I forgot to add handsomholly in the thanks from last chapter! :o Thank you for the review! The questions you had involving Sirius, Lily, and James will all be mentioned in Deleted Scenes!

Heck, I may even put up some of Deleted Scenes tonight, I don't know…

Well, here we are, kids.

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EPILOGUE

12 years later…

Just a few minutes…that's all I had.

But it was just enough.

It was my first time in the castle in years…it hadn't changed a bit. I still felt at home, though the waves of nostalgia that hit me also brought me waves of grief.

No one seemed to care or notice as I trotted down the hallway, for all I knew, dogs might have been allowed in the castle. After all, everything changes with time. Now it was just a matter of getting to my destination, from what I remember, the passwords changed every year. Supposedly, they had never repeated…ever.

But then I saw her…perfect timing! I followed her all the way to the common room, she said "Spanghew."

Yes.

I scanned the common room, not a soul in sight. I waited for her to go up the stairs to her level. She had to only be a first or second year, she was so small…

After I was sure she was gone, I set off in a run, all the way up to the 7th floor.

To my surprise, the staircase hadn't turned into a slide. Perhaps it was because I was a dog. Why hadn't Ithought of that while I was in school?

It didn't take me long to find her bed. Her initials gave me a chill; they had her take her mother's maiden name. I would have done it too…our name never had had warm connotations.

Especially now.

I transformed, I still had plenty of time. I opened her trunk with care, it felt so wrong. Perhaps in some parallel universe, I would have done the same. She would yell at me, being a typical teenager. She'd be secretive, have a boyfriend that she wouldn't want to tell her mother and I about.

But that didn't happen.

It would never happen.

It was too late for us, all of us.

Peter ruined my life and he took everything from me. He gave it all away…everyone…everything.

The only survivors were the kids, and possibly Remus…If Remus were alive, he wouldn't trust me anyway. I wouldn't blame him for it either. We had a terrible falling out a week before that Halloween…

My daughter had bewitched her trunk to have endless space, after throwing an incredible amount of clothing out of the trunk; I found what I had wanted.

It was mine, actually.

Anastasia wouldn't have remembered that though. It was a small red photo album that I had made many, many years ago. They were mostly photos of Audrey and Anastasia…they were my favorites. Sometimes I would bring them to work with me, or to my Order missions. It was a reminder of what I needed to keep safe.

But I had failed.

Another book caught my eye; it bore a black cover with silver vines. The spine was thick, and slightly worn. It was very familiar…I had seen it in Oxshott, and later in Godric's Hollow. But I never paid it any mind, I was certain it was Audrey's. It appeared to be untouched, unopened. But there were grooves on the sides of the pages…it had been written in.

I pocketed that, the album, some quills, parchment, and a knife that was left on a night stand. I transformed and sprinted out of the castle, undetected. A few things had to be addressed, a murdering traitor, a lost broomstick, and a lost family.

As I arrived in my hiding spot, a cave in the forest, something was burning in my chest.

Curiosity.

I took the black book out of my robes and opened it. It was her handwriting, I knew it so well…how many love letters had we written to each other over the years?

I have worn a mask my entire life, hiding from the world my origins and what I am capable of…

Who I truly am…is unknown by many and now I feel that I must come clean and show everything before it is too late…

She wrote an auto-biography…

Hello!

First, I'd like to say THANK YOU, to everyone that's put up with my silly writings over the last four years that I've been a part of this website. It means a lot, and to have a select number of loyal readers has made this incredibly enjoyable. For those of you who have stuck around from the very beginning, thank you! And for those who have come in along the way, thank you!

My next project, as I've mentioned several times in other chapters, will be a series of one shots pertaining to certain characters and events from my two stories. If you have any questions or things you want me to address in this project, please leave a review or message me! :)

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For those of you starting school in the next few weeks, best of luck with your semesters!

Again...

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