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The rough reality of it all was that when Sirius finally was feeling best, it turned to be the last few hours and then back on the train. James took claim of the map for the summer, going right beside the invisibility blanket while the group had added themselves to talk to Sirius in that special book of his.

An added bonus that Aurora had helped them with on approach.

Rory looked for Sirius and reminded him that they were going to the Lestrange's manner for the first week of the summer and he groaned. Only for James to joked, "Careful Pads, watch out for this one, she fancies the bloke." She stomped her foot and claimed that she didn't, but it was too obvious to the fact considering she never did that sort of childish act before.

That and her face turned beat red.

"Please don't make us look for you Siri." He nodded and waved her off, but she took the time to say goodbye to the rest as she wouldn't see them until the summer is over.

The train arrived too soon in Sirius' case, but he found his family as well as Rabastan who was already making Aurora a giggling mess and he bit a groan.

Regulus had been clueless about the date as it was Aurora's attempt of trying to figure out her own feelings before getting hammered by her brothers. But Sirius eyed Rabastan in threat, which Rabastan nodded knowingly.

Sweet Merlin did Aurora wish to bop them both upside the head, they hated each other so what the bloody hell had that meant???

The entire lot of children had followed Mrs.Lestrange in pursuit of the manner, since the first day always involved a small meal before relaxation. Since last year they had been here as well, Sirius expected that Aurora and her Raba would go to the tree and stay there for the majority of the day.

While Sirius spent the last ten minutes repeating the fact that their sister and the boy had gone on a date this year. 

He was in denial, complete and utter denial.

Rabastan had been called by his father and so her brothers took the opportunity to go sit with her under the tree, she wasn't even reading. She was just staring at up at the branches and leaves as she swirled around little leaves with her wand.

This house like their own, was loosely protected by the underage magic, leave the house perhaps but at the moment they were alright.

The last time they had gone to Germany was first year, and Aurora had remembered kindly telling her brother he would be joining them soon to school. And now it's going to be his third and the twins fifth.

"Excited for OWLs Rory?" She scoffed. 

"You're twisted. But I suppose you could borrow the OWLs textbooks." 

"They make textbooks for them?!" She chuckled, throwing the little ball in his direction. Only turning into practice as she rose her feet and held her dress by her hands.

And both of her siblings knew what that meant.

The sister nicked it back and began to run in a random direction away from the tree, and with a simple nick of Sirius own head did both brothers come up with a plan to outwit the Ravenclaw.

With laughter and cheers as Sirius tackled his sister and threw her over his shoulder in an attempt to claim the ball. She passed it to Reg as he began to run. Thus allowing her to wiggle out, fall to the floor and attempt to run after the youngest brother.

"And what game would this be?" Rabastan laughed, making her laugh as well. 

"A sort of tag, whoever has the ball we try capture." He shrugged off his coat like the others had done and ran after Reg with offering arms.

"Oi snakes stay together!" He shouted. And Sirius found himself rather amused as Regulus laughed at that as well. "Then why did Siri tell me about the two of yours date?"

And as Aurora gawked at Sirius she soon joined in the laughter. 

"Sirius! You went on a date with Rabastan?!" Regulus couldn't manage a straight face with that either, and both the boys in her year cracked a smile.

Whenever the girl was in a brightened mood it would permeate and spread through the air. So when Sirius had picked up his sister and ran off the two Slytherin's did team up to attempt to get her back.

The day had tired out the children quickly, so much so that Aurora had fallen asleep in the library reading a book. Falling asleep on Rabastan's shoulder, he didn't mind any bit but Sirius offered to bring her to bed since she needed a proper nights sleep.

"You think the exams got to her then?" 

"A simple question in potions gets to her Rabastan, she was talking about OWLs textbooks...Is that just a Ravenclaw thing then?" The two chuckled but Sirius carried her bridal style up the steps to her room.

He helped her out of her given dress into the underdressing, nothing that would be questionable in seeing anything however she did wake up for a few moments.

"You're warming up to Raba huh?" She asked, but even with Sirius' silence she fell asleep anyhow. He promised to come back later and he trailed back to tell Reg that Rory went to bed.

"Siri wait!" The boy shouted, he offered up his paper, or not his paper but their sisters. Whatever she was studying was odd, and her handwriting wasn't adding up to the others. 

"Probably Harper or someone wrote on her paper Reg, she know you have this?...Have I caught you writing word for word?" He joked, and Reg defended himself as he simply wanted to understand the content before explaining it in his own word.

As Sirius left the room Rabastan was in the hallway returning to his own after finishing his chapter goal. "Reg really working on homework already?" Sirius shrugged and nodded about.

The one thing that the two boys could understand, that Sirius could not was attempting to be noticed by their parents. Luckily for Regulus that he was the favorite, Walburga only favorited her daughter because was obedient, for the most part, and it allowed for all those torturous years that her own mother had put her through and pass it down to her own daughter.

Rather sick, but it worked out in the end as Walburga now knows about Rabastan's infatuation.

"If we're talking homework Rory probably started it the moment they handed it out...Night." He abruptly ended, the Lestrange son knew that Aurora's brother were protective. Something he too was as well, especially when it came to Victoria.

The only thing Sirius had against Rabastan was his family, as well as being a male contender that his own sister adores herself.

Deep down he knew that she would be rather confused at her own feelings as much as he is. But then again he was more than happy that she isn't in any broom closets.

Even if he wasn't related to Aurora, he could just tell that she isn't the same as his flings. She was up with Lily Evan's in popularity and not to go on a date with just anyone. Even though Lily did indeed go on a date with a few blokes as Aurora pointed out to her brother.

Sirius waited a bit before sneaking into his sister's room, not even bringing her closer to his hold but just laying there beside her was enough to calm his overactive mind.

The map was completed, they were mastering their animals, helping their best mate...What else was going to come this next three years?

Three years.

That's all the time that they had left at Hogwarts, and he wondered what his sister was planning her own life outside of school. But then again a part of him knew quite well after seeing two other cousins forced to the altar.

He wondered who the damned bloke would be, but also knew quite well that their father favored that she wanted to perhaps continued her academics even after Hogwarts? But their mother would be an entirely different story.

"Siri?" A voice called out, but now he could see that Aurora was just about awake in terms of lucid and she smiled.

"I like your thinking face brother, it doesn't suit you though...Something the matter?" She whispered, tired just lurking on every bit of her soft voice and blinks that were not matched.

"A few things, nothing we can do to change them though..." He dwelled, so a quick smile managed onto her face before disappearing into her sleeping nature.

He assumed she returned back to her dream but then her voice surprised him yet again. "As within?" 

"So without...Go to sleep Rory."

She didn't need to be told twice and so she snuggled further into her pillow, leaving the plane again to the sleep world.

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The rest of the time at the Lestrange Manner Aurora was pampered by Mrs.Lestrange in being able to get her nails done. She liked clacking them together, but Sirius' favored them because the k9 in him adored the idea of an extra scratch behind his ear or even in his hair.

She didn't mind either, to be fair they've done it for such a long time prior to him being able to turn into a dog that it was a natural reaction.

However, on the last day of their stay Aurora received a letter from Salem. She was confused of course, but since she hasn't talked to her friends from the school in such a good while that she had been out of the loop about this letter.

The news traveled much faster as it would seem, considering that she was bombarded by more owls from her friends.

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"Someone's popular, let me guess...You've created a potion that Saint Mungos' must have." She shook her head at Rabastan's taunt, not looking up from rereading Elizabeth's letter in a much more in-depth version of what the Salem invitation was.

"Salem wants me to teach a summer program for the younger children..." She mumbled out, offering up the initial paper for him to understand.

"Nice, a week in the states...Guess this is the American gals messaging you then?" 

"Only Kai and Liz are from the states, Delilah is from Egypt and Mia is from Australia...You think my parents would—" Rabastan saw the hesitation in her voice, her parents were more than strict but if they allowed her to go to school there in general then this would be another perfect opportunity.

"Rory come on, your father loves the idea of you being a Salem graduate...Besides, I think my little Ravenclaw can think of a way to get them to agree." Her devilish smirk widened just a bit as she scratched his chin with her nail.

In that very instant had it become his favorite thing for her to do to him. Affection was odd in their world, but the new generation was filled with new tactics and the idea of these two growing up best friends had worked to their advantage.

Aurora had left to share the news with her brothers but Rabastan had stayed behind to see the letters the rest of her friends sent her. They were rather excited to reconnect after four years.

He would miss her of course, but she would only be gone for a week. They've been away for longer times, especially when she actually attended the school as a student.

Promising himself that he would send her an owl at least twice in the timespan had made him feel so much better about her departure.

However, it wasn't that easy on the other side of the estate where the two brothers were throwing the quaffle around in complete boredom. But that had stopped the second Aurora had come outside, she simply told them about the letter and Sirius demanded each and every bit of the details.

"Siri it's only for a week...I'll be back in seven days...If mother and father allow me that is." Sirius scoffed, course they would let her go. The ideals that they wanted to be the best within their pureblood society was making him sicker by the second.

The amount of praise their parents had gotten for having and raising a witch of that standard. But god forbid if Sirius wanted to go visit the Potter's for a bloody hour, even with their own pureblood status they were considered traitors for not caring about the same ideals as the rest.

Making it impossible for his parents to favor any of his friends.

Aurora attempted to boost Remus Lupin's idea, saying that Lyall Lupin wrote very detailed and interesting creatures for the Ministry but since he married a muggle and had a child with her it stood as nothing more than the same as their cousin...

Granted Andy married a Muggle-born wizard so whichever worse was never stated but granted it was never discussed again seeing as how Sirius had been in a mess of hurt that time around.

So as they bid farewell to the Lestranges and found themselves in the midst of their dark manner they retreated to their own thing. However Aurora was nervous in talking to her father about this, she wanted to see her friends and the school...But leaving her brothers...more importantly, Sirius to be exact? It caused her to feel very guilty.

But getting caught in a lie would be worse for the lot of them if they happen to send another owl.

With that all in mind Aurora knocked twice on her father's study, just like he did all that time ago as she offered up the letter. He read it and smiled.

"I see their itching to have you back Cassi, of course, respond and we'll get it sorted with the ministry for a portkey." She smiled and kissed her father's cheek in an effort to look grateful before returning back and writing a confirmation letter. To both the school and to the rest of her friends.

Even to Dalilah and Mia as they were closer in range than the rest, unless Kai, the girl who lives in Hawaii decided to mail Mia...

Whatever the case may be it was a very talkative dinner as Walburga was indeed impressed by Salem wanting her daughter to return. So it was all set in stone, however that night Aurora promised that she and him would sneak out to the Potter's one night.

If it meant a few hours of happiness in terms of sanctuary for him then so be it, and if they figure out a way to get there without difficulty then they could attempt this more frequently and during other holidays.

The two of them claimed they were going to go to bed early that night as Aurora confirmed that she had stayed up late the previous night trying to prepare to be outstanding in Salem while Sirius had helped quiz her.

It aided the liking for the eldest son in their parent's eyes, but even with this the second Aurora would leave it would indeed be a hellish experience anyhow.

The two of them had snuck into her room as it had a small compartment that would easily get closer to the balcony. Something Aurora had figured out, it was more or less a crawl space but in animal form being on all fours was normal.

Aurora so easily balanced on the railing while Sirius was rather nervous at the height. "You think they have a shield, or is it just the hidden charm to contain the house?" Sirius whimpered in his dog form as he returned. Either of their hearts were pumping louder, the idea that Kreacher catch them at all was causing this idea to be delayed even further. 

Only until Aurora pointed to a fire escape that the muggles use, it was slightly attached to their building and it would only cost Snuffles a small leap to managing and it hadn't been that loud for their family to ever worry about.

Probably complaining that the muggle children around them were too noisy but other than that it was nothing but expected.

With either of them out and about they switched back into their human forms and smiled up at the house.

"You have no idea...How much I wish we could've done this when we were younger." Aurora smiled and nicked her head, getting some distance between the house would make it less obvious as to whose children they were.

Sirius had been loudly giddy at the idea of getting to see James. It wasn't that late either, just roughly eight. So after getting a good block and a half of distance did Aurora reveal her wand and call upon the night bus.

"Sure this works Rory?... Prongs said—" Of course his sister had been proven right in that moment where the double-decker bus had stopped directly in front of where she held her wand.

"Welcome to the knight bus, emergency transport for a stranded witch or wizard. My name is Ivan Shunpike and I will be your conductor for the evening." Aurora smiled and nudged her brother for the address and handed it off to the man while she dug into her purse for a tip.

"Smart move Rory, always bloody eight steps ahead aren't you?" She smiled back towards her brother as they walked passed the rolling beds and decided to sit up by the front.

The conductor didn't ask any questions about two underage witch and wizard walking around at night, and even if the conductor had asked, the ride itself had been short and sweet to the point of already fifteen minutes in they arrived.

Aurora thanked the man once again before holding onto Sirius' hand as they stepped off, being left in the utter darkness had Sirius groan. "You wouldn't have a flashlight would you?" She turned to him in that moment, her feline eyes enact and he groaned once more.

"You have to teach me how to bloody do that, barely can keep my nose in order." She giggled, never the less she walked. Through the gate just as James had told them in the instructions. Muggles of course would be able to see it, considering it was an obvious image of wealth the muggles in the town just suspect they are a secluded family.

The driveway wasn't that large in comparison to the rest of the manners they had visited, yet when Sirius knocked on the door the large smile couldn't have dwindled even if Aurora stomped on his foot.

She was happy to make him happy, and it was entirely worth it to see either boys face when seeing one another during the summer.

"Rory made it too!" James cheered, pulling her into the joined hug as she giggled. 

"Hey Jamesie." She mumbled into his hold. On the other side Aurora had seen his parents and she stilled in worry.

"Sirius, Aurora...It's nice to finally meet you." Mrs.Potter offered out, and although Sirius was more than happy to be in their company with a hug to either of the adults...

Aurora had been a little on the fence.

"Come on, Mum's dying to meet you." That confused her on some level but she followed in pursuit to James' rather forcefully pulled her further into the room.

Mrs.Potter on the other hand obviously saw that she was uncomfortable with them being there but she held the young girl's hands and squeezed. "Oh please darling it's alright, I just made biscuits fresh out of the oven...And I am picking up Remus in a few minutes if—" That sparked interest in the young girl's heart as she knew that Remus lived on a farm.

Seeing either of the houses in one night made her smile. 

"Why don't you help me in the kitchen while the boys catch up." Although Peter was not present at the moment, he had been distracted by the next move in their gobstopper game that he couldn't leave to return with a messed up board.

Aurora followed the elder witch through the house, noting how light and homey it felt just walking down the hallway. And by the time the young Black daughter had been in the kitchen she smiled around.

Never having really been in a kitchen before, other than the few times she had been at Hogwarts. But that was equipped to feed the entire school, this was smaller but still indeed large.

"It smells lovely." She complimented and the mother chuckled. "I was going to start baking a few cookies, I know Remus favors chocolate than biscuits but Peter couldn't sit still after I told him." Aurora nodded in clarification of Remus' addiction.

As well as Peter's addiction. But as Aurora sat down in front of the cookbook Mrs.Potter was following, she smiled and flipped through the pages.

"James was telling me you help him in potions." Aurora's eyes pop up to see the famous potioneer of the century and she smiled.

"When he accepts my help of course, little difficult since we're not in the same classes." 

"Hm, Slytherin...Not to worry darling we aren't—" Aurora shook her head and showed her Ravenclaw pride.

It took back either parents, they had just assumed her house. They simply took the word of Sirius' youngest brother getting Slytherin that the eldest Black was the only one with the different household.

"We're all in different houses, but it makes for a good game against Gryffindor." She said, blushing as she used to the tactic of knowing her audience.

As Aurora was eating the biscuits while the boys were enjoying their time upstairs and getting comfortable, Mrs.Potter said she was on her way to go to the Lupin residence.

Aurora wanted to go, rather excited to see the Hippogryffs on the farm. Even if it was for a moment or two. So they departed off to the same layout of a long driveway, and once again Aurora had felt the nerves of meeting another set of parents.

It was one thing for James, but for Remus? The Lupins were suspicious and too careful to those around them, so perhaps arriving unannounced would be rude and inappropriate.

"Hope is going to love you darling, not to worry." She let out a polite laugh and only continued to the front door of the quaint home. Aurora has thought of these homes from the characters in her books, a farmhouse.

Nothing like the ones she visited in general, or her family has. It hurt thinking that the money she is given in allowance will probably be enough to buy the damn property.

She more or less hid behind Mrs.Potter as she knocked at the door and Hope rushed the door with an announcement while also shouting to Remus.

"Euphemia! It's so good to see you, come in come in!" She cheered, and Aurora stood in awe. Of course the young witch has met a muggle before, but the aura above Hope Lupin was so pure that she was caught rather confused on how to go about introducing herself.

"Aurora...Oh, sweetheart, it's so lovely to finally meet you." Mrs.Lupin had acted the same way Mrs.Potter had. It occurred to her that they probably pitted both her and her brother over the fact of their family and it was what she tried to distracted herself over that, but Remus smelled her a mile away as she made small talk with his mum downstairs.

"R-Rory?" He ushered, and she smiled up to her best friend and threw her arms over his shoulder as his automatically clicked around her small frame, meaning it landed near her stomach.

"You actually snuck out? Merlin you two are mad." He whispered and she smiled, to Remus. 

"Mrs.Potter was showing me how to make cookies!" She cheered, and although Hope was confused at why she was never taught, Lyall himself came around the corner to see the commotion.

"Ah, I thought I heard you Euphemia, Remus I want no trouble over the Potters...Now—Hello there." Just like Hope, the aura showed grandly to Mr.Lupin and Aurora smiled. Mrs.Potter assumed it was because he was a wizard and there was a bit more comfort, but the truth of the manner was obvious.

"Mr.Lupin it an honor to meet you...I've been reading your work since I was little." It took him by surprise of course, considering Remus never mentioned it. So completely red-faced and behind her did she look embarrassed as well.

"She...She actually said that the first day on the train...Sure I mentioned it." Aurora knew he was lying so she giggled behind her hands and nudged him. But with the mother's talking off in the corner for a few moments, Lyall was talking to Aurora, there had been a picture of her on his son's desk and he placed her a few seconds after looking to the young Black girl.

Yet Hope was rather confused as to why Aurora was shy in terms of talking to her. 

"Not to worry Hope, she was the same with myself...Her own mother's an old hag from the stories James has told me. Neither of them ever want to go back for the holidays." Hopes stood in awe as she looked back into the hallway to see the very proper young girl, and asked a few question about the wizard ladder.

"She's a Ravenclaw like Lyall, sure those two will get along swimmingly...Is it because I'm a muggle?" Mrs.Potter didn't want to say yes right away, but the silence was obvious.

"I doubt it is her own views Hope, I think she is more scared of her own retaliation of her mother in hearing that she talked to muggle instead. She openly defended a muggle born witch that she is friends with, sure it's just nerves. They're very sheltered those two." Hope nodded along, but instantly put fears and worries into asking a few things to her husband as she needed the terminology to properly understand.

So as the children left with Mrs.Potter, Hope followed her husband into his study and leaned into the doorframe as she held the face of anticipation for needing to know. 

"Those two snuck out of the house and took a knight bus to the Potters...What didn't you understand?" The young mother now pulled herself closer to her husband in worry. Aurora seemed older than the rest, more mature and it confused her to the point of disbelief as she assumed that Sirius was the one who was the troublemaker.

"I thought it was because I was a muggle, she went up to you easier than for me." Lyall hadn't been there for the introduction but he assumed the girl meant no harm and he voiced it as well.

"Children in those god-awful noble houses are forced to live in this idealist supremacy. But neither Sirius or Aurora are in the Slytherin house." 

"Yes, I see your fan is a Ravenclaw just like yourself...Did you see Remus' face when she greeted you, I've never seen him that red." She dwelled, and it occurred to Mr.Lupin that his son...Had established a bit of a fancyment to the young Black child and he smirked.

"She is actually going to the states for a few days to teach at the Salem institution." That had the wife even more confused as she tilted her head and the man nodded. 

"She's more Ravenclaw than I am I believe...Love, that school is—they pick twenty girls at the age of nine to attend." That shocked the women to the brim as she was shocked to see that she was in the entirely wrong family.

"She aids Remus and the rest of the boys on assignments." 

"When she has time, she plays Quidditch and plans to take Alchemy...We should invite her over to—Damn." It confused her again and he sighed.

"Her parents are most likely going to disagree with that idea, even if I am a pureblood." Hope understood that the love he felt for her shut some doors in his world and she nodded.

"Well, we can always extend open arms. James told his mum that their mother's a hag." The father laughed as the two women were gossiping their heart out in the mere minutes Aurora and him were discussing animals of all kinds.

Back at the Potter's Aurora had all kinds of fun baking, as she found it so close to experimenting with potions that she giggled and laughed with the mother, who was all too taken kindly at the idea of a daughter that more than once she wrapped her arms around her as she instructed her a few times.

The first time she jumped at such contact, but it was rather a soothing manner to see how a real mother operates in a household or just around a child.

Mrs.Potter felt strongly attached to Aurora after the mere hours of her being here with them. She knew the boys adored Sirius but Aurora came willingly knowing that she was the odd one out.

Yet as it soon began to shine at it being one in the morning Aurora sighed. "I should probably get Siri...We have an early day tomorrow." She pouted, and the mother nodded only to feel drastically worried in terms of how to treat either of these children.

They didn't do anything wrong, but they were mistreated, obvious signs of Aurora's fingers showed that. Even if her parents took it as her being a skilled pianist, it still didn't amount to how delicate they look from her standpoint.

Seeing them off didn't do much else to soothe her heart, but James and the rest of his friends had come downstairs for some hot cocoa and to see Aurora's creations. "Rory made these?" Remus said through a mouth full of snacks, Merlin if he couldn't love her enough. And the women just nodded sadly.

"Mum?" The women didn't want to pull everyone at attention so she asked to speak to James in the other room and he was strangely taken back it all. "Everything alright?" 


"Just that...Aurora flinched a few times...Is that normal darling?" Of course he thought back to the first time he met Aurora, but they had quickly become friends at the combined worriment that her and her brother had gone through after not getting in Slytherin.

"N-no...But from what I know Rory's never cooked a thing in her life. Remus said that she was scared to meet his parents?" She nodded and the two continued to hint at the fact that both Aurora and Sirius might be getting hurt in their home.

"Rory said that it's not a coincidence that his attitude goes down when they're going to go home...I wouldn't want to be a Gryffindor in a house of Slytherin's either mum." With that James returned back to his friends, but it left that awful feeling caught in Mrs.Potter in a mood for the rest of the day.

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Date Posted: 03-05-19

Time: 3:12

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House sitting :) Love it when they go too, it's a nice bougie house. Makes me feel rich sitting in the office XD