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Hey hey all!! This is the sequel to my first HP story Lost in Darkness, so its Part II!!! lol!! Anywho!! This story is basically what happens when James and Lily dies and when Sirius goes to Azkaban etc, etc...!! So basically there's the usual plot line for this story but with a few twists and turns along the way. This chapter is kind of an introduction to their married lives and their working lives...so here goes another story!!!
Chapter One
"Sirius where are we going?" Mo was laughing as Sirius tugged her along. He had insisted on blindfolding her and seemed as excited as a five year old at Christmas.
"You'll see," he told her. "We're almost there."
She heard the click of a lock being turned and then the creak of a door as it opened. Sirius caught her hand again and pulled her forward. When he stopped again the door shut behind them and then felt Sirius untying her blindfold.
As he pulled it away from her eyes he said, "Welcome home, Mo."
Mo blinked in astonishment. She was standing in the cute little flat she had found just outside Hogsmeade only a week earlier. She had rushed home to tell Sirius how wonderful it was but the realtor had called the next day to say that someone had already bought it.
She turned to grin at him, "It was you, wasn't it?"
Sirius nodded, "It was so hard to keep it from you. I felt like a little kid that knew a secret and was just dying to tell someone. I wish you could have seen your face when the realtor called to tell you that someone else had bought it."
Mo smiled happily, "It's wonderful. Thank you." She moved forward and kissed him soundly on the mouth, "Now we have some place of our own."
They had been married only three months and had been hunting high and low for the perfect place. Sirius and she, both lacking a real home, had been determined to find a place and make it their own. There had been the apartment Sirius had gotten when he'd turned seventeen and inherited his uncle's money but it still wasn't theirs. Now they had a place all their own and she knew he was just as pleased as she was.
"Does it make you happy?"
Before Mo had a chance to answer a knock sounded at the door and she looked expectantly at Sirius, "How can anyone be visiting? We haven't even moved in."
Sirius shrugged with a grin and went to open the door.
"Honey, I'm home!" James called as he grinned at Mo through the doorway.
"We came to give you a housewarming party," Caroline said and looked around skeptically. "Well maybe a pre-housewarming party."
"It's a bit empty isn't it?" Lily said with a smile. She had little Harry on her hip and was absolutely glowing.
James went and scooped up his little boy, "All the more room for a party, huh?" He kissed Harry's nose and lifted him up in the air filling the room with giggles.
"He's so cute," Caroline sighed.
"He looks just like James," Remus added.
Sirius made a face, "Then how can you say he's cute?"
"Oh be nice," Mo laughed and went to take her godson from James. "He has his mommy's eyes though, don't you?" Harry gurgled happy nonsense at her and fisted a tiny hand around one of her fingers. She looked up at her friends, "Well some housewarming party. We have no food, no furniture, and no alcohol. What kind of party is this?"
Sirius laughed along with everyone but couldn't help but adore the picture of his wife and godson. She looked so prefect holding him. He couldn't wait till they had one of their own.
"Well we can always go to the Three Broomsticks and celebrate," James suggested with an innocent look at his wife.
"Oh no," Lily said. "I'm not taking Harry in there. That's not exactly what he needs to be exposed to at this age."
"Oh don't worry about it," Mo laughed shifting Harry to her hip. "We have lots of food at the apartment. We haven't moved out of there yet, you know."
Sirius grinned and kissed her, "That's our Mo, always the voice of reason."
"Hardly," she replied but smiled anyway.
As they were walking out the door Mo looked over her shoulder, "So who's cooking?"
"Bye guys," Mo whispered and James and Lily left their apartment later that night.
Lily waved silently doing her best not to wake Harry as James hugged Mo, "Night. Take care of Sirius, won't you?"
Mo smiled warmly, "Will do James. Goodnight."
She watched James and Lily disappear down the hall. They were perfect together, she noted, and Harry completed them. She sighed and shut the door.
"Tired?" Sirius asked handing her a glass of wine.
She smirked, "Does it matter? I highly doubt I'll sleep tonight. I know when you get that look in your eyes."
He grinned and tapped his glass, "You know me to well. Cheers."
No sooner had Mo downed the contents of her glass before Sirius hauled her into his arms and into the bedroom. Depositing her on the bed, he smiled, "Do you like the new apartment?"'
Mo pulled him down on the bed with her, "I love it. Now you better kiss me before I kick your arse."
Mo lay snuggled against Sirius's chest, warm, glowing, and happy. She wondered how she had ever lived without the warmth of love in her life. It was still a wonder to her how she had ever been as coldhearted as she'd been.
Sirius tipped her chin up with a cocky grin, "Thinking about me?"
One side of her mouth tipped up, "If you're lucky."
"Baby I got lucky the first time I got you in bed," he only grinned when she slapped him lightly in the chest. "And I can't thank you enough."
"You're something else Sirius Black," Mo murmured and ran her lips softly over his chin. "What would I do without you?"
"Careful or you might get lucky again tonight," he grinned.
She walked her fingers along his chest and smiled innocently, "I fully intend to – OH HONESTLY!"
"What?" Sirius looked to the fireplace in the area Mo was glaring. A head was floating in the flames grinning merrily at them. "Hullo Elphias."
"Oh really," Mo sighed. "Can't you at least give us a warning? I'm naked here."
Sirius grinned, "And you're going to stay that way if I have anything to do with it."
"Sorry if I'm interrupting anything," he looked apologetically at Mo. "But there's some serious business going on about ten miles East of Godric Hollow, area called Edgar Place. Boss wants you to check it out."
"Alastor has a way of needing us whenever it's least convenient," Mo grumbled.
Elphias Doge was a smart man and knew when a woman was irritated. He had dealt with scores of dark wizards during his time as an Auror but nothing scared him more than a hell bent woman. Taking Mo's dark scowl as a cue he smiled and bobbed his head, "Sorry 'bout the timing but I'm needed on site. Moody wants you there ASAP."
"As good as done," Sirius said cheerily and watched as Elphias's head disappeared with a 'pop'.
"It's impossible to get a full night's sleep around here with Moody wanting us all over half the damn planet at every hour of the night," Mo said and threw the duvet back.
She swung her legs over the side of the bed and earned murmur of approval from Sirius, "Ah, ah Sirius. Moody said ASAP."
Sirius shrugged and dragged her back across the bed to him, "Well he'll have to wait because as soon as possible is when I'm done with you."
"Oh so now it's when you're done with me? I see how these things work," Mo said but slid her hands up his back anyway. "Alastor is going to be so pissed."
Sirius grinned, "Let him simmer for a bit and we'll make everything better when we get there."
"S'about time you two showed up," Moody growled upon seeing two of his best Aurors.
"You should no better than to interrupt us in the middle of the night," Sirius said with a smirk.
Mo watched the electric blue eye in Moody's head dance over them. He had just recently lost his eye in a nasty duel he'd almost lost and then had it replaced with the magical one he now wore. Though Moody meant as much to her as her friends, he was still creepy to look at.
"So what's going on?" she asked.
"'Nother attack," Moody replied and gestured towards the remnants of smoke in the sky. "Found the Dark Mark after getting reports of unusual activity in the area. It was already past too late."
Sirius winced and placed a protective arm around Mo's shoulders, "Who was killed?"
"McKinnons," Moody answered absently. "Not a scratch on 'em. Cursed."
Mo closed her eyes against the sadness rising in her chest and Sirius shook his head sadly. It was so much more serious than any of them wanted it to be. The McKinnons had been one of the best wizarding families of the age. Strong, smart, and quick, all of them were. Their daughter worked with Caroline in the Defense Department at the Ministry. It was hard to imagine that the last thing they had ever seen was Voldemort.
"We aren't going to find anything here that we haven't seen before Alastor," James said coming out of the house. "Hey guys."
"Hey James," Mo replied.
"How many of them were killed?" Sirius asked.
"Just Aidan and Marie," James answered. "Thankfully their kids or grandkids weren't here... Anyway there's nothing new here. We need to inform the family."
"I'll take care of it," Moody answered. "You three stay here and wrap this up. And don't forget to put a memory charm on that prude across the street with her nose in the window."
Despite the situation Sirius grinned, "Will do, Moody."
Moody ambled away on his one good leg and the wooden leg where his other should have been. He was a sight with his almost drunken swagger, grizzly brown hair, and magical eye. All in all, what one would classify as something you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley.
"Voldemort's getting stronger," Mo stated as she studied the bodies lying, almost tragically romantic, together near their bed.
"There has to be a pattern, a sense to what he's doing though," James mused. "This senseless killing isn't doing anything we haven't seen before. It's scaring a few people but since when hasn't he?"
"I think he's trying to warn us about something," Sirius replied. "You know, trying to tell us something big is going to happen. The killings have become way to regular. He knows something we don't and he's closing in on us."
Mo's pulse raced as she frowned in thought, "We can't be sure what he's after. Revenge on those who have stood up to him, certainly, but there's something more behind all this. And I have the strangest feeling that I should know what it is."
Sirius found that it was easy to forget she used to be one of them. At first, seeing the Dark Mark on her arm had been a constant and painful reminder of what had happened. But after she had begged Dumbledore to get rid of it thoughts of that night seemed to slip into the far reaches of his mind more easily than he was comfortable with.
The scared look in her eyes had him coming back to the present and frowning at her, "What is it Mo?"
Mo shook her head, "I don't know yet, but it's there. Something that I think I managed to lock away for the past few years. It's not something I reflect on daily."
James raised an eyebrow, "Naturally but it could be a lot of help to us now."
"I know, I know," she answered. "But I need a little time to sift through it all. Try and piece a few things together."
"Alright," James replied. "In the meantime we need to talk with Dumbledore. A few are worried that the Order has been infiltrated and I'm starting to think they're right."
"Oh jeez," Mo heaved a tired sigh. "One of them mixed in with our own. How has everything suddenly become so dangerous and everyone so suspicious? Nothing's simple anymore."
"Something's happening that we can't ignore," Sirius replied somberly. "And, I have a feeling, something Voldemort isn't going to let us ignore."
So what did you think for the first chapter? Good, bad? I dunno you tell me...There should be more up shortly so read on!!! And don't forget to review!!
Ta luvs!!
Katie
Hey hey all!! This is the sequel to my first HP story Lost in Darkness, so its Part II!!! lol!! Anywho!! This story is basically what happens when James and Lily dies and when Sirius goes to Azkaban etc, etc...!! So basically there's the usual plot line for this story but with a few twists and turns along the way. This chapter is kind of an introduction to their married lives and their working lives...so here goes another story!!!
Chapter One
"Sirius where are we going?" Mo was laughing as Sirius tugged her along. He had insisted on blindfolding her and seemed as excited as a five year old at Christmas.
"You'll see," he told her. "We're almost there."
She heard the click of a lock being turned and then the creak of a door as it opened. Sirius caught her hand again and pulled her forward. When he stopped again the door shut behind them and then felt Sirius untying her blindfold.
As he pulled it away from her eyes he said, "Welcome home, Mo."
Mo blinked in astonishment. She was standing in the cute little flat she had found just outside Hogsmeade only a week earlier. She had rushed home to tell Sirius how wonderful it was but the realtor had called the next day to say that someone had already bought it.
She turned to grin at him, "It was you, wasn't it?"
Sirius nodded, "It was so hard to keep it from you. I felt like a little kid that knew a secret and was just dying to tell someone. I wish you could have seen your face when the realtor called to tell you that someone else had bought it."
Mo smiled happily, "It's wonderful. Thank you." She moved forward and kissed him soundly on the mouth, "Now we have some place of our own."
They had been married only three months and had been hunting high and low for the perfect place. Sirius and she, both lacking a real home, had been determined to find a place and make it their own. There had been the apartment Sirius had gotten when he'd turned seventeen and inherited his uncle's money but it still wasn't theirs. Now they had a place all their own and she knew he was just as pleased as she was.
"Does it make you happy?"
Before Mo had a chance to answer a knock sounded at the door and she looked expectantly at Sirius, "How can anyone be visiting? We haven't even moved in."
Sirius shrugged with a grin and went to open the door.
"Honey, I'm home!" James called as he grinned at Mo through the doorway.
"We came to give you a housewarming party," Caroline said and looked around skeptically. "Well maybe a pre-housewarming party."
"It's a bit empty isn't it?" Lily said with a smile. She had little Harry on her hip and was absolutely glowing.
James went and scooped up his little boy, "All the more room for a party, huh?" He kissed Harry's nose and lifted him up in the air filling the room with giggles.
"He's so cute," Caroline sighed.
"He looks just like James," Remus added.
Sirius made a face, "Then how can you say he's cute?"
"Oh be nice," Mo laughed and went to take her godson from James. "He has his mommy's eyes though, don't you?" Harry gurgled happy nonsense at her and fisted a tiny hand around one of her fingers. She looked up at her friends, "Well some housewarming party. We have no food, no furniture, and no alcohol. What kind of party is this?"
Sirius laughed along with everyone but couldn't help but adore the picture of his wife and godson. She looked so prefect holding him. He couldn't wait till they had one of their own.
"Well we can always go to the Three Broomsticks and celebrate," James suggested with an innocent look at his wife.
"Oh no," Lily said. "I'm not taking Harry in there. That's not exactly what he needs to be exposed to at this age."
"Oh don't worry about it," Mo laughed shifting Harry to her hip. "We have lots of food at the apartment. We haven't moved out of there yet, you know."
Sirius grinned and kissed her, "That's our Mo, always the voice of reason."
"Hardly," she replied but smiled anyway.
As they were walking out the door Mo looked over her shoulder, "So who's cooking?"
"Bye guys," Mo whispered and James and Lily left their apartment later that night.
Lily waved silently doing her best not to wake Harry as James hugged Mo, "Night. Take care of Sirius, won't you?"
Mo smiled warmly, "Will do James. Goodnight."
She watched James and Lily disappear down the hall. They were perfect together, she noted, and Harry completed them. She sighed and shut the door.
"Tired?" Sirius asked handing her a glass of wine.
She smirked, "Does it matter? I highly doubt I'll sleep tonight. I know when you get that look in your eyes."
He grinned and tapped his glass, "You know me to well. Cheers."
No sooner had Mo downed the contents of her glass before Sirius hauled her into his arms and into the bedroom. Depositing her on the bed, he smiled, "Do you like the new apartment?"'
Mo pulled him down on the bed with her, "I love it. Now you better kiss me before I kick your arse."
Mo lay snuggled against Sirius's chest, warm, glowing, and happy. She wondered how she had ever lived without the warmth of love in her life. It was still a wonder to her how she had ever been as coldhearted as she'd been.
Sirius tipped her chin up with a cocky grin, "Thinking about me?"
One side of her mouth tipped up, "If you're lucky."
"Baby I got lucky the first time I got you in bed," he only grinned when she slapped him lightly in the chest. "And I can't thank you enough."
"You're something else Sirius Black," Mo murmured and ran her lips softly over his chin. "What would I do without you?"
"Careful or you might get lucky again tonight," he grinned.
She walked her fingers along his chest and smiled innocently, "I fully intend to – OH HONESTLY!"
"What?" Sirius looked to the fireplace in the area Mo was glaring. A head was floating in the flames grinning merrily at them. "Hullo Elphias."
"Oh really," Mo sighed. "Can't you at least give us a warning? I'm naked here."
Sirius grinned, "And you're going to stay that way if I have anything to do with it."
"Sorry if I'm interrupting anything," he looked apologetically at Mo. "But there's some serious business going on about ten miles East of Godric Hollow, area called Edgar Place. Boss wants you to check it out."
"Alastor has a way of needing us whenever it's least convenient," Mo grumbled.
Elphias Doge was a smart man and knew when a woman was irritated. He had dealt with scores of dark wizards during his time as an Auror but nothing scared him more than a hell bent woman. Taking Mo's dark scowl as a cue he smiled and bobbed his head, "Sorry 'bout the timing but I'm needed on site. Moody wants you there ASAP."
"As good as done," Sirius said cheerily and watched as Elphias's head disappeared with a 'pop'.
"It's impossible to get a full night's sleep around here with Moody wanting us all over half the damn planet at every hour of the night," Mo said and threw the duvet back.
She swung her legs over the side of the bed and earned murmur of approval from Sirius, "Ah, ah Sirius. Moody said ASAP."
Sirius shrugged and dragged her back across the bed to him, "Well he'll have to wait because as soon as possible is when I'm done with you."
"Oh so now it's when you're done with me? I see how these things work," Mo said but slid her hands up his back anyway. "Alastor is going to be so pissed."
Sirius grinned, "Let him simmer for a bit and we'll make everything better when we get there."
"S'about time you two showed up," Moody growled upon seeing two of his best Aurors.
"You should no better than to interrupt us in the middle of the night," Sirius said with a smirk.
Mo watched the electric blue eye in Moody's head dance over them. He had just recently lost his eye in a nasty duel he'd almost lost and then had it replaced with the magical one he now wore. Though Moody meant as much to her as her friends, he was still creepy to look at.
"So what's going on?" she asked.
"'Nother attack," Moody replied and gestured towards the remnants of smoke in the sky. "Found the Dark Mark after getting reports of unusual activity in the area. It was already past too late."
Sirius winced and placed a protective arm around Mo's shoulders, "Who was killed?"
"McKinnons," Moody answered absently. "Not a scratch on 'em. Cursed."
Mo closed her eyes against the sadness rising in her chest and Sirius shook his head sadly. It was so much more serious than any of them wanted it to be. The McKinnons had been one of the best wizarding families of the age. Strong, smart, and quick, all of them were. Their daughter worked with Caroline in the Defense Department at the Ministry. It was hard to imagine that the last thing they had ever seen was Voldemort.
"We aren't going to find anything here that we haven't seen before Alastor," James said coming out of the house. "Hey guys."
"Hey James," Mo replied.
"How many of them were killed?" Sirius asked.
"Just Aidan and Marie," James answered. "Thankfully their kids or grandkids weren't here... Anyway there's nothing new here. We need to inform the family."
"I'll take care of it," Moody answered. "You three stay here and wrap this up. And don't forget to put a memory charm on that prude across the street with her nose in the window."
Despite the situation Sirius grinned, "Will do, Moody."
Moody ambled away on his one good leg and the wooden leg where his other should have been. He was a sight with his almost drunken swagger, grizzly brown hair, and magical eye. All in all, what one would classify as something you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley.
"Voldemort's getting stronger," Mo stated as she studied the bodies lying, almost tragically romantic, together near their bed.
"There has to be a pattern, a sense to what he's doing though," James mused. "This senseless killing isn't doing anything we haven't seen before. It's scaring a few people but since when hasn't he?"
"I think he's trying to warn us about something," Sirius replied. "You know, trying to tell us something big is going to happen. The killings have become way to regular. He knows something we don't and he's closing in on us."
Mo's pulse raced as she frowned in thought, "We can't be sure what he's after. Revenge on those who have stood up to him, certainly, but there's something more behind all this. And I have the strangest feeling that I should know what it is."
Sirius found that it was easy to forget she used to be one of them. At first, seeing the Dark Mark on her arm had been a constant and painful reminder of what had happened. But after she had begged Dumbledore to get rid of it thoughts of that night seemed to slip into the far reaches of his mind more easily than he was comfortable with.
The scared look in her eyes had him coming back to the present and frowning at her, "What is it Mo?"
Mo shook her head, "I don't know yet, but it's there. Something that I think I managed to lock away for the past few years. It's not something I reflect on daily."
James raised an eyebrow, "Naturally but it could be a lot of help to us now."
"I know, I know," she answered. "But I need a little time to sift through it all. Try and piece a few things together."
"Alright," James replied. "In the meantime we need to talk with Dumbledore. A few are worried that the Order has been infiltrated and I'm starting to think they're right."
"Oh jeez," Mo heaved a tired sigh. "One of them mixed in with our own. How has everything suddenly become so dangerous and everyone so suspicious? Nothing's simple anymore."
"Something's happening that we can't ignore," Sirius replied somberly. "And, I have a feeling, something Voldemort isn't going to let us ignore."
So what did you think for the first chapter? Good, bad? I dunno you tell me...There should be more up shortly so read on!!! And don't forget to review!!
Ta luvs!!
Katie