AN: Just a little something that been rattling around in my head. The backstory is something i want to play with. But I feel I should at least update at least on of my other stories. but anyways let me know what you think! Disclaimer: Am I filthy rich? No? Well guess I don't own Harry Potter. Damn.. :(

I never asked about the scars that were on his arms. About the reason why he killed Lucius Malfoy and left the other two Malfoys alive. Or even why Percy shivers every time they are in the same room. I never asked about these things, because he saved my life. The unsung hero of the second war. He protected Harry and the others. I never even asked why his name never shows up on any wizard background checks, but shows up on the muggle records. All I ever asked was: would he spend the rest of his life with me. We're getting married in two weeks. He smiles every time I look into his direction. Alex Rivers, my future husband with a blank past. His black hair glistens in the moonlight as I watch him sleep tonight.

"You know, you're the only person I won't kill for watching me sleep." He stated as he opened his eyes. I nodded and smiled, ignoring the statement. He chuckled as he looked at the clock next to our bed. "Four hours before we have to go see your family, c'mon let's go back to sleep."I hold his lithe frame against me and fell asleep trying to hold back the nightmares that plague him.

The next morning, we rush over to The Burrow, running late due to a combined effort in the shower. His ice blue eyes concealing the happiness he feels every time he's around The Gryffindor Trio. As we walk in, he hands me the gift we brought over for Ginny's Birthday and rushes over to hug the trio.

"Alex!" Three voices chorus as they hug, laughing.

"How have you been? Gettin' nervous yet? " Harry asked as they parted and sat down on the couch.

"Nervous about the wedding? Never, nervous about the rest of it? Um, can we get a big 'duh' with that?" He replied in his baritone voice.

"You guys never did mention how you met him," Ginny asked trying to be subtle. They continued on with their conversation as if they didn't hear her.

"Hermione, how long have you been pregnant?" He asked making everyone go quiet. "Oops, sorry about that." Soon everyone was bombarding her with questions. She answered them as quickly as possible while glaring at Alex.

"How did you know?" He pointed at his chest and she nodded knowingly. "Well about two months now." These little signals that they have between each other used to make me jealous, but once I realized it was part of their habit, I tried to get over it. I like to think I'm getting better. "It's been a roller coaster; well you know how Ron is."

"Yes, we all know how you both are." I noticed Percy walk in by himself. He's going through a divorce right now with Penelope. I felt sorry for him; she left him for another woman. He saw Alex and headed straight to the kitchen with barely even a 'hello'. I followed him in; I was hoping to get some answers from him.

"What's you problem with Alex?" I asked him as we walked in. Mum had walked out with a small, or rather large, fruit tray for Hermione.

"If he hasn't told you of his past, do you really think you should marry him then?"

"I know he killed Lucius, he told me this. I also know he met Harry and them during their hunt for horcruxes."

"He hasn't told you anything then." He smirked slightly as he said this. I gripped the counter to focus my frustration on something else. "Ask him about Harrigan's Magical School. That's all you'll get from me."

Harrigan's? The other magical school in the U.K. and only chosen students got to go there. Not like Hogwart's, where the only requirement was to have magical ability. Harrigan's chose their students specifically for them. It is said they only choose students who are extremely powerful. They turned down Dumbledore and completely passed over Voldemort! Harrigan's was destroyed in a Death Eater raid immediately after Bellatrix Lestrange and others escaped from Azkaban. The destruction was hushed up to help keep panic to a minimum. Why would Alex be associated with them? Did he have something to do with its destruction?

"Bringing up bad memories for both of us, Percy?" Alex said as he walked getting a glass of apple juice. "Pumpkin juice is just gross; I don't know how you people can stand it."

"I didn't break my vow," Percy said as he reached for his wand. Alex set the glass down as he looked at him.

"You're right, although you did toe the line." I had never heard this tone from Alex. I was vaguely reminded of Voldemort. "I should give away a secret of yours, maybe about how we met?" Percy paled at this. He shook his head silently begging him to stop. "Then don't bring up the past, you understand me?" He nodded as he ran out of the kitchen.

"Alex, I love you, but I think deserve at least some explanation now." I said as quietly as I could. He looked at me. His blue eyes holding remorse.

"Charlie, trust me, that's a horrible story, and only Harry and them know the full extent of it."

"But you just scared the shit out of Percy and me, what happened? Why don't you ever open up about what happened back then?" I held his hands as I asked this. He closed his eyes tightly.

"I'll tell you, but when we're at home, okay?" He whispered pleadingly. I nodded agreeing to his request. "Cool, now let's have fun, it's Ginny's birthday. I don't like her, but Harry loves her for some reason." I chuckled at this last statement.

"Hey guys, quidditch game out in the back!" Ron said he poked his head in. "You know if Mum finds you two making out in here, we'll hear about it, right?" Alex snorted and sent a spoon flying at his head as he ran out.

We made it home after seven, extremely early for a Weasley family gathering. Alex sat down after getting a glass of Black Velvet. He preferred that over Firewhiskey. I sat down next to him, waiting. He was fidgeting with his large glass, deciding how to answer my questions.

"You need to understand, that there's a reason that Harrigan's was kept so secret from the rest of wizarding society. That also the rules were different during the war, especially for the escapees of the Harrigan's Raid." He took a drink of his whiskey. He looked at me. "Charlie, my name is Blue. My normal name is Alex Rivers. Every student at Harrigan's has two names. "

"Why?"

"Because Harrigan's wasn't just a school for the most powerful, it was for every magic user that gained extra abilities because of their magic. The faculty there, they were all assassins, they taught their student how to defend themselves, and only a small portion of the students were allowed to become assassins. The code names were to protect us from the outsiders." I was shocked at this. Harrigan's did this? Why? What happened during the raid? How was Alex involved in the raid?

"I only had one job and that was to protect Green, Silver, and Oak from the Death Eaters that invaded our school. So I ran away taking them with me, I dropped them off at Hogwarts and went back to try save the others. I came back to find Percy fighting two students, killing one of them and totally obliviating the other. I nearly killed him then, what stopped me was that I was then captured by the Death Eaters."

"Percy was working with the Death Eaters?" I couldn't believe this, my own brother working with Voldemort. He looked at the couch avoiding my eyes as he continued.

"That's what I thought too. Turns out, the students he was fighting, they were the ones that betrayed our school. They were the ones that gave the Death Eaters all the information they needed to destroy all of Harrigan's. Percy as it turned out was supposed to be a student at Harrigan's, what prevented this, was his overwhelming desire to be extra ordinary. So Percy was fighting to try and avenge the school. "

"So why doesn't Percy like you?"

"He's afraid of me because I was something that he could've been. As for why I killed Lucious, he was the one that captured me. He also gave me to Voldemort, and that is a story I'll you another time." He said slurring his speech a little. He stood up and headed to bed swaying slightly. I sat there for an hour thinking over everything I had just heard. Alex is trained to be an assassin? Could I still marry a killer? What's changed because of this? I looked at the door that led into our bedroom. I'll figure this out tomorrow, tonight he needs me to protect him from the nightmares.