The Dog and the Swan.

Chapter Fourteen

Sorry for the gap!!! Hope you all had fun holidays with friends and family (real or not, I spent a good portion of mine with the Elliott's... My Mummy got me a lovely hardback of Persuasion).

Anyway, Enjoy

4 years later.

Hazel stared at the fireplace.

She was willing the flames to change to green and her Grandpa to pop his head through to invite himself over, or demand they join him for dinner. She felt Sirius' large hands cover her shoulder; he leant down and kissed the side of her neck.

"Haze, you need to eat." He whispered, turning her away from the fireplace and back to the cakes before her. He'd given up on dinners and instead had gone for calories to keep her running. "Please, have something."

"He might invite us over." She whispered as the tears fell, she knew really...

"Hazel." Sirius said, his voice a little harder now. "Eat before I force it down your throat."

"I can barely swallow my spit." She sobbed, "How am I supposed to eat?"

"He'd have hated seeing you like this." Sirius sighed, bundling her into his arms and kissing the side of her head. "I hate seeing you like this. Hazel please, for Grandpa."

"I just want him back!" she pleaded, her knees buckling beneath her. "I just want to see him one more time; alive."

"We'll see him again." He soothed, rocking her gently from side to side. "Eat that cake, please its tiny."

"I'll try... is there tea?" she asked, taking a deep breath as she wiped her eyes.

"Yeah." He sighed, relief rushing through him. "Lily and Prongs are going to come over, so are Moony and Wormtail."

"It'll be good to have it busy." She admitted, looking up at Sirius and feeling the love pour over her. "I love you so much."

"I love you too." He laughed, swooping down and capturing her lips in his.

"Sirius..." she whispered, feeling the fear of rejection suddenly flair.

"What?" he asked, looking over nervously.

"I want a baby." She stated, "I want what Lily has."

"Hazel, you were saying the other day that we were too young." He sighed, taking her hand and kissing it. "You're just overset."

"I'm not." She whispered, looking down at their hands. "I want a baby, I want to hold him in my arms and make sure he knows he's loved and wanted by his parents."

Sirius watched her as his heart broke. He loved Hazel, wanted to spend the rest of his life with her... but he didn't know... he just didn't know anything. "We'll see hey?" he said, kissing her hand once more. "We'll see what happens."

"It's better than a no." she laughed, turning to the cake and taking one snotty bite out of it. "Thank you."

"Now you've asked me that; you have to eat." He demanded, standing up and waving his wand to prepare the tea. "It's nice to see you thinking like yourself again."

"Like myself?"

"At a million miles an hour." He smirked as the doorbell rang. "I'll get it, you eat."

Lifting the small cake to her lips she forced herself to eat it, feeling the small satisfaction of something in her stomach seconds before Lily crushed her around her protruding stomach. With a sigh, Hazel turned and hugged her tightly. With everything that had happened in the last two years they'd leant upon each other more times than they could count.