Ursula finally snapped back to reality and with a joyous laugh, she ran forward to hug Uncle Alphard around the waist. He chuckled at her enthusiasm and wrapped his arms around her for a moment.

"I take it you're happy to see me?" He asked while still laughing at Ursula's reaction.

"Hell yes!" Sirius exclaimed as he walked forward. Alphard wrapped his arms around Sirius's shoulders while laughing at their reactions.

"Where's your stuff? I'll explain everything once we get back to the apartment."

Ursula and Sirius ran back to where they were standing and grabbed their trunks before racing back over to their uncle. With a wave of his wand, the trunks disappeared; assumingly back to his house, before he grabbed the upper part of their arm.

"We're going to apparate so be prepared," he warned them.

Unlike last time, the twins were expecting the apparition so when they finally stopped the nauseating journey, they didn't fall flat of their faces.

Ursula looked around the room she found herself in. It wasn't that large but it was filled with mismatched furniture that looked like it belonged from exotic places. Strange, vibrant colors plants and intricately made rugs decorated the living room. There was a large glass window that looked over the Atlantic Ocean. The icy waves crashed upon the rocks about fifty yards away from the back patio.

"Welcome to my humble abode." Alphard said while making a sweeping motion with his arm around the room. "This is the main room; you can find something from every country I've been to in here."

"Merlin, you must have been everywhere," Sirius said in awe as he observed when appeared to be a totem pole.

Alphard chuckled, "I've been around the world three times and twice on a camel. I've been places Sirius my boy! Now, we have so much to see with so much time!"

He motioned for them to follow him before he disappeared behind a bunch of beads that looked like they were made from different spheres of wood that led into another room.

Sirius and Ursula looked at each other and he whisper shouted excitedly, "This is freaking awesome!"

His sister shared his excitement, "I know!"

They scurried to catch up to him. When they got past the beads, they felt like they were at the beach. The tiles on floor were a sand color and the kitchen cabinets were pure white with pale blue stone counter tops. There was an island in the middle of the room but it was no normal island. Coming up from the middle in a column was a glass aquarium that had live fish that went all the way to the ceiling. The wall right across from them was solid but Alphard appeared to charm it to look like the ocean in the summer time.

"This is the kitchen. Feel free anytime to take whatever you want. A lot of people would have my head if you two showed up looking malnourished. Any questions so far?" He asked them.

"Yeah," Ursula began, "how are we here?"

Alphard smirked, "Well dear Ursula, I thought your parents have told you to story about how you got here. I don't know the specifics but I'm guessing that you mother and father drank a little too much wine and-"

"Not that!" She exclaimed while Sirius chuckled from where he was standing on the chair to look at the aquarium closer. "The rule is that you have to go home. Nice as this is, this isn't our home." She pointed out.

Alphard regarded her for a moment with appraising eyes that still somehow kept their lightness, "Nothing gets past you does it? Don't ever change that- that could one day save your life. But as for how you are here, the rule is not that you have to go home per say. The actual rule states that a student must leave King's Cross station with a blood relative with the intent to go to a safe and secure place and stay under the supervision of an overage wizard for the two weeks."

The pieces clicked together in Ursula's mind and she smiled, "That's wicked. But how did McGonagall know to contact you? Mum and dad have a bunch of other relatives that aren't as insane as they are; how did they know to pick you?"

"That," he said as he started to walk to the next room, "is for me to know and you to find out. Come on, there is more of the house to see.

Ursula simply turned around to follow her uncle but Sirius had to jump off the high bar chair to scamper after them.

"Wait for me!" He shouted after them.

Two hours later, Uncle Alphard left the twins alone to unpack in their separate rooms. Ursula was just about sit down at the desk in the room and write a letter to her friends to let them know what had happened after they left with their families. Knowing them, they were worried that she and her brother had gotten kidnapped by the Malfoys or something along those lines. While none of them had ever met Alphard Black, they had heard a lot from the Black twins about him and it seemed that they had formed a positive opinion of him so they would be glad to hear he was the one that they were with.

Sirius knocked on the door just as she picked up the quill.

"Can you believe it?" Sirius asked her.

She shook her head in agreement as he made himself comfortable on her bed. It was not like the room she had last Christmas at the Potters', but it was still better than her room in Grimmauld Place.

"I can't. This is almost too perfect. I keep expecting Mother or Father to show up and tell us this is a joke and they will take us back." She said while leaning back in her chair.

Sirius shrugged indifferently, "They wouldn't. Even if they did, Uncle Alphard would go Flitwick on them and hex them to oblivion." He then noticed the five pieces of paper she had in front of her. "Writing to them?"

Ursula nodded and tapped the pieces of parchment with the end of the quill, "They said to write as soon as we were wherever we were going." She said slowly as a mischievous grin began to form on Sirius's face as she spoke. That usually meant nothing good for other people. "What are you thinking?"

He smirked, "They said to write when we got here. They never said to include details. Just tell them that we are safe at the moment and that we'll hopefully see them soon."

"Sirius!" Ursula brandished her brother. "That is horrible! They'll be worried sick about us!"

"Exactly. Come on Sissy! James gives as good as he gets but no one ever gets him! Think of this as payback for him blurting out our secret at the beginning of the year." He reasoned with her.

Ursula cursed her brother's persuasiveness. After weighing her options (and trying to avoid Sirius's dog eyes) she conceded, but on one condition,

"All right! But I'm telling Elyse. I'll tell her not to tell the rest of the boys; don't worry." She assured him when she saw him open his mouth to argue. He grinned evilly, "perfect. Now write my minion! Write to your heart's content, for I command thee to—OOW! Be careful with that thing!" Sirius exclaimed as she jabbed his side with the pointy end of the quill.

She rolled her eyes and dipped the quill into the inkwell. Sirius glared at her but remained next to her to read the words she wrote.

Dear James…

Dear James,

I hope that your journey home was safe and uneventful. Knowing you however, you probably caused some ruckus somewhere, somehow. Ours wasn't too bad. It's actually been quite eventful here. Things are moving so quickly and ideas are being tossed around like a Quaffle.

We just wanted to send an owl so you know that we are safe and alive and able to write letters. Since we will be seeing you soon, we don't really want to go into a lot of details. We'll have enough time to do that later.

See you in a week!

Your awesomest friends,

Ursula and Sirius Black

When James finished reading, he threw the letter to the ground in annoyance. He has specifically told him to write them the second they got to wherever they were going. He knew that was slightly unreasonable so he decided to give them three hours after the train made it to the station. The letter arrived eight hours later and without any important information. Was it that hard to write whoever had taken them? It was just a simple little name. Two words, maybe three if the person had a title or something.

His mother noticed the angry look on his face. She put down her book and looked at him with her warm hazel eyes,

"What's wrong James, dear?"

"Stupid Blacks." He spat out, glaring at the letter.

Mrs. Potter stifled a laugh at her son's blatant annoyance with his friends. She knew he wasn't angry at them at all; he was worried.

Mr. Potter on the other hand snorted from his spot in the Potter living room from behind the newspaper, "Spoken like a true Potter. Good job son." He said.

James just huffed again and stalked up to the room, missing the looks his parents gave each other.

The Blacks may not know it but they were in for a hell of a surprise when they got to the Lupins'. A surprise in the form of an irate friend who was going to have them have it. No one messed with James Potter and got away unscathed.

Well, maybe his mom, but she didn't really count.

But the Blacks did count and they would learn what happens when you make James Potter worry out of his mind for his two closest friends.

Yeah, so I didn't really know how to end it so I'm sorry if it seems a little abrupt and/or weird. The next chapter is going to be a little less character interaction wise. I am currently contemplating doing the next chapter partially from Alphard's pov so I would love to hear any ideas about that, mainly if you would like to see that happen.

Don't forget the REVIEW! It's what keeps me writing (quicker) so if you want to see this end before the next school year (by end I mean by the end date in the summary) and maybe quite possibly start the sequel, I am going to need a little encouragement! So please take some time out of your day to give a little something back. It will be highly appreciated.