Disclaimer: I do not own Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, James Potter, or Lily Evans.

I do own Kadasa Mori and Samantha Selene and any of the characters I make up along the way.

I also don't own the places mention in here (Ex: Hogwarts, Hogwarts Express, Platform 9 ¾'s, etc.) Unless they're of my own creations (Ex: Sam's American home)

I never want to own Wormtail so you may have him.

Oh and I don't own any of the teachers… unless of course I make them up.

Yup… I think that's about it. Now on with the story!

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His Parents' Time

Chapter 17 - Veterans' Day (Thursday, November 10th)

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"Guess what! Guess what!" James, Lily, Sam and Remus turned from their homework in the common room as Sirius and Kadasa ran in and skidded to a stop in front of them.

"What?" Sam asked.

"They're letting 7th years go to Hogsmeade if they have a free block last block! It's our last block! Let's go!" Sirius chirped.

"Yeah!" Kadasa agreed. "Please? Please? Last time you wouldn't go!"

Lily looked at Sam then back at Kadasa. "Sure."

"Yay! I'm gonna go get changed!" She darted upstairs.

Lily looked over at the boys. "We'll meet you guys at the front doors in a little bit."

Fifteen minutes later, dressed in street clothes, jeans for the boys and Kadasa, an ankle length green skirt for Lily and a brown knee length skirt for Sam, they walked out the front doors headed for Hogsmeade.

If the weather was nice they'd walk to Hogsmeade but if it was rainy or looked like rain, they'd grab a carriage. Today it was sunny but a bit chilly so they each had a scarf around their neck and mittens on their hands.

Sirius had an arm around Kadasa's shoulders, much to her displeasure, due to the fact she'd been trying to remove it for the past 10 minutes.

"So Kadasa, why the sudden urge to go to Hogsmeade?"

She grinned. "They just opened a new store. All they sell is muggle things."

Lily frowned. "They can actually stay open?"

"Yeah. Seems a lot of students visit it, just to check it out. Lav said there's a lot of cute little trinkets."

"What about the students that come from a muggle family?"

"They can buy something they'd want." Kadasa shrugged. "Let's just check it out."

Entering Hogsmeade they headed for the newest shop, a store called 'Muggles N' More'. Stepping through the doorway, Lily smiled.

She felt a sense of home, seeing all the different muggle things on shelves. There were books, radios, toy planes, everything. All of the electronics could be run by magic so there'd be no need for batteries or electricity.

Kadasa grinned heading over to the electronics, Sirius following, looking confused at all of the different things. She plucked up a small camcorder.

"What's that?" Sirius asked.

"A camcorder."

"A what?"

"You'll see later. I'm getting it."

"Whatever."

"Ooo. Look at these books." Sam grinned, reading through the titles, bending over to see them better.

"Are they any good?"

She jumped and looked at Remus who had his hands on his knees, reading the titles as well, before nodding. "Yup." She pointed to a red colored one. "This is one of my favorite authors." She tapped another one and tugged it out. "And this is her newest book!" She cried with a grin. "I've been waiting all summer for this to come out in muggle stores and it was never in stock! Yay!"

Remus chuckled. "Would you give me some advice?"

"Cool." James muttered picking up a calendar with quidditch pictures for each month.

Lily laughed as she walked by. "Knew you'd spot that."

He scowled at her. "What about you? What are you getting?"

"I'm looking for this lotion my mum wanted." She stated. "But I can't find any."

He raised an eyebrow then nodded behind her. She turned and sighed hanging her head. A display of make-up and lotion was behind her.

"Kadasa! Look at this!" Sirius chirped plucking up the plane and waving it through the air.

"Let me grab this for my grandpa." Kadasa muttered as she grabbed a small model of a World War II plane. "I can't believe they're selling this in a store."

"We have a lot of students interested in muggle studies." A voice stated behind them making Sirius and Kadasa jump and flip around. The manager smiled. "So we're thinking of opening another store in Diagon Alley."

Kadasa grinned. "Well for right now, I just want these."

The manager nodded, rung the plane and the camcorder up and Kadasa handed over several coins before wrapping the plane up and placing it gently in her bag, the camcorder under it.

"What's that for?" Sirius asked.

"My grandpa." She smiled and waved at Sam, Remus, Lily and James as they exited the store. "He was in World War II. Every veterans' day I send him something related to it."

"Veterans' Day? You celebrate that?" James asked then paused. "Wait… one, isn't it tomorrow and two, our grandpa?"

"One, yes it's tomorrow but I'm buying this today so I can send it so it arrives at his house tomorrow. And two no, my grandpa. On my mum's side." Kadasa frowned slightly then grinned. "He loves the trinkets I buy him."

"What'd you get?" Remus asked.

Kadasa unwrapped the plane showing it to them. "Isn't it cool? He flew one just like this."

"Really?" Lily asked, looking at it. "But it's so small!"

Kadasa rolled her eyes and bopped her on the head. "Smart alec." Lily giggled rubbing her head.

"You guys! That store's awesome! If you sign up to get a book early, they'll send you a letter and tell you it's in stock and you can come and pick it up!" Sam grinned, putting several books into her bag.

Kadasa grinned. "I'll check it out next time. For now let's grab some butterbeer at The Three Broomsticks."

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Kadasa turned off the camcorder that she had used to record something for her grandfather and glared at Sirius who had interrupted it during the recording.

He grinned. "You know it just perfected it."

She rolled her eyes and bent down, placing the tape in a small box along with the plane. Finishing tying the box together, Kadasa's silvery gray owl picked up the small box, hooted, then dove off the tower, flying away.

Kadasa sighed watching the owl fly off with the package. Sirius smiled.

"I miss him so much." She muttered.

"Why don't you visit him on a holiday?" He asked.

"Cause I'd have to visit my mum first."

"I take it you don't like your mum?"

"We're… not really close. I haven't seen her in awhile and I don't think she'd appreciate it if I just showed up on her doorstep asking to see grandpop…. Well hopefully he'll enjoy my present."

"Of course he will." Sirius grinned brilliantly. "Now come along before we get caught by Filch."

Kadasa grinned. "Race you back?"

"You're on."

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Please see next chapter for author's note.