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A/n: This chapter takes place over a large span of time, about seven months.

Chapter 16: The Heart of the War

Elizabeth sat on the edge of the bed, with her face in her hands. The hall light turned on before the bedroom door was pushed opened and she jumped to her feet. He stared at her in disbelief and she looked at him with pain.

"Travis." Elizabeth said quietly.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, still standing in the doorway to their former bedroom.

"I-I wanted to talk to you." Elizabeth said getting to her feet, Travis took a step back, "I wanted to apologize." Travis snorted; Elizabeth looked to the ground, "I'll get my stuff and you wont have to see me again."

"Why?" Travis asked when Elizabeth turned her back to him to get her stuff.

Elizabeth froze and swallowed the lump in her throat, "I do care for you, I want you to know that but I couldn't marry you; it wouldn't be fair to you or me. I think I love him and always have but never could commit to it. I'm sorry for hurting you."

"Did you sleep with him?" Travis asked in a deathly low growl, "Did you have an affair with Black?"

Elizabeth lowered her head in shame and nodded slowly, "Yes."

"I loved you." Travis said sadly, "I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. I'm sorry we have to end it all this way."

"I'll get all my stuff out of the apartment."

"Where are you going to go?" Travis asked; Elizabeth shrugged lamely. Travis sighed, "Stay here. I can go to my parents'."

"No." Elizabeth said, "I need to get out of here. I can go to James's or even Remus's."

"If you say so." Travis said.

"Elizabeth." Travis called as she walked out of the bedroom with her stuff hovering in front of her, "Be safe, okay."

"I will." She gave him one more smile before apparating out.

Elizabeth apparated to James and Lily's, they had a big enough house and with Lily being two months pregnant, Elizabeth figured she could be some help around the house. Elizabeth hesitantly knocked on the door; she knew she would have a lot of explaining to do.

"Elizabeth."

"Sirius?" Elizabeth said shocked; she wanted to turn and run away, "What are you doing here?"

"Worrying sick about you." Sirius said, grabbing her arm and pulling her inside, "Where have you been the last two days?"

"Around. I needed to sort things out." Elizabeth said as he led her to the living room.

"Thank god." James said when he saw her walk into the living room with Sirius. He pulled her into a strong hug, "Don't you ever do that again." He whispered to her.

"I'm sorry." Elizabeth told him, "I need to ask you a favor."

"Anything."

"I need a place to stay while I find somewhere of my own." Elizabeth said.

James looked passed her at Sirius for a second, "Yeah, of course you can…"

"You'll stay with me." Sirius said.

"Huh?" Elizabeth asked confused by his forwardness.

"You can stay with me." Sirius said, "It's only natural."

"It's only natural?" She asked outraged, "What are you talking about?"

"You called off the wedding because of me." Sirius said casually, taking a couple of steps towards her and James took a couple of steps away from her.

"Sirius Black, what the hell are you talking about?" Elizabeth yelled, "I did not call off my wedding because of you; I called it off because of me. There is nothing natural about the fact of me moving in with you." She said loudly, "Which I'm not." She added as an after thought.

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Elizabeth laid under all the covers of her bed in the dark. The room was illuminated for a second while James opened her door then closed it behind her. She scooted over a couple of inches for him to sit on the edge of the bed.

"What are you doing?" James asked, looking at her in the dark but she didn't answer, "You've been here for month and haven't left the house, hell you've barely left your room." Elizabeth mumbled something incoherent but James ignored her, "You need to go to work. You need to see the light of day. You need to stop ignoring all of Sirius's letters." James pointed to the pile of unopened letters in the corner of her room, "You need to get the hell out of me house and you need to stop being such a girl." Elizabeth huffed and shoved him in his shoulder; "I don't understand why you are doing this to yourself or him. You obviously love him or you wouldn't have run out on your wedding."

Elizabeth snuffled and wiped off her tears, "I don't know." She whispered, "He's been my best friend for so long. He's been everything to me for my whole life and now I'm faced with this huge commitment. I've never committed to anything or any one. How do I know if I can do it with him?"

James snorted, "Elizabeth you've been committed to Sirius since you started sleeping with him back in sixth year."

Elizabeth gasped and sat up, "He told you?"
"Please, Remus and I figured it out a long time ago. Neither of you two decided to tell us so neither of us brought it up." Elizabeth shook her head at him, "Now get up, take a shower, get dressed and get off you arse." James kissed her forehead before Elizabeth was blinded once again by the light from outside her door.

Elizabeth decided to do as James suggested and got out of bed and went to the ministry. The news of Elizabeth's wedding day disappearance act had obviously spread; hushed whispered and stares met her in every hall. Elizabeth was happy to get in the lifts alone but she only made it up one floor before the doors opened again; one person only joined her. Elizabeth tried not to make eye contact with him and she was cursing the lifts for not being faster.

"Look there's no reason why we should pretend not to know each other. I know what happened and I just think it's too bad." Elizabeth turned to look at him; he didn't look at her with disgust or anger but he actually met the words he was saying.

"Thank you Joseph. That means a lot to me." Elizabeth said.

"I guess you should know that you wont have to worry about running into Travis like you just did with me." Joseph said; Elizabeth didn't understand, "He asked to be transferred to Italy, permanently." Elizabeth didn't hear the lift doors open, she stared at Joseph in disbelief, "Isn't this your floor?"

"Oh yeah. Thanks." Elizabeth was just able to squeeze out the lift doors before they shut.

Elizabeth dreaded opening her office door, there had to be a pile of paperwork waiting for her. Elizabeth pulled open her office door.

"Who the hell are you?" She asked seeing the small man behind her desk.

"Adrian Pitt." He said getting to his feet.

"Why are you in my office?" The small man stopped dead in his tracks.

"Ohh…uhh." Elizabeth shook her head, ignored the man and left her office for

Conan's, "Conan, who is the small man in my office?"

"It's good to see you, too Elizabeth." Conan said lounging back in his chair, "It's good to know that you haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I was getting a little nervous."

"Who is he?"

"Well, I couldn't halt the department because you decided to have your own holiday."

"You knew I was going to get married."

Conan sat forward, "But you didn't. I'm sorry Elizabeth."

"But what about all my legislation I was working on?"

"Adrian took it all over."

"Wolfsbane was mine; it was a personal project; I've been working with the Unspeakables."

"I'm sorry." Elizabeth growled and stormed out of his office and punched the button to the auror offices in the lift.

Elizabeth was so angry she could scream. She stormed through the Department of Magical Law Enforcement until she pushed through the doors to the Auror offices. It wasn't until she saw Sirius step out of one of the cubicles and was heading towards her down the aisle, she felt her tough-angered emotions melt away. He looked shocked to see her but tears welled up in her eyes as she started to jog towards him. Elizabeth threw herself in his arms and wrapped her arms around his neck and cried on his shoulder.

"Elizabeth, what's wrong?" Sirius asked rubbing her back.

"I got fired." She cried.

"Oh, honey." Sirius coughed back a laugh, "Everything will be fine. Come on." He led her back to his cubicle and let her sit down on his chair while he leaned against his desk. Sirius bit his lip to stop him from laughing at the site of her.

"What are you laughing at?" She hiccupped in between sobs, "This isn't funny you git; I'm unemployed."

Sirius didn't hold back his bark like laugh any longer, "And you're crying over it like a little baby."

"Shut up." She said slapping his boot-clad foot, "What am I going to do? I didn't exactly get my complete share of my inheritance."

"You act like you have something to worry about." He pulled her towards him with his feet, "You have a boyfriend with a well paying job and a very large inheritance."

Elizabeth wiped away her tears and took a couple of deep breaths to re-steady her breathing, "I guess you're right." Sirius grabbed her hands pulled her to feet so she was standing between his legs with his hands on her hips.

"I'm right?" Sirius asked with an eyebrow cocked.

Elizabeth shrugged, "I guess." She sounded slightly defeated.

"You guess." He laughed before kissing her softly.

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"We better not be going to some mushy-frilly restaurant." Elizabeth called to Sirius from the bathroom. She heard his bark like laugh while she put on her earring, "For a couple that have been married for almost to years and have a baby on the way, they sure do act like they did when they first started going out back in seventh year." Elizabeth said as she stepped out of the bedroom. She had on a red dress with a sweetheart neckline and rhinestone straps with black high heels.

"That's just how they are; overly romantic." Sirius said, eyes glued to the TV and not noticing she had walked into the room.

Elizabeth fixed her hair in the mirror and made sure nothing was popping out, "I just don't want to die from an overdose of Valentine's Day." Sirius looked over his shoulder at her just as she was shrugging on her black wool walking coat, catching a glimpse of what she had on underneath, "Are you ready?" She asked as he clicked off the TV and made his way over to her. He had a lustful glint in his eye as he wrapped his arms around her and nipped at her lips; he undid buttons on her coat, slipping his hands inside and over body. He growled playfully as he looked over her in her knock out red dress. Elizabeth laughed as she wiggled out of his grasp.

"We have to get going."

"Screw 'em." Sirius said reaching out for her again.

"Down boy." Elizabeth laughed, "C'mon they're waiting for us."

James and Lily did take them to some over the top Valentine's Day decor restaurant but hearing Lily talk about her latest doctor appointment and showing them the ultrasound pictures and revealing that their baby is going to be a boy made the restaurant worth it.

Elizabeth curled up next to Sirius, her red dress that had drove him crazy all night laid in a heap next to the bed along with his clothes, Sirius wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"You don't get to wear that dress again if I have to sit through a two hour dinner before it comes off." Sirius said, before he kissed the top of her head; Elizabeth laughed.

"I thought you'd like that dress." She said rolling over to prop herself up to hover over him then kissed him deeply.

He pulled away, "I have something for you."

"You said we weren't going to get each other anything." Elizabeth said as she sat on her bum and wrapped a sheet around herself. Sirius shrugged as he leaned over the bed to pull something out from under it. He sat up, recovering himself up, keeping whatever he took from under the bed hidden from her view. He handed her a small box and Elizabeth knew right away that it was jewelry that was inside; Elizabeth gave Sirius a disapproving look before lifting the lid. Her mouth rounded into a shocked "O".

"Sirius." She gasped as she lifted out the diamond bracelet that was three rows thick of diamonds, "Oh my god." She said as she laid it on her left wrist. Sirius took her hand to do the clasp for her. Elizabeth stared at the bracelet, still completely shocked at the expensive bracelet on her wrist, "You shouldn't have."

Sirius shrugged, "It doesn't matter, as long as you love it."

"Of course I do." She threw arms around his neck and pulled him into a long kiss, "I love you."

"I love you more." He said as he laid her back down and kissed her long and hard.

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It was getting late, the fire in the hearth still blazed and Elizabeth sat on the couch staring at it; the TV was off, the flat was silent and Elizabeth kept running her hands threw her hair with a audible sighs. Sirius was dispatched for a mission and Elizabeth hated it; all she could do was sit around and wait for him to come home but it was already midnight and he wasn't home yet. Elizabeth tried to rub the sleep out of her eyes but it was useless; she lay down on the couch, curling up with a blanket, trying to fight off the sleep but she was quickly defeated.

Sirius was dead tired when he apparated home, he needed a shower but wasn't sure he could stay awaked long enough to take one. The crackle of the dieing embers of the fire caught his attention as he made his way to the bedroom then finally noticed Elizabeth sleeping on the couch. He leaned over her, pulling back the blanket and rubbing her arm.

"Elizabeth, honey, come on let's go to bed." He whispered as she started to stir.

"You're home." She said groggily as he helped her to his feet.

"Yeah, I'm sorry it's so late." He kissed her temple. He lead her to the bed and helped her climb in, "I want to take you somewhere, tomorrow; okay?" She nodded with her eyes shut, "Love you."

"Love you too." She mumbled before rolling over and falling back asleep.

Sirius woke Elizabeth up with kisses to all over her face; she smiled as she slowly opened her eyes and running her fingers through his hair.

"You're safe." She whispered as she looked into his eyes, "You had me worried last night."

"I'm sorry." He kissed her cheek, "Do you still want to go with me?" She nodded, "Okay, get dressed."

Sirius apparated her to a very old street; the buildings had missing windows and broken roofs. Elizabeth was also almost positive that they weren't in England anymore.

"Were not in England anymore, are we?"

"No. Poland." Sirius said.

Elizabeth didn't like the looks of the street that they were but was sure that Sirius wasn't going to put her in any danger. He led her to one of the run down houses; he threw himself at the door a few times before it finally swung open. Sirius helped her over the threshold and through the house to a side door. Elizabeth had no idea where he was taking her; he stopped at the fence, felt around it until he found the spot he was looking for, he pushed gently and part of the fence pushed open like a door. Elizabeth stared at him astounded, Sirius laughed at her before grabbing her hand and pulling her through to the next yard over.

"Okay here we are." Sirius said holding open his arms. Elizabeth looked around, the yard looked like the yard next door…dead and run down.

"Ummm…okay Siri, babe, it looks just like the one next door." Elizabeth said, "Which isn't that impressive by the way." She continued to look around, "Please, don't tell me you bought this place." Elizabeth gasped.

Sirius laughed, shacking his head. He held her head in his hands to make her look around, "Look, really look at it. The yard is fresh and green, vibrant and growing. Look at the house. It's white, large clean windows with people bustling around inside…other wizards and witches." As Sirius described it in her ear, it all appeared around her just as he described; Elizabeth gasped.

"Where are we?" She asked as she walked up to look into the window.

"The headquarters to the Order of the Phoenix." Sirius said, "Come on, let's go inside."

"What's the Order of the Phoenix?" She asked as Sirius dragged her inside but he ignored he.

"Black, let's go the meeting is going to start." Someone called as he bustled passed them into the next room. Sirius pulled Elizabeth into the room.

There was a large oak table in the middle of the room with various different people sitting around it with Dumbledore and Moody standing at the head of it; Elizabeth recognized some of the people from school, others she knew worked somewhere in the ministry and others she didn't know. She glanced at the people as Sirius dragged her to two open seats and Elizabeth finally laid eyes on four familiar faces.

"James. Remus. Peter. Lily." Elizabeth said in surprise.

"Dumbledore it happened again last night." Someone that Elizabeth didn't recognize said, "They were waiting for us."

"I know. Alastor and I were discussing it earlier." Dumbledore said, "I regret to inform all of you but I believe that there is a spy among us, leaking information to Voldemort-" People flinched at his name, "and his followers." A hushed whisper followed his words, "Alastor and I will discuss it further but for our I would like everyone to proceed with caution and discretion." Everyone filled out of the room around Elizabeth, Sirius, Peter, James, Lily and Remus.

"So he finally brought you." James said, clapping his hand on her shoulder.

"Wait, how long have you guys been doing this?" Elizabeth asked, "And what exactly is this?"

"A little after school got out." James said.

"Me too." Lily said.

"Same." Sirius said.

"A couple months after them." Remus said.

"Same." Peter said.

Elizabeth looked at all of them in shock but before she could voice her outraged, Dumbledore approached, "Ms. Dolohov it's good to see you here." He said, "I was wondering if I could have a word with you and Mr. Black if you could please join us." Elizabeth and Sirius followed Dumbledore upstairs to his personal office in the house; it mimicked his office from Hogwarts.

"Have a seat please." Dumbledore motioned to two seats before his desk, "Ms. Dolohov, I'm glad you agreed to come and join us."
"Well, I actually I had no idea where we were going this morning when we left and I still don't know what this is exactly." Elizabeth said.

Dumbledore glanced at Sirius, who gave him a half smile; "I see Mr. Black didn't explain it all to you then." Elizabeth shook her head, "Well the Order of the Phoenix is a group of people, representing different backgrounds and magical abilities, that have come together to save the wizarding and muggle worlds from Voldemort." Nobody in the room flinched at his name.

"Oh, okay but why hadn't anyone told me this before now."

"I've wanted to you come join us for a while now but there were some circumstance about you." Elizabeth didn't understand him.
"Travis." Sirius said, "I didn't want to put you in the situation where you would have to lie to him to come here."

"Um…okay but why couldn't he have just joined? It's not like you all are over the capacity of help here."

"No of course not, it just the everyone here I trust with my life; I've known them since birth, I've known their parents and grandparents." Dumbledore said, "And the ministry doesn't know about us." Elizabeth nodded in understanding, even if she didn't completely understand his reasoning, "I'm very happy to have you with us." Dumbledore said, "If you don't mind I have something I need to discuss with Mr. Black."

"Of course not, excuse me."

"You can stay." Sirius said grabbing her wrist, "I really don't mind Professor."

"Of course." Dumbledore said with this smirk that made Elizabeth think he always knew they would be together that it was just a matter of time for it; she wanted to wipe that smirk right off his face, "From a couple sources that I have deep inside Voldemort's ranks, your brother, Regulus, has been killed." Elizabeth's turned quickly to look at Sirius, his body was stiff and his face was emotionless, "They say he was trying to get out but it was too late; Voldemort killed him personally." Sirius shivered at his name, "I'm very sorry."

"Th-thanks." Sirius said getting to his feet and leaving the room.

"Ummm…I guess I'll see you later Professor." Elizabeth said as she hurried out of the room after Sirius, "Sirius. Sirius, slow down." Elizabeth called over the banister at Sirius, "Oh, excuse me." She said when she bumped into someone because she was looking at Sirius hurrying down the stairs on the floor below her.

"That was my second Dolohov in two days." The guy said to his friend as he continued passed Elizabeth, "At least that one didn't try to kill me." His friend laughed and Elizabeth stared at their fleeting backs before remembering about Sirius. She ran down the stairs just as Sirius was pushing his way passed James and out the door.

"Thanks." She told James as she rushed after Sirius.

"Damn fence." Sirius said kicking the fence when he couldn't find the secret door.

"Sirius." Elizabeth reached out for his arm but he pulled out of her grip.

"Elizabeth, please." He said keeping his back to her, "It's nothing really."

"I've known you and Regulus your guys' whole lives, you were so close as little kids and I know you guys drifted apart as you got older but you both still had so much in common. I think that's more obvious now more then ever. He was just confused; he wanted to please your parents."

"I wish I had known." Sirius yelled, turning to look at her, "I'm his older brother, he was in trouble and I wasn't there." Elizabeth didn't yell at him for yelling at her, "I just wish he could have come to me." His voice softened to a whisper.

"I know; Regulus was lost, he didn't know what to do and he never listened to himself." Elizabeth said pulling him into a hug, "Don't blame yourself."

That night Sirius curled up to his side of the bed without a word to Elizabeth. He didn't say anything to her the next morning either when he walked into the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. Elizabeth finished her hot chocolate before following him out but he was already gone; Elizabeth rolled her eyes at his abandoned cup the got dressed to go to Headquarters.

Remus and Lily were at Headquarters when Elizabeth arrived.

"Sirius hasn't been here has he?" She asked as she plopped down next to Lily on the couch.

"No, he doesn't come in today." Remus said.

The door blew open and Severus Snape strode in with his head high; Elizabeth jumped to her feet and holding her wand out at Snape, stopping him in his tracks.

"Elizabeth wait." Remus jumped to his feet and putting a hand on her wand arm, "He's a member."

Elizabeth slowly lowered her wand and turned towards Remus, "What?" She growled, "Snivellus is an Order member but Travis wasn't trust worthy enough."

"Dumbledore trusts him." Remus whispered. Snape fixed his robes, giving each of them a dirty look before continuing through the house.

"He's a Death Eater." Elizabeth pointed towards him as he walked up the stairs.

"Not any more; Dumbledore vouched for him before the Wizengamot." Elizabeth's mouth rounded into an "O" as she processed the information.

"Is everything okay with Sirius?" Remus asked.

"Huh?"

"You asked us if we've seen Sirius, is everything okay with him?"

"Oh…well, he's been a little moody since yesterday after…" Elizabeth bit her lip, Remus is one of Sirius's best friends, he should know, "After Dumbledore told him that Regulus had been killed."

"He's too hard on himself sometimes." Remus said.

Sirius left work early expecting to find Elizabeth sitting around the flat but the apartment was empty. Sirius began to panic when he couldn't find her in the flat, he apparated to James's but their house was empty. Frustrated, Sirius didn't know where to go; he chanced a visit to Remus's but no one was there either. Sirius didn't know where to go, he knew she wouldn't be at Peter's but he didn't know where else she would be. Sirius thought she might have gone to do some baby shopping with Lily; Sirius apparated to Headquarters hoping that Remus may know something. Sirius walked through the door to Headquarters, his eyes landing on the back of head of long brown hair. Sirius pushed his way through the crowd, spun her around and held her tight by her upper arms.

"Don't ever do that again. Do you understand, do you ever do that again." Sirius slightly shook her as he spoke.

"Sirius, please let me go. Stop it." Elizabeth struggled in his grip.

"Mate, calm down." Remus said, prying Sirius's fingers off Elizabeth. Elizabeth took a step away from him like he was crazy.

"I'm sorry." Sirius said, reaching out for her but she flinched away, "I was so worried about you when I couldn't find you." Elizabeth stepped to him and he wrapped his arms around her, "Don't disappear on me my like again."

"You have to calm down. I'm fine, nothing is going to happen." She whispered in his ear; Sirius nodded silently, "We should head home."

Elizabeth fell asleep while Sirius was still in the shower, he stood in the bathroom doorway watching her sleep. Sirius decided as he watched her sleep that he needed her, that she made his life complete. He crawled into bed next to her, spooning up against her body.

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"Son of a…" Elizabeth swore as she dived away from a spell and felt the warm blood trickle down her temple. She had three Death Eaters after her; it was another set up, they had been waiting for her when she arrived. She took down two then realized that she couldn't apparate out until she was out of the park. She jumped to her feet but the bracelet that Sirius gave was tangled on the branches of the bush she dived under. She could the see the Death Eaters getting closer faster. She yanked and twisted her wrist trying to get it untangled until the bracelet broke and her wrist was free.

"No." She cried as part of the bracelet hung loosely on a branch and part of it sat in the dirt; she wanted to pick up the pieces but the Death Eaters were too close and the park exit was just a few feet away. Elizabeth dashed towards the park exit and apparated out as soon as she stepped out the gate.

Elizabeth hurried through St. Mungos, dirty and bloodied; she apparated from the park to the hospital. James, Sirius, Remus and a sleeping Peter were in the waiting room of the delivery ward of the hospital.

"Bloody hell." Sirius said, jumping to his feet at the sight of Elizabeth, "What the hell happened to you?" He wiped off some of the dirt with his sleeve.

"It was another set up." Tears began to fall down her cheeks, "I'm so sorry but I've lost the bracelet. It broke and I couldn't go back for it."

"It's okay. Don't worry about. I'd rather it be broke and lost then you." Sirius said as he led her towards the chairs where James and Sirius were sitting, "A little help mate." Sirius said to Remus. Remus tapped his wand to her cut, healing it and cleaning off the dried blood.

"How are you doing?" Elizabeth asked James, putting a comforting hand on his knee. James just shrugged.

"He hasn't talked much." Sirius said.

"I bet."

The doors to the Delivery Rooms swung open, a healer in lime green walked towards them.

"Mr. Potter." She said. James jumped to his feet in the blink of an eye, "Everything is fine; everyone is fine. You're a father." James staggered at her words, "You guys can go in, in just a few minutes."

"You're a father." Sirius said giving a dazed James a hug.

"I'm a father." He mumbled still dazed.

"Yeah you are." Elizabeth cheered giving him a hug.

"You all may come back now." The healer said, holding the doors open for them. They followed James down the hall a little ways until they came to Lily's room. The boys went to follow James to Lily's bedside but Elizabeth held them back. James was in pure awe and pride as he held his new baby boy. James finally looked up from the sleeping bundle in his arms to his friends gathered in the doorway. Elizabeth and the others continued into the room, surrounding James and the newborn baby.

"What's his name?" Elizabeth asked softly.

"Harry. Harry James Potter." James muttered.

"He's gorgeous." She told him as he passed Harry to Remus, "We should let you guys rest.

"Sirius can you stay a minute?" James asked he placed Harry in Lily's arms.

Sirius was only a minute longer and he and Elizabeth apparated to their flat.

"They looked so happy." Elizabeth said as she took two beers from the refrigerator.

"Parenthood is really going to suit them." Sirius said taking the beer from Elizabeth, "You know, James named me Godfather." Elizabeth snuggled up to him on the couch, "I told him they should name Remus the Godfather or even name you as guardian but they insisted on me."

"Of course they would; James doesn't trust anyone else with his life other then you, same would go for his son." Elizabeth said. They sat in silence for a few minutes before Elizabeth broke it, "You are feeling better aren't you?"

Sirius nodded slowly, "Yeah; I was just scared. His death hit home and I was afraid of who else I could lose." Elizabeth rubbed his thigh, "I'm sorry if I scared you." He kissed the top of her head, "I love you, do you know that?" Elizabeth giggled and nodded, "I've loved you for so long and it killed me all those years at Hogwarts to see you with all your other boyfriends. Then I knew you were marrying the wrong man when you agreed to marry Travis; I knew because…" He paused for a second and Elizabeth felt him shift his weight, "I knew because it should be me that you were marrying." Elizabeth shot up abruptly; Sirius had a dark blue velvet box in his hand. Elizabeth's eyes widened as Sirius opened the box, "Elizabeth marry me. I need you in my life forever. I love you. Will you marry me?"

Elizabeth gaped at him and at the large diamond engagement ring then she nodded slowly and found her voice again, "Okay. Yes, I'll marry you."