Series: Love Will Always Prevail

HP: Confessions of a Broken Cinderella

Author: xxPyRaxx

Summary: Everyone has secrets they would never tell and Magnolia Potter is no different. A collection of One-shots of revealing her secrets she would never tell; not even her twin brother Harry. Secrets should would rather take to her grave than tell a living or dead soul.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything in, around or about the Harry Potter franchise; it all belongs to the wonderful and amazing J.K. Rowling. I only own the characters and plot lines you guys don't recognize or haven't thought of.

Confessions of a Broken Cinderella

Submerged

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Magnolia was scared; out of her mind scared but she refused to show it. She was taught from the youthful age of four to never reveal her emotions because no one cared if she was angry, or sad, or scared. If she dared showed even the smallest curve of a frown, she would get either slapped across the back of her head so hard; she would be forced to fall forwards, or be taken down to the dark and unkempt basement where the animal cage was always waiting for her.

What happened to her over the summer she had just escaped from got her more frightened than any other of the summers before. She could still feel the pointed loose pebbles from the gravel almost merge into her soft and tender flesh when she was thrown down like the ratty rag doll she resembled so much. She could still feel Polkiss inside of her and forced her body to react in ways she never wanted it to.

Magnolia was forced to pay the price Polkiss' actions that day, and she would for the rest of her life because she was pregnant; at fifteen. Inside of her own tiny frail body, was another growing inside. A being who had no choice but to grow and soon learn that the outside world was much more cruel and vulgar than the one side of her her will ever be.

Magnolia dipped her bare feet into the cool and refreshing water of the Black Lake; causing ringlets to form around her ankles due to the liquid being so rudely broken. It was well past the late hour of midnight and she had been out here since after she snuck out from the kitchens; she was eating for two after all.

How could she hide it from her relatives once she returned to them next summer?

How could she hide the symptoms of pregnancy during the school year?

How large would her stomach get; would she be able to cover it with clothes or a concealing charm?

Where would she get food to feed it? How would she pay for it with no money?

Once her stomach gets too big and she's ready to give birth, where will she go?

The water was inviting, and so was the message. She could so easily leave her past behind, just as easily as she could end the ongoing fear whenever she was either at the Dursleys or at Hogwarts. She could get rid of the consequence she was burdened with this summer too. All she had to do was take a few steps into the lake; until her toes wouldn't touch the floor, and let the smooth and thin liquid suffocate her from the inside.

It would be easy.

Too easy.

Magnolia stopped herself from walking too far into the lake, allowing the water to soak the trim of the school's uniformed skirt. No she couldn't do this. She couldn't let Harry face everything on his own, especially in a world that neither of them knew was real until four years ago. Where new rules seemed to emerge ever week and every adult treated them like their lives was a game and nothing more. No, she needed to stay alive to protect her brother from those who wore masks of concern and love when they didn't feel it for them in the first place.

Also, there was a person growing slowly inside her, eating the food she allowed herself to consume. She refused to be a murder of a child that didn't even know how it came to be or why it was being killed. She would stay alive to protect it from those who could use it for their own gain, to teach it the rules she had learned to stay alive in the unfair and hostile world and to love it the love she never received herself.

Magnolia could do this.

She could look after her brother and her unborn child.

She will fight and keep her sibling and baby alive long enough to have their own children.

She will be a better sister to Harry.

She will be a mother to the child.