Author's note: Please be aware that I own ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, everything, except my character(s) I place in here, belongs to the wonderful Lady J.K. Rowling. This is a Sirius Black/OC Fanfiction, or at least it will get to that point. I do have terrible spelling sometimes, but I do my best. However, if I misspell something that I have not caught I do appreciate having a correction mentioned. But I love reading Fanfiction's from here, and I hope I can bring others the same joys they have brought me, I figured it was time I give it a shot.

This WAS, my FIRST Fanfiction that I had the courage enough to put up for all to read. I started small and did my best to update as soon, and as much, as I could. I know tend to forget things so try to have some patience, even though I sometimes fail at having some myself. *cough, cough*Please Enjoy the story, for the pages have yet to turn for new, or returning, readers of journeys untold. Also, please be aware that this story is 100% mine. This is a work of mine that I did under a different account of fanfiction under the username Nattie8516 and now shares the same username under this Fanfiction site as well. So rest assured, I am the same person and same owner of this work and other's I shall be posting on this new site as well.

Chapter 4

9:45 P.M.

Three boys pulled at Sirius's pant legs attempting to get him off his bed. They were failing miserably. "Padfoot, come on-" Peter started. He was quickly growing annoyed with his friend like the rest of them.

"No, if she doesn't want to willingly speak to me, I won't force her too."

Peter groaned with pure annoyance, 'I'd call him childish but I have a feeling he has a point.'

James laughed, "That's a load of dragon dung, Black and you know it."

'Talk about calling someone out on Bull-crap James. That was a bit low… No? Maybe not?' Remus thought, but shrugged all together. It had gotten a reaction from him, Shockingly.

Layering over at his best friend, Sirius's stomach burned with anger. "Really Prongs-,"

Knowing what was probably coming next Remus put his foot down. "Sirius, don't say anything you'll regret. You already regret enough as it is." He said harshly, a stern glare pointed at the boy as a thought stuck him. "You know what, I think you need to have this talk with Emma more than any of us. Come on Padfoot. She'll be downstairs at ten tonight, which is in fifteen minutes, so get up. Otherwise, Prongs, Wormtail and I are tossing your sorry arse over the stares edges and you can let your cheeky charms save you this time 'round." To say Remus' annoyance was overdone was possibly an understatement apparently. The Were-wolf was nearly seething irritation at his dear friend.

Peter was just glad someone finally voiced this, because Peter had a hard time being an arse to his friends.

"No need Remus,"

Shocked at a voice none of them had heard in four months, the three boys standing had turned, thinking they had finally gone mad and was simply imagining her voice.

Thankfully, they all found Emma standing at the entryway of the boys' dorm room, "How'd you get in here?" James was the first to ask with a gentle laugh, grateful that he wasn't imagining this.

Emma gave a lazy shrug, "It was left open," She simply answered him. For once, they didn't see their little Fox. She was simply Emma Evans. It was like she had grown up in some way after their display by the lake. The memory made their stomachs turn, she wasn't going to always be their naïve, innocent, Fox forever. So, maybe this happened for a reason for everyone.

Sirius sat up upon hearing her voice for the first time in four months, a bit of a hopeful smile on his face. But it soon faded, Emma hadn't returned the playful smile, no smile was returned to any of them. Not even Peter, this stung Peter terribly. It still stunned him though that a little second year girl could have this much effect on them.

The fact that Lily could have James wrapped around her finger was enough, but two Evans having him wrapped around their fingers was just astonishing. And a bit sad.

Sirius couldn't help the joy that made his heart jump from his stomach, where it had been digesting in for those long, agonizing months. Unfortunately, a second later he realized she was still a second-year student and he was four years older than her, a fifth-year student, both of whom were still in school. 'I should be arrested,' he thought sarcastically to himself once he realized he was in deep trouble. "Emma?"

Silence filled the air for a few seconds before she answered back. "Sirius." Simple, but enough to make the tension grow twice as strong as it was before.

Not only seeing the tension but feeling it, James suddenly spoke up, clapped his hands together while clearing his throat and forced a small grin, "Well, I believe we will leave you two at it then... Good luck Padfoot. Emma," James said, a little bit worried for the two.

Finally, they were alone. They sat, or stood in Emma's case, in silence for a few minutes. The awkwardness was beginning to become unbearable.

"I'm sorry," both said in unison.

Smiling, Sirius waved her on, "You first kiddo," he saw her flinch involuntarily at hearing 'kiddo'. They both knew they were in the wrong those four months ago, they just hated admitting it, but it needed to be done.

"I'm sorry I screamed and shouted at you, all of you. And yes, I will apologize to the rest when I have finished talking with you... I get that you and the others have your little issue with Severus, even though I don't know why. However, you were all in the wrong for playing a part in his humiliation and then continuing it. For that, I am not only disappointed, I am ashamed of you four, but also myself for how I reacted." She said.

He watched her take in a deep breath from the looks of it, she was trying to stay calm, almost like she was nervous of being around him. He shook that thought from his mind as quick as he was on the Quidditch field. 'She's just freaking out because she's embarrassed, I'd probably be the same way.'

Which was also true.

However, as her words finally registered in his mind Sirius sat stunned, 'When did she grow up? she's only 12!' until the words "ashamed", "disappointed" and "humiliation" rang through his head and then what she had said to them at the lake. Emma had compared him and the others to the group that had busted her lip, they hadn't figured out why she had made the comparison, until it hit Sirius like a sledgehammer. Bullies.

'How could we be so stupid?'

He knew instantly he needed to admit his own wrong and get her to understand she was reacting the only way she could have, she too had been bullied by a group, and he and his boys were no different minus the evilness they could do. Because in the end, Sirius and the other Marauder's had never drawn blood from Snape, only made him a laughingstock.

Either way, both are wrong and they hadn't done a thing to stop themselves. "Emma, you reacted like any sister and friend would have. Why would you be ashamed of yourself?" He asked a fair question, but when he saw the waterworks coming, he regretted his question instantly.

"Because I told you to never speak to me and Lily," He could not believe how she was acting; like a child being forced to apologize to someone she had wronged. His brain kept circling until another thought clicked, '12, almost 13 years old... Don't girls start getting weird at that age, sooner or later?' Click! - Score one for Sirius Black! -

Sirius couldn't help the laughter that immediately left him, "I'm sorry, Emma, I'm so sorry... I swear to Merlin, I am NOT laughing at you..." He continued laughing. Walking to her, Sirius hugged her, "Come on, let's just forget it happened... Don't argue, Foxy, I'm hungry." Not giving the girl a chance to even start to argue back, he picked her up over his shoulder, pulling a laugh from both of them as he walked them down the stairs and into the Common room. " Come on, dinner's getting cold…" Seeing his friends' confusion Sirius laughed and shook his head a bit, "I'll explain later."

Months passed by, everything was back to normal, sort of. None of the boys, nor Lily and Marlene, liked the fact both Gabby and Emma had, *Cough, cough* Changed?

Or rather, hit a full on growth spurt called puberty.

Half the time the four boys were chasing off a few older boys, third years mostly with a tiny number of fourth years, from the two girls, who also happened to be getting rather annoyed with the male attention.

Klay, Gabby's boyfriend, had nearly punched a fellow third year for making a comment about Gabby. The two girls had to shout for a passing by Peter and Remus to help them hold the boys at bay from one another, who happened to be a bit bigger than them, he had been gaining a little bit of muscle from not only playing Quidditch but being active all the time, the boy couldn't stay seated for long.

'Klay's a Hufflepuff?! He's damned near as strong as a bear and as mad as an ox!' Emma shouted to herself mentally with shock.

They were all happy they were going home soon. "Remus! Peter! A bit of help would be nice!" Both girls shouted, "Stop laughing, this isn't funny!"

"Alright, alright, just calm down..." Remus laughed at another time about the girl's behavior and worry. Truthfully, he and Peter didn't understand why they didn't just let Klay throttle the boy. They would have.

End of term was nearly there. Exams were coming up and Emma and Gabby seemed to be more focused on their studies and classes. Relief filled Marlene and Lily while the four boys grew with a small amount of annoyance though they understood their studies were important. However, no matter how understanding they were for this sudden change in hobbies, not including them, they were a bit saddened to finally realize that they were losing their Fox to something worse than a boy! School.

Gabby, Emma and Klay had decided to start studying together and getting extra tutoring classes done. Every now and then Emma would study with Remus in the Library or Lily and the other few. Otherwise, she was M.I.A. from the pranking, which bothered Sirius a bit more than the rest. He finally voiced this when they were heading home at the end of the year and were all met with one another's agreements.

Remus did have a point to scold them all for it. "As long as they are passing, I think I will live. I believe we will live." Remus stated a bit sternly.

Emma had sat with Lily and the others, meaning, not with her Marauders. And that bothered them a bit as well. Emma and Gabby had sat with them the ride home at the end of first year and on the way back to school their second year. It felt strange to not have one or both of them in the compartment with them. "I just miss the little prankster." Peter grumbled, Sirius silently agreeing along with James's quiet, "Yeah."

Having enough of the whining, Remus huffed, "Oh for Merlin's sake." He grumbled, shuffled from his seat, tossed his book onto the cushion and stormed out.

Shocked as everyone else, Peter looked from the closing door to James with concern and curiosity. "What was that all about?"

"End of the month, Wormtail," James stated, and received an 'oh' from the boy.

Five minutes passed by and Remus walked back in with Emma tossed over his shoulder, sat her down where she was instantly tackled to the ground in a pile of the three friends that had whined about her absence, all laughing at how funny that had been.

She was glad she had worn her black tights under her autumn brown button-down skirt. It matched the white bell sleeved shirt she was wearing and the dark brown ankle boots. With her growth spurt Emma had ended up borrowing the shirt and skirt from a girl in third year, claiming the clothes no longer fitted her. But Emma had gotten the girl's address so she could return them to her after getting home.

Laughing as the pile was lifted off her by James, "Get off us you crazy blokes, you're crushing us." He'd laughed. While James knew nothing was there in the moment it wasn't Emma he wanted to be this close to, it was Lily. And he was grateful he'd never get confused by the two of them. Where they may look slightly similar in the face, Emma had freckles, darker red for hair, a mess of curls and waves, thick too and her eyes were far darker than Lily's emeralds every time he looked at Emma's eyes.

"What is going on here? Is It just me and Remus who are the adults?" Emma laughed.

Their laughter rose at the small joke, "Yeah, sure. Mum and Dad." Peter joked in a slight fit of laughter, Sirius had nearly growled at the obvious joke, not liking the idea one bit. But it seemed that Sirius wasn't the only one that hadn't much cared for the joke.

"No, definitely not." Remus stated clearly. He seemed to be a bit on edge this time around, and Emma had definitely noticed.

"Remus, are you alright?" She asked with concern.

"Fine, Emma." His answer was short and harsher than he normally was, not even looking up from his book. Emma knew something was clearly not alright, but he had said otherwise, and she knew better than to cross Remus Lupin.

The four of them stared at him in worry.

"Moony-" James had been about to ask what was going on, he had always been easily irritable during the coming transformations at the end of the month, but he had not been like this in a while.

He was stopped when Remus quickly shuffled himself from his seat, collected his book and headed for the door stating, "I'm going to go find a quieter compartment. Enjoy your ride home and summer, Emma."

At his departure, Emma was nowhere near alright, she was in utter shock and confused. "What the bloody hell was that all about?" She snapped. Her eyes wide with shock and small irritation.

Sirius had wrapped a playful arm around her, opening his mouth to making a joke yet had been beaten to it by James' serious answer. "Emma, he's going through things you can't possibly imagine." James said, coming to his friends' defense.

With a small, annoyed, laugh Emma shrugged with confusion, "Then try explaining it, because that was a bit ridiculous Jamie. Trust me, I want to understand what's going on, I care a lot about you boys. You're all practically like my brothers-"

"Not your brother Fox... Sorry, continue, love." Sirius said, clarifying quickly he wanted no part of a brother sister relationship setting, yet blushed lightly at making the statement.

A bit shocked by Sirius's random outburst, and a bit stung by his rejection she shook the thought off for a later conversation, "Anyway, what is going on with him? Just about every month he gets this way, but he has never done that! I am not just worried. I'm getting a bit fed up with being kept out of something that obviously means something to him. And that does bother me... A lot."

Giving in, James sighed and looked at the boys, he shook his head, a silent vow that he wasn't going to say anything. Turning his eyes back to the young girl before them, his eyes locked with Emma's irritated and worried filled green eyes, his gut immediately filled with worry. They all knew she cared, but their love for her was exactly why they had all four known they shouldn't tell her. Remus was petrified at the thought of possibly hurting her if she ever found out. Severus was lucky he had gotten away himself, no thanks to Sirius.

That was also probably one of the reasons Remus had had his form of outburst. He and Sirius were somewhat on the outs.

'What a headache this year has been,' James thought. He didn't realize that this thought was the same thing everyone in that room, plus Remus, were all currently thinking. "Emma, if he wants you to know he will tell you himself... Until then, our hands are tied." This didn't sate her curiosity, nor did it simmer down her irritation and worry, it only made it burn into full determination to find out.

The spark James saw light up in her eyes worried him deeply and the feeling in his gut started to turn. He felt as though he was about to be sick. He'd have to talk to Remus this coming week, this was not good, not good at all. Thankfully they had all agreed to go camping for the summer.

"I think I should get back to Lily and the others. Sorry I bothered you boys. Enjoy your summer." She said plainly, placing a kiss to each of their cheeks then walked out swiftly.

James' eyes never left the compartment door, "We have a problem."

Summer

The woods were empty so far, a large, grayish wolf, a black dog, and a rat riding on the antlers of a large stag were rushing around after one another.

If anyone had seen this, they'd have been confused at this sight of these four creatures prancing around playfully and peacefully.

They spent their day like this, the wolf and black dog snapping at one another every once and awhile, only to be popped by one of the stag's legs or its antlers to split the two up.

"So, Emma knows something's wrong then?" Remus sighed sickly as he laid back on his bed roll.

"Well, you kind of snapped at her, Remus." Peter informed him, a bit of a timid look on his face at saying something.

They all watched him sigh tiredly, rubbing his face roughly. They knew he hated how he'd snapped at her, but he had been doing that a lot since school had come to a close.

"It's getting darker out there, something is coming, and it may not end in our favor." Remus finally said.

His words sent shivers to run down the three boys' backs making their hairs stand on end.

'So, something is bothering him.' James thought, a stern look coming to him, "What happened, Remus?"

He watched the four boys studying him, they'd find out eventually, "Dumbledore," he began, "called me to his office before the end of classes this year. He spoke to me about joining something called 'The Order of the Phoenix' to fight against this evil darkness that was rising, heading our way... I asked him if I could think about it over the summer."

Everyone was shocked at hearing Dumbledore do this. Their quiet, gentle handed Headmaster had asked a student, a fifth year going into his sixth year, to join an Order to fight against a dark and dangerous enemy that was uprising against the Wizarding world?

'Is this a prank? if so, it's a badly laid one.' The three boys' all thought the same thing. Was Remus hallucinating?

However, it was Sirius that spoke up, a bit of a forced laugh as he did, "Remus, this is Dumbledore you're talking about. Is this a joke?"

His patience long gone Remus snapped. Anger rolling off of him as he glared, "Yes, Sirius Black, this is a complete joke. Just like two months ago when you told Snape about the Whomping Willow, this is so much like that kind of joke... I'm going to sleep. I'll see you all in the morning."

Knowing it was better to get this done and over with, Sirius sighed in defeat, he had only regretted two things, the first was arguing with Emma, the second was telling Snape about the Whomping Willow and discovering Remus's condition. "Remus, I have apologized several times, and I am sorry. But I know it won't change the fact of what I did was very stupid and extremely dangerous. I don't know what else I can do to let you know how sorry I am." He attempted his apology for what felt like the 100th time.

Taking a breath to relax himself Remus looked over his shoulder towards his friend he was still ticked off at. "Sirius, you should have known better in the first place! How about you start using your head before trying a sadly played a prank on someone that could get them killed!" Knowing he had put his friend in his place, again.

Remus knew deep down that he couldn't stay mad at Sirius for long. In truth he couldn't stay this mad at any of them for long. Now, had Snape actually been killed instead of a few bumps, scrapes and bruises, he knew he'd have it in him to truly hate the boy for his stupidity. "Just let me be about it for a while longer, Padfoot. I'll get over it... Eventually." And turned his back to the boys, and soundlessly fell asleep in a matter of seconds.

With a shocked expression Sirius softly spoke out, "Well, that went well."

"Shut it Padfoot, you know very good and well he has every right to be angry with you. Wormtail and I are still a upset about that stupid stunt you pulled with Severus. I may not like the bloke, but what you did nearly cost him his life and that of Remus's sanity. If you want to make things right with this then first of all, stop bringing it up, and secondly, give Moony a break."

'Well, this is a bit new,' Sirius had never made the boys this mad before. So, he took James' advice and left it alone the rest of the summer.

Eventually Remus stopped snapping and began being more himself. He'd even gone as far as telling Sirius he had forgiven him, but to "-never do it again, otherwise I may turn on you the next full moon," but they all knew Remus could never bring himself to harm a human, let alone a small animal, on purpose unless provoked.

The Evans Home

Lily sighed as she walked into her sister's room, papers all around.

How her sister managed to make all these papers in her room look organized and still have her room look clean, Lily would never know. Emma had spent all summer this way. Gathering information on something, and whatever it was, it seemed she had gotten plenty. Even a few funny things Lilly would assume from the laughter she had heard from Emma's room the night before. Where Emma was getting this stuff, whatever it was, Lily had no idea, and a thought occurred to her, 'I actually don't want to know.'

It would never occur to Lily that much of Emma's information had come from none other than Severus Snape, who had gotten his hands on just about everything.

He had gotten a few things from Bellatrix who, not really caring why he had asked about the boys, had willingly offered up the information.

Though, Emma herself didn't know that part, she too was curious where he'd gotten it all but she was grateful that he had allowed her to kidnap his collection of information, though he was still holding off on a lot of other things, things he didn't think she needed to have.

It also hadn't really come to Lily's notice that she had been gifted a necklace over the summer for her birthday by someone anonymous, with a note;

"A charmed necklace. For good luck and protection. Never take it off... Happy Birthday. – Anonymous,"

It was a thin, yet surprisingly strong, silver chain in a gentle choker fashion and a small Rose made of rose gold in the center of it with a tiny red ruby stud sitting happily in the center of the Rose. It had been embroidered with strong magic if Emma thought hard enough about it.

She'd worn it every day since it got to her.
But Emma still hadn't a clue who would have gotten her such a gift, but the letter was anonymous, so go figure.

She'd have to wait until she got to Hogwarts to search around a bit more. She had asked Gabby if it was her, but she was informed that Gabby would be handing her gift to her, herself. Even went as far as to sending the letter to Gabrielle to see if anyone in her family could track the person down, that had been a dead end.

The last piece of information Severus had owled Emma was nothing but rumors, his letter had said he had held off on this all summer because he hated the idea of giving her information that could likely be simple speculation. But he felt that maybe she could use it, and that was where she had found the word 'Lycanthropy'.

This began her mind in piecing together Remus' weird behavior.

Every month he'd find strange excuses. Normally, he'd use his mother as the main one, to not be at school for a week or two, and he was always excused of this, from Professors and friends alike. However, the last few months of him acting strange and the 'mother's sick', was beginning to get a bit suspicious to her for some reason.

Emma thought at first that she was just jealous that he got to miss school every month for a week or so, but every time he left and came back, he still looked sickly, then he'd snapped before he left this year. But that had happened at the end of every month, almost like a girl on her monthly cycle, only this was two times worse.

Added to the fact that she'd never really been on the end of it.

Emma had charted out the months and things that were always recurring during his time of this happening and she had concluded that it was the full moon, she thought she was crazy. Looking up the term from one of Lily's books her heart began pounding in her chest, her eyes continued re-reading 'disease', 'were-wolf', 'forced to change', 'Painful', and finally, 'Paleness, and ill-like,'

'How's that possible? How did it happen! Why Moony?' Another thought hit her, if she confronted him about this, how would he react?

Probably be immensely angry with her at snooping into his life, and now she just felt terrible. With a self-ashamed sigh, Emma closed her sister's book.

'This is not my business. I know now, that's all that matters. I can help keep an eye on him. I can try to help... Some way. Question is, how?' She thought, until an idea struck her, not only was it dangerous it was illegal.

But she couldn't let him go through that alone. However, if she was just a normal human being, a witch in his were-wolfed presents, she too could get infected. Emma had to think on how she was going to be able to help him through that without getting infected.

Minutes passed by until she randomly remembered hearing the boys talking about something they'd learned in one of their classes. A conversation they had excluded her from and told her not to worry about it, but she had still heard the word and had asked Marlene about it.

A small smile graced her face and let out a small whispered answer for herself, "Animagus."

Not realizing Lily had been standing there the entire time to gather her book Emma had borrowed.

Barely hearing her sister, Lily could have sworn she heard the term 'Animagus,' "I'm sorry, what did you just say?" Lily asked with concern hoping she'd heard her wrong.

Emma's mouth dropped, mostly opened to try to answer, but for the first time in a while Emma couldn't think of anything to say. 'I'm in deep trouble.'

"Uh, nothing." She knew Lily didn't believe her, but was thankful she had left it alone.

Sighing, Lily crossed her arms, "I came to let you know we needed to go to Diagone Alley for your books soon." She informed her, turning around to leave Lily frozen in her movements with a sigh. She had to know what was going on with her sister. Sighing loudly, she turned on her heels quickly, "Emma Rose Evans, what are you doing?"

Dumbstruck that she may have just been caught, Emma's heart fluttered, then fear set in. If Lily looked through the things she had collected on the boys, namely Remus Lupin, then Lily would put it all together and know herself. "Nothing, just some ridiculous stuff I've found interesting... It kind of turned into a summer Project... With Gabby."

'Note to self, inform Gabby you just lied to your sister and that you unwittingly brought her down with you... I am so dead this year.' And she had no idea just how close that was about to become.

Emma could see in Lily's pale green eyes that she barely believed her. This had Emma holding her breath.

Huffing with the knowledge she wouldn't get anything from Emma, Lily, nodded at her. "Okay, come on, you need your books. School starts in two weeks and I'd rather have everything for us instead of running around like chickens with no heads." Lily said, her long red hair swishing behind her in her ponytail leaving Emma's room.

Emma had released her held breath. Looking around at everything in her room, she gathered it all up and placed it in a folder then onto her bookshelf with a sigh. Gathering up her jacket Emma rushed downstairs to join her sister and both left to get their needed things for the coming school year.

Diagon Alley

To her embarrassed shock, the boys happened to be there, Remus still looking a bit sick, then it all came back to her, now she knew why he looked sick, and Emma's heart broke for him.

A gasp left her suddenly as she was lifted off the ground, strong arms around her waist from behind and spun her around as the person responsible laughed, a laugh she knew all too well. It belonged to someone she had been having issues getting out of her head over the summer. Feeling dizzy, and a bit sick, at the spinning Alley, Emma shouted a bit playfully at the person spinning her. "Sirius Orion Black, put me down."

"Yes, Padfoot, I think the girl looks a bit sick from all the spinning," Remus spoke up, grinning at the display as he walked up to them with the others of their little mischief group.

Stumbling to find her footing again, Emma accidentally stumbled into Remus, who thankfully caught her before her legs went out. "Easy there, Fox. Really Sirius, I'd have thought you'd have learned ages ago to be more careful with her." Remus stated dryly.

His tone was different, 'That sounded a little... Hostile? no, he wouldn't… definitely not. Challenging? possibly. But, if it was - Oh, please tell me I did not just become the new target this year.'

A dark look spread across Sirius's face. His eyes clouded. Something wasn't right, Emma had a feeling this year was going to do a bit of damage. "What's that supposed to mean, Moony?" Sirius asked.

"Nothing... Emma, can I speak with you a moment?" He asked, grabbing her hand a bit firmly and without giving her a chance to answer, pulled her away with him.

"Remus, what is going on?" She questioned, noticing they had turned into an alleyway, one that wasn't lit with the day's light, creating a bit of a dark scene. The situation she was in, the way he was acting, made a shiver run over her.

'What in Merlin's name is going on!' But she was shocked, frozen, upon feeling warm lips against her own, kissing her a bit roughly. Something was screaming in the back of her mind that he was holding something back, something that was more, dare she say, dangerous. But she could hardly focus, Remus Lupin had just kissed her, and she had kissed back!

But there was nothing there, besides the slight joy of her first kiss Emma wished she had enjoyed it like she should have, but she felt as though something was wrong. Something about this wasn't right. Emma would admit that he was, indeed, an amazing kisser, and he had just stolen her first kiss.

A bit breathless after the kiss, Emma took a breath to calm her nerves. She had no idea why that had just happened. She knew what had happened, but it felt wrong. "I'm sorry, but I just had to get that out of my system," He said with a wide, mischievous grin. A grin that kind of made her feel like a rabbit being watched by a wolf.

'Why is he grinning?'

"What are you talking about?" Emma asked. She still felt winded, she knew she was blushing like a red apple, and for this moment alone she was glad of the barely lit alleyway. But she thought nothing of the possible danger that was waiting for her.

"I've been wanting to do that all summer. But I seem to have found that maybe I shouldn't have. You felt it too, didn't you? Something-"

"Wasn't right?" Emma spoke up before he had a chance to finish what he was wanting to say.

Remus lightly laughed a bit, running a gentle hand through her hair, kissing her forehead. "Yes, something was wrong. Forgive me for saying, but I seem to also be a thief, a selfish one at that. But, maybe just one more." Again, she didn't have a chance to answer and once again he had kissed her. And she allowed this one to happen.

The air seemed to shift, a shiver slithered up her spine, a dangerous shiver. Shouts flew through the air off in the distance.

Their voices were full of worry.

"Foxy!"

'James? why would he be shouting for me?'

"Fox, where are you, love!"

Sirius?'

"Rose!"

'Lily? Why is Lily with those two?'

"Em!"

"Rose!"

'Is that Gabby and Marlene? What's going on?'

Still she allowed the kiss to continue, placing a hand on his neck and ignoring their shouts. She was with Remus.

They shouldn't be worrying.

Not realizing the kiss had been deepened Emma continued to ignore the scratching at the back of her mind that was trying to tell her something really wasn't right, that Remus wasn't right. Yet, she continued ignoring it.

She liked Remus as a friend, but she also knew he was kind, handsome and caring. That in itself, made Emma wish she had more attraction towards him. But he had asked for just one more kiss.

And why should she deny him one more kiss, as long as he didn't do it again.

"Fox!"

Unfortunately hearing this voice woke her up, because it was supposed to belong to the one she was currently snogging in an alleyway. She felt Remus shift in his place, a grin wide across his face.

A grin that looked downright dark… Evil.

'Wait, Remus's grin isn't like that. His is more subtle, calm and collected.' Emma's body froze, almost shivering in her place as she looked at him and into his eyes.

This wasn't Remus.

She felt him brush his lips against hers. Now letting her conscious out Emma found it screaming at her to run, but she was frozen in her spot. Emma couldn't move, no matter how hard she tried.

"Such a shame. You're so stunning it's almost beautiful," He whispered to her, messing with her hair again as he pecked her lips one last time.

Her body jerked with sudden pain over taking her chest and stomach. Her abdomen felt funny, warm and wet. Confused, Emma glanced down. Her eyes widening with disbelief at what she found.

He had driven a dagger just below her sternum, his fingers wrapped tightly around the small hilt that was causing the pain to shoot through her body.

To Emma's terror, he continued brushing his lips across her skin anywhere he could touch with his lips; cheek, forehead, neck. The thought of this person kissing her again made her sick to her stomach. He had impersonated Remus, tricked her and kissed her. Her idea of Remus had been shattered and stained. Feeling as though she was going to vomit, Emma tried to force herself to move, once again failing. She had just been tricked. The sly fox had just been 'out foxed.'

"Such a shame I couldn't keep you just a tad bit longer to play with." He softly whispered against her neck. His voice was cold and seductive. It was shifting, changing. Like it was morphing back into what it really sounded like.

Emma's eyes had looked up from the dagger as her mind struggled to register what was going on as she locked eyes with 'Remus'. His face was still the same, but his voice had changed. It was not the voice of Remus Lupin, but it was far too late for her to realize that this was not Remus. Emma continued to chant it in her mind, so she would remember. But she couldn't help but scold herself.

'Emma how thick can you get? To actually think any of them would really want to kiss you. You should have known better.'

But she also came to her own defense, she was still just a kid, a young teenager, so how should she have known this was a trick.

Her feet finally moved, but she found her back meeting the brick wall with painful breaths gasping in and out of her lungs painfully. The sound of heavy feet slammed against the ground getting closer to them.

A group stopped in front of the alley, finding the two. The first person she saw dashing down the alley for her, Emma felt relief, as if it would all be okay, she was safe now. Right?

He could fix this?

Fighting for her voice, Emma's eyes filled with fearful tears at the thought that just struck her. If they all came down the Alley for her, this imposter could easily kill them one by one.

"Sirius?" Her voice trembled, barely above a whisper, but he knew she had called for him.

Flashback-

Sirius had nearly had a heart attack when Remus had stumbled out of an alley in the opposite direction Emma and the other Remus had walked off in. But what frightened him more was that they had been gone for nearly ten minutes. At hearing Remus telling them all, and the additional girls that had approached them not too long before asking where Emma was.

"Remus?" Peter was confused. As were everyone else.

He still had on his grey shirt he was supposed to have changed after spilling something on him, so when he had come back in a red shirt they had all thought absolutely nothing of it. But this Remus still had the grey shirt with the stain on it, with an additional deep cut on his hairline to his right temple.

"I was hit from somewhere off to the side, I could have sworn I saw my reflection. What's going on?" Remus told them, a hand pressed against the bleeding cut.

This shocked them out of their stupor, the three boys looked at each other, explained what had just happened not fifteen minutes ago, and all took off running down the streets shouting for Emma.

After not being able to find her after the first two minute passed, Sirius was silently praying she was alright, that this was just a terribly played prank that some nut was about to regret the moment he got his hands on him.

They had been found farther than the group would have liked, a bit too close to Knockturn Alley and halfway down a dimly lit alley way.

-End of flashback-

A firm hand grasped Emma's forearm, tossing her at Sirius to keep him a bit farther at bay.

Sirius instantly wrapped his arms around Emma. He hadn't realized that as soon as he had caught her against him a grunt of pain had left her. No one thought anything of it as they tossed a curse or two at the laughing impostor, vanishing up into the air in a cloud of smoke.

The dagger in her had been shoved deeper at being tossed roughly into Sirius's arms, his body heat warming her instantly at the contact.

Sirius felt something sharp digging into his chest as he held her to him. He hadn't realized it was the dagger's hilt, and honestly, he hadn't cared until he'd noticed it. Sirius realized a small, sharp end had pierced his own skin, drawing blood from himself.

Realizing what it could be he held her arms gently and shuffled her a bit from him to peer down. The sight had sent his heart dropping into his stomach, paling with fear. "Prongs! Rose!" Sirius caught her quickly as her legs buckled under her.

Sweeping her up into his arms, panic clear on his face as he turned them away from the alley and back into the light of the streets of Diagone Alley.

"Rose, oh my God. Sirius, is she-"

"No!" He barked, "I'm taking her to the Leaky Cauldron, meet me with their Prongs." And Disapparated without issue and apparating in the middle of the Leaky Cauldron, startling the few people there.

Confusion written on them as they looked at him, "Help! She needs help, please!" His plea for help was painful. He was thankful when a couple stood from their seats and rushed to see what was going on.

"Oh Merlin. Arthur, go get help!" A ginger haired woman screamed, rushing up to him as the man vanished instantly. "Set her on the table!"

A few others from the Cauldron rushed around after Sirius placed her down, the women began barking out orders.

Sirius and a few of the staff rushed around trying to help keep her alive, but he felt more useless than he did help, "Come on love... Wake up... Please. Emma, please wake up." He begged.

Dark Followers

"What have you done!" Her voice screeched out across the room as she entered, her small form making its way across the large dining room floors and right into a grinning Death Eater's face, anger and venom lacing her eyes as she breathed in and out harsh breaths, almost like she couldn't breathe.

Grinning at her, he licked his lips at the memory of the dagger easily sinking into the redhead's body. "Why, dear Bella. I killed a mud-blood, as was my order. Just getting a bit of practice in before I go back to school. And I had the perfect target for almost three years." He said, a mischievous glint coming to his dark eyes, "Why, do you have a problem with who my target was, Bellatrix."

At his challenge, she found her body tensing, memories flashing through her mind; a young eight-year-old girl screaming and writhing on the ground, her own mother using the torture curse on her. At her young age, Bellatrix had not known that her favorite cousin's mother had in fact had an affair, but the worst part of that had been that the child's father was a muggle. And for her mother's infidelity she had been punished. Dragged out to the gardens and her throat sliced open, making the young children, and others already present, witness the assault.

But they hadn't stopped there, Bellatrix's father had gone farther.

They had then turned on the child. A child who shivered with fearful tears streaming down her face. "Bella? What's happening? Why did they kill mummy?" she squeaked.

The stern voice of Bellatrix's father had frightened the children from their shock, "Melie, come here." He was cold, emotionless and his eyes void of any regretful action against his own sister.

Bellatrix's muscles were tense with fear, "No, Melie. Stay put... Why have you attacked them? Father, what's going on?" The eight-year-old Bellatrix had demanded from her father. She was smart for her young age, always asking questions, to have answers regarding the situations and traditions she was to learn.

"Her mother birthed a half-blood, unfaithful to her family, husband and our ways. She has been punished, now we are purging our family of this virus." Her father spoke the words like it was mud in his mouth, making a face of disgust.

Bellatrix may have been eight, but she had a maturity of someone older, something her siblings adored about her, but this one event would change her life forever and that of her sister's.

About to scream out against him, Bellatrix suddenly screamed out with sheer pain, her body hitting the cold earth and began withering from the pain she had been assaulted with. She could hear Melie screaming for help, anyone, but it was the screams for her to help her that had done the most damage.

A flash of green light and her screams were silent, the little five-year-old was laying still on the ground, eyes wide open and void of any sign of life with her dark brown hair half fallen in her face. But it was the eyes that stilled her, her dark green, empty, eyes that had once been full of happiness and laughter not even an hour ago.

That night Narcissa and Andromeda had tended to their distraught older sister, eyes red and puffy from crying for hours as she was listening to her sister lightly singing to herself with a giggle here and there, rocking herself as she sat in the center of her bed, "Bella ran, Bella fell, Bella screamed and crawled and withered around. Bella gets up and shouts with songs of joys in raining blood streaming down from the skies. Down, Down Bella goes, to the darkness of her mind below. Madness to be, so behold. Down, down Bella goes, withering away as she goes."

The song had never left her mind. It was one of the things that had made her crazy really.

Steeling herself, Bellatrix sighed, making herself as if annoyed, "She was meant to be mine! I had the perfect cat and mouse game made for her and that sister of hers'." She stated in a matter of fact voice. She had nearly growled at his burst of laughter directed at her.

"Bella... Dear Bella, I stuck my claim to her two and a half years ago when I drew blood. And it was me who drew the last of it. You should have seen Black's face. So pain filled. I honestly thought for a while that if we killed his little friends in front of the prat that he'd look like that... But he looked as if he we're looking at a mangled body." He laughed.

Bellatrix watched him sober after having his minute of laughter until he continued to boost his ego, "As of today, Emma Rose Evans is dead."

Told ya I'd make it up to you.

*Okay, first, I shall explain why I did what I did... I have no clue how long, or when, or how, Bellatrix got madder than a mad hatter, buuuut, I just had a random and crazy idea. So, I went with it. I mean, hey, the lady could have just been that way the moment she was born, but, um... Narcissa wasn't half out of her mind and neither was Andromeda, because she married Teddy Tonks and got disowned for it. So, something could have happened to make the women as psycho as she was. But, either way, I hope you like it. If not, sorry for the loss on both ends. Thank you all for reading. I hope you enjoyed! I know I am!

* Next chapter will be posted as soon as I can :) Thank you!