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Y/n was overwhelmed by grief, she knew Voldemort was looking for them. He was also looking for her, hence why her and Sirius had moved into an apartment in the middle of muggle London together. Originally, she and Sirius were considered to be the secret keeper but the two agreed that it would be too obvious so they asked Peter. Peter, y/n’s eyes widened, her grief was replaced with the bitter taste of betray, followed by anger.

“That rat” she looked up at Sirius, meeting his eyes for the first time. His eyes were a mix with the same thing as her own, grief and anger.

It didn’t take long for them to track the rodent down, he’d managed to elude them earlier that morning but this time they had managed to corner him.

“Nowhere to run Peter” Sirius threatened, hand clutching the wand in his back pocket, not that he had any intention using it here there were too many muggles nearby to risk it.

“Y/n, Sirius” Peter had a dangerous look, like something in him had snapped, a look which scared both y/n and Sirius.

Peter pulled out his wand, Sirius and Y/n shared a look, surely, he wasn’t going to try anything here, there must have been at least a dozen muggles surrounding them, let alone the rest of the street.

Sirius looked at y/n, eyes pointing to her necklace. Dumbledore had given her a time turner, he never told her why. Although come to think of it he never told anyone why he did anything the cryptic bastard. Y/n pulled out the time turner, with the intention of going back an hour or two. Peter must have seen it as he tried to send a hex her way, Sirius jumped in front attempting to block it only to be flung back into a nearby shop window.

“Sirius!” Y/n yelled, in her panic over the boy’s wellbeing she had unknowing turned the small clock the wrong way.

Peter mutter a spell y/n didn’t recognise. The girl closed her eyes, there was nothing she could do now, her wand was in her jacket pocket there was no time to grab it, she took a deep breath bracing herself. Just as the spell had ripped through a couple of muggles nearby, it hit y/n, or so Pete thought. Just before the spell could hit y/n herself, the time turner started working, causing y/n to feel the world spin around her, she had used it before but this was different, the world was moving faster, the buildings were changing around her and the light flashed and flicked causing the girl to shield and cover her eyes. Soon everything stopped, feeling dazed and confused she looked around, it was dark, not a soul in sight. Hand on her head she fell to the ground, the world going black around her.

Sirius woke up to screams, Y/n, he climbed out of the shattered shop window to see a large crater in the ground, y/n was nowhere to be seen. Looking around he saw a severed finger on the ground. He was too busy trying to figure out what happened to y/n to noticed the Ministry had shown up.

After his arrest, he was convicted with the deaths of Lily and James Potter, 12 unidentified muggles, Peter Pettigrew and finally Y/n Potter. The last one killed him, he couldn’t believe she was dead, his best friend, and the one girl he had loved more than any other was gone.

Y/n woke up a few hours later to an older muggle woman asking if she was okay. Y/n nodded, reassuring her she didn’t need to go to the hospital and the cut on her neck was purely superficial. She eventually made her way back to her and Sirius’ apartment, she had assumed the time turner had taken her back a bit further than she thought, it was also broken into shards, the impact of Peters spell must have blasted it apart causing some of the shrapnel to hit her. She managed to mutter a healing spell over it stopping the bleeding but due to the time turning being magical it left a scar running from the base of her left ear across the other side of her neck and down to her collar bone.

The apartment door looked old and worn, but she was too tired to think much of it and she tried the door, it too a few attempts but she eventually got it open. Using her weight to push the door, she saw hundreds of newspapers piled up behind the door. It was then she started to panic, looking around the rest of the apartment, there was dust everywhere, the cupboards and bookshelves looked like they had been ransacked, the pictures of her, Sirius and their friends shattered on the floor.

She closed over the door, using her wand to move the newspapers out of the way. She walked into the apartment seeing the kitchen table, it still had the half-filled mug of tea on it, walking closer she could smell the how stale it was, peering in it looked like something was starting to grow in it. She was pulled out of gaze on the tea by the sound of the letter box, todays paper had arrived. She walked over picking it up. She ignored the headlines, her eyes locked onto the date.

Friday the 1st November 1991

After finding out she had travelled into the future, she read the headlines of the papers that had accumulated at the door, she was brought to tears when she read what happened to Frank and Alice, they were her friends, two of the sweetest people in the whole word, they didn't deserve that. Y/n was happy those responsible were caught, she made a mental note to visit Alice and Frank at some point, they wouldn't know who she was but she had to see them. 

The worst paper she read was Sirius’ conviction, his mugshot scared her, he was laughing manically. As she read the article she saw her name as one of the victims, as well as Peter. She threw it into the fire, everything was all still so fresh, for everyone else 10 years had passed but for y/n it had barley been 24 hours

After spending the next few days trying to fix up the apartment, she spent the following weeks allowing herself to grieve.  Her brother and Lily were dead, Frank and Alice suffered a fate worse than death, Remus was god knows where, and Sirius had spent the last 10 years in Azkaban for crimes he didn’t commit, including her own ‘murder’. Everyone she loved was either dead or thought she was, and yet Peter was out there somewhere getting away with everything scot free.

She didn’t try to go after Peter, it would be like searching for a needle in a haystack. 10 years had passed, she didn’t even know if he was still alive, she had no idea what happened after the time turner had started working. She read they had found his finger, but she knew the rat was still alive, that he would reappear one day and when that day came she would be ready, but right now she had bigger priorities, like finding her Godson.

Near the end of November, she had managed to map out some kind of a plan but she needed help, and there was only one person she could go to who would a) believe her and b) help her. Of course, she couldn’t just waltz into the Headmasters office at Hogwarts, people would recognise her. So she decided to dig out Sirius’ old school notes, she knew her brother and friends had become animagi, she had offered to become one herself but Remus wouldn’t have it, so she had to settle for healing the boys wounds every full moon. It took about a month to track down everything she needed, and by January she had succeeded, taking the form of a robin.

Near the end of January, she flew into Hogwarts with ease, making her way through the hallways, she saw some of her old teachers, including an old classmate, Severus, of course he became the potions professor and from the looks of it, still hadn’t figured out what shampoo was. She knew Harry was somewhere in the school, but she didn’t go after him, she had to be careful about this, she had to speak to Dumbledore first. Eventually she made her way to his office, flying in she perched herself on the desk in front of him

“And who might you be?” The older man enquired, raising an eyebrow, he knew this was no normal bird. It amused him, it wasn’t everyday he had such a unique visitor.

Y/n jumped back shifting into her human form, the man was taken aback, he had figured he was taking to an animagus but he didn’t expect to see Y/n Euphemia Potter standing in front of him. After that awful night at Godric’s Hollow and following evening, what was left of the Order looked high and low for her. Of course, they had concluded that she had perished with Pettigrew, but Dumbledore had always suspected something else, something unexpected had occurred.

The man knew she had a time turner, he had theorised she had gone into hiding after the war, but seeing her now it was clear what had happened. The girl hadn’t aged a day, his suspicions were confirmed as she placed the broken pieces of the old time turner on his desk, to which she then proceeded to explain what had happened, and what she had been doing the last 3 months.

After their meeting Dumbledore travelled back with y/n to her old apartment, where he invited his and y/n’s old friend Alastor Moody to help. The man was in disbelief when he first saw her, before engulfing her into one of his rare hugs. Y/n had become an Auror after leaving Hogwarts and Moody was assigned to her, over those years of training he came to see y/n as a daughter and after her ‘death’ he was devastated, many believing this was the event which triggered his paranoia.

The men explained her testimony would be considered void due to her living with Sirius at the time, and due to this she could easily be thrown into Azkaban with him. On top of that, she had travelled into the future using an illegal time turner, and spent the last few months becoming an illegal animagus.

She talked with them for a while, when she learned Harry was currently living with Lily’s sister, Petunia, she asked if she could get custody of Harry. Moody told her it would be possible, the Dursleys would have to sign off on it, the three knew that wouldn’t be a problem, but she would have to apply of custody under an alias, which could take some time to create. After their meeting, Dumbledore gave y/n a bit of paper with Petunia’s address, saying that when she was ready she could visit him.

So here she was, the paper work wouldn’t be for them to sign until at least next summer, but she decided she had to see him, to let him know that she was here and he had family, real family that was ready to love him like no other. 

It was his 12th birthday today, according to Dumbledore he was quite the quidditch player, just like herself and James. She dug out her and James’ old Gryffindor jerseys, a lot of her clothes had been ruined over the 10 years so she was thrilled when she found out those had survived. Hers was small but would fit Harry since he was only 12 and he would grow into James’. She also brought Dudley a gift, hoping it would help butter up Petunia and Vernon.

She reached the front door, after a deep breath she pressed the doorbell.

“Coming!” She heard a muffled yell through the door

“Hell…” The man froze mid-sentence when he saw the person behind the door. His face went pale, he knew exactly who she was, he felt like he was seeing a ghost.

“Darling who is it?” Petunia comes out of a room by the door, she freezes when she sees y/n. Petunia’s face hardens looking her up and down, damned witches, seeing the girl hasn’t aged a day.

“I’m here to see Harry” Y/n states, “Oh” she pulls out a small gift from her bag “For Dudley, tell him Happy belated Birthday from me” She had got him some generic muggle chocolate, the same kind Remus told her was a great go to for muggles when they were younger

The girl reaches out to hand over the gift to one of the two adults in front of her, however they look at her sceptically

“It’s not poisoned or cursed, jeeze louise, and they say wizards are superstitious” she laughs, eventually after a few more painful seconds of silence, Petunia hits Vernon lightly on the stomach and he grabs the present off of her.

“So can I see Harry? Or do I need to butter you to up a bit more?” Y/n smirked

The couple look at each other, seeming to have a non-verbal argument before Petunia shouts upstairs “Harry! Down here, right now!”

Y/n watched as the boy came down the stairs, he looked just like James, as the boy reached the door he looked up at her and she saw those famous green eyes. She hadn’t even realised she was starting to tear up until Petunia spoke

“You have 1 hour, we have company later and I don’t want your kindhere any longer than is necessary” The women’s voice was laced with venom, y/n nods, smirking a little, she always found her hostility funny. 

As the couple turn, Vernon pushes Harry out of the door and slams it. Harry jerks a little as the door slams before returning to look back up at the stranger, y/n hadn’t noticed until now that he was looking at her like he recognised her, his head was tilted ever so slightly and his eyes had a glint of hope in them

“Who are you?” Harry asked, he’d seen her in the mirror at Hogwarts, along with his parents and who he assumed was his grandparents, but the women in front of him was young, she couldn’t have been more than 20 years old.

“Y/n Potter” The girl smiled down at the boy “I’m your aunt, well, your other aunt, I’m the cooler one” the girl winked

Harry looked in shock at the name before a small smile grazed his face followed by a chuckle at her playful nature, “Really?”

“Yeah, come on let’s a walk. I’ll explain everything” Y/n turns, waving her hand, motioning for the boy to follow.

“Oh” she stops “Here, Happy Birthday kid” y/n smiles as she takes out the gift from her bag. She notices Harry looking at the bag, extension charms were illegal but her and Sirius had put one on the their bag anyway “don't tell anyone” she says smirking

Harry chuckles, pretending to zip his lips with his hand. He takes the gift from her smiling down at it, he never got any gifts on his birthday. Last year he found out he was a wizard, and he honestly thought nothing else could top that, but this year he had an Aunt. The boy was beyond excited, y/n motions again for him to follow and the two embark on a small walk.

On their walk she started by telling him she was James’ twin sister, to which she found it hilarious seeing Harry trying to work that one out, it was easy for her to forget she was only 22, when on paper she should be 10 years older. She explained the incident she had with a time turner during the war, how it was hit by a spell and she ended up traveling 10 years into the future. She left out the part about Sirius and Peter for now, Harry was barley 12, he was too young to have that dumped onto him.

Y/n told him a few stories about his parents, to which Harry loved, her presence gave him the same sense of comfort he felt when he looked in the mirror, except she was really here, really talking to him, the boy felt complete. At this point they were sitting on a park bench and y/n told him to open the gift. He loved them, even wearing her jersey on the way home, an act which warmed y/n’s heart, feeling herself starting to heal for the first time since that horrible night.

As they were walking back towards the house she told him that she was applying to get custody of him since she was his godmother, but it would take some time since it would have to be under a fake name, since technically she’s supposed to be dead. She asked him not to tell anyone about her, or the fact she was alive, except to the ones he trusted most. Harry agreed, he understood why she was being careful, the last thing he wanted were for the people that killed his parents to come after her again too.

When they arrived back at the house, y/n gave him an address, expressing he could write to her anytime, he just had to remember to address it to Robin Evans. Moody had come up with the idea of y/n being a cousin of Lily, which made the paper work for custody a bit easier than a stranger, and she had come up with the first name Robin, saying it would be fitting considering her animagus form.

As Harry got to the door he looked back at y/n smiling, he finally had real family. He saw her wink before transforming into a robin and flying away. She was right, Harry thought, she is the coolest aunt.

As the girl flew up she caught a glimpse of a house elf running about Harrys bedroom, if she could giggle in her form she would have, Good luck with that one kid

Y/n attended all of Harry’s quidditch games that year, obviously she couldn’t attend as herself, but Harry and Dumbledore noticed a familiar robin perched on top of one of the stands each game, that was until the matches were cancelled. The opening of the Chamber of Secrets made y/n worried for Harry, especially when one of Harrys letters informed her his friend Hermione had been petrified. Lockhart being the DADA teacher didn’t give her much solace either, she remembered him from school, he was a few years younger than her, of course now he was actually older than her, however he still remained a complete and utter arse.

Near the end of the year she visited Harry in the hospital wing while all the other students were sleeping, she wasn’t sure if Madame Pomfrey had seen her, if she had she didn’t say anything. When she first saw Harry, she went a little mother hen on him, before expressing how brave he was, as mad as she was about him and Ron venturing into the chamber themselves, she confessed she would have done the same. She was aware Lockhart was present in the chamber with them but apparently wasn’t much help, to which y/n wasn’t surprised. In all honestly, she didn’t feel bad about what happened to him, it was his own fault for trying to obliviate a 12 and 13-year-old.

Just before Harry officially finished school, she finally got access to her old account at Gringotts with help from Moody. With the money she bought a small two-bedroom cottage, as well as sent some gallons to Ron to help replace his wand as a thanks for protecting Harry. She also found her old study notes from when she sat her O. W. L’s, to which she gifted Hermione, saying it was a one-way ticket to getting straight O’s

Soon she managed to spot her nephew, he was waving goodbye to a red-haired boy and a bushy haired girl, y/n assumed they must have been Ron and Hermione. She flew over and landed on his trolley, Harry smiled brightly instantly recognising the bird, whispering a small ‘hello’ as he made his way to the car park outside the train station. Y/n looked around to see if the coast was clear before shifting back into her normal form

“Aww it’s so good to see you” She pulled the boy into a huge hug, to which he was more than happy to return.

Pulling away from the hug y/n grabbed Harry’s suitcase, leading him to her car. She had gotten a job at a muggle store near her old apartment during the school year, using the earnings to buy an old second-hand car.

Harry helped her put his stuff into the boot, before getting into the passenger seat, as y/n got into the driver’s seat he spoke;

“Am I going home with you?” His voice was small and filled with hope, he had been scared to ask when he first seen her, terrified his Uncle Vernon would show up and ruin his day.

Y/n turned to face the boy as she got settled in the driver’s seat, she smiled brightly at him, playfully nudging his shoulder as she said “Yup, you’re stuck with me now kid”

Harry beamed, feeling like he could cry of joy. No more Dursleys, no more Dudley, just him and y/n.

The summer was over all too quickly for Harry and Y/n, for Harry it was the best summer he had ever had and for y/n she finally felt like a part of herself had healed. Y/n got a job in the local bookstore in town, where Harry would come by and happily help every now and again. They spend most of the summer getting to know each other, y/n showed Harry the old photos of herself and his parents, as well as told him some stories about Neville’s parents, Molly’s brothers, and even some not so classified missions she had went on as an Auror. Harry loved the Auror stories, thinking about how cool it might be to become one himself someday.

For his birthday, y/n gave Harry an old photo album of hers, filled with photos of his parents and their friends’s adventures when they were at Hogwarts, as well as a new one stating ‘as good as it is to cherish the old memories, its also good to make a few new ones’. The new album was filled with the photos she and Harry had taken that summer, as well as a couple he assumed y/n had taken when she attended his quidditch matches that year.

Near the end of summer, y/n received a letter from Molly, and Harry received letters from Hermione and Ron informing them that they were back respectively from Egypt and France and staying at the leaky cauldron for a week before heading to Hogwarts. In Molly’s letter, was attached a newspaper clipping of the family taken in Egypt to which y/n only got a quick glance at before Harry ran in asking if he could go stay at the leaky caldron with his friends, and of course y/n agreed.

When y/n found out Harry’s best friend was a Weasley she was thrilled. She met Molly a couple times in passing as her brothers were a part of the Order, however, y/n was more familiar the elder of her late brothers, Fabian, as they had gone on many Order missions together. Y/n visited the burrow during the school year, she was certain she gave Molly a minor heart attack when she first opened the door. Thankfully, after explaining what happened and let Molly calm down, the older women was more than happy to have them over anytime, and keep y/n secret.

Y/n liked Molly, she appreciated how she cared for Harry like he was her own, much like her own mother did for Sirius all those years ago. It felt good talking to someone she knew from before, the last of couple years had been tough for y/n, sure, she had Harry now, but while he was at Hogwarts, her day to day was rather lonely.

Harry was excited to see Ron again, however since the car was broken and the cottage fireplace hadn’t been connected to the floo network just yet, y/n told him he would have to take the Knight bus. In truth the car wasn’t broken she had sold it, using the money to buy Sirius’ bike back off of Hagrid, the half-giant told her she could have it free of charge when she approached him, but y/n wouldn’t have it, forcing him to take the money and buy a cool creature with it.

The two were currently waiting for the bus to arrive, y/n held up her wand to summon it saying it would probably arrive in a few minutes. Putting her wand back in her pocket she told harry she’d be back soon as she forgot her scarf, and flew off back over the small field to the cottage.

Harry laughed as he watched his aunt fly off, he found it so cool she was an animagus and he found it comical the thinks she used it for, like for picking up something she dropped under a cabinet or to freak out the mean old man down the road, or, in this case, so she could fly in her window and grab her scarf instead of using an summoning charm.

Harry sat down on the curb outside, as he waited he felt the air shift, across the road he saw eyes staring back at him, standing up the eyes drew closer until he could see a large black dog staring him down. 

Suddenly, the boy falls backwards, being knocked over by the arrival of the Knight bus. He walks around to the front of the bus and looks around but the dog appeared to be gone. However, it had merely moved back into the bushes, and remained watching the young teen.

The boy is pulled out of his daze by the conductor asking what he was looking at, before shrugging and grabbing the boy’s luggage. While the conductor was distracted, a robin flies over Harrys head causing the boy to smile as it lands and shifts into his aunt. The dog’s eyes widen at the sight of the young women, It couldn’t be

“Have a great year, Harry. I’m going to miss you so much” y/n puts her hands on the sides of the boy’s face, smiling proudly at him

“Say hi to the Weasleys and Hermione when you see them. Oh! And give this to the twins but don’t tell Molly it’s from me” she winks handing him a small box, it contained notes on different charms and spells she thought the twins would find useful for their pranks, as a past prankster herself she had to help the new generation by teaching them hers, and her friends old tricks.

“Will do, bye Auntie Robin” Harry says, y/n chuckles at the emphasis on her name. 

The name reminded her of the Marauder names her brother and friends gave themselves, she had always a felt little jealous they never got one.

Before Harry climbs into the bus, she presses a kiss to his forehead telling him to owl her if he needs anything and to let her know if he’s coming home for Christmas.

As the bus speeds off, y/n notes something moving in the corner of her eye, a large black dog slowly comes out of some bushes across the road. Her face softens right away, she had been waiting for him to appear ever since she heard about the break out, she knew he would try to find Harry, and hence find her too.

She felt conflicted about whether or not to tell Harry about Sirius, but ultimately she told him the truth. Harry was shocked when he had heard, and angry that his godfather was being treated like a criminal. She advised Harry to keep this to himself, as going around defending him wouldn’t be the best idea. In truth, she didn’t know what kind of person Sirius would be now, Azkaban tended to change people and not for the better, so she told Harry to be careful as he might try to come for him.

Y/n smiled at the dog, nodding her head, signalling for it to follow her up the path to the cottage, as she got to the door she left it open for the dog to walk right in. As she got to the kitchen she put the kettle on, just as she placed it on the stove she heard the door shut, followed by light footsteps.

As Sirius approached the kitchen he saw her standing, at the stove, back turned away from him. His heart was racing, after all this time, was it really her?

“Y/n?” the words coming out as barely a whisper, afraid he might be wrong, that all those years spent locked away had really turned him delirious, that this was all some lucid dream. How he prayed to Merlin it was real.

He wasn’t even sure she had heard him until she turned around, a small smile grazing her face, “Hi Siri”

“You’re…you’re really here” he finally breathes out, closing his eyes, squeezing her gently, almost as if to double check she isn’t an hallucination

“I’m here” she pulls back looking up at him, placing a hand on his cheek.

Sirius opens his eyes, reaching up with his own to cup her smaller hand, trying to find the words to express how he was feeling “I thought…” he sniffs “All this time I thought you died that night” small tears began to roll down the apples of his cheeks, feeling overwhelmed with emotion

“Afraid not” she gives him a cheeky smile “Can’t get rid of me that easily” as she finishes she winks, causing Sirius to let out a breathy laugh. She hasn’t changed a bit, he thought.

His eyebrows knitted together as he watched her pull away, attending to the whistling kettle. He snapped back into reality, his mind beginning to run wild, where had she been all this time? If she was alive why didn’t he know? How long had she been caring for Harry? Why didn’t she…he was pulled out of his thoughts by y/n placing two cups of tea on the table in front of him, motioning for him to sit down.

He sits across from her, after taking a sip, he speaks “What happened? After…I blacked out I mean? I woke up, you…you were gone and all that was left of Peter was… well…” He tried his best to keep his voice steady, it took everything in him to not break down, that night had been engrained into his memory forever, there wasn’t a day the past near 12 years he didn’t think about her, didn’t think about how he could have done things differently

Y/n looked up from her cup, it was easy for her to forget that night in London happened less than two years ago for her, while he had lived thinking she was dead for almost 12 years, not only that but he had been subject to dementors and the crazy ramblings of other inmates those years as well

“Do you remember what you signalled for me to do before you were knocked out?”

Sirius sat back attempting to recall the events, his eyes widened looking back up at the girl, mouth forming a small ‘o’, suddenly it all made sense “The time turner” she nods in conformation

“You see, in my panic I turned the time turner the wrong way and when Peter used some kind of blasting spell, it must have hit the time turner just as it began working, and…well…” she bites her lip thinking of how to drop the news of travelling 10 years into the future on him “I went forward a little more than a few hours”  

The girl removes the scarf from her neck, revealing the scar. Sirius’ face softens, frowning slightly as he traces the scar with his eyes, before standing and moving to the chair beside her. He reaches out slowly looking up at her to check she was okay with it, she nods in permission. He moves closer to her, lightly tracing the scar with his fingers, he looks up at her, theirs eyes meeting. When he first saw her he thought it was just his imagination, but now he was closer to her he realised she hadn’t really aged at all.

“How far forward?”

She winces slightly before answering “10 years”

Sirius’ mouth fell open looking at her, she smiled slightly at his cute expression. She moved her hand up to gently close it, causing Sirius to blush a little in embarrassment. He pulls back, letting his hands fall to his lap.

“Wow… y/n” y/n noticed he looked a little catatonic, obviously trying to process

He was in shock, 10 years, now he understood why everyone thought she was dead, although he wondered why she didn’t try to come back, as he looked at her scar he realised, maybe she couldn’t, the time-turner must have been blasted apart.

Shaking his head slightly he looks up at her, she smiles sadly at him, “So…what happened to…to you, after you travelled forward in time?” he swallows, barley getting the sentence out

The girl takes a deep breath before explaining “I thought it was over…when he cast the spell I closed my eyes waiting for the end, but…then I felt the world move around me. It was different though, it wasn’t like the other times I used the time turner. After the world had finally stopped spinning I blacked out, when I woke, I assumed I had just travelled a couple hours to far back or forward or…something. It wasn’t until I got back to our old flat, I saw the newspapers had piled up, the flat looked like it had been trashed, I started to panic. When I looked at the date on the latest paper I realised what had actually happened. I went to Dumbledore after spending a couple of months trying to process…everything, he helped me get back on my feet…adjust. Moody helped me form a new identity, even getting the paperwork together so I could legally become Harrys guardian”

While she was speaking, she moved her hands to grasp his, absentmindedly drawing circles with her thumbs. Sirius nodded along, what each of them went through after that night couldn’t be more different but at the same time, they both lost everything. They lost James and Lily, they were betrayed by someone they thought was their friend, they both lost a decade of their life, in one sense or another, and they both lost each other that night too. As she finished he smiled when she said she got guardianship of Harry. He had only seen him for a second but he looked so much like James it killed him a little “He’s James’ double”

Y/n smiled, squeezing his hand “Yeah, he’s got Lil’s eyes though. Oh, and finds trouble everywhere he goes”

Sirius chuckles “Just like his aunt then” y/n scrunches up her nose, nudging him, “You know it true”

Y/n starts giggling, nodding as she agrees, she always did find trouble, despite not officially being a marauder herself, she was quite the troublemaker. She was sure the teachers both loved and hated her at the same time, as she would get straight O’s and hand in all her work on time, but then she would also prank them or stir up some kind of mischief. Sirius starts to chuckle too, he always loved her laugh, the sound was like music to his ears after all this time.  

They returned to their tea, finishing it in a comfortable silence. Afterwards y/n said he could use the shower, leading him upstairs to her bedroom. She went into one of the drawers in the corner, grabbing some fresh clothes for him, before handing them over.

Sirius stared down at them, they looked familiar “Are these…” he hesitates for a moment “…mine?”

Y/n starts to blush a little, before leaving their old apartment for good she brought all of Sirius’s clothes that had survived, she even fixed up his favourite leather jacket. She didn’t know why she did it, she supposed keeping his clothes gave her a sense of comfort, that maybe one day he might come back.

“Oh ugh” she bites her lip, hands fiddling with the handle of the drawer behind her “I suppose I kept them in case one day you…” came back to me “… needed them again”

Sirius gives her a small nod, trying to contain his smile. As she reaches the door she speaks again “The showers just through the door, there should be a clean towel in there already. I’ll order us some food, we can talk some more as we eat” she smiles at him before leaving the room

Sirius lets his smile break free, looking down at the clothes, he couldn’t believe she went out of her way to kept them. Before heading into the shower, he had a look in the set of drawers she pulled the clothes from. His heart soared as he saw it was almost exclusively filled with his stuff, as he walked into the shower he recalled how adorable she looked when she blushed earlier. He would be a liar if he said he wasn’t still very much in love with the girl, seeing her again only confirmed it.

In truth he always knew he loved her, but the timing was never right, plus James was always a little overprotective when it came to y/n, making him scared to ever make a move. While he was in Azkaban he hated himself for being so stupid, thinking about how he never got the chance to tell her, but now, maybe he still had a chance.

As y/n opened the door to grab the take out from the delivery guy, she hears the shower stop. She didn’t blame him for taking a long shower, she would do the same if she hadn’t had one in little over a decade. After thanking and paying the delivery guy she heads back into the kitchen, grabbing a couple of plates and some cutlery, dishing out the food.

Sirius stepped out of the shower, grabbing the towel to dry himself off before throwing on the clothes y/n gave him. Walking out of the bathroom he glanced around her room, her bed was messily made, last night’s pyjamas scattered across it, a couple books lay on the nightstand furthest from him, the other nightstand however, caught his eye, leading him to walk over to it.

It had three pictures sitting on it, the first was one of y/n and Harry smiling in front of the cottage, the second was one of y/n, James, Lily, Remus and himself on their last day at Hogwarts, however it had been folded on one side, he assumed to remove Peter. The final photo sat at the front, unlike the others it had been turned towards the bed, it was a photo of Sirius and Y/n by a lake. Sirius picked up the photo to admire it, as he did it started moving, he smiled remembering the day it was taken

flashback 

“James! I can’t walk that fast” Lily shouted, waddling as she walked, thinking how much easier this walk used to be before she was 7 and a half months pregnant.

The group was headed to a lake near y/n and James’ childhood home, somewhere they hadn’t been since the summer before graduation. The war was coming into full swing now, it was only a matter of time before people started dying, all of them were targets now, after turning down Voldemort’s offer to join him. James and Sirius came up with the idea to go to the lake and bring the old gang for a day of fun to forget what was happening in the world around them, even if it was just for a day.

Dorcas set up a bunch of blankets near a picket table, while Sirius, Frank and Remus helped bring the food and drinks over, and set up the barbecue. James was helping get Lily and Alice seated and comfy since they were both quite heavily pregnant, before going to help Marlene as she was about to throw one of the pop-up umbrellas Lily insisted on bringing into the lake.

“Marls you just need to press…Ow” James yelps as Marlene finally manages to pop it up hitting James square in the face in the process

“Did it! Impressed, my love” Ignoring James groaning in pain she flirts with her fiancé, to which the girl in question rolls her eyes, giggling a little

“Hey everyone! Oh, you okay Jams?” Y/n runs up, carrying a bunch of towels, tilting her head in concern as she sees her brother groaning like a drama queen

“He’s fine, just being a baby” Marlene laughs, walking up to grab a couple towels off of y/n.

“I am not a baby! You’re a baby!” Y/n laughs as Marlene and James begin to bicker about who’s a bigger baby, before moving over to stand next to Dorca who is now watching the two along with Alice and Lily

“Can you believe that mans about to become a father” Dorca giggles

“I know right, good luck red” Y/n smiles as she sits down next to Lily giving her a little nudge

“He is an idiot…” Lily states before breaking into a smile “…but he’s my idiot”

The girls smile before turning back to each other, knowing James and Marlene are both so suborn they’ll be at it for a while

“Y/n!” Sirius shouts as he jogs over “Where’s Pete, I thought he was coming with you?”

Y/n shakes her head “He’s not coming, something about a meeting…I don’t know I was too busy trying to build a crib at the time” she shrugs before turning to Lily “I still don’t get why you wouldn’t just let me use magic”

“Forgive me but the last time you used magic to build something you set it on fire” Lily rebutted

“That was one time!” Everyone tilts their head at her, all looking at her as if to say ‘really’

“Okay maybe more than once” she mumbles pouting

“Sorry love” Sirius says sitting down next to y/n “You can kick ass in a duel but when it comes to magical DIY you suck”

“You suck” she mocks back

“That’s what she said!” Marlene and James say in union before returning to their bickering

Remus and Frank chat over the grill, the latter casually waving his hand every now and again to flip the burgers. Marlene and Dorca lay sunbathing on the blankets as they discuss their wedding plans with Lily and Alice, while James, Sirius and y/n played with a frisbee, standing in the shallow end of the lake

“Siri! Stop throwing it so high” Sirius laughs at her complaining, as James walks over to the shore to grab his beer, taking a swig

“Not my fault you’re so short…hey!” Sirius’ teasing is cut off by y/n splashing water at him

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you” he warns smirking at her, before splashing her back

“ooooo what you gonna do, scared I’ll ruin your hair” she taunts as they continue to splash water at each other

Eventually Sirius has an idea, morphing into his dog form, y/n looks around wondering where he went. Sirius shifts back behind her as he lifts her up, pulling her over his shoulder spinning her around

“Ahhhh Siri!”

Everyone laughs at the duo from the shore, Lily had made her way down to James at this point, camera hanging around her neck. Looking at the two then back up to her husband she asks;

“How long do you think it’ll be before they realise?”

James looks down at his wife confused to which she gives him a pointed look as if to say ‘look at them’. The man pulls his attention back to his sister and best friend, at this point Sirius had finally put y/n down. He watches the way y/n playfully hits his arm, scrunching up her face in fake anger before they burst out laughing.

It’s in that moment he observes the way Sirius stops laughing and looks down lovingly at her, the way his face morphed into a smirk, but it wasn’t the standard smirk he used when flirting with random women, this was different, it was new, something James had never seen from his friend before. He noticed it was the same way Frank looked at Alice, or the way Marlene would look at Dorcas when she wasn’t looking, Sirius was in love.

Looking back at his wife, he smiled, Lily returned it knowing he’d finally figured it out, glad he wasn’t too upset with the realisation before taking the camera into her hands

“Sirius, Y/n smile!” Lily gets their attention holding up the camera

Sirius and y/n turn to look, both smiling brightly, y/n giggles as Sirius pulls her in by her waist, causing her to look up at him as the camera flashes

end of flashback 

Sirius realised this was the first time he’d properly looked at this photo, watching his younger self pull her closer to him, his heart flutters seeing her looking up at him smiling. To him her smile was the most beautiful thing in the whole world.

Y/n head pops through the doorway, checking he was okay, she smiled as she saw his fingers glaze over the picture. She gently knocked on the door to get his attention.

Sirius’ looks around to see her leaning on the doorframe “Sorry” he chuckles shyly as he places the frame back down on her nightstand

“Hungry?” she asks smiling

“Positively famished love”

Love, she should have cursed herself for almost blushing like a schoolgirl, but instead she held out her hand “Come on then” he smiles gently taking it in his, allowing her lead him down for dinner

Y/n showed Sirius to Harry’s bedroom down the hall, she gave him a hug saying ‘goodnight, wake me if you need anything’ before leaving the room to head back to her own. After he changed, Sirius glanced around Harry’s room. There were some old half opened letters on his desk, a picture of James and Lily on his nightstand alongside one of him and y/n, on his bed was a couple of photo albums, one he recognised as y/n’s, the other was new, hardly used. He picked them up placing them gently on Harrys desk before climbing into bed. He turned to the side, he leaned forward to turn the picture of James and Lily away from him, he lingered on the picture of y/n and Harry before doing the same thing. He laid back staring at the ceiling, he usually had trouble falling asleep, due to having constant nightmares, but it had been so long since he slept in a real bed he slipped off with ease.

Y/n closed the door behind her, letting out a sigh as she leant on the door. She smiled to herself as she walked over to her bed, picking up the photo of her and Sirius he was staring at earlier. She placed the photo back down, grabbing her pyjamas from last night, she gave them a sniff, before scrunching up her nose, tossing it into the laundry basket. She walked over nearby drawer grabbing the first shirt she could find. She threw her day clothes into the laundry basket, leaving her in her underwear, she slipped on the shirt only to realised it was too big for her. Picking up her wand from the nightstand she cast lumos, pulling the shirt a bit to view it she realised it was one of Sirius’ old band shirts. Too tired to pick out another she muttered nox, climbing under the covers. She glanced at the photo of her and Sirius one last time before closing her eyes, her thoughts filled with the raven-haired man down the hall as she fell asleep.

Y/n woke up abruptly to some kind of yell, as she rubbed her eyes as she came to, muffled sounds appeared to be coming from down the hall. She quickly launched across the bed to grab her wand before standing up, pointing her wand at her door as she opened it, before making her way down the hall. She soon realised the sounds were coming from Harry’s bedroom, she pointed her wand at the door as she slowly opened it, however, it was lowered as soon as she saw Sirius’ shifting figure moving back and forth. She placed her wand on Harry’s desk, closing the door gently behind her as she walked up to the bed. He was muttering something in his sleep but she couldn’t make out what it was, she climbed onto her bed kneeling next to his body she placed her a hand on his cheek and another on his chest as she tried to soothe him.

Sirius jolted up grabbing her wrist tightly as he woke, the girl let out a yelp, eyes widening in shock.

“Siri, it’s me, it’s y/n” he was shaking “You’re safe, you’re with me” with her free hand she reached up gently caressing his cheek.

As he came to his senses his grip loosened, he felt guilty, terrified he might have hurt her

“Merlin y/n, I’m…I’m so sorry” he pleaded, before checking her wrist for any sign of injury, she placed her hand over his moving his attention back to her face

“It’s okay, you didn’t hurt me. You did scare the crap out of me though” she smiled as she said the last bit trying to make him feel better, Sirius gave a small smile before letting out a sigh of relief

“I thought they found me” y/n’s expression changes to concern and sadness as she pulls him into a hug, Sirius tucks his head into the crook of her neck as she does

“You’re safe with me now, I won’t let them get you” she feels Sirius nod into her neck

After a few more minutes they pull apart, Sirius explains he’s used to the nightmares but they had gotten worse since he escaped. Y/n listened and tried to comfort him as much as she could, she could relate a little, for the first few months after she travelled in time she cried herself to sleep only to wake up from constant nightmares, but she knew his were much worse and she felt helpless, all she wished for was she could take them from him, suffer herself so he would be okay.

“You feeling better?” Y/n asks squeezing Sirius hand with hers

“Yeah, thanks love” Sirius smiles, y/n leans in to give him as small hug before attempting to get off the bed

Sirius looks at her contemplating something before grabbing her wrist, stopping her in her tracks. Turning back around he speaks, she can hear the emotion in his voice, the vulnerability, the fear, even a hint of hope, all summed up in one word, coming out as barley a whisper “Stay”

Y/n nods, not even needing a second to think about it. He lets go of her wrist allowing her to climb under the covers with him. Harry’s bed was a single so it was a tight fit. Sirius wrapped his arm around her, he didn’t attempt to make her move any closer in case she wasn’t comfortable, but his heart swelled when she snuggled into his side. His other arm came around her protectively, looking down at her, the girls head turned up to look at him.

“Night Siri” she smiles weakly at him, her eyes tired

“Night love” as she moves her head back to cuddle into his chest he leans down kissing the top of her head.

He smiles as he feels her head move to kiss his clothed chest before returning to its former position. It doesn’t take long for the two to drift off into dreamless sleeps.

Sirius was the first to wake, his eyes adjusting as the sun streams though the crack in the curtains. As he takes a deep breath he feels a weight on his chest, as he looks down he sees a y/h/c head of hair splayed over his chest. He takes a minute, recalling the events of the early hours of the morning, he smiles as he feels her hum into his chest, nuzzling herself deeper into him as her arm wraps a little tighter around his torso.

He looks over at the clock to see the time, 7:14, he could tell y/n needed some more sleep and from experience he knew she wasn’t a morning person. He remembered all the times he had to try and wake her for order meetings when they lived together, he’d practically have to drag her out of bed, while she grumpily told him to ‘fuck off’. Eventually he started making her a nice breakfast to lure her out of bed, waffles, French toast, full breakfast or her personal favourite, pancakes with syrup and blueberries.

He gently moved her, she seemed to whine a little at the loss of contact in her sleep, to which Sirius found incredibly cute, the sight became even more adorable as she snuggled into the pillow he moved to replace him. As he was about to leave, y/n kicked the covers down a bit as she was too warm, as she did Sirius noticed what she was wearing, his shirt, and only his shirt. He gulped as he caught sight of the start of the start of her underwear, he quickly pulled the quilt back up to cover her up. Sirius took once last glace at her sleeping figure before leaving the room, heading down to the kitchen.

He remembered that shirt well, he was originally going to throw it out but he changed his mind after his and James’ flat warming, when he gave it to her to put on after someone split a drink down her dress. He recalled how utterly cute yet sexy she looked in it, she definitely wore it better than him, he even remembered how Lily had hit him when she noticed him staring at her arse. As he got to the kitchen he tried to push way the inappropriate thoughts that had manifested.

Y/n woke to the sun hitting her face, stretching her arm across she realised she was hugging a pillow. Groggily looking around she noticed Sirius was gone, she looked up at the time, 8:26. She pulled herself out of the bed, walking out of the room she was hit with a smell that took her back in time, pancakes.

Before heading down the stairs she nipped into her bedroom, sliding on her slippers. She didn’t bother to put on trousers since the shirt was long enough to cover her, in truth she didn’t know why Sirius kept it, she remembered coming back from the concert with him, laughing about how he had misunderstood muggle sizing and got an extra-large. Smiling at the memory she headed down the stairs, as she did the smell got stronger, and she could now hear the faint sound of the radio.

Slowly walking into the kitchen, she saw Sirius humming gently to the radio as he was waiting for a pancake to bake. She leaned on the doorway admiring the way the tea towel was draped over his shoulder, her eyes fell down to his hips swaying with the music, she scandalously let herself stare at his ass for longer than she should have. She had to admit now he was all cleaned up he was still as handsome as ever, maybe even more so, his older, rugged appearance was doing thing to her she hadn’t felt in a long time.

She was too busy with her not so innocent daydreams, to notice Sirius looking over his shoulder to find her staring at what he soon realised was his own arse, enjoying the view huh love, he thought. He turned his head back, using the spatula to move the final pancake onto the plate. He couldn’t help but smile, his insecurities from the previous night beginning to melt away.

He moved to pick up the two plates, causing y/n to snap out of her daydream, her face flushed realising what she had just been thinking about. She’d be lying if she said she hadn’t had those kinds of daydreams about him before, but they had never affected her as much as this before.

“Morning” she looks up at him as he places the pancakes on the table, along with a jar of syrup

“Morning Siri” she shyly says moving to sit down next to him

Sirius noticed her flushed cheeks but chose not to tease her, instead he stood up moving her seat out for her to which she smiled thanking him.

“You remembered” She smiles as he places down the jug of orange juice and bowl of blueberries on the table, she turns to him as he sits down, giving him a lingering kiss on the cheek “Thank you for making all this”

“You’re welcome love” he smiled at her “Come on dig in, I didn’t slave away for you to just stare at it darling” she blushes nudging his shoulder playfully

As she goes to pour herself some orange juice, she leans over the table, Sirius can’t help but notice she hadn’t put bottoms on yet, guess it’s my turn to enjoy the view, he thinks. Allowing himself to admire much like y/n had done herself as parts of her upper thighs that were now visible as the shirt shifted upward. As they eat, the two can’t help but enjoy each other’s company, relishing in every stolen glance at one another, every graze of hands, and the domestic bliss of it all.

Once they finish and clean up, y/n leans on the table

“So, what’s the plan” she asks, he turns to look seeing her expression is quite serious

“Plan?” he tilts his head a bit confused

“To find Peter”

Y/n looks at him as if he is mad before it dawns on her, her mouth drops open and her eyes widen. She stands up abruptly, walking out of the room, leaving Sirius puzzled. He quickly stands himself, following her up the stairs

“Y/n?” he calls after her as he reaches the top of the stairs

“In here” she shouts back from her bedroom

Sirius walks into her room, he watches as she appears to be raking through one of her desk drawers

“Found it” she says to herself, Sirius looks at the scrap of newspaper, realising it’s the same one which lead him to break out of Azkaban

Y/n stares at the newspaper, she sees the rat in Ron’s hands, she crushes up the bit of paper in her hands, her nose scrunching up as anger seethes through her. She was beyond mad, he had been with the Weasley’s this whole time, he had been in the same room as Harry the last 2 years at Hogwarts, he was with Harry right this very second.

Sirius notices her anger, he felt the same think when he first saw it. He reaches out in an attempt to try and calm her down, “Y/n, you alright-”

Y/n stares at him “No Sirius! I’m not alright! I just found out my brothers’ killer has been right under my nose this whole time!” she exclaims, holding up the crumpled bit of paper, she collapses to the ground “Oh Godric, I’ve sent Harry right to him” her voice breaking as she says it looking up at Sirius, tears brimming her eyes

“What do you mean love?” Sirius kneels down in front of her, placing his hand on top of hers

“Ron and Hermione… they invited Harry to stay at the Leaky Cauldron with them this week before they head to Hogwarts, Siri he’s probably in the same room as him right now” she covers her face with her hand, closing her eyes tightly

Y/n’s chest felt tight, the thought of Peter being with Harry right now made her stomach churn. Sirius looked at her for a moment, processing, before he reaches out to pull her hand away from her face making her look at him

“Peters biding his time right now, he’s not going to do anything, I promise you love. He’ll know I’m coming for him but he doesn’t know you’re are still alive…right?” he looks at her for conformation

She nods “Harry told Ron and Hermione, but…Peter wouldn’t stay with the Weasley’s if he knew I was alive or if he had figured out Robin Evans was actually me”

Sirius nods “How much does Harry know about that night?”

“Everything, I told him the truth…but…” she trails off realising she left out one valuable piece of information

“But?” he extends the syllables

“He doesn’t know you, James or peter became animagi. I didn’t mention it because I would have to explain why you became them and…well…that isn’t my secret to tell”

“That explains some things then” Sirius says hesitantly

“What do you mean” she looks up at him, she knew that face, it was the same one he used to wear when Remus found out he ate the last of his chocolate or when he had to explain why all the Slytherins ropes turned pink to Professor McGonagall in their 6th year

“Well…I may have scared him a bit while he was waiting for the bus” Sirius cringes as he scratches the back of his neck

To Sirius’ surprise y/n cracks a smile “I leave him alone for five minutes….” she giggles, causing Sirius to smile too, her voice trails off as her gaze falls to a bit of paper lying on the floor, it must have fallen during her raking “…oh shit!” she picks it up

“What?”

“I forgot to sign Harrys Hogsmeade slip” she pouts looking at it

Sirius bursts out laughing, Merlin she’s adorable

“What?” she asks trying not to laugh with him

“Nothing, it’s just we went from discussing a murderer whose currently with our godson right now to you being upset you didn’t sign a school permission slip” he can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of what he’s saying

“There was a reason Moody never let us go on many Order missions together” Sirius nods, they laugh together for a while, eventually the compose themselves, deciding to get dressed so they can start planning.

Y/n places their bag with the extension charm on the table “Here, we can use this to pack everything we’ll need when we get to Hogsmeade”

“We?” Sirius questions “Y/n, I’m sorry but there’s no way I’m letting you come with me, after we go to the train station you are coming back here” his voice is firm, gesturing to the cottage

He did not just try to side line me, she thought, growing annoyed he’s treating her like she couldn’t handle herself. Y/n knew that they had a better chance at catching Peter together, although she was impulsive herself, she knew Sirius was worse, especially considering he had obsessed about finding him for the last 12 years. If he went alone he might go a bit too far, but if she was there she could hold him back, they could be more calculated in their approach. Not to mention he was currently an escaped convict, if he was spotted it would make it harder to get to Peter

“Sirius there is no way in hell I’m letting you do this alone, I’m coming with you whether you like it or not mister” She challenges, pointing her figure into his chest as she said ‘mister’

Sirius huffs in frustration, y/n was just as stubborn as him, he should have known she’d argue with him. Couldn’t she see he was trying to protect her, he couldn’t risk losing her again.

“I said no y/n, it’s too danger-”

“Dangerous? You’re kidding me…I was an Auror during a wizarding war for Godric’s sake, I faced you-know-who himself and lived to tell the tale. I can look after myself, stop treating me like I’m useless, trust me I feel that enough already” Sirius can hear the cracks in her voice as she says the last part

Y/n had faced some of the worst death eaters during the war, her and Bellatrix had multiple duels over those years. On one particular mission, y/n, Fabian and Frank found themselves facing Voldemort himself, along with the Lastrange brothers and Bellatrix. They had unknowingly walked directly into a trap, as Frank and Fabian thought off the others, y/n ended up in a duel with Voldemort.

The dark lord was impressed at how long she was able to hold him off, just as he was going to defeat her she threw a spell at a nearby wall, blasting it apart, giving her and the boys time to apparate away. It was shortly after that encounter Sirius and y/n moved in together, after facing him she was put on his radar, he wanted her alive, with the intention of either torturing her for information or convincing her to join him, much like he had done with Peter.

Sirius expression softens “Love, please. I know you can handle yourself, hell…I know for a fact you can kick my arse with ease. I…I just couldn’t forgive myself if something happened again, if you get caught helping me…” he trails off as he tries to pled with her

“No, we only just found each other. I refuse for us to be apart, I…I won’t lose you again” her eyes start to water as she talks, she reaches out taking his hand in hers “We’re a team Siri, we do this together…please”

Sirius looks at her, he could never resist those big doe eyes of hers, he closes his eyes sighing, how can I say no when you ask me like that. Deep down he knew she was right, he shouldn’t do this alone.

“Come on snuffles keep up” Y/n resists the urge to smile as she hears Sirius practically groan in his dog form as the wave through the crowds at King’s Cross

The two were making their way to platform 9 ¾, over the last few days they had come up with a plan, getting everything together they needed. Y/n booked a room for her and her ‘dog’ in one of the B&B’s on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, they also packed some potions just in case, as well as clothes that would last them until Christmas. She wasn’t sure if Harry would come home or not for the holidays, so they decided if they hadn’t caught Peter by Christmas they would take a break and regroup over the holidays before trying again in the new year.

Y/n and Sirius made their way through the wall onto the platform, she quickly moved to a quieter part of the platform down from the train, where no one ever went. From behind one of the large pillars they had a good view of the train. She owled Harry the day before asking him to wait for her at the front of the train, so she could give him the slip

The area around them was deserted enough Sirius found it safe to shift back into his human form, making y/n jump a bit as he appeared next to her “Oh hey...” she laughs a bit

“Hey” he smiles at her leaning out slightly to check if Harry has arrived yet “You know I really don’t like the name snuffles; can’t we change it to something cooler? Like…Moony?” Y/n laughs at his complaining before snapping her head

“Moony? I do bel…” she’s cut off by Sirius pulling her to look out at the crowd around the train

Her eyes widen as she sees her old friend, Rem. Seeing him made her feel a mixture of relief and guilt, she debated over the last couple years about asking Dumbledore or Moody to help her find him. According to what she heard, Remus seemed to believe Sirius really was the traitor, she was scared that maybe he would think she was one too, a fear which prevented her from reaching out.

“You didn’t tell me he was one of the professors” Sirius asks her as they return to hiding behind the pillar

“He isn’t, I know all of Harry’s teachers…oh! He might be the new dark arts teacher. You know we always said Moony would make a good teacher, although it won’t be hard beat the last one, considering the catastrophe that was Lockhart’s tenure” they smile at each other at the knowledge Remus was most likely the new DADA professor, the man chuckles at her insult towards Lockhart, he always thought the man was an insufferable prick

Y/n peaks her head out once again, Remus must have already boarded the train. After a few minutes of discussing whether Remus’ presence could throw a cog in their plans, as well as debating whether they should try to get him on board, they decide to hold off on telling Remus for now. He was starting a new job, it would be unfair of them to pull him into their mess.

Sirius leans out spotting Harry has just shown up, “Godric, I don’t think I’m ever going to get over how much he looks like him”

Y/n looks over at Harry, nodding as she takes off her bag handing it to Sirius, she opens it reaching her hand in to pull out the permission slip

“Be back in a flash” she winks as she changes into a robin, her little talons clutching the folded bit of paper

Sirius smiles at her as she flies up and around towards Harry, she had mentioned briefly becoming an animagus to him, he was impressed she managed to do it all by herself, although she was always the smartest out of all of them. He only saw her for a mere second last time, but now he got a good look at her, he thought a robin suited her rather well. He watches from afar as Harry smiled brightly at the bird landing on his trolley

“Thanks, auntie” he whispers, the animal winks at him before letting go of the paper as it flies up and away

Sirius’ eyes are glued to Harry as he watches him look overjoyed while walking away down the length of the train. He feels a something land on him, looking to the side he sees her perched on his shoulder.

“Well hello there. You know Moony should have let you become one of these sooner, imagine the mischief we could have gotten up to” he chuckles, his heart flutters as he feels the bird nuzzle into his cheek, his little bird

She jumps off his shoulder shifting back into her regular form “We got up to enough mischief… although remind me once this is all over to show you my latest plans to screw with the crabbit old muggle down the street”

Sirius chuckles before hearing the trains whistle sound “We should get going if we’re gonna catch the train” he attempts to move away but she holds him back, shaking her head at him

“We aren’t taking the train” she looks at him with a cheeky smile

“Reminded me of the good old days” Sirius notes as they start to walk in the direction of Hogsmeade

“Yeah” She smiles, walking ahead of him, turning around so she’s walking backwards “Hey, you remember the first time you took James on it” she starts giggling

Sirius chuckles remembering that day “He screamed like a little baby”

“You know you’d think for a guy that played quidditch all his life he’d be less scared of a bike”

Sirius watches her fondly as she giggles, he walks up to her, wrapping his arm around her “I also remember the day I got it”

 flashback

“What in the name of…” Y/n wakes up to knock or clink at her window

She sits up, stretching groggily as she gets up to go to the window. Just as she gets to the curtain, there’s another clink at the window. “Jeez louise I’m coming, I’m coming” she says as she opens the curtain, to see Sirius hanging on the pipe next to her window

“Merlin” she opens up the window, letting him climb into her room “You realise you used to live here right, you don’t need to sneak in” she questions smiling at his antics

“I know but where’s the fun in that darling” Sirius winks at her, y/n tries her best to hide her blush, shifting to close the window

As y/n closes the window he smiles, she was wearing one of his shirts, with some red tartan bottoms. Y/n had stayed with her parents after he and James moved into a flat together, her flat with Alice and Lily wouldn’t be ready for another month. Sirius missed her, with them both being assigned different mentors they hardly saw each other anymore, which is why after he made the impulse decision to buy a motorbike, he rode it straight to the Potters household after adding a couple magic modifications.

It was funny, James had always been his closest friend, a brother to him, his chosen family, but he never saw y/n as a sister. She was the one he felt he could be most vulnerable with, the person he wanted to tell first when he got good news or bad, his best friend, and the girl he didn’t realise he had fell for until he hit the ground

“So, what brings you back to my neck of the woods” she plops herself down next to him on her bed

He gives her a cheeky smile “I know that look, what did you do?” she asks

Now she got a good look at him, she noticed he was wearing his favourite leather jacket and he had a new tattoo poking out the top of his slightly unbuttoned shirt. He looked great, he always did though, there was a reason people fell for him, and she was no different.

“Put on some shoes, love” he taps her leg standing up “Got something I wanna show you”

Y/n giggles a little “Sir yes sir” she pretends to salute as she goes over to the chair by her bed

Sirius chuckles, before his eyes widen as she looks up at him ready to pull down her pyjama bottoms “Sirius turn around” she motions at him “You didn’t think I would go out in my pjs did you?”

“oh…right” Sirius turns around, blushing a little, merlin what’s wrong with me, why am I blushing

Y/n slips on her jeans and shoes, it was early August so she didn’t bother with a jacket. She walks over to the window, opening it, sitting one leg in one leg out as she calls out to him “You coming Siri”

He turns around smiling a little as he nods, following her out the window and down the pipe. He’d told multiple girls over the years he hated being called Siri but never y/n. He liked when she called him it, she never called him by his marauders name despite calling the rest by theirs, it made him feel special.

“Ta da” Sirius gestures to the motorbike, presenting his latest pride and joy

Y/n’s eyes light up, her mouth agape before morphing into a huge smile “You didn’t” she playfully hits him in the shoulder, walking up to check out the bike

“I did, I’m assuming you approve?”

“Hell yeah” she smiles back at him again, running her hands over the handlebars

His heart leaps at her reaction, he didn’t know why, but her approval meant more than anything to him. He steps forward, mounting the bike.

She looks at him hopefully “Can we…” she gestures to the bike

“You didn’t think I rode it all the way here just to show it off, did you?” he chuckles handing her the spare helmet.

Y/ns eyes light up as she takes it from him, slipping it on. Just as she’s about to mount the bike behind him, he stops her “No no, you’re going to want to sit in front, trust me”

She eyes him sceptically before mounting the bike. Sirius moves forward chuckling at her as she gasps a little at his close proximity, her back flush against his chest. Sirius starts the engine, moving his hands onto hers to get her to grip the handlebars, before pressing a little button on the small console, he looked around for a second making sure the area was clear before speeding off, the bike starting to rise up as it gained speed

“Holy shit! It can fly” Y/n grabs the handles a little tighter, sure she was used to flying a broom but the bike felt different, now she understood why Sirius wanted her to sit in front, she’d probably would’ve fell off already

“Don’t worry love, I’ve got you” Sirius wraps one arm around her, moving his head to kiss her cheek before resting it on her shoulder

“That was awesome!” Y/n exclaims as she takes off her helmet

“Glad you enjoyed it love, just wait until your brother gets a shot” He leans on the side of the bike, his face unable to hold back his smiles

“Wait Jams doesn’t know yet?” She looks at him in shock, her heart fluttering that he let her see it first, he shakes his head

“Well, I’m honoured to be your first passenger” she walks up to him, handing him the helmet, to which he takes placing it beside his own on the back of the bike

“Your welcome, I needed a good guinea pig” he teases, to which the girl scoffs

“Don’t worry, if the girls don’t fall for you enough already, they’ll sure as hell will with this bad boy” Y/n jokes, smiling at him, pretending not to feel the small pang in her heart

“Aww you know you’re my best girl” he winks, to which she rolls her eyes

Sirius looks down at her, he notices her shiver a little from the breeze “Here” he shrugs off his jacket “take this”

She shakes her head “Siri, I’m literary at my house keep it”

He ignores he draping the jacket over her shoulders, she looked up at his face pouting with fake annoyance, before slipping her arms through the jacket properly. He smiles, it was a little big on her but she looked great in it, perfect even, it was then he hit the ground, I love her, fuck prongs is gonna kill me

Y/n looked up smiling at him “What?”

His life altering realisation was cut short by Y/n’s mother, Euphemia shouting, “Sirius Orion Black! Y/n me Potter...”

end of flashback 

“She was livid” Y/n giggles “You know she grounded me until I moved in with Lils and Alice”

As their laughs die down, the stop Hogsmeade as they reach the end of the forest. Sirius shifts into his dog form, sticking close to y/ns side as they walk down the last stretch. Y/n adjusts her scarf as they walk through town, even though her scar was quite old, it was unique and she didn’t want to draw any attention to herself. There was a small chance someone might recognise her, they had taken some precautions, obviously Sirius would remain in his dog form whenever they were in public, and y/n planned to use her animagus form to sneak in and out of the room. However, as she walked through the town, as when she had to interact with other people, she would wear a turtle neck, or scarf and use her hair or a hat to shield her face and scar. They knew it would get easier once it approached late autumn, the extra layers would make it easier to cancel her identify, as well as Sirius’ if he couldn’t shift for any reason.

When they got to the B&B, Sirius begrudgingly let the owner’s daughter play with him as y/n checked in. Once they got up to the room, Sirius shifted back. They were on the first floor, in a room at the back of the building, they were lucky with the way the canopy on the side of the building was, it meant Sirius could also sneak out of the room in his form. They set up a map of hogsmeade and the castle on the desk in the room, y/n also charmed it, much like the one they used when creating the marauders map so the maids who came in to clean wouldn’t see what they were up if they were nosy.

They came up with a cover story, she told the owner she was a herbology geek that was combing the forest for her latest study, and her dog was helping her sniff out the right plants. That way they could come and go, often heading towards the forest and hence Hogwarts, without much suspicion. Plus, after she bored the inns keeper half to death with useless knowledge, the inn keeper made a note not to bother with any gossip on her since she seemed too boring to harbour any.

Only thing they hadn’t thought of was there was only one double bed in the room. The first night was a bit awkward, both attempting to stay on their respective side as they tried to fall asleep. Sirius wanted to respect her space, it took everything in him not to turn around and wrap his arms around her. Y/n wasn’t any different, all she wanted was to shuffle over and cuddle into him like they had the night of their reunion.

The first week was slow, plotting exactly how they were going to get to peter, y/n knew from both Molly and Harry that Ron was very protective over ‘Scabbers’, so it wasn’t going to be easy to steal him if Ron was constantly around. That was until y/n received a letter from her nephew with some interesting information, he wrote that Crookshanks, Hermione’s new cat seemed to be constantly trying to attack Ron’s rat. Y/n had noticed in her animagus form that regular birds and other animals were able to tell she wasn’t a real robin, which meant Crookshanks could also tell what, or more like who Scabbers really was.

Y/n and Sirius planned to gain the cats trust, since y/n could effortlessly fly into Hogwarts undetected, she would be able to get to Crookshanks quite easily. The thought of her flying through one of the windows into Harry and Ron’s dorm had crossed their minds, but it would be risky, not to mention once she’s in she would have no way of getting Peter out of there without him anyone noticing. Then, there was the problem that any of the boys in the dorm could be in there, and there was no guarantee Peter would even stay in there and could too easier slip away as rat when he realised it was her

Sirius and Y/n decided not to tell Harry about the true identity of Scabbers, y/n had explained what he’d gotten up to before, with the troll, philosophers stone, and the chamber of secrets. They knew if Harry found out the man who was responsible was within his reach he would so something about it. Besides, she wanted Harry to have a normal year, be a regular teen for once, and let his Godparents handle the rat.

In his letter Harry had asked if he should tell Remus she was alive, he mentioned that Remus helped with a dementor that got onto the train, and after their encounter he felt like he could trust him. This made Sirius and y/n smile, they knew Remus was trustworthy, he was the best out of all of them, but they couldn’t risk him getting involved, not yet anyway. Y/n wrote back asking not to tell to him she was alive, as he still believed Sirius was a traitor, she mentioned she had a lead on Peter, and it kept Remus safer if he didn’t know the truth for now.

By the end of November, their plan seemed to be going well, y/n and Sirius were slowly gaining Crookshanks trust. That was until Halloween, when Sirius was growing impatient, feeling cooped up in their room. Luckily y/n managed to convince him not to do anything rash, leading them to go a long walk in the forest, even going a ride on the bike, letting him clear his head. Afterward, Sirius was glad she stopped him, if he had gone through with it he would have alerted everyone he was there. While at the moment despite there being dementors roaming the grounds, no one could say for certainty that Black was there or if he would even come to Hogwarts, which they hoped meant they could catch Peter off guard.

“Were there always these many stairs or am I just less fit than I thought I was” Sirius puffs a bit, as they near the top

Y/n chuckles a little at his complaining, but nods in agreement as she says “You’re not the only one. Actually…think this is the first time I’ve climbed one of these”

“Really?” he looks at her raising an eyebrow “I though you said you watched Harrys games last year?”

“Yes, and yes…but I was always playing back when we were a school and I can fly remember” She shifts into her form flying up the last flight of stairs before shifting back, a smug smile on her face

“That’s not fair” he shakes his head, huffing before trudging up the steps

As they pair see people starting to head to the stands they both shift into their animagus forms, Sirius jumps up to sit on one of the benches at the back. Y/n moves to perch herself on top of his head, Sirius looks up, despite being a dog it was clear he was smiling.

Y/n and Sirius watch in anticipation as Gryffindor and Hufflepuff play, after a couple hours, Gryffindor is winning. As Harry spots the snitch he also spots a dog in the stands, spooking him. In his shock over the sight of the same dog he fails to see his aunt is with him, while he’s distracted he fails to see the 100 or so dementors until they are right on top of him. Y/n and Sirius watch in horror as Harry is knocked off his broom plummeting towards the ground, fortunately Dumbledore appears to ease his fall.

Sirius heads back to the Inn, while y/n flies into the hospital wing to check on Harry. As she flies up to the open window, she settles on top of it, watching as people came and gone visiting Harry. After a while, everyone leaves, the other students in the infirmary were asleep, along with Harry himself. She flies down into the room, shifting as she lands by his bed. Taking one of his hands with hers, before moving one to his hair in a motherly fashion.

She had overhead Madam Pomfrey say he would be okay but she watched to keep him over the weekend, but she was still worried. For some strange reason, she felt like the dementors where going after Harry on purpose. She didn’t think the train was an accident either, she didn’t know much about the logistics that saved Harry that night and defeat Voldemort, but she did wonder if Dumbledore was keeping something. She brushed away the thought for now, Dumbledore always did things for a reason, sure he was cryptic and to a degree, damn right manipulative, but she didn’t think he would do anything to intentionally hurt Harry.

After a few minutes she shifted and flew away, unbeknownst to her, the one and only Severus Snape witnessed the interaction. He was coming to check on Harry himself when he saw a robin fly in and shift, he realised that must be Robin Evans the women that adopted him, but the man never believed for a second that was her real name. At the same time, he never thought the women would be none other than Y/n Potter herself, a woman that’s been thought to be dead the last 12 years. Snape watched as she seemed to comfort Harry in his sleep, he saw the way she looked over him with such love, like a mother would.

Although he hated James, and all the marauders for that matter, he didn’t completely despise y/n. She never seemed to play a part in their cruelty towards him, in fact she’d actually told them off a few times for going too far. Y/n was also a prankster but unlike her friends she pranked those who deserved it, like she pranked anyone that called lily, or any other muggleborn students a mudblood, she pranked the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff girls that bullied and shamed others and she even pranked fellow Gryffindors, including her brother and friends when they went too far.

Snape decided to keep what he saw to himself, but to keep an eye out for that robin from now on. As the man walked away he recalled how well she had aged, he pondered why she waited until last year to seek adoption of harry, or if she was helping Black. If she was helping him, why would she care for Harry? He started to wonder if Harry might not be the one Black was after, he shook away the thoughts, deciding not to jump to any conclusions.

Y/n made her way up to their room, as she opened the door she was met with Sirius, sitting on the edge of the bed, head hung, hands fiddling nervously. As he heard the door his head shot up

“Is he okay?” the worry was evident in his voice

She closes the door, walking over, taking a seat next to him, before grasping his hand “He’s fine Siri, I overheard Poppy saying he’ll be just fine” y/n left out that part where she heard her say the dementors were having an alarming effect on Harry, it was clear Sirius felt like he was to blame

“This is all my…” she cuts him off, bringing her hands up, forcing him to look at her

“Sirius Black this isn’t your fault, don’t you dare blame yourself” she scolds him

“They showed up because of…” she puts her hand over his mouth shutting him up again

“They showed up on the train and you weren’t there, so no they didn’t show up because of you. Got it?”

Sirius gestures with his eyes, “Oh” she chuckles taking her hand off his face

“I’m not to blame” he mutters

“Sorry I didn’t quite get that?” she tried to get him to laugh with her, but he’s not in the mood

“I’m not saying it again…I’m going to bed” he stands up walking over to get into the bed, climbing in, he watches as she sighs heading into the bathroom to get changed.

Sirius looks over at y/n’s figure, turned away from him, he shouldn’t have dismissed her like that, she only trying to help. He turned around, shifting a little closer to her, wrapping his arm around her slowly, giving her ample time to swat his arm away if she was uncomfortable. His heart flutters as her own hand moves down to cup his, giving it a squeeze, he takes this as permission to move closer, pulling her into him.

“It’s not my fault” he whispers, she doesn’t say anything, just squeezes his hand again, smiling to herself

Sirius smiles a little, snuggling into her, the two feeling at peace as they fall asleep in each other arms, both saying I love you in their head to one another

“Morning” he returns her smile, while y/n soaks up his ruff morning voice

“Mornin’, what time is it?” she asks still a little groggy

“5 to 9, love, we’ve got plenty time” she smiles up at him, just as she was about to try and convince him to let her snooze for another 20 minutes there’s a tap at the window

She lifts her head slightly to see what it is, or rather who, Hedwig. Happy to see her nephew’s owl, she waves her hand opening the window, letting the animal fly in and perch itself at the side of the bed, letter in hand, or more like in beak

“Show off” Sirius scoffs, moving up to sit against the headboard

Y/n spent a good chuck of her time practicing non-verbal magic when she was at Hogwarts and even more during the years between traveling in time and moving into the cottage with Harry. Much like her animagus, she tended to use it for mundane things, causally flexing the ability, like stirring her tea as she read the morning paper.

“Thanks, Wiggy” she takes the letter from the owl “Treats are by the window like usual, go nuts pal” she smiles at the animal as it flies over to pick up a treat, taking a little rest waiting encase y/n wants to send a reply right away.

Y/n sits back against the head board with Sirius, as she opens the letter Sirius speaks “Harry picked a fine owl” he wraps his arm around her casually

“He did, I’m so glad he didn’t get one like Errol or we’d be replacing that window. Honestly I’m thinking of buying them a new one, Ron will need a new pet anyway” they chuckle a little as she unfolds the letter

She reads as Sirius pets Hedwig, who has moved back to sit on the bedside table next to him, he turns back to see her grinning up at him “What?” he can’t help but mirror her expression

Before she can answer, there is a knock at the door, Sirius shifts on instinct, lucky he did as the maid opens the door, half walking in but stopping when she sees y/n sitting up on the bed with her ‘dog’

“Oh, hello dear, I thought this room was empty, I’ll come back later” the older women apologises, as she’s about to leave, her eyes linger a little too long on Hedwig for y/n and Sirius’ liking

The lady leaves, her expression thoughtful like she was putting together a puzzle. As the door closes, y/n leans over to grab her wand muttering a locking spell, as Sirius shifts back.

“Hedwig’s becoming to recognisable” she states, getting up from the bed, walking over to the desk, quickly writing a reply to Harry, before handing it to the owl

Sirius walks into the bathroom to get changed as y/n does the same in the room. As he walks out he catches a glimpse of y/n as she pulls up her jeans. Turning around she trys not to smile a little at the dusting of pink appearing on the man’s cheeks

“Oh, here, I fixed the charm so it’ll shift with you. Don’t want an incident like last week do we” Sirius hands her their bag, trying not to chuckle too much, biting back a smile

“It’s wasn’t funny!” she exclaims but is still smiling “It really hurt” she pouts as she puts the bag on

He loses his composure begging to laugh as he speaks “Aww love” he kisses the side of her head

In truth it was hilarious, Sirius was sure he was never going forget the bird shaped hole she left in the snow out after half plummeting off the awning. The pair shift climbing/flying out the window, making the short hike back to where they hid the bike.

After packing up their stuff Sirius turns to y/n, “Hey, what was in Harrys letter, you looked so happy before we were interrupted”

“Oh!” the girls eyes widen, excitement filling her as she grins at him “Ready to meet your godson again?”

“Y/n, love, calm down” Sirius tries to console her after watching her pace around the kitchen for the last half an hour

Harry was using the floo network to get hone, so he would be arriving any minute. Y/n was anxious, they couldn’t risk putting it in a letter, so she hadn’t told him Sirius would be here

“Love” Sirius holds her wrists getting her to look at him “It’s going to be fine, if anyone should be nervous it’s the escaped convict…well… innocent escaped convict, but still”

She takes a deep breath, closing her eyes as she nods. She hears the fireplace and a light thump from the living room. “Stay here I’ll greet him and then you can come in when I signal”

“Okay love” he gives her a reassuring smile, kissing her forehead before she turns to head into the living room

“Auntie” Harry smiles as he gently places his small travel case down

“Welcome home kid” her nerves fade away as she sees him, walking up to engulf the boy in a warm embrace

As she pulls back she smiles down at him “Don’t freak out okay?” she whispers, Harry tilts his head in confusion but nods in agreement, watching as she walks back to the door, waving for someone to come in

“Harry. This is your godfather, Sirius” she gestures to Sirius, who walks in slowly

Harrys eyes widen a little in shock, his appearance was night and day compared to the one he saw plastered around the Leaky cauldron, Diagon alley and Hogsmeade. He looked more like the photos his aunt had in her albums, only a bit older and now he had a full beard.

Sirius looked over y/n, who currently had her head tilted, biting her lip watching Harrys reaction, he watched as her expression morphed into a smile, turning to look at him. He looks back to the boy who’s now beaming, his heart bursting with the knowledge he gets to spend the Christmas not with his aunt, but Sirius too.

“I’ll leave you too to get reacquainted, soup and sandwiches okay for lunch?” Harry and Sirius nod smiling but still staring at one another

As y/n leaves she gives Sirius’ hand a light squeeze, he pulls his gaze from Harry to turn and give her a light squeeze back, kissing the side of her head, watching he fondly as she walks into the kitchen. His attentions snap back to Harry, who appears to have an eye brow raised, head tilted, Sirius quickly gestures from him to sit, attempting to break the ice, while trying not to make it obvious he’s unequivocally in love with the boy’s aunt

The next week leading up to Christmas was wonderful, everyday feeling like a dream. Harry loved it, he felt whole, having a real family, he hoped every holiday could be like this from now on. He especially loved Sirius’ stories, the man was a natural story teller, explaining all the pranks and mischief he and James got up to when they were younger.

He did slip up though, calling James, Prongs, during one of the stories, leading Harry to question it. Sirius explained it was a nickname, lying about it being because his Patronus was a stag. Y/n helped divert his attention from it by telling him Lily’s Patronus was a doe, proving his parents were true soulmates.

Before Harry showed up, Sirius slept in his room, then when Harry came home, y/n set up the pull-out couch for him, much to his and y/n dismay. They both missed the feeling of lying next to each other, but neither one was brave enough to take the step and bring it up

On Christmas, y/n woke up around 7:30 to make Harry breakfast, she and Sirius had already left their gifts for him under the tree the night before. As she reached the bottom of the stairs she could already see the light coming from the kitchen, the smell of bacon and pancakes beginning to fill the air.

She entered the kitchen, smiling as she saw Sirius still in his pyjamas, peering into the fridge looking for something. Y/n walks over to the kettle, moving to the sink to fill it up placing it on the stove. Sirius turns from his current exploration of the fridge to see her, he smiles before turning back, finally spotting the butter in the very back of the fridge.

“Merry Christmas love” Sirius places the butter down on the kitchen table as he walks over to y/n

“Merry Christmas Siri” she smiles up at him

He leans down to plant a kiss on her cheek but stops before he reaches her, seeing something move above him. Y/n looks at Sirius in confusion before following his gaze to see mistletoe growing above them, he looks back at her, now or never, if she doesn’t kiss back we blame it on the mistletoe

He reaches up to cup her cheek, causing her to look back at him before he gently captures her lips with his own. She returns the kiss right away, her hands finding their way to his chest, as one of his own moves to the back of her head deepening the kiss while the other snakes around her waist.

Their kiss is cut short by a thump in the living room, caused by Harry as he half jumped down the stairs. They pull away, y/n quickly moving to the kettle, while Sirius moves to place their breakfast on the table. Both of them with smiles plastered on their faces as Harry runs in, the boy smiles seeing them looking so happy, even more so as he sees the retreating mistletoe

Harry might have been a bit oblivious sometimes, but from the moment he got home even he could see how much his aunt and godfather loved each other. He saw every stolen glance, every fond smile, how they looked at each other like they were the only people in the entire world. He thought about asking them if they were together outright, but as the days went on he noticed neither seemed brave enough to make the first move.

So, he decided to give them a little push, the twins had showed him a spell for mistletoe as they were planning on trying to prank a couple professors with it, a spell he cast the night before with the hope they would catch each other under it. 

“Merry Christmas!” He beams at them

“Merry Christmas kid!” y/n walks over, planting a kiss on his cheek as she gives him a hug, then proceeds to usher him to his seat to eat breakfast before it gets cold

“Merry Christmas Harry” Sirius pats the boy on the back as he takes a seat next to him

While they eat, Sirius and Y/n can’t help but smile. The man was overjoyed that she kissed him back, really kissed him too, while the girl blushed thinking about how he kissed her, he was so gentle but the passion in it was overwhelming, both hoping to Godric it wasn’t going to be a onetime thing.

Once they finished, y/n used magic to clean up the dishes, since she was eager to see Harry’s reaction to his gifts, especially the one Sirius got him. Harry opened hers first, she got him a new pair of quidditch gloves, his favourite chocolate and a camera she got Sirius to help charm so it could fly around taking photos itself.

Harry gave her a huge hug before turning to pick up the gift Sirius got him. As he opened it up, his eyes blew open, excitement filling him as he picked up the firebolt, turning to Sirius with an elated expression, smiling widely.

“Gryffindor isn’t going to win the cup if their seeker had no broom were they” Sirius smirked, pleased with himself as he sees the boys reaction

“You like it?” Y/n asks, giggling a little at Harrys childlike glee as he exclaims “Yes!”

Harry looks between the two of them thinking for a second before asking “Can I go try it out, please auntie y/n?” he looks at Sirius for help convincing her, both turning to look at her for some kind of answer

“I don’t know, we live a bit too close to town, plus that nosy old man down at number 3 is already a bit suspicious of us” she says timidly, looking at Sirius

“I’ll go with him to look out encase grumpy McGee goes for a Christmas walk. Plus, Harry can bring his cloak, it’ll be alright love” he gives her a reassuring smile, squeezing her hand

“Fine, but be back by dinner, molly taught me how to cook over the summer and I’ll be damned if I slave away just for you to take him for pizza while you’re out again” She points at the man, a small smile grazing her face as she scolds him, before he and Harry head up the stairs to get changed

Sirius came down the stairs first, grabbing his coat, readying himself to go out. Y/n hadn’t bothered to get changed yet, still in a t shirt and shorts. She grabbed his scarf, gently wrapping it around his neck while he watched her, after which she leaned up gently pecking his lips, leaving the man pleasantly surprised, and the girl blushing a bit.

Before he could say something or perhaps pull her in for a proper kiss, Harry came down the stairs, all wrapped up, broom in one hand, cloak in the other. Y/n told them both to stay safe, smiling to herself as she watched them walk off into the big fields that neighboured the cottage.

Harry had already gone off to bed when Sirius finished cleaning the plates from dinner. He walked into the living room to see y/n holding a wrapped gift

“It’s not much, but I thought you’d like it” she shyly hands it to him

He takes it as they sit down on the couch together “Thanks love” he says, softly kissing her cheek

“Come on open it” she nudges him, biting her lip in anticipation

“Okay okay” he chuckles, beginning to rip open the wrapping paper, freezing as he lifts out the gift

“I fixed it” 

Sirius stares at the jacket, his favourite, good as new, even the rips on the inside had been patched up, the same jacket she was wearing the day he realised he loved her. Merlin, I love her so much, he thinks as he looks over at her

“Thank you” he places his hand to the back of her head, pulling her to him, placing a lingering kiss on her forehead

“Stay here, I’ll be right back” y/n nods as he walks over to their bag pulling out a small box

He hands it to her, relishing in the way her eyes light up with the knowledge he got her something. She opens the box to see a necklace, it was simple, silver chain with a larger citrine pendant

in the middle, along with small robin and dog pendants on either side.

“When did you get this” she turns to him, her eyes misty, looking up at him, eyes filled with adoration

“Remember when me and Harry came back that day with pizza?” she nods “Well we went to the jewellers instead...well...Harry went in for me, then got pizza while we waited on them making it”

“I feel terrible for shouting at you both now” she lets out a breathy laugh, Sirius chuckles with her, moving a piece of hair out of her face

“You like it?” He asks, although he already knows the answer based on her expression

“I like it? I love it!” she half launches herself into his side, nuzzling her head into his chest as he wraps his arms around her, placing a kiss on the top of her head

After a while they pull back “We should get to bed, its late” Sirius nods, standing up he walks over to the couch to set it up

Y/n stands, gently taking his wrist, stopping him in his tracks, turning to stare at her eyebrows kitted together

“Come on” she leads him away from the couch, motioning to the stairs, while Sirius just continues to stare at her wide eyed

Fuck, please tell me I haven’t misread this, she thinks biting her lip nervously

“You sure?” is all he can get out, a ghost of a smile grazing his face

As she nods, he moves to let her take his hand in hers, allowing her to lead him upstairs to her bedroom

“I have an idea of how we can find Peter, it’s clear our Crookshanks idea isn’t going to work, not when Ron and Hermione keep intervening” Y/n states as they finish their breakfast

“Agreed” Sirius moves the plates into the sink before taking a seat next to her “What’s you’re amazing idea my love” he places his hand on her knee as she turns on her seat to face him

My love, she couldn’t help but hold back a blush, it was times like this she wanted to tell him how she felt. Little did she know the man in front of her was thinking the same. Despite taking their relationship from platonic to romantic, they hadn’t spoke about what they were yet, neither brought it up, whatever they were both were too happy to ruin it with that conversation. Even if both were the definition of fools in love, they both had insecurities.

Sirius was anxious about their new age gap, even if it was caused by time travel. Y/n was young, beautiful and brilliant, it didn’t help that Molly seemed to be hinting at setting her up with her son, Bill. When Sirius first heard he had to take a moment to do the math, she was only 6 months older than the eldest Weasley and from the newspaper article he’d seen, as handsome as they came, why would she what to be with him when she could be with someone like Bill?

Y/n had her fears too, Sirius hadn’t been with anyone in over 13 years, before that he was a serial flirt and famous lady’s man. She remembered their time back at Hogwarts, how her heart broke a little every time she saw him with a new hickey on his neck, kissing a girl at a party after a game, leading one back to his dorm room, or when some girls would brag in the changing rooms about their latest encounter with the famous Sirius Black. Even though he was older, he still looked handsome, she saw the smiles from the muggles on the street at him, how his flirting was still natural to him, she was worried she would just be another one of Sirius Blacks girls, instead of being Sirius Blacks girl.

“Well, you remember what Flitch confiscated from us in our final year?” his eyes light up

“Our map, merlin we should have been looking for that from the beginning” he sighs, feeling a bit stupid for not thinking of it sooner

“Yeah, I was thinking the maps definitely small enough that I could carry it even as a bird, and if I can sneak into his office I should be able to steal it back. Then we can…mhm”

She’s cut off by Sirius lips on hers, pulling back she stares at him in bewilderment “Couldn’t help myself, you can continue now” her expression remains unchanged “Sorry” he cringes, feeling guilty for being a bit too impulsive

She snaps back to reality “Oh no, it’s no problem just give a girl some warning next time” she smiles at him, the man smiles sighing in relief as he does, glad she wasn’t upset.

He flashes his famous smirk, glint of mischief as he teases her “Incoming kiss in 10…9…8…” he moves slowly towards her

The girl scrunches up her nose in fake annoyance, although she did love that he was returning to his old self even if he was still a bit immature. On the other hand, she was exactly the same, pulling him towards her by the collar of his shirt. Sirius chuckles at her impatience as he returns the kiss, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her over to his chair to straddle him. She wraps her arms around him as his come to settle on her hips, well maybe a little lower than her hips.

Just she makes her way kissing down his jaw to his neck, he reluctantly pulls away, brushing a piece of hair out of her face. After Christmas it was too easy for them to get distracted in one another, over the holiday that was fine, but as much as Sirius would love to spend the day in her company, they had a job to do and a rat to catch.

“As you were saying” she looks at him in confusion “about what we’ll do when you get the map” he prompts  

Y/n flounders for a moment, every time they kiss was magical, she never wanted it to end, she shakes her head “I’ll tell you later” she leans in to kiss him again but he stops her, causing her to pout, Merlin, she’s going to be the death of me

“Love as much as I want to, believe me, we unfortunately have a rat to catch”

“Siri?” y/n blinked, waking to Sirius walking around the side of the bed

Sirius prayed she would go back to sleep, he kept his back to her. He knew if she realised what he was about to do she would probably kill him

“Go back to sleep, love” he replied, but something in his voice sounded off, rubbing her eyes she realised he was fully dressed

“Why are you dressed?” she asks groggily before panic begins to set in, suddenly she was wide awake “Sirius why are you dressed” she repeats moving the blanket sitting up

Fuck, he sighs, trying to think of how to explain himself “Y/n…”

“Don’t y/n me” she stands up walking over, noticing he’s wearing their bag, a knife in his hand “Why do you have a knife?”

“Because your plan isn’t working, we’ve been here for two months and we aren’t any closer to finding him, so I’m going to…” he trails off as he turns around, trying to look anywhere else in the room but her

“Going to what!” she exclaims

“Y/n” Sirius tries to interrupt but she just continues

“Saunter into Hogwarts armed with a…” she begins to gesture

“Y/n” he repeats

“…knife, no wand and…”

“Y/N!” he yells, finally getting her attention

“What!” she yells back

“For the love of merlin put clothes on I can’t argue with you when you…when you look like that” Sirius presses his lips into a tight line, closing his eyes. Usually he loved seeing her walk around like that but he couldn’t argue with her when she was practically half naked, the coldness of the room not helping with the situation

Y/n looks down, realising she’s only in her pants and a semi sheer vest “Oh” she cringes walking over to throw on one of Sirius large t shirts “Better?” he nods

“What exactly where you planning to do, sneak out, capture him yourself?” her tone was a bit calmer but Sirius could hear the judgement in her voice

“Yes, the plan isn’t working y/n none of them are. Frankly you’ve been playing it so safe that we aren’t making any progress. Ugh, I knew should have come alone” he regretted the last sentence as soon as it left his mouth but he was so worked up he couldn’t think rationally anymore

Y/n looked at him in disbelief, he did not just say that, she felt her own anger swelling up again

“Come alone? Sirius if you came alone everyone and their mother would know you were here! Without me you would have been wandering around, without a wand I might add, and most defiantly would have been spotted by now, not to mention what could have happened if you had tried to break into the common room back in November”

Sirius grimaced, he knew she was right but he didn’t care in that moment

“Well I have the passwords this time, I can get in and find him, I can end this!” holding up a bit of paper

“Wait, what?” his eyes widen realising what he just said “Where did you get those” she walks over snatching it from him, looking over the contents

She looks at him for a moment before she realises “You got Crookshanks to get you it” he gives a curt nod

“Sirius, why-” he cuts her off

“What did you expect me to do y/n. Sit around wait for you to get back, I’ve been cooped up in the fucking tent for months!” he yells angrily, dropping their bag to the floor

“Sirius calm down!” Y/n shouts

“Calm, calm? Y/n you’ve been trying to find that basted map for over two months now, what was I meant to do!” he rebuts, pacing around the tent

It was now the end of March, safe to say both of them were getting angsty, especially Sirius, he felt useless sitting around most of the day. Y/n managed to break into Flitches office mid-February but after over a month of searching she couldn’t find the it anywhere.

“You’re supposed to trust me, talk to me, not go behind my back and sneak off into the night!” she felt hurt, her heart aching at the thought that he was just going to leave without a word

“I’m sorry y/n, but without the map we won’t be able to find him, this way I can go in and…”

“And do what! Try to kill peter, run into the boy’s dorm knife at hand! You can’t have truly thought that was a better idea than mine”

Sirius tries to open his mouth to speak but she continues “And even if that was the new plan, you tell me Sirius, you come to me and you tell me. You don’t sneak off in the middle of the fucking night, leave when I’m asleep, for fucks sake what if you’ve been caught. This isn’t going to work if you…if you…” y/n voice fades, swallowing hard, sitting down on the bed, burying her head in her hands

Sirius looks at her, tears swelling in his eyes, it was clear she wasn’t just talking about catching Peter anymore. His heart ached, his obsession with Peter was reaching the point of desperation, he wanted to prove his innocence, get revenge on the man that killed his friends and got him locked up for over a decade, but more than that, he wanted to be free to spend every holiday and moment like the ones at Christmas. In his desperation to cling to that, he was pushing her away from him, the one thing that always kept him grounded, the one thing he loved more than anything, as he realised his mistake he felt his heart drop.

“Y/n…” he reaches out to her, she drops her hands keeping her gaze fixed on her lap as he sits next to her, “Please look at me” she can hear the cracks in his own voice

“We’re supposed to be a team” her voice is quiet, tears still gently falling down her cheeks

He cups her cheeks with his hands, bringing her face to look at him, softly wiping the tears “I know…I’m so sorry” he wraps his arms around her, “I’m such an idiot”

“You are” she mumbles into his chest, sighing before wrapping her arms around him “But you’re my idiot”

Sirius lets out a breathy laugh, pulling back, “You sounded just like Red there”

She chuckles a little, her eyes still a bit watery and puffy from crying, “Yeah” she wipes her eyes “Well now I understand how she must have felt with James”

Sirius huffs a little “I’m not as bad as James”

“No…” she smirks “You’re worse”

“Hey” he nudges her side playfully

His smile drops looking down at her “I’ll talk to you next time, I shouldn’t have I let my obsession with finding Peter cloud my judgement”

She takes his hand in hers “Thank you. You are right though, we do need a better plan, we aren't getting anywhere”

He hums in agreement, “We can tackle that in the morning”

Sirius takes off his outerwear, kicking of his shoes climbing into bed.

He pulls y/n into his side, “Team” she looks up at him, he nods as he traces small circles into the small of her back

“Always?” he leans down kissing her forehead, his arms wrap protectively around her as she snuggles into his side 

“Always” his words like a promise

The two were currently making their way to Hagrid’s hut from the Whomping willow, today was the day of Buttlebeak’s execution. Harry had kept them informed of what was happening, revealing that despite their efforts the animal was still going to be killed. The couple knew Hagrid couldn’t let Buttlebeak free without them thinking it was him, so they decided they would do it while Dumbledore helped distract Cornelius. Y/n had dropped a note on the mans desk a few days prior, asking him for his help to which the older man was more than happy to oblige.

“Crap, get back” Y/n pulls Sirius behind a nearby tree, the man turning to look at her in confusion before he follows her gaze to Harry and his friends reveal themselves from under the invisibility cloak, running down towards Hagrid’s

“Well that complicates things. Why did Prongs and Red have to have such a good kid” the two look at each other, as much as they loved how much Harry cared, his presence defiantly threw a wrench in the works

“Cornelius, Dumbledore and Macnair will be here soon, so Hagrid will probably make them leave, while their distracted you free Buttlebeak” Sirius nods before realising she say ‘you’ not ‘’we’

“I’ll free him?” he asks

“Yeah, I was thinking, I have one last idea about where the map might be. What was the first big heist me, you and Jams pulled together in first year?”

“We broke into Flitches office” he smiles knowing exactly what's she's thinking

“There are only two people I know are 1, brave enough and 2, clever enough to pull that off, you think you can handle this on your own?” she looks up at him, asking him for permission

“Yeah love, you go see it through” he kisses her forehead

“Whether I’m right or wrong about the twins having the map, I’ll go to Remus after”

Harry mentioned Ron’s rat was missing, even Crookshanks was struggling to find him, so they decided they had to talk to their old friend. Y/n and Sirius agreed it was time to ask for his help, and she should be the one to talk to him, he was less likely to freak out, well he would definetly freak out when he saw her alive and well, but he wouldn’t react to her in a violent way like he might with Sirius

“Here they come, you better go” the man says spotting the group of men walking down towards the hut

“Yeah, oh!” she turns back, making him look down at her, she leans up capturing his lips, he leans into it, cupping her cheeks “Be safe okay, don’t let them see you”

“Will do, you be safe too little bird” his heart warms at her little smile and faint blush at the new nickname

“Little bird?” she bites her lip raising an eyebrow

“Just trying it out. Say hi to moons for me, okay?” she nods

The two give each other one last hug before she shifts flying off towards the castle, as Sirius makes his way down to the house, hiding behind the large pumpkins.

“Shit, they haven’t noticed them yet” the man mutters to himself, looking around he grabs a small rock, throwing it at the window, missing completely “fuck” he scrutinises himself before he tries again, this time hitting something in the hut hearing it smash. He grabs one more accidentally hitting Harry in the back of the head, making him cringe “Oops”

He hides as they inspect the window, before moving back into the woods as Harry, Ron and Hermione make their way out of the back of the building, before making their way back up the hill. As he hides he fails to see the animal in the red haired boy’s hands as they run off.

The man makes his way up trying to lure the bird, while Dumbledore asks Hagrid for some tea, leading the three men into the hut.

“Come on, if catch us not just your head” he spots some hares hanging over a fence, grabbing them he uses it to lure the bird away into the forest, throwing the rest of the hares into the woods letting Buttlebeak make his own way.

Sirius makes it half way up the hill before looking back down, still hidden in the treeline as Macnair seems to chop one of the pumpkins in irritation. He hears a distant sob from Hermione, seeing her cuddling into Ron as Harry holds her from the other side, realising from their perspective it looks like Buttlebeak was just executed

Just as he was about to head back to the Willow to wait from y/n he hears Ron shout “Scabbers!”

Y/n flew through the castle, she knew today was the last day of exams so the twins would be finished with their last one and knowing them would most likely be planning a prank to celebrate. Sirius was in the back of her mind as she searched, she was nervous especially after it was announced he would be sentenced to the kiss of dementor if they caught him.

“George, give me that” she whips around, hearing the voice coming from the hallway ahead of her, distantly seeing Fred snatching something from his brother, the map

As she flies towards them, she sees the elder twin takes out his wand, starting to speak “I solemnly swear-” he’s cut off by y/n flying in between them, snatching the map from his hand

“Hey!” they complain in unison, looking baffled at the robin hovering above the ground, map in its clutches

She shifts back “Sorry boys, need to borrow this for a bit” as she’s about to shift again when she turns back “Oh use the charm on page 26 of the book” she winks shifting back leaving the twins in awe as she flies off

“What just happened” George turns to Fred who is currently pulling a book from his bag

Smirking he looks up at his brother, holding the book out to him. The book was in the box she had told Harry to give them, a book the marauders made filled with every charm and spell that was perfect for mischief, with a signed note from ‘Robin Evans the unofficial fifth marauder’ on the inside of the cover.

“We just met a legend”

Y/n found an abandoned corridor to shifting back, taking out her wand she opens the map “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good” the map reveals itself

She huffs at the names as they appear, muttering a spell the change it from Moony, Wormtail, Patfoot and Prongs to Moony, Wormtail, Patfoot, Prongs and Robin “That’s better” she smiles to herself

Her smiles fade as she looks down towards the hut to check on Sirius’ progress only to see his name, Peters and Ron’s moving very quickly, followed by Hermione and Harrys, all heading to the Whomping Willow 

“Fuck” she looks over at the castle, spotting Remus in his office, she quickly shifts not bothering to close up the map

Luckily the office door is ajar letting her fly right in, causing Remus to stare at the bird flying in carrying a very familiar bit of paper, dropping it on the table. Y/n perches herself on the desk, hopping around, using her beak to open up the map fully.

“What are you trying to show me” He asked, feeling a little ridiculous talking to a bird

Y/n points towards the altercation occurring at the Willow, Remus’ eyes widen, mouth going dry as he reads the name, Peter Pettigrew. A part of Remus always knew Sirius wasn’t capable of it, but the evidence against him was compelling, especially after y/n disappeared. He looked back at the bird, becoming aware that the bird in front of him wasn’t acting like a regular one.

“Who are you”

The bird hops back a bit revelling the office they were standing in, Remus mouth drops, looking at the bird then back at the name next to his, Y/n Potter.

“And I can’t believe you still steal it shamelessly” he replies in a joking tone, same old y/n, actually she looks great I’m the old one

“At least I own it, Siri used to have you running around frantic when your staches out go ‘missing’” Remus chuckles a little, before his smiles drop, he looks back at the map, y/n follows his eyes

“It wasn’t him was it, it was Peter” he looks back down at her, she nods, Remus can see the mixture of anger and sadness

“What happened?” he leans on his desk, y/n joins his side

“Short version?” he nods “Sirius and I thought we were too obvious to be the secret keeper, so they chose Peter instead. He betrayed us and killed the muggles on the street when we tried to confront him” she removes her hair and opens up her jacket “He framed Siri and gave me this, when Sirius escaped he found me and we’ve been trying to find a way of getting to him for the last year”

Remus examines the scar, grimacing as he traces it with his eyes, anger filling him that Peter did this “Why would he come here? Is he coming for Harry?” his voice is full of concern and fury

“He’s been here the whole time” Remus tilts his head eyebrows kitting together “He’s been hiding as Ron Weasleys pet rat for the past 12 years”

His lips parted, slightly shocked before his expression hardens “What do you need me to do?”

She places her hand on top of his “I need you to help us capture Peter, as much as I would love to take revenge on that rat we need him alive if we are going to prove Siri’s innocence and in turn...mine I guess too”

Remus nods, as he looks in thought he asks “I know we don’t have much time to catch up but where have you been the last 12 years?”

The man did feel hurt she didn’t come to him, he could have helped her, they could have grieved together. Despite being the once to put himself in isolation he was still beyond lonely.

“Well” she lets out a breathy laugh “It’s really only been little over 2 years for me, you’re right, we don’t have time for the logistics of it all right now but let’s just say I had a little incident with a time turner” she cringes at the end

Remus’ eyes widen, he was slightly confused but relieved none the less. As he gives her a cheeky look, nudging her slightly “I knew you looked too good to be 34”

Her mouth drops open “Fuck right off I will look just as stunning at 34 years old” she rebuts making the man chuckle

“Merlin I’ve missed you” 

“Feelings mutual Moons” she smiles at him

He leans back on his desk grabbing his wand “Right we better get going” she nods at him, walking up to the door. 

She looks back at Remus who had a knowing smirk on his face “What” she asks holding the door open

“Bit on the head isn’t it?” he states as he walks out the door, to which she tilts her head “Robin” he mocks

She scoffs, nudging him “Coming from the man named Lupin with the nickname moony?”

“Touché” 

The two engage in little conversation as they quickly head down to the passage to the shrieking shack, however as they reached sight if the willow y/n remembered something they left behind.

She turns to Remus “Shit the map!” she turns around walking backwards towards the castle as she speaks “Protect them until I get there I shouldn’t be long”

He nods, walking up giving her a quick hug “Of course”

Y/n looked up at him, “You were always the best out of all of us Moons” she places a kiss on his cheek before shifting and flying off, he watches her fly off before quickly heading down towards the Whomping willow.

Y/n quickly flies through the dim corridors as she enters the classroom she sees Remus’ office door ajar. She pulls out her wand slowly approaching the door, as she enters, she points it at the figure leaning over the map. The person slowly turns around, Severus.

Snape looks her up and down, unsurprised by her entrance “Evening” he says casually, almost like he was expecting her

“Evening, you know it’s not very nice to snoop Snape…” she chuckles “…hey that rhymed a bit”

“Nice to see you’re still as immature as you were back at school” he sighs, rolling his eyes

Snape notices y/n’s wand is still raised “You can put your wand down Potter, we’re old enough to have a civil conversation”

The girl huffs putting her wand away, you are maybe, moving to close the door behind her “You don’t seem very surprised to see me alive” she folds her arms

“You should take more care flying in Poppy’s window, besides I saw you coming on this” he gestures to the map

She nods, letting out an ‘ah’ in recognition. She tilts her head in thought, if he knew she was alive, why hadn’t he exposed her?

“If you knew I was alive back in November why keep such information to yourself” y/n tries her best not to smile, she had to admit she had missed getting Snape a bit relied up, it was just so easy to do

“You’re enjoying this too much” Snape sighs, closing his eyes

Now he was close he couldn’t help but notice her age, not only did she look young still she acted like it. As he opened his eyes he noticed the scar down her neck, it was unique, not done by a blade or spell, but it must have been magical to leave a scar. He was aware Dumbledore had given someone in the Order a time turner but he assumed it would have been Lily or perhaps Alice, not someone he would consider irresponsible like y/n.

“Oh yes I am indeed, the Severus Snape protecting little old me, hard not to Sevy” she winks

He rolls his eyes at the nickname, hardly old now are we, “I think I preferred Snivellus”

She chuckles a bit “Don’t change the subject Sevy” he grates his teeth “You didn’t answer the question, why protect me, why not tell anyone I was alive? I could be the evil mastermind for all you know”

“One, I find it hard to believe that you would betray your own brother. Two, why care for Harry and run the risk of discovery just to save him from those wretched muggles and three, you would have attacked me right away, we both know you were one of the best at duelling in the order back in the day”

He crossed his arms, he had some time over the last few months to think about y/n. After watching a familiar robin at each quidditch match and occationally through the halls, he concluded she wasn’t dangerous, not to Harry at least. He did know she would help Sirius but the only thing he didn’t know was why she was helping him, and what they were up to. Without an actual sighting of him it was hard to gather a logical conclusion

“I am pretty awesome, defiantly kick your ass” she smiles smugly

“That’s why you took away from that?” he groans slightly annoyed

“No, I heard the other stuff too” she shrugs smirking a little before she speaks again “Still…I feel like you want to ask me something”

“Why help Black?” he enquires, brow raised

“Who says him helping him?” y/n does nothing to hid her smirk

“Same reason I helped Dumbledore” y/n’s smirk drops, “He might have been obvious back then along with everyone else but I saw it, the longing stares, even after all this time your eyes still light up at his name”

“And you’d know all about that wouldn’t you” she narrows her eyes, taking a deep breath as the man huffs

“Well” he looks at her expectantly, growing a tad impatient

“Yes I’m helping Sirius but it wasn’t he who betrayed them, if you had a better look at that map you would see yet another person that is just as alive as I am” Snape furrows his eyebrows, turning back to looks at the map, mouth parting as he sees the name Peter Pettigrewin the Shrieking shack, along with Sirius, Harry, Hermione, Ron and now Remus

He turns back as he hears her speak “Peter’s an animagus, Jamie and Siri were ones too, they became some for Remus back when we were at school to help with his furry little problem. He’s been hiding as Ron Weasleys pet for the past 12 years” he can hear the bitterness and anger in her voice, the same feeling filling him

“You’re telling me that the man that killed Lily has been skittering around my classroom and this school the last three years” Snape was furious, it was rare to see him exude such emotion

Y/n didn’t care that Snape loved Lily, sure she felt bad for him for a while and even thought that Lily would actually choose him at one point, but after he called her a mudblood, neither Lily nor herself forgave him. Of course, years later after Harry was born and before they went into hiding Lily had spoken to her about reaching out, perhaps making amends, she even got James on board. Y/n might not particularly liked the man but maybe she could make amends or at least be civil, knowing Lily would have wanted that.

She nods “As much as you hate them and me for that matter, we have a common enemy. We’ll need a confession to clear Sirius’ name and you as a witness would be useful considering” she walks up to him “Even if you don’t want to do it for us or for him, then do it for Red and Harry, he might look like James but you must be able to see how much of her is in him”

Snapes expression soften, nodding he picks up the map “Fine, but this doesn’t make us friends Potter”

“Oh no we’re frenemies for life now Sevy” she pats him on the back following him out

She chuckles at his groan, I’m already regretting this, he thought

“So, do you use shampoo or…”

“Shut up Potter” he hushes

“You can call me y/n you know...” she mutters mockingly

He shushes her again, causing her to nudge him to which he turns and looks down at her almost to ask if she’s seriously acting like a such a child right now. They were both huddled together under harrys cloak they found near the base of the willow, as they draw closer to the shrieking shack they hear raised voices, faintly hearing Remus and Sirius discussing something.

Snape looks down at y/n who seems in thought, “What are you thinking”, despite thinking she was childish, she was a talented witch, he would never admit it but he did value her input and opinion

“Peter doesn’t know I’m alive yet, so I’m going to shift and hide up there ready to come in if anything happens. If Peter sees me he’ll probably blab when hes arrested and I could still go to prison for a number of reasons” she whispers back, pointing to a little hole in the ceiling

“Like time travel” he mutters, she looks at him in shock “what you didn’t think I’d figure it out, give me some credit Potter”

“Well, congratulations Sherlock...you know sherlock had a chem…” she stops herself seeing Snape’s expression, she smiles shyly “I’m gonna go before you change your mind in wanting to help”

“Quite” he nods, as she shifts he lifts the cloak to let her out.

Flying up to a hole in the ceiling she hops through, settling herself in a position she can watch but also not be too visible to Peter. Y/n looks down to see Remus and Harry wands drawn at Ron with Sirius standing behind

“Come one Remus lets just finish this” Sirius gestures to Remus

Harry pulls out his wand, directing it between the two men but focus’ on Sirius as he speaks “I trusted you, she trusted you!” y/n heart breaks at the sight of her nethews teary eyes

Sirius’ eyes widen, along with Remus’, they had been so focused on making sure Peter wouldn’t escape and their own reunion to realise from the trios perspective, and more importantly Harry’s it appeared like they were guilty and after the scarred boy

“Harry” the raven-haired man tries to reason but the young boy won’t listen, shaking his head

Snape watches waiting for the right time to reveal himself, knowing that to Peter Harrys slip could easily be mistaken for his mother’s trust not y/ns. Y/ns eyes narrow in on the rat in Ron’s hands, the rat was a little chunkier and scrapper than when they were back at Hogwarts but it was defiantly him. Seeing him made her stomach churn, something welling in her but she didn’t know what emotion it was, she didn’t have time to think as Harry spoke again

“No! You lied to us, you told me you lo…” Harry is cut off by Snape revealing himself, resulting in both Remus and Harry to point their wands at him

“Expelliarmus” the boy’s wand flicks out of his hand into Sirius’s, causing the room to go stare at him wide eyed

They stand in shock, out of everyone to help Remus and Sirius, Snape was at the bottom of the list. Y/n noticed the rat getting angsty, she was sure Peter was more than aware of how completly fucked he was, as without a doubt he would have been counting on Snape doing the exact opposite

“Severus?” Remus and Sirius look at each other in shock, why is Snivellus helping us

“How the hell did you know we were here?” Sirius asks pointing harry wand at him

“A little birdy told me” the men’s and Harrys eyes widen in recognition,

Sirius quickly lowered his wand, his eyes drawn upward catching glimpse of the small robin hidden in one of the creves in the ceiling, he lets out a small smile turning back

“Seems we have an unlikely truce” Remus says as he looks between Sirius and Snape

Harry stares at them, trying to process the information, realising if his aunt sent Snape to help Sirius and Remus then they weren’t trying to hurt him? 

He was beyond confused, venting his frustration as he shouts “Can someone explain to me what’s going on! You told me it was Peter that betrayed them!”

“It was him Harry, and he is in this very room with us right now” Remus states as the three men point their wands at Ron who starts to tense up clutching the rat closer to his chest

“Ron?” Hermione steps slightly in front of the boy

“Not him the rat” 

They all look at the rodent as Ron questions “Scabbers, but he’s just a rat?”

“Oh he’s a rat alright” Sirius grows angry

“Sirius calm down for merlin sake” Remus scolds

“Merlin you two squabble like an old married couple” Snape sighs in frustration

Sirius doesn’t have much time to react but he hears a distant angry tweet at Snapes sentiment, when hermonie blurts out“What does Ron’s rat have to do with any of this”

“You know 12 years, unusually long life for a common house rat, missing a toe too”

Ron’s and Hermione’s expressions change to confusion, while Harry catches on, “He’s an animagus” he breathes out

As Harry finishes the rat bites Ron, jumping out of his hands only to be hit by a spell directed from Snape forcing him to transform. Y/n watches from above, ready to swoop in if needed, as she sees Peter for the first time since that day it takes every bit of her not to shift and kill him herself. All the memories came flooding back, when she helped him with study back at Hogwarts, or told him he was enough that he was as much a marauder as the other three, all of that trust he had gained before he drove a knife into all of their backs.

In her distress she started to zone out unable to hear anything but the thumping of her heart. She flies out of the crack and down the tunnel towards the willow. The events replaying in her mind, the confrontation on that street, the look in his eyes when he cast that spell. She could feel her stomach turning, all this time, all this anticipation of finding him, now she really saw him all of her grief came flooding back.

She started reliving everything, she had been so focused on Harry that she never let herself come to terms with what happened, she just kept pushing forward. Now she could see it, the moment she found out James and Lily died, when the found Peters hide out empty the following morning, the world spinning after he threw that spell, the screams of the muggles.

It wasn’t just them, she had wondered how long he had been a spy, she remembered when she found Marlene and Dorcas bodies after their hideout had been compromised, how Fabian and Gideon died together, Alice and Frank staring at her with empty eyes when she went to visit them. She couldn’t breathe, as she got a safe distance from the willow she shifted and collapsed to the ground, feeling sick she began to throw up

Sirius noticed y/n wasn’t there anymore, he assumed maybe she went to fetch Dumbledore or maybe owl Moody. Remus held his wand up to Peter as Snape helped to carry Ron, Hermione following close behind. Harry and Sirius engage in conversation little ways behind them further down the tunnel

“So that’s what you and auntie y/n have been up to?”

He nods “Yeah, we were staying in Hogsmeade then the woods just down from the shack throughout the year”

“Why didn’t you tell me? I could’ve helped” Harry felt a bit hurt they didn’t tell him everything, he could have brought them peter

“I know” he stops turning back to him “We were trying to protect you. Peters dangerous, I know he doesn’t look like it after he played the coward back there, but you weren’t on that street that night, he killed those poor people in cold blood without blinking an eye”

The boy nods, starting to understand his aunt and godfather thinking “Where is aunt y/n?” he asks wondering why she hasn’t shown up yet

“I don’t know, she sent Remus here and Snivel…Severus...” he corrects himself knowing y/n would probable kick his ass for saying it “...apparently, so she’ll be here soon, must be going to get Dumbledore or something, come on”

They catch up to the group exiting the willow, Remus with his wand to Peter, Snape beside him, Ron being tended to by Hermione laying on the roots at the base of the tree.

“So that’s it? You’ll be free now” he turns up to his godfather

“Yup, I suppose so” he smiles, the feeling of relief washing over him

“Will you live with me and y/n?” the boy asks in hope

“As long as your aunt wants me”

“You love her don’t you?”

Sirius looks down at him “More than life itself” the boy nods smiling

Their moment of peace is cut short by Hermione “Professor Lupin!”

The group look over to see Remus starting to struggle and cries in pain after the moon appears from behind the clouds

“Drink this quickly” Severus demands as he pulls out the vile ushering the man to drink it, hoping it isn’t too late

“Stay back with them” Sirius tells Harry walking over to Remus

“Remus listen to me…”

Y/n calms herself down, wiping her mouth with her sleeve, as she sits up on her knees she looks down the hill. She sees a group of people coming out from under the willow, Remus and Snape appearing to be restraining Peter, she relaxes seeing Sirius and Harry safe and sound. Y/n looks up at the clouds sighing in relief, but as moon begin to appear she realises the date “Fuck!”

As she approaches she hears Snape exclaim and Sirius run over towards Remus. Peter takes the opportunity to knock Ron out, dazing the boy, he steals the boys wand, attempting to turn himself into a rat again only for the wand to fly from his hand over towards the teens.

Peter looks over at the Harry and Hermonie in shock, assuming one of them must have disarmed him, but neither have their wands raised. A shiver runs down the man’s spine as he hears the voice of his attacker

“Nowhere to run this time” he turns, eyes blown wide, heart racing, chest heaving

“Y/n?” his voice is a whisper, almost as if he’s asking

After he sent that spell he regretted it, if it had been Sirius on the receiving end maybe he wouldn’t have. Living with Lily and James he had prepared himself for, framing Sirius he was fine with, but killing y/n while she was unarmed, making no attempt stop him, that was something he struggled to live with. Seeing her eyes close, bracing herself for the impact was a sight he saw often over the past 12 years.

Voldemort had tasked him with doing some horrible things, he being the coward he was he did them, he gave up information, played the double agent, and betrayed his friends. He gave up the safehouse locations leading to the death of Marlene and Dorcas, the information that led y/n, Fabian and Frank into a trap and of course in less than a week as secret keeper he told Voldemort where the Potters were.

He was a self-preservationist, a down right coward but he would be a liar if he said he didn’t regret what he did. Seeing her now, he felt more confused than ever, she looked exactly the same. He wasn’t even sure it was really her until she spoke, it wouldn’t be until later he would remember the time turner in her hands

“How could you? They were your friends, I was your friend” The anger and hurt in her breaking voice broke the trio’s heart

Harry looked at his aunt’s expression, the pain in her eyes, in that moment he knew she couldn’t see anything else, he turned to look at Sirius, Remus and Snape. Remus was looking up from the ground in pain, his transformation delayed by the potion, he hears Sirius tell Snape to make sure he’s okay as he turns back to look at her

“You don’t understand...he would have killed me what was I supposed to do” Peter tries to explain however there was no excuse, even the rat himself knew that

“What were you supposed to do?” she starts walking towards him, Peter tries to step back but y/n mutters a spell at the ground trapping his feet, he stares in fear as she inches closer “You have any idea how many people died because you were a coward, how many life’s you ruined!”

He shakes as she points her wand at his throat “My brother, the girl I saw as my sister died, you killed that beautiful boys parents” she points at Harry “Frank and Alice were tortured to insanity because of you, and unlike you they didn’t cower, they left behind another boy that has to look into his parents empty eyes knowing they will never recognise him. Marlene, Dorcas, Fabian, Gideon the list goes on, they all fought till there last breath. I would have fought to my last breath” she points at herself

Ron’s eyes widen at his uncles names, as the other stand in shock. Sirius watches y/n closely, all this time she had been helping hold him back, stopped him from doing something stupid, but he never stopped to think about how she was doing. She always seemed so level headed about the situation, but now he realises that same girl who just lost everything was always there, broken, she never really left that street

“That’s what you’re supposed to fucking do” she sticks her wand further into his throat

Sirius sees Harry about to walk forward but he shakes his head. The boy looks at him in confusion as he turns back to his aunt, worried she might do sometime she would regret, despite Peter more deserving it, killing him wasn’t the answer

While this was going on Remus had been taken down from the willow towards the forest edge by Snape, where he shifted and ran off into it. Snape arrives back to hear the end of the confrontation.

“Please y/n… please don’t kill me” Peter begins to beg, pathetic, she thinks

“Kill you, you’re gonna wish I killed you when you get to Azkaban, if they don’t do worse, unlike you I would never stoop so low as to kill someone in cold blood while they were unarmed” she pulls her wand away, mutter a spell to release his legs as he falls to the ground

Y/n lets out a shaky breath, muttering incarcerous causing the mans hands to be tied around his back, retaining him. Harry and Sirius sighs in relief, as much as he knew y/n wouldn’t hurt him, Sirius had never seen her so angry.

Sirius walks up to y/n, taking her trembling hands in his “You okay love”

She looks up at him, small tears had fallen down her cheeks but she had been too upset to notice, not trusting her voice she just nods slowly. Looking over she see Harry staring at her, Sirius lets go of her hands as she walks over engulfing Harry in a tight hug

“Are you okay” she whispers into his hair

She feels him nod, pulling back she kisses his forehead before going to check on the other two teens.

Snape walks up lifting a babbling peter from the ground “I’m going to take him up to the castle, Cornelius will still be there. I’d suggest you all help Weasley to the hospital wing” with that he heads up to the castle

Y/n walks over to Sirius, watching Peter and Snapes retreating figures as Harry and Hermonie help Ron stand. Sirius pulls the back of her head towards him, kissing her forehead “We did it love” he smiles at her

She looks up at him, taking his hand in hers giving it a squeeze “We did it”

Harry and Hermione look at each other as the couple starts to bicker, the girl leans over to whisper in his ear “I see what you mean” the boy laughs

While Hermione and Ron were fighting, Harry had told Hermione he met his godfather. At the time he didn’t name Sirius since he was asked not to, but he did tell his friend how in love they were with each other, including how he thinks his mistletoe plan worked and that the two were terrible at sneaking around.

After the couple finish bickering, the hospital door opens, y/n and Sirius shift on instinct. The door opens to reveal Snape and McGonagall, the older women tilts her head in confusion at the dog sitting on a chair and a robin sitting on the one next to it.

“You both can shift back, she knows” Snape informs them

The couple shift back, McGonagall gasps as she sees them. Snape had informed her Peter Pettigrew was the traitor, the women even saw the man himself when they took him to Dumbledore’s office. She had been told they were here and she had her suspicions Y/n was indeed alive, but seeing them in person was still a shock

“Miss Potter” y/n stands up walking over to her old teacher “I’m so happy to see you again dear”

“Feelings mutual” Y/n smiles, but the older women can still see the same glint of mischief it still seemed to hold even after all of these years “Have to say looking good miss” the young women complimented before winking.

Snape groans and Sirius smirks to himself as McGonagall smiles smugly as she adjusts her clothes feeling good about herself “Thank you y/n”

Y/n was one of her favourite students when she was at Hogwarts, sure she was cheeky but the older women loved that.

“Hey Minnie” Sirius stands winking at the women

“Mr Black” she nods

“Mr Black you wound me Minnie” Sirius jokes placing his hand over his heart

The women can;t help but crack a small smile, as y/n giggles along with the teens. As the laughter dies down y/n remebers something

“I need to go ask Poppy something, I’ll be back in a little bit” Y/n announces as she shrugs off her jacket placing it on the back of a chair before walking over towards the women’s office, giving Sirius’ hand a quick squeeze as she passes

The act doesn’t go unnoticed by Harry and Hermione who smile at one another, Snape rolls his eyes and McGonagall raises an eyebrow, looks like Albus owes me 10 gallons. As the girl leaves McGonagall and Snape approach the students, the elder women enquiring about Ron, as well as informing them of what happened in Dumbledore office before they were asked to leave.

Little while later Dumbledore, Cornelius and Barty Crouch Snr enter abruptly, startling the room, waking up the youngest Weasley son in the process. Sirius eyes widen beginning to panic.

“Don’t worry Sirius. They aren’t here for you, they just want your statement” Dumbledore reassures, looking around noticing y/n wasn’t present

He was happy she wasn’t here and hoped she wouldn’t show up until after they left. Peter had blabbed about her presence at Hogwarts as well as her being in possession of a time turner saying she used it to travel into the future. Most time turners could only travel a couple hours as any more could be dangerous, so her traveling ten years more than broke the law.

“Yes Mr Black, we must…apologise” Cornelius he says reluctantly

“Apologise for locking up an innocent man” Harry steps in defending his godfather

Sirius, McGonagall and Dumbledore lips turn up ever so slightly at the young boy’s sentiment. Cornelius huffs about to say something but Barty speaks first

“You have to understand the evidence was rather condemning at the time…” Crouches voice sounds genuine almost like he does regret it but he is cut off by Hermione 

“He didn’t even get a trial, even some of the worst death eaters got a trial”

“They do have a point Cornelius, even the Lastrange’s got a trial” McGonagall crosses her arms looking at the two men disapprovingly

As they are about to answer a voice is heard from behind the group

“Jeeze louise I leave for two minutes and…” Y/n walks back in to see the entire room staring at her “Fuck…shit…sorry” Y/n curses at herself, causing Sirius, McGonagall and the trio to smile to themselves

That’s my girl, Sirius thinks, always knows how to make an entrance

“Ah yes, Miss potter, Albus did tell us you helped capture Mr Pettigrew” he looks her up at down, a narrowing her eyes as he takes in her appearance “However we do have some questions about where you have been the past 12 years”

Crouch tilts his head, when Peter was ranting about her he didn’t quite believe it was even possible, but it was clear she had aged too well.

Y/n looks uneasy as Crouch moves forward a bit, Sirius notices too “What do you mean questions she had nothing to do with this” the man steps forward

“Mr Black please stay out of this” Crouch warns

“But…” he starts but y/n stops him

“Siri” he looks back at her “Let them ask their questions”

Sirius moves back besides Harry, he was worried now. He was off the hook but y/n could still go to Azkaban for a number of reasons, thankfully Peter hadn’t seen her shift but creating an alias and showing up practically thin air looking ten years younger than she should be? That was trickier to explain away

“I must say Miss Potter, you look very youthful, compared to your two friends” Cornelius states, quickly glancing at Sirius before returning to her

“Only one of them is my friend…” she corrects pointing at him “…and about my looks, you ever heard of muggle skin care because you could use it” she smirks

Hermione, Harry and Ron hold back giggles. Sirius, McGonagall and Dumbledore smile to themselves, even when being faced with arrest she still got a dig in

“Miss Potter you have missing for 12 years, even if you were living under an alias for your own protection, until 2 years ago you were nowhere to be seen. Mr Pettigrew mentioned in his statement he thought he saw you wearing a time turner, so I will ask you again, where have you been” it was clear the man was getting impatient, his tone stern

“You can’t believe anything that rat says, she was…” Sirius speaks up, clearly angry that Peter just had to throw them under the bus one last time

“Mr Black, you are hardly a credible witness” Crouch cuts him off before turning to the girl “Miss Potter if you can’t provide proof of where you were then we will have no choice but to place you under arrest for the illegal use of an time turner”

Y/n face pales, along with Sirius’ and Harrys, the two turning to look at her. There was nothing any of them could do, Crouch takes the silence as her answer beginning to move forward but Snape steps in front of her

“She was with me” he crosses his arms looking the man up and down

“I’m sorry” Cornelius’ looks at him with confusion, Crouch stopping in his tracks with an equally perplexed expression

“After she confronted Peter she was injured, you saw the state of that street” he turns to Crouch, the man nodding in agreement “She came to me since she was aware I had begun helping the Order at the time. She stayed with me until Harrys first year where she and I learned Harry had been staying with the Dursleys. After which we worked on getting her custody, hence coming out of hiding and appearing to show up out of thin air”

He turns to look at y/n behind him “As for her looks, she had aged remarkably well. For those of you who knew her late mother she always looked young for her age as well”

“Ugh…” Cornelius flounders

Unlike Sirius or even Dumbledore, Snape was a credible witness. Everyone was aware he disliked James, his friends, even Y/n, if she wasn’t innocent then Snape would have no reason to defend or protect her. Crouch realises this, of course he didn’t fully believe the man, but there was no need to rip her away from her nephew. As he glanced at Harry he knew more than anything how it would feel to have someone ripped from them, even if they were guilty. Besides, what y/n did was hardly the worst crime in the world.

“Cornelius why don’t we leave this here, we have our criminal there’s no need to make more paper work for ourselves” he places a hand on the man’s shoulder

“Fine” he mutters, huffing as he and Crouch take their leave, exiting the hospital wing

“Thank you, Severus” Sirius looks up at Snape, his voice the most genuine the man had ever heard

“Ditto Sevy, we might need an upgrade from frenemies to friends” y/n winks

The teens giggle as Sirius chuckles shaking his head at Snape’s eye roll

“That’s the last favour I do for you Potter” y/n notices the small upturn of his lips, the two sharing a knowing look before turning back to the rest of the people in the room

“Speaking of friends” Sirius moves over to y/n “Maybe we should go make sure ours is doing alright”

The girl nods, turning to Harry and his friends “You three be okay yourselves?”

“Yeah of course” Harry smiles

“Yeah” Ron nods

“Go help Professor Lupin” Hermione smiles

“I’ll stay with them until Mrs Weasley gets here in the morning” Madam Pomfrey walks in

“Thanks Poppy” Sirius and Y/n smile at the women

Y/n gives Harry a kiss on the head before she walks out with Sirius

“He’s asleep, I draped a blanket over him and left some fresh clothes” Sirius walks out of the shack, taking a seat next to y/n on the ground

“Is he hurt?” she looks up at him, it was difficult to tell when he was shifted and she had decided to wait outside when he transformed back to give him privacy

“Couple cuts here and there, nothing like the ones he used to have. Once he’s awake we can heal them if he needs it” She nods placing her head on his shoulder as the two watch the sunrise

“This reminds me of when I’d sneak down here to help you guys” she remises

Sirius smiles looking down at her noticing her slight shiver “And you’d always forget your jacket every time” he drapes his jacket over her

“Well...I used to forget it on purpose” she confesses, moving her head to look up at him

“Why” he looks at her dubiously, a small smile on his face

“Because you always gave me yours” she hugs the jacket, smiling as he wraps his arm around her pulling her closer to him

As they watched the colours change from pink to a warm orange, the man realises this is a good time to tell her something he should have told her a long time ago

“You know, I went back to our old flat first when I escaped” 

“You did?” she moves to look up at him, as he takes her hands with his still facing forward

He hums “I don’t know why I went there…actually I do. A part of me hoped when I opened the door you would be there, that you were just in hiding…but when I got there it was completely empty” his eyes tear up remembering the moment, his gaze fixed on their intertwined hands “It was like no one ever lived there, like you...were never there. The photos of us where gone, all of our clothes, everything, it was completely barren. It…it made me feel like you died all over again”

Small tears run down his cheeks as he continues “I sat in my old seat at the table, it probably will sound like I was going mad, maybe I was a bit but...when I was back in Azkaban, I used to imagine you sitting at the window with your tea and book. Imagine you telling me it was all going to be alright. As I sat there all I could think about was that I was an idiot…an idiot for never getting the chance to tell you how much you meant to me”

He finally looks at her, cupping her check “I never got to tell you how much I loved making you breakfast and how eating it together every morning was my favourite part of the day. How I loved when you would scold at me when I used to…still go too far” she giggles through her own welling tears “How you always make me laugh even when I think it’s impossible, you were always there for me, through Hogwarts, when I ran away, during the war, now…” he trails off swallowing “What I’m trying to say is I love you”

Y/n looks up at him tears in her eyes, her heart exploding at his confession, of course she wouldn’t be the women he loved if she didn’t mess with him a little bit

“Fucking hope you do, I’m your best frien…” she laughs a little before he interupts

“No, I love you love you” his own hand cups her cheek

She smirks at him, Sirius noticing the glint in her eye “Your fucking with me aren’t you” his face morphing into fake anger but his smile growing wider as he shakes his head

“Little bit” he giggles at him, leaning up to kiss him

He kisses back instantly, hand moving to the back of her head to deepen the kiss, her own moving up into his hair

“Oh!” she pulls back

“What”

“I love you Siri” she smiles up at him, eyes filled with nothing but pure love and admiration

His smile makes her heart burst, he pulls her in for another kiss both overjoyed the other felt the same way. As they pull apart they return to their original position unable to stop smiling

“You know, I always thought Remus or Marls was your best friend”

“Nope always you” she nudges him

“I’m honoured... although we have been doing some not very best friends stuff the past 5 months” he gives her a cheeky look to which she scrunches up her nose

“And making some not very best friend stuff” she mutters but the man can’t quite make out 

“What did you say” he peers down at her

“Well…you think Harry will be mad if he gets a little god brother or sister?” she looks up at him waiting to see his reaction

“Nah he’d probably be happy…” he stops realising what she just said, turning to look at her then her stomach “You’re” a small smile grazing his face

She nods biting her lip, his smile breaks free as he pulls her onto his lap, cupping her cheek as he kisses her

“See you two finally realised you were in love” the couple pulls apart as their friend joins them sitting down, groaning a little as he does

Y/n moves back off Sirius’ lap, the trio now sitting in a circle “How you feeling moons” she asks tilting her head

“Peachy” Remus chuckles, before wincing a bit “Been worse but I can’t believe I’m going to say this but I owe Severus one”

“You and us both Moony” Sirius pats his shoulder

Remus looks them “What do you mean?”

“Peter decided to rat us out one last time telling them about the time turner, Snape saved my ass though” she explains

“Merlin we really do owe him one. Speaking of the rat in question, he getting sent to Azkaban then?” Remus looks between his friends

“No, he isn’t going to Azkaban” Remus looks paniced but it fades as Sirius continues “On our way to see you we overhead them telling Flitch to sound the bell when the kiss had been

performed” as he finishes almost on cue they hear the bell sound

The three adults look off towards the castle “Am I the only one that feels…” Remus can’t quite find the words

“Conflicted” he nods “At least it’s all over now, we can all be together again” she takes one of their hands in hers giving them a squeeze

“It’ll be nice not being alone on the full moon again” Remus smiles feeling complete for the first time in 12 years

The three smile at one another as Sirius looks at y/n, eyes pointing to her stomach as he asks “Can I?”

“Siri is still early” she reminds him

“Tell me what?” Remus shrugs eying them

“Please” Sirius looks at her with puppy eyes, pouting

“Fine” she huffs giving in

“What is it? Did something happen when I was out?” Remus looks between the two of them, worried something happened

“Everything’s fine Moony, more than fine actually” Sirius reassures him

“I’m pregnant” the girl can;t help but smile, subconsciously putting a hand on her stomach 

“Your…” Remus’s eyes widen, his shocked expression turning into a huge smile as he gives her a hug “Your gonna be an amazing mum” he whispers in her ear so only she can hear 

“And you a great godfather” she whispers back, feeling the mans cheeks raise as he smiles

Pulling back his grin turns cheeky “When you told me you two were busy this year I didn’t know you meant busy, busy” he wiggles his eyebrows at Sirius

“Remus John Lupin!” y/n’s face flushes as she scolds him

“Ohh middle named” Sirius chuckles

“Mom voice sorted then” Remus teases as the two men start laughing

“Oh, fuck right off” she replies laughing as she does unable to stay serious for too long

“And she back” Sirius leans over giving her a kiss on the cheek

Remus smiles at his friends, happy they finally got together. After a while y/n stands up

“I’m going to go check on Ron, Molly will be here soon and I need to explain to her why my future child’s father bit her sons’ leg” she eyes Sirius

“How about future husband” he winks at her

“Smooth” Remus whispers

“Thanks” he wispers back

“Future Mrs Black huh?” Y/n looks down at him small smirk on her face

“I was thinking future Mr Potter” he gives her a toothy grin

She kneels down giving him a quick peck on the lips “You got yourself a deal”