Early years.

AN: Wow! You guys really hate Peter don't you! We've had at least two reviews proclaiming how he needs to die! Here's the new chapter, next one is off to Hogwarts!

Same old, same old, still don't own 'Harry Potter', don't bring it up. (Although Obsessor has now got an exceptionally awesome Wolfsbane potion necklace now, thanks Claire-Bear, my gorgeous fake granddaughter! DI also has a Veritaserum necklace.)

"All things grow with time - except grief."

Proverb

'She'll be okay, Angie.' Remus reassured the worried mother, who was looking hopelessly at her daughter's sleeping form.

'Merlin, I hope you're right, Remus, I can't lose them both.' Angie choked.

'I can't believe that Sirius would betray them.' Remus muttered, looking down at his hands as he braced himself for Angie's response.

'He didn't, Peter did.' Angie told him, she had been repeating this since she was revived; first to Ministry officials, then to Dumbledore and now to Remus, but no one seemed to believe her.

'Why did Peter attack Lucy?' Remus asked her, he had been advised to attempt to have Angie see sense and was trying to get her to understand what the Ministry had told the Wizarding world. This was, however, a lost cause as there was a reason that Sirius had fallen in love with Angie, both were as stubborn as the other. Angie being a year older also helped when Sirius set his eyes (and other anatomical parts) on her.

'Probably hoping to get Sirius to attack him.' Angie told him, everyone that knew Sirius had known how protective he was of Lucilia and this had caused many jokes at his dispense, mainly by James. Scratch that, entirely by James.

'He did.' Remus tried to reason with her.

'Wouldn't you?' Angie responded, pushing away a strand of Lucy's hair from her face.

Remus was stopped from retaliating due to a very soft 'Mummy?'

'Hey baby.' Angie responded, trying to settle her voice to stop it from cracking.

'My tummy's sore.' Lucy whined.

'Shh, I know, the Healers will get something for that.'

'You Heal.' Lucy told her.

'I'm not working at the moment.' Angie pointed out to her daughter.

'Poo.' Lucy looked around and asked softly, 'Where's Padfoot?'

Neither Angie nor Remus knew what to say.

'I'm not moving.' Lucy told her mother for what was probably the fifth or sixth time that day.

'Lucy, we've had this talk, yes we are.' Angie pointed out in a tired voice.

'You are I'm not.' Lucy told her in a defiant tone.

'Well at least Miss Lucilia is better.' Said a House Elf with a creaky voice. He had pointier ears than normal, with blue eyes that weren't as wide as what was typical for a House Elf.

'Thanks Dingy!' Lucy said with an air of the Black confidence to her.

'Miss is most welcome.' Dingo said with a slight bow.

'Don't encourage her Dingo.' Angie lightly berated him, her tiredness coming through in her voice.

'Sorry Miss.' Dingo responded. Whilst he was technically chained to this family he was more a family friend than a House Elf and was certainly well treated. It helped that Sirius had listened to Angie more than his family and that Angie had always felt uncomfortable owning a House Elf.

'Dingo, I'm sorry but I have to present you with clothes.' Angie told him, shuffling her feet feeling uncomfortable.

'NOOOOOOOOO!' Was Lucy's over dramatic response.

'May I ask why Miss?' Dingo asked, ignoring his young mistress.

'Where we are going to live is mainly inhabited by Muggles and well-' Angie told him, breaking off mid-sentence.

'I understand Miss, you must remain camouflaged.'

'Yes. Lucilia Lyra Black, stop that.' Angie finally addressed her daughter, who was hanging from the ceiling light again.

'No, I will when we get my Dingy back.' Lucy retorted.

'How about this Miss Lucilia, I will work at Hogwarts and, when you get into Hogwarts, I will answer to your call.'

Lucy nodded mutely as she wiped away her tears, 'Okay, bye bye Dingy.' She said at last.

'Goodbye for now Miss Lucilia.' Dingo corrected his young mistress, 'Goodbye Miss Angela.' Dingo told his last masters, bowing deeply.

'Goodbye Dingo.' Angie told him, as she handed him an old Gryffindor tie, Sirius' old Gryffindor tie.

Well, he had always been chained to him.

'One Muggle, two Muggle, three Muggle.' Remus said to Lucy, pointing out the Muggles.

'Remus don't teach her numbers by counting Muggles.' Angie told him, sounding slightly exasperated.

'One horsey faced Muggle!' Lucy shouted out, pointing a lady with two children with her, one slightly larger than the other.

'Wonderful. Remus, I do want her to be well mannered.' Angie told him.

'And yet you had a kid with Sirius.' Was the counter argument.

Angie scowled at him but was stopped from her remark when Lucy interrupted, 'Uncle Moony, Uncle Moony!'

'What's up Pup?' Remus asked as he tickled her.

Lucy giggled slightly and then said in a serious tone, 'Horsey face is stealing Fawn!'

'What?' Remus asked, clearly confused by his god daughter's exclamation.

'Harry.' Angie explained to Remus.

'Oh. Pup, she's Auntie Lily's sister, so she's taking care of Harry.' Remus explained carefully to Lucy.

'Why aren't we?' Lucy demanded, she was his God Sister and she'd heard things about this woman, she made Auntie cry.

'Because Dumbledore believes this to be best.' Remus told her patiently.

'Okay.' Lucy responded. She liked Dumbledore, his beard and mannerisms amused her.

'Oh sure, she accepts that.' Angie gasped in disbelief.

'Angela Montgomery you're daughter's hair changed colour earlier today.'

'Really?' Angie asked, only having to slightly feign shock. Whilst Lucy was getting better at controlling her metamorphism there were still moments when she had difficulties, mainly when she was angry; which happened a lot. Angie blamed the inbreeding … in both of their families.

'Yes, I believe that she has been having trouble with some other children on the playground and she punched one in the face whilst her hair changed to a shocking red.' The Headmaster said.

Angie nodded, more acknowledging her daughter's temper than anything else. 'May I see her?' Angie asked, standing up, no matter what this man said she was going to be seeing her baby.

'Of course.' The Headmaster said, maybe understanding she would anyway.

Angie found Lucy sitting by herself, pouting slightly with her hair still a shocking shade of tomato red. It seemed that she was now angry at the world, Best not to poke the baby bear Angie decided on sight.

'Lucilia, it's time to go home.' Angie called to her daughter tentatively. On closer examination Angie saw that Lucy's eyes were also red and Angie was almost certain that this was not from crying. She had, in her rage, adopted what Sirius had always referred to as her 'Dracula' persona. She was still uncertain when he had read this book and believed that Remus had told him about it. Sirius never even read his textbooks, it was a miracle he got the grades he did.

'Yes mummy.'

'You need to control yourself better.' Angie reminded her daughter. Angie might just consider having Lucy switch schools if this becomes a common occurrence.

'Sorry mummy.' Lucy apologised, keeping her head down.

As they were leaving a man from the Ministry appeared and wiped all of those present memories.

'Thanks for inviting us Ted.' Angie told her almost cousin-in-law.

'Not all Angie, you okay Lucy?' Ted asked. He had taken a shine to the young girl when he and Andromeda had visited them shortly after Sirius was convicted; her attitude was not to unlike his Dora's.

'Yeah! I got a new broomstick!' Lucy told him from behind a pile of presents.

'Really?' Ted asked in fake shock. He and Andromeda had been planning on getting her a broomstick and had run it by Angie, but he had barely seen her so enthused. Her father's imprisonment had been hard on her, Angie too.

'Yeah, we got you and Auntie Andromie and Nympie presents too!' She enounced loudly, shoving them up in his face just too make sure he knew they existed.

Meanwhile an argument that had become typical in the Tonk's household, Nymphadora's hair colour, could be heard from the kitchen. Andromeda was yelling something about how it was not appropriate for their guests. Nymphadora's response was along the lines of how little she cared.

Ted smiled slightly before saying, 'Well, come on in.'

When they walked in they were greeted by Nymphadora, whose hair was bubble gum pink, Lucy merely pointed at her and then smiled before changing her hair to the exact same shade of pink.

'Oh Merlin there's two of them.' Ted said in a jokey tone.

No one would have been able to guess that this would have become one of the strangest cousin relationships to ever grace the world. Although it might have been obvious with the constant matching of appearance during Christmas dinner.

'Lucy you have to wear the uniform.' Angie told her daughter holding out a white shirt and a navy skirt.

'No I don't.' Lucy countered, beginning the inevitable argument.

'Yes you do.'

'No I don't.'

'Yes you do.'

'No I don't.'

Then Angie remembered her trump card, 'Lucilia Lyra Black, you will put this uniform on or I won't buy you that new broomstick that you want.'

'I have to wear the ugly clothes!' Lucy called out cheerfully.

'Bribery really does work every time.' If Sirius ever got out of Azkaban Angie was going to have a word with him about his version of parenting.

Angie was not in a good mood, not only was her new job at the Ministry not what she wanted to do with the rest of her life but she had been called out of a meeting (an exceptionally dull meeting) because Lucilia had been suspended after she punched a boy in the face. In her defence this boy had been bullying her since she started at the school, but the school reminded Angie that wasn't an excuse.

Angie reminded them that they supposedly had a zero-toleration policy against bullying. That shut them up.

'Lucilia Lyra Black, why did you do that?' Angie asked her annoyance clear in her tone.

'Because he was being rude about Uncle Moony.' Lucy told him, her hair was slowly returning to its natural black but Angie knew from experience that the eyes would last for a couple of hours at the very most.

'That doesn't mean that you should punch him in the face, you use your words.' Angie tried to reason with her.

'I did I called him a 'fucking wanker'.' Lucy said sounding remarkably like her father.

Remus and Andromeda couldn't help but stare in disbelief at each other.

'She's just like her father.' They said in quiet unison.

The day was January the 2nd and the air was cold and bitter. It was all quiet and peaceful; until an owl crashed into the window and destroyed any tranquil silence.

'What the hell?' Lucy asked, waking up quickly and reaching for anything that she could defend herself with.

Lucy quickly jumped out of bed and moved over to the source of the noise, when she saw the owl crumpled up owl and opened the window in order to let the owl in.

'What do you have for me Crackers?' She asked, holding out her arm for the owl to perch on.

The owl did not except this gesture and simply dropped the letter by Lucy's feet before flying off.

'Well I better not be in Hufflepuff.' Lucy said to know one in particular.

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The next chapter will be up as soon as all the extra work we have disappears. Obsessor is siriusly thinking about using a Banishing Charm.

DI apologises for the over used joke.