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~THREE MONTHS LATER~
Remus sat quietly in the little cafe in Hogsmeade, watching over students and shoppers around. He waited for the right moment and got up to walk around, nodding his head at students as he wandered to the shrieking shack. He glanced to find no one follow him as he wandered down and with the flick of his wand erase his footsteps from the ground. Though it was March, they recently had some rain, making the ground damp under his feet to leave possible footprints. He entered inside and walked up the stairs to find Sirius sitting by the window. Remus placed a brown sack on the little table.
"I brought you some food."
"Thank you my friend…"
Sirius took out the food, which was a container of soup, sandwich, and a water bottle. Sirius slowly ate the food as Remus sat across from his friend and looks down at the food.
"It was the last thing I saw her eat before she left…"
Sirius stops for a moment and looks up at him. Sirius' smile was almost gone and the light in his eyes were dim with little hope.
"...I see… How's Harry?"
"Fine, doing perfectly fine right now."
"That's good…"
Sirius took another bite of his sandwich before asking,
"…Why did you trust me?"
"What do you mean?"
"Surely you must have though I murdered all those muggles and Peter."
"Because…Of this."
Sirius saw Remus take out the old tattered marauder's map, giving a surprised look. He unfolded it as he glanced at Remus.
"How?"
"Harry somehow acquired it…But when I saw Peter's name on the map I knew something was wrong."
He folded the map again and handed it back to his friend. Remus took a look at it as his eyes became soft.
"Oh the memories we had with this thing…She would have love to see this, hear our stories."
Sirius didn't need to know who he was referring to, because he already knew. They sat in silence while Sirius continued to eat. Remus glanced outside to see the gloomy skies as if it was grieving as well. Remus was the one who went to the hospital to see Serenity on the bed and told Sirius. It was the same feeling when he saw James & Lily dead again as Remus grieved silently while Sirius...Remus slowly drifted in thought when he told Sirius about Serenity.
Remus just came back from the hospital as he slowly walks up the stairs as he hears Sirius' voice,
"Remus?! Good you're here!"
Remus made it up the stairs as his eyes looked ragged. He saw Sirius with Crookshanks, the cat, as Sirius was smiling. Sirius says in a light animated voice,
"We've got him now! The girl's cat said that it will help us since Peter is nothing but a rat right now. She'll lead the rat right to us! I can image what Serenity will hear when she hears about th-...Remus...What's wrong?"
Remus slowly looked up to his friend as he says very slowly,
"...She's gone…"
"Remus? What on earth are you muttering about?"
"...Sirius...Serenity is…"
Sirius stopped smiling as he looked as his friend with harsh eyes as he replied,
"What about Serenity...Did something happen to her?! Spit it out Remus!"
"...She's dead…"
Sirius froze before he stumbled back a bit, grabbing onto a chair for support as his eyes grew wide with fear as he says softly,
"No...No, No, NO!"
He raised his voice while he suddenly grabbed the chair and threw at the wall, breaking one of the legs. Sirius' inner madness now returning like Hell's fury as he tried to destroy anything around him, screaming like a mad man. Remus quickly grabbed him by the arms as he hissed in his friend's ear,
"Stop! Stop this Sirius! She wouldn't have wanted to see you like this! Look!"
Remus took out the note that Serenity wrote as Sirius snatched it out of his hand and read it as the color drained from his face. Sirius slowly sunk back to sit onto the bed, as he continued to look at the note.
"...Did you knew…"
"Sirius."
"Did you know about how she felt?!"
"No...Yes...But I...I didn't think she would do thi-"
"I should have been there for her…This is all my fault…"
"Sirius...As she said in the note, she died because...She didn't want to see the vision of death appear in real life to her like her friend…It was too much...She was too young to handle it all…"
Sirius crinkle the paper as her kept it close to his body as he grieve for his one living relative. The girl who brought more hope and light for him to be reunited with Harry, now gone in a flash.
Remus opened his eyes again to see Sirius finished eating and stood up.
"Where are you going?"
"I need to go meet the cat today to see if Wormtail has been sighted...I'll see you later Remus."
Remus quietly got up and gave his friend a brief hug before Sirius turned into a black dog and walked out. Remus quickly took the trash and slowly made his way back to Hogsmeade before anyone noticed him gone. He escorted students back to school as he saw them all cheery and happy. He reached the school as he saw students all taking their treats to their respective dorms. He was about to leave for his own office till he heard a voice behind him.
"Excuse me Professor."
He turned around to see Miss Granger and Harry as he gave them a tired smile,
"Yes?"
"Have you heard anything from Serenity?"
"No I'm afraid not. But I'm sure she'll return before school ends."
"But she's missing so much! What about her tests?"
"She's been doing all of her homework and sending them through owl…She's just at a bad place right now and doesn't want you guys to worry. Just give it time."
They hesitantly nodded and walked off to meet Ron as Remus wandered to his office. Dumbledore insisted that the students should not be informed till the end of school...But in Remus mind he felt as if the elderly wizard knew something. For now however, he had to face the fact that his God-daughter was dead…
Sirius patted through the forest, making his way back to the shrieking shack the old fashion way, enjoying the night air. He finally felt like breathing after a rough couple of months trying to heal. He patted about trying to keep himself unnoticed until he saw something moved. He turned his head to see a unicorn with a thestral. They both shook their heads as they saw Sirius and both turned turned to walk away from him. He never seen these two creatures together but was slightly hesitant. For unicorns were known as pure creatures while thestrals are known as bad omens. As he was about to walk away he heard a light hum in the air, like a girl gently singing a melody.
"I'm lying on the moon
My dear, I'll be there soon
It's a quiet starry place
Time's we're swallowed up
In space we're here a million miles away"
He slowly walked off to the sound to find a small opening of smaller trees with a few rocks and boulders here and there. As he came closer he noticed a small figure sitting behind one of the rocks as the unicorn and thestral both bow their heads at the figure. It wasn't a simple bow of their heads but actually leaning back on their hind legs to bow at this figure. The gentle voice continued to sing, like a muse causing him to come closer like a moth to a flame.
"There's things I wish I knew
There's no thing I keep from you
It's a dark and shiny place
But with you my dear
I'm safe and we're a million miles away"
Suddenly the voice stop as Sirius snapped back into reality. He realized the thestral and unicorn were staring at him and slowly moved away. He tilted his head and froze when he heard something behind him, a deep growling sound.
"Grrrrr…"
He turned to see a large brownish grey wolf baring it's teeth at him. Sirius barked back as he at the wolf slowly circled each other until the voice said softly,
"Stop."
Sirius looked as the large beast while it looked at it's master. The person gently beckoned the creature with her hand, making the beast walk over and sit next to his master. Sirius barked at the person as the familiar looking wolf stared back at him and growled back. The person, though, gently hushed the beast, while rising from where she sat. She slowly turned to look at Sirius but he couldn't see anything with her hood over her face as she came closer. It was definitely a woman from the voice as she approached Sirius. Sirius backed up a bit but the person came closer and got down on one knee. She tilted her head slightly and stared as Sirius took another step, as the person whispered softly,
"I don't believe it..."
Sirius tilted his head as he comes a bit closer and peers at the person. Slowly he changes back into a human as the moonlight escapes from the clouds to hit the figure's face as he saw green eyes. He reaches out slowly to pull down the hood of the person's cloak but the person said in a soft voice,
"Sirius..."
It was so familiar as he suddenly pulled the hood down as the girl yelped, and long wavy hair falls around her face. She turned her face away as he gently cups her cheek to move her face so he could see and sucks a breath in and whispers softly, almost too quiet to hear as he whispers in a hushed tone, staring into emerald green eyes,
"...Serenity?"
