The wind was beginning to pick up the laundry hanging out on the line was starting to pull itself free. The women hurried out with a basket in hand to bring them in before the rain started or the wind ripped them free. She took them off one by one there wasn't much since she was the only one that lived in the little house. She didn't know many people, at least not anymore. She lived on her own in the woods in her little cottage, just trying to put her past away. Living here alone she could escape all the pain that was in her heart. She had never been one to run when she was younger, but ever since the night that turned her world upside down she never looked back as she ran. Ran from the event, ran from the memories, and ran from his side when he needed her most. For the most part she could push him and everyone she had once known from her past away, but as of the past few days she couldn't shake the images of her past. Even after all this time she still loved him, loved them and if she possessed the magic she would go back to them, go back to a time when they were all happy. She had learned to barely feel the pain inside of everything that happened, but there were times that she couldn't stop it from bubbling to the surface. In the past few days she had seen a dog around her home, a black dog that seemed to watch her. The dog made her think of him, and since that dog appeared she couldn't shake the memories of the past she had tried so hard to burry.
She could still hear remember times they shared, the times she promised him she would always stay by him. "My family hates me, My mother burned me from the family tree, I'm alone." She remembered him saying one night in the common room. "No" she remembered her self-saying to him as she looked deep into his eyes "No matter what you always have James, Remus, Peter, and Lilly" She remembered how much she wanted to say more, but couldn't bring herself to. "No" he had said, "James and Lilly are going to go off and get married start a family and the others will go off in their separate directions, I can already feel the Marauders slipping away." He looked down at the floor she remembered it took all her courage to look at him and softly say, "You have me as well, you will always have me." Until the day she died she would never forget his face, how he slowly looked up into her eyes with a soft smile on his face, then he carefully leaned in to kiss her. From that moment on she loved him with all her heart, yet when it came down to it she hadn't been there for him. The moment he had been taking to Azkaban for a crime she couldn't believe he committed she left him, she left everything. Ever since then she knew she would never forgive him for abandoning him in his time of need. She should have tried harder to clear his name. There was no way he could have sold out James and Lilly, she knew that, but she had no way to prove it.
He had changed from the man she had once knew, something snapped in him he was like a madman the last time she saw him. He wasn't making sense his hair was a mess he couldn't make a sentence and all he said was he was going to kill Peter then he flew from the house they shared. She later heard what happened and she had fallen for what the media said, she never went to visit him in Azkaban instead she fled to the woods where no one would know her and she lived as a muggle so no one could try and trace her magic. The last fourteen years she had lived this way, no magic was normal for her now. She missed her life the one she had lived long ago, but now she lived day by day her new life. Never once did she look at another man, forever she knew she would be his even if she hadn't stayed by his side even after all this time inside she loved him still and no one would ever be able to fill the hole he left.
"Why?" she whispered, "Why did you have to kill sell them out? Why did you have to kill Peter?" she knew he didn't physical kill James and Lilly but he had sold them out, why, she asked her self that everyday. He would have let he who most not be named kill him before he sold out James and Lilly, so why had he broken to the Lord? She wondered if her life had been threatened, but she didn't think he would have given up the Potters on that reason alone, he was an idiot with a hero complex. Even if He who must not be named and threatened her he would have just tried to protect her in some half thought of idiot plan that he and James always came up with back at Hogwarts, he wouldn't have just given up. Then little Peter, why had he killed little Peter? It pained her to realize that the mental health that ran in his family had come to him, he had lost his mind the same way his mother had lost hers and many his family members as well. Mental Illness was hereditary and the Noble house of Black tended to have mentally unstable members. Ever so often Dumbledore would write to her and try to convince her to come back to the wizard world and also he would write about the man she loved. He knew she wasn't strong enough to go to Azkaban herself and hold it together to see him so instead he went in her place without her asking and would write only small updates on her love.
The years that went by the letters went from bad to worse, with every letter he seemed to be losing his mind more and more, he was going more and more insane. Every letter broke her heart more and more; every letter hit her like ice water knowing she wasn't there for him. The last letter she received a little over a year said they were getting ready to give him the kiss, after that he would be lost forever. Dumbledore tried to tell her to visit before the kiss happened, but she didn't. She hadn't gotten a letter since, she assumed he had gotten the kiss and there was no longer anything to update on, or perhaps Dumbledore didn't think she deserved to know what happened to him anymore.
She was brought out of her thoughts by a sound in the woods, she her heart raced as she saw a black dog standing on the edge of the woods. She held her breath as she looked into the dog's eyes, for a moment the dog seemed so much like him, so much like the man she loved. Then it just turned and ran off into the woods disappearing as it always did. She slowly turned back to the clothing as she picked the last article of clothing off the line. She knew she was fooling herself, getting excited over a simple dog. She didn't notice the eyes of the animal on her, she didn't notice the animal leave the woods and walk up right behind her. She sighed as she picked up her laundry basket as she softly said allowed "Sirius I wish I could believe you were innocent." She turned around just as the animal turned from animal to man. She gasped and let the basket fall from her hands and covered her mouth with them. The basket hit the ground and let the clothing spill out.
"You?" her voice shook, as she couldn't believe who was standing before her, it was impossible that he was there with her now.
"Yes" he said with a smirk on his face "Of all the people in the world I thought you wouldn't fall for what everyone said, I thought you would have been true to the man you love?" the look in his eyes wasn't the look she remembered, the look was something so different then she had ever seen in him before. "And now you will pay for it." He smirked, as he knew what he was going to do with her, he had a plan after all.
"No please" she said to him, "Please don't"
"Don't scream there is no one around to save you." He took out a wand and pointed it at her "And don't try to run, because you won't get far."
A tear ran down her face as she realized she had been wrong all these years, everything she had thought had been a lie, and she had let it ruin her life, and the life of the man she loved.
"Peter please" she said as the wand was pointed right at her heart, she knew she could do nothing, she had no wand and even if she had her wand with her she hadn't done magic in years. She could feel her life flash before her eyes, every important moment both good and bad that brought her to this moment, to this moment where she was going to die just like James and Lilly had and it was all because of this man, all because of this rat.
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So what do you guy think? I got this idea from a song I heard on YouTube, tell me if you think I should continue. I have a long plan for this story if you all think I should continue on. English isn't my first language so I apologies for the poor grammar.