A/N: Sorry it has taken me so long to update, but classes have started again here at school. PLEASE PLEASE review! I really enjoy feedback, good or bad!

I knew that this moment would come in time
That I'd have to let go and watch you fly
I know you're coming back so why am I dying inside
Are you searching for words that you can't find
Trying to hide your emotions but eyes don't lie
Guess there's no easy way to say goodbye
So I'll be standing at the edge of the earth
Hoping that someday you'll come back again
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth hoping for someday
Don't misunderstand what I'm trying to say
I don't want to let you leave this way
I want you to know that I stand right by your side
And I know this may be
The very last time that we see each other cry
But whatever happens know that I'll...
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth
Hoping that one day you'll come back again
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth hoping that someday
You'll come back to me
I'll be praying for whatever it's worth
Believing that one day you'll come back to me
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth
Hoping for someday
And I know this may be
The very last time that we see each other cry
But whatever happens know that I'll...
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth
Hoping that one day you'll come back again
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth hoping that someday
You'll come back to me
I'll be praying for whatever it's worth
Believing that one day you'll come back to me
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth
Hoping for someday
Waiting for someday Believing in someday
Praying for someday, I'll be...
Longing for someday Clinging to someday
Cherishing someday, I'll be...
Thinking of someday Dreaming of someday
Wishing for someday, I'll be...
Living for someday Counting on someday
Knowing that one day...
I will see you – "Standing At The Edge of the Earth"- Blessid Union of Souls

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Shacklebolt! Dawlish! Where are you? Talitha!" A very breathless Cornelius Fudge had appeared in the Auror office with a gleaming look of triumph on his face.

"Fudge, what us the meaning of this disruption?" Rufus Scrimgeour looked at the Minister of Magic with distaste.

"They've got him, Scrimgeour. At Hogwarts!" he said in a very irrational voice.

"Who, Fudge?" Scrimgeour raised an eyebrow.

"Black! They've caught him! Where are those Aurors?" Fudge didn't have to look far, Talitha had appeared behind him, paler than normal.

"Sir, I would like to go collect him," she said with a very even voice to Scrimgeour. Triumph. Her brother had been caught. And Harry was safe. Yet, Talitha could not feel happy.

"Of course. Take Dawlish and Shacklebolt. I will meet you at Azkaban; I will go there to prepare for Mr. Black's return," Scrimgeour turned back to Fudge who was now rushing out of the office muttering the name 'Macnair'.

Talitha found her fellow Aurors at her cubicle looking very serene. They knew. Shacklebolt gave her a curious look but all she could manage to say was, "Let's go."

They Apparated into Hogsmeade and sat out on foot toward Hogwarts. As they approached the grounds, Talitha felt an eerie sense of foreboding. Something was not right. She looked to Shacklebolt who was now walking toward the man called Macnair.

"What is going on?" Dawlish called.

"Fudge gas ordered the Kiss. I am collecting the lucky Dementor," Macnair said with a very nasty smile. Talitha blanched and didn't think. She ran. Faster than she had ever ran before. Her colleagues were yelling but she didn't register their shouts. She had to beat Macnair. She had to plead with Fudge. Sirius deserved a lifetime in Azkaban for what he did, but she couldn't allow the Kiss. A part of her still believed the man she had loved was still there. Maybe I am not cut out for this job after all, she thought, but then pushed it aside. She had to save him.

Her legs carried her to the familiar castle and she ran for Dumbledore's office, but she heard shouting and on instinct ran toward the voices. In the corridor leading to the Hospital Wing she could hear Fudge, Severus Snape and Dumbledore. All she could hear and register was the word "gone." Then she heard a voice she hadn't heard in a long time- Harry's. She backed away and went to wait for Dumbledore and Fudge.

"Black!" It was Fudge.

"Sir?" she turned to his voice.

"He has escaped. We have no idea how or where but he is gone. Find him," Fudge barked and left the castle muttering about the Dementors.

Her fear that Sirius' soul had been sucked away was now gone and was replaced by anger. He had eluded justice again. And this time he had help. She knew very well that nothing happened at Hogwarts that Dumbledore didn't know about. He helped her brother escape, she was sure of it. She turned on her heel and stormed his office.

"Ah, Talitha!" he said warmly but she glared at him. All affection she felt for him was gone.

"Dumbledore. How? And more importantly, why?" she said nastily.

"I am sure I have no idea what you are talking about," he said nonchalantly.

"Where IS MY BROTHER?" Talitha roared, shocking the man in front of her slightly.

"Talitha, please sit down. Your brother is an innocent man," he looked at her with the same fatherly look he had always given her and she sat down, utterly confused.

"What? I don't understand," the last of her rational thinking had failed her and she buried her head in her hands.

Talitha listened as Dumbledore explained how Harry had been given the Marauder's Map and how Lupin had discovered Peter Pettigrew on it. How twelve years before, it was Pettigrew who had betrayed them all, not Sirius. Sirius was an innocent man and Harry had saved his life, twice. When Dumbledore finished he looked at her with concern. She looked at him for a very long moment, processing what he had just told her. She was very surprised at what she said when she found her voice, "Harry can produce a Patronus?"

Dumbledore smiled, "Yes. Reminds me of someone else at about that age."

She smiled slightly, "He's ok, then? Harry? He knows about Sirius?"

Dumbledore looked at her with a sad expression, "Yes, but he still cannot know you. It is for his own good. And yours."

She had known that this would be his answer so she hid her disappointment. All of a sudden, though, it was as if it had just dawned on her that her brother was innocent, "Sirius! I need to find him!" she stood up quickly.

"I wondered how long it would take you," Dumbledore grinned, "He has every intention of sending word to where you can find him as soon as he is safe."

She looked pensively at Dumbledore for a moment, "So, all these years. It was Peter?"

He nodded sadly. And Talitha's eyes watered. But she wouldn't cry. Not for Peter or because of him. Her only concern at the moment was to find her brother. She turned and walked out of Dumbledore's office, and headed back to the grounds. She met Shacklebolt and Dawlish near the gates.

"So? Where to first?" Kingsley asked her, attempting to keep up light tone.

"I need to go home for the night. I'll meet you guys soon," she said as she Apparated to London the moment she was off Hogwarts soil.

The letter came the next morning. It was vague and in code. Thankfully, he knew she was very bright and could follow his instructions. She Apparated to the wizarding shop in this tiny village on some remote Caribbean island then found the Muggle train station. She took the train to the resort and at the front desk she gave the name he had told her to use. The old Muggle woman smiled at her and gave her a rather large hat to wear. She took it happily and left her to go to the courtyard.

She didn't see him over the brim of her hat, but he noticed her immediately. Her pale skin was a dead giveaway. When she heard him call her name she lifted the hat and threw it aside. She ran like she had the night before at Hogwarts and met him by the pool. With everything she had been holding back and everything she had felt for twelve years she embraced her brother. She buried her head into his chest and he held her close. Talitha wept and Sirius held her like he did when she was a little girl, whispering, "It's ok, now, Tally-ho. Big brother is here," with all the gentility that she remembered. He was thinner and had a slight mad look about him, but he was still her brother. All she could manage to say between her tears was "I'm sorry," and he looked in her eyes with his own so much like hers and said, "There's nothing to be sorry for."

"We spent the day talking about everything. My life, what had happened the night Lily and James died, just everything. I had to leave him the next morning, but we saw a lot of each other over the next year and then, well, you know what happened," she looked at Harry with sad eyes. He smiled faintly at her and put a loving arm around her.

"He loved you very much," he told her.

"He loved you just as much," she replied.

"I miss him," Harry looked absently at the window.

"I miss him, too, especially right now," she looked at her picture of Charlie. She was distraught and helpless. Talitha Black Weasley didn't know how to be helpless.

"I remember when I first met you, I remember the look in Charlie's eyes. He loves you, he will be ok, for you," Harry looked her in the eyes. And she believed him. She, too, remembered when she met Harry, because it wasn't too long after her very long-awaited reunion with Charlie…