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[Sirius Black]

Sirius looked around in a sort of daze, "Where is everybody?" The grounds were all empty, filled with only the sound of the wind rushing past his ears. It seems that no one had ever been to Hogwarts at all.

He sighed, "All alone, no one here beside me."

[Danielle Hawthorne]

Danielle blinked, the sunlight blinding her as she took an uncertain step forward.

"What happened?" She thought, looking around her. Someone was standing off in the distance. Danie squinted, trying to make out the face of the person.

He sighed, "All alone, no one here beside me." She heard him say.

"Sirius? is that you?" She asked, walking towards him.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius jumped in surprise, knocking over his trunk in the process, "Danie?"

She was standing in the far distance, and he could see her squinting, hand over her eyes to protect them from the sunlight.

He smiles at her, "Over here!"

[Danielle Hawthorne]

Danie sighed with relief at the site of a friendly face and walked quickly over to him. He was smiling at her and she couldn't help smiling back, despite the odd situation she had found herself in.

"Sirius, do you know whats going on? I'm so confused! Where is everyone?" she asked as she reached his side. She gazed over the grounds searching for more people, but the grounds appeared to be completely empty. There was a light breeze making ripples in the sunlit grass, giving the grounds an erie feel in the silence.

[Sirius Black]

"No clue," he says, tilting his head to the side, "I haven't even seen James yet."

Sirius continues to look at her, noting her smile, and relaxes slightly. He knows that they have had their problems, but he would like to move past it considering he was dating her sister.

"What are you doing here so early?"

[Danielle Hawthorne]

Danie frowned at Sirius, wondering what exactly he ment.

"I don't know... I don't... remember how I got here. I was just standing here suddenly and then I saw you..." she replied, trying to remember what exactly had happened. How had she gotten here? "Do you think there are any students or teachers in the castle?" she asked him. She could not keep the panic she was feeling from reaching her voice.

[Sirius Black]

"Doesn't seem so," Sirius replied, "Don't you think we would hear something, see someone, anything?" He looked around once more, trying to see some sort of life other than the two of them.

[Danielle Hawthorne]

"I guess so..." Danie muttered, only half listening to his words. Something really odd was going on. "We can't be the only ones here... This doesn't make sense..." There was still no sign of life on the grounds. There weren't even any animals.

"What do we do now?" Danie asked him.

[Clara Hawthorne]

Clara was a little bit confused, even more confused then she usually was.

She had been wandering around, trying to find someone, anyone, to talk to, but it seemed that there just...wasn't anyone around. Usually, Clara might have been a bit more at piece with the idea that there was no one around. But the idea sort of frightened her at the moment. Once it struck her that her cousins, Sirius, Jessica, and worst of all, her sister, all might have been missing from where Clara thought that they should have been, panic arose in Clara.

In her search, she hadn't managed to find anyone. She imagined the fact that she was so entirely alarmed probably wasn't helping much. However, the thought of everyone being gone was just too much for her to keep calm about.

Finally, she made her way outside to the grounds. She thought she heard voices talking, so she kept walking toward them, not caring that it was probably unwise to walk towards something when she had no idea what is was. To her surprise, but complete relief, it was her sister and Sirius. Her face broke out into a huge grin, "I've been looking for you two!" She exclaimed excitedly, momentarily forgetting the fact that she had been looking for other people two. "Have you been out here the entire time?"

[Sirius Black]

Sirius to Clara with a large smile, "I'm so happy to see you!" he says, enveloping her in a hug.

"We haven't found anything else," he murmurs against her neck. He turns to Danielle, "We've only been here a few minutes."

[Danielle Hawthorne]

"Clara! Oh thank Merlin you're here!" Danie cried, wrapping her arms around whatever part of Clara wasn't being blocked by Sirius. She nodded at Sirius' words. "We both just ended up here without knowing how. Where were you at?" she asked her sister, frowing. "We didnt see anyone o the grounds...were you in the castle?"