Remus' POV

I had only been in Sirius' home for a few minutes and already I felt sick. Whether that was from the feeling the wards were giving me or from the display with that house elf, I'm not entirely certain. The halls of the house were incredibly bleak and fitted the surname of the family they housed. Well, all except my Sirius. We walked in what seemed to be circles and I was starting to get dizzy. Sirius held my hand tightly and had his beautiful face set in a hard frown. I squeezed his hand and he glanced at me. I smiled at him and he nodded. I know this is hard for him. I know he doesn't get along with his family.

We eventually reached the door we were looking for and Kreacher knocked on the door. He cackled and popped away as a voice said 'Enter'. Sirius shivered and then stood with his head held high. He squeezed my hand and pushed open the door.

Once inside, I caught my first glance of the matriarch of the family. She sat tall and proud in a stiff armchair. Her long dark hair was pulled into a bun at the nape of her neck and was beginning to grey. Her piercing eyes were the same silver as Sirius' but they were not warm, they were the hard grey of a storm. Her eyes narrowed as they landed on the two of us. As Sirius edged further into the room the door slammed and I jumped. She smirked as she eyed the two of us.

'Ugh. I had hoped Kreacher had been mistaken when he informed me that you were here.' Her rich voice drawled.

'Always a pleasure to see you too mother,' Sirius grinned wickedly when saying this. His mother frowned and beside me Sirius jumped. A wandless hex. What a harpy!

'Did I give you permission to address me boy? To look me in the eyes?'

'I don't need your permission.' Sirius ground out.

Walburga Black raised her eyebrows, 'No? We'll see,'

She smirked as she pointed her wand at her son. He dropped my hand as he fell to the floor and began writhing and contorting. He was hissing and his teeth and nails had elongated. His vampire was close to the surface. He was under the cruciatus!

'STOP IT!' I yelled as I pulled him closer to me. All of a sudden the curse stopped. Her eyes had been trained towards me.

'And who are you?'

'He is my bond mate.' Sirius panted as he slowly got to his feet.

I stretched out my hand towards his mother to shake it and she looked at it disdainfully. She stalked closer to Sirius and I. Sirius pushed me behind him.

'Not good enough that you're dirty rotten creature scum, now you have to be gay as well? You are not a Black. You have shamed this family.' She screamed in his face. As she did, she hit him in the face. The resounding sound shook my whole body and threw his to the ground again. His face was bleeding as he followed her wand. She pointed her wand toward what looked to be a tapestry.

'Good riddance to bad blood. You are not my son.' She calmly stated before sending a blasting hex towards the tapestry. The air grew thick and Sirius grabbed onto me just in time as we were thrown out of the wards and the house. We were left on the street. The house was nowhere to be seen. Sirius sat on the kerb, staring at his hands. I sat beside him and we lapsed into silence. Both for entirely different reasons. His blood ran down his face and onto the road like a river.