Her wand was out, pointing at him, and she was more than ready to use it. "Don't make me count or something pathetic like that," she snarled. "Just get out."

Nothing he said penetrated. Nothing. Everything they had, everything they had built, was a lie. The Sirius she knew - the Sirius she was in love with - simply could not have done what this man was telling her he did.

She had trusted Sirius. Without hesitation or question, she trusted him. And now she found out that the trust was broken, that he had used her while she was at her most vulnerable.

Not again. Never again. There was nothing soft in Lily, now. Not a trace of the woman who had loved him. She was angry and she had her wand drawn. The only concession to the fact that this was a man she cared deeply for was the fact she was giving him warning. "Leave."