Disclaimer: I forgot to put it in the beginning of the last chapter. I don't own Harry Potter.

AN: Hey guys, I'm back with another chapter. Please review and let me know what you think or what you would like to see or theories on what you think will happen.

Chapter 5:

At first, he didn't turn so she said repeated his name, "Sirius?" He turned, but the man before her was not the love of her life. Well at least not as she remembered. His normal tan complexion had turned a waxy, pale color. His teeth had yellowed, his face and sunken in, and his shoulder-length hair had grown and was matted and dirty. This was not the man she had fallen in love with, this was a shell of his former self.

"Chlo?" Sirius whispered in his raspy voice. It sounded as if he hadn't taken a normal sip of water for weeks. He blinked a few times just to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him before he began walking towards her. When he was close enough to touch, he reached his hand out and brought it up to her face. That's when he noticed how much she was shaking. "Are you afraid of me, Chloe?"

"Should I be?" She asked trying to be brave and even she could her the fear in her voice. Sirius had been in jail surrounded by dementors, relieving his horrible past and sins over and over again. It would be enough to drive anyone mad. Enough to make said person hurt or even kill the people that they love most in this world.

"I should say yes, but you know that I could never hurt you." He said walking away from her before going to look out the window once again.

There was a moment of silence between the two of them where they were each trying to find something to say. It used to be so easy to talk to one another. Time truly was cruel. "Sirius, what are you doing here? You know that this will be one of the first places they will check to look for you."

"I know, but I had to see this place for myself."

"Why?"

"Because. I didn't know where you were. This is the closest I could get to being near you. I've been here for a week hoping that you would show up so that I could see you one more time before I set off to do what I escaped Azkaban for."

"And what is that? Hurting Harry?"

"Of course not -"

"Look, Sirius, I don't want to hear it. But you need to leave here as soon as you can."

"I will. I just had to see you. I had to hold on to that hope."

"I understand." There was another awkward silence between them before she started laughing lightly.

"What is so funny?"

"It's just, I remember you to be one of the most vain people that has ever lived. I mean you had more haircare products than I did. And now, look at you. It's just a little funny."

"I can't help but agree with you there, love." Sirius said cracking a smile.

"Come on, let's get you cleaned up a bit."

After Sirius had showered and brushed his teeth, she began to cut his hair back down to its normal length. "Did you suffer?" She whispered so softly that she didn't think he heard her.

"Everyday. But the true torture was being away from you and the girls. How are they?"

"They are wonderful. Addie is a Gryffindor in her fourth year and is the top of her class and Mia is a Gryffindor in her third year who is just as smart as her sister. She is actually best friends with Harry."

"Was there ever any doubt they would be?"

"Never. The next generation of the marauders."

"Absolutely."

Chloe considered telling him about Aria but was unsure how to even bring the subject up. How does one casually bring up someone's unknown daughter. She thought about it for so long that she finished cutting his hair. "There, all done." They both looked at him in the mirror and smiled. He almost looked like his old self again and it was nice to pretend that he was.

They walked downstairs to eat the food that Chloe had prepared while he was in the shower. "So, I made French Onion Soup. I know that you used to love it and will be good for your stomach considering you haven't had a proper meal in years and you shouldn't eat anything too heavy right away."

"You always look out for me." Sirius said digging into the soup while Chloe cut up some bread.

She couldn't help but imagine Sirius and her daughters sitting around this table together, with Sirius telling jokes and teaching his daughters how to hold a spoon in place on their noses. The thought brought a smile to her face, but it left just as quickly as it came and instead left a deep frown knowing that it was just a fantasy and it would never happen. Even if Sirius did meet his daughters, it could never be like that. They would never just be a normal family, she thought sadly.

She brought the bread over to the table and sat down across from him with a glass of wine. "Aren't you going to eat anything?" Sirius asked.

"I'm not really hungry." She picked up the wine bottle and refilled her glass. She looked to him and silently asked if he wanted some to which he nodded. The rest of the meal was spent in silence.

After Sirius finished eating, he offered to do the dishes since Chloe had cooked. Chloe took her glass of wine and the bottle into the sitting room and stared into the flames in the fireplace, lost in her thoughts. She didn't even notice when Sirius sat next to her. She only noticed his presence when he reached for the bottle to refill his own glass and then topped off hers.

They sat in silence for several hours before Chloe finally whispered, "Did you suffer?"

"The true torture was being away from you. I would take on a hundred dementors if it meant that I could be with you for one more day."

"Don't say that." She put her glass down before getting up and walking over to the window and leaning her head against the cool glass. It gave her some relief against her now hot skin. She didn't know if it was from the amount of alcohol she had consumed or her unresolved feelings for Sirius resurfacing or both. She decided to go with the former, not wanting to admit that she still loved him knowing that it was never going to work out. They could never have a future together. Not one that would last anyways.

Sirius stared at her back for a long time before coming up behind her and taking her into her arms. He turned her around and noticed the tears on her cheeks. "Don't cry, love. I'm here now." He whispered, using his thumbs to wipe at the salty tears.

"But for how long, an hour, a day, a month, a year? I can't live like that."

"I understand. But we do have right now, we have this moment. We should make the most of it while we can."

She looked up at him with a few tears still leaking out of her eyes, she took a hold of his face in her hands. "I want to try something." She got up on her tip toes and gently pressed her lips to his for the briefest of moments. She took her hands off his face and pulled away to see that Sirius still had his eyes closed. When he opened them, she smiled and began, "I had to do that at least-" Sirius pulled her back and kissed her with all the passion that had been pent up for the last twelve years. When air became necessary, they pulled apart and Chloe said "Once."

Sirius laughed at that. "You are still the same, Chloe that I fell in love with all of those years ago." He brought her in for another kiss before he picked her up and pinned her to the wall.

Several hours later, they were lying on the rug in front of the fireplace with a sheet covering their naked bodies and a couple of pillows that Chloe had conjured. Chloe was asleep but Sirius was content to just watch her, to memorize her face and the rest of her body. He started running his hands along her causing her to stir. "Good morning." Sirius said, stealing a kiss.

"Morning." Sirius stomach started rumbling and the two went into the kitchen to get some food.

This pattern of getting reacquainted with one another in more ways than one continued for the rest of the week. Chloe only left to go to the store down the hill to get some supplies. On the sixth day, Sirius was moving some boxes when Chloe's bag fell on the floor. He picked it up and started putting everything back in when he came across a picture from Christmas years ago. Addie looked to be about seven, Mia was six and there was Kingsley helping them open presents and there was Remus and to Sirius' shock, he had his arm around Chloe and she was holding a three-year-old. He always knew that there was a chance Chloe would move on, in fact he hoped she did find happiness with someone, but to know that person was his best friend hurt more than he could even imagine.

He pulled out a bottle of firewhiskey and took several swigs straight from the bottle trying to wrap his head around what he had just discovered. By the time Chloe got back, he was completely drunk. "When were you going to tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

"That you had another child?" He grunted out.

"Sirius I can explain."

"Explain what, how while I was rotting away in a jail cell for crime I did not commit, you were screwing my best friend and proceeded to have his bastard?" He threw that bottle at the wall and it shattered into hundreds of pieces, scaring Chloe. "Tell me something, does he know your body as well as I do? Does he know what makes you cry out or roll your eyes into the back of your head?" He asked menacingly while stalking towards her like a predator.

"Sirius, please." she pleaded when he boxed her in.

"Please what, Chloe. Don't be angry, upset? Well I am!" She flinched when he put both of his arms on the walls next to her waist and he leaned down next to her ear. "So I'll ask again, are you afraid of me." She nodded, "Good, you should be." He grabbed her roughly and proceeded to brutally make love to her against the wall. Even though she did not get much pleasure from it, she welcomed and craved it all because she never knew when she would see him again.

When Sirius was done, he put her down and she slumped to the floor. She watched him adjust everything before he cast one more look at her and silently left the house. "Goodbye, Sirius." She pulled her knees up and cried while hugging herself. This was how Remus found her and brought her home the next day.