Sorry for the wait I have had loads to do with school work. This chapter will link up the dream and the attack for anyone that got confused, Please if you read this story, review it would be good to here from everyone that has viewed it and to know what you like and don't like but most most importantly if I can improve. So please review otherwise I will be sitting here wondering whether or not the story is good enough to carry on, Thanks guys :) xx
Chapter 4-
Sirius POV
"Uh oh" Charlie said loudly
We all turned to look at her, as she jumped off Sirius' lap and tried to pull his hand,
"Come on Daddy quickly, we have to run, there coming" she cried desperately, by now all of us were looking worried at the young girl,
"Baby what's..." but Sirius didn't get to finish before Charlie started shouting at him to run,
"DADDY NOW!" we all jumped up panicked
"Charlie what's wrong who's coming" I asked urgently
There was a moment of silence until she said,
"The snake man daddy" Sirius paled and looked around just as the explosions began.
At the first bang and scream I grabbed Charlie in my arms and levitated our bags to the corner where no one would trip over. The snake man? Voldemort?
Charlie screamed again,
"UNCLE MOONY MOVE!" and he did just in time for the building behind him to be hit with the killing curse, for a moment the chaos around me stopped and I looked down at Charlie in astonishment how did she know that Remus was in the way of the spell?
"DADDY MOVE! "and as I ducked down another green spell shot over my head, I was in a complete daze, but I had to keep Charlie safe, so I took out my wand and began to run following James and Lily who also had their wands out, Frank had already gone towards to the chaos to fight, while Remus was grabbing Alice and Maddie's arms and turning them away, having more trouble with Alice who was screaming for Frank to come back.
My mind was in two places; one in the fight and two Charlie's dream, she had obviously known that me and Remus would be hit by the spells and in her dream we were killed by the killing curse or the green light as she called it. So far Voldemort wasn't here but it was only too soon after my thought that someone screamed,
"HE'S HERE!" the screaming increased and people were falling left, right and centre. Most of the first, second and third years had ran and hidden in shops while 4th years and up had stayed out to fight. I kept running until I got to a small alley way,
"Charlie I need you to stay here, I'll put an invisibility charm on you so you won't be seen but you must not move do you understand me" I asked her in a hushed panicked tone.
She nodded once her face completely ashen,
"Go that way" she pointed at the opposite way from where we came, I nodded back at her and kissed her on the fore head before leaning back and muttering the incantation to make her invisible.
I ran off in the way she told me, trusting her judgement, she had given me no reason not to everything she had said had come true.
As I arrived back at the centre of Hogsmede Voldemort and the death eaters were gone, leaving death and destruction in their wake. I walked over wand in hand to where the rest of our group were with James' father Robert Potter who was an Auror obviously on call for the attack.
"Sirius" James exclaimed as I walked over I saw the whole group sigh in relief and stiffen again when they noticed Charlie was missing,
"Where's Charlie Sirius" Robert asked me, he was my dad, the dad I never had. When I ran away from home it was the only place I knew I would be welcomed with open arms and when Charlie was born I was the first to tell him and Rose (my thought of mother) that they were Grandparents which they gladly accepted.
"She's in an alley way covered by a spell" I told him
"Well I think all the death eaters are gone now so you can bring her back" he smiled reassuringly at me, just as Rose came over from healing the injured. Rose had been a healer at St. Mungos since she had graduated from Hogwarts and was now the most sought after healer in England.
"Sirius darling are you okay" She asked me concerned
"I'm fine mum" I said reassuring her. I had taken to calling her mum after she insisted that I was a son to her and she wanted me to feel like her mother, not that I didn't already but she just wanted it to be more official. "I was just going back to get Charlie" I finished
"She's not here?" She asked worried, calming down when Dad told her where Charlie was, "I see well I think I will come with you, it's been a couple of weeks since I saw her"
So both my parents and I were walking back to where I left Charlie, telling them about how she had seen this event in her dream and managed to save myself and Remus' lives.
"Has she shown signs of this before" mum asked
"No, not that I'm aware of" I replied quickly, desperate to get back to my baby.
As we arrived at the alley way I waved my wand and Charlie became visible, her eyes surrounded by red as a result of her crying,
"Daddy" She cried, I opened my arms to catch her when she reached for me.
"Its okay baby it's all over now" I murmured reassuringly into her hair while stroking her back in a rhythmic pattern.
"Has the mean mens all gone now" She asked me but it was dad who answered
"Yes sweetie all the bad people are gone everyone is okay and waiting for you back at the school okay" He told her reaching out and stroking the top of her head.
"Nanny" Charlie said as she reached out for her grandmother, who gladly took Charlie into her waiting arms,
"It's all okay lee-lee" She said using the nickname she used for Charlie.
"Did you make all of the poorly peoples feel better" Charlie asked while playing with her nannies hair,
"Yes all the poorly peoples are in the hospital now, so they should be fine and right as rain in no time" She smiled and despite everything that had just happened, seeing my little girl smile made everything seem better.
Alice POV
As Sirius, Robert and Emma walked back to get Charlie, I began to look around frantically trying to find Frank in the crowds of people trying to find their friends and loved ones. I looked at Lily desperately who came over and hugged me reassuringly.
"Alice he is trained for situations like this I'm sure he's fine" She told me while stroking my back but I knew she was only trying to keep me calm the truth of the matter was that she didn't know where Frank was if he was even still alive.
"Lily we only just got together and you probably think I'm stupid for getting in a state about all this but I just I- I just" I couldn't even finish my sentence as tears trickled out of my eyes,
"You're not stupid Alice, it doesn't matter how long you have been together in fact it just proves how strong your feelings are for each other, I know as your best friend that your falling for him" She whispered the last part into my ear.
She smiled at me as she was called over by some girl in Ravenclaw, I wiped my tears and gestured for her to go smiling at her hoping to show her that I was okay and I could handle it, but my thoughts wouldn't leave me alone Frank could be out there trapped under the rubble or dead for all I know, but all of the thoughts stopped as I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist, I turned sharply readying myself to snap at whoever dared to touch me when I looked into familiar brown eyes,
"Frank" was all I got out before I launched myself at him; he wrapped his arms around me as I sobbed into his neck,
"Hey it's okay everything's okay now" he murmured into my neck
"I'm sorry this is stupid" I lowered my head looking at my feet, but he tilted my head up with a finger under my chin and briefly kissed my lips which left me tingling all over,
"It's not I love you Alice" he said looking me directly in the eye and my heart stopped "I know you may think it's too soon to say that but I've had a crush on you since I was 14 and when the attack started I just knew that I love you, but I understand if you don't fee-"I stopped him there as kissed him so hard that lost his balance and stumbled back, regaining his balance and kissing me back.
As we broke apart our lips not much more than millimetres from each other I whispered to him,
"I love you too, you have no idea how long I have wanted to be with you." He smiled and I returned the favour as he pulled me into a breathtaking hug melting away all my fears and worries all that mattered was that I was in his arms, he loved me and I loved him, Voldemort could do whatever the hell he wanted because I knew that Frank would always get me through it and love was the strongest of all spells.
Sirius POV
Walking back to the rest of the group Charlie holding one of dad's hands and one of my own and we counted to three and swung her in the air, smiling as she giggled.
Seeing the group now with Frank reunited with Alice we continued over and Charlie ran straight up to Remus,
"Uncle Moony" She cried running to him, wrapping her arms around him, "are you okay" she asked touching his face all over as if checking for injuries.
"I'm fine Charlie, thanks to you" he smiled gratefully at her just as Maddie began to talk to her,
"Thank you Charlie you're the reason Remus is still with us" she also smiled.
"I don't fink so Auntie Maddie, NANNY!" She shouted, mum turned quickly at her raised voice
"Yes darling." She answered seeing that there was no real danger.
"I needs you" Charlie called as she waved her little hand in a 'come here' motion. Mum walked over to her,
"What's wrong?" She looked at Charlie
"Uncle Moony mights be poorly, I need to use the boom boom to check." She asked with a dead serious face. The boom boom as Charlie called it was actually the stethoscope; she had used it on herself after she had gone through all of mums nursing tools while playing doctor. Mum just smiled at her and accioed the stethoscope,
"Here you go Nurse Charlie" She said playfully
"Thank you nurse Nanny" Charlie replied completely serious, "Come on Mr. Lupin you has to be checked out now" Remus grimaced but reluctantly followed 'Nurse Charlie' to the nearest bench, I laughed at Moony's reaction partly because I knew all about what he was going through (Charlie was always playing pretend with me) and partly because Remus wasn't getting out of anything and was completely under the control of a three year old girl, who not taking no for an answer until she had 'fixed' her Uncle Moony.
I heard the crack of aparation behind me and turned quickly, my wand still drawn, only to lower it when I saw that it was Dumbledore. Had he not come during the attack?
"Ah it's very nice to see all of you still standing here" he said gesturing to our group before his brow furrowed "Wait where is Remus and Charlie?" we all laughed and pointed over to the bench where Moony now had a badly wrapped bandage on his head and Charlie was listening intently to his heart beat through the tools her nanny was providing her with an amused expression covering her face.
"I see" was all he said with the twinkle in his eye and a trace of a smile on his lips before turning to me,
"Sirius I will need to speak to you urgently in my office and you will need to bring young Charlie." He said his voice giving nothing away but he was being serious.
"Okay" I said having an inkling on where this was going; I walked over to Charlie who was admiring her work of Remus' badly wrapped head,
"So Miss Charlie what's the diagnosis, will he live" I asked pretending to hold a clip board to take down notes,
"He be fine now daddy see I made him better, but Mr. Moony you has to take things gently now you might get an ouchies again." She said in a disapproving tone and wagging a finger at him.
"Yeah Moony for god sake, look after yourself," I mimicked Charlie
"Yeah for god's sake" Charlie repeated and I looked down at her great, another word I need to erase from her memory with ice cream bribes, I shook my head,
"Come on baby, Dumbledore needs to see us in his office to we are going to use the pop" Charlie always came up with names for magical and muggle things, for example aparation was the pop and the floo network was the magic fire.
"Okay" she got down off Moony's lap as he began to take the bandage off,
"NO!" she shouted at him, making half the people in the street turn to look at us "You has to leave it on" He smiled apologetically and I smirked at the amount of control Charlie could have over us.
As I turned on the spot Charlie automatically held me tighter, even thought she thought it was fun going from one place to another it still made her feel a little on the sick side. We landed in Dumbledore's office where he was waiting behind the desk sitting in the way I remembered from my fight with Malfoy.
"Ahh Sirius, Charlie do take a seat" as I did Charlie began to struggle on my lap to get down, I motioned to Dumbledore if it was okay to let her down and he just smiled,
"Let her go she will be fine" He winked at me, he knew how protective I was of her, and as I let her go she ran over to Fawkes and started to talk absentmindedly to him.
"Well Sirius I have been informed by your father of the matter of Charlie's dream." He began
"Yes" I began to tell him the details that Charlie had told me the night of her bad dream.
"This is a very uncommon gift even in the Wizading World, but from what you have said I can see no other explanation other than Charlie must be a psychic." I just stared at him dumbfounded, my sweet innocent little Charlie would be able to see horrible things like death.
"However it seems that her powers only work through her dreams, therefore nightmares will show disasters and death and dreams will show good fortune, not only is it a helpful power to have, as shown today, but also a curse Charlie will have to handle seeing what she will and may wake up screaming in the night, it will be important for you to wake her and ask what the dream was about immediately while the details are still fresh in her head." I just nodded I couldn't think of words to say, all I kept thinking about was how this would affect my poor baby girl.
"But what if she forgets overtime about the dreams" I questioned
"Psychics have the ability to have reminders given to them, such as images in their head, words of numbers which will trigger their memory to warn people about what will happen, which is what I believe happened today." He answered.
"Another thing Sirius you must not tell Charlie until she is old enough to understand or until I tell you, it is essential that we keep it between adults, you may tell your friends but only ones you trust completely, in case they need to wake Charlie from a dream." He told me complete seriousness etched on his face.
"I understand sir but why must I wait to tell her?" I asked confused again.
"This power is very uncommon and when young children have it and know about it, it can easily fall into the wrong hands, legends say that a young boy who possessed the same power told many people until he was drained of his power by a wizard until he died." My eyes widened,
"You mean if someone found out about Charlie some could want to... kill her" I said the last part in almost a whisper,
"Yes" he answered in the same quiet tone "unfortunately yes"
I turned to look at Charlie who was now playing with Fawkes, she looked so carefree and yet she had no idea about how much danger she could be in and if it was even possible I felt the need to protect her inside me grow.
"Now onto a lighter subject I have managed to reserve Charlie a space in a preschool from next Monday." He told me
"Oh.. Yeah" I said his voice bringing me from the future back to the present
"You can of course be excused from your first morning class to ensure that she settles in well." He smiled at me
"Thank you sir" I smiled back
"Not a problem my boy, now I think it's time that you took little Charlie to have a nap, she does look dreadfully tired from all the action today, I took the liberty of taking all the bags of shopping you brought at Hogsmede and put them into your dorm and I must say I did peek and some of the things in there will scare your professors to death" I laughed at him
"They were actually Charlie's choice I always end up spending too much on her when no-one is there to stop me." He laughed with me,
"Well in 8 or so years times we will be having the first Maraudette on our hands, be sure to pass down that map Mr. Black" I gaped at him as he winked
"How do you know about the map" I asked gobsmacked
He just smiled and tapped his nose and I shook my head at him he was Dumbledore of course he knew. I walked over to Charlie,
"Come on Charlie time for you to take a nap before dinner" I leaned down to pick her up, she gave Fawkes a big hug and kiss, I do admire that bird, the amount of times he has had to endure Charlie's hugs in all his lifetimes he sure was brave.
"Bye Bye" she waved at Dumbledore
"Goodbye Miss. Black" he replied and returned the wave as I shut the door behind me walking back to the common room, with Charlie on my hip and drawing shapes on my back until we got to the end of the corridor and I knew she had fallen asleep, her breathing had changed.
I walked past the group minus Frank talking on the sofas, the girls in their P.J's and boys in their sweats and t-shirts all getting for our dinner to arrive. The elves had been told to deliver food to the common rooms so that people could be with their friends and if need be think about their loved ones who may have been injured or killed in the attack.
As I laid Charlie down in bed, taking off her shoes and tucking her in I couldn't help but see how peaceful she looked and it made me feel sick that in a few hours she may be woken up by nightmares that could change the future. Then again as I looked down I saw my strong baby girl who I knew I would protect with all my heart,
"I love you Charlie Francesca Black and I will protect until my last breath." I whispered truthfully to her while bending down and kissing her forehead and both her cheeks, before walking to the door and down the stairs to rejoin my friends and tell them all about my talk with Dumbledore.