Ch. 1

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter

Warning: Fem!Sirius (Serena) and Sirius/Remus

And here, we, go:

As Serena Black ran through the woods, she prayed to all the gods she knew about that she could get away from the dementors, and that Harry was alright.

Harry Potter. Serena's godson. She hadn't seen him in twelve years because of that stupid rat. Azkaban had not been the best place to be for twelve years straight, or at all, come to think of it.

If only she had gone to get Moony, or stayed with Harry, she wouldn't have gone to get Pettigrew and end up separated from all the people she loved.

Oh Remus, she thought, I'm so sorry.

When she got arrested by the Aurors for allegedly killing all those muggles, Remus had been at the Ministry waiting. He had yelled at her asking her why would she kill all those people when he and Harry needed her. She had tried to respond, but she was gone before she could.

That was the last time she had seen or heard from Remus. But right now she needed to focus on getting far enough away from Azkaban to find somewhere to get at least a little sleep before trying to find Remus.

But twelve years of torture and dementors had taken a toll on her body and she needed to rest soon, or it wouldn't matter what she wanted to do, because she would be dead. Serena knew that if the dementors caught her, it wouldn't be back to Azkaban, no, if the dementor's caught her then they would perform the Dementor's Kiss and kill her.

Serena just kept going though. Because if there's one thing she knows, it's that giving up is never an option. That's why she survived all these years. And that's why she's going to survive now.

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Serena woke in a damp cave in the mountains near Hogwarts. She knew that students would be arriving soon, but didn't know the date and so didn't know exactly when.

After she couldn't find Remus, she had gone to check on Harry. What she had found was Harry storming out of the Dursley's with his trunk. The Dursley's. The one place Lily never wanted her child to go. Serena knew that there were many more appealing places for Harry to go if she, herself was incapacitated.

Serena sighed. Harry had seen her in her animagus form before the Knight Bus arrived. She hoped he would have an open mind about her when they actually met, but she also knew what the Ministry had put in the Daily Prophet, that she had escaped and was 'highly dangerous'.

But she knew the truth. Lily and James had agreed to switch their secret keeper at the last minute to Peter without telling anyone else because choosing her was too obvious. So when Voldemort showed up and killed them, she was the one blamed, as she was the one everyone assumed was their secret keeper.

And then when she had stormed after Peter, he had blown up the street, effectively letting him slip away. And the Ministry was completely convinced she was evil and needed to be shipped off to Azkaban immediately.

That meant she never actually got a trial.

Serena had survived twelve years in Azkaban on the belief that Hagrid had taken Harry somewhere safe. Now that she knew he had been taken to the Dursley's, with magic-hating Petunia, for twelve years, she regretted her decision even more.

Damn that rat.

Okay, I am posting this chapter in hopes to get back into writing. I've had the first few chapters written for awhile and am now posting to see the reactions I get as to whether I'll post the rest and continue writing. If you have read my other story, do not expect anything more for that, at least at this point. I'd need to do major reworking and rewriting if I was ever going to continue it.