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Flashbacks


How It Should've Been

Chapter 5: Behind the Front's & Masks

November 1981

After Alex had vanished, Sirius just stared at the spot she had disappeared from. He knew he shouldn't have said it but he was angry.

Now he had no idea what to do. As soon as he said the words he regretted it but she was gone before he could take it back. Sirius didn't know why they fought constantly. The day after they met they started fighting for one reason or another. They clashed worse than Sirius and his brother had. In the past week, Sirius had learned quite a bit about Lily's younger sister.

The first thing being she was a sarcastic smart-ass, but he couldn't hold it against her it wasn't like he was much better. Aside from that they shared little to nothing in common other than having relations to Harry. They were from two different worlds and while Alex knew a lot about the wizarding world it didn't help when Sirius knew next to nothing about her world. Sirius could've chalk it up to her world apparently being the wizarding worlds parent world, so of course she knew more but still.

In the beginning of the week they only spoke to one another when it was a response or if it was necessary. Neither was big on revealing more about themselves then they had to until they had a read on the other. Sirius couldn't read her emotions at all during the first two days. He was an Auror for god's sake. He was good at reading people. Even people that didn't want to be read, but Alex threw him for a loop.

Until…

It was the third day into the week after the Potters death.

Sirius walked around the corner and heard someone talking. He stopped abruptly and hide behind the corner. Peeking around the corner he saw two people talking. One had a leather jacket on and he knew it was Alex. He had no idea who the other was. Pulling out his wand, he cast a discreet spell allowing him to hear better.

"Alex, I'm telling you she's not there." The males voice said.

"Why? Where the hell else would she be?" Alex wondered crossing her arms.

"You sure Hestia told you to go there?" The man asked.

"Jake, I am one hundred percent positive."

"Then if this kid is missing, that's not good. Demi-god children don't just go missing, they either are claimed, live out their lives unaware or die young." The man, named Jake, said.

"I know, if this kid's not there then maybe… how old was this kid supposed to be exactly?" Alex inquired curiously.

"Less than six months old apparently. The weird thing is that when I went to the house, the mother had no idea what I was talking about. She said she gave the kid up to a woman a few months back. The woman supposedly said she could help her and knew what was happening. Apparently, this kid blew out a light bulb so I'd assume it's a kid of Zeus though if so, she's starting early." Jake explained.

"Do we have any idea who the woman was?" Alex questioned.

"From what we could tell it wasn't a demi-god so we're lost."

"What if this kid wasn't a daughter of Zeus or even a Demi-god?"

"Then what do you propose she is?" Jake exclaimed.

"Come on don't tell me the magic world didn't occur to you as a possibility? You're a son of Hecate for Hades sake!"

"But still why would she be taken from her mother that young?" Jake questioned confused.

"Maybe she was unfit to deal with it? Until we know who took her, we can't figure this out." Alex told him.

"What did Hestia say her name was again?" Jake asked.

"Luna." Alex answered and Jake nodded. They bid goodbyes and he flicked his hand disappearing in a torrent of blue smoke.

Sirius canceled the spell and moved so he was fully hidden behind the corner. He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall before he sighed in relief for not being spotted. He opened his eyes and glanced around the corner again to see if Alex had left. With his head around the corner he didn't notice someone had walked up behind him.

"Whatcha doing?" A voice asked behind him causing Sirius to jump and spin around.

"Alex!? I thought I heard something." He tried.

"So, your hiding around a corner?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"When you put it like that, it sounds pathetic." He admitted with a small laugh.

"Mm, so anything there?"

"Uh no, nope didn't find anything." Sirius lied.

"Good, it'd be kinda scary if something was in here and we didn't know it." She chuckled as she walked away.

"Yeah." Sirius mumbled.

It was then that he learned more about Alex than he had the past three days combined. She knew exactly what to say to sound unsuspecting while also being secretive. She wasn't afraid to lie if she had to, just to keep things private.

The next day, Sirius was walking into his study when he saw Alex sitting in his chair leaning back with legs on the table. When she saw him enter she set her legs on the ground and stood.

"I know you were spying on my conversation yesterday." Alex said with no preamble.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Sirius feigned innocence. Alex walked around the desk.

"Don't play games with me Sirius. I know you were spying. Question is, why? Huh? What do you have to gain?" Alex questioned.

"Knowledge on whether I can trust you or not. I don't trust people I don't know. I can't read you, I know very little about you and spying seemed like the best option." Sirius answered.

"I agree. So, you left your girlfriend to come here and raise Harry. But she wouldn't follow? Why, did she care for you that little?" Alex baited him.

"Hey! Amelia and I love each other! But she has a family there as well, people she needs to be there for! We went our separate ways for now!" Sirius defended.

"Ah defending an ex? Someone you loved enough to consider proposing to? I mean, she obviously said no." Alex paused when she saw the look on his face. "Oh… how tragic, you didn't get the chance to propose. Maybe if you had asked, maybe she would've actually given you another thought before leaving you." Alex continued taunting him.

Sirius snapped, he surged forward slamming Alex into the wall of bookcases with such a force that the cases shook causing the books to tumble out of the shelves and onto the ground, with a hand around her neck. He had a fury in his eyes. She chuckled and the lights flickered and a second later they were back on, but Alex was no longer pinned against the bookshelves. Sirius's eyes widened in shock, and his head turned left and right looked around. Books were littered on the ground.

"Behind ya." A voice came causing Sirius to whip around and there was Alex standing in the center of the room facing him with her arms crossed. "I'll admit, good try but let me give you a hint of advice Sirius… have that." She pointed the bookcases, "be a one-time thing." She finished. "Because while you may be an Auror, you can't beat me. I don't appreciate being spied on, and it's obvious that you don't either. It's also pretty obvious that I'm much better at spying than you are. What I do isn't any of your business." She told him and anybody would've been able to hear the warning in her words.

"If you're in my house it is!" Sirius snapped.

"Guess it's a good thing I'm not in your house then." She smirked before walking out of the study leaving Sirius standing there, surrounded my fallen books, seething.

Two days later here he was, standing in the foyer after having an argument that resulted in him telling Alex to basically screw off.

He thought back to that day in the study. She knew exactly how to get to him, exactly what to say to make him angry, to provoke him. He had to admit, she was better at spying and observations than he was. She predicted what he would do even without knowing him that long. Neither of them trusted the other and that was her way of figuring him out, finding out what makes him tick.

Even with the conversation he overheard, he still couldn't peg her. He knew there was more to her than he originally thought, she knew how to hide emotions. All of this led Sirius to two conclusions, there was more to her history that he didn't know, and that she had experience.

Meanwhile…

When Alex disappeared from the foyer she reappeared in her apartment building. It was a sky-rise in New York that Alex and a group of other people were known to own, but in reality, the gods owned it. They had only made it seem like a group of people did for a front. It was a demi-god rise. It was 17 stories and the first three full of any clear-sighted mortals while the other fourteen held apartments occupied by Demi-gods.

While some viewed it as a target for monsters, it wasn't. It was protected by the gods and anybody that wasn't a Demi-god or clear-sighted mortal that tried to enter would suddenly forget what they were doing and turned around. To monsters it was invisible and inaccessible. It was a safe-haven.

Alex along with other pseudo-owners lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth floors. There was six of them and each apartment was a level and a half. All six of them had a bottom level and then a loft level. Once she appeared in the building, she rode the elevator up to the floor before entering the apartment opposite her own.

"Alex?" Came a voice.

"Dave, I need to talk to you." Alex called. Someone came walking down the stairs.

"Yeah, what's up?" The man, Dave, asked.

"Can you tell if a child is magical?"

"Yes… if I was close to them. Why?" Dave answered.

"A child went missing, I'm not sure if they're a demi-god or a witch." Alex answered.

"Ah, well if the child's missing there's not much we can do until she's found."

"That's what I figured. Let Jake know." Alex told him before leaving the apartment.


Alright so as you can see this is a shorter than normal chapter, that's because it's a flashback and this was as far as this part could go. Now there will be more chapters like this, that are flashbacks for the entire thing. Also, this is not a PJO crossover, just so you know. Anyway, as always hope you enjoyed and Happy Reading! -DS

Question! What do you think happened to the baby girl?