Severus Snape exited his house and walked to a nearby deserted ally. He turned on the spot and appeared on the street of the Black Family mansion.
He walked up to the door and knocked three times. The door opened and a small house elf with bright blue eyes appeared.
"Hello sir." Starry said. "How may Starry help you?"
"I am here to see Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." Severus answered.
"Masters are not in a good condition to have visitors sir. Theys are drunk." Starry said.
"I do not care if they are drunk." Severus said. "How drunk are they?"
"Theys have been drinking and crying all night, sir. Starry thinks they are depressed." She said.
"What do they have to be depressed about?" Severus asked.
"They miss James and Lily Potter." Starry said.
"I'm coming in to see them." Severus said and Starry stepped back to let him in.
Starry walked him to the sitting room and Severus's mouth dropped. On one end of the large sofa was Remus sprawled out asleep. And on the other end was Sirius asleep in a ball with Remus's feet on his back.
They were a mess. Their hair was disastrous. Their clothes were stained and ripped. They also smelt horrible.
Severus did a cleaning charm to get rid of all the empty bottles and to clean their clothes. Then he did a few spells to get rid of the smell.
He walked up to Remus and shook his shoulder a few times. Remus woke with a start and grabbed at his chest.
"Severus?" Remus said in a cracked voice.
"What the hell is going on?" Severus asked.
"We had a few drinks." Remus said and placed his hand on his forehead and moaned.
"More than a few. I must have thrown out at least 8 bottles of fire whiskey." Severus said then remembered that Harry must be there. "Where's Potter?"
"He's with Molly." Remus answered.
"How are you not drunk right now?" Severus asked.
"I was very drunk but I can't stay drunk for very long due to my monthly problem. But I do end up with the worst hangovers." Remus said. "You don't have anything for hangovers by chance?"
Severus reached into his robed and grabbed a vial and handed it to Remus. Remus drank it at once and he instantly felt better.
"Thank you, Severus." Remus said.
"What was the cause of all this? You got rid of the boy after just a couple of days to get drunk?" Severus asked coldly.
"It was my fault. Going to Godric's Hollow broke me. Those letters tore me apart." Remus answered. No one knew how horrible he felt for sending Harry away.
"Did you tell him about my letter?" Severus asked and gestured to Sirius.
"No." Remus answered. "I was hoping you would let him read it himself."
"Wake him up." Severus said.
"That might not be a good idea. He's still drunk." Remus said. "He's pretty crazy when he's drunk."
"I have a potion to make him not drunk anymore. I'm going to pour it down his throat. Open his mouth."
Remus sat on top of Sirius carefully and looked at Severus. "Ready?"
"Is that really necessary?" Severus asked.
"Obviously, why else would I be doing it?" Remus answered. "Now are you ready or not?"
Severus nodded and opened the vial. Remus squeezed Sirius's cheeks together to open his mouth and Sirius started thrashing around. Severus quickly poured the potion down his throat and and Remus covered Sirius's mouth.
Remus got off Sirius and patted his back when he started coughing. Severus stood there and watched with a glint of amusement.
"I never knew you guys were together." Severus said with a smirk.
Sirius stopped coughing and put his hand on Remus's stomach. "Haven't you heard? Were having a baby!"
Severus's eyes grew wide and his smirk vanished making Sirius laugh.
"Shut up Paddy." Remus said and pushed Sirius's hand off his stomach.
"Do not call me that." Sirius said. "And what was that? Next time, can I please be informed beforehand why my best mate is murdering me?"
"It was a potion to make you sober." Remus said.
"Oh like the one I took two hours ago when I woke up?" Sirius said.
"Oops." Remus said and laughed.
"Yeah, you better hope there are no side affects for taking it again." Sirius said and crossed his arms.
"Only a few. Itchy bum, gray hair and premature wrinkles." Remus said.
"What?!" Sirius said and ran to the nearest mirror.
"Will you two shut up?" Severus said coldly.
"What are you doing here anyways?" Sirius asked.
"I was checking in on you two. I brought my letter for you to read." Severus said and handed Sirius the letter. "It's from Potter."
Sirius unfolded the letter and sat down. He looked up at Remus with sad eyes. "Can you please read it for me?"
"Yes. Give it here." Remus said. Sirius handed him the letter and cleared his throat.
"Dear Severus, hello. It's probably a shock for you to be hearing from me. I am very sorry that it has taken me this long to say this. I am so very sorry for all of the bullying we have done to you back at Hogwarts. I could come up with about a million excuses as to why I was such an arse to you but I won't because there is only one true reason. I was insanely jealous of the relationship you had with Lily. That night that you called her a mudblood, I heard her crying for hours in the common room. I never felt worse because I was almost certain that you wouldn't have said that if I wasn't embarrassing you in front of her. I felt so horrible for breaking up your friendship but I never stopped picking on you because I didn't know what else to do. Lily was mad at you and I was trying to get to Lily's side. I stopped eventually though because Lily made me stop and I was actually glad. I would like to think that if I was nicer to you that we could have became friends. I hope you except my apology which is also on behalf of Sirius, Remus and Peter. There is one more purpose to this letter. Lily is pregnant. You're the first were telling. I wanted to know if you would be the Godfather. It's going to be a girl. Thank you for reading this. Sincerely, James Potter."
Remus handed the letter back to Severus and looked at Sirius with tears in his eyes. Sirius was looking away and had tears rolling down his face.
"Padfoot-." Remus started but was interrupted.
"She was pregnant." Sirius said. "Voldemort murdered three Potters that night. Harry would have a sister. Probably around four years old. He would be a big brother, something he will never experience now."
"I know." Remus said.
Sirius nodded and looked at Severus. "So, do you accept his apology?"
"Yes." Severus said.
"I would like to apologize as well. I know James's apology was on behalf of us all but I would like to apologize myself." Sirius stood up and held out his hand for Severus to shake. "I am very sorry, Severus, for all the bully we did to you. Will you please accept my apology and forgive me?"
Severus looked at Sirius's hand and grabbed it and shook it after saying, "yes."
"Severus, I'd also like to apologize." Remus said and stood in front of Severus.
"You never really did anything." Severus said.
"That's why I am apologising. I am sorry for not doing enough to stop the bullying. I was a bystander and I should have stuck up for you." Remus said.
"Apology accepted." Severus said. "Well I need to get home. If you need any help with Harry you can always owl me."
"Wait." Remus said. "You never said what was in Lily's letter."
"She forgave me." Severus said simply with a smile and walked out the door.
Remus smiled and waved him off. Once he closed the door he turned to see Sirius sitting back down and with his hands covering his face. Remus walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"You okay, Padfoot?" Remus asked.
"I'll live." Sirius answered and uncovered his face. "We better go get Harry."
Remus nodded his head and they both walked out of the house and apparated away.
Back at the Weasley's, Harry nearly forgot all about Sirius and Remus. He was having the time of his life with other kids who actually liked him.
His favorite was Ron. They have been inseparable ever since Harry got there. Harry knew that he and Ron would grow up to be best friends.
So when Molly announced to Harry that his Godfathers would be arriving soon Harry couldn't stop the tears from falling.
"What's wrong dear?" Molly asked and wiped Harry's face. "Don't you want to go home?"
"I want to live here." Harry said.
"Well if you did that then Sirius and Remus would miss you." Molly said.
"No they wouldn't. Remus can't stand to look at me." Harry said.
"I'm sure that's not true dear." Molly said.
"But it is! He said it today. I heard him." Harry said. "Can you please be my Mum? Can I live here with you?"
"Oh Harry. You have a Mum already." Molly said as she tried to hide the tears that were showing on her face. "You have a home and a family."
"I want a family that loves me." Harry said and wiped his face.
"They love you Harry. I'm sure of it." Molly said.
"Do you love me?" Harry asked.
"More than you'll ever understand dear." Molly answered.
"I want a brother." Harry said.
"You can have one of mine, Harry." Ron offered.
"Thank you Ron but I want you to be my brother." Harry said. "Mrs. Wesley, can I keep Ron?"
"Then I would miss him. How about we share him?" Molly said.
"Yes!" Harry exclaimed happily. His smile evaporated as soon as he heard a knock on the door.
Harry ran up to Ron's room and started to cry. He was afraid of Remus hurting him or sending him back to his aunt and uncle.
Molly opened the door with a small smile to Sirius and Remus. They walked in and Molly's smile left her face.
"I hope you two worked things out." Molly said to the two.
"Yes we did." Remus said. "I'm sorry we had you take him."
"You should be." Molly scolded. "He's upstairs crying because he doesn't want to leave. He asked me if I would be his Mum. He told me that you, Remus, said that you can stand looking at him."
"I didn't mean it in that way!" Remus shouted.
"So you did say that?" Molly asked.
"Yes but-" Remus started.
"No buts!" Molly shouted. "You go upstairs and talk to him now. Just you not Sirius."
Remus nodded his head and went to the stairs while Sirius walked away from Molly slowly with wide eyes.
Remus stopped at the door and knocked. He didn't hear anything besides crying and it broke his heart.
"Harry." Remus said and slowly opened the door. He walked in to find Harry sprawled out on a bed.
He walked up to the bed and sat down and placed a hand on Harry's back which made him flinch. Harry sat up quickly and crawled away from Remus.
"Are you okay, Harry?" Remus asked softly.
"Yes, sir." Harry said and wiped a tear off of his cheek.
"Come here." Remus said. "Please."
"Please don't hurt me! Please! I didn't mean to cry. I tried to stop! Honest!" Harry said and started crying again.
"Harry I swear to you on my life I would never hit you." Remus said and picked him up and brought him on his lap. I love you very much. And what I said earlier you have it all wrong, I never got to finish what I was saying. Sometimes it's difficult for me to look at you because you look so much like your Dad and it hurts because I miss your Dad so much. I miss your Mum as well and every time I look at your eyes I see her. I'm so sorry for everything that has happened to you. I should have tried harder to get you when you were a baby but I wouldn't have been able to care for you by myself and Sirius was in prison."
"Is Sirius a bad man?" Harry asked.
"No he was wrongly accused of something but we will talk more about that later." Remus said. "Can I have a hug?"
Harry didn't answer, he just wrapped his arms around Remus's neck and squeezed as hard as he could. Harry began crying again and Remus rubbed his back.
"I'm so sorry, Remus." Harry cried into his shoulder.
"You have nothing to be sorry about." Remus said and got up off the bed with Harry still in his arms. "Let's go home and you can tell me all about your time here."
"Will I ever be able to come back?" Harry asked.
"Yes." Remus answered.
"Okay let's go home." Harry said.