Ok I feel soooooooooo terrible, I haven't updated in like two months and I'm so sorry! After I came back from holiday I decided to have a little bit of a break, then school started and I had so much work to do, then when I did get round to writing I just couldn't do it! Everything I wrote was rubbish!

So this chapter isn't my best but it's something at least! Again I'm sorry! But I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Emma unfurled the latest edition of the Daily Profit over the breakfast table, while she ate.

The front page was mostly dedicated to a large picture of two people smiling and waving in front of a house. Her eyes then fell upon the headline and as she read it she dropped her spoon and it fell into her bowl with a clatter.

"What is it?" Sirius asked going over to her and reading the paper over her shoulder.

I "AUROR AND HIS WIFE TORTURED TO INSANITY" /I The headline read, and beneath it was the large picture of Frank and Alice Longbottom.

"It's disgusting isn't it," Sirius said shaking his head and sitting down on a chair.

Emma nodded as she read the article, her mouth hanging slightly open in shock.

"Bellatrix Lestrange, isn't she your-" Emma asked after she had finished.

"Unfortunately so," Sirius said darkly, his family seemed to be a sensitive subject.

"Poor Frank and Alice," Emma said, "they were so nice, and they had a son. How anyone could do something like that is beyond me. Lock them up and throw away the key."

"Well some of these Death eaters are a breed of their own." Sirius said.

Emma scanned the article again, "Barty Crouch Junior?"

Sirius nodded, "Yep, Barty Crouches son. He was having kittens last night when they were brought in."

"Well he should have spent more time with his son, I think he's gone a little power crazy." Emma said.

"You can say that again," Sirius said, "obsessed with catching Death eaters. He's the one that passed the law that lets Aurous kill, not just capture."

Emma just shook her head.

"But I don't want you worrying about any of this, all I want you to worry about is yourself and keeping that baby safe." Sirius said standing up and rubbing Emma's shoulders.

"I'm fine Sirius," Emma said sighing.

"Are you sure, you look a little pale, maybe you should go back to bed." Sirius said putting his hand against her forehead.

Emma rolled her eyes, "And I think it's time you went to work." She said.

Sirius looked down at his watch, "take it easy OK." He said.

"You worry too much," Emma said kissing him goodbye.

Sirius just shrugged before leaving.

Lily emptied the contents of a small glass bottle into her cauldron and stirred it twice as a silver mist rose out of it.

"Urgh!" She said as the sent of old socks filled her nostrils and she took a step away from the cauldron.

She felt a soft tug on the end of her robes and she looked down to find Harry standing there.

"Smells bad doesn't it!" She said as he looked at her inquiringly.

"Mummy smells," Harry said.

Lily laughed as Harry showed her his toothless grin.

"Go back and play, you little rascal!" Lily said ruffling his hair and turning back to the cauldron.

She hated making wolfsbane potion but someone had to do it and, since Sirius wouldn't let Emma go anywhere near a cauldron, and no one else had time, it was left to her to make it for Remus.

"Right," She said as she added the next ingredient and stood back yet again as green smoke rose from the cauldron. She then stirred it three times clockwise, then twice anti-clockwise before she left it to brew.

She looked at her watch, it was three in the after noon and the potion needed the best part of four hours to mature. She was cutting it fine, tonight was a full moon, but it looked like it was going to be cloudy tonight so there shouldn't be any problems, well at least she hoped not anyway!

She sat back in a chair and sighed, her life had become so boring lately, even though she was not in hiding for the amount of time she went out she may as well be.

She hadn't seen anyone outside her circle of close friends for what seemed like years.

She looked down at her ever growing bump and patted it, well when this last one was out she'd be able to walk properly, as apposed to how she waddled at the moment, and that meant she could go out, even if it was just walking to the park with the children, or to the shops.

Remus pulled his cloak tight around his body as he walked in the bitter evening cold, he was on his way home. Normally he would apparate but he just didn't feel up to it today. With it being a full moon he felt utterly sick and he was dreading transforming tonight.

He just wished that he could be normal, that he didn't have to go through this every month. The only thing he couldn't complain about was that it didn't hurt much anymore. Not since he started taking wolfs bane potion, it made his transformations a lot easier.

He checked his watch, it was nearly half six, he quickened his pace slightly, he was a few minutes away from home now. He could hear his feet pounding the ground and the pound of his heart in his ears, he should really exercise more!

As he walked he heard something, a distant crack, then a second set of footsteps joined his, then a third.

Remus looked over his shoulder and saw nothing, but he could still hear the footsteps coming closer.

He broke into a run as he came neared to his house, but so did the mysterious footsteps behind him. He fumbled in his pocket for his keys, but he couldn't find them. There was no time for that he said to himself and he pulled out his wand and unlocked it magically.

But just then the footsteps stopped and new sound started, he could now hear someone breathing right behind him.

Jess let out a shout of laughter.

"Shut up Jess, your hair was never that great!" Emma said defensively as she turned the page of a photo album they were all looking at from their school days.

"My hair was never as bad as that!" Jess said and she turned the page back and laughed again at a picture of Emma with a perm.

"Right, that's it! I'm putting the photo album away!" Emma said snapping closed the book.

"Kill joy," Lily muttered.

"No, I'm not, I would be a kill joy if we were having fun, but being embarrassed is not my idea of it!" Emma said sticking her nose in the air as she waved her wand and the photo album vanished.

"I'll be back in a minute, nature calls." Lily said and she waddled off.

Jess looked at her watch, "I should be getting home," she said standing up and putting her cloak on. "Tell Lily I'll come by tomorrow on my lunch break."

"Will do," Emma said and se hugged Jess before she left through the front door.

A few minutes later Lily came down the stairs grumbling to herself about not having a downstairs loo.

"Jess has just left." Emma said.

"Oh right, what a drink?" Lily asked.

"Yeah go on then." Emma said and the two pregnant women went into the kitchen.

"They're still fast asleep upstairs." Lily said, "I checked in on them."

"I must say I prefer my two that way sometimes, they can be such a handful!" Emma said, "God only knows what it's going to be like when this on comes along!"

Lily just laughed as she started taking cups out of the cupboard. "OH BUGGER!" She cursed.

"What?" Emma asked startled by her sudden outburst.

"Remus' Wolfbane potion!" She said dropping the cups and rushing to the smouldering cauldron on the side of the stove.

"You mean he hasn't taken his potion yet?" Emma asked her mouth slightly open in shock.

Lily nodded her head furiously as she ladled the liquid into a phial.

"How are we going to get this to him?" Lily asked, and at that very moment they heard the door go and James and Sirius walked in.

"Ah, James!" She said running out to him. "Take this to Remus' house."

James just looked at her a little startled.

"NOW!" She shouted.

James just jumped and ran out the door.

"Erm, what's going on?" Sirius asked raising an eyebrow.

"Remus hasn't taken his wolfsbane potion and we need to get it to him before the full moon comes up." Lily said in one breath.

"You mean you left it till now to give it to him?" Sirius asked, "Cutting it a bit fine aren't you?"

"I didn't mean to leave it till now!" Lily said exasperatedly.

"Yes well I was-" Sirius started but her was cut off as the front door burst open and Jess and James came running through it.

"What-?" Emma started as she came out of the kitchen but Jess cut across her.

"Went to flat… Mess everywhere…… Remus not there……… and……….. And….." But Jess broke down into tears and couldn't finish her sentence.

Lily went forward and hugged her friend.

They all turned to a horrified looking James who said in a voice of forced clam "There was a Dark Mark over he building."