"Oh my gosh," Lily breathed out, her face reflecting all the shock she felt.

"What?" Liven asked, while getting up from her bed and making her way over to Lily's.

The girls were all in their dorm, still trying to recover from their massive hangovers - a result of the wild after-match Quidditch party held night before. Well, that was mainly Harmony and Liven trying to deal with hangovers. Lily, Alice and Becca drank more responsibly.

Lily had just received a letter, which no one took a peculiar interest in. "Tuney..." Lily suddenly started, dropping the letter her shaking hands were holding. "She's getting married! And-and...she said-" Lily's eyes slowly filled with tears as her sister's words flew through her mind again.

"Oh no," Liven muttered, and Alice stopped painting Becca's model-worthy toenails (seriously, they were like perfect for toes) to surround Lily's bed along with Harmony.

Harmony watched Lily try to hold back the tears. "Can we read the letter?" Harmony asked quietly, her voice reflecting all the sympathy, anger and dread she felt.

Lily bit her lip and nodded. Harmony glanced out the window to see the sun had already set. Dinner would be soon. Then she read the letter scribbled in a messy, long-lettered attempted-cursive scrawl across the page.

Lily,

Vernon has proposed to me, and we will be married in the summer. I do not want you to come, for our guests are important people that have no time for nonsense like yourself. However, Mother is forcing me to invite you, so consider this your invitation because I am not wasting a real invitation on a freak I do not want at my wedding. I swear to God that if you do anything to mess up my day, I will never talk to you again, and I will disown myself from the family. Dress in dark colours so nobody notices you're there. Do not respond to this letter, because Vernon's patience for you stops when I send it.

Petunia Evans and Vernon Dursley

"That wicked little bitch!" Liven screamed. Lily burst into sobs worthy of a woman who lost her son aboard the Titanic.

"I-I don't know what I did! I've tried-tried apologizing but it doesn't work! She j-just keeps-" Lily couldn't continue.

"Oh, come here, Lils." Becca and Liven rubbed Lily's back comfortingly while Alice invaded the secret chocolate stash in their dorm to bring some for Lily.

"That's horrid," Harmony said, sitting cross-legged on the ground between beds. "Lils I'm so sorry. But there's only couple things we can do now."

"W-what?" Lily sniffled.

"Dress you in bright colours so you outshine the bride and bring a hot date."

"But-but she said-" Lily stuttered tearfully. It broke Harmony's heart.

"What can be worse than what she's doing now? I'm sorry, it might sound bad, but she's already kind of shunned you. So, why on Earth would you fuel her power over you by obeying her? She doesn't control you. She's your sister, not God." Harmony stood up. "I'll be back. I'm going to get you a tea."

Lily smiled weakly. "Thanks,"

Suddenly, an idea popped into Harmony's mind, making her smile evilly. She grabbed the girls' camera off the desk and turned to take a picture.

FLASH!

"Harmony, I love you, but this is not the time to take pictures." Liven hissed out the side of her mouth, her eyes still on Lily and her face never breaking character from it's sympathetic-angry-how-dare-you-say-that-to-Lils mode it seemed to be frozen in.

"Oh, I think it's quite perfect," Harmony muttered, slipping the freshly developed photo into the container of special potion to make the photo move which was settled on the desk top.

Satisfied, she left.

Harmony turned towards the boys' dorms when she got into the common room. Going up the stairs, she pondered how horrific a person had to be to say that sort of thing to their own sister. Harmony tried to picture herself saying that to Charlotte, and shuttered at the shame she felt at the mere thought.

Harmony knocked on the marauder's door, which was a change as she usually burst in without a second thought. She was feeling mature.

"Who issssss it?" James' voice singsonged from inside the dormitory.

"Santa." Harmony replied sarcastically, crossing her arms and cocking a hip.

"What?!" James screeched, yanking the door open. He made a show of looking disappointed when he saw it was Harmony. "Oh. It's you."

"Oh, it's me...bearing news about your Lily Flower." Harmony pushed past James, pretending not to see the look of delight on his face at the mention of Lily.

"Hello, Harmful." Sirius greeted with a raspy voice as if he just woke up, giving her a half-hug.

"Were you sleeping?" Harmony pecked him on the cheek and laughed, taking in Sirius' bare chest and plaid pyjama bottoms.

"Just woke up before you came." he grinned and attempted to flatten his rather attractive bed head.

She ruffled his hair even more. "Well, Happy Birthday! I would get you a cake or something, but I think we did enough birthday partying last night." Harmony said, grinning as Sirius turned green.

"I don't think I'll ever eat cake or drink firewhiskey again." Sirius sat back down on his bed, Harmony following suit.

Remus and Peter greeted Harmony, while James plopped back down on his bed and continued playing with his golden snitch. "So, something about Lily?" he tried to sound nonchalant, but alas, when was James ever nonchalant when it regarded Lily?

"You are all aware of her relationship with her sister?" they nodded at Harmony.

"Well, her sister sent a letter just now. Said she's getting married. Basically, Petunia called Lily some foul things and said that she was forced to invite Lily to her wedding, even though she didn't want to. She said that if Lily messed up her 'big day' in anyway she would pretty much shun her. Not a big difference to what Petunia's doing now, to be honest." Harmony concluded.

"Is she okay? Oh I should go over there. Oh man. I-" James stood up and strode towards the door.

"No, I don't think it's wise to go in there right now. I said I'd get her a tea, but how about you go do that and deliver it to her? By the time you bring it to her, I reckon she'll have probably calmed down a bit." Harmony suggested, and before she got the words out, James had bolted from the dorm.

Remus scooted out of his bed and approached Harmony. "Is she really upset?" he asked quietly, his honey brown hair a cute mess atop his head.

"Yeah, she was crying pretty hard when I left." Harmony rubbed her arms like she was cold. She was cold; just not physically.

"Poor thing." Remus said sympathetically. "I don't know how anyone could treat Lily like that. She's such a good person."

"I think James has pretty much brainwashed us into thinking she's this image of perfection." Sirius grumbled.

"She is perfect." Harmony hit him over the head lightly.

"I mean-yeah-of course-" Sirius looked sheepish.

Peter shocked everyone by saying, "Even if she isn't what James believes she is, no one deserves to be treated like that. Poor Lily. She's such a nice girl."

Silence.

"I reckon Pete has a bit of a fancy." Sirius said, and Harmony hit him while Peter blushed.

"That was very kind of you. You're adorable, Peter." Harmony stood up and kissed his warm cheek, which made him blush more.

"Hey!" Sirius whined.

"Let's go, Pup. You and I are going for a walk so I can mentally prepare myself for the deep life chat I'm going to be having with Lily later." Harmony said and she pulled Sirius out of the dorm after he had time to grab a sweatshirt off the floor. It looked like it belonged to James.

Before they could leave, Harmony muttered a quick excuse and ran up to the her own dorm. She slipped in, unknowing to her mates who were comforting Lily, and grabbed the photo out of the potion from earlier. She caught sight of picture-Liven's concerned face whispering reassurances to picture-Lily before the photo disappeared in Harmony's pocket.

Sirius and Harmony walked in a comfortable silence through the portrait hole and down a couple of corridors, only running into a few students milling about before dinner. Finally, Harmony asked. "Are you hungry? Would you mind missing dinner?" Harmony asked.

"No, that hangover potion vanishes my appetite." Sirius told her.

"Good, because the smell of food would probably make me vomit." Harmony sighed, relived. "We're going to pay Miss Petunia Evans and her husband-to-be a visit, I think."

Sirius smiled. "You know, I would stop you from doing something so incredibly stupid but I know I can't so…what an excellent plan, love."

The two teens snuck through the school, their destination the one-eyed witch's passageway to Hogsmeade. There, Harmony planned to disapperate to the address she had seen across the top of the envelope.

Footsteps approached down the opposite end of the empty hall, just one corridor away from the passageway out to Hogsmeade. The last thing they needed was to be seen walking about the school, then for someone to notice that they weren't at dinner.

Harmony panicked, but Sirius had already grabbed her and shoved her through a hole in the wall behind a tapestry. Harmony was very aware of Sirius' hands on her back, his breathing in sync with hers, tickling her cheekbone.

The footsteps halted suspiciously for a moment then passed slowly, but neither Harmony nor Sirius moved. A heavy silence broke out, and Harmony boldly took made the first move by slipping her hands up his chest to rest on his shoulders.

"This is cozy." Sirius muttered leaning in, and Harmony's heart picked up beat, cursing herself for blushing furiously.

Sirius suddenly pressed his lips against Harmony's for a brief, beautiful second, and pulled away. "Petunia." he reminded them.

Harmony scrunched her face up. "Way to kill a moment."

They both laughed and stumbled out of the passageway. Then Harmony felt eyes on her. Her smile faded as she whipped around and saw the tail end of a cloak swishing out of sight around the corner.

"Sirius," he brought his attention to her. "There was someone there."

An unspoken agreement passed between them, and they both turned and bolted as quietly as they could for the corridor over. Harmony spun around and scanned the corridor while Sirius opened the passageway behind the one-eyed witch.

They slipped silently through the opening after a moment. Well, silently until-

"Wholy shit! Would you take a look at the size of that fucking spider?" Harmony screamed, jumping away from the tunnel wall where a rather hairy and juicy looking spider sat contentedly in its web, pondering Sirius and Harmony; almost sizing them up and calculating how much web it would take to capture them both.

"You're afraid of spiders?" Sirius laughed.

"It's not an actual fear, it's more like they give me the fucking creeps when they reach past four centimetres in diameter." Harmony said angrily. "And that thing over there is a land-whale."

"Just move along. It won't kill you." Sirius gave Harmony a little push on the back to get her going down the passageway again, glancing back towards the sealed entrance and wondering if anyone had heard them.

"It's bloody disgusting!" Harmony whined, refusing to pass by the web.

"Harmony Sea," Sirius started. "Out of all the bloody things in this world, you're scared of a spider?"

"Look at the size of the bloody thing!" she protested. "Sirius. Please just kill it."

"I can't. It looks pregnant."

"It looks pregnant so you won't kill it?" Harmony asked, eye brows raised.

"Kill all those innocent babies?" Sirius said.

"It's a spider! And there's like a million of those little devils in there! Do you see how big its arse is?" Harmony countered, somewhat hysterically.

"Fine!" Sirius pulled off his trainer, approached the spider, and in one quick motion ended it's pregnancy and future. "That poor thing. I'm going to hell."

"It's a spider, not a human." Harmony told him exasperatedly.

"So if you were pregnant with hundreds of babies right now, and you were in my way, should I kill you?" Sirius smirked, crossing his arms.

"Depends. Who's babies are we talking about, here?"

"James'."

"Kill me."

"Remus'?"

"Mm, Remus is a cutie, but nope, I would still wish death upon myself."

"Mine?"

"I think I'd book a dinner date with Bellatrix Lestrange."

"Thanks!" Sirius said sarcastically as he stuck his lip out and mock-pouted.

Harmony kissed his cheek and pulled away from him. "Danger's gone. Let's carry on, now." she patted his bum to get him going again.

"Hey-!" He started to protest.

"Listen. I have a plan." Harmony told him seriously. "You and I are going to have a little chat with Lily's sister because she's a prick. Then, I have this photo of Lily's reaction to her sister's letter, which I can't even look at because it's too heartbreaking. And after that, we can throw in a couple threats, and we will return back to Hogwarts without Lily ever knowing. I'm actually so proud of myself for coming up with this plan in about three seconds flat."

"Can we go get pumpkin fizz after? Pumpkin fizz always makes me feel better when I have a hangover." Sirius asked childishly.

"Yes, we can get pumpkin fizz." Harmony laughed.

"Okay, then it sounds like a good plan." Sirius smiled at Harmony, and she smiled back.

And it definitely would have been a good plan, if the teens didn't emerge from Honeydukes only to realize that some fifteen Death Eaters were waiting outside the shop.

"Shit." Harmony breathed, her heart beat lurching into brink-of-heart-attack mode.

Sirius slid a hand across Harmony's hip and around to her back. " Go back, go back-oh shit. Bloody hell-"

"Sirius and the little mudblood, Sea. How touching." a deep-voiced member taunted.

"You just shut it-" Sirius started, stabbing a finger in the direction of the glob of dark cloaks and masks.

"Sirius." Harmony said sternly, causing him to back down immediately.

"She's got you trained well, if I do say so myself." Bellatrix Lestrange cut in, her voice shrill and laced with amusement. Harmony took one glance at her massive amount of dark curly hair and her facial expression remaining one of insanity. The real life Bellatrix Lestrange was even more horrible than her dream-Bellatrix Lestrange. Harmony started to shake.

"Can I help you with something?" Harmony said through gritted teeth as she slowly started to backtrack towards the Honeydukes' doorway.

"I think you're well aware what we would like." Bellatrix fingered her wand, black eyes flashing.

"Well, I'd actually like a reminder." Harmony countered, desperately trying to buy some time so her and Sirius could think of a plan. If they ran back into Honeydukes, they were giving the Death Eaters a definite way into Hogwarts - assuming they didn't know how Harmony and Sirius had gotten out here.

What was the use of even trying to think up something? They weren't getting out of this sticky web.

"Stop playing games, girl, and come with us quietly." a silky voice snapped. "Master informed us this was to be a quiet capture."

"And quiet it will be." a soft voice murmured back. It was almost a warning.

While the Death Eaters were busy chatting back and forth, Harmony was suddenly struck with an idea. They were in Hogsmeade. They could apparate. Why did it take a hundred years for Harmony to clue into this?

The masked Death Eaters continued to chit-chat and taunt while Harmony turned to Sirius. With shaking hands, she pretended to pull a fleck of dust out of his mop of gorgeous black hair. It was such a casual gesture for the situation they found themselves in, and Harmony was sure her unsteady fingers would give them away.

"Disapparate us." she breathed. "I would but I don't know where to-"

"What's that?" Bellatrix said, quick as a whip. "What're you whispering?"

"I didn't say a word." Harmony lied smoothly, desperately willing her hands to stop shaking in fear and anxiety. Her heart was lurching and pounding all over the place so much it was painful. If only Sirius could just hurry up, they needed to get somewhere safe where they could tell Dumbledore and the Ministry that there were bloody fucking Death Eaters in Hogsmeade-

"Don't lie." Bellatrix hissed, moving away from the clump of black cloaked Death Eaters and towards the two teens practically pressed against the decorated glass of the Honeydukes shop. "I know where you live, your family, your friends, your friends' family. I know it all, Harmony Sea, and don't think for a second I wouldn't hesitate in killing the lot of them."

"I-I-" Harmony stuttered, waves of fear crashing over her. Thankfully, Sirius must have caught onto the message from Harmony before because he chose that moment to grip Harmony's hand.

"Lovely chat, cuz, but we've got previous engagements." Sirius cut in. He cackled, and a vein started to throb in Bellatrix's forehead from fury. Before she could do anything, Sirius had turned on the spot with Harmony and they were being squeezed through the tight, airless tube of apparation.

Sirius landed unstably on his feet, and used a stone wall to keep his balance. Harmony, however, landed much more ungracefully with her long dark mass of curly hair flying everywhere and her trainer falling off. "Some-" Harmony gasped for air. "-warning would be nice."

"I'll keep that in mind when we're outnumbered almost seven-to-one by Death Eaters next time." Sirius muttered sarcastically.

"Bloody hell, Sirius, thank you." Harmony threw her arms around his broad shoulders, and he slipped his around her back.

She pulled back, still shaken up. "Where are we?"

"Ministry," Sirius replied. "I reckon we tell them Death Eaters are in Hogsmeade, and I think we should see about your parents and sister staying in a different home for a little while until the Death Eaters calm down from this encounter."

"Good idea. Ryan will be pleased. He told me he didn't want them living there while the Death Eaters knew where we live." Harmony informed Sirius as he entered a small telephone booth.

Despite the moment, Harmony looked in admiration at Sirius' beauty. All of his features just added up so perfectly together and it made his face almost striking to the eye.

She needed to focus.

Harmony watched as Sirius hurriedly dialled 6-2-4-4-2 on the little telephone, his shoulder blades moving under his shirt with every move of his arm; his tense muscles flexing unintentionally. She was so dazed that she didn't even stop to think about how in the world Sirius knew the code to type in. He spoke to the cool, metallic-sounding voice and then suddenly, a pair of grey eyes were looking back at her. She blushed furiously and looked away, realizing that the phone booth was slowly sinking into the ground.

Harmony felt Sirius' fingers curl underneath her chin, pulling her attention back to him. "Do I have food on my face?" he chuckled softly, pulling Harmony closer to him, his grey eyes sparkling despite the serious situation.

Harmony laughed weakly, suddenly feeling self-conscious. This boy was too beautiful; and there she was all plain and not beautiful. How could she compare to him? That was why all the girls whispered in the halls. It was just Sirius Black and that unattractive Harmony Sea girl.

"What's wrong?" he whispered, making goosebumps erupt on her skin where his breath tickled her.

She looked up at him quickly, then back down. What was wrong with her? Shit, Harmony may as well start wearing low-cut tight shirts like Tianna, since she was sure thinking like her.

Harmony had never wanted to punch herself so hard. Seriously, she was getting worked up about her physical looks when they were almost bloody fucking killed by Death Eaters? How did they even know Sirius and Harmony were leaving the castle? Was Bellatrix being completely serious about going after her family?

"Nothing, Sirius. Just shaken up. And worried." Harmony told him. Light was coming from the bottom of the box as they descended into the brightly-lit ministry.

An unspoken agreement passed between them as they grabbed each other's hands and bolted out of the warm telephone booth, following the signs to the Head Auror Office and completely disregarding the official-looking badges the phone booth spit out at them earlier.

"Sir-" a ministry official shouted after them as they ran right by the wand-examiner's desk.

Sirius navigated his way while Harmony followed on his heels. Finally, they entered a long, bright hallway where a dozen doors stood with various names written on them. Some were ajar, revealing WANTED posters with the brutal faces of Death Eaters. Harmony tried not to marvel at the fact that they went from completely calm, to Death Eaters in fucking Hogsmeade panic, to what-the-hell-how-did-I-get-all-the-way-in-London-from-bloody-fucking-Hogwarts-in-Scotland confusion. All that could happen in the span of twenty minutes was astounding.

"Head office or what?" Harmony panted, looking around frantically before a wave of Ministry officials caught up to the two frazzled-looking teenagers running through the Ministry of Magic.

"Yeah," Sirius strode to the end of the hall and only hesitated for a second before barging in the office titled HEAD AUROR on the door in gold block letters.

Harmony gazed in shock at the scene before her, Sirius struggling with a similar reaction.

"Fuck," a slimy-looking man with black hair and dark, small eyes who was probably in his mid-fifties muttered, the woman on his lap removing her hands from him and sliding off. She smirked at the teens in the doorway as she buttoned up her tight blouse.

Harmony just lost all respect for the man in front of her, and she threw down her hands in defeat already as she muttered, "Fucking hell."

Sirius cleared his throat. "Are you the head auror?"

The man wasn't listening. He was looking at the young brunette. "We'll speak more of your promotion tomorrow. Good night."

Harmony couldn't contain herself. She looked at the smug brunette a she fixed her hair and gathered some papers off the desk. "What happened to talent for promotions?"

The brunette looked stunned at Harmony's bluntness for a second. "What happened to beauty for hanging around with boys like that?" she jerked her head in Sirius' direction, sending him a bleach-toothed smile.

"Depends on what you consider beauty." Sirius said smoothly. "If you consider yourself beautiful, than you are way off on your perspective."

She looked offended but still didn't stop throwing herself at Sirius. "You're hilarious! How about we go out for a drink sometime, love?"

Harmony completely forgot about the Death Eaters for a moment a she became slightly nauseous watching this brunette with her big boobs make moves on Sirius.

"How about no." Sirius said coldly. "Could you leave? We have an emergency to discuss with him." Sirius pointed in direction of the wizard sitting behind the desk. The lady swiftly exited the office with an angry grunt.

"How can I help you?" the man asked, bored. "And how did you even get in here?"

Like Atlas the Titan from Greek mythology, it suddenly felt like the weight of the world crashed down on Harmony. Her stomach went in knots. They had wasted so much time. "Sir - Death Eaters. Loads of them. In Hogsmeade. I think they've probably left, and I have a feeling they're going for my family as we speak because we apparated out of there and they wanted to take me somewhere." Harmony burst in one breath.

"What-?" the man started. Harmony read his name plate on his desk. It was printed in the same gold letters as the words on the door. "That's impossible. Why on Earth would a load of Death Eaters want a random teenage girl?" Harold Parker asked.

"A prophecy was made about her, and I really don't have time to explain it right now. Please sir, I'm begging you, just send a couple aurors to get her family away from her house. Her parents are muggles and she has a six-year old sister who's a witch." Sirius pleaded urgently.

"Ah, a muggleborn, eh? And please, I can see through all that prophecy bullshit." Parker leaned back in his chair, putting his arms behind his head. "So, what did you actually come here for? To see a load of my aurors rush off into some sort of prank?"

"Mr. Parker! I swear we aren't lying. Floo Professor Dumbledore! We're sixth-years at Hogwarts!" Harmony cut in, her hands starting to shake. After all that, he had to believe them. He had to.

"I don't know what kind of game you're playing at, but my aurors will not participate in it. You may leave." Parker fluttered his fingers in a run along gesture

Harmony lost it. "Now you listen to me right now, Harold Parker." She slammed her hands down on the desk, spilling a glass of some liquid strongly smelling like alcohol. "I have been dealing with these Death Eaters for months now. How do you think it feels to find out that suddenly Lord fucking Voldemort is after me because some prophecy was made that I will kill most of his army one day? How do you think it feels when I think I'm having a normal day and then suddenly they show up and all hell breaks loose? How do you think it feels to find out that they tried to attack my defenceless family? How do you think it feels to lose massive amounts of sleep due to horrific nightmares of Bellatrix Lestrange torturing my six-year old sister every fucking night? Or my best friends? Or the other half of my constellation? Let me tell you from first hand experience that it is not a walk in the park, you git. So go assemble a fucking group of aurors right now and get my family the fuck away from that house before I go do it for you."

Parker surveyed Harmony for a moment, taking in her mass of dark curly hair to her wild eyes. Something in his face shifted, and for a brief second Harmony finally saw the face of a man who was once a very skilled and respected auror before booze and greed got to him. "Very well. Your name?"

"Sea. Harmony Sea." Harmony was still panting a little bit, and Sirius pulled her shaking frame to his side more tightly, stroking her hair lightly, his eyes alert. She just felt like crying. She didn't want to deal with all this fucking bullshit, but no one else should have to deal with it any more than she should. Maybe it was a good thing she was the girl chosen for all this. Maybe it was a good thing that her life was basically perfect before, and still is, minus this whole Voldemort thing. Maybe it's a good thing that it wasn't some depression-worn girl with no family and one friend who stabs in her the back constantly.

Parker left the room. "You're nightmares are still bad?" Sirius whispered.

Harmony exhaled and nodded a little, finding comfort in Sirius' familiar scent. "I went through a period where they weren't so bad. Well it only lasted about four days. I've learned to control them, so I don't have anymore episodes like that other time."

"Shit, Harms. You should wake me when it happens." Sirius said worriedly. Then he tacked on quietly, "You have nightmares about me, too?"

"Unfortunately. But look, seriously they aren't as bad as everyone thinks they are. I think that this is just a phase and it'll wear out in a couple weeks."

"I'm sorry." Sirius said genuinely, and Parker walked back in.

"They are going now. I've sent five."

"They'll be outnumbered three to one, but I appreciate your efforts." Harmony managed to choke out.

"I suggest you Floo back into Hogwarts. I will inform your headmaster immediately."

"No, I need to stay here in case something happens. I need to know." Harmony said.

"I'm staying, too." Sirius informed them.

"Fine." Parker sensed that there was no arguing with these two teens when they had their mind up.

Harmony and Sirius plopped down on the leather couch on the opposite side of the office. Harmony started to tremble, and Sirius laced his fingers through hers, resting their entwined hands on her thigh. "Shh," he whispered. "They'll be fine." Harmony used her other hand to fiddle with the leather bracelet around Sirius' wrist which was a birthday present from Harmony given to him the night before. She envied her state of mind last night - drunk and blissfully unaware of the events that would take place the day after.

"You reckon?" Harmony breathed.

"Yeah," Sirius breathed back.

"I sure as hell hope so. I don't know what I'm going to do if they're not, Sirius, I really don't." Harmony started panicking, all her nightmares flashing through her mind at lightning speed. She bit her lip, drawing blood.

"It's okay, Harmony. It's going to be okay. I'm here for you." Sirius told her, like the O-level boyfriend that he was.

"And I'm thankful for that." Harmony said sincerely, smiling a little bit, forcing her overactive imagination to quit creating 1000 ways to die featuring Death Eaters in her head. "Sirius, what I would like to know is how the Death Eaters knew we were going to be in Hogsmeade." Harmony whispered so Parker couldn't hear.

Sirius' gorgeous eyes flashed to Harmony's for a second. "You don't reckon-"

"-that our little stalker is feeding information to Voldemort? Yeah, I do." Harmony breathed back.

A conversation passed between the teens with their eyes. This stalker needed to be discovered.

They waited for another twenty minutes in complete, anxious silence. All of the sudden, a man burst in the room, a cut dripping scarlet beads of blood down his forehead. He was dressed in auror robes; dark blue material, an official Ministry of Magic Badge attached to the front, and combat boots with his wand holder secured around his waist. "Arrived when we did. Little girl got hurt, everyone is at St. Mungo's now. Managed to get the family out, lots of-of..." to everyone's astonishment, the man fainted, the blood pouring out of his wound at now a heavy flow.

"Damn," Mr. Parker muttered, grabbing the man. He sounded slightly surprised, like he was still weary that Harmony and Sirius were telling the truth. "Mungo's." he shot over his shoulder at Sirius and Harmony, then he disapparated on the spot with the other auror.

"Little-little girl is hurt?" Harmony started to shake violently, her stomach dropping, her heart pounding. She grasped Sirius' hand and apparated right into the waiting room at the hospital.

"Yes?" the annoyed old lady behind the desk asked irritably when Harmony stumbled over in a state of panic.

"A little girl was hurt and came in about ten minutes ago from a Death Eater attack. Where is she?" Sirius asked, his eyes darting to Harmony. Harmony couldn't process anything. She couldn't. Please let her be okay, please let her be okay-

"What are you, friends of the family? You don't look much like the little girl." the lady leaned back and pursed her raspberry stained lips.

"I'm her sister, now where is she?" Harmony screeched hysterically. Please let her be okay, please let her be okay, please let her be okay, please let her be okay-

"Straight down the hall, to the left, and it's the second door on your right." the nurse snapped.

Harmony bolted, Sirius following pursuit. Bursting into the hospital room, the teens discovered two adults surrounding a bed.

Sirius stood back as Harmony rushed forward to the little girl perched on the bed. "Charlotte?"

"Harmony!" the girl squealed. Her head was heavily bandaged, the wound leaking scarlet blood underneath. Sirius saw Harmony's frame relax as she assessed the wound. Not too bad.

"Are you two okay? What the hell happened?" she addressed her parents while Sirius took them in.

Harmony was a shocking resemblance to her mother; dark brown curly hair, hazel-green eyes, prominent cheekbones, and there was something in the way they stood that was so alike. Her father, on the other hand also passed some genes onto Harmony - same thick eyelashes, nose and smile.

No one was smiling at that moment, though. "They just started appearing, then the good lot came, and everyone was fighting, and someone got Char in the head. What are you doing here, Harmony? Why aren't you at school?" Harmony's mother said tearfully.

"But I'm fine now, Harms." Charlotte quipped. Sirius slid his eyes over to Charlotte and was shocked. She looked so similar to Harmony, yet so different. They had the same wild curls, same lips, same cheeks, same eyelashes. But Charlotte...there was something so odd about her. An old soul in a young body. She was a beautiful child, her eyes large, crystal clear and blue, her body so petite and dainty, her round cheeks accented by a rosy blush. That was all alike Harmony…but it was all so different at the same time. Charlotte's eyes met Sirius' and she cocked her head ever so slightly, taking him in.

Harmony's parents followed their youngest daughter's gaze and their eyes also landed on Sirius. He was suddenly very aware that he was in plaid pyjama bottoms.

Harmony picked up on the oncoming awkwardness. "Mum, Dad, this is Sirius Black." Sirius noted how she didn't include their current relationship status. Harmony Sea; the girl who was scared of spiders and her parents.

"Pleasure," Sirius stepped forward and shook Harmony's father's hand, which was firm and sincere. Sirius turned, nodded and smiled weakly at Harmony's mother.

"Are you a friend from school?" Harmony's mother asked, her eyes curious.

"Yes." Harmony jumped in.

Sirius cracked a smile at Harmony's discomfort and replied, "Yes, ma'm."

"Please, call me Adrianne, dear." Adrianne smiled kindly, and after a couple seconds she turned back to Charlotte.

"And me Jack." Harmony's father was still surveying Sirius with a calculating gaze laced with amusement.

Sirius turned to Harmony's sister, not being able to resist her adorableness. "What shall I call you?"

Her blue eyes concentrated on him steadily for a moment, a little crease appearing in her forehead as she thought. She looked so alike Harmony at that angle that Sirius was taken aback. "Just Charlotte, I think."

"Well I'm just-Sirius, just-Charlotte." Sirius smiled as the little girl giggled.

Harmony went back over to her little sister's side again. "How do you feel?" Harmony affectionately played with a hair ringlet of her little sister's.

"Peachy." Charlotte replied. "But Harms...who were those scary people? They wanted to hurt us."

Sirius' heart broke a little.

"They're bad guys, Char. But that's why the good guys are giving you another home to live in for a while, so the bad guys don't bug you again." Harmony leaned over and kissed her little sister on her cheek. "But you're safe now, love."

Harmony's tear-filled terrified eyes sought out Sirius', as he was the only one who could comprehend how far away that truth was. It might as well have disappeared when the supernova occurred. No one was safe, no matter how much they all tried to convince themselves otherwise.