𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝐴𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 (𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑃.)

✰Chapter 7: Ready or- the Grim!✰

"Shit! Y/n!" Hermione exclaims, running towards me. I try standing up and running away from it but before I can get my footing down it grabs me by my ankle I watch as my friends try to race towards me as I scream in pain, Harry dives for my hand and barely touches it, but it was too late.

Screaming in pain and fear, I try escaping its mouth. There was no use, and the grim got me. The grim continued dragging me down the dirt path and into what seemed to be an old house until I rotated my body, hissing in pain, and kicked the grim in the snout. 

The giant black dog whimpers and releases me, launching itself backward. I gasp for air, trying to catch my breath from all the screaming I just did when I notice the grim wasn't a grim anymore. 

No, it wasn't even an animal.

It was my biological father. 

Sirius Black.

"Gods, you've got a good foot on you!" Black stands up, rubbing his nose, and my eyes widen at the look of him. "Come along now, I didn't mean to grab you." He offers his hand out, and I grimace, using the wall the stand up on my own with Scabbers still wrapped up in my hand, not trusting this man yet. 

I hop over on my one foot to take a seat on the bed, and it creaks under my weight. "Shit!" I hiss as blood drips down my foot and onto my shoe. Black stands behind the broken and battered door with his arms crossing a smirk on his face. 

"You're here for the rat, aren't you?" As I said it, Scabbers squeals on cue, and he grins. "Smart one, didn't get it from me clearly." His hair was stuck to his face, his clothes destroyed, and he was majorly due for a bath. When I hear footprints running up the stairs, I shout so they know where I am. 

"It's not the grim guys. He's an Animagus." I inform them, and I point over to where my father stands, Hermione stands in front of Harry and shouts, "If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us too!" 

"Whoa! Again, with this, we nonsense Hermione," I mutter, and Ron sits beside me, wrapping his arms around my neck, "Thank the gods, you're alright!" and I smile softly at him, nodding in response, despite it feeling as if my foot is hanging on by a single vain. 

"No, only one will die tonight," Black states, glaring at the rat I still have wrapped up tightly, despite him trying to put up a fight. "Then it'll be you!" Harry shouts, running towards him, and I jump up, "Harry, stop!" I shout, but Hermione forces me to sit back down on the bed.

Ron forces me to stay sitting with one arm, while Harry's hands wrap around Black's neck, "Harry, stop this!" I shout at him again. Harry withdraws his wand, and Black laughs, "Are you going to kill me, Harry?" Harry's handshakes and the door suddenly bursts open, "Expelliarmus!" Remus exclaims, Harry's wand flies out of his hand. 

Remus is here, which means either he saw it happen, or... Tonight is a full moon. 

"Dad!" I exclaim as Remus nods for Harry to get off of Black, Harry quickly stumbles forward, Hermione embracing him. "Well, well, Sirius. Looking rather ragged, are we? Finally, the flesh reflects the madness within." Remus states, pointing his wand at the man on the ground. "Well, you would know all about the madness within, wouldn't you, Remus?" Black smirks.

Remus lowers his wand and grins, offering him his hand and helps pull him off the ground. They embrace one another tightly, and I smile softly. Under different circumstances, I guess this could be called a family reunion, no... This is more than that. "I found him!" Black exclaims, "I understand," Remus says.

"Let's kill him!" Black jumps up and down excitedly, like I do... "No!" Hermione yells, and I turn my head over to her, "I trusted you! And all this time y-you've been his friend!" She turns towards us, "He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!" At her words, I could feel the color drain from my face. He looks at me with a scowl. "I didn't tell her anything!"