A/N:OMG! SORRY ALL! That is what you get for having too many docs in the doc manager!I do however hope you enjoyed chapter one and the beginning of our story! I would like to thank Wikked and dancegirl92 for my first reviews! Always appreciated and thank you for the feedback, I took it to heart! Well hope you enjoy my second chapter, and please review away! And now for the real chapter two lol!

Chapter Two

She stood over her trunk at the end of her bed, staring into it but not really seeing any of its contents. Running into Sirius had totally thrown her off, she knew going back to school would be hard... seeing him again, but that... This afternoon, it had been awful, worse then she could have guessed. She had hoped that seeing him would fill her with a righteous rage and be able to ignore him, but instead... All she felt was alone, very very alone.

For the first time, Delphi was not looking forward to going back to school.

The door of her bedroom opened with no knock and her oldest brother stalked into her room uninvited. "Are you not done packing yet?" He sat down in her chair in front of her dressing table and stared at her through the mirror.

She looked at her older brother Rodolphus, the brother who had always watched over her, protected her from their middle brothers taunting and teasing. "No, I've been distracted." She threw a bundle of clothes into the trunk and slammed it shut, she knew their house elf Mol, would come in during the night and make sure it was all folded and nothing had been left behind. It was just something to distract her wildly wondering mind.

She could feel Rodolphus' eyes staring at her in the mirror, he stood up slowly and turned to face his sister. She looked young and tired, too tired. And although she did not realize, on the steps of Gringotts that day, he had watched his young sister stare off at a certain young man. Poor Delphi, she seemed to adore looking after lost causes, always had. He could remember when she was six and had found a Doxy with a broken wing and she had nursed it back to health despite the several, not so insignificant bites she had received. However Sirius Black was not a Doxy, just a lost cause. Her attachment to him was deeply concerning to say the least.

"Delphi, I will only say this once, and I do not want or wish to repeat it." She looked up at her brother, her eyes curious, "I always thought you would bring him back," His voice caught on the very mention of him, Sirius, as if it was like coughing phlegm into his mouth, "bring him back to the fold, to the right way of thinking. You always seemed so close too each other no matter how far he seemed to stray...and of course, we all have our bit of rebellion, but you see it wasn't just rebellion for him, I mean he actually believes in all that nonsense. And I know you are rather... Sad about the whole thing," she looked away from her brother, how could he think 'sad' would cover how she felt, "But, you can do so much better than him," Rodolphus crossed the room and put a hand on her shoulder and smiled down at her. The blue eyes that their mother had given to both of them looked down at her with love and care. "You could do much worse then Lucius, he will strive to make you happy."

Delphi rolled her eyes, "That will never happen, he only has eyes for Narcissa Black and we all know it," she turned away from her brother praying he wouldn't hear the hope in her voice.

"Lucius will never marry her, when he has a chance with you," Delphi glanced over her shoulder at her brother and sent him a teasing smile. She knew now for certain that brotherly love was clouding his judgement, even if he was talking about his best friend.

"Oh? Awfully cold about your new sister-in-law, not as infatuated with all the Black sisters are you?"

Rodolphus shrugged, "Bellatrix was the best of the matches available to me,"

Delphi turned and crossed her arms looking at her brother as his eyes roamed over her bookshelf, "Lovely, I am swooning from the romance of it all." Rodolphus simply threw a scoff over his shoulder. Delphi looked at her feet raising an eyebrow, "How is married life treating you? Shouldn't you be breaking in the new estate father gave you, decorating it with the little woman?"

Rodolphus shrugged, "Bellatrix is doing that with Narcissa and Andromache before they leave for school, it's Narcissa's last year."

"I know," Delphi said, she would not be sad to see Narcissa go, she was always trying to mother Delphi and Andromache, always keeping a very close eye on the two best friends. Although this year Delphi supposed she wouldn't mind so much as she now had no where to sneak off too. "Who ever will keep us all in line when head girl Narcissa leaves?"

Rodolphus snorted, they lapsed into a comfortable silence before he added, "Besides I wanted to see my little brother and sister off to school!" Delphi rolled her eyes, Rodolphus sighed, "I am hoping Rabastan will not do anything to disappoint this year, his match with Andromache has been hard to...maintain."

Delphi shrugged. Rabastan was always breaking the rules and doing poorly in school. However being named the Quidditch captain for Slytherin house had finally garnered him some points with their father. Delphi remembered when the letter had come by owl, it was the first time their father had ever said he was proud of Rabastan.

"Well, I think she has a secret admirer," Delphi teased.

Rodolphus walked over to stand beside Delphi as she tied the black satin ribbon that held a silver heart shaped locket, she always wore it. His eyes narrowed, if there was one thing her older brother loved but would never admit, it was gossip. "Oh, who?"

Delphi shrugged, "She is remaining very tight lipped about the whole thing, I think he may be foreign."

Rodolphus raised an eyebrow, "Is he pure?"

Delphi scoffed, "Of course," she leaned towards her mirror as she put on her mothers old earrings, she could see in her peripheral vision her brother staring at her, Delphi cleared her throat, "Who else is there?"

"Well it would seem you were wavering..."

She glared at her brother, "Sirius being misguided is not the same as not being pure."

Rodolphus watched his sister closely before nodding, "Well 'misguided' or not, he is a blood traitor now, and you are to have nothing to do with him."

She met her brothers eyes, "Why would I want to?"

"I just can't believe I didn't say anything to her, I should've made her listen to me, hear me out." Sirius groaned, as he paced his new bedroom, "she just caught me off guard nearly knocking me over like that, I was hoping I could plan our encounter, have the upper hand a bit."

James lay on his friends bed, in his parents house and shook his head. All summer had been brilliant. Having Sirius show up on their doorstep had been better than any Christmas or birthday gift he had ever gotten combined! It was like having a proper brother, but that brother had been a tiny bit distracted by a dark curly haired girl who was not writing.

James sat up on the bed, "Oi, mate, slow down, your making me dizzy just watching you." Sirius grinned at his best friend and slouched onto the window seat, "look, as I see it, it didn't work out, she can't come to terms with what you decided to do." Sirius opened his mouth to argue but James held up a hand to stop him, "No, no more, heard it all summer mate. Now I am gonna speak. She doesn't like that you stood up to the regime they call values and got yourself outta there! You explained it every which way possible in about a million letters right?"

"Yes," Sirius groaned leaning back against the window.

"You haven't heard from her all summer, not even a quick note?"

"No, but-"

"Then when you do bump into her, she shrugs you off after biting your head off, and runs into the arms of everything you despise?"

"It didn't happen exactly like-"

"Look mate, I know it's hard but you two just ain't meant to be. I think you need to realize that no matter how you feel, she may not feel the same way about you or what you want your life to be about."

Sirius launched himself up again, shaking his head. "No, nope your wrong. You don't know her like I do James, if you did you would understand but you don't. She isn't like them."

'She isn't like them,' it had been like a life preserver for Sirius ever since first year and he had pointed to Delphi across the great hall to show James the girl he claimed to love, even at the ripe old age of eleven.

Sirius had always regaled James, Remus and Peter with stories of his and Delphi's adventures during their summer holidays and their secret rendezvous that started back in third year in Hogsmead, but no matter what Sirius said, the facts were still clear. She never spoke out against what her family believed in; the dark magic, the mugglephobia, the prejudices. She never even had the courtesy to spend any time with Sirius' true friends. Probably scarred that the bad blood would rub off on her from all James could tell, but what did it matter as long as Sirius was happy? And he had always seemed happy, ignoring all the other girls in school, who would have happily wrestled a hippogriff just for the chance at a date with him. No, Sirius always had an excuse as to why Delphi never sat with them on weekends or in the library or the Three Broomsticks, why she hardly even spoke to him when he was with Peter, James, and Remus. There was always a mumbled excuse.

However last years things had started to change a bit, Sirius became less patient, stopped making such good excuses. Then when he had finally made the choice for himself to run away? She wasn't to be heard from and Sirius had to understand that She was like them, just like them, if not worse for stringing James' best friend along.

"I am sorry mate," James took a deep breath as Sirius' hard eyes stared across the bedroom at him, "But I think you are wrong, I think she is like them. And it breaks my heart to say it to you, cause I've been pulling for you all along, but she ain't what you want her to be."