I feel really bad, I haven't updated for ages, but every time I went to write this chapter I thought it was crap and I deleted it. I just couldn't get it right, then when it was Ok it wasn't long enough!

P.S I've put this note at the beginning as I thought it might spoil the ending.

Laura stood over the bathroom sink crying as she tried to scrub the dark mark from her arm. She scrubbed and scrubbed but the only thing that was happening was that her arm was starting to go red and it hurt.

She threw the cloth down in and sat on the lip of the bath a single tear running down her cheek. How had this happened to her? How had she ended up with the Dark Mark on her arm?

She got up and went to the cupboard over the sink and pulled out a first aid box, left by the very well organised Lily. She rooted through it and pulled out a role of bandage. She carefully wrapped it around her fore arm biting her lip in the pain.

The very sight of the mark made her feel sick, she felt like chopping her arm off in disgust.

She threw the first aid box onto the floor in despair, what was she going to do? She couldn't tell anyone that she had the dark mark on her arm as they would probably chuck her in Azkaban for being a Death Eater. No one would believe that it wasn't her fault, that she hadn't meant for it to happen.

She rested her head on her knees, suddenly feeling very sick. She wished that there was a way out, a way that she could get rid of it, bit short of chopping off her arm there was nothing.

She stared at the floor her mind buzzing with different scenarios, one of her telling her friends. One of her becoming a proper Death eater, one of her running away.

She shook her head none of them would work, then another popped into her head. She lifted her head, this would work, it would give her a way out, although her friends and family wouldn't like it, but where were hey now when she needed help? They were too wrapped up in their own lives to give her a second thought.

She stood up, she had a plan in her head.

"Yes," she said to herself, "it's the only way."

Emma sat at the kitchen table, books spread out over it. She was catching up on some work she had missed while she was pregnant.

On the left hand side of her there was a large pram with Reece and Sinead in. They lay there making adorable baby noises, and Emma found it very hard to keep her eyes off them.

They lay facing each other, looking at each other in amazement. Emma wondered whether they recognized each other from the womb or not.

After a few minutes of tying to concentrate she abandoned her attempt of work, and sat staring at her children. They were so unbelievably cute, she had hardly taken her eyes off her since they were born.

It was amazing watching them grow, already after hardly a month they seemed ten times bigger then when they were born.

Her mum had been round may times with bags of old baby clothes, and Emma took great pleasure in dressing them in the morning. Today she had put them in matching baby grows, one pink and one blue. The main reason she had done that was so that Sirius could tell them apart, which he was having trouble doing.

Emma smiled as Sinead lifted up her foot and tried to put it in her mouth. She wondered what they would look like in ten years time, she sighed as she thought this. She had been so happy that she hadn't even thought of what it would be like to raise children in a world where Lord Voldemort was still at large.

She looked at her children, she couldn't stay sad for long. The gently rocked the pram until they fell asleep.

Jess sat on the sofa, the fire was crackling in front of her and she was lost in thought.

"What's wrong?" Remus asked coming in and sitting next to her.

"I don't know, probably nothing." Jess said.

"Whatever it is I want to know," Remus said putting his arm around her, "come on, tell me."

"It's just that something isn't right, I mean Laura comes back and she isn't even a little upset that I ditched her. If I was her I'd kill me, and plus she finds out that I'm going out with you, her ex, and she doesn't care, she doesn't think anything of it." Jess said.

"Maybe she's happy for us, and she doesn't want to make a big deal out of it." Remus said.

"But that's not how it happens, and plus you said that she still liked you, if I was her I'd be heart broken."

"Well girls have always confused me." Remus said, "maybe she doesn't want to make a nig deal out of it because she thinks she'll get upset if she does."

"Maybe, but that's not like her." Jess said, "do you think I should go round and talk to her?"

"Now?" Remus asked.

"No, yesterday, of course now!" Jess joked.

"But I don't want you to go anywhere." He whined and he nuzzled his head into her neck.

Jess laughed, "no I'm being serious," she said, "what should I do?"

"You should stay here with me and never leave." Remus said and he sat up straight and pulled her in close.

"I mean about Laura." Jess said resting her head on his chest.

"Well, if you went round there tonight what would you say?" He asked, "why aren't you upset that I left you in Paris? Why aren't you mad that I'm going out with your ex?"

"If you put it like that it does seem a bit like I want her to be mad." Jess said, she thought for a moment, "I'll go round tomorrow."

"That means I have you all to myself." Remus said smiled.

Jess smiled back and planted a kiss on his lips although she still fel a little un easy.

Sirius got up as Reece started to cry, it was the second time tonight that he had gotten up.

He went over to his cot and gently lifted him out, "what's wrong little man?" He asked as he gently rocked him.

At that moment Sinead also woke up, and hearing the crying started crying herself.

"Oh dear look you've upset your sister." Sirius said and Emma got up groggily and picked up Sinead.

Emma sat on her bed and rocked her gently, "shhhh."

"I can't wait until they start sleeping through the night." Sirius said, "I'm getting bags under my eyes.

"You poor thing." Emma said in mock concern.

Sirius fell silent and thought for a few minutes.

"Did you ever think when we left school, that barley a year later we'd be married with two children?" He asked.

"No, but a lo of things can happen in a year." Emma said, "you never know this time next year we could be…" She broke off as a tear started to run down her cheek.

"Hey. What's wrong?" Sirius asked as he set next to her on the bed and put an arm around her. "Don't cry, come on tell me what's wrong."

"It's just that we're members of the order, and you're going to become an Auror, what if something happens to one of us, or both of us?" She sobbed, "I never thought of how stupid it was to have a baby when the world was so dangerous."

"Don't be silly, no ones going to die." Sirius said and he kissed her on the head.

"But how do you know that?" Emma sobbed, "and if we did die what would happen to these two?"

"Emma calm down, nothing is going to happen to us we can look after ourselves." Sirius said, "and if, god forbid, one of is was to pop our clogs, then the twins would be left out on the street. Lily and James, or Jess and Remus would taken them in and treat them like their own children."

Sirius put his free arm around her and squeezed her tightly.

Emma calmed a little and stopped crying, while this had been going on she hadn't notice the twins falling back to sleep.

They put the children back into their cots and Sirius pulled Emma around to face him.

"You know there isn't anything to worry about." He said soothingly.

"I know but I can't help being scared, I'm a mother now all I can think of is whether the children are going to be alright."

"And I'm a father, and I'm telling you they're going to be just fine." Sirius said, "they have a wonderful mother, and a very handsome father, what more could they want?"

Emma smiled, "handsome? You? In your dreams mate." She joked.

"Well if you don't think I'm handsome then why did you marry me?" Sirius asked.

"It was a dare!" Emma said cheekily.

"Well I never," Sirius said and he advanced towards his wife.

"Shhh, you'll wake them up again." Emma said.

Sirius lowered his voice, "so you like dares do you, well I've got another one for you." He said smiling, "I dare you to-" He broke off and whispered the rest in her ear.

"Sirius Black, I thought you were a gentleman!" Emma said and she ran squealing from the room.

"Oh no you don't!" Sirius hissed and he ran after her.

Jess sat sipping a mug of hot tea in the kitchen as Remus sat at the table watching her.

"What are you looking at?" Jess asked.

"You." Remus answered simply.

"I thought you had some work to do," Jess said.

"I do, but I much prefer staring at you." Remus said and he kept looking like a love sick puppy.

Jess smiled, "well I'd love to stand here all day so you can do just hat but I'm going out."

"Why?"

"Because I have to go and see Laura, and if I stay here distracting you you'll never get anything done," Jess said. She emptied the contents of her mug into the sink, kissed Remus on the cheek and quickly left before he could stop her.

She apparated into Laura's flat, it seemed strangely empty, but that was probably because four people used to live there and now only one did.

"Laura?" She called through the flat, but no one answered.

She went into the kitchen and found days worth of washing up in the sink.

"That's strange," Jess said to herself, Laura was one of the cleanest people she knew, it was unlike her not to clean up.

"Anybody home?" she called out again but no answer came.

Jess shivered there was a strange wind blowing through the house, she didn't like it, something wasn't right.

She went out into the hall and opened the front door, she checked the number on the front just to make sure she hadn't apparated into the wrong flat.

"Laura, Laura are you here?" She asked closing the door.

She went down the hall and into the first room, it was empty, then she went into the bathroom, no one in there either. The next room was empty just as the next was.

She approached the next door with caution, she didn't know why but she had a strange feeling that she didn't want to open the door.

She put her hand on the handle and turned it slowly, as she opened it she creaked. Why did she feel like she was in a horror film?

She pushed the door fully open taking s deep breath but nothing could prepare her for what lay on the other side.

She stepped inside the room and the moment she saw it she screamed, she backed out of the room and closed the door tears streaming down her eyes, it was terrible. She had just seen her best friend slumped against the wall, blood all around her. She was dead.