A/N: Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't been updating like I said I would but I was gone all weekend and I just got some bad news about my dad. He's really sick. I'll try to update as much as possible to stop myself from worrying too much but I'll still worry. Thanks for the reviews!

Chapter Nineteen: Matchmaking 101

Their bond has almost vanished completely. Harry thought as he ate his breakfast with Remus and Sirius. Harry had sworn to eat breakfast with his two guardians everyday but eat supper with his friends. It was typical when families came to live at Hogwarts, so no one would be suspicious.

Harry bit back at sigh as he thought about his present predicament. He was in the process of fulfilling the bonds with his mate, whom his best friends had no idea to the identity of, someone had made an attempt on his life(not that that was unusual in Harry's life) and his guardians were slowly driving him mad with their dying bond. All in all, life was just peachy.

Remus had gotten Harry's timetable for his that night and after seeing his first class was Potions, Draco decided to have breakfast with his friends. Harry felt fidgety about that but quickly reminded himself that Draco's friend's would protect Draco while Snape, Draco's godfather was there along with his mother. Lucius would also be there to assist Snape with Potions, so Draco was all around safe.

Harry still felt baffled at the fact that he had Potions this year. He and all his year mates had gotten their OWL results in the middle of August and Harry had actually gotten the required 'O' in the class. Snape seemed to be the only real problem Harry had with the class and without him, Harry was actually very good at the course. Remus and Sirius were very proud of their charge that day. Harry had gotten four 'O's on his OWLs, Potions, Defense, Charms and oddly Divination. During Divination he had told the examiner, Professor Marshbanks, that she would meet a round, dark soggy stranger and that she was to have died the previous Tuesday. Amazingly at the end of June, Professor Marshbanks, now Professor Rivers, met her current husband and discovered that, when her home had burned down that Tuesday, she would have still been in it had it not been for the owl informing her of her arrival at Hogwarts the next day.

Harry had still failed two subjects, Astronomy and History of Magic. The only person, Harry found out, who did well in that class had been Hermione who had achieved all 'Outstanding' in her OWLs. The mention of History of Magic made memories of Sirius' death come back, so Harry rarely thought about the course. So his schedule now included eight courses: DATDA, Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures and two new NEWT courses, Magical Healing and Dueling. Professor McGonagall was serious when she said she'd make him an Auror last year.

Remus finished his breakfast and headed up to his classroom. Harry had him last that day and bid the werewolf goodbye and looked at his Godfather. This was as good a time as any to get started on building that bond back up.

"As soon as I can get this moocher out, I'll be up to help Moony." Sirius called as he watched his childhood friend walk out the secret door. Harry watched as his godfather kept his eyes on the door, his gaze distant, even after Remus had left.

Harry tilted his head to the side and concentrated on Sirius. The colors around Sirius were dull, not vibrant like his and Draco's. It made his chest feel tight, the amber and icy blue looking sickly and sad while the tinge of grey looked like Dementor's skin.

"Why do you hesitate to renew your relationship?" Harry asked out of the blue, startling the animagus, hoping to shock the truth out of him.

Sirius nearly choked on his tongue and spluttered, his eyes wide.

"I... well, that is-we...Remus and I...how'd you know?" Sirius finally got out and Harry grinned.

"Probably the same way my mum knew?"

Sirius grumbled into his coffee about matchmaking Veela. Harry narrowed his eyes at his godfather.

"You still haven't answered the question."

Sirius sighed. "It's not as simple as yours and Draco's relationship, Harry. Remus and I have too much between us now."

Harry raised an eyebrow. He was picking up too many habits form his Slytherin mate, Sirius realized.

"And me and Draco hating each other wasn't 'too much between us'? Sirius, I'm going to be honest. Your bond can't take much more of this. It's dying. Once it's gone, Remus won't be the same. You'll never get it back."

Sirius was silent but had paled at Harry's words. Harry watched the man, worried. The dying bond had started to become a buzzing in his ears since the reading of his parent's will. It was in it's last stages.

Sirius finally looked up from where he had been staring and Harry was shocked to see the normally confident, cocky Sirius Black looking unsure and doubtful.

"How can I know if Remus will even want me back? I've caused him nothing but heartache and pain these last fifteen years. If this bond dies maybe he can move on and be happy."

Harry's eyes flashed in anger. "So you're going to let something that happened fifteen years ago ruin what you can have now?You're lettingPeter and Voldemort win then. You think you've caused him pain? It wasn't you! It was Peter! Since you came back, Remus has been happy! I heard McGonagall saying it to Dumbledore! Remus loves you. He looses you again...I'm not sure he'll survive it."

Sirius stood up, for once angry at his godson. "Not all my actions can be blamed on Peter, Harry! I convinced your parents to switch Secret Keepers. I chased after Peter when he betrayed them. I walked into that trap instead of doing my duty and taking care of you and Remus!"

Harry stood up too, facing his godfather. It was a battle of stubbornness and Harry had that trait in spades.

"So this is some sort of sick punishment for your past actions? That was the most idiotic thing I've heard come out of your mouth! You didn't 'IMPERIO' my parents into choosing Peter, it was their choice!Just like it was Peter's choice to betray them!You went after Peter, I can understand that! If anything happened to Ron or Hermione I wouldn't rest until the bastard that did it was in the deepest circle of hell, but you can't go on punishing yourself like this!"

Sirius was shaking, in anger or something else, Harry couldn't tell but he wouldn't let Sirius continue this personal Azkaban trip he was on. If anyone had the right to blame Sirius for anything that happened that night, fifteen years ago, it was Harry but he didn't blame him anymore than he blamed Neville for not being attacked that night.

"If this is what would make Remus happy, then why hasn't he tried to fix this? You have no idea what it was like for me! I don't deserve him!"

"Maybe he deserves you! Did you ever think of that? He didn't do anything about it for the same reason you didn't! Guilt! Merlin, it's like a prerequisite to be in Gryffindor! You need a guilt-complex! He feels like he failed you by not believing your innocence and then when he actually did, not trying hard enough to keep you out of jail! You're his mate! No one could make him happier. Do you blame Remus for not believing you?"

Sirius scoffed at him. "Hell, no! It was a trap. I wasn't given a trial and Remus being a werewolf couldn't just visit me at Azkaban, not that he would have wanted to, believing I was a murderer. I can't blame him at all. How could you ask such a thing?"

"Then why do you insist on punishing him right along with yourself?" Harry asked and Sirius froze. "Being mates, you're perfect for each other, equal in every way, including your faults. Yours is your anger, which made you go after Peter that night, the one emotion Remus doesn't express as much as he should. So you punish yourself, staying away from him, thinking he would be better off without you, while at the same time, taking away the thing he has been living for ever since he found you. You say you don't blame him, then stop hurting him."

Sirius sat down and put his head in his hands. "How do you know?" he asked, his voice muffled.

Harry sighed, threw his arms up in the air and rolled his eyes before going over and rubbing his distraught godfather's back.

"I'm an Elemental Veela, Padfoot. A matchmaker. It's my job to know these things. You think I didn't have many of the same thoughts when I found out Draco was my mate?"

Harry looked at his watch and groaned. He had to leave now or be late for Potions.

Sirius had his hands clasped together and was starring off into nothing. "How can I fix this?"

Harry, who had already grabbed his school bag and was at the door, paused.

"Talk to him." he said and turned to look at the black haired wizard. "When I said he wouldn't survive the death of the bond...I meant it."

Sirius knew Remus only had Second Year Gryffindors and Ravenclaws first period, so he stayed behind and thought about what he and Harry had said- okay yelled at each other

"Then why do you insist on punishing him right along with yourself?" Was he? Was he really punishing the calm, friendly werewolf he had come to love in their Hogwarts years? The thought of anyone making Remus smile those shy, secretive smiles he gave when Sirius said something funny made his insides boil with rage and jealousy. But if Remus was happy...

"You're his mate! No one could make him happier." Sirius doubted that. He wasn't there for him when James and Lily died, he wasn't there for him when he transformed for twelve years! The only thing he did was make Remus believe he was mated to a murderer. And even if that wasn't necessarily true, Sirius wasn't the greatest person in the world. He was a bigot when it came to good and evil, immature, temperamental and downright cruel to people he hated and Sirius could hate easily. He didn't deserve kind, gentle, loyal, unbiased Remus when you looked at it like that.

"Maybe he deserves you! Did you ever think of that?" Sweet Merlin, what Supreme Being did Remus piss off to deserve him as his punishment? Sirius had practically used his best friend's illness against Snape in some school boy prank, not thinking for a moment how Remus would feel if he had hurt the greasy git in their Fifth Year.No, Sirius had nothing to offer the man other than more pain,.misery and heartache.

"So you punish yourself, staying away from him, thinking he would be better off without you, while at the same time, taking away the thing he has been living for ever since he found you. You say you don't blame him, then stop hurting him." But if what Harry had said was true, then he was doing more harm than good by trying to do the noble thing and give Remus his freedom. It was almost exactly the same thing Harry did to Draco and almost died for it.

"Remus loves you. He looses you again...I'm not sure he'll survive it." Sirius' heart clenched at the thought of loosing Remus. He couldn't, wouldn't let someone else he loved die, not if he could stop it. He'd lost Jamsie and Lily Flower to Voldemort, and in an odd way, Peter as well. Harry was almost a grown man now, and would soon have to face Voldemort. Harry needed all the help and support he could get and Harry loved Remus like a father. It would be selfish to deprive Harry of the childhood he never had because two grown men couldn't solve their problems like some crummy soap opera. "Remus loves you." And dammit, Sirius loved Remus too.

Potions was actually bearable for Harry. Ron had got 'Acceptable' on his Owl and bid Harry and Hermione good luck before hopping off to go back to sleep in Advanced History of Magic.

Harry was on time, actually there before Snape and saw too his surprise that they were assigned seats. Draco had to have talked to his godfather because Harry found himself trying not to blind everyone with the brilliant smile that was trying to pop out at the sight of his partner.

While he had not let Harry sit on the Gryffindor side of the classroom, Draco had made sure Harry sat with him all year.

The class consisted of four Slytherins (Draco, Pansy, Theo and Blaise), three Gryffindors (Harry, Hermione and Seamus), five Ravenclaws (Harry had no idea how they were, having very few classes with them in the last six years) and two Hufflepuffs ( Ernie MacMillan and Justin Finch-Flentchy).

Draco was partnered with Harry, Pansy with Hermione, Theo with Seamus, while Ernie and Justin were paired up, leaving Blaise with one of the Ravenclaws who had no partner. Snape hardly said anything to Harry, the Slytherins in the class Harry's friends along with Hermione and the Hufflepuffs and just ignored him. With Draco as his partner, Harry could bask in the nearness of his mate and get a good Potions mark while he was at it.

Another bonus was that it gave Hermione the chance to get to know the Slytherins Harry got to know. Hermione looked at her partnership to Pansy with optimism at first and by the end of the class they were chatting like old friends.

"Yes!" Hermione was saying as they packed up to leave. "I also read that article! The seeds that fall off of a Womping Willow are used in the potion to treat Arachibutyrophobia!"

Air-chi-but- what!" Harry asked, smiling at the sight the pair made.

"Arachibutyrophobia, Harry." Hermione corrected with a roll of her eyes. "The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth."

Harry looked at her oddly. "Is that dangerous?"

Pansy shook her head. "It's completely illogical. That's what makes it a phobia."

"What's it called if you're afraid of insane Dark Lords trying to kill you?" Harry asked, jokingly.

"It's called common sense but professionals call it Necrophobia." said Hermione before talking about Womping Willow seeds with Pansy again.

Harry sighed. "I'm so screwed up."

The rest of Harry's day went fine. He had Transfiguration with just Gryffindors after Potions, then lunch followed by another class of Transfiguration. Then Harry and Ron went with the Hufflepuffs to Care of Magical Creatures. Hagrid was overjoyed at the response he had gotten in his classes. He was a bit upset that Hermione hadn't taken the course but Harry and Ron explained that Hermione had a lot of classes already.

Finally it was time for Defense Against the Dark Arts. This class was with Slytherins again. Unfortunately with Ron in the much more crowded class, Harry only got as close asone desks away from his mate. Harry heard Draco sighed and grinned. It was nice, in a weird sort of way when Draco was disappointed they couldn't get closer.

Harry was sat back and looked up at his two favorite professors, anxious. Harry hoped his talk with Sirius that morning would have made the man jump into action but the bond was still buzzing in his ears. Fed up, Harry quickly whispered to Ron and Hermione to not wait up for him after class and that he would meet them in the Great Hall.

Thanks to Harry's teaching in the DA, this year's OWL scores on Defense were the highest in over a century. Neville had gotten and 'E' for his work in the group and had said it was all thanks to Harry that he had worked so hard. The-Boy-Who-Lived just waved it off and said Neville had done all the work himself.

So the Sixth Year DATDA class was split into two, Gryffindor/Slytherin and Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff.

Remus and Sirius were talking quietly at the front of the classroom but the buzzing made it hard for Harry to understand what they were saying. It felt like someone had pushed a bumblebee into his ear and the poor thing was bouncing around, trying to get free.

By the end of the class, Harry had no notes worth reading done and a very bad headache. Rubbing his scar furiously, Harry tried to smile at Ron and Hermione and Draco and his Slytherin friends. They all knew that Harry's scar meant trouble.

Harry sat and waited until everyone had left with his head down resting on his desk. The buzzing was still present but muffled.

"Harry?" Remus' concerned voice came from above him as a hand rested on his shoulder. "What's wrong?"

Harry raised his head and saw Sirius was still at the from of the room. And Hermione thought Ron was stubborn! Harry narrowed his eyes at the wizard before his and said in a calm voice. "Ask Sirius."

Amber eyes followed emerald green to stared at the nervous man before him.

"Padfoot? What's going on?"

Harry got up and picked up his bag then took a calming breathe.

"I tried to give you guys a chance to solve this on your own but now I'm about a second away from ripping my own ears off."

Remus made a jerky motion with his hands, as if to stop Harry from doing just that but instead just put an arm around his cub and guided him toward his godfather.

"Harry, I'm sure this will work out if you give it a few more days." Sirius said but Harry's glare silenced him.

"You're bond doesn't have a few more days, Sirius!"

Remus sucked in a sharp breathe and Harry turned to him.

"I've already had this talk with Scruffy over there, now it's your turn."

Sirius made a noise at the word Scruffy but was drowned out by Harry.

"Sirius be quiet for a minute." Harry ordered before quickly putting silencing charms on the classroom before rounding on the two wizards again.

"I'm an Elemental Veela. You know that. I know that. So why must you insist on driving me mad with your childish behavior?"

Remus opened up his mouth to reply but was cut off .

"I didn't say you could talk yet. I'm sure you've both heard this from my mother as you both knew I needed my mate, but if you think you're doing the other a favor you're a lot more dense than I realized."

Both men looked at bit baffled. They were being lectured by their sixteen year old godchild and there was not a damn thing they could do about it.

Harry lent on the Remus' desk, his face serious.

"You bond is dying. It's probably a day or two at the most from just flickering out. I have given you all summer to work this out but you've left me no choice."

Harry quickly crossed the classroom and walked out the door, shutting it behind him. Sirius and Remus sprang into action when they heard locking charms being put on the door.

"Harry, let us out! What do you think you are ding!" Remus said as he pulled on the door. Not even his werewolf strength could open it.

Harry's voice came from the other side, sounding smug.

"I found this spell that locks until it's trigger unlocks it. Unless you two talk and re-affirm your bond I'm not letting you out. I refuse to have one more Defense class with that horrible buzzing in my ears! I'll get Dobby to send you up some food. Have fun!"

Remus and Sirius stood in shock as they realized the situation.

"You know, if it wasn't us he had done this to...I'd say he was finally channeling his inner Marauder." Sirius said with a half smile on his face.

"Of course." said Remus, wondering just how long they would be in here.

A/N: Okay so not so much Remus and Sirius action but more into their thoughts and ideas. The next chapters should have some more I swear! Thanks for reviewing!

S.Tangerine