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Besides this work will contain : mpreg and people out of character since I am definitely not JK Rowlings, and some strange sentences since I'm French. Still here?
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Chapter 5 – Would you like a cup of tea with your explanations?
"What is happening?" growled Sirius in an earie approximation of Padfoot. He teared his eyes from the mock brawl going on near the table to look at Severus.
"Well, you see..." temporised Severus. He stopped when he heard a loud hissing coming from the door step. Another black cat was on the threshold, hissing and spitting at Sirius.
"Don't!" Severus tried to stop him, but once again was unheard as Sirius was thrown to the floor by the impact of another's body. He blinked when James in all his neko glory confronted him.
He gulped nervously as he looked into glowing golden eyes.
"James, let him go!" intervened Snape, grabbing James' shoulder and tearing him off Sirius' prone body.
James looked his lover over to be sure he was alright before he hugged him tightly.
Severus sighed. "Why did you attack him?"
James nearly growled "He had no right to threaten you!"
Severus shook his head. "Okay, everybody listen!" he clapped his hands. "Blaise, Harry, Lupin! Stop that, you oversized children! Black, you take care of Lupin, tie him to the table or whatever, and sit! Blaise, Harry, same goes for you! James I'm alright, go and sit. I'll bring tea. Now!" he shouted. Everybody felt compelled to obey. "And I don't want to see any biting, scratching, jumping on each other or hexing!" he warned them.
He locked and warded the door a second time after opening it to look both sides of the corridor, just to make sure that they would not be interrupted by anymore visitors.
As soon as he was seated after giving everybody his cup of tea and a bowl of water for Remus, James climbed in his lap, all the while glaring at Sirius.
Blaise and Harry were ignoring their tea and playing a game of chase the tail, while Remus was smirking under the table, the three of them totally at ease.
"Well, I guess you have some questions," began Severus. "But first, tell me what you know about Nekojins."
Sirius thought for a moment before answering. "They are bipeds, part human, part cat. They can choose between three forms, the first being completely human, even if in this form they still have slit pupiled eyes. The second, called in-between is their common form, meaning a human with cat ears, eyes, a tail and claws. And the last one, completely cat."
"Correct." Yawned James, putting his head on Severus' shoulder and beginning to purr, pleased by Severus' hand rubbing his back.
"They tend to purr when pleased" added Severus wryly.
"I think both Remus and I own you some excuses, Snape, for the Whomping Willow..."
Snape waved it away. "I know, James explained. Now you know that he was the cat you noticed ... We have more urgent matters to address.
By the way, Dumbledore, according to what we know, isn't aware that James is alive and that he and Harry are part Nekojins, as is Blaise, James and mine son."
"Alright, this explain that. But that mean you and James are..."
"We've been together the three last school years. And we have never been apart since we reunited, fifteen years ago."
James purring increased, and his hands slipped to Severus' hips. He manages to catch James' wandering hands before they reached their intended goal.
"They easily tend to forget that they have company" a bright red Severus mumbled.
"We don't care, it's different." James chided before kissing Severus.
Sirius snickered. He soon stopped when Remus put his muzzle between his legs, wagging his tail. Sirius pushed him back under the table.
It was James' turn to snicker. Sirius put out his tongue.
James laughed before wiggling a bit in Severus' lap, who blushed before steadying him, grabbing his hips with both hands.
"Kids, enough!" Blaise and Harry looked up. "We need to get back on tracks!" James pouted like a child denied a treat, which he was at the time. Severus murmured to him "Later." James nodded eagerly.
"What tracks?" Blaise blinked.
Harry frowned. " The spy?"
Severus nodded. "And James' resurrection. I don't want anybody to put his or her noses into our business. Especially not the ministry."
Sirius nodded. "Don't worry, as glad as Remus and I are to know that James is alive and happy, we don't plan on exposing your lives, and, by playing ducks and drakes, the kids', Remus and mine. They had meddle enough in our lives as it is." He finished bitterly.
James intervened shyly. "Sirius... I... I'm sorry I didn't intervene when you were sent to Azkaban...I..."
"was a total wreck. You didn't stop alternating between crying, sleeping and depressing for the two first years. The only one able to reach him was Blaise, and only because as a child he had no qualms about forcing James to do things and get out of his depression." Severus explained, enfolding James into his arms, his eyes begging Sirius to understand. "I was the one to deny him when he was better. I feared a relapse and attracting the Dark Lord's attention. I didn't want him to try and kill James again should he discover he was still alive. Or my part in keeping him alive..." He sighed deeply. "I hided him from the rest of the world, as I was scared he would be taken away from me. And then I had to spy...I'm sorry, Black, I am the one responsible..."
Harry shook his head and muttered "It's Dumbledore's fault. Why didn't he insist that Sirius get a trial? He knew Sirius would never betray you..."
James blushed "Maybe, but he'll say that after the Shrieking Shack..."
Sirius frowned at him before shrugging. "Let's just put it in the past. Besides, if you want to play 'who is responsible' you can step back to you-know-who : if he hadn't decided to kill Lily and you, nothing would have happened."
"So you don't resent me?" James almost whispered.
Sirius laughed, and stood up, walked till James, grabbed his hand and pulled him to his feet. He hugged him tightly. "No, you nitwit! I don't even resent Snape!" Remus joined them and licked James hand.
James' smile could have fulfilled London's need in electricity for a week at least.
"Well, everything is all and well, but I'd like to know why you don't seem to need your glasses..." Harry asked his father.
James giggled a little, "It's easy, it's one of my 'specials', it has been designed to hide your eyes. Because the only way to tell Nekojins and Humans apart is that Nekojins always have slit pupiled eyes, whatever their forms. So, if people looked you in the eyes, they would be able to tell... Hence the need for glasses... And you don't use glasses if your sight is good, so..." James stopped dramatically to pull his wand out of his sleeve and point it at Harry. "Take them off!" he ordered. Harry obeyed.
James waved his wand around for a little bit before winking to Harry. "First, levare dissimulo." Harry's eyes tingled and teared up. He blinked the tears away and opened his eyes to find the world clear and neat again. He smiled brightly to his father before sitting down, playing 'who could read the small print better' with Blaise.
They were startled when James put Harry's glasses in front of him on the table. "There, I charmed them not to show your real eyes, and they're harmless. You can still use them as camouflage."
"Thanks!" Before anyone could react, he was on his feet and hugging James as if his life was depending on it. At first surprised, then hesitant, James returned the hug just as tight.
They spent the rest of the afternoon dissecting the ambush and trying to find who the spy was.