Chapter One

12 Years Later

The compartment of the train Audie sat in was still and silent, just the way she liked things. She wasn't a loner, she did have friends, she just preferred to be on her own on the train so she could have time to gather her thoughts and rid her mind of anything her aunt and uncle had put into her head that summer. This year she would be taking her OWLs and not even an outstanding in each one would be enough to please her guardians. When she first came to live with them, they were reasonable; they would visit with her during dinner every night and on Saturdays she would go to luncheons with her aunt. It was all good as long as she followed the rules; don't speak unless talked to, follow your manners, don't ask questions and only speak to others of equal status. Once she turned eleven they made it very clear that she was expected to be placed in Slytherin, so when the hat placed her in Gryffindor, they sent her a howler and ever since they ignored her presence and when they did they were cold and rude. Audie wished she was in Slytherin, most of her housemates were rude because of who she lived with, her pure blood upbringing and the fact her father was Sirius Black.

The compartment door slid open and the Weasley twins strode in, mischievous smiles lighting up their eyes and their wands pointed towards her. Audie sighed and rolled her eyes. "What do you two want?" She snapped, cringing at the harsh tone she used with them.

Fred, or was it George? She wasn't sure but one of them sat down next to her and slipped his wand back into his pocket. "Isn't it obvious love, we came to see how you were doing?" That was Fred, she was sure of it, as much of a git he was, he always used a softer tone towards her. Well, when he wasn't harassing her anyways.

"Yeah, since your dad escaped from Azkaban," George added. He squeezed in between her and the window, pushing her closer towards his brother who slung his arm around her shoulders.

"Oi! Are you two harassing Audie already?" Angelina questioned, scrunching her eyebrows together as she entered the compartment. The twins gave her sheepish smiles and scooted closer to the girl squeezed in between them. The dark skinned girl sighed and sat on the seat opposite of them.

"Oh, do join us," Audie drawled, sending both of the twins' hard glares. "The boys and I were just discussing my father's grand escape from Azkaban." Fred cringed at the look Angelina sent their way.

"How can you two be so insensitive?" The girl yelled, crossing her arms and making the two red haired boys sworn under her stare. "You two are supposed to be her friends, not Pratt's who bring up her lunatic of a father!"

"I did ask how she was doing," Fred piped up.

"Does that make it any better?" He shook his head and Angelina smirked. She liked the feeling of having the boy she liked listening to her.

"We are awfully sorry," The two mumbled, lowering their heads and acting like two little boys who were being scolded for eating cookies before dinner. Angelina was about to say something else when Audie interrupted her.

"Angelina, they are harmless. I was in a bad mood before they came in," She told her friend intent on helping the two boys sitting on either side of her, wearing matching smiles. "Now," she shared a look with her friends, "How were your summers?"

"Ours were good, weren't they Fred?" George beamed at his brother who beamed back.

"We went to Egypt, visited Bill."

"Had a blast at that,"

"Though Percy never shut up about making head boy," Fred finished.

Audie turned her head to face Angelina, "And yours?" Before Angelina could answer the train came to a sudden stop. Fred caught Audie as she almost slid of the seat and when the lights went out, she clung onto his arm and stared at the door to the compartment. The glass of the windows froze and a cold gust air flew over her causing a shiver to run down her spine. The door slid open and a black robed figure hovered in the air. She felt the warmth in body leave her and her breath being sucked away from her. Her mind went blank, her eyelids closed and her body went limp.

She saw a flash of green light and heard a loud scream. A woman's body fell onto the floor and the cry of a child filled her ears.

"Audie..." She opened her eyes to see two identical faces looking down at her. She slowly sat up and accepted a piece of chocolate from Angelina. "Are you feeling better?" Fred questioned staring into her eyes with a worried expression written on his face. She shook her head grabbed a hold of his hand, needing some sort of comfort.

"I saw a woman. Did any of you see her?" She looked at her friends helplessly; wanting to be reassured she wasn't going mental.

"Audie, you were the only one the dementor attacked. It was like it was drawn to you." Angelina told her, sitting down next to her friend and giving her a comforting hug.

"You gave us quite the scare, Love." Fred whispered, his brother and him still kneeling in front of her. The compartment door slid open and a middle aged man who wore a worn out expression stood in the doorway.

"Is everyone alright?" He asked, looking over each student. Audie studied the man, he looked familiar. "Oh dear child, you are pale!" He exclaimed, rushing over to her and lifting her head up and placing his hand on her forehead to check for a temperature. George and Fred moved out his way and sent Angelina a look saying, "Who is this man?"

"Do I know you?" Audie questioned, as the man backed away from her and handed her another chocolate bar, even though the piece of chocolate Angelina had given her still laid in her hand uneaten.

"I was a friend of your parents a long time ago." He gave her a sad smile and stood up straight from the bending over position he had previously held. "Eat the chocolate given to you and you will feel better soon enough." With that said, he left the compartment.

Dumbledore finished his speech and the food appeared in front of them. Audie sat in between the twins, giving them disgusted looks as they piled their plates with food and dug in, eating like pigs. Audie grabbed an apple and sunk her teeth into it, biting a chunk out of it with a satisfying crunch. She looked over at Harry and saw him glaring at her. She nudged George and nodded towards Harry, "What's his problem?" She asked, taking another bite of her apple. George shrugged and continued to shovel food into his mouth as if he hadn't ate in days. Audie rolled her eyes and turned towards Fred who was following his brother's example on table manners and ate quickly as if the food was going to disappear any moment. "Do you know?" She drawled, trying to show as much displeasure in talking to Fred as she could. Earlier Angelina had shared with her that she had feelings for Fred and even though Audie knew she felt feelings for him also, she hid it and pretended to be happy for her friend. Audie knew her aunt and uncle would never approve of her dating a Weasley and she tried her best to hide her friendship with Fred and George from them.

"He's upset that you never told him your father wanted to kill him." He replied in between mouth gulls of potatoes and against her best judgment she wiped some gravy of his chin a napkin. She whipped the gravy off and looked up at him to see him staring intently back at her. She broke eye contact and looked down at her plate where the apple laid. Fred noticed it was the only thing on her plate and placed a chicken wing and a dinner roll on her plate before going back to her food.

"That's absurd, how am I supposed to know what my father's thinking? I haven't spoken to him since I was three." She looked down at her plate and looked back at Fred before placing the food on her plate onto his. "I'd prefer to eat what I'd like rather than what someone's forcing me to." George snorted into his pumpkin juice causing the juice to go into his nose and him starting to choke on it. Audie patted him hard on the back and he was able to breathe again after spitting the juice back into his cup.

"Audie, I'm sure Fred was just trying to be helpful. It didn't seem like you were going to eat very much." Angelina told her, sitting up straight and sending the boy of her affections an unreadable look.

"Have you ever thought that maybe I'm just not Hungry. My father is on the loose, you know." She snapped, pushing her plate away and standing up. "And for your information I'm on a diet." With a final look she stomped out of the Great Hall.

"What the bloody hell was all that about?" Ron called down to his brothers, Hermione and Harry just as curious as their friend.

"Maybe it's her time of the month," Lee joked causing those around him besides Angelina to chuckle.

"No mate, she's much worse when it's her time. Remember last year when she hung me from a tree because I teased her about being hormonal?" More laughs came from the table and Fred gave his brother a look.

"Mate that was me she hung from a tree!"

"No, she hung you off of the Astronomy tower."

"She did both. I should remember, I had a horrible headache after."

"She's an awful screamer,"

"You say, I'm the one she's always yelling at!" Fred concluded, grinning back at his brother.

"Still doesn't explain the outburst." Lee told them, reaching for a piece of pie and setting it on his plate. Angelina shook her head at the boys and started to talk to Katie Bell, asking her how her summer went.

"Are you three dumb witted?" Hermione snapped, giving them incredulous looks. Ginny, who was sitting next to George, looked at Hermione and nodded for her brother.

"Oi, you're our sister!" The twins called out, pretending to be offended.

"I'm just speaking the truth." Ginny hummed, ignoring her brothers and reaching for a cookie.

"And what's that?" Fred demanded, still pretending to be hurt by his sister's words.

"You insulted her," she told her brother who gave her a questions look.

"No I didn't!" He snapped, scrunching his eyebrows together and trying to think if anything he could have possibly said or done to upset the girl, he couldn't think of anything.

Ginny sighed and shook her head at her brother. "You can't possibly be that thick!" All three boys looked at her with confused faces and she groaned. "She's going to hate me but over the summer she wrote to me, making sure I was doing fine. I asked get how she was doing and she shared that she didn't like how her body was changing and she felt fat."

"Why? She's our friend whether she's fat or skinny." Fred told her, shrugging his shoulders.

"Yeah, besides the only change I noticed was the bigger boobs." George added, receiving a punch in the shoulder from Fred. "Owe, what was that for? It's not like you didn't notice either!" Angelina turned away from her conversation with Katie and watched Fred's reaction.

"It doesn't mean we need to bring it up to everyone!" He mumbled, becoming uncomfortable with the turn of the conversation.

"Why mate, does it bug you that Black is hot?" Lee piped in and laughed at the blush creeping onto the red heads cheeks.

"She's not hot. Don't describe girls as hot!" Angelina scolded, tears pricking at her eyes.

"Oi! Is someone jealous?" George teased, the others joining in on his laughter. Angelina shook her head and left the table, running out if the Great Hall.

"You two are horrible!" Hermione shouted, standing up and running after Angelina, hoping she'd be able to comfort the older girl.

"We were just joking," George grumbled, feeling slightly guilty. Ginny shook her head and also left the table to go to the commons room and check on Audie. She threw the password at the fat lady and walked through the porthole and saw her brother's friend sitting in front of the fire with her knees pulled up against her chest. Ginny walked over to her and sat down.

"I can't believe I told them I'm on a diet," Audie whispered, wiping at her eyes. "I can only imagine what they were thinking!" A couple students trailed into the room and gave Audie curious looks but they avoided talking to her much to her pleasure. "I just want make my aunt proud and being overweight isn't acceptable."

Ginny gave her fiends shoulders a comforting squeeze. "Fred said he'd be your friend whether you were fat or skinny and George pointed out that your breasts grew this summer." The girls shared a look and laughed. "You know he likes you too. He never shut up about you this summer. Mum wanted to invite you over to shut him up but when she tried to get a hold of your aunt and uncle, they ignored her."

"Yeah they are awful...wait, who likes me?" Audie felt her chest tighten and she didn't know whether she'd be able to breathe or not.

"Fred of course, unless it's George you like. I can't really tell them apart." Ginny scrunched her face together and made a silly face. "Whichever one it is, they like you back."

"I highly doubt it; I all but ignored both of them up until last year. In fact, I ignored most people up until last year... Then I friended you of course and it sounded like a package deal." The two laughed once more and Audie shook her head. "I can't like him, you know, Fred. Angelina likes him and it's nice to have a friend my age that isn't a Weasely. Besides my aunt and uncle would disown me if they knew I talked to Fred and George, yet alone date one of them."

Ginny gave her a sad smile, "You have to do things for yourself, every once in a while." With that she got up and left the girl to think over what she said.

Fred walked into the room and noticed Audie sitting alone by the fireplace, staring intently at the flames. He studied her from behind. Her reddish brown curls went mid back, and even in her Hogwarts uniform he could notice the curves she was gaining. She was never a petite girl but still stood at 5'5 and had what he liked to call a figure. She wasn't fat, it made him confused as to why she thought she was but it didn't matter what others thought of her, he thought she was beautiful, had since first year. "Love, you're going to blind yourself if you keep staring into the flames," he told her, plopping down next to her and giving her a curious look. She turned to look at him with her gray eyes and he saw the redness around them, she had been crying. "I don't like it when you cry," he whispered, pushing her hair behind her hair and rubbing her cheek.

"Sorry," She breathed as their faces leaned closer towards each other. He looked up into her eyes and she looked back into his, the same spark that had flowed between them during the feast had ignited once again. She reacted in instinct and leaned in closer until their lips touched. Fred pulled her closer to him and deepened the kiss.

"Oh my god!" They flew apart by the blast of a wand and looked over to see Hermione and Angelina staring at them in shock. George and Lee whooped in encouragement.

"Way to get 'em Freddy boy!" George called out; sending a wink to Audie whose face turned a deep red.

"I'm sorry," Audie apologized to Fred before getting up and running up the stairs toward the girls dormitories. Angelina followed suit and gave Fred a cold glare as she stomped by.

"Oh my god." Ginny and Hermione breathed, realizing what trouble laid ahead.

A/N: I want to say thank you to those who reviewed, followed and favorite this story. I hope the first chapter of the actual story was good and didn't hold too many errors. This is more of a starting out chapter, so if you're confused about anything, things will get explained as the story progresses. The third book will be summarized in about three more chapters and then the summer will be two chapters or more and that's when Sirius and his Wife Emma really enter the story and their romance will be told through Emma's diary. I will try to update at least once a week and I hope your enjoying the story! I love receiving reviews and good criticism. So if there are errors let me know do I can make sure to not do it again! Thanks!