Invisible String

4.

Draco spent his Holidays at Hogwarts. The last thing he wanted was to be further influenced by his parents. He used the free time he had to practice defensive and offensive spells by himself.

He bought Aurora expensive, beautiful floral dress robes for Christmas, but she never showed up on Christmas Day, nor anytime during the break. He left her gift under the little tree that was up in the common room, hoping that she'd find it. Turns out she did, because the day after Christmas, the gift disappeared. The girl, however, was nowhere to be seen. Draco was hurt by this and could only hope that she was okay. He knew she didn't go anywhere for the Holidays.

The next time Aurora revealed herself to anyone other than Dumbledore, was shortly after Remus had returned to Grimmauld Place after dropping the lot off at Hogwarts at the end of break.

Aurora was sitting in the dining room, when he returned and had jumped when he saw her.

"My goodness, Aurora. You cannot just- how long have you been sitting here?" Remus asked, extremely startled.

"What ever happened to 'Hi, how are you' around here? And Dumbledore let me come, due to the unusual circumstances. Harry and them all coming here a bit earlier, you know? I've been here all break, but..." Aurora did not need to continue for Remus to understand.

"Goodness," Remus shook his head in distress, as Aurora got up and walked up to Remus to hug him.

"I missed you..." Aurora's words faded. She wished to address him and was continuing to struggle with it.

"Feel like I shouldn't have signed those adoption papers, darling. If you're not going to call me dad then what's the point?" Remus let out a small laugh, still hugging Aurora and holding her head in one of his hands.

"She's busy calling someone else daddy, Remus," The two of them heard a voice behind them that belonged to no one other than Sirius Black.

"Sirius!" Aurora exclaimed, running to Sirius and hugging him. He kissed her forehead and hugged her tightly.

"You're awful, you know," Aurora said to Sirius, pulling away.

The look on Remus' face was priceless. "You both are quite naughty."

"Oh Remus, you know she gets it from you," Sirius looked to Remus, exchanging a mischievous look with him.

"From me? I think not!"

Aurora was in awe at the banter they had all immediately exchanged as soon as they reunited with her. She loved both of them so very dearly. She also knew Remus and Sirius loved each other too and was growing impatient for them to make the next big move. They'd been living together for 6 months but loved each other for a lifetime. Aurora did not get the pleasure of meeting Sirius until he had come to inform Remus of what had happened at Hogwarts at the end of Harry's 4th year. She thought he was incredibly sexy until Remus informed her that he thought the same and would like to make Sirius his husband one day. Though Aurora's subtle attraction to the man obviously stopped since then, Sirius loved poking fun at her for it.

The three of them conversed their way into the night. It was 2 in the morning when Aurora was reminded on why she was there in the first place. She explained to them the progress of hers and Harry's friendship, and the progress she's putting into making sure everyone at Hogwarts was "on the same team."

"As usual, the boy is left out of everything. The night of Harry's vision of Arthur Weasley, me and Dumbledore were discussing stuff. I told him that I told Draco Malfoy about Dumbledore's Army and wanted him and Harry to- "

Aurora was cut off by Sirius standing up and slamming his fists onto the table. "YOU DID WHAT?!"

"Listen to me, okay- "