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UPDATED:9/30/2019

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Chapter 28

Sirius smiled with pure relief as he watched Emma stir from her deep slumber, she'd been asleep for a few days when her fever spiked. Fearful he'd lose her and the babies, he removed her from Hogwarts and took her back to the cabin where he informed a very worried Molly and Andromeda, both still very upset Emma had made a run for it from them. "Oh, thank God you're alright, Love… Molly! Andromeda! She's waking up!" He hadn't meant to shout it as loud as he had, he was just so glad she was waking up.

Harry's task was today, and he knew Harry would really need him and Emma there. Sirius had gotten wind that the first task was the dragon's, and that worried him deeply. But worries set aside he kissed Emma's forehead with excitement, her temperature had reduced nearly 10°, it was great since she was running the high and dangerous temperature of nearly 106°. He had wanted to take her straight to St. Mungo's, but he had a feeling she may not have been safe there for some reason, so the cabin it was.

Molly rushed in with Andromeda on her heels. Sirius was thankful his cousin had healing skills even Emma was envious of. Skills that had saved her life and the lives of the babies. However, he wasn't prepared for the short-term effects of her high temperature and illness was going to cause to her. Due to the tampering Finn had done to one of the twin's sick trick treats, Emma had in fact been infected with the putrid magic he had used himself and turned her very ill.

The side effect was, however, had not only attacked her body, but her mind, slightly scrambling years and events, causing Emma to wake up whimpering, "'Irius, 'ere's Lily?" She could hardly talk. Her body felt like lead and her voice was hard to find, let alone use. She had seen Sirius and had calmed down just a little, but something was wrong, she felt funny and very ill. But what scared her the most was that Sirius looked older, a lot older.

'What happened?'. Unfortunately, her mind had jumped from her third year, to her fifth year, then back to her first year, and sadly but finally, sent her to that dreadful and frightful night she had lost everything. "Where is she? Sirius… Sirius, I want my sister…. Oh God the baby! Sirius the baby! Harry? where's Harry! JAMES! LILY!"

Panicking, Sirius pulled his 'wife' into his arms when she had tried sitting up and nearly cried herself horse, all the while gently shushing her and ran his figure through her hair. Her memories had been scrambled, he hoped this torture would not last long, but it tore him to pieces knowing she was reliving that all over again, "Emma, the babies are fine, Harry is fine…. I'm here. You're safe."

"Where's Lily and James?" She hadn't gotten an answer from him, he'd told her the rest, but why not about her sister and brother-in-law? Deep down Emma knew why, she knew he couldn't say it…. Because it had been years ago.

Emma's mind continued re-scrambling and descrambling over the next few hours. Sirius was shocked he hadn't lost it by then while poor Molly had to leave the room to cry in the arms and comfort of Andromeda. Molly and Andromeda couldn't watch Emma go through that pain all over again, it had nearly killed them before, it was doing the same again, destroying them both to watch a sweet person as Emma to be tortured like that because some fool wanted to get at her.

Sirius was under the impression Karkaroff had planted the infection in her cup, none of them suspected that a student had been the cause of this. Sirius had nearly lost her once but in the process, he'd lost his unborn child, a child he hadn't known of then, and lost his freedom for twelve year. He wasn't going to lose anymore.

James and Lily were dead, murdered back in '81. She had been lucky, like her nephew, to have survived. "Why me? Why did I survive? I wasn't, shouldn't have. Sissy even told me herself the curse hit me just like it had him when it rebounded… I should have been destroyed just like him…" She sounded so far away, so numb and lost it finally shattered him to tears, though he didn't sob, Sirius let the hot tears streaming down his face.

"Foxy, what year is this to you?" He had to ask, because the only way he knew he could help her was to know what year her mind was in.

"I- I don't know… there still jumping and my brain feels warm and overheated, so tired… I just want Lily, but I know she's not here, the memory of him killing them is so fresh that I-… I can't- Sirius what's happening? I'm so confused."

His heart shattered with every word. Her emotions had slipped once again, he knew she was going back through the trials of grief all over again and he hated himself for having to tell her she had lost quite a few years. Years of memories he hoped she'd get back once her memories unscrambled, "It's 1994, November 10th… Someone slipped something into your cup at Hogwarts during the celebration after the Triwizard Champions were chosen."

Harry's task would be starting in a few hours, he and Emma hadn't slept but only a few hours, his heart filled with hope and joy when they had woken up together and she recognized him. She had asked hours ago, when her mind jumped backwards, why he looked older than she remembered, "1977," which meant she was fourteen, maybe fifteen. The year Petunia was married. "Sirius? When's Harry task starting?"

'Oh, thank Merlin! It was temporary!' Sirius couldn't help it, he grabbed her face and kissed her, trying to be careful of her growing belly, he rolled her into his lap and arms with his charming grin when she giggled, "A few hours, we can connect the Floo network to the fireplace here to get us back to Hogwarts in time for the Task."

"Yeah, let's do that, however, I've been out of it for quite sometimes and I'm finding myself not only very hungry but um, hungry." Emma said with a grin.

Sirius could only laugh, his cheeks blushed a tinted pink as he laid back into the bed, "You know you have a way with making something that's completely unrelated to sex sound very dirty." He laughed as their bodies molded to one another'.

Grinning wide, Emma leaned forward leaving butterfly kisses over his lips and jaw line, "I have a good teacher."

Hogwarts

Harry paced back and forth of the tent, he was terrified, they all were, and the worst part, Draco had said he couldn't find their Aunt nor Sirius, "pst, Harry? Is that you?"

Confused beyond belief he moved closer to the tent flap near the back, "Hermione?"

"Uh-Huh… The key is to concentrate, after that you just have too... Um," She didn't know how to say he had to go up against a dragon, her stomach was in terrifying knots for her friend.

"Battle the Dragon? Yeah, kind of figured that- ouf." He'd been completely taken aback when Hermione suddenly jumped through the tent folds and threw her arms around him, hugging him tightly. Hermione was terrified he'd get hurt, or worse killed, that was something she knew would devastate them all, worst of all Ron and Draco.

They were frightened apart when a sudden flash came from out of nowhere. To Hermione's horror, Rita Skeeter and photographer both stood before the two of them with wide grins on their ridiculous faces.

"How… Charming, if anything unfortunate happens today, you two may just make the front page." Rita said with little care.

They grinned when Rita's perverted attention turned on Krum as he told her she was not welcomed there, seconds later Hermione found herself latched to Harry in an attempt to stay in the blind spots of the Professor and the others that had decided to grace them with their presence. Dumbledore had been the only one to not notice her at the moment, something she was grateful for, until he did a double take in Harry's direction and asked, "Miss. Granger, what on earth are you doing here?" to say he was shocked he hadn't noticed her there when he walked in, but really he'd been focused on getting the Champions ready for the task at hand, "Right, I should be going, good luck… All of you." And with that she walked out, cheeks blushing with tremendous embarrassment. Her embarrassment floated away when her eyes caught sight of a long-haired redhead walking into the stands with Sirius and Draco, "Emma!"

Finding their seats together Hermione caught Emma and Sirius up to what was going on and Emma found herself a bit disappointed in Ron, she had no idea he'd been jealous of Harry for something he had no control over. Though, when her eyes locked with Ron's she found she wouldn't need to scold him, his eyes held remorse and sadness, but he was still in Red and Black colors, colors that were representing Harry. Smiling warmly to one of her nephews Emma kissed his forehead when he rushed her for a hug, one she returned gladly, "Hello Ron."

"So glad you're alright."

"Me too. I would have hated to have missed this, even though I hate the idea he's even in this thing in the first place." She said dryly.

The task began, Emma and the others cheered for all of the champions and flinched every time they came close to nearly having an arm taken off or getting too close to the dragon. Emma had covered her eyes with her hands when Diggory was sent flying after being hit by the dragon's tail.

Then it was Harry's turn, and her fear set in. Sirius held her in his arms tightly the entire time, everyone smiling and laughing and cheering when he flew off with his broom. She and Hermione screamed with excitement and hugged one another when he came flying back into the ring with the dragon no longer on his tail, "YES! Oh, thank God." And leaned herself into Sirius' arms and warmth from the chilling weather.

Sirius laughed and hugged her tightly, his stomach unknotting, his heart returning back into his chest as he settled his nerves from the terrifying idea Harry may have just been severely hurt or, worst, lost somewhere in the heavy mist that was rolling in.

Dumbledore's office

While the champions where celebrating, Emma had been summoned to Dumbledore's office, a small meeting was to be held, "Do we know what caused your sudden illness my dear?" Barty asked, fully concerned.

Emma shrugged with a shake of her head, she really didn't know, today was the first day she had been fully aware of her actions.

"I don't have a single clue what could have been the cause, all we know is that my tea somehow got spiked with something that Poppy couldn't identify. It happened sometime during the celebration at the champion's choosing. The cup I was using was taken by one of the house elves who took it straight to Madam Pomfrey when they saw something strange in the left-over tea that I was unable to finish."

"So, whatever it was, affected you instantly?" Severus asked curiously, "Maybe I should take a look at that mixture. Was any of it saved and sent to St. Mungo's for testing?"

"Yes, Poppy has a sample in her office trying to figure out the mixture. She said there was something slightly familiar with it but whatever Emma was spiked with was not originally meant to the harm that it caused." Sirius stated.

Emma had stayed quiet for a while, she'd been unconscious for a while herself, so she really wasn't sure what to say to them.

"So, ze person who spiked dear Emma likely took somezing and created zeir own kind of 'poison' so to speak-" Madam Maxime asked, until a sudden gasp of fright left her, the moment a thought entered her mind, 'the babies!' "Oh mon, les bébés, vont-ils bien!"

"Yes, the babies are fine, my cousin was able to localize whatever was in Emma's system. From what Andromeda was able to determine. This unknown substance hadn't touched the babies." Sirius quickly stated to the worries of the others. Maxime's sudden spike in fear for the babies vanished instantly. Even Igor, to Emma's and Sirius' shock, looked relieved, which crossed him off the list of their suspects, kind of.

"Severus, if you want to look at the mixture yourself, I'm sure Madam Pomfrey wouldn't mind a second set of eyes to aid her." Dumbledore said, a nod of agreement for himself to Emma, Sirius and Snape who nodded in return and quickly left to get to work.

Due to injuries and needed time to heal, the tournament was held off for a while. This gave McGonagall the time and opportunity to teach her students to dance. The Yule Ball was quickly approaching, and she wanted it to go perfectly.

Draco had been trying to find the girl he'd knocked over and gotten a detention over, wanting to apologize and to see if she was alright, however he couldn't find the little redheaded number anywhere he looked. So, he resorted to 'stalking' Fleur Delacour and her sister, Gabrielle. He felt victorious when he found them with her, but of course, it was in the library. Draco was only interesting in apologizing to her and had a deep concern to see if she was alright since she had been on the brink of tears the last time he'd seen her. He had a sickening feeling that it was not because they fell down the stairs of the school in front of everybody and embarrassed her. No, Draco knew there was something deeper. Something that was causing her deep emotional pain. Now all he had to do was figure out how to approach her without her thinking he was going to 'grope' her again, which he really hadn't meant to, he was just trying to make sure she didn't fly over him or get hurt. However, in the end of it, he'd accidentally grabbed her bottom in the process, which had earned him a nice slap across the face and called a pervert, finally he was given a detention by Professor McGonagall. Another reason he figured it was something other than being embarrassed on her end was because Madam Maxime was not offended in the least, especially when he'd explained himself to the Head Mistress.

However, something had caught his attention from the corner of his eye. Viktor had taken a liking to Hermione and had been spotted by Draco, watching his friend from afar.

Being caught had caused Viktor to blush a shade of pink, his blush had grown to a bit of a darker shade when Draco's brow shot skyward and grinned at the Drumstrang prized student.

Taking a breath of courage, Draco moved towards the red head and cleared his throat a bit timidly, "Um, excuse me, miss?" Draco found, to his embarrassment, that his hands were sweating when her deep blue, sapphire like, eyes glanced at him and was a bit taken aback, she hadn't over reacted at seeing him, instead the girl simply graced him a look of curiosity, "Puis-je vous aider?" He would admit that she was very beautiful, what stunned Draco was the fact that he felt no attraction towards her, which shocked him a bit. Though, maybe there would be a reason later on?

"I'm sorry, I'm not very good with my French, but I think I understand that. Um, I just wanted to apologize and try to explain what happened last time we meet, well, the first time we met, and I am embarrassed to say that um… Um well, I did not make the best impression. But I'm mostly here to apologies, so I am sorry, and I hope you'll allow me to explain?" He was hopeful, when he was graced with no response. Nodding after a minute of waiting, he began to leave, "No, please… I'm sorry… I'll listen. I was just surprised you apologized and wanted to try explaining."

'Oh wow, I definitely did not see that coming.'

Stunned as he was he took the opportunity and sat with her, introduced himself, the both of them had ended up speaking for a few hours, laughing and telling one another jokes, then came the heavy when Alicia had asked about family, Draco wasn't going to lie to her about it, there was no need to and she returned the favor.

Draco felt sympathy for her as she explained why she was so riled up that afternoon when they had fallen down the steps. "My Brother was the last family I had left. He was killed a few weeks ago, after we came to Hogwarts, I actually got the news the day we fell down the steps. So, your cousin, Finn, was the one that set that trap then?" She said, a heavy sigh leaving her.

Draco allowed the change in subject. He knew he'd have done the same. With a sigh, Draco nodded rubbing his face from the coming tiredness that was setting in, "Yeah, unfortunately none of us have the proof for the teachers to take action."

"Mr. Malfoy, Miss. Bonnet, it is 9:45, I'd suggest you both head to bed instantly before you both get detentions." The librarian said harshly as she walked by. Though, it seemed they weren't the only one's leaving late, Draco and Alicia smiled and grinned as they watched Hermione and Viktor try to sneak out from their viewpoint, sadly they'd failed.

Alicia smiled when her eyes traveled down to their hands and nudged Draco and whispered to him to look at their hands that were linked together.

This gave Draco the realization that Harry, Ron and himself still didn't have dates to the Yule Ball. He'd been wanting to ask Ginny. However, he wasn't sure how the twins, or Ron, would feel if he did.

'Maybe I'll just ask them if they'd be offended if I ask her.'

"It was wonderful speaking with you Alicia, but I have something I'd like to ask you?"

"Yes?"

"Um, two of my friends and I still don't have dates for the Yule Ball, but I want Harry to be surprised in the morning to find he has a date, would you mind if I asked you to the Yule Ball to attend with Harry? Of course, you can obviously meet him whenever you wish, to give yourself the option. I'm not expecting an answer on his behalf right away, I just, Harry has a nervous thing with asking girls out-"

"And you want to be that awesome best friend and say, 'hey mate, don't worry I have you covered'?" She said with laughter at his slight grin and stunned reaction. She knew she'd be able to surprise this boy from here on out in their lives. It was nice having another friend, a male friend she could possibly see as a brother figure. But the saddest part she had to remind herself of was; a) Draco Malfoy was not Paul. Unfortunately, Draco's eyes were to close in similarity to say otherwise, it was like Paul was watching her through Draco's eyes.

Honestly, Draco though she'd be offended he'd asked on behalf of Harry, however he was finding that she was anything but, being all chipper and smiling wide like she was.

"I'll meet him and your other friend Ron tomorrow and give you an answer the day after?"

"Sounds like a plan, thank you for letting me meet you Alicia." Draco smiled and gently kissed her hand. The two said their good nights and went their separate ways. Both were excited about tomorrow, even Harry because Draco had told him he had a new friend he'd like him to meet, "Is it the red head? Did you ask her to the Ball?" Ron asked, grinning playfully at the blond.

Draco shook his head with a faint blush, "No, um, I was actually wondering if you'd be offended if I asked… Um… Man I feel like I'm backstabbing you." He admitted. Ron gave him a concerned look, "What do you mean? You want to ask Hermione?" at that thought, Ron did somewhat feel backstabbed, but he had instantly relaxed when Draco grinned and shook his head vigorously, "No, Merlin no… She's practically my sister Ron… I was, um… I was wanting to ask Ginny."

This threw Ron and Harry both for a loop, "No, God no, ask her. She may be my sister, but if you want to ask her then go for it. Just no funny business got it. Otherwise Fred, George and I will beat you to a pulp and skin you alive. No handsy business and no perverted moves." Ron clarified, but had begun laughing shortly after.

"Okay, got it. I'll be a full-fledged gentleman as I'll always be to her." He was serious, Draco had it set that he'd never be anything less than a gentleman, or a friend, if she wished it to be so.

December 19th, 1994

As morning came through Draco jumped from his bed and got ready for the day, he was excited to ask Ginny and he was even more ecstatic to introduce Harry to Alicia.

'This is going to be a great day. I don't think I've been this excited for a while.' But as he jumped from the last three steps from the dorm's stairway, he felt his gut knot and sink to his stomach.

Neville was blushing brightly with an excited Ginny hugging him, "Yes, I'll go to the Ball with you Neville, oh my gosh I can't believe this, I'm so excited!" Her eyes found Draco, her excitement didn't see his hurt as she dashed over to him jumping up and down, "Draco! Guess what Neville just asked me!"

Swallowing his pride, he forced a smile and shook his head like he had no idea what the hell was going on, "What? What did I miss?"

"I'm going to the Yule Ball with Neville!" she screamed and bounded back up the stairs, finding her brothers and Harry, telling them exactly what she had just told Draco, who was silently licking his wounds.

Neville was concerned with the downed look Draco had. Neville had a sick feeling he had been the reason and he really didn't want that, Neville liked not being the target of Draco's mean side and was really liking the friendship they were growing. "Draco? Are you alright? ... You were going to ask Ginny, weren't you? I can-" Draco stopped Neville with a smiling and sad laugh and shaking his head, "No, it's fine Neville. Really, you were asleep last night when I came back, you didn't know I was going to ask her. Best man won, really don't feel bad, please. It's alright." And it was, Draco had been too late to ask her and Neville had gotten to it before him, fair was fair. Neville Longbottom had won against Draco Malfoy.

"Yo-you sure?" Neville was nervous, he'd actually ended up with something, someone, Draco Malfoy, biggest fan girl club around the school Draco Malfoy, wanted, and that was Ginny Weasley.

"Best man won Neville. Trust me, I'll be alright." He was being honest. He would eventually be alright. Ginny was happy to be going to the Ball and as long as she was excited and happy, he wasn't going to let it bother him. "Hey, I got something to do today, but if you need anything I'll be with Ron and Harry. Just look for us. Okay?"

"Ye-yeah, sure thing… I really am sorry Draco." he really was, Neville was seeing the downed and saddened expression on his new friends face and he hated himself for it, but he was right. Best man won, and Neville had been the best man that won the girl this time around. So, Neville left it at that and nodded, "See you around then?"

"Yeah, see you around. Hey, you still going with us to Hogsmeade later?" Draco asked randomly, they had made plans to check out Hogsmeade that day, a few days ago and the best part of that was Alicia had never been to Hogsmeade and had been wanting to go.

"Y-yeah, I can still make it." Neville was shocked, he had taken the girl Draco had wanted to ask to the Ball and he was still making sure Neville would go with them? Maybe Neville was still being a bit judgmental towards Draco, he still honestly thought Draco was going to come around a corner and pull a hex on him like he had their first year.

Harry and Ron meet Draco out in the Corridors outside the Portal to the Common room, "So, where's she meeting us," Harry asked, really not wanting to bring up the slightly disappointing reality that Ginny had been asked to the Ball already, and it wasn't by Draco. This was going to be a salted subject for a while.

"The courtyard out front, you guys will like her, she's hilarious." Draco said, his excitement returning, but Ron and Harry both knew that it was simply an act, even if he was a bit excited Alicia was still meeting them that morning, they saw his hurt by the previous interaction. The two boys wanted to talk to him about what had happened that morning, they just didn't know how to bring it up to the obviously sulking blonde, so they'd left Draco to the silent walk towards the courtyard. They felt some successes, though, when their eyes landed on a red head who was looking around near the fountain in the courtyard looking for Draco.

Alicia's worried expression had melted away when she had spotted him with two other boys and had reacted with wide smiles and full excitement and waved towards them.

Harry and Ron both watched their sulking friends' expression grow into a smile when he found a smiling, sapphire blue eyed, redhead waving at him and began to rush towards them and throwing her arms around her new friend, "Draco you made it!"

After the terrible morning he'd had, Draco knew he needed a big hug and he was not going to just walk up to Hermione or Lavender and just hug them randomly, well, he may do that to Hermine, but Alicia was already swept up in his arms, both newly made friends hugging one another in a tight hold. "Alicia, I'd like you to meet Ron Weasley and Harry Potter. Harry, Ron, this is Alicia Bonnet. The Beauxbaton student I told you about." Draco said turning a grin to the brightly blushing Harry. He saw both Alicia and Harry's eyes lock and hold one another's eyes in place.

Harry felt his heart skip a few bests. Honestly, he thought he was having a heart attack, due to feeling like his heart was going to explode from his chest as he looked at her smiling face and big blue eyes. His nerves sadly kicked in, making his palms sweat and his knees to want to buckle. 'I think I'm in love.'

Alicia was in no different position, she had seen Harry from afar and had felt nervous just wanting to speak to him, she couldn't feel her tongue. Words were failing her as she blushed hotter than a hot poker.

'I'm in trouble, I can't even talk I'm so nervous!'

Alicia thought, feeling her heart nearly jump out of her throat. Their eye contact broke when Draco and Ron both cleared their throats at the two staring at one another. This made Harry and Alicia blush deeper with embarrassment settling in their guts, trying to cover it, they both lightly giggled at themselves, "Nice to meet you both, Draco's told me a lot. I'm looking forward to spending the day with you three."

Ron grinned, taking the opportunity to try to be impressive, "Not as much as a pleasure as it is for us to meet you, right Harry?... Harry?"

But Harry was still staring at her, eyes fixated on Alicia. He was meaning to agree with Ron, but those were not the words that left Harry James Potter, instead the word he spoke next were the words that had changed his future, "Beautiful,"

Alicia had giggled, blushing at Harry's blunt statement.

Draco felt triumphed, Harry was head over hills and Alicia's eyes hadn't left Harry either, she had carried conversations with all three boys as they showed her around Hogsmeade and the rest of Hogwarts. They had eventually running into Hermione, Lavender and Ginny, who had bragged about Neville asking her to the Ball, but nonetheless the girls enjoyed one another's company. They had made plans to hang out the next day with Alicia offering to help do the girls' hair for the Ball, "I can never do my own hair in pretty ways, but I can do everyone else's hair just fine." Lavender and Ginny had gone for the offer with great excitement and gratitude, while Hermione smiled to the new redhead and offered her help with her own hair for the Ball.

"Really? Oh, that would be wonderful. I was worried I'd just have to pull it up into a high pony-tail or something, I'm terrible with my own hair." This had started a whole new conversation between the girls as they giggled and laughed together. The boys made the decision to go ahead and say good night to Alicia and the rest of the girls and retreated, leaving Alicia with their three special Gryffindor girls.

Translation= Oh mon, les bébés, vont-ils bien! = "Oh my, are the babies good!"

Translation= Puis-je vous aider? = "May I help you?"

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