Where do you see yourself in five minutes?
Where do you see yourself in five seconds, Alasia?
Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?
In the darkest part of Surrey a woman marked by struggle and battle and suffering and survival makes her way to...
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My breath whooshed out of me in waves of relief. "You arsehole, you couldn't have come through from a floo?"
"Our new place doesn't have one, and good that I didn't or I wouldn't have seen the two men glaring at the door they can't see from outside. They must know you're here somewhere."
"Did you deal with them?"
A rare smirk forms on his lips, "You doubt it?"
I pull him into a fierce hug before slapping his chest, "You nearly woke up Padfoot and Atlas."
"Atlas?" He raises a brow.
"Sirius wanted an astronomical name," I roll my eyes, "Atlas sounds...it sounds perfect. Atlas Regulas Black."
At the mention of the fallen Black, Remus' eyes drop, "He was a good boy."
"Remind him that when Voldemort falls and it's because of the locket he destroyed."
Remus grins sadly, "Atlas is a beautiful name, Al. The titan who carried the earth on his back. He's going to live up to it."
"I hope he doesn't have to," I sigh. "I want the world to be okay when he grows up, for his grandfather to be dead. So he doesn't have to carry anything on his back like I did."
"He's got you as his mother and the sole heir of the House of Black as his father. It will be a miracle should someone hurt a hair on his head."
I return his easy smile, "If you wake up Sirius, I will kill you."
"You will kill whom?"
Remus and I both screech, grabbing onto each other's arms with wide eyes. Sirius stands in front of us with a sleepy expression and messy hair, and no shirt.
"You're gonna defeat Tom like that?" He asks the two of us with a drowsy smirk.
"Oh, shut up." I huff. "I was hoping you slept for a while longer."
"You're both speaking so loud I wonder how the whole neighbourhood didn't gather outside."
I cringe, "I thought we were being quiet."
"You mostly were," He reassures me. "It was mother's squeaky voice that got me wondering if I'm in hell."
"That bitch is dead," I state.
"Can we eat something first?" Remus squeezes past me and Sirius. "I'm starving and Tonks is at her mum and dad's. I wasn't invited. Her dad hates that I took away her precious little princess." He rolls his eyes.
"I wonder how you would've been if we'd had a daughter."
Sirius scrunched up his face, "Over my dead body would I have let her even touch a man."
Remus and I both snort as we walk into the kitchen. "I'd be terrified for the poor sod who managed to impress the daughter of Sirius Orion Black and came out alive."
