A/N: Thanks for reviews. Here we have the sixth chapter of Sky. I hope you like it.

Someone asked me about pairings, but I'm not going to say anything yet, though I'm sorry to say that Yuki is only a passing character at the moment.

Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling

'thoughts'

They had been in the monastery roughly for a month and Sirius had had a lot of time to think about his past and face his fears and traumas that came with it. He had gotten a lot of help from the monks and Sky and Marcus, and had pretty much recovered from his time in Azkaban, though sometimes he still had nightmares about it.

Sirius had also spent a lot of time getting to know Sky and watching him train. He was still a bit overwhelmed about just how advanced Sky really was and with all his abilities – especially with Parseltongue, but after hearing Sky speak it so often, he had almost gotten used to it. He had even petted Dexter once.

Marcus had told him about his years with Sky in more detail over the weeks and Sirius could now understand Sky a little better. They had also talked about the past and Sirius felt a little better after he had gotten to speak to someone about the things in his mind.

Now as he watched the full moon rise, he thought about his only living Marauder friend – Remus. Marcus had told him that he didn't know where Remus was and that he hadn't tried to contact him, because he didn't know if his loyalty to Dumbledore had changed. Marcus hadn't wanted to risk Dumbledore finding out about him having Harry – Sky, and Sirius could understand that.

Sirius, Marcus and Sky were planning to leave the monastery in a few days, as Sky had completed his last level and was now considered Master of Japanese martial arts and Sirius planned to find Remus and meet with him. He was worried about how Remus had coped with losing all his friends – his family – and hoped that he had heard about Sirius' innocence regarding everything.

Sirius stared at the full moon and remembered all the times he had spent with Remus in his Animagus form, when Remus transformed into wolf. He felt a pang of sadness and regret when he thought about Remus transforming alone all those years.

"You're thinking of uncle Moony, aren't you?" Sky asked coming to sit with him on the grass.

"Yes." Sky often called Remus uncle Moony, like he did when he was little. He had even called him uncle Padfoot a few times when he had gotten to use to Sirius being around.

"Don't worry Sirius, we'll find him and bring him back with us." Sky said reassuringly.

"Yeah, I know. I was just thinking about him being alone in full moon."

"Let's call him. Maybe he will hear us, wherever he is." Sky said excitedly. Sirius could see the maturity disappear and Sky seem like a normal seven-year-old whenever he was excited about something.

"What do you mean call him?" Sirius asked.

"By howling, you know, like wolfs. I read from one book that werewolves could hear their pack's calling in full moon no matter where they were. We are his family – his pack, so we could turn into our Animagus forms and call him." Sky explained and turned into his wolf form. He was a black cub with a silver stripes in his back.

"And how do you expect to howl, when you're just a cub?" Sirius asked. "Only adult wolves can howl."

Sky just glared at him, which made him look a very cute puppy, before he started to grow. In few seconds a huge wolf stood in front of Sirius giving him a look that clearly said: 'Beat that'.

"Fair enough." Sirius said before transforming into a big black dog, which looked like a grim.

Sirius nudged Sky to the side and gave him a look that said 'So how are we going to do this?'

Sky just rolled his eyes and started howling. Sirius joined in and soon even Marcus came to join them. They howled long to the night wishing for their message to reach the missing member of their pack.

Remus Lupin often wondered why he kept on living. Six years ago he had lost everything he had held dear. James, Lily and Peter were all dead and Sirius – Sirius had betrayed them. And little Harry was off to live with muggles. Dumbledore had told him that the Dursleys were the best choice for Harry to go live with and that he wasn't to know about the wizarding world before he was ten-years-old.

Remus had left England in hopes for a better life, though he knew there was no such thing for werewolves, and travelled to France. Werewolves were monsters who apparently didn't deserve to be loved or even treated as people.

He had lived in the muggle world working in multiple different part-time jobs, trying to gather enough money to live and buy the Wolfsbane potion every month. He rarely succeeded. Wolfsbane potion was only a few years old development and still extremely expensive. Remus was lucky to afford to buy it even few times a year.

Tonight was one of those full moons that he hadn't been able to buy the potion. He felt the moon reach out to him even before it was night and once again he wondered why he was still living. What was there to live for? And the answer came to him right away, like always: Harry. He couldn't let Harry to grow up without knowing his parents and Remus was the only one alive, who would tell him about them.

Remus planned to move back to England around the time he would be going to Hogwarts and seek him out. But that was still years away and he had to concentrate on surviving the next few years.

He cast multiple locking charms on his little cottage in the woods and waited for the moon to rise. The transformation was always painful. It felt like someone was dislocating his limbs and stabbing him with multiple knives. And now, without the Wolfsbane potion, he couldn't even control his own actions.

The wolf inside of him took control and tried to break out of the house, but it couldn't break the charms on the house and started biting himself instead. And Remus could do nothing about it.

Suddenly the wolf side of him calmed down, stilling – listening. He could hear howling coming from afar carried by the wind.

His pack was calling him.

Sky, Marcus and Sirius left the monastery on Christmas Eve. They had decided to spend Christmas in England, in the previous Potter Manor, which was now called the Lux Manerium. Marcus had thought that their best change to find out some clue of Remus whereabouts was London, so there they were.

Sky and Sirius had left to do some Christmas shopping, leaving Marcus to decorate the house with the Christmas decorations they had found in the attic. He had just finished when Sky and Sirius returned with Sky carrying multiple bags of food and stuff and Sirius a huge Christmas tree.

"Where did you found that tree, Sirius?" Marcus asked staring at the huge tree that barely could fit through the door.

"From the woods, that surrounds the house. I remembered Charlus always getting a Christmas tree from there so we went to get one."

"Too bad you couldn't get a bigger one; I think that's too small, you can barely see it." Marcus said sarcastically.

"Hey, don't blame me! It was H-Sky who chose it." Sirius defended.

Marcus looked at Sky pointedly, who was laughing at Sirius who was almost drowning under the huge tree. Marcus just shook his head and left to the kitchen to prepare a meal to them as Sky had given the house-elves, who took care of the manor, a day-off. Marcus had once during their time in the monastery made the mistake of letting Sirius and Sky to prepare them a meal and had come to a conclusion: Never again. While Sky was a decent cook, he rarely made their food, since Marcus liked cooking and usually wanted to do it, but when he put Sky with Sirius to the kitchen it equals disaster. Sirius had managed to burn down the food he was preparing and Sky mixed up salt with sugar. In the end they had started a food fight and messed up the whole kitchen.

Marcus had given them a severe talking-to and tried to find out which one of them started the fight, but both of the of course blamed the other. Marcus had tried to punish them for messing up his sanctuary, but hadn't been able to resist the puppy eyes Sky gave him in his panther's cub form and Sirius in his dog form. In the end he had let them go after forcing them to clean up the mess and giving them a life-long ban to the kitchen. 'I am living with two children; one who really is a child and the other who never grew up.'

Nonetheless Marcus had been happy to see Sky acting like a child, and having fun doing other things than just training and studying – even if it was messing up his sanctuary.

At dinner they discussed their plans for Christmas and finding Remus.

"I would like to visit Godric's Hollow and Saint Mary's." Sky said. Saint Mary's was the cemetery where Marcus' wife and daughter were buried and also a place where Sky had kept a memorial to Fox, Blake and Dora.

Marcus had wondered when he would want to visit his parents' graves and his second family's. The previous Christmases they had been out of the country and not able to visit them, but now that they were here, Marcus knew that he would want to go there.

"Of course. It's about time you visited the place you were born." Marcus said smiling lightly. "When do you want to go?"

"Can we go tonight? I would like to spend the Christmas Day just here."

"Sure. Are you coming with us Sirius?"

"Yes, I am."

They finished their food in comfortable silence and then apparated to Godric's Hollow. They walked to the house first, which looked just like it had in that Halloween after the fall of Voldemort.

"Look, they have put up a statue of Lily and James and you." Sirius said to Sky.

Sky just stared at the monument lost in his thoughts. After a while he turned around and started walking towards the graveyard. Sirius put a hand on his shoulder and walked with him, following Marcus, who led them towards the grave. He had only once visited their grave, and that had been in their funeral.

The graveyard was empty except for one person that came up from the direction Lily and James' graves were, but Marcus didn't pay any attention to the hooded man. At least not until he heard Sky's voice.

"Moony?"

Sky walked lost in his thoughts after Sirius, and Marcus who was leading them to his parent's graves. He had a déjà vu moment when he saw the house he was born into. Once again he could remember the last moments of his parents, but for the first time he could remember it without the feeling of loss and sorrow. He felt like he had finally accepted their deaths and it was a wonderful feeling.

Sky was brought back to reality, when he almost pumped into a hooded man, who walked towards them. Sky got a glimpse of the man's face and recognized him immediately.

"Moony?" He blurted out, before he could stop himself. 'He won't recognize you, when you look like that, you idiot." He told himself as the man whirled around a wand in his hand.

Sky noticed Remus eying him and Marcus before he noticed Sirius.

"Black." Remus growled. "How did you get out of Azkaban? Used some tricks Voldemort taught you? And you dare to come here…" Remus spat angrily. Sky could see why one wouldn't want to anger a werewolf.

"Remus, calm down. I'm innoce…" Sirius started before Remus cast a Furnunculus at him. Sky sent a wandless shield in front of Sirius that swallowed the curse and stepped between them. He disarmed Remus and let his disguise drop.

"Calm down Moony, or I won't give you your wand back." He said staring at Remus, Remus who stared him back totally frozen. "Sirius didn't betray my parents nor killed the muggles; it was all Wormtail's doing. He framed Sirius and disappeared. Now, I know he is pretty annoying sometimes, but I can't let you curse him, because I need someone to blame when I prank Marcus." Sky said smirking as Sirius protested from behind him. 'That should wake him from his trance.'

"Harry?"

"In the flesh" Sky said and tossed Remus his wand back.

"What- How? Dumbledore said you were living with your relatives."

"Haven't been for three years. Sirius can take you home and tell you the story, so you can reconcile with him and clean up the bad blood between you, but you need to promise me you won't curse him. I want to visit my parents and Saint Mary's." He said and after giving Remus a quick hug, morphed back to his disguise, walking with Marcus to his parents' graves. He could hear Sirius muttering something about him letting Remus call him Harry while he just glares at him every time he does, as he walked past him.

"Do you think they'll be fine?" Marcus asked him.

"Don't worry, they will." Sky said. 'It's better if they have some time alone to speak things through.'

Remus stared after Harry, who walked towards his parents' graves with a man that looked vaguely familiar to Remus. He turned towards Sirius who was watching him warily.

"What just happened?" He asked.

"Harry just told you that I am innocent and forbid you of cursing me, because he needs someone to blame at when he pranks Marcus." Sirius told him.

Remus stared at him disbelieving.

"You think you got it bad?" Sirius asked. "The first time I met him he asked me what were the last words I told him before I went after Wormtail and then he dropped the bomb that Dumbledore had sent him to the Dursleys. In the end he told me that Harry Potter was dead and walked away. You're lucky, you know, he likes you and has no hard feelings towards you."

Remus just continued to stare at him. He didn't understand anything anymore and said as much.

"I don't understand."

"Just come with me and I'll tell you." Sirius said and offered his hand to Remus. Remus took it and Sirius apparated them to what appeared to be the old Potter Manor.

"Welcome to Lux Manerium." Sirius said.

"Isn't this the old Potter Manor?" Remus asked confused. He was sure he recognized the place.

"Yes, it was. But after Harry changed his name it became Lux Manerium."

"He changed his name? Why?"

"He hasn't really been Harry Potter since that Halloween. We call him Sky now." Sirius said grimly. "Let's go inside and I'll tell you."

Remus followed Sirius inside and they sat down in the living room.

"You want some Firewhiskey?" Sirius asked as he poured some himself.

Remus almost refused, but then thought he would probably need it and just nodded. Sirius sat down opposite him and sipped his whiskey.

"So, whose story you want to hear first? Mine or Harry's?" Sirius asked.

Remus answered that Harry's and Sirius told him it with the same words Marcus had told him. Remus was outraged when he heard what Dumbledore had done and Sirius had to stop him from Flooing to Hogwarts and attacking Dumbledore. He also wanted go and give the Dursleys what they deserved, but Sirius wouldn't let him.

"So Harry Potter is really dead, like he told me." Sirius concluded.

"How can something like that happen?" Remus asked. He couldn't believe how much Harry had suffered in his life and he was only seven.

"I have had really hard time adapting and accepting that he isn't that little boy he once was." Sirius said. "All his innocence is pretty much gone and he's so mature. Only when he's excited about something, you can see a glimpse of what he would have been like, if he had grown to be a normal child."

They were both silent for a while until Remus spoke.

"What about you? What's your story?"

Sirius told him about how they had switched the Secret-Keepers and how he had went after Peter. He spoke about his years in Azkaban and how Harry and Marcus had gotten him a trial and how he had woken up in the House of Phoenix. He also told him about the past month he had spent with Harry and Marcus.

Remus pulled Sirius into tight hug when he finished. They held each other for a long moment before Sirius asked:

"What about you Moony, how have you coped with… everything?"

"I have managed. I have lived in France for the past six years, mostly in muggle world working in different part-time jobs. I mostly lived for Harry. I didn't want him to grow up without knowing his parents and I thought I was the only one left of us. I was planning to come back to England by the time he went to Hogwarts, as Dumbledore told me that he wouldn't know anything about wizarding world before then."

Remus could see Sirius eyes darken at Dumbledore's name, but he just nodded mutely.

"What made you come back?" Sirius asked quietly.

"I- You are probably going to think I am crazy, but last full moon I heard howling from somewhere, it was the kind when a pack calls its members. When I woke up the next morning I felt like I had to come back. And I'm glad I did, if I hadn't I wouldn't have met you in the graveyard." Remus said.

He glanced at Sirius who was gaping at him.

"What?"

"You –You heard it? Really, you heard it?" Sirius asked looking completely amazed.

"Heard what?" Remus asked confused.

"The howling. Harry said you would, but I didn't believe him."

"I'm not following."

"We were in Japan a few days ago at full moon and Harry had an idea that we should call you. He had read from some book that werewolves could hear their pack's calling at full moon no matter where they were. So we tried it and howled in our Animagus forms. I didn't believe it would really reach you, but apparently it worked." Sirius explained.

"You –it was you?" Remus asked.

"Yes."

"Wow."

"Yea, I know. And now I own Harry ten galleons." Sirius grumbled.

"Wait did you just say that Harry has an Animagus form? He's only seven!"

"Actually he has four forms and one of them is a phoenix."

"What?! If this is just some prank of yours I swear I'm gonna…"

"I wish, Remus, I wish it was."

"You mean he really has four forms!"

"Oh Remus, you don't know the half of It." Sirius said and launched into telling Remus all about Harry's abilities, training and studies.

Sky and Marcus returned from the Saint Mary's around eleven in the evening. They had lighted candles for Sky's parents, for his second family and for Marcus' wife and daughter. Sky felt much better after having visited them and now he could concentrate on spending his first Christmas with his current family.

Marcus had gone straight to bed wanting to let Sky have a moment with Sirius and Remus alone. Sirius was waiting for Sky ten galleons in his hand and told him that he had won the bet. Sky was amazed to know that it had worked and told Sirius that he really hadn't read it from any book, but had made it up to cheer him up and because he thought it would be fun. Sirius just shook his head and said that he wouldn't be surprised by anything that Sky did anymore.

Sky studied Remus' face while answering his questions about his life, training and studies. Remus looked too old to be only 27-years old. He could clearly see all the scars from his transformations and the effects of having a Lycanthropy. Sky could see the bite mark on his neck where Greyback had bitten him when he was a child.

Suddenly he felt a tingle run through his body to his fingertips and he felt the need to touch the scar on Remus' neck. Instinctively he moved to Remus and put his left hand on his forehead and the other on his neck where the scar of the bite was. He closed his eyes and focused. He could feel his magic run through his fingers to Remus and heal all the scars on his face and make him look like he would, if he didn't have the Lycanthropy.

Sky stepped back and looked at the much younger looking Remus, who stared at him back in wonder.

"What did you do to me?" Remus asked.

Sky didn't exactly know what he did, since he hadn't done anything like that before.

"I don't know. I just did what my magic told me to." Sky said.

He watched Sirius, who looked completely bemused, hand Remus a mirror, who took it carefully and watched his reflection.

"You – How – Thank you." Remus said and pulled Sky to a tight embrace.

"Merry Christmas Moony." Sky said hugging him back.

A/N: Thanks for reading. Please review and give me some feedback on the story.

- Dalnim