A/N: ok, I don't mean to confuse ya'll but I had to change this. This is a new chapter and its part one (of two or maybe three) I just felt like these flashbacks should be their own chapter. I skipped some things b/c ya'll should know them already. The next part will be up eventually…I dunno when. I'll get it though. There's a lot to cover and I have neglected my other story for far too long. (CoughWhere All Things Start They Also End Cough…check it out. Cough, cough.) Enjoy!

Chapter Eighteen: The Look at the Past…part 1

Alexia stood at the entrance of the train. She held tightly to her father's hand. "Alexia, you need to hold on tight. Are you ready?" The man looked down at his little daughter, who's head happened to be shaking excitedly.

The man led the little girl through the aisles of the train. Her little shoes clicked on the marble floors. He led her to a seat on the left side of the train. She plopped down into the velvet seat and ran her hand along the velvet curtains. "Look out, Alexia," her father warned. A tray zoomed by her head. Her eyes got big and she looked up at her dad. He sat beside her and the train started to move.

Music started to play from the back of the train. Alexia looked backwards and saw a ghost orchestra playing from behind her. She listened before she laughed aloud. "Daddy, can I have Lynnie now?" He smiled and pulled a rag fairy doll from his briefcase and handed it to the girl. She smiled and her brown eyes brown eyes twinkled up at him.

"Daddy, how does the train know where it's going?" she asked in a small voice.

"Well, it's magic you know. Only the greatest witches and wizards are allowed to ride on Splendor…that's the train's name. She just knows honey. I don't really know," he looked at her and smiled back. She seemed to like that answer and played with her doll.

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Alexia heard a twinkle beside her. She looked on the other side of her and saw an old man with a gray beard playing with his wand. She stared at him and he stopped. She went back to her doll and he did it again. She looked back and smiled but he wasn't doing anything again. As she played with her doll, she glanced over, trying not to let him see her looking. But he saw her. This time however, he let her see what he was doing.

Her eyes grew big as she saw an animal appear from his wand. It was made of bright lights and it would pop out, do a trick and disappear, like a firework. She let out a giggle at the elephant that was tap dancing. This continued for a few minutes and she laughed and laughed. "What's your name?" The man asked her.

She looked at her dad, who shook his head. "Alexia Hannon," she said.

"Well, hello Alexandria. It's very nice to meet you," the man's blue eyes twinkled wildly. "I'm Albus Dumbledore."

"Dumbdoor?" she asked politely.

"Why don't you just call him Professor or sir?" he father suggested, holding back a laugh.

" 'Kay. Nice to meet you professor." She smiled at him.

"It's good to see you as well, Stanley. How are Rebecca and the rest of the kids?" he asked.

"They are good. We are going to meet them in Australia," he said in a quieter voice.

"That is a good idea. I hear it's beautiful there this time of year. How long will you be staying?" Dumbledore asked.

"A few weeks. Considering the circumstances, I think it will be best," Stanley said, looking toward his daughter. Dumbledore shook his head.

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"Tanks fer ridin' Splendor's Way, lil miss. Haf a great time," a young conductor smiled at her and Stanley as the exited the train. Alexia smiled back at him and walked away with her father.

"Stanley!" Dumbledore yelled after him. Dumbledore lowered his voice as he reached them and whispered to him. "If anything happens while you are here, please let us know. We have protection all around your family. No one will get your girls while you are in Australia, I assure you. If you need anything, or if there is an emergency, contact me," he raised his voice and looked down at Alexia. "It was very nice to meet you Alexandria." Then he left.

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"It was so pretty Anya! You would have liked it a lot," Alexia looked at her twin sister.

"Daddy! I want to ride on the train too!" little Anya stormed out the room with Alexia on her heels. "Can I ride the train too?" Stanley looked to his wife, who had a look on her face. "Can I please?" she begged.

"I guess that would be fine. Yes, you can ride as well Anastasia," he said looking unsurely at his wife.

"We separated them while traveling for a reason! You shouldn't just do this without contacting Dumbledore! You know the instructions…we have to keep them safe Stan!" Rebecca yelled later.

"I am trying to do that; I am trying to do that!" he sighed. "Let's contact Dumbledore and double check. If he says it's not smart then I'll take Anya and Alexia can go with you." He grabbed a parchment from the drawer and began to write.

"I don't care which one I have with me, or either for that matter. I just want my girls to be safe. And that lunatic is after them for some reason. I just don't want either of them hurt, Stanley. I want all this over!" Rebecca cried.

"It will be over. It will be over soon. Dumbledore will take care of this fellow and then our daughters will be safe. I trust him. I know that he won't let any harm come to them." Stanley hugged her.

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"I'm so glad I got to come this time Daddy!" Anya said as the three of them boarded the train. The twins sat together on the seat and played with their dolls. The train was riding smoothly then there was a jolt. The conductor ran to the front of the train to steer. Suddenly, there was a scream from the back of the train. Stanley knew what it was as a few passengers ran toward the front.

"Girls, we're going to play a game," he said, trying to hide his fear. "Get under the seat…now, I want you both to stay here and don't move at all. Don't say anything to anyone out here okay? Can you do that?"

They shook their heads and giggled as they climbed under. "Good girls. Stay here. Be quiet. I'll be right back." He pointed his wand at the two girls and placed an invisibility charm and a silencing charm around them. Then he was gone.

Screams filled the train and cries of pain. Stanley fought them with all the magic in his wand. Helping him was a man that he had never met before, but he dodged and tossed spells left and right.

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"Anya, what are you doing?" Alexia whispered to her sister.

"I wanna see," she said as she twisted under the seat. "I can't move; you try it." Alexia tried but she couldn't move either. "What is Daddy doing? I wanna see."

"Daddy said to stay here, Anya. We can't see it remember?" Alexia reminded.

Anya rolled her little brown eyes. "I don't care. I wanna see!" Then it was quiet. Anya was gone.

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The Death Eaters began to Disapparate one at a time and the noises that had filled the train, disappeared with it. "Thanks sir. That was good fighting. I'm Stanley Hannon."

"Dennis Potter," the man breathed.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, despite the circumstances," Stanley said as he made his way back to the front of the train. "Girls? Are you okay?" he yelled as he removed the charms. He bent down and looked under the seat. "Alexandria? Where…. where is Anastasia?" he rushed. The little girl shook her head furiously.

"She wanted to see and then she was gone. I don't know how it happened. She was just gone." Stanley held the child in his arms and looked around the train. He started walking. Faster and faster he walked down each aisle yelling her name.

"What's wrong?" Dennis Potter asked as he ran toward the front of the train.

"My other daughter…she's gone. She's…she's gone." Stanley repeated over and over.

"What does she look like?"

"Just like this one…they're twins." Dennis got all the able passengers and they looked for Anya together…but they never found her. She was gone without a trace.

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"They looked for months, even Dumbledore looked but there was nothing. Eventually they stopped looking as much. I remember mum and I would go to the store and anytime she would see a little girl with auburn hair, we would follow her around the store until she saw it wasn't her. My brothers, Ryan and Jeremy, really were the only ones who kept them going I think. Anyway…"

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"It is very unfortunate that she slipped away from us. I don't understand how this happened. There is nothing—no lead, no clues, no trace…as if she Disapparated. It's been three months but we are not giving up," Jenkins, the leader of the Order said. "I would also like to offer the chance to join the Order of the Phoenix. You regretted before but now possibly…"

"I'll do it. I need to protect the rest of my children," Stanley said.

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"It's such a shame about him. He was all they had left. What's going to happen to the kids?" The voices carried across the graveyard. They didn't even attempt to whisper. Ryan stood with Jeremy, holding Alexia in his arms. He hadn't said anything to his brother but he was worried too. Afterall, he was ten this year and next year he would go to Hogwarts. Ryan was only eight and Alexia wasn't even six. What would happen when he went to school? Who was there to take care of them?

"You are going to stay with me," Dumbledore said as they ate cookies around their living room. "I was a very good with your father and mother."

"Don't you live at Hogwarts?" Ryan asked.

"Yes I do. You would have to go there to live. Then when school started, you would be there. Until you are old enough to attend Hogwarts officially, you will stay in another part of the castle."

"You would really take us? All of us?" Jeremy asked.

"Yes," Dumbledore said. "I would." Alexia giggled and walked over to Dumbledore. They were going to Hogwarts.

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First year

Alexia stood outside the train. The last time she was on one it had been the worst day of her life. Here she stood again, staring at the Hogwarts Express. "Why do I have to ride the train? I was already at Hogwarts. This just seems like a waste of energy."

Ryan looked at her. "Alexia, Professor Dumbledore wants us to do this. Jeremy and I have done it for years now. It just helps you meet new people."

And you need a few," Jeremy said. "You haven't had any real friends. You can't spend all of your time with the house elves and dead people. It won't be bad, just do what the professor tells you. It's for the best Alexia. Come on, we have to go Ryan." They two of them hugged her and headed to the train. Alexia slowly made her way to the train.

"Mum this is what I want to do. You and Daddy will have to be ok with it. It's who I am now. I have to go. I'll see when I come home at break." Alexia looked beside her at the curly red head girl with green eyes. She hugged her parents and another shorter brunette girl. "Bye Tunia. I love you."

The girl with the brown hair didn't say anything as her sister walked away. Alexia lost sight of the girl as she got mixed in with the crowd while getting on the train. She carried her bag down the long hallway and turned into the fourth door on the right.

Alexia saw another bag in the cabin and turned to leave. As she turned, she was stopped by at the same red head girl. "Hi. I'm Lily Evans." Alexia looked at her hand and shook it. "Alexia Hannon."

"Nice to meet you. You weren't leaving were you? You could stay in here with me," Lily smiled at her. Alexia smiled back and sat down beside her.

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"Gryffindor!" The sorting hat yelled again. Lily smiled as she joined the table and Alexia's stomach jumped into her chest. She was nervous. She didn't know why; she had seen this done a hundred times. It was the only time, except Quidditch matches, that they was actually allowed to watch the students. She had even seen her brothers sorted into Hufflepuff. Dumbledore had even let her touch the Sorting Hat a few weeks before when she had a nightmare that she was sorted into Slytherin.

"Hannon, Alexandria!" Minerva McGonagall shouted. Alexia stood up and walked to the front of the room. Professor McGonagall tossed her a smile as she sat down on the chair. He mind was racing. She would be put with her brothers, of course. Both of her parents were in Hufflepuff and now them…she would be too. She had to be. She wasn't worried. As long as it wasn't Slytherin, she wouldn't be worried. But she knew it'd be Hufflepuff.

"Gryffindor!" The Hat said loudly. Gryffindor? She thought. She glanced at the table. They were all cheering loudly. As she stood up, she looked toward her brothers, who were clapping but seemed confused. She joined the others at the table. As the rest of the first years were sorted, Alexia tossed a look to Dumbledore. He winked at her and shook his head. She had to believe that the hat knew what it was doing, even if she didn't know yet.

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"You're in this room too?" Lily smiled at Alexia. "We get to be roommates!" Alexia smiled as Lily spoke about how nervous she was that she would get lost in the castle and how excited she was. Alexia listened whole-heartedly and agreed with her worries though, she did not fear getting lost in the castle. Her fears were greater than that. She really liked Lily already.

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Lily and Alexia went to breakfast and found a seat beside four boys. Two of them were loud and laughed; one was hanging on their every word and the other was barely listening but would throw in a comment every now and then.

"Can we sit here?" Alexia asked the four.

"Yeah, sure," one with short messy hair and glasses said, "But it will cost you a name."

"Alexia Hannon."

"Lily Evans."

"I'm James Potter. These are my friends."

"Peter…Petigrew."

"Remus Lupin, nice to meet you." All eyes were on the guy with long black hair now as they waited for him to speak.

"Isn't your name Alexandria?" he mused. Peter snickered. "Sirius Black," Alexia shook her head to acknowledge she heard him and they all began to eat. He still looked at her. "Are you going to answer my question? Your name…"

"It is Alexandria but no one calls me that except…no one calls me that," she added when she realized she couldn't admit she knew Professor Dumbledore as anything but a man she just met.

"Why not?" He continued.

"Why not what?"

"Why don't they call you that? It's your name isn't it?" Sirius added again. Alexia looked like she wanted to scream and cry—that or rip his hair out.

"Sirius, lay off it ok? Why is it even important?" Lupin snapped at him. Sirius started to object when Alexia spoke.

"My parents used to call me that." It was a simple statement that shut everyone up for a few minutes.

"What do you mean…?" Peter started to ask.

"I mean they used to…as in they don't now!" Alexia sighed and Lily shot daggers toward three of the four boys. "Sorry…I…they're dead. They died years ago. I was only five so I don't remember that much." Sirius started to apologize but Alexia stopped him. "It's ok. Don't worry about it."

"Yeah. We'll not call you that. We'll call you Alex. Alex and Lil," James said.

"Lily," she replied, stressing the 'e' sound.

"Lil." James spat back. Lily said nothing just ate her food as the guys told jokes back and forth.

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It was a beautiful day outside. Classes had been in full swing for two months and everywhere Lily and Alexia went, they would always run into one of the four boys. Conversations among them and the boy named Remus, had become more frequent and sometimes more in depth. But usually, the rest were limited to simple hellos or yelling snide remarks.

Lily and James were constantly fighting about something. Trouble always seemed to follow him and he loved to point in her direction. James and Sirius…Alexia decided that they seemed to be the worst of the four and this is what she told Remus as they sat under the tree listening to James, Sirius and Lily go at it again. "Well, don't let them hear you say that," he laughed, "You are right though. They really do look forward to any kind of laugh they can get."

"What about you?" Alexia asked him. He looked her but didn't say anything. He didn't need to; his face said enough to her about his confusion from her question. "I just mean, you don't really seem much like them. I mean you're quiet and they—well, they're not really that quiet."

"Yes, that they aren't. I guess sometimes, you just find yourself in the place you never thought you'd ever be."

Alexia looked at him. "What does that mean?"

"That's just where I am right now in my adventure at Hogwarts."

"You think its an adventure?"

"Don't you?" Alexia looked to the ground. She didn't really say anything to him. "How could you not? This place is full of discovery and we get to live here for seven years of our lives and discover it all." Remus smiled and she nodded her head. I've already lived six years of my life here; what's seven more? She thought.

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(A/n: I feel compelled to tell you that the rest of this is toward the end of the first year. That's all. :)

"Where do you go every night Remus?" James asked him as looked into his eyes from the bed above.

"I told you I just go to be alone. You three drive me crazy all day and I need some time to myself. Besides, you're in enough mischief already. You don't need to bother worrying about me," he said turning over in his bed.

"Mischief?" Sirius shouted and jumped to his bed. "What have you been doing Remus? What kind of Mischief?"

Remus sighed. "Mischief" was obviously the wrong word to say. "I-I don't mean 'mischief,' I mean… I just go to read usually—study, do homework, whatever the need. Don't worry about it ok?"

"We'll figure it out Remus. We'll figure out your secret," James said kidding. Remus just shrugged his shoulders and went back to his book. Inside he feared them finding out the truth.

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It was a dark night. The only light around was the one coming from the moon. Remus made his way under the willow tree to the place he could transform in secret. There were three shadows following behind him but he didn't know that.

"Where is he going?" Peter whispered to the others.

"We don't know you git; that's why we're following him isn't it?" Sirius whispered back. James shushed them both as they crept through the dark tunnel passages to the secret place that Remus was headed to.

Remus lay in a ball on the floor when they got there. He'd been sick and tired a lot lately and the curiosity of what he was doing was really getting to them…especially James. It drove him nuts not knowing where he'd been going every night. After all these months, he still couldn't or wouldn't tell them where he went. "Remus?" James whispered as they walked toward him.

He popped his head up off the ground and looked at them, fear and pain mixed in his eyes. "What are you doing here? Go! Go Now! It's not safe for you!" He took a step toward them.

"Then how is it safe for you?" They asked back. He shook his head and started to speak but took a step back. Remus fell to the floor again and the next thing they knew, his body was replaced with fur. He jumped up and snarled fanged teeth at the three. They said his name repeatedly but he just growled at them. They turned slowly as the werewolf, that was their friend, looked like he wanted to attack them and tear them limb from limb.

James turned to the others and ordered them to run one by one. Peter crept out slowly first, then Sirius. James looked at Remus. They stared at each other. "It's me Remus…its James." It didn't change its response to him; it still growled and snarled. James said nothing else. He stood there, not moving for five minutes. Then the werewolf turned and lay down on the floor. James flew out the tunnel.

"Where have you been? Did he hurt you?" Sirius asked.

"No, no. He was fine. I never knew…" he didn't finish the sentence. He didn't need to. They all felt the same way. "We'll talk to him about it later."

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"So I bet you have a lot of questions?" Remus asked them two days later.

"Not at all. You're a moon-lover. There's nothing wrong in that," Sirius said.

"You're not mad? I was only a boy when it happened…I wasn't even able to come here until Dumbledore became headmaster. He made a way for me to change in secret. I didn't want to tell you. People tend to react strangely," he explained.

"We're your friends, always. And there has to be something we can do…if you just weren't alone…" James said. He smiled. "If you weren't alone…come on." James led them to the library and pulled off a few books. "We can learn to do this, be animagus. Then we can be with you, so you won't be alone."

"James this is brilliant!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Brilliant? It's insane. No, you can't do it. It could take years to master this," Remus said.

"So? We've got six and a half more to learn and then forever to practice it," James put his hand on Remus' shoulder," Come on mate—consider it an adventure. It'll be fun." Remus shook his head reluctantly and Sirius gave James a high five. "Let's get started eh?"

(A/n: Another compelling thought…so they actually start trying to change to animagus in second year. They spent the rest of the first and the summer doing research and stuff. Then years 2&3 are mainly spent in practice. Alexia's brother, Jeremy graduated (?) in their second year, as well. Now on with the story…)

Fourth Year

"What are you up to?" Lily asked the four boys in a huddle as she walked past them.

"Up to? Whatever do you mean?" James snickered.

"I know you all well enough to know, that where there is laughter and whispering, there is trouble. What are you planning?" Lily smiled sweetly (and obviously falsely.)

"We are up to nothing," Sirius said back.

"I highly doubt that," she scoffed and walked away. Alexia stayed as they began to talk.

"Wait…why standing there?" Peter asked Alexia.

"Why? If you're not up to anything…" Lily smiled as she heard Alexia back them into a corner.

Remus looked up at her. "Please…" She smiled, nodded and walked away. She sat down beside Lily, who was staring at her.

"What?" Alexia asked.

"I didn't say anything."

"That look. What is it?"

"You need to tell him," Lily said point-blank.

Alexia nodded her head. "I'll tell him, when you tell James."

"That's a totally different situation because I don't like James; you do like Remus." Alexia shook her head and went on with her reading. It was true, but she'd never tell Lily that.

A/N: Yeppers. That's all for part one…haha. I think it could have been longer but I was urged to post it. Haha. Anyway, let me know if you like it and if you don't then you don't have to read it. Anyway, review please! TTYL!