By the time the siblings finished talking, Sirius only had a couple of hours to swim before they needed to pick Teddy and Harry up from school. So, they put on their mermaid tail and jumped into the water. Their mind didn’t drift away from the picture of the house, or the vision that they had of Teddy playing with a puppy under the willow, of Remus and them sitting in the conservatory and watching the falling snow, and of them painting Teddy’s room his favourite shade of turquoise. 