A/N: I'm so sorry this took so long! Really really really sorry! But school…clubs…projects…HOMEWORK…algebra…gym…miles…books, cold, teachers, classes, when will it end when will it end? Oh sorry. I won't give you a bunch of excuses and just let you read.

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Chapter 11: Back to Hogwarts

As Sirius lay down to sleep the last night of vacation (still at James house) he thought about how lucky James was. James had…James had parents who cared. Parents who were friendly and nice and didn't strike their son. This has been the best Christmas of his life. Him and James had played Quidditch, had fierce snowball fights, played wizard chess, thought up new pranks, and a whole lot more. But there was a problem.

Sirius didn't want to leave.

The Potter household was as large as Number 12 Grimmauld Place but with a huge difference. Here there were so many things that Sirius didn't have at his "home." There was love, comfort, and a relaxed atmosphere that hung over the house instead of suffocating him. It was nothing like his home. Sirius didn't know how he was going to stand the summer with his parents back home, and he was sure Bellatrix would come over for a while. Finally, Sirius managed to fall asleep.

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The next morning everyone was rushing. Despite Mr. And Mrs. Potters warning the boys hadn't pack the night before and were now rushing around, trying to pack everything in time.

James made his way into Sirius's room, half dressed and with a piece of toast in his mouth. He threw a pair of socks in Sirius's direction before taking the toast out of his mouth. "Ve o se mm hisof f mna ook?"

"Yeah," Sirius said, tossing the book to James who caught it. "Looks brand new, like you haven't even opened it."

James swallowed the toast in his mouth. "I haven't," James said grinning. "I found your transfiguration essay," he said, dropping it on Sirius's bed before dropping to the floor to look under Sirius's bed. "Have you seen my quills? I can't find them anywhere?" James got off the floor and started looking through Sirius's trunk.

"No, now stop messing my stuff up!"

James glanced down at the trunk. It actually looked neater then when he had left it alone. He shrugged and dropped one of Sirius's muggle shirts back inside before crawling across the floor to look for his missing quills. "They must be hiding…they just want to make my life miserable. They're all against me."

"That's a bold statement," Sirius said grinning, walking up behind James, bending down to help him look.

"James! Come down here and get your quills! I found them on the plate of toast!" the boys heard Mrs. Potter yell. James quickly began to stand up, not knowing Sirius was right above him. Their heads rammed into each other.

"OW!" the cried in perfect usion, both dropping to the floor. "You've got a hard head!" Sirius commented. He crawled towards his bed and gave James a mock Serious look. "If I don't survive down here…you can have my stuff." With that Sirius crawled under the bed and into the unknown.

James shook his head and headed for the door.

"Grab me some toast when you're down there!" Sirius shouted from under his bed, searching around for some chocolate frogs. Minutes later, James heard a distressed scream come from his room where Sirius was. He shrugged and went upstairs.

Somehow they managed to get to Kings Cross on time, Sirius muttering the whole way about "them" following after the group to finish him off.

"Thank you for having me," Sirius said politely through the window of the train a few minutes later, finally convinced nothing was out to get him.

"Oh it was no trouble dear, you're welcome anytime," Mrs. Potter said, smiling warmly.

Sirius and James waved as the train rounded the corner. They were on their way to Hogwarts again.

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Now that Christmas was over the teachers seemed to think it was time to get ready for exams. The homework started coming on much stronger, and many students were getting frustrated.

"This is so stupid!"

"They're just trying to prepare us for end of the year exams," Remus said, not looking up from his book.

"They're still half a year away!" Sirius complained one day, throwing down his quill and glaring at the half completed essay as if it had stolen his best prank book.

"Maybe you'd understand it if you hadn't fallen asleep in class," Remus muttered to himself, turning the page of his book title "How to deal, living with idiots." It had been a gift from Lily.

When a said idiot is complaining about something, help them with it. Sometime the stress is just too much for their puny little minds. Offer help and maybe they'll be quiet and let you relax a little bit.

"Hey Sirius, want some help with that essay?" Remus asked, smirking slightly.

"Yes! Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you!" Sirius yelled, falling to his knees and crawling toward Remus.

Remus stood over Sirius; book in hand, smiling brightly now. Seeing Lily glance over at Sirius with a look of…that she thought he was insane…on her face, Remus showed her the chapter and she suddenly smiled.

"Checkmate!" James stated loudly enough for at least half the common room to hear. "I win again."

Peter groaned. "I'll never be able to beat you James," he said, getting up and shuffling over to where Remus was very patiently trying to explain something to Sirius, who was staring at the fire.

"Anyone want to lose to me?" he asked the common room, smiling smugly.

Remus rolled his eyes and poke Sirius hard on the head. "Listen! Do you want help or not?"

"YES!" Sirius yelled loudly, directing everyone's attention to him. He looked at them all and grinned. "Butterflies!" They just shook their heads and went back to whatever they were doing. Most people expected this of Sirius by now.

It's a good thing no one wants to play me, you'd lose anyway," James said. He was in a…strange mood today. No one knew how to describe it.

"Oh that's it," Lily mumbled to Celebrean before standing up. "I'll play you, and I'll win!" she said, drawing everyone's attention to her. Remus even stopped helping Sirius to stare at her.

James smirked. It really was not a good look on him. It made him look like an evil, slimy, Slytherin git who was having fun torchering some innocent six year old. "We'll play, but I'll be the one winning." He turned away and started setting up the board.

"This could get interesting," Sirius stated, jumping up from his seat near Remus and plopping down in a chair in between the chessboard. He grinned as Celebrean sat on the arm of his chair.

"Money on Lily," she said quietly so no one could hear.

"Is she good?" Sirius asked her curiously. Lily had never seemed the type to play a game like wizard chess.

"Yeah, she played me once in it. She beat me in like ten minutes. Of course I'm not the best player," Celebrean admitted, grinning slightly.

Sirius didn't say anything but smiled at her before turning to the game, which was about to start. Remus had even taken a seat by the game, though slightly farther away. Curious Gryffindor's were coming over to watch the game.

"What color do you want?" James asked.

"I'll take black. White moves first, you'll need the extra move."

And so the game went on. Lily took James knight, James took Lily's bishop, it went on for over an hour. By now everyone had abandoned what they were doing and came over to watch.

"What's the matter Potter? I thought you were going to beat me?" Lily said.

James glanced at Sirius, who was looking very amused that James was having such a hard time winning. Remus had a look on his face between amusement and the fact that the whole thing was pointless. Peter looked at James fearfully, sure he was going to loose.

Celebrean smiled encouragingly at James. Unlike Lily she was a friend to the four of them.

Shakily, James told his king his mood. "King to H 2."

Smiling brightly, Lily said "Queen to H 5." Her queen moved to the spot and Lily grinned. "Checkmate!"

Cheers erupted throughout the common room. Celebrean jumped up and pulled Lily into a hug. "Great job Lils! Nice Try," she added to a sulky James. The two of them quickly went up to their dormitories.

The crowed departed quickly after that. There were a few more Nice tries, and some good games to James, and soon everyone was minding their own business again. Only Sirius, Remus, and Peter remained where they were.

"Well there's always someone better then you out there," Remus started to say.

"No, no no! Not a lecture, please Remus," James groaned, putting a pillow over his head and falling over backwards.

Remus glared slightly but said nothing.

"Well…" Sirius started to say, much like Remus had just done.

"We have to finish you essay. Come on, no more distractions," Remus said, grabbing Sirius's robes and dragging him back to their old table.

"NOOOOOOO! HELP ME!" he shouted as Remus dragged him away to complete the essay. James looked at Peter and shrugged.

"I'll play you in wizards chess."

Peter gulped.

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I know weird place to end it. Ok I'm getting this up so no responses, I just want this up. If there's anything you want to see feel free to let me know! Please review!