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Chapter Forty-six;

[March 26th, 1999]

"Remus, I can't see" Sirius complained for the hundredth time after leaving Remus' chambers, blindfolded and being guided by Remus. The month had passed in a blur, all the arrangements had been made, and tomorrow Sirius would be a bonded man and then heading off to wherever Albus was sending them for their /honeymoon/. Remus had been joking about throwing him a bachelor party – and that is what Sirius took it as, a joke – and now here he was being led to Merlin knows where.

"Stop complaining or by Merlin I will toss you in a ditch" Remus responded, Sirius could hear him rolling his eyes.

"Well, I want to know where the hell I'm going!" Sirius bellowed, clenching his fists.

"Yeah, yeah. We're here, so shut up. Step up that step – yes, now one more step, - okay. We're here" Remus said as he pushed a door open and shoved Sirius through, they then walked a few more steps and into another room before the blindfold was taking off.

Sirius looked around the room he was in – obviously it was in the Hogs' Head, though everyone had cleaned the room up a bit – he shook his head and said hello to everyone which included: Remus of course, Harry, Ron, Fred and George, Arthur, Filius, Searle, Hagrid, Albus, Fletcher much to the dislike of Sirius, Moody, and finally Aberforth; and then took a seat next to a table with goblets on it. He lifted a goblet to his lips and drink down the firewhiskey, grinning when Harry, and Remus took the seats around him.

"So, tomorrow" Harry said, smiling.

Sirius nodded. "Yep."

Remus chuckled. "You know – I can almost /hear/ James rolling…"

"I don't know about that, Moony" Harry said.

Sirius looked over at Harry. "You don't, eh?"

"No. I mean – from what I heard, after school my Dad was more tolerable of Snape, right? So… I don't know, I think he'd accept it just because you were his friend." Harry explained.

Remus and Sirius shared a look and then a shrug. "Yeah, possibly" Remus said, nodding his head.

"Now – shouldn't bachelor parties have like strippers?" Harry asked in an innocent tone.

"Did I ever tell you you're just like James?" Sirius asked, nudging his side.

Harry grinned. "You might've mentioned it. I should go hang out with Ron, see you guys" he said as he pushed out of his seat and walked over to where Ron was standing with his Dad.

"You know he's growing up way to fast…" Sirius said as he downed the rest of his goblet of firewhiskey.

"Nah, we just missed more than half his life" Remus said in a sad tone.

"Well… 'least we're here now, yeah?"

"True."

"So, how's Teddy and Tonks?"

"They're fine, Teddy's walking now, you know."

"Is he?"

"Yeah. So, did you and Severus ever speak about children?"

"We did, he said he'd consider it."

"Consider it?"

"That's pretty much the closest I'm going to ever get to a yes, I think" Sirius said, smirking.

Remus nodded his head. "Glad to hear, well not really, I'm not looking forward to a Sirius Jr running around causing mischief."

"And think about the trouble he'll get Teddy into."

"We'll be in Albus's office on a daily basis when they're in school." Remus said, rolling his eyes.

"'Eh, it'll bring back memories to see our look-a-likes sitting in those two chairs, defending themselves"

"That it will… though I hope Teddy really is like me and is only in the office to get your child out of trouble for the mischief, and not like Tonks – where he would be sitting there just as guilty." Remus explained, curling his lips into a smile.

"Meh, I'll toast to that" Sirius said as he grabbed another goblet and clanked them together and then handed it to Remus so they could drink at the same time.

The 'party' was kind of a boring event, mostly just everyone standing around talking, asking questions about Sirius and Severus' relationship, and getting drunk. Sirius sat to the side of the party, thinking to himself. Searle decided he needed some company and strolled over. "Knut for your thoughts, Black?" Searle asked as he took a seat and sipped at his firewhiskey.

Sirius gave him a glare. "My thoughts are worth much more than a knut, I assure you."

"Ah."

"Right…" Sirius said, letting the conversation fall into an awkward silence, only breaking a few minutes later when curiosity got the best of Sirius. "Why are you even here? You hate me."

Searle gave a shrug of his shoulders. "I got invited, I think every man on staff did, plus I don't hate you, persay."

"Really."

"Hm. Indeed, not that I like you, we're just… ah, acquaintances, I guess."

"Nice to know, Searle."

"So, what's Severus doing tonight?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean you're having this party, isn't he having a party? It seems… unfair that you get a party and he doesn't, doesn't it?" Searle asked, slurring his words a bit.

"A bit… wait… Remus!" he called out, catching the attention of Remus who looked at him with a quirked eyebrow. "Oi, what's Severus doing?"

Remus walked over and got a grin on his face. "Not sure. Molly, Tonks, and Minerva informed me they had something planned for him."

"They… I feel bad for him." Sirius said, biting the inside of his cheek to not let out a laugh.

"I think we all do, oh, you're also bunking with me tonight, mate. You're on the couch." Remus said a she took a seat.

"What? Why?" Sirius asked, glaring at Remus.

"Because you can't see Severus 24 hours prior to the ceremony, of course, it's tradition."

"Sod tradition."

"You're just saying that because you haven't had sex in almost a month."

"Hmmmph" Sirius grunted as he finished off his fourth or fifth – he had lost count – glass of firewhiskey.

After the party, Remus and Sirius stumbled to Remus' chambers with the help of a very sober Ron and Harry and both collapsed on the floor as Harry and Ron got tired of guiding them. Sirius groaned and crawled towards the couch, deciding in a drunken haze that it was much too far away and instead sprawled out on the rug, his leg somehow resting on a chair and his body in an awkward position. Remus – the moment he had collapsed on the floor, sprawled on his stomach, had fell asleep instantly, the seven glasses of firewhiskey not helping his cause.

The next morning Arthur and Kingsley pushed Remus' door open, trying their best not to laugh at how both were sleeping. Arthur helped Remus up and Kingsley helped Sirius, telling them they were to apparate in exactly an hour to the destination of the ceremony – and then afterwards Kingsley would leave to help prepare the reception – as at a bonding, normally only immediate family and the bonder was supposed to be present – as witnesses and the bonder needing to be a powerful wizard; which is why Albus had agreed to do it.

It took Sirius a mere 20 minutes to wake up, and he thanked Merlin Severus had sent two hangover potions – as if he knew they would both get drunk. They put on the robes that Kingsley had brought them, and the whole time – after Sirius' shower, and after he had gotten dressed - Kingsley and Arthur kept giving Sirius weird looks. Sirius finally fed up with it, paused at the door before leaving. "Okay. What am I missing?"

Finally Remus patted his shoulder. "We were… very drunk…"

This made Sirius even more confused. "Yes, we were. Now what?"

Kingsley stayed silent, and Arthur held both his hands up. "See… well, Sirius…" he paused and gestured to his face.

Sirius quirked his eyebrow and lifted his hand to touch his own face, his eyes widening. "My… my mustache and beard!"

"Yes… you were dared to completely shave your face." Kingsley commented, frowning.

"And…" Arthur paused.

Sirius tried to put together what else happened and then he remembered – didn't he have long hair? – He leaned his hand up and ran a hair through his now very short hair. His eye twitched a bit. "I cut…"

"Yes, Stanle-" Kingsley began.

"Searle did this!" Sirius bellowed, clenching his fists.

"Not technically, actually Harry dared you" Arthur said, frowning.

"Harr- I'm going to kill him!" Sirius said, glaring at no one in particular.

"It actually doesn't look so bad" Remus commented, leaning over to look at Sirius.

"Really…?" Sirius said, frowning. "I haven't had short hair since I was six…"

"It looks very good, actually. Suits you, really." Kingsley said, nodding his head.

Sirius sighed and ran a hand down his face. "Well… hopefully Severus will like it. Shall we get going?" He asked.

Everyone nodded and they turned to leave Remus' chambers, traveling out towards Hogsmeade and apparated to a clearing near a very large tower – which reminded Sirius of the astronomy tower – Kingsley said his good-bye and Arthur was to stay with his wife to represent the minimum of two witnesses' on Severus' side, whilst Harry and Remus stood on Sirius' side – as Sirius and Severus didn't have any intermediate family, or they did – neither just got on with their family.

Sirius sighed and followed behind Remus and Arthur as they walked to the other side of the astronomy tower, finally coming to a tome on a pedestal. Sirius walked over to the tome, examining it with a quirked eyebrow. "It's for Albus to read, you stand here" Arthur informed him, pushing him in front of the tome on the right side. He then stepped to the left side and stood, whilst Remus stood where Arthur stood but on the opposite side. "Harry and Molly, as well as Albus and Severus are inside the tower, they should be out in a minute." Arthur said, giving them both a smile. Remus grinned and patted Sirius on the shoulder, nodding his head.

Just as Albus walked out of the tower – wearing a pure navy blue colored robe – Sirius didn't think he had ever seen Albus wearing a normal type of robe. Sirius took a look at his own robe and grinned when it was Scarlet with a silver outline. He looked up once again and saw Molly shuffle down to stand next to Arthur, and Harry shortly behind her, Sirius gave him a playful glare and Harry grinned widely.

He ran a head through his short hair once again, now kind of getting used to it, and he didn't even notice Severus walking over to stand beside him until he was in front of him, Severus' eyes were locked on his very short hair and his jaw was slightly dropped. "What… did you do?" He asked, raising his eyebrow.

"Blame my godson" Sirius muttered, smiling.

"Ahem, shall we get started?" Albus asked them as he looked over his glasses at them, his lips curled into a smirk.

They both nodded, Severus' eyes still glued to Sirius' hair. Sirius took a deep breath and took hold of Severus' hands, smiling. Severus looked down at their hands and turned a light shade of pink before hiding behind his hair, and staying that way until Albus found the page in the tome which contained what he needed to recite to bond them.