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The choice between Gryffindor and Slytherin didn't come as he sat under the Sorting Hat, nor when he stood, as good as alone, on the tiny island at night. Not for him.

Sirius has to leave, he doesn't want to, but he has to. What will Remus say when he finds out what his friend's been up to?

A reoccurring dream haunts Harry both night and day.

Post-Ootp. Sirius says goodbye to Remus, one last time...

It is one month since Sirius Black escaped. An Azkaban guard provides some insight as to how Black's escape has affected Azkaban thus far.

Set in the Marauder's second year at Hogwarts. Remus makes a confession, Sirius a shocking realization, and they both find a way to cope with their problems. Mild SB/RL slash.

Harry remembers. He has lost almost everything, but at least his best friend is still there for him.

This is the third of my one chapter mini-fics. This is a tale of the marauder we know very little about - James Potter. This small fic shows that even in their early childhood, James and Sirius could be counted on for making mischief.

Sex and Pain, Betrayal and Fear, Determination and Hope. ````Sirius Black is a man that knows each consuming emotion better than almost any other. As he reflects back on all the events of his life, he realises that even in a world torn apart, there's still hope to be found.

Kingsley Shacklebolt headed the operation to find Sirius Black. Two years of shadowing the dog star makes it difficult to leave your work behind.

Sirius had loved the rain, but Remus finds he can't quite leave it completely behind. Post OotP. Remus' POV.

Sirius and Severus have a shared history that has a lot more than just rivalry--There's love too. But there's more than just the simple problem of one being a Gryffindor and the other a Slytherin. It's a lifelong story, one that certainly has its shares of ups and downs.

AU set after Harry's fifth year. "He knew it was a stupid hope, but he wished, and he hoped, and he hoped to stop hoping all the same."

Only one thing scared Sirius Black. That thing was death. He was terrified of death. The very thought of it made him crumble inside. It wasn’t only his own death that scared him. Losing his friends chilled his very bones. If he ever lost James, or Remus, or Peter, or Lily, or Harry... he didn’t want to think about it at all. Definite OotP spoliers as well as CoA spoliers. One shot fic with lots of the drama in OotP through Sirius's eyes and an old photograph.

A dark look into Sirius Black's mindset during his imprisonment in Azkaban.

Originally written for the Remus/Sirius fqf, although for some strange reason it hasn't been posted there yet. Response to challenge #6--Remus sacrifices something important to him to bring Sirius back.

Sirius has escaped many things, but this is one thing he does not; being dead gives one a lot of time to reflect.

Harry rushed off in a daze to write to a friend, then realizes that it's not possible. A good friend reaches him and gives unsolicited, yet unexpected solace. Short, sweet, something that came to my head one day. :)

Based on the movie Heaven Can Wait. Sirius may have fallen through that veil, but he wasn't supposed to die! The over-eager angel James just happened to make a mistake. Solution: Sirius goes back in the body of no one but Cornelius Fudge. Now he must contact Harry, find a way to get Tonks off of his back, and convince someone that he is indeed Sirius Black! Then, of course, there is the small problem that whoever killed Fudge still wants him dead....

What happened to Remus between his death and his appearance in the Forest to help Harry.

Sirius can't quite be impartial when commentating a Quidditch match and even less when one James Potter is playing.

Remus in the rain, moving towards Sirius. Backwards and forwards, converging on the same point.

COMPLETE. Post-GoF. One-Shot. Sirius gets a new wand as Dumbledore’s old allies answer the call to arms. A missing scene story occurring early in the 4th-5th year summer.

Sirius Black reflects on his life after twelve years in Azkaban. A one shot song fic based on the song "Wasted Years" by Cold.

Remus' wildest dream comes true as his world shatters.

Where there is departure, something is lost, and everything changes. When Sirius Black left Number 12 Grimmauld Place, nothing was ever the same for the Blacks.

Throughout their years at Hogwarts the Marauders have always lived their lives in the same way, making the same choices and decisions over and over without change. Lily has always pushed James away in fear that if she lets her guard down he will let her down. Aurora is positive she's not in love with Remus and won't hear any different because she is ultimately afraid of what will happen if she faces her emotions. Raine is afraid to speak. Peter has always hid in the shadows of his three best mates. Well, this year they all decided that it is time for change. This is the year they never expected to come.

In another life, Regulus and Sirius are friends as well as brothers, watching each other's backs, and fighting to keep each other alive in a world at war. Written for the Alternate Universe 100 community on LJ.

"It hurt to remember, but it would hurt even more to forget." Slight Remus/Sirius, post-OotP.

Beyond the Veil and What Sirius Found There. ``A Harry Potter/ Richard III crossover.

Looking into the past helps them forget about the future.

It's the summer after OotP, just before school starts again. Ron struggles to deal with his feelings surrounding Sirius' death.

After a lifetime of choices and hard pains, Remus looks back and realises there are seven truths he simply cannot deny -- even the silver lining can be tarnished.

Remus Lupin lives a fairy tale. But he knows that only the modern ones have a happily ever after. Remus/Sirius

“I do not know where this path leads. I am simply following the signs.” “Signs? Like the Virgin Mary appearing in a burrito?” “No. Not at all.” A look inside Severus's twisted mind on the night after the the Department of Mysteries fiasco. A song fic to Boulevard of Broken dreams, by Green Day.

At Sirius' funeral, Remus reflects on what might have been.

Remus thinks of what could have been. (Severus/Remus, Sirius/Remus)

It's not always safe to trust people you run into in pubs, but sometimes it's better than family. James and Sirius at eight years old.

There was a locket and a note, courtesy of R.A.B. Someone had to have left it there, and something had to have happened to the real Horcrux. Major HBP spoilers and speculation inside.

Lucius passes through the Veil and finds himself in a place which isn't death.

We know that Sirius Black is gone. What actually happened when Sirius Black fell beyond the veil? Did he really die or did he just go another realm, reality or dimension? Set before end of OoTP, a missing moment. It's my creative take on it.

As Regulus battles one of the biggest decisions of his life, he meets up with Sirius, who he hasn't seen in two years. Title explained inside. One-shot. Companion to Conversations with a Hat, Chapter 3.

Sirius Black jumped off the bike before it properly stopped. It rolled and fell against one of the standing walls of the ruined house. He ran, almost tripping over the wreckage, towards Hagrid's looming figure, sitting in the remains. He heard it then... crying...

Harry contemplates his past, and wonders about the future... Short, and full of angstful goodness!

After Sirius' death, Harry remembers a day when he'd succumbed to the dragging hurt of his parents' death, a day when Sirius comforted Harry in a way neither of them had been expecting... (Angst and slash ahead)

"Everything they ever did was funny... Except for the things that weren't." [One-Shot] [MWPP-era]

Harry is thinking about Sirius. And Sirius is doing the same thing from behind the veil. Songfic.

He's a fugitive from the law, wanted for a crime he didn't commit. But on an island off the coast of Greece, Sirius has plenty of time to think and to recover from his past, and finds that life on the lam can have its bright spots.

Sirius Black liked it when Remus Lupin shivered. He liked the way that the small hairs on the back of his neck pricked up and the way he tried not to let his shoulders shake. The way Remus would look at him almost accusingly as if he were mad that these reactions made him seem somehow more human, because he was the calm and composed Remus Lupin and shouldn’t shiver or do anything else that wasn’t calm and composed.

Words unspoken linger in the air, growing opaque and brittle with the passing of years. To speak them finally is to give them life, or to curse them to fall flat and shatter at your feet. ...

This is another song fic, to the song "Stay or Leave" by Dave Matthews. Remus is having a lot of trouble getting over Sirius and retreats to the place they spent most of their time together. After a while, Harry comes to stay with him, and together they find they can heal one another.

Two brothers. One known mistake. One unknown redemption.

In his mind's eye, Sirius can see tomorrow coming...

Sometimes he thinks death would have been better for Sirius. [RL/SB SLASH]

"Ah, Moony, you are denying the deep and aching lake of lust my newly sparkly appearance caused to rise in your soul," said Sirius, but he clambered off the floor and brushed himself down. "Besides, it's pretty. Wanna touch it?" Remus, who seemed unaccountably disturbed, shook his head. "I have better things to do with my hands." Then he went bright red. "Not that I mean. Or um. I have a lot of. Assignments. Didn't do much over the break. That's all I meant." "You are a strange and twisted child, my Remus." Sirius touched his ear gingerly. "But we love you for it. I, being the spectacular, brilliant, amazing student that I am, have done all my essays already."

It was a binary, remember? Two stars, circling around each other forever? (R/S Slash)

She wishes things didn’t have to change. She wishes that she had the courage to tell Sirius to come back, to tell him that the Potters don’t need him. She needs him. She needs him to keep her from a danger she cannot be bothered to give a damn about, and to try and protect her when it is far too late. She shivers at the thought of looking down upon her arm to find a mark that will never go away.

So now, less than a month after dying, how is death feeling for Sirius Black? And what is going through poor Harry's mind?

A house of cards will eventually have to crumble to non-existence. From Sirius Black's perspective during his sentence in Azkaban--reflecting on the betrayal of Peter Pettigrew and the friendship of the Marauders and how, they too, like a house of cards, crumbled.

How Sirius came to inherit that 'decent pile of gold' from his Uncle Alphard.

In the summer of 1995, Doris Purkiss gave an interview to The Quibbler claiming that Sirius Black, notorious Azkaban escapee, was really the long retired and reclusive singer of the Hobgoblins, Stubby Boardman. Well, what if she was right? Sirius Black tells a story.

Sirus Black was determined to overcome the dementors for ten years. All he could think about were three souls; two living, one dead.

Sirius has gone through the Veil and Remus is find it difficult to mourn him. So, Remus chooses to write Sirius a letter.

"It was a rare thing indeed when Remus found himself drunk; he hates the feeling, how out of control the drink renders him, and he isn’t that fond of the taste anyway. But one night, late in the October of 1981, Remus finds that he is absolutely pissed out of his mind."

Ginny confronts Harry about something they have in common: Voldemort.

This is what the dementors can do. A look into the mind of Sirius Black at the start of his time in Azkaban.

Their first night at Hogwarts, Remus and Sirius bond. Pre-slash.

Remus Lupin gets infatuated with a cello, befriends some Muggles, and remembers a boy he loved and thought he knew... set a few years before PoA. The slash is understated, but it's there, I promise!

Remus Lupin laments after Sirius Black's death.

How does Tonks join the Order? How does she react to seeing Sirius for the first time since he went to Azkaban? Post GoF.

Remus Lupin spends time thinking of Sirius Black, now lost to him beyond the veil. Tissues at the ready - angst, angst and more angst.

For Sirius, the consequences of leaving home collide after a game of Quidditch.

They were the Blacks, the elite, the strong. But when their world of darkened hallways and silver serpents was shattered, a new chapter of the family history began: one of rebellion, and one of sorrow and loss. This is a portrait of the Black cousins, and a chronicle of the years that tore them apart.

Set in the summer after Sirius' death. Perhaps slightly deranged from the tradgedy, Harry sees Sirius in himself, and in a sense, forgets James. HP/DT RL/SB

One thing that no one ever notices about an Animagus is that they retain some sort of the animal they transform into within themselves.

Ever since they were children, Sirius and Sam have been the best of friends. Now, Sirius is falling for her, but he doesn't want anyone to no. Sam is a loser and he could make the whole school population jump with a snap of his finger. Now he has to decide between his reputation and Sam.

After being married to Nymphadora Tonks for ten years, Remus Lupin recognizes that the memory of Sirius Black is slowly driving his wife mad, and decides to help her in the only way he knows how. The companion piece of Guilty.

Sirius is gone and Remus is trying to move on, but is swamped with guilt. This is the letter he writes in an attempt to explain...

I didn't fit in with my family, and you needed someone who wouldn't shun you for feeling the same, especially about your father. Maybe I should have kicked you out. I don't know. If this was at school, I would have done it in a heartbeat. But this wasn't school... and being at home, surrounded by people who didn't understand ...dammit, I was lonely. (Sirius Black/Barty Crouch Jr, implied Sirius/Remus)

Sirius and Ginny's pasts have both been tainted by Lord Voldemort. Sirius is haunted by nightmares as a result, and Ginny, battling with her own demons, talks to him. With little help from Dumbledore and a bottle of purple potion, sweet dreams result. Takes place in the summer of OotP.

"He watched it bleed its color day by day and remembers that once, his world hadn't been so blank." The Dementors took many things from Sirius.

We all know what happened with Harry and company after Sirius fell in his battle with Bellatrix in the Death Chamber, but what did Sirius encounter beyond that mysterious veil? Here’s my take on it...

Bellatrix Lestrange (Née Black) was sent to Azkaban for the crime of being a Death Eater and the torture of both Muggles and wizards. Gradually, along with all the others in there, she starts to lose her mind; starts to forget. And, of course... No one escapes Azkaban.

"He hasn't gone after me. I don't think he needs to. The wolf will kill me one day. He's sure of it. He's very sure of it."

For one to be pureblooded and to leave one's family for the sake of goodness is not an easy thing to do. One war for Isadora Roquelaure was difficult enough to live through, but now, what about the second, with the past repeating itself? To be Slytherin does not necessarily mean to devoid of goodness, and it can take a lifetime to prove it.

Post OotP Songfic. Remus visits Sirius' grave on a weekly basis. Weeks after Sirius' death, Remus is still grieving.

"Harry has a girlfriend," Remus says in a hushed voice, but Harry can still hear him from the bottom of the stairs. He shouldn't eavesdrop, but it's about him, so he has a right to know what they're saying. Remus/Sirius. AU. One-shot.

After the long, trying night Harry had at the Ministry -- and then with Dumbledore -- he lies in bed and thinks of everything that's happened so far and what it all means. (OotP spoilers)

Most believe our destinies are what we make them... but some believe theirs were set in stone long ago. (The events that led Bellatrix to live the life she has.)

Remus wakes up with Sirius.````"In the morning he woke up and it wasn't real."

Remus grieves, and Harry forgives.``Rated only for brief language and angst.

Sirius struggles to keep his sanity in Azkaban, but one group of memories in particular wears away at him. Will he win, or will the Dementors break him?

Remus deals with the memories of his relationship with Sirius. Songfic using Memories from Cats Musical. Spans Marauder Era through end of OotP.

Remus had once had it all. Then he had lost it. So he falls into the depths of the past. Perhaps they shouldn't have, but they did, and time does not stop for those who miss their rides. Recommended listening - Resting Here With Me by Dido. Slight slashy undertones that aren't even there if you don't look for them.

One-shot. Regulus tries to mend the family which comes undone before him.

The tale of Peter Pettigrew's betrayal and escape from certain death.