Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER!

Btws Emily! I think using Sirius' point of view is an excellent idea. :P when Cara shows up at Grimmauld Place it will be his kk. I hope I include that in this chapter but maybe, maybe no. J txt me J

STARTS IN CERA'S POV!

I was walking do the dungeon corridor to Professor Snape's office. I needed to ask if he knew any vanishing spell for big items. I wanted to go check out the Chamber of Secrets. Salazar Slytherin had a huge library of knowledge that disappeared with him when he left. I am hoping he hid some in the Chamber.

I reached the foreboding door to his office and knocked three times. I heard his voice snap out, "Who's there?"

I rolled my eyes and called back, "It's Cera." I heard footsteps and the door swung open. Professor Snape scowled at me, "What do you want at this hour. It is passed curfew."

Rolling my eyes again I replied, "Like you would give me detention. I was wondering if you knew a vanishing spell." I paused then remembered, "Oh and I also wanted to know if you had any potions vials that have an extension charm on them?"

He raised an eyebrow, "The vanishing spell is 'evanesco' Focus on what you want to disappear and say the spell. As for the potion flasks, may I ask why you need them?"

I nodded and said seriously, "You may ask, but it doesn't mean I'll answer."

He glared, "You have a talking back issue don't you?"

I made an disbelieving sound, "Surely you don't have to ask by now?"

Sighing he said, "Just tell me what you need it for!"

I shrugged, "Fine, I want to go down into the chamber of secrets. The potion vials can be used to harvest ingredients from the basilisk that's doing nothing but rotting down there. Their bodies are resilient so it shouldn't be too decomposed."

He hesitated, "I will give you the potion vials after class tomorrow. They are very expensive with an extension charm on them so be very careful. I will only give you ten. I also must insist you take someone you trust down there with you. If a lightest drop of venom got on your skin, you would be dead in five minutes."

I smirked, "Is this concern I hear?"

He glared, "Go back to your dormitory before I really do give you detention."

I nodded and turned to walk away.

That night I stayed up forever thinking about whom I should take with me. My first thought was Draco. However I wanted to make sure he was completely out of his fathers influence. Not Tracey she had the most loose lips in the school. Astoria would tell Tracey.

It took forever for the best choice to come to me. Potter. He already knew about the whole Heir of Slytherin thing. He had also already been to the chamber. I would ask him tomorrow at breakfast. I could also trust him not to tell Ron Weasley, they weren't speaking. He wasn't as close to Hermione because she had ABSOLUTE faith in Dumbledore."

I grinned and lay down to fall asleep.

The next morning Harry agreed to go with me. (After lots of persuasion and pleading, of course.) I eventually had to guilt him into it. Gryffindors are sooo easy. Now we just had to get through today. I hung out with Draco and Theo because Tracey and Astoria were in one of there girly modes. Well I mostly hung out with Draco because after a while Theo got really sick of us.

Earlier this week I had asked Tonks how to make on of those enchanted parchments, so I could talk to Draco in DADA and History of Magic, this way I could talk with him in the two most horrible classes ever. I didn't have History today so it was just DADA, which I would easily prefer history over.

CERA!

What Draco! You don't have to shout on the parchment it's not like I'm doing anything else.

True. Anyway what are your plans for Christmas?

Just staying where Tonks is and then going to Luna's house.

Well staying with Luna should be…interesting…

DRACO! Don't be mean!

I didn't insult her! You know she's grown on me. Always good entertainment…

*Sigh. Well that's better than calling her "Looney"

Well have you gotten in touch with my… "Black Cousin?"

That is an absolutely horrible code Draco.

Well have you?

Not yet! Be patient! I'm going to meet him over Christmas. He's Tonks cousin too you know.

Oh yeah. I would like to meet Tonks and my other Aunt. Maybe when this is all over.

Yeah…

Anyway… What do you want for Christmas?

A partridge and a pear tree.

Well your true love is supposed to get you one.

*rolls eyes. I was being sarcastic.

I am aware of that.

Of course you were Draco.

But really, what do you want?

Surprise me…Crap, Umbridge is coming. DESTROY EVIDENCE!

I quickly banished the parchment as Umbridge walked up to my desk. She was looking at me suspiciously. After a moment of her creepy glare she said in her sickening voice, "Miss Peneroe, why is it that every time you are in my class it looks like you are writing something but whenever I walk over here, you are not doing anything?"

Wow. She made this so easy to get out of. "Well Professor, I was writing." She glared, "And why Miss Peneroe were you writing notes in my classroom."

I looked confused then smiled, "Oh! You thought I was writing notes to someone! Oh no! I was taking notes on the subject."

She narrowed her eyes, "May I please see these notes?"

I nodded and picked up a piece of paper off my desk. It was full of notes that Professor Umbridge had said. She looked appeased and said, "Very well." Then she walked briskly off to go pick on Weasel. Thankfully Potter had heeded my advice and didn't go around spreading "evil, nasty, attention-seeking stories" anymore. I also thanked Draco silently that he came up with using quill that write down spoken word.

Potions was excellent as usual. In all Slytherin earned fifteen points. As planned Professor Snape gave me the flasks. He asked who was going with me but I decided it wouldn't be necessary to let him know it was Potter.

Harry and I met at Myrtle's bathroom. "Cera? Is that you?"

I rolled my eyes, "Who else would come here?"

I walked into view and saw him relax, "Well excuse me, but the last time I was here I was trying to save Ginny from a 60 foot monster. And I don't really fancy seeing it dead again either."

My eyes were seriously getting tired from rolling them so much, "And I thought you were supposed to be brave? Which tap is it… and where is Myrtle?"

He pointed to the sink with the snake on it, "Right there, and Myrtle kept bothering me and I somehow hurt her feelings so she ran off to float in sewage."

I shuddered, "Lovely."

He nodded and we both walk up to the tap. I looked at the snake, "Open"

About that time I heard Aries voice in my head, "Oh that is NOT fair Cera. You were supposed to take me with you!"

I sighed mentally, "Aries, you sleep during the day, Just use my eyes to see."

I heard him hissing agitatedly, "You are selfish! It's not the same!"

I sighed and alternated my vision so he could see from my point of view. The only downside is that I hadn't got complete control of that so I would occasionally see flashes of what he was seeing.

Harry and I looked down the hole and Harry sighed, "Well I suppose we have to jump."

I shook my head, "I have highly breakable potions vials with me hold on."

I focused on the chute and said, "Stairs."

And Lo and Behold, there were stairs.

Harry groaned, "If only I thought of that."

I laughed and began descending down the spiral stairs. It took forever. When we were halfway down I made the comment, "Salazar should have invented an elevator."

Harry rolled his eyes, "Well why didn't you say that in Parsletongue?"

I glared at him through the darkness, "Well smarty pants I don't really think the Chamber would have an ELEVATOR of all things. And two, you can also speak Parsletongue.

He shrugged and screwed up his face and hissed, "elevator."

At first nothing happened, then with a huge jerk, the stairs seemed to fold around us into a little box and automatically went down.

I raised an eyebrow, "Well who would of thought. Most wizards don't know what an elevator is and Salazar Slytherin of all people has one in his secret chamber." Harry and I looked at each other and started laughing.

When we arrived at the bottom we were greeted with a horrible smell. Think bog of eternal stench from the Labyrinth. Choking on the air we were breathing Harry performed a bubble-head charm to engulf the two of us. Breathing large gulps of fresh air I gasped, "Thank you."

He nodded and he led the way to where the Basilisk was killed.

It hadn't decomposed that much, but it was enough to smell. I sighed and walked closer. I pulled out one of the flasks and carefully severed all of the skin off of it. It looked so weird with it going into this tiny bottle and still having more room left over.

Harry looked like he was going to be sick looking at the basilisk with all of its skin off. His face was amusing and he must have seen that I thought so because he glared at me and said, "How do you not think this is disgusting?"

I shrugged, "I have been working with potions ingredients for a while. It doesn't bother me that much anymore. The smell is what gets me."

He shuddered and I continued to work. I have to admit it did make me nauseous when I was trying to get the heart out and green liquid sprayed everywhere. Harry actually had to turn around to vomit. I was close to it. I didn't want to touch the blood of the Basilisk because it would be venomous too so I levitated the heart into the flask. I also had to pour its blood into the flask holding the heart so it wouldn't dry out.

I severed the fangs and put one of them in a vial each then I turned to Harry, "I think I'm good, I can't take anymore of this."

He looked relieved, "So how do we get the corpse away?"

"Do you know a vanishing charm?"

He nodded and I grinned, "Well get to work."

It took forty-five minutes to get that all done and by that time Harry was royally angry with me for dragging him here.

In all we had spent three hours in the chamber. I decided I would come back by myself and search for things later.

Harry continued to do well with his Occlumancy since I gave him the basics and he had no Ron to encourage him not to look up things. However, what I didn't think of when it came to that, cost a life.

Arthur Weasly's to be exact. On December 18. In the books Harry hadn't learned Occlumancy well enough and so he saw him being attacked. Now however he only saw it as a distant dream and didn't think it was real. He barely even remembered he had it in the morning.

It was probably about one o clock in the morning. In two days it was Christmas break and Slytherin was throwing a party. Me and Draco got caught under a mistle-toe and weren't in any hurry to come out from under it. Astoria and Theo were "getting to know each other" on the couch and there were rumors that Warrington and Pucey were going to sneak in some firewhiskey.

I had introduced them to some muggle music and it was the best party ever. Including when it was Pansy's birthday and she threw a party and Tori, Tracey and I crashed it. Then Professor Snape walked in. It grew quiet because he usually left us to our own devices as long as no one was throwing curses. Well actually he never let us have firewhiskey either but most people didn't follow that particular rule.

His eyes swept the room and landed on me, "Cera, you are needed in the Headmaster's office.

There was a loud chorus of, "OOOOHHH!" "what did you do?" and all that other childish nonsense.

I looked at Professor Snape confused and asked, "Umm… Did I do something?"

He rolled his eyes, "No, it has to do with the Weasly's and Nymphadora is there also."

I had no clue what was going on so I followed him out of the dormitories. When I got there I saw the whole Weasley clan that attended Hogwarts and another one, I think it was Bill he had the pony-tail. Nymphadora was there and she looked upset. Ron Weasley looked in shock that he forgot to glare at me when I walked in. Fred and George's normally lively faces were somber. Ginny was sobbing with Hermione and Harry was there looking very awkward. Professor McGonagall's eyes were misty and Dumbledore looked grave. Then it clicked, Arthur Weasley must have died.

I looked at Ginny, "What happened?"

Ginny looked up sobbing, "It's my dad. He died a couple hours ago."

I gasped and looked around, "How?"

Tonks spoke up, "In the department of mysteries. There was a snake. It was You-Know-Who's."

I felt so guilty now. Although there was really no getting around it. If Harry doesn't learn occlumancy, Sirius Black dies. And now apparently if he does learn Occlumancy, Arthur Weasley dies. The twins looked so lost. They had a look on their faces like they wanted to cheer people up but knew that they couldn't and they needed someone to cheer them up.

I walked up to them and gave them each a hug. They smiled at me and George said, "See Ron she's not a heartless cow like you said. She cares."

I smiled, "Well it seems the twins will be fine."

There were a few half-hearted chuckles in the room but the mood quickly faded. Professor Snape started to speak, "Well you are all going to Grimmauld place a little early. Cera you're going because there is really no point in Nymphadora…" Insert angry outburst from Tonks… "Coming right back up here in two days since you have no classes and apparently have nothing better to do than make-out with Mr. Malfoy."

Tonks and Hermione coughed simultaneously. Only Tonks' cough was of amusement and Hermione's was of disgust. I glared at Hermione and Professor Snape resumed talking. "I will be by a few times for order business so if any of the Gryffindors are giving you a hard time, you will let me know and I will take care of it."

He glared at Ron when he said Gryffindors who backed up a few steps. I wondered how in the world did he get into Gryffindor?

Tonks spoke, "We will be going through Floo. Cera, your things will be picked up by house-elves."

I nodded and then thought of something. I opened my mouth but, Professor Snape interrupted me, "Yes Cera I will let Draco know why you are gone. But it will be all over the Slytherin common room if I tell your other friends so I will not tell them."

I glared, "How did you even know what I was going to say?"

He rolled his eyes and said, "One, I am Draco's godfather, I make it my business to know what is going on with him and all he ever goes on about is you. Two, you two are never separated, you're the most love-sick teenagers I know."

I stuck my tongue out at him. The others who had been watching the exchange with some amusement all tried to hide their laughs.

The oldest Weasley looked at his watch, "Well I think we should be going. Follow me everyone."

He stepped into the fireplace and quite clearly said, "Number 12 Grimmauld Place."

SIRIUS POV

I was sitting in my parents disgusting old house. It address should be Grim old Place. It would be fitting. Remus wasn't here all the time so I was all alone, drowning in my own sorrows. Wow that was melodramatic. I needed to get out, some excitement. Well Harry's coming home early at least.

The fireplace in the living area (which wasn't very livable) flared green. Bill Weasley stepped out. He nodded at me, "Hey Sirius everyone else is following me."

I nodded, "And Harry?"

He nodded back and we fell into an uncomfortable silence. I hated the silence. It reminded me of the early hours of the morning in Azkaban. The prisoners were too tired to scream and moan. All I was left with was my worst memories. I would almost prefer to hear my crazy cousin Bellatrix scream nonsense than that.

The fire was green again I lifted my head up just in case it was Harry. Nope. It was Ginny and Hermione. Hermione smiled at me and Ginny looked even more depressed than I was most of the time. Bill said from behind me, "Hey Gin, Mum's in the kitchen. Why don't you and Hermione go in there?"

They nodded and left. The fire went green again. This time it was Ron who had a shocked look on his face. He looked at Bill as if asking what to do. Before Bill could say anything he just walked away.

Again the fireplace flared green. This time it was Harry. He smiled at me and I got up and embraced him. It felt so good to have him back. I missed so much of his life. If only I hadn't gone after Pettigrew and explained the situation to Dumbledore…No actually I was pissed at Dumbledore. I don't know how much a difference it would have made. He should've gotten me a trial… I needed to stop thinking like this. I looked at Harry, "How are you doing?" I asked. My voice sounded hoarse and unused.

Harry smiled, "Pretty good, all things happening. I need to talk to you later in private. Ok?"

I nodded, "Yeah that's fine. Remember you can tell me anything. I love you kiddo."

I knew the muggles Albus sent him to live with didn't treat him right. He was so willing to come live with me and so disappointed when he couldn't and he hadn't even know me but for two hours. Before that he thought I killed his parents and wanted to kill me. And the way his whole face lit up when I told him I loved him. Gosh I was sounded so emotional.

While Harry and I were talking the Weasley twins came through. They were dealing with it the best but still looked down. They smiled at me though when they saw me. They said, "Hey Padfoot." in unison. I smiled back at them.

Next were my cousin Tonks and the girl she told me was staying with her and Andy. I think her name was Cera. She had waist length wavy black hair and her eyes were sharp. They were an olive green color but they were prominent.

I also noticed she had a Slytherin Uniform. I shrugged and knew Tonks would have a good reason for trusting her, but you can never be too careful.

Tonks looked over at me and smiled, "Hey Sirius. How're you? You haven't met Cera have you?"

I shook my head and looked over at her, she smirked at me. Stupid Slytherins.

Tonks said, "Anyway… Cera you stay here, and I'll go over there with the family. I know you don't get on with Ron so you might want to stay out of the for a while. Talk with Sirius or something."

Cera rolled her eyes, "Of course let's cater to ickle Ronnie's every need."

Tonks gave her a look and replied, "He just lost his dad Cera?"

She nodded, "Yeah and I'm sorry but that doesn't mean I'm automatically going to treat him all fragile and love him."

Tonks sighed, "At least refrain from making comments."

After Cera nodded Tonks walked off. She was about to sit in an armchair across from but then she looked at it disgustedly and scrougified it before she sat down. I would have done the same but I couldn't resist commenting, "What are you too good for it. Is your mansion better than this?"

I realized how ridiculous I sounded because I knew very well she lived with Tonks.

She raised an eyebrow at me and said nothing. She already irked me. I continued, "What am I below you that you can't talk to me."

She was outright grinning now and said, "No. I just know you are looking for a fight because I am a Slytherin. Plus it annoys you much more when I ignore you that whatever I could say back to you."

I glared at her even though she was right. She shrugged, "Fine but since this whole ordeal is making me miss one of Slytherin's best parties I might as well talk to you. You are Sirius Black. I am Ceraphina Peneroe. How do you do?"

I was surprised, "Peneroe?"

She nodded, "Yes I was adopted and raised by muggles so you haven't heard of me."

I shrugged, "Weirder things have happened, So what are the Slytherin parties like? I know what the other houses are because I've been to them. I only went to a Hufflepuff party once. It was a bore."

She smiled, "I'll remember that if I ever get invited to a Hufflepuff party." Then her face got really serious. "Are you sure you want to know what a Slytherin Party is like?"

I nodded feeling a bit apprehensive.

She sighed, "Well I'm really not supposed to tell, but it's horrible, and some one really needs to know."

She looked like she was having trouble speaking but then she carried on, "Well first we have to kidnap first year Hufflepuffs. Then once we have them tied up in our common room, we all practice the Cruciatus Curse on them."

My face must have looked horrified and there was a tear going down her face.

I eventually said, "But wouldn't the Hufflepuffs eventually tell?"

She nodded seriously, "They would if…" She started grinning and I was getting scared before she continued, "It actually happened!"

She was laughing and my mouth just hung open. After my mind managed to comprehend she was joking, I started to laugh too.

I looked at her appraisingly, "You are pretty good."

She looked confused, "At what?"

I sighed, "Pranking!"

"OH…."

I nodded and the Weasley Twins walked in, "Did we hear someone say pranking?" "Because we really think we could do with some cheering up."

And they did. They weren't their normal selves. I shrugged, "This little snake over here just pulled one on me."

They looked at Cera and George nodded solemnly, "Yes, you'll have to watch out for her." Fred nodded, "Tricky one, she is."

Tonks came back in the room and looked at Cera, "You'll be sharing my room. Okay?"

She nodded and yawned, "I'm tired anyway, I don't have any Butterbeer to keep me awake anymore."

Tonks laughed and said in a suggestive tone, "I don't think it was that keeping you awake."

She glared at Tonks and they both walked out of the room.

'A/N Yay! Longer chapter! Sorry I didn't get to Draco. But don't worry I'll get it up! REMEMBER TO REVIEW! Luv my reviewers!