A Whisper of What They Were

They carried on asking her questions and talking while Molly made them all tea, and while they ate as well; Molly had to keep reminding them to eat before everything got cold.

"Why don't I show you to your room?" Remus suggested after they had both finished eating.

"Yeah course." Nissa said getting up with him. "Thanks for dinner, it was lovely."

"My pleasure dear." Molly said smiling at her.

"We've put you in Sirius' old room, you don't mind do you?" Remus asked her.

"Not at all, well as long as I don't have to share with the Hippogriff." Nissa told him, making them all look at her.

As soon as they had left the room they all started talking about her, a lot freer now that she wasn't there; and they were wondering how she was going to help when she only designed and owned clothes shops.

Remus stopped Nissa at the bottom of the stairs; Mundungus went upstairs because he had left something, he hide in the shadows when he saw them.

"You and Sirius were just friends, what on earth was that?" Remus asked her.

"What was I suppose to say that we slept together now and again." Nissa said.

"Nissa you know that it was more then that." Remus told her. "He cared about you, it wasn't just about..."

"Sex." Nissa finished for him smiling. "Not that it wasn't great and all."

"I don't need to know the details thank you." Remus told her as he carried her bags up the stairs.

Mundungus went back down stairs to tell them all what he had over heard, at first none of them believed him just thought he was making the whole thing up; they couldn't really see Nissa and Sirius together considering that none of them had heard of her until today and Sirius had never mentioned her before.

Nissa walked into the bedroom behind Remus, it hadn't been what she had been excepting; there was nothing that showed any sign that Sirius had stayed in the room before her.

"We tidy it up for you." Remus told her as he turned round.

There was a large four poster bed in the middle with tables either side of it, a desk a chair underneath the window, and wardrobe in the corner; with a large full length mirror facing the bed.

"It's fine, thank you." Nissa told him, as she walked farer into the room; trying to find some sign that this had been his room they hadn't needed to take everything away of his.

Remus reached out and touched her shoulder. "I'll leave you alone then." She nodded slightly but never turned round to face him, he wanted to say so much but he just couldn't find the words; so he turned and left her alone closing the door behind him.

Nissa heard the sound of the door closing and walked round to the other side of the bed remembering seeing Sirius was the first time after all those years...

Nissa appeared at the front of her house, she had her cloak wrapped round her and her hood up; she opened her front door as the sun set early that night behind her. She had come home early well her first day back to school because she forgotten to pack her design work, having been in a rush to leave; but the strange thing about it she had never forgotten them before.

She turned on the lights as she closed the door quietly behind her and started to walk down the hall, all she needed to do was go upstairs collect her things and be gone again in a flash. But then she heard something in the back garden; she stopped and looked through the kitchen back doors but she couldn't see anything.

So Nissa decided to go and have a look, she walked through the kitchen and flipped the switch for the porch; there was defiantly something out there. So she pulled out her wand and then opened the door and stepped out and just frozen at the sight that meet her. There in her back garden stood a beautiful, handsome Hippogriff she had ever seen, it tossed its head crawling the ground. Nissa stepped forward and then stopped when a giant shaggy bear like dog started too walked towards her, up the steps.

She stepped back as the large black dog got closer; she moved back so quickly that her elbow went straight through the glass panel of the door. The dog started to grow bigger as it got even closer, and then when it was a foot away from her; it was no longer a dog but a man, dirty, long un-kept hair, and looked as though he could done with a few good meals down him.

He smiled at her as he stepped forward and reached out for the arm she cut putting through the glass panel, and then took her wand out of her other hand that was still pointing at him.

"You were more afraid of a dog, then of a fully grown Hippogriff." Sirius teased her.

Nissa smiled back at him and then flung herself at him, hugging him tightly; Sirius just stood there for a moment overwhelmed by shock at her welcome, but he only let it distract him for a moment before he hugged her tightly back pulling close into him. All those long ago memories that time had almost forgot came rushing back, it had been to long since he had held her last and felt her touch; but now stood there together in that moment it was as though no time at all had past, and they were still those two same people from thirteen years ago.

"I read on the papers that you were out, but I never dared hope that I would see you." Nissa told him, still in his arms not wanting to let go encase if she did then he would vanish and it had all been some sort of dream.

"Why wouldn't I come?" Sirius told her letting her go and smiling at her. "You believed in me, even when no one else did." And then he added a little bit more worriedly. "You do don't you still?"

Nissa smiled at him brightly as she used too, he didn't need to hear it from her; the smile was enough it always was.

"So can I come in?" Sirius asked her. "And I'll take a look at that arm of yours."

She nodded words escaping her, as he repaired the glass as she went inside; he turned back to the Hippogriff.

"Wait out here, and be quiet hopefully we'll be staying here for a while." Sirius told him, before he followed Nissa inside.

He walked inside the kitchen and dinner room which was now fully lit, he looked around taking it all in; he had been impressed with the house from outside but it was even larger then he had thought. Nissa turned round when she heard Sirius close the back door.

"Why are you here?" Nissa asked as he walked over to her, and then added quickly. "Not that I'm not glad too see you, because it had been far too long; it's just why me why here?"

"Remus told me that you moved, so he gave me your new address." Sirius told her as he was walking over. "I needed to get away to disappear, I knew you would help me; because you believed in me."

"Of course I'll help you and you can stay here as long as you want." Nissa told him. "But your not helping yourself by running are you, I know your innocent and everything but it doesn't make you look good does it? Sirius..." She reached out to touch him but he stopped her.

He took her other arm and pulled back the sleeve to see how the cut was, it looked a lot worst then it really was; but it had finally stop bleeding and now needed to be cleaned. He sat her down at the breakfast bar, while he went to get a cloth; he ran it under the hot water and then the cold. He sat down beside her and gently cleaned the blood away and then kissed it softly.

Sirius looked up at her. "Is there...I mean are you...are you with anyone?"

Nissa looked at him and then turned away looking out of the window. "There has been anyone really, since...since the man I love was taken." She turned back round to him. "I guess I never got over him, even after all these years. I've lived an empty hope, that I would see him again; and just maybe he might have grown up enough to feel what I do for him."

Nissa looked away from him, she couldn't look into those brown eyes anymore; she pulled her arm out of his hands and slide of the stole. She walked across the room, not wanting to look at him after what she had just told him.

"You should go and have a bath." Nissa told him, not turning around. "I'll lay some clothes out for you, and cook you something warm to eat; I should be able to find something for your Hippogriff."

Sirius had wanted to say something, he didn't know what just something; but now he couldn't, what was there to say after all that? He nodded not that she could see, and then he got up and walked over to her and the door. He reached softly out to touch her but pulled his hand back quickly and walked around her, but stopped again at the door he looked back at her before he went upstairs; with still nothing to say.

Sirius found the bathroom, and then ran himself a nice long warm bath; he stripped down and just left his dirty robes on the floor, as he slowly lowered himself into the warm soaring water. He just lay there with his eyes closed for a while before he started to scrub himself clean of what seemed years of dirty and grime.

Nissa looked for something for them to eat and turned the oven to warm the kitchen, she then went through the house igniting the fires in the living room and the two bedrooms they would be staying in. When she was upstairs she pulled out a couple of rolls of fabric and made him new robes and clothes and laid them out on the guest bed.

After his bath, Sirius walked across the landing to the first bedroom; which he could tell straight away was hers. The fire was lit warming the room, but there were no clothes laid out for him; though he though it had been stupid of him to even think she would lay them out on her own bed. He went into the bedroom next door to hers, there was another fire lit and on the bed were his new clean clothes.

He walked into the room, and looked through them; he smiled to himself, she hadn't lost her touch. He dried himself off in front of the nice warm fire, not seeming to remember the last time he had been in a home not having to worry about anything, he could just be himself and even thinking about everything else going on outside.

Sirius dressed and went down stairs to get something to eat, after smelling something nice coming from the kitchen. They hardly talked all night, it wasn't how either of them had imaged seeing one another for the first time.

"I'm going to bed, you should do the same your room should be nice and warm by now." Nissa told him as she got up to leave.

"Nissa" Sirius said, but after that he wasn't really sure what to say.

She stopped and turned round waiting for something she knew wouldn't come, so she turned back round and left.

"Goodnight." Sirius whispered.

He sat there for a while before he went out to the Hippogriff to see if he was settling in better then he was doing. He sat with him for a little while telling him that they were safe here and he wished that some many things could be different.

He finally went back inside and went to bed, in a real bed; as soon as his head hit the pillow he was out like a light.

Next morning Nissa got up early and went out to get some food in, because basically she had nothing in the house; she didn't need it because she would be away at the school most of the year. But she went out and filled the house with enough food to last them a couple of weeks, and then she would have to do another shop.

She also written instructions on how to use all of the muggle things in the house, she seemed to have an awful lot; and also where the school was where she was working. Not that she wanted him to come because he might get caught, but she knew what he was like; a restless spirit.

As the sun rose in the distance, Nissa pushed open the bedroom door to Sirius' room. She walked quietly into the room and knelt down beside the bed, she looked at him sleeping peacefully knowing that it wasn't often that he did so; and regretted that she had to wake him.

"Sirius." Nissa said. "Sirius, I've got to go."

Sirius slowly woke to the sound of Nissa's voice, he turned over smiling slightly as he pulled the covers up round him and opened his eyes. The first thing he saw, was Nissa looking back at him; he though he had slipped into a dream of a long off memory that time had almost forgot, but he hadn't.

"I'm sorry but I've got to go." Nissa told him. "I've already stayed far to long, they'll be wondering where I am."

"What do you mean?" Sirius asked sitting bolt up right.

"I work at Hollow magical School." Nissa told him. "I'll come as often as I can, I promise. But like I said last night you can stay here as long as you want too. I went out and filled up on food for the two of you, and written a list of how all the muggle stuff works. And not giving you any ideas, but I also wrote down where the story is if you...well you know...but I don't want you taking any risk of being caught."

"But I was hoping that I could spend some more time with you." Sirius told her.

"I'll try and get back at the weekends." Nissa told him. "I can't come back at night of course, I'll see you soon."

Nissa got up to leave but Sirius grabbed her hand to stop her, she looked down at him sat on the bed.

"Thank you." Sirius said with a smile on his lips...

(A/N: - Thanks to Lazy-Anji for your review; I'm glad that you like the story so far. And will try to post sooner.

I know this story is a bit strange for those of you who have already read the series, where Nissa Tiania is that; and considering what happened in the end. But I wanted something a little different, but still wanted to use her; so that's why I did this AU. But for those of you who didn't read the series and have never meant her before, if you have questions then I'm always happy to answer them for you.

Anyway, thanks for reading; please review; don't mind bad or good comments they all helpful.

See ya soon.