𝗨𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗 ━ Golden Trio Era

━chapter 2

Chapter 2
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SIRIUS BLACK WAS NEVER ONE TO FOLLOW RULES. He opened an ear to the adults who told him what to do, carefully listening to every single word. And then proceeded to do the exact opposite. With parents and a brother who didn't stand by his side, it felt as though the only way he could be true to himself was if he did the opposite of what they told him.

He carried this habit throughout his adolescence, going as far as to disobey even the teachers he actually respected. Not because he wanted to be different from them, as he did with his family. But because it was what made him Sirius Black, and if he could stay true to at least one of his names, 'Defiance' was better than 'Black'.

But that insouciant lifestyle of his didn't last. How could it? Thrust into a war the second he stepped foot out of the safety of Hogwarts Castle, Sirius had no choice but to join a faction and follow orders.

And wasn't that one of his biggest mistakes?

A mistake that cost him a brother and just maybe his own sanity.

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To say Remus was worried was an understatement. He lost count on the number of letters he wrote to Adhara ever since the end of term. Remus had gone to Kingscross that day to bring her and Harry to see Sirius, but it was as though the girl had simply vanished.

So, Remus had begun to write to her, and he knew that Harry was writing to her too. They sent her letters in both the muggle way and the witch's way, and yet received no response back.

Until today.

One letter. With one single sentence.

I don't want to live with you.

It didn't make any sense.

Remus had seen her hands, he saw her boggart. It didn't make sense that Adhara would want to stay at Aleyne. Her letter had made Remus' stomach drop.

Sirius wasn't happy about the letter either, but the man refused to show it. But Remus knew.

The man had gone quiet when the letter arrived, his jaw going tight for a single millisecond, but Remus had noticed. Sirius uttered a simple "It's settled then," then turned into Padfoot and disappeared for a few hours.

But Remus didn't want to accept it. It took all of his willpower not to march down wherever she lived just to make sure she was okay.

But that would be inappropriate. Strange, if not anything else. Because who was he to Adhara but simply a teacher from school? She was merely a student to him.

She and Harry both. Nothing but two old students of his.

Yet, a common thread of worry ran through his thought, binding his concerns for Adhara and Harry tightly together.

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Sirius pushed back his clean hair, ruffling it and adjusting it over and over again in front of the mirror. He did it too many times already, and now every direction looked wrong to him, and he knew it because of the way Remus was staring him down, all judgemental.

There was a silent question that hovered in the air between them. A question Sirius grasped between longing looks and wondering eyes, yet the question still remained unsaid.

But there was another question that was on Remus' mind, Sirius could tell. He saw it in the way Remus hesitated to speak every time Harry or Adhara were mentioned, especially when the subject of custody was brought up.