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CHAPTER FOUR
'WOOF'
Sirius was sitting in the living room in Grimmaulds Place 12 enjoying a book. He had, with a little difficulty, put Ida to bed, and by the looks of it, she was sleeping peacefully. What a day he had had!
First he was sitting thinking over the sorrows of life, alone in the kitchen in the middle of the night, then been disturbed by the mysterious knocking only to find out he was a father. A freakin' father! A dad, a parent! And not any father, mind you, a father of the most beautiful little three year old there was.
Sure, there would be a lot of work, and Ida had still not uttered a single word, but he didn't care. He was sure she would come around eventually, and when she did, he would be right there supporting her. She might be half Aswang, but that didn't mean he couldn't handle her. He handled a werewolf just fine and the two wasn't so different if you thought about it.
He silently wondered what Remus would say about Ida. He would probably support the both of them, and then go find tons of information about Aswags, yeah, that would be typical him.
'But...' a little voice inside his head said, '...but what if your nor ready to be a father? What if Ida don't like you? What if she starts crying and you don't know what to do?' Sirius bit his lip, he hadn't thought about that... 'Maybe you are as bad a father as your own father?' Sirius clenched his fists, he was nothing like his own father, and he would never be. He would make sure Ida grew up in a safe home, and anyone who thought differently could go die in a hole for all he cared.
Suddenly he heard a sound coming from behind him, a scratching noise. He whipped around, his wand out, and came face to face with the cutest little puppy he had ever seen. Okay, the puppy wasn't little, it was rather big, considering it was a... well, puppy.
Where did this cub come from? Surely he had closed the door on his way in? Sirius stood there, wondering for a moment, while the cub just looked at him. Looked at him with big ocean blue eyes, then it hit him.
'She as also begun to turn into a big, black pup.'
The cup in front of him was none other than little Ida, and it seemed like she was scared out of her mind. How could she know what was happening to her? Had anyone considered telling Ida about this transformation? Sirius felt like face palming himself for being so stupid. Sirius carefully got down on all four and transformed into his animagus, a big black dog, this it seemed, calmed Ida down a bit.
Padfoot walked over to Ida and did the only thing he could do in that form to get her upstairs and back to bed, he bit gently down in her furry neck and lifted her up by his teeth. Ida, didn't seem to mind, and if she did, she didn't make a sound, she just hang from his teeth while he carried her up the stairs.
'This is how dogs carries their pups, right? I certainly hope so.' Padfoot though to himself as he carried his daughter up the stairs. 'My daughter. I like the sound of that, maybe I am a good father after all.'
When they came to the room that he had made to be Ida's bedroom, he gently put her down back on the bed. He watched her walk around herself a couple of times before settling down on the soft blankets and closing her eyes. If he had been in human form, he would have smiled at her for doing that.
Padfoot turned to walk out of the room, however before he had reached the door, he could hear the sound of small claws scratching against the wooden floor in the room. He turned around again, and there was Ida, just standing there looking at him with a sad expression upon her puppy face. Padfoot looked back at her with a kind expression, picked her up again and carried her back into the bed where she again walked around herself, laid down and closed her eyes. This time, Padfoot laid down next to the bed.
Even he could tell when his daughter didn't want him to leave the room. 'yeah,' He thought to himself before he closed his eyes, 'his daughter.'
...
When Ida woke up the next morning, she was glad to see that she had returned back to human. She yawned and blinked a couple of times before thinking about all the weird things that had happened to her before she went to sleep last night.
Well, first, Ashley had told her that she had to stand still so she could put a piece of paper around her neck, that had been very weird. Ashley usually didn't say anything at all to her, in fact that had been one of the first times Ashley had spoken quietly to her and not yelled.
The Ashley had taken her to the big door. It was a nice door, Ida thought, because... well, because it looked nice. And then she had knocked on the door several times and just popped away leaving Ida there all alone. Ashley only used the pop spell when she went to work, and sometimes, if Ida wasn't paying attention, the sharp pop from the spell scared her. This was one of the times.
And then the strange man, who Ida now had learned was very nice and also could turn into a woof, came out and saw Ida. Then he had a weird look on his face and then he had taken Ida into his home, wich Ida thought was very nice of him.
But she had been so scared, though. What if the man hadn't been nice? What if he started to yell at her like Ashley did? This thoughts made Ida a little bit scared. Ida rolled over to her side to see if the strange man was still there, he was, and he was still a dog. This made Ida a bit confused, she usually changed back into herself in the morning, why hadn't he?
Ida both felt and heard it when her tummy rumbled and found out that she was hungry. The nice fire lady had given her the best food she had ever tasted last night, but now she was hungry again. She peeked over the bed again to see he was still asleep, wich meant that she either had to wait until he woke up or go on an expedition to find food herself.
Ida swung her legs over the edge of the bed and jumped down, careful not to make to much noise to the man wouldn't wake up, she proceeded to walk out the door and was now standing in the hallway. The house was a bit dark, but it wasn't scary dark. Ida began to walk down the stairs that led down to the living room, if she remembered correctly, the kitchen were next to it and Ida usually remembered correctly. Now she had to descend the stairs correctly, one step at the time... one step... two steps... three steps... "Ihh!" She yelped as she slipped on the fourth step, rolled down the stairs and landed on her bottom with a solid thump.
Ida felt the tears press in her eyes, but she blinked them away. She was a big girl, and she wasn't allowed to cry. With a determined expression and a sore bottom, she crawled on her feet and walked towards the kitchen to find something that could satisfy her growling tummy.
...
Sirius, who had awoken by the commotion outside the bedroom, jumped to his feet and looked around, his wand ready. When he saw that Ida wasn't in her bed, his heart began beating hard in his chest as he panicked.
"Ida?" He called, no answer. He looked under the bed, nothing, opened the closet in the corner of the room, nothing. Sirius ran through the door and into the bathroom, not a fucking thing! Now he was really scared. What if something had happened to her? What is someone had kidnapped her?
'Stay calm, stay calm stay calm!'
He ran down the stairs and into the living room, his head turning in every possible direction in his search for the little, pale girl.
"Ida!" I called again, this time he heard a small squeaking sound from the kitchen. He ran there, stopping in the doorway only to see little Ida balancing on a stool trying to reach bowl on top of the counter and when he looked closer he could see a bow of cereal and a carton of milk standing on the kitchen table.
Sirius let out a sigh of relief and smiled at the sight before him, but when he sighed, Ida jumped from the sound and fell backwards, she let out a little yelp and Sirius rushed forward to catch her before she hit the floor.
Ida looked shocked up at Sirius, who smiled warmly back at her.
"Next time you want food, just ask me, okay? Don't want you to get hurt, do we?"
