Twins: A different life - Discontinued - Sorry

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If there was one thing Sirius did enjoy about being Lord Black, it was the ability to afford to buy anonymity in places like Celestial Alley. He had bought a secluded booth in The Golden Wand and was lightly sipping sparkling water as he waited for his lunch date to arrive. He liked this place, because it held a light atmosphere but they still considered privacy. Sirius looked up when the door opened and grinned. A woman had walked in dressed in auror robes, looking completely lost and jumped when the hostess approached her. She was led over to his booth and slid in with a look of utter bewilderment, much to Sirius' amusement.

"Mother of Circe, Sirius. The floor in this place looks as if it cost more than my entire flat!" She whisper exclaimed, and Sirius laughed.

"You don't come to Celestial Alley often, do you?" Sirius asked and she shook her head.

"Not at all. I think I've only ever patrolled here." She was looking around the place in disbelief. "So this is high society."

"Ah, not exactly." He said and she looked at him with wide eyes.

"No?"

"No, this is for casual dates or appointments." Sirius said, "You would never come here for an evening in high society."

"Your world is weird." Tonks stated and Sirius laughed. He tapped the table with his wand and asked for another sparkling water for Tonks, who looked at the water that appeared before her in shock. "So weird."

"You are only saying that because you haven't been brought up in it." He said, "Though you should have."

"My mother thinks differently." Tonks sighed and Sirius frowned.

"I don't understand why, however." He said, "And why her attitude hasn't changed since I took over."

"I don't know, Sirius. She's been like it for as long as I remember. I mean, when I was growing up I wasn't allowed to ask about the Blacks, it was like the Black name didn't exist." Tonks explained with a shrug.

"Did she ever say why?" Sirius asked bewildered and Tonks thought for a few seconds before starting.

"Yes! Once. We had gotten in to an argument in my seventh year, because I wanted to know why I couldn't acknowledge that I was part Black. Just the name is enough to turn heads and I was a half-blood going in to a ministry with Fudge in charge." Tonks remembered, "She lost it. How she was thrown out and abandoned because she fell in love, how their Pureblood mania was more important than their own daughter, and that they would rather pretend she didn't exist than show kindness to ruin their reputation. How she and my father raised me with what little they had and that I was ungrateful to throw that back in her face by wanting to associate with the Blacks."

"What little they had? Is she insane? Uncle Alphard split his fortune down the middle and gave half to her, and I know it wasn't something to laugh about as I got the other half!" Sirius exclaimed and Tonks blinked.

"I don't know anything about that," Tonks said, "It's just, she was kicked out, wasn't she?"

"Yes, she was, but the situation isn't as cut and dry as she would like people to believe." Sirius said slowly.

"What do you mean?"

"How much to you know about Pureblood society, and that of the Black status?" Sirius questioned and Tonks snorted.