Chapter fifteen: August
Aniko spun around from her spot and knocked down the person behind her with one stiff punch. The youth fell onto the stairs and hit the floor hard. Harry looked up and saw Aniko's face for the first time. He was at a loss for words. Feathers was beautiful, very beautiful. Her face was oval and perfectly balanced. Her nose was small, and her eyes were sapphire blue and glistening with mischief and anger. They were almost like Professor Dumbledore's eyes. Her hair was ebony and went down to her mid back. Her body was slim, but curvy and she was pretty well off in the chest department.
"What are you looking at?" Aniko grumbled under her breath.
"Oh nothing, help me up?" He asked giving her his hand.
"Ya, whatever."
There wasn't much space between Harry and Aniko in the hall way, so their bodies pressed against one another slightly. As Harry touched her arm sparks shot down her arm. Her hear beat heavily. Aniko couldn't help but think about how good it would be to kiss him right then and there. She stopped thinking, and just let it flow like a river through her body.
Aniko closed her eyes. She dreamt every dream she'd ever had in her life in those few minutes. She never felt this way with anyone. She knew what she had to do. Aniko shifted to Howarts and too Harry's hand. She pulled him to the library and sat him down at one of the tables.
Aniko summoned a book off a shelf and told Harry to read it. She left and began to wander. Just wander. She headed for the edge of the dark forest. Harry needed to learn something about their parents, and she'd fill him in on the rest when he was done reading. Aniko dropped down onto the semi-wet grass peering across the lake. Slipping into a lull of thoughts, and letting the moonlight and silence blanket her.
Flash Back
"Sirius where are you going!" Amelia Black fired at him.
"What do you think? I'm going to say goodbye to my children or are you going to yell at me for that too." Sirius barked back.
Sirius climbed the rich wooden stairs and entered each of his children's rooms saying goodbye to each sleeping child. When he entered Aniko's room he looked down at her. She looked like a little princess. Aniko started to fuss and woke quickly. She looked up at him with big teary blue eyes. Almost sensing why he was there to leave once again and for good this time. Sirius bent over the white crib and picked up his beautiful little Ani, and began to rock her back to sleep.
" Hush now baby don't you cry, Rest your wings my butterfly, Peace will come to you in time." Sirius sang in hushed tones.
"I will sing this lullaby. No though I must leave, my child, But I would stay here by your side, And if you wake before I'm gone, Remember this sweet lullaby."
"And all love through darkness, Don't you ever stop believing, With lover forlorn, with love you'll find your way, My love, the world has turned the day to dark,"
"I leave this night with heavy heart, When I return to dry you eyes, I will send this lullaby, Yes I will send this lullaby".
When Sirius was done, he laid the sleeping Aniko into her crib, kissed her forehead, and patted down the hallway. He would most likely never see his Princess again. He only wanted her to know he loved her, more than anything in this world. Sirius shut the heavy front door hearing Amelia's cries beginning stopped instantly.
End of Flash back
Harry came and sat beside Aniko on the hill that overlooked the whole black lake. For the first time in his life he found someone that understood what it was like for him; the loneliness, the pain, being stared at each and every day, yet Aniko had had it even worse, she never knew her father, and her mother was some powerful witch that she had to live up to. Both sat silently looking across the lake. Aniko finally lay on her back and watched the stars above her dance and sing across the sky. She knew what Harry was thinking, 'how could no one have ever told him' about this. It was the same thought that had crossed her mind when Uncle James finally told her the story. Then she went to her mother to find out her side. She practically had to destroy the house, to get her to answer.
"Harry, listen I myself didn't find out any of this until a couple of years ago." Aniko told him. "But it's not as easy as the diary makes it out to be. It got really scary."
"Right, I guess so, but why didn't anyone tell me." Harry stated harshly.
"Because my mother wants the world to forget us." Aniko stated blankly. Harry didn't say anything so Aniko keep going. "I'll start at the beginning I guess then. When our parents were in their sixth year, your father went out with your mom after they had their thing behind my mom's back. Yet through the whole of her and James' relationship she was trying so hard not to see my father, Sirius. At their Yule Ball, they all found out about each other and it created a huge mess. That summer my mom was officially going out with Tom Riddle and went to the Bloods Ball with him."
Aniko took a deep breath and kept going.
"My mother entered seventh year the girlfriend of Tom Riddle. With a path of pain and sorrow from our fathers, she wasn't really in love with Riddle and when she went to break it off with him in October of that year, he tried to kill her. He forced her to get married and Voldemort thought that Chaos was his son was really Sirius eldest heir, along with me, my twin Diamond, and our younger brother Helios. When your parents died and my father went after Peter. My mother told him not to go." Aniko paused for a moment.
"But he didn't listen so she left with all three of us and she was pregnant with H. at the time. Uncle Remus helped Grandfather Dumbledore erase everyone's memories. The only way that everyone will remember us, is if someone lifts the spell, which will not happen any time soon. Everything got weird from there. My mother would take us to see our father every now and then in Jail. He knows us as Regulus' kids though. My mom didn't want him to know we were his anymore, not that he would remember after the spell that Grandfather cast." Harry said nothing so she went on.
"When my dad's died and feel through the curtain, his wizard side died. However his locked away Mage powers granted him access into the Mage realm. My mother hadn't exactly figured out how to get him into his human form until a couple months ago. He was a dog for a while which is kind of weird. Now my dad can go back and forth from the Magical world to the Wizard world. I don't really know my father, which is a good thing I guess, because even though his spell was lifted, we don't really act like a functioning father and daughter's should." Aniko told Harry sadily.
Flash back
Aniko Black stood on the top balcony of AsVoria's great entrance hall. Levels below her underneath the gold splendor and ruby stones were girls and their fathers. She watched the pairs embracing each other, laughing and smiling. They were so happy to see their fathers for the day since the start of term. Aniko thought of her own father, out of his hate and rage he had left them. She was so alone, her mother and Grand-da Black couldn't even look at her because she was a mirror image of her father. Her brothers' look liked their Uncle and Grandfather Dumbledore.
That morning Aniko had dyed her hair platium blonde. Now she just looked identical to Diamond. On Father's Day when the fathers came to AsVoria to see their children, the Black heirs would hide or spend a few minutes with their friends but half the time they just hid away together. Ever since third year Aniko found she liked being alone. She went to the wizard world that year and saw her father with his god son, embracing him like a father would a son. Ever since then the hate and longing had just been building up toward him in Aniko's heart. When she could no longer take watching the fathers and daughters, Aniko shifted to Hogwarts and found her favorite hiding spot that had been a favorite of her mothers and curled up into a ball to cry.
End of Flashback
"Hey Feathers are you ok? You slipped away there for a moment." Harry told her.
"Uhh, ya I'm fine." She looked at Harry. He looked so much like Uncle James. But he was Harry not James. Aniko kept going with her story.
"My Uncle James comes to see me once a month, but never in September, because he and Aunt Lily come to see you off to school. They stay hidden in the crowd but they come every year and they're very proud of you. Uncle James came to see me this August from the spirit world and we play and laugh like a father and daughter should. So I guess my dad gave my mom a lot of slack for it. She yelled at him that it wouldn't have been that way if he hadn't gone after Peter. That shut him up pretty fast. It was kind of funny, and when my grandfather died, the elders and my mother thought it would be a good idea for someone to look after you and help you out so I, to my distain, got the job. Do you understand it now?" Aniko asked Harry.
"One thing. Your mother is Albus Dumbledore's…?Harry asked.
"Daughter, Why?" Aniko asked back.
"Riddle was never afraid of the Professor, he was afraid of your mom." Harry stated lying on his back on the wet grass.
"There's only one way to find out." Aniko jumped to her feet and gave her hand out to Harry pulling him to his feet.
"Let's go." Aniko stated.
"Where?" Harry asked.
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