hey guys, it's time to start off chap 15! The wait to see what Remus is going to do is over.

Disclaimer: no matter how much I want to own Harry Potter sadly I don't

Sirius knew very well that there happened to be two sides to Remus. There was the real Remus who always was calm and wanted to help. But that Remus had also been bitten by a werewolf when he was only the tender age of five, and that side of him wasn't so calm.

Later in his life the wolf Remus had gotten a pack when his human friends became animaguses. And only a year out of school that same a pack had been given the gift of a cub, none other than Harry. The human Remus was overjoyed that his best friend had a son. But the wolf part of him saw Harry as his cub. His son, and wolfs were very protective of what was theirs.

" So what should we do about this?" Sirius asked with worry in his voice.

He had just finished spilling out his story to Remus and now It seemed like the world stopped altogether for the two last marauders.

" Sirius we should…. We can… I'll," it seemed that Remus had no idea what to say.

Remus had always been the one to know what to do or what to say. So to see his best friend at a loss of words was frightening to Sirius to say the least.

When nothing came to mind he gave a shaky sigh and slowly lowered himself on to his bed.

" Padfoot we need James and Lily…."

" I know." Sirius replied with sadness in his voice.

The truth was Sirius was waiting for the moment when Remus lost it and he would have to hold him back. He could see the wolf and Remus fighting for control in Remus's eyes. And he knew that it was only an amount of time before the news finally settled in and the werewolf would become protective of what was his.

And it would seem that that moment was here. Because Remus finally hung his head down and then got up and with one swift movement his arm threw the contents of his desk onto the ground. The former defense against the dark arts teacher then landed his palms on the now clear desk and tried to settle himself down.

It was then that Sirius began to think that telling his friend this so close to a full moon wasn't the smartest thing that he ever did. He should have known from past experiences that this time of month always made Remus more irritable than he usually was. After all the full moon was only a week away from that night.

Sirius saw it as his time to intervene but as he got up and went to put a hand on Remus's shoulder a knock on the door was heard.

As soon as It was heard Remus's head shot up and he shook his head at Sirius to tell him not to bring up anything about what they were just talking about.

Briskly the ex-convict walked over to the door, while Remus bent over to the ground and tried to clean up what he had tossed to floor.

Sirius took a deep breath before opening the door to a very sleepy looking Harry Potter.

" Hey Har what are you doing up at a time like this?" Sirius took a look at the clock that clearly read 2 am.

Harry's brow frowned as he answered, " A crash woke me up and I came to see if everything was alright." he finished his sentence with a yawn.

" oh that! That was nothing just old Remus falling out of bed." the dog animagus said as casually as he could while leaning up against the door frame.

The boy who lived gave him a curious look but decided to leave it be. " ok well then I'll see you in the morning." and with that he began his walk down the hall after his godfather said goodnight to him again.

Sirius shut the door as quietly as he could. Once it was fully shut he slowly lowered himself down to the floor and rested his back up against it.

The two then waited for what seemed like forever in what was a disturbing silence for them. None of them knew how to approach something so heartbreaking as what they had just found out about their Harry. Each of them was regretting not being there in the past from being so wrapped up in grief of their friends being gone forever.

Remus wished that he could have fought harder to change the rule of werewolves not being allowed to adopt or take care of children. Then he could have taken in Harry and stopped any of this from every happening. He then also would have spared himself the heartbreak of being alone in the world for thirteen years before he meant Harry and found out that Sirius was innocent.

Sirius the ex-convict was very upset with himself about giving Harry over to Hagrid that day he found his friends dead. He began to think that he should have never sought revenge over Peter and should have focused on raising baby Harry.

Their silence was broken when Sirius decided to bring something up. " Do you think that he told anyone?" he asked. Not even looking up to face the werewolf as he did.

" What?"

" I mean would he have said something to some one? His friend….maybe an Professor …a muggle…. I don't know just….. someone." His voice went into a whisper as he finished talking. There was a tint of desperation in his voice that even Remus had never heard before. Well at least not since Prongs and Lily flower were found dead at their home.

" This is Harry we're talking about Sirius. He never wants anyone to pity him or worry, I'm sure that we're the first ones to find out about this."

" And I'm sure that he's probably been hiding those damn bruises from everyone for years." Sirius said with venom in his voice.

That was something that Harry's former professor couldn't argue with at all. He had found out in only a few class with Harry that the boy preferred to keep to himself. But if he knew one thing it was that Harry did tend to open up to his close friends, Ron and Hermione, more than anyone else.

" Ron and Hermione might know something." Sirius said as if he was reading Remus's mind.

" Or Harry could have kept this secret to them too." Remus replied while pointing a finger at his friend to get his point across.

Sirius's head shot up so fast Remus swore that he almost gave himself whiplash. He could tell that another great idea like the party was coming on.

" What is it this time?" the old dada teacher asked when he sat back down onto his bed.

"Do you think we could ask them if they've seen anything or have been told something by Harry? Knowing more about it would help a lot when we talk to Harry about this and I don't really feel like ruining his privacy again."

" And what happens if they haven't Padfoot? We blow Harry's secret and make him not trust us anymore." Moony asked in a monotone.

" well…" Sirius started nervously.

"Either that or they tell Molly or Arthur what we've been asking and we both know that you don't want word of this to get to Molly before we figure this out."

Sirius let out a nervous laugh at that statement, " Bloody woman would probably put all this on my shoulders, saying that I'm not fit to raise Har and tell the you that she should have custody of him."

"Now Sirius you know that she only means well and has Harry in mind." Remus gently scolded his friend. He was in no mood to get into a fight with his best friend that night. But then again he was also in no mood to hear another one of Sirius's rants on Molly Weasley.

" So what do we do now?" Sirius asked clearly wanting to avoid a fight as much as Remus did.

" I guess Ron is worth a try, but Hermione will have to wait until later she went all the way home to muggle London just yesterday."

Both Sirius and Remus woke that next morning after one of the worst nights of sleep they'd had in a while. That was saying something seeing that Sirius used to sleep in a cell in Azkaban for years . And Remus had had many nights after a transformations were he ached all over and had many new cuts from where he couldn't remember getting.

Breakfast that morning went as it usually did. Both Remus and Sirius were trying hard not to act out of the normal. Harry didn't seem to notice anything though which was a relief to the both of them.

They were also very happy that Harry had chose that morning to sleep in. It gave Sirius time to use the fireplace to call Ron's twin brothers and ask that after a little while of them being there that they distract Harry and give them enough time to talk to Ron in private.

The twins seemed so happy to be told to do something bad that would draw attention to themselves that they didn't even ask why Remus and Sirius would want to talk to Ron.

" Hey Harry…" Sirius called after they had all finished breakfast together.

" Yeah." he replied while getting up to wash his plate. Both Remus and Sirius followed him into the kitchen with their plates as well.

" What would you say to going over to the Burrow and seeing the Weasleys?"

Harry's face lit up like fireworks at the mentioning of seeing Ron. " That would be brilliant!"

It was a good thing that he chose that moment to turn around and began to wash his plate because if he didn't than he would have seen the worried glance that the werewolf and his godfather shared.

It didn't take them that long to finish up the dishes and grab their brooms and start out to the Weasleys.

Now Remus wasn't much of a flier at all, in fact he tended to avoid it when ever necessary. But Harry was an amazing flier himself, being on the quidittch teem and all and Sirius enjoyed the chance to fly when ever he could. So for the two of them Remus learned to deal with using a broom to fly over to Harry's best mates house.

The flight wasn't that long though. After all Sirius and Remus had chosen the house they all lived in now because it was close to the ginger haired family. So the former dada teacher didn't have to suffer for that long.

He almost laughed when he thought about Sirius describing how Harry and Hermione broke him out of his cell at Hogwarts in their third year. Sirius had told him with laughter in his eyes about how Hermione kept screaming that she didn't like flying. In truth he thought he was close to doing exactly what Hermione did then.

Molly was walking out of the house at the time and gave a surprised gasp as they all landed in her front yard. It was then that Sirius remembered that he had forgot to tell Molly and Arthur that they were coming.

" Oh boys what a pleasant surprise!" she cooed once she realized who they were. After they had only taken about three steps down the yard she came running. As she reached them she gave all of them a welcome hug. Holding on to Harry longer than any one else and to Sirius's surprise she even hugged him.

" Come on in we still have breakfast out" she declared as she put her hands on her hips and then turned to walk inside her house with them all following behind her.

Harry could guess that she only mentioned breakfast because she wanted him to gain more weight. Making Harry eat more than he usually did seemed to a hobby for the mother of seven.

As soon as they entered the Burrow they caught the attention of everyone in the kitchen and dinning room.

Sirius wanted to laugh as Ginny blushed as soon as she saw his godson enter, a blush that he also noted that Harry returned. So it was Ginny and the Chinese girl…hmm he could have fun with that.

Molly broke him from his thoughts as she told Harry to go ahead and head on upstairs, that he would find Ron in his room.

When Harry went upstairs to find his best friend Remus and Sirius contented themselves with staying down and going into the living room to enjoy a conversation with everyone still downstairs. Even Bill and Charlie were there due to the fact that it was summer time.

They had been downstairs for about forty minutes before the twins, Harry, and Ron came downstairs to join them. They all talked for about fifteen minutes before Sirius shot Fred and George a look to tell them to get on with it.

That only took them three minutes as they went into the kitchen together. And soon enough the kitchen was filled with smoke and a terrible smell went through the kitchen, dining room, and living room. Molly and Arthur lead everyone but Remus, Sirius, and Ron outside.

As soon as they all started coughing and beginning to leave Remus announced that the smell was too bad for the three of them to get through the kitchen and they would lead Ron up the stairs Arthur agreed whole heartily.

Once in Ron's room Sirius shut them inside. He guessed that they had about ten minutes to get this over with before it all wore off and everyone started to come back in. He had heard from Harry that the twins had set off a stink bomb like that in their charms class and that was how long the class had to wait before they went back in.

" What's all this about?" Ron asked with a confused look on his face. Something about the way his old teacher and mates godfather were acting had him worried.

" Ron we have something to ask you about Harry…." Remus started off. It seemed that he didn't know how to finish.

"What do you mean?"

Sirius though was having enough of all this waiting, he wanted to get right to the point. " Did Harry ever say anything to you about being mistreated by the Durselys?"

Ron's face suddenly darkened at the mention of Harry's relatives. Which caused both of the former marauders to worry.

" He doesn't really talk about them a lot, but I first meant them in our first year when they came to get him from Kings cross."

" And what did they act like?" Remus asked he was eager to keep his old student going.

Ron continued with a shake of his head, " They seemed like horrible people practically drug Harry into their car."

He paused when a growl started to come to Sirius's throat. But Remus told him to continue on as he put a hand on his friends shoulder to warn him to calm down.

" Harry's told me that they hate magic so I can only guess that they weren't to fond of him, back in second year I had to go and rescue him because they had barred his windows an locked him in his room. They practically starved him!" He finished with a yell to prove how anger he was getting.

"Anything else?" Sirius asked with anxiety in his voice. He didn't know that they had locked him up and now he was on the edge of his seat to find out as much as he could.

" They had his school things locked in this cupboard under the stairs."

Sirius almost stopped him and said that it was better than having Harry locked up in the cupboard under the stairs. But he decided against it, what Ron was saying was much more crucial.

" Then his uncle came running into the room and started yelling "He's escaping!" over and over again, he even grabbed onto Harry's leg and tried to pull him back in. Though Fred hit the gas and we ended up tossing him out of the bloody window."

Both Remus and Sirius allowed themselves to laugh at that comment.. Now Harry and Ron definitely seemed to be Marauder material.

"Harry's mentioned a few times that they call him freak and things like that but that's all really." Ron finished with a smaller voice.

Some how Remus knew that there was something else on the young boys mind.

" Are you completely sure that that's all?" He tried to be as gentle as he could. He had never seen Ron this shaken.

" Well you know how Harry used to come to my house in the last few weeks of summer…?" He trailed off and waited for an answer.

At Both of the other men's nods he continued on with his tale, " I might have saw something that I'm sure Harry didn't want me to see, cause he covered it up as soon as he noticed I saw it."

" What was it Ron?" Sirius asked knowing that they were finally getting somewhere.

Slowly Ron lowered his eyes to his lap and began fiddling with his hands. His voice dropped to a whisper that Sirius and Remus had to strain their ears to hear what he said next.

" There were cuts and bruises on his stomach when his shirt lifted a little bit."