Author's notes: Sorry this took so long! Please forgive me! Band, homework and regular life is very busy right now. We have a festival concert sunday! Woo-hoo! I am pretty nervous about it. I hope we all do good.( Positive thoughts) Thursday, we have the "real" thing. Festival is where judges judge us. Dum...dum...dum...
Well, I really hope you like this chapter! Thanks to all my reviewers!

Disclaimer: I don't Harry Potter and crew.

Chapter 3: Introducing Caleb

They apparated just short of a huge house between two other small houses. The address on the side of the house said: "Number 12 Grimmauld Place."

Caleb walked closely to the man. The cool wind blew against them. Caleb looked up at Remus and smiled.

"I'll tell you are about to meet a lot of people," Remus replied looking at the boy patting him on the shoulder.

"What?" Caleb asked.

"Don't worry. They're very nice and loving. It'll be alright." Remus replied giving a reassuring smile.

Remus covered his hand with his shirt sleeve, because of the handle, like wise, the serpent shaped "knocker" was made out of silver. Fortunately, Caleb didn't noticed his little act.

"Molly will probably take a hold of you fast. She'll hug you, knowing her," Remus replied opening the door and moving to the side letting Caleb walk in first.

"Remus who do you have here!" a voice asked as the owner of it grabbed Caleb and started to hug him. She could feel him tense up between her arms. She looked at him with a worry face, but it quickly changed to a smile.

"Don't worry, you'll be safe here, " she said hugging him one last time.

Caleb smiled as he looked at her.

"Molly, this is Caleb," Remus said placing his hand on his shoulder. This time, Remus could tell that the muscles didn't constrict.

"Well, hello there Caleb. It's a pleasure to meet you. I bet you are very hungry," Molly replied.

Caleb just nodded his head to everything she said. As they walked in everyone eyed him and smiled. He stuck close to Remus afraid of getting lost in the mass of people. Remus pulled a chair from the table and got a plate ready for Caleb. Caleb sat down as Remus excused himself to go talk to Sirius.

Remus walked over to Sirius who was in the living room.

"Who's the kid, Moony," Sirius asked pointing to Caleb.

"That's Caleb Wright. Found him in the alley by Honeydukes. He stole a chocolate frog, because he was hungry."

"Bugger, If I was that hungry. I would've stolen something else though." Sirius answered with a chuckle.

"Knowing you," Remus replied with a smirk.

"True, you do know me well," Sirius said propping himself up on the wall. "What do you think happened to him?"

"Not sure. Parents could have died from Voldemort. Who knows," Remus replied eyeing Caleb. He was sitting there talking to other people.

"Right. Well, I'm going to introduce myself to the chap,'" Sirius replied as he walked into the kitchen.

Remus followed and sat down by Caleb. Sirius took a seat in front of the boy.

"Hi. I'm Sirius Black," Sirius said holding a hand out to Caleb. Caleb waited making sure Sirius meant it as a hand shake. He quickly took it and smiled.

"Hi, I'm Caleb," he responded in a whisper.

Sirius leaned over the table and said, "You better eat now. Molly won't fed you for a week." As he came back a large rolled up newspaper slapped him in the back of his head.

"Ow! What the bugger?" He explained rubbing his head.

"That's what you get Black! Telling the poor child that I wouldn't fed him for a week. You're going to make him run away. The only person that I wouldn't mind running away is you!" Molly said as she fixed Sirius a bowl.

Sirius looked at Remus.

"Are you going to let her get away with that?" Sirius asked still rubbing his head.

"Sorry, Sirius. She feds me. I don't want to starve," Remus replied taking in a spoonful full of the contents from his plate.

"You are such a friend Moony," Sirius said drinking his tea.

"I know you love me," Remus said swallowing the mouthful of food.

Sirius smiled and blinked his eyes in a flirtatious way. In an effect Remus about choked on his soup. He got up from the table and slapped Sirius on the head before leaving the kitchen.

"Ow! Love hurts," Sirius exclaimed as he looked at the smiling boy in front of him.

Caleb soon left the table when the kitchen started to become crowded. He searched the living room where Remus was talking to a woman with bright pink hair.

"And who are you," she asked with a slight joy in her voice. Caleb turned around to make sure she was talking to him.

"Caleb," he replied with the same quiet whisper.

Remus turned to see Caleb walk closer to them.

"Did you get enough to eat?" he asked placing his hand by him signaling Caleb to sit down.

"Yes sir."

"I'm glad. I was thinking earlier. We have an extra room upstairs right across from my room. You can sleep there if you like," Remus suggested. Caleb looked at him with a confused face. His green eyes showed so much pain, put they always had a small sparkle in them.

"What? I was only to stay for supper. I don't want to intrude." Caleb said as his breathing started to become faster.

"Caleb, it's fine. I'm offering you to stay. No child needs to depend on themselves for food and a home. This can be your home." Remus explained.

Caleb could feel hot tears coming up. He hadn't had love like that in a very long time.

"Thank you,"

"You're welcome. There should be some clothes in the bedroom. It's the 3rd room on the right. The bathroom is right before it. You can take a shower and get ready for bed if you like." Remus suggested.

Caleb smiled at the thought of taking a nice warm shower. He slowly walked away until he looked at Remus and threw his arms around the skinny man. Remus was taken back. He could hear Caleb's breathing become uneasy. He made the young boy cry, just for offering a room to sleep in. He rubbed the boy's back as he looked at Tonks. She was smiling at the site.

"It'll be alright," Remus whispered into Caleb's ear through his thick hair.

Author's ending notes: Please review! I'm on the process of writing chapter 4. Maybe life will calm down a bit.

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