Pure blood queen

10.

Remus's P.O.V

The park was quiet, I enjoyed it here. The tranquility calmed me, calmed the fear. A loud crack broke the spell. I turned to see Sirius he had tears falling down his face. He dropped both twins onto the grass and clung to my arms, sobbing. "She's dead Remus, they all are."
"Who?" I asked as he buried his face on my shoulder. "Annabelle, James, lily. The dark lord went to kill the potters and Anna went to protect the boy."
"Did she succeed?" I asked my voice wavering. Sirius nodded.
"Dumbledore took him. Peter that little Rat." He screamed. I saw Dahlia flinch. She hissed something but none of us understood. Her lip wobbled at the realisation but she didnt cry.

"She loved him Remus. Her last words were I'm coming Prongs. She said, she said she was sorry and that she did love me but she had to save him. Did I mean nothing!" He screeched. I shook his shoulders.
"Calm down!" I was crying now. "She loved you Sirius, but she felt she owed a debt to him for the life she could never give him. He was a brother to her in the end, and that's something she was willing to die for." He faltered.

"I'm going to Kill Peter." I blinked at him in confusion. "He took everything from me, and he'll die for it." I tried to grap him but he shook me off. "Will you look after them?" He asked glancing at his children.
"I shouldnt have to." I snapped. "Your being unreasonable, you have children, they need you." Sirius wasnt listening. He crouched down by the twins.
"Okay babies, your gonna stay with uncle Remus for a while okay? I'll be back I promise." Regulas giggled, blissfully unaware. He tugged Sirius nose. Sirius kissed his head.
"I love you so much Reggie." He said squeezing his soft cheeks.

Dahlia hissed something else. "I cant understand you darling, your mommy was the only one who could, and shes gone." He glanced at me. "She has the understanding of an older child but can only Express it in parsletounge." My head hurt, I was grieving and now had spontaneously taken on the role of godfather to my best friends children. "Dahlia, I have to do this, for your mommy. I'll be back. I love you sweetheart. Keep your brother safe." The little girl sniffled.

Sirius turned hugging me again. "Please dont do this." I muttered.
"You can have Grimwarld place." He turned away without another word.
"Love you dada." Dahlia whispered. Sirius heard it, I could tell the way his body froze up, but he left anyway.

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I sat curled up on the bed sobbing like mad. Dumbledore had come by, told me what happened. They had sent Sirius to Azkaban for the murder of lily, James and Peter. Harry had gone to the dursleys dispite my offer to have him here too. Dahlia wouldnt let go of the pendent I had given Annabelle all that time ago.
They looked just like them, it hurt me everytime. I felt a huge hole was building in my chest, one I wasnt sure I could fill.
Dumbledore had managed to keep custody of the twins to me instead of the Dark Lord worshiping Malfoy's but it had meant a faked death. Turns out Sirius had burnt down the manor, and with the help of Severus, everyone believed the Black twins had died in the blaze.

So Dahlia and Regulas became Alice and James. And I was there father.

A few months later

"Unfortunately I have no clue as to what's happening to miss Lupin." I sat woriedly, holding Dahlia's little hand. She screamed again, her whole body shaking wildly. Madame Pomfrey, every doctor in Saint mungos, and now even Dumbledore couldnt understand what was happening to her. These 'pain episodes' were getting worse and there was nothing we could about them. "I can only advise Mr Lupin that you use your experience in painful exposure and help her through these hard times, and as she and her brother grow older teach him to do the same."

Alice's P.O.V
(Nine years later)

Hogwarts! Oh god I couldnt wait. I was buzzing. It was weird though, that we'd be in the year above what we should be, but Remus had said it was so no one connected the dots to our real heritage. And we acted old enough as it was.