Sirius Black entered the room and smiled. He was almost blinded by all the white of the rooms décor.
He walked into the room and ran his fingers across the top of the vanity. Continuing forward, he ran his hands through the white gauzy material on the four posted bed in the middle of the room and reached his hands out and grasped the back of the chair. He reached around and smoothed her hair back and leaned forward, gently planting a kiss on her forehead. She looked up at him and smiled, her chocolate brown eyes soft and gentle. She returned her attention back to the window she was seated at.
"Hello Lover." Her silky voice slipped out from between her pale pink lips.
He circled around the chair and scooped her up into his arms, a startled squeak slipping out of her mouth. "Sirius! Be careful!" She scolded playfully as he placed her on the bed and bounded over her to the other side of the bed.
"How are you doing?" He asked as he buried his face in her waist length chestnut brown hair. He began to nibble her earlobe gently as she spoke again.
"The baby's been kicking," she stated as she took his hand and placed it on her belly. He lifted his head up and propped himself up on his arm and continued to look at her.
"I can see that," he grinned at her and leaned over her and kissed her on the lips, all the while, he kept his hand on her swelling belly.
"Sirius…" Her voice trailed off as his head rested on her shoulder. "Sirius, please don't ever leave me…" Her voice began to trail off as if he were listing to her speak through a tunnel. The room, her face, everything, began to fade out until all was a nebulous void.
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Sirius woke with a start and looked around. He was his cell in Azkaban. He stood up from and looked out the bars, in to the passageway his cell was located along. He looked up and down the hall wondering why the dementors weren't trying to suck the dream out his head, but he didn't see any dementors anywhere in the corridor. He couldn't even feel their presence in the general area.
Probably a new prisoner then. He thought to him self as he sat on the bunk, and just watched out through the bars.
About five minutes later, he heard the door at the end of the hall open and several people entered the passage. He leaned over just enough to see the group walking his direction. Still no dementors. That would explain their absence.
There three people; two were Ministry Law Officials. The third was a young girl.
Hogwarts! She goes to Hogwarts! His voice went off in his mind. He was now noting the colors of the scarf wrapped around her neck. Green and silver! Slytherin, she's a Slytherin. She has to be at least a sixth year just by looking at her. He continued musing about this most interesting visitor. He then noticed the Head Girl badge on the lapel of her jacket. It was almost entirely concealed under her school cloaks.
She's a seventh year. And a Head Girl at that… But what is a Slytherin Head Girl from Hogwarts doing visiting Azkaban? His curiosity had gotten the better of him by this point.
Surely someone able to get the Head Girl position is smart enough not to mix with the scum in this Hell. He was now looking at her face and alarms started going off in his head.
It's her, the wo… the one from the dream!
He sat back against the wall of his cell in shock, watching as her and the two Ministry Officials walked silently past his cell. She cast a side glance at him and threw him a small warm smile. Her chocolate brown eyes were giving him the same look they had given him in the dream.
He stood up and pressed himself against the bars and continued to watch them as they made there way down the corridor.
That was her! I know it was! Now he was trying to figure out why he was dreaming about a school girl, whom, other than in the dream, he had never seen before in his life. Never mind the fact that she's a Slytherin. Then there was the look she had given him. It was like she had known him, and they had their own mutual secret with each other. Her eyes also had the haunted look of someone who's been through some form of hell and back
He smiled to himself. He wanted to see her again. He wanted to look into her eyes, he wanted to touch her, to assure himself that she was real and that this wasn't a figment of his brain finally starting to buckle under the constant feeding off his emotions by the dementors. But he knew he had very little, if any at all, of a chance to ever see if his dream would come true.
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Half an hour later, he was still standing at the bars of his cell, straining to see where she was. This was the most significant thing that had happened to him since he had been placed in his cell ten years prior.
He was beginning to wonder how long she was going to be. He looked up and down the hall, trying to figure out if something was going on.
He strained on the off chance he could at least hear anything. He thought he could just hear two women's voices, but couldn't make out what they were saying.
Must be an important conversation to last this long. He moved himself to the opposite wall of his cell, and looked back down the corridor.
He could now see the two ministry officials standing on either side of the cell six cells down.
Now that is strange. That cell belongs to one of the Death Eaters. Who was it? They weren't here as long as the others have been
"What the bloody hell was her name?" He said in frustration as he began pacing the cell. He knew he had been at Hogwarts the same time as him.
The whole situation was starting to drive him crazy. Not that the dementors weren't doing a good enough job of that already.
Why isn't she coming back yet? I want to see her again. Just one more time. What could be that important?
Just then a dementor came through the door at the end of the corridor, and floated down the corridor, closely followed by two others.
Right behind them, the door burst open and another girl ran through, closely followed by two more ministry officials, running right after her.
"Asy!" she yelled through her tears and panic. "Asy! They gave the kiss to Aunt Kit! They're giving it to mum next!" She screamed down the corridor as she was wrestled down to the floor by the second set of men.
The first girl, "Asy," came running back down the corridor to her sister and pushed the two men off of her, pulling the second girl back towards their mother's cell.
"STAY AWAY FROM HER!" came the girls' plaintive voices, the dementors they were trying to plead with were unresponsive and continued to make their way towards the doomed woman. As he was watching this, the second set of guards were dizzily making their way past his cell towards the commotion.
Icefilter! Colleene Icefilter! He remebered the woman's name. She had been a Slytherin girl a few years ahead of him when he had been at Hogwarts. He moved himself back into the corner so he could see what was going on. Asy? It's got to be short for something... Something a little more becoming of a Slytherin.
By this point, both girls were struggling against the four guards and trying to get to their mother. Asy released a shrill scream which echoed through the hall, forcing Sirius to put his hands over his ears.
After a few minutes, the girls screams sub-sided, and then their tearful sobs began to penetrate the cells in the corridor. Their tears were penetrating into Sirius's mind and mixing with the memories of his dream about one of the two sobbing girl's on the prison floor. The second girl seemed to be more affected than Asy was.
He wanted to help her. He wanted to comfort her, but he was in no position to do anything for her, or her sister. He wanted to make sure Asy knew he was hers.
He watched as both girls were picked up and escorted out by the ministry guards, but not before Asy was able to break away from the two holding her. She ran up to the bars of Sirius' cell, her teary, brown eyes meeting his.
"I know who you are and I know you are innocent." She said as she was beginning to be pulled away from him. She made a quick side glance down towards where her mother's cell was. She looked back into his eyes.
"I'll always be with you in your visions! The dementors, they can't take that away from you!" She raised her voice as she was pulled through the door, leaving Sirius alone with the dementors and his thoughts as his only company.
He looked down at his wrist and saw a silver necklace hanging off of it. He pulled it off and began to examine it closely as he sat back down on his bunk. It looked to be a large rose with a ruby embedded in the center. Around the flower, was entwined a serpent.
He looked at the little gift he had received, thought about what Asy had said and looked at the corridor.
"…And I still have no bloody clue what's going on." He said exacerbated.