AN: Okay one thing I wanted to say. Sirius and Emily's relationship is a father daughter kind, not a lover. He is trying to comfort a child who has nightmares of being tortured by the cruciatus curse and seeing her parents murdered. Anything you recognize is JK Rowling's anything you don't is mine.

Severus POV

I sat in the headmaster's chair staring at the picture that sat on my desk. This was my least favorite day of the year. Had been for sixteen years. Sixteen years. It was hard to believe it had been that long already.

Lily laughed and smiled at me from the picture her green eyes bright and shining. It hurt. Seeing that smile hurt. Because when I had taken that picture she had been smiling at James not me. In the end she had loved him and not me. She chose him.

But I knew what had pushed her away in the end. It was the fact that I had delved so far into the dark arts. The one thing I believed would bring her closer to me actually pushed her farther away. If I could go back and change things I would. I would die a hundred times over for her.

If I hadn't become a death eater she and I would have been together. My throat tightened at the thought. She and I would have had a happily ever after. But that was not in the cards for me. It never had been ever since I told the Dark Lord of the prophecy.

I stood up from the desk and threw a cloak around my shoulders. This is what I did every Halloween. I would remember the one woman who had loved me. And then I would visit her grave and beg for her forgiveness. For some reason I had a feeling this would be the last time I would do this.

Sirius POV

"Would you tell me about your wife again?" Emily asked playing with my wedding ring that was still on my finger.

"Well what would you like to know?" I asked leaning forward to move a chess piece. Emily loved playing wizards chess. Especially at two in the morning when she couldn't sleep from nightmares. Like now for example.

It was the middle of November and her nightmares hadn't gotten any better. If anything they had grown stronger in intensity. She barely slept anymore.

Emily took a sip of her hot chocolate and moved her queen. "What does she like to do?"

"She's a reader and loves studying." I said taking a sip of my Firewhisky. It was getting harder and harder to think about Hermione without getting upset.

"What books?" Emily asked her eyes wide.

"Mostly the classics. Shakespeare, Brontë, Austen. But she also likes wizarding books. She wants to prove that she belongs in the wizarding world by working her hardest at everything she does." I sighed leaning against the back of the couch. My little bookworm, how was she doing on the hunt with the boys?

"What does she think of kids?" Emily asked darting me a little sideways look.

"She loves them and we want to have kids someday." My stomach clenched and I made a face. We were still trying to figure out how to kill Theodore. If there was any justice in this world I would get the delight of killing the little tosspot.

My heart was speading up and I felt sweat beginning to form on my brow. I took a deep breath and shook my head feeling dazed. A loud sob echoed loudly and I looked up. Emily sometimes burst into tears at the littlest things but she wasnt crying now. Who would be crying? My mouth opened in shock. Hermione? Another sob echoed through my head and I clenched my eyes shut. Merlin! What the hell was going on?

Hermione POV

Harry held me as I cried brokenly into my hands. Ron had left. He had actually left us. Harry and I had known something was off with him but we didn't think it was that bad.

"How... could he... think... we were... together?" I asked between sobs. Harry rubbed his hand up and down my back trying to comfort me.

"The necklace." Was all Harry said. It was true. The necklace did make you think and feel horrible things. But to possibly think that Harry and I would cheat? I could never hurt Sirius like that and I knew Harry loved Ginny more than his own life.

"I don't... like you... like that." I whispered between sobs.

"I know that Sweety and I have a feeling Ron does too." That may be true but things would never be the same between us again.

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