Author's Note: Sorry this took me forever to get out. I had some family
difficulties that made it near impossible to type. But don't worry, I think
I'll be able to get back into the swing of things shortly. I have the next
chapter already half-way done, in my mind at least. Also I have some more
stories I'm writing, hopefully I'll get a few of them posted within the
next few weeks. Mostly D/Hr, but one of them think is MWPP AU. So I'll keep
you updated! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Rating: PG-13
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Rachel was in her bathrobe and her hair was pulled up into a towel, sitting next to the fireplace in her room at the Magia School. She was going through old school pictures of her and her friends, Lily Evans, the blushing beauty and the Infamous Marauders. Relics of a past long forgotten. She was lost in her own thoughts and barely heard the door knocking. She gathered the pictures and put them in her shoe box and slid them under her bed. The door knocked again, she crosses over and opened it slightly.
"Hello?" Ilyanna was standing there, her own rode hanging open over her pajama's. Rachel smiled and opened the door, allowing her in.
"What did you need, dear?"
Ilyanna looked around timidly, then back at her mother,
"I had a premonition." Rachel closed the door then turned back to Ilyanna, a thoughtful look on her face.
"My mother was a seer, so you probably inherited her talents. What was it about? You look frightened. Honey, what is it?" Rachel wrapped her arms around her daughter, she was shivering. Tears formed in her eyes as Rachel led her over to the bed. She rubbed her back comfortingly,
"Shhh.It's okay, sweetie.everything's going to be alright. Just tell me what you saw."
"I saw. Sirius Black." Ilyanna started, choking on the words in her throat.
"You saw your father?" Rachel asked, a mix of terror and joy on her face, contorted by the firelight.
"It was dark, and loud. I heard people screaming. Dementer's swarmed everywhere. I heard him laugh." Her voice sank into a whisper and her body shivered again. Rachel drew her in closer to her, "The darkness lifted," She continued, "I was all alone in multitude of bodies. Many of which I didn't even recognize, but some I did. Lorelei, Draco, Hermione, You and.Sirius. I don't know how I knew him, but I did, it was a feeling in my gut. And Voldermort was staring at me, a weird, evil glint in his eye. Telling me his plan worked perfectly and I had only one choice. Pledge my loyalty to him or die. And I did. I kneeled right there and swore blind loyalty to him whilst my presence remained on this earth." Tears were rolling freely down her face, and she fell into her mothers arms, who rocked her comfortingly. "I don't want to join him.Please, don't let him take me.please."
"Shh.It's okay.We won't let anything of that sort happen, I'll always be here for you from now on.Shh." Rachel stroked her hair, then kissed her forehead. Ilyanna wiped away her tears then looked her mother in the eye.
"Why did you leave me?" Rachel's face contorted into a pained expression, her eye's pleading silently.
"I was scared. I was nineteen and pregnant. I wasn't sure what Sirius would think if I told him he knocked me up after one night. Hell, I didn't even know what to think. I didn't know if he really cared that much for me, and I didn't know my true feelings either. That night was sort of a 'spur- of-the-moment' thing. But one I'll never forget nor regret. I didn't tell anyone, I just left. Dumbledore offered me a position in the Ministry and I too it without question. Training was in Egypt and that's when I met Lorelei Malfoy. We were then stationed together in Denmark and relied greatly on each other, much to our surprise. We never really got along all that great at Hogwarts, to put it nicely. She helped me with your birth though, and I'll never forget her kindness to me. I never told Sirius about you. Not that I didn't think he wouldn't love you, quite the contrary. He would've been thrilled to have a daughter. He has a great capacity to love. None of my friends knew about you, or where I went. In fact, I seriously think that they all thought I died in a freak accident. Which is better that way. But then I heard Sirius went to Azkaban for betraying Lily and James Potter. I went into shock. The only thing I could so was take care of you. I didn't want to believe it, it was a wild mistake. Sirius would never do anything like that. But then I realized I had left him two days after he told me he loved me. And I blamed myself, but I still didn't talk to Remus or Peter, our other friends. I couldn't face them yet. A few weeks later Dumbledore gave me another offer I couldn't refuse. I would be working against Voldermort in secrecy. But I also thought I could figure out why Sirius betrayed the, or if he really did. A dangerous job and I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything happened to you. So I asked Lorelei to take you. And she did. The greatest sign of friendship she could ever show me. It was hell leaving you though. I was leaving behind my one last link to my past. But I promised myself I would write you. Make sure you knew the truth. I want you to know, Ilyanna, that I never wanted to be rid of you. I have always and always will love you."
By now Rachel was in tears also. Ilyanna drew her into a forgiving embrace, and they sat there on the bed, arms around each other, sobbing. Rachel was the first to pull away, she had another thought,
"It hurt so much to leave him when I knew that he was capable of loving you the way you deserved to be loved. You were my only comfort. But when I had to leave you, it was like reopening an old wound. I couldn't help but think what would've happened if I stayed." She couldn't continue, fresh springs of tears streamed down her cheeks. Ilyanna stroked her mother's hair gently,
"You really loved him, didn't you?" She asked. Rachel nodded looking up with a smile on her face.
"Yes. I still do. I don't think anything will change it." A feeling of pity spread into Ilyanna's heart for her mother. This woman before her loved and still was in love with a man whom she hadn't seen in seventeen years and had no chance to tell him how she felt. She put a hand to her cheek and gave her a reassuring smile. Achel took her hand and smiled back.
"I know he's dead. I have no way of bringing him back, but something somewhere tells me he's not done with us yet. And If I know Sirius Black, it'll some at the moment we least expect it, and shall remain forever. Now you'd better get back to bed before anyone notices you're gone." Ilyanna nodded and got up, squeezing her mother's hand one last time. She had just opened the door when Rachel spoke.
"Don't worry about the premonition. The one upside to having inner sight is that you now have time to change the future." Ilyanna smiled then left. Rachel went into her bathroom and let her hair down and changed into some silk pajamas. She put her hair into two French braids. Her thoughts were on her school days as she crawled into her bed. She fell asleep thinking about her graduation day.
A little way away, Aradia Magia, was stirring. No longer did she want to be Hermione Granger, the insufferable know-it-all muggle-born Gryffindor teacher's pet she always was in the past. She wanted to be who she knew she truly was. A Powerful Witch with the talent to do extraordinary things. For the first time since her mother left, she felt as thought something went right. And that wasn't going to disappear after a week. This was permanent. And she liked it. It felt weird to think about things like this as she lay in her bed in the Head's Dormitories. But the desire was still there, as strong as ever. She also knew that things needed to move faster, Voldermort was gaining strength much faster than anticipated. Harry was going to need all the help he could get. Wait, he wasn't the one who could destroy him. She was. For the first time in her life, she was going to be the one executing her plans instead of Harry. A pang of guilt hit her, what was Harry going to think about all this. After everything he's already been through, would he just sit back at let her take the reins? She highly doubted it. She needed to tell him soon, before he goes and gets himself killed in a battle he isn't supposed to fight. But she didn't know what fate had in store for Harry, maybe he was meant to die. All she knew was she wanted to keep him safe, and Ron, and Ginny. Everyone in Gryffindor, in all the houses at Hogwarts, even the teachers, she wanted to save. This was a new feeling for her, even Malfoy deserved life without Voldermort.
Aradia got up out of her bed and threw on a cloak, she needed some fresh air, that would help her think. She quietly stole out of the dormitory and the common rooms, down the corridor and out the main entrance hall. It was a full moon, her mind went out to Remus, wherever he was. She didn't realize where she was walking, but found herself at the lake, the moon reflecting off of the water beautifully. She sat down by the water's edge and sent some ripples in the water with her toes. She watched as they flew across the water to he far side of the lake. She thought about how many times she had been here but it never looked this beautiful. Her mind wondered as she sat there, hardly noticing that I ripples in the water never stopped.
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Rachel was in her bathrobe and her hair was pulled up into a towel, sitting next to the fireplace in her room at the Magia School. She was going through old school pictures of her and her friends, Lily Evans, the blushing beauty and the Infamous Marauders. Relics of a past long forgotten. She was lost in her own thoughts and barely heard the door knocking. She gathered the pictures and put them in her shoe box and slid them under her bed. The door knocked again, she crosses over and opened it slightly.
"Hello?" Ilyanna was standing there, her own rode hanging open over her pajama's. Rachel smiled and opened the door, allowing her in.
"What did you need, dear?"
Ilyanna looked around timidly, then back at her mother,
"I had a premonition." Rachel closed the door then turned back to Ilyanna, a thoughtful look on her face.
"My mother was a seer, so you probably inherited her talents. What was it about? You look frightened. Honey, what is it?" Rachel wrapped her arms around her daughter, she was shivering. Tears formed in her eyes as Rachel led her over to the bed. She rubbed her back comfortingly,
"Shhh.It's okay, sweetie.everything's going to be alright. Just tell me what you saw."
"I saw. Sirius Black." Ilyanna started, choking on the words in her throat.
"You saw your father?" Rachel asked, a mix of terror and joy on her face, contorted by the firelight.
"It was dark, and loud. I heard people screaming. Dementer's swarmed everywhere. I heard him laugh." Her voice sank into a whisper and her body shivered again. Rachel drew her in closer to her, "The darkness lifted," She continued, "I was all alone in multitude of bodies. Many of which I didn't even recognize, but some I did. Lorelei, Draco, Hermione, You and.Sirius. I don't know how I knew him, but I did, it was a feeling in my gut. And Voldermort was staring at me, a weird, evil glint in his eye. Telling me his plan worked perfectly and I had only one choice. Pledge my loyalty to him or die. And I did. I kneeled right there and swore blind loyalty to him whilst my presence remained on this earth." Tears were rolling freely down her face, and she fell into her mothers arms, who rocked her comfortingly. "I don't want to join him.Please, don't let him take me.please."
"Shh.It's okay.We won't let anything of that sort happen, I'll always be here for you from now on.Shh." Rachel stroked her hair, then kissed her forehead. Ilyanna wiped away her tears then looked her mother in the eye.
"Why did you leave me?" Rachel's face contorted into a pained expression, her eye's pleading silently.
"I was scared. I was nineteen and pregnant. I wasn't sure what Sirius would think if I told him he knocked me up after one night. Hell, I didn't even know what to think. I didn't know if he really cared that much for me, and I didn't know my true feelings either. That night was sort of a 'spur- of-the-moment' thing. But one I'll never forget nor regret. I didn't tell anyone, I just left. Dumbledore offered me a position in the Ministry and I too it without question. Training was in Egypt and that's when I met Lorelei Malfoy. We were then stationed together in Denmark and relied greatly on each other, much to our surprise. We never really got along all that great at Hogwarts, to put it nicely. She helped me with your birth though, and I'll never forget her kindness to me. I never told Sirius about you. Not that I didn't think he wouldn't love you, quite the contrary. He would've been thrilled to have a daughter. He has a great capacity to love. None of my friends knew about you, or where I went. In fact, I seriously think that they all thought I died in a freak accident. Which is better that way. But then I heard Sirius went to Azkaban for betraying Lily and James Potter. I went into shock. The only thing I could so was take care of you. I didn't want to believe it, it was a wild mistake. Sirius would never do anything like that. But then I realized I had left him two days after he told me he loved me. And I blamed myself, but I still didn't talk to Remus or Peter, our other friends. I couldn't face them yet. A few weeks later Dumbledore gave me another offer I couldn't refuse. I would be working against Voldermort in secrecy. But I also thought I could figure out why Sirius betrayed the, or if he really did. A dangerous job and I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything happened to you. So I asked Lorelei to take you. And she did. The greatest sign of friendship she could ever show me. It was hell leaving you though. I was leaving behind my one last link to my past. But I promised myself I would write you. Make sure you knew the truth. I want you to know, Ilyanna, that I never wanted to be rid of you. I have always and always will love you."
By now Rachel was in tears also. Ilyanna drew her into a forgiving embrace, and they sat there on the bed, arms around each other, sobbing. Rachel was the first to pull away, she had another thought,
"It hurt so much to leave him when I knew that he was capable of loving you the way you deserved to be loved. You were my only comfort. But when I had to leave you, it was like reopening an old wound. I couldn't help but think what would've happened if I stayed." She couldn't continue, fresh springs of tears streamed down her cheeks. Ilyanna stroked her mother's hair gently,
"You really loved him, didn't you?" She asked. Rachel nodded looking up with a smile on her face.
"Yes. I still do. I don't think anything will change it." A feeling of pity spread into Ilyanna's heart for her mother. This woman before her loved and still was in love with a man whom she hadn't seen in seventeen years and had no chance to tell him how she felt. She put a hand to her cheek and gave her a reassuring smile. Achel took her hand and smiled back.
"I know he's dead. I have no way of bringing him back, but something somewhere tells me he's not done with us yet. And If I know Sirius Black, it'll some at the moment we least expect it, and shall remain forever. Now you'd better get back to bed before anyone notices you're gone." Ilyanna nodded and got up, squeezing her mother's hand one last time. She had just opened the door when Rachel spoke.
"Don't worry about the premonition. The one upside to having inner sight is that you now have time to change the future." Ilyanna smiled then left. Rachel went into her bathroom and let her hair down and changed into some silk pajamas. She put her hair into two French braids. Her thoughts were on her school days as she crawled into her bed. She fell asleep thinking about her graduation day.
A little way away, Aradia Magia, was stirring. No longer did she want to be Hermione Granger, the insufferable know-it-all muggle-born Gryffindor teacher's pet she always was in the past. She wanted to be who she knew she truly was. A Powerful Witch with the talent to do extraordinary things. For the first time since her mother left, she felt as thought something went right. And that wasn't going to disappear after a week. This was permanent. And she liked it. It felt weird to think about things like this as she lay in her bed in the Head's Dormitories. But the desire was still there, as strong as ever. She also knew that things needed to move faster, Voldermort was gaining strength much faster than anticipated. Harry was going to need all the help he could get. Wait, he wasn't the one who could destroy him. She was. For the first time in her life, she was going to be the one executing her plans instead of Harry. A pang of guilt hit her, what was Harry going to think about all this. After everything he's already been through, would he just sit back at let her take the reins? She highly doubted it. She needed to tell him soon, before he goes and gets himself killed in a battle he isn't supposed to fight. But she didn't know what fate had in store for Harry, maybe he was meant to die. All she knew was she wanted to keep him safe, and Ron, and Ginny. Everyone in Gryffindor, in all the houses at Hogwarts, even the teachers, she wanted to save. This was a new feeling for her, even Malfoy deserved life without Voldermort.
Aradia got up out of her bed and threw on a cloak, she needed some fresh air, that would help her think. She quietly stole out of the dormitory and the common rooms, down the corridor and out the main entrance hall. It was a full moon, her mind went out to Remus, wherever he was. She didn't realize where she was walking, but found herself at the lake, the moon reflecting off of the water beautifully. She sat down by the water's edge and sent some ripples in the water with her toes. She watched as they flew across the water to he far side of the lake. She thought about how many times she had been here but it never looked this beautiful. Her mind wondered as she sat there, hardly noticing that I ripples in the water never stopped.