*Third person p.o.v.*

Green flames erupted in the fireplace at the Potter Mansion, out stepped Dorea Potter, soon followed by her husband. "James?! Sirius?! We're home!" She heard no reply.

"Boys?!" Still nothing. They found a letter on top of the couch addressed to them.

Mum and Dad, the boys and I have decided to stay with Uncle Marius for the rest of the summer. I know you two will probably have a fit about how we didn't ask for your permission yet, but he said we could, and both Remus and Peter's Mums said they could, and come on! We wanted something to do for the summer, this gave us an opportunity! Plus we ARE seventeen now, legal adults and very responsible and all. Well, maybe not Sirius, but still! I'll send letters every once in a while just to let you know we haven't been blown up or anything.

James and Sirius.

Dorea shook her head and sighed with a hint of a smile on her lips. "Those boys, whatever are we going to do with them?" Charlus laughed.

"They are right, they're legally adults now, we should be thankful they even thought to leave a letter at all!" She nodded.

"I'll just check in with my brother, just in case." She went back over to the fireplace and threw in the floo powder. "Marius?" His head appeared in the flames.

"Hullo Little Sister! What can I do you for?" Dorea smiled.

"I just wanted to check and see how the boys were doing, have they caused you any trouble yet?" She asked in a teasing voice, a look of confusion crossed his face.

"Boys? What boys?" She frowned.

"James and his friends? I just got a letter from him saying you were letting them stay with you for the rest of the summer." She said with a suspicious tone. His eyebrows furrowed and his confused expression was replaced with a concentrated one.

"Um… Of course! How silly of me, yes they are quite fine at the moment!" Dorea crossed her arms and glared at her.

"Marius!"

"Don't look at me like that, Woman!"

"Well then don't lie to me." He sighed.

"Look, I don't know why James told you that, I haven't spoken to him or Sirius in months! I wouldn't worry though, there pretty good kids."

"I wouldn't go that far, the problem is that James lied to me, and now we don't know where we are! What if the others' parents contact us, asking how their kids are? What am I supposed to do, lie to them!?" He opened his mouth to answer but Charlus cut him off.

"Um- Dorea, dear, I don't think that will be a problem." She looked around and saw him reading the Daily Prophet.

"What is it now?" He handed it to her and saw a picture of a Sirius with a girl. She started reading the article out loud.

American Minister of Magic's only daughter spotted in Paris just last night. Cassandra Chandler was reported missing only a week ago was seen in popular French nightclub, Amour de Minuet, with none other than the infamous Sirius Black! Black has been disowned from the Black Family Fortune for a year and said to be living with a friend's family when not attending school. Others spotted with them include James Potter, along with a few other friends. Mr. Chandler is in England for the summer, visiting the British Ministry on business. He has of course, been nervous for his daughter's whereabouts, but is now furious to get her home. It's no surprise, Sirius Black has quite the reputation when it comes to trouble and Chandler is no doubt doing all he can to get her back. The only question is, will she put up a fight? It's no secret that Miss Chandler herself has a habit of getting in trouble, it's most likely she left with Black on purpose. After getting kicked out of the club for fighting, the group has not yet been spotted again, they are most likely moving to a different location. All news about Miss Chandler's whereabouts will be continued here all summer. The American and British Ministries have worked closely together for several years now, but could one little incident like this ruin that for the future?

Dorea looked up with a furious expression on her face, she looked at her husband. "They better not do anything stupid."

*Cassie's p.o.v.*

"You two are so stupid!" James and Sirius looked at me and smiled.

"C'mon Love, this isn't so bad." Lily shook her head, frowning, she looked at me.

"This is what I've had to put up with for six years now." I gave her a pitied look.

"I'm so sorry."

"This is going to work, trust me!" I gave Sirius a look.

"They may be muggles, Sirius, but they aren't stupid, unlike you two idiots, I'm pretty sure they'll be able to tell you're lying."

"Wanna bet?" James looked excited.

"C'mon, Cass! This is a brilliant idea!" I sighed, rubbing my temples, I looked at Remus.

"What do you think?" He shrugged.

"I've just pretty much started going along with anything they do, trust me, you're not going to change their minds." I groaned.

"Whatever Chandler, you're just jealous that you couldn't come up with this brilliant of a plan."

"No, I was too busy trying to talk you into leaving the dog here."

"Not going to happen, trust me! This plan is going to work great!" Sirius smiled before putting on his sunglasses and tightening his hold on the leash. "Come on girl, time for the show." I sighed on last time before throwing my purse strap over my shoulder and following him. We headed towards gates to the train before getting stopped by the guard.

"Non animaux." The boys looked at me and I sighed.

"He said, 'no animals'." James nodded and looked back to the guard.

"Excuse me, Sir, do you speak English?" The guard nodded once, narrowing his eyes. James smiled. "Well, you see, my friend here is blind, as in- he can't see," I closed my eyes and rubbed my head again, "and he needs this dog to go places, this dog is like his own personal set of eyes! So really, she has to go on!" The guard continued to look at James without changing his facial expression, he wasn't buying it. He looked at Sirius for a few moments a leaned forward just a bit, Sirius of course made the mistake of leaning back just a bit. I shook my head. The guard straightened his back again and smirked.

"Non animaux." I could see Lily rolling her eyes.

"Confundus," I heard her whisper, I smirked as I saw a glazed look cross over the guards face. We all quickly passed him. "Obliviate," she whispered again. We hurried away and as we got onto the train, I threw my arm over her shoulders.

"I am so happy we added you to the group!" She laughed. We all got into a compartment and sat down.

"So why exactly are we making this next stop again?" Sirius asked, taking off the sunglasses. I sighed, I had sent a letter to Talia, telling her when to be ready, I knew I had to tell them.

"Okay, I know you guys might be mad at me for this, but the truth is- we're meeting a couple of my friends who are going with us." The boys all looked at me, shocked.

"What!?"

"I know! I know! I should have told you!"

"Um, Cass, we really don't have that much more room to be taking in more people, and I thought we were keeping this a low profile thing, how many people is it?" I sighed.

"Just my friend and her boyfriend, not that much extra!"

"Do we really have the time to be making all of these extra side trips?" I nodded.

"Don't worry! I know I didn't tell you! But I made her a promise that she would come with! And that meant sneaking away for the summer! She knows we're coming, she's expecting us! Come on, it's only two more people!"

"Which means we can't afford anymore, right?" I looked at Remus, "You said you had eight tickets, with them coming that'll be eight of us, there wasn't anyone else?" I bit my lip.

"Well, actually they're my dad's tickets, which is why he can't know! When he finds out I took all of them he's going to be furious! Probably already is since I left! I'm not trying to get you guys in trouble, I'm not, but I just needed help getting there, and you guys were so willing to go!"

"So you were using us?" I glared at James.

"Oh, you were using me, too! Admit it, if I hadn't brought up the tickets you would most likely not have helped me with anything!" He opened his mouth but shut it again, I looked at Sirius, who had been quiet. He was looking at me, frowning, but he didn't look all that mad. I sighed and got up. "I'll be right back." I left the compartment and made my way to a bathroom. When I got there I soon heard the door opening and closing behind me, I turned around and saw Sirius.

"I thought you had some ulterior motive to begin with, I'm not that surprised." I rose an eyebrow.

"But you're not mad?" He shrugged and shook his head.

"Not really, neither are the others, you just pretty much hurt their pride by lying to them," he smirked, "if only they knew the whole truth." I sighed and nodded, leaning against the sink. I looked up at him again and smiled.

"I have to say, you're a lot smarter than I gave you credit for, Black." He laughed.

"I usually am, I just don't let it show so that I can continue surprising people."

"Well then, consider me officially surprised." He nodded and continued looking at me.

"Is he really that bad?"

"Hm?"

"Your dad, I've heard all about how the American Minister is one of the most fair of them all, how he is so considerate of everyone, and treats them all fairly." I snorted.

"Please, it's all for show, trust me, he acts much differently at home, if something doesn't go his way, he breaks." He looked thoughtful for a moment.

"How bad does he get?" I sighed.

"It hasn't reached the point of violence if that's what you're asking. It's mostly all verbal, you know, telling me I'm a disgrace, blood traitor, blah blah blah, all the normal pureblood insults." He snorted.

"Yeah, I get that, I'm glad it isn't physical though, some of us aren't that lucky." This time, I gave him a thoughtful look.

"I've heard a lot about the Black family, never thought much about it though, I suppose you were one of those unlucky ones?" It took him a moment for him to nod, it took him an even longer moment to smile.

"When Mummy Dearest disowned me…. That was one of the greatest days of my life, I remember it clearly. I was just back-talking her, that was it, it had happened thousands of times before, but that time-" he shook his head, "that time was it, she couldn't take it anymore, she told me to get out, I called her a 'psycho bitch', and I left without another word. That was it." I bit my lip.

"But isn't there anything you regret about it? Anything at all?" He hesitated before taking a deep breath.

"I guess- I regret leaving my brother, I regret not spending enough time with him. Sometimes I think that if I had just been more kind to him he wouldn't have turned out more like my parents. He could have come with me, could have had an actual life rather than following in the footsteps of my parents and cousins. He shook his head. "He was a good kid, just a little confused, my parents got to him at an early age," he sighed, "I just wish I could've helped him." I nodded, there was something about seeing him so vulnerable that got to me.

"Maybe he'll still make the right choices in the end." I said, reassuring him, he nodded.

"Hopefully." We stood there for a moment, staring at each other. "We should probably get back." I nodded and smiled.

"Probably." He laughed and shook his head, walking out, I followed him, laughing as well.