Chapter Six
The next day when Emily woke up, she noticed that Sirius was no longer there. She got up and changed her clothes. She went outside and noticed the motorcycle was gone. She rolled her eyes and went back inside. She sat there and waitted about two hours for Sirius to come home, but he never did. Just than there was a knock on the door. She quickly answered it, to see that it was Dumbledore.
"What happened?" Emily asked, now lookinng very worried.
"James and Lily were killed last night," Dumbledore said.
"Oh no," Emily said, looking very shocked and sad.
"Sirius has been arrested," Dumbledore said.
"Why?" Emily said, "he had nothing to do with it."
"I know," Dumbledore said, "but I can't convince anyone of that. Everyone saw that James had asked Sirius to be his secret keeper and only I witnessed him change it. No one is going to believe one person."
"He has to have a trial," Emily said, "we can go and try to convince them."
"He was already sent to Azkaban," Dumbledore said, "I'm sorry, but there is really nothing we can do."
Emily looked shocked as Dumbledore left. She closed the door and went into the bedroom and started crying. She stayed home the rest of the day. She had a few people knock on the door, but they were people from the daily prophet. Emily stayed home for the next few days, not letting anyone in. She didn't even bother to read any of her mail. After about two weeks of hiding, she came out of her home. She decided she would go see what Remus was up to, but it turns out he had moved out of the house. He had left a note on the door saying:
Dear Emily, I am no longer living here. Where I will live I do not know. The house is yours again. Good luck and I do hope you're happy.
Emily saw the key to the house taped onto the note. She took the key and put it in her pocket and left. She walked down the street and noticed someone had been following her. She looked around, the person took a picture before disapearing. Emily rolled her eyes and continued walking. She was now alone and didn't know what she was going to do. Sirius was in Azkaban and Remus had just disapeared. She really didn't know what she was going to do now.
12 years later
"Mommy," a little girl with sandy blonde hair said, "I need school stuff."
Emily looked around and saw her sitting on the edge of her bed.
"Not right now, Lily," Emily moaned.
"Fine," Lily said, folding her arms, "by the way, the mail is here."
Emily gave another small moan, but got out of bed. She looked around her house and noticed the daily prophet. Lily set cup of coffee on the table and Emily sat down and looked at it. She looked at Lily, who just smiled. Emily looked at the front page and nearly dropped the coffee. She quickly grabbed the paper and started reading. She gave a small smile.
"Why are you smiling?" Lily asked.
"Oh nothing," Emily said, "lets go buy that school supplies."
Lily quickly ran to get ready, while Emily drank her coffee. Soon Lily was done getting ready and they were off to Diagon Alley. Their trip was a peaceful one, up until they got to the book store.
"Oh my god, there she is," someone yelled.
Someone ran up to Emily and a camera started going off.
"Do you have any words for the daily prophet about the recent escape of Sirius Black," the person said.
"I do not," Emily said, pushing passed the person.
The person didn't seem to care, since they started following them. Lily went to find her book and the person followed her.
"Young girl," the person said, stopping Lily, "what do you think of it?"
"I don't have an opinion on the subject," Lily said, grabbing a book.
"But you must care," the person said, "you are his daughter aren't you?"
Lily stopped and turned to the person with a look on wonder on her face.
"Is he?" Lily asked.
"That's enough," Emily said, grabbing Lilys hand and pulling her out of the store, "did you get all your books?"
"Yes," Lily said.
"Lets get out of here," Emily said, quickly leaving Diagon Alley before they ran into anyone else.
Lily took her stuff up to her room and than came back down. Emily was sitting on the couch. Lily sat down next to her and stared at her.
"Is he really my dad?" Lily asked, holding up the paper with Sirius's picture on it.
"He was mommy's boyfriend," Emily said, "but no, he ain't. I got with him after I was pregnant with you."
"So he would of been like my dad?" Lily asked, looking at the picture.
"Yes, he would of," Emily said.
"Too bad he helped kill the Potters," Lily said.
"He didn't do it," Emily said, looking at Lily, "he was innocent, they didn't even give him a trial. He didn't help at all, he didn't betray anyone."
Lily nodded her head and left to go back to her bedroom. Emily looked at the paper with a sigh. 'This is going to be a long year,' Emily thought, 'one very long year.'