Chapter 7
A Long Lost Road
A Harry Potter Fanfic
Disclaimer: I dreamed that I was a witch. Did ya catch that?
A.n So I'm about to apologize for the mix up in the last chapter. In the guard there were like ten people plus the rear guard. And Mundungus was supposed to be tailing Harry. Oops. You will all just have to live with it. And so very sorry for the long update, this chapter was not agreeing with me. Thanks.
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It was momentslike these were I really hated life. I had finally returned to work and there was quite a flurry of talk about Harry. There were whisperings all over the place. Some where positive and the majority were negative.
"How dare he cast a patronus charm in front of a muggle? What was he thinking?" A small witch whispered to a scrubby wizard who nodded. I walked faster.
"I don't really blame the boy, I mean I'd be really testy if I saw a boy die in front of my eyes." Another witch was chatting with her fellow co-worker. At least some people were sympathetic. I finally reached my desk and sat down. The day had barely started and I was already wishing the day was over. I laid my face into my hands and sighed. Someone coughed behind me. I looked up to see Tonks. She usually didn't have so much tact, must have something to do with the Order.
"Change of plans. Ten are going now. Plus a rear guard." She said quietly. Ten people going to pick up Harry? Holy crap.
"I thought Mad-eye was against it." I replied.
"More targets." She explained smirking. I raised my eyebrows at her comment.
"That man is morbid." I said shaking my head. She nodded and spun on her heel towards her desk. She stumbled, of course, and hit the corner of my desk in the process. I choked back a chuckle as she glared at me. I still had a smile on until I turned towards my desk. There was a foot high pile of paper work and I had only been working here for a month. I let out a long groan. At least I had a meeting to look forward to. When I finally put down my quill to take a break it was lunch. I had spent the past four hours writing, I stretched out my hand and there was a loud crack that resonated from it. I winced at the sound and began to massage my hand. Looking around I saw Kingsley walking towards me with a deep frown on his face.
"Hi Kingsley. Whats up?" I asked putting a smile on my face to off set his frown.
"Minister wants to see you." He answered. One witch two desks away from me looked up at that.
"Minister wants to see her. Ha that's a laugh. Your probably making that up to go have a snog with her." She laughed. I covered my mouth with my hand as I gagged behind it. Only been working here for a month and already I was the gossip of the impending future.
"Thank you Kingsley." I replied loudly and flicking my head to one side and changing my hair colour into its natural jet black and turned to face her. I had kept my eyes the same almost black-brown.
"Anything else you would like to say before I leave?" I questioned glaring at her. She shrunk back in her chair and shook her head. As I walked past Tonks' desk I saw her trying to contain her laughter, and failing miserably. Once I made it out of the Auror office I switched my hair back to the way I usually had it, blonde. I heard Kingsley come up behind me, chuckling lightly.
"Tonks mentioned the change to you." I nodded
"Yep she mentioned it. I assume I'm staying behind with Padfooty?" I threw in the padfooty just to mess with him. He raised his eyebrows up into the air but said nothing.
"Yes. And here is the Minister's office, Ms. Heartnet." Kingsley was insanely good at doing that. I was pushed towards a portly man who had exited the large door that Kingsley had gestured to seconds ago. He smiled at Kingsley.
"Thank you for escorting her here." I could only assume this man was the elusive 'Fudge'. I worriedly smiled and heaved in a deep breath as he lead me into his office gently by my elbow. The man was short. I had to have been less than an inch shorter than he was, and Tonks was constantly reminding me of how short I was. I had plans for my revenge against her. I had more pressing matters at hand however. I sat down in the chair he had directed me to as he fluttered around a tray just to my left.
"Tea?" He asked.
"No thank you." I responded as politely as I could. I really hated tea and tried desperately to not let the acid leak into my voice. What tea had ever done to me, I had no idea.
"How are you settling in?" Another thing I really despised was small talk. I forced a smile onto my face.
"Quite well. Minister why did you want to see me?" I asked as politely as I could manage to veer away from the small talk. He sighed and sat down in his chair across the desk from me.
"I am concerned." He stated, then looked slightly taken aback about something. My hair must of changed colours, bright pink, I was nervous.
"What about?" I questioned calmly, wondering how long it would take me to run for the door.
"Are you good friends with Nymphadora Tonks?" He asked removing his bowler cap and spinning it around in his hands then stopped suddenly. I gathered that my hair had changed colours again. I guessed Deep royal blue for my confusion.
"Yes. I've known her for a long time. And?" I answered. This was getting weird. He sighed.
"We have reason to believe she is working with Dumbledore." He explained. How do I get myself into these messes?
"I know she looks up to Dumbledore, he was her teacher after all. What do you mean?" I asked, silently begging that this wasn't going to turn into a full on inquisition.
"We believe that Dumbledore is trying to overthrow me and that Nymphadora Tonks is helping him." It was now official. This was the daftest man I had ever met. I shoved all the sarcastic remarks down my throat.
"Why would you think that?"
"I'm not at liberty to tell you. But if you were to, I don't know, tell us of what she does in here spare time. I could tell you." There was no stopping my emotions now. I was full on angry. I jumped out of my chair and heard it crash on the floor behind me. There was a line and he had crossed it.
"There is one thing you NEVER try to get me to do. And that is spy on my friends!" I yelled at him. He stood up and just flapped his arms around.
"I'm sorry to have offended..." I cut him off.
"Offended is the biggest understatement ever! If you weren't the minister you wouldn't be standing right now!" I was royally mad. He straightened up and pointed at the door.
"Thank you for your time." I stormed out and slammed his office door as hard as I could when I left. I stomped down the hallway until my reflection caught my eye. My hair was the brightest flame red I had ever seen, the scariest part was my eyes. They were a bright blood red. I tried to turn everything back to normal, it didn't work. I must have been too upset to change it back. I walked back to the Auror office and sat down. Tonks looked up at me and smirked at me. She would find this amusing. I fixed her with a glare and she backed down. I picked up my quill to start working where I had left off but ended up getting lost in my thoughts. I twirled the quill in my fingers. I really wanted to see Sirius, he could always crack some stupid joke and make me forget work. There was also a meeting later. Tonks was right they had become my family. Molly was still trying to 'put some meat on my bones', Remus was a best friend, Arthur always had really good advice, and Mad-eye was that freaky uncle who cared but pretended not to. I loved the meetings. I pulled out a lock of my hair in front of my face, it was back to normalish. It was blonde but had streaks of red left in it. I went back to the rest of my paperwork. I looked at my watch and groaned, still two hours until I could go home. It seemed like a long time.
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I stormed into Grimmauld with my hair and eyes back to the flame and blood red colours they had been before. Tonks was following behind me. Scrigmour had cornered me just as I was leaving work and given me the same talk as Fudge had. I had given him the same answer of course. I slammed the door shut behind me and Sirius' mom's curtains flew open.
"FILTH! BEAST! MUDBLOODS! IN THE NOBLE HOUSE OF BLACK!"
"I AM NOT TAKING THIS!" I screamed and shot, more than one unnessecary spell, at her to make her shut up. Tonks slipped past me as Remus and Sirius both stepped out of the drawing room. She began to whispering in Remus' ear. He nodded and pulled Tonks up the stairs and into the library. Sirius took one look at me and pulled on my hand to lead me into the drawing room. I stood there as he shut the door and the instant he turned around I pulled him up against me and gave him the most passionate kiss I had ever given. I pulled away when I couldn't breath anymore. I smiled slightly in embarrassment when Sirius sat down on the floor.
"Um... wow." He said. I just blushed and sat down beside him. He slid his arm around my shoulder.
"Feel better?" He asked.
"Much." I answered. He laced his hand into my hair.
"You look better." He replied and pulled some out in front of me so I could see it was back to normalish, again. It was blonde with mint green streaks. I snuggled into his side and sighed lightly.
"Had a bad day?" He asked again.
"Fudge asked me to spy on Tonks. Then as I was leaving Scrigmour asked the same thing." I explained leaning my head on his shoulder and examined my surroundings. I hadn't been in this room yet. There was a large tree stitched into the wall, at the base of the trunk it said 'Black Family Tree' and their family crest. I sat up a little straighter so I could try to find Sirius. After standing up, I finally found a burn mark with Sirius name under it.
"Your Mom?" I assumed sensing Sirius had come up behind me.
"Shortly after I ran away to go live with James." He answered running his finger over it lightly. I then thought of Tonks. She was a cousin of Sirius so she might be on here. I found the burn mark with Andromeda's name under it but apparently Tonks wasn't on here.
"No Tonks. That's sad." I stated. Sirius chuckled lightly.
"You know I always hated this room. It seems as if all of my ancestors are glaring at me just like my dear old mum." He said looking at all the faces staring at us. He looked rather upset
"They're picking up Harry tonight aren't they?" I recalled suddenly. He nodded.
"I still think I should go. I am his godfather I deserve the right to protect him." He stated. I sighed and walked over to rub his arm.
"I know. You still won in the long shot though. You got me out of going didn't you?" I pointed out to make him cheer up a little bit. He reached for my hand and rubbed his thumb along my wrist. The bruises were still there from when the man, who I know knew to be Snape, had grabbed me.
"You still haven't told me who it was." He said
"I know." I replied. He looked at me expectantly.
"I'm not telling you who it was." I said poking him in the stomach. He pretended to double over in pain. I shook my head at him.
"Your impossible."
"I know." He replied popping back up to normal. I sighed and rolled my eyes at him. My original idea for coming here immediately after work was to, not only distract myself from work, but to distract him from thinking about Harry. I was beginning to thing I wasn't doing well.
"Sirius, you realise that all the members who are going are just as capable as you are." I let the question hang in the air to see if he would be willing to answer.
"I know. I just get worried for him. I suppose its a godfather thing." He replied. I smiled.
"I wouldn't know. Do you have any siblings Sirius?" I asked curiously. He lead me back to where his name one was on the tree and pointed the the little branch that was just beside his.
"My younger brother Regulus. He died in the first war." He answered. I instantly felt guilty.
"I'm so sorry." I blurted out. He smirked at me and patted my shoulder.
"I'm not. He wasn't on our side." He replied. I was shocked at that at first, but thought better of it after realizing that Sirius was the one who wasn't normal in the Black family.
"I suppose the family was thrilled." I stated. He snorted.
"There's no supposing." He retorted.I just smiled at him.
"Do you have any siblings Calli?" He asked.
"Yeah two but they don't talk to me anymore." I answered. He raised his eyebrows at me.
"Why?" He questioned.
"They both blame me for our parents death. Of course they were never tested on." I explained frowning. Sirius' fist chlenched slightly by his side.
"Your dad only tested on you?" He hissed out.
"Yep cause I was the unplanned, unwanted child. Why not test on that one?" I said.
"Your dad had issues."
"I know."
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A.n I figured that would be a good place to end it. I am probably going to skip the Order meeting in the next chapter just because I have no idea how to write it. Thanks for reading, and see that little button down there. He's feeling a little lonely, go push him.
