"You're just a stranger, I know everything about"
- Olivia Rodrigo.
IT'S BEEN 15 YEARS SINCE ATHENA BLACK was murdered by death eaters. Or at least that's what the Wizarding world thinks.
In fact she had no idea that wizards and magic even exist...
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JULY 1995 PRESENT DAY
THE STREETS OF ISLINGTON WERE QUIET, which Sirius had found rather odd, considering the fact it was 3 pm and rush hour was starting soon yet there weren't many people out expect for the usual old lady who always brought fresh vegetables from the street market and the gentleman who was reading the newspaper with a mug of tea in his hand.
Sirius knew he wasn't allowed out , Dumbledore made that very clear to him yet he chose to ignore it like he did with everything that man said, he hadn't been caught yet at least . Maybe that's why he stayed in the borough of Islington rather than the neighbouring areas . Either way he had been out for 30 minutes and decided to head back before anyone noticed he had left but make a quick stop to the local park outside Girmmauld Place .
No one really goes there as the swings were old and made a squeaky noise every time it had been moved , the slide was always cold and the paint had started to come off ; even the wooden benches hadn't been replaced and the wood had started to chip heavily . Yet there seemed to be a family he hadn't seen before in the park today which caught his attention so he decided to stay and look from the bushes that surrounded the park.
"Mommy can you push me on the swing ... Daddy's playing with Aries on the slide?" Said the smaller child whose hair was dark brown , almost black and her eyes were a unique shade of grey almost like his.
"Of course my love , let me place my bag down!" Said an older woman who Sirius assumed was the mother yet he hadn't managed to see her face only her back .
The small child immediately ran to the swing set happily while her mother had chased after her and started to push her gently . There was a mixture of laughter from the child and words of excitement from the mother . Sirius frowned as he was painfully reminded of a childhood he never had .
Sirius moved away from the bush he was hiding in and moved closer to the swing set . It was the eyes that he noticed first and then her smile , the same smile of his twin sister , the same sister that everybody had reminded him was dead . Yet there she was pushing a small child ,which looked exactly like her, on the same swing set they once played on when they were little. It was her or maybe Sirius was seeing things which led him to immediately jump from the bush and take a good look at her . Though he hadn't realised that she could fully see him now or rather a big black dog.
"Mommy look!" The little girl pointed directly at the dog and ran at him.
"Alya slow down !" The mother chased after her daughter who had jumped from the swing and ran toward the big fluffy dog.
As the woman approached the dog Sirius knew right away it was Athena , his twin sister Athena . He noticed how she still carried herself the same but she had matured from the last time he saw her . She wasn't a 17 year old girl anymore but a women. Her hair was longer and more dark brown rather than the usual light brown , she had slight wrinkles in her forehead but still had a youthful glow to her face.
"Well aren't you a beauty" Athena said as she stroked his head . "My son Aries would love you!"
"Khalid , Aries come over here quickly look at this dog . I think he's a stray?" She yelled causing an older man to join them and a little boy,who looked no older than 8
Who is Khalid ? Sirius thought to himself. Why are there two kids that looked like her .... Surely she can't be a mom right ? They told him she was dead.
"Mommy how did you find him , he's the same one that's in my dreams!" The little boy said excitedly which cause the older man to frown. Athena didn't notice but Sirius did .
"Daddy can we keep him please!" The little girl pleaded with her dad.
"Alya habibti you can't keep your room tidy for a day , how can mommy and I trust you with a dog?" The man replied back to his daughter stroking her cheek.
"Aries what do you mean the same one in your dream?" Athena had wondered. though it was very obvious that the little boy possessed the same magical abilities as her . She was a witch how hadn't she realised her children are too ? Sirius questioned to himself.
"Come on darling we should be going home now , your shift in the hospital starts in an hour and a half , I bet the children are hungry?" The man had been quick to cut the conversation short .
"Oh my , you're right love we must be going" Athena immediately sat up and pulled Aries into her arms.
"Come on Alya say bye to the dog , after dinner we can go get ice cream" causing the little girl to run into her dad's arms.
Sirius didn't want them to go yet , he just found out his sister , who everyone in the wizarding world thinks is dead, is in fact very much alive. So he did the first thing that came to his mind.
He followed them but came to realise they had gotten in a muggle car and would drive off.
So Sirius did the next best thing and ran back to Girmmauld place to tell Remus .
