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Chapter 10-Encounters

As soon as I got a chance I called Lily to tell her about my dad. I told her everything and it felt great to share my excitement with someone. Sirius and James had gone with Mr. Potter to France so I've been waiting until Sirius came home to tell him about Dan. Mom and I haven't talked, she leaves the room when I enter and I don't eat dinner with them anymore. Dan has been coming over a lot and we'll go out to muggle restaurants and theaters.

"No" I said in disbelief, between fits of laughter.

"I'm not kidding, she just came over and kissed me just like that and then I slipped right into the lake." Dan said while chuckling.

When my breathing went back to normal and I no longer had an urge to laugh I asked more seriously "did you love her?"

"I did he answered" looking more sad now. "I think I fell in love to fast and got caught up in the moment, I was never your mothers' type and she never planned on being with me forever." The look on his face told me that maybe he still had feelings for her, even after she lied and left him. Our silence was broken when mom yelled that she would be back tomorrow morning, she was visiting my aunt in northern England. George has been away for a few days on a ministry assignment.

"That reminds me" Dan said "I have a meeting to attend so I'll stop by later tonight."

"That's great, because I was planning on inviting Sirius over so you can meet him." I said with a smile.

"That's a date. I'll see you later." He kissed my forehead and left. I liked having a dad. I liked having Dan as my dad.

"-And then there was this crazy muggle guy" Sirius said excitedly "he wouldn't speak and he was pulling on a mysterious rope. He was so weird, at one point he seamed to be trapped in a box. James and I were baffled, the guy was nuts."

"Yeah, the muggle's call them 'mimes' that's their job to act like idiots." Sometimes it amazed me how clueless Sirius was about muggle's. Sirius was telling more about this mime when we heard a crash downstairs. Emily and Sirius' heads shot up. Sirius whipped out his wand.

"Stay here, I'll be right back" Sirius slowly got up and went out the door. Sirius went down stairs and cautiously looked around. Suddenly someone grabbed Sirius from behind. Sirius caught unaware started fight with his captor. Sirius elbowed the man in the ribs; the man stumbled backwards but quickly recovered. The man launched back at Sirius and punched him in the stomach and then square in the eye. Sirius was punched with such force that he fell to the ground. When Emily heard fighting and the oaffs of Sirius, she ran down the steps and turned on the lights. Sirius recognized his fighter as the man that gave Emily the necklace the other day on the street. He immediately thought the man was there to hurt Emily and when he saw her turning on the light he panicked.

"Emily, get out of here" Sirius yelled urgently. Mean while the man had stopped fighting Sirius, when he realized it was Emily's boyfriend from the other night. Sirius however didn't catch on. He lifted himself off the ground, clutching his stomach and he raised his wand to the stranger.

"If you go any close-" Sirius began.

"Sirius, that's my dad, its okay" Emily said. She ran over to him and took the wand out of his hand. Sirius was still looking at Dan. Emily noticed the cuts and bruises all over Sirius' face. Dan really kicked his ass she thought. She put her arms around him to calm him down; he was still breathing heavily. As brave and strong as he was she could tell that his encounter with Dan in the dark really scared him.

"Dan this is Sirius, my boyfriend. Sirius this is Dan, this is my dad." Sirius broke his eye contact with Dan and stared at me, he looked at me, his face asking 'are you serious'? After I tended to Sirius wounds and dad apologized, dad and I told the story of mom, him and me. Sirius and Dan got along well. They talked to each other more than they talked to me, but that was okay. Later that night after dad left, Sirius told me how nice Dan was and how I was truly lucky to have such a great guy in my life. That made me think, I really am lucky, I've got two really great guys in my life.

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