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Chapter 4:

A year has passed since the birth of Charlus and Odette Potter, and a lot has changed.

James and Lily spent as much time as they could with Charlus and Odette. James kept flexible times in the Ministry as an auror and Lily decided to wait until the twins were at the age of two for her to go back to St. Mungo's and continue her profession as a healer.

Odette Arielle Potter proved them all right when she turned out to be daddy's little girl. Nothing calmed the female Potter Twin the most and made her beautiful rosy and plump lips break into the biggest smile when James Potter held her in his arms or appeared in her line of vision. Even though she loved her mother as well, the only person other than her dad with the ability to calm her down and drive her to fits of adorable and childish giggles was her godfather, Sirius Black. The Potter Manor lit up with the little girl's bubbly laughter and they were all mesmerized by the first female Potter ever born.

The only problem they experienced with the female Potter twin was when the presence of two specific wizards was known to be in her sights or near her in the manor.

Peter Pettigrew for one; when he saw her for the first time and Lily handed Odette to him, she wailed like a banshee, alerting all the occupants and paintings in the house of the disturbance. Odette didn't like the rat man, he bothered her immensely and his aura made her cringe. She felt dirty when she was held by him and it was a known fact, that when Peter visited the manor, to keep Odette as far away from him as possible.

Sirius was the only one that found the situation between Wormtail and his goddaughter to be hilarious and he would continuously joke that most girls are frightened by rats and she must have sensed that his animagus form was a rat.

The other wizard, whose presence disturbed Odette immensely as well, was none other than Albus Dumbledore. Since the twin's birth, Albus was a constant visitor once a month in order to check their magical signature and core, to see which one of the Potter twins was the foretold prophecy child.

The Potters were always equally delighted by Albus' visits and disappointed.

They were delighted because Albus sensed that Charlus would be of mage level. Even though his magical signature hasn't changed since the first time, there was still plenty of time for it to increase as he grew up.

They were equally disappointed because Albus couldn't sense any change in Odette's magical signature. It stayed ever the same, not increasing nor was it decreasing and it was a subject of great worrying for the Potters who feared that she wouldn't have enough magic to enter Hogwarts and be rendered a squib.

What the Potters did not know though, was that Odette hid her magic and aura whenever Albus Dumbledore was around as she did not like the old man nor did she trust him. Odette was already capable in stretching and containing her magic, that every time the old man would come and check on her and probe her mind, she would recoil and contain it into a tiny sphere the size of a needle prick and only let it out once he disappeared into green light.

When Charlus and Odette were five months old, Charlus was wiggling frantically for his Moony plushy, which was a stuffed grey wolf, gifted to him from his godfather Remus, and began to wail from his crib. Odette, who was cuddling to her Padfoot plushy, a gift from her godfather, was very content until she realized a spike in the air and saw her twin brother was very distressed, and when he started to cry she didn't want her parents to be disturbed.

You see, Odette was a very smart little girl ever since she was out of her mother's womb and for a five month old, she was very intelligent and observant; so she saw how tired her Mommy and Daddy were, so when Charlus started to cry for his wolf plushy, Odette reached out with her magic and levitated Moony to her brother, who immediately gurgled and halted in his crying.

James and Lily Potter were getting ready for bed when they head their son crying and after sighing heavily they went to the nursery just in time to see Moony getting levitated into Charlus' outstretched hands.

Immediately, all signs of drowsiness were gone only to be replaced by ecstatic delight as they rushed over to their baby boy, congratulating him with beaming smiles for his first sign of accidental magic and gushing over the fact that it was the youngest age ever recorded in the history of accidental magic.

Even though Charlus didn't know why his parents were hugging him and smiling, he preened smugly at the attention and lavished in it, while Odette watched sadly in her crib, her big doe emerald eyes watering with a few tears; she didn't know why her Mommy and Daddy weren't congratulating her for quieting her brother down and making the plushy zoom, and she was very upset about it as she snuggled to Padfoot and whimpered quietly, which went unnoticed by the three occupants of the room.

When the twins were five months old, Sirius Black announced that he was engaged. A week after the twins were born, Sirius had a mission in America and could only make it back to England to see his best friends and goddaughter and nephew on the weekends. During Sirius' time in America, he fell in love with the Heiress to the Warren Line, Angelica Katya Warren. The Warren family was a pureblooded and very ancient family dating back to the 1100s and very greatly respected around the world, especially in the United States.

Angelica made the decision to come back with her fiancée and live in England with him. She was a very beautiful woman, the same age as Sirius and the Potters, with wide baby blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair, high cheekbones, a petite nose, dimples and pouty lips with a beautiful hourglass figure.

Angelica's grandmother Katya, who she was named after, was a Bulgarian Veela and so she had some attributes passed down to her, including the ability to sense magical auras. Due to Angelica's gift, she got along splendidly with Odette and became known as the third person with the ability to calm Odette down and bring a smile to her face.

Charlus started becoming aware of all the attention given to Odette by their daddy, Padfoot and the blonde lady and he was green with envy. He would always smack Odette when no one was looking and took great pleasure in taking credit for all the accidental magic caused by Odette when no one was looking.

A year had passed, with no praise ever being given to Odette for her accidental magic.

In fact, Charlus had never had an accident yet and displayed no tendencies of being able to. Charlus would have been rendered a squib if it weren't for Albus Dumbledore probing his magical signature and Charlus taking credit for all the magic Odette caused.

Only Angelica knew, but she had known better that Dumbledore wouldn't believe her and she loved Sirius Black with all her heart, she was afraid that the Potters would hate her for siding with their daughter over their son. Lily Potter was already jealous because Odette instantly warmed up to Angelica and always demanded her attention over her own mother.

Angelica was a very smart woman, and she knew that even though Sirius Black was in love with her, he respected the opinion of the Potters who were his family as James took him in when he ran away from his ancestral home at the age of sixteen; and so, Angelica stayed quiet, keeping her thoughts to herself. But Angelica swore to herself that she would make little Odette feel special in her own way and she never failed to spend all her time with Odette when visiting the Potter Manor.

Angelica also decided that she would wait until her and Sirius was married for a couple of years, stabilized and had the utmost trust in each other before she revealed all she had witnessed and sensed between Charlus and Odette.

The Potters and the Longbottoms decided to celebrate Neville, Charlus and Odette's birthday on the same day since they were only a day apart. On July 30th, the two families invited their closest and most trusted friends for the celebrations, and Sirius took the opportunity to introduce his fiancé to all his friends.

Odette, being the smart girl she was, noticed that the attention was slightly more focused on Neville and Charlus and she didn't know why. Only Angelica noticed, and knew the reason to be because they believed her to be weak and an almost squib due to Albus' arrogance and the Potters faith in him.

Angelica knew that Odette Arielle Potter was not to be taken lightly and underestimated; she knew that Odette would be a force to reckon with. If only Angelica knew about the prophecy, she would have been able to set them all straight that Odette was the prophecy child before any mistakes were to happen that the light side would deeply come to regret.

Sirius was a very sharp, smart and observant man, and even though he was a Gryffindor, the sorting hat told him that he was a Slytherin through and through.

Sirius would notice the awestruck looks his fiancé would give Odette when no one was looking, he also saw the way Angelica would stifle her laughter whenever Albus tried peeking to check on Odette's magical signature, and he also noticed the way Angelica would shoot his goddaughter looks of pity and anger at the Potters.

So during the twins and Neville's birthday party, Sirius saw his fiancé glance at Odette, who was sitting alone and pouting at her brother and Neville and recognized that everyone was ignoring her. Sirius saw the recognition in her eyes, as well as a few tears that were beginning to form, and he was floundered that the one year old baby girl was able to recognize that everyone was barely paying her attention.

Sirius suddenly scooped his little princess into his arms, emitting a squeal of delight and the clapping of her chubby little hands as her cherubic face became void of any sadness and her doe-like eyes blinked away the beginning formation of tears.

The sound caused everyone to look at the pair and Sirius noticed the pride glinting in his fiancé's gorgeous baby blue eyes and the gob smacked and slightly guilty looks coming from James and Lily. While Lily stayed in her place next to Charlus and Alice, James instantly rushed over and cradled his daughter right in time, as the cakes came at the exact moment and little Odette Potter squealed happily in her daddy's arms.

Sirius strode over to his fiancé, placing his arm around her waist bringing her closer to him and inhaling her wonderful scent of strawberry and cream. He looked at the scene of the two happy families with their children; Frank had an arm around Alice with baby Neville in his mother's arms and Lily held onto Charlus while standing next to James who had Odette secured tightly in his arms. As Sirius looked at his goddaughter fondly, Odette looked up and her emerald eyes pierced him; Sirius could have sworn he saw gratitude in her eyes.

As Sirius and Angelica made their way to their house, Sirius was inwardly seething and made a vow to himself that he would do all he can to protect little Odette and intervene as much as he can. There was no way he would let her feel so lonely and eliminated due to the fact that she might be a squib.

***THE FORGOTTEN POTTER***

On October 23rd, Albus Dumbledore made his way over to the Potter Manor, where he made sure the Longbottoms, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin would be there for their crucial meeting.

Dumbledore arrived to see seven people sitting comfortably and was shocked to see that Sirius' fiancé, Angelica Warren was included in secret Order business.

Albus desperately wanted to say something unwelcome to her, but he knew that it was crucial not to anger the Heiress of the Warren family – it would do them no good if he alienated an important and powerful family into helping them with the war, and so he kept his mouth shut.

However, Albus Dumbledore was pleased to notice that he wasn't the only one greatly affected and angered with the Warren Heiress' inclusion in their secret meeting. Lily Potter was inwardly seething as well, her jaw clenched and her hands fisted so hard that there were small moon crescent marks impaled in her soft, pale skin from her nails.

Angelica narrowed her eyes discretely on the old codger. She never liked Albus Dumbledore, and she knew that she inherited that certain dislike from her father when he first met him in an ICW (International Confederation of Wizards) meeting five years ago. Angelica's father, Liam Warren, was the representative for the American Ministry of Magic to the ICW.

Albus Dumbledore may be an important war hero, figure of the light, and respected in many countries; America were no sheep and even though they acknowledged all his success, and at a time, deeply respected the old man, they did not like nor did they trust the old man for a few years now.

Angelica knew that he was a master of manipulation now in his old age and that the only reason he didn't tell her to sod off was because he was hoping for an alliance with her family, and a way to manipulate her into doing his bidding, which would also force her father into his pocket as well.

Angelica inwardly smirked; the old fool had it coming if he thought that the Warren's were easily manipulated. Once she married Sirius, she would make sure to remove him from under Dumbledore's grubby thumb, he would not gain the Black votes in the Wizengamot so easily and Angelica would make sure to open Sirius' eyes to Dumbledore's manipulation, arrogance and his godlike complex.

Albus Dumbledore strode over to them in an arrogant fashion, seating himself at the head of the table as he tried his best not to fidget under the intensity of Warren's glare. How someone with such clear baby blue, and soft eyes could darken into the color of the sea during a storm baffled him.

Albus cleared his throat and said with as much confidence he could muster, "Welcome children, I bring back terrible news. Alas, it seems that Voldemort has decided to act upon the prophecy and kill Neville, Charlus and Odette."

James, Lily, Frank, Alice, Sirius and Remus gasped. Angelica however, kept her composure, she was a brilliant politician taught by the best and her family consisted of many lawyers, "How do you know exactly? And how long have you known this?"

Albus inwardly seethed, this Warren bitch is turning out to be a big problem, "My dear Angelica –"

"I have not given you the permission to use my first name Headmaster. It is inappropriate etiquette to call a Lady by her christened name until given the rightful permission from said lady," Angelica snapped with her head held high.

Everyone else watched the verbal ping pong between these two influential people and Sirius could not help but feel pride at his fiancé right now, regardless the situation, and damn she sounded sexy as hell.

"Yes, of course, you have my sincerest apologies Lady Warren," said a seething Albus, though he managed to hide his cringe from everyone but Warren. "I have known for quite a while but I had to be positive and collaborate with my many spies. I believe it is time to have the Fidelius Charm made and the secret keeper should be picked by tomorrow."

"About that," said Sirius hesitantly. "I don't think it is a great idea for me to be the secret keeper." Sirius lifted his hand up as he saw that James was about to interrupt, "Here me out please. I am the obvious choice, everyone will know that I would be your secret keeper, and so why not have a decoy. Tell everyone that I am the secret keeper but have Wormtail be the actual one."

"Peter?" Lily shrieked in shock as everyone stared at Sirius confounded except for James and Angelica.

James smirked maliciously, the regular glint that was usual associated with a prank being made appearing in his hazel eyes, "Padfoot old friend, I am in total agreement." He then looked at his wife and said, "Think about it Lils, no one would expect Peter to be our secret keeper. Peter would go into hiding and Sirius would continue with his everyday life as an auror."

"I would never crack under the Cruciatus Curse, god knows I'm practically immune from it due to mother dearest," spat Sirius as Angelica held his hand tightly to show him her love and support, which Sirius greatly appreciated.

"Also, Voldemort and his merry followers would never dare to go an inch near a Warren witch and since Sirius is my fiancé now, it would be dangerous territory for them to attack him," Angelica smirked smugly. Everyone else in the room shared mirroring smirks except for Dumbledore and Lily.

Albus was actually surprised at the teamwork between Sirius and Angelica, it would not do for Sirius to marry a Warren; he was positive that he would now lose Black and his votes if they were to wed. Albus chastised himself, for now was not the time; he would deal with this problem first before he moves on with his plans to keep Black under his manipulation and Warren's thoughts to herself.

The next day, they placed the charm on the Longbottoms cottage in Devon Bay with Lily as the secret keeper and then moved onto Godric's Hollow with Peter Pettigrew as their secret keeper.

The Longbottoms and the Potters settled in nicely as Sirius and Angelica went back to their regular everyday life and with the planning of their wedding.

Peter Pettigrew on the other hand smirked evilly to himself as he bowed down to the Dark Lord, kissed his hem and spoke up in a quivering voice, "It is done my Lord, they have named me their secret keeper."

Lord Voldemort laughed cruelly as his voice reverberated around the empty room, causing the hair on Wormtail's back to stick out.

Yes, by the end of the week the Potters and the Longbottoms shall die and their brats shall be gone with no one left but Dumbledore to stop him from taking over the Wizarding world.

A/N: What do you all think of this chapter? Did you all like the new OC I brought in? How did you like Angelica Katya Warren?

Sirius Black is one of my favorite characters, and I always despised how morbid his life was after the Potter's death. They always showed him to be rash; I actually see him as a Slytherin with Gryffindor tendencies and an extremely smart wizard. So here I introduced him to a different life with a strong, beautiful pureblooded witch from an extremely powerful American family that wouldn't bend easily to the British Ministry of Magic and their underhanded ways.