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Aurora couldn't get comfortable anywhere in the home, she tried so desperately but everyday was spent in agony as it was just a countdown as to when their family Owl will deliver the test results.

Sirius knew she was worried, actually everyone knew...other than their parents. They just assumed it was hormones or whatever showcased in an almost sixteen-year-old teen, a gal no less. 

That and there had been some improvements of their young daughter's relationship with Rabastan so perhaps she missed him?

Orion had been kindly looking through documents, the arguments only festered worse as Walburga seemed to be having it out for Sirius ever since he had stepped foot in the house. 

No matter his grades, the only thing that did pose of interest was the number of detentions he's had and who he's settled with. 

Halfblooded or mudblood alike.

Course his son fired right on back while little Cassi and Reg would simply duck and cover to the sidelines. 

There were days where no one spoke to one another, and other days where Orion knew that Cassi was healing her brother's cuts and scrapes.

Although it was brutal practice, there needed to be discipline in the Noble House, and this was surely the last resort.

And for Sirius, it was becoming the last straw. He was debating himself through and through, he had his bags all packed just in case he had enough courage to make the sacrifice after all. 

He knew that if he did leave, there would be no going afterward. That he would be disowned like those before him with nowhere else to go but to the Potter's.

However on days where there was nobody but them over, or they found sanctuary with Narcissa or even at the Lestrange manner than it was fine by him. But all days were not like that, and some were painful to even have his sister cryimng beside him as she was worried that it wouldn't heal correctly.

It had been easier to hide on other times, but his parents were making it known now as perhaps a tactic for his younger siblings to fall in line...

And here they all were, their mother off on some mindless errand while Aurora seemed half minded at the game they were playing and just sipped her tea and continued to eat the given 1/3 of the biscuit she picked up ages ago.

The screech of owl had everyone pause in their sudden movement, and in Cassi's case it had seemingly stopped her heart as she saw the envelopes drop right on near the rest of the boys.

"Yours is heavy Rory, that must mean—" She closed her eyes and left the room. Feeling the utter sickness in the pit of her stomach caused her to retreat back to her room and let everything out in the contents of her bathroom.

Sirius huffed, why did she get so bloody nervous about this? She probably got all O's. 

What is the problem now? 

"Rabastan said that one of the Examiners talked to her durning the test?" Sirius hummed, looking at the envelope that still sat with her name on it. But what made it so thick? This wasn't the supplies list nor a prefect introuction so what—

"Ah I did hear an owl, what's the verticted?" He clapped his hands together to see his eldest just drape his arms out onto the extra chair. "Rory bolted upstairs at the sight of it." That confused that master of the house as he summoned the envelope and went on up to her bedroom.

"Wait father!" Regulus called out, but Orion was much too excited to find out what his little light had gotten. Knocking on her door for a moment before coming in did he get the given reaction of what she would say if it was indeed her brother.

"Merlin Sirius just go away! I don't want to look at the bloody scores!" She shouted through the bathroom. 

"Whyever not, it's quiet a large envelope...You alright Cassiopeia?" She creeked her bathroom door opened and shook her head, the father instantly to wipe his thumb to her cheeks as her tears were starting to break out.

"Kreacher...Get Cassiopeia a calming tea." He ordered, barely waiting for the pop of the elf's introduction nor losing eye contact with his little light.

He takes the edge of her bed to sit her down on as he knees before her. "Is it this that's been bothering you Cassi? You know whatever you got is perfect in my mind." It hurt even worse to hear that as it wasn't true at all, then she would look like a dumbwitted Ravenclaw. So she nodded, and with shaking hands did she take the envelope and pop the wax seal off.

Seemed as though there were a few letters packed on as well, and she narrowed her brows together in confusion. Her father was being rather patience with her, but it was all due to his excited to really get down to it.

There was one name she didn't reconize, but the symbol at the top was a dead giveaway. Her eyes sparked as her lip parted, course the tears were easily leaked out as she rushed through reading what a man named Otto Hanson.

It was a chance for an internship just this coming summer for a few weeks out of it. So what she gotten on her exams then?

"And...? I sense that it's alright then." She nodded as she passed on the letter to her father and nicked out the actual results.

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It was the last line that truly got her...One. Bloody one? How did she manage to get that far? "Cassi it's alright if you—" She passed the grades towards her father who took it rather eagerly, a smile finally graced her depressed nature. But it was the given rank that really drew her father.

"Sweet Slarzar, first?" Orion's smile hauntedly looked like a but like Regulus' but entirely of Sirius. The girl stayed silent through and through as she read different letters, one from her head of house as he was more than pleased. 

Professor McGonagal who demanded that she take the internship as well as her Herbolody professor who wanted her to take an extra class to experiment on her own.

"Mr.Hanson wants me to take an internship...Mother—" 

"Your mother isn't going to stop you from going, I'll have a word with her...W-...What does the rest say?" He questioned and so she passed them all the pieces of parchment.

"I was at a Slughorn party, suppose my name is circulating...Or that's what Mr.Hanson said at least." She leaned into her father's shoulder as he read through the papers a few times over.

"Will you have time to take this Herbology offer?" 

"Probably not, Madam Pomfry wanted me to take a spot under her this coming year..." She trailed off, managing to close her eyes to take a breath. Only for Kreacher to disrupt the peace with the much needed tea.

She hummed a thank you before bringing it to her lips as it was the perfect temperature. Instantly the effects took over as she closed her eyes once more to let it flood the rest of her body.

Her father and her spent another hour and a half by going over a plan that he was going to present Walburga and hault any and all taunts and disagreements.

When the man left her room she fell back onto the bed and held her hands over her eyes. Only to be launched into the air and fall back onto her fluffy comforter due to her two brother's reactions.

"'What's the verdict?'" Sirius mimicked their father and she merely held up the paper for him to see, and he dropped it for her to take a bit of a gaze. "Well thank bloody fuck that you got O in Transfigurations." 

"FIRST?! YOU'RE FIRST?! MERLIN RORY I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WE WERE EVER RANKED!" Orion smiled from his study as he heard their excitement, but then frowned.

Why couldn't his wife get on board with it? It was one thing for her rude comments about how she's dazed half the time. But that wasn't true, she holds a conversation very well, and planned accordingly but the second the conversation took to his sweet little Cassiopeia having children...He drew the line.

Realistically her bitterness had steamed from Sirius and how he wasn't in Slytherin and it steamed over to the Ravenclaw of their family. A mix of colors, but her own brother had been a Ravenclaw so where did she go wrong? All the fault had always gone to her, the mother.

As the father there was nothing he could possibly do, so him dictating their middle child's career was beginning to give a wind load of panic as it'd drive her to be questioned on who really runs the household.

Walburga has always been a Black, the only change at her wedding is that she went from Ms. to Mrs.

So when she returned home to have her husband come into her own little 'study' and warned her in advance to not interfere and so she had her hands were tied right then and there.

Although Aurora was finally starting to relax, it didn't stop the near nightly throw down that rallied worse and worse. There were sides, and half the time Regulus had to hold her back from getting in the middle of it as well.

It had been a promise that Regulus had agreed to, because if any harm came to their sister there is no telling what would happen then.

It was hard for her to enjoy her internship when the whole house had turned hostile from the morning's attitude. And at one point Sirius suggested that they go to the Lestrange manner just to get out. Or even Uncle Alffie's, it was more or less the astmophere of that was dragging down his mood. And with how tired Rory was half the time, Sirius waited in visiting the Potter's like he had planned.

James was worried, on some drunken nights back at Hogwarts did they have the biggest bond there could be between the two as Sirius thought about running away and James said that his home was always open to him and Aurora.

Niether of them dared to state it in the sober air so they left it at that, Sirius was just hoping that it was the truth when James offered up his home. It wouldn't be for long, it'd just be for Holidays and the pitty that they always manage to get wanes on them to help more than necessary.

Especially this one faithful night.

"SIRIUS ORION BLACK!" The piercing scream had all the siblings flinch, but at this point it was useless for Sirius to have a normal day. It was barely July at this point in the holiday, there was no way he could— 

"SIRIUS!" His siblings looked at him, pleading silently for him to go and see what their mother was cursing on about now.

And so he shouted that he was 'coming right along' as he walked up the steps to see her wand up in the air to the pictures he had plastered onto the wall. 

"What...what are you doing in my room?" He questioned innocently, there wasn't really much to hide in here. Everything was already packed in his truck that meant anything to him so what's the point in—

"WHAT IN SLALZAR'S IS THAT?!" She pointed off to the muggle pictures he had gotten from a subscription some time durning the year. Cost him an arm and a leg really but worth every penny.

"Er they're—"

 "MUGGLES! WHAT ARE MUGGLES DOING ON MY WALL!" Aurora closed her eyes, some points Sirius was asking for there to be consequences and enough was enough.

But as she was about to get up, Regulus tackled her. "Reg, I swear to—" 

"Cassiopeia you aren't going up there and that's final." She narrowed her eyes, not liking how her own sibling had to pull the stops on her by speaking her Black name.

"Mother's going to—" It was too late, the same bloody senerio once again for what seemed like the epteenth time that week. The youngest of the three were closing their eyes attempting to let Sirius' yells and be drowned out by anything. The grandfather clock's ticking, Kreacher cooking dinner in the next room. Anything that could get rid of the heart wrenching fiasco Siri was enduring.

"I DIDN'T RAISE YOU TO BE A MUGGLE LOVER YOUNG MAN, MINGLING WITH THE WRONG KIND AT SCHOOL...FILTHY MUDBLOODS AND BLOOD TRAITORS YOU RALLIED BEHIND! WHAT HAS THAT SCHOOL DONE TO YOU?!" Aurora sucked in a breath, it truthfully hadn't been the school. For her it started out for her being a female instead of a male and then getting blamed on it when it was clearly nothing she herself could do about it.

"IT'S NOT THE SCHOOL. IT'S WHO I AM MOTHER!" Rory's eyes flared as she knew, deep down she knew what was going to happen. 

"It's not, Sirius..." His mother attempted to act reasonable, and for the first time in years did it sound like mother actually cared about— 

"You are the eldest Black son, you're not to be associating yourself with those...those wretch people! You should be honored to be in such a noble house!" Sirius was damned willed against defending his friends, at school or at home.

"Sirius. What are you doing? " Regulus breathed, muttering under his breath as he was holding his sister down. He was thankful considering that due to his position on the team he was fairly stronger than his average fourth year.

"Reg please." She cried out, but he wouldn't budge as it was unless for Rory to get into the middle of it as well. 

"Honored?! Honored for what?! To be part of this sadistic, dark magic worshipping family?! I rather be a bloody Potter!" And that a thin line, but of course...He wouldn't Sirius if he didn't one up his own statement.

"I RATHER BE A MUGGLE!" It had been the end, Orion who had stayed in his study to hear how the given argument would go this time. He knew Sirius was resilient, but he'd come to learn the ways soon enough. It just needed time to sink in and rest into place.

However, as his groans of torture filled the home yet again, it had ended with Walburga slamming the door shut on what could only be a injuries Sirius.

There was a countdown, always an utter countdown when to allow Rory to help him. This was apart of the pact because more than a few times Aurora had been yelled at for aiding and nursing him back when a punishment should be felt through.

Course Sirius was beginning to work through it on his own as he threw the remaining clothes and whatever else he could bloody find as well as throw the leather jacket his sister had gotten him for Christmas as he clicked his trunk shut and walked on down the stairs and to the front steps.

"MISTRESS! MISTRESS! SIRIUS IS LEAVING! MISTRESS!" The eldest had kicked the elf to mute his alerts, but now it had everyone in the house aware of his motives. Aurora had already been in tears once again, but to see it true she broke even further.

"P...Please..." She ushered, and there wasn't anything more he could do than tackle his sister and steady her shaking just a bit. Inhaling her sent as his k9 needed that dose of courage.

"SIRIUS DON'T YOU DARE WALK OUT THAT DOOR OR I WILL—" 

"WHAT MOTHER?! WHAT WILL YOU DO?! BURN ME OFF THE TABESTRY, HOPE IT SERVES AS BETTER PRACTICE FOR YOUR AIM!" He spit out, returning to his resting truck and storming out the front door.

Aurora had her arm extended out, and with tears blurring her vision she simply called out his name only to hear the muffled fighting of their mother and father.

It had been Regulus' last attempt as he stopped his sister from following out into the muggle street as there was nothing worse than looking like she was running away as well.

Walburga, true to Sirius' advice had blasted the eldest Black off the family tree with an almost perfect aim. Thus enlarging Aurora's as she turned next in line to receive the fortune however it also rose up Regulus' as he was the last remaining son to the noble house of Black.

And as the sick mother smelled the burning of the tapestry she simply uttered two words to finish the job. 

"Immer Rein."

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Date Posted: 3-24-19

Time: 7:42

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