>Adriana< Babysitting >Sirius<

[Sirius Black]

"Ha ha, yeah, and people thought that was embarrassing for her. Imagine yourself, standing there in a corridor full of giggling Hufflepuff first years, and one of them reading you a poem. I couldn't escape, and Prongs, Moony and Wormtail were no help either, they were pretty much rolling around on the floor in hysterics." Sirius said half laughing half indignant. It was very funny to think about now, but it had been SO embarrassing when James decided to relive it every ten minutes or so, for the next week.

Sirius grinned at Katie's eager smile as she ran off to fetch her broomstick. She came back waving it gleefully in the air as she came. "Go on then, show me what you've got!" he said encouraging her to get on it. She did so, laying it on the floor and commanding it to rise into her hand. She clambered on, and rose into the air with a gleeful cry of 'Look out Daddy!' Sirius saw Regulus checking for breakable objects as she got on and suppressed a laugh. why they didn't put anti-break charms on stuff he didn't know. Or was it part of their plan for hiding. He watched Katie zoom around the room, narrowly missing the lamp, and soaring rather close to the mantel piece. He could now see why Regulus was making sure nothing that mattered too much was in danger.

[Regulus Black]

"Obviously, since I heard about it, it had to be mortifying for you," Regulus snorted. "Anything that happened to you in school that might have been embarrassing at all, you can bet that I heard about. You were not a favorite in my house, at all. Even if you were everywhere else." Thinking about those times though...it almost seemed ridiculous, the way that his housemates had scoffed at Sirius's antics. Most of them had been in the interest of fun, looking back. He smirked. "What about the time that the fifth year--I was in my third--that tried to slip you that love potion in those green cauldron cakes?" Luckily, it hadn't taken long to find Adriana. And after he had, anyone who tried any funny business, romance-wise, would have to answer to her. And Regulus would be the first to admit that Adriana was not a girl you wanted to mess around with when she was angry.

Regulus saw his brother's critical look as he eyed the mantle and frowned. "We've got charms on some things," he commented. "But other things...if we charmed it all to be unbreakable, we'd spend just as much on magical bruise creams and such from her running into it as we would buying new lamps." He watched as Katie zoomed towards the door. "Honey, mom's cooking in there--" he stopped as she flew successfully through the door, following her instantly.

[Sirius Black]

"She put love potion in them?" said Sirius questioningly "I didn't eat them because they were green, I hate green cauldron cakes, I only like the brown ones, the red I would eat if there were no brown ones, but I refuse to eat green ones. It's a good thing none of the other Marauders ate them, or they would have ended up in a huge row." He remembered them laughing a lot when he offered them around, and it occurred to him that they knew what they were filled with, which was why they declined his offer. He shrugged this off, they had done a lot worse than that, and so he let it slide.

Sirius decided that Regulus and Addie's reasoning about breakable objects and bruiseable child to be a good enough explanation. They were always so sensible, he was sure that he wouldn't be able to cope with a child in his flat 24/7, it would drive him crazy. Visiting and stuff had always been fine, and that was the way it was going to stay. He laughed as Katie flew decisively towards the kitchen door, and refused to deviate as Regulus called after her. "I take it she's as Stubborn as the both of you then?" he said as he followed Regulus and Katie into the kitchen.

[Adriana Bell-Black]

Adriana had been in the kitchen while the boys were in the room entertaining Katie while she made lunch. She made Steak accompanied by roasted garlic potatoes, corn, and a peach cobbler for dessert. Checking the over to make sure her cobbler didn’t burn, she lowered the heat satisfied with its progress. Turning her attention back to the stove, she turned the steaks one last time as they were finally cooked fully. Serving the corn and potatoes in their own serving dishes she placed them on the table with spoons for serving, and followed it shortly with placing the steaks on the table as well. Using her wand, she flicked it at the cabinets as the table began to set its self for the meal.

Getting ready to call the boys in the room, she stood with her hands on her hips as her daughter flew into the kitchen. ‘Immobulus’ she muttered freezing her daughter in mid air before she caused any damage.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius jogged into the room, and bumped into Regulus, who had stopped just inside the doorway to avoid colliding with his daughter who was frozen in mid-air. He waved sheepishly at Addie grinning.

"Sorry, next time I ask her where her broom is I'll make sure all the doors are shut, I promise." he said nodding his head vigorously and digging his brother in the ribs to get him to agree too. "It's my fault I'm afraid our parents were right about one thing. I really am a bad influence on him." he said pointing at Regs, still nodding vigorously.

(ooc- so sorry to god mod but you aint her n im bored... lol... hope u dont mind too much...)

[Regulus Black]

(OOC of course I don't mind, lol. Not like you made me stand on my head or anything.)

Regulus laughed when Sirius elbowed him. "Mum'd keel over and die if she heard you admit that," he chuckled, glancing over at his brother. Then the smile melted from his face, and became serious. "You don't think...if we both turned up, and you said that, the old hag would really die?"

As useful as the freezing spell was, they unfortunately couldn't leave Katie that way forever. Slipping his hands under her armpits, Regulus said, "Finite." Unfrozen, Katie giggled like mad, wiggling in his arms. The toy broom drifted to the floor after its rider was unseated. Regulus easily carried Katie over to her booster seat, grinning as she continued to struggle with him. "No no no," Katie said sternly, locking her knees so that he couldn't put her down. Regulus knew better than to fight with her though...he expertly tickled her, and Katie easily giggled and slid where he wanted her to. Pushing her chair in, he affectionately mussed one of her pigtails, though not enough to undo Adriana's hard work.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius grinned at Regulus suggestion. "Lets try it shall we?" he asked eagerly, hoping the reply was going to be positive, he wanted to sell the house and get some money for it to by all the Christmas presents he needed to, not that he job wasn't providing enough money, but he didn't want to think about the evil old Hag any more. One thing was for sure, she wasn't getting a Christmas present.

Sirius watched as Regulus sat Katie down at the table, by tickling her.which he thought was quite clever, but he wasn't going to say anything. He took a seat at the table, and grinned as Katie grabbed her spoon and started banging it on the table.

[Regulus Black]

Regulus turned to Adriana. "Keep dinner on the stove, love. Sirius and I will be right back," he said. The corners of his mouth twitching, he nodded to his brother. "Alright, let's go kill mum. I want the books from the library, my choice of the portraits, and the snake sink taps from the third floor guest bathroom. We can pitch everything else, and my share of the house can go towards getting us a house rather than a flat."

When Katie started knocking her spoon against the table, Regulus sat down on her left and easily took it from her hands. Before she could start to cry in protest, he held up his wand. "Which doll do you want, baby?" he asked. Katie stuck out her bottom lip, fingers grasping after the spoon he'd taken away. Seeing that he wasn't going to let it go, "Betty," Katie said through her pout. Regulus nodded and said, "Accio Betty," the doll flying into his hands. Katie, as always, was more entertained by the magic than the doll itself. She grinned, forgetting the spoon, and grabbed it when he held it out to her.

[Adriana Bell-Black]

Placing her hands on her hips she stared sternly at the two boys. “Abso-bloody-lutely NOT " She said firmly. “You will sit and eat; Your mother can die later. Besides you two haven’t been there in a while, Merlin know what that woman has been up to with nothing to do but curse her house.” She said while serving Katie, who was now sitting in her chair, a small portion of everything in her little bowl.

“Katie honey, put Betty away while you eat, you don’t want corn in her hair.” She said as she sat herself on the other side of Katie. Flicking her wand at the food, it began to magically serve everyone. Taking a piece from her daughter’s plate as the food continued to serve everyone, she nodded appreciatively at her own cooking skills.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius grinned at Addie's insistence that they kill their mother on a full stomach. "Calm down Addie, were going to eat first, it'll be easier to travel all that way on a full stomach anyway." he grinned at his brother as he picked up his knife and fork as he began to eat. The steak was lovely, just right, he thought he would enjoy it almost as much as when in his animagus form. "This is delicious Addie, thanks."