AN: I've fudged around with the Harry Potter timeline a little. Sorry about all the 8's I couldn't get the page breaks and stuff to work right

AN: I've fudged around with the Harry Potter timeline a little. Basically everything happens the same and at the same intervals its just pushed forward eight years. In the Harry Potter Universe it would be 1996, but for the BtVS universe its 2004. I'm using the BtVS timeline for any years I happen to mention. Just thought I'd clear that up for anyone who happened to care. /i

Disclaimer: BtVS and HP aren't mine. Idea and OCs are.


Angel: I know what's goin' on with you.

Faith: Join the club. Everybody seems to have a theory.

Angel: Hmm. But I know what it's like to take a life. To feel a future, a world of possibilities, snuffed out by your own hand. I know the power in it. The exhilaration. It was like a drug for me.

Faith: Yeah? Sounds like you need some help. A professional maybe.

Angel: Hmm. A professional couldn't have helped me. It stopped when I got my soul back. My human heart.

Faith: Goody for you. If we're gonna party, let's get on with it. Otherwise, could you let me out of these things?

Angel: Faith, you have a choice. You've tasted something few ever do. I mean, to kill without remorse is to feel like a god.

Faith: Right now, all I feel is a cramp in my wrist, so let me go!

Angel: But you're not a god. You're not much more than a child. Going down this path will ruin you. You can't imagine the price for true evil.

Faith: Yeah? I hope evil takes MasterCard.

-Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 3, Episode 15 "Consequences"


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"A girl?"

Cordelia placed a hand on her hip and stifled a laugh.

"Yeah a girl. One very important girl actually," she looked him straight in the eye "a girl you've met before. But then she's a lot different than you would remember".

Now that had Sirius's curiosity peaked.

"Who is she?"

Cordelia sighed.

"She's your cousin…or your first cousin's daughter. Does that make her a cousin too? I was never clear on that." Cordelia looked thoughtful.

"I believe that would make her my first cousin once removed. Now if we could get to the part where you actually tell me who she is?"

Sirius didn't have a clue who she could be. Maybe Nymphadora? That was the only female cousin Sirius could think of that he would even considering helping.

Cordelia lifted her hands up in assent. "Alright, alright keep your pants on. And it's not Nymphadora. The girl I'm speaking of hasn't been in the wizarding world for twenty years. She doesn't even remember it." She took a step closer to Sirius.

"Her name is Faith Lehane, but you knew her by a different name: Eris Lestrange."

Sirius's jaw dropped. Well he certainly hadn't expected that.


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Summer 1983

Sirius stayed in his room all the time these days. He hated the summer and he hated the way his family looked at him like a disease.

He was friends with mudbloods AND he was in Griffindor. That was almost as bad as being a squib in the eyes of his mother.

But they hadn't disowned him yet, surprisingly. Perhaps they still held out hope that he might change and be more like his brother.

Sirius heard noises emanating from downstairs.

Probably more of his mother's pure blood friends he thought with contempt.

"Auntie Walburga!" the shriek echoed up the stairs.

He let out a groaned.

Great.

It was her.

He promptly shut his door to drown them out and grabbed a book sitting on his piles of school things.

He read the cover: Hairy Snout, Human Heart

"Huh."

Sirius recalled hearing about this book when it came out. Apparently it was written anonymously by a werewolf and accounted the author's battle with lycanthropy.

It was probably Moony's. It must have gotten mixed in with his things when they'd been packing for the summer.

He shrugged. Could be interesting.

Sirius took the book and flopped down on his bed and opened it to the first page.

He'd gotten a few pages in when he heard his door creak open.

Sirius's eyes poked out from over the book. There was someone at his door, a very short someone.

"Kreacher! I thought I told you to stay out of my room!" He growled.

The intruder shuffled a bit farther through the door and a little more light caste over the figure.

It was a little girl.

A little girl with long shining dark hair. She looked at him wide eyed and curious.

"Hi." She said with a tiny smile and then proceeded to walk around his room.

Sirius set Moony's book down.

"Uh…hi?"

She had crawled up on his chair across from him and started to rifle through some letters on his dresser which he had gotten from Moony, Prongs, and Wormtail. It was clear this girl had zero sense of boundaries.

"Hey! Don't touch those!"

There was no doubt in his mind that this was Bella's daughter. Eris, his mom had mentioned her once when they were still speaking to each other.

Had to be. She looked just like her. Only in miniature. The only difference he could see between her and her mother was that Eris's hair seemed a few shades lighter.

Eris turned to look at him as her hand released a now crumpled note from James. While continuing to look at him she grabbed his sneakoscope which had been lying next to the letters. He had bought it at Hogsmeade in his 3rd year at Hogwarts.

It didn't start spinning or whistling. She was just being annoying and that wasn't really the same as being untrustworthy.

Eris gave him a defiant look.

"Want."

She stared at the Sneakoscope in her hand and clasped both hands around it.

"Take."

She got off the chair and onto the floor and started to try and spin it like a regular top.

"Have."

Sirius rolled his eyes. "My, aren't you charming."

Eris gave him an innocent looking smile.

However because she looked so much like her mother, Sirius thought she looked decidedly evil.

She finally got the sneakoscope to start spinning on the ground but once it got going it preceded to roll out of her reach and under Sirius's bed. Eris frowned but didn't go after it.

Sirius knelt down in front of her. How old was she? Three? Four? He didn't really pay too much attention to the goings on of Bellatrix's life…he tried to ignore them entirely.

"I'm Eris. Who are you?" She inched closer to him.

She was certainly friendlier than Bellatrix.

Her mother was sure to weed that out of her soon enough.

"I'm Sirius. Your mother's cousin."

"Oh." her brow furrowed. "My mum said bad things about you."

Talk about the understatement of the century.

"Yeah. We don't exactly 'get on'."

Her eyes drifted to his Chudley Cannon's poster on the wall next to them. She leapt up and readjusted her dress.

Did all children have such a lack of attention span?

"Whats that?"

She stood in front of the poster enthralled by the players swooping past in their brooms.

Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"That's the Chudley Cannons, they're a professional Quidditch team. They aren't that good, frankly I can't remember the last time they won, but…"

Eris spun and stared at the doorway.

"What's wrong?"

She looked to him and back to the door. Sirius could hear the sneakoscope begin to spin and whistle furiously from underneath the bed.

Bullocks.

"ERIS!! Where are you?!"

The girl paled.

"Mum's gonna be so mad at me! She said…she said… 'Don't you talk to that Seer-e-us Black, he's bad, he's a mugg-ul lover, he's…' she said…"

The door opened all the way hitting the wall. One of Sirius's picture frames fell from the wall and shattered.

Bellatrix stood at the doorway and her face was unreadable for a moment as she took in the scene before her. Then her anger threatened to boil over as she saw her daughter standing by Sirius who was still kneeling down in front of her.

She rushed in and as Sirius started to get up she shoved him roughly. He fell onto his bed. Bellatrix grabbed Eris's hand and dragged her to the door.

Sirius saw that his own mother had finally made it to his bedroom as well.

This was just getting better and better.

Walburga took Eris's hand from Bellatrix. She looked at her son with disgust before leading the bawling little girl back downstairs.

She could be heard talking to Eris as they walked away, "Now Eris, I don't know what my son told you, but I want you to…" then her voice faded.

He stared at the place where his mother and Eris had been before finally resigning to his fate and looking in Bellatrix's direction. She rushed at him quicker than he thought possible.

"You stay away from my DAUGHTER! If I see your mudblood loving face anywhere near her again, I'll kill you myself! And that is not an idle threat!" she pulled out her wand and pressed it hard against his throat.

He strained a smile.

"Alright fine. But I'll have you know that completely ruins this huge elaborate plan I had. You see, I was going to brainwash your daughter in to wanting to marry a filthy muggle when she grows up and then..."

"Sermosubsisto!" Bellatrix growled as she flicked her wand.

Sirius felt this throat constrict and could no longer speak.

In retrospect, he probably shouldn't have provoked her when she had her wand practically stabbing him in his jugular.

"You just give me a reason! You dirty blood traitor!"

Sirius's eyes filled with rage. He grabbed for his wand in his pocket and Bellatrix smirked.

"Expelliarumus!" his wand was knocked from his hand as Sirius was slammed into the bed's headboard.

Bellatrix sneered at him and proceeded to stalk out of his room and slammed the door behind her.

Sirius wasn't sure how long he sat there staring at the door.

That was it.

He couldn't live here anymore. His mother just let Bellatrix assault him! All he had done was talk to Bellatrix's daughter. He hadn't even done anything wrong! And it had been the girl who had walked into his room and started talking to him anyway!

His mom didn't give a piss about him. Sirius had always known as much, but to see the way his mother looked at him so harshly when he'd done nothing at all had made it that much more clear.

Then having Bellatrix attack him in his own bedroom! He had no reason to stay and not only that, Sirius didn't feel safe here anymore.

Bellatrix had threatened to kill him for Merlin's sake!

This wasn't his home. It never was.

He got up and picked up his wand doing a quick counter-curse to the spell Bellatrix had used on him. Good thing Sirius had been practicing a few non-verbal spells during school or this would have been considerably more difficult.

Sirius grabbed his suitcase and started to pack everything he could; his books, clothes, letters, pictures and his broom. He headed toward the door and then remembered something. He crawled underneath his bed and grabbed the now silent sneakoscope and placed it in his pocket.

He would go to Prongs's. Sirius knew James's parents wouldn't mind.

He didn't hear any voices when he opened his door, Bellatrix must have left.

Sirius dragged his suitcase to the stairs. A door creaked open and his fifteen year old brother Regulus stood behind it, "where are you going?" he asked snidely.

Sirius dropped his bag. "You can tell mum if you like. I'm leaving."

Regulus stared. "Leaving?"

"I don't have any reason to stay." He continued down the stairs.

Sirius didn't look at his brother as he left. He didn't ever see the devastated look that was etched on his brother's face as he walked out the door.

Sirius Black left Number 12 Grimmauld Place and he never looked back.


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"You can't be serious."

Cordelia grinned slyly, "No. You're Sirius. I'm Cordelia. I thought we'd already been over this."

Sirius ignored her, "I thought she was dead, and even if she's not… Do you have any idea what you're asking me to do?"

Cordelia said nothing and let him continue his rant.

Sirius was starting to lose it, "You're asking me to help the daughter of Bellatrix Lestrange!"

He started to pace. "That's the bitch that killed me in the first place!"

Sirius put a hand through his hair, "that's…well…are you blooming mental?"

Cordelia's face hardened.

"Look mister I'll be straight with you," she poked a finger into his chest, "I never particularly liked Faith and we didn't get along. No 'alongs' where got. But, and please try to remember this, she's had a real rotten life handed to her. She has enough problems outside of your prejudices, so you would do well to give her the courtesy of realizing that she is not her mother. Who a person is related to does not make them who they are. I should think that you of all people would understand that."

Sirius's mouth quickly snapped shut. Talk about having his foot in his mouth. He could be such a stupid git sometimes.

"What happened to her then? I thought she had been murdered even though her body was never found. People thought someone with a grudge against Bellatrix had done it. That she was killed by someone whose child had been murdered or tortured by Bellatrix's hand."

Cordelia shook her head, "It wasn't any grieving family that took her."

"It was the Watcher's council."


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