A Lifetime *Hiatus*

Chapter 2

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Sirius had a feeling.

A very bad feeling.

It was Halloween night and for some reason he couldn't shake the feeling something bad was about to happen. He tried to deny it all day but it wouldn't go away. He had just chalked it up to the war and how paranoid it made him. Auror Moody would probably praise him for 'constant vigilance!'

But all the same the feeling wouldn't go away so just to reassure himself, he went to check on his best mate and his family and that's when the real dread set in.
Oh how he wished he had been wrong. It would have been the first time he was proud to be wrong.

Nothing but grief encompassed his very soul when he found James' body. Already cold to the touch was his brother in all but blood, a person who treated him more like family than his own did. He didn't know how long he sat there grieving over his friends' body but then he remember Lily and the baby.

He bolted up the stairs to come upon a sight that was just as bad maybe even worse than finding James on the floor. The nursery was completely destroyed seeming as if it suffered from major magic backlash and his Bella, his little doe was nowhere to be seen.

He did see Lily. Lily in all her red-headed glory was sprawled across the floor in front of young Bella's crib. Her face was covered in tears stains and was smudged with black ash that she was barely recognizable if it wasn't for her hair and eyes that still held a glow even in her death. He had only assumed the worse of his goddaughter when he didn't see her until he heard a faint cry under the rubble that collapsed on her crib and he could almost jump for joy for small mercies. After he made sure nothing was imminently wrong with her, he set off to leave.

After exiting the cottage, he was greeted by Hagrid, a half giant who was the keeper of keys at Hogwarts.

"Dumbledore sent me." he said in a gruff voice that was thickly accented. "I need to bring him the girl so she can be safe."

Sirius briefly thought that it was strange that Dumbledore sent someone to the house and just assumed that Bella would be okay but it was fleeting. His goddaughter would be okay in the headmaster's hands and he could go after the man that betrayed his friends. He would make Peter squeal like the rat he was in pain before watching the light leave his eyes and become dull just like James'.

He handed Bella over who had fallen silent in her godfather's arms and then went to give Hagrid his keys. "Here. Take my bike, it will get you there faster." And after seeing the nod in agreeance he apparated away.

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Little Whinging, Surrey was a very quiet town, especially at night. It was quite boring and ordinary in its glorified neatness of perfectly trimmed hedges and the houses all alike in appearance as if the smallest difference in any person or decoration would be taboo to the entire neighborhood.

So when a man who walked the street dressed in a purple robe with translucent half-moons came about, if anyone were to be out that late out night it would have been noticed.

The man's name was Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore and he was a wizard. The wizard who was said to be the defeater of Grindelwald and after said wizard shrouded the street in darkness, had a short discussion with Minerva about the Dursleys, and finally had Bella The-Girl-who-lived delivered by Hagrid on a flying motorcycle of all things, he placed her on the steps of her relatives house and disapparated away.

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Petunia Dursley could be described as many things, but good was not one of them. At least when it came to being good just for the sake of being a nice person. So when she opened her door to get the newspaper and saw that a baby was on her doorstep and that it belonged to her freak of a sister, well let's just say that regardless of what the letter from the headmaster said-as he was an abomination just like the rest of the freaks-this was unacceptable and she was not keeping that thing in her house.

So before her husband could even think about going to work, she packed up the basket the girl was still sleeping in and after noticing none of the neighbors were out and about rushed to the car and drove almost an hour out of Surrey into London and dropped her off at a little orphanage called Wool's Orphanage. As run down as it looked, she wasn't looking to give the baby comfort; she just wanted it out of her life as soon as possible. She didn't think that anyone would really care about her wellbeing anyway, who leaves a one year old baby in the cold of November with nothing but a blanket? It was crazy and she was actually kind of glad that she was rejected from the world her sister decided to live in; they had no common sense.

So she dumped her niece on steps that led up to the gate of the orphanage along with a note that normally summed up what was given to her, rang an old looking bell, and left before anyone knew she was there.

Whoo!
So what do you think?
Another chapter is done and yes it is a little shorter. I really hate beginning stories for some reason. I always want to jump straight into the action without warning or preposition.
That being said, this was mostly a filler chapter and we will get to Bella in the upcoming ones for sure.
Dumbledore is such a tool. The sad part is I don't even think he realizes it.
Petunia honestly has so much loathe coming from me because in my opinion she was the worst of all and her case just goes to show that the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
Bella winds up at Wool's Orphanage! Even though I am going to have a different take on the experiences she will have there..... Come on! Did anyone honestly not see that coming XD
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