Serious Sirius Secrets
Chapter 2: Serious Sirius Secrets
Narcissa POV
Of course 7th year would be great. Trying, and exhausting due to it being her NEWTs year. But still, her final year of freedom! She would be married this time next year, and pumped full of so many fertility potions, likely she'd get pregnant on her wedding night. A virgins rights would be part of the ceremonies rituals, after all, in order to counteract the blood curse placed on the Malfoy family line. She'd live, provide one male heir, and continue on the rest of her married life barren. But alive. Mother, Father and the Malfoys had emphasized this fact. So in the meantime to keep her thoughts off that depressing fact, she just had to focus on her final year of freedom. She had watched in muted amusement how her cousin and his friends had been marched off to the infirmary after someone (probably Snape, subtle as a hippogriff, that one) had bested them with a animalistic prank.
That was until her younger cousin had slipped, blank faced, out right after them. She decided to follow. Telling her girl friends that questioned her that she had a letter to send off to Lucius and was headed off to the owlery.
She took a slow measured paced in the direction of the owlery then doubled back after a determined pace of time. Alibis were important and she had noted at least 6 named students she new would verify her wanderings if asked later.
She was just rounding the last corner when she saw Regulus rushing towards her. "Oh good! Black luck strikes, put on a disillusionment charm and sneak back in with me to Siri."
"What's all the fuss, little star?" Narcissa murmured. Regulus shook his head "You'll see." She cast the charm at the same time he did, then for good measure did a wide ranged revelio silently to ensure nobody was watching or following. They slipped into the infirmary where Potter and the other 2 were getting accosted by Pomfrey with spells to try to end the effects on them. "SIRIUS JUST NEEDED A MOMENT ALONE, BOYS. IF I CAN GET YOU FIXED UP, HE'LL BE NEXT." She insisted in a way that Narcissa knew meant she'd been power-rolled by a well done charm to keep her out of Sirius's way for a moment. Potter seemed beside himself in fret. All 3 boys were shuffling and anxious in a way that reminded her of her mother's family dogs.
She went through the barrier with Reggie and cast the muffling spell Snape thought himself so sly and cunning for using at all hours of the day whenever he was speaking with anyone of anything important. She had modified it to buzz not-at-all on the outside so it wouldn't be so noticeable when used. The smell hit her first. She covered her nose "Eugh! Siri, why do you smell like a dog in heat?" His expression looked equal parts mortified and like a kicked puppy. She paused, looked to Regulus who took in a deep breathe and laid out the story.
She sat down on the infirmary bed as he continued on in a quiet tone and watched as tears started running down her older cousins face. She hadn't seen him cry since he was 3 and during a family function had been told he had to let the family elf, Kreacher, punish itself for Sirius's mistake.
Crying did nobody favors in the house of Black, after all.
As a woman, she understood most of the story, however... pelvic exams were forbidden to ensure the virginal claims and rights were in tact until after intimacy had been secured in a marriage and questions of pregnancy were abound! Narcissa was horrified at the implications of Sirius's treatment. Surely Aunt Wallie hadn't... but then, she thought of Potter, and realized... Aunt probably doubted that James wasn't likely already sampling that. Living in the same dorm. But she knew better. Those two were too dumb for each other, to be anything more than dumb. And her heart broke for her cousin. "Oh, Siri. I'm so sorry."
That horrible healer had likely cursed Sirius to barrenhood. If his condition was not already cursed with such issues.
Purebloods often had to do some dark magic, as their family had, to secure heirs. How dark would Sirius have to go to secure his own? Would he even try? Probably not. He looked resigned, and depressed.
"Just," He took a breath "Do you have any way to help me out here? I can't walk around bleeding like a cut of meat off the butchers hook. My charms aren't working and Pomfrey wants to examine me, again, and I c-cannot do that again Cissy. I can't!" She nodded. "I'll replace the charms for you. Here." She went through them, but noticed that within seconds his relief seemed to ebb away and the smells came back. "It's... it's not sticking." She said sternly, aggravated with her own magics failings. "Snapes potion lasted on Gilderoy for nearly 4 hours before it started to fade. You think maybe...?" Reggie asked nervously. Sirius growled "Should have known it was Snivelluses work!" Next thing they all knew Potters voice was bouncing off the barrier. "Let me in there! I need to check he's okay." Pomfrey was arguing right back. "He's fine! Now sit back down you lot. I'm gonna check him next now that we know it's a potion that has to time outta your systems." The three Blacks looked at each other in shared fear. "Might just need to get ahold of Auntie at this rate." She whispered to her cousins, who looked horrified at the concept. Sirius seemed to measure the pros and cons and motioned Cissy to end the silencing charm. She did so after he told Reg "Get James after you stun Pomfrey. Don't let the other two in here. I trust him more than the other two, since they are a half blood and muggleborn. And well. I don't know what their animals are," she could tell he was lying but let it go "But clearly he's something like a stag or sommat, so harmless, right?" He quipped. Trying desperately to seem like he had a semblance of control. "Sure, Sirius. Whatever you say." She said as she disabled the charm and adjusted the barrier charm Pomfrey had spelled up. Suddenly James clearly sent a stunner at Pomfrey (at least Reggie didn't need to now) and stormed in.
Reggie recast the silencing barrier and they heard Remus and Peter bounce off of Narcissa's adjusted protego. "SIRIUS!" James started to tackle Sirius when he expertly dodged away from the tackle. "Why do you smell like that?" The other boy took a deep breath, and seemed to hunch over in a way that Narcissa realized reminded her of the canines at home whenever they approached one of the bitches in heat. Right before lunging.
She cast a mild immoblus hex his way. "This is a bad idea. Whatever is affecting you, is affecting him too! He'll likely rape you before you finish telling him what's going on. He'll have you on your back before he'll help protect it, cousin!"
"I'd never hurt...you...Sirius." James was pushing through her hex, breaking it down and casting it off as she stared incredulously. He shouldn't have been capable!
Sirius whimpered and lunged at the same time James shook himself free. They collided, despite James being the shorter of the two, Sirius still managed to get himself curled into James as if he was the smaller boy. "I'm scared, Jamie." He said as James curled himself around the other, shushing his whimpers. "Whats going on? Tell me." Regulus moved himself past the barrier, to settle down the other two and likely keep Pomfrey out of the way for a bit. Narcissa watched as Sirius retold the story Regulus had shared, from his own perspective.
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Sirius POV
"So that's the long of it. In short, I'm a boy but cursed with girl problems and that potion Snape slipped us I think is reacting to our Mandrake leaves and our inner animals have amplified the affects of it all and basically... I am dying right now to have you breed me. Which is crazy talk. But, aptly put."
"I'm going to have my parents write us up a marriage contract."
"What?"
Three various voices all asked the same thing in response to James, and Sirius pulled away a bit to get a better look at his face. "That's your solution to getting me through the next few hours, is to... bloody marry me!?"
James got a determined look on his face "Sounds like it's more than a right now, problem, Siri."
"But, you're set on Lily!"
James snorted "And all of my courting attempts have landed on practically deaf ears. Not that I was ever truly interested in her, more so that I enjoyed irritating her to get a reaction out of Snivelly. So, let me try this the right way."
He took a breathe and started to ask "Sirius Orion Black, could I take you out to tea on the next Hogsme-" but Sirius flinched and interrupted quickly "I'm barren, James. Just because I have some... girl problems below... doesn't mean I can... you should stick to Lily." Tears were pooling in his eyes again, and his heart felt like it was weighed down like lead. He wouldn't take this behavior from James. Saving him, dating him, just out of the Gryffindor protective streak in his heart that said it needed to. No. He would be nobody's pity fuck, or worse... damsel in distress.
James bumped his head into Sirius's, who looked into James hazel eyes sadly. "Sirius, will you listen to me and shut up for a mo'?" Sirius bit his lip and nodded.
He could see out of the corner of his eye that Narcissa swooned a bit, enjoying the romantic atmosphere. Girls were so weird.
"You're my best friend. I've been fighting against your allure by focusing on the prettiest girl in our house, bloody hell... the prettiest girl in school. I won't lie she's something to look at. But if someone asked me who the prettiest PERSON is? That'd be you. I thought 'prejudices and the like' would set me up to have to try my hand at trying the safe bet. But if I can have you? Then screw that idea. I'd take you, in every way. You're more than pretty, you're the smartest and nobody realizes because you purposefully make people underestimate you. You're constantly conducting my bad ideas into possibilities because I can't get the finer details like you can. My mom once said to me that I'd need to find my equal. Someone to match and guide my brilliance with a sharp mind of their own. If that's not you, then I'm never gonna find better, Siri."
Sirius laughed, still mostly a bark, but his tail was wagging. And he glimpses a tail of chestnut curls wagging behind James too, and he shifted to look but flinched when another gush met his thighs and started to trickle down his legs. James nuzzled his neck and was pushing in closer to him. He had to push him back a bit, despite his body's instincts to submit to the other one. "Then how about we ditch this party and go find some parchment to write to your folks?"
Narcissa stood then and declared "NOT without a chaperone you won't. I'll not have it on my consciousness that should Auntie discover you shared intimacy before marriage - in case the healers actions don't count - on my head!"
Sirius sighed. Well, one idea out the window. Self control had never been his strongest suit.
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[MEANWHILE, IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, FAR IN THE FUTURE]
"I brought you lunch, my best friend! The best Minister of Magic ever! Smartest of the Unspeakables!"
"Hello to you too, Harry."
"I brought your favorite!"
"And what favor do you need today?"
"Awwwe, come on, Mione, don't be like that."
"Out with it, and - No! HARRY DON'T TOUCH THA-"
"Why? What's it do?"
"Just don't touch it." She sighs and focuses back on what she's doing. She listens as he goes on and on about needed advice regarding his youngest sprog, the boy was still causing trouble at Hogwarts after last years cursed child debacle.
"I really don't know what to tell you, hon. He's certainly scrambled enough drama up to last the Potter line several generations over I would think. Then again, one would have thought after your entire lifetime that we would have less Potter drama than we do."
"Rude."
She hummed, noncommittal, and far more focused on the device in her hand. "So what do you have therr?"
"Harry James Potter. Do not enter into my barrier. I cannot risk you contaminating my controlled field zone of experimentation. You know the rules!"
"Right. Right. Don't touch. Don't cross that line. Again, Don't touch... Anything!"
She let out a sigh, and nodded "So go on. He's got another month of detention and McGonagall wants you there to visit, tonight, was it?"
She turned a deaf ear as she placed, carefully the final rune. She beamed and then subsequently started to set it down. "....and then I was like, 'tonight? But Ginny and I had plans to invite Malfoy over. But McGonagall didn't look impressed, and so I started to say - hey, is that a time turner? I thought you got rid of all of those? Especially after last years-"
Before she could stop him he picked it up right out of her hands "HARRY!!!!" She screeched, as instinctively her want went through a complicated set of twirls and moves to bring to a halt all the things around her.
But too late. They stood in a frozen-in-time isolated lab in Howarts. And based on her first glimpse into the scroll of notes closest to her, alongside a very familiar person and an unforgettable book, it was October 12th, 1975...
"Oh wow. What happened to Snapes nose? Wait. Is that why he had such a large one? Everyone knows you don't magically try to heal a broken nose beyond an episky to set the cartilage back. Oh jeez. And he called us dunderheads. Then again... hmm. Most teens are dumb."
"DONT TOUCH ANYTHING!!!!"
"Sorry!! I didn't think it'd do that."
"That's the thing, Harry! It shouldn't have! And worse. I don't know if we are in an alternate timeline. Or the past. If we are in the past then if we leave right now, and don't leave any residue - I told you about the butterfly effect last time right? We go home and nothings changed."
"And if it's an alternate timeliness? Or whatever? What in the blazes is he making? Looks like marmalade."
"Don't get to close to the fumes!"
Harry sneezes right into the potion.
"Dammit, Harry!"
With a yank she pulls him back to her, and spells the device back towards their correct destination. Leaving behind an undone spell.
"If I'm correct, everything should be the same. I believe that was an alternate universe based on the trajectory indicated by my last added rune. I would have preferred a more controlled starter test run. But, I have stolen a bit of dust should I revisit that universe to determine my hypothesis. And Harry?"
"Yes?"
"Next time. Wait for me in my office and don't step ONE SINGLE HAIR into my lab. Do you understand?"
"Sorry, Hermione. Won't do it again...... so, Lunch?"
[IN an Alternate Universe far far away, a stag sneezes after injesting a hidden potion that he drank secondhand after his best friend took the first sip from the same cup, and sheds his antlers, the ones he'll never have again. His DNA is now and forevermore, that of a DEERHOUND.]