Dumbledore passed April a small piece of paper that had an address written on it.
"I don't understand?"
"Just think about what is written on the piece of paper and it will appear."
April looked back down at the paper and thoughtNumber 12, Grimmauld Place, London. Then right in front of her eyes a house began erect in between number 11 and number 13. Dumbledore took the piece of paper and ignited it on fire with his wand and it burnt to a pile of ash on the ground. Dumbledore gave April's shocked face at a house appearing out of nowhere a small smile and walked towards the front door. April followed him and stood behind him as he tapped his wand on the door and it swang open. Dumbledore stepped over the threshold and April followed closing the door behind her. All of a sudden curtains flew open and a portrait of women started screaming "blood traitors, filth, staining the house of my forefathers." Dumbledore pointed his wand at the curtains and they shut on the screaming women.
Sirius was sitting in the kitchen when he heard the front door open. He wasn't expecting anyone from the order but he thought he would go and check it out. He walked into the hall way just as Dumbledore closed the curtains on his 'charming' mother.
"Albus, I wasn't expecting you." Dumbledore smiled and stepped aside to reveal a teenage girl who was about 14 or 15 with long black hair and grey/black eyes. April looked up at the man who had just spoken.
"Sorry about that Sirius." At the sound of his name tears sprang to her eyes. She opened and closed her mouth a couple of times before she could form any sound.
"Dad", Sirius looked at the girl and tears sprang to his identical grey/black eyes.
"April, is that you?" She just nodded and took a couple steps towards him. Sirius closed the rest of the gap between him and pulled his daughter into a hug for the first time since she was 1 year old. They pulled apart and Sirius held her at arms length taking in her appearance before pulling her into another tight hug.
"Are you thirsty or hungry?" April smiled at her dad
"No but can I put this bag down somewhere?"
"Of course head down the hall and turn left you can go hang out in the kitchen I was having a solitary dinner, I will be in to have dinner with my daughter. I never thought I would get to say that." April turned around and looked a Dumbledore.
"Thank you very much Albus for bringing me to my father." Dumbledore gave her a little bow.
"You are very welcome Miss April, I'm sure I will be seeing you soon." With that April turned around and followed the directions her father had given her. Sirius looked at Albus with gratitude in his eyes.
"Thank you so much Albus for bringing her to me, I never thought I would see my baby girl again." Dumbledore gave Sirius a warm smile.
"You are welcome Sirius, and she loves you very much." Then Dumbledore turned and left.
Sirius walked into the kitchen and still couldn't believe that his daughter was sitting at the table.
"Are you thirsty? Do you want a Butter beer?"
"What now?" Sirius smiled
"It's a drink, I think you will like it" April shrugged
"Yeh ok" Sirius went to the fridge and grabbed two Butter beers and passed one to his daughter sitting down opposite his little girl.
"Dad, I'm really sorry you thought I didn't love, or want to know you. But those letters that Dumbledore got, my mum wrote them I didn't even know you were my father until this morning. You have to believe me." Sirius looked his daughter,
"Sweetie, I do believe you, but how did you find out." April bent down and unzipped her bag, when she sat up straight she was holding the wooden carved box which she had found in the attic.
"I found this in the attic." Sirius looked at the box and sighed.
"I gave your mother that for her 17th birthday; it has a secret compartment where I had put a silver heart bracelet." April looked confused and opened the box.
"I didn't find a secret compartment or bracelet but I did find these". And she pulled out the photos, letters and the birth certificate. Sirius looked through the photos, and read through the letters.
"So this is how you figured out that I was your father?" April nodded,
"Then I took it all to mum and demanded the truth, and she told me everything." Sirius gave his daughter a small smile and pulled the box towards him, he pulled out his wand and tapped the inside of the box on the left side and a little draw popped out, and there it was the bracelet he had given the love of his life. Sirius pulled out the bracelet and handed it to April.
"I want you to have this." April extended her hand and took the beautiful silver bracelet with a heart pendent with a small diamond imbedded into the top left corner of the heart.
"Its beautiful dad, but I can't accept this", Sirius looked at his daughter,
"Yes you can, I want you to have it." April nodded and put it on her right wrist.
"Thank you dad", Sirius gave his daughter a small smile
"You never have to thank me for anything, but you're welcome."
They sat there drinking there Butter beers and catching up. Mainly it was April telling Sirius about her life as he had been locked up in Azkaban. Although Sirius did entertain April some stories of the pranks he and his friends used to pull at Hogwarts.
"You know I actually came to visit you last year." April looked at him shocked.
"What how, why didn't I see you", Sirius smiled
"Well I didn't come as me I came as Padfoot." April raised her eyebrows
"You mean you came as a dog." Sirius smiled and stood up and transformed into a great big black shaggy dog. April smiled and patted him.
"I think I actually, possibly remember you, there was a dog hanging around my street for about a week. That was you wasn't it?" Sirius turned back into himself and smiled.
"Yep that was me. I got where you lived out of Dumbledore but because I'm still on the run I didn't dare approach you as a human, also I believed you knew I was your father and didn't want to know me." April blinked back fresh tears.
"I love you dad and if I had known I would have been here in a heartbeat."
They continued talking until April tried to stifle a yawn, but Sirius saw.
"Come on, I'll show you to our room." They both stood up and April grabbed her duffel bag. Sirius led April up two flights of stairs and came to a landing with three doors. One had a plaque that read Sirius, another had a plague that read Regulus and the final door was blank.
"This is my room", he said pointing to the door with his name on it,
"And this is yours", he said pointing to the blank door.
"Thank you dad", April gave her dad a huge hug and he kissed her on the head.
"Oh yeh dad I brought this with me thought you might like to have it", April reached into her duffel bag and extracted a black leather bound photo album. Sirius took the photo album from her and opened it to the first page.
"Its pictures of me growing up, I thought seeing as you were cheated out of not being there you might like to have it." Sirius gave his daughter a watery smile and pulled her into another hug.
"Good night dad" Sirius kissed her on the head again,
"Good night April, see you in the morning."
Sirius went into his old room and sat on his bed. He opened up the album and looked at his little girl. There were photos from her birthdays of her Veronica and a man he knew had taken his place. Sirius laughed at some of the photos and tears came to his eyes at others. There were photos at what looked like April's school and there was a photo with something on her leg. Sirius looked thought all the photos and although seeing his daughters life without him in it was hard he was glad she had given it to him.