Disclaimer: I do not own HP, or any of the other characters in this story except Isabella D. and her family.

Flash shows that a dream is ocurring

Italics shows the thoughts that Isabella is thinking..

Chapter 9:

(Isabella's POV)

"Isabella! Where are you?" I heard Sirius yelling. I had to keep myself from laughing because I was standing right behind him, using James' invisibility cloak. When he opened the door to mine and Lily's room to start looking in there, I snuck past him. After about five minutes of him searching the room and bathroom of where I could be, he sat on my bed. I heard him sigh. I decided to stop messing with him, so I crept up to him, and whispered in his ear,

"I'm right here love..." He quickly turned around but did not see me there.

"Isabella, come on..please come out..the graduation ceremony is going to start soon, and Lily and James wanted to spend a while with us before they have to you know..go away..and.." I quickly threw off the invisible cloak and jumped on him. As he was about to continue giving me a lecture, I silenced him with a kiss.

"That's not fair.." he said to me between kisses "Your cheating..Izzy, as much as I would love to continue doing this..we need to go..nevermind.." he said as I started kissing his earlobe. We were in a heated makeout 'session' when all of the sudden I heard Dumbledore in my head saying, "Isabella, the graduation ceremony is going to begin in about a hour, and I believe Lily and James want you.." then he left my mind.

"Sirius, we do need to stop..sorry!" I said to him, and ran out of the room,

"Isabella, your going to be the death of me.." he said, and chased me downstairs.

We met Lily, James, Remus, and Peter in the great hall. For the next forty five minutes, we all laughed and had a bunch of fun. We had a quick bite to eat as well from the kitchens. We all took our food up to the Gryffindor common room. As the boys were talking about how much fun the year had been, my vision was suddenly clouded with what looked like pudding. I tasted it a bit, and found that is was indeed chocolate pudding..the same kind Lily was eating. I took it off my face, and I saw Lily grinning devishly. She pointed to the rest of the boys and winked at me. We snuck up behind Sirius and James and threw the rest of our food on their heads. They both looked at us in shock, I saw Sirius look over at James, they both started walking towards us with huge smiles on their faces. We both knew what they meant.

."Lily, run!" I yelled and we took off. They were too fast for us though and caught up with us when we were running by the lake. James tackled Lily to the ground, and I kept running. As I was getting nearer and nearer to the water, I looked back and saw Sirius right behind me.

"Sirius.." I said laughing He then gave me his innocent smile and threw me in the lake. I felt the cold water hit my body.

flash "Isabella help me!" I quickly turned around and saw my little five year old sister, Jamie, drowning in a lake by our house.."Izzy..." I started to run towards her. At the time I was only 8, so I knew no magic to help her. As I was approaching her, I saw her head go completely under. I had wanted to jump in to save her, but I couldn't for I didn't know how to swim either, my dad was going to teach us the following summer. I yelled as loud as I could for my dad. I saw him come out of nowhere, and jump into the lake. I started bawling, I then felt my mom come up next to me. She suddenly colapssed on the ground. I looked up and saw my dad carrying my little sister, she was pale and her lips were completely blue. His eyes were tearing up. We then took her to St. Mungo's hospital, where she was confirmed dead. "Isabella.." he said, and just walked away. I felt like it was my fault. My father never talked of Jamie, or swimming again since then, including teaching me how to. flash I'm so sorry Jamie.. was the last thought I had before my world went dark.

A few days later, I awoke in the hospital ward. I was about to sit up, and I saw Sirius, and the rest of our 'gang' sleeping in chairs surrounding my bed. I felt Sirius stir, his eyes opened.

"Izzy..your awake!" he smiled at me and jumped up. He then awoke everyone else and yelled for madam Bailey. She asked everyone to be quiet for a moment while she examined me one fianl time before I was allowed to leave. After she was finished, the others decided to give Sirius and I a few moments alone. They all hugged me and walked out.

"Isabella, I'm so sorry..I had no idea that you couldn't swim. I'll never do anything like that again. I thought I almost lost you..again.." and I saw his eyes begin to tear up.

"Sirius..honey..it's alright..you didn't know, and I never told you." He leaned down and kissed me passionately. I then remembered the vision I had seen of my sister dying. I started to cry myself.

"What's the matter?" I heard Sirius ask me.

"Sirius..when I was drowning in the water..I had a flashback..You see..me and my little sister Jamie were playing in the backyard of our house. She was only 5 and I was 8. When my back was turned she must have fell in the water because then I heard her calling to me for help. I couldn't help her though because I couldn't swim either..and the look on my father's face, and hearing my mother crying.." I stopped talking and let Sirius just hold me in his arms.

"It's all my fault.." I whispered. I felt Sirius tense up.

"Isabella..that was not your fault. You were only 8! You can't go on in your life thinking it was your fault. She wouldn't have wanted that. And, as for your parents, they loved you..remember, your not alone..you have Lily, Dumbledore, James, Peter, Remus...me.." he said.

I kissed him and said "I love you" and for the rest of the afternoon, we just layed in eachothers arms, and eventually fell asleep.

A few hours later, I awoke to hearing "Lily, darling, as much as I know you don't want to leave..it's time for us..to..you know, go.." I opened my eyes and saw Lily and James standing a bit away from where Sirius and I were laying.

"James..I do love you..but.." Lily said, but was quickly interrupted when James said, "Lily..I can't believe this..are you breaking up with me? I know you don't want to go into hiding..I'm sorry..we already discussed this.." he hung his head down.

"James! That was not what I was saying..I do love you..more than I love myself..I know we have to go, but I wanted to be able to say goodbye to Isabella and Sirius..that's all.." I was about to get up when Sirius pulled me back down.

"Wait..let them get their anger out first..this has been building up for quite some time..you see James feels responsible that Lily has to go into hiding..away from her parents..and us..he feels like he doesn't deserve her.." he whispered in my ear.

"Lily, maybe we should just end our relationship..I don't want you to be unhappy..and" I didn't hear him continue what he was saying so I looked up. I saw Lily and James kissing.

"James..please don't suggest that..I love you..please don't do this..please! It's not your fault..I want to go with you..it's my choice.." He nodded and then he must have noticed that I was awake because he shouted

"Lily..they are awake!" Lily ran up to us and we said our goodbyes..I would see either of them for at least a month or two. I had missed graduation, but that didn't matter, Sirius and I were ready to leave Hogwarts. We would still come visit, and James would see Sirius through auror training. Once life got settled, everything would be back to normal..

A few months later, Sirius and I were finally settled in our new home. It was the perfect size to start a family in. We got an owl from James saying that he wanted to talk to Sirius and I at Hogwarts immeadiatly. We met Lily and James at Hogwarts that night.

"Isabella..Sirius..I'm..well pregnant!" Lily said. James was beaming from head to toe.

"James..congrats! But I am appalled at you..you didn't even wait until the wedding night.." Sirius started. I saw a guilty look flash over Lily's face.

"Actually..James and I have been married..since a few weeks ago..we wanted to invite you, we ended up only having Dumbledore there..i'm sorry..James wanted it to be done with incase he gets called away for auror business.." Lily said.

"James..I'm sorry, I didn't mean to accuse you.." Sirius said. James and Sirius started talking by themselves.

"Lily! I'm soo soo happy for you!" I said and hugged Lily.

"Izzy, when are you and Sirius going to get married?"

"Well..ummm i'm not sure, I mean I kind of wanted a long engagement and it's only been a couple of months..I'm not entirely sure actually.." I felt a bit stupid. Sirius was probably going to get sent out on auror missions/business soon, and I was going to be all alone.

"Hey darling..what are you thinking about?" "Marriage" I said.

"Well..do you want to wait a few more months..or now..or whenever you want is fine.." He said.

"Well..would you mind a few more months?"

"Of course not dear."

As more and more months passed by, I was starting to get worried. Sirius and I were never going to get married. Everytime we planned a date, he got sent away on business. Then, the one day that he promised me would work, Lily owled and said that she had just given birth to Harry James Potter. We met them at Hogwarts again, and Lily and James announced that Sirius and I would be godmother, and godfather. That night, while Sirius and I were getting ready for bed, he said,

"Isabella, do you think I am a good person for their secret keeper? I mean, everyone knows that James and I are close..and..well"

"Don't worry about it dear" I said, kissed him and snuggled up to him to go to bed.

AN: Please review! Thanks a bunch! I already have chapter 10 almost done, so it should be posted by Monday or Tuesday at the latest.

I'd like to thank:

Diana- Umm well, I don't think he will die..but that could change..hehehe

Luckybebe101- Well..I hope this chapter answered your question..I honestly don't want to kill them off..:(

Padfootqueen- Thanks for reviewing..I'm glad you like my story!