Other Half of My Soul

Chapter 14

Hey guys please don't kill me it's been almost 2 years since I last updated. I am sorry, life has gotten away from me, and I admit that I had a bit of a writer's block on all of my stories. I did want to let you all know that I am working on going back and editing my previous chapters for grammatical and spelling errors as well. I also wanted to give everyone another friendly heads up that any errors with Fleur are intentional to show her French accent.

Previously:

Regulus beams at his brother and gives him a hug. "That is amazing little brother. You always wanted to have kids of your own and I'm glad you are getting that chance now; well you have Harry now too so I guess you have always been a dad in a sense since the day he was born."

Sirius smiles and nods. "Yeah, I am extremely blessed and thankful for what I have been given."

Harry gets off Charlie's lap and gives his dad a big hug. "I am too Siri; you are an amazing dad."

Bill decides to break the serious mood. "Alright well I think it's time to let the couples debrief from today and Regulus and I will see you all in a couple of days. Harry, Regulus, Sirius, and I will meet and discuss how to best train you then once we have a plan, we will let you know."

Harry nods his head. "Okay Bill that sounds good." He turns his attention to his mate. "Come on Char lets head back to our rooms." Charlie nods and the two of them leave. They are followed out by the rest of the small group and Fawkes who flies after Harry and Charlie.

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Chapter 14: Reactions & Plans

Charlie, Harry, and Fawkes reach their rooms after their meeting at Gringotts and meeting Regulus and catching him with everything that has been happening while he was hiding from Voldy-Shorts. Harry and Charlie collapse onto their settee in their sitting room.

"Oh, my goodness my brain is completely fried after everything we just went over today!"

Charlie chuckles at him and Harry pouts. "Don't laugh!"

Charlie keeps laughing. "I'm sorry love I don't mean to laugh but you have to admit that only you could possibly keep having these things happen to them."

"Charlieeee, that's not helping!" Fawkes flies down and perches himself on Harry's lap and starts to demand pets from Harry. He looks down a small chuckle escapes and he starts to pet the phoenix on its neck. "I still stand by what I said earlier in that Hedwig is not going to be very impressed with this development."

Charlie smiles. "You are probably right about that one but who knows maybe she will surprise us."

"Maybe. I do think that we will have to sit down and make a list of everything that we must do."

Charlie throws one of his arms around Harry's shoulders and relaxes. "A list is definitely a good idea, but I would also suggest that we split it and make a few smaller lists to make it more manageable."

Harry nods his head in agreement. "What if we take it a step further and makes those lists on importance?"

"What do you mean by importance?"

Harry hums. "I'm thinking that if we split them up based off what we need to know versus what we can wait on that might help."

"Ah gotcha. Yeah, that might work best. That way no one will get too overwhelmed. There are a lot of things that we need to get accomplished." Harry goes to respond but Charlie stops him before he can get a word out by placing his free hand under his chin and turning Harry's head towards his. "But there is something I don't want you to forget before we do anything else."

Harry is slightly puzzled but nods nonetheless at his mate. "What is it that you don't want me to forget?"

"You are not alone in any of this. I know that you tend to dive into things headfirst thinking you have to go it alone because you are used to it but love you will never be alone again, I won't allow it."

Harry's eyes get a bit misty, and he chokes up at bit, but he manages to keep it together. "I love you and I know I will slip up every once in a while, but I know that as long as I have you by my side and my dad's that I can get through anything."

Charlies smiles bright in response in leans in for a quick kiss. "I love you too and I promise I will always be here for you and so will your dad's. We will never leave you alone again and if I'm not mistaken that group just keeps getting bigger."

Harry gives him a watery smile. "I know I can't believe how blessed I am with all the love and support I am surrounded by."

"You deserve every ounce of it." Before any other words can be said a snowy white owl swoops into the room and perches herself on Charlie's lap and just stares at the Phoenix in her master's lap.

Harry and Charlie just observe this, and both start laughing at the standoff that is happening in their laps. Harry is the first to recover as Hedwig's attention turns to him and she just glares at him. "Ah don't give me that face Hedwig. I promise I didn't plan for this to happen, and I swear you are being replaced, you are my favorite girl."

This seems to settle her down some, but she still doesn't relax.

Charlie decides to take over and starts to stroke her feathers. "Hey girl its going to be okay. Fawkes here wants to stay with us and has bonded to your master. But let me tell you a little secret. He has plenty of love to give and we need to make sure we give that love right back to him, okay?"

Hedwig hoots and nips Charlie's fingers briefly when he stops his fingers. He chuckles and resumes his movements and Hedwig finally settles in his lap before nodding off for a nap.

Harry just stares in disbelief. "How in the world did you do that?"

"You know I'm not entirely sure myself and I didn't know if it would even work. We both know how head strong she can be just like her master."

"Hey! I take offence to that mister."

Charlie just laughs and relaxes back into the settee. "Can we just stay like this for a bit before we decide on what to do next?"

Harry follows his mate's movements and does the same. "Yeah, I would love nothing more."

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Regulus joins Dumbledore in his office.

"Take a seat Regulus, we have a lot to discuss." Regulus sits down as requested. "Would you like some tea or biscuits?"

"Tea would be lovely, but I will pass on the biscuits Headmaster."

Dumbledore looks at him and nods then claps his hands for one of the elves. "Mimpsy"

A small popping noise is heard in the office. "Headmaster be calling Mimpsy?"

"Just Mimpsy, would be a dear and please bring my guest and I some tea and biscuits?"

The elf nods her head and pops out of the room quickly and pops back in a few moments later with a tray. "Mimpsy brings tea and biscuits as requested. Is there anything else that you be needing?"

Dumbledore just shakes his head and smiles. "No that will be all Mimpsy, thank you." The elf nods her head and pops out of the room. Dumbledore then levitates a tea to Regulus and picks up his own. "Now would you like to start with telling me where you have been hiding?"

Regulus takes a sip of his tea before answering. "Well to be honest I never stayed in one place too long. I didn't want anyone to find be whether they were on this side or the other sides of the war, I didn't want my cover to be blown."

"And what is that you have been doing that prevented you from at least reaching out and letting your older brother know that you were alive."

Regulus winces at the tone over his brother's name. "I admit that I messed up on that part. I did not mean to hurt my brother."

"What did you think was going to happen to him once he thought you were dead?"

Regulus bows his head in shame. "I panicked and I know that's not an excuse, but it is the truth. Once I found out that man who I thought I was following wasn't who he said he was and what he was really trying to do I got out as fast as I could before I wound up dead for real. I didn't think about the consequences my self-preservation kicked in and that was it."

"I can understand that you were a Slytherin after all. However, I would like to know why you waited until now to reveal yourself."

Regulus takes a deep breath to settle his thoughts. "Well, that is a bit of a convoluted question. I have been working with the goblins ever since I went into hiding so see if I could figure out a way to stop the mad man and I also needed to figure out where my soulmate was."

"How did you figure out he was not who he said he was?"

"I went to the goblins after my mark showed up to see if they could tell me who my mate was since I wasn't particularly close with anyone, and I wasn't in a romantic relationship either. That's when did an inheritance test and discovered what everyone else found out today at Gringotts. My real soulmate is missing, and we don't know where he is."

"I think I might know where he is being kept but I don't know how we would retrieve him and what his condition would be at this point."

Regulus sits up straight. "What do you know? I need you to tell me please!"

Dumbledore can hear the desperation in his voice, and he feels his heart break for him. "I believe that my former soulmate took him. I don't know anything for certain, but I have very strong hunch as little details that I have overlooked in the past are coming together in my mind."

Regulus deflates in his seat. "How can we find out for sure?"

"I don't know if we will ever be able to find for certain without just attempting to retrieve him. If we are successful, we can find out the details after."

Regulus nods. "Okay I can live with that for now. We will have to make a plan."

Dumbledore agrees. "Yes, we will. However, you still need to answer the rest of my initial question."

"Right, I got a bit sidetracked there. The goblins contacted me recently asking me to come in because they had some news to share with me. I thought it might be about Tom but to my surprise it was about my nephew that I didn't know I had so I was a bit confused."

Dumbledore chuckles. "Yes, I can see why that would be confusing. What made you stay?"

"Simple. They immediately started talking about Sirius. That was more than enough to get me to stay and listen to everything they had to tell me. Once they explained the whole situation, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make my return."

"Well then we best start to get planning and just remember that you will have a lot of groveling to do."

Regulus groans. "Don't I know it."

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Bill walked into his apartment and was startled once he observed that he wasn't alone. "Fleur what are you doing here and how did you get past my wards?"

Fleur just giggles at his reaction. "I am your mate, William; I have my ways. Of corz I am 'ere to support you. Te goblins contacted me."

"Ah well than I will have to remember that from now on I shouldn't bother to attempt locking you out then, you will just get past them every time. Also, what did they contact you about?"

"They enformed me 'bout 'Arry's situation and how I can 'elp."

Bill walks over and sits down next to Fleur. "That makes since with everything we learned today I almost forgot that you are from the Galahad line. I honestly don't know how he is going to handle everything that is being thrown at him."

Fleur puts her hand on his shoulder. "William, 'e will not be alone. We will all be there to support 'im the best we can. Now tell me 'ow you are feeling about all of this."

Bill takes a deep breath. "There are so many thoughts and feelings going through my head right now. I mean always knew that one day I would have to take over as Lord Weasley, but we don't have much land or power so never thought I would have to do much but after today that thought went out the window. Now not only will I have to take over for our family, but I have to take over for an ancient and noble line for Gawain. It's just a lot to process."

Fleur grabs one of Bill's hands and holds onto it. "I know it iz a lot, but you aren't alone either, you are my mate now and I will alwayz be 'ere for you."

Bill doesn't even think he just leans over and places a quick kiss on her lips and feels tingles travel down his spine. "Wow, I did not expect that."

Fleur blushes and giggles. "Now you can't get away from me."

Bill gasps in mock offense. "I would never!" Then he leans in and steals another kiss. "Thank you for finding me."

"We found eac' ot'er. Now wat elze iz going t'roug your brain?"

Bill sighs. "So many things. We have a lot to work out and plan and the goblins put me in charge of educating Harry and Charlie on lordships and what they will need to do. On the whole royalty thing though we are all on a learning curve and we can't even tell our families yet."

"T'at iz t'e one part I wis' I could c'ange but it can't be 'elped."

"I know but it still stinks but then I just have to think of Harry and my worries don't seem nearly as bad. All I really know is that we will have to get through this together as a family."

Fleur kisses his cheek. "Yes, we will."

Bill looks at his mate. "I am grateful that the goblins let you in on what is going on because it was going to be extremely difficult for me to keep everything from you. I know we haven't personally known each other for very long but I feel as though I won't be able to keep anything from you ever."

Fleur smiles. "T'at iz the bond and you being the mate of a Veela. We mate for life zo we bond quicker than other species. Plus, don't forget that you have a bit of dragon in you."

"Right, I forgot." Bill just laughs at that. "That didn't really seem too important in the grand scheme of things especially due to it being such a small part."

Fleur gives him a sly look. "Well, I 'eard t'at dragonz don't like to zhare is t'at true?"

Bill just smirks in response. "You will just have to wait and see."

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Severus and Sirius make it down to their living quarters and Siris immediately walks over to their liquor cabinet and pours himself a small glass of fire whiskey.

Severus pouts at him. "That's not fair why are you drinking that in front of me."

Sirius walks back over and kisses his cheek. "I'm sorry love I just need this little bit to help process everything."

Severus' expression immediately softens. "I know that was a lot thrown at us at once. How are you feeling about everything? More specifically your brother."

Sirius all but collapses on the chair by the fireplace. "I don't even know where to start. I'm feeling so many different emotions about him. I'm angry, sad, confused, relieved, and hurt."

Severus nods his head. Then he grabs the glass out of his mate's hand and sets it on the side table. After he does this, he sits down on his lap where his mate's arms immediately wrap around his waist to keep him steady. "Then we will just have to go through each of them one at a time. Why are you angry?"

"He made me think he was dead and just showed up out of the blue like he never left."

Severus wraps his arms around Sirius' neck. "Why are you sad?"

"He missed so much of mine and Harry's lives Sev."

Severus gently squeezes him before moving on to the next emotion. "Why are you confused?"

"I just don't understand his though process."

"I think I may know the answer to this one but why are you relieved?"

Sirius gives a small smile for the first time since entering their room. "He's alive Sev!" Sirius turns his head a bit and kisses Severus' forehead.

"I know he is love. Last one, why are you hurt?"

At this question tears start to form. "He left me all alone Sev, he just up and disappeared one day and I had no idea what happened. He never got to meet my son, he wasn't able to help raise him when I wasn't able to, and Harry had to grow up with those horrible muggles. He made me feel unloved for the longest time. I felt that I did something that pushed him away and to join the other side which I thought caused his death. I just.." Sirius can't finish as the tears start to fall and don't stop and he sobs.

Severus feels his heart breaking for his mate and he holds him tight while moving Sirius' hands to his growing bump. "Shh my love it is going to be okay I promise you. We all love you, so I don't ever want to you think you are unlovable again. We made this little human that is growing inside me because we love each other. Harry became your son not just in name but in blood too because he loves you. We will figure why everything happened and why Regulus made those choices but don't for one second think he didn't do it out of love for you."

Sirius continues to cry as the sobbing slows down and he holds on tighter to his mate. "I don't think I would be able to get through any of this without you. You have literally saved my life on more than one occasion. I love you so much."

Severus kisses the top of Sirius' head. "I love you too and you have saved me too. If it wasn't for you, I don't think I would have had the courage to beg Dumbledore to help me after defecting briefly."

Sirius soaks in the love he feels from his mate and is able to stop his tears. "We saved each other, and I am so grateful for what fate has decided to give me."

"Me too love. But now I think we talk about Harry."

Sirius takes a few deep breaths to compose his thoughts about his son. "Yeah, my poor Bambi just keeps getting put into life changing events, one right after another."

"I know and we definitely need to talk about everything with him too but to be honest I want us to talk through it first. I want to be able to help him as much as I can."

Sirius lifts Severus' head from his shoulders and kisses him. "I love you and I love everything you are doing for our son our unborn little ones."

Severus blushes a pink color at the praise from his mate. "I love you all too and I don't want Harry to feel he is alone anymore."

"He isn't and we will just have to continue to show him that he isn't until it starts to stick in his stubborn head."

"Well, I wonder where he gets that's from."

Sirius shows mock offense. "Hey! I hope you're not talking about me because I have no idea where you got that idea from. I will have to you know I don't have a stubborn bone in my body."

Severus just looks at him with his standard deadpan expression. "Right."

Sirius can't hold it in and burst out laughing and Severus soon follows.

It takes a few minutes for them to settle and catch their breath. "So where do we want to start?"

"I think the best place to start would be that our son is set to be a king and what that is going to mean for him."

"That's a pretty tall order to start with but it is most likely the best place to start. He has so much responsibility now and even if he didn't have royal blood in his veins he would still have to deal with the other lordships of Potter, Gryffindor, Evans, and if it wasn't for Emrys we would have to add Peverell to that list."

"Don't forget that I added him as my heir but thankfully we have the little ones who can take over some day, so Harry won't have to."

"That was a good call you made. How can we help him with all the lordships?"

"I don't know the best way to be honest because of the Emry line. I'm just glad its not Pendragon too." Sirius sits there and thinks for a moment. "I think the best place to start is by teaching him about etiquette and family history and family magic. I can only help with the Black family magic."

"I think that would be a good start. We don't want to overwhelm him with too much information at one time and don't forget that the goblins did say we had until Harry graduates to start worrying about making him king and setting up his kingdom."

Sirius lets out a snort. "He is going to hate that."

"Yes, I imagine he would, but he doesn't have a choice."

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The next couple of days pass by and Regulus decides that it is time to have a serious heart to heart with his brother and to start making a plan with the Weasley twins and Sirius about Harry's miscarriage.

Regulus walks down to the dungeons and knocks on the portrait. Severus answers the door. "Hello Severus, is my brother here?"

Severus steps out and closes the door behind him before folding his arms in front of his body and leaning against the door. "That depends."

Regulus had a feeling he was going to have to go through and an overprotective Severus first. "What does that depend on?"

"If you plan to continue to hurt him."

Regulus winces at the bluntness of the statement and immediately feels guilty. "I am sorry that is not my intention."

"It's not me you need to apologize to. Do you realize that you completely destroyed him when he thought you were dead?"

"I know…"

"I'm not finished." Regulus instantly closes his mouth and Severus continues. "I don't think you understand the gravity of your actions. He completely broke down the other day and admitted that he felt unloved and that it was his fault that you joined the other side and then subsequently "died" only to find out that not only are you not dead but that you decided he was not worth the time of day until now."

Regulus is utterly shattered. "Severus please that's not true any of it. I didn't, I didn't mean for this to happen. I did not do any of this with intention of hurting him I swear!"

"Be that as it may that is what happened, and we can't argue about that. You need to give me one good reason why I should even let you in the same room as him let alone talk to him."

Regulus doesn't know what he can say that could make this any better and he knows Severus is well within his right to deny him from seeing his brother.

Severus is silently watching Regulus' body language to see if he is genuine or if this is just a ploy. He will not allow his mate to be hurt again. Severus decides to wait it out and see what happens before deciding his next steps.

Regulus looks up with tears in his eyes. "I know what I did was wrong, and I know I hurt my older brother more than I can possibly understand right now but please Severus let me see him and talk to him, I'm begging you."

"As touching as this is you still haven't given me a reason why I should allow you to see and talk to my mate."

"What is it that you are waiting to hear Severus because at this point it seems like no matter what I say the answer is going to be know."

After a moment of silence between the two they hear the portrait open, and they both turn their heads.

"Sev what's taking you so long?" Sirius turns his head and stops in his tracks as he sees his brother.

"Siri go back inside and let me handle this please."

Sirius feels torn. He knows he and his brother need to sit down and talk but a part of him wants to let his mate deal with this as he doesn't feel like he is ready.

Severus' expression softens as he sees the turmoil in his mates' eyes. So, he goes over and hugs him and whispers in his ear. "I was going to handle this but what do you want to do?"

Sirius sees the devastated expression in his brother's eyes and knows that as much as he doesn't feel he is ready for this they need to. "I need to do this, but I can't do this without you Sev, can you stay with me?"

"You don't even need to ask of course I will." Severus turns his body a bit and looks at Regulus. "Well, it appears to be your lucky day as my mate has decided to talk to you."

Regulus takes on a hopeful expression, but it leaves just as quickly once he hears Severus' next words. "Mark my words though I will be in the room and if you so much as hurt him one time you will leave and you won't approach him again until he is ready, do you understand me?"

Regulus nods his head and stands up straight. "I promise I will even swear on my magic that I will do as you ask so you know how serious I am about this."

Sirius is about to object but Severus shooshes him. "Very well then. Come inside so we can get this over with." Severus turns to Sirius. "Do you want me to get Harry?"

Sirius shakes his head. "As much as I would love Bambi to be here, I don't want him to see me as an emotional mess."

"Love he won't think any less of you."

"I…yeah okay." Severus leans in and gives his mate a quick kiss then sends a patronus to Harry asking him to come see them.

Severus supports Sirius and leads him back into their sitting room and turns his head back briefly. "Well, are you going to just stand there or are you coming in?"

Regulus jumps a little and rushes to follow them into the room. Severus decides to wait outside the door for his son. A couple of minutes later Harry walks down. "Hi dad!"

That stops Severus short for a moment before he quickly pulls Harry to him and whispers in his ear. "I never thought I would hear you call me dad."

Harry hugs him back and nuzzles his face against his neck. "Is that okay?"

"Is that okay? Oh, Harry it is more than okay."

"Okay, good." Harry separates from Severus. "Now what's going on why did you ask me to come down?"

Severus takes a deep breath. "Your uncle has decided to come down and talk to your dad and your dad really needs our support. He was really devastated the other day."

Harry nods his head. "Okay then let's go inside and be there for dad."

Severus smiles and ruffles his hair. "Okay." They both turn and enter the rooms. Severus locks the door and puts up a strong silencing spell, so they won't be disturbed. Harry walks over and sits down next to his dad and Severus sits on his other side while Regulus decides to sit down in the armchair.

The in the room turns tense and Harry decides to break the silence. "So, uncle I think we should start with you and why you thought it was a good idea to break my dad's heart."

That one sentence took the air out of the room and three on the settee waited with bated breath for Regulus' response.

Regulus tried to gather his thoughts. "I have no excuse that I can give that would be a good enough reason because truth be told there isn't one. I never intended to hurt you Sirius I swear, once I realized what was really happening on the other side of the war, I knew I had to get out before I wound up dead."

"So, you thought the best solution was just to make me think you were dead? Did you ever think of me or was I just some insignificant person to you?"

Regulus immediately gets tears in his eyes, but he won't let them fall, not yet at least. "NO! How could you ever think that? You're my big brother I looked up to you."

Sirius turns spiteful. "Well what else am I supposed to think when I went over 17 years thinking you were dead!"

Harry wraps his arms around his dad and Severus holds onto his mate's hand in silent support.

"I-I-I'm so sorry Siri I didn't think about anything other than getting out and staying alive, at least not at first."

"You abandoned and betrayed me Reg. I really don't think there is anything you could say that will allow me to get over that."

Regulus feels his heart shatter. "Please Siri! Don't shut me out and push me away!"

"Well, you didn't seem to have a problem doing that to me for 17 years!"

"Dad, I think you should at least hear him out and if after that you don't want to let him in then that's okay."

Sirius turns his attention towards his son and crushes him to chest in a tight hug. "I love you so much Bambi."

Harry hugs him back just as tightly. "I love you too dad. We will be right here with you the whole time."

Sirius takes a deep breath and loosens his hold on Harry but doesn't let go completely. "Okay you get one chance to explain yourself and if I don't think it's a good enough answer then you will have to leave and as my mate said earlier not reach to me unless I want to."

Regulus nods his head glumly, but he understands that this will be his only chance and he doesn't want to ruin it. "What do you want to know first?"

Sirius looks to his mate and son and they both shake their heads. "It's your show love you ask the questions you need answers too."

Sirius just looks at his brother and he is struggling with what to ask. "There are so many things I need answers to, but I don't even know what to ask because I don't want to be disappointed again."

"Okay then how about I just start my story and we can go from there. As you know mom and dad were big supporters of the dark side and were pushing me become a death eater. I have to admit that at first there were some things that I agreed with, so I decided to check it out. I didn't want to commit completely though without knowing everything I could. Once I did though I was terrified, and the Dark Lord wanted me fully committed and I knew that I had to get before he found out that I wasn't loyal."

"I understand all of that, but did you ever think at least once that "Oh I should really reach out to my brother and ask for help" because to me it sounds like you had plenty of time to do that."

"I-I really didn't think beyond getting out, I was terrified Siri, and I knew if I didn't do something quick, I was never going to be able to see you again. I also knew that if he didn't think I was dead he was going to go after you, and I just couldn't let that happen. I love you way too much to put you in danger like that."

Sirius scoffs at the end of that. "I have a hard time believing that but, in the meantime, everything went to shit, and I ended up in prison for something I didn't even do and Bambi here ended up growing up feeling like he was unlovable."

"I know! Okay I know I screwed up but I'm trying to fix it!"

"There is no fixing it as you put it! I could forgive you eventually if you just hurt me, but Reg my Bambi was hurt, and I can't forgive that."

Regulus is close to giving up and tears have started to stream down his face. "What can I do? What can I do to make it up to the both of you? I will do anything Siri! Please just tell me what to do!"

Harry is watching all of this and knows that he should let Sirius handle this, but he knows what happened to him was not his uncle's fault. "Dad."

That one-word shifts Sirius' attention. "Yes Bambi?"

"You can't blame Uncle Regulus for what happened to me. There was no way for anyone to know what was going to happen."

Sirius looks like he wants to argue but Harry just hugs him tightly. "No dad you can't. You can definitely be mad about him leaving you, but you are blaming him for something that he wasn't involved with isn't okay."

Sirius just holds onto Harry tightly and takes a deep mental breath knowing his son is right. "I need time and I can't forgive right now Reg and I don't really want to see you too often. However, you and I need to meet with the twins so besides those meeting I can't been in the same room as you."

Regulus is devastated but also feels a little bit of hope. "Okay I will honor your request until you tell me otherwise. When do you want to meet with the twins?"

Sirius is struggling and his mate can sense that, so he answers for him. "I think you need to give him a couple of days. Siri will reach when he is ready." Regulus reads between the lines and says that his invitation is over. He gets up and even though he wants to tell Siri how much he loves him he knows that it will only make things worse, so he leaves the room without another word.

As soon as they hear the door shut Sirius breaks down and Harry and Severus are there to pick up the pieces of Sirius' heart.

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It takes a couple of days before Sirius is ready to face is brother again but this time, he knows he will have the twins there and they are doing this for his Bambi, so he sucks it up enters the room where they are having their first meeting.

"Hello boys are you ready to cause tom mayhem?"

Fred and George look scandalized.

"Are you asking us-"

"If we are ready-"

"To cause mayhem?"

They look at each other then smile. "YES!"

Sirius barks out a laugh. "I should have known." He purposely ignores his brother's presence in the room. "So, we have a few things to discuss and plan out. Where do you want to start?"

Fred decides to speak up. "Well, we should probably start with what we need to accomplish in this first meeting."

"I agree Gred. I know we need to find out who is out to get Harry in the school."

"Of course, Forge and we also need to figure out who caused Harry's miscarriage and how."

"Lastly we need to find a way to get the lovely Pink Toad out of Hogwarts."

Sirius and Regulus share a quick glance at each other at the twin's antics, but it doesn't last long.

"Fred, George I want to formally introduce both of you to my younger brother Regulus. He is going to be helping us with this as two Blacks are always better than one when trying to be sneaky."

The twins don't really know what to say so they just shrug their shoulders and keep their thoughts to themselves.

"Okay so what topic do we want to tackle first?"

Regulus speaks for the first time. "Can I ask for clarification on the first thing that was mentioned about trying to figure out who has it out for my nephew in the school? What capacity are we talking about here?"

"Well Harry has always been the target of something since he entered the school, and a lot of the student body has no problem turning on him on a moment's notice."

"So, we thought it would be a good idea with the war coming closer to figure out who in the school is really on our side and who is not and wants to harm Harry."

Regulus nods his head at the twin's explanation. "Thank you for answering my question. Siri do you have anything to add to that?"

Sirius shakes his head. "No, I think the boys are on point there. So how do you want to accomplish this, because to be honest that is a pretty tall order."

The twins decide to rattle off different torture methods.

"Well, we can always threaten them."

"Death by fire"

"Throwing them into a large pit filled with venomous snakes."

"There's always the option of using Charlie's dragons."

"I don't think he would allow that so we should scratch that one."

"We could give the student uncurable boils that cover their whole bodies."

"What if we make and itch powder that only we have the remedy for?"

"We always threaten to put the in a room with Umbridge for a week straight."

There is silence for a second before laughter is heard and Sirius and Regulus are on the ground with how hard they are laughing.

"I didn't think anything we said was funny."

The twins look at each other and they break out into laughter. It takes a few minutes for the four of them to compose themselves and get back to the discussions.

"While that was very entertaining boys, many of the options wouldn't be possible but I do think you are on the right try about doing something that could prove loyalty or at the very least indifference at a large scale."

"What if and I know that is probably not what you three were thinking of and is probably too boring to meet the twins' standards but what if we just held a silent and anonymous survey."

Sirius raises an eyebrow. "That does have some merit but how would pull it off and we would have to disguise it as something else we couldn't just say we need to know where you stand."

"Well, you do have a point. Maybe we should come back to that when you have a more exciting idea."

Regulus and Sirius just roll their eyes. "Okay then, we need to find out who hurt Harry and why."

"Now this one is definitely going to have be done quietly and carefully. No one can know what we are doing incase it gets back to the person or person's responsible."

The other three nod their heads in agreement.

"So how can we accomplish this?"

"Well, we do have the map of the castle."

"We also have a couple of inventions that can record conversations that can be triggered by certain words or phrases."

"That could be helpful, but we would definitely need something else so because we can't be everywhere at once."

This strikes an idea with Regulus. "What if we asked house elves for help? They could be our eyes and ears and they can go unnoticed because no one would ever think to look for them?"

Sirius smiles big. "That is absolutely genius! See I told you boys two Blacks were better than one!"

The twins grin like Cheshire cats. "Awesome! Plan discovering enemies and allies is a go!"

Sirius laughs. "Okay boys we can go with that. Now for the last part I think Bill already gave us a good starting point of we could already technically kick Umbridge out since we have all the heirs and all four of them want her out. But Harry wants to gather evidence first so no one can overrule them."

"You boys would be best for that since you are both here everyday and a lot of the students know you both, do you have any ideas for this?"

Fred and George give them a look that has both of them thanking whatever god is out there that they are not on the receiving end of the twins' ideas.

The End