Please note that the world of Harry Potter belongs to Rowling, therefore I take no credit in it or the characters I use for this fanfic.
And the Luck-thing was originally not my idea, it was a friend of mine who came up with it, but I decided it was too good to be forgotten.
A few days later Sirius and Remus were eating dinner, roasted turkey with gingerfries, something Remus had found in a muggle cookbook in their kitchen, when suddenly a wide grin spread on Sirius' face and his eyes lit up with an internal flame. Remus knew that face meant trouble.
"What is it this time? Do you want to blow up any more toilets?" Remus asked.
Sirius chuckled and his eyes grew even more eager, "Remus dear, I don't think I've ever introduced you to my mother, have I? How very rude of me."
Remus looked puzzled, "No you haven't, she's dead, you couldn't possibly," then Remus froze with a bite of turkey halfway to his mouth as realization hit him. "Oh no! Not that! Don't you dare! I will not.. I refuse to.. I will not speak to that awful portrait of your mother!"
"Remus love, now you're the one being rude. I insist you meet my mother this very instance," and to those words Sirius drew his wand an put a levitation spell on Remus, making him levitate out of the room and towards the hallways, while he was trying to order Sirius to put him down without any luck.
As they stood in front of the painting, Remus knew there was no point in trying to escape, since Sirius was so determined about this idea. But the very second before Sirius fingers grasped around the curtain hanging over the painting, he looked a little doubtful. But that second was soon over, and the curtain was soon withdrawn.
As soon as the curtain fell, Walburga Black started screaming, "YOU'RE A STAIN OF DISHONOUR TO THIS FAMILY, YOU FILTHY BLOOD TRAITOR. AND HOW DARE YOU BRING THAT WEREWOLF INTO MY HOUSE"
Sirius made a small bow before he spoke, "Hello mother, nice to see you too. And need I remind you that this is my house now, which in fact, there already was a werewolf in before Remus arrived? Remember Frederick, mother? I'm sure you do, you used to admire his painting all day long while you were still alive," Sirius smirked a little at that.
"Frederick was an acceptable man who just happened to have had some bad luck in his life. He, on the other hand," Walburga threw a poisonous look at Remus, and Remus was glad looks couldn't kill, even if it very much felt like it.
Sirius seemed to puff up his chest at his mother's words, ready to defend his lover, "Remus is the most respectable man on this earth, he is smarter than any average Ravenclaw and he is certainly braver than you ever were, he would have had the guts to stand up to my father," Walburga tried to poision Sirius with her gaze at those words.
"Don't you dare drag your father into this!"
"Remus is also very beautiful and has the most wonderful eyes I've ever seen. He is my soulmate. Mother, I'm homosexual and in a relationship with Remus," Walburga went completely pale at Sirius' last words.
"YOU ARE NOT MY SON ANYMORE!" and then she disappeared out of her frame.
"Merlin.. Remus.. I don't think I have a last name anymore.. No, scratch that, I know I don't have a last name anymore.. Merlin's beard!" and then Sirius ran up the stairs and locked himself into one of the 13 bathrooms in the house.
Remus was left alone in the hall, very confused and very shocked.
After about an hours, Remus had finally convinced Sirius to come out of the bathroom. He knew the experience had upset Sirius deeply, because nothing else could have gotten the Great Sirius no-longer-Black to hide away in a bathroom, and if he looked closely, he could even see traces of tears on Sirius' face.
Remus had carried Sirius up to their bed, supernatural strength was one of the better sides of being a werewolf, and placed Sirius carefully on the bed, placed a soft kiss onto Sirius' lips and sat down beside him, gently stroking his thumb over the back of Sirius' hand.
"I love you, I hope you do understand that I sacrificed my last name for you," Sirius finally said after a long silence.
"I'm still a bit confused, what do you mean 'your last name is gone'?"
"I mean that I'm not Sirius Black anymore, I'm just Sirius.. It's hard to explain," Sirius sighed.
"Oh, okay.. I always thought you hated your name, but you know.. I guess I'd feel upset and lost too if I suddenly lost my name.."
Sirius knew that Remus really meant what he said, that he truly understood, and he couldn't be any more thankful for that.
Several hours later Sirius was still lying on his back on the bed, staring up at the ceiling as if all his answers were there to find. Remus was curled up beside him with one leg wrapped around Sirius' thigh. Remus wasn't really sleeping, more like slumbering, and Sirius didn't actually want to wake him from his daze, but he felt he had to talk about it.
"I guess I need a new name now," he said and felt guilty when Remus snapped awake.
"Yes, you do need one, don't you. You can't be nameless," Remus mumbled, clearly reluctant to the quick awakening, "How about Luck?"
"What? Luck? I don't have any luck in anything, if that's what you mean.." Sirius looked quite confused at his boyfriend's babble.
Remus smiled a little at Sirius confusion and kissed him on his bottom lip before he explained. "I mean Luck as in the name Luck. You know, your old name and my name combined.. Lupin and Black, Luck," Remus suddenly blushed a little at the proposal.
Sirius sat up then and dragged Remus into his lap, where he held him tightly as he dipped his head into the dip between Remus' neck and shoulder. He breathed in the scent of Remus, the scent which smelled a little of dusty old books, but in a good way.
"Thankyou, that would be wonderful," he whispered into Remus' ear, right before he started nibbling at it, making Remus squirm in his lap.
Remus had noticed that Sirius had been staring up into the bedroom ceiling quite often lately, and that gave him an idea. He was going to replace the plain, boring white with something much more interesting. That's why he went to the library and prepared himself for dealing with the house.
Sirius had tried to tell the house a couple of times that Remus was it's master too, but just like Sirius, the house seemed to have a mind of it's own. That meant that sometimes Remus got what he wanted, and sometimes he got a bucket of water poured over his head, or his teapot filled with toads. Yes, the house behaved indeed very much like Sirius, at least they seemed to share the same love for mischief. "Like Sirius' pranks aren't enough," Remus muttered as he once again found the library door leading to the other end of the corridor rather than to the library.
"I, Remus Lupin, part owner of this house, commands you to let me into the library at once", and at those words a hole in the wooden floor beneath Remus' feet appeared, and he fell right through it, and landed in.. The library. "Ugh, well at least I got in," Remus shrugged as he checked his body for broken bones. When there seemed to be none, he spoke to the house again, "I now order you to get me a book about more complicated, non-evil spells that have anything with ceilings to do," and this time a very thick old book landed right on Remus head. "Would you please stop doing that? You are by far the worst house I've ever visited!" Remus grunted as he decided it would be safer to check the book back in the bedroom.
Remus had struggled with the spell for quite a while when he heard Sirius calling his name.
He quickly ran out of the bedroom and down the hall to the grand staircase, the one that was made of marble. "Yes?" he shouted down the stairs.
"Remus? Remus where have you been? I've been looking all over for you!" Sirius shouted back.
"Oh, I've been in the library, you know, reading.. Like I always do.." Remus shouted as he began walking down the stairs towards the sound of Sirius' voice.
"No you haven't, that was the first place I checked!" Sirius now sounded slightly frustrated.
"That's because I was curled up under a table and was too caught up in the book to want to be distracted," Remus was pretty good at coming up with lies quickly.
"Well what book were you reading?" Remus had now reached the source of Sirius' voice, which appeared to be on the eight floor platform, from which a hallway lead to the guestsuites, and he found Sirius staring at him with one eyebrow raised, daring him to slip with his lies.
And Remus knew that Sirius knew that he was lying, he just didn't want to give it up. And as long as Sirius was going to be surprised in the end, it was all worth a little lying.
"Vampirefeuds throught the ages by Magentha Roockborn," Remus managed to keep his voice flat, as if it was crystal clear that he had been reading that exact book. It was a good thing Remus knew practically every book in that library.
"Since when are you interested in vampires?" Sirius' eyebrow was now even more raised in a questioning expression.
"Since now," Remus said and kissed Sirius, and almost drowned in the smell of Sirius' perfume at the same time. "Now did you want anything, or can I go back to my reading please?" Remus managed not to gurgle, even though his knees felt worryingly wobbly.
"Oh, I just wanted to tell you that I'll be using your idea. And I'm now officially Sirius Luck," Sirius questioning face turned into a wide grin at the sentence.
"Congratulations dear, maybe I should change too?" Remus kissed Sirius again, a little deeper this time, sliding his tongue in to really deepen the kiss.
"I'd be really happy if you did" Sirius murmurred into Remus' mouth.
That night when they went to bed Remus stayed behind in the bathroom a while after Sirius had left, and was happy to hear a surprised gasp from the bedroom. He peeked his head out of the bathroom door and saw Sirius sitting on the bed, gazing up into the starry sky above him.
"Do you like it?" Remus smiled with his toothbrush sticking out to one side of his mouth.
"Like it? I love it.. How did you do this? Isn't this the.." Sirius started, before Remus broke him off.
".. enchantment used in the Great Hall at Hogwarts, yes it is," Remus looked extremely proud as he said this.
"But isn't that like bloody hard to do? I heard it took them years to figure it out at Hogwarts.."
"Well yes, but then again, I'm no ordinary Gryffindor, am I?" Remus raised an eyebrow and Sirius looked very proud of his boyfriend. Then Remus went to put his toothbrush back into it's place in the bathroom before he joined Sirius under the almost fullmoon over the bed.
Remus woke up in the middle of the night because the bed felt strangely wet, and when he thought about it there was something wet pouring over his head too. Shortly after Remus had awoken, Sirius woke with a loud scream.
"Remus, bloody hell! What is this? Why didn't you tell me I'd need an umbrella to get some sleep without being soked?" Sirius asked groggily.
Remus was horrified to notice that it was raining outside, and in fact, inside their bedroom too.
"Oh Merlin, I'm sorry Sirius.. I knew it was too good to be true, I knew there had to be something wrong with the spell.. I suggest we move to one of the guestrooms and clean this up tomorrow?"
"Ugh, sure, whatever gives me the right to sleep.." Sirius grunted.
And so they did.
Before Sirius awoke in the morning, Remus went back to their bedroom to dry up the big puddles of water in their bedroom, and then he started trixing with the enchanted ceiling.
After half an hour of trying, he figured out the problem and fixed it, whereupon he strolled down the stairs to wake Sirius up.
As he crawled into the bed in an emerald green guestsuite, he lightly shook Sirius' shoulder to wake him up. When Sirius woke up he saw Remus' eager face hovering a couple of inches above his, and Remus pecked a quick kiss on Sirius' mouth before he started explaining.
"It was the ceiling height that was the problem! The ceiling in the Great Hall is much higher than in the bedroom, and the enchantment was designed so that the rain would stop halfway down from the ceiling of the Great Hall, resulting in the fact that our whole bedroom got flooded. So I just had to adjust the measurements and now it should be fine," he explained really quickly.
"Uh, Rem dear, we haven't had tea yet and you've already gone about changing measurements? You're mental sometimes, do you know that? But in a good way, of course." the fire in Sirius' eyes was lit again as both he and Remus chuckled a little.