Chasing Broomsticks (Reggsikins & Addiecakes)

[Sirius Black]

Srius was quite lucky with where he lived when he thought about it. Having the bottom flat in the building meant could soundproof the ceiling without anyone getting suspicious, and that he owned the basement too. Sirius loved his basement. He had magically enlarged it so that it was about half the size of a Quidditch pitch., and was set up as a mini one. It was about twenty feet deep, and Sirius was walking round the edge of it watching a small figure on toy broomstick whiz round it. He was grinning widely, glad that she loved this large, obstacle free space.

"Katie, come over here!" Sirius called out to her, as he reached one end of the space, an opened a fitted cupboard, pulling out his own broomstick. "What I think we should do is play a game." he said with a mischievous smile. Katie's eyes lit up. "It's like tag, but on broomsticks. Lets see if you can out fly your uncle Padfoot shall we?" he said swinging his leg over his broom. I'll give you a 15 second head start, off you go."

"O.k." said Katie, and she shot off across the room. Sirius loved playing chase the broom, you had to think fast, and predict the movements of the other player, which was a useful skill when playing Quidditch. True to his word he gave Katie her fifteen seconds, before he shot after her, feeling the air rush against his face and through his clothes.

[Adriana Bell-Black]

Feeling her body plus one being squished through a tube, Adriana’s feet touched the magical floor with a soft thud. Holding on to Regulus a bit more tightly than before, she held on to prevent form falling. Taking in her surroundings she noticed she was in Sirius’s basement, a personalized mini Quidditch pitch, and both Katie and Sirius were flying around. Knowing it would only take a few minutes for Sirius to notice their presence she stood still with her face buried into Regulus’s chest.


Her body was roaring with protest at her mobility. The scratches and bruises that were beginning to make themselves more visible burned as the air hit them because of her shirtlessness. Turning her face away from Regulus’s chest a small hint of a smile made its way onto her face as she saw her daughter flying. She survived to see her daughter and hear her laugh again, that’s what mattered most.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius had only been chasing Katie for a short while when he heard a loud crack reverberate though the air in between Katie's giggling laughter. Pulling up short, Sirius looked around, at the floor, about fifteen feet below him. eyes bulging at the two people standing on the floor of his basement, he flew down to meet them. Addie was half naked, bruised and bleeding, and Regulus didn't look too badly hurt. Doing the first thing he could think of to help the Situation, he summoned a shirt from his room, and held it out to Adriana. "It'll be to big, but I can't do much about that." he said, averting his eyes and looking at his brother instead. "What happened?" he said urgently, wanting to know every detail of why they had turned up in his basement with Addie looking like she's been raped and beaten. "Keep flying Katie, I need a rest." Sirius called out, praying she wouldn't stop, and see her mother like this.

[Regulus Black]

Regulus held Adriana, mindful of her injuries. He wanted nothing more than to hold her like she'd disappear if he let go...but he knew that she was hurt, and just the smallest brush of his fingers in the wrong place would make her gasp and wince like he'd pinched her.

Looking around, he was not surprised to see his brother and his daughter playing chase the broom. On many occasions when he stopped to pick her up, they were flying. Katie loved it, and so did Sirius, so Regulus had known they'd get along well in that respect. He carefully shifted so that if Katie looked over at them, she wouldn't see the worst of Adriana's bruises. The last thing they needed was for the baby to panic.

"Snape," Regulus spat, answering his brother's question. "I don't really know what happened either...but I was looking for some old friends in the apartments over Knockturn, and Snape answered the door...thank Merlin Adriana had been screaming before he silenced her. Otherwise I would have kept going...anything to avoid confronting that git."

But that wasn't what he wanted to tell Sirius about. He wanted to hear from Adriana what had happened, what exactly had been done to her. Why she'd ended up where she did. And he also wanted to tell Sirius about the strange incantation he'd heard...the green flames, the poisonous gas...the figure through the smoke and ashes. Regulus hadn't understood what it was...he'd never heard of anything like it, not even within the volumes of books in his family's expansive library. He doubted that Sirius would know...but at the same time, he wished that his big brother did, because the one thing he loved most in the world had gotten terribly hurt and the person who had done it used magic that he didn't understand. And that, above all other things, scared him.

[Adriana Bell-Black]

Taking the shirt from Sirius, Adriana carefully put it on trying to not aggravate her injuries further. "It’s fine." She mumbled hoarsely, her throat still sore from the screaming and gas. Letting Regulus explain things from when he showed up at the apartment, Adriana’s mind wandered back to earlier at the shop. His sneer and touch still haunted her and no doubtably would for a long time.

Tuning back into the conversation she looked at Regulus blankly as she caught up with their conversation. "He…he..." she started to say but trailed off. She didn’t know where to begin, that the day started out innocently with a planned shopping trip and ended badly with a fight to the death or from where he attacked her and took her. There was far too much that she wanted to forget rather than share, but she needed to if they were going to put a stop to him.

“I had gone to the apothecary to get some more healing things for the house, Katie’s been so active lately that the supply has been running out quickly. I bumped into Snape in one of the isles and instead of leaving on his merry way he followed me, tormenting me and instigating the whole time until he insulted Katie and Regs, so I slapped him.” She trailed off swallowing with some struggle her throat was still burning form earlier.

[Sirius Black]

"Snivellus?" said Sirius shocked. He hated the large nosed greasy haired git already, but what had Addie done to deserve this? He listened to the story from Regulus casting his mind around for where he had heard about Green Flames before, he was sure it was during some of the research he had done for the Order when he had started. Despite his misgivings, researching possible dark curses which would be used against them and their counter curses had been more interesting and enlightening than he had first thought. "It sounds familiar for some reason, what language was the incantation? They're categorised by language." he was ready to kill Snape, but if he was using Dark incantations sirius would find a way to counter them.

Sirius then listened to Addie. "Please tell me it bruised when you slapped him." he said when he heard she had slapped him, wondering what had driven her to violence. He was good at reading Addie, he prided himself that there was one less person in the world who couldn't lie to him. There was something that didn't add up, even if he only knew half the story. "He didn't just threaten Katie and Reggs, did he?" said Sirius sadly fearing the worst, Snape was sick pervert, and if he was as good as dead already, Addie's answer would either dig his grave, or leave alive, for now.

[Adriana Bell-Black]

Adriana shrugged when he asked her if Snape was bruised. "I don’t know it was red for a long time." she said recalling when he heard she had slapped him. Taking in a deep breath she looked at the floor continuing her story. "He said I had a choice between them but I would need to do him a favor. I avoided it for a while but he got impatient and got really aggressive at the store. He shoved me into a shelf at first, and then his hands started to wander." She said trailing off ashamed. “He ripped my shirt but then just let me go. I took that as a chance to get away, while I was bending over picking up my things he grabbed me from behind and took me to that, where ever that was. He almost….he was soo close.” She said referring to the question she knew both Regulus and Sirius had in their minds. Still staring at the floor Adriana felt dirty and guilty although she didn’t really know why, only time would tell.

[Regulus Black]

Regulus looked down at Adriana as she finished her explanation, wanting to hear what else the bastard had done to her. He could almost imagine the encounter...in their Hogwarts days, Adriana had always been the first to speak her mind. It had resulted in numerous duels. Not only was Snape unpleasant and sadistic, but if she'd refused to respond to his threats, he would have gotten impatient with her. Regulus tightened his arm around her as she finished explaining what had happened, lowing her head to look at the floor.

"I will murder him for you," Regulus said seriously, looking down at her. He ran his hand over her hair, knowing that it was one action that wouldn't hurt her. Regulus just needed to touch her, somehow...reassure himself and maybe even her that Snape was far away and nothing was going to happen to her within his arms. He looked up at Sirius, frowning. "He used some sort of dark magic to get away...what do you think we should do? Go to Dumbledore with it?" but that just felt wrong...so wrong, like he was a third year with a scraped knee and a boil hex running to the Headmaster with tears on his cheeks to tattle. But if his brother agreed that telling Dumbledore would be the best thing to do, Regulus wouldn't feel so juvenile about it.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius looked away from Addie as she finished her explanation. He hated Snape, and wanted him dead, he was sick perverted bastard who should be locked up. "You can use my shower if you want to clean yourself up before Katie sees you, if Regulus can keep her occupied I can find you a towel and a flannel."

Sirius looked up at Regulus as he queried going to Dumbledore. "I'd go to Dumbledore even if you didn't want me to Regulus, this is serious. Snape's always been keen on Dark Magic, but he's never used it to try and kill anyone before. I need to know everything you can remember about the incantation."

[Adriana Bell-Black]

"There’s no need, you managed to cheat going to Azkaban once lets not temp fate." She murmured, seriously thinking what the repercussions to vengeance on Snape. Letting her eyes close as he ran his hand over her hair, a touch that was soft yet powerful at the same time, she stayed still listening to his conversation with Sirius.


Shaking her head softly she declined Sirius’s offer. "I don’t think I can, not by myself yet anyways, but maybe one of you can maybe get her to nap or something." She suggested, thinking of other plausible solutions to not alert Katie of her current condition.

Still holding on to Regulus Adriana kept her eyes focused on the floor of the pseudo Quidditch pitch. "It was German, I recognized it when he was saying it, but I don’t understand the language myself so I couldn’t translate what he was saying. It was incredibly long too, nothing that we are used to that is." She finished off quietly

[Sirius Black]

Sirius took in Addie's reply, and nodded. He understood what she was going through enough to understand that she didn't want to be alone. "I'll sort her out, you two go upstairs, and hope she hasn't noticed you." he looked up at Addie and smiled reassuringly. No one would touch Katie while she was in his care, she could count on that.

Sirius nodded again when Addie told him the language of the incantation. "Well, as soon as you've all gone and I know you're safely at home, I'll go straight to Dumbledore and have a little browse in the restricted section of the library, and his private library and see what I can find. I won't tell him who cast it yet. It depends how dark it is." he almost anticipated the curious looks on their faces (oops god modding... lol hope you don't mind...) "I know he tried to kill you, but you got out, and we have to uproot whatever he's trying to do from the inside." Sirius knew lots about tactical destruction from the war against Voldemort, especially when they used the information given by his brother.

[Regulus Black]

Regulus looked down at Adriana, nodding at Sirius's suggestion. "Thanks," he said, glad that his brother would keep watching Katie while they sorted things out. He didn't know what they would have done if he'd still been fighting with Sirius....first of all, Katie would have been shopping with Adriana when she was attacked. Regulus didn't even want to dwell on that thought for too long...the murderous emotions running through his veins would intensify tenfold if the bastard had dared to threaten his daughter. It was enough that he'd hurt Adriana, but...Regulus wouldn't have any qualms about killing him in the middle of a packed bloody muggle zoo in front of fifty witnesses if he had to. Azkaban or not, he'd destroy Snape utterly and completely if he ever harmed Katie.

"Be careful," Regulus said, even though he knew he didn't need to. "Snape works up there...I wouldn't be surprised if he had the books already out of the library. Restricted section never stopped any of us, I'm sure he hasn't forgotten how to take what he wants." He made a face at Sirius's statement about not telling Dumbledore who did it, but his brother clarified. "Well, just remember that Andy's daughter is there....if it is dangerous, you should tell her at least. I wouldn't want the git teaching Katie, I doubt Andromeda will like hearing what he's up to."

He nodded to his brother, turning and walking with Adriana towards the door, keeping his arm around her just in case. Mindful of her bruises, he got her off the field before Katie could see them, leading her up and into his brother's expansive bathroom.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius jumped back on his broom, shouting to Katie. "I'm coming to catch you!" while making a mental list of things he had to do in his head. Exhaust Katie so she goes to sleep, See Dumbledore, Check restricted section, Check Dumbledore's private library, Go home and browse the library while mum is out, Go and see Andy and tell her about Snape, Buy the kids Christmas presents, and present for everyone else. Pay a visit to Knockturn alley bookshops to see if they have anything... the list went on. He smiled as he saw that Katie was slowing down, she was getting tired. He zoomed up behind her, and pulled her off her broom with one arm, and wrapping it around her. Her broom stopped dead in mid-air, and floated slowly to the ground.

Sirius too flew to the ground, with Katie wriggling feebly in his arms. She yawned loudly. "Someone's tired." said Sirius as they landed. He got off his broom and Katie shook her head as she yawned again. "I won't tell mummy and Daddy, it'll be our secret. they won't be back for ages yet. You can fall asleep on my bed, and they'll take you home when they get back how about that? Would you lime a story?" he asked, cradling Katie like a baby. He was so glad that he and his brother had made up, or who knows what might have happened to Katie today. She nodded sleepily as his questions, but there was no need for the story, because by the time Sirius had reached the top of the stairs, she was fast asleep and ready for Regulus and Addie to take home.

[Regulus Black]

(Is this finished?)

[Adriana Bell-Black]

(( I want to say yes, only because it belonged to the original plot with Snape, unless we are bringing that back?))