Happy Endings
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Disclaimer: if you haven't gotten it by now, I don't expect you to.
Sirius and I had decided to pretend nothing had happened. Or rather, I had decided. There was no use in getting cold feet this close to the wedding, especially when I had told Lex the whole thing was going to proceed as planned.
The next weeks passed just like all the others. Sirius and I avoided each other, and I avoided James who was known to snap at Sirius for no apparent reason. It was about a month before the wedding that I noticed a serious change in Olivia. She was rarely talking or eating. Her social activities had dropped, and her moods seemed unpredictable and unusual. When I told Lex about my concerns he said that she was nervous about the wedding, either that or getting ready to start her monthly cycle.
The strange thing was, she seemed even closer to Sirius. In fact, he was the only one she wasn't moody towards, and just about every evening I found them talking, heads bent together over the table, working on something or another. This made me slightly apprehensive, and annoyed that she was confiding in the mass murder instead of her mother. But, I gave it time and let it be. As long as she was talking to someone, I didn't mind.
My mother was not marrying Alexander. I refused to let this wedding go through. They were all wrong for each other. I knew that Alexander would want children of his own. Then, another baby would come along and James, Anna, and I would play second fiddle to his precious child. Mom never noticed the way that he would steer her away from any conversations about future children, or the way he would always sling an arm around her waist. Some would call this love, enduring even. I knew it was obsession. I may have only been thirteen, but something wasn't right with Alexander Witherstone III and I was going to figure out what.
The first step was enlisting the help of someone else. Naturally, my first choice would be James. But since he was spending his summer days with his girlfriend, and his evenings out partying, there was no chance he'd listen to me. Anna was preparing for her final years of school, and she didn't care either way about Alexander and Mom. So there was no help to be found there. Then, I realized that Sirius had a little bit of experience with the whole rule-breaking thing. He was my third choice. And surprisingly, he was happy to oblige.
As our time until the wedding grew shorter and shorter, I found more and more about the relationship my father had with my mother. It was truly an interesting one. It turns out that they technically were still married. And my mom had to get divorce papers signed by an attorney and Sirius before she could legally be remarried. This intrigued me and I began to set a plan in motion.
Sirius agreed that he would not under any circumstances sign the bloody papers. This meant that the wedding would most likely be postponed another month or so until mom could convince Sirius to sign the thing, (all this was hypothetical of course). And then Alexander would find out that my mother was still married. He would be furious and then of course demand for a cancellation of the whole thing. Naturally, all this was assuming that Sirius could resist the papers.
His will was tested one bright June morning, exactly one month before the thing was to take place. My mom slipped it into conversation casually, almost as though it was a total accident. I knew otherwise. Sirius, just as smoothly, changed the conversation to Anna's short length. James got furious that he was attempting to 'play Father' again. And this caused mom to have an all out argument with my older brother about being polite. James naturally got mad, and stormed out in a huff. Mom had to go to work and in between that and James, the topic was forgotten.
That night, my mom went out with Alexander, Anna was at a friend's house, and James was off "eating pizza with Kyle's family". No one believed him. But mom let him go anyone and she planned on calling at midnight if he wasn't home yet. This left Sirius and I to our own devices for dinner and the evening.
It was as we were eating Italian take-out that I decided to ask Sirius the one thing I had been wondering since he walked in the front door nearly a month ago.
"Why'd you leave us?"
He put down his fork and frowned. It seemed as if he wanted to tell me, but he didn't know how. "It's sort of complicated Olivia."
"I can handle it."
He smiled. "I know. But what if I can't?"
"I'll get you through it."
He nodded and then wiped his mouth on a napkin. "As you know, I had three good friends in school. We did everything together. James Potter was just about my blood brother. His parents had even considered adopting me a few weeks before I turned seventeen. I turned them down because I wanted to keep my last name and bring as much 'dishonor' in my parents' eyes, to it as I could.
"When we were twenty-one, James and his wife Lily were told that Voldermort was hunting them, them and their two week old son. A secret keeper was decided, and over a year later the spell was preformed. At first, it was planned that I was to be the secret keeper. You know the one who would hide their existence in my soul, so to speak. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I was far too obvious. In fact, the only person who wouldn't be suspected was Peter Pettigrew, another one of our friends. He was the weakling so to speak, the one person who no one would suspect. So I convinced Lily and James to switch secret keepers at the last minute. One week after the spell had been put on; Lily and James were found dead in their home and Harry had been marked with a scar. Voldermort had vanished, presumed to be dead.
" When I saw what had happened, I knew Peter was a spy and I had led Voldermort to my best friends. So, I said goodbye to your mother, and hunted him down, with every intention of coming home after I had cleared my name and killed Peter. But he fooled me yet again by pinning the blame on me and then, blasting apart the street, killing twelve muggles and making himself appear dead by chopping off his finger and turning into a rat. By the time the Aurrors showed up he was long gone, and I was carted off to Azkaban. As soon as I got there, I realized how stupid I was for letting my hatred towards someone ruin the love I felt for others. I cried that night, because I realized that Peter had really won. Olivia, I am so sorry for leaving you. Please, you have to know I never wanted to leave you, you or your brother and sister, or your mother. I thought I would come back. If only I'd-"
"It's ok Sir-, dad. I forgive you."
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A/N: Slightly late update, but school has been horrible. So, oops. I hope you like this chapter. It's pretty short, but kind of important. I didn't want to put in too much information or else it would over clog it and then make the whole point of Olivia and Sirius's talk seem insignificant. Read and Review!!
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MJ16