AN Mmk so first off, I don't own any characters from Harry Potter : ) I do however own Briony. This is a fic that me and my friend are writing together, so enjoy
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She'd been gone for twenty years. She'd turned her back on the Wizarding world, and gone into hiding. None of it was her own decision it was all her sister's idea, to 'protect' them. So much for that, her sister was now dead. She was looking down at the lifeless body of her twin, she could almost hear her heart breaking, her sister was her best friend, the only person in her life that had always been there for her no matter what. And now she was dead.
She dropped to her sister's side, she was now angry. Her sister had taken her away from her friends, the only person she loved and made her turn her back on her life. Now she'd left her here? The emotional side of Briony that had been hidden from the moment she turned her back on her friends, was coming back as she looked at her sister's lifeless eyes. "Come Back, don't you dare leave me here." The words came out broken and somewhat quietly, as she grasped her sisters shoulders and shook her, lightly at first but then with more force.
The tears were now falling down her face, as she told her sister that she couldn't leave her. Her sobs were so loud she didn't hear the faint pops until she felt a hand on her shoulder. It was instinct that made her pull out her wand and turn to face who was behind her, and when she saw who it was her wand dropped from her light grip. The person looking at her looked almost as shocked as her.
"B..Briony?"The girl looked back up at the boy, no…Man opposite her. Last time she had seen him he'd been eighteen, nearly nineteen, now those twenty years on he had aged, but still had that cute look that had always made Briony feel comfortable. Only that just made her cry harder, she had forgotten how much she missed her friends, now her sister was gone, her friends weren't going to want to know her, she'd left them without even saying goodbye. He wasn't going to want to know her, he'd probably found someone else it had been ten years after all…
She felt herself being lifted to her feet, and people talking quietly. How had they found her? Hadn't her sister said they were well protected; actually Bee had refused to talk to her sister for a month because they were 'well protected' She tried to fight back against the man pulling her toward him, she didn't want to go back, she didn't want to have to face her friends. She wanted to stay with her sister, her best friend… But this man really wasn't going to give up.
"Briony Stop it. You can't stay here; the protection around you has gone. It went as soon as your sister died, how do you think we found you?"How dare he pretend he knew what had happened, he hadn't been there, he hadn't seen her die. She knew there had been a reason she'd gone, that reason was the one that had prevented the deaths of Lily and James Potter. That was the reason Harry Potter didn't have a lightning shaped scar on his forehead, which was the reason he was just an ordinary kid with ordinary friends, who still managed to get caught up in so much danger.
"Stop it! You hadn't seen me for twenty years; don't pretend you know me any more Remus, because you don't. None of you do anymore." She managed to choke out, before she let herself be pulled into a warm embrace, one that she had missed all these years. She was an adult now sure, but that didn't change anything; she still felt like that lost nineteen year old just trying to grasp onto life. But at least she'd had him to help her through it back then, now she didn't have anyone…
She sobbed into his chest, as they stood for a while, the chattering still going on behind them. Then it stopped and there were faint pops, however she saw blonde hair out the corner of her eye, and a slightly familiar voice talk from next to Remus. "Remus, take her back…We'll stay and sort out what's happened here.."
"Are you sure…I mean Sir-"
"Just take her Remus!" She heard Remus sigh and pull her closer, then she felt that strange feeling that she had long since forgotten when one apperated.
A second later she felt solid ground underneath her feet, she didn't look where she was; her tears were too busy clouding her eyes. It was like she couldn't stop them from flowing no matter how hard she wanted to, like all the tears she kept back that day. The last day she saw him, the last day she saw any of them, they were finally being allowed to fall. She'd dreamt about coming back, but never like this, she was going to have been prepared, figured out what to say…But now she was so unprepared it was unreal.
She heard once again the sounds of chatter, and wiped away the tears, trying to clear her view. It was then that she saw a woman with red hair, accompanied by a family of red headed children, some of which were staring at her as if she were something Remus had picked off the street, and she didn't blame them. Her jeans were torn in several places, and there was dried blood on her t-shirt, and her face was covered in dirt, there were slightly clean patches where her tears had rubbed off anything that had been there.
"Stay here for a second…Don't even think about running off."She would probably have laughed, had she not just cried herself out of tears. Her shoulders were still shaking, and she was still sobbing, a few tears rolling down her cheeks, but nothing like before. Remus was now talking to the woman, and she took in what the children looked like, they all looked similar with red hair, they were all boys apart from one, there were twins, then a tall boy who looked about the age that Harry would be now…She doubted that they knew how he had been saved, and despite herself a smile formed on her lips a very small one but a smile none the less.
"Do sit down dear; you look like you're going to fall over any second." Before she even had time to reply, she was forced into a chair. She had to admit her head was spinning a bit, well a lot, and she didn't know what to say to the people in the room. Her blue eyes swept the room, seeing if she could see anything familiar, but there was nothing apart from the man now sitting next to her. She loved Remus she really did, but her heart still belonged to him, even after all these years. "You know Briony…He's going to come in any second, this is his ho-"
"Remus! Dumbledore just told me what happened, he said you brought someone back, someone survived…" Her heart stopped, and her head flicked up, her hair bouncing into her face, a worried look taking place in her blue eyes as she looked at Remus frantically. If she could just have more time, more time to think of what to say, what to do… He sounded happy, she didn't want to ruin that, a glance to the other side of the room and that was where her gaze stayed, he wouldn't be able to recognise her from the back, so that was why her back was too him.
Remus was on his feet again, holding a hand up to stop his friend from walking to her. "Sirius just leave it for a bit…I need Lily, could you go and fetch her for me? She needs some healers work…" Remus stated, even Sirius knew it wasn't a question, but there was something familiar about that girl, and he was going to find out what. Though he knew that his friend was only going to get angry with him if he didn't go and get one Mrs Potter, so he gave a wave of his hand and headed back toward the door with a pout. "Fine. But I'll be back in a minuet." With that, he walked back through the door.
Briony let out a breath she wasn't aware she had been holding, there was silence for a few minuets, while she massaged the sides of her head with a frown on her face. He was going to come walking back here in a minuet, and she still hadn't thought of how to explain it. Her sisters voiced filled her head again and she buried her face in her hands trying to block out the memories, forget the pain.
"Um…Excuse me for asking but...Why didn't you want to talk to Sirius?" Briony pulled her hands away from her blue eyes to look at the person who was sitting opposite of her. It was a girl, around sixteen, seventeen with bushy brown hair and brown eyes. Briony didn't know what to say to her, there were many reasons she didn't want to talk to him.
"It's a very long story love…" Briony managed to sniff; she sat back in her chair looking at the wall, ignoring the look that switched between the gangly red haired boy and the girl opposite her. She didn't have very long to collect her thoughts however, before the door flew open.
Remus slipped out, and closed the door behind him, and Briony was sat now looking back at the red haired woman that had just walked in the door. Her eyes were still a vibrant green and the only thing that had changed, was the fact that she looked older, but then again everyone was going to.
The two stared at each other for a moment, the red haired family that Briony had yet to learn the names of, slipping out of the room. This was going to be one long, long day…
