Hey guys, I'm soooo sorry about how long it has been! I have had really bad writers block for this story but I have a few ideas now.

This chapter is set 4 years after the Kate situation, Charlie is now 7 and the marauders and co are 21 and Harry is 2. During the wedding scene Lily and James are 18.

So that's the back story to this chapter, Please review! I have exams coming up and I am going to need more reviews to know that my time isn't being wasted.

Please PM me if you have any questions or would like to see Lily's wedding dress.

Also if any of you are interested I also have another Sirius/OC story on the go called the Love of Friendship if any of you would like to have a read.

Enjoy:)

Chapter 10

The music started and everybody turned around in their seats to look at the bridesmaid who were making their way gracefully down the aisle. Maddie came down first wearing a thick strapped mint green dress. The dress was short at the front and came down to rest on her knees while the back flowed all the way down to trail slightly on the floor, giving of an elegant effect. Her hair was half up half down. The part that was up was held by a white flower hair grip. The parts that dangled down where lightly curled and rested on the middle of her back. On her feet she wore black strappy high heels which of course made her legs seem even longer.

Maddie of course realising this by the long on Remus' face reached the end of the aisle and winked seductively at him reddening his face further.

Alice followed the path that Maddie had taken wearing the same dress and shoes, however since Alice's hair was short in her pixie like bob, she had the side pulled back and secured with the same white flowered hair clip Maddie had in hers. Simple yet beautiful.

Finally three year old Charlie walked down the aisle. She held the basket of white rose petals in one hand and was pulling at her dress with the other, making all of her audience laugh including her father who stood at the front of the room with James as his best man.

Finally with a scowl Charlie left her dress alone and reached into the flower basket, grasped a handful of petals and threw them as far as she could down the aisle her 'lady like-ness' not exactly showing through, but her marauder side running at full pelt.

About halfway down the aisle Charlie stopped and beamed as she found her grandparents. She began to wave enthusiastically forgetting to continue walking down the aisle.

"Charlie." Sirius called form the front but his little girl wasn't listening but instead trying to throw petals to her Nanny and Granddad and ending up showering the people in front of her. Sirius laughed and ran forward. He picked her up and began walking her the rest of the way all the while she was throwing the petals in his hair and giggling at the sight. Sirius past her over to Alice who held her and went and stood back in his place.

The music suddenly change and everyone's eyes tore from the toddler and to the back of the room where what seemed like an angel had emerged.

Lily stood in the archway arm in arm with her father smiling up the aisle at James who had an identical grin on his face.

Lily was wearing a beautiful full length white dress. The top half was stretched horizontally and reached round in to a corset back. The skirt of the dress flowed out elegantly from her hips to the floor in silky material. A pattern of gems and sequins ran up the top of the dress ending at her hip which hitched up the skirt of the dress slightly to create an effect. She wore simple white bridal Jimmy Choos and seemed to glide effortlessly up the aisle.

She reached James and the audience was silent as they watched the young in love couple join together in matrimony.

The wedding passed smoothly and flowed into the reception with no problems. At the present moment Lily and James were sitting at the main table in the centre with their family and wedding party next to them.

The photographer in front of the table took the picture and as the flash went off streamers of different colours covered the whole of the wedding party excluding Sirius and Charlie who were high fiving and laughing.

"Really Padfoot and mini marauder? You didn't deem it necessary to invite us in on this?" James asked pretending to be hurt.

"Didn't want to put any other unnecessary stress on you mate." Sirius defended himself putting his hands up.

"Yeah, you needs to chill out." Charlie said copying the action her dad was doing from where she was sitting on his lap.

After dinner had been served and eaten the newlyweds got up to take their first dance as husband and wife. They danced to 'Eternal Flame' looking into each other's eyes throughout.

When the dance finished the disco music came on and everybody was invited to come onto the dance floor.

"Dance Daddy!" Charlie shouted excitedly over the music and Sirius grinned picking her up and walking over to the dance floor where he then proceeded to spin around with Charlie squealing in his arms.

Lily looked around over James' shoulder and loved what she saw. Her wedding day was perfect. All her best friends were all on the dance floor, Remus with Maddie, Alice with Frank and Sirius dancing awfully but not caring as he was doing it for Charlie.

Lily sighed and came back to James who was smiling down at her.

"What are you looking at?" James asked looking down at his wife and she beamed.

"Just look around, everything is perfect and everyone is here for us it's just perfect James. I love you." Lily said and leaned up to kiss him.

"I love you to wife." Lily giggled.

"I am liking that husband." She reciprocated.

"Ditto." James whispered and then kissed her again passionately putting all his love into it.

Sirius followed Charlie as she ran towards Luke, Ryan and Liam who had been invited with their parents to the reception.

"Charlie!" The boys said at the same time and then laughed when she came properly into view.

"You look really girly." Ryan said pointing at her dress and he received a Charlie death glare back which shut him up. For a three year old Charlie was intimidating.

Sirius greeted Lucy, Sarah and Tyler who had brought his new girlfriend Abby. Sirius turned around to talk to Charlie and realised her and all the boys had vanished from sight.

"Shit." Sirius breathed and looked around the other parents copying the actions.

Suddenly a cloud of purple went up in the sky and childish laughter rang out as glitter rained down on everyone. The parents breathed out relieved as they recognised the prank as the same one that had happened back on their first day of preschool.

The night began to draw to a close and the newlyweds walked outside arm in arm to the aparation point and with one last wave aparated away for their two weeks honeymoon in the Caribbean.

Sirius turned away from where his best friends had vanished from and walked over to the table where Charlie was sitting on Emma's lap with her thumb in her mouth. She had refused to act tired around her boys but as soon as they had left she had literally collapsed on her nanny.

"Come on Charlie-bear, Auntie Lily and Uncle James have gone now, time for bed." Sirius said and leant down to pick her up.

Charlie lifted her arms up and wrapped them around Sirius's neck still clutching her blankie.

"Daddy are you ever going to get married?" Charlie asked while playing with the ends of his hair and Sirius froze. He hadn't even dated a girl since what had almost happened with Kate last year.

"I don't know baby, one day perhaps." Sirius said and kissed his mother on the cheek and shook hands awkwardly with his father, best as he could holding Charlie.

"I'll marry you when I'm older daddy, and then we always be together!" Charlie murmured out, it was past midnight and she had had a long day.

"We'll always be together Charlie no matter what." Sirius said and kissed her hair.

Sirius walked over to aparation point and turned on the spot while holding onto Charlie tighter so she wouldn't wake up. However they never landed back at the house and all Sirius could feel was shaking. Earthquake?

Sirius POV

I opened my eyes up and squinted at the light looking around to gather my bearings. The first thing I noticed was my 7 year old daughter jumping on my bed her legs either side of me trying to shake me awake. Oh so that was what the shaking was I remembered from my dream recalling that nothing had happened like that after they had left the wedding in real life.

It felt so long ago now that Lily and James had tied the knot. In reality it had only been 3 years but so many things had happened.

James and Lily had brought a now 2 year old Harry into the family a year after they married. He was a very well behaved baby with jet black hair like his father but his eyes were all Lily the shape and the very same emerald green colour. Just a few months before Harry, Frank and Alice had welcomed Neville into the group and he like Harry was very well behaved.

I was brought out of my reverie by Charlie jumping and seat dropping onto my chest.

"Morning baby." I stretched and pulled her off my chest so she was next to me and began to tickle her loving it when she giggled.

"Daddy stop, you're going to be late for work!" Charlie squealed in between breaths.

"Wait what's the time?" I asked suddenly conscious that she might be right.

"The big hand is on the six and the little hand is on the eight." Charlie managed to figure out. Normally I would have helped her actually say what the time was and not just the numbers but the fact that it was half eight and I was supposed to be in work by nine made me make a note in my mind to do it later.

"Shit- I mean crap, no bad... not good." I said jumping out of my warm bed and at the same time tried to change the swear words I had just used.

"Charlie, don't say those words okay." I said one hand in my hair and the other gesturing around me in a mad panic.

Charlie simply nodded but smiled and gave me the image that her nod meant completely the opposite.

I walked in to the bathroom and closed the door, stripping out of my clothes and getting in the shower.

As I walked back into my room. Charlie had gone back into her own room to get dressed. She was accompanying me to work today and then after I had planned to meet up at the park with Tyler, Lucy and Sarah so Charlie could see the boys, as in her words 2 days was far too long ago.

I dressed as fast as humanly possible stumbling over a few times.

"CHARLIE!" I shouted down the stairs still buttoning up my shirt.

"YEAH!" She shouted back up and then appeared at the bottom of the stair case thankfully completely dressed.

"Are you ready to go baby?" I asked now walking down the stairs.

"I haven't had breakfast." Charlie said shrugging, I knew she wouldn't care as she hated eating in the morning but I made sure that she always had a health breakfast.

"Don't worry baby we can get you something when we get the ministry okay?" and then stroked her hair, kissing the top of her head.

"Okay daddy." Charlie replied and then ran over to corner of the room where she picked up her little bag that she took with her when she came with me to work. It contained her books and little activities for her to do in case she was bored.

"Right, come on then sweet heart." I said holding my hand out as I finally gathered my bearings 10 minutes late. "Crap." I breathed.

Charlie jumped into my arms and I aparated us to the ministry of magic Auror office.

"You're late Black." A gruff voice came from behind me. Shit.

I turned around and came face to face with head Auror Alistor Moody. Make that pissed off head Auror Alistor Moody.

"I know I am I just-"I was interrupted by Charlie who was now wrapping her arms around Moody in a hug.

"It wasn't daddy's fault Uncle Moody, promise." Moody looked down at Charlie who was giving him puppy dog eyes.

"Really? How can I be sure?" Moody asked but his voice softened as he talked to Charlie. Everyone knew Mad-eye adored Charlie and vice versa. It was often an office joke that Charlie brought out his inner mummy. That of course had ended up with them being made to do all the paper work and they hadn't finished till four in the morning. This only proved to them all that if he was a mummy it was only around Charlie. To them and anyone else he was simply a cold, hard bastard.

"Because I turned off his alarm." I whipped my head down to Charlie and looked at her confused. I didn't have an alarm. Since I had left Hogwarts I seemed to have become an early riser and had never needed one. The night before had simply been a late one and that was why I had stepped in.

I went to say something but Charlie shot me a look and I momentarily closed my mouth.

"Is that right rugrat. Well you certainly keep your dad on his toes kid." Mad eye said and briefly stroked her hair and then coughed while walking away pretending that nothing had happened.

"Charlie what did you say that for." I said as I reached down and grabbed her hand walking into the office where James turned in his seat to greet us.

"We're a team daddy, we have to stick up for each other!" Charlie exclaimed and I breathed out a sigh and then leant down to kiss her head.

"Yes, we are a team baby, thank you but you don't have to do it again, it's my job to protect you okay." Charlie just looked at me and I knew this wouldn't be the first time that she stepped in for me, which scared me slightly.

James POV

I turned to say hi to Sirius and Charlie when they walked in and then straight back round when I realised that Sirius was talking to her about something. I rubbed my stinging eyes still wanting to go back to sleep. Harry had been awake most of the night with a temperature so Lily and I had stayed with him giving him different medicines and making sure that even for just a few hours he could have some undisturbed sleep.

I loved seeing Lily in a mummy mode it made my insides light up. I thought back to when she hated me and it almost made me feel sick at the possibility that I may not have been able to have all that I do with her now.

"Hey prongs." Sirius finally said as he sat down at his desk and began looking through his paper work.

"How come you're late?" I asked him just as Charlie jumped on my lap and I smiled down at her.

Sirius rubbed a hand down his face and leant back in the chair clearly not happy with the amount of work he had to do today.

"I didn't get to sleep till 3 last night because I was doing all that research for the order." Sirius answered and then picked up a pen to start writing.

"Why didn't you do it earlier?" I asked also turning back to my work.

"Well I was working till 6 then I had to get Charlie dinner, bathed and in bed, so by the time I had done all of that it was 8 and then I had to finish off that paper work about that case last week and that lasted till midnight." Sirius said not looking up from his paper.

"Jesus Christ, I had a late on too, Harry was up all night ill." I sighed and Sirius looked up and opened his mouth to speak but his voice never came out.

"Why? What's wrong with Harry? Is he okay now!?" Charlie said walking back over to my desk from where she had gone to sit on the 'spinny' chair next to Sirius. I laughed at her frantic questions, she was extremely protective over Harry.

"He's okay now sweetie, Auntie Lily's at home with him, that's why she couldn't look after you today because we don't want you to go getting ill do we?" I said and patted her curly hair down.

"I don't mind getting ill if I get to see Harry." I smiled again knowing that Harry could always count on having Charlie as his friend. Best friend.

"Enough with the gossip, this isn't a mothers meeting get to work." Moody shouted through the office door deafening the newest Auror recruit who had just unfortunately walked into the direct line of noise fire.

All the rest of us aurors sat there laughing as the poor boy attempted to get the ringing out of his ears.

I loved it when I finished at one because it gave me the opportunity to spend the rest of the day with Charlie.

We aparated away from the ministry and straight into a park that stood at a ten minute walk from our house.

Charlie ran straight through the gate and over to where the boys were sitting on the swings. I laughed as I watched them all greet each other, they really were the best of friends and I couldn't have asked for better friends for my baby girl than those three boys.

"Hey guys." I greeted the other parents and of course Abby who had recently married Tyler after 3 years of dating and one year of engagement. We had all been invited of course.

A chorus of hello's reached my ears and I sat down on one of the benches talking with the others but making sure to keep my eye on Charlie who I had no doubt was planning something with the boys.

Each of the children were sitting on one swing and started calling us over to help push them. I stood up and walked over to Charlie who was grinning ear to ear waiting for me to push her. I walked up behind her and pulled the seat up so it was high enough for me to whisper into her ear.

"Hold on," Then I let go and laughed when I heard her giggles. We all continued to push our children for the next twenty minutes their competition of who could go the highest seemed to bring out the competitive streak in the parents and we all ended up laughing.

As it started to near 4 o clock I realised how long we had been at the park even though at no point had it been boring, in fact the kids had got all of us parents up to do 3 legged races, egg and spoon races and piggy back rides. I decided that I would need to get Charlie back home so she would be calmed down, fed and washed before bed.

By the looks of things Lucy, Tyler, Abby and Sarah were thinking along the same lines. We all said goodbye, Charlie and the boys a little more reluctantly as they didn't want to leave each other yet but I promised them that at the weekend we could all go out somewhere with Harry who the boy's also loved.

"I'll call you all about next weekend then." I said and they all nodded and began to make their way home.

"Come on then missy." I said looking at Charlie who seemed to have lost all her energy from her exhausting few hours just nodded.

I sighed and flopped down on the sofa once I had put and exhausted Charlie to bed. I grabbed the paper work from the order once again and began to read once more. It was all research that was to be conducted on the disappearance of one of the new members of the Order Of The Phoenix. It was still up in the air whether or not they were still alive but every effort was being made to find out.

It only took me twenty minutes of reading before I was out cold. The much need of sleep catching up on me.

I woke up when an ear piercing scream reached me. I jolted upright suddenly wide awake.

"CHARLIE!" I yelled and sprinted up the stairs, all traces of sleep gone in that split second.

I barged through her bedroom door and my eyes widened at the sight. Charlie was thrashing around on her bed, tears trailing down her cheeks. I ran over and grabbed her shoulders as gently as possible to shake her and wake her up just like Dumbledore had shown me 4 years ago when she had had her fist psychic nightmare.

"Charlie baby wake up, come on sweetheart daddy's here... wake up for me please." I pleaded with her still gently shaking. I breathed a sigh of relief and gathered her sobbing frame into my arms as her eyes sprung open and she gasped for breath, looking around trying to get her bearings.

"It's okay baby daddy's here, daddy's here... I'm not going to let anyone hurt you." I cooed to her and rocked her gently just like she was a little baby again. It didn't matter to me, I would rock her when she was thirty, she would always be my baby girl.

"Daddy." Charlie mumbled into my t-shirt, as always her blankie that she still slept with was in her hand, it was her best friend when she had her nightmares.

"Charlie what was your dream about?" I asked knowing that she probably wouldn't want to re live it but we needed to know what information it contained.

"16, shooting stars, Christmas, 9:00pm" Charlie whispered, her voice barely audible. I looked down confused and waited for something else but when she didn't say anything else I went back to rocking her until she once again fell asleep.

I lay back down against her bed while she lay over my chest. I continued to stroke her curly hair and waited until I knew she was in a deep sleep before I myself drifted into unconsciousness.

Lily opened the door as I waited with Charlie in my arms on the doorstep. She greeted us warmly with hugs and kissed before leading us into the leaving room where Maddie, Remus, Alice, Frank, James and little Harry all sat talking, Neville was spending some time with his Grandmother and Grandfather. They all said their hellos to us and we soon joined in with conversation.

Charlie walked over to Harry and they began to play with Harry's toys together.

"Did you have a good sleep Charlie?" Lily asked as she sat down and Charlie spoke without looking up.

"I had a bad dream but daddy made it all better and I went back to sleep." Every ones widened eyes flicked over to me and I mouthed 'later' they all nodded and looked back over at the two children who were laughing at something.

We all sat down and ate dinner together talking about our days at Hogwarts which Charlie loved hearing about, especially our pranks it gave her lot's of ideas to tell her own little group.

"Daddy can me and Harry go play now?" Charlie gave me her puppy dog eyes but before I could answer Lily did.

"Of course you can sweetie, here let me get Harry out of his high chair." Lily glared at me, daring me silently to say otherwise. Once Harry was out of his high chair Charlie grabbed his hand and he toddled after her laughing.

Once they were out of sight all eyes landed on me. Alice was the first to speak,

"What happened in her dream?" Everyone waited for me to answer and I looked around to make sure that Charlie was not in hearing range.

"She said 9:00pm, I have no idea what this is all adding up to but she said all the 16, shooting stars and Christmas thing." I said and ran an agitated hand over my face.

"Remember what Dumbledore said Sirius, if the clues come few and far between then the event won't happen for a sometime." James reassured me.

"I know it's just. Ugh I just hate not being able to understand because then that means I can't protect her from this." I sighed frustrated.

Charlie and Harry came back into the room just as we were discussing when we would be able to tell Dumbledore and deciding on the next order meeting.

Charlie jumped up on my lap whilst Harry walked over to Lily and put his arms up.

"Hey there baby boy, did you have fun playing with Charlie?" Lily asked as she placed harry in her lap and smoothed down his hair.

Harry nodded enthusiastically "I loves Arlie" Charlie smiled and blew him a kiss.

Charlie suddenly looked up at me.

"Daddy what happened to Kate?" For a moment it felt like everyone stopped breathing. Charlie hadn't mentioned Kate since that night when Kate had tried to kill her in the boy's dormitory.

"She's gone baby why, what happened?" I asked the question I knew that was burning in everyone's mind.

"She was in my dream."