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This chapter picks up right where the last one ended so there is not real time change. I know I hate it when an author leave it as a cliff hanger, so I decided to update sooner than I planned on. I hope you enjoy!

"Sirius…Ursula…what happened?" Peter asked horrified. He appeared to be the only one with a voice as the others just stared at the twins standing in the compartment doorway.

There was a sickening bruise right on Ursula's cheekbone, the dark purple standing out on her pale white skin. The bruise spread from just under her eye to her ear and down to just below her cheekbone. Her lip was slightly swollen and there was a small cut on the right side. She was standing lopsided, trying to put any pressure on her left foot.

Sirius was in a slightly better condition. The only mark any of them could see on him was what looked like a welt or a horrible blister on the right side of his neck. He was trying to hide it with his hair but it reached to just underneath him chin.

"What's do you mean?" Ursula asked as she limped farther into the compartment. Sirius moved stiffly in after her, anger clouding his eyes.

The whole compartment jumped up and helped them put their stuff away and sit down. James started to run his fingers through his hair in an agitated way,

"We were worried about this." He muttered to himself before he turned back to his friends, "Now you better tell me what happened or-"

"Or what James? What could you possibly do to make this better?" Ursula snapped at him.

James sighed, his anger seeming to deflate from his body, "I know, I know." He patted Sirius on the shoulder but immediately stopped when Sirius flinched slightly. James jumped back as if he'd been burned.

"Sweet Merlin's tentacle tarts, do you guys need to see a healer or something?" James asked, horrified that they were so hurt.

They shook their heads.

"It may be shocking, but we're fine." Ursula said.

James looked like he wanted to say something. He opened his mouths a couple times and started to move his hands in a violent fashion but settled on squeezing his fists tightly together so much so that his knuckles turned white.

"I'm going to go hex Snape. I'll be back." He said before he stormed out of the compartment, his wand clutched tightly in his hands.

Remus slowly took his wand out his pocket, "I know some healing spells. Would you like me to heal you?"

"We trust you. Knock your socks off."

Remus did his best to heal the wounds that were visible. Sirius did take off his jumper and when he was just left in his undershirt, the hand shaped bruises on his arms explained his reaction to James's touch earlier. While Remus did take away a lot of the pain, he wasn't able to take away the marks.

"That's the best I could do, sorry," Remus apologized.

The twins assured him that they felt better from his spells and complimented him on the complexity of some of them. He just grimly smiled at them, worry still in his eyes. The rest of the ride was full of pleasant laughter and jokes. They discussed what they wanted to do for the new first years, knowing that they had to do something else after their display after last year.

"Speaking of first years," James began – he had slipped back into the compartment with a devilish grin on his face not too long ago – "what house do you think your brother's going into."

"Slytherin."

"Gryffindor."

They said at the same time. The twins turned to look at each other in shock.

"How the heck can you think he is going to end up in Gryffindor after his little display this summer!" Sirius practically shouted at his sister.

Ursula glared at him harshly and the rest of the compartment knew that Sirius had mentioned something unmentionable, "How dare you mention that! Just because he bloody terrified of our parents means nothing! He'll be at Hogwarts where we can protect him."

"Stop with this whole protection thing! It's not your job to protect him all the time! He's changed since last year!" Sirius shouted back at her.

"Because we weren't there every day! They were able to fill his mind with nonsense while we were at Hogwarts." She argued back.

"He's always been like this; open your eyes! He's just like everyone else in our family; he has no backbone! I thought that two days ago showed you that!" Sirius shouted at her, mentioning this event that the rest of them had no knowledge about.

Both of them looked like they were ready to breathe fire at each other. Nervously and quietly Elyse asked,

"Woot 'appened two days ago?"

"Nothing." The twins said at the same time.

James, deciding that this was no time to have the twins fighting, interjected, "Let's forget about him and whatever happened. Now, what are we going to do to these little first years?"

After arriving on the carriages, they settled down at the Gryffindor table. Things were still slightly tense between the Blacks, but at least they weren't shouting at each other anymore.

"Will they hurry up, I want to eat." James grumbled as he played with the plate in front of him by spinning it around in circles.

They didn't have to wait long; McGonagall opened the front doors and walked into the Great Hall leading a terrified group of first years. Ursula quickly scanned them to look for her little brother. Regulus was standing towards the edge trying to look calm, but Ursula could see him nervously tapping his fingers against his leg. There were only two kids sorted, two Ravenclaws, before his name was called.

"Black, Regulus."

The entire Gryffindor table turned to look at their own Blacks. The hall was silent as the hat mumbled to himself, trying to decide the fate of the youngest Black. Would he go to Slytherin like the rest of his family, or would he join his older brother and sister in Gryffindor? Or, some thought, would he join another house altogether?

Ursula had her fingers crossed under the table was nervously bouncing her leg until Ben gently place his hand on her leg to stop the shaking. He gave her a reassuring smile before turning back to the boy on the stool. Ursula looked over at Sirius and she would swear she saw him whispering, "Gryffindor, Gryffindor," under his breath over and over again.

"SLYTHERIN!" The hat finally shouted.

Sirius swore under his breath and ran his hands over his face while James placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. Ursula felt her heart break as he looked over at her as he walked over to the cheering table with a look that could only be seen as, "Sorry"

Ursula could only give a weak smile back as if to say, "It's okay."

The rest of the sorting went uneventfully. Gryffindor gained eight more girls, the largest group in years, and nine more guys. The other houses also gained a fair amount of students. Once everyone was settled, James leaned forward,

"Remember the spell I taught you on the train?" He whispered.

When they all nodded he continued, "You all know the plan, on the count of three. One…two…three!"

They all said the spell as quietly as they could and they were thankful that it was a transfiguration spell so there was no trace of light back to them. All of a sudden, all the first year's food was no longer food. At the Ravenclaw table, small little blue eagles were cawing from the plate. Little badgers started scurrying around the Hufflepuff table. Little lion cubs were jumping all over the first years and snakes were slipping off the table and trying to climb their way back up via the first year's legs.

To say they were freaked out was a slightly understatement. Apparently, most of the first year Slytherins were terrified of the small snakes while the Ravenclaws looked horrified at them birds. The only tables having fun with it were Hufflepuff and Gryffindor.

The Hufflepuffs had gathered all the badgers together and they were gently petting them and giving them little bits of extra food.

The Gryffindors on the other hands started trying to race the little lions up and down the tables.

Amidst the laughter (and some Slytherin tears) McGonagall stood up and with a wave of her wand, all the miniature animals turned back into food. Some of the students were disheartened by it but the majority practically sagged with relief.

"Whoever is responsible for this-" She trailed off threateningly, her gaze ending up a certain group of second year Gryffindors. They smiled innocently at her but that only seemed to annoy her further. What she would have done to them, no one knows because Dumbledore spoke up,

"Is awarded fifteen points each for a wonderful show an animal transfiguration, don't you agree Professor McGonagall?"

"Of course headmaster." The look on her face said anything but that would have happened.

James high-fived all his friends, not expecting for them to win their house 105 points before classes even started. Now they could lose all those points without feeling guilty later.

When they walked into the common room, they were all bolstered up from their head start against the other houses. Sirius and Ursula still seemed a little down, but they were at least speaking to each other without yelling now.

"-was ruddy brilliant!" Peter exclaimed after James explained the concept behind the spell his father taught him over break.

His outburst brought the attention of two girls sitting on the sofa. When Lily was James she stormed over and hit him in the chest with the book in her hands,

"YOU JERK! Why did you hex Sev? He did nothing to you!"

James raised an eyebrow, "He hexed me last year Lily. What do you expect me to do?"

"Not act like a bloody four year old!" She exclaimed.

She happened to look over at Ursula and her eyes widened when she was the bruise on her face. With James forgotten, she ran over to her,

"Ursula! What happened? Are you okay?"

Ursula smiled tightly, "It was just a flying accident. It doesn't hurt anymore, I swear."

"Come one, I have some bruise lotion that Slughorn let me keep from last year. Maybe we can get it to fade." She gently grabbed Ursula's wrist and dragged her up the stairs. Elyse followed her with a quick goodbye to the boys.

Later that night, almost all the boys were asleep, exhausted from all the festivities and a particularly intense game of Exploding Snaps. Sirius was just about to dose off when he heard from the bed next to him,

"Sirius? You awake?"

"Yeah. What do you want James?" He asked.

There was a slight pause.

"It wasn't a flying accident was it?" James asked softly, concern filling his voice.

Sirius clenched his sheets tightly in his hand.

"No, no it wasn't."

So there is it. I know that I haven't really answered what happened to them, but fear not readers! All your questions will be answered soon!

On a completely separate note, I noticed that while the last few chapter had over twenty views, chapter 19 only had nine! I don't know why people skipped over that chapter but I if you skipped it, go back and read it. Yes it has a lot of music in it, but it is a pretty quick chapter and I think that is quite relevant to the story. Plus, you don't need to know anything about music to understand it; just give it a chance.

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