Chasing The Stars | Marauders | Sirius Black

84 ~ After All

Sirius grinned as the small bird hooted happily, waddling forward slightly and pressing its beak to Sirius' nose,

"He's cute isn't he?" Eloise asked with a small smile, "He's only a baby, a couple of months old really so he won't be able to deliver letters for a while sorry, I just saw the eyes and immediately thought of you and-"

"Love!" Sirius interrupted Eloise's rambling with a small chuckle, "He's perfect, thank you." He walked over and pecked Eloise's lips as the girl smiled and sighed in relief,

"Phew ok, now you just need to name him." 

"Wilberforce."

"I'm sorry?" Eloise raised her eyebrows at Sirius' answer that he had given in the matter of a split second. Sirius grinned, thinking back to the motorcycle trip that he had taken with James a few days prior where the muggle police had gotten involved,

"Yeah, Wilberforce." Sirius decided and turned to see his girlfriend giving him a very weird look,

"I'm just- I'm not even going to ask." She shook her head and stroked, the newly christened, Wilberforce's head, "Although I think I'll settle on calling him Wilber." She said and Sirius shrugged,

"Sounds fair." He grinned and pulled Eloise into him, being careful not to squash Wilberforce inbetween them, "Thank you, Lou I love him." He said softly and Eloise smiled,

"Good, because I love you."

"I love you too."

"Squawk!"

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Sirius, Eloise, James, Remus, Robyn, Peter, Lily, Nathan, Evan and Regulus were all sat in the Gryffindor Common Room to celebrate Sirius' birthday, Sirius' new owl, Wilberforce perched on James' head where he thought his hair to be a nest. The large group has gotten some odd looks from the Gryffindors in the surrounding area but after some sharp glares from the Head Girl and Boy, the looks had quickly diminished, even though the Head Boy looked slightly stupid with an owl on his head.

"Go on then, Pads! Open the first one!" James clapped his hands together as Eloise reached for the closest present and passed it to her boyfriend. Sirius opened the box to reveal a very large chocolate cake with icing that read, 'Happy Birthday, Padfoo' in a messy scrawl. Peter blushed profusely,

"I couldn't fit the 't' in." He mumbled and Sirius let out a bark of laughter before throwing an arm around Peter's shoulders,

"No worries, Wormy I'm sure it'll taste great." He grinned and Peter smiled in return, his cheeks returning to their natural colour. Next up was Lily's gift. Sirius gave the redhead a confused smile when she passed him a wrapped gift but opened it eagerly nonetheless.

"Evans..." he began once he had revealed the present. It was a large wad of paper that Eloise recognised to be Lily's History of Magic notes from throughout the years,

"It's for N.E.W.T.s," She told him, "I know you hate taking notes, so here is everything you need." She smiled as Sirius' lips parted in surprise. His shock didn't last long however because he soon launched himself at Lily and pulled her into a tight hug. The girl laughed and wrapped her arms around him,

"Thank you, Evans!" He shouted, rocking the pair of them as they hugged. He pulled away and tapped her nose with a grin, "I'm glad we're friends, Lily." He told her and Lily's green eyes twinkled, 

"Me too, Sirius. But I will still kill you if you hurt Eloise." She warned and Sirius nodded with a small chuckle.

Nathan passed his gift next,