I'm not getting many reviews, which is making me very sad, but what do you all care. As long as I'm supplying with you with a good story, then all is well. Well, here you go... the fourth chapter to Battle of Love.

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One day, while Alana was playing chess with Ron, while Ginny watched, everyone's favorite wizard twins stopped into Grimuald Place. They weren't much older than Ron, but by the way they acted, she thought they were much younger. And they had only just walked in the front door.

"Hullo there. That your girlfriend Ronald?" One of them teased, and Ron turned a deep crimson, of which Alana saw often when she was the one making him mad.

"No, this is just Sirius's long lost daughter, Alana, Fred." He replied truthfully, hoping to shock his brothers.

"Fat chance little brother. We all know perfectly well that Sirius never married, and besides, he'd certainly have known by now if he had a child." the other twin grinned.

This time, it was Alana who blushed. She didn't feel comfortable with the fact that she was born out of wedlock, and especially didn't like two strangers pointing it out.

"See what you did George! You've embarassed her! It's not her falt her mother kept her a secret all these years!" Ron exclaimed angrily.

"You mean he really did have a child all these years? This is the story of the ages!" Fred stated, as he looked Alana up and down, to find evidence that this was true.

He did have to admit that she looked a lot like her father. The mischievious glint in her blue eyes, her mussed black hair, and sharp features. Yet she seemed to have other qualities, ones that made her more independent and intellegent.

"I'm glad to hear that you think so. But I'd apreciate it if you'd keep this a secret. Who knows what kind of danger I might be in if anyone were to find out that I was the child of an escaped convict from Azkaban." Alana requested, after she realised that Fred might actually go try to get this printed in the newspaper or something.

The grins that were on the twins' faces fell imediately, but they seemed to understand that it was no laughing matter. Sirius had never had his name cleared before he died, so anything could happen.

Suddenly, there was an ackward silence, until Fred looked at the chess set with which Alana and Ron were using.

"I bet I can beat you at chess dear Alana. We all know that Ron isn't near enough of a challange, even for against a beginner." Fred boasted.

"Then how come he's beat me before?" George questioned, with mock hurt.

"You don't count, dear brother of mine." Fred answered calmly, still eyeing the chess board, as if planning the whole game out in his head.

George gave his twin a dirty look, even though he knew that Fred could care less, once he was concocting a plan in that pea sized brain of his. But really, he shouldn't make rude remarks about his brother's brain, since he'd gotten the same test scores as him in all the school exams.

"Okay, well if you think you're so great, you just sit down and play me." Alana reqested haughtily, as she folded her arms across her chest.

"Gladly. If you'll please move Ronykins?"

Ron reluctantly slid out of his seat, so that Fred could sit down, and went to stand over by George, who was still comparing his intellegence to everyone elses.

Alana ended up beating Fred, though everyone expected and hoped for her to, but she almost lost on purpose to please the coniving red head. Why she cared so much about pleasing him already, she didn't know.

Not too much longer after that, the person that Alana had been most anxious to meet, after being told so many stories with him in all of them, arrived at Grimuald Place.

He looked rather worse for wear, but happy all the same to be back at a familiar place. Still Alana couldn't help wonder that if beneath the polite smile, sadness and grief lurked, eating at his sole, as the grief for her mother sometimes did her.

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Oh, I hope that was good. I tried to add some hummor to it, so I hope you liked it. I'm totally open to suggestions, so please R&R!!!!