Chapter 9

It was Christmas Eve. Sirius and Remus were sitting in front of the Gryffindor common room fire; they were the only occupants of the tower. They heard a pecking on the window.

Sirius looked around to the window and saw a black tawny owl, he went to open the window and the bird flew into the common room and landed on the back of one of the chairs. It stuck its leg out to Remus.

Remus untied the scroll of parchment and opened it "It's from Dumbledore"

"What he say?"

"He wants both of us to come down to his office"

"Should we go?"

"Yeah, we should" the owl had already taken off out the window.

The two made their way to the stone gargoyle "liquorish wands" Sirius said off headedly, Remus frowned at how Sirius knew the password, but then remembered that Sirius had been in the office more times in the year then most people had in there whole school career.

The two descended the spiral staircase quickly, Sirius in front. Remus had been here a few times, but liked to stay away if possible, the headmaster might have given him a place at the school, but Dumbledore did sometimes freak him out, of how nice he could be.

Sirius knocked on the door four times and it swung open, Dumbledore was seated behind his desk, and three chairs, Dumbledore smiled at the two boys and pointed to the chairs. Sirius looked to the other chair and there sat, his father, Sirius immediately went to the chair furthest away from him.

"Professor, why is my so called father here?" Sirius' voice shook slightly but it was barely noticeable,

"He is here on my request; we would like to sort this out"

"Why do you need Remus then?"

"Because I believe he is the reason why all this has happened"

"So what? We are together"

"My son is not gay, tell him Dumbledore"

"You cannot tell me my sexuality, father, it is for me to decide whether or not I am gay, I love Remus"

"You're disgusting, he is a half blood"

"Who cares about fucking blood, he's Remus, he's sweet, caring, what more do I bloody want?"

"Him to be a girl"

"I don't care, I have fallen for HIM, I love him, I do"

"You fucked him yet?"

"NO! We are taking it slowly, and it is none of your fucking business" Remus had put his hand over the top of Sirius' Mr Black had gripped the arms of his chair hard at the sight of it.

"Look, I don't want Remus to be here, it's not a good idea"

"Yeah there's a funny smell in here" Sirius stood up, wand drawn. Remus grabbed Sirius' hand to pull him back down, but Sirius wrenched his hand from his grip.

"Please, Siri, don't"

"Go on hit me with your worst" Sirius hit him with a multiple of non-verbal hexes and jinxes. Mr Black ended up cowering on the floor, with a big spot, yellow puss oozing out. His eye was swollen, his lip was bleeding, his face was white and his ears had grown the size of an elephant's.

Sirius laughed "Satisfy you, father?"

"You, little shit" he spat

"Well you wanted my worst and that was… well lets just say I can do far better, but I decided I can do that at Grimuld" just then a large man with mousy coloured hair, green eyes and broad shoulders had knocked on the door and stepped into the office.

"Dad? What are you doing here?"

"Hello, Remus, I got a letter from a certain Mr Black, he was asking why my son was going out with Sirius, and I would like to know the answer"

"I'm gay, if you really wanted to know"

"Remus what are you on about?"

"I am going out with Sirius; I love Sirius, that's that"

"You love a Black!" it was not a question, it was a statement, both Remus and Sirius knew it. "Yeah, I love him dad, who cares what family he is from" Remus said calmly and softly.

"Yes Remus, it matters!"

"It doesn't what matters is he respects my wishes acts like a gentleman and makes sure he does not push the boundaries, he acts how he should, at least he does not force me into things I do not want to"

"REMUS JOHN LUPIN. STOP TALKING ABOUT A BLACK LIKE THEY ARE SAINTS!"

"Excuse me Lupin! You are talking about my family as if we are scum. I do not see you having a house elf at your side. I do not see you supporting a witch for a wife, and I do not see a son in front of me that is of pure quality"

"Do not talk about my son as if he is a cauldron that has a whole in it!"

"I shall talk about a half blood how ever I want!" Mr Black did not look very threatening; he still had his elephant size ears.

"Father, I would stop if I were you" Sirius tried to get the laughter out of his voice and the smile off his face

"Why should I?"

"Because you look ridiculous, you still have bloody elephant ears, threatening does not work and I'm not reversing it until you say you'll accept I'm with Remus and accept that I am old enough to make the right decision"

"But you are not and I will never accept you're one with a boy and two you're with a Lupin, a half blood at that"

"Most of your mates are half blood!"

"My what?"

"Friends"

"Hmm".

"Professor, can we go back to our common room please?"

"I see no…"

"No you can not just walk away from this Remus; I am not having my son going out with a Black, a male Black at that"

"I'm gay dad, so what? I love Sirius, he's a Black so what!?"

"Remus, you are a respectable young man, this boy will lead you into danger"

"I've been best mates with him since the beginning of first year"

"Yeah, he had a bad affect while you were just friends, now you're going out I dread to think what he'll lead you into"

"My son will not lead him into danger, it would be that Potter boy, James Potter, he has had a bad affect on Sirius, that and all these Gryffindors he's hanging around with".

"Why can't we all just accept these two bright respectful students are going out?" Dumbledore had stood up with a faint smile on his face.

"The headmasters right, I suppose, we cannot stop our sons from seeing each other"

"Well I can, I have a place at Durmstrang Sirius; you shall attend school there"

"NO I FUCKING WELL WON'T! I'M SIXTEEN YOU CAN'T TELL ME I'M NOT YOUR SON AND THEN BOSS ME AROUND; IT DOES NOT WORK!" Sirius roared

"DO NOT SHOUT AT ME!"

"I WILL AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME, I HATE THE WAY YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN MY LIFE AFTER YOU PRACTICALLY DISOWN ME!"

"I haven't disowned you, but if you keep seeing this bastard, you might end up it, or you'll go to Durmstrang; finish your education in a place that believes in our ways" with that Mr Black stormed out of the headmasters office.

"Well that went well" Sirius said dropping into a chair head in his hands. Remus went over to Sirius and rubbed his back.

"I have no where to go" Sirius' voice filled with fear

"Hey, hey, you haven't been disowned yet"

"I might as well have"

"Well…" Remus looked at his dad for help

"You can come and stay with us when ever you want Sirius"

"You don't have to" he murmured in his hands

"Yes, Sirius, we do' Remus leaned down so his lips were next to Sirius' ear 'I love you Sirius, you can come over when ever, I promise"

"Thanks"