A/N: Sorry for the lateness again :( Hope you like this chapter ^_^ This is one of my favourite because of Rosaline (Geez, I just love that girl-_-) Anyway, hope you like it as well -3-
A/N2: I am really sorry if there is any grammartical error or a bad use of English. A very big thank you to imSiriuslyLupin4you for proof reading it :D

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.

What, what, what?:

That night, Sirius crawled to bed and tried to force himself to sleep. He felt depressed. His heart was heavy with some unknown force hanging onto it.

According to what the boy told him, Remus had become an orphan when he was six. His parents were so poor that they could not afford to have another child, and since he was the younger of the two children he had been left in front of the orphanage. Regulus found him a year later and decided to take Remus in with him. Sirius' younger brother became a father figure for the little Remus, and now mourned the death of Regulus as if he could not live on. 'Ihavetobealeaderforthefamily.Ihavetobestrong.IfIcry,thetwoofthemwillcrytoo.' That's what Remus had told him, his voice trembling, but he refused himself to cry in front of Sirius. The shy boy had looked so vulnerable. Sirius had to suppress the urge to pull the boy into a tight hug several times, telling himself that he would protect him from all the bad things in this world.

Regulus' life was different from when he used to live in 12 Grimmauld Place, his poor younger brother must worked all day along with his disowned wife. Yet Regulus still had enough dignity not to show up at the front door and asked for money, not even when both of his parents died and Sirius inherited all the fortune. Money, Sirius realized, was worshipped like a God. It became a center of everyday life and even decided the fate of good people, and Remus was a victim of it.

Sirius's heart ached.

Regulus' family, as he learnt from Remus, was poor. Of course, they were, both Regulus and his wife had been disowned. Remus and Rosaline had to work at an early age to earn an income for the family while going to school at the same time. Yet the two of them was able to keep good grades and were always the top of the class.

It had been almost a whole month since Sirius decided to adopt the three children. The news flushed over the whole city and within a week the whole of England and its neighboring countries knew about it too. Sirius received tons of gifts and praises. All from someone who he knew, or someone from some unknown charity.

Being a workaholic, Sirius spent his days the same way he did before the children came into his life. Only now he would take his meals with the three of them and joined them in walking Padfoot.

Since Romulus was the only one who had not yet attended school, he was sometimes left by himself. Whenever his siblings weren't free, the petite boy always turned his attention to Padfoot or the servants who adored him… But Romulus still wanted his uncle's attention. But every time he mentioned going to see Sirius during daytime, Remus and Rosaline would always tell him not to, saying that his uncle was working and would like to be alone. Sometimes Sioned or Chopin caught Romulus trying to sneak into Sirius's office. The two would always pick him up and take him away.

Whenever Romulus snuck up into his uncle's office successfully he was greeted by a pile of papers on his uncle's desk and a frown from Sirius, who looked greatly displeased with the appearance of his small nephew.

"Please get out mini Black… Uncle Sirius needs to work." That's what he always said before looking back at papers in his hands or a laptop on the desk. Romulus would then storm out of the room and run to the servant asking them to play with him.

But sometimes they were all too busy to spend time with him. Romulus loved playing with Padfoot, but the dog couldn't speak or help him colour.

"Does Uncle Siwius hate me?"

Remus and Rosaline looked up from their textbooks and met each other's eyes. Remus raised his eyebrow and Ro just shrugged, the two then turned their attention back to their precious little brother.

"Why would you say that?"

The small boy frowned, "Because he told me get out and he was working".

Remus sighed. "He has a lot of work to do. He won't have much time to spare for us, Rom."

"Yeah," Rosaline snorted "Since he's a workaholic millionaire and all that shit, the idea of him spendingtime with us is probably not going to happen… Not that I care anyway." She quickly added.

"Being able to live in such a comfortable and luxurious place likethisis more than enough." Remus said, patting his younger brother on the head. "You shouldn't expect anymore from him."

"But Papa worked just as had as Uncle Siwius, he stiw had time to pway with me." The boy said in a miserable tone, earning a sympathetic look from his siblings.

"Go play with Sioned, Rom. Rem and I need to study." Rosaline shooed her little brother away. Romulus frowned but obeyed. Remus and Rosaline would not be pleased if they got a bad mark because of him.

So Romulus left the room and started wandering about the big house while hugging a huge teddy bear, almost as big as him, to his chest. Uncle Sirius had bought it for him his third day here. The man was so keen on buying things to please the children, especially Romulus who seemed to want everything.

Indeed, Romulus got everything he wanted… but not Sirius's attention.

Sirius Orion Black was walking along the corridor, he just finished his afternoon work and was planning on making a cup of tea in the kitchen.

"Goddamnfuckingshitbitch! This is fucking hard!" He heard Rosaline's voice scream in frustration and followed by Remus' calm voice.

"Calm down Ro! It's not that hard, I'll show you a trick." Sirius chuckled softly and stopped, listening to the conversation the two were having in Ro's bedroom.

After five minutes of silence, Rosaline's voice was heard again, "Geez Rem! You're way better than that stupid Prick."

"Mr. Powder is not stupid, I heard he graduated from Oxford."

"So? It still doesn't change the fact that I hate that wanker, and he hates me back."

"He hates you because you spat in his coffee." Sirius had to put his hand over his mouth, resisting the urge of burst out laughing. His niece probably hatedthat Mr. Powder so much to actually spitinhiscoffee. She really reminded him of Regulus in his rebellious age.

Sirius remembered sitting in his headmaster office, listening to the head fussing furiously about how Regulus had done this and that whilst the said boy just listened to his ipod.

Sometimes, he really missed his dead brother.

Sirius sighed. Reluctantly, he continued making his way to the kitchen downstairs.

"That was because he was accusing me for eating an apple in class." Rosaline smiled innocently, trying to convince her brother. Remus was not buying it, he stared at her incredulous.

"But you dideat an apple in class."

"I wasn't eating. I was makingtoast." Remus' eyes went wide. "Are you implying that you actually brought a toaster to class?"

"I am not implying. I am tellingyou, and, yes, I brought a toaster to the class. I brought it with Alixa." Ah, Alixa… Rosaline's partner in crime… Remus believed that Ro's middle name being Alixa's first name brought the two trouble making girls together.

"And you were about to eat it when Mr. Powder caught you holding it? Oh, damnhim." Remus shook his fist in a mock anger towards the teacher, though he still looked rather displeased. The boy eyed his sister with disapproval.

"Yes! Alixa was eating hers and I was spreading Nutella over mine, then BOOM! There goes another detention…" When Remus turned to glare at her, Ro quickly added, "And he thought I was eating an apple… how could Oxford accept him?" Ro shook her head slowly. "I mean he was at the front and I was at the back but it's not that far away, that guy really needs to get his eyes checked."

Remus would never understand how his sister's school system worked… wasn't it supposed to be when you've done you get detention, and if you do too much bad stuff they'll call your parents or kick you out? The only reason why the school allowed Rosaline to stay on was her intelligence. Her lowest grade was A. The school would not be stupid enough to let a prodigy like her go.

Remus had absolutely no idea what to do with her.

"I'm hungry. Let's go ask Charles for chocolate." Rosaline threw her math book on the floor and stood up. "Let's go! Let's go! Lets go!"

"Fine! Fine… but let's find Rom first."

"He's probably off playing with Sioned or Paddles." Ro said and looked down at her brother, who still sitting on the bed. The girl's face was painted with guilt.

"Rom is probably lonely as hell..." She sighed and ran her hand through her dark hair. "No one seems to have any time to play with him, not to mention the Old Man."

"You can't blame him for not spending much time with us, Ro. He was kind enough to let us stay in his home."

"Yeah, yeah… but I still feel sorry for little Rom."

"We all do, Ro."

"Even the Old Man?" Remus hesitated for a moment before nodding. "Master Black had his ways of showing his affection towards Romulus."

"By spending his money on buying stuff for him? He's spoiling Rom!" '…Andthereyouare,beingpositiveaboutthatOldMan'. Rosaline mentally added to herself. Her older brother was always trying to see the bright side of things. Which was good, but sometimes it just pissed her off.

"Considered that he has no time to spend with Rom, the fact that he he's always buying our little brother things is a kind thing for him to do!"

"But still," His sister argued, but looked rather nervous as if what she was about to say would not please him. "I know I'm not supposed to say this, since he adopted us and we should feel thankful for that and all, but I just don't feel like he's there. I meant he did buy us things that we wanted and people might see him as some sort of a 'Perfect Daddy', but I don't Rem!"

The nickname had changed. Rosaline was serious about this. Bloody hell, she was actually concerned about Sirius adopting the three of them. She wouldn't mind if Sirius continued being like this, she knew Remus wouldn't mind as well as they both had schoolwork and exam preparation to keep them occupied. But not Romulus. The boy was too young to start school so he had to stay home.

"We only see him during meals or when we accidentally bump into him in the corridors, but apart from that we don't see him at all!" Ro was nearly shouting. "Rom needs his love as much as he needed the others, but everyone already gave him Love… everyone exceptSirius'. Rom admires him… he's probably a father figure to Rom." Then she stopped glowering and her face softened with pity. "You may think that his way of treating us was right, it was right for us … but not for Rom. He needs attention and love."

Remus John Lupin was left speechless, he could not deny that what his sister said was true. Rosaline's speech made him rethink his opinion of his adopter's way of treating them. Like his sister said, Rosaline and he were fine with it, but not Romulus. He tried to reassure himself by thinking that his little brother liked it this way. It was, after all, Sirius' way of showing affection.

Romulus was walking down to the kitchen with his huge teddy bear. He spotted Sioned and Chopin at the table, the two were having a cup of tea while the sandy haired chef was preparing supper next to them.

"Sioned!" The petite boy chirped gaining attention from the ginger maid. She turned and greeted him with a warm smile "Afternoon young master, what can I do for you?"

The cute young master smiled but before he could even open his mouth to speak, the Official Master of the house walked into the kitchen.

Chopin and Sioned immediately stood up to respectfully greeting their master. "Sioned, could you make me a cup of tea?" The maid nodded and hurried to obey. Sirius then noticed the extra person in the room. The man turned to face the small child and paused for a moment as if he did not know how to talk to the petite boy.

But Romulus spoke first. "Uncle Siwius! There's a stweet fair near our house… can we go? Pweeeease?" Romulus begged in his high-pitched voice.

"You may if you want, Mini Black. But get your brother and sister to go with you."

"Yes I will! I pwomise. Will you come with us too, Uncle Siwius?" Sirius smiled guiltily and put his hand on the boy's small head.

"I'm sorry mini Black, I have too much work to do. I shall see you at supper."

Romulus watched his uncle walked away with his tea. The boy frowned and turned back to the servants. "Why is uncle Siwius never spending time with us?"

Sioned felt her heart break for the little boy and kneeled down, she gently stroked the boy's cheek and smiled. "Dear, Master Black is very busy, you have to understand this, okay?" She stood up and held Romulus's hand.

"Let's go invite your siblings to the street fair then."

"Remus! Can I buy that chocolate?" Rosaline shrieked, attracting people's nearby attention. Remus scowled at her but the girl ignored it. Rosaline tugged her older brother's t-shirt and pointed at the candy-selling stand while jumping up and down like a young child. "Can I buy it? Please, pleeease?" Remus sighed, he always gave in to his sister's puppy eyes,

"Fine. But only buy a little bit, alright? We don't have much money."

Rosaline blinked in confusion. "What about the money Old Man gave us?"

Remus stared at her in disbelief. Sometimes his sister just couldn't think logically. Even 'notspendingMasterSirius'smoney' Rosaline failed to comprehend.

"Are you saying that since the Old Man allowed us to stay at his place, we should feel 'oh-so-thankful-I-worship-you' and not ask for more?" The eldest nodded and the girl glared. "But I want some freaking chocolate!" She whined childishly. Rosaline's loud infantile manner started to attract a large crowd. Being a shy person, Remus could not bear being in the center of attention so he dragged his sister to the chocolate stand, muttering something about being more normal and less loud under his breath.

After buying the chocolate for his sister, using Sirius' money of course, Remus turned to his other side to grab his brother's hand to find that the boy was not there.

"Rom!" Rosaline jumped at the sound of her brother's voice. Damn he was sure loud when he wanted to be. "Ow! Why are you screaming like that?"

Remus turned to her, his face deathly pale.

"Romulus is gone."

Meanwhile, Romulus was standing near a big tree where he would always rest when he walked Padfoot. His grey orbs were observing a pair of father and son in front of him. The boy was about his age, maybe a little older than him, he was holding his father's hand and was talking about something very enthusiastically. He could tell by the look of the boy's face… it full of excitement and his eyes were practically sparkling. The father would nod frequently with a smile on his face, as though he was encouraging the boy to talk even more. He then kneeled down and listened to what the boy said, the boy probably wanted his father to buy something for him… Romulus guessed when the father took off towards the nearest stand, which was selling stuffed animals.

Romulus felt a pang of jealously running through his small heart when the father returned with a teddy bear. Although it was not as large as the young Black's teddy bear, Romulus felt that the bear was more valuable than his. After the boy said 'thankyoupapa' so loud that it echo and reached the spotted where he was standing, the father smiled and lifted him up, holding him tightly against his chest. They both laughed.

It was such a happy laugh and Romulus could not help but envy that boy. That boy was so unlike him, he got his father's attention, but Romulus hadn't. He desperately wanted his uncle's attention. He didn't want to be alone… he knew he was selfish but his sibling's love and the servant's love wasn't enough for him.

When Uncle Sirius had bought him his teddy bear, he only smiled at when Romulus shouted out thank you, he didn't pat his head or kiss him on the cheek… he didn't even lift him up. His adopter just smiled and walked away from him… back to his office.

Romulus could have anything he wanted in this world if he asked. He knew his uncle Sirius would find it for him, even when it is almost impossible to get. His uncle had a lot of money.

But this was not the only thing he wanted. He wanted to be noticed, to be loved and touched. He wanted Uncle Sirius to hold him, kiss him goodnight… do all those father and son things like the others…like when Papa was still alive.

Papa.

Romulus knew that he was crying, but he couldn't help it. He wanted Uncle Sirius to do those things to him, he wanted his uncle to be his second Papa. But Sirius was different from Papa… too different.

He missed papa.

Papa would not hesitate to touch him and spend a lot of time with him even he had work. Papa would always tell him a bedtime story or even sing a lullaby, then Rosaline would laugh saying that Papa's voice was too hoarse. Romulus knew that Papa's voice was hoarse because Papa and Mama had to work hard to feed the family, but even when Papa was tired he still played with him.

Oh, how he missed Papa.

"Fuck, Romulus!" The boy did not wince at Rosaline's sudden shout, he did not even turn and tell her off for saying bad words. He was too lost in his own thoughts, thinking of Papa. He felt someone lift him up and hold him close, it was Remus. His brother was whispering something in his ear, which he could not comprehended. The younger boy's arm curled around Remus' thin neck and he buried his face on his brother's shoulder. Romulus then let out a loud cry, making both of his sibling feel even worse.

"Wanna bet what Rom was crying about?" Remus glared his sister with disapproval in his eyes. Rosaline shrugged and stared back at him with an I-told-you-so expression on her face. Remus couldn't help but sigh in defeat.

"I guess you were right this time, Ro."

"And will you talk to him?"

"Why me?" The boy looked at his sister, bemused. Shouldn't Rosaline be the negotiator? Surely, she had more confidence than he did and she was not scared of Sirius.

But the boy seemed to forget something important, which Rosaline had kindly pointed out for him.

"If I'm the one who's doing the talking, then I'm not sure that the old man will live to see tomorrow… considering the crimehe did to our little brother."

Oh bugger, Remus completely forgot that his lovely little sister was very protective- overprotective- when it came to her two brothers. Plus, the fact that Rosaline seemed to dislike Sirius could make everything even worse.

Rosaline did not hate Sirius, she just needed time to settle down since she was convinced that Sirius hated her father because he never sent any financial support or even bothered visit him. Remus tried to convince her, even Regulus, when he was pretty much alive that Sirius was a good guy and it was her Papa that rejected all the help from Sirius.

Yes, the girl needed time to re-think her opinion of Sirius.

When they arrived home and had reached the dining room, Sirius was nowhere to be found in the room. Sioned informed them that he had already eaten supper and was now working at his office, so the children seated themselves on their usual place and began eating their meal in silence.

Rosaline, who sat opposite Remus, kept glancing at him with a small smile on her face. It was more like a smirk than a smile for Remus had a feeling that Rosaline convinced him to do the talking because she enjoyed seeing her brother's fear when it came to the matter of Sirius.

'Shecouldbequitesadisticsometimes', he thought to himself before glaring at her with irritation. His sister knew that Remus was scared of Sirius, even though the man allowed him to stay.

He even dreaded every time he went to meal and saw Sirius at the head of the table. He would wince when Sirius would ask him a question during mealtime, and he often stuttered when answering it.

When supper was finished, Romulus ran back to their bedroom and then returned with a piece of paper in his hand. The boy gave it to Remus who looked at it with his sister. They both smiled sadly.

"Can you give it to uncle Siwius for me?"

The eldest of the three nodded before following Rosaline, who already took off to the master's office. "Good luck Remus!" The girl said him in a singsong voice before taking Romulus along with her, leaving Remus standing in the hall all by himself.

Remus silently cursed his sister before taking a deep breath and heading into Sirius's office. He could tell by the look on Rosaline's face that she was enjoying him panicking, and would have a mental break down soon due to the fear of his own adopter, whom she quoted from what Remus had said to her earlier, was kind.

Evil little sister…

Remus stood in front of a large wooden door, Rosaline's and Romulus's footstep had already died away. The boy closed his eyes, gathered all his courage and knocked on the door.

"Come in." The voice shouted from behind the closed door. Once permission had been granted, Remus slowly opened the door and walked in.

Sirius Orion Black was sitting at his desk with his laptop in front of him, and next to it was a large pile of paper lying on top of one another neatly, some were in a plastic files. Remus stared at the image in front of him with incredulousness. How on earth could this man cope with this amount of work?

"Is there anything I can help you with, Remus?" The boy winced and nodded.

"Take a seat then." The boy obeyed him immediately, he bowed his head, avoiding making any eye contact with the person in front of him. He knew that it was impolite to behave like this and his father would not be pleased about his behaviour towards his kind adopter.

Likewhenfatherwasstillalive, he told himself. Besides, Remus would choose to behave like this, rather than making eye contact with Sirius and have a mental break down or faint. This would do no good since he was here to talk about Romulus.

Sirius could tell that the boy was nervous… he always nervous when he was with him, alone or not. It as if the boy was scared of him. He knew that Remus was the only one who was respectful to him, yet he feared him the most. Sirius wanted to convince the boy that he was not that scary.

"Why are you looking so nervous?"

The question only served to made the boy's face pale even more. For Remus, it was like Sirius could guess his reason for being here. The calmness of his adopter's voice did not make him feel any better and Remus could feel Sirius' eyes on him, as though they was piercing through his soul. This was way too scary! His fingers fidgeted and his palms were soaking with sweat. Remus' face was nearly as white as paper. He could not even force any words out… his throat was suddenly dry and his brain was shutting down.

"I…uhh…" he tried to regain his ability to speak but could only muster an incoherent sentence.

Sirius, on the other side of his desk, waited patiently for the boy to speak. He had his hands held firmly on the desk and sat straight, looking calm as usual, unlike the poor boy in front of him. "Do you need something, Remus?" Sirius tried. The slim boy nodded. By seeing the look of his face, which hinted a feeling of worried, Sirius could see that it probably something important. He closed his laptop and moved it away to his side, before asking another question. "Is it about Romulus?"

And Sirius knew he asked the right question.

Remus shifted slightly, feeling as though he could have faint any second now. He wanted to talk to Sirius about Romulus but he just didn't know where to start and he did not want to sound too selfish. He knew Sirius had work to do and having been adopted to such a wonderful place like this, Remus simply couldn't ask for more…. But it was for Romulus. "Romulus wanted-"

"What did he want? Did he want another teddy bear? I can get him a bigger and softer one for him, and some clothes that go along with it. Do you think he will like that?" Sirius cut him off with a very long question, his voice filled with eagerness to be spending money on his nephew.

"No, sir!" Remus quickly and loudly replied before looked up with a shocked expression. The boy then lowered his head down once again and continued in a soft voice, "That's not what I meant, sir."

"Then what do you mean?" Sirius did not mean to scare the poor boy, it was not his intention to make the boy tremble even more. Whatever Remus wanted to say, he was just trying to make it easier for him. But it seemed as if Remus had gotten the wrong message. Sirius was not making it easier at all.

Remus counted to ten in his mind to regain all his senses. Slowly, the pair of amber eyes tore away from his fingers and looked up to met the man in front of him.

"I…I think the way you treat Rom is wrong, sir." Sirius raised an eyebrow in bewilderment, but did not speak. So the boy continued, feeling a little more relaxed but still uncomfortable with the whole situation. He lowered his head breaking eye contact. "You could buy everything in this world for Romulus, you have the money and Romulus is lucky to have such a rich adopter like you, sir. But it isn't money that he wants… He wants your love Sir." Sirius wanted to say something, but couldn't find the right words. Luckily, the boy continued.

"You may think, sir, that spending money on Romulus is a good way to express your love to him. It makes Romulus happy, but only temporarily. Having money flowing to him whenever he wants will spoil him eventually, sir." Remus paused shortly, took a deep breath before continue his speech, eyes still staring at his hands on his laps. "It is true, sir. That money could buy Rom anything he wants as long as you are able to afford it, which I know you are. But you cannot buy long-term happiness with money. Your money cannot buy Romulus want he wants the most in this word, which is your love."

Sirius felt guilt slowly building up in his chest. What Remus said was exactly right. He had been mistreating the youngest boy… he always thought that this was the way to treat children. His parents did as well. Back then, whenever Regulus and Sirius wanted something, their parents would buy it for them. Both of the Black heirs had everything they wanted, yet they still feel empty. Sirius doesn't know what it was, until this very moment. What he had been missing since he was a child was love from his parents. Sirius had made a terrible mistake; he had repeated the same thing that his parents had done to him. Romulus needed love more than Sirius ever did. The man ran his hand through his dark hair and sighed. "I really am sorry for the way I treated Romulus, no, all of you. I'll try and change… alright?"

When Remus looked up again to meet his eyes, Sirius's heart skipped a beat. There was a large smile spreading over his face, a smile saying that Remus was pleased with what he had said.

Sirius felt happy with himself, just seeing the boy's satisfied smile had made him happy. Such feeling was incomparable. The boy's smile lit up his gloomy day of spending hours alone in his office, it made Sirius want to do more things that could make Remus smile.

"Oh God, I almost forget." Remus stood up and handed him a piece of paper, which Sirius reached out to take. Their hands touched and Remus felt a shock of electricity running through his body. He blushed and quickly withdrew his hand.

Sirius watched the boy muttering a quick goodbye before excusing himself from the room. He smiled at thinking how cute the boy looked when he was blushing.

The master of the house sat back in his chair, in a more comfortable position. He unfolded the paper, his eyes widened when he saw what was on the paper. It was a drawing drew by the youngest of the three children. There were words 'BlackFamily' at the top of the page.

Sirius noticed Remus right away because the boy's hair colour, Remus was standing in the middle holding Rosaline's hand on the right and Romulus's hand on the left, his huge teddy bear standing next to him. The younger boy was holding some one else's hand as well. First Sirius thought it was Regulus, but when he noticed a cloud at the top right hand corner of the page with two people sitting on it. It was Regulus, and his wife. Then Sirius focused again on the mysterious man that was holding Romulus's right hand. Sirius gasped, his eyes widened when he realized who that man was. He knew him very well.

It was himself.

Sirius opened the door as quietly as possible before closing it again, only to be surprised that there was still a light on. It was the table lamp on the writing table. The light was dim as though the person didn't want its brightness to disturb the others sleeping in the room. That person was Remus John Lupin. Sirius looked around the room to found that Rosaline and Romulus had already fallen asleep.

Remus was studying with a pile of his textbooks spreading all over the large table. The boy was concentrating too hard to notice the late night visitor. Sirius decided to walk up behind the only person who still awake and cleared his throat softly.

Remus winced before turning around with wide eyes. Seeing his adopter, not to mention the fact that the man never been in this room before, was quite a surprised.

"What are you doing?" Sirius whispered, not wanting to wake up the other two. Remus was still in shock. It took him nearly a minute to regain his senses and answer.

"I – I am revising for my exams, Sir."

"You revise too much." Remus frowned a little but before he could speak Sirius cut him off. "If you want to revise without disturbing your siblings, why don't you go to the library? You could turn all the lights on and revise without damaging your eyes." Remus felt himself blushing furiously, was Sirius worrying about him?

When the boy looked up, he saw something shining in that pair of grey eyes… something that made his heart beat faster. But Remus had no idea what that was. "T-thank you Sir." He stuttered.

Sirius smiled and turned to look at Remus' sleeping siblings. He looked down at them in silence, observing how peaceful the two looked when they were asleep, especially crazy Rosaline.

Suddenly, without thinking, Sirius stepped forward towards the beds. He bent down and kissed the youngest boy's forehead gently to say goodnight. He then did the same to Rosaline.

Remus watched in amazement. The image in front of him melted his heart. He never thought, not even imagined, that Sirius would do something as sweet as this… it was so opposite to his workaholic character.

'Maybe,' the small voice in his mind said, 'it'shiswayofshowinghowsorryheisforhismistreatment.' Remus couldn't help but agree with that voice as he watched as Sirius retreat.

Now, the man was standing in front of him, a little too closely. Remus shifted in his seat, feeling a bit uncomfortable with their close proximity. But before he could think of anything Sirius leaned forward and pressed his lips on Remus' forehead.

Remus gasped in surprised and pull away immediately, blushing furiously. He soon regretted his action when he saw a hurt look in Sirius' eyes.

Sirius suddenly realized what he just done. The older man wasted no time and quickly muttering 'good night', walked out of the room.

Watching the man walking away was almost heartbreaking. Remus shook his head to chase the weird feeling inside away. The warmth of Sirius's soft lips still lingered on his forehead, and soon Remus found himself touching his red cheeks, which were burning so hard that he could even, felt his own heat.

What was happening to him?

Sometimes Sirius thought that Rosaline would be better off as a boy and Remus a girl.

The two were totally different, yet they still get along with each other very well.

Speaking of which, Remus' body was shaking furiously. Sirius would have to do something before the boy fainted, which seem inevitable.

So he tried to made the boy feel more relaxed by asking him a simple question concerning his health, everyone always relaxed with that, didn't they?

But Remus was the exception.

Wait, what?

Scratch that! Scratch that thought!

Sirius shook his head, feeling a heat spreading all over his face. It took him almost a minute to calm himself down.

A/N: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME X'D hahaha all I want for my birthday present is review :) R&R is truly, absolutely, completely, utterly, totally and very appreciate -3-