Disclaimer: I forgot to put it in the beginning of the last chapter. I don't own Harry Potter.
AN: So this chapter officially gets into the end of the Marauder's era. I realize that I am going kind of fast but it will slow down in the next couple of chapters and there will be more character development at that time. There are going to be quite a few OCs in this story because the Dumbledore family is going to be pretty bid. So don't like, don't read. Please review. I would like to hear your thoughts on what you like/don't like, what you would like to see, etc.
Chapter 1:
Chloe Dumbledore was lost in thought. She couldn't help but think about the last decade of her life. She fell in love with her worst enemy, Sirius Black, became pregnant at age seventeen with their first child, Addie, learned that she's the daughter of the worst villain the entire wizarding world had ever known, Voldemort, and gave birth to another daughter, Mia. She and Sirius decided early on that even though they loved each other, they would not marry until the threat of Voldemort was gone from this world. They knew that they would never be safe. This was proven true about a month after Mia was born, many Deatheaters and Voldemort himself attacked Hogwarts where the family of four was visiting for Easter. Fortunately, the attack was neutralized but not without its causalities. Even worse then that, the Dark Lord himself discovered that his daughter had given birth to another one of his descendents. He tried to kidnap the three remaining members of his family, but Dumbledore stopped him.
Flashback
"We have to get out of England. He won't stop, he'll just keep coming. And he'll kill anyone that stands in his way. You know that. Sirius, please, for our daughters. I don't want them to grow up within his shadow." Chloe said desperately.
"Alright. Pack up our things and we'll go."
"Where will we go?"
"Anywhere you want. Pick a place."
"What about New York?"
"I like New York. But if I'm going to move, it has to be someplace sunny."
"Alright then what about Los Angeles or Hawaii?"
"Los Angeles sounds good, you know that I'm obsessed with movies. We can give our girls a good life there. We can have a good life there." Sirius said.
"Thank you." She said before kissing him.
By the beginning of the summer, the small family had moved into a comfortable beach house not far from Venice Beach. Being an apothecary's assistant, Chloe was able to find a job very quickly. While she worked, Sirius stayed home with the girls. But it didn't take long for Sirius to become restless, especially after a visit from their friends and family for Christmas. "He's getting stronger and gathering more and more followers." James told Sirius.
"Almost all of the werewolves and vampires have joined his cause now." Remus added.
"There is another thing." Albus said.
"What?" Sirius asked.
"He is looking tirelessly for his daughter and granddaughters. He has even convinced majority of the wizarding world that Sirius has kidnapped the three of you and is hurting you. He has placed a bounty on all of your heads." Dumbledore said.
"He has to know that I will never join him. Nothing short of the Imperius Curse could make me join him. He must know that." Chloe said.
"He knows that. Which is another reason why he wants Mia and Addie. Besides molding them to be his best and most lethal Deatheaters, he could force you join him by threatening the two of them. He knows that a mother's love runs deep and you would do anything to protect your daughters."
"I'll kill him myself if he ever tries to hurt my family." Sirius said with a deadly glint in his eye.
"Calm yourself, Sirius. This move, was by far the best thing you two could have done. For now, your family is safe. They will only be in danger if Voldemort manages to take over England."
"But still I have to do something."
"Sirius, don't say that!" Chloe said.
"Chloe!" He said while she walked out of the house and down to the beach. "Excuse me." He got up and went after his girlfriend. He found her sitting on a sand dune looking out towards the water. He sat next to her and they both just watched the waves for a while
"You can't go." She said while tears silently streamed down her face.
"Chlo, look at me. I love you. And I love our girls. You are the light in this world that is filled with darkness. That's why I need to do this. I need to protect you and Adds and Emmy. If something were to happen to you three, I would lose myself completely."
"I know why you need to do this. But it doesn't mean that I have to like it. But if you're going back, then so am I."
"No!"
"What do you mean no?"
"I mean no. You can't come. I won't let you be in any danger."
"I was in danger from the moment I was conceived. I'm coming."
"Chloe, listen to me, if you come then you and our girls are in even more danger. The best place for you three right now is here, away from all of that."
"But-"
"Then I will come back and I will marry you. That is a promise." He got down on one knee and took out a little box from his pocket. "I was going to wait until later tonight to give this to you, but now is as good a time as any." He opened the box to reveal a pink diamond ring surrounded by smaller diamonds. "Chloe Janet Dumbledore, I love you and I know that I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?"
"Yes!" She said with tears coming down her cheeks. Sirius picked her up and spun her around. They both tumbled to the ground laughing before they started to make love in the shade of the sand dunes.
End Flashback
That felt like so long ago while at the same time it felt like it happened only moments ago. Chloe was now sitting on that same sand dune looking down at the ring Sirius gave her when they were twenty years old.
So Sirius spent half of his time fighting against Voldemort and the other half with his family in L.A. On October 31, 1981, all of that changed. James and Lily were killed by Voldemort leaving Harry an orphan as well as the savior of the wizarding world. There was only one person that would have been able to tell James and Lily's location to anyone and everyone suspected Sirius.
Flashback
A week after that fateful night, Chloe was on the beach with her daughters when Dumbledore, Remus, Kingsley, Moody, Crouch, and Fudge came to inform of her of her boyfriend's imprisonment as well as her friends' fates. When she heard the news, she swooned and couldn't stop the anguished cry that escaped from her lips.
When she calmed down, they told her that the funerals for their friends were that Sunday. She came back to England with her daughters and was silent through the procession. It wasn't until later that night that she spoke for the first time. "I'm going to see Sirius." Everyone was silent when she said that.
"Why?" Remus asked.
"Because I need to know why he did this. For my own sanity. I don't expect any of you to understand or to support me, but I thought all of you should know what I was planning on doing. "
"Alright. But I don't think you should go alone, lassie." Moody said. "So I'll come with you."
"Thank you."
That night, as she was preparing for bed, she heard a knock on her door. She turned and saw Remus standing there with a gentle smile on his face. "Remus, is something wrong?"
"No, I just wanted to ask why you are going to see Sirius?"
"I just have to."
"It wouldn't be to tell him that you are pregnant with his third child now."
"How did you know?"
"I am a werewolf."
With a sigh she sat on the bed and nodded her head. "Yes, that is one of the reasons that I want to see him. He does have a right to know."
"Sure, it is his child but I don't think you should tell him."
"Why? Why do you care about this? The day they told me about Sirius' imprisonment, you condemned him in front of me."
"You are right. I put my trust in someone who I thought was my friend and he betrayed me and everyone that I care about. And even worse, everyone he cares about. I know that you still love him though and you want to keep his memory alive for the girls. I think it is wrong to do so since they will want to protect his memory and it will make life more difficult for them by protecting a known felon."
"That still doesn't answer why I shouldn't tell him about this new baby?"
Remus came and sat next to her and said, "I may hate him now, but I didn't always. He was once my closest friend and I can't help but think of that now and how much he is suffering already, knowing that he is away from you and the girls. And now to tell him that he is to have another child, one that he will never know, much less see, it would be truly torturous. That's why I am asking you, as someone who was once his friend and for the memory of that, don't tell him." With that, Remus got up and left for the night leaving Chloe alone with her thoughts.
The next day, Chloe went to see Sirius in Azkaban prison. "High Security Prisoner XY390. Are you sure you want to see him, missy? He's a dangerous bastard." The guard said.
"I'm sure."
"Alright. Hey, Black!. You got a visitor. You have one hour. Make it count."
Chloe waited there for a moment before stepping closer to the bars. "Who ever the hell you are, get the hell out of here." a scratchy voice said.
"Sirius. Sirius, it's me."
"Chloe?" Sirius looked up and saw his girlfriend standing there.
"Sirius." she got down on her knees in front of the bars and tried to reach for him.
"Chloe." he crawled over to her and grasped her hands and tried to reach for her face.
"Sirius, oh god."
"Shh. Don't cry, love. You have to know that I didn't do what they are accusing me of."
"I know. I believe you. There is no way you did what they are accusing you of."
"Chloe, listen to me. You are going to take our daughters and you are going to go somewhere safe."
"Sirius, what are you talking about?"
"You are going to take Addie and Emmy and go back to L.A. and you three are going to stay there where it is safe."
"No! I'm going to stay here and get you out of this hellhole."
"It's too late for me. I've accepted that, but you must go on without me."
"How can I do that? I'm not strong like you, Sirius."
"Yes. Yes, you are. You're stronger than me. After everything you've been through, anyone else would just die, but not you. You can do this."
For the next hour, they stared as if to memorize each other's faces and they talked about their favorite memories with each other. There were several times within that hour, that she tried to tell him about the baby, but she was unable to bring herself to do it.
"Time's up, Black!" the guard said coming back into the room.
"NO!" Chloe said clutching the bars.
"Chloe, it's alright." Sirius said soothingly.
"Please don't leave me."
"We will be together again. In this life or the next. As long as you continue to believe in our love. Don't let anyone's ideas change that. Don't believe what they tell you and take care of our girls. And know that I love you."
"I love you too." Moody and Kingsley gently took her arms and took her out of the prison. As soon as she stepped out of the prison, she broke down.
End Flashback
So Chloe followed Sirius' advice and moved back to California with her daughters. But for her daughter's protection, she changed their last names from Black to Dumbledore. It was difficult to talk about Sirius without breaking down, so she just told her daughters that Sirius was gone and he was never coming back and that they couldn't talk about him anymore.
For even more protection, Remus and Kingsley came with them in case there were anymore Deatheater attacks.
Chloe never forgot Sirius but she would never see him for many more years.
