A/N: Written for:

- The Harry Potter Femmeslash Project Challenge with the topic Angst and the prompt ""Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."- Lord Byron.

- Round 4 of The 52 Weeks of Writing 2013 Competition with the prompt 'abandoned'

- The Party Challenge - Murder In The Dark 'Themes relating to death, injury or loss'

- The If You Dare Challenge with prompt #391 'Without Much Hope'.

Where Wolves Fear To Tread

It was expected that I would be staying, I hadn't even had to ask Susie's parents, they understood. They had each other and Evie's family who had been helping as much as they'd been able with the housework and the influx of Aurors coming in and out.

Sometimes it was to do with Miss Amelia's murder case although that was rare and getting rarer as the days went on. No, more often than not they wanted to talk to Daniel, to give their condolences and tell them what they knew and loved about his sister.

Susan only had me. There had always only been us with no one else to

I stayed for the whole summer, Mum was busy in Paris with another model who had fell into her snare anyway. I doubt she even knew where I'd gone.

We slept in her bed in only our bare skin because I needed to feel her heartbeat against mine and Susie understood. She clung to me, clutching whatever part of me she could find and I lost count of the times she'd fall asleep crying, me stroking her hair and dropping kisses to try and comfort her, to heal her pain.

An impossibility but I had to try. To see her broken made me break and I had to keep fighting, I had to know that one day we would make it through this.

When she had nightmares I was there, calming her down, carefully bringing her back to reality. Often she would kiss me hard, push me onto my back and dominate me with a ferocity I'd never seen in her before. Later, much later on the rare occasions when Susie would talk about that summer she would tell me she was trying to feel something other than pain and yet she couldn't let go. The sex was rougher, my lips bruised and my body weak underneath her as she tried to disappear into sensations.

There were rare occasions where it felt like the world faded until nothing else existed but us lying in a tangle of limbs whispering about futures we both pretended were guaranteed to happen.

"When you become world famous as the best screen writer ever I'm going to come to every single one of your premiers." Susie said turning to give me a smile. "I'll wear backless dresses and we'll snog right there and then in front of everyone."

""Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey." I quoted before grinning back "I don't think Byron strictly meant surviving scandal and hypocrisy but c'est la vie."

"God you're so pretentious."

We laughed, on the good nights when it was only us and fantasies. That was when I knew it would be okay, somehow. Perhaps one day years from now but it would be okay because we had each other, love and dreams.

It had always only been us and nothing was ever going to change that.