Before:

What are you doing?" Sirius was now leaning over the table brushing away his fringe looking at the scare that lay beneath. He quickly drew away like burned. Then he slowly got up, walked around the table and engulfed Cato in a tight hug.

"Harry" he whispered dazed

Now:

For a long time they just sat there. Sirius hugging him like he was going to slip away between his fingers and Cato not moving a muscle as his brain seemed to have set out after "Harry".

Then the door opened and a middle aged, brown haired man, only clad in boxers and rubbing sleep out of his eyes, entered the kitchen.

"Hun, are you coming back to bed or what?" He asked in a sleepy voice. Then he seemed to notice Sirius hugging Cato who stared blankly at him. "Uh… Sirius? What are you doing?"

Sirius turned his face enough to look at the newcomer.

"It's him Remus. It's Harry!" he said in a teary voice, not letting go of Cato.

That seemed to jump start Cato's brain, as he suddenly pushed Sirius away and put some distance between himself and the now dazzled man on the kitchen bench.

"I want to see Reggie!" no one reacted. "I know he's here… I heard him… I want to see Reggie now!"

Regulus had been locked in one of the guest rooms since he woke up, and had even been questioned there. Now though he was sitting on the bed and couldn't sleep in fear of what had happened to his young ward. He knew he was here somewhere, as they had told him that Cato had spoken to them about the locket, but he didn't know where or how he was, and he was guessing he wasn't getting much sleep either as he always had nightmares whenever he slept alone.

Suddenly his door opened and a distraught Cato bolted in and threw himself in his arms.

"Cato? What's wrong kiddo?" The boy just shook his head and tightened his grip on his shirt. "Are you crying?" Regulus asked in disbelief and wiped his head up to glare at his older brother, who stood in the door next to a skeptic looking Lupin from school "What the hell did you do?"

Sirius looked shocked then took a step into the room "What makes you think I did anything?" He asked in a hurt voice.

"Because it's always you! Now spill!"

"How could you drag Harry around and not tell me about it?" Sirius then accused, confusing Regulus. "You know I am his father's best friend! You should have come straight to me!" Regulus held up a hand stopping him.

"Just a second... Who's Harry?" He asked.

"Harry!" Sirius announced pointing accusingly at Cato.

"You know Cato?" Regulus asked, his eyes growing large.

"As if you didn't know" Sirius sneered crossing his arms, Remus still stood in the door, now looking sheepish.

"You're mental. I don't even know who this Harry is. If you know his father, why don't you try asking him? Cato has certainly never been the son of anyone you'd know" Regulus said, his grip on Cato tightening, and then he added angrily as an afterthought. "And if he was, I'd like to meet the jerk and get a good blow in for abandoning him" He was now standing up, both hands supporting Cato's bum as the teens legs hooked them self around his toned torso.

"He did not!" Sirius shouted "He placed him somewhere more secure because they couldn't give him a proper home when the whole family was in danger!"

"Well, look how great that turned out!" Regulus Shouted back. "It was properly your idea right you bloody jerk?"

"Now listen here…" Remus tried, first now stepping into the room, only to be interrupted by Sirius.

"Was not! I didn't even know it had happened till he had been kidnapped, as I was preoccupied with a trial for a mass murder I didn't do! But a thousand times sorry for not anticipating my best friend leaving one of his twin sons at a muggle orphanage while I didn't look." He finished of sarcastically.

"TWINS?"

"His brothers' name's Andrew" Sirius said sullenly.

For a while silence reined the room. Remus was now standing slightly behind Sirius, looking like he wished he hadn't stepped into the room in the first place.

"Did they ever find out who actually committed the mass murder?" Regulus then finally decided to ask

"Yes!" Sirius said tightly "It was Pettigrew, you know? The chubby kid who always followed us around? They caught him soon after."

"Hmm.." He looked thoughtfully at his older brother "And what made you decide that my Cato was this Harry?"

"Everything just fits. He's the same age, he got kidnapped at the same time, he look like James…"

"JAMES POTTER!" Regulus cut him off "You believe that my sweet little Cato is the son of that arrogant bastard?" The words made the boy in question draw his head out of the nook of Regulus's neck to look at him.

"Yes!" Sirius said with conviction "He even have the lightning shaped scare on his forehead little Harry got on the night the Potters were attacked by you-know-who!" he said pointing at Cato's head daring Regulus to contradict him, and causing Cato to turn around and stare at him. "And Lily's eyes! He have Lily's eyes!" Sirius exclaimed in glee at seeing them.

For a long time Regulus just looked thoughtful "… if you're this sure then you should have a fatherhood test preformed. Then we can talk about it"

A look of determination set on the face of Sirius. "We will do that tomorrow" He said with a serious nod. Then he grabbed Remus by the hand, and practically dragged him from the room.

The Kitchen of Grimmauld Place 12, London, year: 1996, the day before Christmas, 08:09 Am

"I just need a bit of blood" The dour man sneered at Cato when he drew his arm away from his touch.

Slowly he looked around at the other occupants of the large Kitchen. Reggie and Sirius were standing next to him, each with a comforting hand on his shoulder, and next to Sirius was the man called James nursing the arm from which the blood had just been drawn non to gently from. The woman Lily, supposedly his mother, was standing next James and Sirius' lover was sitting at the table with a bunch of red heads and a boy with short black hair. All of them were staring at him with different kinds of hope in their eyes.

The dour man gripped his arm and drew the needle into it. "There!" he said, his voice clearly showing of his annoyance at being called here on Christmas eve' morning. The man dropped the blood he had retrieved from both of them into the clear fatherhood potion on the kitchen table.

For a whole minute everyone just held their breath.

Then it turned blue and most of the room drew a relived breath before they turned to look at him expectantly. In turn he looked at Reggie for guidance, but he just had a thoughtful frown on.

Cato looked back at the expectant faces… Then turned around fully to hide his face in Reggie's broad chest effectively making Sirius loose his grip on his shoulder as Reggie hugged him tightly.

"I'm not leaving him!" He heard Reggie exclaim above him and he let out a relived breath he didn't know he was holding.

"We're not asking you to" James answered.

"We just want to be a part of his live" Lily said in a tearful voice.

Reggie looked skeptic then very gently prompted Cato to let go of his torso so he could look into his red rimmed eyes. "What do you think kitten?"

Cato just shook his head as tears threatened to fall. "They left me!"

"Harry we didn't mean to!" Lily immediately cut in "we thought we were giving you a chance at a life without fear! There hasn't gone a day without us thinking of you" Large tears were now running down her cheeks. "If only we had known… We would never have let go of you!"

"BUT YOU DID!" He screamed as more tears threatened to fall. Then he turned to Reggie begging with his eyes for an answer.

Reggie held the eye contact for a long time, seemingly trying to read in his eyes the answer Cato did not know. "I'm sorry kiddo, but you will have to make this choice yourself"