His light in the dark

by Just so Sirius

When Sirius Black's daughter is born just before he turns 15, she becomes the light in his darkness. Three years later and Charlie is an adorable toddler with her fathers mischievious ways. Follow Charlie and Sirius as they face loss, love and friendship. Can Sirius protect the light he loves so deep through these hard and dark times.

6. Chapter 6

Hi guys sorry it has taken me so long to post this chapter I have been really busy, but here it is, I made sure it was a bit longer this time, next chapter will be about Sirius' 'date' with Kate which has got a bit of twist in it ;) Please please review I still only have a minimum amount but it shows that people are still reading, it would mean a lot if you could just leave a few words, Thankyou all that have reviewed and read will update soon x

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Chapter 6- Love and hate

Sirius POV

Back at Hogwarts, I walked straight to the common room expecting everybody to be there only to be surprised to see that it was completely deserted and not even a little 1st year was in sight. I went up to the dormitory and again no-one was there, I even shouted up to the girls' dormitory to try and get some response. Seeing that I was not going to get one I ran back out to the corridor, beginning to think that something had seriously gone wrong.

The corridors were deserted and eerily silent all that could be heard was my frantic footsteps on the concrete floor, I turned the corner and stopped in my tracks when I saw Charlie sitting in the middle of the concrete smiling at me, I began to walk towards her relieved that I had found her but I was again stopped by a sound of a women's voice,

"Sirius" The voice that I know realised belonged to Kate called to me as I turned toward her, just as Charlie called me

"Daddy" I looked back at her and then again at Kate, Suddenly Kate walked forward and was at my side in an instant,

"Come" She took my hand and began to walk to the castle entrance door dragging me with her,

"Wait Charlie" I said looking over my shoulder at Charlie who was now standing holding her blankie staring at me, holding her arm out,

"Daddy" She called again no longer with a smile on her face

"Charlie!" I called louder this time and began to pull my arm from Kate's hand, but her grip was vice like and wouldn't budge.

"You don't need her anymore, you have me" and with that she smiled and stroked my cheek leaning in and giving me a feather like kiss on the lips before aparating, blurring my vision. The last thing I saw was Charlie screaming and crying for me to come to her.

I woke with a start and looked around my mind still hazy from the nightmare; I looked over at Charlie's bed and walked over pulling back the covers only to find a pillow in the shape of a body laying in the space that should have been occupied by my daughter,

"Charlie" I cried panicked

"BOO!" She shouted and slid out from beneath the bed grinning from ear to ear, I let out a relieved sigh and grabbed her and began to tickle her.

"AHH DADDY STOP!" She shrieked through her giggles, which of course woke up James and Remus who had now begun to get ready for the day.

I still hadn't plucked up the courage to tell them about my plans with Kate, however after my dream this morning I felt the need to tell them all and Charlie today, making sure that Charlie knew whatever happened I would always love and never leave her like I had so reluctantly done in my dream.

"You scared me baby girl" I grinned at her, "Look at you huh, using your pillow to fool me, you missy are the next generation of marauders, you and your little friends from school." I said proudly

"Yeah Luke, Ryan and Liam, yesterday was funny in the cupboard daddy it all went boom!" She laughed and made a gesture of an explosion with her hands, I laughed at her antics before becoming serious (again no pun intended)

"Charlie even though it was fun you must not do it again okay" I looked her in the eyes waiting for an answer.

"But Daddy..." She wailed

"No baby as funny as it was you were not supposed to take your things with you yesterday and you did so what did Auntie Lily say yesterday?" I questioned this was the parent side of me taking over.

"No prank stuffs for a week" she said looking down at her little bare feet.

When Lily had taken Charlie home she had made sure that Charlie understood what she had done was wrong and it shouldn't be done again. I always let Lily handle the prank incident discipline, because Remus, James and I always seemed to laugh and congratulate her on it. However all her other discipline was dealt with by my, normally she would be banned from something for a certain period of time or sent to the dormitory to think about what she had done. She was never smacked, ever and I made it clear to everyone in our group that she never would be, I think it may of been something to with my childhood when my Dad used to hit me, it made me swear to myself that if I had a child I would never ever hit them, even to show them right from wrong, it would be shown by another method no way would I take after my father. Ever.

"Exactly so if you keep doing the pranks at school Auntie Lily will take all your stuff away" I told her knowing that it would be exactly what Lily would do. Her mouth opened and her eyes widened,

"Bu- but Daddy you will stops her right" she asked giving me a hopeful look,

"Sorry baby girl but if you do it again then you know it will happen"

"I won't do it again I promise, pinkie promise, everything promise" She hugged me hard but then whispered in my ear "but only when Auntie Lily isn't looking" and with that she jumped off my lap and ran into the bathroom, leaving me stunned staring after her on the floor, She truly was a little devil.

Remus POV

Maddie and I were the ones taking Charlie to nursery today, we figured that we should probably work out a rota so that everyone had a chance at having their first morning lesson, instead of taking Charlie to school, not that anyone minded but, the teachers thought it would be a good idea so that we could still keep on top of our education, which we pointed out had not been messed up since the arrival of Charlie.

I walked down stairs to see Maddie reading a book on the sofa I smiled to myself remembering our first kiss in Hogsmede, it seemed so long ago but in reality it was only 3 days before. I walked over to the back of the couch and wrapped my arms around her shoulders and burying my face in her hair, laughing when she jumped and lost the page in her book,

"Morning beautiful" I whispered

"Hmm morning" She sighed in content

"Are you going to come with me to take Charlie today" I asked moving around the sofa to sit next to her, keeping my arm around her shoulders while my thumb skated over her pale skin.

"Yeah sure, I'd love too is Sirius okay with it?" she asked

"You know when it comes to Charlie he will never be okay with anything unless he does it himself, but I'm sure he will be fine." I told her smiling

We sat there talking for a little while snuggled up in front of the fire talking and laughing until the common room began to fill up with the before school morning rush when we were joined by Alice, Lily, James and finally Sirius and a hyperactive Charlie who was literally bouncing off the walls, excited about going to preschool and seeing her friends again,

"Umm guy's" Sirius called to all of us just as we were about to get Charlie off to school "I need to tell you all something" we all waited for him to continue, he no longer looked like the joking person he had been a minute ago in fact he looked a little bit nervous.

"Well you know Kate from the school..." we all nodded our heads "Well yesterday I kind of asked her out for dinner" He finished while rubbing the back of his neck, his signature nervous habit. We all looked at him before James stood up

"Nice one mate" that brought us out of our silence and we all began chatting again and as me and Maddie attempted to put a coat on a hyper three year old Sirius walked over and knelt down next to Charlie,

"Charlie, even though I like Kate I still love you very, very much and you are the most important thing in my life understand" Sirius asked sincerely but I don't think Charlie was in the right frame of mind for deep talk at nine in the morning,

"Kay daddy love you too bye, bye" She leaned forward and gave him a hug as he kissed the top of her head, she then went around all of our group and gave kisses and cuddles before coming back to us and holding mine and Maddie's hands as we walked out of the portrait hole.

We walked rather slowly down the corridors knowing it would only take seconds to floo and we still had 15 minutes, we had to occasionally stop to say hello to people who Charlie knew from the other houses, she was indeed very popular and at only three years old to.

"Ahh good morning, Mr. Lupin, Miss Jones and of course little Miss. Black" Dumbledore greeted us as we walked into his office, Charlie's hands secured in both mine and Maddie's after swinging her down the corridor,

"Hello" Charlie shouted letting go of our hands and running up to Dumbledore and hugging his legs, this child had seriously been eating sugar in her sleep. Dumbledore laughed and looked back up at us as we both shook our heads laughing.

"Well the fire place is set up for you so I shall see you when you get back yes?" Dumbledore informed us,

"Yes sir" we both said at the same time

"Come on Charlie or we will be late" Maddie said holding her hand out to Charlie who was once again talking and doing something that resembled a dance in front of Fawkes. She stood up after of course hugging Fawkes goodbye and took Maddie's hand as I watched them disappear into the green flames.

As I step out of the floo network to the outside of the school building I look over to where Maddie is now holding Charlie's hand and talking to an older women who is also holding the hand of one of the young boys who was involved in the toddler prank yesterday.

I walked over and put my arm around Maddie,

"Remus this is Sarah Liam's mother" she said gesturing to the little boy I smiled and we greeted each other and continued to talk as we were soon joined by, Lucy who was Ryan's mother and Tyler who was Liam's dad who also happened to be a young dad at 18, maybe Sirius and him would get along especially since their kids did.

We were called in and met Kate again and I kept thinking about her date with Sirius, I mean he had only seen her once in his life and they had barely exchanged two words,

"Hi Charlie nice to see you again" Kate looked down at Charlie and then back at us smiling "I don't mean to sound rude but which emergency contacts are you?" We all laughed and made hasty introductions before having to make our leave in time to get back to class,

"Charlie Auntie Maddie and I are leaving now" I told her

"Okay bye, bye" She ran up and gave us both big kisses and cuddles

"Bye sweetie, I'm not sure who it will be but one of us will be picking you up later okay" Maddie told her as she was hugging Charlie goodbye

"Okay" Charlie smiled and turned when Ryan called her to go and play, she quickly scrambled out of Maddie's arms trying to get down as quick as possible,

"Charlie behave today" She laughed

"Yeah, yeah, yeah" she waved me off, for a three year old she was incredibly sassy and confident.

"Right well, I'm not sure who is picking her up Kate but someone will be here and again I'm sorry for the mess yesterday" I explained

"Don't worry about it Remus it's cool really, could you tell Sirius that I'm looking forward to Saturday" She said looking down blushing

"Oh yeah we heard this morning, hope you have a good time" Maddie said

"I'm sure we will, well I hope anyway" We all said goodbye and together Maddie and I walked back to the floo feeling slightly sorry for Kate for not only having to look after little miss hyper but now also three hyper boy's.

Lily POV

I can't get him out of my head, this is ridiculous. Since our date... outing in Hogsmede I can't think of anything else. James fricking Potter.

"Hey Lily" Speak of the devil.

"Hi James" I replied blushing. Wait stop since when do I blush over Potter... Oh yeah.

"Lily I know this may not be the right time to bring this up" It really wasn't I was standing in the middle of the corridor trying to get to my next Ancient Runes lesson.

"But I need to know... I Hogsmede you said you would love to go on another date with, I can't take mixed signals Lils, Do you like me or not?" He asked looking me in the eyes. What was he some bloody mind reader.

"Yes" I breathed He just blinked at me

"What" he asked confused

" Yes James I do and I'm so sorry for saying no to you all these years now that I know what you're really like and I understand if your feelings have-" he cut me off with his lips pressing against mine and it felt... incredible.

I slid my arms around his neck as his arms made their way around my waist holding me flush against him and I savoured the closeness between us. His tongue slid over my bottom lip silently begging for permission, which I granted opening my mouth wider, I moaned lightly as his tongue touched mine and heard him growl deep in his throat. I broke off gasping for air as he did both of trying to gather the oxygen that had been taken from our lungs, I stared at me and he returned the favour before saying,

"So does that mean after all this time I can call you my girlfriend" he spoke in an amused way but his eyes showed a longing hope" I smiled and leant forward kissing him again,

"Does that answer your question?" I asked cheekily,

"Well maybe I should receive my answer again" I laughed and hit him playfully on the arm,

"Yes James I would be honoured to finally be your girlfriend" I told him smiling and then kissing him again not caring if anyone walked in on us, all that mattered now was the man in my arms.

Sirius POV

I decided since I hadn't had the chance to take Charlie to school that I would surprise her and pick her up, hopefully I wouldn't have to deal with another prank issue this morning however I had looked in her bag and pockets before she left, but then again she was my daughter I wouldn't put it past her not to find a way of sneaking stuff around.

I was walking around the corner from my last class which had been a horribly boring history of magic lesson, I quite literally bumped in to a 7th year Hufflepuff who I couldn't quite remember the name of, it shames me to say it but once upon a time I probably snogged her in a broom closet like the helpless romantic I am... not.

"Oh hey Sirius" She said breathlessly despite my inner repeated mantra of don't talk to me I don't know your name.

"Hi" I said trying to keep the conversation to a minimum hopefully she would pick up that I needed to be somewhere,

"I was just wondering if you wanted to hang out?" she asked fluttering her eyelids, Normally that would have done it for me but I had more important things to handle,

"Sorry I can't err.." I looked at her in an apologetic way

"Taylor" she rolled her eyes

"Yeah right... Taylor I need to go and pick up my daughter" I said

"Maybe I could come with you?" She asked perking up again

"No" I said bluntly and turned away from her, When it came to Charlie I trusted no one and didn't care if people thought I was rude I would protect Charlie until I was dead.

So here I was once again outside 'Little Ones Pre-school' I had just met Tyler, Lucy and Sarah, Remus had told me earlier that him and Maddie had met them and I should introduce myself, however I found it was them coming up to me, Tyler was great and we got on well especially since we were both young dad's we were talking about him being an Auror and how i wanted to be one. Lucy and Sarah were nice too and all too soon I found myself in a conversation about our kids,

"Well I gotta hand it to you Sirius, Charlie is a skilled prank woman" Tyler said I smirked and both women laughed,

"Yes I agree I have had Liam come home now and ask for a whole new Zonko's prank collection" Sarah said,

"Yes I believe I have had that particular conversation too" for a moment I thought they would be angry at me for letting Charlie get the prank stuff but they just laughed and shrugged it off saying that kids deserved a little fun in these dark times.

Kate called us all in and I wondered to myself if I would be able to sneak in a quick conversation with her before I left. Charlie thank marlin was sitting on the mat today, but right at the back in the middle of Ryan and Luke, as much as I hated to see her around boys even at this age, I knew that if she grew up with boy's as best friends she was least likely to date them and she would be well protected from any boy's who did make a move on her, I found myself scowling at even the thought,

"Daddy!" She cried running up to me,

"Hey baby girl, did you have a nice day" She nodded her head enthusiastically and proceeded to tell me about her day which had mostly involved running around and driving the supervisors mad, I laughed and couldn't help but think of Me, James and Remus when I looked at her with her little group.

Charlie was introduced to the boy's parents as the boy's were to me,

"Baby we should probably get back now" I told her looking down from where she was now talking to the boys in controlled whispers,

"Kay, bye boy's" She waved at them and they all smiled

"Bye Charlie" they answered in unison, I laughed knowing the Charlie Charm was on them and one day when they were older they would be wrapped around Charlie's finger like the rest of us. I shook Tyler's hand and said goodbye to Sarah and Lucy and walked back to the door where Kate was standing, she looked back just as we were walking over,

"See you tomorrow Charlie" She said before looking up at me her blue eyes twinkling had me captivated,

"Are you still okay for Saturday" I asked hopefully

"Yeah sure if you still are" She smiled, relief spreading through

"Great well I'll see you whenever I drop Charlie off and Saturday at 7 yes" I told her

"Yeah that sounds good, bye" She moved to let us past

"Bye" I breathed as I walked past to the door.

"Daddy lurvvesss Kate" Charlie grinned

"Oh ha-ha very funny" I said in a sarcastic voice before tickling her.

James POV

I felt amazing, like a puzzle that had got that final piece put in place after so long of searching, I walked down the corridors my hand in Lily's. I had half expected her to unlink her hand from mine when we left the common room but she was walking along held upright as though she couldn't give a damn about what anyone else said.

It was when we walked into the great hall that everyone went silent, if someone dropped a pin they would hear it hit the ground, but we continued walking forward,

"Oh please don't let us disturb your meal carry on" I called out to the whole school, Lily blushed and giggled which was a perfect combination on her.

As we sat down at the Gryffindor table everyone in our group was just staring,

"Can I help you?" I asked casually,

"When in the name of Merlin did this happen?!" Alice cried out

"Um just after History of Magic when you all went down the lake I went to put my books away and Potter here followed me" Lily told her

"I'm bet you're glad I did though" I knocked her shoulder and she blushed again,

"So you guys are like a couple now" Sirius said for the first time after being stunned into silence, I looked down to Lily who smiled at Sirius,

"Yes we are" I beamed at her and gently kissed her lips making everyone at the table smile,

"That's gross" Charlie said finally taking a breath from eating, she seriously took after her dad in that category, we all laughed at her innocence,

"That's my girl not gonna kiss any boy's are you?" Sirius asked her playfully but all the boys around the table we hoping for a serious answer,

"Yucky Daddy boy's are gross but not Liam, Luke and Ryan but I no kiss them either" She said matter of factly

"Good girl" Michael Rollings said from across the table. He was a sixth year on our Quidditch team. The whole team loved her because of her love for the sport, yeah we had made sure that she had grown up with great knowledge, every boy on the team was like a big brother to her.

After dinner and dessert were finished people had begun to clear out of the hall, Malfoy and his cronies decided to pay a visit and surrounded us around the table, I put my arm around Lily as Remus did to Maddie and Sirius pulled Charlie right up against him,

"What do you want Malfoy" I sneered at him

"Nothing that concerns you Potter" He spat back "Something that very much concerns your little brat thought Black" He jeered

Sirius growled at him and the Quidditch boys, Remus and I all stood up making a stand,

"Eww, I told you boys were yucky daddy, look at him he's slimy" She said pointing to Snape who leaning over her, despite how angry we all were we all cracked up laughing even Lily.

Snape growled at her, not before Sirius got in the way pushing her behind him,

"Back of Snape or you'll end up with worse than what Malfoy got" He threatened referring to Malfoy's broken nose.

"What's going on over here" Came the bold Scottish accent of Professor McGonagall,

"He's stupid and mean" Charlie said pointing at Malfoy with her little fingers,

"Mr Malfoy I do believe you have already received punishment for an offence like this leave now or we will add to your punishment" He looked like he was about to argue but then another voice spoke as Dumbledore now joined them on the floor,

"Run along now Mr. Malfoy and take your friends with you" He spoke in a calm collected voice,

Malfoy followed by his pets walked out of the hall with many eyes following them that belonged to the other students who had been 'lucky' enough to witness the house rivalries.

"I suggest all of you get off to your common rooms now before curfew" Dumbledore spoke out to the rest of the school. With that everyone seemed to get to their feet and leave in a matter of seconds,

"Well" Charlie spoke and we all turned to look at her "I really not like him" She spoke angrily folding her arms a scowl across her face, which despite everything was really quite funny.