For The Love of Pranks! I Love You!

The Night I Lost It All

Halloween night, twelve years ago..

"Daddy!" Three year Evelyn calls to Sirius Black after they got home from Trick-Or-Treating.

"What's up baby girl?" He says while swooping her into his arms planting a kiss on her forehead which makes her giggle.

"When are we going to see Aunt Lily, Uncle James, and Baby Harry again?" They had just went out together and yet she wants to see her adorable god-brother again.

"You just saw him Sweetheart. But I guess I could go and ask Lily and James if they want to do a play date tomorrow? How bout that?"

The little girl squeals in delight when her mother comes in from the other room smiling lovingly at the pair, her favorite people.

"Sirius, we're supposed to be calming her down for bed, not getting her more excited." He walks over and kisses his beautiful wife, Roslyn, then gives her a sheepish smile.

"Sorry Love. I was only telling her that we can go see the Potters again tomorrow." Just then Remus Lupin apperates into the room slightly frightening the happy couple.

"Moony!!" Yells the little girl while reaching for her godfathers arms. He takes her and gives her forehead a chaste kiss, but has an urgent matter to get to.

"What brings you here tonight Remus?" Roslyn asks and the couple can't simply ignore the sudden feeling of dread that's come into the house.

"The-the Potters... Sirius, Peter has told Him. There—there's nothing left."

Luckily the little girl hadn't really understood, playing with the buttons of the shaken man's shirt, but the couple did. The Potters were dead.

"Oh Merlin, Remus. What about Harry please—" Roslyn asks while trying to comfort her husband.

"He's fine. Dumbledore has insisted he stay with his muggle family, says it's safer if he grows up not knowing of this night- not until he's older."

Sirius had stayed silent through this, thinking this is his fault for switching the Secret Keeper, and now his best friends were dead.

"Daddy where are you going?!" The tiny voice dragged him out of his thoughts, he hadn't even realized he was headed towards the door.

He walks back over to his daughter and looks into his own eyes, memorising her little face incase the worst happens, and moves some of the toddlers hair behind her ear.

"Sweetie, Daddy has to go. He has to go make sure Baby Harry is okay, alright? I'll be back to see your beautiful face in the morning, but your gonna spend the night with Moony." He glances at his friend and gets a silent nod in agreement.

"You be a good girl okay?"

"Is Mummy coming with you?" With tears in her eyes-not ever being away from her parents before.

"N-"

"Yes. Mummy is going with Daddy to make sure he doesn't get in trouble okay Evey?"

Roslyn says much to Sirius' disapproval, but doesn't want to argue because he needs to find Pettigrew before he gets to far...and having the extra wand wouldn't hurt.

"We love you Sweetheart. Don't you ever forget that."

And with that the couple left kissing their daughter on the forehead and Remus taking his now sleeping god daughter, with tear stained cheeks back to the protection of his own home hoping the best for the Blacks.

Sirius and Roslyn had finally cornered Peter in the small town square of a muggle village, not far from Godric's Hollow.

"You traitor! How could you sell out James and Lily! They were your friends!" Before anybody could respond Peter had a hold of Roslyn and had his wand pointed at her neck and causing Sirius to immediately draw his wand.

"Let her go Pettigrew! She's done nothing to you. Let her go NOW or I really will kill you!" Sirius growls out, willing himself to stay calm and to not lash out too quickly.

"Sirius!"

His wife, eyes widening in panic when she realizes her wand was been stolen, knowing there isn't a way she could get out quicker than Pettigrew's wand.

"I can't have you two turning me into the Ministry now can I? And they won't believe sweet little Roslyn could kill a soul, so that leaves you Sirius, killing your friends. And your wife. How could you? What would your daughter think?"

"DON'T YOU DARE PETER! LET HER GO! NOW!"

"I love you Sirius, now and forever."

Roslyn, tears in her eyes at the mention of her daughter and what is becoming inevitable, says before the killing curse is shot straight to her neck killing her instantly.

Sirius feels as though he was hit with the curse himself, but rage quickly fueling the hole in his chest.

"You'll get it now Pettigrew!"

But before he can get a spell in, Peter cuts off his finger, causes an explosion killing twelve muggles and disappearing into the night as a lonely rat.

Almost immediately, as Ministry officials apperate to the scene, an innocent man is bound in chains and getting hauled off to Azkaban for the murders he didn't commit with only two thoughts running through his numb mind:

The love of his life, his soul mate and his friends are dead.

His daughter is going to grow up without a mother and father. And he may never see her again.