Order Only Private Message to Sirius Black

[alt_nymphadora]

Sirius. Thank you for holding things together on the home front this morning.

Don't look cross-eyed at me when you read this. You know I can't just ask you how it went with Remus able to hear everything we say.

Was it manageable at all, having to listen for Bea while you were seeing to him as well?

This is the most awkward part of my going back. I can hardly ask off for every full moon.

If it's not going to work for all of us, I think we might best decide that now--while I can still say it's harder than I'd thought to leave my baby and really going back was all a big mistake on my part.

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[alt_sirius]

You're a witch grown, Dora, you can have a correspondence separate from your husband. No argument from me.

Bea's fine. He was fine, too. Remember I had a few years of looking after him during the full moon and just after. If anything, the Wolfsbane makes it that much easier as he's usually in good enough nick that he can get himself up to bed. Even with us around, sometimes the wolf would run itself ragged by sunrise. And without us ... I remember one time, before we'd managed to transform, when the wolf just about broke its own foreleg trying to get out of the Shack. Moony woke up with a dislocated shoulder. Of course, Poppy set him right that same day, but he was days favouring that arm.

Trust me, compared to that? He's a kitten nowadays. We'll be fine. It's more use your going back to work than sitting here stuffing old candle stubs into empty wine bottles.

[alt_nymphadora]

Don't be a tit. I'm not worried he'll be jealous. It's only that he'd be no help at all with this conversation; it would only annoy him.

The question was about whether you mind managing them both on the mornings I have to bugger off during a moon. I know they'll both be all right--as long as I'm not leaving the werewolf to mind the sprog.

But since you're not objecting, I'll carry on.