AN- Let me know if you guys are still interested in this story. Sorry for waiting so long to give you guys more.
"Lyanna has to get some sleep." Seneca said with a smile as she leaned in the doorway of the baby's room.
"Say, 'come on ma only one more story.'" Sirius grinned holding the little girl in his arms.
Seneca laughed, "She's asleep in your arms."
Sirius looked down he smirked, as the little girl seemed so peaceful. "I suppose her play day with Harry tuckered the poor girl out."
Seneca glanced down sadly, "I wish this wasn't the last time we could see them."
"It isn't the last time my love." Sirius placed the baby down in her cradle. "Once the Dark Lord is defeated we all can be together again." He walked over to his wife and took her hand in his and led her out of the room.
"Then why do I have this feeling?" she asked him, "That something bad is about to happen?"
"My love, its about time you stop worrying." He grinned at her his eye's meeting hers, "Everything is going to be ok. We will defeat the dark lord. Lily and James will come out of hiding and Harry and Lyanna will be great friends growing up together at Hogwarts."
"I hope you're right." She whispered.
"I am." Sirius told her.
"But what if he finds them?" she asked, "What if he-"
"He won't find them we stick together no matter what. As long as we stand together no one can touch us." He smiled, "I promise you."
"Everyone has a breaking point." Lyanna told him, "Everyone even your friends."
"Our friends are strong enough to get through this I promise you we are." He paused and glanced in the direction of Lyanna's room, "Ten years from now we will be taking Lyanna to the train." He grinned, "We will see Lily and James doing the same thing. Together we will send the kids of to Hogwarts to create their own memories, to get into trouble just like we did."
"Just like you did." Seneca let a smile fall on to her face; "Remember I was a good girl until you sunk your claws in."
"Claws?" he grinned
"Should I have said paws instead?" she smirked causing Sirius to laugh.
"I love you Seneca Black." He whispered as he kissed her, "I always will."
When they broke away Seneca smiled up at him, even after all this time he still made every kiss feel like the very first one. "I love you too. No matter what you're stuck with my heart."
Ten Years Later.
Seneca couldn't help but visit the train station. She hadn't left her cabin in the woods since she first moved in. She kept her hood up as to hide from anyone who might recognize her. She hadn't gone through the portal yet she stood frozen unmoving. She didn't know why she came; she didn't know why she brought this pain on her. She remembered talking to Sirius about this day. The day they should have brought their little girl to the train station. She remembered Sirius grin as he spoke of meeting up with Lily and James and of Harry and Lyanna getting on the train together.
She watched as a family of red heads hurried through the station she smiled just hearing the mother's voice she knew exactly what family was making their way to platform 9 3/4. She watched as the twins and the older boys slipped through. Her heart seemed to skip a beat as she noticed a boy walking over. He asked Molly a question and nodded his head. She felt tears filling her eyes the boy looked just like James, but had Lily's eyes. She knew in the instant that the boy was their son, that the boy was Harry.
She watched as Harry slipped through followed by the others. She took a deep breath and moved forward. She didn't know what drove her forward, but her body just moved. Her eyes scanned the crowed once she was inside. She could see Harry looking around in amazement she smiled. She remembered how crazy this place had seemed for her and Lily. While Harry wasn't born of two muggle parents he had grown up like one. This had to be a shock for him. She felt the pain in her heart grow if life had gone according to plan Harry wouldn't be in shock he would be more then excited to get on the train and Lily wanted a hug and kiss goodbye, perhaps Harry would try and push in mother away not wanting to be embarrassed.
Not to mention Lyanna should be here she fought the tears again, her daughter was gone but that didn't stop her from imagining how this day should have been. She had imagined this day over and over again. She would tell Harry to keep an eye on Lyanna and tell Lyanna to watch out for Harry 'don't let him get into any trouble like his father.'
She couldn't take it anymore watching Harry it hurt to much she turned around tears almost blinding her. She bumped into one of the children. She quickly muttered a 'sorry.' Before hurrying away ready to disappear all over again. Perhaps if she had been paying better attention she would have noticed the girl she hit into had long black hair and grey eyes.
Lyanna stumbled backwards as the woman hit into her, she didn't get a chance to say anything as the woman muttered a sorry and headed off. Lyanna shrugged she must be one of the mothers that was sad to send her baby off on the train. She picked up the books that she dropped and hurried over to Remus who was pushing her trolley.
"There you are." He said glancing down at her, "Wondering off now? You take after your father."
"You always say that." Lyanna smiled up at him. "This time it wasn't my fault I promise."
"If you say so." He stopped as they came to the end of the platform. He could see Molly getting all her children up onto the train. His eyes fell on her youngest boy the one that was the same age of Lyanna. He smiled seeing them then his attention turned back to Lyanna. "You be good at Hogwarts."
"I promise I will."
"Let's hope when it comes to behavior you are more like your mother then your father." He told her.
"You always say that but you never tell me who my father really was or what he did." She folded her arms and put on a little frown.
"He was my friend." Remus told her not waiting her to know more, he never even told the little girl her true last name. He wanted to protect her from others in her family he didn't want her growing up with the burden of being a Black the way he had seen his friend.
"What happens if I don't get Gryffindor?" she asked.
"You will end up where you belong." He told her.
"But you, mother, father and most everyone we know was there that's where I want to be." Lyanna told him.
"From what I've seen without a doubt you will end up there. Now get on the train before it leaves without you." He grinned giving her one more hug goodbye.
Once back at her cabin alone and away from magic she thought back to the night Lyanna had gone missing. She remembered waking up in the middle of the night to find the nursery was trashed and the little girl was gone. Sirius had wanted to contact James right away, but then realized he couldn't. He told Seneca not to worry who ever took the little girl couldn't have gotten far, then five hours after finding the little girl gone there were still no signs. She heard the front door open she remembered rushing to the other room hoping to see Sirius standing with Lyanna in his arms, but instead the man stood looking defeated.
Up until that moment she had never seen Sirius defeated she had never seen him broken, but he changed after Lyanna went missing. That was when she first started to realize she was losing him. Everything fell apart after that night. Sirius lost his faith in his friends he grew even more suspicious of Remus. He hardly slept after that she had realized that the madness that affected the Black family had found its way to her husband.
She walked over to the counter and poured herself a drink with a sigh she would get lost at the bottom of the bottle that was the only way to stop the pain. She wanted to forget about Lyanna, about Harry, she wanted to forget everything again. She took the paper that Dumbledore had sent her and threw it in the fire. She could never go back she was to broken to ever be part of that world again.
"Lyanna." Remus said softly as he walked over to the girl. They had just gotten home from the train station. He was surprised that the girl had held onto her anger until now. He hadn't even guessed while they were at the school that she knew who her father was. "Please, I didn't tell you to protect you."
"Protect me?" she asked, "You told me he was your friend, you compared me to him!" tears filled her eyes, "You think I'm like him."
"No." he shook her head, "No. Your father wasn't all bad, not at the start." He sighed, "For a long time your father was a good man, my best friend he accepted me when I never thought he would. He was brilliant wizard always someone you could ask for help in class if you needed it. He was a good friend."
She shook her head, "He killed Harry's parents." She shook her head, "How could you never tell me?"
"He didn't kill them." Remus told her.
"He is still the reason they died." She told him, "And where is my mother?"
"I don't know." Remus said softly, "I lost track of her."
"How?" she asked, "I want the truth. Is she even alive?"
"Your mother wasn't like your father at all pretty much the opposite. Some very bad things happen to her when she was younger. She hated your father for so long, but some how they were drawn together. She had so many walls up the only one she trusted was Lilly, and her eyes something always seemed sad about them." He remembered the girl Seneca had been when she first came to Hogwarts she seemed so lost so ready to break at any moment. "In time your father taught your father taught her to be strong. But it wasn't until he defended her against the monster from her past did she truly start to smile, a light came to her eyes and I believe it was because she felt safe. With your father around she knew that man who hurt her couldn't get her again."
"Then what changed?" she asked, "If my father was so great what happened to him?"
"I don't know." He shook his had, "Losing you changed him. Even your mother saw it, so did I." he frowned, "He doubted me all the time he thought I was going to betray everyone. Before you were taken he always said the four of us always would stick together that no one could hurt us if we made sure to be there for one another. Then I suppose losing you pushed him over the edge he started acting different. He must have been trying to cast suspicion on me, I don't know even when I replay that time in my head I can't understand why he would sell them out."
"Because he was a Black, he's a monster." She told him.
"Not back then not by a long shot." He told her, "Something seems strange, something in him changed. The man he is now isn't who he used to be, out of everyone I every could have thought to betray their friends he would have been the last I would ever think could or would. He loved the Potter's I never thought he could hurt them."
"He did." Tears spilled from her eyes. "And my mother you said she changed he ruined her."
"Losing you and then losing your father and the Potter's the way she did was to much for her. She lost any hope of finding you again everyone believed you had died. She broke and locked her self away."
"Away where?"
"I don't know." He told her, "She's done a good job of hiding herself from any of us either she's using magic to do so or she went very far away."
"Or she's dead." She said softly.
"I don't think that." Remus told her, "She's a survivor."
"I want to find her." Lyanna said, "I want to find her."
He knew it shouldn't hurt, but knowing Lyanna wanted her real family made his heart drop. The girl seemed to know,
"You will always be my father, I want nothing to do with my birth father, but my mother I want her to know I'm alive, that I am here." She told him, "Please."
"I've never stopped looking for her." Remus told her, "I wanted to find her, I still do I wanted since the moment I found you to see the look on her face when she held you again, because even though she is broken without Sirius I know holding you would make her strong again, she would be strong for you I know it."
Lyanna looked at her adopted father for a moment, seeing his face talk about her mother she saw a look in his eyes she had never seen before. "You love her." She said softly, "Don't you."
Remus was surprised at the girl's remark, but he knew he couldn't lie to his daughter, "I always have."
"Did you ever tell her?" she asked.
"I never told her, I was never brave enough with my condition I never thought she could care for me, we were good friends though. And when I finally thought to tell her how I felt she only had eyes for your father and rightfully so. He helped her in so many ways, you might not understand it now but he was a good man."
"You were back then too and you still are, maybe if you had told her we could all be a family, maybe you still can when we find her." Lyanna said a smile on her face.
Remus shook his head, "No." he thought of Seneca he thought of her smile, her laugh and he thought of the way she used to look at Sirius. "Your mother will never love another man the way she loved her father, yes I love your mother, but so much has happened after everything we will always just be friends."
"One guy can't mean that much to someone." She replied.
"One day you will meet someone. One day you will understand." He told her, "What your mother and father had was rare, once in a life time. Anything less just won't feel right."
"How do you know all this?" she asked, "Did you ever have someone like that?"
"No." he replied, "Never. But I told you that your mother and I were good friends, she always told me about how she was feeling, we talked a lot, perhaps that was why Sirius tried to push suspicion onto me, perhaps he was jealous at our friendship. He always believed your mother too good for him, always said she should be with a better man."
"He was right." Lyanna muttered.
"That other man wasn't me." Remus smiled softly, "Your mother needed someone strong to help put her back together, I was just as broken as her, we would have just shattered together."
He looked into the darkness of his cell he took a deep breath as he shifted his position. So much of his body hurt, so much of everything hurt these days. He had been here for many years alone in this dark cell. He could hear voices of many people from his cell, but he cared for none of them. Most everyone in the other cells yelled half mad words calling out for their lost master. Others mumbled things that made no sense as they had met the Dementors kiss. Even without the kiss many people lost any kind of hope in this place.
Yet Sirius held onto one thing and one thing alone. Her. He held onto the moment that he hoped would come in the future a moment where he would go up to her and tell her everything. He played the scene over and over in his head as he told her it wasn't him that betrayed Lilly and James, in this dream she believed him, in this dream she would fall into his open arms and all the distance that had grown between them in thirteen years would be gone. They would be home again with each other. Yet his heart always hurt as the same as it felt joy seeing this scene in his mind because he knew there should be someone else in his dream to make it perfect. Yet Peter had made sure that could never happen. He was the reason Lilly and James were dead that was true. Yet that night he hunted Peter down wasn't just because of his best friends that had died, but because he also realized who it was that came into his home and took his baby girl, it had been Peter.
His house had been protective spells that should have alerted him to someone in the house that could harm his family, but it wouldn't have detected Peter back then no alarm would have told him of danger even if Peter had snuck in. He felt all his anger coming back thinking of the man he used to call friend. He had turned on Lilly and James but he had also taken Lyanna away, he had kidnapped his daughter and taken her to the dark lord. He didn't regret a moment of what he did going after Peter, but he did regret not telling Seneca the truth not letting her know what happened.
He tried to focus his mind back on happy thoughts remembering the words his old teacher had told him he tried to think of the old mans words right now, 'Happiness can be found in the darkest of places if one remembers to turn on the light.' Seneca was his light in the darkness she was what would keep him together until he found a way out, until someone stumbled upon the truth. He knew Dumbledore knew the truth or at least had an idea, but just one person wasn't enough he had to prove he wasn't the monster that everyone thought he was, but how?
Leaning back on the wall of his cell his eyes fell onto a paper that had been placed in his cell. He frowned and looked around wondering where it came from. He got up off the ground and moved over picking up the paper. The cover held a picture that made him smile, he knew exactly who the family was, a large group of red heads. The Wesley's. His eyes fell onto the youngest boy, the one that would be Lyanna and Harry's age he smiled a sad smile wishing that his life had turned out different wishing in this moment he was in his home with his wife and daughter. Then his eyes caught something that made his smile turn to a frown. His heart began to race it couldn't be. He was looking at the rat that the boy held. No. He was alive, after all this time he was rotting here for killing the boy and muggles when all those years ago he had never fired any curse. Everything began to make sense he thought maybe his mind had grown confused in that moment. He had even begun to think maybe he had killed those muggles, but everything became clear now. Peter faked his own death, and took out those muggles. Anger filled him knowing that he was still alive. He looked at the door to his cell. He was going to get out of this place tonight if it killed him. He had to go after Peter; he had to make everything right. He would go after Peter and kill him this time for real.
It surprised him how smart Peter had been even Sirius had believed him dead now he felt like an idiot for knowing what happened, knowing Peter had pulled the wool over his eyes. His head snapped away from the picture again as he heard someone coming down the corridor. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath transforming into the dog form ready to make a break for it when the cell door opened he was getting out today and he would find and kill Peter making him pay for everything that he had done.
Peter was the worst scum imaginable; the group had always been loyal to one another. Sirius hated himself for turning from Remus back then he should have never doubted his old friend. Maybe when this was all over he could apologize to Remus, maybe he could have a life where his wife saw the truth, Remus forgave him and he could live out his remaining days free beside the people he loved. With hope he would be reunited with those he cared about, but first he had to end Peter and if that brought about his own end then he would just make sure he took Peter with him.
AN- A short chapter but I thought I should at least give you guys something. If anyone is still interested in this story that is.
