For The Love Of Sirius Black

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Chapter 4- Home

Lita was finally home and Remus and Moody were sitting in the kitchen waiting for her. She was so happy to see them. She ran to Remus and gave him hug and then turned to Mad Eye to give him one too. She had the biggest smile on her face they had ever seen. She was finally content and truly happy with her life.

"You look happy. Happier then I have ever seen you?" Remus said.

" I finally did it. I'm done and I will never have Snape breathing down my neck again." She laughed.

Moody and Remus laughed with her. Little did they know that at that moment she would need to go back to Hogwarts because students would be in grave danger. Lita cooked dinner for them and they ate and talked about everything that happened while she was at school.

"Fred and I broke up." She said looking down at her food.

"Are you alright? Did he do something? Cause if he did I am going to talk to him about it." Remus said.

"No he did not do anything and yes I am alright. It was just Fred and I grew apart by the end of term because I was leaving and he had four years left." She said.

Until Harry Potter came up in conversation.

"Harry Potter had a knack for getting in trouble, being adventurous, and causing quite a stir." Lita said looking at Remus.

Remus laughed, "Just like James then."

"His two friends, Ron and Hermione they are just perfect. Ron goes a long and gets them into more trouble and Hermione just barely gets them out of it." She said collecting the plates from dinner.

Moody and Remus sat at the table talking and Lita washed the dishes. She was home again but there was a hole in her heart. She wanted to see her families home. It had been ten years since she had and she wanted to remember what it looked like. She could remember what the inside looked like. She remembered the sitting room, the kitchen, the dining room, and her room. She remembered the paintings on the wall, the family photos, and her drawings hanging in the hall going up the stairs.

She could remember all this because the night her parents died was still after ten years fresh in her mind. She remembered walking out of the dining room into the sitting room and her father telling her to run. Then she could see flashes of green light and her parent's lifeless faces laying on the ground. She remembered the three men that rescued her. Two sat before her and one was killed by a Death Eater named Bellatrix Lestrange. She was sent to Azkaban for life after she was captured. Also the man who betrayed Lily and James Potter, Bellatrix's cousin, Sirius Black was sent to Azkaban for life. She hated both of these people so very much. She wished that somehow Lucius Malfoy would be sent to Azkaban for killing her parents, but if they had not done it in ten years there was no chance they were going too.

Life took a strange turn of events by the time Lita's birthday rolled around. Fred, George, Ron, and Mr. and Mrs. Waesley came to visit her and celebrate with her, Remus, and Moody. She was so happy to see everyone and they all had a good time talking and eating. Still with that the hole in heart grew deeper. To see the Weasley family all together made her miss her family even more. She saw how happy they were to be together and how the parents were with them and she had never really had that. She loved being here brought up by Moody and sometimes looked after by Remus. Recently she had learned why Remus really couldn't take her in and she was shocked. Remus was a werewolf and it would not be safe to live with him. She did not care though that he was a werewolf because he was always so kind to her and she could never let that one fact get in the way of that.

Later in the day when Lita and the others were waiting for Molly to finish cooking dinner, Fred asked Lita if he could talk to her. She took him by the hand and they walked into the forest.

"You look really upset. Is there something wrong?" Fred asked worried.

"I am just really lonely for some reason right now. I mean I am really happy but seeing you with your family, I start to remember that I don't have one." She said.

"You have a family. Moody and Remus are your family. I know they are not your mom and dad and I know that is what you meant." Fred said.

"I just want to go back and see my house. I just want to look at it." She said.

"Talk to Moody about it. He might allow it."

Later that night while they were all eating dinner Lita remained silent. She did not feel like talking. What was so special about turning eighteen, nothing. Except now in the Muggle world she was now an adult. When everyone finished eating the plates were cleared from the table. Lita looked up from the table, "I have something to ask?" And everyone looked at her, " I want to go see my home."

"Well I don't know if that is possible right now, my dear. It is starting to get dangerous again." Remus said.

"Well talk about this later, Lita. Right now lets enjoy the party." Moody said.

After the cake and the presents the Weasley's were on their way back to The Burrow. Remus and Moody were sitting in the kitchen when Lita came back inside. She looked at them and then walked into the sitting room and picked up a book. She opened it and began going into a world of pirates and buried Treasure. Remus walked into the room and sat on the floor in front of her, "Why do you want to see your home?'

"I have this hole in my heart where it used to be and I just want closure." She said, "I have this emptiness."

"Okay, I will take you tomorrow."

She went to bed shortly after their conversation and dreamt of her home. She dreamt of her parents and her friends.

When she woke up the next morning she ate breakfast and Remus came to get her. They were really going and then they were off. They Apparated to an alleyway right across the street from her house. Then she saw it. It was stone with a fence and it was three floors. It had been taken care of but no one was living in it now. It was the same, nothing changed and she had her closure.