They were all dead. Effie and Monty were the first to go, the only real parents Sirius ever had, the people who took him in after he ran away, who gave Sirius a place to call home. The people who never let Sirius feel like he wasn't part of their family: the woman who gave him his first motherly hug and the man who cared for him in the way that a father should. The two people who deserved the most to love their little grandson Harry, but who never had the opportunity.

And then Reggie was gone. It was not right. Regulus was only eighteen years old. Why did he join the Death-Eaters? Sirius didn't even know how his brother died, there was no one to tell him. Sirius failed Regulus so many times, even when Sirius ran away he left Regulus in that hellhole. In fact, he left him almost to die. Sirius was sure the only reason Regulus was alive back then was that if you had a disowned son and the other was dead, you had no heir.

And now, it started as the worst thing that could have happened and it just became worse.

It started with another brother and the most beautiful flower being crushed to the ground, the tiniest and most precious thing left all by himself, in that terrifying world. Sirius was in denial; the war already took too much from him and he wasn't willing to pay the price.

Sirius wanted to get out of the flat, to take a walk, to breathe some early morning air, and… Sirius knew in the back of his mind that there was something very important that he needed to do, but what was it?

And then it hit him. The Potters were dead, which meant that someone broke the Fidelius Charm. That someone was the Secret-Keeper, Remus Lupin. He didn't believe it, there was no way Remus would betray them, but right now he had to know if Peter was okay, Peter was the only one left.

When Sirius got to where the fight was (he walked there, he couldn't get himself to apparate), it was already 5 AM and the place was full with ministry workers, Obliviators, Aurors, Hit wizards and more, Sirius didn't know what happened there, but as a member of the order, his instinct was to come closer.

The first person to recognize Sirius was Amelia Bones, a bright young witch who was a year older than Sirius. Amelia was a ministry worker in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and was there to examine the scene and to report to Mr Crouch, the head of the department, about what she saw.

'Sirius Black!' she said, from the other end of the scene. 'Do you know by any means what happened here?'

Sirius was surprised, why would he know anything about the bloody thing that happened here? 'Why would I? The only thing I did was walking by, does this have something to do with me?'

'Just an hour ago your best friend killed another one of your friends and a few people here, so I will say yes,' Said Amelia.

No. This wasn't happening. But it must have been the worst kind of nightmare, because if he understood what Amelia just said in the right way, Remus Lupin killed three of his friends in the last 24 hours. Sirius started crying very quietly.

'Black, I know you are grieving right now, but the ministry needs to interrogate you about the Potters, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.' Amelia stated.

Gawain Robards, one of the Aurors in the scene approached Sirius and told him to come with him, and they apparated to the Ministry.

Sirius was interrogated about everything, and on one hand, there was not a lot of information that Sirius had (and was willing to give) that the ministry didn't already know, but on the other hand, the ministry told Sirius about what happened (from their angle at least) in Remus and Peter's fight. He was so broken after hearing everything and he just wanted to go home and never come out of bed but he needed to ask one more thing.

'Do you know when Remus's trial is going to happen?' Sirius asked Robards in a broken voice. Sirius knew he wouldn't be able to testify for Remus, Remus was out so much for the order, but maybe he wasn't… maybe he did those things, but he wanted to at least hear Remus out.

'I don't think they scheduled a date yet,' Robards answered.

Sirius would have looked deeper into it but he felt like passing out or maybe just dying. he wasn't just overwhelmed, he was completely shattered, Sirius was nothing without his family and they were all gone now.

The Auror let Sirius go, and as soon as Sirius was outside of the ministry he apprated to his flat. There wasn't a war outside anymore, but there was nothing to live for either, at least not for Sirius Black.

Harry James Potter was exactly fifteen months old when he vanquished the Dark Lord, but as a baby, he didn't take great interest in that. What mattered right now was the fact he was alone, his mummy was there but she looked like she was asleep and no matter how much Harry had cried, she didn't wake up. His daddy wasn't there, his uncles weren't there, no one was there. That was a good reason to cry.

And then came the big man, he was really, really big. Harry thought the tallest man in the world was his uncle Moony, but this man was bigger. The big man took Harry to the old house and told Harry that he will take him tomorrow to his aunt and uncle's house. Harry was happy when the big men said that because his uncles were very nice, but he was confused about why mummy and daddy were not there.

The old house was nice, and the old lady was nice too and she took care of him. Harry stayed in the old house until the day after, when the big man showed up again and told him they were going. There was a broom in the living room and the big man touched it while he was holding Harry. When the big man touched the broom Harry started feeling very dizzy and sleepy and everything went like circles. And then they were somewhere else, and Harry fell asleep.

When Harry woke up he was alone again and inside something, it was warm and nice but it was small and he couldn't move in it. There was light outside, and before Harry could even think about it, a woman came out of a house, after the woman saw harry and stared at the little piece of paper that was next to him, she picked him up and brought him inside. The inside of the house looked nice but there was a kid there who didn't look nice and a big man (although he wasn't as big as the man from yesterday) that looked confused when he saw Harry.

"Petunia, why is there more than one baby in my house?" The man asked the woman, and he was doing it loudly.

"Vernon, this is Harry Potter," the woman pointed at Harry.

"Your nephew? Why is he here?"

"L-Lily is dead, and her husband too," when she said Lily, Harry thought she was talking about his mummy, that was her name.

"But why is he here and not with one of her freaks friends?"

"The note said that it is important that we will raise him, it was something about ma…"

"I will not hear this word in my house!"

"What do we do now, Vernon? I would be sending him to an orphanage but I don't want one of those horrible freaks in my home telling me that I cannot do that."

"We will have to raise the boy, but he will just be a burden on us."

Harry wasn't sure what exactly was going but the man sounded angry and afraid and so was the woman.

Harry just wanted his parents and his uncles back, he really missed all of them.

1. Effie and Monty are Fleamont and Euphemia Potter, James's parents.

2. Gawain Robards was the head of the Auror Office after Rufus Scrimgeour became minister for magic, in that time he was probably just an Auror.

3. The old house that Harry is referring to is Bathilda Bagshot's house, there is no way Harry was with Hagrid in the missing twenty-four hours, Hagrid can't babysit a one-year-old so in my headcanon and in this fanfic, he was with her.