Title: Broken Paradise
Author: -MyForever-
Summary: James Potter's twin has been missing for 18 years, and when her lover is in need she turns back up again, but what will this do to the lives of the Golden Trio? How will the Chosen One react now that his loving Godfather has somebody else to dote on?

Chapter: 1 - In the Beginning

Laughing and joking with her best friends, Elise Potter sat down at one of the circular tables that occupied the back half of the Great Hall. Lily Evans sat down next to her while the boys went off to get some drinks.

"Elli, you don't need a tattoo, you're perfect as you are, and anyway you already have two, you don't need another one," Lily said sincerely to her best friend. Elise had been going on about getting another tattoo for a couple of weeks now, ever since she had turned of age the November before last she had been obsessed with acquiring tattoos and now had two, one around her ankle that she had drew the design her self, it pictured herself with her arms around her boyfriend – no fiancée, Sirius Black, with his arm around his best friend Remus Lupin, who had his other arm around his other best friend and Elise's brother, James Potter who had his arm around his fiancée, Lily Evans. The other was on the back of her neck, and was of a night in the forest under the full moon with five animals running around, a werewolf, a stag, a dog, an eagle, and a unicorn. However now Elise wanted one of the dog and the eagle on her lower back.

"Lils, will you please stop having a go at me about it, it's my body I can do what I want with it. You sound like my Mother," Elise retaliated.

"Well, maybe that's what you need, somebody here to look over you because as I can plainly see you just want to do whatever you want. You're eighteen and a half Elli; you've got your whole life ahead of you, think it over, do a bit of thinking for once, and wait. You've got so much time to get tattoos if you really want them, our lives have only just begun."

"Ah… Come on girls, don't have this argument tonight, it's our graduation night. The Hall has been decorated just for us. Let's party!" James laughed as he handed Lily her drink.

"Where's Remus gone?" Lily asked after accepting the drink and taking a sip of Firewhiskey.

"Oh, remember Samantha the tall, blonde girl in Ravenclaw? Well, she's just asked him to dance with her, and you know Remus he doesn't get that many offers, so he took up the chance and left us with you two. What he was thinking we have no idea."

"Hey," Elise replied while hitting Sirius on the arm, "Don't talk about your own friends like that!"

"Ahh… I'm sorry Elle, come dance with me?"

"Only 'cuz you're being an idiot."

Elise and Sirius left their drinks on the table and headed over to the dance floor. The Great Hall looked magnificient, it had been decorated as a prom hall as many of those that had had Muggle upbringings had named it, and the attire was according. Sirius Black danced around the Hall wildly, with Elise hanging on as much as she could shaking her head back in laughter.

At the end of the song, Elise's chestnut hair was falling down out of the complicated bun her roommate Alice had done it up in, and the tattoo was standing out vividly against her pale skin that was beginning to get flustered. Looking over she saw her brother and her best friend dancing a wild two-step to a song that neither Elise nor Sirius had ever heard. Sirius' hair was becoming crazier with the long, soft black curls dangling any which way around his head. Not wanting to go back to their drinks so soon, the two started dancing again, moving around the dance floor in circles and when they passed Remus, Sirius gave him a quick tap on the shoulder and a wink, before Remus and Elise rolled their eyes at him.

Three hours later and the clock had just struck midnight, their last day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was finally over, and the rest of their lives had just begun. When Professor Dumbledore, the school's headmaster stood to say that the Graduation Party was over, a number of groans could be heard from the seventh years and many couples began to kiss, to pretend that they had not heard their head teacher. Among these couples were Sirius and Elise, and James and Lily, but suddenly a loud bang was heard from outside the castle and many of the younger students in the dormitories above began to scream.

The whole school knew that for the past couple of years they had been living throughout a war and security measures had been taken in case of a breach of the school's defences, and finally this was the time these measures had to be used. Anybody of age was allowed to fight if they wished. Anybody younger must make their way quickly to reach their dormitories within ten minutes of the alarm bells going off and from then the doors would go into lock down.

While the screams continued upstairs, the Great Hall was in shocked silence, friends and couples held themselves tighter than before and students and teachers alike had a look of fear on their faces. It was Dumbledore, who spoke first,

"We all know what we must do, even if it will be uncomfortable in such formal clothing, we shall most probably be met by sixth years outside in the Entrance Hall where we will proceed into the grounds, take your guard, stick close to your friends and fight."

Many of the teachers looked as if they wanted to protest to Dumbledore's ideas in letting students fight, but they knew that it would take quite awhile for Aurors to turn up and they needed all the help they could get.

Silently but quickly the occupants of the Great Hall spilled out into the Entrance Hall where a large group of tired-looking, pyjama-clad sixth years were standing alert and tense. After the four Head of Years had a quick look around to make sure that no one under the age of seventeen were in the crowd they opened the Front Door's to fight.

As soon as Voldemort and his allies saw the troops ready for battle walking solemnly out of the Castle the Battle began, with spells, jinxes, curses and counter-curses flying in every direction. The first Battle of Hogwarts began.

It was nearly three in the morning before the Battle finished, with the light side winning…for now. Voldemort had fled taking the remaining troops with him, leaving the light to search through the dead bodies, sorting through the Dark and Light supporters, although their were considerably more Death Eaters dead than those Light. Teachers were taking those injured up to the Hospital Wing for treatment from Madam Pomfrey and some Healers from St Mungo's who had come over to help. Friends and students wondered between those still standing and those injured and dead on the ground looking for their classmates and friends, hoping to find them well and alive. Some students could be found kneeling next to a friend crying or holding them wishing them to be alive.

Remus and James could be seen helping Lily who had hurt her legs over to the Hospital Wing as Sirius had gone to look for Elise.

An hour later and Sirius was still outside, Elise could not be found anywhere, through all the bodies on the ground that now just held the dead, she was not there. His beautiful Elle was gone. Getting panicked, Sirius ran through the last stragglers who were making their way back into the castles, pushing past them and ignoring their cries and shouts, he ran through the corridors to the other side of the castle and burst through the doors of the Hospital Wing.

Madam Pomfrey after hearing the doors bang loudly on the stone walls behind them, turned sharply around and walked closely up to Sirius, "Mr Black, this is a place for people to rest in peace it is NOT a place for the likes of you, to come in here as loud as you want and disturb us." Sighing and shaking her head she returned over to the bed of Samantha Hayden, the Ravenclaw who Remus had danced with earlier that evening.

Standing in shock where the nurse had shouted at him, Sirius did not move until James pulled him over to Lily's bedside. At the same time, James and Lily both asked,

"Sirius, where's Elise?"

Finally succumbing to his emotions, Sirius fell into the chair that Remus had kindly placed behind and put his heads in his hands and related what had happened since the end of the battle, his voice cracking often.

Remus hesitantly placed his arms around Sirius holding him close while he cried, once he had finished his story. James looked about to cry himself, Elise had been his twin sister and they had always been close, the two little terrors they had always been called when they were toddlers. Nothing had changed when they came to Hogwarts, Elise had made friends with Lily, and James with Sirius, Remus and Peter, but they had still stayed close, and yes, ok, Elise never hung around with Peter because she didn't trust him but he didn't care she was his sister after all. The four of them sat there, each in the arms of another, Lily and Sirius letting the tears flow, James and Remus holding them inside ready for when they were alone.

Remus glanced over the Hospital Wing looking to see who else was there, he noticed that Professor McGonagall was having her arm patched up from where it had been hit by a cutting curse, with Professor Dumbledore next to her, both had been watching the four of them during their time of grief with a sad look in their eyes, but they both looked away when Remus looked over to them.

Over the next few days many of the students stayed at Hogwarts while their friends recovered, while many where whisked away by their parents at the first possible chance.

Peter was one of the few whose parents took him away, but James, Lily, Remus and Sirius stayed at the school where they were met by James' parents who had come to continue Sirius' search for their daughter. The one thing that kept the six of them going over the next few weeks was the words that the teachers kept drumming into them, they did not know that Elise was dead, she was just missing, but that was not much hope for them.

After a few weeks the hope started to go out, but the search continued, but they found nothing. It was coming up to the 3rd of December, the day in which James, Sirius, Lily and Elise were supposed to have a double wedding. To Sirius' wishes James and Lily still got married, but it was not what they wanted, they wanted to wait until Elise was found again, but even though it tore his heart to say it, Sirius said that there was no guarantee that they would find her.

Two years later, and the date was 31st November 1981, three and a half years after Elise went missing and they still had not found her, and they were beginning to lose the little hope they had. James and Lily had gone into hiding after Dumbledore had told them that Voldemort was after them and they made Peter their secret-keeper to Sirius' wishes.

That night Lily and James sat playing with their one-year old son, Harry James Potter, when James suddenly said to Lily,

"Take Harry and run, get out of here."

That was the night Lily and James Potter were murdered, and that was the night that Harry sent Voldemort fleeing for his life. That was the night that Harry's nightmare at the Dursley's began, and that was the night Sirius Black finally broke.

Two weeks later and Sirius was arrested for the betrayal of the Potter's and the murder of Peter Pettigrew. When those loyal to Sirius Black asked people why Sirius would murder two out of four friends he had left, they would answer that he was angry because the Potter's had managed to have what he and Elise could not.

Elise Potter was missing, Lily and James Potter were dead, Sirius Black was in Azkaban and Peter Pettigrew was supposedly dead, Remus Lupin was left alone his friends all gone. Even though he had never had friends apart from the Marauders and Lily and Elise, never had Remus John Lupin felt so alone.

Somewhere, far away from Godric's Hollow where Lily and James Potter's funeral was taking place, Peter Pettigrew and Elise Potter were both very much alive, but no one knew where exactly they were and it would be many years since either of them was found again…..if ever.

A/N: Thanks, please review. Constructive criticism is highly appreciated. The next chapter should be up within the week.

-My Forever-