(A/N: thank you everyone for your reviews! Really glad that you liked that,
thanks for the name help, hopefully I've got them now. Not long left now.
PS, you may need tissues for the next two chapters.)
Full Moon
Remus knocked softly on the hospital door, and then pushed it open; Electra sat up and smiled at him and had to stop herself from laughing when she saw what he was carrying.
"This was Tonks, Hermione and Ginny's idea." Remus told her as he put the over sized bear on the bottom of her bed.
"Of course it was." Electra said smiling.
Remus smiled at her and then walked over to the other side of the bed, and looked into the cot where they were both sleeping peacefully.
"So decided on any names yet, it has been two days?" Remus asked her.
"Sirius is choosing the boys name; he hasn't come up with anything." Electra told him. "Every time he thinks of a name, he changes his mind saying that it doesn't sound right."
"So have you decided on a girls name yet then?" Remus asked.
"I went through the baby name book about half a dozen times, but yeah she has a name, it's on the band." Electra told him. "We told them last name, I'm surprised Sirius didn't tell you."
Remus carefully turned the pink band so that he could see the name; he smiled to himself and then gently kissed her on the head.
"Hello Isabel I'm your uncle Remus." Remus told her. "Your dads taking his time deciding on a name for your brother, I'm sure he'll come up with something before your eighteenth."
"Well he did say he'll try." Electra told him. "Oh and he said that Dumbledore and McGonagall was coming today as well, so hopefully he would have thought of a name before they arrive."
"Here's hoping." Remus agreed.
Remus sat down on the end of the bed, he looked back at the twins and then at Electra who seemed to know that he wanted to talk to her but didn't as well, so she just watched him until he decided that he wanted to talk to her. After a couple of minutes, he turned back to her.
"Can you not do that?" Remus asked her.
"Well if you tell me what's on your mind then I won't." Electra told him.
"There's nothing on my mind." Remus answered.
"Remus, I'm your sister so don't use that one with me I know you remember, so tell me." Electra told him.
Remus turned away from her again and then slowly looked back at her.
"It's them and Tonks." Remus told her. "I never realised how much she liked children."
"Oh, so you haven't talked about that then?" Electra said.
"No, how the hell can I?" Remus said. "Oh by the way, if we have any kids they're going to be werewolves just like me."
"Cute and cuddly." Electra teased, he looked very serious at her. "Sorry Remus, but you know that you'll have to talk to her about this if the two of you are serious. She accepted you being a werewolf, maybe she won't mind. I wouldn't...but I grew up with you so it's different."
"You say that now, but if it really happened things would be different." Remus told her standing up. "Mum and dad changed remember, they tried they really did, but it was too much for them especially when I got older. I don't know how I would have gotten through school if I didn't have my friends, and if you didn't stand by me."
"I'm different, and so is Sirius you just said so yourself." Electra told him softly. "Everyone deals differently, but I think that Tonks could handle it don't you deep down? Talk to her before you do anything stupid Remus, I mean it; you'll only regret it if you don't."
There was another knock at the door, Remus quickly turned round as the door opened; Electra sat up smiling brightly as Sirius walked followed by Harry Dumbledore and McGonagall.
"Hi, they stand that I'm fine and I can leave today." Electra told him.
"That's great." Sirius said smiling back at her.
"Only if you have a name for your son." Remus told him.
"He's got one." Harry told them brightly.
"I said it was a surprise." Sirius told him.
Electra and Remus laughed, as McGonagall and Dumbledore walked round to have a look at the twins, they bent over so that they could see them; they were both awake now so McGonagall held Isabel and Dumbledore held their son.
"They have their mother's looks." Dumbledore told her.
"And hopefully her sense as well." McGonagall said.
"That's a point isn't it; I'll have to teach them everything I learnt about Hogwarts and a few things beside." Sirius said thoughtfully.
"I think you should start with a detention plan now, if they're going to turn out like you." McGonagall teased.
"We weren't that bad." Sirius said defensively.
"Of course, if you've finished lying how about a name for your son." Electra told him.
"I have a name for him." Sirius told her, he walked over to Dumbledore's side. "So little mate, how do you like...Travis?" He giggled up at Sirius, who beamed back down at him. "He loves it, what do you think?"
Electra just smiled him at him.
Electra packed her things away while Sirius and Remus played with Isabel and Travis (A/N: hope you like the names.) and Harry waited outside with Dumbledore and McGonagall, they were to go back to the school; Sirius wanted to show them all off. Dumbledore agreed straight away, very pleased to have them all at the school, and told them that they can stay as long as they like.
Dumbledore opened the doors to the great hall, it was dinner so it was quite full of students and also the teachers were there, though they had been told that Sirius and Electra were coming back with the twins as well.
As soon as Madam Pomfery and Madam Hooch saw them come up they up were and out of their seats almost running towards them, they crowded around so that they could have a look at the twins.
"They're lovely." Madam Pomfery.
"I have images that they're going to turn out just like Sirius, should be fun teaching them." Madam Hooch said smiling.
"That isn't so bad is it?" Sirius said.
"So what are they called?" Madam Pomfery asked.
"Isabel and Travis." Electra answered.
"Oh...that's lovely." Madam Pomfery said smiling.
Severus was in an even worst mood then normal not that anyone cared of course why he was, because most were excited about Sirius and Electra having twins and that they were staying at the school. Though the only thing that did get the attention some was that Severus was also taking his bad mood out on the Slytherin's, which was a first for him and any head of Slytherin.
Severus was sat in the great hall with two empty seats either side of him and then the rest taken, it was as though no one wanted to sit near him, and he had to listen to everyone else going on about Sirius being a dad; though he still didn't believe that they were his and never was.
"Hey it'll be your turn next Moony." Sirius told him.
"I don't know...I still haven't talked to her about that, I don't think I should." Remus told him.
"Of course you should, she'll be fine about it." Sirius reassured him.
"You and Electra keep saying, but..." Remus started but Sirius cut him off.
"Remus mate, take the chance, if you don't then you'll just regret it and I'm sure that Electra said the same thing so why don't you listen to us for a change." Sirius told him. "You did about starting to go out with Tonks in the first place, so why not about this."
"Because this is so much more." Remus answered. "And anyway, I don't even know if we're that serious; we haven't even been going out that long."
"Then talk to her, if you don't talk then you don't know what's going on then do you?" Sirius told him as Severus stood up to leave, Sirius turned round briefly because he needed to ask him something but he walked away too quickly. Remus and Sirius both looked at each other and then carried on talking, they could always get it in a little while there was still a bit of time left.
Severus walked down between the tables and out down the stairs into the entrance hall when an owl flew through the open doors and dropped a letter at his feet, he bent down and picked it up and opened it because it was addressed to him; there were only two words inside.
Its time.
Severus didn't understand what the letter was about; he was just about to tear it into pieces when everything went black. But he was still on his feet but his eyes were glazed over.
He took out his wand and pointed it at the doors, and blasted them open. Everything went silent up in the great hall for a moment, and then panic started to spread through the students as the teacher made their way through the crowd.
Severus stepped aside as a dozen wizards in black robes charged into the entrance hall, they all looked at him briefly as they past him and made their way into the school separating into groups as they went different ways, with more joining them.
Four robed wizards charged into the great hall with their wands held out, McGonagall was in front of Sirius and Remus; the spell hit her in chest spending her flying in the air and landing hard on the Ravenclaw table. Sirius and Remus had their wands out in a flash, the man who had cursed McGonagall threw through the air a crushed into the wall and fell to the floor and never got back up again.
Lavender and Hermione ran over to McGonagall to see if she was alright while the rest of the teachers went after the Deatheaters, the Ravenclaw's were gathered around her as well.
"She's still breathing." Hermione said, as she softly turned her face which had a large cut and was bleeding down the side of her face.
The last to come through the great doors, were Voldermot and Peter who looked around quickly hoping not to run into anyone he knew; they walked over to Severus who was still stood there.
"What is the password to Dumbledore's office?" Voldermot asked him.
"Whizzing Weasley's." Severus answered tonelessly.
Voldermot's lips curled into a smile as he walked up the stairs, and heard the commotion coming from the great hall and the screaming from above.
Ron stood at the door careful not to be seen, not that anyone had come up that far yet; as Harry and Electra rushed around the room.
"Harry Ron the two of you stay here, and be safe." Electra told them. "harry..."
"I'll keep them safe." Harry reassured her.
She turned round to face him. "Don't die trying though...I'll be back as soon as I can and don't let anyone in part from, well you know who you can let in. But don't just let them in, they could be anyone remember."
"Ok that makes things harder doesn't it?" Ron said, as Electra walked over to the door.
She looked back at them both before she turned round and closed the door and locked it, they both looked at each other and then went through to the bedroom.
"So what now, we just wait in here?" Ron asked Harry.
"Well what else can we do, I can't just leave them." Harry told him.
"What about Hermione, she's down there, just like everyone else is." Ron said pacing up and down the room.
"She'll be alright, Sirius and the other's won't let anything happen to her." Harry reassured him.
Voldermot walked along the corridor with Peter trying to keep up with him, all the time looking out for people, but they never saw anyone on their way. Voldermot stopped in front of the gargoyle, he knew that Dumbledore must still be up there or he would have seen him by now; he knew this was the only way out of the office well unless if he had a Portkey then he could get out, because the Floo network to the school had been cut off that morning.
"Whizzing Weasley's." Voldermot said, the gargoyle started to move upwards but he didn't get onto the steps, but waited until he couldn't see the gargoyle and then blasted the steps apart; the whole stairwell crumbled sending up a dusty smoke.
Voldermot smiled slightly as he turned around and carried on walking, now that was done he can carry on with why he was really there.
The student's had been told to stay in the hall and not let anyone inside, but of course not everyone did as they were told; well it was mostly everyone who went to the DA meetings who decided that they weren't going to just stay in there and do nothing. Hermione and Lavender made sure that McGonagall was alright and then they went off with the group, with Neville right behind them.
Ginny was walking in front with Dean and Seamus, Hermione saw someone in the entrance hall as she was looking around; she didn't go down to see who it was because she could just make out from where she was.
"Snape's down there." Hermione told them. "He's just standing there, doing nothing. Do you think that they did something to him?"
"Oh god, twice." Dean said. "Personally I thought that no one could ever get him, but twice; how the hell are we going to do if they can get him and McGonagall?"
"Relax and same calm." Ginny told him. "It doesn't help if you panic."
"I'm not panicking." Dean told him, holding his wand out in front of him.
"Maybe you should, there's Dumbledore's office." Seamus told them. "McGonagall, Snape and Dumbledore, we've only got Lupin, his sister and Sirius left; unless you're going to count the other teachers, what the hell can they do compared to them."
"Right we need a plan." Hermione told them.
"So what is it?" Dean asked her, turning around. "Come on, you should be good at this sort of thing."
"I'm thinking, and by the way this isn't what I normally do; just once and that a spare of the moment thing." Hermione told him. "And it was Harry's idea, where are they anyway, I do hope they're both alright."
Sirius and Remus ran up the corridor, Remus making sure that he didn't pass any of the window's he couldn't afford too, though Sirius didn't seem to notice or wasn't bothered. They heard screaming and shouting up ahead, they looked at each other briefly before they carried on and then charged into the classroom where the noises were coming from.
There were severally student's and a Deatheater trying to hex them but wasn't really having much luck, Sirius stepped forward; but Remus stumbled backwards out of the classroom as a ray of moon light touched him.
"Remus...what's wrong?" Sirius asked distractedly, but Remus never answered him only kept moving farer and farer away from them. Sirius preformed the full body curse, and then tied him up just encase, and went after Remus who was trying to get away from.
But Remus wasn't looking where he was going and backed straight into the wall and the window, the night and full moon shun down on him. Now Sirius understood but he just stood there glued to the spot as he watched his best friend change into a werewolf, even more horrified when he realised that he hadn't had the potion that night.
"Sirius...Remus!" Tonks shouted as she rounded the corner, she almost fell over when she saw Remus well when she saw the werewolf in his place.
He looked at Sirius and then at Tonks, and charged for her with Sirius running after him; but Sirius never got to them in time as Tonks fell to the ground with a piecing scream. Sirius fell to the ground as well as though in defeat, but when he looked up Remus wasn't tearing at Tonks but at a man in black robes behind her. Sirius quickly got to his feet, and ran over to Tonks who was still shaking of floor, he pulled her to her feet and as quickly and quietly as they could made their way away from there.
"He could have killed us." Tonks said holding onto Sirius tightly.
"He wouldn't do that." Sirius tried to say as reassuringly as he could, though deep down he had always believed that he could, but times where different and Remus defiantly seemed different. "He was protecting us, you...he wouldn't hurt us...but we'll still keep our distance."
"Thank god for that." Tonks said, but then stopped him suddenly. "This was it wasn't it, this is going to push him over the edge and away from me from us all after tonight?"
Sirius just nodded slightly he couldn't bring himself to say it out loud.
Electra ran down the stairs to the main school, she hadn't come across any of the Deatheaters so far only a couple of students who she had told to keep together and hide; as she turned the corner to go down another flight of stairs there was a cloaked man stood on them blocking her way. She stopped with her wand held out in front of her, and then slowly started to walk towards him; but she was suddenly grabbed from behind and pulled back up the stairs, she struggled against him but he was much stronger then she was. He knocked her into the banister, making her drop her wand it fell through the gaps and onto the stairs of the next floor.
"Oh poor defenceless Electra brings back memories doesn't it?" He whispered into her ear.
They both stopped struggled when they heard an howl at the bottom of the stairs, they all looked down waiting for it to show itself, but Electra already knew who it was. She closed her eyes for a second, and then opened them again in time to see him walk around the corner.
"Remus!" Electra shouted, but the man slapped his hand over her mouth and moved as quickly as he could up the stairs with her.
He looked up at them and then slowly started walking up the stairs; the other man tripped and crawled backwards up the stairs. Remus pounced, the man screamed covering his face, but of course that was no use. Remus tore him to pieces; after he was finished he looked up at Electra and the other man and carried on up the stairs for them.
The man pushed her forward into him and then turned and ran, Remus knocked into her with that much force that she fell over the shoulder of the banister; she fell onto the next flight of steps with aloud thud. Her blood started to slowly flow out from beneath her. The man above her could be heard screaming but she couldn't hear.
Sirius raced through the corridor's with Tonks at his side, they had already dealt with a couple of Deatheaters and they knew there were more, he heard a group of foot steps coming towards them. They both started to slow as they turned the corner, but were revealed to see that they weren't Deatheaters.
"Hermione I told you to stay in the great hall." Sirius told her.
"But..." Hermione started and then realised that Remus weren't with them. "Where's?"
"He's is other self at the moment." Sirius answered, knowing what the question was going to be.
"Oh." Hermione said, and then was pushed to the ground by someone behind her and heard Lavender scream behind her. Hermione looked up and saw Draco looking down at her and then he was pulled to his feet, she could hear Sirius shouting something but she couldn't make out what it was; and then she felt someone grab hold of her as she tried to struggle against who ever it was.
"NO!" Sirius shouted as he reached out for the two of them, but it was two late they were gone.
"They have Portkey's, how are we supposed to stop them if they have Portkey's?" Tonks asked, but Sirius wasn't really listening to her.
Then something seemed to come to him and he ran as fast as he could but he knew it wasn't fast enough so he changed into his dog form.
Ron was moving the furniture in front of the door, while Harry threw books off the shelves wondering if there was anything in any of them that could help them, he knew if Hermione was here then she would have found something and would be shouting at him for throwing them on the floor.
"Harry they're going to break through, it's only a matter of time." Ron told him, Harry stopped what he was doing and helped Ron move the sofa in front of the door.
"We have to stop them." Harry told him. "Or find another way out of the room."
"Shame we didn't have our broomsticks on us." Ron said.
"That's it; we could call them to us." Harry suggested.
"They're not going to come flying through the window; they'll want to come through the door, when they come through so will all those Deatheaters outside that door." Ron told him, with more banging from outside and now there were screaming.
They both looked at each other, neither of them knew what it was and neither of them wanted to know either.
Sirius was running up the stair's, when he saw a body laying on them and blood dripping down the stairs, his pace slowed as he approached it and changed back. He sank to his feet as he shakily reached out and turned her over, he took everything in at once as he looked down at her lifeless body; the large cut down the side of her face bleeding and her hair mated with dried blood. Part of him didn't want to touch her, he didn't want to feel her to feel the cold skin telling him that she was dead; but he didn't have control over his own hand as he touched her face and the tears spilled down his face. But her skin wasn't cold, well not that cold she was still alive, he bent down and kissed her softly.
"I'll be back I promise." Sirius whispered, and then he stood up and carried on leaving the woman he loves his wife behind, hoping that she'll still be alive when he returns.
Sirius walked up the steps, not daring to look back when he reached the top he started to run again along the corridors and the stairs, on the next flight of the stairs above where he had found her there were two bodies; he didn't stop to see who they were because he knew from their black robes who they were, but he also knew how they had died as well.
He wasn't looking forward to what was going to meet him as he went farer up.
Voldermot walked around the corner to the screaming and howling, no one heard what he said but Remus went flying into the wall dropping the man out of his grip, he crawled away holding his arm tightly. Remus tried to get back to his feet but he flew back into the wall, the bricks above him crumbling down onto him.
Voldermot walked straight past his dead followers and stood in front of the door they had been trying to get inside, with one wave of his wave the door flew over the furniture behind it flying across the room crushing to the ground. He walked in with Peter and two cloaked men behind, there wasn't anyone in the room; they walked through into the bedroom.
"We meet again Harry Potter." Voldermot said.
Harry stood defensively in front of the cot with Ron at his side, they both had their wands held out in front of them; and they both knew that they didn't really stand a chance against Voldermot and two Deatheaters; well they weren't really sure if they classed Peter as a completely feat.
"How noble." Voldermot said. "But this can be easy, all I want...is you and the twins and I won't kill your prefectic little friend who dare challenge me."
They both stood their ground.
"What do you want with them?" Harry asked.
"Maybe you should have asked that question to Electra and Severus while they were still alive." Voldermot answered.
"What? You're lying they're both still alive, you couldn't kill them." Harry said, though his heart was sinking at the thought of them both being killed, even Snape.
"How touching." Voldermot said. "Wormtail, get them now!"
He nodded and then stepped forward; Ron pointed his wand at him while Harry kept his trained on Voldermot.
"You don't have to die here boy, you can always join me." Voldermot offered.
"Never!" They both shouted together.
Wormtail rushed at Ron; knocking him off balance they both fell backwards Wormtail dropped something into the cot as he grabbed hold of the side and tried to keep hold of them all at the same time. Harry turned round to try and grab hold of Ron, but he was pulled away from behind.
Sirius ran around the corner he saw the bodies outside of his room and a man crying holding his arm and then he saw Remus under the rubble, but there wasn't any time he ran into his room the furniture every where and into his bedroom. There was Voldermot holding Harry, and the Deatheaters pulling something out of their robes; he charged at Voldermot knocking them all to their feet.
"Get the hell away from them." Sirius shouted as he punched him in the face as they rolled across the floor.
"I have quite enough for now, but I'll be back for you...well I should say that you'll come to me." Voldermot said as he pushed himself up and was touched on the hand and disappeared.
"NO!" Sirius shouted punching the air where he had just been, he looked at Harry making sure that he was alright but Harry wouldn't look him in the face. "What's wrong?"
"They took them, and Ron." Harry whispered, not daring to look up at Sirius.
"They've taken more then them." Sirius told him getting to his feet; he helped Harry to his feet and then walked back out closely followed by Harry.
Sirius bent down and grabbed hold of the man, and threw up against the wall.
"Where the hell have they gone, and what his plan!" Sirius demanded, but he didn't answer so he punched him in the face and again, but he still didn't answer. He looked down at the mans arm and then over at Remus, he could see now that he was still breathing. "Well if you won't tell me, then I can always wake my friend up there."
"What no, don't do that." The man said quickly. "I'll tell you what ever you want to know." The man told Sirius everything he knew as quickly as he could, Sirius prompted him from time to time by moving him closer to Remus, knowing that he wasn't going to wake up at time but the man didn't know that. "Harry take him up to the hospital wing, make sure he doesn't go anywhere."
"Right." Harry said, pulling him along.
Sirius ran back down the stairs as though his life depended upon it, well his kind of did as did hers. He almost fell down the steps as he stopped next to her slipping on the blood, he softly lifted her up into his arms and carefully and as quickly as he could took her up to the hospital wing.
(A/N: so sorry, but I'm leaving it there, I'm sure that you can wait a little bit longer.)
Full Moon
Remus knocked softly on the hospital door, and then pushed it open; Electra sat up and smiled at him and had to stop herself from laughing when she saw what he was carrying.
"This was Tonks, Hermione and Ginny's idea." Remus told her as he put the over sized bear on the bottom of her bed.
"Of course it was." Electra said smiling.
Remus smiled at her and then walked over to the other side of the bed, and looked into the cot where they were both sleeping peacefully.
"So decided on any names yet, it has been two days?" Remus asked her.
"Sirius is choosing the boys name; he hasn't come up with anything." Electra told him. "Every time he thinks of a name, he changes his mind saying that it doesn't sound right."
"So have you decided on a girls name yet then?" Remus asked.
"I went through the baby name book about half a dozen times, but yeah she has a name, it's on the band." Electra told him. "We told them last name, I'm surprised Sirius didn't tell you."
Remus carefully turned the pink band so that he could see the name; he smiled to himself and then gently kissed her on the head.
"Hello Isabel I'm your uncle Remus." Remus told her. "Your dads taking his time deciding on a name for your brother, I'm sure he'll come up with something before your eighteenth."
"Well he did say he'll try." Electra told him. "Oh and he said that Dumbledore and McGonagall was coming today as well, so hopefully he would have thought of a name before they arrive."
"Here's hoping." Remus agreed.
Remus sat down on the end of the bed, he looked back at the twins and then at Electra who seemed to know that he wanted to talk to her but didn't as well, so she just watched him until he decided that he wanted to talk to her. After a couple of minutes, he turned back to her.
"Can you not do that?" Remus asked her.
"Well if you tell me what's on your mind then I won't." Electra told him.
"There's nothing on my mind." Remus answered.
"Remus, I'm your sister so don't use that one with me I know you remember, so tell me." Electra told him.
Remus turned away from her again and then slowly looked back at her.
"It's them and Tonks." Remus told her. "I never realised how much she liked children."
"Oh, so you haven't talked about that then?" Electra said.
"No, how the hell can I?" Remus said. "Oh by the way, if we have any kids they're going to be werewolves just like me."
"Cute and cuddly." Electra teased, he looked very serious at her. "Sorry Remus, but you know that you'll have to talk to her about this if the two of you are serious. She accepted you being a werewolf, maybe she won't mind. I wouldn't...but I grew up with you so it's different."
"You say that now, but if it really happened things would be different." Remus told her standing up. "Mum and dad changed remember, they tried they really did, but it was too much for them especially when I got older. I don't know how I would have gotten through school if I didn't have my friends, and if you didn't stand by me."
"I'm different, and so is Sirius you just said so yourself." Electra told him softly. "Everyone deals differently, but I think that Tonks could handle it don't you deep down? Talk to her before you do anything stupid Remus, I mean it; you'll only regret it if you don't."
There was another knock at the door, Remus quickly turned round as the door opened; Electra sat up smiling brightly as Sirius walked followed by Harry Dumbledore and McGonagall.
"Hi, they stand that I'm fine and I can leave today." Electra told him.
"That's great." Sirius said smiling back at her.
"Only if you have a name for your son." Remus told him.
"He's got one." Harry told them brightly.
"I said it was a surprise." Sirius told him.
Electra and Remus laughed, as McGonagall and Dumbledore walked round to have a look at the twins, they bent over so that they could see them; they were both awake now so McGonagall held Isabel and Dumbledore held their son.
"They have their mother's looks." Dumbledore told her.
"And hopefully her sense as well." McGonagall said.
"That's a point isn't it; I'll have to teach them everything I learnt about Hogwarts and a few things beside." Sirius said thoughtfully.
"I think you should start with a detention plan now, if they're going to turn out like you." McGonagall teased.
"We weren't that bad." Sirius said defensively.
"Of course, if you've finished lying how about a name for your son." Electra told him.
"I have a name for him." Sirius told her, he walked over to Dumbledore's side. "So little mate, how do you like...Travis?" He giggled up at Sirius, who beamed back down at him. "He loves it, what do you think?"
Electra just smiled him at him.
Electra packed her things away while Sirius and Remus played with Isabel and Travis (A/N: hope you like the names.) and Harry waited outside with Dumbledore and McGonagall, they were to go back to the school; Sirius wanted to show them all off. Dumbledore agreed straight away, very pleased to have them all at the school, and told them that they can stay as long as they like.
Dumbledore opened the doors to the great hall, it was dinner so it was quite full of students and also the teachers were there, though they had been told that Sirius and Electra were coming back with the twins as well.
As soon as Madam Pomfery and Madam Hooch saw them come up they up were and out of their seats almost running towards them, they crowded around so that they could have a look at the twins.
"They're lovely." Madam Pomfery.
"I have images that they're going to turn out just like Sirius, should be fun teaching them." Madam Hooch said smiling.
"That isn't so bad is it?" Sirius said.
"So what are they called?" Madam Pomfery asked.
"Isabel and Travis." Electra answered.
"Oh...that's lovely." Madam Pomfery said smiling.
Severus was in an even worst mood then normal not that anyone cared of course why he was, because most were excited about Sirius and Electra having twins and that they were staying at the school. Though the only thing that did get the attention some was that Severus was also taking his bad mood out on the Slytherin's, which was a first for him and any head of Slytherin.
Severus was sat in the great hall with two empty seats either side of him and then the rest taken, it was as though no one wanted to sit near him, and he had to listen to everyone else going on about Sirius being a dad; though he still didn't believe that they were his and never was.
"Hey it'll be your turn next Moony." Sirius told him.
"I don't know...I still haven't talked to her about that, I don't think I should." Remus told him.
"Of course you should, she'll be fine about it." Sirius reassured him.
"You and Electra keep saying, but..." Remus started but Sirius cut him off.
"Remus mate, take the chance, if you don't then you'll just regret it and I'm sure that Electra said the same thing so why don't you listen to us for a change." Sirius told him. "You did about starting to go out with Tonks in the first place, so why not about this."
"Because this is so much more." Remus answered. "And anyway, I don't even know if we're that serious; we haven't even been going out that long."
"Then talk to her, if you don't talk then you don't know what's going on then do you?" Sirius told him as Severus stood up to leave, Sirius turned round briefly because he needed to ask him something but he walked away too quickly. Remus and Sirius both looked at each other and then carried on talking, they could always get it in a little while there was still a bit of time left.
Severus walked down between the tables and out down the stairs into the entrance hall when an owl flew through the open doors and dropped a letter at his feet, he bent down and picked it up and opened it because it was addressed to him; there were only two words inside.
Its time.
Severus didn't understand what the letter was about; he was just about to tear it into pieces when everything went black. But he was still on his feet but his eyes were glazed over.
He took out his wand and pointed it at the doors, and blasted them open. Everything went silent up in the great hall for a moment, and then panic started to spread through the students as the teacher made their way through the crowd.
Severus stepped aside as a dozen wizards in black robes charged into the entrance hall, they all looked at him briefly as they past him and made their way into the school separating into groups as they went different ways, with more joining them.
Four robed wizards charged into the great hall with their wands held out, McGonagall was in front of Sirius and Remus; the spell hit her in chest spending her flying in the air and landing hard on the Ravenclaw table. Sirius and Remus had their wands out in a flash, the man who had cursed McGonagall threw through the air a crushed into the wall and fell to the floor and never got back up again.
Lavender and Hermione ran over to McGonagall to see if she was alright while the rest of the teachers went after the Deatheaters, the Ravenclaw's were gathered around her as well.
"She's still breathing." Hermione said, as she softly turned her face which had a large cut and was bleeding down the side of her face.
The last to come through the great doors, were Voldermot and Peter who looked around quickly hoping not to run into anyone he knew; they walked over to Severus who was still stood there.
"What is the password to Dumbledore's office?" Voldermot asked him.
"Whizzing Weasley's." Severus answered tonelessly.
Voldermot's lips curled into a smile as he walked up the stairs, and heard the commotion coming from the great hall and the screaming from above.
Ron stood at the door careful not to be seen, not that anyone had come up that far yet; as Harry and Electra rushed around the room.
"Harry Ron the two of you stay here, and be safe." Electra told them. "harry..."
"I'll keep them safe." Harry reassured her.
She turned round to face him. "Don't die trying though...I'll be back as soon as I can and don't let anyone in part from, well you know who you can let in. But don't just let them in, they could be anyone remember."
"Ok that makes things harder doesn't it?" Ron said, as Electra walked over to the door.
She looked back at them both before she turned round and closed the door and locked it, they both looked at each other and then went through to the bedroom.
"So what now, we just wait in here?" Ron asked Harry.
"Well what else can we do, I can't just leave them." Harry told him.
"What about Hermione, she's down there, just like everyone else is." Ron said pacing up and down the room.
"She'll be alright, Sirius and the other's won't let anything happen to her." Harry reassured him.
Voldermot walked along the corridor with Peter trying to keep up with him, all the time looking out for people, but they never saw anyone on their way. Voldermot stopped in front of the gargoyle, he knew that Dumbledore must still be up there or he would have seen him by now; he knew this was the only way out of the office well unless if he had a Portkey then he could get out, because the Floo network to the school had been cut off that morning.
"Whizzing Weasley's." Voldermot said, the gargoyle started to move upwards but he didn't get onto the steps, but waited until he couldn't see the gargoyle and then blasted the steps apart; the whole stairwell crumbled sending up a dusty smoke.
Voldermot smiled slightly as he turned around and carried on walking, now that was done he can carry on with why he was really there.
The student's had been told to stay in the hall and not let anyone inside, but of course not everyone did as they were told; well it was mostly everyone who went to the DA meetings who decided that they weren't going to just stay in there and do nothing. Hermione and Lavender made sure that McGonagall was alright and then they went off with the group, with Neville right behind them.
Ginny was walking in front with Dean and Seamus, Hermione saw someone in the entrance hall as she was looking around; she didn't go down to see who it was because she could just make out from where she was.
"Snape's down there." Hermione told them. "He's just standing there, doing nothing. Do you think that they did something to him?"
"Oh god, twice." Dean said. "Personally I thought that no one could ever get him, but twice; how the hell are we going to do if they can get him and McGonagall?"
"Relax and same calm." Ginny told him. "It doesn't help if you panic."
"I'm not panicking." Dean told him, holding his wand out in front of him.
"Maybe you should, there's Dumbledore's office." Seamus told them. "McGonagall, Snape and Dumbledore, we've only got Lupin, his sister and Sirius left; unless you're going to count the other teachers, what the hell can they do compared to them."
"Right we need a plan." Hermione told them.
"So what is it?" Dean asked her, turning around. "Come on, you should be good at this sort of thing."
"I'm thinking, and by the way this isn't what I normally do; just once and that a spare of the moment thing." Hermione told him. "And it was Harry's idea, where are they anyway, I do hope they're both alright."
Sirius and Remus ran up the corridor, Remus making sure that he didn't pass any of the window's he couldn't afford too, though Sirius didn't seem to notice or wasn't bothered. They heard screaming and shouting up ahead, they looked at each other briefly before they carried on and then charged into the classroom where the noises were coming from.
There were severally student's and a Deatheater trying to hex them but wasn't really having much luck, Sirius stepped forward; but Remus stumbled backwards out of the classroom as a ray of moon light touched him.
"Remus...what's wrong?" Sirius asked distractedly, but Remus never answered him only kept moving farer and farer away from them. Sirius preformed the full body curse, and then tied him up just encase, and went after Remus who was trying to get away from.
But Remus wasn't looking where he was going and backed straight into the wall and the window, the night and full moon shun down on him. Now Sirius understood but he just stood there glued to the spot as he watched his best friend change into a werewolf, even more horrified when he realised that he hadn't had the potion that night.
"Sirius...Remus!" Tonks shouted as she rounded the corner, she almost fell over when she saw Remus well when she saw the werewolf in his place.
He looked at Sirius and then at Tonks, and charged for her with Sirius running after him; but Sirius never got to them in time as Tonks fell to the ground with a piecing scream. Sirius fell to the ground as well as though in defeat, but when he looked up Remus wasn't tearing at Tonks but at a man in black robes behind her. Sirius quickly got to his feet, and ran over to Tonks who was still shaking of floor, he pulled her to her feet and as quickly and quietly as they could made their way away from there.
"He could have killed us." Tonks said holding onto Sirius tightly.
"He wouldn't do that." Sirius tried to say as reassuringly as he could, though deep down he had always believed that he could, but times where different and Remus defiantly seemed different. "He was protecting us, you...he wouldn't hurt us...but we'll still keep our distance."
"Thank god for that." Tonks said, but then stopped him suddenly. "This was it wasn't it, this is going to push him over the edge and away from me from us all after tonight?"
Sirius just nodded slightly he couldn't bring himself to say it out loud.
Electra ran down the stairs to the main school, she hadn't come across any of the Deatheaters so far only a couple of students who she had told to keep together and hide; as she turned the corner to go down another flight of stairs there was a cloaked man stood on them blocking her way. She stopped with her wand held out in front of her, and then slowly started to walk towards him; but she was suddenly grabbed from behind and pulled back up the stairs, she struggled against him but he was much stronger then she was. He knocked her into the banister, making her drop her wand it fell through the gaps and onto the stairs of the next floor.
"Oh poor defenceless Electra brings back memories doesn't it?" He whispered into her ear.
They both stopped struggled when they heard an howl at the bottom of the stairs, they all looked down waiting for it to show itself, but Electra already knew who it was. She closed her eyes for a second, and then opened them again in time to see him walk around the corner.
"Remus!" Electra shouted, but the man slapped his hand over her mouth and moved as quickly as he could up the stairs with her.
He looked up at them and then slowly started walking up the stairs; the other man tripped and crawled backwards up the stairs. Remus pounced, the man screamed covering his face, but of course that was no use. Remus tore him to pieces; after he was finished he looked up at Electra and the other man and carried on up the stairs for them.
The man pushed her forward into him and then turned and ran, Remus knocked into her with that much force that she fell over the shoulder of the banister; she fell onto the next flight of steps with aloud thud. Her blood started to slowly flow out from beneath her. The man above her could be heard screaming but she couldn't hear.
Sirius raced through the corridor's with Tonks at his side, they had already dealt with a couple of Deatheaters and they knew there were more, he heard a group of foot steps coming towards them. They both started to slow as they turned the corner, but were revealed to see that they weren't Deatheaters.
"Hermione I told you to stay in the great hall." Sirius told her.
"But..." Hermione started and then realised that Remus weren't with them. "Where's?"
"He's is other self at the moment." Sirius answered, knowing what the question was going to be.
"Oh." Hermione said, and then was pushed to the ground by someone behind her and heard Lavender scream behind her. Hermione looked up and saw Draco looking down at her and then he was pulled to his feet, she could hear Sirius shouting something but she couldn't make out what it was; and then she felt someone grab hold of her as she tried to struggle against who ever it was.
"NO!" Sirius shouted as he reached out for the two of them, but it was two late they were gone.
"They have Portkey's, how are we supposed to stop them if they have Portkey's?" Tonks asked, but Sirius wasn't really listening to her.
Then something seemed to come to him and he ran as fast as he could but he knew it wasn't fast enough so he changed into his dog form.
Ron was moving the furniture in front of the door, while Harry threw books off the shelves wondering if there was anything in any of them that could help them, he knew if Hermione was here then she would have found something and would be shouting at him for throwing them on the floor.
"Harry they're going to break through, it's only a matter of time." Ron told him, Harry stopped what he was doing and helped Ron move the sofa in front of the door.
"We have to stop them." Harry told him. "Or find another way out of the room."
"Shame we didn't have our broomsticks on us." Ron said.
"That's it; we could call them to us." Harry suggested.
"They're not going to come flying through the window; they'll want to come through the door, when they come through so will all those Deatheaters outside that door." Ron told him, with more banging from outside and now there were screaming.
They both looked at each other, neither of them knew what it was and neither of them wanted to know either.
Sirius was running up the stair's, when he saw a body laying on them and blood dripping down the stairs, his pace slowed as he approached it and changed back. He sank to his feet as he shakily reached out and turned her over, he took everything in at once as he looked down at her lifeless body; the large cut down the side of her face bleeding and her hair mated with dried blood. Part of him didn't want to touch her, he didn't want to feel her to feel the cold skin telling him that she was dead; but he didn't have control over his own hand as he touched her face and the tears spilled down his face. But her skin wasn't cold, well not that cold she was still alive, he bent down and kissed her softly.
"I'll be back I promise." Sirius whispered, and then he stood up and carried on leaving the woman he loves his wife behind, hoping that she'll still be alive when he returns.
Sirius walked up the steps, not daring to look back when he reached the top he started to run again along the corridors and the stairs, on the next flight of the stairs above where he had found her there were two bodies; he didn't stop to see who they were because he knew from their black robes who they were, but he also knew how they had died as well.
He wasn't looking forward to what was going to meet him as he went farer up.
Voldermot walked around the corner to the screaming and howling, no one heard what he said but Remus went flying into the wall dropping the man out of his grip, he crawled away holding his arm tightly. Remus tried to get back to his feet but he flew back into the wall, the bricks above him crumbling down onto him.
Voldermot walked straight past his dead followers and stood in front of the door they had been trying to get inside, with one wave of his wave the door flew over the furniture behind it flying across the room crushing to the ground. He walked in with Peter and two cloaked men behind, there wasn't anyone in the room; they walked through into the bedroom.
"We meet again Harry Potter." Voldermot said.
Harry stood defensively in front of the cot with Ron at his side, they both had their wands held out in front of them; and they both knew that they didn't really stand a chance against Voldermot and two Deatheaters; well they weren't really sure if they classed Peter as a completely feat.
"How noble." Voldermot said. "But this can be easy, all I want...is you and the twins and I won't kill your prefectic little friend who dare challenge me."
They both stood their ground.
"What do you want with them?" Harry asked.
"Maybe you should have asked that question to Electra and Severus while they were still alive." Voldermot answered.
"What? You're lying they're both still alive, you couldn't kill them." Harry said, though his heart was sinking at the thought of them both being killed, even Snape.
"How touching." Voldermot said. "Wormtail, get them now!"
He nodded and then stepped forward; Ron pointed his wand at him while Harry kept his trained on Voldermot.
"You don't have to die here boy, you can always join me." Voldermot offered.
"Never!" They both shouted together.
Wormtail rushed at Ron; knocking him off balance they both fell backwards Wormtail dropped something into the cot as he grabbed hold of the side and tried to keep hold of them all at the same time. Harry turned round to try and grab hold of Ron, but he was pulled away from behind.
Sirius ran around the corner he saw the bodies outside of his room and a man crying holding his arm and then he saw Remus under the rubble, but there wasn't any time he ran into his room the furniture every where and into his bedroom. There was Voldermot holding Harry, and the Deatheaters pulling something out of their robes; he charged at Voldermot knocking them all to their feet.
"Get the hell away from them." Sirius shouted as he punched him in the face as they rolled across the floor.
"I have quite enough for now, but I'll be back for you...well I should say that you'll come to me." Voldermot said as he pushed himself up and was touched on the hand and disappeared.
"NO!" Sirius shouted punching the air where he had just been, he looked at Harry making sure that he was alright but Harry wouldn't look him in the face. "What's wrong?"
"They took them, and Ron." Harry whispered, not daring to look up at Sirius.
"They've taken more then them." Sirius told him getting to his feet; he helped Harry to his feet and then walked back out closely followed by Harry.
Sirius bent down and grabbed hold of the man, and threw up against the wall.
"Where the hell have they gone, and what his plan!" Sirius demanded, but he didn't answer so he punched him in the face and again, but he still didn't answer. He looked down at the mans arm and then over at Remus, he could see now that he was still breathing. "Well if you won't tell me, then I can always wake my friend up there."
"What no, don't do that." The man said quickly. "I'll tell you what ever you want to know." The man told Sirius everything he knew as quickly as he could, Sirius prompted him from time to time by moving him closer to Remus, knowing that he wasn't going to wake up at time but the man didn't know that. "Harry take him up to the hospital wing, make sure he doesn't go anywhere."
"Right." Harry said, pulling him along.
Sirius ran back down the stairs as though his life depended upon it, well his kind of did as did hers. He almost fell down the steps as he stopped next to her slipping on the blood, he softly lifted her up into his arms and carefully and as quickly as he could took her up to the hospital wing.
(A/N: so sorry, but I'm leaving it there, I'm sure that you can wait a little bit longer.)