Forgotten Secrets

Chapter One: Plans of Engagement

I've written four stories in this series and I still own nothing more than Keena and Kailey and I don't even get paid for thinking them up. All props go to JK!

Yep, I'm back again and this is the fifth installment of the series! Kudos to you for sticking with it and thank you so much! But let's have a recap, shall we? Kailey is our main character, she is from America and has read the Harry Potter series (books 1-6). She went back in time at the end of her second year and developed a second soul, who became Keena. Keena grew up with the Marauders as a foster daughter to James' parents and she, Lily and Remus worked in the Department of Mysteries where they developed a spell which undoes the killing curse as well as brings people back to the living under certain circumstances (like having a soul). So, Lily and James are alive and have just come back into Harry's life at the end of his third year, but the rest of the world still thinks they are dead and Sirius has been declared innocent. Kailey and Keena no longer share a body and are now officially separate people which has made them both (as well as Sirius) very happy. Kailey is also Snape's daughter but because of the impending return of Voldemort, she cannot safely live with him so she is with Harry, Lily and the remaining Marauders at Potter Mansion and that is where we will begin. Don't forget that point of views switch between Keena and Kailey. Some chapters may only contain one, but I'll let you know. If you have any further questions please review with them and I'll do my best to answer in the beginning of chapter three.

Enjoy!

Kailey's Point of View:

Harry, James, Sirius and Remus were all outside playing a makeshift game of Quidditch while Lily, Keena and I watched from below. Ever since they had dumped over a gallon's worth of water onto my head at the beginning of the summer the boys had tried (and failed) to get me up in the air. What was so hard to understand about having a dislike of heights? I shook my head as I remembered their latest attempt to get me onto a broom, smirking.

"What's so funny, Kailey?" Lily asked, grinning as though she would rather not know what was making me smile. Lily was sweet and she had acted the part of my mother ever since I had ended up living with Lily and James last term, course I hadn't liked it so much back then because Keena and I were still connected and it felt a little insulting for a friend to act that way. Now, though, it was just nice.

"She's probably thinking of how much she wants Harry to take her for a broom ride again," Keena teased, her chocolate eyes sparkling. She was like a counter-part and it was strange that we could hold conversations now without talking to ourselves. Weird, I know, but true. Now she acted like an older sister more than anything, which was a little different considering how Lily treated me. I guess she just didn't want to seem like a hypocrite if she were to punish me or something. Then again, she was just as prone to giving a good prank as I was, probably more so.

"I'm not thinking of that! You know how I feel about heights," I glared at her but broke into a grin seconds later. "I was just thinking about how miserably they failed last time they tried to get me to go up there, I mean really, me playing Quidditch? No thanks,"

"Yeah, I suppose you're right," Keena agreed, nodding thoughtfully. "I don't disagree with you either,"

"It's a pity, though," Lily sighed.

"What is?" I asked, curious.

"Well, I know Harry would love to have a friend to ride with him once those old men get tired," she explained, giving me a meaningful look.

"Oh no, you are not getting me to go up there, I thought you were on my side?" I accused, feeling betrayed. Hey, I didn't see her going up there, now did I? "Why not have Ron Weasley come over? Hermione too, they both know that you and James are alive anyway,"

"Yeah, and the Weasley's won't tell anyone in any case," Keena agreed. She, Remus and Sirius had bothered Lily and James about coming back into the public eye all summer; though they all thought that Harry and I had no idea whenever the subject was being brought up.

"I'll talk to James about it," Lily decided, turning to face the boys in the air again. "We could have them over for Harry's birthday, maybe have a party…would he like something like that?" she asked worriedly. She had been worrying a lot about Harry lately. She wanted to make up for not being there for so long I suppose and she was constantly asking about things that he liked to do and what not.

"He'd love it," I confirmed with a smile. And he would too; he loved everything about his parents so far. Well, except when Lily had her little study sessions. We could both do with less of those. Apparently she'd promised Snape that I'd keep up with my studies over the break.

"Great, I'll definitely bring it up to James then," Lily grinned, looking up to the sky once more.

They played for a little longer until Remus, James and Sirius, as predicted, got too tired to keep going at the same pace as Harry. The four of them landed and one of the house elves brought out some lemonade for us all to drink. Sirius and James chugged it all down before asking for more. The poor elf looked shocked by the display and snapped her little fingers and two more pitchers appeared.

"I is thinking masters should not be drinking so fast," the little elf squeaked before blushing horribly and making a move to punish herself.

"I completely agree, you two had better slow it down," Keena said and the elf immediately relaxed. "Thank you—um, sorry, what's your name? I don't remember you from before,"

The original six Potter house elves had multiplied over the years at Hogwarts and fifteen of them had come back to Potter Mansion when James made the order that the Potter elves return.

"I is Twinkle, Mistress Keena," she said with a low bow. "Daughter of Twinkie and Binks, Mistress," she added when Keena continued to look confused.

"Oh, alright, well nice to meet you," Keena said with a grin. The elf blushed before she disappeared. The elves from Hogwarts were not used to so much human contact.

"Alright, girls," Sirius said, sitting up straight as though he were going to discuss something important with us. "We men—"

Keena and Lily both snorted while I sniggered.

"Are you quite done?" he glared.

"Sorry, it's just the idea of you three as adults is mind-boggling," Keena grinned.

Sirius huffed before continuing. "As I was saying, we have decided that it is only fair that you three get yourselves off the ground so we can play a more even match,"

"I'm sorry, but I prefer my feet on the ground, Mr. Black," I said, shaking my head.

"You're calling me old again," he whined. He hated it whenever I called him Mr. Black. The other four hated it as well. Harry and I found it amusing.

"You said you wanted to be considered an adult, Sirius," Remus reminded him.

"Thanks for the help, Moony old pal," Sirius replied sarcastically.

"Any time,"

"Besides," James said cutting in before the other two could get themselves into an argument. "It is not a matter of preference anymore. You three will go up in the air whether you like it or not,"

"And what are you proposing to do, James Potter?" Lily asked, raising an eyebrow, her stereotypical redheaded flare beginning to make its presence known once more.

"That's a very good question, Harry why don't you answer," James said, shoving it all onto Harry's shoulders.

"Why me?" Harry asked as he realized it was all up to him.

"It is your duty as a Marauder in training to learn how to get girls to do these sorts of things," Sirius explained with a roll of his eyes.

"But you guys are Marauders and you still can't get them to do these things," Harry argued raising his eyebrow. "Not only that, but I thought Keena was a Marauder as well?"

Keena burst out laughing. "You definitely got your mother's brains," she said once she could speak again.

Keena's Point of View:

"But mum, why can't we stay up a bit later? It isn't as though we've got anything to wake up for in the morning," Harry begged. It was a week before his birthday and he had already tried that as an excuse to stay up later. Lily was adamant about putting the two of them to bed at eleven. She was probably making up for all the times she could not do that before.

"Harry, I suggest you listen to her, you won't be winning this argument," I said from my seat on the couch next to Sirius.

"What makes you say that?" Kailey asked with an eyebrow raised.

"The two of you haven't won this argument all summer," Sirius reminded them.

They frowned and swapped glances before turning and heading up the stairs to their respective rooms. I managed not to laugh out loud at the pair of them as I snuggled closer to Sirius who put his arm around me.

"So are there still two beds in your room?" Remus teased as he noticed Sirius' action.

Sirius grumbled a little but I nodded. "No need for too much temptation," I said and Sirius rolled his eyes when he thought I wasn't paying attention. "You are such a man," he just shrugged.

"I just don't see what your problem is, Lily and James—"

"Are married," I finished for him. "We are not going through that again," I added, referring to Aradia. He nodded in agreement.

"So, Lily, when are you going to tell Harry about his party?" James asked, easing the awkward silence that always followed any mention of our unborn and soulless child.

"I think I'm just going to make it into a surprise party," she answered thoughtfully. "I've already told Kailey not to say anything to him about it we just need to figure out how to invite his friends without it becoming a big to do about how we're alive,"

"Well, that should be easy enough, Arthur and Molly handle their kids pretty well," I said. "You'll just have to explain to them before hand, maybe even nip over to the Burrow for a quick visit one day so it isn't a shock,"

"That's what I was thinking," she agreed, looking up at James. "Maybe we should do that,"

"And just leave Harry and Kailey alone for the day? He'll get curious about why we even want to meet them," James pointed out.

"We don't need to leave them alone," Lily said, shaking her head. "Sirius and Remus could stay with them, and maybe Keena could come with us. Would you mind?"

"No I wouldn't mind at all," I answered shaking my head. "Why me, though?"

"You've been in contact with them for all these years, haven't you?"

"Yeah, I babysat for them ever since the twins were little and Percy was in school," I answered nodding my head. "You just want someone they trust there, then?"

Lily nodded.

"Alright, when do we go?" I asked.

"I'll do you one better," Sirius said. "What are you going to tell the other two?"

"Shopping?" Harry asked as he and Kailey exchanged looks of disbelief. "What for?"

"Never you mind," Lily said, shrugging on her travelling cloak. "We'll be back sometime later on, so just behave for Sirius and Remus, alright you two?"

They nodded, still looking doubtful.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do!" James called as the three of us grabbed a hold of the portkey that would take us directly to the Burrow.

"What wouldn't you do?" Remus asked just as we disappeared from their view.

The three of us managed to land standing, though I was a bit more wobbly than the other two. In my defense, my body was still under two months old in all technicality.

We walked up the driveway and up to the rickety looking house where you could practically see the magic holding the whole thing together. James looked back at Lily and me before knocking on the door. There was some shouting on the other side of it, arguing over who would answer by the sound of it before it opened revealing a taller Ron Weasley.

"Oh, er, Mr. and Mrs. Potter and…um…" he frowned looking at me strangely. He and Hermione had yet to see me separated from Kailey, so they were used to me with black hair and blue eyes.

"It's Keena, Ron," I said with a smile. "Kailey and I've been separated," I added.

"Oh, that's great! Um, why don't you come in," he suggested, moving out of the way. "Where are the others, then?"

"They're at home," James said. "Lily and I've just come to speak with your mum and dad," he added at Ron's confused look.

"I thought you weren't going to let anybody know yet?"

"We aren't, but we also wanted to give Harry a surprise birthday party and it wouldn't do to have people gawking at us throughout all of it," Lily answered. Ron nodded in understanding before calling for Molly who was upstairs yelling at Fred and George for something.

The Weasley matriarch came bustling down the stairs at Ron's call and came to a crashing halt once she caught sight of Lily and James. She stood staring for about a minute and I swapped and glance with Ron who looked like he was trying to hold in his laughter at her display of shock. I grinned and looked back at Molly whose mouth was now hanging open in complete shock.

"Molly? Maybe you would like to sit down," I suggested. She just nodded and Ron helped her to a seat at the kitchen table. "Would you like a calming drought?"

"No…" she said before staring again. "Ronald, dear?"

"Yes mum?"

"Could you perhaps go upstairs for a bit?"

He nodded before heading up to his room. Once we heard a door shut Molly stood up again and marched over to Lily and James.

"I do not know how you could possibly be standing here but that hardly matters. How could you just leave poor Harry to those horrid muggles all those years? Why you should be ashamed of yourselves! Does he even know about the two of you? This is just dreadful! Why in all my years I've never seen such a display!" she ranted, hands on her hips and her wand poking out of her apron.

Lily and James looked properly ashamed and neither could make themselves meet Molly in the eye as she yelled at them. There was a commotion on the stairs and I turned to see the twins, Ginny, Ron, Charlie and Bill all staring as well.

"Molly, I hate to interrupt and you have made excellent points through all of this, but I'm afraid we now have an audience," I said stopping her as she drew a breath.

She turned and noticed all of her children with the exception of Percy staring at their mother with expressions ranging from embarrassment (poor Ron's ears were completely red) all the way to confusion (particularly Ginny). Unfortunately she turned to Ron next.

"Ronald Weasley! Did you know that James and Lily Potter were alive and not mention it to me?" she roared.

"Molly, would you have seriously believed him?" I asked. She huffed but calmed down meanwhile his brothers were staring at him in shock and Ginny was looking at Lily and James with what might be described as fury.

"I would like an explanation," she said turning back to Lily and James who were standing a little straighter now that she had stopped yelling. "What is going on? And I'm sorry dear, but did you dye your hair?" she asked me.

"Yeah, I was tired of dealing with all the stares I was getting," I answered. She didn't know about my connection with Kailey nor did she need to.

"Molly, maybe we should all take a seat so we can explain everything to you," James suggested.

"So wait," Bill came into the kitchen and leaned on a table. "The two of you really are James and Lily?" They nodded and Bill sat down before looking at his mother and siblings. "Are you lot going to sit and hear this or not?"

Moments later we all surrounded the tiny kitchen table while Molly made a quick pot of tea, ordering Ginny to help her as she did so.

"I'm not quite certain where to start," James admitted, looking at me. "I suppose it all begins with Keena," he added.

"After the death of…" I paused and looked at James for help.

"My father," he filled in for me so that I wouldn't have to say it. I looked at him gratefully.

"Yes, well we all took it very hard but I decided that there must be a way to stop something like that from happening to anyone else," I explained, editing out various promises and secrets. "Lily, myself as well as Remus began researching for the Department of Mysteries. Particularly the Spell Inventions Division,"

"Wait, Professor Lupin?" Ginny asked.

"He invented spells?" Ron echoed.

"Yeah," I answered simply.

"Wicked," they grinned.

"Anyway, many of the spells we invented were considered pointless for the ministry to use, including spells that can help you snake your way through crowds or that create incredibly strong shields," Lily continued. "All the while we searched for a way to prevent death but then one day, while I was pregnant with Harry, one of our experiments sort of…exploded,"

"Next thing I know, Keena is running up the stairs from our basement screaming at me to get down there and to floo the healer," James laughed, shaking his head.

"I didn't scream, that was you," I smirked when Ginny giggled and Molly laughed. He stuck his tongue out at me and I replied in suite.

"Could either of you act your age at least once?" Lily sighed shaking her head. We just stared at her with raised eyebrows. "Well, in any case, that's how we discovered the spell. Instead of being a counter-curse it turned out to reverse the effects of Avada Kedavra,"

"Then how were you brought back to life?" Charlie asked, looking between the two of them.

"I was there the day that Voldemort came to the house," I explained. "They were hardly dead five minutes before I brought James back and then he brought Lily back,"

"The problem was we knew that the war wouldn't end there, Voldemort is still a threat and Lily and I have been doing research on how to destroy the bas—maniac." James amended at the look on Molly's face. "That and some stuff on lycanthropy,"

Charlie gasped. "You were the one who came with Keena that day…Merlin, when was it? Last year wasn't it; you came and asked for blood samples,"

James nodded. "They've been terribly helpful," Lily added. "I'm hoping to make some sort of breakthrough soon,"

"But I'm confused," Bill said. "Why are the two of you coming to us? Why aren't you will Harry?"

"We're coming to invite you to Harry's surprise birthday party," Lily answered. "It'll be small, just your family and Hermione Granger,"

"What about Kailey Snape?" Ron asked.

Ginny gave an almost unnoticeable huff and roll of the eyes. What in Merlin's name…?

"Don't be ridiculous, Ron," George rolled his own eyes.

"Yeah, of course they'll invite her," Fred added.

"She lives with us," Lily inserted. "But that is another story,"

"So would you all like to come?" James added.

"Depends," Fred said evenly.

"Will there be cake?" George added.

Kailey's Point of View:

As soon as Keena, Lily and James left, the four of us set to work getting everything ready for their return. Shopping was the lamest excuse on the planet but if it got Keena out of the house then the rest of us were all for it.

Sirius had come to talk to Harry and me earlier this morning to explain his plan and we had readily agreed to it.

"What d'you think she'll say?" Harry asked as we helped the elves cook. They were none too happy about it but Harry had told them that we wanted to do something and 'whatever young master desires is the elves' greatest joy to serve,'

"I dunno, there's a fifty-fifty chance, isn't there?" I answered with a grin.

"But you know the future," he argued, frowning as though I were keeping a secret from him again.

"What I know is much less concrete than it once was," I answered shaking my head as I cracked open an egg for the cake we were making. "You need to remember, your parents should be dead, Sirius should still be on the run, you should be at the Dursley's and Keena and I shouldn't exist,"

"That is all completely beside my point," he replied rolling his eyes.

"Tough luck, mate," I said sticking out my tongue.

"Very mature," he grinned.

"I thought so,"

We finished making the cake and decided to wander around the house until the others got home or until Sirius and Remus got frustrated with the noise we were making as we ran all over the house. Sirius ended up kicking us out of the house telling us to go and explore the woods for a bit if I didn't want to fly. His nerves were making him a little restless and more annoyed than usual so Harry and I just laughed quietly and let his behavior slide. That and we couldn't think of a good enough retaliation for the moment.

As we wandered through the woods we came upon a small shack that looked as though it had been ignored for decades. We opened the door and cautiously stepped inside. There was a table and a few chairs with a set of exploding snap sitting on the table along with a chess board. Leaves and chess pieces littered the floor of the musty shack and there was some writing on the wall but it had faded into nearly nothing.

"Do you think this is part of the property?" Harry asked and I shrugged.

"Looks a bit like a muggle fort except for the chess and the exploding snap," I answered. "Maybe the Marauders came out here during the summer," he nodded before facing me.

"Want to play a game of chess if we find all the pieces?"

"Alright,"

We headed back to the house an hour later to find that Remus was yelling at Sirius for kicking us out into the 'open'. Honestly, it was just the backyard.

"Where in Merlin's name did you two go off to?" Remus demanded, Sirius sulking on a chair in the kitchen.

"We found a shack out in the woods," Harry answered somewhat timidly. Neither of us had ever seen the werewolf so angry and it was almost worse than Snape on his good days.

Sirius perked up in his seat. "You mean the secret fort?"

"Yeah, we were in there playing chess," Harry answered with a nod.

"You mean you were beating me," I amended, giving him a swat on the shoulder.

"We had a lot of good memories of that place," Sirius said with a smile. "We made our first animagus transformations in there,"

"Really?" Harry asked, going to sit next to Sirius at the table. He relished learning about his parents' history and we'd heard what must have been hundreds of funny stories from the four Marauders and even a couple from Lily.

"That was also the place the other four told me they knew about my secret," Remus added, going off into space himself.

"Scared him silly that we knew too," Sirius added with his bark like laugh.

"Remus, you are ridiculous to think they'd've left you," I smirked, shaking my head while Remus shrugged in response.

Suddenly the fire glowed green and James stepped in, shaking soot out of his hair as he did so.

"You lot better clear out before she comes in," he said as Lily stepped through. Without another word, the five of us scurried to the staircase while Sirius stood up, his nerves returning full strength.

"I didn't think he'd be so nervous," Harry muttered as we all headed upstairs.

"Well, last time he was sure what she would say but I think it's obvious that the first time didn't exactly go well for him," James answered.

"Then they ended up with Aradia in any case," Lily added. "So it was that much worse for them after the dementor attack because they had just accepted what was happening,"

"Is that why he's been dropping hints about having two beds?" I wondered aloud. I had forgotten all of the time that Keena had spent with the Marauders now that we were separate. I only had as good of an idea about what they were talking about as Harry did.

"Yeah, she's worried that they'll repeat history," Remus answered when James and Lily both hesitated. "The dementor included,"

Keena's Point of View:

I tripped out of the fireplace and found myself being caught by Sirius. He laughed at me as he set me straight on my feet and I mock glared at him as I wiped the soot off of my cloak. Then I looked around.

"Where did everybody go?" I asked when I realized that no one else was in the room. Then I smelled something sweet. "Do I smell cake?"

"Yeah, c'mon," he said, grabbing my hand and leading me into the dining room. Except the dining room table was missing and in its place was a small circular table. It seemed eerily familiar. On the table were two pieces of vanilla cake with chocolate frosting along with a bottle sparkling cider.

"Am I missing a special occasion?" I asked, fighting to keep a silly grin off of my face. Thank Merlin and the Founders he didn't choose wine…I don't like it all that much…

"Well that all depends," he answered with a cocky grin though I noted that his gray eyes were giving me an almost pleading look.

"On what exactly?" I asked in return, my heart skipping a beat as he knelt to the ground.

"On your answer," he said, opening the familiar black velvet box. The ring was the same one that he had proposed to me with before; a silver band with a diamond in the shape of a heart centered between two smaller diamonds cut in the same manner. My breath caught as my heart stuttered again. "Keena McIntosh Potter, will you marry me?"

I laughed before I got my breathing under control again and said "Yes, Sirius Black, I will marry you,"

He grinned as he stood up, sliding the ring onto my left hand and sweeping me into a deep kiss. The cake sat forgotten on the table.

Yay! The end of my first chapter! I hope you enjoyed it and will review before you head onto the second chapter which is to be posted asap! All references to the past of the Marauders can be found in either Blind Secrets, Making Promises with a few from Promises to Secrets, Secrets to Lies!

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