The Black to His Potter [s.u]

Chapter One

Halloween Night of 1981 was the night that truly drove a wedge between Sirius Black and his daughter Asteria who was only four years old at the time.

The four year old stumbled out of her bedroom, tiredly rubbing her eyes but she had a very bad feeling and her papà was right in the middle of it.

Asteria saw her papà at the top of the stairs "papà?" her voice came out quiet, but the man turned to look at her as she still stumbled towards him, latching into his legs,"where you going?"

"I've got to go and check on Harry, something has happened, I can feel it."

Her little lip wobbled "papà don't go please... bad feeling."

He kissed her on the head, "I'm sorry little star but I have to, I'll be back soon and I promise I'll be here when you wake back up."

Tears fell down her face as she started to cry, "papà please," that was when Valentina came out of their room seeing her four year old clinging onto Sirius, begging him not to leave the house that night.

The man just picked her up and handed her to her mother, "I'll be gone a few hours at the most Asteria."

"Bad feeling!" Asteria cried.

Valentina kisses her on the head, "Maybe you should wait Siri, our daughter's bad feelings are usually right, so maybe you should take that as a sign and wait until tomorrow to do whatever it is your planning to do tonight."

He gave his wife a look, "Val something has happened with James I can't explain it but it's just a feeling and I need to make sure that Harry is okay."

"It can wait until the morning, Sirius, our daughter is distraught about this so maybe you should take that as a warning that this is not a good idea and wait until tomorrow."

But the man wasn't listening. he just kissed his daughter on the head and gave his wife a kiss and said "I'll only be gone a few hours, I just need to make sure that my godson is okay... just make sure that she goes back to sleep everything will be all right." and then he walked down the stairs and out the door before apparating to Godric's Hollow.

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That night was only the start of the string of broken promises that Asteria was going to experience from her father. Because when the 4-year-old awoke the next morning expecting to see her father in the kitchen like he promised. all she found was her mother. "Mama where's Papà? he promised he'd be here."

Valentina sighed, "I'm sorry my little star but your Papà's not here... he wasn't here when I got up."

That just caused the 4-year-old to cry again, "see Mama, bad feeling... I had bad feeling and now Papà's gone."

The older witch picked her daughter up and held her close, kissing her on the head,  "I know baby, I know he should have listened to your bad feeling."

As the day progressed and the news that Sirius had been sent to Azkaban for betraying The Potters, Valentina sighed, she knew that her husband hadn't betrayed them... but nobody would listen when she tried to bring that to the attention of the Ministry.

Valentina knew she had to break the news to Asteria, that her papà would not be coming home anytime soon, which she knew was only going to make her more upset, because little Asteria adored her father.

So she floo called Rhea and asked her to bring little Riven over knowing that, Asteria would want him to be there when she was told the news about her papà.

Rhea agreed and they came through the floo, Riven was upset about what happened to his father as Rhea had just broken the news to him, and he had wanted to see Asteria anyway, they always seemed to be able to make each other feel better just being in their presence.

Rhea placed Riven down beside the Black Heiress and she immediately wrapped her little arms around her best friend, who hugged her back. they both just knew that the other needed comfort, it was just a feeling they had.

Val sighed and crouched down to her daughter's level "little star?"

Asteria noticed the look on her Mama's face, her lips wobbled again, "Papà's not coming back is he?"

Valentina sighed, "I'm sorry little star but no, he's not coming home probably for a long time."

Asteria burst into tears at the confirmation that her papà had broken his promise.

Riven just hugged his best friend tighter, as the four year old cried.

A resentment was started that day for both Riven and Asteria, one that would only grow as they got older and understood more of what truly happened that fateful Halloween night.

Asteria would grow to resent her father for breaking his promise and abandoning her, and Harry Potter as well for being the reason her father abandoned her.

And for Riven it would also be Sirius Black that he resented for hurting Asteria the way that he did when he chose his godson over her own daughter. But also his younger half brother as well since it was the 'prophecy' about him that caused him to lose his father.

But through it all at least Riven and Asteria had each other and that was something that would never change.

Through the ups and the downs, the two best friends would always have each other's backs.... because even if they didn't know it the strings of fate tied them together from the very beginning.

Because after all Asteria is the Black to Riven's Potter.

note:
Okay so this book is definitely bashing a lot of people, Harry, Ron and Hermione, as well as Sirius and Remus (love them but it's necessary for plot reasons although Remus will probably be temporary since he's Riven's godfather), Dumbledore, Molly and Ginny and idk who else rn, and I will definitely be going kind of my own way with it while using the basis of the HP movies/books. So it will be more of an AU than following cannon stuff.

Will be incorporating things from both the movies and books.

Will say right now that Asteria will be a Slytherin and Riven will be a Ravenclaw.

Also Asteria will have her own little group of friends. Riven obviously, Alessio and Antonia LeStrange they're twins and Rebastan and Caroline's kids. (Caroline is Riven's godmother) as well as Estella Malfoy.

Stella is Draco's older sister.