Chapter Three

The door of the dungeon opened. Rowena stood up quickly. She looked back at the door, her shaking stopped, her crying stopped, everything seemed to stop.

Out the door came a dementor, Remus shrunk against the wall into a crumpled heap, but Rowena didn't care…then she heard it.

"No! Sirius, NO!"

She shook her head she couldn't be taken in by a dementor. She had to concentrate. Then she saw him.

Sirius walked out the Court room, he had shackles on his wrists and ankles, he shuffled along a broken man.

"Sirius…." She could barely talk. She reached out and her hand touched his cheek, his eyes meet his.

"Don't believe them Rowena!" He screamed.

She shook her head. "I don't Sirius. I don't." The Dementor's kept him moving. A hand grasped around her wrist.

"You have to protect Harry!" He screamed back at her.

"I will!" She said. She could feel her head shaking but couldn't understand why. Her eyes filled with tears. She started shaking again.

"I love you!" Sirius was then whisked out her life, whisked away by Dementor's to be locked up for the rest of his natural life.

Sirius and Rowena arrived back at their London flat, from St. Mungoes.

"So, Lily and James now very happy, very proud parents of a bouncing baby boy." He looked at her smiling.

"Yes, and a beautiful baby boy too."

"Yes."

Sirius and Rowena had moved in together two years ago. Now they were both twenty five years old and very much in love.

"Rowena," Sirius lowered his voice and moved towards her.

"Yes." She smiled up at him.

"I love you, and when I saw you with young Harry, I knew."

"I love you to, but what did you know?"

"I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you." He knelt down.

Rowena's eyes widened, "Sirius what are you doing?"

"Rowena Hopkirk will you marry me?"

Rowena stared at Sirius, in the eye, not at the ring, but in his eyes. "Of course I will, I mean I do. I love you more then anything Sirius."

"I can't believe you two are getting married. It is like all our fantasies are coming true!" Lily gushed over a cup of tea. Rowena had come to help her around the house while James and Sirius were at the Order, the meetings were happening closer and closer together.

"I know! We plan to marry this Christmas." She smiled looking down to her left hand were her sapphire ring rested.

"I should think so, you have been engaged for ever!"

"You and James waited two years before you got married." Rowena replied looking at Lily.

"Yes but we were a lot younger." She smiled sweetly.

"You know, it's funny, we will sit up late in front of our fireplace and he will talk about when we have children."

"What do you mean?" Lily smiled at her best friend.

"What their names will be, how many boys and how many girls, how you and James will be the Godparents."

"Well, I should think so. Anyhow you need to get married fast and get on the baby train, or else the age difference will be to great and Harry won't want to be friends with them." Lily looked down at her son sleeping in his basinet. "He is my world you know."

"I can see that Lily." Rowena said smiling.

"And when you have ours they will be your world too."