Anna Black

Reunion

I feel exicited as I catch a taxi to the Kings Cross station.I think of the many times I did this, many years ago but this time, its just Remus and me.It would've normally been James and I making a racket and having a go at eachother.I felt lonely going back alone.I wonder how Remus must feel.

I pay the taxi driver and get my trunk out.The day's cold and there were clouds around.I see children from Hogwarts and ran into Lucious Malfoy.He gives me a surprised kind of look.I keep my eyes straight and suddenely I felt like I was back in school for real.Usually, if Lucious Malfoy walked past me, I didn't have to be scared, many a times he's tried to hex me but Sirius and James were always around.I shrug off my fears.

How silly can I get? Lucious Malfoy is a grown man and he's not the stinky teenager he used to be.
"Well well well,'he says as I walk past him."Anna Black, its been too long.Last time I saw you.."he sneered.

"Black, where is he?" He asked.

"Azkaban," I replied, my eyes filling up.

"Azkaban? "He said."Well don't you know? Your husband broke out of Azkaban.,"

"Lucious I see that you have still not changed,"I said.

"See for yourself,"he sneered he handed me a copy of the Daily Prophet and walked away.

"KILLER ON THE LOOSE"
Sirius Black, male, early thirties broke out of Azkaban and is the first person to ever do so.He is on the run and now Dementors will be stationed at every locality.The muggle Prime Minister has been warned to.He was sent....

I throw it into a bin nearby.I know what he did but why has he escaped?

Why haven't Dumbledore and Remus told me? I lost in touch with the newspapers and I couldn't afford a television.I suddenely look at my watch and push my trolley a faster.I have five minutes to catch the train and I need to find Harry.He mifht recogonise me because I have James' nose and I have jet-black curly hair.I have dark brown eyes, almost black.

I get through to the platform and there's just a minute before it leaves.I try to lift my trunk but its a little too heavy.

"Do you need help?"someone asks, a boy.

"Yes please,"I say in embarassment.

He lifts up my luggage and I was too preoccupied to look at the person who was helping me.After the trolley went in, he faces me.James.

"James?"I say but I understand its not him but too late.
The boy looks at me and shakes his head.

"I'm Harry Potter,"he said.

"I'm Anna Black,"I said.

He shot me a dark look.
"Are you Sirius Black's..."

"I'm his wife and also I'm James' sister,"I said.

"You're my aunt?"he asked in disbelief.

"Yes,"I said and I hugged him.He was so very like James except hsi eyes, Lily's green eyes.I suddenely feel the pain that I'd buried.It resurfaced and I could feel my eyes welling up.

I pull away and smile at him.He returned it and two other kids were calling his name.

"Well, I'll see you later Harry,"I said, I still needed to find Remus.He joins the other two kids, one was a boy with red hair.He must be a Weasley.I start searching a few compartments for Remus but I ended up sitting with a lot of Slytherines because the train was still crowded and people were only begining to settle down.I look out through the window.An hour passed by with me looking at the window and that's when the train suddenely stopped.

I got up and set out to look for Remus.The crowded corridor outside the compartments was silent.I walked down and peeped into every compartment.The temprature began deacreasing and I felt my heart race.The windows were clouded.

I finally found Remus in the same compartment as Harry and a few of his friends.Remus was curled up in the corner.I was going to call out his name but I felt my happiness, whatever was left of it getting sucked out.I felt the chillness creep through my spine.I turned around to face two dementors and then total darkness.

Bright light.I woke up to bright light and I felt the train move.I wake up and sit.Next to me was Remus,looking grim.

"Anna,"he said and I jumped to embrace him.

"Its been so long,"I said.

He pulled away and asked,"Are you alright?"

"How can I ever be?"I said."Harry, this is Remus Lupin."

"I know, Aunt Anna,"he said.

"Call me Anna,"I said."what happened to me?"

"You and Harry fainted,"said a girl, with bushy, brown hair."I'm Hermione Granger and I'm Harry's friend."

"I'm Ron Weasely, "said the red haired boy.

"Oh hello,"I said and smiled at them."Are you alright, Harry?"

"Have some chocolate Anna,"he said and broke off a piece of his chocolate bar.

"Thank you Harry,"I said accepting it."Remus can I talk to you privately, please?"

He nodded and followed me down the corridor as I led him.

"Why didn't you tell me about Sirius?"I asked."You know I don't read the Prophet anymore."

"Dumbledore asked me to not tell you,"he replied."How have you been?"

"Lucious Malfoy told me,"I said."How did he escape?"

"No idea,"he said."you know, Anna, I was thinking, should I tell Dumbledore that he's a animagi?"

"I don't know,"I replied."You look tired."

"Its hard to live being a werewolf,"he said."I don't have company anymore."

He looked old.He always did.Remus was the responsible one of our lot.He loved his friends too much sometimes.When they did something wrong, he doesn't say anything out of the fear of losing their friendship.

"Anna, are you alright?"he asked and interrupted my thoughts.

"I've been good,"I said."I'm not so sure anymore."

"Its not your fault that Sirius...."his voice trailed off.

"Sirius what?"I asked."You think he didn't really love me don't you? Remus, I know he did.He left the house telling me that he loved me.He could've killed me or even kidnapped me so that Voldemort  could use me as bait but he didn't.I don't know if he betrayed James and Lily but the Sirius I knew, could have never done that."

"How do you explain what the muggles saw?"he said."You're in denial.His whole family is like that.He killed Peter.They never found his body."

"You know Remus, Peter is an animagi too,"I said."What if he's not dead? What if he just shifted forms?"

"Do you even hear yourself?"he asked,"That's the wildest guess anyone could've ever made.How you explain the cut finger? Or even what the onlookers saw? Sirius Black is nothing but a murderer."

Murderer.I shiver.I stand in scilence next to Remus and stare outside the window.He was out there, somewhere.He's not a murderer.He's the man I love and I know him.All these years, I didn't know what to believe but now I am sure.I trust Sirius with all my life and he is not a murderer.