Christmas Day...and James and Sirius are finally safe.

"...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself...the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy..." -Plato, The Symposium

"You were having a nightmare mate." James whispered.

If you ride like thunder, you're going to crash like lightning.

Sirius Black and James Potter were the best of friends. But sometimes it just wasn't easy.

There are no words that can describe it. There never will be.

Merry Christmas everyone! Sirius and James realise the true meaning of family...

This...this is the end.

"Sometimes...love is not enough..." Love is...a fickle thing. It strikes us when we least expect it and dictates our lives in ways we would never dream of. Sirius and Lucius and the different ways their love could have worked out. Part Two.

It's only when he really looks at him that he can see it...all that's right and wrong swirled into one. James' thoughts on Sirius.

200 hundred words about Sirius and his parents.

"And now they weren't just hurt or damaged. They were broken, broken in ways that couldn't be fixed, no matter how hard he tried." Sirius visits Bellatrix for the last time and tries to come to terms with how his life had turned out. Very AU, not the greatest summary, but it's better to just read it.

The Black Brothers have a lot of issues, but no matter what they are still brothers, bound in blood. Sirius and Regulus find time to talk about things, avoid talking about things, and just remember what it was like when they were still a family. Because they know, that whatever happens, it's going to end up being the Black Brothers against the world.