Year 1972 – Summer
Sirius' Story:
Most repeated saying of the DECADE: "Regulus is a far better son than you will ever be Sirius!" – Said by my ever-loving affectionate mother. Rolls eyes
The summer after the first year was an exceedingly unpleasant experience, as I had already known it would be. It was the start of a series of extremely unpleasant summers. My parents were acting exactly like I had imagined they would, they were even worse to me than ever, before and if you don't know by now then you should be paying more attention! Especially if it's me that's writing!), and every time the two of them got together they delighted in lecturing me and generally being royal pains in the arses (am I allowed to say that? Actually, I don't care if I'm allowed to or not, it is partly my book and I'll write what I want, despite what Remus says).
Regulus, meanwhile, was prancing around and rubbing in that he was a better son than I would ever be.
One of the only things that stopped me from yelling at the whole lot of them and walking out the door once and for all was my friends. I kept in contact with James, Remus and Peter by letter. I would read their letters over and over again to remind myself that I would soon be back at Hogwarts. I also kept the pictures of James and I and the four of us that I had developed on my bedside table just so I could look at a familiar, friendly face and remind myself that in less than a month I would be back with my friends at my real home.
On one such occasion a couple of days before my relatives' arrival for the last couple of weeks of the summer holidays I found that I couldn't put up with my family's constant taunts any longer. My anger at all of them had been buling at the whole lot of them and walking out the door once and for all was my friends. I kept in contact with James, Remus and Peter by letter. I would read their letters over and over again to remind myself that I would soon be back at Hogwarts. I also kept the pictures of James and I and the four of us that I had developed on my bedside table just so I could look at a familiar, friendly face and remind myself that in less than a month I would be back with my friends at my real home.
On one such occasion a couple of days before my relatives' arrival for the last couple of weeks of the summer holidays I found that I couldn't put up with my family's constant taunts any longer. My anger at all of them had been building up ever since I first walked into Grimmauld Place on the first day of holidays.
"Sirius clean that for Regulus now!" My mother snapped at me as we were halfway through dinner, she pointed to a large puddle of wine on the floor that Regulus had spilt 'accidentally-on-purpose'. Regulus was smirking at me from across the table, gloating in my misery.
"Why should I?" I snapped back. Usually I would have just obeyed and got it over with, but this demand had been one too many. I was getting sick of being ordered around like a plain house elf.
"You will do what you are told boy! Regulus always does what he's told!" My mother snapped while Regulus gloated.
"That's because he doesn't have to clean up crap! He doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to! Get him to do it; he's the one that bloody spilled it in the first place! What the hell do we have a house-elf for if you're going to make me do everything for you?" I yelled back at her as I rose from the table, my temper getting the better of me.
"Don't talk back to me Sirius Black! You'll do what you're told!" My mother screeched glaring at me as she too stood up from the opposite side of the table.
"Make me! You're all a bunch of bloody idiots! And I hate you all," I screamed glaring around at my family; I was getting angrier by the second, "especially you!" I screamed at my mother.
Suddenly my mother raised her hand, and with all possible force swung it back and struck me on the side of my face. I stood there in shock, my cheek started to sting and my eyes watered. I could feel tears forming at the back of my eyes, but I would never cry in front of them. I would never give them that kind of satisfaction.
"Never. Insult. Me. Again," my mother said in a menacing tone, "now go to your room," she hissed, glaring at me.
"Gladly," I said furiously. I turned on my heel and stormed into the corridor and up the staircase to my room, the side of my face still stinging. I slammed the door with a loud bang. Before I could even think about what had just happened a large handsome owl, which I recognized to be James', had come soaring into the open window. It landed on my desk and ruffled its feathers as it stuck its leg out for me to take the letter that was tied to its leg. I walked over to the owl and yanked the letter off its leg; the owl gave an affronted hoot.
I ripped open the letter and found that it was from James; I started to read it,
Hey Sirius,
How are the rest of your holidays treating you? I hope you're not having too bad a time…
I snorted in disgust… that would be highly unlikely…
I'm having a pretty good time at the moment,
Of course he would be, James Potter had the perfect family, the perfect life, the perfect everything, I thought…
Listen, I was thinking that you could stay at my house the last week of the holidays, mum and dad said it was fine if you were allowed by your parents…
They'd no sooner let me go to James' house than eat a bag of dead rats…
But it's okay if you can't. Sorry I didn't ask sooner, but we had a lot of relatives over and went to Ireland for a bit. I just hope you're going okay with your family and all that. Listen, when are you going to get your school stuff in Diagon Alley? Because I'll be there the last week of the holidays, and it would be good to meet up with you, Remus and Peter will be there as well, so try to make it okay? Have you been writing to them? They said you didn't reply to their last letters yet. Well, I hope to see you in Diagon Alley or if you come to stay at my house, okay, send a reply with my owl Erewyn.
Catch ya,
James
I sat down on my bed and read the letter again, I don't know exactly why but it made me even angrier. I tore up the letter and threw it in the glowing fire across the room. Erewyn nipped me hard on the arm.
"Bugger off you stupid owl!" I said furiously.
James had everything; he had the perfect, loving affectionate family, the perfect house, and a perfect life. I wish, just for one day, that I could have the same things.
I lay back on my bed and tried to calm down. The stupid owl was still pecking me, as much as I yelled at it, swung at it and cursed it he just jumped away and then came back only to peck at me more. Finally, when I had calmed down a bit I picked up a quill and wrote to James.
James,
I'm okay, well no actually I feel like crap to be honest, my family are really starting to get on my nerves, they expect me to do everything for them, and Regulus - don't even get me started on him, he's a stupid bloody prat, I wish I could hang him from the ceiling fan by his toes. I want to get back to Hogwarts already. I doubt very much that my parents would let me stay at your place, with what just happened at dinner I doubt they'd let me go anywhere. They'd rather eat a bag of dead rats than let me have a bit of fun. And I don't know when I'm going to Diagon Alley. I'll see what I can do, it would be good to get out of here.
Well better go, your blasted owl keeps pecking me; I think you should try and discipline it a bit better. I swear if it pecks me one more time you won't have a bloody owl for much longer!
Sirius
I sealed the parchment and tied it to Erewyn's leg, it hooted then flew off into the dark cloudless sky. I walked over to my bed and lay down on it.
I sighed and stared at the ceiling, thinking over everything that had happened. With every passing day I felt that I was growing ever distant towards my family. And at the moment, I don't think that's a bad thing, not with the way that they treat me. My mother never showed me any real affection, ever, all she did was yell at me, insult me, order me around and ridicule me. Regulus was just an idiot; he accepted the whole 'our-family's-royal-because-we're-purebloods-which-means-we're-better-than-everybody-else' thing without question. He was the 'perfect son', and I – the outcast, the brat, the one who never-did-what-he-was-told. My father was, and always had been, distant. He never really even talked to me, as father and son would usually talk and bond. Amias and I had never had that. He was never a proper father but always a distant figure shrouded in inscrutability that I would never know as a dad.
Every passing moment I felt a growing rift between myself and my so-called family.
No, I thought as I stared up at the ceiling, I had a new family now. A family that would never abandon, abuse, ridicule or desert me. That family was James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.
And they were the only family that I would ever need.
A few days after the night I sent a reply to James my relatives turned up. Including my aunt and uncle, Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Andromeda. I stayed in my room when they arrived; I didn't want to see any of them except for Andromeda, as she was the only decent one in the whole family. I was lying on my bed when I heard a knock at the door.
"Get lost," I said, thinking it would be Regulus, Bellatrix or Narcissa coming to gloat at my misery. The person outside the door was obviously unperturbed by my rudeness as I heard the door open.
"I said: Get. Lost. What part of that don't you understand!" I said angrily, not turning to look at the doorway.
"Well that's a nice way to greet someone Sirius!" a voice came from the doorway. A very familiar voice. A voice that I had wanted to hear ever since I got back home.
I sat up instantly from my lying position on the bed and looked to the doorway.
"Andromeda! Hey!" I said as I went over to Andromeda and shook her hand. Okay, I admit it, I actually hugged her. But I was in misery; I mean, I was glad to finally see a friendly face.
"So what have you been up to in here?" Andromeda asked as she let go of me and closed the door looking around my room, which was very messy. Hey, you don't expect me to have a clean room after staying in it basically day and night for three days do you? I mean, if it was Regulus' room it would have been clean, but the rotten house-elf Kreacher doesn't come to my room anymore. Basically my mother tells him not to, or I kick him out. He's a useless pain in the arse anyway.
"Nothing much," I said sitting back down on the bed.
"Your father told me about you," Andromeda said as she sat down on a stool next to my desk.
"Lovely," I said sarcastically, "I suppose he told you what a failure I was, and how I'm not as good as Regulus?" I said.
"Well he did say something along those lines, he did tell me that you asked to go to the Potters," Andromeda said as she twirled a lock of dark brown hair around her finger.
She was right, I had asked him. There was no way I was going to ask my mother so I asked Amias and all he did was glance at me and then ignore me.
"Yeah, he just ignored me though!" I replied angrily.
"Don't worry about him Sirius." Andromeda said.
"It's a bit hard not to," I spat, "so who's here anyway?" I asked.
"The usual, Bellatrix, Narcissa-"
"Great," I said sarcastically.
"Hey, at least you don't have to live with them," Andromeda said. At that moment I felt sorry for Andromeda, having to live with two complete bitches for sisters.
"Of which I'm glad," I said.
"I heard about what you and your friends did on the train to Bella and Narcissa," Andromeda laughed.
"Good, wasn't it? James is a really cool guy," I said and then launched into the Hogwarts Express story, the story of when I first met James and Remus.
A few days before the holidays were due to end Andromeda had convinced my parents to let her take me to Diagon Alley as I needed school supplies for my second year. We went by Floo Powder and came out of the fireplace in Flourish and Blotts, the bookshop in Diagon Alley. I dusted the soot and ash off my robes as I stood up; Andromeda had just come out of the fireplace behind me.
"I really wish they could invent a new way of travelling," Andromeda said as she brushed ashes off her robes and stood up.
"Mmm hmm," I agreed absent-mindedly.
"Do you want to get your books now then?" Andromeda asked as she peered around the crowded bookshop.
"May as well," I replied, as I pulled out my booklist and walked around looking for the books that I would need. Even the prospect of buying new books excited me because it would be very soon that I was back on the Hogwarts Express in the company of my friends and away from Grimmauld Place for the best part of a year. Andromeda inspected some other books while I was looking for mine.
"Ready to go?" I asked Andromeda after I had paid for the new books. Andromeda nodded and closed the book she had been looking at.
"So, are you planning on meeting anyone?" Andromeda asked as we made our way out of the bookshop.
"Yeah, maybe James, Remus and Peter," I said.
"Well I'll meet up with you later then because I've got to go meet someone as well," Andromeda said.
"Who?" I asked curiously.
"None of your business little boy," Andromeda said playfully with the hint of a smile on her lips.
"Oh come on Andromeda, just tell me!" I said.
"You'll find out soon enough I expect," she replied.
"Why can't you just tell me now then?"
"Because."
"Who've I got to tell anyway?" I asked. It was quite true, I'd never tell my family anything, and I'm sure James, Remus or Peter wouldn't be interested.
"You'll see later, okay," Andromeda said as we stopped at a corner on the street.
"Fine,"
"Now, I'll meet you at Florean Fortescue's in a couple of hours so we can have ice cream or something," Andromeda said checking her watch, "Oh, and Sirius,"
"Yeah?"
"Since it was your birthday and I missed it, I want you to have this," Andromeda placed a small sack of galleons in my hands.
"I can't take that!" I said, trying to shove the money back into her hands, to no avail.
"Its not just from me, it's from Alphard as well, we figured that your parents wouldn't get you anything," she said, refusing to take the money back.
"But it's your money! I can't take it, I don't want it," I said.
"Don't be stupid Sirius, you're going to take it, and you have to buy something for yourself by the time that we meet up again," Andromeda said sternly, "and anyway Alphard's got loads of money, a few Galleons to him is nothing," she added as an afterthought. "I'll see you in a couple of hours," Andromeda turned and started walking up the busy street.
"Andromeda! Wait!" I called but she didn't turn around, she just kept walking and soon she was out of sight. I sighed as I pocketed the money. I admit that I did like having extra money but Andromeda and Alphard didn't have to give me money just because my parents were extremely stingy. Well, there was nothing to do about it now, I thought as I looked up the street for a familiar face. I may as well do what Andromeda said and buy myself something with it. Besides, I thought, trying to convince myself that accepting the money was the right thing to do, Alphard did have a lot of money. But then again, so did my parents, but they only gave me just enough money to pay for my school supplies. Amias had given me a little extra to buy new robes when Cyrilla was in another room, which surprised me greatly. But then he said he wouldn't have a Black that wasn't properly dressed, even if I was a brat. Which didn't surprise me at all.
"Sirius! Sirius!" A voice called down the street, breaking into my thoughts. I turned around to see James, Remus and Peter hurrying towards me.
"Hey!" I said as they reached me, "how've you been?" I asked, glad to see them after what felt like ages. The only people I had seen all summer was my family and extended relatives, which leaves you with quite the feeling of isolation.
"Good, you?" James asked.
"Same old," I replied indifferently.
"We thought you might not come," Remus said.
"Yeah, well, nearly didn't," I said darkly.
"Oh," Peter said.
"So what have you guys been doing?" I asked.
"Nothing much, dad just bought me a new broom!" James said excitedly.
"Really? Which one?" I asked.
"Oh, the new one that just came out! You should see it Sirius! It's top of the range! You'll love it! I'm going to try to get into the team this year, seeing as second years are allowed!" James beamed.
"I always knew you would," I said with a smile, "so what do you want to do?" I asked, looking around the crowded streets.
"Well we could look 'round the shops if you want," Peter suggested.
"Okay, have you all bought you're school stuff yet?" I asked.
"Yeah, ages ago," James said. I looked over to Remus, who was staring into space; he wasn't talking much and he looked pale and a bit sick. I wondered what was wrong with him. I waved a hand in front of his face; he shook his head and looked up at me.
"What?" he asked.
"You look sick," I said.
"Yeah, been feeling a bit ill lately," Remus said.
"Let's get going," Peter said. We walked up the bustling street and into a shop. I walked over to some shelves, James followed me. Remus and Peter were on the other side of the shop looking at something.
"What do you reckon's wrong with Remus?" I asked as I inspected the items on the dusty shelf.
"Your guess is as good as mine. He always seems sick though, don't you think?" James asked, looking over at Remus, whom was nodding at Peter indifferently.
"Yeah, wonder what's wrong with him," I said as I noticed James picking up a small square mirror and inspecting it. My eyes widened.
"You know what this is!" I said incredulously.
"No," James said, turning the mirror over and inspecting the back of it.
"It's a two way mirror!" I picked up the other one off the shelf, and said James' name into it, suddenly the mirror fogged over and James' face appeared in it. My face appeared in the mirror that James was holding.
"Cool!" James said as he looked at my face in the mirror then up at me.
"You go over there and talk to me, see if it works properly," I pointed to a corner of the shop where I wouldn't be able to hear James. James walked over to the corner and looked into the mirror again.
"Sirius is an idiot," I heard a small voice sounding like James' in the mirror.
"Hey! It works!" I said, "earth to James, stop staring at that Evans' behind," I said as I looked over to James whom was staring at Lily whom had just walked in with a bunch of chattering girls.
"I was not!" James said indignantly as a rude finger sign appeared in the mirror.
I laughed, and then beckoned James back over to me.
"These are so cool!" James said as he looked down at the mirror.
I thought about the money sack sitting snugly in my pocket that Andromeda and Uncle Alphard had given me for my birthday. I looked back at the mirror. What the heck, I thought, I may as well buy it; Andromeda did say to buy something by the time I caught up with her again. And what better thing to buy then these nifty little pair of mirrors?
"I'm buying them," I announced to James, whom was looking lovingly at the mirror in his hand.
"Really?" James asked excitedly, "this is going to be so cool Sirius! Imagine all the things we can do now with this! We can talk to each other anywhere we want! We can leave them somewhere and spy on people-" James said happily.
"What's this I hear about spying?" Remus had just made his way over to us, followed closely by Peter.
"What are you buying?" Peter asked.
"These mirrors," I replied, holding up the mirror in my hand.
"What the heck for Sirius?" Peter asked, clearly not knowing the use of the mirrors.
"To stare at my gorgeous reflection all day, dolt," I laughed.
"Thought so," Peter said.
"How thick are you Peter? Do you think I'd buy a mirror if only to stare at myself all day-,"
"I wouldn't be surprised," Remus said raising an eyebrow.
"Shut up Remus. These-" I waved the mirror in front of Peter's face, "-are for talking to whoever's got the other mirror, i.e James, any time any place," I said.
"Oh cool!" Peter said.
"Well are you going to buy it or just stand here all day?" James asked.
"Yeah," I said, and then I made my way over to the counter to buy the pair of mirrors.
When I had bought the mirrors I joined James, Remus and Peter outside the shop. We then had a look around some other shops and I bought my school supplies. I used my father's money to buy a couple of new robes for myself and I topped up my other supplies. After a couple of hours had passed James, Peter, Remus and I made our way to Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour. Sitting outside in the balmy sunlight under an umbrella was Andromeda and a person that I had never seen before. It was a man, he was chatting happily to Andromeda and she was smiling back at him. He was dressed in black leather and wore a t-shirt with the name 'Led Zeppelin' on the front of it, his hair grew to his shoulders. I wondered vaguely who or what Led Zeppelin was.
The man certainly was different, but he actually looked cool. When we got closer I recognized his face but couldn't place a name to it.
Andromeda looked away from the man and when she that we were approaching she smiled and waved at me.
"Who's that? She's hot," James grinned.
I hit him, "that is Andromeda, my cousin, who is also way out of your league Pothead," I said jokingly.
"Ouch,"
We made our way over to Andromeda and the man and found a table next to them. I introduced her to my friends and she introduced me to the man whom she was talking to. His name was Ted Tonks and he used to be a year above Andromeda at Hogwarts. I remembered back to what Jared had told me, Ted Tonks had been her boyfriend at Hogwarts. I had forgotten all about him.
"So how's good old Hogwarts going?" Ted asked us as he chewed on bright green bubble gum.
"It's alright," I replied. What else could I say? Who asked how school was anyway? Well, yes parents do, or at least normal parents do, but not mine, since they wouldn't care how school was going anyway. But still, what did people expect us to say when they ask us that question, 'oh, it's going fine and dandy,' or 'oh, apart from the fact that I get detentions every two days and get into trouble in class it's good, yes, apart from that its great.'
"Is Peeves still hanging around?" Ted asked.
"Yeah," I replied.
"Sirius and his friends have made themselves a reputation as troublemakers," Andromeda said to Ted. She made it sound like she was talking about a bunch of five year olds that she thought was cute. How embarrassing.
"Really?" Ted raised an eyebrow and grinned crookedly at us, "nice going."
"Well it was our duty," I grinned back. I had a distinct feeling that this man had been responsible for a little bit of trouble himself when he was at school.
Ted laughed; a loud, raucous laugh. "Well, someone's got to do the job, now that I'm gone!"
Andromeda shook her head at him, a smile on her lips, "Don't encourage them."
"Well its true isn't it? Someone has to uphold the tradition," Ted replied with a grin, then he gave Andromeda a quick kiss on the lips and stood up, "well I've got to be going, I'll hopefully see you soon," he winked at her, and with a 'see ya later boys' he turned and disappeared down the crowded street.
"Well, I've got to get going as well," Remus said as he stood up from the table and then said goodbye. After a while Peter left as well, leaving only James, Andromeda and myself at the table.
"I better go too, got to meet my parents, I'll see you on the train then Sirius, nice meeting you Andromeda," James said, grinning at me, "bye," James moved off and joined the crowded street.
"So I'm guessing that Ted's your boyfriend?" I asked when everyone had gone.
"Yes," Andromeda curled a lock of hair around her finger, "but you mustn't tell any of the family, okay," she said.
"Why?" I asked curiously.
"Because he's a muggle born, and my folks will have a right fit if they find out," Andromeda said.
"I wouldn't tell them anything anyway, do Bellatrix and Narcissa know?" I asked.
"Narcissa does, only because she read a letter from him, but she promised not to tell anyone, and I'd never tell Bella. She'd go ballistic if she found out that I wasn't dating a pure-blood," Andromeda said.
"They're all the same," I said.
"Who?"
"Our family, all they care about is being pure-blood, it's like they think they're royal or something," I sighed.
"I know, but there's some things Sirius, you'll find, run deeper than blood…" a strange expression came into Andromeda's eyes and she looked deep in thought.
"Like what?" I asked.
She did not answer.
Author's Notes: And so the countdown begins! Two more chapters to go! (You all know what I'm talking about!). Dun dun dunnnnnnn. Thank you all very much for your awesome reviews & support for the end of the first year, I really do appreciate them (no matter how many times you hear this, it's still true), so for now, keep reviewing and I'll keep updating (hopefully!)
brennQT:Yes, summer chapters! Heh. That's this, but this is the only summer chapters. Glad you liked what happened to the Slytherins, they should have considered who they were dealing with before pushing them into the lake!
Writer of Fantasy: Well the second year holds lotsa erm… stuff, such as the big uncovering of the secret! Ooooh. Glad you liked the prank! Thanks for the tip on writer's block, it sounds like it would work, not that I have writers block though (better not jinx myself!) I've been writing, just not MWPP. Oh poor MWPP. Thanks also for the other tip, I just posted it and I realised that some sentences read wrong (i.e the one where it said 'James said' when James was writing the story! Heh. I guess I'm too comfy with writing from Sirius' POV!)
Anarane:Thanks! No his parents aren't very pleasant. You got your answer already (about summer chaps etc). Glad you liked it!
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LupinLover88: (Hmm this could get confusing, 2 LupinLover's! Ah well, its cool).Thanks very very very much for reviewing a whole lot! I really do appreciate the time you take to review and read so much! As to the whole 'Remus Rants' business, in the beginning when I started writing I originally had James' story, Peter's story etc, cause I couldn't think of another word for them, but now its James' Jabbers, Peter's Prattle, Remus' Rants and Sirius' Story! Neat, huh? Heh. Glad you liked the staff chapter, that was so much fun to write, and the quotes! I had a fair bit of trouble trying to characterise the potions teacher! Yes, he is evil, but he's only evil to Remus & Sirius, you'll notice, and not to James & Peter, so its not so much a prejudice towards Gryffindors, just to Sirius because he won't conform and to Remus cause he's a werewolf. As to what Philomena was saying to Remus, she was just showing him the moon in a different light, because he's hated it ever since he had been bitten (and with good reason!) but Philomena wants to show him there's a different side to it, she wants to sort of 'take away' some of the bitterness Remus feels. Wow, you actually felt you were there feeling the transformation – that's cool, well, not 'cool', but I'm glad I can do that. Yes the Quote of the Day was definitely Savage Garden's Crash & Burn, glad you picked up on that, I think I might've said it was by them, but no matter, Savage Garden are awesome. As to my Harry Potter obsession, I don't think I'm completely obsessed with HP! I do have a life outside of it actually, I haven't actually been doing HP related things for quite a while. I haven't read much fanfiction lately. It's sad! Wah! Yes, I think Neville is a lot like Peter also, its quite strange that their personality and even appearance we picture to be similar. Heh, wow, I made you actually believe that whole prank? That's cool too, well you know what I mean! (I hope!) Yeah Sirius can be gross, but he just ate from the table cause he was hungry – I mean, you can't deny the man his food! Heh. Plus it annoyed someone, and that's always a bonus for him. Everyone thinks Remus has more sense than the other three because well… he acts like he does. Well he doesn't go crazy and is smart (as is the other three) but he's quiter than Sirius and James and he doesn't prank and be mischievous all the time so they assume he's got more common sense, well he doesn't be silly all the time (not that they all do) now I'm just contradicting myself so I'll shut up. No it wasn't too late to give your opinion on the separating year thingy. Professor Bones freaks you out? Professor Bones is cool, he's not meant to freak you out. Oh well. Heh. Thanks so much again for reviewing!
BeansieGlad to hear you're alive and well and haven't passed to the other side! Yay! Uh, online flash movie? Huh? I don't quite get you, I mean; I know what an online flash movie is but what exactly about them? Thanks very much for reviewing, glad you liked the year!
Erica: Wow, it made you feel as if Sirius was standing right next to you? That's really great (I wish he were standing next to me! Heh), no seriously, I think that's cool. Yes the truth is coming verrry soooon. Ooooooohhh! Heh, the whole if Remus was a girl issue, yes that would terribly suck, beyond complete suckiness I think, I mean its bad enough with the whole monthly girl thing, but imagine going through transformations as well! Although I think that after going through a transformation he'd think period cramps were a walk in the park. Okay, this is getting extremely strange… Heh.
Christina: "Run on sentences". Hahaha. Yes I'm aware of the run on sentences, I started writing this fic quite a while ago and it has been betaed so keep that in mind. I'm still learning as well.
Tidal Waves: Thank you very very much! I'm really glad you reviewed and let me know! Thanks.