A/N: I am so sorry. I have not been doing well in school so I have had to spend a lot of extra time studying leaving me with no time to write. So with that said, I am finally posting chapter 15!!! Also from now on Hermione will be Izzy.

Last Time:

It was at that moment when the boundaries that had held between Slytherin and Gryffindor were shattered and taken down piece by piece as Slytherin and Gryffindor worked side by side to plan a huge prank on all of the Voldemort supporters that they knew of that resided in the school.

Chapter 15: Summer Time Ending

Izzy stood on the beach soaking in the early morning rays. The hues of pink and orange were surprisingly relaxing to her as she thought back on this past summer. Never would she have guessed that this summer wasn't going to be spent with her adoptive parents scouring the globe for new adventures. Now she had an aunt that was really her older self and new powers. She just hoped that Voldemort could be defeated for good in this era so as to not have the same outcome as before.

Izzy sighed as she looked around the beach, it was just after 6 on a chilly August morning but she didn't feel the cold. Her thoughts were now turning towards trying to look into the future some more. As she began to let the calm atmosphere of the beach slide away and look into herself and her inner eye, she was thrown back as a barrage of images hit her all at once.

December and The Marauders and their girls are sitting on a blanket beneath a beach tree. The snow-covered ground is littered with footprints. Izzy isn't with them; she is hiding in the forest, crying as Sirius has his arm around another girl.

Graduation, they're all smiling for a huge class photo and just after they take it, they're all whisked into the as a storm is coming. However, Sirius and Izzy are back together and Lily has an engagement ring on.

The train-ride home, they're all laughing and crying that their final year of Hogwarts is done and they can no longer go back as students. Izzy is writing in a journal and won't let anyone see. Sirius and Izzy get into another fight about the upcoming war.

The fighting is rough and the Order is weary. The Death Eaters leave as soon as their objective is accomplished. No one had noticed that Tara and Blake had to take on five death eaters and there were so many. They all rush around to find their dead and see Tara and Blake on the ground. Tara is pasty white with a twinge on green. She is dead.

The end of the war approaches. The Order has a new password, Lemon Verbena, in memory of Tara. Blake is all fixed up and now has to take care of their twins, Cassiopeia Rouge and Dimitri Blake. Carlson is 5 years old and is pouting about to being able to have friends.

They bought a huge penthouse suite in New York City that is where they will all go to avoid death. Scarlet and Izzy stay behind with baby Harry so as to stop his reign for a while.

Izzy goes to meet her family and friends in New York. Lily and James run towards their baby who now has a lightning bolt scar. Izzy is crying. Her Aunt is dead. Sirius hugs her as they disappear into the muggle world until the eldest are ready for Hogwarts.

Izzy jumped as she snapped out of these visions. She shook her head and quickly flew to her room to write her visions down in her vision journal. She was crying and shaking as she finished.

That was how Sirius and Scarlet found her three hours later, hugging her journal and crying. Sirius went over to hug her and calm her down while Scarlet tried to pry the journal from her hands. But Izzy wouldn't let go. All she whispered was "too much death."

Sirius and Scarlet shared a look but didn't do anything else. Sirius pulled back the bed covers and lied her down. He lied next to her and rocked her to sleep while pulling up the covers. Scarlet turned out the lights and closed the door. She would let Izzy sleep. She needed it if she saw death that night.

The teens and baby Carlson were all around the table for breakfast when Scarlet announced that Izzy had had a bad night and Sirius was comforting her, that they shouldn't disturb them. The teens had a quiet breakfast and then went outside to on the beach. Their choice game today was tag. Scarlet was looking after Carlson while they played.

"Peak-a-boo, I see you," exclaimed Scarlet for the fifteenth time. After having to children of her own she was a pro at peek-a-boo. Thinking of her children made her shed a few tears but pushed that thought aside. She had many wonderful years with them but she knew that they were never supposed to be born, that she was never supposed to be with Ron.

"Carlson, I know you're young but I hope you find and marry your soul mate. So much pain comes from marrying someone everyone expects you to. Too much pain." Scarlet sighed as Carlson stared up at her with big blue eyes. Once again Scarlet sighed and continued to speak to the small child.

"The pain of knowing you love another while having children with the one you married is unbearable. There were nights when my husband wasn't home that I'd cry myself to sleep while I was pregnant with my first child, a daughter. But that is all in the past. I hope you will not feel this sadness in your life time." Scarlet looked up at the clock and looked back down at Carlson. She would let Sirius and Izzy sleep more, Izzy deserved it after the night she must have had.

"Carlson, want to learn how to walk?" Carlson gave Scarlet a big toothy grin and Scarlet laughed as she put him on his feet and helped him balance.

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Izzy woke with a start around noon. She didn't remember much of the morning, only bits and pieces. She tried to roll out of bed to put the journal she was clutching back on the book case shelf but she found that she couldn't move, there were two strong arms holding onto her. She turned in those arms to discover that it was Sirius. His hair fell across his face and he looked peaceful in sleep. Izzy moved her hands down his body till she got to his waist. Then she started to tickle him. He started laughing and opened his eyes to see his smiling girlfriend in his arms.

Sirius looked down at the beauty that was his girlfriend and couldn't help but smile and bend down to kiss her. The kiss was slow but was a nice way to wake up. Izzy giggled a little into the kiss but continued to kiss him back. They parted after a few minutes and decided to go raid the kitchen since they missed breakfast. When they got down stairs the rest of the teens were outside on the beach running around in pants and tee shirts. Scarlet was in the living room trying to teach little Carlson how to walk and so far doing a pretty good job seeing as the babe was only over a year old.

Izzy and Sirius snuck into the kitchen and took out the milk. Then they grabbed two bowls, two spoons and some Cereal. They dug into their cold breakfast and soon were out the door heading into the game of tag.

Izzy and Sirius talked quietly amongst themselves as they headed out to join the game of tag. Seeing Tara and her Aunt both so happy and full of life made her upset that she knew they were to die. However, she pushed that from her mind so she could have a fun time now and not have to worry about the future until it came.

"When your Aunt and I came in to wake you," Sirius began, "You were a mess, red puffiness around your eyes with big dark circles, and you looked like hell, not the beautiful witch that I have come to know. You were crying and holding tightly to a journal. Your Aunt tried to pull it was from you but you held tighter to it, saying 'so much death' over and over. I held you tightly and tucked us into your bed. You soon fell asleep and I guess I followed after you."

"Oh," was the only thing that Izzy could muster up. Jessie passed by the two on her way to help Scarlet with lunch and her baby brother, saying that lunch would take at most another half hour.

The game of tag they were playing used magic to help even up the odds. The game was boys versus girls. Although there were more girls than boys, the boys were stronger than the girls so it was almost fair. Magic just made the game more fun. Izzy was having a great time and was almost able to forget what happened. She remembered that no one could read her journal as she had placed a charm on it to only open to her magical signature.

The game was just about to be won by the guys when Scarlet and Jessie yelled, "Lunch Time!" The boys quickly dashed into the house, well Lucius walked calmly while offering his arm to Narcissa. The girls sighed at their almost perfect romance, if only they were in love was the thought on all of their minds, then they would be the perfect couple.

Lunch was a loud affair with talk of the up coming Diagon Alley trip. They were all excited to pick out their books and robes for Hogwarts. Jessie was especially excited because she had never been to any school before, their parents had had only enough money to send one child and Jessie hadn't wanted to leave her parents so they send Jane.

Izzy faked wonder at all of the stories and rules and expectations of Hogwarts when she probably knew it better than the Marauders. She had to if she was going to constantly be saving people and sneaking out undetected. While Izzy pretended to listen to the umpteenth story about some old defense professor, she was quietly planning a way to get the magical creatures on her side. She knew that if she didn't act quickly, the order was doomed to have a problem with fighting off both creatures and dark wizards.

After lunch, Izzy went to take a 'nap' feigning being tired still. "It's the weather I guess," she said as an excuse and hurried up to her bedroom. The others wondered what was wrong but didn't follow. She would come down when she was ready.

In her room, Izzy took down her visions journal and opened other journal with the same enchantments on it and began to draw plans and write up ideas pertaining to the war. She quickly got off the bed and opened a third journal that contained all of the knowledge all of the wars that Izzy and Scarlet had fought in. This one was thick and three volumes complied in one book.

Page after page of writing and reading and Izzy finally had some preliminary plans that would make sure to keep most of everyone alive for the next battle she had foreseen in her sleep this past night.

Sighing, she got out of bed, messed up her hair and bed, put the journals back, whipped the ink off her hands and rubbed her eyes to make it look like she had been sleeping. As she descended the stairs, she heard her Aunt call out to her friends that it was dinnertime. Well I am hungry thought Izzy as she went up to her Aunt to ask if she needed any help.

Thank you for not yelling about how long it took to type this up. Once again I am very sorry for the delay, hopefully it wont happen again.

Xoxo,

Nymphie