Lily walked into the room Sirius was in, with the baby in her arms. She had decided to name her Jaime, the female version of James. They had been in the hospital for another week, and they had just gotten home about a week ago. Right now, she was sleeping peacefully, but when she was awake she was a real handful. Sirius said she had Lily's attitude along with her looks. All of a sudden, a huge crash of thunder rang through the house, and they heard the sound of rain outside. It had been raining on and off for weeks now, just pouring. Sirius was sitting at the kitchen table, a large barn owl by his side and a quill in his hand. He was writing diligently, ignoring the rain.

"Sirius, who are you writing?" Lily asked, pushing her hair, now red again, behind her ear.

"Moony…" He muttered, the quill between his teeth. He looked worried. "But, he hasn't written me back in the past week. I'm nervous."

"Why?"

"He sounded kind of…I don't know. Depressed when I last talked to him."

"Depressed?" Lily looked nervous now, and shifted Jaime into her other arm. "Depressed…how?"

"Depressed as in he lost his job to new werewolf laws, and soon he won't have enough money to pay for his house. He can barely buy food, and his best friend died less than a year ago. Depressed like that."

"Well, did you offer for him to come stay with us?"

"I tried, but he never wrote back…" Sirius sighed, and tied his letter to the owl's leg. "The owl keeps leaving, but he comes back without letters. I feel like he's getting them…but why wouldn't he reply?" Sirius groaned and dropped his head into his hands. "It doesn't make any sense."

"Well, maybe he doesn't have paper?"

"He's not that poor, Lils."

They were silent, thinking of everything that could be wrong, when Aden walked in. Another boom of thunder rang out, this time accompanied by a flash of lightning.

"Who's not that poor?" She asked, a pint of muggle ice cream in her hands. She was eating it straight from the container hungrily.

"Aden, don't do that!" Lily said, grabbing the ice cream from her. She set it on the table, where Sirius promptly picked it up and started eating it too. "And it's Moo-Remus. He isn't responding."

"Why not?"

"If we knew, we wouldn't be worrying." Lily said. Jaime woke up right then, rubbing her eyes with her tiny fists. Lily cooed at her, bouncing up and down so she wouldn't cry.

"Well, maybe he's busy." Aden said. "What does he not have a job or something?"

"Right."

"Well, maybe he's busy looking for a job."

Lily frowned at this perfectly logical response, and turned away. Sirius put down the ice cream, and grinned at Aden.

"Thanks, A." He said, getting up and feeling her stomach. This was a random habit of his that had started when Aden told him she was having twins, and now he did it practically every time she walked into the room.

Lily remembered when Aden had told him. She had looked nervous, almost like she was going to vomit. Sirius hadn't reacted badly at all. In fact, he had been so happy he had grabbed Harry and ran around the house shouting, "TWINS!"

They had magically made a room for them downstairs, in the empty space beside the stairs. It was a big room, and they had figured they could just split it in two when they got older. Aden was going to find out the gender in a month, and Sirius was constantly marking down the days on the little calendar in the kitchen.

Harry walked into the room, his black hair tousled from his crib. "Harry!" Lily groaned, walking over to him. "What are you doing out of bed?"

"I don' know." Harry said, putting on his most innocent puppy dog face. It didn't work on Lily.

"Harry, how did you get out of bed?" Lily thought back to make sure she had put up the crib bars securely. She definitely remembered hearing a little click when she had put it up.

"Ummmm…" He looked at Sirius, who shrugged as if to say, it's your problem, I can't help. "Cribby fly, Harry walk out."

Lily rolled her eyes, and grabbed his hand. "I'm sure it did. Come on, it's time for bed."

They walked upstairs, Harry looking annoyed the whole way up. They walked into Jaime's room first, which was decorated in all shades of pink. Lily lied her down in her pink lined crib, making sure she was comfortable. "Come on Harry; let's go see if cribby did fly."

They walked into Harry's room, and Lily was shocked to see the crib, lying on its side at the front of the room by the door. She looked at Harry, who gave her an I told you so look.

"Harry, did you make cribby fly?"

Harry looked away, walking towards his fallen bear. He didn't answer. Lily groaned and returned the crib to its original position with a flick of her wand, then placed Harry inside of it. "Harry, if cribby flies again, and then you have to sleep in mommy's room. With no bear."

Harry looked frightened, grabbing his bear. He nodded solemnly, then laid down, ready to sleep. Lily grinned and walked out of the room, when…

The doorbell rang.

Lily froze. Who could be at the door? She ran quickly, back into the kitchen. Sirius and Aden were also frozen, silently flipping out.

"Aden! Did you tell anyone?" Lily whispered urgently. Aden shook her head slowly, a look of terror passing over her face.

"Did you?" She asked, growing even more fearful.

"Of course not!"

They both turned to Sirius. He gulped.

"I only told one person about our house, and that was-"

The doorbell rang again, cutting him off.

"Lil! Aden! Don't freak out. The fidelius charm is working, and what death eater would ring the doorbell?" Sirius said, and he got up. "I'll go see who it is. It's probably a postman or something."

"At eight o' clock?" Lily whispered to Aden, confused. They followed Sirius, wands extended.

There was even more thunder, and Lily was trembling. She moved closer to Aden. Aden was unfazed and grabbing her stomach, as though her babied could protect her. Sirius opened the door, slowly, and outside was-

Lupin. Moony.

His hair was soaking wet, falling down to his shoulders. His face was pallid, and thin, as though he hadn't eaten in a while. He was only wearing jeans that had tons of holes in them, and a white shirt that was so old and dirty it had turned grey. He didn't have shoes on, and his brown eyes that were constantly warm and loving, were now cold and wild. He looked like he had been running for days, with no stops.

"Mo-Moony?" Sirius asked. He looked shocked to see his best friend like this.

Lily stepped forward. "Don't just stand there Sirius! Get him inside!" She grabbed Remus, guiding him into the warm house. He was shivering madly. "Aden, go get him a towel. Or three."

Aden rushed into the little powder room, and came out with a thick fluffy towel. Sirius grabbed his wand from the kitchen, and used a spell to warm him.

"Thanks." Lupin finally said, his voice hoarse. Lily sat next to him, looking worried for her friend.

"What happened to you?"

AN: Cliffhangerrr! I'll try and update again today, because I'm already starting the next chapter.
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