The Frenchman - a wolfstar au (Complete)

parents

*TW* abuse (not much detail)

During the Christmas holidays, people were going around asking people to the ball. Sirius really, really wanted to ask Remus but he didn't want to ruin their friendship and when Lily tried to tell him to ask as a friend (because Lily picks up on everything) Sirius said he might but that's when some girl (name of Dorcas) asked him to go with her as friends and Remus - thinking no one else would ask him - said yes. Regulus told him to ask someone else but there wasn't anyone else he wanted to ask, then Regulus told him the champions had to dance first and it'd be weird to dance my himself. In the end, he ended up agreeing tto go with Marlene (as friends) because the girl Marlene wanted to go with was going with someone else. Knowing his parents would be there, Sirius tried to think of the best way to be more of a family disappointment (He even got Andromeda to help him with experiments on Bellatrix) in the end he decided to go in a red suit (Gryffindor colours) and trainers with rainbows on the bottom because Bellatrix really hated those. "Why are you so intent on being a family disappoinment?" asked Remus
"Because," started Sirius "they already hate me so I thought I'd annoy them a bit."
"You have to try to be a disappointment?" asked Remus "I just have to exist."
"May I remind you, they hate me for something that didn't happen?" replied Sirius "They moved countries because I would've been in Gryffindor, even though I wasn't, imagine what they'd do when they see me in this."
"May I remind you," smirked Remus "my dad hates me for something out of my control that was kinda his fault?"
"May I remind you," said Sirius, clearly enjoying himself "both of my parents hate me because they're homphobes and I'm extremly openly gay?"
"May I remind yo-" this time Remus was cut off by peter
"Are you two actually arguing about who's more of a disappointment?" he asked
"Yes." they said in unison.

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At lunch, Regulus came over with more unwelcome news "They're staying the whole holidays."
"What!?" Sirius just looked like someone put on that one really annoying song, "Whyyyyyyyy."
"Essayez de ne pas les rendre trop fous," said Regulus "je ne veux pas que tu sois blessé." (try not to make them too mad I don't want you getting hurt)
"Je vais bien ne t'inquiète pas." said Sirius waving off whatever Regulus had said "Ne leur donne pas une raison de te blesser."
Regulus rolled his eyes "They never do," he replied "they're too busy with you." he went back to sit at the Slytherin table. Sirius laughed at James and Remus' confused faces before continuing to eat
"So when do the holidays start?" he asked, his mouth full
"Tomorrow." said Remus, hearing this, Sirius choked on his food,
"Tomorrow?" he coughed (why did the Annie song just come to mind) after he'd recovered, Remus nodded, Sirius groaned.
"Tomorrow? What's wrong with tomorrow?" asked James
"My parents are coming." replied Sirius, grimly (ha)
"Coming here?" asked James, Sirius nodded (mind: don't say it don't say it)
"Is that a bad thing?" asked Lily, who didn't know that they didn't like Sirius - none of them knew exactly how much they didn't like him though.
"Yep," replied Sirius.

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The next day, Sirius was sitting by the lake with Remus James peter and Lily when McGonagall came over "Mr Black?"
Sirius turned round "Oui?" he tried the only knowing French thing again
"Tes parents veulent te voir." she replied (Your parents want to see you) making all their jaws drop "Didn't you know I could speak French? De toute façon, suivez e s'il vous plaît." (Anyway, follow me please)
Sirius followed her back to her office.

When he saw his parents standing just meters away, his entire body tensed out of instinct. It took a lot of effort to not run out the room there and then. "May we speak to him alone?" asked his mother with mock politeness. No, thought Sirius, please no don't you know what that means!? McGonagall did not know what it meant. "Of course." she replied, smiling (I know right? smiling?) kindly at Sirius on her way out. Noooo don't leave me here. Sirius did his best to look like he wasn't scared, "Who have you been hanging around with?" asked his mother, Sirius now had two options: A) tell the truth and annoy his parents or B) lie and please them. Because Sirius was an idiot, he picked A. "Three boys, James Potter-"
"Potter?" asked his mother "Blood status?"
"Pureblood." Sirius replied, knowing not to stutter,
"And the others?" asked his father
"Remus Lupin and peter pettigrew." replied Sirius, knowing better than to mention Lily,
"Lupin." said his father, "I like him, he's the one against werewolves."
"What is pettigrews blood status?" asked his mother
"Half blood."
"A half blood?" asked his mother, "at least he's not a m*dblood."
It took all of Sirius' self restraint to not attack the woman infront of him. Walburga made her way over to Sirius, correcting his posture, "And what house, are these boys in?"
Sirius swallowed, bracing himself "Gryffindor" the next thing he noticed was a sharp pain across his face, she had slapped him, her sharp nails drawing blood from his cheek. Sirius did not reach to check what was running down his face as he knew he was not crying, he stood with his head up taking shaky breaths, it'll be worse if you move remember, he thought. Thankfully there was a knock on the door, "Wipe it off boy!" hissed his mother, he wiped the blood off his face with his sleeve. "Can I come in?" asked a voice, McGonagall, had she heard?
"Yes, of course." said the dark haired woman "We just finished. Go find your friends Sirius." she spat the word 'friends' as though it made a horrible taste in her mouth. Sirius sped out the room getting a concerned look from McGonagall on his way out.

He was still trying to stop the bleeding when he got back to the lake, where he thought James Remus Lily and peter would've gone from by then but only peter had gone to do something else. "How'd it go?" asked James, "What happened to your face?"
"Went well." said Sirius, truthfully, it normally went a lot worse "and I tripped."
"And landed on a nail?" laughed James, Sirius laughed, technically I did.

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*abuse not in detail if you want to skip look for bold letters*
That night, Walburga and Orion Black went to where the Beauxbatons were staying where they weren't going to be interrupted by teachers that snooped. They went into Sirius' room, woke him up and punished him for making friends with Gryffindors. The cruciatus curse was a specialty of theirs, Sirius was used to it but it was still excruciatingly painful. Sirius didn't sleep that night, when he closed his eyes he saw his parents. Regulus didn't sleep either, the sounds of screaming playing over and over in his head.
*over now*

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The next day, even James could tell something was wrong. When Remus got his wand to summon something, Sirius had flinched away. When he was in a debate about quidditch teams with James and James threw his hands up in exhasperation Sirius sheilded his face with his hands. He managed to drop almost everything he held. Remus knew he probably wouldn't say what happened but he gave Sirius some chocolate anyway which he also dropped while trying to get his chicken to talk, he apologised (which Remus said wasn't necessary) then the chicken ate the chocolate and yelled "WE WILL TAKE WHAT'S DEAR TO YOU AND GUARD IT WITH THE OLDEST THING AROUND, AN HOUR YOU'LL HAVE TO FIGHT THIS BEAST BEFORE THE CLOCK RUNS OUT AND WHAT WE TOOK WILL BECOME PART OF THE GROUNDS!" there was an awkward silence,
"So I had to feed it?" asked Sirius
"Apparently." said Remus
"Thanks for the chocolate." grinned Sirius as he went to go tell Marlene (give her an obscure hint that'll annoy her but she'll eventually get it) maybe it was a blessing in disguise that I have such terrible parents, thought Sirius, you know what, I'm done I'm going to do everything I can to annoy my parents then I'm going to move in with Andy.

*AN* a sad one, sorry, I was going to have the ball in this one but I got sidetracked. The Harry Potter group chat (yes I'm on a Harry Potter group chat) got kinda angsty and it inspired me. The ball is next time.