Autumn Winds:Chapter
9:Out of the Shadows
By:Kaytea
Harry's heart stopped. Had she said
'Black'??? It couldn't be…..Sirius, could it? "Autumn, are you talking about
Sirius Black?" Autumn looked like she might faint, when he said the name. "Yes,
but how? Did you know? " . "He's my God-father. And he has escaped from
Azakban, he's really innocent, it's a long story, but he's innocent and on the
run from the Ministry." Tears spilled down Autumn's face. "Yes, I always knew
he was innocent. He would never hurt Lily and James. We were all friends. It
was that horrid Peter….I'll never forgive him." Allison fell back against the
back of the couch and stared in dibelief at her hands. Autumn wiped her tears
away, and Harry sat stunned. "I tried to get in contact with him, but none of
my owls found him. I would have told you Allison, but I didn't want to shame
you, knowing your father was a harden criminal." "Mum…… I……forgive you……but I
want to meet him…I have to know who he is." Harry sat there stunned in shock.
How come Sirius never told him he had a daughter? "Umm…..Autumn, did you and
Sirius ever get married?" Harry asked timidly. "We were engaged, and after I
had Autumn they found Sirius and took him away to Azakaban, we never got
married….we didn't have time…" she replied sadly. She burst into tears and
buried her face in her hands. Allison put her arm around her mother and let her
cry into her shoulder. "I'll be right back…you guys need to talk." Harry got up
and headed towards the Owlery. He tore a piece of parchment from a book of
parchment hanging from the Owlery's front desk. He dipped his quill in some ink
and scribbled out a quick note.
You need to come to Hogwarts. There
something really important here, that you need to see.
Come as Snuffles and go to the Gryffindor common room at midnight tonight
if you can.
Please hurry, but don't draw to much attention to yourself.
-you godson,
Harry
He rolled it up and tied it to
Hedwig's leg. She hooted happily and Harry stroked her soft feathers on her
head and she went off. He just hoped that Sirius could get her before Allison's
mum had to leave tommorow. He trudged back to the common room and found Allison
showing Autumn some charms, such as the Floating charm and the tickling charm. "Where were you, silly?" Allison said through
giggles. "Oh….just on a walk…" Harry lied. Autumn got up and yawned heavily. "Wow,
the time has passed by immensly. Time for dinner already!" They headed to the Great Hall and enjoyed a
delicious feast of roasted turkeys and honey hams, with potatoes and sugared
honey buns. Dumbledore showed Autumn to a guest room behind a beautiful faery
portrait. "I think I'll stay up for a bit, is that alright?" Autumn asked
Dumbledore merrily. "Whatever you please, have a good evening." And with that
Dumbledore left the hallway. They headed back to the common room and played
exploding snap and wizarding chess for hours. They told her all about the yule
ball and how they met up with Voldermort , until Autumn looked at her watch as gasped.
"My! Would you look at that! It's 12:15am! You two need to be in bed, as do I."
She said getting up. Harry panicked, where was Sirius? He should have been
here by now, he hoped he was alright, Harry didn't want Sirius to get
caught trying to get here. Harry looked around the room nervously as Allison
hugged her mother goodnight. Then out of the corner of his eye Harry spotted a
pair of bright yellow eyes in a dark corner. "Wait!" Harry exclaimed. Autumn
and Allison stopped talking and stared at Harry. "Yes, Harry?" Autumn asked
looking concerned. "Umm….there someone here to see you Autumn." "Now, who could
that be, Harry?!?" and with puzzled looks on Allison's and Autumn's face, a
figured stepped out from the shadows, there stood a tall man with midnight
black hair. Which to Harry's surpirse was cut very nicely , He was actually
very well groomed, Harry could barely recognize him. Autumn screamed and
fainted, Sirius caught her in his arms. After several minutes, Autumn eyes
fluttered, and she looked around nervously. Harry and Allison helped her up,
and Autumn's eyes met up with Sirius again. She flung her arms around his neck,
and wept happily. "Oh Sirius, I thought I'd never see you again." Sirius rubbed
her back and calmed her down. Harry put his arm around Allison, who was stiff
as a statue, she eyed Sirius carefully. Harry could feel her shaking nervously,
her eyes filled with tears. Siruis and Autumn broke away, and Autumn wiped away
her tears, "Sirius, this is……your daughter." Allison clung to Harry, and Sirius
approached them. "I know I haven't been a father too you, but how could I? Yet
I still had 2 years to come find you, I should have, but I didn't. I was too
afraid you would both reject me, after not being there all those years. I can
only hope you will want to give me the chance to be your father." Allison
stared at him, she backed away a step and let go of Harry. Sirius held out his
hand to Allison and Allison stepped forward…..the she took off out of the
common room and ran down the dark corridors. "Allison! Wait!" Harry yelled, and
he ran off to find her.
Sirius sighed and sat down on a couch, "She hates me, I
don't deserve to be her father. I don't understand. She acts like she never
even knew she had a father till now…." Autumn coughed slightly, "Well actually,
she didn't….I only now told her you were alive today." "What?!?! You mean all
these years she thought I was dead!" "Well what was I supposed to tell her?!?
That her father was in prison!" "Well at least it would have been the truth!!!"
"You haven't changed a bit! You never think about how others would feel. How
would she feel knowing her father was a convicted murder?!!?" "I never killed
anyone in my life, and you know that!!" "Yes, but you were in prison for it,
and she would still have to live her life thinking her father was a criminal" "Only
if you had told her the truth, then she would have some hope, that I would have
gotten out and at least I was wrongly charged!!!" " Oh…….I'm sorry Sirius, I
didn't know what to tell her….." Autumn said collapsing onto a chair. "I should
have told her the truth, but I just froze……you just don't understand, when she
asked me about you……we were in the park, she was about 3 years old. And when we
were about to leave. She watched all her friends leaving with their mommies and
daddies. And she stared up at me and asked, "Where's my daddy, Mommy?"
and I just froze. I didn't want to say that you were dead, but what if you
never got out Azakban? She would never get to meet you and she would feel
shamed to have a father in prison, at least you being dead was something less
shameful to tell her friends." Autumn burst into tears, and Sirius held her in
his arms. He kissed her forehead, and Autumn looked up at him. "It's okay……I
don't know what I would have done if it were the other way around……It's not
your fault. It's just going to take time, maybe then she'll forgive me." He said
lovingly. "Oh Sirius……" Autumn sighed.
Meanwhile, Harry was walking up and down the corridors looking for Allison, whisphering her name. He didn't want to wake up Filch and cause trouble. "Allison…please don't hide from me, it's just me, Sirius isn't with me. " He ran his fingers through his hair. He was worried. He couldn't really blame her for running, it must have been really shocking to see her father for the first time. Harry walked past the huge glass window above the door to the castle and gazed out at the moon. He saw a shadowy figure floating in the air, he rubbed his glasses and squinted out into the darkness , and saw that it was Allison on a broom. He held out his wand and shouted "Accio Firebolt!" and the Firebolt zoomed out of the Gryffindor portrait and into Harry's hand. Harry mounted the broom and sped out of the front entrance and out onto the grounds. He flew up quietly behind Allison, so quietly that she didn't even notice he was there. "You know, you really should give Sirius a chance." Harry said quietly. Allison remained silent and kept staring up at the moon. "You're really lucky. To actually have a father. Even if he was gone for all that time. If I found out that my dad was really alive after I thought he was dead, I would be so happy. " Allison turned and looked at him with angry eyes. "Yes, I suppose you would, wouldn't you? You've heard so many wonderful things about him. Everyone loved him, but at least you knew who your father was! Me? I just knew that I had a father and he was dead. I tried asking what his name was, how he died, anything! But my mother wouldn't tell me. She would burst into tears and I would feel ashamed for putting my mother in pain by bringing it up." She turned back around and gazed up at the moon. "Oh…I guess I never thought of it that way…but Sirius is really a great guy! He was my dad's best friend! They were so much alike!" Allison gripped the handle of her broom more tightly. "Yes, well he still should have tried to find us, even if he thought we would reject him. If he truly loved us he would have taken the chance!" Allison said angrily through tears. Harry climbed up on the broom with Allison and sat by her side. " I'm sorry Allison, you don't have to like Sirius, it's your choice, but I just want you to know what you could be missing." Allison threw her arms around Harry and cried onto his shoulder. He held her close to him and kissed her neck. "Oh Harry, I know you're right, but I can't just go and call this stranger, "Dad". I mean…..I don't know what I mean…" "It's okay…" Harry said soothingly. "You ready to go down? You can talk to him tommorow or whenever you're ready…" Allison looked up and nodded. Harry took the broomsticks down and they headed back to the common room.
Once inside, they were surprised to find Autumn and Sirius gone. There was a note hanging midair and humming loudly. Allison picked it up and read aloud, "Allison, I'm sorry you had to find this out so suddenly and I hope you will forgive me and Sirius. We went off to bed in the Guest room, and we'll see you in the morning at breakfast. Good night. Love,Mum." Allison folded the note and put it in her pocket. "Goddnight then Harry." Allison said wiping her tears away. Harry hugged her tightly and let her go, she headed up the right staircase. And into the girl's dormitories. Harry went up the left and changed into his pajamas, it was a warm night, so Harry just put on his pajama bottoms. He collapsed on his bed, and didn't even bother taking off his glasses. He couldn't sleep. He just laid there staring up at the ceiling. The he saw the curtain from his 4 poster bed open. It was Allison, she was dressed in a thin airy white nightgown, her eyes glowed in the moonlight that filled the room. "I couldn't sleep." She said sadly. Harry moved over a bit and Allison slipped under the warm blanket and snuggled close to Harry. He played with her hair and took off his glasses, setting them on the bedside table. Allison kissed Harry sleepily. "I love you Harry Potter." He smiled warmly. "I love you too." She sighed happily and laid her head on Harry bare chest. He breathed the scent of honeysuckle from Allison's hair. She was making circles on his stomach with her finger. Harry's stomach tighten. What was it about her that always made him feel like he was floating on air? She gazed up at him smiling lovingly. Her hair was soft and feathery feeling. Harry ran his fingers through it, watching it fall from his fingers when he reached the ends. Allison lifted her head up and kissed Harry softly on the lips. Harry kissed her gently then fiercly. Allison shivered in his arms. She ran her fingers through his dark jet black hair. Allison laid her head back down on Harry chest and he planted kisses all down the back of her neck. Allison drifted off to sleep and Harry laid there watching her breathe in and out. She was still wearing the necklace that Harry had given her. It was glowing pink in the darkness. Allison turned over and sighed softly. Harry held her in his arms and she smiled in her sleep. Harry felt sleep starting to take over and let it take control and fell into a deep sleep filled with love and happiness.
Wow, that
was pretty long! Thanks for the reviews! They were great! Yea! I told you there'd
be more fluff!
So all
those people requesting more fluff! There you go!
Joe: thanks!
Yeah it might be weird, didn't think too much about it until after I posted
chapter 8
But I think
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I would have you edit this, but that would cut into your time of finishing Anna
Morgan!!!!
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better start writing!!!
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It's the
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Kaytea