When the Future Visits the Past (Sirius Black)

Graduation #27

Authors note
This has been a long time for me, I've been working on this book for two years now, I know it's not very well written and definitely has many mistakes but I'm glad I have finally reached the ending I wanted thank you, my readers, for sticking through till the end. Please wish Jetta well on her future adventures she's glad that you have been able to hear some of her story and I am glad I was able to share this with all of you. I started writing this book to stop my constant daydreaming about this story I thought if I could put it on a page maybe I wouldn't spend all day repeating the same parts of this world over in my head, I never originally intended on even posting it but I had a couple friends encourage me to share my story in whatever state it may end up in. Thank you for your dedication to reading my story and support,

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Sirius

It's the morning of our graduation and I am nervous yet excited.

Today ends a chapter of my life and the only place I have truly been able to call home. I tie my Gryffindor tie for the last time in my dorm, the room looking sparse without all of our junk strewn everywhere.

I look at our beds still messy from sleeping pushed together to make one giant bed remembering all the pillow fights, cuddles, and very manly talks we had laying there.

I look at the bare wall that only hours ago held a thousand different pictures and papers containing all of you best memories, my favourite one being in the top left corner a picture of me and Jetta leaning against a tree by the lake talking with her braiding my hair, James in the background asking out lily only to have her whip around her hair hitting him as she spins. Remus peaks into one edge at the end of the shot grinning waving for Peter to come over from the lakes edge where he was skipping a stone. There was so much going on in that photo it perfectly personified what our school life was with friends.

I look to the window and think about all the nights I spent sitting on that windowsill resting against Remus when I still was considered a black, all those nights he spent comforting me when I panicked about being like them or when I got the letter of my uncles death, when it finally sunk in that I no longer have a family. He told me I'll always have a family, that the marauders were my true family.

Looking past the window o see the quidditch pitch which is now set up for the graduating ceremony, I can still hear the cheers of crowds when we played the dangerous sport. The deafening cheers of the winning teams house. 

I head downstairs to the common room and see it's bustling with students, bags packed and stacked everywhere people itching to go already, it's loud and it feels so familiar. I really will miss this place, My home.

I head out into the castle intent on giving it one last tour before I leave these halls and move on with my life as an Auror.

As I walk along the halls and past classrooms I remember all of the meteorites good and bad that came with each area, the hallway I first spotted Jetta while I was in the midst of running away after I set up a prank, the Room of Requirement where I first learned about jettas secret, the great hall the place where most of the marauders epic pranks took place.

I walk past lily and James happy to see how well they get along now. I smirk to myself remembering how horrible James was at wooing and and how subsequently mean lily was to him. I spot regulus walking down the hall following a couple other slytherins and I feel a pang of pain for my lost family, the only member I still care about.

I finally reach the quidditch pitch just in time for the start of the ceremony. Jetta stands proud at the front but I can see stress and worry hidden in her expression I wonder why we are finally done with exams and I know she passed with flying colours. I look next to Remus who looks tired but excited the full moon only having just passed. The to Peter, who is squirming and fidgeting I think Remus says he has adhg? Some muggle diagnosed thing. I look to James and he's not even paying attention to the ceremony much like my self but his focus is only on one girl. I follow James eyes to lily and see her excitement for the end hogwarts.

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Jetta

We finally did it. We graduated. These are the things I hear as I'm loading my stuff onto the train. I'm sad to leave the school, mostly sad to loose my easy access to the library. I'm excited to start a new chapter of life but at the same time I'm very anxious about time. I don't have as much as I wish too with the people I love most.

I find our compartment and look back towards the direction I know the school is one last time as the train pulls away. I turn to Sirius and rest my head on his shoulder and look around the compartment at the company I adore and drift off into sleep.