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, I am currently in the process of removing my things from the previous site I have been using. 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 21

July 27th, 1980

Emma walked past a bathroom from the kitchen after cleaning up. Lily had been gone for quite some time and Emma was getting a little worried. "Lily? Are you feeling alright?" Emma found her sister leaning over the lavatory pot dry heaving. Worried, Emma rushed in and pulled Lily's long red hair back from her face and tied it back with Emma's Gryffindor scrunchy from her own hair, rubbing her sister's back a little in comfort.

"Why do they call-" Lily heaved again making Emma wince.

'This is absolutely disgusting, but I love her, so I will suck it up,'

"- call this morning sickness if it lasts all day." Lily finally finished sarcastically, "Merlin I hate vomiting, why must it be a part of this? I blame James,"

Just as she had said this, James walked up to the door with Sirius, both were trying not to laugh with a playful hurt expression on James' face.

Emma held back a snicker, "It takes two to tango Lil." Emma should have seen the glare coming that Lily shot at her over her shoulder, but a shiver ran up her spine when her sisters' green eyes pierced her. Emma cleared her throat a little, "Shutting up."

"And what about you and Sirius? Don't think I didn't hear something last night young lady-"

'Okay, time to change the subject, fast,' "Okay, let's not hop on that train, this is about you and your wonderful pregnancy... Right, boys." She said, shooting them a stern look, mostly at Sirius who coughed and cleared his own throat, "Yes, definitely Lily, um, when are you due again?"

"Three days ago, that's why we're waiting a few more days then we're going to the Hospital."

July 30th

"Alice had her son! Lily!" Emma was jumping with joy with the fresh picture in hand of the couple and their newborn son, "His name is Neville, he's absolutely adorable. Ah, yes, this letter is addressed to you, their names are on the back of the photo." Emma handed Lily the small envelope and waited patiently as she read it.

"She's asked me to be the Godmother, awe...Emma, can you bring me a quill and parchment?" Lily looked like she was on the verge of happy tears as Emma dashed off and brought back the requested equipment and watched as her sister responded back to her friend. It wasn't until that night Lily was beginning to cramp up and breath a bit heavily, the pain had been enough for her to constantly shift uncomfortably as she rubbed the sides of her rounded belly.

"Lily? are you alright?" Sirius had been the first to actually notice and grew concerned, "Yea- ouch, uh, yeah. It's just cramps... I think." She answered thinking nothing of it as Sirius simply smiled at her and kissed the top of her head and walked into the kitchen where James and Emma were joking about and playing a card game.

"Emma, James. I do believe our dear Lily has been in labor for some time without our knowing." He whispered between the two, a grin, yet again, wide across his face and had started bursting with laughter as they jumped from their chairs and stormed into the small study that Lily was currently reading a child's Folklore story book to herself and the child, still wincing and rubbing her belly in attempt to get rid of the pain.

"Time to go to the Hospital Lil." James clarified while he and Emma rushed around. Lily giggled a little and was about to tell them to calm down and sit back in their seats when Sirius chuckled and took the things in James's arms, so he could help his wife, "No arguing, up, now and in the car."

Saint Mungo's Hospital

Upon their arrival at the Hospital, the doctors proceeded to check Lily. She was indeed in labor.

"Well, this is just interesting. It takes Alice to send me into Labor." It was hours after that and into the next morning of July 31st that Lily had finally given birth to a beautiful baby boy, dark hair and all.

Emma, James, Sirius, Peter, Frank and Alice Longbottom and their newborn son, Neville, were in the room visiting Lily and the baby boy, "He's perfect." James whispered to the top of his wife's head as he kissed her proudly.

Remus was not yet there, and this seemed to only set it in stone for Sirius, his arm was wrapped around Emma. Shaking the thoughts from his mind to focus on this wonderful day Sirius sighed. His Godson, Harry James Potter, was finally there in the world. A world that was currently being plagued by an evil, dark, wizard. This led them all to vow to get rid of this tyrant as soon as possible so their lives could once again belong to them and not be viciously taken from them if they moved the wrong way.

"Where's Remus?" James asked looking around.

"He said he'd be a little late, said there was a job interview he couldn't miss today." Peter spoke up in his defense, though as he did so, he gave a look to Sirius whose eyes narrowed a little then nodded.

"Sirius?" Emma asked looking up at him only for him to smile weakly, he shook his head gently and kissed her forehead, "Don't worry about it, Love. Now, may I hold my Godson?" He asked with a bit of a jump in his stance, a happy smile finally set on his face as he looked longingly at Harry.

Lily gladly handed the baby off to the Godfather with a big smile and a giggle, and all thanks to Peter their memories would forever be captured as a camera's flash that filled the room, "He's perfect." Sirius whispered, his eyes never leaving the sleeping baby boy smiled wide across his cute, chubby, baby checks as he slept.

Remus was rushing down the halls of St. Mungos to find the room of his friends, he was two hours late because of the interrogation he had to do at such a short notice at having the Dark Lord's follower brought in last minute to him for an immediate interrogation. He felt a sigh of relief leave him when he found Emma and Sirius standing out in the halls talking, but from the looks of it, it didn't look like a pleasant conversation.

Their attention turned to him, he supposed his heavy breathing and running form coming at them was enough to bring them from their discussion, one that Emma looked annoyed at having and Sirius even more irritated, "I'm sorry I'm late, are they still here? Can I see them? Can I still see the baby?" Remus asked, a wide smile on his face as he looked between the two, he'd expected Sirius to have welcomed him and spoken to him but the new Auror simply sighed and looked away from him like he was annoyed with him. This caused Remus to look at him strangely and confused.

Emma had smiled as happily as she could at Remus, he'd done nothing wrong and Sirius was taking his irritation out on Remus in silence, "Yes, of course Remus. Just through that door there, room 204." As he walked through the double doors towards the new family Emma turned her happy smile back into her stern glare turning back to Sirius, "That was uncalled for."

Sirius growled in his throat and rubbed his face tiresome, pushed himself off the wall he'd been leaning on and nearly in Emma's face, "I will not trust that man until I have the proof of his innocents or his blame!"

"You are being ridiculous, Sirius. He loves us all and as I have said already he'd rather die than betray you, James or the Order. I will not say this again! Leave. Remus. Alone."

They were both angry, their breaths came slow and heavy breaths in an attempt to calm themselves. Neither one wanted to say something they'd regret.

But it was too late for Sirius, he'd soon regret his decision in his next words and actions, "Or what?"

Emma hadn't said a thing, she'd simply walked away and out of the Hospital, leaving Sirius standing there for several minutes huffing and puffing in anger.

It was nearly an hour before a sulking Sirius Black was found pacing the halls, "Padfoot? Is everything alright?" James asked walking out to him, a concerned look on his face, his concern grew when he found him pacing back and forth in an empty hall, with no sign of Emma anywhere. "What happened?"

"We fought, stupid argument, well, stupid in my mind. Emma is nosing her way into my work regarding a security matter with the Order and she's warning me to stay away from the main accused... She walked off about an hour ago. I don't even know where she is Prongs." His last few words were sadly spoken as he sat himself in a chair and held his head in his hands.

James caught on fast, "You know, every time you both argue like this and you say something you know you'll regret. Then, you do this... You pace, rant and beat yourself up then sit and hold your head sulking and try not to cry. You do this especially when you know deep down that she's right, she does the same thing... Now, what happened?" He asked curiously. He was almost dying to know what the heck was going in with these two.

Sirius sighed, silent for a bit, not really wanting to explain anything to his best friend who more than likely may not understand his problem but gave up and began explaining.

"So, Remus is the main suspect? Emma is defending him and this is upsetting you because you not only know she's right, but you have to follow the evidence so you don't lose your job with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the Auror's, but also because you are afraid of being right and having to take action up against one of your best friends. However, you said the case was set aside and closed for now because it was deemed less important due to little information coming to light. So, what's the problem? You're acting like the Auror you are trained to be. Emma is acting on her instincts as a friend on both your behalf and Remus's behalf and trying to get you to see reason? Haven't you thought of just speaking with Remus to see why he's been 'sneaky'? You know he's very private, just like yourself, Sirius. Also, if it makes you feel better, after we graduated Dumbledore gave the same investigation job to Remus and myself. Later he and I came together and found it was a test for myself and him, one we not only passed but kind of also failed. However, there is a rat in our Order, we just don't know who because this person is using others. They're sneaking around and jumping from one place to another so easily and so fast we can't keep up. Now, here's my real question, did it ever occur to you that this spy we have is using Remus as a diversion because of his sneaking action? If that's true, then anyone in the Order, any alley, could be this Spy that's causing so much problems... If we start fighting amongst ourselves, then he's already won and we have then been fighting a losing battle because we can no longer be united in one Order to defend ourselves, our families or the innocent... Sirius, if you want some real brotherly advice, suck up your pride and go after her, just like she needs to suck up her pride and kiss you when you irritate her. She loves you more than she loves Remus, but he is still one of her best friends, but it's you she wants to see smiling at the end of the day."

In that moment, Sirius looked at James in a different light. James was wise, smart, and had a very set conclusion to what Sirius had been trying to figure out all this time, he was right about the case, and he was right about him and Emma.

James laughed lightly at his friend's silence and wide shocked look about his face and slapped him on the back waking him up from his thinking, "Just go after her Sirius, tell her you love her. Now, I'm going to go back to my wife and son, I want to hold him a little more before Lily hogs the boy until he's 18." James laughed.

Sirius walked around looking just about everywhere for Emma and he'd give up with a sigh as he sat on a bench trying to think about where she could have gone. He was shocked and almost sent to his feet when small arms wrapped around him from behind. He'd calmed the instant he saw dark red hair slid over his shoulders, a warm cheek resting just above his ear as the woman rested her head against him and spoke gently, "You came looking for me?" Sirius relaxed immediately, reaching up he grabbed a hold of her clasped hands with one of his own and sighed with utter relief. "You know I'll always come for you, even when we argue, I love you."

"Why don't we just go home? We have plenty of time to spend with Harry. Let's allow Remus his time with the baby and James and Lily to themselves." Sirius grinned and laughed a bit at her, nodding he walked them to his motorbike, and they drove back to Sirius's apartment spending the night talking, making a late dinner, horsing around and finally in one another's arms.

August 1, 1980

A hoot came early in the morning. An owl had come through the Owl door and continued hooting, "Sirius, there's an Owl in the kitchen," Emma said tiredly as she steered in bed and stretched with a yawn. She giggled when he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her back flush against his chest and held her in place, "Leave it, there's treats in a dish for them, they know where it is." He grumbled, "Go back to sleep."

Emma sighed and rolled them over, pinning him down and began kissing him all over his face making them both laugh. "Wake up. You have an Owl to thank and we've been asleep long enough."

They had stayed put for several more seconds, both looking into one another's eyes. Sirius laced his fingers through her hair, playing with her soft red locks. The words left him in a barely audible whisper without him realizing he'd even spoken up to her, "You're so beautiful," Emma smiled down at him, a hand stayed entangled in her hair, the other held onto her shirt covered waist. Unable to contain her giggle she had begun to ask him if he was alright but had been interrupted by him, "Marry me."

To say Emma was taken back and shocked was beyond that, she was absolutely in love, "Yes," She said, a smile wide across her lips as she vigorously nodded with excitement.

Sirius smiled wide, shocked she'd actually said yes. He sat up right and pulled her into a deep kiss. The poor Owl had been forgotten for the time being.

12:45 p.m.

Emma walked out of the bathroom, into the bedroom and began looking for some clothes, thankful she had decided to leave a few things there. She chose a red skirt with a white button up long-sleeved shirt and flat, casual, saddles, brushed her teeth and her hair free of knots, pulled back her hair into her scrunchy and walked out to greet the rest of the day. But it seemed fate was not so kind that day. Emma found Sirius sitting on his sofa, dried tears staining his face as he looked at the letter sitting on the coffee table in front of him. "Sirius?" When she was graceful with no response she moved to his side and sat next to him, placing a gentle and comforting hand on his back, "What's wrong?"

"My father is just now informing me that my Uncle Alphard passed away a few years ago and my mum has also recently passed away. I've been willed the family Estate, my father's own words this letter says is that he wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. Also says in here that he couldn't find the documents regarding my Uncle's money, nor vault to Gringotts, so he had no choice but to inform me since I was the only one the Will stated as inheritance… I always wondered why my Uncle sent me those documents while I was still at school, and why I also never heard from him after that. Poor bloke probably got disowned by my mother when she found out about him doing that to his Will. He uh… He loaned me some money when my parents kicked me out. They were more likely pissed that they couldn't get their hands on his fortune."

Emma wanted to feel sympathy for the family's loss, but after what they had done to Sirius, she only felt deep sympathy for him, only, he'd hated his family so why was he crying? "I'm sorry, Sirius."

"I'm not, at least not about my mother," This took her for a bit of a spin. Emma shook her head a little to try to even grasp as to why he was crying then. She was shortly given the reason and she was grateful that she didn't have to ask him and feel like a heartless jerk in the end. "I was crying because my uncle was the only decent person in my family towards me, told me that 'if they didn't like my life choices then they could shove it and to keep pissing them off by doing the exact thing they hate the most.' Which was being myself really." Emma did a silent 'oh' when he informed her. It hadn't stopped her from feeling for him.

Sirius sighed to recollect himself and patted her leg, "Looks like I'm taking a trip to Gringotts today. Care to join me, Love?"

Emma smiled and simply nodded, kissing his cheek. They'd ended up spending the whole day together, rejoining the couple back at St. Mungo's later that night to check on Lily, Alice and the two new baby boys, Neville and Harry.

Lily had been smiling the entire time her sister and Sirius had been to visit them, though she didn't want to ask what had happened last night and why they just up and left with no word. Her saving grace had been when Frank and James had dragged Sirius off with them for some well needed guy time, "Emma, you're glowing... What's going on." At her sister's question Emma smiled wide, she'd been doing that a lot lately, rather her and Sirius were fighting or not, they always managed to make the other smile more than the other. "Lily, you and James once gave Sirius and I your blessings," Emma started, giving her sister a longing look.

Alice and Lily knew if it were possible, they'd be smiling even bigger than they were now. "Yes,"

'Come on, out with it already girl. Tell us he proposed!' Both new mothers thought, their eyes watching Emma messing around with her figures, "Does that blessing still stand?"

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