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"A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die."

-Haruki Murakami

Elizabeth pressed her fingers to her lips as she ascended the stairs to her dorm, she'd never in her days expected to have so much fun on a date, let alone a date with Sirius Black! He'd kissed her, not once, but multiple times, it wasn't like he'd never kissed her before, but it had never felt as right as it had that day. After he'd told her that nothing that felt more right than their relationship.

Somewhere, deep in her mind she was berating herself for falling so quickly, for being so blind, that perhaps it was all a game to him. Perhaps he said things like that to all his girls. But her heart was screaming that his voice was sincere, that he too felt the same inexperience she did.

Lost in her thoughts of beautiful grey eyes and curly black hair, she didn't realise that she'd make her way to her door. She sighed as she opened the door, her feet were aching from her shoes and she hadn't realised how exhausted she was until she caught sight of her bed. The thought of sleep was so blissful. Not paying attention to her surroundings she slipped off her shoes and stumbled towards her bed before flopping onto it, not caring that she had a face of makeup, or jeans on.

She groaned as the lights flicked on, "go away!" her voice was muffled by her pillow. She felt her bed sink in three places and let out another groan, and pulled herself into a fetus position. "we can… talk tomorrow." She managed to let out through a yawn, honestly she hadn't expected them to stay up so late waiting for her.

"What if I have a heart attack overnight and never find out?" Beverley asked with a pleading tone, whilst shaking her lightly, her hair put up in two buns on either side of her head.

"That's your problem then isn't it? Not mine."

"Please Liz, we didn't stay up this late for you to just fall asleep on us, we have a full day tomorrow." Mary begged, sitting on the end of her bed in a meditative position, her usually pinned up hair cascading around her shoulders.

Elizabeth rolled over onto her back and leant up on her elbows, giving them a smug look, "Correction, you do, after lunch I am completely free"

"Liz, please, you lot spent my first date with James spying on us, you can at least tell us about it." Liz rolled her eyes and an impish grin spread across her face.

"We went to an amusement park…" She began causing sighs of exasperation from her friends.

"we know that!" Mary exclaimed, causing Elizabeth to raise her right eyebrow,

"Well how am I meant to know that, I thought the only one who knew was Lily." They smiled at her that screamed, 'I was caught doing something I shouldn't'. "We went on rides, had milkshakes, kissed, he gave me his jacket and we had pizza for dinner, then came back."

"He gave you his jacket!" Lily squealed and clapped her hands, "That's so cute!"

A rosy blush began to grow on Elizabeth's porcelain cheeks, it wasn't that big of a deal, all guys did that. Sure at the time she felt like she would spontaneously combust with giddiness, but she had no clue why they were all so excited. "He did what any guy would've done."

"That's beside the point, it doesn't mean he has to do it." Mary laughed, Elizabeth grinned and bit her lip, Beverley noticed and raised an eyebrow, immediately recognising her expression.

"Something happened didn't it?"

Elizabeth let out a laugh and sat up completely, her voice alight with excitement, "I made an offhanded comment about us being in a relationship and… I thought I'd said something wrong and was all stammering and he just kissed me to shut me up and told me that nothing that ever felt as right as it did when he was with me." The girls looked at her and claps and squeals erupted from them as they jumped onto Elizabeth to give her hugs.

"Merlins beard and we thought James and Lily were sickening." Mary laughed, squeezing Elizabeth.

"No, you and Remus are worse that James and Lily!" Elizabeth added and she gripped onto Beverley, "Now we have to find you a special someone Bev."

"In your dreams sweetheart!"

The next day the group of girls walked towards the Great hall, all with large grins plastered across their faces, one of them overjoyed, the other three smug and resembling smirks. However as they entered the great hall they noticed the solemn mood emancipating from their counterparts.

Peter was slowly munching on the cereal in front of him, James was attempting to clean his glasses (he somehow could never get the spell right), Sirius was tapping his fingers and gazing at the bacon afew seats down lovingly and Remus was leaning his head on a potions textbook with his eyes shut. he looked pale and gaunt, was he sick?

Elizabeth rolled her eyes and snatched the Bacon platter as she was passing by causing indignant protests in her wake, she wasn't going to let a bunch of twelve year olds prevent her from eating bacon. Seeing her approaching Sirius's eyes lit up, from seeing her or the bacon in her arms she wasn't sure.

It was probably the bacon.

She put the platter in front of him with a grin and sat down next to him, she grabbed the fork that was sitting in front of her and stabbed it into a piece of bacon lying to the side of the plate. As she was chewing she looked to the side to see Sirius staring at her with amusement, she raised an eyebrow and he shook his head with a smile. Once she swallowed she raised an eyebrow once more,

"What's funny?" he let out a soft snort causing her smile to widen before leaning over and pressing a kiss to her forehead, she felt the temperature in her cheeks rise.

"You're funny, Lizzie." He winked and then grabbed a piece of bacon, as it was halfway to his mouth Elizabeth leaned over and intercepted the bacon, half of it in her mouth but half of it leaving streaks of oil on her chin. She gave him a toothy grin and a wink causing Sirius to roll his eyes and nudge her softly causing her to start laughing.

Lily looked over at them and rolled her eyes, however she started sniggering as the bacon fell from Elizabeth's mouth and onto the table. Sirius mock shook his head in disappointment. "You dropped the bacon! That bacon was precious, how dare you!"

Elizabeth had a large grin on her face as she moved forward and put her hands on either side of his face, "I can't believe I'm saying this Beater Boy, but somethings are more precious than bacon." And she leant forward and pressed a chaste kiss on his lips. Peter, whom was watching them grimaced and turned around to the rest of the seventh years.

"Why so glum?" Beverley asked as she sat herself down with a thud, Mary looked over at her, her grin fading and the mischievous glimmer in her eyes dimming as she realised the reasoning to the guys sombre moods, she ran a hand through Remus's light brown hair with an affectionate smile before leaning over and giving him a peck on the cheek. A smile spread across his gaunt, sickly face.

"Why do you think Bev?" James muttered as he kicked her under the table, his eyebrows were furrowed in annoyance as he continued to attempt a cleaning charm. Beverley's mouth popped open into an o shape as understanding came over her, she looked at him apologetically,

"Sorry." She leant over so only he could her what she was saying, "Is he feeling okay?"

James rolled his eyes, "You know Remus, you can badger him all you like but it won't stop him from denying how he is feeling, he's got a great poker face you know." Beverley opened her mouth to reply but stopped as she saw James attentions diverted elsewhere, He was having a staring competition with Lily whom was glaring at him unblinkingly. Her shoulders slumped and she looked at Peter dejectedly and grabbed his hand.

"Peter, we're going to die lonely!" he looked up at her and winked with a grin,

"Nah Bev, we'll die together." She let out a short laugh and shook her head,

"You're funny Pete." she looked up and grimaced when she saw three butterflies flying above her, Peter followed her gaze up and his smile dropped,

"You know its an omen of bad luck to see three butterflies flying together." Beverley looked at Peter and gave him a small smile,

"Maybe I'm going to fail my arithmancy NEWT" Peter was going to reply before a huff interrupted them, they turned to the source of the sound.

"James we learnt this charm in third year, how can you still not do it!"

"You still can't transfigure a hedgehog into a pincushion!"

"Yes because transfiguring hedgehogs into pincushions is going to be essential in everyday life James! Scourgify is an essential spell for everyone, I mean you need it to see because you can't be stuffed cleaning your glasses the muggle way!" she was leaning her arms against the table; her cheeks were flushed with anger and her ears reddening.

"Lily please…"

"No James I am not cleaning your glasses for you." She sat down and turned around to Beverley and Peter, "So what were you's talking about?"

"How I'm without a doubt going to fail my arithmancy NEWT" Beverley stated nonchalantly, waving her hand.

"Do you need any help with it, I mean both Liz and I are good at the topic, especially Liz."

"I don't live under a rock Lils and its all good." She waved her off and grabbed an apple from the middle of the table. , " I always find a way around failing exams."

James sat sulking and gazing at his glasses, He looked up to see Mary smirking at him, he pouted at her causing her to shake her head,

"Don't look at me captain!" she laughed before leaning forward, "I can't do a cleaning charm to save someone's life." She leant over and winked at him, "Why do you think I keep Remus around?"

From next to Mary, Elizabeth sighed and put her pancake covered in sprinkles on her plate and waved her wand in an S motion, James let out a sigh of relief and put his glasses on his face.

"Liz, you are an angel."

"I know I am, Potter." She replied with a smirk before shovelling the rest of her pancake in her mouth. Mary crinkled her nose in disgust at her friends breakfast. How she could stand to put such junk in her body she would never understand.

Afew hours later Mary lay on the couch infront of the fire wrapped up in Remus's arms, she could feel his hot breath on her shoulders and his body heat enveloping her. She looked up at him with an affectionate smile and ran a hand through his hair, Mary leant up on her elbow and pressed a kiss to his forehead, then his cheeks, and nose, and jaw. A sluggish smile spread across Remus's face at her touches.

"Wakey, wakey sleepyhead." She murmured before attacking him with kisses once more, Remus opened one of his eyes sleepily and yawned.

"You interrupted a wonderful dream you know that." He shut his eyes and leant back peacefully ignoring the pain burning his muscles.

"Was it about me?" she asked and ran her finger along his chest, she bit her bottom lip as a grin spread across her face.

"Nope." He flashed her a cheeky grin, "I was dreaming about my other girlfriend." Mary mock gasped and swatted his chest,

"How dare you!"

"Yes, How dare I!" Remus leant up on his elbow and wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her flush against him. He leant forward and pressed kisses along her strong jawline and she let out a soft moan. He let out a smile against her neck and looked up, her cheeks were rosy and her eyes dark blue.

"Have I told you how much I love you." She whispered as she pressed her lips against his,

"No I don't think you have." He mumbled in between kisses, her fingers felt so good massaging his hair and running up and down his back. Mary let out a soft moan as his hands reached the bare skin of her lower back where her top had Rosen. "How about I show you." She looked at him with a devlish look in her eyes and with a sultry tone she pressed a kiss onto his neck,

"How about you take me."

Beverley Wilkins, wondered the hallways of Hogwarts with a grim look on her face, for the past few weeks she'd been bugging common rooms and dormitory's, she'd been faking her identity and changing her uniforms but nothing, it was almost as if the fates were trying to prevent her from finding out who the death eaters in the school were.

And it was irritating her to no end.

She had been broken, she had been beaten and she had been battered… but it seemed that even after all she had faced she couldn't figure out the puzzle presented to her, and her friends infuriating motivation to stay as far from the issue at hand was even more frusturating.

All those conversations, all those moments, for what, for a bunch of jumbled conversations that didn't click.

None of it made sense!

She remembered her promise to herself, she remembered the vow she made infront of her friends. She meant to do something meaningful, something that will make a change, and a change she will be there to see. She was by no means naïve, sure she could die at the hands of a death eater, she knew what she was doing was dangerous, but she could collapse at that very moment.

And as much as she loathes to admit it, she's scared of death, Not the act of death itself, but what is beyond;

For it is a shroud of mystery, and it's a mystery she can't solve.

Remus and Mary lay on his bed in his dormitory breathing heavily, she lay her head on his scarred chest and was drawing patterns around his nipple with her finger. A soft laugh escaped him causing her too, to let out a soft laugh. She looked up at him, as he twirled her chest length hair around his fingers.

"Are you feeling okay?" she asked him whilst biting her bottom lip,

"After that!" he gave her a large grin, "Of course I am."

Mary raised her eyebrows at him, "Sure about that?" he nodded and leant deeper into the mattress, she sighed and shut her eyes. "How long is it going to take for us to be honest with each other."

"We are honest, I tell you stuff all the time." He mumbled and continued to twirl a golden strand around his index finger, she had the most beautiful colour hair, he loved blonde hair.

"I meant about how we feel, I mean tonight's the full moon, you probably feel like shit." She retorted bluntly, causing him to snort.

"Look Mare, its not about not telling you the truth, I just don't want to hurt you." He sighed dejectedly, "Can we not talk about this, tonight's going to be unpleasant as it is, might as well revel in the next few hours before I need to leave."

She looked up at him and a smile crossed her face, with a sigh she spoke, "Okay fine, but we have to talk about this sometime soon."

"And we will, but for now, let's just forget that tonight I'm going to turn into a murderous bloodhound and enjoy ourselves."

Mary pressed a soft kiss onto his full lips, "I don't care what you're going to turn into tonight, you're Remus either way, and nothing is going to change that."

Remus's hazel eyes lit up at her words and a smile plastered itself on his pale face, "If it wasn't for the fact that my back is killing me I'd say round 2 but…"

A laugh escaped Mary, her sapphire eyes full of mirth, "You're getting old Remus!" he scowled at her and pulled her closer, "I'll still love you when your all grey and wrinkly and need a walking stick to walk."

"And I you." He whispered, his eyes gleaming with gratification.

Elizabeth sat in the windowsill in silence, looking at the moon which was illuminating the night sky, casting a shadow over all the stars. Ever since her parents death she sat up every night and looked at the stars, they reminded her that whilst Sirius's family was torn to shreds, their stories lived on; just as how one day she'd share stories of her parents to her children, and they would share stories of her to their children.

The stars were Sirius's family legacy, hers was the power of love and unity.

A week after her parents death she was looking up into the stars and she decided that every night she would remember a moment she had with them, at the start, the memories would leave her weeping and broken, but slowly, slowly, she realised how lucky she was to even have those memories, and the pain eventually dimmed.

It was no longer a stab wound, but a throbbing cut.

"Mummy, why are people afraid of the full moon?" A 6 year old brunette asked her mother who was braiding her hair.

"Why would you think that people are afraid of the full moon Sweetie?" Her mother blinked and asked as she furrowed her brow at her daughter who would one day grow to be her spitting image.

"It was on the TV" Her mother let out a hum of disagreement, the night time television was not appropriate for young children; She tied off her braid before moving and kneeling before her daughter. She looked into her innocent blue eyes and sighed.

"Sometimes people have irrational fears, like being afraid of spiders even when you know its not going to hurt you." She raised an eyebrow and her daughter who blushed and looked down, "Being afraid of the moon, I guess it's the same thing."

"But why mummy?" she insisted causing her mother to run her hands over her braids and sigh,

"People are afraid of what they do not know or understand, but sweetheart, the moon is not something scary, its there to guide people home when they've lost their way!"

Elizabeth looked down, tears filling her eyes, "What if I lose my way home mummy? What if I lose you at the shops, or at the park? What if you forget about me?"

The elder brunette pushed stray curls behind her ear and placed the pad of her thumb underneath her daughters chin. "Chin up princess, your tiara is falling." The young girl let out a mix of a giggle and a sob as she looked into her mothers chartreuse eyes, "I will never forget you sweetie, I could never let you go and I promise, I promise you that nothing will ever split us apart. You're stuck with me forever and ever!"

Elizabeth let out a giggle as she rubbed her eyes, "And little lizzie, my princess, the moon is wonderful and beautiful, but is it not the only light in the dark sky, don't forget about the stars."

"They're pretty." Elizabeth mumbled, putting her thumb in her mouth. The brunette gave her a soft smile and lightly pulled at her little girls thumb, it slipped out of the mouth and the girl gave her mother a guilty smile.

"Yes very pretty, Just like you." She pressed a finger against her upturned nose, Causing a giggle to escape the young girl, "They all have legends about gods and goddesses, good and evil, light and dark. I was once told that it was the darkest of nights that the brightest stars shine, therefore it is never dark, because one lone star can prevent darkness."

"I don't understand mummy."

"One day you will beautiful girl, and when you do, remember this; without day, there is no night, without darkness there is no light. And remember that above all, I love you."

Elizabeth launched herself into her mothers chest and embraced her, "I love you too mummy."

Elizabeth looked like the spitting image of her mother, she had her upturned nose, high cheekbones, dark hair, face shape, build, height. Except her eyes and straightness of her hair, that was from her father.

Tears welled in her blue eyes, no longer pure and innocent as they were twelve years ago. Her chest heaved as she looked into the moon her mother said would guide her home. Home was home, Hogwarts was all she had left, her mother dead, her father dead, her sister wasn't speaking to her... Her hand was pressed against the window, condensation dripping down the glass in droplets.

She had to get out.

She couldn't breathe.

She needed to find her way.

Leaping off the window sill she slipped on a hoodie and sneakers before sneaking out. Sirius had warned her against going out on full moons many times, but right now, there was nothing she needed more.

Nothing would go wrong, she was at Hogwarts.

It was surprisingly easy to get out of Hogwarts, she just walked out of the front gate and was out. The air had a biting chill to it that wasn't unusual for a spring night, the moon cast a shadow across her delicate features highlighting her high cheekbones, the hair on the nape of her neck stood static and she felt Goosebumps appear across her body.

The gates of Hogwarts were squeaking, the newly sprouted leaves rustling in the wind, the large moon cast a hazy shadow across the ground, hiding the sparkling stars, the lake reflected the sky , but the wind caused the currents to be strong, you could hear the splashes of the small but strong waves against the rocky banks.

Elizabeth stifled a shiver as she put her hands into her front pockets, it was cold. From afar Elizabeth heard a loud chilling howl, her entire body stiffened at the sound, the hair on her arms stood static and her heart skipped a beat. Following the howl was the sound of a bark, a dog, she pondered, why on earth was there a dog with a wolf?

Her mind flashed to Remus, but...they weren't that stupid were they?

The forbidden forest seemed magical that night, the moon illuminated the leaves at the tops causing a mystical fog to surround the forest. Her first thought was to go towards the forest before she shook herself off stupid thoughts, to go near the forbidden forest when she just heard a wolf howl on a full moon was a foolish and stupid thing to do.

Her mind on overdrive, she realised through a hazy fog she needed the high ground, she turned and through the obscurity of the darkness she saw the whomping willow standing proud and tall, if she went towards it and along the path it led back to the gates.

As she moved closer to the willow she regretted wondering so far, she had been so stupid, she should have listened to Sirius, heeded the teachers warnings about going onto the grounds at night. She could disappear and nobody would know...

What came next would remain one of the scariest moments she'd ever witnessed.

Another howl echoed through the area, the sound carried through the breeze. But it was louder, wild, vicious. It was coming closer to her, ignoring all pretences she ran up the hill closer to the willow. It was following her...it was going to catch her. Her chest heaved as she run up the slippery slope, fog blocking her vision as she exhaled, her eyes watered from the chill and her legs trembled from strain they were under. Her lung ached and she was beginning to develop a stitch in the cold air. Had she not been running away from a werewolf she would've berated herself for not going on runs with Mary.

Keep going, she said, keep going, keep going...

Keep going.

Her heart thudded in her chest, and her hands trembled uncontrollably. Rain suddenly started pouring down in gallons soaking her from head to toe, her dark hair fell in limp strands stuck to her pale cheeks. She was conscious that the group had suddenly become very wet.

She could hear her heart beat in her chest so loud she was surprised the whole of Hogwarts hadn't heard her yet.

Nearly there, keep going, you can do it.

Then she slipped.

A scream echoed across the Hogwarts grounds, with an ungraceful thud she fell into a heap of mud at the bottom of a hill. She could hear rustles and the sounds of animals. She could hear rustle of animals running after eachother, squeaks, barks and an assortment of loud noises.

And howl, a wolfs call.

She slipped as she stumbled to get up, her pants were soaked through and she could feel mud slipping down her denim clad thighs. They were coming for her...she was going to die, this was it for her. She was going to get killed by a were wolf, this was the end.

A large, canine turned around the corner of the hill, amber eyes glowing, spine bent crookedly, and scarring across its arms and back, large fangs were bared at her and drool dripping from its mouth, its snout was long and its tail bushy.

A whimper escaped her at the same time it growled at her and took another step towards her, she could smell its foul breath, its loud, hot breathing. She felt her stomach churn at the stench and could feel the rain mingling with her tears.

She closed her eyes and took a calming breath, nobody would be there to see it, but she would die with diginity, her heart pounded in her ears and sweat dripped down her face, dirt was smeared over her hands.

She prayed it would be painless, but in her heart she knew she would feel every moment of the agonising torture that would be death. She could only imagine the pain of a werewolf's teeth sinking into her soft flesh, of its drool coating her, of blood suffocating her as it gathered in her torn up lungs.

She would never see Lily again, she would never argue with Mary about how nutritious her breakfast was or get Beverley to help her with clothing and looks. She would never again make cookies with Peter and the house elf's, she would never get to experience James's large bear hugs again, she would never study with Remus or geek out with him and Lily about Star wars or Doctor who, They would never debate whether Leia would end up with Han or with Luke. She would never again fail at handling a plant in herbology, she would never fight to see the end of the war. She wouldn't walk down the aisle or have children of her own…

And Sirius, she'd never get held in his embrace again, feel his heart thud against hers, feel his full lips move against hers, look into his stormy grey eyes once more, or run a hand through his wavy locks, she'd never hold his hand or hear his bark of laughter again, she'd never argue with him over bacon at breakfast…

She'd never tell him she loved him.

With determination she opened her eyes, she was not afraid of death, infact she could see its arms open begging for her to embrace it, her eyes shone a bright blue and filled with tears, she was ready, she was always ready.

I'm coming home mum,

Daddy, your little princess is coming home to you.

And then the wolf pounced.

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she did not notice the pair of dark eyes following her every movement.

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