Dark Beauty /Sirius Black/ [2]

Dark Beauty - 38.

Chapter 38

"How long will you be?" asked Isaac. He was holding Mila tightly, bouncing her softly so that she would return back to sleep long enough for Adria to leave. She hated the girl leaving her behind whenever she went out and Adria knew this, but she knew that she'd have to visit soon, she visited every week and even though Sirius was gone, she still had to see her brother.

"A few hours at most," Adria said, pulling her bag over her shoulder, "I won't be long. You know what to do, and please stop acting like you're in a stranger's house, Isaac. This is as much your house right now as it is mine, so if you need or want food please take or cook or hell even bake it!"

"I know, I know," he sighed, throwing his arms around her, "please be safe, Ads. I know it's not far but still, I want you back here in one piece."

"They're tracking magic, Isaac, not cars. They won't know how to track a car; they haven't ever had to before. It's a five-minute drive and then I'm straight indoors!"

"Yes, but what if you get out your car and something happens?! What if you open your own front door and something happens?!" he was getting even more stressed and she knew it was because of the responsibility placed upon him. He didn't know how to handle two kids, especially the crying and the fact that he actually had to take care of him.

He couldn't help but laugh at himself when he had once thought how it couldn't be that hard to take care of something so small. But he was more than wrong and as he bounced Mila, he realised that.

He was scared for his friend, too. Tensions ran high and he didn't want to think of what would happen if she didn't come home, the thought was making him feel sick and so he tried to push the thought to the back of his mind.

Adria left the house almost every day each week and she was fine, but she was with Sirius and they kept each other safe. If they were taking Jude and Mila to nursery, they were together, and if they were going to friends houses then they were together. Apparating was so much simpler, and they used it on the order for faster travel but said Order had advised not to use it to travel to random places, or for easy walkable - or drivable - travel, considering it was very easy to track and muggleborn's were getting killed almost every day.

"They wouldn't send more than one death eater to kill me, Isaac. As much as you, my lovely friend, might say otherwise; I'm hardly important. I can take on one death eater and live, and you know I can." She smiled at him, squeezing his hand comfortingly and softly kissing Mila's forehead before grabbing her car keys and heading out of the door.

The smile on her face was a mask of the bubbling fear she had been feeling all week. It disappeared as soon as she turned around to finally allow the brave shields to slip by her and allow her quivering lip to show to no one. She couldn't let Isaac and Blair see her scared because the two of them knew she was the bravest out of all of them and she couldn't allow them to be even more scared than she was.

The thought of walking out her door alone was allowing the hairs to rise on her arms and neck in nothing but fear, but part of that fear always turned to fury. Because the fear in her stomach was because of a man who wanted her to feel fear, who gained his power from it and sometimes that helped; but the thought of losing everyone she loved placed that fear right back in her.

The warm air and the bright blue sky was a moment of release and she wished she was an insect, like a bee. She wished she was a bee, and she could just float away had she not had as many responsibilities.

The life of a bee couldn't be bad. It couldn't be filled with so much trauma and pain.

The thought of basking in the near-summer warmth, to constantly feel the rays of sun on her body as she flew through the air seemed like heaven in just one moment. She wished for heaven in a moment.