She sometimes wondered where this had gone all wrong.

Had it been when she first met him, in her last year of Hogwarts? Could it have been the words that he had used to whisk her into a love induced stupor and to not realize that something was wrong?

Whatever it had been, Lily Luna Potter, daughter of the famous Harry Potter, knew one thing.

The moment she had met Sedley Johar, she had been doomed to pain and misery.

She sighed, touching the side of her face gingerly, wincing as pain coursed through the touch. Another bruise. Did he have to hit her so hard? What had she done that time?

In all honesty she couldn't even remember, far too used to him coming home angry and using her as a means of a punching bag to relinquish his frustrations at work. Then he would go to a bar and get roaring drunk, returning to her only to force her to agree to shag him. She didn't even consider that now to be an act of love. Nor did she consider this to be a happy marriage…a perfect union as the newspapers called it. It was meaningless.

But yet she stayed with him.

"Why…why do stay with a man who clearly just sees you as an object?"

Could it be the fact that you know no one would want you?

Lily froze at that suggestion her hand slowly rising to her face and hesitantly she looked up at her image in the mirror. And immediately looked away. Haunted brown eyes stared at her, bearing down into her flesh as though patronizing what she had become. Dark blotches patterned her skin and her once wavy, healthy red locks now looked sickly, dead, and was flat against her skull.

You know it to be the truth. You are nothing now. You never were.

The voice weaved its words around her like a web ensnaring her, trapping her like a moth to a spider's web.

No matter how much she tried to deny it, she knew she couldn't.

She bit her lip to stop herself from crying, walking out of her bedroom quickly as to stop herself from staring at her pitiful state. She passed by photos of her family, both the immediate family and her enlarged Weasley, Delacour, Johnson, Anderson, Tonks, Lupin…

At the thought of Lupin, she immediately thought of Teddy and her heart made a jump.

She had heard that him and Victoire had broke it off about a year after she had gotten married, when Sedley had begun to slowly push her away from her friends and family. She had learned about the break up from a letter from her mother. A part of her was sad that the couple had ended, and that part had voiced it when she saw Sedley glare at her. But the other part, the secret part, was glad.

She wondered how he was doing…

Teddy rolled over in his bed, trying to go back to sleep. But sleep didn't come. He groaned and opened his light brown eyes, sitting up. He rubbed his tealish blue hair, trying to comb the spiky strands down, which to his credit managed to push them down for a whole five seconds before it sprung back up. He sighed giving up on his hair and sat up, pulling his trousers up from where they were currently resting, knowing they would just slide back down to his hips again. He walked out of his room, careful to not kill himself on some discarded shoes or a thrown off shirt.

Merlin, living as a bachelor had its perks but it did have its downfalls.

"But that was only because Vic was a neat freak." He thought absently as he poured a cup of milk before drinking it.

It was true…he had never inherited his father's apparent tidiness, apparently taking after his mother in that. Among other things. He looked up when he heard a tapping on the kitchen window and spotted a post owl. He found some money before opening the window and retrieving the Daily Prophet and several pieces of mail from the bird. He handed the tip to the avian who hooted before taking off. He flipped through the envelopes pausing at the familiar handwriting.

"Hm…wonder what Harry is asking for…" He thought absently placing the other mail onto the kitchen table and opening the letter. He read it and had to smile.

Apparently they were having a family reunion in celebration of Victoire's marriage to some French bloke.

"Well at least she didn't die of a broken heart." He murmured absently staring at the invite. He might as well go and see everyone.

"Maybe Lily will show up." He thought frowning. It bothered him…well it bothered all of them at how far away she was and how antisocial she had become. Especially to him. It hurt because of how close they had been when they were younger, but he couldn't exactly blame her. It could have been a majority of things. One of them was his dislike of her husband. For starters whoever would name their child Sedley, obviously wanted him to be hated. Next was the fact he treated her, to his eyes, like trash. She was always getting him stuff when he asked (more like demanded) it and never received a thank you or anything in return.

He had voiced his concerns to her, not in the exactly most appropriate way. He had called Sedley a bunch of names causing her to get angry and yell at him. What she had said had struck a nerve. He didn't have the right to judge who she went out with, especially since she had never judged him and Victoire. It had been a painful reminder of his failing relationship with Vic and he hated watching her storm out, slamming the door hard enough to dislodge several photos.

Sure he had made mistakes…but that didn't mean she had had the right to take it out on her whole family.

Well she would show up. He hoped.

"Hey…Sed…honey?" Lily said softly folding her hands, turning from the kitchen table. Sedley looked up with a glare and she swallowed almost telling him forget it. But she gritted her teeth. "My family is having a reunion in a few weeks and they invited us over."

"So? Tell them you can't make it."

"But Sed…I haven't seen them in nearly a year. I miss them." She said, and saw his eyes take on a dangerous sheen. "Please?" she whispered and saw him gnashing his teeth together. She winced, expecting an explosion of rage. It never came as he lifted the paper back up and began to read.

"Fine. We'll go and see them." He finally said and she let out the breath she didn't know she was holding before returning to cooking dinner, her heart light.

She was going to see her family.

LALALALA~! ALRIGHT SO WHILE I AM A SCORPIUS X LILY FAN, I AM MORE OF A TEDDY X LILY FAN XD. IT'S OKAY IF YOU AREN'T BUT IF YOU DO READ AND REVIEW PLEASE~!