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 22

Alice and Lily both shouted out with excitement and hugged one another, the boys were in the crib rollers in the room letting the mothers have free hands to hug one another, laugh and giggle and almost cry as they pulled Emma into a collective bone crushing hug, "Yes, Emma. Of course, the blessing still stands."

Alice kissed Emma all over her face, since knowing the girl since she met Lily and the two had been friends on the spot just as they had been with Marlene and Mary, there was no awkwardness in the meaning behind her actions to the seventeen-year-old girl, "When did he ask you?"

"He asked this morning, but I just needed to ask about the blessing because it was last year you and James got married." Emma said, pulling herself free of the two strong arms of the new mothers laughing with them.

"Now let's talk about dresses and dates and invitations." Lily said, clapping her hands together with Alice nodding.

"What style are you looking at, my mother's friend did my dress. I'm thinking simple, not puffy, no ruffles, not like mine that is, I love a bit of poof, but I don't see you in a Puffy Princess gown." Alice started on all the styles she knew, ones in style today and ones that would be in the next three years.

"How about we talk about dates? Summer, Spring, Fall, Winter... Oh, somewhere in between two seasons?" Lily said.

The ladies had Emma blushing, smiling wider than ever and laughing for a good two hours before the guys returned.

James and Frank laughing and patting Sirius on the back, "I see you've told them also." Sirius started walking directly to Emma, wrapping his arms around her kissing her forehead.

"Of course, I tell my sister everything."

He laughed a bit, "Well, I hope not everything, I like my body parts where they are."

"We already know Sirius, you two didn't have to say anything at all." James stated, finally he could call his friend out on the subject, "Thank you for waiting until she was sixteen though. For that I know Lily appreciated and so did I, though I think we speak together saying we wish it wouldn't have happened even then." He pointed a stare at the two laughing and blushing couples.

"James, I can definitely confirm that what you both heard was just us horsing around. I was Seventeen when it occurred, and we were careful, promise. We both understand I can't have anything happen while I'm in school still." Emma giggled in clarifying their embarrassing private interactions. The couple couldn't help but laugh at Lily and James. They actually believed they had been going at it since she was sixteen! Sirius had been the one to put her in her spot with that one, he wasn't going to do anything invasive until she was seventeen, preferably graduated from Hogwarts and they had agreed. Though the happy moment shared between them when he'd asked her to marry him had somewhat killed that agreement for her graduation.

"Really? That's comforting." Lily said, letting out a relaxed breath she hadn't realized she was holding, though James just grinned with a raised brow. The moment was thankfully broken when Harry and Neville began crying, most likely hungry.

The mothers smiled at one another and moved to pick up their babies and cooed at them, "Alright everyone, out while the mothers feed the boys. Lily, Alice is there anything you'd like us to bring you to eat and drink?" Emma asked and took their requests down to the kitchen.

She was truly shocked when she found Mellena running in with a wide and excited smile on her face and two small baby stuffed animals, home made by the looks of them and very well made too. The wonderfully made animals were a light brown teddy bear with a red and gold bow-tie around its neck and red and gold Lion with blue button eyes.

Emma had actually forgotten she had informed Mellena and Dumbledore, who was walking in behind her calmly, a happy smile on his face and back in his usual robes, this was St. Mungo's after all. Emma had to give it to her new friend she had talent after talent hidden up her sleeves. "Hi! Emma, are they cute and chubby? How much do the boys weigh? Can we see them soon? When were they born, I just got the Owl this morning and rushed to make these cuties for the babies! How are the mothers?"

The guys stared, they couldn't help it, this girl didn't even know their girls', except Emma, and she was just as excited about the babies being born as they had been, if not more.

Frank had to give it to the brunette, he liked her already, she was cheerful and enthusiastic and all around very heart warming and generous to have made two baby stuffed animals for both boys instead of just Harry, he was very touched and knew Alice would indeed give the girl a near bone crushing hug, so he answered for everyone, "Lily and Alice are currently in the middle of a feeding for the boys but after they're finished you can come back in with us. I'm sure Dumbledore would also like to see the boys."

Mellena smiled wider and jumped with excitement, he'd never seen someone like this, except maybe once, but she was here in spirit or she had gone to the closest person that resembled her and decided to intervene with fate and make sure this bouncing bundle of joy made it to them.

Dumbledore had finally caught up with his bouncing Granddaughter as he nodded to the group, "My congratulations to you both, Mr. Longbottom, Mr. Potter. James, If I may have a private word with you for a moment?"

"Of course, there's a garden in the back, it's quite nice, I never even knew it was there until Harry was born. Alice actually told me it was here." James said, walking off with Dumbledore.

They'd been gone an hour, and everyone was growing a little worried, mostly Lily, "Mellena, you wouldn't have any idea why Dumbledore asked to speak with James would you?" Lily asked with worry, but she could see the sad look on the girls' soft face.

Mellena hated the fact she couldn't give her anything because she truly had no clue why her grandfather would have taken James for a walk for that long. "No, I'm sorry... He hasn't said a thing to me about anything this summer involving the on goings of the Order. I don't know anything unfortunately. He's been spending this summer like a family would, trying to avoid a lot of work but dealing with things if need be." A thought had struck her just then, "But I think I can find out, Emma, come with me."

"What's the plan?" Emma asked, walking from the room and towards the Gardens, "Fox and Bunny, I can hide in plain sight, you can sneak around in the bushes. It's not uncommon for rabbits to be back there and you're good at hiding and sneaking around. It shouldn't be that hard to figure out what's going on, though we did miss an hour of the conversation, but we can still get something."

Her plan had been shot down instantly when their eyes found Dumbledore walking in from the Gardens alone, "Ah, my dear girls. Enjoying your walk I hope. I did enjoy the Gardens myself. It is quite lovely in July. Though, I do believe I'd like to see the new additions to the Wizarding world and future students." With that he'd walked past the shocked and wide eyes girls, their jaws open in panicked thoughts, 'Where's James?'

August 8th, 1980

They had been gone three days, James and Sirius. James two days longer than Sirius.

James had sent Sirius a Patronus and he'd left immediately, kissing Lily and Harry against their foreheads and Emma deeply before dashing off to find him.

The girls had become so worried and lonely in the Potter Estate they had invited, Albus, Mellena, Alice and Neville. Something Alice was grateful for the invite due to Frank being gone the last four day's himself, she had company and people around to keep her sane.

Emma had gone to 12 Grimmuald Place that Sirius had inherited, several times to help clean it up and had run into Kreacher, the only house Elves left there to rot away with the home itself.

"Nasty Mud-Blood, leave this home! You not belongs here!" He'd screech at her every time and wave his dusting cloth to swat her away. It was only thanks to Regulus's portrait telling him to cease his nonsense and that she was indeed a friend of his, that she was also Sirius's wife, even though she wasn't yet, and to treat her with respect and began telling Kreacher that her nickname among others was 'Fox'. It had taken several days of Regulus's portrait saying this to the house Elf that he'd stop his craziness and left her be. She'd ask him if he needed help, cook them lunches and dinners to help decrease the extreme number of chores on him. Emma would bring him food and be sure that he himself was clean. The poor elf had broken down on her, had apologized for hours it seemed, then began calling her 'Mistress Fox'.

It wasn't until the second week of the men's disappearance that the three had burst through the front door of Grimmuald Place carrying a very injured Frank Longbottom, "Kreacher! Kreacher, we need help!"

"Sirius!?" Emma called, rushing from the kitchen wearing a green cooking apron that was lightly splattered with flour that also found it's place on her cheek looking rather shocked with a very angry Kreacher standing slightly behind her, kitchen knife drawn at the ready, like he was ready to defend the young witch with his life as he glared deadly daggers to the three wizards that stood at the entrance of the front door.

The two wizards still standing were taken aback, even more shocked that she had not only gotten in the home with ease but that Kreacher was in the state he was in, clean, healthy and ready to protect the girl, "Emma? Wh-what are you doing here?"

"Enough of that! What happened!"

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