Lexi saw herself running through the dark forest again. Shooting spells manically, leaving her attackers behind. She had to find the rest, she had to see if they were all right. War was at its peek and the other members of the order were fighting alongside her an hour ago. She had had to take some of the death eaters from their tails, there were too much of them. She a group of about ten and attacked them, teasing for them to follow.

She had shaken nine of them off, and only Antoin Delhov was behind her now. Hatred ran through her veins.

That's the man who murdered my parents… She gritted her teeth as she looked at the unpleasant shadow that ran behind her.

A few minutes passed, yet she managed to kill him before he outran her.

She was entering the castle, fighting her way in when she spotted Harry signaling for her to go towards him. Lexi tried to warn him, yet she didn't have a voice. Harry turned around worried, yet not fast enough.

"Avada kadevra!"

She observed as Harry fell on the ground. Tears streaming down her blood-stained cheeks.

"Now it's your turn little half-blood" Voldemort said while turning to her. "Avada kadev-"

Lexi woke up suddenly. Tears fresh in her cheek.

"It was a dream" she repeated herself slowly along with "we won" until she calmed down.

War had ended two months ago and they had won. The long path of fighting Voldemort alongside Harry had finally ended. Plenty of death eaters had died with their master, yet so had few honourable members of the order and many men who had fought valiantly with them. Still Lexi knew the war had begun long time before a couple of months ago. War had begun the moment Voldemort had killed the parents of one of her best friends. War had also been present when a group of death eaters had tricked and murdered "random" Aurors while they were off duty. Amongst those Aurors were Lexi's parents, who had died when she was in the middle of her third year at Hogwarts. Hadn't she had her friends by her side, she would have never survived. Yet the feeling was mutual.

While Hermione was the brain, Ron the spirit and Harry the muscle of their golden quartet and of war itself, Lexi had been the blood running through the veins of the group. She had been the one to heal those who got injured, spearing a few lives while doing so, she had been the one to brew the potions that strengthened and helped the others, and she had also been the one to take down the battles most people were scared to fight.

She remembered the first day they met. Lexi had entered their common room with blushed cheeks and panting where the three of them where chilling. Harry, Hermione and Ron had looked at her confused. She had been running away from a few Slytherins who she had hexed after they had pissed her off. From then onwards it was the beginning of an inseparable, beautiful and utterly dangerous and troublesome friendship. She saw the philosopher stone and the chamber of secrets as far away adventures even though Lexi knew they had been the heads up of the rocky path she was about to follow with them.

She still had nightmares reliving the moments when she was in war, yet those nightmares didn't have the "favourable outcomes" that their battles had had. She had already seen Harry, Hermione and Ron die twice each this week. She had to brew some sleepless drought, she couldn't deal with it anymore. She looked at the clock. 10:35 am. Well at least I slept more than yesterday she thought to herself startled, as she had woken up at six. Though it wasn't much of a gain as she had gotten to sleep around a quarter to five.

She descended the stairs of Grimmauld place silently so as to avoid waking up Sirius and whichever his conquer was for the night. He had decided to take her in as a sign of gratitude after she had been one of the quartet who had saved him from the dementor's kiss. Later on he also thanked Lexi for saving his arse in the fight they had had against Death Eaters in the ministry as she had managed to petrify his loving cousin Bellatrix Lestrange before she killed him.

Lexi had no magic family left and she wouldn't live with her muggle relatives as she knew that would be endangering them with no purpose. Even though war had ended, not all Death Eaters had disappeared, and they were very pissed at the death of their master. She would usually spend most of the summer with Sirius, yet so as to give him a teenage-free-month she divided a quarter of the last month with Hermione and the other quarter at the burrow with Harry and Ron. Yet this year she didn't have a Hogwarts to return to. She and Hermione had taken their N.E.W.T's in the ministry, which they had both passed with O's. Therefore graduating from Hogwarts, which unfortunately had closed its gates for the students so as to fix it back to its usual splendour, as the ruined state in which it was was hazardous for the students. Ron and Harry hadn't as they were offered jobs in the ministry as Aurors immediately. So had Lexi and Hermione, yet they thought graduating first to be more prudent. Hermione had already begun working for the ministry as well, yet not as an Auror but as an investigator. Lexi would begin her Auror training in two weeks as the ministry had thought that it would be useful for her to develop some healing skills she had shown during war with the help of the St. Mungoes Mediwitches, therefore taking extensive courses every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and the occasional Saturday, and reading loads of paper work and books, therefore familiarizing with the diverse diseases and kinds of attacks.

"Morning" Said Sirius with a smile as she reached the kitchen.

"Well, well, well, no company for breakfast Sirius?" Lexi said surprised as she saw he was sitting on his own.

"I am afraid that isn't entirely true" Said Remus as he took a sit by his friend, yet not before planting a kiss in Lexi's cheek, which she welcomed fondly."How are you Lexi?"

"Never been better" She smiled at her former DADA teacher and actual friend before pouring herself a cup of coffee. "You?"

"Same thing" He lied, his time of the month was a few days away. Thanks to a potion she brew for him he didn't feel pain anymore, still that didn't mean he enjoyed it.

"Don't lie to me Remus, I make your potions" She smiled at him. "I have your wolfsbane downstairs, I know you are running short" She said while she set her coffee on the table and descended to the small potions lab she had managed to create out of need.

"It's not polite to stare Moony" Said Sirius with a smile as he sipped his coffee.

"I don't know what you are talking about" He said dismissively, yet he knew what he was talking about, as effectively, he had been staring.

He had tried to fight the feeling yet he couldn't. He remembered her as a student, she had always been a pretty girl, yet she had never been as striking as she was now. She was no longer a pretty girl, she was a beautiful woman who unfortunately had been forced to grow too prematurely.

He hadn't seen her cry ever since the night he had found her leaving Dumbledore's office after hearing the news about her parents. Not even during war. Even though tears had filled her eyes at times, she always managed to compose herself, contrasting with the hysterical mood everybody had. To his eyes she had been the one to maintain the others sane through it. There was an air to her that made her seem unbreakable yet breakable at the same time.

At first sight her face would make her seem ethereal, yet when she fought she seemed as shatterproof as a stonewall. Her green eyes could be seen from a mile apart. Strangely enough the same eyes that could take away your sleep because of their beauty could hold such intensity that would make you stand back. Her smile and laughter could lighten any room, making the dimmest situation fade, shrugging away any worries, still when she wanted too her tone could impose quite a threat. The auburn curls that used to fall wildly all the way down to her hips had been cropped out of practicality and now framed her lovely face up to her shoulder blades, also helping her transition from childhood to adulthood.

"I'm sure you don't Moony" He said while shaking his head.

"Here you go, couldn't do much about the taste, sorry 'bout that" She said as she handed him a box with about fifty vials. She took a sip from her coffee.

"Thank you" He said as he smiled at her.

Lexi noticed Sirius was observing them weirdly. Trying to shake the weird atmosphere off she decided to break important news.

"I've been meaning to tell you something" She said looking at Sirius, who smiled expectantly at her. "I think it's time for me to move out" She said bluntly.

"Why? Aren't you comfortable here?" He said with a concerned look.

"No, of course not, it's not that." She laughed at Sirius's expression. "You've been a great friend to me Sirius and I appreciate that, a lot, It's just that I feel like I'm pushing you behind being here and all that that implies" She said.

"I have no idea what you mean" He said.

He didn't want her to leave, he had always liked her, but over the years he had realized he loved Lexi. Not romantically speaking, regardless from her looks they were too much alike.

"Oh come on, don't you think it's a tad awkward when you bring your nightly conquers?" She said smiling to herself.

"Would you rather be one of my conquers?" He winked at her with a playful smile. Yet Remus didn't think it to be funny.

"One, I'm not a one-night-kind-of-girl, two you know I'm not your type" She said raising her eyebrows at him. While the first was true, the second was a petty answer, Sirius didn't have a type, his type was woman and it stopped there. "You really don't realize that they look at me differently than they did when I was fourteen?"

When she was little the women would see her with kind eyes, nevertheless after she had turned sixteen they begun eying her more scornfully and suspiciously. At first Lexi couldn't understand this, yet after thinking about it for a while she got an idea. She had always looked much older than her actual age, and Sirius always waited for her to have breakfast and talk, she was the first person he wanted to talk to in the morning. Even though those women spent the night with him, he would always spend his days with her.

"I still have no idea what you mean" He said indifferently.

As if on cue Sirius last night conquer descended from his bedroom with messed up hair and a red dress that was so tight that made Lexi choke with only looking at it. Needless to say the moment she went to bid Sirius goodbye she looked at her and then at Remus, yet her eyes went back to the eighteen year old again. She also noticed the fact that Lexi was in her pyjamas and that she had been talking rather close to Sirius. The fact that she was extremely pretty didn't help the woman's jealousy. Her pretty face had turned into an unpleasant pug like stare.

Remus and Lexi both bit their lips as they looked at each other after the woman had left.

"I rest my case" She said as she let out a laughter, Remus watched her amused. "If you'll excuse me I have to go house browsing" She said as she got up from her chair with the daily prophet in hand and ran upstairs to get changed.

"Hundreds of women leave this house, no bragging intended, yet I have not found one as intriguingly appealing as that bushy haired monster" Sirius said with a funny face. "And I have the feeling you are thinking something of the sort my friend" He added as he looked at Remus who had followed Lexi with his eyes until she was out of sight.


Thing is, as much as enjoyed the books and the movies, I could not get over the fact that my favorite characters got murdered, so I decided to change things a little bit with the aid of my dear Alexandra. I hope you enjoy reading this, because I surely did enjoy writing it. Best is yet to come though. Please review and I hope you enjoy!