Previous Chapters:
Chapter 1: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003511265
Chapter 2: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003514336
Chapter 3: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003520568
Chapter 4: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003526224
Chapter 5: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003532106
Chapter 6: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003534170
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Chapter 7: The Healing
Remus did what he was told, he packed the rest of his and Harry’s stuff into a couple boxes, then Sirius arrived and did packed up his own stuff.
‘I have changed my mind slightly, you floo to Andromeda’s with Harry and your boxes and I’ll deal with the landlord and take my motorcycle and boxes to the Tonks’.’
Remus nodded. That was the first thing they said to each other, and would be the last for a couple hours. They were still both hurt and didn’t want to deal with there feelings until they had a more secure roof over there heads.
Remus took a handful of floo powder and through it into the fire.
‘2002 Circe Way, Bedford Bedfordshire, England.’
The fire turned emerald green. With Harry in one hand and a couple boxes in the other he walks in. He’ll never quite get used to traveling via floo, but after the twists and turns him and Harry were now standing in the living room of a cozy and inviting house.
‘Welcome. Edward, help him with his stuff.’ This greeting came from a lovely witch with long light brown hair, hazel eyes, and silky black robes. She seemed a few years older, around six to eight, from him and Sirius. Edward was a wizard of around the same age as his wife with dark blonde hair, blue eyes, and a nice mustache.
‘Thank you. And thank you so much for helping us. I promise it won’t be for to long.’
‘You, Harry, and Sirius can stay as long as you need. It’s late though, we can discuss everything in the morning.’
‘Mummy, who are they?’
‘Nymphadora, you should long be in bed asleep.’
‘I heard the chimney go, I thought uncle Sirius was back.’
‘No, Sirius won’t be back for a couple hours. This is Sirius’ friend and Sirius’ son Harry.’
The little girl, who looked about Hogwarts age, had shoulder length brown hair with blue ends, and blue eyes.
‘My name is Remus Lupin. How old are you?’
‘I’m ten, also I prefer just Dora.’
‘Ah, so almost ready for Hogwarts, just Dora?’
‘You’re funny. Mummy, can’t I wait for uncle Sirius.’
‘No, it’s far past time for bed. Wish Remus and Harry goodnight.’
‘Goodnight Remus, goodnight Harry.’
‘Godnit.’
‘Goodnight Dora.’
The little girl walked away. Remus turned to the two adults.
‘I have a crib for Harry, he should really get back to sleep, but after that I’m going to stay up for Sirius. Is that ok with you Sir? Ma’am?’
‘Yes, you can set up the crib tonight in the guest room. Andromeda will get blackest ready for the couch. I’ll show you the way.’
‘Thank you, Edward is it?’
‘Yes, Edward Tonks. I was a Gryffindor seventh year when you were a first year.’
‘Oh yes.’
Edward lead him to the guest room. It wasn’t huge but it was for bigger then the bedroom the Dursley’s stuck Harry and then in. Edward put the two boxes down and Remus used magics to quickly reconstruct the crib and put the blankets and stuffed animals back. Remus gently picked up Harry and put the toddler in the bed.
‘Goodnight Fawny. I love you.’
‘Love you Moony.’
The Tonks’ then went to bed, but Remus sat on the made-up coach for a little under two hours, waiting. Ten after midnight Remus could hear the sound of a motorcycle landing outside. He went to the door and opened it.
‘How did it go with the landlord?’
Sirius took off him helmet, tired Remus couldn’t help but admire how attractive that made him look. He shook it off and levitated the rest of the boxes in the side car into the house.
‘Thanks. No, he didn’t want to end our lease, I managed to get us out of it. I also filed a report stating that this is now our permanent residence so no one thinks we are homeless and takes Harry away.’
‘That’s good thinking.’
‘Yeah, I had a lot of time these past couple days to do that.’
Remus hated how much it kept happening, but they were once again stuck in silence. It hurt almost more than the fight they had, and Remus couldn’t take it anymore. Calmly he put the boxes down.
‘Sirius, first I want to say how grateful I am you found us a solution. Second I want to talk about what happened, I want all cards on the table and figure out where we both now stand, but not tonight. It’s late and if we start now it might end in disaster again, so let’s wait until we are well rested, ok?’
‘Ok.’
‘Did Andromeda show you the guest room?’
‘Yes.’
‘Then I’ll see you tomorrow. Goodnight Sirius.’
‘Goodnight...Remus?’
‘Yes?’
Sirius did not ask a question however, before Remus could react Sirius had pulled him into a tight hug.
‘I really missed you Moony.’
Remus’ eyes got a little misty.
‘I-I missed you too.’
The next morning Andromeda made breakfast for them all, and Remus put his expanding baking talents to use and made blueberry muffins.
‘Thanks for breakfast honey, you to Remus. I’ll be home from the office late. Can we have supper slightly later?’
‘Of course Ted, love. Have a good day.’
He kissed her and then left. Sirius then stood from the table and grabbed an apple and a water bottle.
‘I must go now to. I’ll be back around five. Remus-‘
‘Yes?’
‘Um, I...See you later.’
‘Yes, see you later.’
Sirius left and then it was just the ladies, Harry, and Remus. Remus had moved the crib into Nymphadora’s, who turned out to be a Metamorphmagus as he hair and eyes were completely different colours, room so she was talking about it.
‘Does this make him my brother?’
‘Well he is technically your adopted second cousin, but I think just cousin would work.’
‘Will he cry all night?’
‘Me and Sirius have trained him pretty well. He should only cry at night if something wakes him up.’
‘Can I play with him?’
‘I don’t see why not, just be careful with him, he isn’t even two yet.’
‘Come on Harry, we’re going to play dolls.’
The two adults cleaned up and then moved to the living room.
‘So, how did you and Sirius get in contact? He had said that once you were disowned he lost contact with you.’
‘Yesterday evening I had been shopping in London and had come across him leaving the book shop. We got to chatting and I invited him to supper, after which he explained his situation and we came to an agreement.’
‘That is something I meant to ask, what are the conditions of our stay.’
‘You, Sirius, and the boy who lived can stay here as long as you need to get back on your feet. You don’t need to pay rent but we would like a small payment each week to over food. And you will help with household chores. That’s really it.’
Remus couldn’t believe his ears.
‘You, you’ll let us stay for free, why?’
‘Sirius is family, the only family who cared about me growing up. I missed him dearly when I was kicked out, I wanted to find him after he graduated but he moved so much I couldn’t. So now he is back and I don’t want him to go through more hardship if he doesn’t have to. So of course I’ll help him, his child, and his boyfriend.’
‘Oh, um, I’m not entirely sure we are together anymore. What did he say?’
‘He didn’t really, he just talked really fondly of you, but also sounded heart broken. You also wanted to stay up late just to see him when you could have waited until morning.’
‘I guess it was obvious then. Yes we were starting a romance, but tragedy kept happening and it all just kept rising until the other day when we blew up at each other. I doubt he still cares for me.’
‘He could have petitioned to have your position be replaced by my husband, but he never even mentioned it, in fact the first thing he asked when we offered our home to him and Harry was if you could stay too. Trust me, he can hold a grudge, but he really cares about you still.’
This had been news to Remus. But it could be true, Sirius had pulled him into that hug. Remus thought about this for the rest of the day. Nymphadora gifted Harry a lot of her old books and was reading them to him so this left Remus pretty free to think about what he wanted and how Sirius fit into it all.
At four-thirty Andromeda took Nymphadora to the park for an hour and offered to take Harry, which Remus accepted. Leaving Remus and Sirius alone when he got home. Remus got to work and brewed a pot of tea and set it on the tea table.
Sirius got home five to five.
‘Padfoot.’
‘Oh, hey Moony, I didn’t see you there.’
‘Could you come sit with me Sirius. No one is home and I thought we could talk.’
His face turned very serious and he took off his uniform jacket.’
‘Yes, I suppose we do.’
Sirius sat next to Remus. Remus lifted an empty cup. ‘Tea? Far warning, it has a splash of whiskey in it.’
‘Yeah poor me some.’
They both sip from there cup and then Remus starts the conversation.
‘I need to apologize Sirius. I am very sorry, I was hurting and I took it out on you, which I really never should have done. I should have talked it out with you when it first started getting bad instead of letting it boil inside me. I also shouldn’t have kicked you out. I think I just couldn’t be around you at that minute, but kicking you out wasn’t the answer.’
‘It’s my fault as well though. Even if you should have told me, I couldn’t tell how bad you were suffering, or how stressed you were. You had been helping me through my trauma but when it came my turn to take care of you I acted like it wasn’t a big deal. But it was a big deal, wasn’t it?’
‘Yes.’
‘I’m also sorry because I think I was halting the relationship we had formed, I was so focused on myself I wasn’t putting any effort into us. That is something I want to make up to you, if you still will have me. I need to confess something to you Remus.’
‘What is it.’
‘I don’t want to freak you out, and maybe you don’t feel the same, but I think I really love you Remus Lupin, and I-‘
‘I love you too.’
‘You do?’
‘Yes, oh yes. By the next day I was really worried about you and was regretting what I had done. Sirius Black, I love you too.’
Remus had taken Sirius’ hand, and after a second of hesitation the two leaned in for a kiss. The kiss was passionate, happy, and oh so sweet.
After about a minute they pulled away, but kept holding hands. Remus took a sip of his tea. Sirius then spoke up.
‘I know it’s to late, but I want to listen now. I want you to tell me all that is bothering you so that I can listen, and I won’t interrupt or give advice unless you ask about it.’
‘Ok then.’
And so for next twenty minutes Remus started explaining all that had been going on. How he felt betrayed by his father for still being apart of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures and that despite saying how supportive he is of his condition, had voted for the previous anti-werewolf bill. He told him about how much the current werewolf bill passing effected him and made him feel worthless and wrong. He told him about the pain he felt by Vincent’s death as he was like a father figure and the second closest person in his life other than Sirius. The greatest pain though was from the betrayal he felt for being fired just for being a werewolf, he had loved that job, he felt like was making a difference and learning so much and he worked so hard for them, so to be fired for something he had no control over felt the absolute worst. And now he couldn’t get a job because of the “probable werewolf” on his permanent record.’
‘Wait, so you need help getting a job?’
‘Yes, all my applications have either been declined or ignored.’
‘I got an idea, what time does Gringotts close, being a guard is one of your backups right?’
‘Um, seven I think.’
‘Cool, get chanced into something presentable. I’ll explain what you need to do.’
And so Remus arrived at the famous wizarding bank and asked to speak to Blorak who was know for being a bit gentler on humans.
‘I would like to be a Gringotts Guard Mr Blordak.’
‘Mr Lupin, I deal with wizards wishing to open accounts, if you want to be a guard you should speak with Marius.’
‘I did apply to Marius, however I can only assume my application is still being looked over as days later I haven’t heard a thing, perhaps you could just look at my application.’
‘Very well.’
He took the paper, he nodded a couple times approvingly but then squealed as he reached the werewolf part.
‘I am sorry Mr Lupin, but Gringotts can not risk hiring a potentially dangerous employee.’
‘That is why I came to you. I will not confirm nor deny my lycanthropy, however even unproven I am classified as less than humanoid, something Goblins outside of Gringotts know quite a lot about.’
‘How dare you presume we are equally discriminated, you can walk into a store without being judged, you can walk around the muggle world freely, you can own a wand. How dare you.’
‘I am not claiming we are equal in any means, just stating we have something in common. And if I were, say, a werewolf, then our forefathers have also fought side by side in the 1752 Goblin rebellion. Together our species caused the resignation of two Minister of Magic over just two months. What I am trying to get at is the humans will look at my application and just see non-human and pass it, but a Goblin knows there is far more to a sentient being then there blood or looks. Please sir, give me a chance.’
The Goblin looked at the application, look at Remus, than back at the application.
Sirius was waiting just outside the banks doors.
‘How did it go?’
‘I start training tomorrow and start officially on Monday. You are a genius Sirius.’
‘I had a lot of practice at being cunning at hogwarts.’
‘Yes you did.’ Remus kissed Sirius on the cheek. ‘Come on Sirius, I believe there is a lovely supper waiting for us.’
‘I wouldn’t miss it for the world.’
(Just so you know, this is not the final chapter, I have at least two more planed.)
