Time and love don't mix

Cassia returns

Cassia stayed at the Lupins' for a month and a half. She told Harry that she'd stay there, but didn't talk to him since.

Obviously, he was worried for his sister. Since she returned, she hadn't been the same. She had been crying a lot and locked herself into Sirius' room. Harry had thought about going into his godfather's former room, but decided against it.
Cassia would tell him, as soon as she was ready to do so.

When Cassia returned, Harry hugged her tightly. The Weasleys had come over for dinner, which destroyed her hopes of telling Harry alone. But she'd have it done faster, which was great.

"Cassia, dear. I haven't seen you since the battle! How are you? What happened?", Molly asked her, before offering Cassia a seat at the kitchen table.

"I had to deal with what happened in the four months I was gone. A lot happened in that time and I first had to process that and the battle. As soon as I returned, the battle started, which didn't give me much time. But how are you all dealing with what happened?", Cassia asked carefully. She saw tears shimmering in Molly's eyes and almost regretted asking. "It's alright. We're dealing fine with it. George has barely left his room though." Cassia nodded and gave Molly a quick hug.

"What will you do next year, Cass?", Hermione asked. "I'll finish Hogwarts, but Harry and Ron want to start as Aurors. Both options would be open for you as well."

Cassia thought for a bit. "I'll work some odd jobs, but it wouldn't be worth it to start something next year."

"Why?", Harry asked saddened. He had looked forwards to maybe training with his sister for the job as Auror.

Cassia took a deep breath and told them: "Because I'm pregnant. And I will keep the child. That's why I lived with Remus, Tonks and Teddy for a month, to decide what to do and to learn how much of a responsibility a child is."

The whole room erupted into shouts.
"In which month are you?" "You're too young!" "Who's the father?"

"I'm in the fourth month by now. I'm aware that I am too young but I can't kill my child or give it away. I'm okay if other people do it and I understand, but I can't. As for the father... that is more complicated to explain.", she said while fiddeling with her necklace.

"He gave you that necklace, I assume?", Ginny asked. Cassia nodded. "He did.", Cassia answered smiling. "Oh! Can we look at it?", Ginny asked exited. Cassia hesitated, but nodden.

Carefully she took the necklace off and gave it to Ginny, who sat next to Harry.

"The dog looks like Sirius.", he commented, fondly smiling in memory of his godfather.

Cassia blushed, which only Hermione realised.
The brown haired girl gave the redhead a questioning look and Cassia nodded, blushing even more. Then sge nodded at the clock on the wall and Hermione slowly realised what had happened.

"There's something engraved into it! No matter the time, I will always love you.", Ginny paused, staring at the pendant confused. Then she looked at Cassia, ignoring Harry, who tried to read the engraving too. "It's from Sirius.", the Weasley girl wispered. "That's impossible!", Harry exclaimed, both shocked and disgusted by the thought that his sister could've slept with his godfather and father-figure.

"No, technically not.", Hermione started. "Time turners did exist and I told you, Cass disappeared when she touched an hourglass. She must've been sent back in time and met Sirius there. They fell in love, but Cass had to return. She probably did return because of you."

Cassia told them the whole story. Harry was a bit jealous at first, because Cassia had gotten the chance to meet their parents, but that turned into sympathy, when she described how painful it had been to see their parents alive and happy, knowing they would die soon but not being able to do anything about it.

At the end they kind of understood how everything happened, even though Harry was still weirded out by it.

"Anyways, it was nice seeing you all again, but I have a few promises to fulfill. If you want, you can come eith me, Harry." "We have to go back. We don't want George to be alone for too long.", Molly told them.

After the Weasleys had left, Harry and Cassia apparated to St. Mungos. They spent an hour talking to Frank and Alice, even though they didn't respond. And they didn't recognise Cassia at all, they only recognised Neville as someone loved.

Next, they went to Godrics Hollow and visited the grave of their parents. Cassia told them everything that happened and they left them a lot of their favorite Flowers.

In the following months, Cassia prepared everything for her childs arrival. Her friends helped her as much as they could, but they needed to work or go to school and Cassia was left mostly alone.

Harry and Cassia argued a few times about who should have Grimmaulds Place No. 12, because they didn't want to live together forever and Harry had suggested that, since Cassia was having a child, she should look for a place for her family.

In the end, they decided that Cassia would stay in the house of the Black family, since she was having a Black, and Harry would live at the ancestreal home of the Potters in Stitchcombe.

There was a lot of paperwork to go trough and Cassia had to explain to multiple ministry officials how she was pregnant from a man that had died two years ago.

In Cassia's last month, the Lupins stayed with her to support the Potters. Remus worked a lot, since he wasn't paid much and needed to support a family. In a few months, Tonks would start to work again too, that way it would become easier for him.
He even worked a few muggle odd jobs.

When Cassia finally had her son in Janurary, she decided to continue the Black family tradition of naming their boys after stars and star constellations.

Aries Sirius Black was now the last living Black. He had his father's eye colour and hair, but Tonks insisted that he had his mother's nose and eyeshape.

Cassia and Aries stayed at St. Mungos for a week, often visiting Frank and Alice, until they had recovered enough to go home.

Regulus' old room had become Aries' room. All of Regulus' things had been moved to the attic.

Four months after Aries' birth Cassia opened a shop near diagon alley.
It was an arts and crafts shop, where she sold drawings, furniture and other art, but also repaired cars and similar. In the back of the shop she had a section for wizards, where she enchanted cars, motorbikes or furniture and and made art specifically for wizards. Everything was of course ministry-approved.

Aries was not an easy child, he was wild and didn't follow rules easily. In that way he was a lot like his father.
But he also grew to be loving and considerate. He understood, when he had to have manners and when it was alright to ignore them for once.

When he was six he started going to a muggle school, which was a risk for the Statute of Secrecy but after a few months of talking to various ministry officials he was allowed to go to school.