Hi everyone I'm back! I'm working on getting my first chapter written for one of my other stories, I'm not sure which x-over I want to write first you're all welcome to go look at my profile and check out the summaries I posted and see which you would like to read first.
Summary: After Sirius dies Serena thinks back and knows she wouldn't have changed anything about their relations ship.
Disclaimer: I own nothing as always. Song I would have loved you Anyways by Trisha Yearwood, HP owned by JK Rowlings, SM owned by some Japanese chick.
He was falling backwards; her heart couldn't believe what her eyes were telling her. The curse had been red a simple stunning charm and yet she was going to lose him before she had even gotten him back. The scream started in her throat as she pushed and shoved trying desperately to reach the dark haired man as he disappeared through the veil.
"No!" she screamed as she felt arms wrap around her pulling her back when she would have dived in. She pulled and tugged but the woman with shocking pink hair refused to let go of her cousin's wife. Across the floor the petite blond heard an agonized no and saw that her godson was being restrained in a similar way her attention returned to the veil and she willed her husband to step back out. Tears started to drip from her eyes and Serenity Black slowly collapsed.
If
I'd've known the way that this would end
If I'd've read the last
page first
If I'd've had the strength to walk away
If I'd've
known how this would hurt
Her blue eyes were vacant of their normal sparkle as she stared out the window. A knock on the door didn't so much as stir her and the door quietly opened and recently turned 16-year-old Harry Potter walked in. Serenity Black never stirred from her position. Harry walked over to his up until recently unknown godmother and knelt by her side seeking comfort from the only one who knew truly how he felt.
Almost unconsciously Serenity lifted a hand and started stroking Harry's hair as he laid his head in her lap. Tears once more started falling from her eyes as she continued to give Harry what comfort she could while staring out the window lost in her memories.
I
would've loved you anyway
I'd do it all the same
Not a second
I would change
Not a touch that I would trade
Had I known my
heart would break
I'd've loved you anyway
Serena's mind traveled back across time to their first meeting, on the Hogwarts express. Her father had been called away by an emergency leaving the petite eleven year old to board the train by herself only to receive help from a dark haired boy her own age. Their first kiss when they'd been fifteen after Gryffindor had won the Quidditch cup. Sirius had tossed his beater bat aside and had swooped down and pulled her right out of the stands onto his broom where he had kissed her.
Their first and worst row after she had caught him kissing another girl when she'd been sixteen, Serena could still feel the ache of betrayal when she'd walked into that room and seen her boyfriend of 4 months lip locked with another woman. She'd known when she'd started dating Sirius that he was a playboy but she'd hoped that he would change. The bitter words the pair had exchanged that had led her to transferring to a Japanese school of magic and living with her mother.
Serena's return to England and finding Sirius drunk as a skunk in the Hog's Head tavern, finding out from Remus that Sirius often drank himself into a stupor since she'd left and that he was steadily getting more and more reckless. She remembered hauling her then ex out of the tavern and dunking him in the lake before sobering him up.
She remembered their reunion when Sirius received his first Order of Merlin award. She remembered how nervous he's been and how he'd stuttered as he's asked her to be his date to the ceremony. She remembered how he'd had eyes only for her and for no one else all night long.
It's
bittersweet to look back now
At memories withered on the vine
Just to hold you close to me
For a moment in time
Serena's mind kept traveling, their engagement was next, Lily had just announced her pregnancy and Sirius had mistakenly thought that Lily had spilled the beans to Serena. Then her boyfriend had proceeded to propose in the most inelegant way possible including dropping the ring.
Their wedding flitting across her memory, Lily looking radiant in her Matron of Honor dress, Sirius looking like a cross between passing out and wondering if the day was all a dream and he was going to wake up soon. Serena remembered walking down the isle, feeling as though she'd been walking on air. When she had reached the alter her eyes had met Sirius's and everything else had faded into the distance.
I
would've loved you anyway
I'd do it all the same
Not a second
I would change
Not a touch that I would trade
Had I known my
heart would break
I'd've loved you anyway
Harry's birth was the next memory along with the memory of being asked by James and Lily to be the little one's godparents. Then the memories started turning bad, James and Lily going into hiding, using Peter as the secret keeper, that awful Halloween. Serena remembered being told that her godson was dead and that her husband had died taking out the traitor. She remembered returning to Japan in her grief to attempt to move on.
She saw the twelve years pass uneventfully in her mind until the day she returned to England on a business trip and caught the news blurb about the escaped convict Sirius Black. Serena remembered fainting then spending the rest of her trip searching for her husband. Her heart constricted as she remembered reuniting with her husband days before Christmas and finally meeting their godson.
Her hands continued to stroke Harry's hair soothing the both of them in a way the both needed. Slowly her voice breaking every now and then Serena began to tell Harry her story, Sirius and her story.
And,
even if I'd seen it coming
You'd still've seen me running
Straight into your arms
After she'd finished her tale Harry had remained in the room for a little while longer asking a few questions but mainly taking comfort in the woman who had always believed in his godfather and had loved Sirius as much if not more than he had. After Harry left Serena got up out of her chair and stood in the window frame.
Her memories kept dancing in her mind and Serena knew that if she tried to sleep she would dream about Sirius. Earlier that day Dumbledore had asked her if her return to England had been worth it, if she wouldn't have rather stayed in Japan with out the knowledge of her husband's continued existence only to lose him again. When he'd asked her that Serena hadn't been able to answer him but now she knew. Placing a hand against the cool glass of the window Serena began to sing the chorus of a song that she'd heard long ago that described how she was feeling to a tee.
I would've
loved you anyway
I'd do it all the same
Not a second I would
change
Not a touch that I would trade
Had I known my heart
would break
I'd've loved you anyway
Well there you have it another song fic for my collection. Remember to read and review and of course tell me which story of mine you want to see first cause I can't decide which I want to write first, unless you'd all like for me to expand on this song fic going into more detail about their relationship. This doesn't take place in any of my HP/SM x-over verses it just sorta popped into my head, mainly the idea of Serena finding a drunk Sirius and sobering him up by throwing him in the lake.
