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Sirius never talked about his family with any sort of affection and every member of the Order of Phoenix knew that he didn't care about his family at all. After all, he fought Bella firmly showing no sign of hesitancy. Or so they thought. In actual fact, Sirius never forgot every single memory of his family. He never forgot anybody from his family. He never stop loving any of his family, even Bella. Especially Bella.

Sirius was rather arrogant and he would never show weakness to anybody in the world, except family. Not even James Potter had seen Sirius weak and that was something he knew he was proud of. He liked to believe that he was a strong person (not that he wasn't). He knew it would take a whole lot of courage to fight Bella, his own cousin, but he was a Gryffindor. He could... would do this.

Cissy would always be the hardest to fight, of course, because they were always very close due to being the same age. A close second would be Reggy because he was Sirius little brother. Third would be Andy since he was someone he could depend on. Someone that was on his eyes. Last would be Bella.

That would sound like Bella was easy to fight. That wasn't a bit true. She was the easiest to fight compared to the rest of the Blacks. But on a scale to 1 to 10, Bella ranked 8 (Andy 8.5, Reggy 9 and Cissy 9.5, because he was strong and it was possible to fight everybody). Ever since a young age, Sirius always bickered with Bella and naturally she used to rank 6. Still above 5 but quite low for family since he ranked his parents and uncles and aunts 7.

It was a particular event that really forced him to put Bella in a higher rank than necessary, that really pulled them closer together. Sometimes, Sirius wondered if he would have let his guard down that night if he hadn't trusted her so much due to that event. That had cost him his life. Sometimes, Sirius wished it never happened. He would say, out of all the horrible thing that have happened to him, that was the worst of them.

Sirius had always been known to be the worst playboy known in the history of Hogwart, at least in his time. So when he started dating the shy innocent Ravenclaw who was coincidentally the best friend of his cousin, Narcissa Black, everyone had concluded it to be tragedy with Katherine no longer as innocent as she once was.

What they didn't know was that for once in his entire lifetime, Sirius was in a serious relationship (no, that was not an intentional pun). He really did care and love her and after much pleading and threatening, his family had finally, finally, allowed them to be engaged (she was considered one of the poorer pureblood family and it was disgrace to have a Black married to one of those people). He had ran in and informed her immediately, gracing her with one of his best, happiest smile.

Everything was supposed to be perfect, wonderful. It was rare that purebloods ever got love marriage at that time and Sirius Black was going to get one. With the girl he would do anything for. He was simply delighted.

But in a mere two weeks, everything came crashing down, down, down. Narcissa was to be engaged to Rabastan Lestrange (Sirius peeked into some of his mother's file to find out this before it was announced to Cissy). That man who was previously engaged to his sister four years their senior! He wasn't that old but that was outrageous. And much more importantly, Cissy already liked someone else!

So Sirius and Katherine had went to their parents to argue, hope, plead, threaten and even to the extent of beg. Their parents showed no mercy and finally Katherine suggested letting Sirius marry someone else and Cissy marry the idiot best friend of Bella (just because Cissy likes him, doesn't mean Sirius cannot curse him).

Sirius was horrified, of course, but she had pointed out that she was one of the poorest of the poorest pureblood family, plus she wasn't even in Slytherin. There was a 1% chance of her getting another engagement. He would simply refuse to get engaged (he could be very rebellious). They still could be together once their parents realize they couldn't object anymore.

That was good enough for Sirius. As long as she didn't receive any official engagement letter on her birthday (it was announced on her sixteenth birthday which happened to be on the same day as Cissy), all would be fine.

But she did. She received an engagement letter and had ran to Sirius to consult him. What could they do? What should they do? Sirius hated to admit it. He felt weaker, more defeated and completely helpless at that point. He didn't like the feeling. It was only as she finally left, after they concluded that there was nothing they could do, that Sirius sat up with a jolt because wasn't Nott one of oldest follower of Voldemort? As in, wasn't he 33 years older than them.

And Sirius wasn't ashamed to admit that on that very night, he felt like tears were threatening to spill. He had gotten up and slipped into the Slytherin Common Room (oh, shush it you people, he had a brother two cousins in Slytherin since Andy graduated) and into Bella's dorm since she was the only girl in her year.

Bella had woken up immediately, to find Sirius terribly upset and after getting him onto her bed, had written a letter for Andy to come and went to rise Cissy and Reggy. Within fifteen minutes, all of them had arrive and even Andy had rushed out of her house in pyjamas with her hair in a mess on a broomstick. Reggy had stifled a giggle at the sight of her.

Bella knew that Andy had been blasted of the family tree. She knew she shouldn't have informed Andy at all. But Andy always had the most comforting presence of all of them and she always had a way to coax them. They needed Andy this time. This wasn't just Reggy or Cissy crying. This was Sirius crying, and that meant something was up.

Andy had wrapped her arms around Sirius comfortingly (although he was now about the same size as her), and whispered gently words until he finally calmed down. He had told them what happened. He told them about the small risk that he had taken. The risk that had made him lose everything.

And Andy had hugged him again before putting him into Bella's bed. Bella hadn't even made a sound of protest. They had all sat around on the floor that night, discussing who knows what but Sirius didn't bother eavesdropping this time. He fell right asleep.

Years later, Sirius and Andy was on one side of the war and Bella and Cissy on the other. Nobody talked about little Reggy anymore. Sirius honestly didn't expect it but the one of the Prewett brothers had a picture of it. The Death Eaters was seen (while they were spying) having a little spat over who did the next raid and it ended with one of them sending a Cruciatus Curse to the other.

The picture shows a laughing maniac with thick long lashes, twisting dark hair and harsh complexion pointing her wand on the one on the floor was clearly the one person he hated more than ever. That person who was 33 years older than him, Nott.