Don't Forget to Breathe

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.

Author Notes: My first story so excuse me if it is a bit lacking. Suggestions are appreciated!

The Black Family rejoices on Friday as they get a much needed heir. Mrs. Black, despite the pain of the labor, smiles satisfactorily as she takes her child, her son, in her hands. There is no love in her gaze as she stares at him but there is the satisfaction of a job well done.

The baby is too small, too tiny, to be of much use right now but she knows that with the right training he will soon be worthy of the title of a Black.

He has to be.

He is the only heir now with the rest being girls and Mrs. Black feels a vicious sense of satisfaction that she is the one to have borne the Noble House of Black an heir. She may not openly rub it in their faces but the news will be enough of a snub.

She glances down one last time at the baby. At the shock of black hair and the aristocratic features hidden behind the infants round face and she smiles.

She is sure that Sirius Orion Black will grow up to be the perfect son and heir, a man worthy of the Black name.

But until then she will wait.

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The ideals that are drilled in his head sounds so very right to him that he never thinks of even questioning them.

He is the greatest of them all.

His blood is pure and that is all that matters.

No one should mess with the family line.

It is easy for him to keep all of these in his mind as he looks down on the people around him even in his own family.

He scowls and frowns when Andromeda runs away- she is- had been- his favorite cousin but she had to run away with trash and lose all respect in his eyes.

Despite that, somewhere deep in his heart, he still has the same adoration and respect that he had for her when he spent time with her. The fact that she married a Muggle born does nothing to wane it.

But he knows what he is feeling is wrong, and that he isn't really supposed to feel like that so he squashes everything and keeps his face straight when she is burnt off the family tree.

"Such a shame." His mother turns towards Andromeda's mother as Bella and Nacrissa stands behind her. "Maybe you should have taken more interest in what your youngest daughter was involving herself with." And Sirius knows that his mother has no sympathy for the woman who has lost her daughter but only feels a vicious sense of satisfaction that she can once again prove that her children are greater.

He feels distinctly unsettled by that but he still holds on to his beliefs that he is the greatest.

After all, everyone around him tells him the exact same thing so why shouldn't it be true?