Disclaimer: I am poor so therefore please do not sue me for borrowing the characters for a little while. All Characters belong to JK Rowling, a brilliant and talented woman. All characters you don't recognise belong to me.

I know it's short but I've kind of hit a wall at the moment and should have something in a few days.

Chapter 4

"Well?" James asked

"I'd rather not say." Sirius replied as he slouched down on the floor in front of the sofa and rested his head back against the cushions

"You look tired." Lily said looking down at him

"I am." Sirius sighed

"You weren't this morning." James said. "What happened? He didn't try anything did he?"

"James. Just leave it." Remus said sharply telling James to leave it well alone

"Fine." James sulked

"I need a drink." Sirius sighed

"You need your bed." Lily replied.

"I've got to go somewhere before I can even contemplate bed." Sirius said pulling himself up off the ground. "Then I promise I will sleep."

"You better had otherwise you will feel my wrath..."

"Normally I would laugh but with your moods lately I'd be an idiot." Sirius said kissing her forehead as he went up stairs to change after that he went into Hailey's room and let his body go limp so he could go to the alternate plane

"You've been away too long." Aggie said as Hailey ran into his legs and fell on her backside then grinned up at him

"Work." Sirius said bending down to pick the toddler up. "How's my princess doing?"

"Making a mess everywhere." Aggie laughed

"She's inquisitive." Sirius defended

"She likes making a mess." Aggie replied. "You look like death warmed up."

"Some of the things I have to do to get results take it out of you." Sirius said sitting down and sitting Hailey in his lap

"How are your friends?"

"Fine, well Remus is for now, and Lily has told the healer when she wants to give birth and to save her from hysterics he will induce her."

"Why do people fear what they don't know and understand?" Aggie asked

"Because of the uncertainty and the unknown. You'd be a fool to believe everything is good and rosy."

"Well why not look into the unknown. She is the most normal abnormal children I have ever seen, most of the ones the ministry took are normal, maybe just a slight lisp or squinty eye, but they are safe, so if there is something to make her different it's got to be the magical side."

"Well she's still not… I hate the word, but normal looking."

"Because she can't open her eyes?" Aggie asked

"She can't speak either."

"No but she makes up for everything she lack with other things."

"She still won't be perceived as normal though."

"I don't think your friends would cope if she were to go back now anyway."

"Probably not. This is going to drag up a lot of memories for both of them but especially Lily."

"She'll be fine. She has friends like you to look out for her."

"How do you know when she's asleep?" Sirius asked looking down at Hailey who was leaning against his chest with his shirt grasped in her fist

"She's comfortable with you. But you can tell because her breathing evens out and she gets a cheeky little smile on her face." Aggie said

"Every time I see her she has a cheeky little smile on her face." Sirius said studying the child's face. "She looks just like them."

"You know they tried to take your half cousin away before they realised she was just a Metamorphmagus."

"I have a half cousin?" Sirius asked. "Bellatrix didn't spawn her did she?"

"Your other cousin Andromeda."

"Oh, I liked her." Sirius smiled still looking worn out

"What did you do to make you like this?"

"Disgusted myself."

"Tell me." Aggie asked again

"I dangled the safety of a man's child in front of his eyes unless he did what I wanted." Sirius said quietly

"What did you want him to do?" She asked keeping a neutral expression

"We know him to be a death eater, and we caught him. The biggest catch of the war, he's part of Voldemort's closest circle of deviants. I wanted him to be a spy, in return for his cooperation and information his son would be kept safe from everything that could harm him. The other part we never discussed."

"Which is?" She asked watching Hailey snuggle closer to him

"Well I can't very well keep him in the cellar and I wouldn't leave a man doing things for me in Azkaban either. You said that you wouldn't be able to cope and teach her magic as she grows up."

"He'd be your candidate for bringing up your best friends child?" Aggie asked trying to get Sirius to listen to his own thoughts, to help him to decide if he wanted to or not.

"Helping to anyway." Sirius replied stroking Hailey's dark hair.

Her hair was definitely a compromise between Lily and James. James's black hair with Lily's red colour and shine highlighting it when the light caught it.

"For all he's done Voldemort's bidding and probably took some pleasure in torturing muggles, he's one of the most gifted wizards I know, and I know a lot of witches and wizards. If she can't be in school then… I can't believe I'm saying this, I want him teaching her."

"Are you sure that he won't do anything to her?"

"One thing I am dead certain about is that he won't risk his son's life and he's not a year old yet. She'll become his surrogate child and I don't think he would dare look at her wrongly."

"How can you be sure he won't compromise where she is hidden?" Aggie asked

"Because he won't know. Not properly. I have worked some of this out you know." Sirius snapped. "Sorry, I should be doing what she's doing."

"Try and come back through the day and spend sometime with her. She'll surprise you." Aggie said getting up

"What did you mean when you said 'She is the most normal abnormal children I have ever seen, most of the ones the ministry took are normal'?" Sirius asked still holding Hailey

"Caught my slip I see."

"It's my job to pay attention."

"She's not the first child I've taken away from death." Aggie replied sitting down. "they are killing out a generation of brilliance because of some mans delusions. Why should one man kill so many and not be held accountable? So I took the babies and in my younger day I would do as you did, modify memories and get away with it. I had to ask you to do it because I'm not as young as I used to be and my concentration is going. At least with you, you have a believable place amongst all this."

"Where are the children now?"

"Back in the world, some with their parents, others with family members, adoptive families. A war is a good place to hide people and cover up where they came from or where they've been." Aggie sighed. "If it wasn't for the war, I wouldn't have needed to."

"You're a good woman." Sirius said as Aggie led him to where Hailey's crib was and lay her in it and pulled the blanket up over her

"Well you can tell the Wizengamot at my trial."

"If it ever happens I will, and I'll find every child you've helped to be your defence." Sirius replied. "Screw normal. No child is normal. Each child is extraordinary and has the ability to do extraordinary things, they just need the chance."

"Don't feel so guilty about your ways of getting the spy. At least if he is your spy he gets to see his child, whereas they would never let a child into Azkaban. I can understand your conscience rearing its head at using the child as bait but drastic times call for drastic measures. Would you be feeling as guilty if Hailey had never been different?"

"Probably because he's only young."

"Think about that, then remember all the children and babies his father has had a hand in killing, torturing, destroying the lives of and then think whether you restricting his access to his son is wrong." Aggie reasoned. "Will you be keeping an eye on his son?"

"Yes."

"Well then, what more can he ask for considering his circumstances? If he truly loves the boy then he will do as you ask to keep him safe."

"You're probably right."

"Go home and get some sleep." Aggie said closing the door to Hailey's room before Sirius left