his parentage.
Then Thabit took explanation to his hands and explained everything about his mother and what he knew about his father until he arrived to Grimmauld Place 12 and what he knew about him now.
"As you see I'm first proper half-blood in the family and as far as I know I'm also first bastard in the family" ended Thabit.
"Don't talk this way about yourself, you are not a bastard" Raven and Draco scolded him.
"Okay, I'm first kid in the family whose parents weren't married, happy you two?" Thabit corrected.
"You know no everything about us, but what had happened to you?" asked Raven.
"Loneliness Raven. My husband had died, just like my younger son, older son was in Azkaban and we weren't in the speaking terms since he left this house. So when you are alone in the house with only a house-elf as a companion you have time to rethink your point of view at the world. I thought that maybe it wouldn't hurt if I checked if Sirius was right about what meant about muggles and muggleborns. That's why I left. I hanged in the main hall portrait of my. Wicked sense of humour your father has sometimes Raven. He painted it himself when he was 14 for my 35 birthdays and wished me to not look like that after next thirty-five years. Original portrait wasn't moving and talking – Sirius was good painter when it comes to immobile paintings and dreadful when it was supposed to moving – so I charmed it move in it's own frames and cursing everybody around when you would woke it up, then I used glamouring charms on myself, I obliviated Kreatcher to don't remember who I'm under glamour and I told him that I died and I left. I spent few weeks in Liverpool before I decided to travel around the world, I spent few months in Spain and France then I travelled about a year or so East Europe. I was spending time mainly in the mountains then I travelled to Copenhagen where I caught a fly to Ottawa in Canada, I spent two years travelling in Canada before I decided to go to California. I was living in California about ten years without using my wand, I opened a small bakery there. I was respected between muggles there, really lovely people they are but I missed England, I weren't there for thirteen years and I wanted to see how many things had changed during my those years. I just arrived from airport. I agree that I didn't expected to saw that people are living here, no less my sons and their families and friends," Talitha explained.
"Do you can make a chocolate cake?" asked Thabit suddenly.
"I make remarkable chocolate cake," Talitha confirmed.
"Boo-hoo. I assume that you taught aunt Mirzam how to bake it?" asked Thabit.
"Of course. Remarkable student she was, she rather liked to not using magic during baking. Said that it has more magic when it is done without it. How she is doing?" asked Talitha.
"Fine. Uncle Sirius was drooling over her chocolate cake yesterday, but she told him that she baked a small one for us because it was Neville's birthday and she didn't have a time to bake a bigger one. I assume that we will have a bigger one today. After all it's Raven's, Thabit's and uncle's Regulus birthdays today. You three have a such bad timing, you couldn't be born in separated dates?" asked Draco.
"Boo-hoo. Better one huge than three little ones" Thabit joked.
"Today is 31st of July?" asked Talitha surprised.
"Yep" Raven confirmed.
"I was thinking that it is 30th July. Changing time zones do that to you. You are ending eleven, sixteen and…"
"Thirty-five" Raven and Thabit ended together.
"Dad make sure for us to know this. Boo-hoo, he didn't look like thirty-five, he looks more like thirty. Uncle Sirius on the other hand looks like he is forty rather than thirty-seven" Thabit joked.
"How old are you?" asked Draco Talitha.
"You shouldn't ask woman about her age, but if you really want to know it I'm fifty-eight" said Talitha smiling at embarrassed Draco.
They were about to ask more questions when the door of the study had been opened and very sleepy Rowan, Neville and Kyle get inside.
"Wus up?" asked Kyle yawning "Happy birthday you two"
"Happy birthday sweetheart. You too Thabit" murmured Rowan coming to Raven and hugging him before kissing him chastely on the lips.
"Yuck. You two get a room. Raven you are worst than your own father" Kyle commented.
Raven kissed Rowan back at the same time reaching for one of the pillows from the couch and throwing it towards Kyle. Instead of Kyle the pillow hit the lamp on the desk, knocked it on the floor and they heard shattering of the glass. It was enough for Raven to pull away from Rowan.
"You know what Rave, you have a terrible aim, you wouldn't make a chaser" said Draco examining this what left from the lamp.
"Oh, please. Reparo" Rowan muttered and pointed at the lamp.
"Nice one" said Neville placing the lamp on the desk again "Happy birthday natural disasters"
"What made you three to woke up so early?" asked Kyle.
"I just woke up and couldn't get asleep again so I decided to grab something to eat but when I was in the main hall I heard a knock on the door and I went to open it. Those two appeared short after this" said Raven.
"Who was outside so early?" asked Rowan.
"My grandmother" replied Raven.
Rowan, Neville and Kyle glanced at the wall where on the other side of it the portrait of Mrs. Black was supposed to be.
"Hem, hem" Thabit coughed and drew their attention to himself.
"I mean that grandmother" Raven pointed at Talitha was sitting at the other couch and waved at them "Talitha Shaula Black – my friends Neville and Kyle and my girlfriend Rowan"
Talitha smiled and hugged whole three "Nice to meet you" she said.
"Nice to meet you too" said Rowan, Neville and Kyle although Rowan's and Kyle's voices where weak.
Thabit who was good in telling stories explained everything to the rest and after few minutes whole six felt comfortable in Talitha's presence because Talitha decided to tell them few embarrassing stories about little Sirius and little Regulus.
After half of hour whole six was rolling on the floor.
"Grandma did all Black men are possessive when it came to the bed?" asked Raven suddenly.
"What you mean?" asked Rowan.
"Only free one I'm afraid. Married ones have to deal with their wives. Who is a 'covers warthog' here?"
"Regulus. And Thabit" answered Raven.
"I'm not," Thabit denied.
"Yes, you are. Remember when our dads let us stay late in the night and read books in your bed. It was okay, until we read but when we were too sleepy to read and decided to actually sleep it started. First you hit me with your arm, then you stole my pillow and after half of hour I assume, you also stole my part of the blanket. You are bloody possessive when it comes to the bed" Kyle confirmed.
"I'm not, I just, I just like to be tucked" Thabit tried to deny.
"Yeah, whatever" Kyle snorted.
"Maybe it has a psychological base. I slept in Raven's bed few times and he wasn't wrestling with the blanket," said Rowan.
"I wasn't. You were Rowan. I remember that I once ended on the floor," Raven teased.
"I wasn't" Rowan said weakly.
"You were" Raven confirmed.
"Usually the alpha claims the bed" said Talitha.
"Alpha?" asked Thabit.
"One of the partners who is a dominant person in the family, usually women. You should try to see this during the day. Who is those person who is making most of decisions in the family yours mothers or yours fathers," said Talitha.
"Blah. No chances for us to make it" said Thabit.
"Why?" asked Talitha.
"Because the ones actually married couples or at last engaged are aunt Dora and uncle Remus and aunt Mirzam and uncle Sirius. And actually those four believe in partnership. But I heard them once. Uncle Sirius told dad that he ended on the floor only when aunt Mirzam was pregnant with Raven" said Thabit.
"What about yours mothers and fathers?" asked Talitha the rest.
"Half orphan. My mother died few weeks ago and she and dad weren't married. Actually dad was shocked when he found out that he has a son" said Thabit.
"Orphan. My real dad died when I was little and my mum died in May. Remus adopted me when I was little but weren't married to my mum, they were on friends term" said Kyle.
"My parents are still married, but mum is going to divorce with him" said Draco.
"My parents are in St. Mungo" said Neville.
"My real parents are dead. I was kinda adopted by Remus because I'm his goddaughter" said Rowan.
"Mum and dad are properly married by American muggle law, when it comes to English magical law I'm not sure if they are" said Raven.
"Just forgot to register their marriage?" asked Talitha.
"Dunno. Maybe. But everybody here considers them now as married couple. They called mum by her maiden name for few days after they found out" answered Raven.
"Do you want to eat something?" Rowan asked Talitha.
"Actually no but I wouldn't mind a cup of strong coffee" answered Talitha.
A cup of good, strong coffee awakes them totally. Thabit started considering waking up adults and they left the kitchen, they were near the kitchen door on ground floor when they heard voices of two people somewhere between first floor and the landing between first floor on ground floor. They hid themselves behind the curtain before someone could see them.
"You are not funny" they heard Sirius voice.
"Of course I am. I just want to save the cake" Mirzam joked.
"Spoilsport" Sirius pouted and jumped at the landing.
The chandelier , which hangs over, the landing cracked dangerously. Raven and the rest tried to peek from the hole between curtains. They saw Sirius standing on the landing and gaping at the chandelier.
"I suppose that someone should fix this" Sirius muttered.
"Or as far as I know you will throw it out" said Mirzam standing under the chandelier.
"Actually no. I like that thing" said Sirius leaning against the balustrade and eyeing the chandelier.
It cracked again and they could heard that the binding-screw extract some kind of groan and the chandelier started to falling down.
"Mirzam!" Sirius yelled and throw himself at her knocking the two of them at the wall with loud thud.
The kids and Talitha heard two things at once. First, the shattering glass and second, the portrait, which started waking up.
The 'litany' of curse, which followed the thud, was worse than they ever heard from that portrait. The seven from behind the curtain stared at the landing wanting to know what kind of reaction it would bring in Sirius.
Sirius heard out the first round of curses then slammed his fist on the wall and yelled towards the portrait at the same time putting his other hand on Mirzam's mouth "Shut it you infernal woman! Can't you hear that we're trying to copulate?! How are we supposed to conceive the next generation of Blacks for the family tree with you yelling at us in the background?!"
The seven looked at the portrait. Mrs. Black from the portrait looked like someone told her that they are turning Grimmauld into muggle hotel. She opened and closed her mouth before speaking in very weak voice "I…you can't…you wouldn't,"
Sirius retorted confidently "Would and am," and to 'prove' that he is, he slammed his fist on the wall again.
The seven stared at the portrait. Mrs. Black opened and closed her mouth again before she promptly passed out with distinctive thud. Then they stared at the landing.
Sirius slowly removed his hand from Mirzam's mouth.
"She passed out" Mirzam said in very clinical voice.
"Sounds like it" Sirius agreed.
Sirius and Mirzam gaped at each other before bursting in the fits of laugh.
"Told you that he has wicked sense of humour" said Talitha from behind the kids.
Mirzam and Sirius laughing maniacally arrived on the ground floor and went to inspect the empty frames of the portrait.
"I think I found how to shut her up" Sirius said cheerfully.
"I'm afraid you didn't Siri," replied Talitha sweetly while raising the curtains.
Sirius and Mirzam froze where they stood.
"Did you heard it Mirzam or it was only me?" asked Sirius in weak voice.
"Oh she heard. What kind of son you are to not greet with your mommy?" asked Talitha sweetly.
Sirius turned to them and saw Talitha surrounded by the kids. He opened and closed his mouth once, then twice before he promptly fainted.
"I hope I didn't killed him" mumbled Talitha.
"Nope. You only scarred the shit out of him" said Mirzam clinically looking down at Sirius on the floor.
"Mirzam! Kids are here" Talitha hissed at Mirzam.
"What? It's not that bad as what they heard before" Mirzam said motioning towards the portrait.
"Like mother like son" Draco commented and the kids burst in laugh.
"I think that my worst nightmare become real. Mum came back" Sirius muttered from the floor.
Those made kids laugh even harder.
"Come on uncle she is not that bad" said Thabit helping Sirius standing up.
Sirius gaped at him like Thabit has two heads.
"Don't be rude Siri, come here and hug your mummy" said Talitha sweetly, opening her arms for Sirius.
Sirius looked like he would earlier ask Snape for dinner before he will hug his mother but after few moments he reconsidered that idea and with a look of disgust he went to Talitha, arms about ten inches away from Talitha. But Talitha decided to give her older son a proper hug and squeezed him tightly.
"Mom! Breath!" Sirius chocked from himself.
"Good to see you Sirius. You are awfully thin, did your wife is feeding you properly?" asked Talitha pulling away enough for Sirius to breath and for her to examine her older son.
"I don't cook, usually. Andromeda does. I had to drug her yesterday to wake up before her today" said Mirzam calmly.
"What a pity, you are great cook if you want. Come here, I want to hug my daughter-in-law" said Talitha leaving Sirius and going to Mirzam.
That hug was less awkward than the other.
"You look almost as good as I remembered you" said Talitha examining Mirzam.
"Fifteen years in Azkaban does that for you" Mirzam replied smiling.
"Come on Mirzam. Lets make the breakfast for our birthday boys" said Talitha pulling Mirzam down into the kitchen and leaving the kids with stunned Sirius.
"I want to know which one of you little devils opened the door for her?" asked Sirius after he shook off the shock.
Raven shifted closer to kitchen door, mumbled "It was me" and flew down to the kitchen before his father had a chance to say or do something for him. He run along the table and hid behind his mother.
Sirius entered the kitchen soon after him followed by the rest of the kids, sat down on the chair and said pointing at the chair on the opposite side "Raven sit down"
Raven with his soul on the sleeve obeyed and sat down facing his father.
"I didn't expected it from you, Thabit, Draco perhaps, but not you. Do you realised that the guards were down? What would you do if it were a Death Eater? I shouldn't agreed on letting the guards down" Sirius mumbled.
"Death Eaters doesn't knock dad. Why the guards were down?" asked Raven.
"Dumbledore. Fidelius charm wear off. He wanted one of us to become Secret Keeper of the Headquarters. Anyway the only one protection which this house has from three days is one protector charm on the door allowing people enter the house only if someone opens the door from insides" said Sirius.
"Dad?! I want to tell you something" said Raven motioning to the rest to help Mirzam and Talitha.
"Go on" said Sirius weakly.
And Raven told him what happened in the hall. After he ended Sirius had his head in his hands.
"So now you are expecting sentence. There wouldn't be any. This time. You apologised and you didn't knew what you were telling. But if I would find out that you did it again expect that I will bring Regulus into this and you will not escape punishment. Speaking about Regulus" Sirius turned towards the counter where Mirzam and Talitha were ending preparing the breakfast and then yelled towards the stairs "Reggie! Bring your sorry arse down! Breakfast is on the table!"
They soon heard footsteps on the ground floor and Regulus yell "Sirius what you did to mum? She is not in her frames"
"I hugged her. Come here for breakfast" Sirius yelled back.
"Remus! Dora! Andie! Ted! Narcissa! Sirius killed mum! Breakfast is on the table!" Regulus yelled towards staircase and entered the kitchen.
"You know Sirius that I wouldn't mind more grandkids," said Talitha settling pancakes down on the table.
Sirius extracted a loud howl from himself before he replied "You will not leave it down, will you?"
"Nope. Reggie come here, hug your mummy" Talitha said and opened her arms for her younger son.
Regulus who was about to rub his eyes froze in the midway and gaped at Talitha "Mummy?!" the voice which left his throat was high pitch.
"Now you were heard on the attic" Sirius commented pouring himself a cup of tea.
"Sirius I told you that I didn't want surprises on birthdays and even if, you have to pick one of the worsteds kinds" Regulus said before Talitha hugged him.
"Wasn't me. It was Raven" Sirius mumbled.
Regulus turned his head towards Raven and gaped at him in shock "You didn't, did you?" Regulus asked weakly when Talitha pulled away from him.
"Yes uncle. It was me. Happy Birthday by the way" Raven tried to smile.
"Happy Birthday to you too. Thabit where are you?" Regulus voice was still weak.
"Here dad" said Thabit and reappeared from under the table holding Crookshanks and giving him back to Rowan before running to Regulus with outstretched arms.
Regulus grabbed Thabit in the waist and raised him few times before tossing him up "Happy Birthday Thab"
"Happy Birthday daddy dearest" said Thabit smiling when Regulus stopped tossing him up and put him on his hipbone.
"Any chance for chocolate cake?" asked Regulus coming to the counter where Mirzam was searching maple syrup.
"Nope. You have to wait until afternoon. Who the hell hid the maple syrup?" Mirzam yelled from the counter.
"Me. Upper cupboard Mirzam" Sirius turned towards Mirzam.
"Which one?" Mirzam asked.
"The closets to the fridge my dear wife who likes hiding my socks in the freezer" Sirius joked.
"I did it only once" said Mirzam coming back to the table with maple syrup in her hand, she hit Sirius on the to of the head playfully with the other before she sat down next to him.
Regulus who saw a chance to sit as far from Talitha as he could sat down next to Sirius with Thabit on his other side. Thabit on his other side has Raven who has Rowan who has Kyle. Neville and Draco decided to sat down next to Mirzam and Talitha sat down next to them.
"Andie! Mirzam blow the kitchen" Regulus yelled towards the stairs and had to duck before the shortbread tossed from Mirzam reached him.
"Remus! Regulus throw your tea!" Mirzam yelled towards stairs as a payback on Regulus for the last sentence.
"Cissy! Lucy wants to came for breakfast, do you want me to let him in?" Sirius yelled also.
They didn't know which sentence caused the other five to get down to the kitchen but soon they could see five figures in dressing gowns mumbling incoherent noises when entering the kitchen, mainly it was "I will kill you", "I will kill her", "I will kill him".
"If I would know that you wouldn't be in the best moods I would arrived a bit later" said Talitha.
"You know what I can arrange pyjama party in August, but now I expect you to be dressed. We have a guest" said Mirzam and after she ended three transfiguration charms from Regulus, Sirius and her hit Andie, Dora and Narcissa, at another flick of two wands Remus and Ted were dressed also.
"A guest who would visit us at such inhuman hour like seven in the morning?" asked Remus who first get back his full voice.
"My mother, Talitha Black – Remus Lupin, my friend" said Sirius introducing them to each other.
"The others you meet before" added Regulus.
"Sirius is Lucius behind our front door?" asked Narcissa.
"Nope. I joked about this. Just like Regulus and Mirzam about kitchen and the tea. Sit down. I want to eat warm pancakes" Sirius muttered.
They eat most of breakfast in normal manner until Thabit accidentally send a loaf with raspberry jam at Draco. Draco grabbed the nearest thing ( shortbread in his case ) throw it in direction of Thabit but instead of Thabit the shortbread hit Raven. And that's how the food fight begun.
Talitha, Narcissa, Andromeda, Ted, Remus and Dora immediately backed out of it and hid themselves in the farthest corner leaving, Sirius, Mirzam and Regulus to deal with six teenagers. And they dealt.
"Enough!" Sirius yelled and slammed his fist on the table.
In the followed silence you could hear the fly buzzing in the hall.
"Thanks for support, cowards!" Sirius turned to the six in the corner before he turned back to the kids and said "You have half of the hour to clean yourselves if you don't you are doing the laundry for the rest of the holidays"
Raven, Rowan, Draco, Neville, Thabit and Kyle left the kitchen immediately.
"Gee, did someone bite him?" asked Draco.
"Yes. Grandma" answered Raven grimly.
"It's only me or did one of you had a felling that uncle Sirius still didn't like her?" asked Thabit.
"He doesn't, but he may get over it," muttered Raven.
"The last on the third floor is stinky egg," Draco yelled.
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