A/N:-April A la Bitch!
Remus' POV – April 1981
I looked at Jenny with a grin, she was smiling back at me, we were sitting in the Chinese ministry, waiting for our portkey to London.
"What do you think the other's will say when we tell them?" Jenny asked quietly. Her gaze had gone back to Bo, who was sitting on the floor playing with Ling. I grinned at her and put my arms around Jenny. We'd finally done it, after about three years, no more then that, we'd finally gotten married, of course, no one actually knew, the only person who would know was Jenny's dad, who Jenny had sent an owl to before we left. He wouldn't be very pleased but after spending so much time in China I think he was starting to like me.
"They'll be delighted." I told Jenny, "Yes, we didn't invite them to the wedding but we didn't invite anyone, and yes we haven't told them yet. But they'll be fine with it" I gave Jenny a quick kiss.
"Mr and Mrs. Lupin, your portkey to London is ready. It will be leaving in five minutes." Said a Chinese wizard from behind a small counter. Jenny grinned.
"Thank you." I called back.
"I love that. Mrs. Lupin." Jenny said,
"I love the sound of it." I told her as I took Bo's hand.
"Daddy and mummy go England?" He asked. I nodded. "See Harry?"
"Yes, we'll go and see him." I said. A look of slight worry spread over Jenny's face. I looked at her curiously.
"I just realised, it's the full moon in a week and a half." She said.
"So?" I asked her, "I can look after Bo and the guys will help me look after him." I said. Jenny looked at me anxiously then smiled gently.
"I suppose." She said, picking up Ling and holding him securely in her arms "Stupid dog." I grinned and leaned over to give her a kiss. Since I had been coming to China everything seemed to be less evil, even the daily news I got from England about everything Voldemort was doing, it didn't seem that bad. And then when Jenny and I had gone and gotten married, well nothing could spoil that for me. We went into a room where a paper bag lay in the middle of the room. I bent down to pick it up.
"Ok, Bo. Touch this carefully and don't let go." Bo looked at me like he'd understood about half of the sentence. He looked at Jenny for help. Jenny translated it and Bo nodded. He touched the paper bag. Jenny touched it as well and a tugging at the navel later we were in London. Bo lost his balance and clutched my leg as he tried not to fall over. Jenny smiled gently and crouched down and began to speak to him in rapid Chinese. I understood one or two words but nothing much.
"Feel ill." Bo said sulkily.
"Aw, it'll be ok. We'll go to aunt Lily's house and then we'll get you something to make you better." Jenny said. Bo nodded and reached for my hand again. He promptly put his thumb in his mouth and followed me out. "I can't believe you sold your house." Jenny said. I gave her a smile.
"Well, I just presumed I was living in China, seeing as I'm only in England a few months a year." Jenny gave me a long look and I knew to be quiet. We walked out of the room and was met by April who hugged Jenny tightly.
"It's been so long, how are you? Oh, hello Bo." April said crouching down. Bo grinned and let April pick him up.
"Hello April." I said with a smile. April glanced at me awkwardly and gave me what looked like a forced smile.
"What's wrong?" Jenny asked.
"Nothing, so are you staying at Lily's?" she asked.
"Where else?" Jenny said, "Remus sold the house." She said bitterly but I knew she was joking.
"Ok, great. Lily's getting everything ready, she can't wait to see you guys, how are you getting there?"
"Well, I'll Floo with Bo-"
"Oh, you can't get to Lily and James' house by Floo anymore. They had their house disconnected." April said with a frown.
"Why?" I asked her. April glanced at me.
"Well, because they're in danger and anyone can attack them through their fireplace if it's connected." April said like it was obvious. I looked at her slightly concerned, April wasn't acting like herself. Jenny obviously picked up on this and took Bo back.
"Ok, well I suppose I'll get another Portkey, I'm sure I won't have to wait long." Jenny said. "Remus, you go ahead, I'll see you later."
"Ok." I gave Jenny a quick kiss before following April to somewhere we could apparate from. "April is everything ok?" I asked her.
"Yeah, everything is fine." She said. "Just some stuff that's been going on." She turned to me and smiled. "It's great to see you." She hugged me tightly. "Well I have to go to work, you know where Lily and James live." She blew me a kiss then disapparated. I stood there slightly surprised before realising where I was and that I had to be at Lily and James' house. I picked up my bag, which I seemed to have dropped and apparated to the welcoming warm house. I was in the living room and I sensed a gaze on my back. I turned to see Harry staring at me with his mouth slightly open and a toy dragon trying to get away on the sofa. I smiled.
"Hi Harry."
"Mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy" Harry said loudly and quickly.
"Yes Harry...Remus!" the young red-haired mum said loudly as she saw me. She hugged me tightly and smiled. "How was the journey?"
"It was ok. Thanks for letting us stay here."
"No problem." Lily said, "Where's Jenny and Bo?" she asked.
"April met us at the ministry and said your house had been taken off the Floo network." Lily nodded. "So she's going to get a Portkey here."
"Oh, great." Lily said, "well, dinner will be ready soon." Lily turned to Harry. "Say hello to your uncle Remus." Harry waved at me and I laughed gently. The little boy was so cute. "I'll take your things. James should be back any moment."
"Where is he?" I asked Lily.
"Oh, he decided to go flying for a bit. He'll be back in a minute though." I nodded and Lily took my bag without giving me the choice. I sat down next to Harry and he looked at me curiously. I hadn't really seen the boy very often but the thing I noticed immediately was that he had Lily's eyes.
"Heya kid." I said. Harry grinned.
"Mummy, Ayp man?" Harry asked.
"No, I'm not an ape man." I said slightly bemused.
"No, that's his name for April, he's just asking if you know them." James said from the doorway. I looked up and smiled.
"James."
"Remus." We both hugged each other and James put his broom down on the floor.
"Where's Jenny?" James asked.
"Portkey." I said. James nodded.
"So, how long are you here for? It's a week and a half until the full moon." James said.
"I know, I was planning on spending it here. What do you say to showing my son around England, I daresay he's rather bored of the barn they lock him in at the Chang house."
"They lock him in a barn?" James asked with a scowl.
"Only during full moons. I go in there as well but because Jenny makes me the wolfsbane potion I just lie there sleeping." I said. It was true but according to Jenny my presence seemed to calm the baby werewolf, add Ling to the barn and Bo was just able to keep calm during full moons.
"And will you be wanting to see Jenny during the full moon?" James asked suggestively. I remembered when we were back at Hogwarts. Jenny often followed James, Peter and Sirius when they came to visit me during full moons. She was the only person that Moony wouldn't attack, but that was only if she was on her own. Once April and Lily had been on the grounds with her when I got free and I'd tried to attack them.
"I don't know. It depends on how she feels really." I said, scratching my head. James grinned as Jenny suddenly appeared in front of us.
"I hate portkeys." Jenny said unsteadily. James grinned.
"JENNY!" He said holding his arms wide. Jenny didn't seem to know what had happened at first as James hugged her but then she grinned.
"James, it's nice to see you to." She said.
"I'm going to be like Lily and April and I'm going to say, look at you, have you lost weight?" James asked, pretending to be gay. This caused Jenny and I to start laughing.
"Yes I have actually." Jenny said.
"You using the same method as Lily?" James asked nudging Jenny.
"I wouldn't know what that way is." Jenny said innocently. I knew what James was talking about. He'd told me that having sex made you lose lots of weight because it gave you lots of exercise. Before Harry had been conceived, James had told me this was how Lily kept in shape. Lily came downstairs and let out shout of happiness when she saw Jenny. Jenny put Bo down and the two of them hugged each other and didn't seem to want to let go. I looked at Bo who seemed to be looking around slightly amazed.
"Bo." James said crouching down, "Nice to see you again." Bo looked at him slightly confused.
"Harry daddy." He said. James grinned and nodded.
"Harry's there." James said pointing to where Harry was playing a small toy Dragon on the sofa. Bo walked over and climbed onto the sofa. I watched as Harry and Bo seemed to get along instantly.
"So, how have you been, any news?" James asked me. I smiled.
"Yes there is some news." I said loud enough for Jenny to hear. She turned and looked at me.
"You want to tell them now?" She asked.
"Why not?" I said.
"Tell us what?" Lily asked. Jenny looked at Lily and grinned.
"My new name is Jenny Lupin." She said with a smile. Lily's mouth dropped open for a moment then Lily and Jenny began hugging and talking quickly again. James clapped my shoulder.
"Congratulations, when did you tie the knot?" He asked.
"About two weeks ago." I said, "sorry we couldn't invite any of you, we kind of had to do this secretly."
"We went to Hong Kong and eloped there before Father could say anything." Jenny told them. "When we got home there was nothing he could do because we'd gotten married in an English colony and an English wedding certificate...well he couldn't do anything about it."
"What did he do? Did he do anything?"
"He let Remus move in with us." Jenny said with a smile.
"We've been getting along recently so he just frowned on it." I told them. Lily let out a relieved sigh
"Wait until the other's hear about this." Lily said happily. The others, Peter, Sirius and April...oh, I had to ask Lily something
"That reminds me. Lily, do you know why April was acting weirdly in front of me earlier?" I asked her. Lily looked at me uncertainly then glanced at James.
"Um, how weirdly?" Lily asked.
"Well, she didn't seem to want to be with me, then when I spoke to her she was too nice." I said.
"She was?" Lily asked. Her expression looked like she'd just been stung. "I told her not to do that, god, she's so stupid, her and Sirius, always jumping to-" James put a hand over Lily's mouth as she ranted.
"Sorry, there's been some awkward stuff going on." James said. Lily pushed James away.
"No, I told them that we could trust Remus, It's all because of your upbringing you know that!" Lily said pointing at James.
"I trust Remus, and Jenny." James said. I felt Jenny take my hand as I looked at the two confused.
"What about me?" I asked them. Lily and James turned to me.
"Dumbledore thinks there's a spy and April and Sirius have been jumping to conclusions. We've just managed to convince them that Peter isn't the spy and that they themselves aren't the spies, so naturally, you two not being here they've started accusing you two." Lily said testily. I knew she was lying. I knew why April and Sirius thought I was the spy. Lily had given away part of the reason, their upbringing. Both April and Sirius were pure blooded wizards so they'd grown up with the belief that Werewolves couldn't be trusted. I knew that that was the true reason they thought I was the spy. I tightened my grip on Jenny's hand. She looked at me uncertainly.
"It's because I'm a werewolf isn't it?" I asked Lily and James.
"No, Remus, it's not because you're a werewolf. April and Sirius know that's not who you are." James said. "They even accused Dumbledore for being the spy until Dumbledore had a go at them." James wasn't that convincing though. April and Sirius accused me for the same reason no one trusted me, why I couldn't get a job, why until Jenny, I hadn't trusted any girl to stay with me.
"Are they coming round later?" I asked darkly.
"Um, I don't think they are." Lily said, I nodded. That was good, if they didn't trust me and if they thought I was some kind of spy, then I didn't want to see them.
"Tell Padfoot he can forget about joining us on the full moon." I said leaving walking around Lily and James and heading up to the spare room.
After about half an hour of probably catching up and giving me time to calm down, Jenny pushed the door open slightly and looked at me with a smile. I was sitting on the bed staring at the wall. She came over and sat next to me.
"I hate being a werewolf." I said, "I should never have had a child, do you know the kind of thing he'll have to put up with?" Jenny took my hand and put her other hand on my face, forcing me to look at her.
"Don't say that." She said. "April and Sirius are being really stupid." I knew she didn't know what to say. I looked into her dark eyes, they just seemed to look straight through me. I knew at least one person who had never seen me as a werewolf but as a proper person and as much as I hated to say it, it wasn't Jenny. Lily had never held anything against me even after she found out I was a werewolf. I think she seemed more concerned at the fact that James was an animagi and he didn't tell her. Jenny hadn't spoken to me for a while when she found out but I managed to convince her I was harmless, April seemed reluctant to even try and talk to me. All my friends had grown up with the prejudice against werewolves except Lily.
"How long are we staying in England?" I asked Jenny as I stood up. She looked at me worriedly.
"You don't want to go home now do you?" Jenny asked, "We literally just got here."
"No, I want to stay, its just that if my 'friends' are going to accuse me of things I don't think I want to be around more then I have to." I said. Jenny stood up and gave me a quick kiss.
"We'll leave after the full moon." Jenny whispered, "You don't mind do you?"
"It's probably better if we leave then." I said. Jenny gave me a smile and another kiss.
"Come downstairs," Jenny said taking my hand. I nodded and followed her out of the room. Only ten had I realised that someone had put on some music. I went into the kitchen to see April dancing with Harry in her arms.
"I thought you were at work." I said slightly confused. April looked up in surprise.
"Oh, I was at work, but I finished my shift, I took some time off without asking to see you and Jenny." April said. She sounded normal but I could tell that there was a tiny different quality with her voice. I looked at Jenny who wasn't really smiling anymore.
"Oh, right, where's Bo, Lily and James?"
"James took Bo out on his broom" April said casually.
"What!" Jenny said loudly.
"Well, he remembered you said he could take Bo out on his broom next time you came. And seeing as he's not allowed to take Harry out...well you get the idea." Jenny looked ready to scream.
"It's ok. You can trust James, he won't let anything happen to Bo." I said, putting an arm around Jenny. She looked at me sceptically.
"What about Lily?"
"Mummy." Harry said with a smile. "Ayp, Jen, Mummy" April grinned and kissed Harry's cheek.
"You're a clever boy aren't you?" She asked. "Yes, you're very clever." Harry laughed and pulled April's auror hood up. Jenny looked at me slightly confused.
"She never treated Bo like that." She whispered.
"I'm not as close to Bo as I am with Harry." April answered.
"So, how have you been April?" Remus asked, "In the month since I've seen you?" April shrugged.
"Ok I suppose." April answered.
"What about Sirius?" I asked.
"He's fine." April said. "Well I have to go, Sirius wants me to do something for him quickly before tonight." April's voice seemed to be getting colder as she spoke.
"What have you got against Remus?" Jenny asked suddenly, taking both me and April by surprise. "You've been acting weirdly around him and I want to know why?" April put Harry down.
"I haven't got a problem with Remus."
"Then why are you acting so distant?" Jenny asked. "And speaking so coldly, he's not the spy." April looked at Jenny.
"Who told you-"
"No one had to tell me April. If you have a problem with my husband tell me."
"Husband?" April asked, "You married him?" I was getting slightly disturbed by this argument. I'd never seen Jenny and April argue, April and Lily, yes but not Jenny and April. I looked at Harry and saw him looking worriedly at the girls.
"Yes I married Remus, what's wrong with you?" Jenny asked. At this Harry looked like he was going to cry. I went towards him to pick him up when I found a wand pointed at my chest.
"Don't you dare go near him." April said. Jenny immediately got her own wand out and pointed it at April.
"Put your wand down April." I said slowly.
"No" She said, "step back and don't go near Harry"
"April, put your wand down." Jenny said dangerously. "Harry's not yours to protect."
"He's like my nephew." April said, then she said that word that told me exactly why April didn't like me anymore, "I'm not having a werewolf go near Harry." I felt like my heart had just been hit by a hammer. April was one of my dearest friends, I thought she'd be able to see past the werewolf obviously not.
"Don't you dare call Remus that!" Jenny said loudly as something shot out of the end of her wand and crashed into a mug that was on the work top of the kitchen. Lily came running into the kitchen.
"What on earth-" She stopped when she saw April and Jenny. "What are you two doing?" She asked, running to pick up Harry. She then knocked April's hand away so her wand wasn't pointing at me anymore.
"Put your wands down, both of you!" Lily said to April and Jenny. They both glared at each other but did as Lily said. Lily then turned to me. "What happened?"
"They were arguing." I said. It was quite disturbing and I felt so hurt inside. April obviously had a problem with me but why couldn't she just say it to my face. Tell me outright.
"About what?" Lily asked, she looked at her two friends.
"Nothing." April said, she put her wand away and straightened her robes. "I'm not going to stay around here while they're here. Owl me when they've gone." She said rudely. Lily looked astounded at what April had just said. April disapparated immediately. Lily turned to look at Jenny for her reaction. She just took a deep breath and forced a smile.
"Sorry." Jenny said, she turned to me, "Maybe we should go home before the full moon. We're obviously not welcome in England anymore."
"What?! No you can't go back." Lily said.
"Why?" Jenny asked.
"Because you just got here, I haven't seen you in like forever."
"It's only been a month Lily." I said,
"Still, I miss seeing all of you all the time." Lily said, rocking Harry gently. "I know April was really being a bitch but honestly, I don't want you to leave." I looked at Lily, she was looking at me and Jenny looking rather upset with the whole matter, I would be torn apart too if my best friends had just had a fight, well they always did but the friendship between Lily, Jenny and April was slightly different to the one between me, Sirius, James and Peter. I'd only ever seen them get into a fight to the extent where they didn't speak to each other once and that had been when Lily and April had an argument over some stupid pact they'd made not to go out with Sirius and James.
"Yeah, we'll stay as long as you want." I said, "I couldn't bear having you annoyed with me as well." Lily smiled and hugged me as best as she could with Harry in her arms.
"Thank you" She said. She went and hugged Jenny as well.
"What's been happening while we've been in China?" Jenny asked, "I mean, I know you said that there's something about a spy but what's caused Sirius and April to hate Remus so much?" Both of us looked at Lily for an answer. She looked back at us then sighed. She sat down at the table and placed Harry on her lap. I sat down as well, and Jenny next to me.
"I don't know." Lily said, "In the past month everything's been going so wrong. Sirius and April seems to have ganged up against anyone and everyone. They've been working more then anyone in the order. Sirius is always going undercover to try and find out more while, apparently, April's taken to torturing Death Eaters for answers. Now that she can use unforgivable curses without having to pay any consequences. James and I have tried to talk to them, and until last week they heavily suspected that Peter was the spy."
"What happened last week?" Jenny asked. Lily didn't look at me and tried to flatten Harry's hair.
"Well, there was this article in the prophet about a family in Ireland, who were really good friends with a man, they thought was their best friend. The best friend was a werewolf and a Death Eater but the Prophet played on the fact that he was a werewolf and they stuck in a few fake statistics to make it seem like werewolves were the worst people on earth and none of them could be trusted in the slightest. I don't know why Sirius and April are suddenly so against it, I know that they know that Remus would never hurt anyone," Lily said. I didn't really want to hear any more, I couldn't hear any more but I wanted to know. Lily looked quite distressed with the whole thing. I looked at Jenny, who looked slightly anxious.
"I really thought they would have gotten over the fact that-" Jenny started to say. Lily cut her short.
"They come from two of the oldest pure blooded families, Jenny. And I promised April I'd never tell anyone but she found it incredibly difficult to except that Remus was a werewolf. She still does, you know, she does trust him and everything but it was a really fragile thing after she found out. The article in the Prophet shattered that layer of trust for her. As for Sirius, I don't know why he's suddenly such a bastard about it."
"About what?" James asked happily as he walked in with his broom and Bo. Bo looked at Jenny and began talking excitedly in Chinese. Jenny forced a smile. James looked at our faces and frowned.
"What's happened?" He asked as he propped his broom against the wall and looked at us.
"Lily was just telling us what's happened." I said, "About Sirius and April." James' face suddenly changed to shock.
"Why did you tell them?" James asked. "We promised-"
"I don't care James. April and Jenny were about to kill each other just now so I thought they'd ought to know. I don't care about what we promised April and Sirius and they may be our best friends but I'd rather have friends who I know I can trust rather then ones who jump to conclusions and turn on their own friends." Lily snapped. I looked at Lily quite touched. She was incredibly close to April and was getting closer to Sirius all the time but she valued my friendship above theirs. I couldn't help but smile gratefully. Lily noticed and gave me a smile.
"I mean it Remus. I'll pick you and Jenny over Sirius and April any day if they continue to act like this" Lily said sharply.
"I suppose." James muttered, "but what happened though."
"I got into a fight with April about Remus being a werewolf." Jenny said. James winced immediately like he knew what it might have led to.
"Sorry." Was all he could say. I sighed, I knew I would normally have taken this a lot harder then I was now but knowing that Lily would chose my friendship over April's and Sirius' seemed to make me feel better about it somehow. When I said that Lily was the only person who had ever seen past the fact that I was a werewolf I meant it.
"It's fine." I said. Jenny looked at me slightly worriedly. "Honestly, I'm fine." I said "I'm going to unpack, if that's ok with the rest of you." I said. They all nodded and Jenny told me she wanted to stay downstairs for a bit. I headed up to the spare bedroom on my own. I went to my bag and started to unpack. I felt so strange. I felt angry and Sirius and April were acting the way they were, I couldn't believe that they'd be so narrow minded, though Lily had a point that they were pure blooded wizards it didn't excuse the fact that they should know better. While all the time Lily's words rang in my head, 'I'll pick you and Sirius over Sirius and April any day if they continue to act like this'. I couldn't help but smile to myself. Never had anyone even considered choosing me over their own best friends. I had finished unpacking when I came across a toy of Bo's that was packed in my bag. Shaking my head I picked it up and headed downstairs.
"April, Sirius, I want you to change your behaviour right now!" I heard Lily say loudly.
"Why?" I heard April asked. "Is that all you asked us here for?"
"What happened?" Sirius asked, he sounded like he was in a bit of a daze. I went to the kitchen door, it was slightly open and I could hear the voices in the kitchen, as far as I could tell everyone was in there.
"Oh, just your girlfriend is being a bitch." Jenny said icily.
"I'm not Sirius' girlfriend anymore." April snapped back.
"Keep telling yourself that April, I can see straight through you." Jenny said back.
"Will you two be quiet!" James shouted, "God, anyone would think you've hated each other all your lives as opposed to loving each other." I felt slightly surprised that James had snapped back but it had worked, everyone was quiet. "Right, I want you two, Sirius, April to change your attitudes. Lily and I don't want our friends fighting over something petty."
"What?" Sirius asked. "What's petty?"
"I'll translate it for you Sirius." Lily said testily, "Who do you think is the spy?"
"Why?" Sirius asked suspiciously.
"Tell me Sirius or we're going to make someone else Harry's Godfather." Lily snapped. There was a few moments of silence. I couldn't believe they were talking about this.
"Remus." He said quietly. I felt like something had struck my heart and almost flattened it.
"Why?" Lily asked, "and give me a good reason. If you say it's because it's because he's a werewolf you don't even deserve to be any of our friends. You became an animagus for him and now you've turned against him?" I heard James agree with Lily and Jenny give some sort of satisfied noise.
"What is this? Protect the Werewolf day?" April asked. "He's the spy, it's obvious."
"April, can you hear what you're saying? Is your mouth even connected to your brain?" Jenny asked. "You've liked Remus since first year and now you decide he's a threat?"
"Oh, and I suppose you're going to say he's not, look what he's done to you." April said cattily
"What has he done to me?" Jenny asked dangerously.
"Will you two SHUT UP!" Lily screamed. I pushed the door open at this and went in. Peter was also standing in the kitchen, looking slightly shaken. Sirius and April tensed as they saw me.
"Moony," Sirius said with a smile. I looked at him coldly, if he was accusing me of being something I couldn't help, and something I suspected that he had accept I wasn't going to even try and be nice.
"Black." I said. Sirius looked like he'd just been hit with a sledgehammer.
"Look, I'm sorry. Lily's right." Sirius said. April looked at him rather shocked. I looked straight at Sirius. He looked very sorry and apologetic, I felt like forgiving him but he'd accused me for a really bad reason, again something that I thought he'd gotten over.
"What?" April spluttered. "He has to go, it's obvious he's the spy!" she snapped. I looked at her coldly.
"April, you know Lily's right." Sirius said, they looked at each other in the eyes and everyone was silent for a moment. Suddenly Sirius' eyes opened wide and he grabbed April's arm.
"Take her wand quickly." He said. April seemed to realise that something was wrong and began struggling.
"Let go of me." Lily ran forwards quickly and took April's wand and James got his own out and pointed it at April. Peter started in surprise and hesitantly got his own wand out. I got my own wand out to as I realised what was happening. April was under someone else's influence, a curse.
"Bo." Jenny said quickly and our young son ran from behind James to Jenny.
"April, fight it." Sirius said.
"Get off me." April shouted. She seemed to struggle even more.
"Sirius, let me stun her so that we can-"
"NO!" Sirius barked. Everyone started in surprise.
"I really think that maybe we should do something." Peter said. He looked at Sirius nervously. Everyone was looking at him as April struggled. Then Sirius seemed to do the only thing that his mind seemed to ever think about. Sirius pressed April against the wall to pin her there and fixed his mouth over hers. April seemed to struggle at first but then she seemed to weaken the pushed him away. Everyone watched her anxiously. My hand was shaking slightly. April looked at us slightly confused.
"Oh merlin." She said leaning against the wall. "Oh shit." She sank to the floor.
"I think it's safe to say that she's back to normal." James said pocketing his wand as April put her head on her knees. Everyone did put their wands away but Lily still kept hold of April's wand. Sirius went to try and comfort April, who was seemed very traumatised by the experience of being under the imperius curse.
"Am I needed here anymore?" Peter asked, "I was in the middle of a meeting, you know, new regulations on trying to control the Death Eaters, it was a meeting with the auror department." James looked at him.
"Why did you come? The meeting is much more important then this. You should have stayed there, you didn't need to come." Peter gave him a shy smile before disapparating. He looked at Lily, who was just looking coldly at April. I noticed that Jenny had a similar expression on her face.
"April, it's ok." Sirius said trying to get April to lift her head and look at him. She shook her head like she was ashamed of everything.
"No, they'll kill me." She cried into her arms.
"We're right here." Jenny said. "If we wanted to kill you we could have already." April glanced up at us and pulled Sirius closer. She whispered something to him and he nodded. He stood up.
"I'm going to take her home." Sirius said. "Could I have her wand?" He asked holding his hand out for Lily to put April's wand back. She reluctantly held it out for Sirius to take. He helped April to her feet and she seemed to be shaking slightly.
"I'm so sorry." She said, "I didn't mean any of it I promise." She saw the looks on our faces and took her wand back before disappparating out of the house.
A/N:- Dun dun duuuuuun....April's life isn't going to get much easier after this, i think it's actually going to get steadily worse, though there will be a peak in the next chapter. Sirius/April Fans....Next chapter is a MUST READ for you guys.
Also, I've come up with the final plans for my alternate endings, the sad one will be put up on harrypotterfanfiction.com when it's back up (It's down at the moment). The people on that website seem to only like what goes by the book (Heartbreakers didn't get a very warm welcome there coz it was different) and they don't want the "Happy ending". So I'm going to be putting the sad ending up there, my pen name is Demongurl. You don't have to go over and read it, i'm probably going to put another sotry with the alternate ending because i'm losing track of the number of people who want me to email it to them....there's too many of you. I'm also gonna do a sequel that follows Harry's upbringing, unfortunately, i dont think that i can do that in 1st person so that'll be in 3rd person because...well...the POV of a 5 year old is rather limited! "Mummy was nice to me again today, she gave me ice cream!"...i can't write like that.
One thing to say.....I CAN'T BELEIVE I GOT JENNY AND REMUS TO MARRY!! OH MY GOD!! That was sooo not planned at all! Ah well, no big loss there :D