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I am also sorry for the OCCness

Sirius was running around the house like a mad man, although you have to admit half the time he probably was a mad man, in a good way. He was making sure both of the children's bedrooms were ready although he felt awful at not know what they liked and disliked. He also felt bad about not even knowing what they were going to look like. He was terrified the children wouldn't like him. Remus had tried to help but felt exactly the same. Sirius had calmed down a bit when Severus had popped in to see how the progress was going and had told Sirius to get a grip.

Although Remus had all the worries of Sirius, he also worried about what would happen at the full moon, Sirius had made it very clear that he was going to be with him. So he worried about what would happen with the children, baby sitter? But if either of the children were as bad as James then no baby sitter would ever come here. Remus wanted to cook the children's favourite meal for when they came but he didn't know what they liked and disliked. He didn't know if they had allergies. Severus said he didn't mind coping with the children on a full moon if there was no other choice but Remus always hated relying on people so much.

The 3 of them were in the small, cosy kitchen talking about the plan of action for tomorrow.

"Can't we get them tonight?'' Moaned Sirius

"Do you really expect it to be easy to walk in there and claim the children, at least tomorrow we have a full day to make them feel comfortable. Any way I think we all the this time to prepare to deal with Petunia!'' Severus said very seriously.

Remus didn't know what to say about the whole situation, he was worried the children would hate them especially him for not being there. He didn't know the first thing about raising a child.

Sirius must have sensed this as he came up behind Remus and wrapped his arms around his middle and said " Don't worry, you'll be great at raising them, they are going to love you I am sure. Anyway you used to baby sit them , I wasn't allowed"

Although Remus did feel better after that he still had to ask " I have no idea at what I am doing, when I used to baby sit Lily would give me pages and pages about what to do." When Remus had said Lily's name Severus couldn't help the strangled noise that left his throat. Everyone always thought that Lily and James were happy together, but in reality they had only stayed together so long because of children but before they had died they filed for a divorce. Only Remus,Sirius and Severus had known at the time. Not even Peter had been told and although there was no proof they all suspected that Dumbledore knew, somehow. Remus looked deep into Sirius' eyes and almost cried "I don't even know what they look like, they could probably pass me in the street and I wouldn't know it was them"

"Well We're gonna change that, your going to be serious Uncle Moony and I am going to be fun Uncle Padfoot" Sirius saw Remus wasn't going to be cheered up tonight and turned to look at Severus " and you can be Uncle Severus'' Severus sneered at this he hated being called that, that's what Draco called him and Draco could be a right spoilt brat sometimes he could even compete with the late Potter.

"Shall I go through the plan again?" Severus asked they had been through it once but an owl had come with a letter from Dumbledore saying they were making a huge mistake and that the children should stay with their Aunt.

"Yes" said Sirius "this time no distractions"

"Okay, Well I will come here at 8 O'clock sharp, so be ready, then we make sure we have all the paper work and we apparate to Petunia's house and get her and her husband, if he is home to fill out anything they need to then we get the children and bring them here"

"What if they like living with Petunia?" Remus asked all of a sudden non of them had thought of that.

Severus said calmly "If I know Petunia and unfortunately I do they will not want to stay but if by chance they do, we make an arrangement to be apart of the children's lives and teach them all about there heritage. Magic"

"Sounds good" Sirius said half heartedly.

"Well then I will see you tomorrow at 8 O'clock Sharp" With that he left and flooed back to Hogwarts.

The potters were both in the living room, they only had to dust in here and then they would be done, dinner was in the oven, but when Petunia had got back she sat in the kitchen with one of her many gossip magazines, so she would watch dinner for them and would check it and finish it. They were dusting when they heard the car pull up in the drive, signalling Vernon's arrival, he was home 10 minutes early, so they hadn't finished and suddenly they were both very scared but carried on working hoping he would be distracted for a little while, but luck was not on their side.

When Vernon walked in the children could tell he was already in a bad mood, that wasn't a good start. Even Dudley knew to stay out of his father's way at moments like this, Petunia saw this too and decided quickly to take Dudley to the park.

As soon as his beloved family left, he turned to the children in front of him, both were still dusting at record speed. He grabbed hold of Harry and pulled him away from his sister and out him in his room and turned to Tigerlily with an evil smirk. She was standing perfectly still, too scared to move, but she didn't make a sound. Then all of a sudden one of Vernon's meaty fists collided with her face knocking her to the kicked her and continued to beat her until he grew tired he dragged her broken little body in the cupboard, then he dragged harry who had seen his sisters broken , bloody ,bruised body being dragged so knew what was coming. Vernon did the same to Harry as he had done he noticed Tigerlily started to stir while he hadn't finished with Harry so when he saw she was fully awake he called her over and told both children to remove their shirts and lie on the ground, he remove his belt and then used that to cause pain to the belt buckle was tearing and ripping the flesh of the children's back. After a while Vernon got bored as there was no flesh he hadn't ruined left any more but also he had grown tired and told the children to get back into the cupboard and he locked them in and they held each other close for comfort and support and wished to get away from their horrible miserable lives.

They fell asleep like this, both hungry and in pain. They had not been at all lucky today, they hadn't eaten in 3 days and then Vernon got them. A while later they could smell the take away the family had, dinner had obviously gone wrong. Vernon was acting nothing had happened earlier. The Dursley's were good at acting like a normal family and pretending that that the siblings in the cupboard didn't exist. The siblings were also good at pretending. They would pretend they weren't hungry, they would pretend they weren't in pain, they would pretend they were loved and wanted.

They knew from experience to stay quiet while in the cupboard or while anyone else was in the house. After a while they heard and felt everyone going upstairs to bed. Harry held his sister close they were both cold and trying to share each others warmth under their little blankets they had been found in. They were now old and torn, they had never been washed but through all that the children could see that they had been stitched with love and some times it was only because of the blankets they remembered their names. The fact they had there names on was enough for Harry to prove his Uncle wrong, if his parents hated him then why had anybody bothered to stitch their names into the blankets.

But he didn't think too much as 'freaks aren't suppose to think' but some times his mind would just drift and he couldn't help it. He closed his eyes and imagined a woman who looked like Tigerlily singing to him, and flying motor bikes and a man who could turn into a dog, with these thoughts he fell asleep.

When he awoke he ached all over,well that is to be expected after last night Harry thought. He could hear his Aunt coming down the stairs. So he quickly got dressed after he woke up his sister. Then the children heard the familiar sound of the door being unlocked, then Petunia knocked loudly on the door and started yelling at them to get up. Harry and Tigerlily got changed, as Harry left the cupboard he winced then held out a hand for his sister who gladly accepted the help. That's when Harry noticed his sister had a black eye. Everything that was bad hit him suddenly, Vernon was going to be home all day today and tomorrow,Dudley had a week off and Harry realised he couldn't protect his little sister like he was suppose to.

His sister who could always tell if something was wrong could tell what her brother was thinking and give him a hug and whispered "I'm alright,just like you" Harry had to smile and with that they headed to the kitchen to start on breakfast. After a while Vernon and Dudley came down and inhaled their breakfast, they started on seconds when Harry's stomach growled Vernon heard this and said "No food for 4 days, got it?" Both children nodded, they were both starving it had almost been a week since they had last eaten. They had been allowed to eat some of the scraps last Sunday, although they hoped their Aunt would feel kind again soon and let them eat. The Dursley's continued with their breakfast when there was a knock at the door. Vernon grunted obviously annoyed and both children hoped their Uncle would cheer up and very quickly.

"Who's disturbing my breakfast, what time do they think it go and answer the door!" Vernon grunted.

"Don't you dare, both of you go to your cupboard NOW!'' Petunia screamed, she turned to face her husband and said "They both have black eyes, we don't want people to start talking". Vernon just grunted and continued his breakfast while Petunia went to answer the door. As she passed the cupboard she hissed " You better not make a sound of you will regret it".

She continued to walk down the hall until she got to the front and opened the door, when she saw who was standing there she could have fainted. 3 freaks were there she recognised one immediately and then the other 2 she remembered and was horrified.

"G-g-go away, your kind is wanted here" She spat.

"Aren't you going to let us in Tuney, I wonder what the neighbours will think of ..."But he was cut short as Petunia stepped aside and called for her husband once the front door was closed.

Vernon's POV

I was annoyed to have his breakfast interrupted and my wife knows this, so this must be important. So I walk in to the living room to see 3 of those freaks in my living room, I hope no one saw them else life is going to be difficult for a while.

I could see Petunia was trying not to faint , but I couldn't hold my anger back any more, I have had enough of those freaks first they leave children on my porch and now they just think they can turn up uninvited. I don't think so.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU WANT? GET OUT OF MY HOUSE THIS INSTANT." Suddenly 3 bloody sticks were being pointed at me. "D-d-don't y-y-ou dare, use such freakishness in my house, Now get out"

Snape's POV

When we arrived on the street, I couldn't believe how a neighbourhood could be so dull,and well the same and boring. We walked towards the house, I am very good at hide nervousness but I can tell the others aren't.

We got to the door and knocked, to be polite we could easily have blown the door off it's hinges and to be totally honest I reckon Black would have if me and the wolf hadn't been there.

Finally after a good 5 minutes of waiting and knocking Petunia answered to door, I could tell the moment she recognised me as she began stutter, oh what happened to head strong Petunia I used to know.

After I made a few comments about neighbours Petunia herded us in , it seems some things never change.

As I looked around the room there were hundreds of muggle photos all around the room with Petunia and 2 whales, I think son and husband and the only difference in all of the pictures were the width of the whales.

Talk of the devil, here comes the big whale, waddling through the door and started shouting at us. It seems I'm not the only who doesn't like being shouted at because next thing I know we all had our wands out and pointed at the fat oath.

Even though I could see the fear in his eyes, it is easy to tell he is a stupid man as he continued to shout at 3 fully grown wizards all of who had their wands out.

"Where are the children?" I asked in a voice I am used to using with stupid first years. Even they know not to mess with me when I use that voice, yet this whale didn't seem to understand and repeated something about telling us to leave his house "Oh believe me I don't really want to be here, so if you help us out by answering our questions and doing as you are told we will be gone a lot quicker."

I think the fat man understood this as he nodded his neck that I just noticed seemed to have no neck, although Petunia did have enough neck for 2 maybe even 3.

"I shall ask you again, where are the Potter children?" It took a lot of effort to not spit that name out. But I managed it," We're here to take them away with us so would you be so kind as to get them." It was more a statement rather than a question.

Petunia looked over at her husband and left the room to come back a second later with 2 children who were hiding behind the door frame " There they are now go, get out of my house and don't ever come back" She screeched at us. With that she and her husband left us.

Tigerlily POV

Me and Harry were cooking and had just taken the bacon off the stove and put them on a plate and put that on the table when the door knocked. We're not suppose to answer the door unless told to,but there was no way Uncle Vernon or Dudley were going to leave their breakfast.

Uncle Vernon told us to answer the door and I headed towards the door when Aunt Petunia pushed me into the cupboard and pushed Harry into the cupboard in the process I hit my head on one of the shelves. Then Aunt Petunia told us to stay quiet or we would regret it. So we did as she said, then I heard a man talk to Aunt Petunia in a way no on ever has before.

Then I heard the door close and Aunt Petunia call for Uncle Vernon's about freaks but we hadn't done anything. I turned to see Harry when he said very quietly "Hey your bleeding" He then touched my forehead and I could see the blood on his fingers and thought nothing of it and just shrugged and continued to try and hear what was going on.

I continued to listen then I heard my Uncle stammer, which means he either very scared or very very cross and that is never good. Then I heard the voice I heard at the door speak again and he mentioned US that isn't going to be good. We hadn't done anything and he sounded so angry, I was trying to think of what we might have done but I couldn't think of anything.

Then I heard the lock being undone and Aunt Petunia grabbed me roughly by the collar of the top I was wearing. She then did the same to Harry and dragged us to the living room. I hid behind Harry and he hid behind the door frame. There were 3 men wearing strange clothes in the living room all of them looked a bit nervous and there was something strange about them all but in particular the one in the scruffy clothes. Then Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon left us and I felt more terrified than I did when alone with my Uncle when he was in a bad mood.

The one man with long slightly curly hair made a strange sound in his throat that sounded like a sob and then he and the really strange man with sandy hair bent down so they were more our height and not as scary. Something seemed almost familiar about them but I couldn't think why, I can't remember ever seeing their faces while I have been out or in the garden. Then Harry came back to me as if protecting me and I think he could sense I didn't feel right and had started to feel dizzy.

Snape's POV

When I saw the boy, I could just see a mini of the dead Potter with Lily's eyes and those eyes will always haunt me. I could see the boy, no Harry looked far too small, although I couldn't be sure if the killing curse had affected his growth. I saw the other two get down more to his height they seemed to realise they must be scaring the poor children.

Then as Harry moved I suddenly couldn't breathe. She was a mini Lily, but she had a black eye and blood running down her face. I could hear both the others have a similar reaction then I heard a low growl from them both. She seemed so small and terrified and when me and Remus went over she backed away and flinched. I suddenly had a lump in my throat and didn't know what to say.I knew I hated Potter but no one should suffer like this especially Lily's children. I am definitely going to words with Dumbledore about this. I heard them both growl again when they saw the blood and the girl tried to hide, I could see that they are going to need to learn to control their temper.

Remus' POV

I could hardly believe it they were spitting images of there parents and yet both had Lily's beautiful eyes. Then I saw the black eye and blood and wanted to run and hold them close and fill them with love. A growl must have slipped out, I could tell my wolf was very angry and wanted to protect the children. When I saw how they reacted I realised how scary it must be to have 3 grown men standing over them. So I bent down to about there height and hoped they would realise we meant no harm.

Harry had come forward at this but Tigerlily seemed to scared to move. There was something strange about Tigerlily but I couldn't put my finger on it. That's when I noticed what they were wearing , nothing better than rags. I must have let out another growl and then suddenly I realised were going to have to control my temper and help Sirius control his temper, I know how rash he can be.

I decided that maybe it would be good to tell them we were going to take them away. I tried to make my voice sound as least scary as possible, but I don't know how well that worked. "Hello, you won't remember us, We're your Godfathers " It was at that moment I couldn't remember if Severus had ever met them " I am Remus Lupin,this is Sirius Black and this is ..." I pointed to Severus who took over and answered for him self.

"I am Severus Snape you may call me Sev" I could hear his voice crack slightly as he mentioned the nickname only Lily was ever allowed to use.

I think Sirius had finally managed to calm down enough to speak,as he said " Hello, you can call me Uncle Padfoot, that's what you used to call me and this is Uncle Moony"

I could see the children trying to work out who we were or were trying to remember us.

"We were wondering " I suddenly felt more nervous than I had in my whole life " If you both wanted to come live with us?" I looked up at Sirius, mainly for support, although he seemed just as nervous as me. At this the children's eyes widened and they stared at each other as if having a conversation with their eyes. They seemed to timid I hadn't heard of either of them make a sound. Then Harry nodded with a smile and all the nervousness I had felt was gone. "Go and get your stuff while we go and talk to your Aunt and then we will go okay?" At a nod from both children we all left the room.

When the children didn't go up the stairs I felt curious as I didn't think there were any more rooms downstairs, then I saw them go to the cupboard and thought maybe some of their stuff was in there so thought nothing more of it.

So we headed to the kitchen to see them all eating, although I did notice there were no plates out for the other 2, unless Petunia had already washed them and put them away. " We're going to take the children with us" I made sure she knew why we were there.

She just sneered at that " Good riddance, now get out and don't bring them back when you can't cope"

"We will as soon as you sign some paperwork, then we'll be gone for good and you can live your normal little life" Severus sneered at Petunia, although she looked at us with hatred but then her eyes seemed to glow and she seemed to ready to sign the paper work. It's not like she knew anything about us we could be killers for all she knows and she doesn't seem to care. Sirius held out all the paper work for her to sign and when that was done we went to find the children.

They were still in the cupboard when we came out. " I thought you were getting your things?" Although it was meant as a statement it came out like a question. That's when Harry finally spoke, well almost spoke it was more a whisper, but we could work on that, we were still total strangers.

"We are getting our stuff,sir" When he called me sir I suddenly felt very old and really didn't like it.

"Do you want some help with that then, I can help carry it till we get back to the house?" At this Harry looked almost scared but I hadn't said anything to scare them. "Why don't we go upstairs and get the rest of your stuff?" As soon as I said that the children looked very confused and that puzzled me.

That is until I saw the little sign in the cupboard, I reached in and took it off the wall to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks. The little hand drawn sign read Harry and Tigerlily room, that was there room? No, it couldn't be it must be a mistake. I looked down at the children to see them folding their blankets me and Sirius had got them, Lily had sewn there names on after. That was it, they had nothing.

Well that was all about to change, I already knew Sirius was going to spoil them, but I am very worried about what he is going to do. He's going to spoil them rotten I can tell.

"Ready to go?"I tried to hide the anger in my voice. The children didn't say anything. "Your going to have to hold on tight" I held out my hand as did Sirius, Harry looked at us both very unsurely.

Thud

I looked down to see an unconscious Tigerlily and a very worried Harry. I looked across to see Severus, and I am glad he can at least act calm.

"We'll get her home, then make sure she is alright" I nodded and picked up the very little girl and noticed just how thin she was.

"How are we travelling, shall we floo, it might be the best option" I looked down at Tigerlily as I said that. After a nod from both adults we headed into the living room.

I let Severus go first, so he could be ready for us when we got there.

As soon as Harry saw the flames he started to shake "P-p-p-please d-d-on't burn me, I'll be good, I p-promise"

"Don't worry I am not going to burn you, it doesn't hurt,if you want I will carry you"Sirius suggested Harry looked unsure but nodded.

Sirius used the floo he carried with him and clearly said "Black house, Shropshire" and then he disappeared into the flames.

My turn.

I took a hand full of floo powder and said "House of Black,Shropshire"

With that we disappeared in the flames, a new life was about to begin.

I hope you are enjoying reading this, i have even been dreaming about what should go into this, which is probably a bit weird, no need to tell me.