A/N: I do not own anything Harry Potter. I missed Sirius and I'm sure you did too. Thanks to all who added me to their Favorites/Story Alerts. Ya'll are awesome! Enjoy the chapter and thanks for reading! XO

Chapter 14

Sirius walked into his cubicle and threw a file on his desk and ran a hand through his hair. He sat down in his chair and lifted his feet onto his desk and tilted his chair back, looking at the picture pinned to the wall. It was a picture of Annie and Bandit rolling around on the ground laughing. James's head appeared over the top of his cubicle, smiling.

"How much trouble do you think she's in?" asked Sirius placing his hands behind his head and giving his friend a mischievous grin.

James laughed. "It's only," he checked his watch, "12 o'clock on their first day back. What makes you think she's already in trouble?"

Sirius smiled and pulled a letter out from a pocket inside his robes. "'Dear Mr. Black, Annie has received detention with me tonight for attempting to skip her classes this morning. As this year is very important in preparation for her O.W.L.S. next year, classroom attendance is highly necessary. Have a nice day. Regards, Professor McGonagall,'" Sirius read the letter off and finished with his bark-like laugh. James laughed along with his friend as their co-workers shot them curious looks.

"Skipping the first day of class? There's no doubt she's your kid, Padfoot. When did you get this?" said James snatching the letter out of Sirius's hand and re-reading it to himself.

"Just a couple of minutes ago. I don't know whether to be proud of her or disappointed in her. First day of classes and she attempts to skip? Annie sure has guts," said Sirius taking the letter back from James, folding it up and putting it in his pocket once more. "Is Lily still okay with you coming out tonight?"

"Of course she is. She understands and she'll be right there in the morning to clean us up, just like she always does," said James his smile faltering a little. "What time does Remus get off work?"

"Four, then we're Apparating over to your house," said Sirius.

"Got it. Well, here's hoping for a peaceful transformation."

Sirius frowned. "They never are."

"Potter! Black! I need you in my office, now!" yelled Rufus Scrimgeour, their boss and head of the Auror Department. James and Sirius shared a look and shrugged and followed their boss into his office.

Annie was sitting backwards on her chair next to Hermione drumming tunelessly on the desk in front of her, waiting for Professor McGonagall to come in and start their first Transfiguration lesson. Hermione was busy re-reading her book while Harry, Ron and Annie talked about their upcoming and most anticipated Defense Against the Dark Arts Lesson.

"I still can't believe he turned Malfoy into a ferret," said Ron tilting back in his chair and placing his feet up on his desk. "Fred and George better be right about Moody, he seems like a wild bloke."

"He trained dad and Sirius back when he worked at the Ministry before he retired. Dad always came back with crazy stories about him when he would come home from work," said Harry.

"That's true," Annie said taking out her wand and twirling it between her fingers. "I'm kind of surprised we never met him before. You too, Ron. I know he's always been pretty keen on your dad."

"Yeah, he is. Helped him out on the first day of school, didn't he? Well, from what Fred, George and Lee said, he really knows his stuff. It'll be really cool to learn from a real Auror you know?" said Ron.

Annie nodded and continued her drumming, and looked around the room. It was Hermione's fault that they were sitting in this classroom with only a few other students besides themselves. She wanted to get there early so they could get good seats. Although she would never admit it, Annie actually liked sitting up front in Transfiguration. She was really skilled in the subject much like Sirius had been, according to Professor McGonagall. Annie credited this to the fact that he and her uncles gallivanted around the school grounds as unregistered Animagi on nights when there was a full moon. Still, she couldn't be happier sharing this talent with her dad. Annie's thoughts were interrupted when Professor McGonagall came in the classroom followed by the rest of their class. A few minutes passed while everyone took their seats and organized themselves at their desks. Annie turned around in her chair and faced the front of the room.

"Before we begin, I would like to speak to you all about the O.W.L.S.," said Professor McGonagall looking around the room at them all.

"But those are next year! We don't have to worry about them until then!" said Annie quite alarmed.

Professor McGonagall turned to Annie. "Yes, they are not until next year but that does not mean you shouldn't be preparing for them, Ms. Black," she said briskly. She turned back the class and continued her lecture. "As I said, your O.W.L.S. are fast approaching and you would do well to start preparing for them sooner rather than later. This means that your work from now on will be even more challenging. Although some of you may grasp some concepts quicker than others, this does not give you permission to slack off," she said this last bit directly to Annie who just smiled. "With that said, we will start today's lesson." Professor McGonagall turned the blackboard and wrote their lesson on the board.

An hour later, Annie, Harry, Ron and Hermione found themselves in the Gryffindor common room sitting at a table starting their homework. Harry, Ron and Annie were busy working on their Potions essay while Hermione, who had already finished, started on her Arithmancy homework.

"Snape really can kiss my arse," said Annie scratching out a sentence on her essay. "Assigning us an essay two feet long on antidotes due Friday? Who's he kidding?"

"Maybe he hates you?" said Ron re-reading his essay and scratching his chin with his quill. Harry laughed as he dipped his quill in the ink and continued his essay.

"Please, I know he hates me," she said waving her hand. "He and dad hate each other so he hates me. That's alright because I hate him, too, the greasy slimeball."

"You're just mad that you have all this work to do and you haven't started any of it and you'll probably stay up all night until you finish," said Hermione looking up from her essay. "Am I right?"

"I'm hungry," ignoring Hermione's comment and corking her bottle of ink. She rolled up her essay and shoved it in her bag. "I'm meeting George, Fred and Lee in the Great Hall. See you later." She picked up her bag and swung it over her shoulder and crawled out of the portrait hole. Leaving Hermione behind shaking her head. She made her way down to the Great Hall and spotted her friends half way down the table. She walked over and sat down next to Lee and pulled some food over to her and began to pile it on her plate.

"So, nothing?" she asked and Fred shook his head before taking a swig of Pumpkin Juice from his goblet. "No letter, no note, nothing whatsoever?"

"Nothing," said George. "Mr. Bagman doesn't seem too eager to get back to us, does he?"

"I think he's ignoring you guys," said Lee stabbing a potato.

"Lee's right, he is ignoring you. You should write to him again. This is ridiculous, he's a grown man. He should know when to pay up," said Annie defiantly banging the table.

"We were planning on writing to him again. Hey, you think you could help us out this time, Annie? You've got a way with words," asked George.

"Sure I can," she smiling. "If you don't mind a couple colorful words thrown in to make it more persuasive."

"Annie is there ever a time where you can be persuasive without being colorful?" asked Lee laughing.

"Hell no," she said. Fred and George laughed and shook their heads. "Hey, did you hear Weird Sisters are going on tour soon?"

They passed the time talking and eating their lunch until it was time for them to leave for their classes. They walked out of the Great Hall, laughing and joking and pushing each other around. When they reached the third floor, Fred and Lee continued on to their Charms classroom while George and Annie started on the stairs to the fourth floor. Fred gave George and curious look and George tilted his head towards Annie who was already half-way up the stairs. Fred and Lee smiled and gave him a wink and George ran up after Annie. She heard the footsteps behind her and turned around. She saw George making is way to her and she stopped and waited for him to catch up smiling. When he finally reached her, they continued up the stairs to the fourth floor where Annie would have her first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson with Moody.

"Hey, what are you doing? Aren't you going to be late for Charms?" she said, secretly hoping he wouldn't leave.

"Oh you know as much as I do Flitwick won't mind. How many times have you walked in late and he didn't care?" he said giving her a slight push.

"I guess you're right," said Annie pushing him back. "So, you wanted to talk to me?"

"How did you know that?"

Annie reached the top of the stairs and turned around to look down at George a couple stairs below her. "You obviously followed me for a reason," she said smirking slightly.

"Well, I was just wondering," he scratched the back of his neck and looked down at the ground. "Well, you got that new Map and all, and er, and I was wondering if you wanted to test it out this weekend. With me. If you want," he said looking up sheepishly, his face slightly red.

Annie smiled and blushed. "I would love to test out the new Map with you. Saturday morning at ten? We could sneak into Hogsmeade."

"Okay, that sounds good. I'll see you later?" he said with a huge grin on his face.

"Okay."

"Okay."

George smiled again and walked back down the stairs and Annie watched him until he was out of sight. She turned around and walked down the corridor to her class. Hermione spotted her from down the hall and waved. When Annie reached her, Hermione gave her a curious look.

"You're blushing," she whispered as she linked her arm in hers and walked into the classroom. "Something you want to tell me?"

"Later," said Annie taking her seat. She pulled out her book and some parchment and waited for Professor Moody to start the lesson even though she had no plans of paying attention as her mind would be elsewhere.

A/N: Oh yeah, nothing's going down with Sirius and James when they got called in to Scrimgeour's office. Just some normal Auror stuff is all. I just missed writing about Sirius. Thanks for reading! XO