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CHAPTER 62

Montpellier was incredibly different from London and St. Petersburg. I wasn't reminded of anything, especially once I had gotten past meeting Chantal's family. A family of vampires is incredibly different from my family of…well, as I've said earlier, it's hard to label.

Montpellier was just what we needed; it was far from home, far from anyone that had known us. We spent a lot of time at the beach, which was incredibly close to Château Roux. I had never seen water so blue and clear before, it was beautiful.

We weren't out of the clear of the dance studio, we studied with Florence Chevalier, a rather strict vampire that Chantal studied with whenever she visited her father.

Though all of this was great, being away and in a new place. I must admit, I missed Sirius terribly.

We spent a month in Montpellier, on one of the last days that we were there Teagan came bursting into my bedroom…

Audrey sat on the windowsill, looking out on the front gardens. In the distance she could see the beach, and the water.

"AUDREY!" Teagan said.

"TEAGAN!" Audrey said mockingly with a smirk.

"I have something to show you. Well, Chantal and I have something to show you." Teagan said, keeping a straight face.

Audrey raised an eyebrow.

"May I ask what it is?"

"I have to blindfold you. It's a surprise." Teagan said, waving a bandana.

"Fine." Audrey said, motioning her forward, she squealed in delight.

"You better not be taking me out to get slaughtered, Teag. "Audrey said, sarcastic.

"Just don't make a sound, okay? It's important." Teagan said. Audrey nodded.

Teagan snorted and rolled her eyes, leading her through the house and into the gardens. On the far side, facing them, was Chantal with a boy who was also blindfolded.

Chantal and Teagan exchanged a smirk, they knew this was going to be funny.

"3..."
"2…"

"1…" The two said together, removing the blindfolds.

Audrey recognized the face across the gardens right away.

Sven Beria.

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Sirius,

I miss you so much; I'm coming home this Friday. Would you like to come over?

With love,

Audrey.

"Aww, look! Russia gave you love." James cooed over Sirius' shoulder. Sirius put his palm on his best mate's face and shoved him away, laughing.

"I see she's invited you over too. Meeting the parents?" James raised an eyebrow.

Sirius sighed.

"Well, technically, I've already met them."

"How-OH RIGHT." James mouth hung open. "Oh my…do you think it's going to be awkward, Pads?"

"I don't know, Prongs." Sirius replied, contemplative. "I certainly hope not."

"The invite is only for the day, I'm assuming." James said, reading Audrey's letter.

Sirius snorted. "Well of course, do you honestly think her parents would let me sleep over? The mere fact that I'm a male and interested in their daughter is enough for any parents to kick me out of the house at sundown."

Not only that, I came from one of the worst pure blood families around. I wasn't sure if her parents knew that or not.

"You're right, mate." James agreed. "Well, not to worry. Everyone's coming the middle of next week anyway. Then we've got two weeks of shenanigans than it's back to school."

"I can't wait." Sirius grinned. "I miss the gang."

Sven and Audrey ran, and nearly fell over from tackling each other into a hug.

"Sven…oh my merlin, Sven." Audrey gasped, blinking some tears out of her eyes.

"Nice to see you still speak in your native tongue." Sven grinned, wiping his eyes. "I've missed you so much."

"Aww." Chantal cooed, elbowing Teagan. "Look at the little Russians speaking Russian."

Teagan rolled her eyes at the veela.

"I've missed you too, it's been a while since I've spoken though…my father…he avoids speaking it now. I spoke to him before we came to France and he was surprised." Audrey replied, as they got up and walked around the gardens for a bit.

"Come on, Teag. Let's leave those two to catch up." Chantal said, taking Teagan's arm and leading her back into the house.

"How is your father?" Sven asked, he had a slightly dead look in his eyes, remembering Christmas.

"He is…recovering." Audrey said, searching for words. "He's taken to just being busier than ever. When I went home the year after for Christmas, he refused to eat."

"Why?" Sven asked. "Other than the obvious…"

"To understand the hollowness that he felt, is what he said." Audrey looked down. "My mother says that he refuses to forgive himself. The night it all happened, they were celebrating and they didn't know until Albus' owl had arrived."

"It's such a silly thing to blame himself for, all things considered." Sven said, looking around the gardens. "But I understand."

Audrey nodded, there was a small silence.

"I'm sorry it's been a while since I've written." She said, looking at her best friend.

"We're equally at fault." He smiled. "It's hard to maintain a bond over the distance between us and what's happened. Plus, we've both been rather busy. From what I remember from your last letter, you had just debuted and things were getting interesting with Sirius Black." He poked her side.

Audrey buried her head in her hands, embarrassed.

"Oh Sven, I swore to myself, you were there, that I'd never give into Sirius Black. And look at me now, ridiculous." Audrey said.

Sven laughed. "Love is sometimes a very ridiculous thing. I won't say I didn't see it coming, because I did. Especially with all of the things you had told me about him over the years, then meeting him. It was rather obvious he was crazy for you."

Audrey shook her head. "Somewhere inside of me, the little Audrey is yelling 'You idiot!'"

Sven burst out laughing. "But, does he treat you well?"

"Yes." Audrey nodded. "He is very kind."

"Good." Sven nodded.

"How is he?" Audrey asked. Sven knew very well whom she was talking about.

"He's alright. He spends a lot of time working, or studying, or playing Qudditch." Sven began. "He's gotten really good, there are scouts coming to watch some of Zoloto's games this year, just for him."

"Has he…"

Audrey began, but Sven seemed to read her mind and said.

"Moved on?"

Audrey nodded, Sven shook his head.

"He hasn't."

"Is he alright?" Audrey felt a large pang of guilt in her chest.

I would always love Karl, but my heart now belonged to someone else. And to know that he wasn't with anyone made me sad.

"Sometimes, I don't know." Sven said.

Though it was a pleasant surprise to see an old friend, but I was so relieved to go back to our small cottage in the woods.

Audrey walked back from Teagan's cottage to hers. She heard a low grumbling in the distance. Descending from the sky was a muggle motorcycle. Audrey stood on her guard, her eyes glowing yellow.

The bike landed easily, and the rider took of his helmet and shoot out his hair.

Sirius Black.

She dropped her duffle bag and sprinted towards him. He smirked, intercepting her.

"I didn't think you'd actually make it here when I did." Audrey said, after kissing him a few times. He grinned.

"I told you I'd be here the moment you got back." Sirius said, a mischievous glint in his eye.

"Come." Audrey said, grabbing his hand and leading him into the cottage.

I remember being surprised at the time that she didn't inquire about the large muggle motorcycle I had brought with me.

"Mama? Papa?" Audrey called, as the two entered the house.

I was going to tell her how sexy I thought it was when she spoke Russian. But I decided against it. The house was too quiet, and Audrey had a look of curiosity on her face. She was piecing something together.

Audrey sniffed, Sirius watched her curiously.

"Do you smell that?" She asked, looking at him. She was serious.

Sirius sniffed the air. "It smells faintly of…something burning."

The cottage was a lot larger inside than out, everything was made of wood or stone. The craftsmanship was beautiful. I watched her and followed her as she made her way through a den area. We finally reached the back door, she slipped through it, and I followed.

There was a large plume of smoke coming from the trees.

Audrey started to sprint towards the wooded area, she picked up speed quickly. Sirius wouldn't be able to keep up as a human, so he transformed…though it was still hard to keep up as a dog. She was quite a ways ahead of him.

As they got deeper into the woods, the smoke became thicker. Sirius couldn't see much until Audrey had skidded to a halt in a clearing. Sirius slammed into her. He transformed back, coughing.

"Audrey?" He said.

A large shed was on fire; Sirius assumed it belonged to the Dalios.

She didn't respond, and she began to survey the area. She looked panicked.

My father's workshop was up in flames.

Audrey mustered up all of the energy she could and began blowing wind onto the fire, but realized it didn't help much. Some of it blew onto the trees.

It wasn't fiendfyre, but it was far too large for me to put out by myself.

Audrey ran to the other side of the clearing, sucked in a large gust of air and shrieked.

"TEAGAN! TARA! HELP! HELP! FIRE IN THE CLEARING!"

The rest, was indiscernible, I assumed she was speaking banshee.

There was a small whooshing noise and Teagan came sprinting up past Sirius.

"OH MERLIN." She gasped, and ran back through the clearing.

"She's much help." Sirius snorted, taking out his wand. Audrey held out her arm.

"You can't."

"Audrey, this is an emergency, fuck the restriction." Sirius said, looking at her as if she were crazy.

"Sirius, the ministry knows this commune is entirely made up of half breeds. If you are seen here, near this fire, you will be blamed. Or worse, captured and killed." Audrey said gravely. "The devils are inside the walls too."

She was right…my family was very open about hating half-breeds and pure bloods. What I didn't know at the time was that their commune was supposedly 'heavily guarded' by the Ministry. Of course, at that time, the ministry was collapsing and Voldemort was gaining power. That summer, these attacks and deaths had started showing up in the Daily Prophet. His Death Eater's, all pure blood supremacists, were killing and torturing creatures around the world. It didn't surprise me that they were all beginning to infiltrate the ministry. After all, jackasses need day jobs too.

There was a thud that sounded from within the shed. Audrey froze, listening.

Since becoming an animagus, my hearing became a lot better, and I heard faint breaths, gasps for air. Judging by Audrey's face she had heard them too.

Audrey was about to bolt straight for the burning shack but Sirius grabbed her around the waist.

"Audrey…" Sirius said calmly. "You can't."

She struggled for a moment then broke free, knocking Sirius far back.

I sometimes hated having a "special girlfriend" as James always put it.

Sirius watched her run straight to the fire, he jumped to his feet and Audrey thrust her hand backwards, a gust of wind knocked him backwards again.

She disappeared into the flames.