Title: Blacker than Black

Rating: PG-13 - will go up due to suicide themes.

Genre: Angst, Angst, some romance

Pairings: Sirius/OC

Disclaimer: Don't sue me, I'm in overdraft so it won't work.

Caution: This fic is dark and only gets darker - for a long time. It is the first dark fic I have written because I have become quite good at writing humor over the years (check out my completed 'Escape from Voldemort' suitable for young children), so naturally I wanted to take on a more challenging project in terms of my writing skill. Please note that I have certainly not abandoned 'Harry Potter and the Lethifold Armchair' (another mainly humorous plot), I have just had a major story idea that I couldn't put down. This story is likely to be quite short.

Blacker than Black

(a dark angsty fic - reader beware!)

Prologue

A chip off the old block. That's what everybody secretly thought when they met Christopher Black. Some not so secretly - unfortunately. That's why Christopher Black threw himself off the top of the Astronomy tower.

Christopher Black you see, was the son of the notorious mass murderer Sirius Black. Not that Sirius Black knew then that he had a son; that much was kept from him.

To fully understand Christopher Blacks behavior in his all too few short years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, we must first go back in time, starting in the early 1980's before Sirius Black was thrown into Azkaban prison.

In those days Sirius Black was dating one Emmeline Vance. Emmeline was a half-blood witch and everyone thought that she and Sirius made a cute couple. They were both good looking and their personalities balanced each others out entirely. Sirius contributed to the relationship by adding humor and a certain recklessness that made Emmeline far more easy-going than she would otherwise have been. Emmeline however, often added reason and patience, which served to keep Sirius from getting into serious trouble, and to help him learn from his mistakes. Shortly after the Potters wedding, Sirius proposed to Emmeline, and she was certain that she must be the happiest witch alive. Her future seemed set out in stone before her - she was marrying an intelligent, handsome and caring wizard who not only seemed to share the same ideals as her, but loved her dearly as well. What else could she hope for? She had already been living with him at the house he had brought using his Uncles inheritance after leaving school, and felt she knew him inside out.

That was until the night everything changed.

They had just arrived home from their two-week honeymoon in Paris two days before. Emmeline Vance, although strong in personality, looked back on the days that followed as some of the darkest days in her life. It would be forever etched in her mind how she had sat down at the kitchen table that morning and picked up the Daily Prophet, thinking that Sirius must have decided to stay the night at the Potters again, as he sometimes did. She was tolerant of his close friendship with James because she knew how much Sirius needed his friends, as he had no family that understood him. It had therefore been a shock when she glanced at the main headline and discovered what her new husband had really been up to.

You-Know-Who's right hand man Sirius Black kills twelve muggles and one wizard with a single curse!

Underneath it was a picture of her husband cornered by ministry of magic officials and laughing maniacally at the destroyed street before him.

After that day she was on her own. Her like-minded friends she had met through the Order of the Phoenix never called her again, but she would have felt too ashamed to have seen them anyway. Emmeline blamed herself for not seeing what Sirius really was, and withdrew from society - burying herself up to the eyeballs in her potions work to block out the memories. She owned a small potions shop in Diagon alley that her elderly father had helped finance after leaving school. Luckily, because she had never actually got as far as changing the sign 'Vances Potions' to 'Blacks Potions' above the shop door she had lost only little custom. Although still married, she now went under her maiden name again, hoping to hide forever from her past, and forget the man she had once loved and married.

It was only a mere one month later that she received the second most unwanted shock of her young life. Emmeline discovered to her horror that she was expecting - and it was due to be born within two months and very much underweight. Worst of all, she was unable to apply to have an abortion spell cast on her by the healers at St Mungos, as it was strictly illegal (and punishable by time in Azkaban) to abort unborn magical children as they were considered much more valued than squibs. The test she performed confirmed the unborn child's magical ability. Never mind whose son the child was. Emmeline feared that she would never be able to love Sirius Blacks child, and considered putting it up for adoption in muggle London. She believed that there wasn't much of a chance that it would ever know it was magical if she did that, as Hogwarts was unlikely to accept a child of such dreadful parentage.

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