A Harry Potter Fan Fiction

I don't own Harry Potter

Pre-Chapter Wind - It's Christmas time at Grimmauld Place, and everyone is having a good time being jolly. Remus, Sirius, and Noel spend some quality time with one another reminiscing about the past while Noel feels bright about her future friendship with Harry.

- Fathers At War -

As the days start to pass by, I start to dread the upcoming return to Hogwarts because I didn't want to leave my newly found Dad all alone in this big house. Honestly, I didn't want to leave after all the time we spent talking about him and Mom while making plans for me to come live with him this summer. So far we came up with ideas to go incognito traveling around the world together with Remus tagging along to act like the mature adult that Sirius refused to be, Sirius would teach me how to become an animagi like he was, Sirius and I would figure out how to remove his Mom's portrait from the damn wall, and we would re-decorate the room next to his for me. It was an exciting time planning all the things we were going to do once the summer hits.

Flashback

"Do you think I could have a few friends over this summer?" I ask.

"It depends on what you mean by friends." Sirius says.

"They're just some close friends from back home in America. Trust me, you'll love them. They could charm and think their way past anyone and I think I even saw one of them make Umbridge a tad bit flustered when his back was turned." That David, he would do anything on a dare just so he could say he did it. I think that if he didn't fear for his life, he would go up to Voldemort and lick his face if someone dared to just to say that he did. There also would be pictures, he always has pictures.

"How'd he do that? Just from the letter's I've gotten and what I've heard, even I wouldn't go near her." Sirius says, stunned.

"I don't know. I didn't get to hear the ending of his mission success."

"Then consider them invited because I'm already on the edge of my seat wondering how the heck he managed...no, I'm more curious as to what he would get in return and the plot of his mission."

"That's David for you."

"Well this David sounds like he would have given me a run for my money back in the day."

"Believe me, he gives a lot of people a run for their money."

End of Flashback

I bet David would have. I grin to myself while thinking about that while watching Harry and Ron play a game of Wizards Chess. Ron had the upper hand, as usual, and just as he was about to beat Harry another time, Mrs. Weasley enters the room.

"Harry, Professor Snape is here and he'd like a word with you." She says. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny gape at Harry. I, on the other hand, was excited to see him again and have been since I opened the gift he sent me for Christmas. I leap up to run to the kitchen and kick the door open to greet him excitedly.

"UNCLE SEV I MIS-" was all I could get out before the door swings back and knocks me backward onto my ass. Now that was embarrassing, I thought when Sev opens the door to the kitchen.

"Noel." Sirius and Severus says, bending over to help me before glaring at each other. Then they cross their arms and turn to face away from each other with matching huffs, causing the door to shut in my face. What happened to helping me off the floor?

"Fine, no one help me up from the floor because you both don't like the fact that you both offered to help me up at the same time." I groan loudly enough for them to hear me, standing up to dust off my rear and re-enter the kitchen more cautiously this time. "What cha' doing here Sev? I didn't expect to see you until tomorrow when we got back to school."

"I was worried about you enough that I couldn't wait until tomorrow and I was in the area since Dumbledore sent me here to talk to Potter about something important. You have to know that if it had been my choice that I would have been at your side at St. Mungos to be there when you had woken up, but I was told to wait to keep up appearances." Severus explains.

"So you're here to see Harry then." I mumble while pouting at him.

"I'm using seeing him as an excuse to be able see you. I heard that you fell into a coma after hurting yourself when you used your powers and I already said I was worried about you." Severus says, reaching forward for me. "You know how nervous you make me when you over exert your powers like that."

"You're such a worry wart. You know I wouldn't do anything life threatening or dangerous." I say, and he raises his brow. "You know what I mean. The point here is that you missed me." I point at him with a gleeful look on my face. "Admit it! You totally missed me. You missed your favorite girl in the world, the light of your life, the apple of your eye, and the cream in your coffee." I chant. He looked at Sirius uncomfortably, who had a growing grin on his face, and back to me before grabbing me at the arms and pulls me into a hug.

"Of course I missed you. We had plans to spend the holidays together with just the two of us, but instead I find out that not only you had left overnight but also on that you were hurt as well. We were supposed to have a safe and quiet Christmas. Do you remember that?" He asks and I listen to him in awe. Here he was, completely ignoring Sirius, spilling out his guts in front of his known enemy without even caring. Said enemy, who was still in the room and watching us in a stunned silence, started turning sullen because of how I was allowing Severus to hug me.

"Of course I remember them Sev. I was the one who suggested the safe and quiet Christmas theme to you." I say, giving him a near bone-crushing squeeze. "I missed you so much."

"I'm glad you're okay Noel. I was worried you weren't being taken care of-" Severus starts after letting me go.

"She was taken care of Snivellus. She was with her Father." Sirius says boastfully before pulling me to his side.

"And look where she ended up. She was out cold for three days Black. Some Father you are." Severus sneers at him while pulling me back. "If she was with me then this never would have happened because at least I know how to protect those I care about."

"What are you insinuating you bat eared prat?"

"Guys-" I start, moving away from either of them though neither of them realized it at this point since they were more focused on each other than they were of me. The situation escalated into something faster than I imagined it would.

"I'm saying how my Goddaughter, the Daughter of my best friend, would have been in better care if she stayed with me this winter than with some man-child who can't even take care of himself." Severus says. "And another thing Black-"

"Excuse me." Harry says, standing in the doorway. Wait, when did he get there? I was so wrapped up in the argument that I hadn't noticed his arrival. I back out of the room towards Harry while the both of them kept on arguing at each other. "What are they fighting about?"

"They're fighting about something like which one of them takes care of me better." I say.

"Well, wish me luck since I have to now walk in the middle of that." He says, walking into the mess. I leave the room in time to see Mr. Weasley walking through the front door.

"Hey Mr. Weasley. They finally set you free." I say.

"What?" He shouts. The now that the arguing from the kitchen escalated to yelling that could be heard throughout the whole house.

"You!" I point at him. "Good!" Thumbs us.

"Yeah!" Nod. "What?" Shrug. "Fight!" Punching motion. "For?" Holds up four fingers.

"Me!' Points at myself.

"Oh?" Confused look.

"It's complicated!" I shout. He could now hear me because the yelling had stopped abruptly in the kitchen and Severus had stormed, after making a pit stop to give me a quick hug goodbye, out of the house.

"THAT'S RIGHT! JUST WALK AWAY! YOU'RE SO MATURE SNIVELLUS!" Sirius roars after him.

"DAD STOP! Don't you yell at him. He was just concerned about my well being and you didn't have to shove me being your Daughter in his face like that. Sure you're my Dad, but he'll always be like one to me too." I say, mad at him. Suddenly, Sirius bursts out laughing. "And what are you laughing about?"

"You sounded like your Mother did when I shoved me dating her in his face. 'Sirius Black, don't you dare get all snarky towards him just because I agreed to go out with you. Sev will always be my best friend, but I can take it back my yes to you any second if I want.' she said." Sirius laughs even harder. I sigh, shaking my head. He was laughing at me for sounding like Mom while he and Severus were two grown men acting like kids. If I had to be Mom-like then so be it...though I guess I have a lot of work cut out to make them get along for my sake. "Speaking of the git and seeing him tomorrow, do you have your trunk packed?" Sirius asks, and I nod. "You know...when you leave-"

"Don't bring up tomorrow...I'm not really good with saying goodbye and I'd rather not thin about leaving or saying goodbye until its too late." I mutter softly.

"It's just another thing you have in common with you're Mother." Sirius mutters back.

I stand around, getting ready to leave, feeling morose about our departure in a few minutes and I knew Harry felt the same about having to leave Sirius behind. I watch how Sirius pulls Harry aside and hands him something before giving him a hug. Harry looked so gloomy and I felt it rolling off of him in waves. Sirius catches me watching them longingly and comes over to give me a tight hug, one that I returned and didn't want to break away from.

"It's not fair that I just met you and now I have to leave you behind and alone." I sniffle, burying my face in the folds of his shirt. "I wish we could have stayed longer. I wish we could have had more time."

"I wish you could have stayed too, but we have summer to look forward to don't we? I'm already planning your abduction from Snivellus just to get you here so we can go forth with our exciting summer adventure." Sirius says, running his hands through my hair to calm me down. "We'll have loads of time together then. Just you, me, and Remus. No greasy prats invited."

"You really have to stop putting him down in front of me and try to get along with him."

"Not a chance." He replies immediately with a snort.

"A girl can try because I can't have you two arguing with one another for the rest of your lives. Imagine the both of you arguing on my wedding day about who gets to walk me down the aisle."

"He doesn't stand a chance because Daddy will walk you down the aisle wether he likes it or not. You're my little girl."

"And you're my Dad." I choke out under a wave of hot sticky tears that were now falling down my face. He lets me go, looking extremely gruff with his hair hiding his face from view, so I could be steered away to give hugs goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. I look in Sirius's direction one last time before stepping out of the threshold to leave, down the steps, and watch as Grimmauld Place disappears into thin air.

AN: Has everyone got their Christmas shopping done? I know I still got loads to do, which would make this the worse time to feel under the weather. Oh well, the show must go on.

AN2: A bittersweet farewell between Father/Daughter. Totes sad.