Sirius lent his head on the taxi door. He and James decided it was best to go by muggle transport, and James's parents didn't own a car.
"Hmmph" was Sirius' reply.
Sirius looked out the window, up to the gloomy sky. It was raining, and the droplets looked like tears on the window, like the clouds were crying for Zani.
Sirius heard a soft tune playing from the muggle radio in the taxi. He listened in for a few seconds…
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming,
Or the moment of truth in your life,
When everything feels like the movies,
Yeah you bleed just to know your alive…
All of a sudden, Sirius' mind went blank…
*Flashback*
"ARGH! SIRIUS RUN!" Zani screamed, running from Snape, who had grown, er, womanly features and was chasing Sirius and Zani down the hallway, receiving catcalls and whistles as he went, whilst running in high heels.
Sirius and Zani had reached the Room of Requirement, and Sirius opened the door and they jumped inside it. It had turned into a broom cupboard, and Snape had no idea where they were.
Zani and Sirius were laughing so hard they couldn't stand straight.
"That…was…the…best…prank…this…year!" Zani said between giggles.
When they had recovered, Zani asked, "Where's Jamie?"
As if to answer her question, they heard Snape yell "POTTER! I'M GOING TO GET YOU!"
Zani and Sirius burst out laughing again.
*Flashback 2*
The first years were arriving in the usual fashion, on boats. Zani was with her newfound friend, Marie, Lily with Bella, Sirius with James, and Remus, reluctantly, with Peter.
"Hey Evans! Evans!" James called out to the pretty redhead he had met earlier that day.
Lily turned around to see the cheeky faces of James Potter and Sirius Black staring back at her.
"What do you want?" Lily asked coolly.
"Will you go out with me?" the hazel eyed, messy haired boy asked.
"No bloody way" Lily replied.
During the trip, James proceeded to asked Lily out five more times before giving up. Sirius had resulted to talking to his cousin Zanthia, who, with Marie, were residing the boat next to them. They were planning to tip Lily and Bella's boat over. James however, was oblivious to this, and they suspected he would dive in and save Lily.
Zani and Sirius rowed their boats away from each other, either side of Lily and Bella's.
Sirius called out "1,2,3!" then they tipped the boat over.
Lily and Bella were both screaming their heads off, the water was freezing.
James immediately jumped in and saved Lily, who replied with a "GET THE HELL OFF ME POTTER!" and left Bella in the freezing cold water, screaming "Help me! Help me!" until Sirius, who had developed a teensy crush on the pretty brunette, jumped in and retrieved her from the water.
Bella, who couldn't deny she felt something for Sirius, thanked him quickly, blushing, and went back to her boat.
Sirius and Zani eyed each other and immediately burst out laughing.
*Flashback 3*
Sirius and Zani were playing in the sandbox together when they heard Sirius' parents come home, talking about Zani and Sirius joining the Death Eaters. Sirius and Zani keenly listened in.
"Zanthia would make a fine Death Eater, wouldn't she, darling?" Deirdre Black asked her husband.
"That mother of hers would never allow it. Stubborn cow that one is. I highly doubt Marcus knew what he was getting into marrying her" Fred replied, scowling.
"Yes, horrible choice, I must say. However, what about Sirius?" Deirdre asked.
"I don't know…honestly, I think the idiot of a son I have will be a goody-goody Dumbledore lover. Deirdre, we must have more children, we can't just have a blood traitor! We need a loving, devoted child!" Fred replied forcefully.
"I agree Fred. Sirius is a good for nothing idiot. I'm surprised the Dark Lord isn't hunting both he and Zanthia down and set them straight and if they still refuse…" Deirdre said, just as forcefully.
"They must suffer the consequences" Fred finished, and they both laughed evilly.
At that point, Zani and Sirius stopped listening.
Sirius turned to Zani, and asked her if she would join the Death Eaters.
"Of course not," she replied, "I don't want to be an evil person."
"Me either" Sirius said, although still worried. "When they said consequences, did they mean something that would happen if we didn't do something?" he asked Zani
"I think so" she replied.
"Well, what if that means he'd kill us?" Sirius asked.
"He'll never kill me. I'm going to live forever" she replied, grinning.
*End Flashback* That word echoed in Sirius' head.
"Forever"
"Forever"
"FOREVER!" Sirius cried, then turned to James.
"James! She's alive! Zani's alive! We've got to find her!" Sirius shouted.
James stared at his best friend blankly. "What?" he asked.
"She's alive! I just know it!" Sirius replied.
"Ok mate, if she is alive, where would she be?" James asked, worried for Sirius' sanity. "Well, she'd have gone to Marie's but no-one's there, they left early this morning,…she wouldn't go to my house or hers, she hates both…she doesn't know where Lily's is…nor Remus'…BELLA'S! She's be at Bella's!" Sirius cried, then opened the door.
"SIRIUS YOU TWIT! YOU"RE GOING TO GET YOUSELF KILLED!" James shouted, but Sirius had already got out of the car, and was running down the highway.
James quickly payed the taxi driver, opened the door, then ran after Sirius.
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Bella was still shocked to see the person who was standing on her doorstep.
"Zani?" Bella said, and Lily quickly got up off the floor and hurried to the door.
"Oh my God! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Lily screamed then she and Bella hugged Zani tightly.
"Guys, oxygen needed!" Zani said weakly, trying to smile.
"Zan, what happened to you?" Lily asked softly.
"Well, Voldermort kidnapped me while I was sleeping. Well actually, just his 'Death Eaters'. They took me to his hiding spot, and Voldermort tried to get me to join the Death Eaters. I refused, of course, and they held me in a cell for three days, feeding me when they felt like it. They didn't think, though, to take my wand, stupid idiots they are, so I could constantly conjure up my own food, but I couldn't open the lock, 'Alohamora' (A/N: Is that it? I'm not sure) didn't do it, so I had to wait until they decided to let me out. Sure enough, after three days, they let me out, so Voldermort could torture me until I agreed to joined, or until I died. Fortunately, I still had my wand, and as he didn't think I did , I hit him with the disarming spell and I ran away. When I got outside of that horrible place, I found I couldn't apparate, he must have put some kind of spell on me, so I had to hitchhike my way back here" Zani finished, horribly exhausted.
"It was so horrible!' she remarked, then burst into tears.
Lily and Bella immediately comforted her.
"Do you want us to owl Marie? And Sirius? And James? And Remus?" Bella babbled on, and Zani nodded her head every time she said a name.
So Bella ran up the stairs to her bedroom, then to her desk, and wrote on four different pieces of parchment: 'Zani's alive! Come to my house as soon as possible! Love, Bella', then told her owl, Bea, to send them to all four of them, as she didn't know where exactly they were.
Bella ran back downstairs, to where Lily and Zani were, the lounge room, where they launched into a girl talk session, and Bella happily thought 'Maybe everything will go back to normal again'
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I found that chapter really hard to write and I don't like it one bit!!!!!! But could you please review? If you do, thank you sooooo much!!!!
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