Disclaimer: I only own Sierra, everyone else belongs to J.K

"I promise you Si, you'll never see a person as crazy as I saw Regulus that night." Sierra said in a hollow voice. The two were sitting in the kitchen, both with a bottle of Butter Beer before them. Sierra turned her face to her brother, her eyes, if possible, appeared to be even more sunk into her head than before.

"I believe you Sierra." He replied, reaching out and taking her free hand, which was shaking madly "I've never seen you so shook up either."

"It was really horrible." Sierra whispered "I always had thoughts of being attacked on the street by Death Eaters, ya know? Sort of, fighting to the death, taking a bunch of them down with me. Never thought I'd be attacked in my own home, in the middle of the night. By Regulus and Peter none the less…" she trailed off and wiped away a stray tear "There is only so far you can go with hating your family. What he did… it wasn't just a toe over the line… it was several miles over… laughing and running further." She shook her head and smiled slightly, trying to prove to both of them she was alright.

"He… he was killed, wasn't he?" she asked, Sirius frowned and nodded

"Yeah, after we heard you'd been killed he was distraught. He came to stay with me for a while. Went to get a Muggle paper, you know what he was like, was ambushed by four Death Eaters on the way back from the paper shop. Put up a good fight, took two of them down with him. The others were caught sometime afterwards and put in Azkaban. It was Bellatrix and Algernon." Sierra nodded at the information

"Yeah well, I should have known Bella would be in there somewhere if Regulus was." She said "That girl. Hermione. She looks just like…"

Sirius grinned and nodded "Yeah." He said, "She does" there was a silence between the two

"Does she know?" Sierra asked suddenly

"No. I don't think she does." Sirius frowned "I don't think any of them do."

"I'll tell her." Sierra said, "Not right now, but I'll tell her. She has the right to know. Even if she won't act on it. I'll contact her parents first, let them know." Sirius nodded, watching her face as her expressions changed from a small smile to a puzzled frown

"When you disapperated." Sirius broke the silence "You said they hit you." Sierra nodded

"Yeah." she agreed "Some evil git got me in the shoulder with some spell as I left, I don't think it did what it was supposed to, but I can't move my arm that well." As if to prove it she tried to lift her left shoulder, barley getting any movement out of the shoulder. She smiled then at her brothers worried face, her smile much more genuine than the one before "Don't worry about it Si! I'm fine. I ain't dead, so I'm not going to complain, and at least I can still use it. It's just I can't move my shoulder. You look like Regulus broke your toy broomstick again."

"I liked that broomstick…" Sirius murmured with a grin.

"FILTH! HALF-BREEDS! MUTANTS! FREAKS! HOW DARE YOU BEFOUL MY HOUSE WITHY YOUR RETCHED IMPURITEIES!" A voice screamed from above them. Sierra raised her head and sighed

"I'm beginning to think she makes more sense as a picture than she ever did in real-life" Sirius commented.

"SCUM! MUDBLOODS! BEGONE FROM THIS HOUSE! BEFOULING THE AIR OF THE HOUSE OF MY FATHERS!" Sirius sighed, drawing his wand, Sierra did the same thing.

"Shall we?" He asked her, she grinned in reply

"Dear old mum hasn't seen hide or hair of me for fifteen years." She drawled, "I'm sure she'll be delighted to see me again. Alive and well." They both grinned and nodded, speeding up the stairs to the hall. Molly was already there with Remus both trying to draw the curtains on the portrait of the old woman. The other portraits were beginning to come to life, each yelling and screaming for all they were worth.

"Be quiet hag!" Sierra yelled over the noise, Molly turned and ran to the other portraits as Tonks appeared and took charge of her curtain. The portrait turned her face to Sierra and Sirius, striding over to it and screamed louder

"YOOOU!" she hollered, on clawed finger pointing shakily at Sirius "BLOOD TRAITOR! ABOMINATION! DIRT, BLOOD DEMON!"

"Were you not listening!" Sierra screamed back "I said shut up!" The portrait turned to her and seemingly tried to lunge from her canvas

"SHAME OF MY FLESH! BEGONE! DEATH WOULD BE TO NICE TO GIVE YOU! RETURN TO YOUR MAN! FILTH! SLIME! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! FREAK! YOU DESERVE EVER-"

"SHUT UP YOU BITCH!" Sierra yelled back, tears burning her eyes and rolling down her face. Tonks and Remus managed to close the curtains at that point, breaking off the screams and Sierra dropped to the floor with a sob. Bill was the first to reach her, gently pulling her up and half carrying her back down to the kitchen. Sirius watched them go for a moment before swinging the door open

"Mundungus." He said "Haven't we told you not to knock?" the little man shrugged

"Sorry Sirius." He replied "Got some information you'll all want to here."