Summary: In which the magical people try to get into shape, Sirius goes shopping, Hogwarts and the Dark Lord Tom is discussed and two little ghosts go onto their next part of their journey. Also things are hinted at. Hopefully not badly. Not exactly in that order.

Chapter 14

Yelena wasn't surprised when she opened her eyes to an empty room as it was nearing 6 a.m. Natasha was always an early riser as was Jamie if he had a good night sleep. Unlike herself who liked to sleep in when she could. But her body had been on a schedule to wake early for quite some time and it was rare of Yelena or Nat and Jamie to completely sleep the day in. It was hardwired through their old upbringing.

Yelena rolled out of bed, did her morning routine, grabbed a water bottle from the locker room and headed to the indoor running track that she had been using ever since she came here. She braided her hair back as she went.

She had informed Petunia, Sirius and Remus at breakfast the morning after Jamie and Nat went into their magical comas that they needed to get into better shape. It was strongly implied that they were to join her the next morning which was met with various results.

Petunia was wary at first. but since she wanted to do what Nat did, she joined in. Sirius boasted that he was in fine shape and Remus had been coated into a evening run before so he was ok with it. Yelena laughed at Sirius's empty boast when she and Remus with a surprising Petunia left him in the dust in a easy walk/jog around the track a few times. Yelena was glared at but she recognized that competitiveness gleam in Sirius's eyes and he came ever since.

Yelena let Petunia and the others wake on their own that morning to see what would happen, but was pleased to see her with a yawning Remus and Sirius who looked like he was in need of caffeine. She lead them in warm-ups stretches.

The Starks never came to the morning run as Pepper explained that her Tony and possible Howard usually ran on caffeine, building stuff and genius ideas. Pepper used to run with Yelena but as she started to dive into the working of the new Stark Corp or A.I. company most of her time was spent in the office and herding her cats, aka Tony and her new father-in-law Howard to a decent for them bedtime, which to her relief K.G. had well at hand. She was taking notes for future generations. She somehow got the Starks to do a evening run or at least some sort of exercise as both Tony and Howard were in good shape as it was.

Jamie and Nat were already on the track and by the look of them had been for quite some time. Both running in an easy manner as Yelena set the pace for her group. After making sure that they could cope on their own, sped up to where Nat was for some long overdue sister bonding and information exchange.

Remus was feeling the effects of the full moon coming so he could keep up with the running trio, but out of the spirit of companionship, he lagged behind with Petunia and Sirius. Much to the three former spies/assassins annoyance were to them, at least, slower then a snail's pace. But they had to start somewhere. Their runner's stitch was brutal the first few days even with the warm ups and cool downs, but were getting better.

Remus's hearing was getting sharper. He smiled wryly to himself, he could hear them but as they talked he could only understand one word in ten. He clearly needed to start studying languages. He only knew a few French words by way of Sirius.

Speaking of such, Remus glanced to the side were Sirius was grimly keeping pace with him eyes locked on Yelena's running figure. Petunia was ahead of the men. "Out with it Sirius, I recognized that look." The 'I think I might have a crush but I'm not going to do anything about it look since the person in question is scary'.

Lily Evans was the only one to put that look on Sirius's face, but out of respect of James Potter's bigger crush, Sirius never said anything. Besides her temper was scary. That and he confessed to Remus that even if Lily was a looker her personality was not his cup of tea. So he had great pleasure in tormenting Snape as the male fueled his hatred of his family's dark arts leanings. Helping James was just a bonus.

"Nope." Sirius couldn't say anymore unlike the two very fetching witches well women ahead of him, he need his air to breathe. Gazing at Yelena's backside was an excellent motivation. Her bluntness was a balm to his mind as his family gatherings were usually a playing in a deadly minefield of up one ish. There was a reason why all his family was sorted into Slytherin. He ran faster to get the words of his hopefully soon departed mother out of his head. "You may have been sorted into that lion's house but deep down you'll always be Slytherin's Black, it's in our blood."

Ahead, Nat smiled to herself when she heard Yelena's footsteps disappear behind her in masking her steps to her sister's, as it was a exercise that they had started when they were still in Ohio. They nicknamed it follow or at least a way out of the house without mom, Melina, noticing. They always got better but still got caught.

"I see that you still do follow," Nat commented lightly switching languages mid sentence as Yelena had explained to her in Italian that Remus hearing was nearing their own.

"Saved my life a few times here and there. Speaking of life," Yelena gave Nat the rundown of life in the magical world and how it differed from the muggle world. As well as some of the key differences of history as the normal world didn't have any super soldiers or anything else that they had in their own world. Some things seemed to be miraculous, like their bone growth repair potion, Skele-Gro. That'll been useful in her former life, but other parts Nat found depressingly familiar.

Human beings were the same all over, but in adding magic to the mix. "So these magical humans are stuck-up arrogant superiors?" Nat summed up, a sigh turning into a laugh. A sound that Yelena and Jamie, was running ahead trying to focus on his steps trying not ease-drop on the conversation, hadn't heard in a long time. He was well versed in languages but not as many as a Black Widow, so whatever made Nat laughed like that eased his aching heart.

Yelena grinned as they started to slow down a tad on their run as their running companions seemed to be running out of energy. "Not all of them, but some. Most of the 'pure blood' ilk are like Black's family looks down on anyone who doesn't have 'pure blood'. Sirius is one of the 'white' sheep of his family, but even white sheep sometimes still don't fall far from the tree." Yelena to her sister at least had a tell and Nat noticed it when she mentioned Sirius Black.

"Ok what's up?" Nat said as Yelena had finished cool down exercises for the non-physically fit people who all staggered off to shower before having the breakfast that the house elves fixed. Instead of answering right away, Yelena kept track of her 'students' as they went to the locker rooms.

She motioned 'tonight' to Nat who nodded. Sometimes Yelena needed time to think on things. Nat wondered if it was a crush, but Yelena didn't get physical crushes on people, so what else about Sirius Black was bugging her?

***

Petunia felt good, tired but good, she had wanted to jump in feet first, but Yelena pointed out that she'll break a leg or something and wouldn't be useful to anyone. So much to her annoyance, Petunia started slow, but she had to smirk to herself, at least she had a little more stigmata then the wizards. She laughed herself silly in the shower after the first run.

Clearly magic made you more lazy then ever. Her gardening and cleaning house helped her stay in somewhat shape. Petunia was eager to continue her conversations about magical herbs with Yelena and Remus, but for now she was content to see her Dudley. She also wanted to finish reading One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore that Remus let her borrow.

Remus had helped her transfer her plants to the indoor garden at the compound and the London townhouse.

***

After showering and changing clothes, Sirius staggered off to his room suite that he claimed. Sirius wasn't as shaky as he was when he started but he still wanted to sleep a bit more. Which he did for about five minutes but then got up and showered before fixing his hair back in a ponytail. Reggie smirked at him saying, "Should I notify the Prophet social papers?"

Ironically the Black brothers got along better when Reggie was dead then he was alive. "No. What's made you so relaxed?" Sirius was use to girls fawning over him so to make him work for it, well it was a challenge and he liked a challenge unless he was reading the signs wrong.

Reggie made a face and grudgingly admitted as Sirius would find out sooner or later. "Tony and Pepper have an rather active physical relationship or at least they took advantage of their reunion. Heck even their magic or lack of had synced up. The emotional effects are transferred so to speak, not the physical. Uncle Al tried to explain it, but his use of the muggle science with Howard's help lost me a few sentences in." Reggie sighed. "Breathe Sirius."

Sirius couldn't breath he was laughing so hard. His straight-laced little brother had only gotten laid when he was dead. Or so it seemed.

Reggie left knowing that Sirius would be useless for a while.

***

Now clean, humming a tune, Remus made himself a cup of tea and sat down in the compound dinning room. Remus was tired, but just normal tired, not the aching bones tired he usually got when his moon sharping senses started to appear. He wondered why.

He did wish he had money for the Wolfsbane Potion. He also noted that Yelena had him running the week before the full moon before and it helped some during his transformation. He still felt pain, but it wasn't as painful and he wasn't as restless as he usually was when he was a werewolf.

He nodded politely to Pepper Potts-Stark, as Tony and her's wedding licenses got through, sat her load of physical paper down, got to work and looked forward to the day a decent computer and Stark-pad was made.

***

"Yelena." Nat voiced as Yelena lead the way to breakfast which smelled delicious from the hallway to the dining area after they showered and changed clothes. "I want to see if I can find whoever Thomas, Tom was because if this Lord what's his name is really half-blood, it'll show up right? At least in some regular records."

Yelena nodded as she handed a plate to Nat, loading up her own plate from the buffet style layout.

Nat was referring to paper trails or lack of them concerning the wizarding world. They kept excellent records for pure-blood magicals but the rest was a bit of quite spotty, especially if you were a muggle-born or half-blood.

Nat added some fried spiced cut-up potatoes to her already pancakes with a side of fruit on her plate to go with her slices of bacon and sausage. She mentally sighed with relief that they had coffee and not just tea. She was a black coffee drinker through and through with tea on occasions. Her fluffy drink combos didn't count.

Yelena took a seat next to her sister Nat who was already eating at a decent pace while mentally going through her day. Which had started with her run, followed by a peek into the nursery for Harry. Harry, the traitor got distracted by his Aunt Yelena asking for her morning hug, in which Nat escaped to breakfast after handing her snuggle buddy to the annoying ray of sunshine. Yelena followed a few minutes after her.

The only other people in the dining room were Remus who was nursing a cup of tea, and Pepper who was laser focused on the A.I. business reports. Yelena and Nat knew to leave her alone when she was in this mode.

"When Jamie gets here I want to run through," Yelena nodded as Nat explained her plan or as much as she could with her limited data.

Yelena volunteered to see if the London libraries had any information about a Tom who at age eleven when to a private school. If this Tom was as old as Lily had described him to Yelena a few days ago, then he'll be in his early 50's and he would be born before the second world war.

"Why look in the muggle world for Voldemort origins?" Remus asked coming over to sit across the round table. His hearing was getting good as the full moon came closer and the topic peeked his interest since he was across the dining room.

"Dark Tom as I am now naming him, is a half-blood. I take it Sirius didn't update you on this information?" Nat asked, noting he looked like he was coming down with something as she savored her breakfast. After letting out her emotions and her workout this morning she was feeling more like her regular self. The run with Yelena and eyeing Jamie as he ran past her perked her up.

"The Dark Lord is a half-blood?! How did you figure that?" Remus asked shocked, not noticing Yelena's muttering of 'food for my moon puppy' with the arrival of Jamie as she passed him on the way to the compound kitchen to get a bunch of moon cakes she made last night. The house elves were not happy with her in their domain. But she worn them down days ago. Or so she hoped.

"Because he targeted our half-blood baby," Jamie emphasizing 'half-blood and then full-blood' "Harry and not the full-blood baby Neville Longbottom. That reminds me, we need to set up a watch on the family." Jamie said smoothly as he sat down next to Nat ignoring her slight shuffle away from him.

They had things to discuss later. Much later. Jamie kept his frustrated amusement to himself since he was watching Nat on the run and knew she was watching back. At least only Yelena could pick up on it with her muttered 'get a room' comment as she sprinted past him. He had to snort at that. Like that'll ever happen. The Potters would differ.

Nat with Jamie's input gave their account of what happened when they have arrived in this different England and how they figured out that the Dark Lord was a half blood. Remus almost snorted his tea when Nat described how she took down Wormtail with baby power, as it was lethal to small rodents and caused him to become human or die.

Remus listened to their reasoning for a watch, agreeing with her, volunteering to explain to the Longbottoms why they needed to keep up a watch. Sirius would just annoy Lady Longbottom. Lady Longbottom found Remus a little more tolerably. He noted to owl Lady Longbottom later.

Remus wondered if his dad knew this Tom as he probably went to school with him, not they were in the same year but Remus made another mental note to owl his dad just to check after breakfast.

An few minutes later into a very detailed discussion concerning the Sacred Twenty-Eight Houses and how it became so, since Remus at age eleven why it mattered to Sirius's relatives, realized that they were skillfully and sneakingly tag teaming him for any and all information about the wizarding world customs, day to day living and traditions that might be useful, with Yelena slyly guiding the questions with innocent remarks as she was a Squib and didn't know much about the pure-breed world or so she had led Remus to believe when they first meet.

Sirius joined him adding his suggestions when he came to breakfast on who they thought was a Death Eater as the Daily Prophet only skimmed the suggestions of loyal followers as it was controlled by the Malfoy family as Nat had read the so called 'newspaper' earlier that morning. It was more of a gossip rag then the Witch Weekly magazine.

Yelena had only scratched the surface with Nat during their run. Amelia Bones was having a heck of a time netting any so-called followers since they were a slippery bunch and had good alibis among other things. The Malfoys especially. The Lestrange trio had disappeared.

"I need to go shopping. You mentioned something about dragon leather boots?" Jamie directed the conversation to where he needed it to go. He'll get the load down later.

Sirius not usually one for shopping, lit up and started to explain were you could get different magical items as Yelena put in her two cents. He loved his dragon leather boots.

Sirius fished some magical order catalogs out of nowhere onto the table, adding that the Goblins at Gringotts would be sending wands over from the family vault. Hopefully the displaced travelers would find a match from there if not, he'll call in a wand maker. Or he thought so until a owl showed up with a letter from Gringotts.

Nat was in a heated discussion with Jamie of what kind of dragonskin armor and boots she needed when a ray of sunshine slammed into her side, squealing, "Mommy!"

Nat couldn't help herself, smiling brightly as she hugged Harry tightly, raining kisses on his head which made him squirm and escape to Jamie's arms who tossed him into the air making him scream in delight.

Then onto breakfast as he and Dudley had already gotten dressed for the day, which according to Petunia, was finishing cleaning out what she and Dudley wanted from their old home by way of the house elf express as Dudley called it as they had done for the past few days. It was a bittersweet experience.

Petunia ate her breakfast after she had feed Dudley as Harry was now just eating with Jamie's help. She was still slightly distrusting of the house elves and it was a good bonding experience.

It also gave her a chance to talk to James and Lily as they spent time with their nephew. The past few days gave Lily and Petunia a chance to slowly rebuilt their once strong sisterly bond. James formally, a little over the top formally apologized. James was serious about his apology, so Petunia forgave him for the one and only time he and Lily came to dinner with her and Vernon.

Sirius floated a few more plates towards the table and held two cups of tea. The extra plate was for Remus, Sirius thought he looked thinner then the last time they spend anytime together. "So what were you talking about?"

"Just getting our footing in the magical world since we are still a bit clueless." Nat said biting into her bacon humming in delight. She fell in love with bacon when she was in Ohio during her three year undercover mission with Yelena when she was young.

Speaking of being young, "Yelena tells me that if you're magical, you'll sent off to boarding school and divided into houses. So what's the parent/teacher conferences and Parent's Day like at Hogwarts?"

Nat knew that Hogwarts didn't have that, which to her, if Harry was going there, she'll make them have that. Freaking ridiculous. Jamie signaled his agreement. Boarding schools were the worst, his sister Rebecca was sent off to one when their dad had died and she hated it.

Petunia's bitter voice answered with a wishful tone to it. "They don't have that in their precious Hogwarts. Non-magicals only can go to see Hogwarts when someone graduates. That was the first and only time I got to see where my sister went to school and we didn't even get a tour. The closest I got to see magic was when we dropped off Lily at the train station, Platform Nine and Three-Quarters."

Lily sighed, the magical world was so behind in many ways. "Yes, we need Parent's Day and parent/teacher conferences. It would probably help the non-magical parents be more at ease to sending their child or children off to a year-long boarding school. Being in hiding for almost a year really reshaped our thinking on things. That and Stark tech is almost like magic itself."

"Oh please, Stark Technology, new name finally pending, is magic. After all magic is just advanced technology we hadn't figured out yet." Tony said as he was being dragged along with his dad by K.G.'s magic. He was eyeing the food as his stomach growled in hunger.

Tony, Howard, Pepper and at times Yelena had been working hard on the practical side of things. Tony had the house elves dump everyone's new identities, complete with paper trails in the regular world in their rooms the first day they were there. Well second day as a few tweaks had to be made during the night to the now Mr. and Mrs. Romanova(off)-Barnes family, name still in flux. At least Pepper had some documents and it was easy to add her to the Stark family as well as Yelena who wanted to be under Nat's new name aka Barnes's sister-in-law.

Needless to say they were all now under the protection and power of the Stark family or at least in the regular world. They were still working on the magical side of things. Tony wondered if he'll ever get a chance to dust off the other identities that he and dear old dad had made as soon as they reunited.

Pepper walked behind them with a small smirk as she had got up to go see if she could get them to at least breakfast. It turns out if you order the house elves, even jokingly to 'keep me feed and drag me to food if it's too dangerous to have it in the lab', they would take it seriously.

K.G. was still slightly pink from all the praise that Pepper had heaped on him when she found that out.
The Potter elves were working hard to earn Pepper's praise because she treated them like a good master should.

The house elves after a closed meeting, all privately vowed to keep Mrs. Potts-Stark safe along with all their families. All the house elves were getting use to their new house elf uniforms or as Pepper and Yelena had tag teamed them into wearing 'elf house clothing' which was sturdy work clothes that had their old but very cleaned pillow case threads woven into their 'new outfits' so in way, they never got 'clothes' and still could work for the families.

Sirius and Remus frowned. "What do you mean reshape your thinking?" Sirius said around a mouth of food, making Yelena sigh to herself. Sometimes he was such a child. A very attractive child.

Lily and James had a wordless conversation and then James took the lead as Lily was distracting the boys with trying to fly a spoon, which to her fellow ghosts, was rapidly passing over even Al's abilities for moving things. To their eternal jealously. She wasn't brilliant for nothing.

James took a breath letting it out slowly, even if he couldn't breath, it was a habit. "If we were to sort our new friends where would they go? I would say Gryffindor, Lily thought Ravenclaw for Petunia, Nat and Yelena, the Starks would be clearly Slytherin, but I would put Nat in there as well. Jamie would be a fellow Gryffindor."

Remus realized that he offered information on the magical world that otherwise he wouldn't have thought of. It took courage to just ask on unknown topics. If he didn't know how brave the trio were before, he'll put them all in Slytherin. But he thought they belonged in Gryffindor from their former lives.

Jamie gave a brief laugh in amusement of the Potter's guesses. "From what you all have described to us of the houses, at age eleven I would not be in Gryffindor. I would be in a totally different house while getting my punk of a best friend out of his scrapes. He hated bullies and fought for the good of all. He's a total Gryffindor, but he's also a total Hufflepuff, after all I'll have to defend my fellow housemate. Steve was always a stupid punk. But later in life I was definitively a Gryffindor." He didn't mention that when he was the Winter Soldier he would have been a Slytherin. At times he still would be, but he would be Hufflepuff through and through with a dash of his old Gryffindor.

Nat was also amused but didn't show it. "I can see why you would put me in Slytherin but I would argue I would be a great Ravenclaw. Information was my currency in life. My best friend Clint would be in Hufflepuff as well. But if he was sorted in Hogwarts earlier in life, it might be Slytherin." It totally would have been that house considering Clint's old background before he went legit.

Remus was nodding thoughtfully as Wormtail crossed his mind, he was a hatstall after all. Remus could easily see him in Slytherin. Sirius had dropped his fork in shock. He was beginning to like these people, some more then others. Sirius's mouth twisted in disgust but he hide it quickly. Yelena noticed though and called he out on it.

"You have a problem with people being in multiple houses or just Slytherin? Because with how I was raised, I would be Slytherin, but I think Hufflepuff would have suited me just fine." She had left earlier and came back with a plate of food that smelled delicious to Remus which she put down near him.

Sirius's mouth moved faster then his brain to mouth filter as Nat winked at her in agreement. "Slytherins are evil, Ravenclaws are just seeking knowledge and Hufflepuff? Are you kidding me?! That's the leftover house. They'll useless."

Surprisingly enough it wasn't Lily or Remus who came to the Hufflepuff's defence but James who stared at his best friend with a serious face. "Hufflepuff are the home guard of Hogwarts or they should be as their animal is amazing, have you looked up what a badger can do? It can take on wolves! Wolves Sirius! While the Snakes, well some real snakes are useful, garden snakes for instance. The Slytherins get the insider information for our house. The Gryffindors so we can act with swiftness as lions do, while the Ravenclaws use the knowledge they gained to arm all of us, like the ravens they are named after. Quite intelligent birds." James shrugged at the astonished looks on Petunia, Remus and Sirius faces as he finished listing the houses on his fingers.

He wasn't much of a avid reader during school but a door to door non-magical seller of an World Encyclopedia set was really eager, so James bought a set to stop him from coming by. He would have just erased the guy's memory but the person was a relative of a fellow Gryffindor. Ironically during their year of hiding it was something to read. It probably didn't help Lily's nerves when he made the pictures and words combine into a sort of hologram from the television show Star Trek or that's what Lily thought it looked like. It wasn't a new set but one that was at least two years old, much to Lily's amusement, but she thought the seller needed the money so she didn't say anything. The betrayal in James's eyes when he finally thought to look at the publication date was priceless.

"As Lily said, we did some thinking while being stuck in the house for all that time. Not all Gryffindors are outstandingly good, case in point, Wormtail. Sneaky little snake. Remus could have been a good Hufflepuff as with you Sirius. Remus would fit right into Ravenclaw. As for Slytherins, not all of them are bad. Andy Tonks is pretty neat. Snape meh." He didn't really hate or despise the man anymore but he didn't like him either. Out of sight, out of mind and all of that.

James had a few suspicious theories he needed to run by Jamie and Nat and possibly her sister Yelena. Besides there was that magical life debt that Harry had inherited. He mentally crackled with glee with what he'll do with that bit of blackmail.

Remus smiled at James's comments. It seemed that he had done some thinking while stuck in a house with Lily and Harry. "I agree. I might not like Snape but I don't wish him ill either." Remus never said but he though James did the right thing rescuing Snape from him while he was turning into a werewolf. Remus didn't wish that fate on anyone, even ones he considered his enemies. Then it went again all down hill that spring at least for Lily and Snape's relationship. That also make Lily ignore James all of sixth year or most of it.

"You're meh on Snape? That slimy git? You hate Snivellus! Unless you didn't mean what you said in fifth year after finals?"

"I was a jealous, envious fifteen-year-old Sirius! Snape always had feelings for Lily and that's why I treated him like crap. I wanted her and he had her as a very close friend. Heck, if we, if I had treated him differently on the Hogwarts Express, we could have been friends with him Sirius!"

"Friends with him? What happened to you James?! You used to be fun!" Sirius was feeling like he didn't know his best friend.

James and Sirius started talking over each other so fast no one could understand what they were saying but for a few sentences.

"I matured Sirius. I have a family! If someone treated Harry the way I treated my…" James mentally sighed. He loved Sirius dearly but his family's Black traits were frustrating at times.

"Oh please. I hope I…." Sirius loved James like his own brother, better even, but this was taking it too far.

"Oh grow up and take back what you said about…"

Lily was just sad, James had done some growing up while in seventh year and during their marriage and it seemed that Sirius never did.

Remus felt his hands clench in fists and at last he did something he should have done when he was made Perfect. He was so tired of this and they weren't school children anymore.

"Enough!" Remus stood and roared in a soft whisper because of the boys who were gazing around confused at the shouting, swishing his wand in a gesture that silenced Sirius who glared at Remus who gazed at his friends with a teacher's firmness, one that boarded on Professor McGonagall's you have detention face. Or so James thought. Sirius was itching for a fight as his wand started to spark but it faded with Remus's last words.

"If we were still in school, you both would lose house points, have detention separately as in different days and I don't know what else." Remus sighed, then absently stuffed the last salmon blueberry snack Yelena had set down near his plate as he had finished the platter.

"I never did anything to curb your vicariousness towards Snape. Nor any of the nastier 'jokes' you pulled. I failed at my duties as a Perfect because I was so afraid of losing my only friends that I did nothing." Remus canceled the spell, sitting down heavily. He didn't mean to let his fears out but with the full moon approaching rapidly his emotions were running high.

He blinked as Harry climbed into his nap as Yelena passed another plate of her snack thing. "No Harry, these are just for Remus. Moon cakes for my moon puppy." Harry giggled when he was passed to eager to please Jamie as Sirius walked off in a huff with the Potter's running after him.

"Yelena please come to Pepper's office." Jarvis interrupted Nat's thought process and Remus's dawning horror but he still ate the 'moon cakes'.

Yelena muttered something in Russian which made Nat and Jamie smirk and she flounced off to her little big sister's office.

"What did she say?" Remus asked once he finished eating. He had been silent as Lily .

"She hoped it wasn't more paperwork to sign as the Starks had set up a monthly allowance for her and I'm assuming the rest of us as well." Nat slide the shopping list over to Jamie who quickly nodded his approval. Yelena already gave her input.

Remus was drinking his second or fourth cup of the really good tea, he started to lose count when Nat asked about Yelena's 'moon puppy'. Yelena had waxed really bad poetry about her dog that only appeared in the moonlight of a full moon or something during their run. She was super excited for Nat to meet him.

Remus coughed up his tea as the topic that he thought died off came back to life. "Moon puppy?" He gasped once he could breathe again.

"Yeah. With my luck she befriended a werewolf." Jamie grouched as he was well aware of Yelena's love of all things canine. "She used to have a golden retriever named Fanny that unknown to her had mated with a half wolf and Yelena was over the moon at that discovery as it turned out that combination made a great guard dog."

Jamie went on to explain what happened to the litter. One ended up at the Barton farm, one with Yelena and the last with the Wilson family much to his dismay. He was more of a cat person.

Remus had a sinking feeling in his stomach, the last few full moons as several things clicked in his mind.

"I think she did." Remus said with slight horror as the taste of the moon cakes as Nat dubbed them threatened to climb back up out of his stomach.

"Well I'm not surprised." Nat looked up from her almost done plate, she had went back for seconds at the pale face of Remus. "She always liked dogs and she could deal with a crossbreed like that. The dog not the werewolf. What makes them so dangerous anyway?"

The Starks had left as soon as they had loaded up their plates with what they wanted so they didn't get caught up in the discussions.

***

Pepper thankfully was one of those people who didn't get red and puffy when she cried else her face would have been a mess right now. Yelena on the other hand looked a mess as she held her younger blue mini-me in a hug whispering things in Russian she still didn't catch.

"Are you sure? You can stay and meet Morgan. She'll love to have more friends to play with." Pepper knew she was clutching at straws but the thought of Ginny and Lena moving on was heartbreaking.

Ginny grinned, her front tooth eternally missing making her very adorable. "Oh we meet your daughter, she's awesome. She was talking to Jarvis when we popped over to her house. She'll be coming over her with her family in a few days. You'll love the Grangers. They're dentists you know."

Pepper paused in getting another tissue as the girls blue form became lighter. "Not the Grangers from Camden Dental Centre?"

"Yep. I know your Starks had been wanting dentists on the payroll but I think they'll cave when they see the advance of working in the Stark Technology."

"Anything else I need to know before you leave to see grandmama?" Yelena said jokingly as her first friends of the magical world faded away. Grandmama who had died when Pepper was 14 was the only one of the family who could see her ghost grandchildren, after all that's how she communicated with her husband for so long. Or so she claimed.

The two little ghosts eyed each other with mysterious smiles. "Nah that covers it."

That did not cover the situration, but Pepper and Yelena were quite distracted by the huge blue cat that appeared when their long-time companions went off on the next stage of their journey mewling up a storm. Sadly for Buttercup, the Potters were off on a Diagon Alley trip with Sirius who had to listen to a one-sided conversation about many things.

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Sirius Black fumed as he stomped out of the travel portal that K.G. made him at a discreet location, giving Sirius until 5 p.m. England time, 8 a.m. New York time to complete his shopping as that was the time Petunia set as she and the house elves finished packing up what she wanted out of her old house. It was going to be a very long day.

Sirius had to go to Gringotts personally as the goblins refused to mail anything out as the letter he got back said. Or as Gringotts put it, the Vaults needed a personal touch thank you very much. We don't touch wizard's wands. Or as it was noted, they couldn't as it would have violated the agreement they had with the wizards, much to their dismay.

He also somehow became Nat, Jamie and Yelena's shopping donkey as he had a list of magical items that she knew that the trio needed. It was almost two feet long. Yelena had pointed out when she was coming back from Pepper's office with money to give him, that he knew Diagon Alley better then she did. Squibs weren't as well treated as a Black would be. K. G. listened to her anyway by way of Pepper. Sirius was not his master.

Hence the shopping spree by way of Sirius who was not happy with many things, but thankfully could just ship all the purchases to the townhouse/compound by way of a notice me not K.G. who tossed them into a small portal when no one was looking. Nod had gotten clean up duty from his parents.

"Oh Sirius you can't stay mad at me forever. I'm still me but a little less idiotic." Potter rambled on as Lily had taken it upon her self to see if their was any good gossip, after all it was nearing the holidays.

Sirius with clinched teeth and a overly polite tone of voice requested to go to the Black vaults. He let James, no dang it Potter's voice go in one ear and out the other as Sirius gathered up what he needed from his family vaults, and went to Garrick Ollivander's to get his family's wands check since Lily who was bursting with some secret pointed out that the wands might not want to be passed onto someone else or might be broken in some way.

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As the hidden bell chimed to let Garrick know a customer had come he silently apparating so it appeared he was just there. "Sirius Black, wand …" Garrick's voice tapered off into silence as he gazed at Sirius's companions who whispered 'Do you think he is seeing us?'

"Yes. Now what brings the Potters and a Black to my shop?" Garrick's dad Gervaise, chose that moment to pop up with a cheerily hello! He was a blue force ghost as well.

Sirius's eyes widened as he yelped, scattering the wands he held in his hand everywhere. Which to that action had Gervaise quickly laying them out on the counter, turning the open sign to closed as he did so.

The Black wands didn't want to go to anyone else, so back to the Vault they went. The Ollivanders on the other hand, went eagerly with Sirius back to the compound a few hours later.

After all, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Who else could say that you made wands for time traveling dimensional hopping people?

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