It's short, and I apologise for the long wait before you all got this. I've been having to work like crazy to finish off all my coursework, but that's all finished, so for the next few weeks I will hopefully be updating a little more frequently.
Disclaimer: Typically, I own nothing except for Sierra. If I owned more, I'd be typing this whilst sitting on a large boat off the coast of France.
Tonks entered the house, raising her eyebrows in surprise to see Sirius sitting on the bottom step of the stairs, head in his hands. He looked up as she clicked the door closed and then winced as the sound of muffled yelling could be heard from upstairs.
"What's going on?" Tonks asked, walking over and sitting down beside her cousin
"Sierra woke up and had an argument with Molly, she reckons she's fine." Sirius explained
"Is she?" Tonks asked, Sirius shrugged
"I don't know." He admitted "She looks pretty sick, but that could just be-"
"Because she's been on the run for years." Tonks finished, Sirius nodded
"Right. So Molly refused to let her get out of bed. I think Sierra won in the end, Molly said she could get up, but if she collapses she's on her own." He shrugged and smiled slightly, as if the sight of Molly being unfeeling towards anyone was amusing "So Sierra agreed, and then mumbled something about going out to get a Chinese, not having eaten one for fifteen years or so." He winced as a loud bang shook across the house, followed up by some more shouting
"And Molly told her she couldn't go out?" Tonks asked, eyes wide as she stared at the ceiling
"The least said, Sierra was not having it." He muttered "She started screaming at Molly, I think at one point she even stated she preferred getting murdered by Death Eaters than go another thirty seconds without a proper Chinese takeaway. She and Molly have been arguing about it for about half an hour now. The pictures had joined in at first, but they've given up." He jerked his head towards the pictures along the wall, all of them empty "They all left their frames, muttering something about peace and quiet, Mum was the best." He nodded towards the velvet curtains covering the picture "As soon as all the noise started up, the curtains shot back, she was this close to screaming," he held up his index finger and thumb, showing a space of about a centimetre "When she realised it was Sierra going psycho up there, cackled and shut up." There was another loud bang from upstairs and the two leapt up from the staircase as one of the stuffed house-elf heads mounted on the wall somehow managed to free itself from the wall and tumbled down to attack them
"Where's Remus?" Tonks asked, cautiously toeing the elf-head encase it decided to attack again
"Went out not long after the two started up, said something about getting Sierra a Chinese." Sirius muttered, Tonks cackled at the information.
"Playing hero, then?" she laughed, "I'm gonna get a butter beer, ya want?" Sirius nodding, following his cousin down the hall, a glance over his shoulder as he slipped through the kitchen door told him that the people of the pictures were slipping quietly back into their frames and the curtains were pulled back on his mothers picture, and she was sitting their quietly, intent on hearing what her daughter was saying.