Forever his ~ Harry Potter's daughter

29. Sirius

"You're scaring me!" I cried out.

"Let go of miss Potter, Sirius." Albus called out softly as he stepped into the cave. I hadn't even heard him arrive. Too caught up in the moment.

"You believe her lies? You believe this... Temptress." Sirius seethed out.

"Unhand her, Sirius." Albus commanded once more.

Sirius didn't step further away, just released his grasp on my shirt, glaring at me and watching me thump down onto my feet.

"See you were dangling the poor girl in the air. Are you alright Selenia?" Albus asked.

"Yes, I'm fine headmaster." I nodded and said silently. I quickly smoothed pulled my shirt down, feeling as if I had been on display after being grasped by it, but I didn't dare move away from Sirius. I felt like pray and his eyes didn't part from mine for a second. So I stayed with my back against the wall the man looming over me.

"Selenia here is my heir and protégé. I am legally her guardian." Dumbledore said, grasping my hand and pulling me to his side and away from the growling Sirius.

"I am? Since when?" I asked, looking up at Dumbledore.

"Since five minutes ago when the papers arrived to my office." He smiled.

"What? She is related to you?" Sirius growled out sending me another fiery glare.

"No she is related to Harry."

"I already made her confess to the lie about her father." Sirius argued strongly.

"But just ruling the public knowledge out as a lie doesn't mean Harry and I aren't related somehow." I stated.

"Very true. Now would you care to be the one to explain as I bring a little light into the situation." Dumbledore smiled started creating small fluffy looking things that floated in the air and created light around us. I understood the literal joke as I watched Dumbledore's creations float around.

I sighed and turned to look at Sirius: "Would you care to sit down? This will take a while." I nodded to a log I could now clearly see in the middle of the the cave.

And so we did once more comfortable on the log I started my story: "I was coming to school on a new term, I was with my friends in a carriage on our way when a massive storm broke out. I've always been terrified of thunder and under stress my magic can be... Unpredictable." I looked at Dumbledore when I heard him chuckle most likely thinking of what happened with Malfoy earlier. "The carriage slid down a mud-path and fell, I can't remember anything after that. Only that I woke up in the hospital wing. Although the school was the same one I had known before... The people weren't. I couldn't recognize anyone or find my friends because... They weren't there yet."

"How does your friends being late affect anything?" Sirius asked, clearly annoyed.

"They weren't just late... They didn't even exist anymore... They weren't brought with me to this time... They weren't even born yet. I wasn't even born yet." I said.

"What?"

"I time-traveled. More than twenty years back." I explained.

"But how?" Sirius asked.

"Selenia's magic is... Unstable. Unpredictable. Prone to lashing out on it's own. She is stronger than she should be and thus unable to control her magic that strives to protect her in situations that make her feel unsafe." Dumbledore explained. "It seems that the storm and the accident with the carriage caused a little more... Peculiar reaction."

"You can time-travel without a timeturner?"

"I can't control it... So I can't go back... So I can't really call it an ability, more something that just happens." I mumble and twist my fingers, feeling slightly agitated.

"But now I was threatening to harm you and your magic did not lash out at me." Sirius said, brows drawn together.

"You scared me... Yes. But my father has told me so many lovely stories about you that I just couldn't believe that you would really ever harm me." I said, with a tiny smile.

"Your father?" Sirius looked as if he was pondering the possibilities and looked at Dumbledore that just glumly nodded.

"He's here. In the castle. As a student... And I'm pretending to be his cousin."

"You're Harry's daughter?" Sirius whispered devoid of feeling. I nodded. "He get's a daughter?"

"More than one." I smiled thinking of my half-brothers and sisters. "Two boys and two girls."

"Really? He makes it through? He wins the war?" Sirius says all of a sudden smiling form ear to ear. "He gets a family."

I nod. "There's James Sirius the oldest, then Albus Severus-" I didn't miss the fact that Sirius frowned at the second name. It was known that Sirius and Severus did not have the most wonderful relationship. "-Lily Luna... And me."

Sirius smiles: "He names the first one after me and James? Means I don't make it... Do I?"

I just stare at him for a moment. "You... He misses you a lot. You will never know how much good you brought into his life."

"That's good. If I was able to help him even once... It's enough for me. A good way to go after helping him in his journey." He nodded, looking torn. It must be quite a shock, to know these things. To first feel happy for Harry's bright future and then pity himself for the coming doom of death.

"I don't want to tell you more... I think it's better if you don't know when or... How." I said and looked down at my hands.

Sirius nodded, shaking his head multiple times, more than needed. He cleared his throat before speaking again: "Let me look at you." He stepped off the log and got onto his knees in the dirt in front of me. He placed his hands on my cheeks and smiled nodding. "Aye, just like Harry." He said. "Do you all look like him?"

"No." I smiled. "James is a mix of his parents. Albus looks just like dad, but Lily is just like Ginny."

"Ginny is your mother?" Sirius smiled. "How wonderful.

The smile fell off my face in a second. "No, umm Ginny is everyone else's mom... Just not mine. They're my step-siblings." I said and looked away.

"And your mother?" Sirius asked me, and then looked at Dumbledore.

"No one you would approve." I said glumly.