Auror's
Sirius was working late again with his training as an Auror, though he had come along way in just a couple of weeks; but he did have the help of Nissa and his friends. Nissa though had been an Auror near enough two days after signing up, though she was a lot more advanced then they were and they knew it; they weren't bothered because she helped them as well.
Nissa was getting tea ready for Sirius, he had taught her a few things about cooking; because she was no good unless the person wanted to be poisoned. She was stood in the kitchen making sure that nothing was burning when she heard him in the living room; she was surprised that he had come round by the fire.
"Sirius, you're early." Nissa teased as she walked through.
But Sirius wasn't stood there; instead Severus Snape was staring back at her.
"You're still with him then." Severus said. "You can do a lot better then that over grown oaf."
Nissa smiled at him. "Yes I'm still with Sirius, he's at work; but should be home soon if you wanted to stick around to say hi."
"No thanks, I came to see you." Severus told her walking farer into the room. "You're making a mistake by becoming an Auror, especially now; do you want to be killed?"
Nissa just looked at him for a moment before she answered. "I'm not doing the wrong thing, fighting for the greater good isn't wrong Severus. And no I don't want to be killed of course I don't." Severus wanted to say something else as he moved farer, but she spoke again before he could. "Is that why you've come around?"
"Of course not, I would never hurt you." Severus told her, he reached out to touch her but pulled his hand away quickly before he reached her face. "Why do you have to be an Auror, and be with him?"
"I love Sirius, and being an Auror...I can be kind of myself what I can't in other ways." Nissa told him softly.
"I don't care about the Auror thing, as long as you don't end up..." Severus couldn't finish, he looked at her. "Do you really love him? What about me, could you ever feel anything for me? I could protect you against them even if you still have to be a Auror."
"What's that suppose to mean, you could protect me?" Nissa asked him. "Severus you're not are you?"
Severus stepped closer but she stepped back. "That isn't the point, you avoided my question."
"That is the point though." Nissa told him. "And what do you want me to say? I'm with Sirius, I love Sirius, I really do; you're my friend you have been since we were little."
"And that's how you see me, just as a friend?" Severus asked her drawing himself up to his full height, she back down as he towered over her. "You have no idea..."
"Yes I do, I trust you I always will; even now when I think you just told me that you're a Death Eater." Nissa told him. "I trust you, maybe I'm an idiot for doing so; but I believe in you that one day you'll see that you're more then that."
"So you wouldn't turn me in?" Severus questioned smiling oddly at her.
Nissa looked away from him, she walked away but he came up behind her this time he touched her and brought her into his chest and wrapped his arms around her.
"Severus, I do care for you but not like that. And if I really had to if you went too far then yes I would turn you in." Nissa told him.
Severus turned her around to face him and smiled. "I wouldn't except nothing less from you. I don't have to like the fact that you're with him, but I guess I have to live with it don't I."
"Severus please don't do anything stupid." Nissa told him as he let her go and stepped back.
He just smiled and disapperated, Nissa didn't have any time to react or do anything because just then Sirius apperated into the room just where Severus had been standing. He smiled at her and then kissed her.
"Nice welcome back, next time you should be standing there with my slippers and a pipe." Sirius teased her.
Nissa smiled at him. "You don't wear your slippers, and you don't smoke; and if you did I would make you stop."
Sirius smiled at her and kissed her again. "It was just a thought, give it a few years we'll have this down."
"Of course, maybe you should check on tea." Nissa smiled.
He smiled at her as he walked through pulling off his cloak and handed it to her; she hung it up by the door and then followed him into the kitchen.
"So you except us to be still together in a few years time?" Nissa asked him.
Sirius stirred the noodles. "Of course I do, I can see us living together forever and a nice big family."
Nissa smiled at him as she led against the fridge. "A nice big family, you want lots of children?"
Sirius looked over at her. "Well if you don't want a dozen, we can settle at two or three."
"A dozen? Now I know your kidding." Nissa said smiling. "But a couple is manageable."
"Great." Sirius said and then turned back to the cooker. "This should be ready in a couple of minutes."
Nissa went to make up the table, and then Sirius came through a couple of minutes later with their tea just like he had said. They didn't talk about children but about how their Auror training was going on.
The night after Nissa went round to Lily's after she finished, she needed to talk to someone. She knocked on the door and she opened the door, Lily still lived at home; her and James were saving up to buy a house together. They went through to the kitchen so that they could talk.
"So what's wrong?" Lily asked her.
"Well...last night...we were in the kitchen and he was talking." Nissa told her. "He was saying that he could see us...he could see us living together forever...with this big family...or maybe a couple of children."
Lily giggled. "That's wonderful news, did he ask you?"
"Ask me what?" Nissa asked confused.
"Nissa, he was talking about living together children; what do you think I meant? Did he ask you to marry him?" Lily told her.
"What, no he didn't." Nissa said.
"He could do, what did you say to all that, about living together and the children?" Lily asked.
"He said something about a dozen children, and then changed it to two or three. I said that was manageable, I don't think that was the right thing to say do you?" Nissa said.
"Maybe not, you could have worded it a bit better." Lily said, an owl flew through the window and dropped a letter on the table.
The letter was addressed to Nissa, she opened it and read it quickly; it was from the Ministry.
"I'm sorry I've got to go." Nissa told her getting up.
"Is it trouble, is James alright?" Lily asked worried.
"It never said anything about James, but you know what he's like he'll be fine." Nissa reassured her. "I'll see ya later; don't say anything about what I said."
Before Lily could say anything else Nissa disapperated, and reappeared in the Leaky Caldron; she didn't pull her wand out as she looked round. Higgs walked over to her with Sirius and James.
"Could you have gotten here any faster?" Sirius teased her.
Nissa laughed then glared at him. "You wanted me?"
"We have a bit of a problem, these two." Higgs told her. "They want to become Auror's right now, I was wondering if you could give them a crush course."
James and Sirius looked at one another they hadn't been excepting Higgs to ask Nissa, but she smiled at them all the same and nodded.
"I wonder where we could do it." Nissa said thoughtfully.
"Just don't hurt them." Higgs told her. "Be back before morning though."
Higgs apperated out of there leaving them with Nissa who was smiling at them both.
"Up for a challenge?" Nissa asked them.
"Always you know that." James said.
Without another word she had transported them a top of a hill in the middle of nowhere, they looked round and then back her.
"Your not going to tell us how you did that are you?" Sirius asked her.
"No." Nissa answered simply. "But you should get ready to defend yourselves."
There had never worked so hard in their lives, she had done thing's with magic that they had never thought was possible; though didn't tell them how she had done it. She had created people which they could duel against so that they wouldn't hurt real people, but these creations acting just like real people so it was quit a challenge to win against them.
They both flopped out on the sofa in Sirius' apartment, and fell asleep straight away; Nissa had transported them back because they had been too tired. Remus came out of his bedroom as he heard someone in the kitchen.
"What time is it?" Remus said sleepier.
"Four in the morning, sorry to wake you Rem." Nissa said. "I just brought them two back from the crush course they wanted to do before coming Auror's, they should be alright. But..."
"But it doesn't matter how much training you might have you can still be killed." Remus said.
"Yes...I don't know what I would do if I lost anyone of you." Nissa told him. "I'm not even really aloud to help, because of the stupid rules; I could do so much but I'm not aloud. I'm not even aloud to tell you why."
"We don't understand completely, but enough. We know that you'll do as much as you can." Remus told her. "Just like the rest of us will."
"Yeah but it's different for you lot, it's not as though you have your hands tied behind your back stopping you." Nissa told him.
"No we don't, but you seem pretty powerful all the same, and can do a lot even with what you do now." Remus said. "So that's enough."
Nissa went back to her own place, leaving Sirius and James on the sofa and Remus went back to bed. They got up the next morning feeling very sore and tired but they still got up and had breakfast and went into work. Nissa had already been there over an hour before they finally rolled in, and found out that they had past her tests, and were on the team; but would start off small.
***
Sirius had told them all to meet him at the Potter's, Lily was already there with James when Nissa and Remus arrived; Peter arrived a while after them. Lily got started on something to eat for them all, Mr and Mrs Potter had gone out for the night giving them the house for themselves. Lily had dragged Nissa in the kitchen with her; they all knew something was up because they all knew that Nissa couldn't cook.
"So come on, anything happened yet?" Lily asked her.
"It's been more then a month, nothing is going to happen." Nissa told her. "I still remember what happened after that time they got drunk."
"He asked you then." Lily reminded her.
"Yeah and then, he told me to forget about it." Nissa told her. "I don't know, he might wait until I tell him that I'll take him as my mate."
"Mate?" Lily asked.
"Werewolf term kind of." Nissa explained. "He was telling you the truth that night, yeah he might have been drunk; but I am a werewolf. I can just change when I want, near enough."
"And Remus then?" Lily asked trying to take this information in.
"Yeap him too." James shouted through to them, and then they came in. "So part from the werewolf thing what else are you two talking about?"
"You're both werewolves, wow; I never knew." Lily said ignoring James' question. "All this time, and I never realised."
"It doesn't matter, that was how it was supposed to be." Nissa told her.
"You don't mind do you?" Remus asked her.
"Are you like Nissa, how she said she was?" Lily asked him.
"No, but she might teach me a thing or two one day; if not just her company makes me harmless." Remus answered.
"Well I have missed out on a lot haven't I?" Lily said.
"Are you lot here?" Sirius shouted through the house, looking for them all but they were now all in the kitchen. "And I thought I just thought about food, look at you all. Come on then I've got something to show you all."
They followed the very excited Sirius outside, Lily looking at Remus and Nissa every so often not really meaning too it was just getting used to this new information about her friends.
Sirius ran out of house and down the path, they walked out after him. He mounted a large motor bike, Lily held James' arm.
"You're not getting one." Lily told him.
"That's great and you past when?" Nissa asked him walking around the bike taking everything in about it. "Are you going to take me for a ride on it then?"
"Past the other day, but I brought her today." Sirius said smiling handing her the share helmet, as she climbed on behind him.
Nissa moved right up behind him and held on tight as he started the engine.
"Do be careful." Lily told them as she held James' arm tighter then she meant too.
Sirius started the engine, they speeded off down the road; Nissa moved in closer and looked over his shoulder. He turned sharply round the corner and then back towards the house, but before they got to the gate they lifted off the ground. Nissa held on tighter not that she was afraid but because she was excited about being in the air, flying through the air; yeah she used to fly on her broomstick but she just loved to fly.
"What do you think?" Sirius asked her.
"Its brilliant, I love it." Nissa told him.
"This is the only way to travel." Sirius shouted back to her.
"How high can she go?" Nissa asked him.
"You want to go higher?" Sirius asked, they were already a mile off the ground. But he took them up a little higher and even out, they flew over the countryside the little villages looked like toys below them.
"I've mist being able to fly." Nissa told him. "I used to love it, but this makes up for it being up here; with you."
"I'm glad, just you and me." Sirius said.
They finally went back down after an hour or so, they landed smoothly outside the house. Nissa climbed off and put the helmet down on the seat; Sirius pulled his off and climbed off. Nissa grabbed hold of him and kissed, he was a little taken back at first but soon lost him self in the kiss.
When she finally broke away she smiled at him and touched his face softly. "You have no idea how much that meant too me."
Sirius smiled back at her. "I think I have an idea, I'll take you home on it; I mean to your flat. I don't think it could take you home, well it could do. If you'll make your new home here with me?"
Nissa looked up at him she kissed him and then rested her head on his shoulder. "I'm getting there, I just need more time."
"Now that is something I can be patient for." Sirius told her.
***
It was Halloween, James had arranged for them all to go out to a top restaurant. James and Lily got there first, then Sirius and Nissa on his motor bike but they still looked great; well with Nissa's help of course, and then Remus, Bella and Peter arrived.
"Nice place, cost a bit here though won't it." Sirius said looking around as Remus sat down on the other side of Nissa.
"We thought we were going to be late with work and everything." Nissa explained.
"Yeah, I have to drag her home every night; either to hers or ours don't I Remus?" Sirius said.
"I'm not that bad, well sometimes; but..." Nissa said.
"We'll have no talk of work tonight." James told them.
"So what do you want to talk about then Prongs?" Sirius said smiling.
Nissa handed him the menu which distracted him for a while, as he tried to decide what to eat.
"Have as much as you want, the shops doing really well; I've been designing a lot more stuff." Nissa told him. "They really like my style, I'm glad it was a bit old fashioned; its still that way just a bit more modern, just slowly take them into the twentieth century."
"I'm surprised that you can find time to do everything, and still have free time at the end of the day." Bella said.
"Well she managed it at school somehow." Remus said.
"Time travel, you've got to be grateful for it." Nissa told them, they all laughed.
They all ordered, everyone had something different to eat; Nissa didn't order as much as the rest, well she did Sirius just ate it so it didn't go to waste. After the second course when the new bottles of wine came round, James started to pat his robe.
"Lily." James said getting off his seat and going down on one knee in front of her, he pulled out a little box and opened it; he took her other hand in his. "Lily, will you marry me?"
Lily smiled at him staring at him and the ring. "Yes!"
James quickly took the ring out of the box and placed it on her figure with a little trouble because he was still quit nervous.
"Your suppose to kiss her at this point." Sirius whispered.
James kissed her still down on the floor.
Bella hugged Remus' arm. "That's so sweet."
Nissa jumped in her seat hitting Sirius in her arm, he quickly looked at her thinking that he had done something wrong; but she was rooting through her own robes.
"What you're going to ask Sirius?" Bella said when she noticed Nissa, James and Lily looked over at this.
"No, I'm looking for something." Nissa said and then pulled out a piece of parchment.
"You do know that a camera would have been better to bring." Sirius told her.
Nissa ignored him as she read the paper, it wasn't good news, she looked up at them all; they knew it wasn't good.
"It's magical, it can send messages; I just got one." Nissa told them. "James isn't Godric Hollow it's been attacked."
James just looked at her then stood up, he apperated out of there; they were all out of there. They arrived just up the road from the house, the dark mark hovering above his home; there were half a dozen Auror's stood around and coming in and out of the house. James walked up to the first one; they looked at him knowing who he was.
"James." Higgs said walking up towards them, James walked past them and over to him. "I'm sorry."
"No they can't be." James told him, Lily stood beside him she touched him softly on the shoulder but he moved away from her; but then he just broke out into tears in her arms.
Nissa held Sirius tightly, she knew what they had meant to him; they had been like parents to him even too her. There was nothing none of them could say, as they stood there in the cold and the dark mark looking down on them all.
Sirius was working late again with his training as an Auror, though he had come along way in just a couple of weeks; but he did have the help of Nissa and his friends. Nissa though had been an Auror near enough two days after signing up, though she was a lot more advanced then they were and they knew it; they weren't bothered because she helped them as well.
Nissa was getting tea ready for Sirius, he had taught her a few things about cooking; because she was no good unless the person wanted to be poisoned. She was stood in the kitchen making sure that nothing was burning when she heard him in the living room; she was surprised that he had come round by the fire.
"Sirius, you're early." Nissa teased as she walked through.
But Sirius wasn't stood there; instead Severus Snape was staring back at her.
"You're still with him then." Severus said. "You can do a lot better then that over grown oaf."
Nissa smiled at him. "Yes I'm still with Sirius, he's at work; but should be home soon if you wanted to stick around to say hi."
"No thanks, I came to see you." Severus told her walking farer into the room. "You're making a mistake by becoming an Auror, especially now; do you want to be killed?"
Nissa just looked at him for a moment before she answered. "I'm not doing the wrong thing, fighting for the greater good isn't wrong Severus. And no I don't want to be killed of course I don't." Severus wanted to say something else as he moved farer, but she spoke again before he could. "Is that why you've come around?"
"Of course not, I would never hurt you." Severus told her, he reached out to touch her but pulled his hand away quickly before he reached her face. "Why do you have to be an Auror, and be with him?"
"I love Sirius, and being an Auror...I can be kind of myself what I can't in other ways." Nissa told him softly.
"I don't care about the Auror thing, as long as you don't end up..." Severus couldn't finish, he looked at her. "Do you really love him? What about me, could you ever feel anything for me? I could protect you against them even if you still have to be a Auror."
"What's that suppose to mean, you could protect me?" Nissa asked him. "Severus you're not are you?"
Severus stepped closer but she stepped back. "That isn't the point, you avoided my question."
"That is the point though." Nissa told him. "And what do you want me to say? I'm with Sirius, I love Sirius, I really do; you're my friend you have been since we were little."
"And that's how you see me, just as a friend?" Severus asked her drawing himself up to his full height, she back down as he towered over her. "You have no idea..."
"Yes I do, I trust you I always will; even now when I think you just told me that you're a Death Eater." Nissa told him. "I trust you, maybe I'm an idiot for doing so; but I believe in you that one day you'll see that you're more then that."
"So you wouldn't turn me in?" Severus questioned smiling oddly at her.
Nissa looked away from him, she walked away but he came up behind her this time he touched her and brought her into his chest and wrapped his arms around her.
"Severus, I do care for you but not like that. And if I really had to if you went too far then yes I would turn you in." Nissa told him.
Severus turned her around to face him and smiled. "I wouldn't except nothing less from you. I don't have to like the fact that you're with him, but I guess I have to live with it don't I."
"Severus please don't do anything stupid." Nissa told him as he let her go and stepped back.
He just smiled and disapperated, Nissa didn't have any time to react or do anything because just then Sirius apperated into the room just where Severus had been standing. He smiled at her and then kissed her.
"Nice welcome back, next time you should be standing there with my slippers and a pipe." Sirius teased her.
Nissa smiled at him. "You don't wear your slippers, and you don't smoke; and if you did I would make you stop."
Sirius smiled at her and kissed her again. "It was just a thought, give it a few years we'll have this down."
"Of course, maybe you should check on tea." Nissa smiled.
He smiled at her as he walked through pulling off his cloak and handed it to her; she hung it up by the door and then followed him into the kitchen.
"So you except us to be still together in a few years time?" Nissa asked him.
Sirius stirred the noodles. "Of course I do, I can see us living together forever and a nice big family."
Nissa smiled at him as she led against the fridge. "A nice big family, you want lots of children?"
Sirius looked over at her. "Well if you don't want a dozen, we can settle at two or three."
"A dozen? Now I know your kidding." Nissa said smiling. "But a couple is manageable."
"Great." Sirius said and then turned back to the cooker. "This should be ready in a couple of minutes."
Nissa went to make up the table, and then Sirius came through a couple of minutes later with their tea just like he had said. They didn't talk about children but about how their Auror training was going on.
The night after Nissa went round to Lily's after she finished, she needed to talk to someone. She knocked on the door and she opened the door, Lily still lived at home; her and James were saving up to buy a house together. They went through to the kitchen so that they could talk.
"So what's wrong?" Lily asked her.
"Well...last night...we were in the kitchen and he was talking." Nissa told her. "He was saying that he could see us...he could see us living together forever...with this big family...or maybe a couple of children."
Lily giggled. "That's wonderful news, did he ask you?"
"Ask me what?" Nissa asked confused.
"Nissa, he was talking about living together children; what do you think I meant? Did he ask you to marry him?" Lily told her.
"What, no he didn't." Nissa said.
"He could do, what did you say to all that, about living together and the children?" Lily asked.
"He said something about a dozen children, and then changed it to two or three. I said that was manageable, I don't think that was the right thing to say do you?" Nissa said.
"Maybe not, you could have worded it a bit better." Lily said, an owl flew through the window and dropped a letter on the table.
The letter was addressed to Nissa, she opened it and read it quickly; it was from the Ministry.
"I'm sorry I've got to go." Nissa told her getting up.
"Is it trouble, is James alright?" Lily asked worried.
"It never said anything about James, but you know what he's like he'll be fine." Nissa reassured her. "I'll see ya later; don't say anything about what I said."
Before Lily could say anything else Nissa disapperated, and reappeared in the Leaky Caldron; she didn't pull her wand out as she looked round. Higgs walked over to her with Sirius and James.
"Could you have gotten here any faster?" Sirius teased her.
Nissa laughed then glared at him. "You wanted me?"
"We have a bit of a problem, these two." Higgs told her. "They want to become Auror's right now, I was wondering if you could give them a crush course."
James and Sirius looked at one another they hadn't been excepting Higgs to ask Nissa, but she smiled at them all the same and nodded.
"I wonder where we could do it." Nissa said thoughtfully.
"Just don't hurt them." Higgs told her. "Be back before morning though."
Higgs apperated out of there leaving them with Nissa who was smiling at them both.
"Up for a challenge?" Nissa asked them.
"Always you know that." James said.
Without another word she had transported them a top of a hill in the middle of nowhere, they looked round and then back her.
"Your not going to tell us how you did that are you?" Sirius asked her.
"No." Nissa answered simply. "But you should get ready to defend yourselves."
There had never worked so hard in their lives, she had done thing's with magic that they had never thought was possible; though didn't tell them how she had done it. She had created people which they could duel against so that they wouldn't hurt real people, but these creations acting just like real people so it was quit a challenge to win against them.
They both flopped out on the sofa in Sirius' apartment, and fell asleep straight away; Nissa had transported them back because they had been too tired. Remus came out of his bedroom as he heard someone in the kitchen.
"What time is it?" Remus said sleepier.
"Four in the morning, sorry to wake you Rem." Nissa said. "I just brought them two back from the crush course they wanted to do before coming Auror's, they should be alright. But..."
"But it doesn't matter how much training you might have you can still be killed." Remus said.
"Yes...I don't know what I would do if I lost anyone of you." Nissa told him. "I'm not even really aloud to help, because of the stupid rules; I could do so much but I'm not aloud. I'm not even aloud to tell you why."
"We don't understand completely, but enough. We know that you'll do as much as you can." Remus told her. "Just like the rest of us will."
"Yeah but it's different for you lot, it's not as though you have your hands tied behind your back stopping you." Nissa told him.
"No we don't, but you seem pretty powerful all the same, and can do a lot even with what you do now." Remus said. "So that's enough."
Nissa went back to her own place, leaving Sirius and James on the sofa and Remus went back to bed. They got up the next morning feeling very sore and tired but they still got up and had breakfast and went into work. Nissa had already been there over an hour before they finally rolled in, and found out that they had past her tests, and were on the team; but would start off small.
***
Sirius had told them all to meet him at the Potter's, Lily was already there with James when Nissa and Remus arrived; Peter arrived a while after them. Lily got started on something to eat for them all, Mr and Mrs Potter had gone out for the night giving them the house for themselves. Lily had dragged Nissa in the kitchen with her; they all knew something was up because they all knew that Nissa couldn't cook.
"So come on, anything happened yet?" Lily asked her.
"It's been more then a month, nothing is going to happen." Nissa told her. "I still remember what happened after that time they got drunk."
"He asked you then." Lily reminded her.
"Yeah and then, he told me to forget about it." Nissa told her. "I don't know, he might wait until I tell him that I'll take him as my mate."
"Mate?" Lily asked.
"Werewolf term kind of." Nissa explained. "He was telling you the truth that night, yeah he might have been drunk; but I am a werewolf. I can just change when I want, near enough."
"And Remus then?" Lily asked trying to take this information in.
"Yeap him too." James shouted through to them, and then they came in. "So part from the werewolf thing what else are you two talking about?"
"You're both werewolves, wow; I never knew." Lily said ignoring James' question. "All this time, and I never realised."
"It doesn't matter, that was how it was supposed to be." Nissa told her.
"You don't mind do you?" Remus asked her.
"Are you like Nissa, how she said she was?" Lily asked him.
"No, but she might teach me a thing or two one day; if not just her company makes me harmless." Remus answered.
"Well I have missed out on a lot haven't I?" Lily said.
"Are you lot here?" Sirius shouted through the house, looking for them all but they were now all in the kitchen. "And I thought I just thought about food, look at you all. Come on then I've got something to show you all."
They followed the very excited Sirius outside, Lily looking at Remus and Nissa every so often not really meaning too it was just getting used to this new information about her friends.
Sirius ran out of house and down the path, they walked out after him. He mounted a large motor bike, Lily held James' arm.
"You're not getting one." Lily told him.
"That's great and you past when?" Nissa asked him walking around the bike taking everything in about it. "Are you going to take me for a ride on it then?"
"Past the other day, but I brought her today." Sirius said smiling handing her the share helmet, as she climbed on behind him.
Nissa moved right up behind him and held on tight as he started the engine.
"Do be careful." Lily told them as she held James' arm tighter then she meant too.
Sirius started the engine, they speeded off down the road; Nissa moved in closer and looked over his shoulder. He turned sharply round the corner and then back towards the house, but before they got to the gate they lifted off the ground. Nissa held on tighter not that she was afraid but because she was excited about being in the air, flying through the air; yeah she used to fly on her broomstick but she just loved to fly.
"What do you think?" Sirius asked her.
"Its brilliant, I love it." Nissa told him.
"This is the only way to travel." Sirius shouted back to her.
"How high can she go?" Nissa asked him.
"You want to go higher?" Sirius asked, they were already a mile off the ground. But he took them up a little higher and even out, they flew over the countryside the little villages looked like toys below them.
"I've mist being able to fly." Nissa told him. "I used to love it, but this makes up for it being up here; with you."
"I'm glad, just you and me." Sirius said.
They finally went back down after an hour or so, they landed smoothly outside the house. Nissa climbed off and put the helmet down on the seat; Sirius pulled his off and climbed off. Nissa grabbed hold of him and kissed, he was a little taken back at first but soon lost him self in the kiss.
When she finally broke away she smiled at him and touched his face softly. "You have no idea how much that meant too me."
Sirius smiled back at her. "I think I have an idea, I'll take you home on it; I mean to your flat. I don't think it could take you home, well it could do. If you'll make your new home here with me?"
Nissa looked up at him she kissed him and then rested her head on his shoulder. "I'm getting there, I just need more time."
"Now that is something I can be patient for." Sirius told her.
***
It was Halloween, James had arranged for them all to go out to a top restaurant. James and Lily got there first, then Sirius and Nissa on his motor bike but they still looked great; well with Nissa's help of course, and then Remus, Bella and Peter arrived.
"Nice place, cost a bit here though won't it." Sirius said looking around as Remus sat down on the other side of Nissa.
"We thought we were going to be late with work and everything." Nissa explained.
"Yeah, I have to drag her home every night; either to hers or ours don't I Remus?" Sirius said.
"I'm not that bad, well sometimes; but..." Nissa said.
"We'll have no talk of work tonight." James told them.
"So what do you want to talk about then Prongs?" Sirius said smiling.
Nissa handed him the menu which distracted him for a while, as he tried to decide what to eat.
"Have as much as you want, the shops doing really well; I've been designing a lot more stuff." Nissa told him. "They really like my style, I'm glad it was a bit old fashioned; its still that way just a bit more modern, just slowly take them into the twentieth century."
"I'm surprised that you can find time to do everything, and still have free time at the end of the day." Bella said.
"Well she managed it at school somehow." Remus said.
"Time travel, you've got to be grateful for it." Nissa told them, they all laughed.
They all ordered, everyone had something different to eat; Nissa didn't order as much as the rest, well she did Sirius just ate it so it didn't go to waste. After the second course when the new bottles of wine came round, James started to pat his robe.
"Lily." James said getting off his seat and going down on one knee in front of her, he pulled out a little box and opened it; he took her other hand in his. "Lily, will you marry me?"
Lily smiled at him staring at him and the ring. "Yes!"
James quickly took the ring out of the box and placed it on her figure with a little trouble because he was still quit nervous.
"Your suppose to kiss her at this point." Sirius whispered.
James kissed her still down on the floor.
Bella hugged Remus' arm. "That's so sweet."
Nissa jumped in her seat hitting Sirius in her arm, he quickly looked at her thinking that he had done something wrong; but she was rooting through her own robes.
"What you're going to ask Sirius?" Bella said when she noticed Nissa, James and Lily looked over at this.
"No, I'm looking for something." Nissa said and then pulled out a piece of parchment.
"You do know that a camera would have been better to bring." Sirius told her.
Nissa ignored him as she read the paper, it wasn't good news, she looked up at them all; they knew it wasn't good.
"It's magical, it can send messages; I just got one." Nissa told them. "James isn't Godric Hollow it's been attacked."
James just looked at her then stood up, he apperated out of there; they were all out of there. They arrived just up the road from the house, the dark mark hovering above his home; there were half a dozen Auror's stood around and coming in and out of the house. James walked up to the first one; they looked at him knowing who he was.
"James." Higgs said walking up towards them, James walked past them and over to him. "I'm sorry."
"No they can't be." James told him, Lily stood beside him she touched him softly on the shoulder but he moved away from her; but then he just broke out into tears in her arms.
Nissa held Sirius tightly, she knew what they had meant to him; they had been like parents to him even too her. There was nothing none of them could say, as they stood there in the cold and the dark mark looking down on them all.