Chapter two
When the sun rose at dawn it cast a warm glow through the slightly capped curtains which cause the dust molecules that danced in the air around the window to be shown in the haze of dull light. On the surrounding grounds of the Black manor the red and orange coloured leaves feel down in the wind from the trees onto the muddy green grass that the seven youngsters who are currently sleeping so often play on.
Back inside the children's lounge room them youngest of them stirred to a wake from her place lying on the next to Bellatrix, she looked around the huge room as she slowly sat up careful not to stir the still slumbering figures of her family that lay around her.
The familiar room looked the same to her as it always has with toy spilling out of the toy box on the left side of the room and the old sofa against that back wall looking battered and worn from where her and the others have others it playing various games that included it been something great like a pirate ship or a muggel invention that can transport people from point A to B called a car, but something about it just feels different than it did the night before she thought to herself as she mused her already messy unique red locks of curly hair in thought.
After a moment of thinking about the young child just shrugged it off and let out a yawn stretching her tiny limbs as she did so and in the process waking Bellatrix who was closest to her.
"Morning Lil's" the six year old mumbled quietly as she looked at one of her youngest family member.
"Sorry I woke you up Bella." The red head whispered e back as she watched the dark haired girl slowly rise into a sitting position to look at her.
"That's ok little Lil I was going to wake up soon anyway." She reassured the youngest as she looked around her wondering what time it is and why she couldn't hear her mother and antes in the kitchen make breakfast for the family with the help of the Blacks two House elf's Sloppy and her brother Slippy.
"What time is it?" the two young girls heard from behind them, they both turned to see who was also awake thought they already knew from the voice and sure enough the two saw the oldest of the all Petunia, one of the only ones who could actually tell the time.
"How are we spouse to know that, we can't tell the time idiot?" Lily asked her older sister.
"No need to be horrible Lily." came the voice of Andy as she too was now awake and looking at the young red head with a disapproving glare.
"Sorry, it's just, does something not feel right to you?" she asked the three "Like something is missing?" the five year old asked them further.
"I don't know little Lil's maybe you lost your dolly again" Pea comforted her baby sister even though she knew what she was talking about as she to felt the same and judging by the looks that Bella and Andy were exchanging they were to .
"What are you girls talking about and when is the food getting here?" the four girls turned then to see that their cousin Sirius had awaken as well with his curly black hair in a tangled black mess surrounding his head like a dark halo.
"We didn't mean to wake you up Siri and we don't know about the breakfast because we can't hear or smell it been made which is weird because they always have breakfast ready before we wakes up, usually." Bellatrix rambled on to him as a way of a morning greeting.
This made the tension that had built upp break and caused them to laugh because it was a thing that Bellatrix was known for, the rambling apparently she had gotten it from her father or that's what the grownups had always said.
While youngster made usual morning greetings it woke the last two of the seven, Regulus and Narcissa.
"Come on lets go and wake up every one else" said Andy to the others as she got up stretching then made her way over the partly closed large, heavy oak door taking lily's hand in hers as she did so.
"What's that it wasn't there last night was it?" asked Reggie as he pointed out where he was looking, the six followed to where he was instructing them to look to see a red envelop, a howler.
"Uh oh, which one of you has been naughty." Cissa asked with a smirk on her pretty doll like face but as she said it she was looking in the direction of the three trouble makers and best friends Bellatrix, Sirius and Lilen.
"We didn't do anything." Sirius muttered
"Yeah this time we really didn't." Lily said as she along with her best friends looked at the others innocently.
"Yeah this time" Bella said with a sly smile on her face.
"Yeah, cuz we believe you" said Pea as she rolled her eyes at them and walked to the envelope which picked up and studied.
"It says that it to all of us." She said having of read the front where in clear print it said each of the children's names.
"Open it, Pea." Andy instructed her best friend from her place still standing next to the door.
And so she did but maybe years later she would wish that some else had and not her because o the news that, that what looked to be harmless had letter contained.
Petunia slipped her tiny index finger into the seal causing the envelope to hop and the letter in side to unravel and spew the words that the children would forever whish weren't true but already knowingly in some way knew that they were.
The voice that sounded from it was a well known one to the children as it was a voice that they had heard every day of their lives for as for as they remember, Orion Black the boy's father.
To our dear children,
We regret this more than anything else, the not being able to say goodbye to you we are truly sorry that we have not being able to say goodbye to you face to face, but we have all that being me and the rest of the adults left. We have not done so because we want to and this does not mean that we love you any less than we ever have but maybe more because we have to leave you to keep you save.
(At this point Orion took a big breath like he was trying to find the strength to carry on the grave news that would forever change all the persons involved lives.)
And so for the foreseeable future little ones we are asking that you children to look after each other, the house elf's will look after you and keep you feed and healthy.
A friend of ours is going to come to see that you children are ok once a moth his name is Albus and tell you thing that you will need to know and tech you thing that you will need to learn. You can ask him anything that you need to know he will always be there for you.
We ask of you we really have no right three things always stay together, to who you are and don't let anyone change you and keep you powers a secret from the people around you until you feel that the time is right.
We will always love each and every one of you no matter how far away from each other we are we will think of you where ever we are.
Someday we hope that you understand why we have to leave and be able to forgive us.
Love always your forever loving parents.
Once the recorded voice had finished from inside the red envelop it ripped itself up and then burst into flames leaving behind the smell of burning paper to linger in the heavy silence that the letter had created .
"What does that mean?" Lily asked in a whimper even at the young and tender age of five she knew that the things that they had just heard meant nothing good for her, her sister and their cousins.
"It means that they left and they aren't coming back" Andy answered her youngest cousin's question with tears trailing down her petit face and a tremble in her voice as she shared a look with her best friend who looked at her with wide blue eyes.
"Why would they do that?" Sirius questioned as he brought his younger brother and lily into his embrace. He wasn't asking anyone in general just looking for a answer as to why his parents, antes and uncles are suddenly not there anymore when he had never in his life gone a day without seeing one of them.
"I don't know and I don't think that we are going to find out very soon "Bella said in a small voice as she played with a lose curl of her dark brown hair.
"Do they not want us anymore?" Regulus asked his big brother looking up at him with teary eyes.
"What do you think, Reggie they left stupid head." Cissa said looking at her best friend "They said that they aren't coming back."
"So what are we just meant to look after our self's now without any parents?" questioned as she brought her younger sister into her arms trying to comfort herself as well as the young blond that is her little sister.
Petunia looked at the people in the room the, only family that she has left and felt tears come to her eyes because of it, I could have prevented it from happing from them leaving I knew something bad was going to happen she just thought that it was going to be something like Cissa losing her dolly again or Sirius and reggulus getting into a fight over the last cookie.
Lily seeing her big sister walked out of her cousins arms and over to the blond seven year old.
"It's not your fault Pea right guys?" she said to the others telling them to agree with her and help comfort petunia as she wrapped her tiny arms around the thin waist of Pea resting her head on her sisters chest.
"Yeah, we should have known something was happing as well. " Andy said as she and everyone else came over to join the hug and all trying to find comfort in each other just as they will have to for the future.
The seven young children all stood in a huddle know one being left out as they though in their own different way of what they were going to have to deal with and how they were going to do it.
"At least we still have each other and no one is ever going to change that." Said Bella her voice getting bolder towards the end.
"Come on lets go down stairs." Sirius said as he got out of the huddle of that consist of the only loved ones that he had left and started to try ushering them out of the room that had always been a bright and happy place for them now seemed dark and glooming, it being the place that they had received the news that would forever change who they are and how they look at thing.
They listen to him feeling the same way in wanting to leave that room and never step a step inside the door way again, once they have all walked out Sirius closed the door behind them not looking as he did so.
They walked in a group down the grand stair case and then went in the direction of the dining room just like they have being doing every morning since they could walk, it was a mindless thing that they have always done so now they done it without even thinking about it but this morning that was meant to be just like ever y other Wednesday morning had been so different that anything else the young ones had ever experienced or ever hoped to in the future.
So when they walked into the room that held happy memories they did not expect to see their breakfast laid out for them just like it would be any other morning. But it's not this one is different, is what was running through their heads as they looked at the normal sight before them.
"Good morning young mistress's and masters." Came the small bell like voice of the house elf Sloppy, this caused the seven to stare at them in further bewilderment than they already were because of the fact that she was acting like there was nothing wrong but also the fact that she had never called them that before she had always called them their names pre their request.
Lily voiced this and the tiny creature replied to her by saying that that what they now are they are in charge of the family together and there for all of the families passions.
"But how can that be Sloppy we are only little how are we posed to know what o do with all the stuff or how to make important decision like mu m they used to." Asked Bella to the elf that is only a fair amount taller than she is.
"You's don't have to do anything's Mistress's Bellatrix because the world would have been lead to's believe that yourself an the rest of the families is deads." Sloppy answered the small six years old as she rang her thin, skinny, bonelike fingers with her huge bat like eyes filling with tears of even the thought of losing any more of the family that she and her ancestors have always served.
"Oh," was all that Pea could think of to say as to what she had just heard.
What was she supposed to say to all of this, the fact that she and the others now had no one to look after them and take them to fun places like the park or diagon alley or tell them that everything was going to be ok when they had had a bad dream at night and couldn't get back to sleep or kiss a that they had gotten when they had fallen down and hurt themselves or that the only person who could give them answers to all of this they have never meet and the only thing they know about him is that his name is Albus.
And now they were being told this that they are being thought of as dead by the few people that actually know about them which really is about two or three people that being because their so called parents was always trying to protect them from someone.
Yeah just because they wanted to leave before I even reached my eight birthday she thought to herself as she followed everyone else to the table to seat in the same place they have always sat.
But now even that was different, now there were six empty places that used to hold the people that were on every one of their thoughts and the people that made them all have tears currently in their eyes that they are all trying desperately not to shed as they picked at their breakfast none of them actually eating anything to into their thoughts to notice anything around them.
And then it happen just what they were all secretly waiting for, one of them to break down and cry the six all turned to look as lily as she cried who had tears trail down her face as she wailed in hurt, confusion and many other emotions that they should all be too young to feel pain being the main one.
"Why di..d they ha..ve to...o go?" she asked them all through the sobs that shook her tiny body "d..id we do so..met..hing wro..ng for them to leave." She asked as she looked at them through her tears .
"No little Lil's we didn't do anything wrong, at all." Said Sirius as he got up from his seat and made his way around the table to where the small curly, haired, red head sat with the tears that he had been fighting finally breaking through the barrier that he had created to block them.
He pulled her out of her seat and into his arms running his small hands through her as the others made their way other to them as well with their own sadness finally breaking through after seeing Lily who is one of the most happy people in the world cry in sadness all because that the people who was meant to protect them all fro pain hurt her and the other six as well.
"You know what Lily it doesn't matter that they have left because we still had each other" said Petunia as she stroked her baby sister's hair even though she still had her own tears streaming down her face.
"Yeah, just like always." Andy whispered as she wrapped her arms more securely around Cissa, she shakily raised her free hand to whip away her still falling tears as they all continued to listen to each other muffled sobs that they tried to suppressed because the two oldest girls were trying to show them the bright side of thing even if they looked and sound just as bad as the five younger ones.
"D..d.. do you promises that you will all never, ever leave to?" Reggie said in a voice that was so unlike his usual loud and confident one but rather matched the five year olds size instead of his personality.
"Yea"
"Course"
"Mm... hmm "
"Yeah"
"Absolutely"
"Yeah"
Came six voices sounding strong and never more sure of them self's in that moment.
"We'll make promises that we will never ever be able to break no matter what happens." Andy Said as she looked at all of them knowing that she would never leave them knowing that she never could.
There was a general chorus of oks through the room as the water works slowly stopped as the all relished that they have lost their parents but would do anything they could to keep from losing each other.
"I, promises never to leave any of you, never ever" Lily said in shaky and weakened voice from all the crying.
There was a moment of silence as the taller people surrounding her smiled weakly in her direction before six different voice was heard repeating exactly the same sentence over each other at a different tone and defiantly not at the same time but all meaning it just as much.
Sloppy, who had stood at the side the whole time smiled at the tender scene because she knew that it would be true these seven young children had such a strong bond that no and no matter how much distance between them it would never be broken. And that they together could and face do anything as they would be there for each other to make each other strong. What she had heard was true these children were meant for big and great things, things that only they could accomplish because of who they are and the journey life would take them through the good and the bad.