Sirius rolled on to his back with his breath still heavy and a smile painted on his face. He turned his head toward Alexis, who was also breathing heavily with a similar grin.
"Bloody Hell!" Alexis said once she caught her breath. Sirius chuckled and turned his body towards her and wrapped his arm around her waist. "That was not what I expected for my first… well what was supposed to be my first time." Sirius saw sadness wash over her eyes briefly before she turned her head toward him with a grin on her face and kissed him gently on the lips.
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A couple days later it was time for their graduation and Alexis woke in Sirius's arms. As she rubbed the sleep from her eyes she looked at Sirius's peaceful face as he slept on and she smiled brushing the hair from his face. His arm pulled her closer to him so there was no room to fit even the thinnest piece of parchment. Alexis smiled at this reaction and kissed his cheek pulling him from the last of his dream.
"No," Sirius grumbled turning so his face was underneath Alexis's, buried in her hair. "Too early."
"Sirius it's graduation day." Alexis said all cheer diminishing from her voice and face.
"So," Sirius replied into her hair. "You don't sound very happy about it so why wake me up?"
"Do you remember what happens at Graduation?" Alexis asked sitting up and moving to the edge of the bed.
"Yeah Dumbledore talks, we graduate, Dumbledore talks, we celebrate, Dumbledore talks, and then we all go ho-… oh." Sirius sat up and looked at her back.
"We go home or at least you do, I on the other hand go to hell." Alexis said with a tear rolling down her cheek. "This is what I have been dreading most about Hogwarts. I got so used to the paradise that we have here, sure I had to go home every break and get beaten, but I would always get to come back. Now I don't even get something to look forward to except the day you keep telling me will come." She turned around and looked at him. "The day you rescue me from that hell hole is the day I will finally be free. Sirius…" Alexis crawled over to him and straddled his lap tears pouring down her face as she put her hand on his cheek. "Please don't wait to long I'm afraid the last couple of times I saw my father I made him more mad then I should have. I don't know how long I'll be able to survive."
"I won't wait long, I promise that as soon as James and I get home we will start making a plan to get you out and we'll ask everyone we know and trust to help. I know you don't like to think they do, but the teachers know what your dad does and they don't like it. No one who knows and loves you likes it and they all… we all want to do something to stop it." Alexis nodded as his speech ended and rested her head on his shoulder as she let herself calm down. "Why don't you grab Lily, cause I know she spent the night with James, and go get ready and we'll meet you down there?" Alexis nodded and pulled back the curtains of Sirius's bed and walked over to James's, where you could hear giggling and sighing.
"Break it up you two it's time to get up and ready." Alexis said loud and clear.
"Why?" Lily groaned.
"Umm how about cause we're graduating and then leaving Hogwarts forever?" Alexis said as her sadness seeped into her voice. Then after a moments pause the curtains flew open and Lily jumped up opening her arms to Alexis, who shook her head and walked out the door. Lily stared at the door for a moment in disbelief.
"She always accepts my hugs!" She said in exasperation.
"Yeah normally Lily, but remember today she is leaving her safe haven for what she believes is forever she's scared out of her mind that she won't live past the summer." Said Sirius as he quickly wrote something down on a piece of parchment. "Oh by the way you, James, Remus, and I are going to have a powwow at James's after Graduation."
"About what?" Asked James tiredly.
"About getting her out of there!" Sirius said with determination, "Oh and Remus can you copy this for all her teachers plus Dumbledore, Hagrid, and Madame Pomfery?" Sirius asked handing him the parchment he was writing on seconds ago.
"Definitely." Remus said with a smile. Lily gave James a kiss and went to follow Alexis to the girls dorms. Lily walked into the dorm and looked around for Alexis, not spotting her. She noticed that Alexis's shower things were missing from the end of her bed. So Lily grab her own things and went to the bathroom to start getting ready for Graduation. As she went into the bathroom she saw Alexis slip into the shower.
"You know that Sirius has already started planning your rescue, correct?"
"Really? That was really fast." Alexis responded quietly.
"Yeah it's really happening, he loves you and wants you to live and be happy especially if that means with him." Alexis was silent after that so Lily continued with her shower. They both got out of the shower and as Lily dried her hair Alexis went back into the room and got dressed leaving her hair wet. Soon Alexis was fully dressed and ready for graduation so she grabbed her robe and went down the stairs to the common room. Sirius was already there talking quietly with James and Remus. She walked over to him, not caring what they were talking about, put her arms around his waist and rested her head on his chest. The boys had stopped talking at seeing her walking towards them and Sirius returned her embrace. Sirius nodded to Remus and gestured towards the portrait hole with his head. Remus nodded and walked out of the common room with a bunch of papers in his hand. James had sat down in one of the chairs near the fire waiting for Lily to walk down the stairs.
"Are you going to tell me your rescue plans or do I have to be left out?" Alexis asked quietly so only Sirius could hear her.
"It would be best if you didn't know so if your dad used legimens on you he would be in the dark." Alexis nodded. "I can tell you though that you can expect us before the week is up."
"Us?" Alexis asked looking up at him pulling away slightly.
"You'd be surprised at how many people know what your dad does and want to help you." He said with a wink.
"Just please promise me you won't get hurt." She pleaded.
"I promise." Sirius said as he held her close to him put his face in the crook of her neck.
Soon they all found themselves sitting outside waiting to be called up to the stage to receive their diplomas. Sirius was called up and he walk up to the stage and shook hands with Dumbledore and the rest of his professors as well as Madame Pomfery. After he exited the stage Alexis found that the time flew by, that is until her name was called. It all felt as if someone had slowed time down so that one second felt like a minute. As she walked up to the stage she felt several pairs of eyes following every step she made, including the two pairs that were most likely glaring, her parents. She accepted her diploma and shook all of her professors hands like every student before her, Except for when she got to Madame Pomfery she gave her a large hug.
"Thank you for helping me." Alexis whispered as she let go. Madame Pomfery smiled, her eyes starting to glisten with tears.
"No need to thank me my dear, you are well worth it." She whispered back. Alexis smiled sadly.
"I wish every one I knew thought that." She muttered as she slowly walked off the stage and over to where her friends were sitting. As the ceremony went on Sirius stuck by Alexis's side until her parents came and grabbed her arm pulling her away so they could aparate to the place she called hell. She looked back at Sirius and he winked making her give him a small smile as she disappeared down the hill towards the gate to Hogwarts. Mrs Potter came to Sirius and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry my dear, we will get her out of there. Now back to the house, we have some plotting to do." Sirius nodded at her as they to made their way to the gate to aparate home. Once they all arrived at the Potter home James, Sirius, Remus, Lily, everyone else that wanted to help stood in the ballroom and plotted a way to rescue Alexis. Three hours later their plotting was done and Sirius was wondering how Alexis was fairing and hoping to god that her parents weren't hurting her too much.
Meanwhile as Alexis and her parents arrived home Mr Macnair pushed her through the doorway she tripped over her feet and fell to the ground.
"Such a disappointment." Mr Macnair stated as he walked around Alexis circling her slowly. "We had such high hopes for you and yet you get sorted into Gryffindor then you make friends with a mud blood, then you start dating a blood traitor, who also happens to be a runway and to top it all off you refuse to get the mark, an honor in our society." Alexis watched him with caution. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
"You can't tell me what to do anymore I am Seventeen, technically and adult in our world, I get to make my own decisions and I have decided that I don't want to live here any more." She gets up and starts walking to the door when, the door slams shut, and a locking sound is made.
"You may think you can make your own choices but you are my daughter and if I see you unfit to live on your own I can prevent you from leaving like now." Mr Macnair stomped over to his daughter and grabbed her arm and pulled her into another room off of the entryway. "This is your new room now." Alexis looked around and finally recognized the room it was the room the dark lord himself used to torture people he wanted dead or information from. She gulped and looked back at her father shaking her head slowly. He glared at her and brought his hand back and then forward slapping her face hard enough to cause her to cry out and fall to the ground. Alexis clutched her face trying to ease the pain, as he grabbed her hair forcing her onto her feet. "Since you don't listen to me and my punishment seem to do nothing I have asked a friend of mine to help guide you into the right direction." As he said this, a man she had never seen before walked out of the shadows. "Ah Mr. Black this is the girl that has decided your son is the best choice for her."
"How many times have I told you Macnair that he is no longer my son?" Mr. Black said with a sneer. "She is very pretty." He said looking her up and down making Alexis have flash backs of what Lucius had done to her.
"Well I will leave you to your work." Mr. Macnair gave and evil smirk as he turned and quickly left the room closing the door behind him.
"It seems we have been left alone my dear." Mr. Black started to walk closer to her making her back away for every step he took forward. "Now let me show you what a real man is like." He lunged at her and she ran away from him but he caught her legs making her fall to the ground. He rolled her over and started tearing off her clothes as she screamed bloody murder to empty ears. She tried fighting him off but he would smack her or bite her hard enough to draw blood. Still she never gave up and she never would until she was dead.
A week later the plan was set in motion. Sirius and James walked over to the group that was hiding behind some bushes. They bent down so they would not be seen by the residence of the Macnair household.
"We did a counting spell on the house and there was four adults in there." James said. "That is one more then we planned."
"That alright if Alexis is in good enough condition she will help us." McGonagall said. "Even if not there is more then enough of us to stop four adults."
"Shall we get going?" Sirius said anxiously. McGonagall nodded and they moved to their positions James and Sirius were with Mad Eye Moody going to the front door the rest found other ways to get into the house. James went up to the door and rang the doorbell while Sirius and Moody got ready to stun. The door was opened by, Mrs. Macnair and Sirius instantly sent a silent stunning spell causing her to fall to the ground. But before her body could hit the floor and make a sound James caught her and laid her gently on the ground. Suddenly they heard a scream from a room off the entry.
"NO STOP PLEASE!" Alexis's voice resonated through out the room right before something was thrown into the door so hard that the door broke and fell to reveal Alexis covered in blood and bruises. And her attacker looked at her before looking up at his son.
"Well what do you know? My ex son came to rescue his lover, how romantic." Mr. Black grab Alexis by the hair and pulled her towards him so her back was pressed against his front. Sirius gripped his wand harder trying to control his urge to kill his father. Alexis looked at Sirius with longing eyes and Sirius noticed that a fear that had once been suppressed was now back in full force. His eyes narrowed as he figured out what his father had done to Alexis. "You know Sirius I now see why you have always like her. She's feisty, strong, and has a wonderful body." He went to touch her chest but Alexis had enough of him she swung her head back nailing him in the nose. Mr. Black was shocked and let her go so she turned around and kneed him in the groin area. He fell onto the ground with pain and Alexis limped over to Sirius and once he wrapped his arms around her she fainted. James stunned Mr. Black as Sirius lifted Alexis into his arms and the rest of the group ran into the area.
"We stunned Mr. Macnair but we couldn't find Alexis any where." Lily said walking into the room before she saw Alexis. "BLOODY HELL, what happened to her?" Lily ran over to Alexis and Sirius.
"My father happened." Sirius said "Mrs. Potter your going to have to do a rape test." Mrs. Potter nodded sadly and there were several gasps in the group. They left the house and went to their respective houses expect for Lily and Madame Pomfery, who went with Sirius, Alexis, and the Potters. Once they were at the Potter Manor Sirius immediately took Alexis up to his room and laid her down in his bed.
"Sirius wouldn't it be better for her to be in a separate room for a while?" Mrs. Potter asked.
"She won't stay, every night she will end up in Sirius's bed just like the last time she was raped." Lily said before Sirius could answer. "He is her safe place, she doesn't feel completely safe unless she is with him." Mrs. Potter nodded and started healing Alexis along with Madame Pomfery. Finally they asked everyone to leave the room while they healed her wounds from the rape. Once they were all done with the healing they let everyone back in and they sat around Alexis waiting for her to wake up. An hour later Sirius was the only one left in the room along with Madame Pomfery cause Lily, and the Potters had gone to resume planning Lily and James's wedding. Madame Pomfery walked out of the room for a second as Sirius started to space out Alexis started to stir, he quickly snapped out of it and went to her bed side.
"Where am l?" Alexis asked weakly as she opened her eyes.
"At James's house, don't worry it's unplottable they will never find you here." Sirius said in a gentle voice. "I'm going to grab Madame Pomfery cause she wanted to tell you something." Alexis nodded and Sirius walked out of the room for a second and then came back with Madame Pomfery right on his heels.
"Now what I am going to tell you has nothing to done with what happened while you were at your parent's house." Alexis and Sirius looked at each other confused. "The event that brought on this occurrence happened somewhere after the exams were finished if my calculations are correct, which is why I haven't asked Sirius to leave." Alexis started to look shocked whereas Sirius continued to have a confused face. "You are about two weeks pregnant."
"She's what?" Sirius yelled and walked backwards so his back hit the wall and he slid down to the floor.
"I'll let you two talk or take this in or maybe even both." Madame Pomfery said as she snuck out the door.
"Sirius?" Alexis asked. Sirius looked up at her with a shocked look. "I'm s-"
"Don't you dare!" Sirius demanded as he slowly stood. "Don't you dare apologize for something that I had just as much part in as you. In fact it could be considered my fault because I knew about the charm I've done it before, you…" He trailed off when he looked at Alexis again. She was looking at him with longing and fear in her eyes. He walked over to the bed and climbed in next to her wrapping his arms around her.
"I feel like this is a good thing yet I'm also scared that I'm not ready or that I'll be a horrible mother." Alexis whispered. "You're going to be a wonderful father, that is if you wanted to keep it."
"Of course I do, and don't worry you'll be a wonderful mother." Sirius said causing her to smile and hug him around his waist. They stayed like that for a few minutes before the door swung open causing Alexis to jump and hide her head in Sirius's chest. Lily burst in with James following behind her.
"Madame Pomfery told us she was awake." Lily said as she stopped at the end of the bed.
"Yes she is." Sirius said and Alexis moved her head to face Lily. Lily slowly walked to Alexis's other side and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Are you okay?" Lily asked hesitantly. Alexis looked at Lily for a second before she looked down at her hands, which were fidgeting in her lap. "I mean besides the fact that you were… you know."
"Yeah I know." Alexis said quietly. "I'm… I'm…" She looked at Sirius and he shrugged as if saying 'it's up to you'. "Lily, I'm 2 weeks pregnant." Lily got a horrified look on her face before she thought for a minute.
"Is it yours?" she asked Sirius. He nodded in reply causing James and Lily to exchange a look with each other. "Are you keeping it?" Both Sirius and Alexis nodded with a smile on their faces.
"Well then congratulations!" James said heading towards Sirius giving him a man hug while Lily gave Alexis a hug as well. Alexis held on tightly to Lily needed the comfort from her friend.
"I missed you a lot Lily." Alexis said putting her head in the crook of Lily's neck and Lily just held her as the boys watched quietly. "I was so afraid that I would be stuck in that room and eventually killed when they finally got sick of punishing me or when the punished me too much." Sirius rubbed her back, Lily held her as she started to cry.
"Shhhh it's okay your safe now." Lily said comforting her softly. "We won't let them anywhere near you ever again."
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A month later Alexis found out that her parents finally gave up in searching for her, so she was now able to go out to stores and help Lily shop for her wedding dress and even trying on Brides maid dresses as she was announced the maid of honor by Lily. They walked through Diagon Alley towards Madame Malkin's to choose dress designs and get measured for them. As they walked through the door of the shop they were greeted by Madame Malkin herself.
"Good afternoon Miss Evans, Miss Macnair… I have laid out the bridal dress books on the table and while your looking at those I will get to measuring." She said with a large smile on her face. "I remember when I was measuring you and young Mr. Potter for your first year school robes, you've grown up so much since then… Miss Macnair I will measure you first." As she measured Alexis, Lily looked through the maid of honor dresses.
"Do you have anything that would be loose around the midriff area?" Lily asked Madame looked at the book she was looking at and thought for a second.
"Yes but why would she need it? She has a wonderful figure." She inquired looking at Alexis. Alexis looked down at her stomach and rested her hand there looking back up at the Madame as if asking silently not to make her say it. "Oh you need not say more your actions say everything. And don't worry I have some perfect dress designs that will be loose but not so loose that is screams it."
"Thank you, I appreciate it." Alexis said with relief in her eyes. Madame Malkin smiled and finished her measurements on Alexis and started on Lily. Once she was finished she helped the girls look at the designs that she thought was best for their figures. Both Alexis and Lily found dress designs they both liked and went back to the Potter Manor.
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A couple weeks later everyone at the Manor was getting ready for the wedding, which would be happening in half a weeks time. Alexis and Sirius also had something else to be excited about, since they were going to their first doctors appointment at St Mungos for the baby. They floo'd to the Hospital and followed the signs to the Maternity area.
"Hi we have an appointment with Healer Cooper." Sirius said to the receptionist at the front of the Maternity section.
"Well hello there what might you be here for today?" The receptionist asked in a flirty way completely ignoring Alexis. Sirius looked at the Receptionist with raised eyebrows.
"Wow really? Healer Cooper specializes in Pregnancies am I correct?" The receptionist nodded. "And WE are here to see her, so what on earth made you think that I am one single and two not wanting to be with my Fiancé." Sirius put his arm around Alexis as if to make a statement. Alexis quickly caught on to the fact that he was calling her his fiancé to make the receptionist back off so she played along. So she raised her eyebrow at the receptionist glaring slightly. The receptionist looked astonished that her flirting didn't work and ducked her head as she grabbed a folder and went in back.
"It will be just a moment." The receptionist said just before the door closed.
"Fiancé huh?" Alexis asked Sirius looking smug. Sirius looked at her for a moment before speaking.
"Well she was being a slut and it was the fastest way to make her back off." Sirius said
"Oh so you don't want to marry me?" Alexis said with tears filling her eyes.
"NO! No I do, its just… wait a minute… this is the hormones isn't." Sirius said forming a smile on his face.
"I'll show you hormones you bloody git!" Alexis grumbled as she hit him repeatedly wherever she could reach. As she was hitting him a women came out of the doors with a folder in her hands and looked on with amusment.
"Alexis Macnair." The Healer said softly but still with enough authority to cause Alexis to stop hitting Sirius and look over at her. "Are you ready to go in for your appointment?" Alexis nodded. "Alright then my name is Hailey Cooper and I will be your Healer for this Pregnancy." Alexis and Sirius followed her into a room and they started up with the examination.
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Soon the day of the wedding came and Lily and Alexis were in a room, on the opposite side of the mansion as the boys, getting ready. Alexis was doing Lily's hair and make up as someone knocked on the door. Alexis looked up at the door and sighed heavily as she walked over to open it.
"State your name and business." Alexis said before she even considered opening the door.
"Sirius to see how you're doing?"
"Is James with you?"
"Maybe." Alexis knew that meant yes.
"I'm fine, go away." Alexis walked back to Lily to finish her hair and makeup ignoring the pleas of Sirius and James. When Alexis was finished they switched spots and Lily did Alexis's hair and makeup. Shortly they were both getting into their dresses and doing finishing touches on everything.
Mrs. Potter knocked and opened the door causing Lily to jump behind a screen just incase it was James.
"Girls it's time." Mrs Potter said with a smile on her face as she saw both Alexis and Lily. "You both are so beautiful my boys are so luck to be getting two lovely smart beauties." She said as she started to tear up. Lily and Alexis smiled at each other before they went to go hug Mrs. Potter.
Before Lily could even blink, or so it felt like to her, she was walking down the isle and towards James, the love of her life. And as she was walking down that isle she thought of many things like why didn't she give him a chance sooner? Or what if he had changed his mind? Then all of a sudden he was right in front of her taking her hand smiling widely. She knew that even though she didn't give him a chance sooner that they were going to be very, very happy.
It felt to Lily and James like time was moving at lightning speed and in no time at all they were husband and wife and James was kissing his newly made wife. They walked back down the isle holding hands as Alexis, Sirius, Remus and Jasmine followed. As they were about to receive their first congratulations from their guests Jasmine spoke.
"Hey Lily do you mind if I cut out early I have this meeting at work my boss signed me up for."
"But it's a Saturday and my wedding can't your boss cut a little leeway for just this one day?" Lily asked, Alexis glared at Jasmine as she shook her head.
"No I'd be dead if I missed this one sorry." Jasmine hugged Lily and ran out the double doors.
"Well that was very unlike her." Lily mumbled.
"She has changed Lily and this time its not for good." Alexis whispered back. Lily nodded and put on a smile for her guests but inside she was wondering what happened to their friend and what made her change.
Lily's worries did not last long however cause soon she was swept into the joyousness of being a newly wed and was dancing on the dance floor with her new husband.
Everyone had a wonderful time dancing and dining that time flew by incredible fast. It was now time for the bouquet and the garter to be thrown. So first all the single, or unmarried, women stood in a group as Lily turned around so her back was facing them. She bent low and threw the bouquet into the air behind her. In front of her she could see James smiling and Sirius forming a look of success while looking behind her. She turned around and saw that Alexis had caught the bouquet and was looking at Sirius with a giant smile on her face. Lily smiled at the two and stepped back as James stepped forward. While the women were leaving the area and the men were coming Alexis walked by Sirius.
"Your turn laddy." She said causing him to smile.
"You can count on it" He replied. "No one dances with my girl but me." Sirius took position and Alexis stood next to Lily. James flung the Garter into the crowd of men and it looked like almost every guy was trying to get that garter but in the end Sirius came out on top just like he promised.
"Well Sirius go on and dance with your woman!" James said loudly so he could be heard over the noise. Sirius nodded with a serious look on his face and grabbed Alexis's hand and walked her onto the dance floor. Alexis relaxed into his arms never wanting him to let her go as the song played a slow tune. To soon for Alexis, Sirius pulled away, she was about to protest when she saw that he was on his knee.
"I am not doing this because you're pregnant, I am doing this because I love you and I could never see another day of my life with out you in it. So Alexis Evera Macnair, will you marry me?" By now the entire congregation had stopped and watched Lily and James with excited looks on their faces and Mrs. Potter tearing up.
"Yes, Yes I will." Alexis said without any hesitation. Sirius stood up put the ring on her finger and picked her up spinning her around in a circle kissing her as he put her on the ground. " I love you Sirius!"
"I love you too."