Disclaimer: Harry Potter does not belong to me.

Author Notes: Once again, thank you for the reviews…and I am sorry that I killed them off…I loved them too! Sorry it's so short, but I am being bugged by my brother and I decided that you can all have this bit…it was going to be longer, I swear!

Time Slip

Chapter Sixteen

Unmentionables

For the next few weeks, the two remaining Potters were busy sorting out everything after the deaths of Karen and Michael Potter. The funeral had taken place on August 4th, a day after the full moon. Since both James and Harry were seventeen, they decided that they would live the few remaining weeks till Hogwarts at their house. The Black's tried to get Sirius back, but a court in front of the Ministry on August 6th decided that since he was also seventeen, he was allowed to live where ever he wanted, which was with Harry and James.

The funeral was a long and depressing thing, with lots of people crying. Everyone was dressed in black, except for Alice who wore a light purple dress stating that they would have wanted colors, not just black, at their funeral. The grave markers read…

Karen May William Potter

February 2, 1945-August 31, 1977

Caring mother and brave woman

Forever remembered and loved

Michael James Potter

June 28, 1941-August 31, 1977

Wonderful father and fearless man

Forever remembered and loved

Soon everyone at the funeral had gone home, leaving Alice and Frank, who were holding hands, Lily and James, who were standing next to each other, and Remus and Harry who were leaning on either side of Sirius. Peter had gone home early because his little sister had gotten sick and no one was there to take care of her.

They stood in quiet for a few moments, deep in their own thoughts till Lily broke the silence. "James, I'm sorry…"
Everyone looked at her. "Why?" James asked, turning from his parents gravestones to her.

Lily's head was bent and her hair was covering her eyes. "I don't know…I just felt like saying it…I never know what to say at funerals…"

James smiled his first real smile he had all week. "No ever does Lil's…but thanks." He took her hand and she didn't pull away.

Sirius looked at James and Lily and then looked down at Harry, whose face was graced with a faint smile. Sirius heart ached knowing that Harry hadn't been himself since his birthday and understood why…he tried to get Harry alone, but he wouldn't be. Sirius wanted to kiss Harry and make sure he didn't blame himself. He must have been staring at Harry for a long time, because he looked up at Sirius and smiled, while slipping his hand into his. Sirius smiled back and squeezed his hand. Harry snuggled his head into his side and stayed there till everyone moved from the graves to go home.

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It was the day before the start of Hogwarts, and Sirius, James, and Harry were sitting in the study with a fire going. They had been mostly mellow and depressed since the day of that tragedy, but had been getting better with each passing day. Though Harry and James had been getting worse for awhile, like they stopped eating and sleeping till Sirius put a stopped to it by first explaining, then yelling at them that it wasn't their faults or anything and that Karen and Michael would come back and kill them if they didn't start to take better care of themselves. He also threatened to force feed them and drug them into sleeping. Though after a few thrown hexes between James and Sirius, they started to eat and sleep more.

Anyways, they were all sitting around, reading or doing something to amuse themselves. Harry's choice in what to amuse himself with was to look at the blackmail book he had gotten from Sirius. He had seen them in curses gone wrong to pranks played on one another. They got better with each new year, though one fourth year picture got his attention. It was one of his father and Sirius swing dancing. It was interesting to watch and he was beginning to wonder what the blackmail was till James jumped into Sirius arms and apparently Sirius wasn't strong enough to pull him back up, so James fell on top of Sirius, whose legs looked to be spread at a painful position. Harry tried, and failed, to keep his laughter in. The other two boys looked at him, Sirius with amusement and James with dread. "Alright, which picture is it…" James asked.

Harry snorted and held out the book. "Should I be jealous?" he asked as James and Sirius looked at the photo.

Sirius started laughing and James glared at him. "It wasn't funny…you almost broke my back."

He stopped laughing and glared at him. "Well, my legs hurt like hell and I still doubt I can have children." Harry smiled as those two bickered, happy to know that they were starting to get better. He flipped the page and stopped. His eyes went wide with terror and he threw the book down, closing his eyes and covering his ears as he repeated "Ewewewewewewewewew…" over and over again, rocking back and forth.

James and Sirius stopped bickering and James picked up the book and started to laugh. "I can't believe you put the picture in here!"

Sirius grabbed the book from him and looked disgusted. "Damn, I must have forgotten to take that one out!"

Harry stopped rocking and rose up, glaring at Sirius. "How could you forget a picture like that!" he bellowed.

Sirius looked at him in shock and scooted more into his chair. James snickered and took the book back to look at the photo. It was a picture of Snape, who must have been cursed into the scariest unmentionables in the world and there was Sirius, kissing him on the cheek and holding him around the waist. James started laughing at the angry look Harry was giving his friend and the scared look on Sirius' face. "Harry?"

Harry turned his angry gaze to James. "What?"

"Sirius lost a bet in that picture."

"I know…it says so right under the picture." For under each picture was a description of how that photo came to be.

"Do you want to know what bet he lost?"

Sirius stopped looking scared and looked angry. "Don't tell him!"

James smirked evilly at him. "Oh come on…you rarely ever lose bets and I bet Harry wouldn't mind hearing."

"No I wouldn't." Harry answered.

Sirius sighed and curled deep into his chair, covering his ears. James smiled and turned to Harry. "You see son, this was the time period of when Sirius was secretly in love with Remus but wouldn't admit it to him, and so me and Peter had to listen to him talk about him everyday. Finally I got so annoyed with him that I said I would make a bet with him and him being who he was agreed. I said that if kissed Remus and he kissed back, that I would allow him to talk about him all he wanted, not make disgusted looks, and I'd be his servant for a day without complaining. But if I won, he had to stop talking about Remus and be my servant for the day. The next night in our dorm rooms, because silly me forgot to tell him where he must kiss him, he grabbed Remus around the waist and pulled him into a kiss. Remus looked shocked as hell and after a moment pushed him away and cursed him with one of the most interesting curses I have ever seen. Poor Sirius here couldn't walk straight for a few days. So I have won the bet and waited for him to get better and when he did, I informed him that since he couldn't win the heart of Remus, he must fallow Snape, confessing his love and he did just that…he got plenty of curses from that too, but he never backs out of his word. Anyways, at the end of the day, I hexed Snape into lingerie and bound him and told Sirius to hold him tight and kiss him on the cheek for the picture. Sadly Remus was there, and it was very close to the full moon, and he got mad at me and Sirius, hexed us and freed Snape. He almost beat the crap out of me when he realized that I had done a bet with Sirius and that was why he kissed him…Remus wouldn't talk to me for almost two weeks. And that my boy is how we Marauders get along." James finished with a grand bow. Harry looked at him, a cross between mortified and amused.

Sirius opened his eyes and looked at the other two, but mostly at Harry to see his reaction. He saw that Harry's face was more then slightly scared and that his eyes glittered with a bit of amusement and angry. His face was red with shame and he didn't know if he was angry at him, so he tried to apologize. "Harry, I'm-"

The look Harry gave him silenced him. Harry turned back to James. "James…"

"Yes…" he asked, slightly scared to by the look he was getting.

"You do know that was cruel…" he said quietly. James' eyes went wide and he backed up more into his chair. "You knew that Remus wouldn't kiss him back."

"I didn't-" James tried.

"You are one of his best friends…I can't believe what you did!" he shouted. "I thought Snape was lying about how cruel you guys were to him but I guess I was wrong! I was giving you the benefit of the doubt!" Harry glared and started to head out of the room. "I'm going to bed…see you in the morning…" As he walked out of the room, he started mumbling about how friends shouldn't treat friends like that.

Sirius and James turned to each other and looked ashamed. "You know, he's right…" James said. He smiled and leaped on Sirius. "I'm sorry Siri." He said in a serious tone.

Sirius hugged him. "I'm sorry too…though you know we can't give up the craft that easily…"

James smiled, and stood up. "Of course not, but we can be a bit kinder to each other."

"Agreed." Sirius smiled and stood up. "Though we might want to go see if Harry is alright."

As they were walking out, James turned to Sirius as he thought of something. "Hey Sirius, why would Harry be jealous of you and me…" he trailed off at the look on Sirius face, which was blank…he knew that look well…he was hiding something and he bet he knew what. "We need to talk."

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Harry awoke with a start in the middle of the night. He moved his hand and grabbed his wand carefully as he turned his head towards the door. But even in the dark, he knew who it was. "Hey Sirius." He muttered and stopped grabbing for his wand. "What you doing up?"

He couldn't see Sirius face. "Nothing…I was just checking on you."

"Oh…" Harry squinted. "Is that everything?"

There was pause. "Yeah…I was just making sure you weren't mad."

Harry smiled in the dark. "I really wasn't mad at you, but more at James."

"You really shouldn't be…we all do that to each other, though after what you said, me and James have decided to be nicer to each other."

"That's good."

"Yeah. I am returning your book." Sirius walked in and set it on the table by Harry's head. After a moment, he leaned over and cupped Harry's face. He slowly kissed him on the lips. It lasted awhile, but like all good things it had to end. Sirius slowly moved from Harry's lips. He smiled contently and lay back down. He was falling asleep and as his dream took him, he could've sworn that he heard Sirius whisper, "I love you Harry."

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Harry woke up in a happy mood the next morning. He leaned over and looked at the alarm clock and didn't even care that it read 7:30a.m. He jumped out of bed and grabbed some clean clothes and rushed to the shower. By the time he was done showering and such, it was 8 o'clock. He looked at his trunk one more time, to make sure that everything was there, and headed down to breakfast when he was sure that everything he needed for Hogwarts was in there. When he got there, he saw that James was cooking breakfast and that Sirius was no where in sight. "Hi James."

James looked up and smiled. "Hey Harry. Surprised to see you up this early."

"I get to go to Hogwarts with you and the others, don't I?" he said happily and bounded towards the table. He sat down and looked at James. "Where's Sirius?"

James turned back to his cooking. "He's probably in his room."

"That's surprising. He's usually here before me."

"Yeah…" James turned back around and sat plates of food on the table. "He'll probably be here any minute." James had sat down and they both had starting eating before Sirius showed up.

"Hey, didn't even bother to wait for me?" Sirius asked as he walked in dressed in a baggy shirt and baggy jeans. James' eyes narrowed at him and Harry's face broke into a smile.

"Good morning Sirius!" Harry said, practically oozing with happiness. "Sit down and eat some breakfast!" Sirius sat down, opposite of Harry and put some food on his plate. He picked at it and by the time that they had finished breakfast, he had not eaten more then a piece of toast and a glass of orange juice. As James picked up, Harry looked at Sirius concernedly. "Are you feeling alright Sirius?"

Sirius nodded and smiled. "It's just seventh year nerves you know?"

Harry nodded and accepted that. He turned to James. "When are we leaving?"

"About 9:30. We are meeting Remus and Peter at the train station. So you better go get ready."

Harry nodded again and stood up. "I'll be back in a moment with my trunk."

He disappeared through the door and James turned to Sirius. "Are you really alright, because I know you never get nervous about school."

Sirius smiled again. "Yes, I'm fine…not feeling well."

"Where?" he asked, coming towards Sirius.

Sirius looked at the table. "In my stomach…and my chest. Nothing really…I must have eaten something bad."

"Truly?"

"Truly."

"I'm ready for Hogwarts!" Harry shouted, running into the kitchen.

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The three have gotten everything they needed and gotten a taxi ride to the train station. James had looked at his house till it had gone out of view.

They arrived at 10:00a.m and meet with Remus and Peter, who were waiting for them. They all walked through the barrier and headed for the train. As they got onto the train and found a compartment, Peter turned to them all and announced, "I think this is going to be an interesting year."