Author's Note:

I just want to say for those of you freaking out — Sirius knows what he is doing. Harry has more wealth than he will know what to do with. He is leaving it to Draco and Nymphadora mostly because they are the Black legacy and Sirius has control over everything until they become of age, which means that Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy have ZERO access to any of it as does Andromeda and Ted — unless Sirius Black gives them access. So, please stop worrying. This is not the end of the Malfoys, but Harry and Draco are not exactly friends.

Also, I think Remus deserves to get a little loving and to be happy not that he believes he deserves it but he does, so I give you Veronica, the older woman.

Reviews and Comments: To E-Dett: Will Lucius be good? We'll have to see. Right now he's just thinking the war is over and he is saving face as much as he can. After all, he was never convicted of anything. Thank you! To Mattelle: Thank you! They will get on, but I wouldn't necessarily say get along. They are really young right now after all. To nesciamema: Draco is six years old and Sirius can't predict the future. Right now, he is doing what he thinks is best for the Black family name. He has full control until Draco becomes of age so if he sees Draco choosing darkness or being a bully, he can change it any time he wishes. Tonks will be inheriting a great deal of it as well. To geekymom: Thank you! To Lost: I'm sorry you hate Draco and Harry being friends. They aren't. But they are six right now and innocent kids. To Michael4HPGW: It may come into play later, yes. But thanks.

To ginnyweasley777: Thank you! I'm glad you thought the Malfoys were quite okay lol. To jadely31: Thank you! I think Sirius would be a very fair head of the family and make sure that as long as people are following a good path, they get their fair share. Setting up Andromeda's share for Tonks is a good compromise. Thanks! To MarilynT: Harry has his own title which will be revealed more later, but yes, Sirius is leaving some of it to Draco including the title as long as he doesn't have his own children. Thank you! To The Go1den Snitch: Thank you for saying that having Lucius' father make him do things seems more enlightening. I think it makes sense and as you will see later on, there will be some connections. Thank you very much! To Claire Fraser: Thank you for seeing that Sirius is stopping it from being used by the wrong people or given to the Dark Lord, that's exactly right. Thank you! I'm excited for Harry's seventh birthday as well. To gabbywatts017: Thank you! And ha, Ginny would definitely knock some sense into Draco. To ravendor92: Thank you! To alix33: Yes, Roni Riley does have a sense of humour and yes, we will learn her reaction to Remus being a werewolf, but not any time soon. Thank you! Happy to have given you a chuckle!

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CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT:

The One With Roni

While Sirius and Harry were at Malfoy Manor, Remus found himself naked. He was sprawled across a large feather bed with a beautiful and very naked woman who was planting kisses over his chest.

"You have so many scars," she murmured, her lips trailing over them.

"I do." Remus kissed her lips as she straddled him and he jerked his hips up, slipping into her and watching her head fall back in pleasure. "We don't need to talk though, do we, Roni?"

Veronica Riley, platinum blonde curly hair that danced just past her chin, rode him deliciously, crying out his name as he pumped himself into her.

It had been just over two weeks since he had met her in the market in Diagon Alley. After they had laughed and bonded over the cheesy cannoli pun, Remus had been surprised by how much he had immediately liked her. She was intelligent and her talent with charms was incredible making her one of the best agents in the Accidental Magical Reversal Squad. After having ice cream that first day, she had surprised Remus by asking him out to dinner which he had readily agreed to.

They spent almost four hours in the restaurant talking. Veronica was fifteen years older than him, but looked younger as she was full of life and vibrant. She was intrigued by the stories of the famous Marauders and the trouble they had gotten into over the years at Hogwarts. She told him that she had been sorry to hear about the deaths of James and Lily Potter. He told her that he was a teacher, teaching primary magical education to his nephew, Harry. She was extremely intrigued to learn how he was mixing the education between Muggle history and magical and exposing Harry to many different kinds of literature.

Veronica was Muggleborn herself and told him how surprised she had been to discover that she was a witch; though her parents had been relieved to finally discover why their daughter could make things happen that she couldn't explain. She had two younger brothers, Jacob and Henry, and one younger sister, Charlotte, and all four of them turned out to be magical, much to the surprise and delight of their very Muggle parents.

Remus had asked her out again after that long dinner and they had shared a long, intense snog outside of the restaurant. For the second date, they had gone to a Muggle movie, but Remus didn't remember much of it as they spent almost the entire film snogging and to his surprise and embarrassment, she had slipped her hands into his jeans and given him a hand job right there in the theatre without the use of a privacy charm. She nipped at his lips and sucked on his earlobe, urging him to be as quiet as possible as her hands worked him over. Then they had snogged like randy teens outside of the theatre.

Two nights later, Remus took her out to dinner again and then they fell into her flat after barely finishing appetizers and drinks. He'd taken her on her sofa in the middle of the living room.

He'd been there almost every night since.

He groaned loudly as she rode him, feeling the pressure building and gasping as he emptied himself into her.

Afterwards, she snuggled into him, sighing happily. They had both dozed a bit, but he wasn't sure how long they had slept.

"You are too good at that."

"What?"

Veronica smiled up at him, her hand sliding down to fondle him. "You know exactly what, Mr Lupin."

Remus' hand moved to fondle her breast, stroking her nipple to a hard peak before he lowered his mouth to suckle. "You aren't too bad yourself, Miss Riley."

Veronica placed her hand over his head to hold him in place as he suckled her. "I can't believe I ended up here with you after you gave me that cheesy-arse line in the market."

Remus grinned up at her. "Aren't you glad you did?" he asked, his hand sliding down her stomach and between her legs. When his fingers found her, she gasped.

"Mmm," she moaned as his fingers began to pump in and out of her. "Don't stop!"

Remus' mouth moved back to her breast. "Oh, I have no plans of stopping and when you come, I'm going to bend you over and take you hard and fast."

She simply gasped and arched into his hand, crying out in pleasure.

After he had shagged her to his heart's content, Remus stood by the bed tugging on his jeans while she grinned up at him.

"Are you sure that you have to leave?" she pouted, a hand over her stomach as she looked up at him still looking rather flushed and utterly fuck-able in Remus' opinion.

Remus nodded, reaching for his shirt. He had a firm rule. He never stayed the night. It stopped him from having to explain why he wasn't available during certain nights and prevented any of the women from overhearing any of nightmares that often hit him unexpectedly close to the full moon. If he didn't let them in, they didn't find out the truth, and no one got hurt. Remus thought that it was the safest way for all parties involved.

"I am." He leaned down to kiss her. "But name the day and maybe we can try this again sometime."

Veronica simply grinned up at him. "I'm free Tuesday night."

"Well, it just so happens that I am also free on Tuesday night," Remus said as he buttoned his shirt.

"Well, why don't you come over on Tuesday and I'll make you dinner and you can bend me over the dinner table."

Remus' eyes gleamed feral as lust hit him again when the image of doing just that, her lush bottom exposed before him, her breasts bouncing as he fucked her. "Over it, on it, beneath it," he murmured as he hardened at his thoughts.

Her eyes widened as she saw the growing bulge in his pants. "You have incredible stamina… you couldn't possibly…" Her hands reached up to cup him, stroking him through the denim.

He closed his eyes and swallowed slowly. "Oh, I definitely can," he groaned as she stroked him. "Suck me off."

Veronica stared at him. "Well, aren't you the demanding one?"

His eyes locked on hers, gripping her moving hands. "Suck — me — off."

"You're a little big for that," she admitted, eyes on his. "I don't think I could."

"Take as much as you can," Remus told her.

She licked her lips and watched as he dropped his jeans, his impressive erection pointing out. Demanding or not, he had every intention of getting her to go down on him, even if just for a moment. He put his hands in her hair and she leaned forward from her seat on the bed. Remus watched her lick her lips before she wrapped her mouth around his tip. She attempted to take more of him, but didn't make it more than a third of the way before she gagged, focusing on the tip of him instead.

He didn't mind.

By the time her tongue started swirling around him, his hand had gripped her curls even tighter and when her hands worked with her mouth, his hips jerked towards her. She finished him off with her hand as he groaned her name.

Once he caught his breath, he simply grinned at her. "Thank you."

Veronica smiled back. "Looks like you didn't have to leave right away after all."

Remus tugged up his jeans. "I really do have to go now though. I'll see you on Tuesday. Bye Roni."

When he closed the door behind him, he thought it really had been much too long since he'd had a woman and it felt bloody fantastic.

~ ASC ~

When Sirius stepped back into the house with Harry in tow, he felt surprisingly good, like a big weight had been lifted off of his shoulders. He was technically still in charge of everything. He still had full control over all of the funds and properties and everything else that went along with being the Head of House Black, but he would be passing it onto the last two Black family heirs and that made him feel good.

It had made him smile to see Narcissa and Lucius very much in love. He knew his cousin had harboured a crush on the Malfoy heir for a few years before they had even started dating and it was nice to see that she was still in love with him and him with her. It was the one thing that he could say he was legitimately pleased about with his entire extended family. His two cousins were deeply in love with their husbands and considering the other cousin was bat-shit crazy and locked away in prison, he figured it was fair odds.

Abraxas Malfoy however, was obviously still running the show and had no plans of backing down, which Sirius knew was a potential problem. He knew that Narcissa had never liked her father-in-law, had even gotten the impression that she was scared of him. He hadn't exactly liked the fact that his son had married Narcissa over Bellatrix either. Abraxas Malfoy had thought that Voldemort was a god who walked on water and he had known that his cousin wasn't overly impressed with that statement, but Lucius had been an avid follower of Voldemort. It had never officially been proven, but Sirius knew that he had been a Death Eater and not simply on opposing sides of the war as Lucius had so aptly put it.

He thought it was all very interesting.

Harry had told him all about Draco's horses and his scheduled play time. Sirius felt rather bad for his little cousin as he remembered having scheduled play time himself and how much of a struggle it had been to get that play time.

"Will Draco come over and play in my treehouse?" Harry asked him when they got home.

Sirius had only shrugged. "I don't think so, Harry. I don't think his mother and father will allow that."

"Why?"

Sirius simply sighed. How exactly was he supposed to explain a lifetime of bad blood to him? "Well, Narcissa is my cousin like Andy, but we're not very close. She and her husband and Draco live very different lives from us. Draco has his own friends and you have your own friends. I don't think my cousin would want you two to intermingle."

"Why?"

"Because they're purebloods."

"That doesn't matter to me."

Sirius smiled, lifting Harry up into his arms and sitting him on the kitchen counter, his arms on either side of him. "I know that, Prongslet, but remember we had that talk about prejudice?"

When Harry nodded, he smiled, gently brushing his fringe out of his eyes. His hair was getting a bit long, he thought. He was going to need a haircut again.

"The Malfoys are very prejudiced in their own way and they believe that purebloods are the only people worth knowing. Maybe one day you and Draco can be friends, but I don't think that that's going to happen right now, okay?"

Harry nodded, staring down at his lap. "He was lonely."

Sirius hugged Harry to his chest, gently rubbing a hand up and down his back. "You have a very kind heart, Harry. Never lose that." He kissed the top of his head and then pulled away to grin at him. "So, tonight we decided on pizza — want to help me make the dough?"

Harry nodded eagerly, jumping off the counter and hurrying to the wireless record player to choose an album. Dinner preparations were never done without tunes. Sirius smiled when he recognized the opening to The Rolling Stones and the two of them got to work.

Nothing felt more normal.

~ ASC ~

Sirius grinned when he heard Remus whistling as he made lunch for himself and Harry in the kitchen a few days later. He knew that whistle well and it made him grin wider as he stepped into the kitchen in time to watch his friend do a little hip shake and a slide across the floor as he made ham and cheese paninis for lunch.

"Someone looks pretty happy these days," Sirius said, winking at his friend and taking a seat at the kitchen table.

Remus simply grinned back at him. "I am pretty fucking happy."

Sirius wiggled his eyebrows suggestively. "She must be pretty great at bjs."

Remus rolled his eyes. "There are other aspects to our relationship."

"Ah, a relationship! Do tell!"

"It is a relationship of a sorts, Padfoot," Remus said in exasperation. "I like her. She… she makes me smile. It's been a while since a woman has managed to do that."

"Maybe if you'd actually let a woman in every once in a while, it would happen more often," Sirius suggested, earning a hard glare from his friend. "I'm just saying, it would happen."

Remus sighed, chopping up some fresh carrots and celery sticks, cucumbers, and some broccoli, placing them on the three plates while the paninis grilled. "You know the answer to that."

"Tell me why Roni makes you happy then."

Remus smiled. "She's gorgeous which is something, I mean, a woman who looks like that… why would she even give me the time of day."

Sirius' eyes darkened. "Moony! You are a great catch not to mention very good-looking so stop putting yourself down."

"I'm not saying I'm ugly, Sirius, I'm just saying that she is out of my league in the looks department plus she's much older than me," he said carefully. "And she's smart and quick-witted and a genius at charms, obviously, by her career choice."

"And the sex?"

Remus grinned widely, his amber eyes twinkling. "Pretty great. She's very… open about it, I guess. We, er, we went to a film and she…" he blushed as he spoke, the tips of his ears reddening and making Sirius grin at him. "She gave me a hand job in the middle of the film."

Sirius grinned wider. "She sounds like a keeper, Moony."

Remus rolled his eyes, glancing at the paninis and flipping them over as he spoke. "It's been just over two weeks. We're enjoying each other." He glanced at the calendar on the wall. "I'm seeing her again tonight so… we'll see."

Sirius' eyes fell on the calendar as well. "Full moon's not until Thursday, Rem."

"We'll see how it goes." He flipped the paninis onto the plates. "And as to the bjs, you know those are rare for me since I'm a little too big to suck on properly."

"Fuck you," Sirius said, making his friend laugh.

"She did, thanks. Now, get Harry inside to wash up, will you? Lunch is ready."

Sirius shook his head at his friend's antics and went to the back door to call Harry in. As Harry filled Sirius in on his morning of schooling: New Latin phrases, reading Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland, and all about the fall of the Roman Empire, he munched on his lunch happily, bouncing in his seat as he spoke.

"Sounds like you've had a morning full of learning," Sirius said with a grin. "Tell me about this Wonderland."

Harry grinned widely as he dipped his carrot in the creamy dressing. "It's wicked! There's talking caterpillars and mushrooms that make you tall and mushrooms that make you so tiny you can fit into a shoe!"

"A shoe?" Sirius asked in surprise, grinning at Remus. "That sounds pretty awesome."

Harry nodded eagerly. "Alice just wants to find her way home. Uncle Moony said we can read more after lunch."

"And we will," Remus told him with a smile. "Sirius, I didn't get to ask, how was tea with the Malfoys the other day?"

Sirius shrugged, taking a long drink from his glass of milk. "Interesting. They accepted all of my arrangements and why wouldn't they, considering how much of it benefits them, but… I don't know. It made me kind of wish Cissa and I were a little closer."

"You never could trust a Malfoy though," Remus added, remembering how Lucius Malfoy had been when they were in school.

He had been older than them, but his reputation had preceded him. He had always held that superior attitude that he was better than everyone else simply because he was a pureblood and a Malfoy. Not to mention that everyone had known his father had so many ministry officials in his pocket that he had been able to get away with literally anything.

Sirius nodded. "That I do know. But… they are very much in love and that was nice to see. I'm not saying that makes him a good person, but it definitely made me wonder about a few things. Lucius seemed to agree to how I broke up the estate, especially since I am bestowing the title of Viscount of Falmouth to Draco."

"I'm surprised that you decided to leave it to Draco instead of Harry."

Sirius rolled his eyes. "He doesn't need it. Neither does Draco really, but he's being groomed to be the Master of the Manor, the Earl of Wiltshire; the title works for him. And why would Harry want to be Viscount when he has Somerset?"

Remus nodded, munching on a celery stick as he looked pensive. "I suppose."

"What are you thinking, Moony?"

Remus shrugged, chewing thoughtfully before he spoke. "Just thinking about Fee and Monty and the Potter House and what they… had, I guess. I think you were right, he's going to have a lot already."

"More than. I mean, the gold alone is legitimately enough for him not to have to work a single day in his life or his children or grandchildren to even have to work and still live quite comfortably. And they would still be considered rich. Monty knew how to invest. As for titles, Monty never even used it except for official ministry business and James barely even picked it up after his father passed, though did he claim his seat in the Wizengamot."

Remus nodded. "That's true… I guess that will be up to Harry if he ever decides to take on the Potter legacy in that regard."

"He has properties too, Moony," Sirius said, finishing off his milk. "Fee loved that flat in Egypt and the one in Greece, the summer house in Nice, Potter House in Brighton is still there. I think the fact that I'm still leaving him ten percent of the Black assets is even too much for him. One day, he is going to be a very rich young man. And if I ever have kids some day, the title will go to them, but as I doubt that will happen, Draco seems like the better choice. Harry will have enough going on with Somerset."

Remus smiled. "Maybe they'll name him the Eligible Bachelor of London Society like they did James."

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Let's hope his ego isn't as big."

"James' ego?" Remus said on a laugh. "Are you confusing the two of you again?"

"Oh, come off it!" Sirius exclaimed. "James was much cockier than me!"

Remus simply stared at him and Sirius laughed.

"All right, all right, I get the point," he said. "Anyway, I'm pleased with the results. And none of it is going to affect any of them until they reach the tender age of twenty-one anyway. I put the option in of discussing it when they reach seventeen, but it is ultimately my decision."

"I think that was a wise choice."

Sirius nodded. "I do too. Anyway, it was nice to see Cissa again, not that we were ever close, but it was still nice. And Aunt Druella, boy, is she still a ray of sunshine."

Remus chuckled, putting his dirty dishes in the sink. "Well, did you really expect differently?"

"Not in the least," he said, adding his own dishes to the pile. He turned to pick up Harry's plate, grinning at his godson. "Go wash up, Prongslet, and you and Professor Moony can get back to the story of Alice."

"What are you going to do?" Harry asked, green eyes on his.

Sirius grinned. "Very important birthday planning for someone turning seven."

Harry's face broke out into a grin. "For me?"

Sirius kissed his nose. "Maybe. Now get lost, Prongslet, and let the master do his work."

Harry grinned wider and hurried upstairs to wash his hands and face.

"His birthday is still over a month away," Remus said, filling the sink up with soapy water.

Sirius nodded, using his wand so that the dishes began to wash themselves and set neatly on the drying rack on the counter. "I know it and this year, he's going to be excited for it."

Remus grinned broadly. "Now that I can agree with. And I can see the wheels turning in your head. Don't go too overboard, Sirius."

Sirius simply grinned. "Me? Never."

Remus shook his head, a small smile on his lips. That was exactly what he was afraid of.