New Life; Second Chances

Chapter 65

Italics for first timeline; normal for second timeline

Third POV

"Wow," came from James and Sirius, saying what everyone was thinking. Orion and Charlus were just stunned about their apparent creature inheritance. "So, questions?" Dahlia bluntly asked.

"Did Dumbledore actually do something bad?" Lily of course had to speak up. Dahlia's hair rather quickly became blood red again and Thanatos had moved out of his spot for Orion to sit so he could calm Dahlia down. Orion had put his arm around her as the red in her hair went down a little, still noticeably dark red. "Who was I suppose to go with if something happened to you two?"

"Sirius or the Longbottoms," Lily said.

"Sirius was wrongfully put into Azkaban when the person who cast the Fidelius didn't speak up about the Secret Keeper change. Then the Longbottoms were attacked the same night you two died and were crucio'd into insanity," Padfoot had put his head on Bellatrix's lap while Andromeda who was closer to her took her hand while Orion gave her a look as if to say 'it wasn't you', Tom had also been giving her the same look.

Lily was stunned while James knew something would happen, "Who did you get put with?"

"The Dursely's I thought we went over this," Dahlia snapped back. James grabbed his daughter's hand, to calm her and himself down, he knew what Vernon could have done to her, and it pissed him off. "The sad thing is the only memory I had of you two is when you died," Dahlia revealed. "I remember you screaming for her to run," she said to her father, "And you activating blood runes and telling me that you both loved me and you had a look of regret, knowing you should've listened to your husband. I didn't know why you had that look until I got a letter in the Potter vault that was hidden from Dumbledore that explained everything. It was from you," she motioned to James again, "You had told me how you and Sirius had gone and set up a fake Potter vault and my trust fund. Sirius did the same when he had a feeling he was going to be the next target to die. He set up a fake account as the goblins knew he was innocent and he left everything to me, so, either way I became Lady Black, but anywho, it was also planned with the goblins to keep track of the fake vaults and keep hidden the Potters were Peverells and descendants of Godric Gryffindor. So come to my surprise, Dumbledore had stolen from both vaults, stolen the Invisibility Cloak and eventually gave it to me, and had me on many potions. You also told me about your own protection that you had researched," James and Prongs both perked up, "It worked?"

Dahlia pulled out her Elder Wand and, "Expecto Patronum," and a stag had come out. James had pulled his patronus out too and the two stags gained the deer caught in headlines look and stared at each other as Prongs had went into his stag form too making the other two stags jump as everyone just watched the hilarious scene. Eventually both patronuses went back to their prospective wands and Prongs back into a cat. Lily looked surprised while Sirius looked smug, he helped James research that, and Minerva looked about ready to pass out again.

"Well, I guess since we are revealing things, along with her parseltongue ability, Lily also had her soul mate bond blocked," Luna revealed.

"WHAT?" Lily screamed.

"Yes that's why James bullied Severus, to him, Severus was taking his mate away, which resulted in him acting out," Severus looked about ready to say something when it had suddenly disappeared from his head at the sight of Eileen's glare. "Did you ever notice he significantly calmed down as soon as Lily and him got together," Bellatrix spoke.

Lily stayed quiet as she tried to figure out how her husband had done the patronus thing and how the soulmate bond had been blocked but she did know he had calmed down a lot after they had gotten together. 'Okay maybe Dumbledore was possibly hiding things', she thought.

Later they noticed Orion and Charlus slip away again and how Dahlia and Dorea became a bit more unresponsive. They went a bit farther away and before some members followed they turned back to Tom, "I know who you are Tom, but who is she?" Minerva said pointing, to Nagini. Naga had come out to make her appearance which made those who were Death Eaters jump. "That's me," Nagini smiled pointing at the snake. "There's a cursed bloodline of natural animagi who change into a beast and eventually get stuck in that form, Luna and Dahlia gave me back my body with no curse," she explained.

The group began to walk over to where Dahlia and Dorea were after getting a warning from Nagini that if you have a weak stomach to not look and back away from them as soon as they see or hear any glimpse of the Riders coming back as they are highly protective of there mates. They did as they were told and saw the green rider bring someone followed by the blue one also with someone. Their eyes were burned out and seemed to gain consciousness when the two women began to hum. The women's now bigger eyes looked at their prey as they walked closer and closer, Dahlia's had to kneel down as she couldn't get up quickly. They both had bared there sharp teeth and ripped the throats out and pulled out the hearts and began eating them. The Riders looked back at the group almost daring them to make a comment.

James had given a long hug to Dahlia as she clung to him, first time remembering a hug from her father, as when James is born again will now be a cousin/nephew and not her father. Sirius followed with a long hug and Regulus had surprisingly given her one, he and Orion, like Sirius couldn't wait for no Walburga. She said goodbye to grandparents too and soon the first group disappeared back to their timeline.