Chapter Four:

"Sirius!" She screamed down the cold stone hallway.

"Shhh." The voice was soothing but firm. It belonged to the wrist that had pulled her hand from her love. "Calm down Rowena."

"No! No! Get off me!" She spun around and looked in the cool blue eyes of Albus Dumbledore. She stared at him her eyes filling with tears.

"You didn't do enough! You knew he was James's best friend. You knew he belonged to the order! Why didn't you stop this? Why?" She fell to her knees.

The old man knelt down beside her. "You must control yourself Rowena."

She looked at Dumbledore stunned, "Why? Why must I control my self? For whom? My life walked down that hall and to Azkaban with Sirius. You even took Harry! What am I to do."

"We all have lives to live, even when our most treasured loved ones are taken from us." He continued looking at her.

"Get away from me!" Rowena stood up and marched down the hall and out of the Ministry of Magic.

"Sirius!"

"Sirius, wake up!"

Rowena's eyes fluttered open. She and Sirius had fallen asleep on their coach after talking late into the night. All the candles had burned out and the fire was low. She could feel his arms around her waist, his forehead on the back of her neck. She sat up, Sirius didn't stir.

She looked in the fire and saw Dumbledore's face. "Rowena wake up Sirius!" She turned to her loved one and shook his shoulder. He instantly sat up and looked from Rowena to Dumbledore.

"What is it." Sirius asked.

"It is James and Lily, I fear they are in trouble. You must go to their house." Before Dumbledore could finish Sirius was up and putting on a muggle jacket Rowena got up and followed him to the door.

"I am coming to." Rowena said reaching for her coat. Sirius grabbed her hand.

"No!"

"They are my friends too!" She said looking him in the eye. James and Lily had gone into hiding weeks before with young Harry.

"I know, but if things get dangerous I couldn't bare anything happening to you."

"Alright." She reluctantly gave in. He kissed her and left their flat.

"What happened?" But Dumbledore's head was already gone. All she could do was wait.

Sirius came in two hours later, Rowena was still wide awake, it was two in the morning. She ran to greet him at the door but stopped when she saw his face. He looked at her mouthed a word she didn't catch and looked at the floor.

He was pale, very pale, his left hand was shaking and his eyes were bloodshot. He started walking toward Rowena.

"What happened?" She looked at him. He didn't say anything. "What happened Sirius?"

"I….I…" He stuttered.

"WHAT HAPPENED?" She screamed she had to know.

"It was gone."

"What was gone?"

"Everything." Sirius was on the other side of the room with his back to her. "They are dead, James….Lily….dead."

"No, that can't be…..that can't-

"It is!" He shouted, Sirius never shouted at Rowena.

"What about Harry? Why don't you have Harry?" She stared at his back.

"Hagrid was there, he said…"

"You let Hagrid take Harry! Our God child! How could you?"

He spun around and faced her. "Do you think I wanted to? He said he had orders from Dumbledore. I had no choice."

She slowly sank to the floor. She couldn't take it. James and Lily gone, Harry gone. What was she to do?

Sirius walked over to her and knelt beside her. He wrapped his arms around her and whispered in her ear. "We will get him back. We will see Dumbledore and then go get Harry." She pulled away from Sirius looking him in the eye. Tears filled her eyes. He embraced and he held her like that for hours.