~ The Diary of the Phoenix ~

Author's Notes: Sorry this ones a bit shorter, I really couldn't think of anything else I could add to this chapter and I'm happy with it the way it is. Thankyou to everyone who's reviewed. I really appreciate it :)

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"Do you understand my orders Wormtail, I want him brought back . ALIVE!" Voldermort said his eyes blazing.

"Yes master" The death eater replied timidly

"It is but a simple request Wormtail, you will bring him back... or else."

* * *

Harry suddenly awoke. His scar wasn't hurting so he wondered what had woken him until he stared straight into two chocolate brown eyes. Harry jumped slamming his head into Hermiones. "Hermione, don't ever do that again" Harry hissed rubbing his head where a bump was fast appearing.

Hermione too had her hand on her head "I'm so sorry Harry but I need the Marauders Map!"

"Hermione you're a witch, use a god damn summoning charm will you, I have a hell of a Quidditch game to go to later."

Hermione was kicking herself "Harry I'm so sorry, when I panic I seem to lose my common sense." she admitted.

"Don't worry" Harry sighed, "You just gave me quite a shock, I thought you were Wormtail"

"You know that's probably the most horrible thing that you have ever said to me" She said slowly causing him to laugh,

"I was midway through a nightmare when you woke me, Voldermort was ordering Wormtail to come and get me" he explained smiling, "Sorry to offend you"

"Harry! Thats terrible!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Not really, just really annoying, I mean if you hadn't have woken me I wouldn't remember the dream, but when you did I missed out on the details, I don't know when where or why, no actually scratch that, I know why, because Voldermort has nothing better to do than try and kill me"

"Don't joke about it Harry" Hermione said giving Harry a serious look "You should go tell Sirius and Dumbledore"

"Yeah, great, what was it Aliandra said about waking up Sirius?" He said cursing.

"Well good luck" She said then muttered a summoning spell concentrating on the Marauders Map. A few seconds followed before the map appeared in her hands.

* * *

Hermione followed the map to the place marked Professors rooms. The entrance had a huge painting of the four founders in front of it; with the help of the map she made her way in quietly sneaking past all of the paintings just in case there was a room behind them. She walked to the painting that she could see Aliandra behind on the map; She assumed that this must mean that Aliandra was awake.

Hermione took a deep breath and entered the quiet room. The light was on and Aliandra was sitting in the corner at a desk, she had a quill in her hand but she wasn't looking at the paper in front of her, she was staring out the window.

"Hello?" Hermione whispered,

Aliandra jumped and Hermione was shocked at how quickly the woman reacted. In the few seconds after she had made a noise Aliandra was on her feet with her wand pointing straight at Hermione. "Um." Hermione stuttered, Aliandra's face relaxed as she realized who was standing before her.

"Hermione, I'm so sorry," She said putting her wand down. "What in the world are you, how, oh no I don't need you to answer that." Hermione gave Aliandra a second to get all her thoughts together. "I hate getting up early," Aliandra said eventually.

"You react pretty well" Hermione said still getting over how fast she moved.

"I grew up in a time where that second could cause a lot of pain" Hermione looked into her sad blue eyes. "Be grateful that you got to grow up without that" she said gently.

"Well, anyway I'm glad you got up earlier than I thought you would. I was dreading having to wake you" Hermione said

"Well I'm not as bad as Sirius" Aliandra laughed.

"Poor Harry then" Hermione laughed causing Aliandra's sapphire eyes to narrow, looking at her carefully. "Oh no, Harry had a dream, he just tells them to Sirius and he tells Dumbledore."

"Oh" Aliandra said she seemed to understand. "So what is it you want to know?"

"Oh, um, what's, how did you know I wanted to know something?" She asked

"Why else would you risk waking me up?"

Hermione smiled, "You really think things through don't you, you don't miss anything"

"I don't know about thinking things through, but not missing anything comes from the shadow work, its not as easy as you think, the one second that you look away they could be gone" Aliandra said thinking. "So anyway you came here because..."

"Oh, um, whatsupbetweenyouandsirius" She said extremely fast

Aliandra stared at Hermione blankly, but just as Hermione was about to say something she repeated Hermione's words. "What's up between me and Sirius?" Hermione nodded. The woman seemed to be thinking about this. "Why?" she whispered after a moments silence.

"I don't know, just after the diary and with Harry and Sirius, we sort of took it as a responsibility to well fix things" Hermione tried to explain. Aliandra nodded silently, "What is it, what's the problem is it love,"

"No, its not love. Its definitely not love." The blonde haired woman whispered so quietly that Hermione didn't hear her.

"Cause, I, that ones not so easy to fix and well"

"Hermione, I love Sirius!" She exclaimed. "Love has got nothing to do with the fact that we are not together" Hermione looked straight into her eyes and suddenly felt extremely terrible, pain darted through Aliandra's sapphire eyes and it was obvious that this conversation was probably going to make her cry.

"Hermione, I loved Sirius when I thought he had murdered my best friend. Loves something that you don't lose, you can hate and love someone at the same time. You could almost say it has a mind of its own, Love is blind, it doesn't matter about the past, or what they do, once you've got it, you can't get rid of it so easily. But then, I suppose deep down I knew that Sirius didn't do it" She sighed. "I just wish I'd listened to my heart instead of my head."

Hermione looked at her sadly. "You should write a romance novel based on your life"

Aliandra looked up at Hermione. "I think not being able to use magic in the book would drive me mad, suggest it to Sirius, he's the one that loves muggle books"

"You must know him so well"

"I used to, but he's grown up a lot," Aliandra paused. "We've both grown up a lot"

Hermione smiled gently. "So why aren't you with him?"

"I've had trouble with that one, as many reasons I can find to not be with him, I still can't find it in myself to answer that question, I suppose because I believe I could be with him, if I tried."

"What are the reasons?"

"I'm afraid, I guess is one way to put it"

"Afraid of getting hurt" Hermione asked and Aliandra nodded. "But isn't that part of Love, getting around things, going through things?"

"I've been through an awful lot to keep Sirius" Aliandra said

"It would be a waste to give him up," Hermione countered

Aliandra took a deep breath. "I suppose that's true,"

"I know you've lost a lot Aliandra, but wouldn't it be better to hold on to the things that you have."

"But I don't have him, he would have to keep moving, I would worry all the time, it would be distracting, annoying, heartbreaking, frustrating."

"But wouldn't it be worth it?" Aliandra's blue eyes stared into Hermione's chocolate eyes.

"Yes" she said in barely a whisper. She broke the stare and looked out the window. "Strange how time changes people. In third year I would have never seen myself making decisions like this."

"When did you fall in love with Sirius, or rather, when did you realize you were in love with Sirius?"

"Um, seventh year. We had a big fight, it was rather stupid actually, you see Remus's girlfriend had broken up with him because he had embarrassed her or something. Anyway so Sirius er- tested to see what would happen if he did something embarrassing. He err, proposed to Dumbledore"

"What!" Hermione exclaimed laughing

"He went up to the professors table, and waited till Dumbledore came in, then in front of the whole hall he proposed to Dumbledore, he had this toy ring that was his sisters, the whole hall lost it laughing, it was hilarious"

Hermione was nearly crying from laughing.

"Anyway, I don't remember being mad at him while he was doing it, but I got bugged all day about it, and well I took it all out on Sirius. We didn't talk to each other for about two weeks or so, then there was this girl. Her and I really didn't get along and well she started attaching herself to Sirius. I was already in pain over the split, but that just pissed me off beyond belief, it sort of became this all out war between her and me behind Sirius's back."

"You won"

"Yeah, I err- proposed to McGonagall"

Hermione stared for a second. "You," but couldn't find any more words. Then she lost it laughing.

"I did what had caused the split in the first place. I will never forget the look on his face it was classic. McGonagall looked at me muttering something like 'why me' I guess it was rather enjoyable."

"Rather enjoyable, you liked embarrassing yourself" Hermione said still laughing

"Well it wasn't really embarrassing while you were up there, and my mind was rather focused on getting Sirius back." Aliandra said thinking.

"What did Lily think of this?" Hermione said

"Oh, she found it incredibly funny, she teased me for years that I should have stuck with McGonagall who was so much more responsible than Sirius, she even brought it up at the wedding." Aliandra paused "I don't think Sirius and I ever fought after that, oh, except before the wedding, that was hell"

"You mean you were fighting while you were engaged."

"Well not all the time, its just weddings are so hard to organize, and so many things can go wrong, not to mention that we were trying to juggle that with the pressure of work, just wait till your arranging your wedding, many a night I'd have Sirius sleeping on the couch"

Hermione laughed. The sun had risen and had lit up the whole room. "The quidditch game will start soon," Aliandra said looking out the window once again.

"Are you going?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, I always loved quidditch, and I've been told that Harry's as natural on a broom as his father was which will be interesting to watch."

"Are you going to make up with Sirius?" Hermione asked.

"I think it will happen on its own if I wait" Aliandra smiled. "Thank you, I'm can't believe it took a talk with a fifteen year old to wake me up though"

Hermione grinned, "Well I'm sure the diary did most of it"

"I admit you would have had a harder time had you not shown me that"

Hemione smiled, "I still would have tried, and its so nice talking to a girl for once, not that I don't love Harry and Ron" Hermione said

Aliandra smiled. "Well I suppose we should get going, I'm up for a good breakfast how about you?"

"Sounds good" Hermione said grinning.