Happy sunday guys! Hope you enjoyed the week, have fun!

xoxo

Alex

Ps. In the reviews someone said something about Sirius and Alex having kids and them having star names... I'm terribly sorry to disappoint but Sirius can't have kids, i'm pretty sure it was mentioned in the story, but for those who don't remember Azkaban left Sirius unable to have kids, again, sorry.

Getting into Hogwarts had been easier than we could've predicted, it had only taken me as a concerned parent wanting to check out the place where Harry was supposed to go when he was eleven, Dumbledore had accepted quickly, I supposed that he still wanted to have Harry in his clutches so he could play chess-master against Voldemort. Honestly I couldn't care less, Lucretia decided to go with me, acting as the deeply concerned aunt/friend. So far McGonagall was giving us a tour of the seventh floor, I had to admit it though. Hogwarts was, hand down the best place ever.

Lucretia excused herself to go to the bathroom, telling McGonagall that she wasn't old enough and that she remembered how to find it, thank you very much. To what McGonagall looked it up as a personal offence and so the glorious and useful Slytherin/Gryffindor rivalry came into action. McGonagall ended up chasing Lucretia down the stairs forgetting about me, leaving me in the seventh floor. Perfect.

Finding the painting of Barnabas the Barmy had been easy enough, opening the goddamed door had been the hard part. Because one had to be so goddamned specific, but once inside I couldn't help but to wonder at all the rubbish lost in there. I walked around the piles of forgotten objects, careful not to disrupt or touch anything, dust was my number one enemy after all. And spending a day full of allergies was not on my list of things to do, while I could not Accio the tiara, I decided to use a very neat 'point me' spell, that led me straight to the tiara in a couple of minutes. The thing was truly beautiful, but I could sense the dark magic coming from it. I picked it up gingerly and stuffed it in the moleskin pouch that Cassiopeia had given me, she swore that no one was going to be able to detect the dark magic of the Horcrux inside of that thing.

I would've loved to stay and check every nook and cranny of the place but my time was limited, so I got out of the room as swiftly as I entered and returned to the corridor where McGonagall had left me, upon arriving I started to hear the voices of McGonagall and Lucretia bickering like schoolchildren, I smiled.

All in all I could tell that the trip to Hogwarts had been a success, we had the last Horcrux, bar Harry. And Cassiopeia was now tracking Voldemort's spirit with the magical essence of the Horcrux, she just needed to do a very dark ritual to find it, and those she enjoyed greatly. Abraxas had destroyed the Horcrux as gleefully as Lucretia had set the Gaunt shack on fire. Five down, one to go. That night I knew that I had to talk with Sirius, because we needed to end this.

"Love?" I whispered as I played with a strand of Sirius hair, we were both laying on our bed, I was draped across his chest, Harry had gone to sleep an hour ago.

"Hmm"

"I think we have to take Harry to Gringotts" I said softly, Sirius eyes found mine, I let go of his hair and cupped his face.

"Do we really have to do this?" he asked forlornly, I nodded.

"I do not want to take a risk with my baby, what if Voldemort comes back using that piece of himself? Could you stand against Harry if Voldemort were to posses his body one day?" we kept looking straight at each other's eyes "Could you Sirius?"

"Is this the only way?" he asked, I could tell that he was still not happy with the idea but could see that it was probably the only way out "What if we loose him, if something go wrong at Gringotts? Alex, I couldn't bear that"

"Do you honestly think I could? Since the moment I laid eyes on that boy I made myself a promise, no one would hurt him as long as I was alive, do you think this is easy for me? He is my son Sirius, the most important thing in my life, loosing him would be worse to me than a dementor sucking out my soul" Sirius eyes watered, and I could feel hot tears streaming down my face, he wiped them away and held me close for the rest of the night.

"Then lets just hope that everything will be alright" he murmured against my hair.

Next morning I woke up tangled up with Sirius, Harry had since stopped waking us up by jumping on our bed. I disentangled myself from Sirius and headed to the bathroom, after a warm bath I headed to Harry's room and woke him up slowly, after he woke up I gathered him in my arms, he was not the little boy that I used to carry anymore, he was a healthy almost eight year old boy, he had grown taller and I couldn't carry him around anymore like I used to. I stayed there hugging him in silent for a few minutes.

"Is something wrong mum?" he asked, I looked down at him.

"Do you remember when dad and I told you about papa James and mama Lily? About how Tom Riddle had killed them that night?" I asked softly, he nodded.

"Mama Lily protected me with her life and that is why I didn't die" he said as if rehearsed, I nodded.

"Something else happened that night Bambi, Tom Riddle managed to curse you" his eyes widened "But dad and I think that the goblins might be the key to the cure"

"Is it bad?" he asked, I ran my hand through his hair.

"Not at the moment, but we are afraid that as you grow it might hurt you, we want to go to Gringotts today, get it done"

"Can we go now?" he sounded eagerly, I pressed a kiss to his forehead.

"They are risks to this procedure of course, we could loose you, and your dad and I are not sure that we could cope with that" I explained, my voice no more than a whisper.

"But the other thing is worse, the curse" Harry said, I nodded, so smart for such a young age, he seemed to think about it "I want to do it, sides if anything happens, I'll be with papa James and mama Lily" I hugged him tighter.

"I don't want you to go with them just yet my love" I said, Harry leaned into me and we stayed like that for a couple of minutes. Sirius joined us then, and we stayed there, my little family, I smiled bitterly, mom and dad would've liked Sirius and Harry.

I checked myself in the mirror, it was almost midday, we had had a small brunch in the gardens, I was scared out of my life today, it always worked in fanfictions, but I couldn't be sure anymore, I had changed so many things since arriving here I couldn't just predict the outcome. My reflection stared back at me, while I had gotten used to see myself young again, this time I realized that I probably looked the youngest as I was scared. Like a child ready to run back to her parents so they could make it better, unfortunately, mom and dad were not here to make all my problems go away, I sighed as I finished brushing my hair. We needed to do this, I was not going to see my newfound family be torn apart by Voldemort, nor I was going to let Dumbledore play us all like chess pieces, I needed to do this.

We reached Gringotts in grim silence, dressed in fine robes, looking the part of a noble pureblooded family, the goblins received us and I asked for Stormborn right away, once in his office, I explained him what was going on, he seemed surprised then pensive for a moment.

"That is a very foul use to magic, Lady Black" he said to me after I finished my explanation, Sirius was mysteriously too silent.

"All of the others have been destroyed, if there is a way to destroy this one without actually harming the vessel I thought that your people would've known of it" I looked at Stormborn, we was sizing me up.

"And what made you think, Lady Black, that we would be well versed in such dark dealings?" he asked surreptitiously, I raised and eyebrow as I realized what was going on, I put on my best attitude, because Goblins, even if they were your friends, were sneaky little shits.

"Nothing Stormborn, but I did thought that you perhaps had another view of magic, and that perhaps your magic was strong enough to deal with my cause, as your species, unlike mine, seem much more atoned to what magic really is" I offered him my best innocent look, Stormborn seemed pleased with my answer, I smirked inwardly, greedy little things.

"And you are not mistaken, Lady Black, I always thought you were smart, thank you for accrediting my claims" he smiled showing his pointy teeth "I will send for a goblin healer who will examine your son and explain the proceedings that we will follow to remove the leech"

He stood and walked out of the office, my mask slipped for a second as I looked at Sirius and Harry, Sirius nodded at me while Harry looked too thoughtful for his own good. I ruffled his hair and he smiled at me, Stormborn came back a few minutes later followed by a stocky goblin.

"This is healer Shadowclaw, he will extract the leech from your soon, the prooceding is simple if the leech hasn't been too active in the child, if otherwise, it will be very painful" he adverted us, Sirius and I nodded, I looked at Harry and nodded at him, Harry stood from his chair and stood silently and walked towards the goblin healer "One of you can join us" I looked at Sirius.

"You go" I said, my voice shaking slightly, he nodded and pressed a kiss to my temple, I turned to Stormborn "May I wait here?"

"Of course, I will send someone with tea" he answered, then he turned to Sirius and Harry "gentlemen" they walked out of the office.

A goblin did indeed come with tea after a few minutes, I drank it slowly, packed with more sugar than it was probably suggested, but I couldn't help it. I sat in that office in silence for what seemed an eternity, but I knew that I couldn't go with them, I just couldn't go watch Harry in pain, ever, I had seen him when I took him out of that damned cupboard and had enough nightmares about it to write a book. I knew that it was for the best, but at the same time I was dying to know what was happening with my son.

And if my friends could've had see me now. All of the times I told them, I swore to them, that there was no way in hell that I was going to end up with a kid, or a husband, I snorted softly. Oh how life changed in such short notice. Not only I now had a son that I would gladly die for, but a husband that I loved with every fiber of my very own being, oh how the tables turned.

When Stormborn came to tell me that it had been over and a success to boot, I thanked him profusely and complimented the goblin's magic, I all but ran outside that office to where they were keeping an unconscious Harry. Sirius was next to him, and Harry looked so small laying in that bed, I sat next to him and held his hand.

"How was it?" I asked Sirius, Sirius looked at Harry with a proud look in his eyes.

"He took it like a champ" he said, I nodded and returned my gaze to my bambi; I kissed his brow.

"That's my boy" I murmured, Sirius hugged me, and we stayed like that for a while, it was more or less over before it began, now it was just Voldemort's spirit and we were done.

Harry woke up a few minutes later, the healer checked him up and gave him a thumbs up, he was okay, my bambi was more than fine, I hugged him and promised him loads of chocolate ice cream and a new broom, he had laughed and told me that he just wanted me and his dad to be happy. And in that small moment there in the depths of Gringotts we were, we totally were.