A/N: Uhmm... I'm back early, I guess :) This is her whole life story, which is also basically the reason Daniela strives to be 1) a good person and 2) a good student and also 3) become successful. This is what pushes her to not only become a better person, but to also do something with her life. Anyway, I guess this is different... And the story itself's rating may go up. I SAID MAY! :)

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I am Siriusly Snape: *opens mouth to speak... closes it when nothing comes out*... No comment. And about the animagi, well, yeah... I mean, she is an Advanced Intermediate student, she's clever ;) Thought it was time for her to figure it out :) And, I totally agree... Your Sirius puppy dog eyes kick ASS :D

dania0704: In a way, I know what you're saying, but I think it's possible, since it happened to me. I was eleven when I became best friends with Thanya, who was fifteen then. I knew almost everything about her- from her favorite color to the time she lost her virginity- and I told her everything. We, unfortunately, grew apart when I moved away, but the friendship was there and it existed and we acknowleged it. But the way you view it- it's your opinion and the point is valid. Anyway, glad you like my story in the first place :)

(Also, that happens to be how I came to think of the last chapter. My former friendship with Thanya gave me the idea to do a friendship like such with Bellatrix :))

Enjoy! :)

"Well, I guess we could go to San Jose first, then Stockton... But there's an eight-hour time difference between us and California... So to eat at Denny's in the morning at around 10:30 a.m.— their time, of course— we would have to leave at 6:15 p.m. here... It takes quite some time to be able to eat at Denny's... It's a diner but it's super good, so people love it. So today or tomorrow, James?" Daniela heard herself rant.
James, who'd just told her they could go to the States as she wished, stared at her open-mouthed.
"Today," he said, after a minute of silence.
"Yay! It's..." She paused to check her purple watch. "It's 5:30... I will go and get ready now, yayyyy!"
With that, she disappeared and bounded up the steps.
James was left on his own to think. There was so much to think about.
The bruises... He wanted to ask Daniela about the bruises, but he couldn't. If he did, she would know they'd been snooping around when she was asleep and she'd be pissed beyond hell.
All he could do was sit and think over it in his head.
"Hey, Prongs," said Sirius, entering the parlor, "I'm..."
Sirius trailed off as he stared at his best friend's pained expression.
"What happened?" Sirius asked.
"Headache," James groaned. "What were you saying?"
"I can't get it into or out of my head... The fact that Bellatrix wasn't always one crazy, psychopathic, pureblood bitch... And that she once associated herself with a Muggle-born..." Sirius replied, sitting on a sofa and closing his eyes while leaning his head back. "Do you think Daniela and Bellatrix were ever more than friends?"
"Once, but Bellatrix was drunk as hell."
Her voice made Sirius and James snap up instantly, both of their eyes slowly widening. Daniela stood at the doorway, looking a little bored and uninterested.
"What do you mean by that?" James demanded.
"I mean that I had to hide her in the Room of Requirement and-"
"You know about the Room of Requirement?" Sirius interrupted.
"Yes... Once again, I am an Advanced Intermediate student," Daniela replied. "Anyway, she was drunk as hell and I had to hide her there. And we were walking down a corridor, she pushed me against the wall and... kissed... me..."
Daniela trailed off under James' intense glare, but quickly shrugged it off.
"She's a kinky one, your cousin," Daniela finished, smirking as she remembered how many time she'd told Bellatrix that. A silence followed Daniela's words and she sighed before turning to James. "Prongs, we don't have to go to the States, if you don't want to..."
"We'll go if you want to," was James' reply. Daniela hesitated, biting her lip, before she spoke.
"I kinda don't want to..."
"Why not?" Sirius asked, who had been hearing a lot more than he would've liked about dear Stockton and the surrounding cities and her love for California.
"It'll just bring back memories that I want to forget..." Daniela murmured, moving forward. James hadn't realized it before, but Daniela had changed from her former clothes. She was now wearing sweats and a black T-shirt, which read 'Tupac.' She stepped across the rich purple carpet with her bare feet until she was standing before James. "Truth is... I only wanted to go to tell you my 'life story.'"
James instantaneous reaction was to shout, "Tell me!"
But he kept calm and stared up at Daniela, while she avoided his gaze.
"We don't have to go to Stockton for you to tell me that, Kitten."
James' voice was soft and understanding. Daniela was silent as she contemplated how to reply to that.
"I guess not," she finally muttered, "so if you're interested... I'm in my room."
With that, she turned and left the room, leaving James and Sirius to stare after her.

Daniela lay on her bed and quietly stared up at the ceiling. Annie wasn't in the room because apparently, she'd taken offense to Daniela asking her to leave. Daniela wasn't worried, Annie wasn't exactly Samaraa so she didn't bother.
I hate the world, she thought miserably.
Lately, life had been very unforgiving... Daniela wanted to forget everything she'd experienced with her family in California. But it seemed that her past life was haunting her... In her dreams and now it was recreating the events that ruined her completely.
There was a knock on the door, interrupting her many insults toward Life.
"Come in," she muttered. She wanted to be alone, though... There was so much to think about, starting with her suspicions about the Marauders.
To be quite honest, Daniela felt very surprised when the Marauders, save for Peter, entered the room.
"What's going on?" she asked, sitting up. The Marauders glanced at each other with raised eyebrows.
"Nothing... We've just come to hear your life story..." was James' reply. Daniela paused and frowned as she stared at the men before her.
"Hold on... All of you want to know what's happened in my life?" she asked, sounding thoroughly confused.
"Let's put it this way..." Sirius responded. "We know nothing about you except you're a quiet, nerdy girl who actually has some wit... But other than that, we know nothing more."
"Nice word-choice," Daniela retorted, rolling her eyes. "I'll tell you all what happened in my life, but you have to promise me, swear to me, one thing."
James shrugged as he sat at the foot of the bed where she lay.
"Sure. What is it?" he replied.
"I'm going to ask you a question after I finish... And you're going to have to promise to me to be completely truthful, to be brutally honest... Okay?" Daniela said. The guys hesitated, glancing at each other for a moment, before regaining their attention to Daniela.
"Mmhhmm... Okay," Remus finally said. "We'll be honest. Now, you may start."
Daniela once more rolled her eyes, watching as Remus lay down at the foot of Annie's bed, much like James was on hers. Sirius lay with his hands behind his head like she did, against the headboard.
Daniela sighed.
"I was born here in London... My mom gave me her maiden name, because at the time, my father had rejected her. He'd said he wasn't ready for a child... But a few months before I turned one, my mom took me to the States... My dad had decided he could take responsibility for us and care for us.
"My dad was alright from what I remember, I guess... He gave me whatever I wanted and he had a stable job so we had enough... I guess I did love him... He was my father, after all.
"But one day, I was about seven, me and my mom came home from the store and... well,... he was fucking some random chick. He thought we'd be out longer, seeing as my mom was supposed to be buying me my birthday present... It'd been my birthday that day..."
"When's your birthday?" Sirius asked, interrupting just when Daniela was about to continue.
"February 9. Anyways, my mom left my dad and we moved in with my aunt... After a while, my mom was introduced to this guy called Victor... They got together... I hated him sooo much... Most of the time, I thought of running away... After all, I could say my name was different and that my parents were dead...
"I was almost ten when it all started."
Daniela took a shaky breath as she brought her knees to her chest.
"He first began with just touching me... At first, I was too scared to tell my mom... But by then, my mom was becoming an alcoholic, she'd been hooked on it by Victor... When I finally got up the courage to tell her, she told me she didn't give a damn... She said maybe I could be of some use then...
"So Victor had a clear field... Of course I was scared. I thought about calling the police when things began to get more serious... At one point, he was gonna try to get everything done, but I grabbed a knife and threatened to tell the police...
"You know what he did? He only laughed and told me I was a stupid, little girl... But before he could do anymore, there was a knock on the door and he was forced to open it... When he saw the police officers standing at the door, I thought he'd have a heart attack... That would've been great news.
"But the officers told him that my dad had filed a lawsuit for my custody and I was to go with them. I dropped the knife and ran to the officers, but Victor grabbed my arm and says, 'No, she stays with me.' That's when I told the police officers everything and they arrested him.
"Then, they told me what really happened... My real dad, Alejandro, had died and my mom killed herself when she found out. They just said that my daddy wanted me because my Science teacher, Mr. Williams, had noticed something weird about me and he'd told his police friend. The officers had looked in on it, and it turns out Victor had been accused of child abuse before..."
Daniela paused to close her eyes, for she felt tears coming to her eyes. She resented her mom, she hated her "father" Victor with all of her strengths and wished he'd rot in hell, but she loved her dad. He'd decided he could take care of her and her mom and he'd given her an enjoyable life.
"Your mom did nothing about any of that?"
It was James who spoke, but Daniela nodded her head, not wanting to go into further details.
"While my mom had been with Victor, I'd lived in San Jose," Daniela continued, "I was sent to live with my auntie in Stockton, but then I got the Hogwarts letter... I'd been asked to attend and I accepted, even though I knew I could go to various other wizarding schools in the States. I had to move in with my other auntie here in London..."
"Which auntie is which?" Sirius asked, most insensibly.
"My Auntie Lulu is the one in Stockton... Auntie Maudeline is the one here in London... She's a music composer so we barely talk."
"Oh, God," Remus breathed out. "I'm really sorry."
"Don't worry about it, I got over it," Daniela shrugged. "The truth is I hate Victor and he's gonna get what he deserves... When I am of age, I'm going to kill him. After all, the Muggle police will have no clue how he died and I could place a suicide note in his prison cell..."
The Marauders remained in a shocked silence.
They could understand Daniela now, seeing what she'd been through. But Daniela wanting to murder someone, and speaking of it so seriously as though she's planned it all, it was kind of scary to them.
"Why did you react like that when my parents asked about your parents?" James inquired.
"It angered me," Daniela replied with narrowed eyes, "I'd been taught that Victor was my father, so that was my honest reply. I loved my real dad... Later, I found out that he was actually on his way to come for me when he died."
"What?"
"When my mom left my dad, he'd tried to get her back but she refused... So he'd told her that he would fight for my custody, and that's the reason she got with this man and we moved to San Jose. My dad had lost all contact of me and my mom, so he'd been looking for us ever since we left... And that night, he was speeding because he'd found out where me and my mom were and he wanted to get to me, he was killed in the car crash," Daniela explained, quickly wiping away a tear that'd slid down her cheek. "But seeing as my mom killed herself over his death, I'd say she was just playing hard-to-get."
A silence fell over the four as they thought over her words. In Daniela's opinion, she was amazed at herself. In the stretch of a few days, she'd told the Marauders something that had taken Samaraa two years to find out. She was amazed at how much she seemed to trust the Marauders, and it sort of frightened her.
Growing up, Daniela had learned one thing... Love is a weakness. Her mother was the reason Daniela never told the police what was happening to her. And right now, what was silencing her, was her love for Samaraa... All she needed now was to love the Marauders like family so that they could become a weakness as well.
"My question," Daniela said suddenly. "I want my question answered and I want you to be completely honest... If you don't, I'll use Veritaserum."
"Is it that important?" Remus asked, sitting up. Daniela nodded her head as she slowly glanced at the men around her.
"Let's hear it then."
Just outside the door, Annie hesitated while opening the door. She'd heard James' voice say, "Let's hear it then."
Inside the room, Daniela took a deep breath.
"Are any or all of you Animagus?"

A/N: Sorry if her story doesn't seem to make much sense. I was just going over and thought, 'Damn, why the hell does everything seem rushed and jumbled together?' I realized I'd written the chapter while I was going through a tough time, so forgive me, but it's happening again and I don't have the energy to rewrite it :) Hope you liked it, though. REVIEWS, ANYONE? :D