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When There Is No War	By : lexiatel Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Slash - Male/Male Views: 6320 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter nor the characters, and I do not make any money doing this.

Chapter List
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AN: Lots of people updated since I last posted, so I hope my readers saw chapter 34 and won't skip it!
Review Responses:
Jan: He'll get to see his Mom, let's let her explain herself first. :)

Chapter 35: And It All Comes Out
"Well, look who decided to show her face after six years!" Remus, who was in the kitchen, getting tea ready, heard Sirius say. He bit the inside of his lip. As usual, Sirius went straight to the offensive. He quickly set up a serving tray with things for tea and a small snack.
"Yeah..." Audrey replied, sounding a bit uneasy.
"Tell me, what gives you the right to keep the knowledge of my son from me? When were you going to tell me or were you ever going to?"
Remus carried the tray out to the living room. "Tea's ready." Remus said with a forced cheery voice. "Why don't we sit down." He set the tray down on an end table.
Before they had a chance to seat themselves, Kreacher apparated into the room with a bag of supplies. "Masters." He muttered the greeting, eying Audrey. "Did you invite a mudblood into Mistress' home again?" He sneered to Sirius.
"Figures your house elf would be just as welcoming as you." Audrey said evenly.
"Kreacher's behavior has nothing to do with me!" Sirius snapped. He pointed toward the kitchen and addressed Kreacher. "Go make yourself busy! And she's not a muggleborn!" He called to the back of the muttering house elf.
Remus shook his head. He had told Sirius several times that Kreacher only said such things to irritate him. Sirius didn't seem to care.
"So, did you finally leave that child beating bastard?" Sirius directed his anger back to Audrey.
Her forced smile faded, giving Remus the idea that Sirius' comment had hit a sore spot.
"Padfoot..."
"No, don't you 'Padfoot' me!" He snapped at Remus, shoving Remus away, who had made an effort to console him. "This woman- the mother of my son- put his life in danger, all because of a man!"
Audrey took a deep breath. "If you would stop talking just for a moment, I could explain myself."
Sirius narrowed his eyes and crossed his arms. "Go on, then, Audrey, tell me how you could be with a man who hurts little children! Tell me how you could choose that fucker over your own child! Explain to me how you can make that child grow up without knowing who his real dad is!"
Remus sighed. The man was hopeless. "Sirius." He scolded firmed. "Shut it."
Sirius turned his head to glare at him. "I deserve this, Remus! After all I've been through!"
"You've been through?!" Audrey gasped, hotly.
"Yes!" He snapped back. "I've been through a lot these past few months while you've been off frolicking along with that prickhole!"
Audrey laughed in disbelief. "You have thoroughly jumped to so many conclusions, Sirius!" She put her hand to head, letting out a groan. "Perhaps it was a mistake coming here today. Severus may be right, I may not be strong enough for this right now."
"Strong enough?" Remus asked, meeting her eyes.
"What does Snape have to do with any of this?!"
"Sirius!" Remus held up a hand for him to be quiet for a moment in his life.
Sirius rolled his eyes, grumbling something. Remus was only able to pick up on 'greasy grit' amoung his series of words.
Remus looked back at the witch, prompting her to explain what she had just said. "Go on." He said gently.
Tears came out from no where, as her ability to stay strong depleted. She quickly took a seat in a closeby chair, loud sobs escaping from her.
The wizards exchanged looks before making their way to her, each standing on either side of the chair.
Remus patted her shoulder. "What's wrong, Audrey?" He asked quietly.
"If I had known, I would never had went through with the pregnancy!"
Sirius stiffened at the idea of his son being nonexistent. "What on Earth are you on about?!" He demanded.
Audrey sniffed loudly. "I was born with Nemer's Disease." Was all she said.
"Okay..." Sirius said slowly with confusion. "And what the hell is that?"
"When I was conceived, there was a malfunction... I didn't develop correctly. It's a rare occurrance, but from that moment, I was ticking time bomb. I was slowly dying, year after year. I didn't even know I was sick until one day I just was too weak to get out of bed."
"You are dying?" Sirius' tone finally softened as he took in her words.
"I was..." she conjured up a hankerchief to blow her nose."Before 1979, when Guntry Barker came up with the cure, the death rate was one hundred percent and as you aged, the faster your declined in health. Most victims died before the age of thirty-five. After I had Andrew, the disease sped up, a common issue with the disease. When he was barely a year old, I got really sick. I didn't wake up one morning. If my sister, Claudia, hadn't come by that day, I may not be alive today..." she paused to clear her nose. "I was prescribed a very expensive, complicated potion that, thankfully, Severus and Lily were able to brew and charged me only the cost of the ingredients. It is used to slow down the attack, but the potion could only work so long before it becomes useless."
While Remus had made speculations on Audrey's life, he had never even imagined anything near this awful. It's no wonder she disappeared off the center of the Earth. "So you went and got the cure?" He asked.
Audrey nodded. "I went to a special hospital for the treatment, spending three months sleeping status, as three teams of Healers casted many dangerous spells onto me. It was that, or die. So, I had little choice. The success rate was 87% percent." She smiled slightly. "I am cured now though."
"When's Ted come into this story?" Sirius scowled. "How could you let him around Andrew?"
"I didn't know..." she whispered disturbingly. "I had been dating him for almost two years before I went in for the treatment, I never once noticed anything that would make me even think that he was an abuser." Audrey said helplessly. "If I had known..." she let out a whimper. "I'd have never..." her eyes met Sirius'. "I sent Andrew away as soon as I heard what kind of a man Ted was."
"Were you going to marry him?" Sirius asked harshly. "And let him raise my son?!"
"Damn, Sirius!" Remus muttered, sending him a dirty look. "Stop thinking about yourself just for one moment, would you?"
"I want to know why she didn't tell me about my kid!" He snarled.
"Honestly, you couldn't even take care of yourself! You were living for James and Lily, for Merlin's sake!" She scoffed. "And you weren't ready for marriage, how could you have been remotely ready for a baby?"
"I'd have married you if you had told me about the baby!"
Audrey bit her lip. "Yes... I had thought of that, and I didn't think it would be fair for you to have to do that."
"Well, keeping him from me wasn't fair either!" He threw up his hands in frustration.
"It really doesn't matter now, does it?" Remus asked Sirius. "What's done is done. You can't change the past."
Sirius looked at him and sighed. "I suppose you're right." He muttered after thinking about it.
Audrey bit her lip. "There's something you need to know, Sirius..." more tears falling in her eyes.
"Yeah? As if I can hear anything worse than I have already heard today."
"I'm... so sorry!" She wept, her body jerking with each sob.
Sirius stepped up to her, taking her hand to comfort her, perhaps proving that he wasn't a complete jerk. "Audrey... Me too... for everything..."
Audrey stood up and threw her arms around him and he pat her back. "He h-has it, S-sirius!" She burst out.
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Our baby... He has Nemer's!"
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