Chapter One: 10 Years Later

"I'll be back in a bit. I'm going to need to get my robes hemmed, and new school books," a tall crimson haired girl said. She looked about the rightful age of seventeen with golden looking eyes. Her hair was pulled back in a tie at her neck, a few strands freeing themselves to fall around her face. She had gone to Beaubaxton for six years, and since she was now seventeen, she decided to make her way back to Hogwarts- the school she was originally going to go too.

The two men- brothers- who had kidnapped her ten years previous, had taken on to taking care of her, and making sure she didn't get into to much trouble. When she had gotten the letter than she was a witch- which she already knew- the two brothers were a little scared. They allowed her to go to Beaubaxtons, and they let her have freedom. After they had kidnapped her, they had returned to France, the brothers home country.

"I'll try to be back by noon-time," Alice told them, figuring out a schedule in her head.

The brothers nodded and she left the room to Apparate away. She had grown accustom to leaving the room when she wished to use magic, and they allowed her too. She arrived in Diagon Alley, a place she use to visit a lot as a kid with Sirius and Regulus. She remembered them, and Miss Bella, Miss Andy, and Miss Cissy. She wished she could see them again, but she figured that Sirius and Regulus would have ended up being home schooled after her disappearance.

She walked into the book store, her list of books out and ready. She chose out a couple books she could do for light reading when she spotted someone out of the corner of her eye. He was a tall, handsome boy, much taller than her five foot five structure. He had long, curly black hair that was pulled back in a tie at his neck, but one thick piece fell between his natural part. He had the dark cold grey eyes that seemed filled with life. It reminded her much of Sirius' eyes as children.

"Sirius?" Alice said, a little hesitant, unsure if it could really be him. He looked over, hearing her say his name. She smiled- it was him.

"And how might you be?" he said walking over and resting an arm on the bookshelf next to them.

"Wow! It's been forever, hasn't it?" Alice said, happily.

"I suppose?" he said, unsure exactly who this was.

"Ten years is a long time, Sirius," Alice frowned slightly,"You shouldn't just suppose things."

"Do I know you?" Sirius suddenly asked, "Or do you just know my name?"

"I'm Alice. Alice Birch," Alice told him. She looked at him hopefully, "We were best friends growing up until I was kidnapped a decade ago."

Sirius stumbled back, as if being hit with a stunning spell, "Alice?" he said her name like it was some foreign name, "I thought you were gone."

"I was," she smiled in turn, "The two that kidnapped me ended up raising me and were shocked when they found out that I was a witch."

"You're alive," Sirius said, his voice sounding not like him at all.

"Sirius, stop being silly," she laughed, "You act as if you expected a pair of Muggles to kill me. I'm a Birch after all!"

"But the day that you disappeared... that you were kidnapped," he shook his head, trying to clear it, "Let me start over...

"You were kidnapped a decade ago. Nobody was able to find you. Your parents were in a terrible accident the day you were kidnapped, and died," he told her, "Everyone just assumed you were dead too."

"Nope, I'm still alive and well!" she said with a smile, but it faltered, "Explains why the bleeding house elf never got me. He was with my parents that day."

"So, where have you been?" Sirius asked her with curiosity.

"In France. I went to Beaubaxtons, but decided that I was seventeen, I could make my own choices, and so I'm going to Hogwarts like my Mum and Da' always wanted," she told him, "It's going to be lovely, isn't it? You, Regulus and I all in Slytherin together."

Sirius stiffened a bit, and Alice frowned, "What's wrong?"

"Regulus and I don't talk anymore," he shrugged.

"Oh, no! He was placed in Ravenclaw wasn't he! He shouldn't have been reading all of Miss Bella's school books!" Alice gasped.

"No, he's in Slytherin," Sirius told her.

Alice nodded, then frowned, "Sirius... What house are you in?"

It was like a venomous bite to him. He had always been so proud to be in Gryffindor, and here was Alice, the girl he believed to be dead, alive, and about to be so pissed at him he was sure she was going to give him hell. They were, after all, seventeen, and the rightful age to use magic. "G-gryffindor," he admitted, swallowing the lump in his throat.

"Sirius Orion Black! You did NOTget placed in Gryffindor!" Alice howled at him, hitting his arm with one of the books in her hand. "How dare you!"

"The hat put me there!" He backed from her. "It's not my fault!"

"Yes it is!" she hissed, "You could have asked to be placed in Slytherin! How did your parents take it?"

"I don't live with them anymore. I ran away a couple summers ago," Sirius told her. She looked at him shocked, her jaw hung open.

"Sirius!" she said, lost for words. "I'm not talking to you then," she told him, turning around and folding her arms, "Good bye."

"Alice!" Sirius said following her, "I'm still the same Sirius you love and trust!"

"No, that Sirius would have been in Slytherin," she shot as she paid for her books and left the store, Sirius following.

"C'mon, Alice!" Sirius begged, "Don't I seem the same?"

"No," Alice frowned, "You're much much taller now."

Sirius snorted, finding it amusing, "See, that's all isn't it?"

"I would like to believe," Alice sighed, looking over to him, "Why Gryffindor of all houses?"

"Why Beaubaxton of all places?"

"I had no choice," she told him.

"Nor did I," he told her.

"You can't use the same reason as me," she told him sternly.

"Yo, Padfoot! There you are!" the two looked over to see three boys walking over with bags of books and other things. "Who's this? The new girlfriend? You did break up with Brianna, right?"

"No, this is one of my childhood friends," Sirius explained, "Alice. Alice these are my best mates, James, Remus and Peter."

"All Gryffindors, I expect?" she said, trying to hide the hiss and hate in her voice.

"Gryffindor's the best, love," James said with a grin.

"The best for egotistical blood traitors," Alice shot, her eyes narrowing. She turned to Sirius, "I can't stay. I told the boys I'd be home around noon-time."

She turned and walked away from the group, leaving them in confusion. "She's a bitch, don't date her," James said flatly, disliking the disrespect she gave them.

"Don't say that, Prongs," Sirius shot, annoyed, "I haven't seen her in ten years, so don't judge her like that."

"She's like the rest of your blood purity family," James told him, "She's like a female Regulus."

"She can't be a female Regulus," Sirius said, "The opposite gender would be male, and she's definitely not a man."

Disclaimer: I am not JKR
A/N: new chapter. I originally had it planned another way, but this is how it came out. lol I hope you enjoyed. =) Reviews? Oh! and thanks for the first review on this story! haha I was like, "WOW! that was fast!" lol and also, don't think this is actually how someone who is kidnapped acts. It's just for the story. =P