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A.N. i have boosted the rating as there will beswearing in future chapters, so i'm doing it in advance to cover my self. I would also like to thank Emma for her sweet e-mail. Thanks hun, so i would like to dedicate this chapter to her.
Starr Light1: This one was even quicker. thankyou for the cookies. it's the thought that counts.
Risi: i think that they were just hoping. i mean they want things to go back to as they were, but its going to prove to be a bit more difficult then that.
Mahia: i know i'm terrible aren't I
Dadaiiro: yes, Amaya can speak french. They lived ther until she was four, so she would have been speaking both, since she could speak. Pity about the nails, this chapter will do nothing for them i'm afraid.
quibird: this soon enough for you?
Dortha: wow, long review. i appreciate you taking the time to add in how you thought it would be, and i will definately try to add those in later. about the Jaques Woolfe, Jacques Lupin thing, i will blame that on my having forgotten my pre-written one, and me having to write it all again from memory. Sorry about that.
Harry's thoughts
Amaya's thoughts
Here's the story:
Neither spoke as Remus drove them home. Remus was silent with shock. Amaya with a kind of stunned fury. Sirius was nothing like she had expected him to be. Both were silent. And both knew, that however hard they tried, that however hard they grasped at the tattered remnants of their former life; nothing would ever be the same again.
'Well?' Sirius asked as James walked back in through the door.
'Nothing. They've disappeared. Again.' Sirius let out a curse. 'Don't have a go at me. It's not my fault he ran. Nor is it my fault that he disappeared in the first place either.'
'And how do you work that one out James?' Lily enquired in a tired voice. 'You are both as bad as each other. If the pair of you had stopped to listen in the first place, none of this would've happened, and Sirius would know his daughter.' Her words hung in the air. Harry was stunned by the revelation. Amaya is Sirius' daughter? Though, thinking on it, Harry felt that he should have guessed. No one he knew had pale eyes like Sirius, and Amaya had obviously inherited his temper. Then it hit him.
'I know where they live.' An uproar met his words.
'Why the bloody hell didn't you say so?' Sirius demanded. Yep, they both have the same temper.
'I've only just remembered. It's written down on the front page of a book I borrowed from Amaya.'
'Who? Oh yeah…my daughter…my daughter.' Sirius mumbled.
'If we go back to the hotel, I can go in and get it. It's in my trunk.'
'Then what the hell are we waiting for?' Sirius roared before running out of the restaurant, quickly followed by Harry, Lily and James, who laid a twenty pound note on the work top for the trouble.
'MOVE IT BAMBI!'
A quick stop at the hotel for Harry to retrieve the address, ignoring all questions from a concerned Hermione, and puzzled Ron, and they soon pulled up outside a comfortable looking house. The twitch of curtains signified that the occupants knew of their arrival.
Sighing, Remus let the curtain fall back into place. 'Hurry Santhe.' He called up the stairs. Turning round, he surveyed the living room. It looked nothing like what it had an hour ago. Belongings lay strewn over the sofas; books lay scattered on the floor. Normally Remus would have fussed over the well-being of the precious objects, but now, all he could do was pray that they could get through the floo, before Sirius got into the house. Hopefully, he could get to the villa before the moon rose. There was banging on the door.
'Moony open the door. We know you're there.'
'Come on Re. I just want to apologise. Can't we talk.'
Remus turned his back on the door. 'Incendio.' He cast a fire, in the fireplace, and retrieved the floo powder from the mantle, just as Amaya ran down the stairs, a bulging rucksack on her back. 'Sorry, I shrunk things, but there was still a lot to take.'
'No time for that now, go on, into the fire.'
'But what about Lupo?'
'What about him?'
'We're not leaving him.' Amaya shrieked in outrage.
The banging on the door increased tenfold. They both turned to look. 'Damn it Lupin, if you don't open the door sharpish, I'm going to break it down.'
'Please go.' Remus moaned. 'I'll bring Lupo. Just please go to the villa.' But all hopes of escape to the French villa that had been his refuge all those years ago were shot as the door crashed off its hinges. Marching in, James saw that they were trying to escape by floo, and put out the fire.
'You are not getting away from us this easily.'
The wolf rounded on him. 'Why in god's name couldn't you just leave us alone?' James almost stepped back from the flaring golden eyes. But it was Sirius who spoke.
'You can't keep running Re. We need to talk.'
'No Sirius. There is nothing to talk about.' Remus voice was tired. The wolf was becoming harder to suppress. All he wanted was to escape to his French home, and run on the sands there with his beloved cub, and forget all about Sirius Black, wizardry and the Marauders.
'Of course there is.' Sirius took both of Remus hands in his. 'I mean, we know you are innocent now. And we have a daughter. You always wanted a child. Now we have one, and now we can raise her together.'
Disbelieving, Remus pulled his hands away from Sirius'. 'You expect me to forgive you just like that. No, I'm sorry Sirius, but she is my daughter. Mine. I have raised her. I have looked after her, soothed away her nightmares, dried her tears, picked her up when she fell…'
'Does that include protecting her from bullies then?' Harry interjected, 'Didn't do much of a good j…' He was silenced by a full-armed slap from Amaya that sent him careening into his father, who spoke up angrily. 'Now, just a minute. That was a bit uncalled for wasn't it?'
'No. He stands there and insults Papa. How can he control you, bloody moron? He is just there for me, when I need to talk to him about it.'
'All the same, you shouldn't hit people.' Temper flaring, Amaya rounded on Sirius. 'Who the hell are you to tell me what to do?'
'Your father, that's who.' Sirius shouted
'OH RIGHT. NOW THAT IT SUITS YOU.'
'WHAT? HOW DARE YOU…'
'OH I DARE. YOU WALK IN HERE, APOLOGISING, AS IF "I'M SORRY" IS GOING TO DO ANY GOOD, YOU SANCTIMONIOUS PRICK, AND YOU EXPECT HIM TO FORGIVE YOU. AND THEN YOU EXPECT ME TO FORGIVE YOU, AND THEN DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! I THINK NOT.'
'DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO ME IN THAT WAY YOUNG LADY. I'M YOUR FATHER…'
'AGAIN. NOW THAT IT SUITS YOU.'
'… AND YOU SHOULDN'T SWEAR AT ME.'
'I DO PLENTY OF THINGS I SHOULDN'T. LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO NOT HIT YOUR PARENTS, BUT THERE. THAT'S FOR PAPA. And she hit him with all of her weight behind a punch to the eye socket. Remus grabbed her arm. 'That's enough Amaya.' He said, dragging her out of the house, having in the commotion, placed Lupo under a strong sleeping charm, and transfigured him into a small bird, which he placed meticulously into his pocket. He just hoped he had enough time. Dangerous as it was to apperate so close to the time of full moon, he had no choice. Not if he still wanted to run. Unfortunately, Harry ran out, and took hold of both of their arms. Amaya look set, face flushed and eyes flashing to give him a tongue lashing, when she looked sharply up at her papa. She had felt the slide of the moon to full.
Harry fell to the floor, wind knocked out of him, where Amaya had pushed him. Not taking her eyes from her papa's shaking form she spoke. 'Run.' It was not a shout, but carried all of the weight. 'I said run.' Harry was now joined by James, Lily and Sirius, who was sporting a black eye, and all of whom were staring in a transfixed horror at the body that was now being covered with fur. He was snarling viciously, and Amaya was alternatively pushing and pulling him towards the woods. Sirius and James were so unused to seeing a transformation that they stood there in horror. 'RUN YOU BLOODY IDIOTS!' Amaya picked up the man that was now virtually all wolf and flung him into the trees, before allowing all of her anger and hatred to fill her up like a burning poison, a harsh venom, which flooded into her every cell. Her skin prickled and stung as fur ripped through her skin. She threw her head back in a silent scream as her bones dislocated and disjointed and formed the body of the wolf. Transformation complete, she turned and snarled at the people who had followed her before flinging her head back to howl at the moon, a howl that was soon joined by another.
Bushes rustled as Moony leapt out. Catching the scent of his mate, he leapt for Sirius, only to be knocked off course by Amaya, who dragged him, further into the trees. Backing up, Amaya failed to notice the ground falling away behind them, in a hollow of the trees. With a yelp, she fell, dragging Moony behind her.
Moony, furious with his cub's sudden lack of respect for his position as alpha, he cuffed her hard, vicious claws leaving sharp gashes along the side of her face and neck, before leaping for Sirius once more. To be knocked flat by a heavy weight, pinning him to the floor. Flinging his cub of him, where she hurtled into a tree with a whimper, he raked his claws down her side several times as punishment for her disrespect, before a but to the side sent him flying. Furious swipes of retaliation were held at bay by heavy antlers, until foot caught in a gap between roots, and twisting away to get free, and to avoid the wolf's attack, the stag's leg broke with a snap.
Amaya leapt, and head butted Moony's side, sending him into a tree with stunning force. Changing back, she ignored the blood that was pouring freely from gashes across her chest and helped a pale, and groaning James back to his family. 'For the love of God, none of you listen. A glance at Sirius showed that he had been bound by James to prevent him from entering the fray. Probably a good job. God knows what papa would have done.
'We wouldn't have left you with him.'
'If you had left he wouldn't have been like this. He never has before.' A slow, groaning growl indicated Moony's hesitant return to consciousness. 'Now go. Please go.'
'But what about you?'
'Never mind me. I can look after him. God knows, I have accompanied him enough times. Now go.' Her eyes met Sirius'. For the first time, she smiled at him. A pure sweet smile. The smile soon turned to a grimace of pain as large, sharp fangs sank into her bleeding human flesh, at the point where neck meets shoulder. With a cry, she sank into powerful paws. Moony sniffed the unconscious girl, and recognised the scent of his cub. Whimpering sorrowfully, he let her rest on the ground, before lying next to her, to keep her warm. When the sun rose, all traces of the wolf melted away, and his human counterpart realised that no matter how hard he grabbed, no matter how tightly he clutched, his former life had now gone. Things would never be the same again.
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