Hey, thanks to all of my reviewers, even though some of them cough cough LILY cough cough say it's still Mary-Sue. Now, I'm going to take some time to explain a little about how I write. Lately, some of the events in the story have been things that have happened to me and MY circle of friends, and I am planning on putting another in. Most of the characters are, or are based on, some of my friends. However, I am unable to always know how they would react in certain situations. Dasani however, I know how she would react in most situations. I did not intend this story to come of as a Mary- Sue, and I will continue to TRY to make it less and less Mary-Sueish. I will do my best to not center it around Dasani as much. You know what? I just realized that the only people telling me this is Mary-Sueish are my friends that are in the story --0 I wonder if that means something. IN any case, you know now that my intentions are for this story to become darker, and for it to NOT be a Mary-Sue. Though I imagine that no matter what, since my favorite Character is Sirius and Dasani is based on me partially and they are together, some people will ALWAYS think of this as a Mary-Sue. And we all know that if you read Miracle Girls story 'This is MY Wedding' it WOULD be Mary-Sueish if Lily was an OC -- I think it sucks that her story isn't Mary-Sue just because Lily Evans Potter is in the story. Oh well --0 On with the story

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So it was that they passed the night, lending support to each other, waiting for the storm to abate, all silently thinking, knowing, that this was not the real storm . . .

The storm continued, making their last day at Hogwarts very dreary. All of their friends had passed their exams and they were all sitting down, eating lunch in the Great Hall. They were doing their best to be cheerful, but a sort of silence had claimed the whole school. The Gryffindors had accepted Sirius back into the group, even though his carefree demeanor had vanished since that night. He told them of his visit to Dumbledore's office, where he had gotten a heavy warning and detentions that carried over to the next year. He had to apologize to Snape.

Just as they were about to get up from the table, Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster, came to the table and said something to Dasani in a low voice. She nodded as he walked away and failed to hide the look of worry on her face.

Anthony noticed this as they were walking back towards Gryffindor Tower and said, "What did Dumbledore want?"

"He said that they don't want me to stay here this summer. Something about too dangerous." Dasani said.

(A/N: From now on, let's pretend that only the Gryffindors and Anthony know that Dasani is an elf, Okay? Good )

"For you, or for them?" Remus said darkly.

"I have no idea." Dasani said.

"In any case, something had to have happened for them to not let you stay." James said. "Right Lily?"

Lily didn't answer, she was looking at her friend's face. "That's not all. What else did he say Dasani?"

"Arlen sent them a letter a while ago, when it wouldn't have been a problem to stay here, and said I can't go to the Haven."

"I'm sure everything will work out for the best." Anthony said, "But I have to go pack." He left for the Ravenclaw dorms and Common Room.

Dasani muttered something fowl under her breath at him. Lily laughed.

"What did she say?" James asked.

"You wouldn't understand." Lily said, looking rather smug about showing him up.

The rest of the group laughed at the look on James's face and made their way to their common rooms to pack. When they were finished, they gathered with all the other students in the entrance hall and boarded the train. SInce their group was too big to fit in a small compartment and there were no bog ones left by the time they boarded, the friends had to split into two groups: Crystal, Jade, Henry, Rone, and Anthony were in one compartment and Lily, Dasani, James, Sirius, Remus, and Allison in another. Dasani sat next to one window, with Sirius next to her, and Lily on the other side of Sirius and James, Remus and Allison opposite them. Orion was curled up on Allison's lap. About halfway to the train station in King's Cross, Sirius, Allison and James were having a conversation about quiddich, Remus was sleeping, Lily was reading a book, and Dasani was staring out the window. Orion lifted one eyelid and looked at Dasani with green eyes mirroring her own.

"You won't find the answer out there." The black cat stated.

They all looked at the cat in surprise.

"What? Just because I haven't cared to be around you young ones doesn't mean I haven't been paying attention." Orion said.

Sirius looked at Dasani, putting his arm over her shoulders, "Your cat has an attitude problem."

Dasani nodded and made a face, but Orion said, "So does the boy she cares to call her 'boyfriend'." He made a hacking noise as he said this.

Lily, Dasani, Allison, James, and Remus (Everyone but Sirius) all found this very funny.

"All right, that's enough, just figure out where you're going to go once you get to the station." Orion said. It was directed at Dasani.

"Orion has a point," Remus said, "where are you going to go for the summer?"

"I have absolutely no idea." Dasani replied.

"I wish could stay with me, but we're going to Italy for half the summer." Lily said sadly.

Sirius had been studying his shoes intently for a few seconds and suddenly said, (while still looking at his shoes) "She'll stay with me at Grimmauld Place."

James turned to his friend, about to protest, but Sirius looked up and shook his head a little. No one noticed but James.

"Sirius, that's . . . it's . . ." Dasani started.

"It'll be fine, besides, you can keep me company, usually only my cousins are there." Sirius grinned at Dasani.

Dasani hesitated. "Are you sure?"

Sirius nodded. "I am siriusly and seriously sure."

Dasani smiled. "Thanks Sirius."

The group went back to talking about summer plans until they reached the station. They all went their separate ways. Sirius led Dasani to where a large motorbike was parked.

"You have GOT to be kidding me." Dasani said.

"Awww, come on Sani, don't you trust me???" Sirius said, trying to look innocent. After shrinking their trunks and putting them in a storage compartment, he got on and held out a hand to help her up.

She muttered something about a 'cloud' (A/N: Hehe, get it Lil????) and took his hand. He helped her up and handed her his helmet. She handed it back, "You wear it, I'll be fine, besides, it looks better on you."

Sirius shrugged and put it on. He started to bike and said, "Hold on." Dasani did as he said and he pulled out onto the street.

In about a half-hour, they reached a run-down building on the other side of London. Sirius stopped the bike, parked it on the sidewalk and helped Dasani off. They got their things and walked inside the building. The inside was, while not run down as the outside, filled with a dark feeling or aura. Dasani shivered at Sirius led her down the hall, feeling as if she would suffocate if she lived here all summer. For the first time, she questioned the image of Sirius's home life being like it was at school. She looked to where he was leading her, they entered a kitchen and a woman who had to be Sirius's mother turned towards them. She was unlike Sirius in every way, cold where he was warm, stern as he was relaxed. On the other side of the room was a tall blond woman and a girl the same age as Sirius and Dasani. It was Narcissa. She scowled and whispered something to the woman who must have been her mother. The woman gasped and looked at Dasani.

"Sirius, Who is this?" Mrs. Black asked coldly.

Sirius opened his mouth to reply, but Narcissa's mother was faster.

"She is no one."

This statement obviously meant something to Mrs. Black, because she turned to Sirius and said, "Get that- . . . THING out of my house."

"Mother, she's not-"

"NOW!"

Dasani looked at Sirius's mother with confusion. She had no idea what was going on. In her arms, Orion hissed at the three women.

Sirius looked at Dasani apologetically. "I will not."

"What did you say!?" his mother demanded. She took out her wand and turned it on her son.

Dasani suddenly found herself disliking Mrs. Black . . . A LOT. She eased a small knife out of her belt.

"I said NO mother! Just because people aren't pureblood is no reason- "

"Don't talk back to me!" She tried to curse Sirius, but found that her wand had been cut in half and there was a knife sticking out of the wall opposite Dasani, I wonder how THAT happened!

"YOU!" She turned on Dasani. Before the tall elf knew it, the evil woman was standing before her and had slapped her across the face. Dasani stood stunned as the woman brought her hand up to strike again and a strong arm pulled the hand back.

"That's ENOUGH mother." Sirius said. He was visibly furious.

"Get out of my house and don't EVER come back!" The woman said.

"VOLDEMORT couldn't make me come back here!" Sirius said. He grabbed Dasani's hand and pulled her towards the door, she willingly went, still stunned.

They were nearly to the door when a small voice could be heard, "Master Black, your mother is wanting to speak with you."

"She can rot in hell for all I care." Sirius said, he pulled Dasani out the door and into a British summer. (meaning it's raining)

Sirius cursed and pulled Dasani under the overhang next to which he had parked his motorbike. "Are you all right Dasani?" Sirius's voice was very raspy.

Dasani nodded. Sirius put his hand to the red handprint that was beginning to show on Dasani's face. "I'm sorry, Sani."

"It's alright Sirius, I've done worse hitting my head on bricks."

Sirius smiled, "Now what?"

"Now, I get out some cloaks so that we don't get really wet, the rest is up to you. You ARE the 'Knight in shining armor' here, not me." She did so, putting on her black cloak over her school robes and giving an extra to Sirius so he could do the same.

"Well then, I suppose we make our way to the Potter residence." Sirius seemed to have his humor back, but Dasani could see that it was just a cover, and that he was extremely bothered.

"Great." Dasani said, she took the keys from Sirius's hand, surprising him, and getting on the motorbike. When he didn't follow she queried, "Coming?"

Sirius laughed and got on behind her.

"You'll have to show me the way." Dasani said.

"Don't worry, I will." He whispered into her ear and put his arms around her waist. When they got on the road he said, "First of all, push that button with the moon on it."

Dasani complied and was startled, to say the least, when the bike left the ground and went into the air.

"Well, we're just full of surprises today aren't we Sirius?"

If a muggle had walked out onto the street at that moment, they would have seen nothing, but heard the laughter of a very stressed 16-year-old.

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Godric's Hollow

The Potter family lived in a large estate in Godric's Hollow. At the moment, Mrs. Potter and her son were just arriving from King's Cross and Diagon Alley. After putting his things away, James made his way downstairs to the kitchen where his mother was preparing dinner.

"I hope you didn't get in too much trouble this year James." Mrs Potter said fondly.

"Who me?" James said, "How could I ever get into trouble?"

His mother shook her head. "Is Sirius coming over this summer?"

James frowned slightly, "I dunno, Dasani went to his house to stay and I don't know how that will affect things."

"Oh dear." Mrs. Potter had heard about the Black family from both James and Sirius, who was like a second son to her. "Will that work out?"

"She isn't pure-blooded." James pointed out.

"Those poor children."

"Mum! We're sixteen! Well . . . .except for Lily, she's only fifteen." James said grinning.

"How are things between you and Lily?" James's mother asked tactfully.

James spluttered, "Wha-What? What do you mean? There are no- . . . THINGS between me an Lily."

"Lily and I." His mother corrected.

"Whatever. There is nothing between Lily and I."

"Mmm." Mrs. Potter looked innocently at her son.

He glared at her and was just about to say something that might get him in trouble when the doorbell rang.

"Go get that, would you dear?"

James walked to the door, muttering that there was not, never was and never will be anything between him and Lily. (A/N: Let's see it I can't make him eat those words soon shall I?) He opened it and was very surprised to see a pair of his friends who happened to be both sopping wet and Sirius and Dasani.

"Hey mate," Sirius said, "Can we come in?"

"P-Please?" Dasani was shivering.

"Of course." James opened the door all the way so that they could come in.

"Who is it James?" Mrs. Potter called from the kitchen.

"Sirius and Dasani." James answered.

"Bring them in!"

James gestured for them to follow him into the kitchen. Dasani hesitated, not entirely sure if she wanted to meet anymore of her friends' parents. Sirius took her hand and smiled at her, so she walked into the kitchen with him.

Mrs. Potter smiled warmly at them. "Hello Sirius, and you must be Dasani! I've heard so much about you!"

"Hey mumsie, what's for dinner?" Sirius said with a smirk.

Dasani elbowed him in the ribs.

"Ow! What was that for?"

Dasani just grinned and turned to James's mother. "Hullo."

Mrs. Potter frowned after a moment and Dasani thought she had done something wrong. "We need to get you out of your wet clothes! And what happened here?" She pointed to the side of Dasani's face which was still red and bleeding a little because Mrs. Black had re-opened the cut from Remus.

"Uh . . ." Dasani began.

Sirius's expression darkened and he said, "My mother wasn't exactly happy to see us."

"You poor things! You'll stay here for the summer of course." The kind woman said. "Now tonight there is a ministry party here, James's father being an auror, but I'm sure that the three of you won't mind mingling a little with the people from the ministry."

Dasani did mind, she minded a lot, talking to strangers, especially powerful strangers was never something she enjoyed, however, she had little choice in the matter. She found herself being ushered out of the room by Mrs. Potter. When she looked back at Sirius and James, they were both reading what looked like the daily prophet. James's mother led her up the stairs into the room she shared with Mr. Potter.

"I think I may have a dress you can wear tonight."

"A dress?" Dasani said quickly.

"Of course, it is a formal party." The woman smiled inwardly at the look on Dasani's face.

While Dasani was taking a shower, Mrs. Potter had Sirius and James got ready for the party as well. When she was done showering and changing, she went downstairs just in time to meet Mr. Potter, who was walking in the door. He stopped when he saw her coming down the stairs and smiled. Dasani looked at him, and then looked around for someone else. They were all somewhere else.

"Are you Lily?" Mr. Potter asked knowingly.

Dasani nearly fell the rest of the way down the stairs. "N-No. I'm Dasani. Dasani Bradford."

"Oh! You're Sirius's then." It was not a question.

Dasani raised her eyebrows. "I don't know if I'd put it quite like that."

The man laughed. He adjusted his glasses and said, "Well, come on down and let me have a look at you."

Dasani complied. She was slightly, shall we say, uncomfortable. When she reached the bottom of the stairs Mr. Potter took her hand and spun her around. He smiled, "Are you sure you're not Lily?"

"Very."

"Oh well. A father can dream."

Dasani didn't know quite what to say to that. "You don't want me to be Lily."

"Yes, I suppose you are a bit tall for James."

Dasani laughed and decided she liked the Potters.

"And even if she isn't, he can't have her." Sirius was leaning against the wall.

"Sirius! Are you staying this time?" Mr. Potter asked.

They all walked into the living room, Sirius taking Dasani's hand as she walked by.

"We're both staying, for the summer at least." Sirius said.

"Excellent."

"Dasani! You look wonderful!" Mrs. Potter said. "And I wondered why I saved that dress. I must have known you were coming."

Dasani was wearing a long black dress that probably would not fit Mrs. Potter. She flushed at the compliment.

"How was work, dear?" Mrs. Potter asked her husband. He sighed as he sat down.

Dasani did not get a chance to hear what she said, because Sirius pulled her aside.

"Dasani, about this party, well, there will be a lot of people you know here." Sirius said.

"Like?"

"Well, since James's dad works at the ministry, when they have a party, they have to invite all the people, not just the ones they like." Sirius continued.

"I don't think I like where this is going."

"Like Malfoy, and Snape, probably Crabbe and Goyle, Amos Diggory . . ."

"I don't have any problems with Amos, that's you. And Snape isn't really that bad."

Sirius made a face. "Snape is a slimy git."

"Leave him alone."

"Fine, but Dasani, my family will be here."

Dasani flinched. "I KNEW I should have hid the knives under the dress."

Sirius chuckled. "Don't worry, as long as we're with James's dad they won't do anything physical."

"That's what I'm afraid of, I can deal with physical stuff." She pointed at her cheek as an example.

"As for that, we'll deal with it on the next full moon." Sirius said. He seemed as if he wanted to say something more, but the fireplace flared up green.

They watched as people began to arrive via floo powder. As they dusted themselves off, Sirius told Dasani who they were.

"That's my Uncle, Alphard Black and my Aunt. Those are my cousins Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa. Andromeda is like her father, they're both good, but you know Narcissa and Bellatrix is even worse."

"Those are the Weasleys, you remember Arthur and Molly? They were both in Gryffindor. Arthur was in seventh year when we were in first and Molly was in sixth. They have two sons, Charlie and Bill. They're about ten years younger than us, but I forgot which is older."

"That's the Malfoy family, along with the Crabbes, Goyles, and the Snapes."

"I think I could have gotten that one on my own." Dasani said.

"That's Moody, he's an auror with dad." James said walking over.

Sirius continued pointing out people until Dasani recognized a familiar woman stepping out of the fireplace.

"Here comes mother dearest." Sirius said coldly. A boy no less than a year younger than them stepped out behind her. "My brother, Regulus." An intimidating man followed. "My father."

"You have a brother!?" Dasani exclaimed. "Wait, is that . . .?"

"He's in Slytherin."

"Oh . . ."

Someone, Mrs. Potter, called James and Sirius over. Dasani was left in the corner. She caught Moody staring at her and quickly looked somewhere else. Unfortunately, her eyes locked with a face so like, yet unlike Sirius that it was a slight bit unnerving. Regulus Black definitely had inherited the Black family good looks. He was as good looking as his older brother, but he seemed more haughty and inbred. The Black's more favored son walked towards her. Fortunately for Dasani, the younger son had not the height advantage that the older one did. (Meaning that Dasani was taller than Regulus)

"So," he said, "you are the wench my brother has given up his name for."

Dasani began to silently curse him.

"I must admit, though," Regulus continued, "you do look as if you might be challenging to tame."

Dasani glared daggers at him and wished she had her wand, or some sort of weapon.

"I suggest you leave her alone, Regulus." Sirius was standing behind his younger brother.

"You always were the soft one Sirius." Regulus retreated to where his mother stood talking to the mother of Lucius Malfoy.

"Did he do anything? He didn't hurt you did he?" Sirius looked extremely angry.

"No, I'm fine Sirius. I can take care of myself."

Sirius said nothing, but led her over to where Arthur and Molly were standing.

"Sirius, Dasani! It's so good to see you!" Molly exclaimed.

Dasani smiled. "I hear things are going well for you. Sirius told me you have two sons."

Molly beamed and began to talk all about them. Charlie apparently, was learning to fly on Arthur's new broom, while Bill loved to explore the yard around their house and go treasure hunting. Arthur was working at the Ministry in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office. They walked around, Dasani and Sirius, talking to many of the people there. Sirius did most of the talking. Dasani even met Sirius's uncle and his cousin Andromeda. Alphard Black was not cruel like the rest of his family, and was even civil to Dasani. Andromeda was about ten years older than Sirius and had a six year old daughter named Nymphadora. While she was haughty, she was not overly rude to either her cousin or his girlfriend.

Some time later, Dasani found a few moments to herself to sneak away into the kitchen. Once inside, she was very surprised to see Severus Snape in there as well.

"I'm hiding from Sirius's family, what's your excuse?" Dasani said grinning.

"I'm hiding from my father." Snape said. It might have even been considered polite if he had not had a sour look on his face.

"He's not in a good mood I take it?"

"My mother is here." Snape replied. "He didn't want to come at all, but Lucius's father requested it."

(A/N: For any of you who have forgotten, Severus Snape and Rone Snape are half brothers. Snape's mother left his father shortly after he was born for Rone's father, who left her shortly after Rone was born. Rone was sent to live with his mother's cousin and her husband, the Yokkaichis)

Dasani did not know what to say.

Snape turned to her with a strange look on his face. "Was it really you that night?"

"What!?" Dasani had no idea what he was talking about.

"Was it you who stood between Potter and the werewolf?" Snape's curiosity had gotten the better of him.

Dasani looked at him for a moment and nodded.

"Why? Did you not want Black to become a murderer?" Snape's voice returned to it's normal icy tone.

"It was instinct." Dasani said. "Hell, PETER could have been standing on the other side of Remus and I still probably would have done that."

"You put me higher than Pettigrew?"

Dasani raised an eyebrow at Snape. "I put Peter on bar with Malfoy and Jake, and I put you higher than all of them."

Snape said nothing.

"Look, I'm sorry for all that Sirius and James may have put you through in school. Truthfully, Lily and I had no idea that half of it was going on, or we would have put a stop to it sooner. I do think that the reason why James did it so much was that he knew you fancied Lily. However, I can assure you that if Lily or I so much as hear anything about James or Sirius doing anything to you without just cause, then they will have us to answer to." Dasani said. She wasn't entirely sure how Snape was going to take that, but she had to give it a shot.

Snape nodded. He turned to walk back into the living room, but said, "I'll keep that in mind." The dark young man swept out, leaving Dasani alone in the kitchen.

She sighed and muttered to herself, "I guess I'd better go back too."

Once she walked into the hall to go back to the party, she found herself face-to-face with Moody. He looked about thirty-five and had several scars on his face. His hair was long and lined with grey. Apparently those were both trademarks of aurors.

"So, you're Dasani." He said, seeming to look her over.

"Hai." She did not mean to speak in Elvish, but something about the way he was regarding her made her nervous. "I mean, yes."

"I hope you can keep Sirius in check."

"So does everyone else I know."

"You've got a nasty wound there. Mind me asking what happened." Moody gestured to the side of her face.

Dasani brought a hand to her cheek. She had a handprint-shaped bruise on top of the cut from Remus. She said nothing, but looked defiantly at the older man.

"Have a run-in with the in-laws?" He grinned.

Dasani frowned.

"I hear you put a knife through Betrys Black's wand. Cut it in two with one throw." Moody looked at her calculatingly.

Dasani said nothing.

"You don't have to worry about me, I'm on your side. I'll be around here for a while, I'd like it if you'd show me how you did it." Moody smiled a halfway creepy smile.

"Sure." Dasani decided that if Sirius trusted him then he was okay.

The doorbell rang. Mrs. Potter stuck her head out of the living room. "Oh, good! Alastor (A/N: Is that right?) would you get that?"

Moody nodded and opened the door a little.

Dasani heard the rain pounding on the ground.

The auror took one look out the door and turned back to Dasani. "It's for you."

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I think I'll stop here, even though I wanted to get the whole summer in one chapter . . . . I'm sorry tear but it's already like 13 pages. Anyways, please review, as I would like to know what you think.