Chapter 2
The rest of the train ride went by quietly. Ally fell asleep on my lap and I couldn't help but notice Sirius stealing glances at her anytime he thought someone wasn't looking. This gave me a bitter sweet feeling. I knew the fact that I had brought Ally along was bugging him to no end, but on the other hand it was hard to keep the fact that Sirius was her father away from Ally. Finally the train stopped at Hogwarts, and I gently shook Ally,
"Ally we're here!" She opened her eyes and looked out the window at Hogwarts castle,
"Woooooooow!" I laughed, then James looked at her and said,
"It's big isn't it?" She snapped her little fingers at him and said,
"Nothing's too big for me! I'll be queen of this place in a week!" I saw a small smile form on Sirius' mouth, but it quickly disappeared.
I rolled my eyes at him, picked up Ally, and carried her and our trunks out to the platform. Since it was my first year at Hogwarts, even though I was a seventh year, Ally and I had to ride the boats across the lake. Ally didn't say a word because she was so fixated on the castle we were slowly approaching.
Once we were in the castle we stood outside the Great Hall with the rest of the first years. Ally began getting antsy while we were waiting for me to be sorted but my name was finally called,
"Chloe Zortha!" Ally held on to my hand as we walked up to the sorting hat.
I let go of her hand as the sorting hat was placed on my head. It only took a few moments until the hat yelled, "GRYFFINDOR!"
I heard everyone in the hall laughing, and that's when I noticed Ally wasn't standing next to me anymore. I turned around to see her on Dumbledore's lap pulling at his long white beard. She giggled and looked at me,
"Mommy look his face is furry!" I blushed and ran over grabbing her and apologizing profusely,
"She's adorable Chloe, but if you wouldn't mind taking your seats?" Dumbledore replied, looking at me over his half-moon glasses.
We quickly took our seats and the rest of the opening ceremony went by quickly. Before I knew it I was on my way to the Gryffindor common room with Ally asleep on my shoulder. When I got to the dorm room I laid her down in our bed, and headed back down to the common room, where I saw Sirius sitting on the couch. He looked up when I came down, and before I could saw anything he jumped up, grabbed my wrist, and dragged me out in the hallway and around a corner. Finally he let go of my wrist and I said,
"What was that about?" He stared at me and said,
"She doesn't know about…you know?" I rolled my eyes,
"Do you mean does she know that you are her father? No she doesn't, and I plan to keep it that way." Sirius looked like he was choosing his words carefully before he said,
"But you can't just shove me out of her life completely! Couldn't I be like uncle Sirius? She is my daughter too!"
"Look if you remember you were the one who left me when I pregnant with her at thirteen. When you did that you gave up all choice of being in her life. Now it's up to her, if she likes you then that's up to her, but I'm not forcing her to do anything."
"Fine, but she's my daughter of course she'll like me." I laughed,
"You'd be surprised; she's got your attitude, the only good thing she inherited from you. Now I'm going back to bed with my daughter." With that I turned away and headed back up to my dorm room.
The next morning I got up early so I could get Ally and me ready for class. After I had become pregnant with her my parents had kicked me out. During the summer I stayed with my grandmother, and attended Beauxbaton, while she watched Ally. This summer she had passed away however, and Beauxbaton wouldn't let me bring Ally to school. I thought my magic training was over, that is until Dumbledore had contacted me and said I could bring Ally to school as long as she behaved herself.
We ended up being too late to have breakfast, so we headed straight to our first class of the morning, Potions with Slytherin house. Since we weren't coming from the Great Hall we were the first people to get there, and we took a seat in the back of the classroom. Slowly other students from our house and Slytherin started filing in. The marauder's all sat across from me in the back of the room, but I ignored them. I was getting all of my supplies ready, when I heard something hit the floor.
I turned around to see it was actually a someone not a something. Ally had managed to trip another student, who I learned from hearing people talk yesterday was Severus Snape. Ally crinkled up her nose and said,
"Mommy he's all slimy!" This made all of the Gryffindor's burst out laughing, with the Marauder's laughing the hardest.
Sirius got up from his and walked over to Ally trying to give her a high-five. Ally backed away however, saying,
"You made my mommy mad last night, I don't like you." Sirius got a pained look on his face but went back to his seat.
Last night after I had went back up to bed after my talk with Sirius I found Ally sitting up on our bed. I didn't even have to say anything and she crawled up next to me and said,
"What's wrong mommy?" I petted her hair and said,
"Nothing baby, some people just upset mommy." She furrowed her eyebrows,
"Was it that Sirius man mommy?" I nodded but told her,
"Don't worry about it baby. Let's just go to sleep and Mommy will feel all better in the morning."
After the teacher had walked in, the class settled down, and Ally played with one of her dolls while I created my potions. Luckily I didn't have to see Sirius the rest of the day, and after my classes me and Ally got to explore the castle.