The Homecoming
Written for:
The Worlds Challenge by Trisanachandler13: Incarceron – Write about Sirius Black.
A Drabble a day keeps the doctor away challenge by Bamberrr.x
The Star Challenge by ohmoony: Sirius - The Brightest Star in the Sky: Write about Sirius Black.
Character: Sirius Black
It feels soft, silky; weightless, almost. The sounds on the other side of the veil are distant and vague. He worries for a moment when he can't hear Harry's voice, or Remus' any longer, but then, he realises.
He's dead.
Odd, that. Being killed by drapery wasn't on his top ten list of Ways To Kick The Bucket.
He whips his head around at the sound of footsteps echoing hollowly just outside this - what is this - room? hall? - and almost topples back through the veil when he sees the entrant.
"You!"
"Hello, Sirius," Regulus says.
Jaw slack, thoroughly bamboozled, he can only stare at his younger brother. Regulus seems to find this amusing, and raises an eye brow in that maddening way he has, the prat.
"But…but I thought you were a Death Eater…"
"Were being the main point here. I switched sides and even nicked one of the Dark Lord's horcruxes - oh I forgot, you don't know about them - nevermind, well, anyway, here I am. Come on, now, they're waiting to see you."
"Who's waiting to see me?"
"You'll find out soon enough," Regulus says, and takes hold of his brother's arm, and tugs him out of the room, through a set of French windows - when did those appear? - and into a large, sunny garden.
There's a large chestnut tree near a stream and it even has a hammock slung low, just like the one in Potter Manor, and there are two figures walking towards him. He's able to make out fiery red hair as they come nearer-
And a messy-haired, hazel-eyed, bespectacled boy flings himself onto him, and hugs him tight.
Warmth pools in his belly as he looks at Lily, beaming radiantly, Reg, his baby brother, also grinning, and James, who still has him by the arms-
"Welcome home, Padfoot," James says simply.