Missing Love
Chapter 1
The war was over and a year later while many were still mourning for the loss one family had got a chance to celebrate new live. Victoire Gabrielle Weasley was born to Bill and Fleur Weasley on the anniversary of the battle of Hogwarts the two young parents couldn't be more proud of there daughter.
At 4 months old it was already becoming clear that Victoire would grow up to look just like her mother with a little head of blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She was also a very happy baby laughing all the time and get doted on by her Grandparents and all her Auntie's and Uncles.
"How's Daddies little girl then?" Bill said as he bent over a cot to pick up his daughter she gurgled happily at him.
"Oh Bill doesn't she just look lovely?" Fleur said coming up behind him.
"Yeah she's my beautiful girl right next to my other beautiful girl" Bill said turning to grin at Fleur who blushed and took Victoire from him.
"Hey thief" Bill said jokingly making Fleur laugh and Victoire giggle.
"Come on darling we are going to the Burrow to see everyone" Fleur said talking to Victoire who was in her carrycot while she packed the baby bag. Once at the Burrow Victoire and Teddy, who was now one, were passed around everyone, enough to tire Victoire out who was put in her carrycot in the living room while dinner was served.
"So Fleur how is Victoire doing does she keep you up at night much?" Ginny asked Fleur from across the table.
"Oh no after the first few weeks she quieted down and we barely hear her at night now which is lucky really my mama told me I was quiet as a baby as well" Fleur answered.
"Well Bill wasn't quiet at all so it had to come from you" Arthur said jokingly making Fleur and Ginny laugh and Bill look slightly annoyed.
"Well I think I'll just check up on her so if you will excuse me" Fleur said pulling back her chair and waking into the living room.
"Victoire" Fleur whispered to test whether she was awake or not because she usually responded to her name but no sound came creeping over to the carrycot Fleur looked down expecting to see her daughter sleeping but instead it was empty.
"Victoire" Fleur said again after unfreezing from shock and then she pulled the blanket up in the cot as if she would just be hidden underneath it but she wasn't there.
"Victoire my baby" Fleur said a bit louder starting to go into hysterics.
"Hey Fleur how's Victoire?" Bill said coming into the room.
"She's gone my baby she's gone" Fleur said going into hysterics still clutching the baby blanket.
"What do you means she's…" Bill started to say but then saw the empty cot.
"Oh God Fleur" Bill whispered before holding his wife too him while she sobbed uncontrollably. The rest of the family was alerted quickly on hearing Fluers sobs and Harry and Ron manage to get the auror department working quickly.
Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months but no clues were left behind on who could have taken Victoire and Bill and Fleur fell into a depression clinging to each other so over a year after Victoire disappeared Dominique Weasley was born and Bill and Fleur in fear only let family and close friends see Dominique.
"Okay baby Dom and mama are going shopping today" Fleur said happily smiling happily at Dominique but inside she was really quite nervous she was taking Dominique to Diagon Alley with her because she was running low on potion ingredients but couldn't find anyone she trusted to watch Dominique.
"So that will be 3 galleons and seven sickles" the witch behind the counter in the Apothecary said Fleur looked up and dug in her bag for the money before handing it over which was pretty difficult because she was keeping one hand on the pram that held Dominique at all times.
"So how old is the baby?" the witch then said leaning over the counter to try and look in the pram but Fleur pushed it away slightly.
"Hmm well she's six months," Fleur said quickly before leaving the Apothecary gripping the pram handle as if her life depended on it.
"Excuse me" Fleur kept saying as she tried to get through the crowds in Diagon Alley with the pram and while some people moved to let her through other were just ignorant and made her progress through Diagon Alley slow.
"Fleur, Fleur over here" she heard her name being called and looking ahead saw George pushing his way through the crowds very visible in his bright orange robes.
"George what are you doing here I thought you would be in the shop taking care of things" Fleur said breathing a sigh of relief on seeing someone she knew and trusted.
"Well Bill told me you would be here today with Dominique and when I saw how busy it was well I…" George said trailing off towards the end Fleur smiled at him and then nodded.
"Yes could you help me I'll take Dom and could you take the pram" Fleur said and together with George practically ramming people with the pram and Fleur waking behind holding Dominique they managed to get to Weasley's Wizard Wheezes where George got all three of them to the apartment above.
"Would you like some tea?" George asked once putting the pram in the corner Fleur nodded and still holding Dominique waked around the living room a bit.
"It is neater then last time I was here" Fleur commented on when George came back through with the tea he blushed and said.
"Yeah Angelina has been coming around and says she has to clean because she can't sit in a mess" Fleur laughed and Dominique giggled as well.
"You laughing at me" George said coming forward and tickling Dominique before taking her from Fleur and rocking her back and forth.
"Oh someone's tired" George said as Dominique yawned widely Fleur then helped him settle her in the pram where she promptly fell asleep. Fleur and George then sat and had tea talking and once George got onto how the shop was doing it was an hour and a half later when Fleur said that she better be getting home.
"Well I'll just kiss my niece one last time then before you go" George said getting up and going to the pram only to look in and see nothing he froze.
"George, George what is it?" Fleur said worriedly coming over and seeing for the second time that her baby was gone she could feel all the emotions come up inside of her sadness, anger and desperation but none came out instead she just fell to her knees and put her arms around herself rocking back and forth.
"Fleur, Fleur" George said desperately trying to get her to stand up but to no avail instead he went to the fireplace and contacted Bill and Ron and Harry and the auror department. Like with Victories' disappearance the family was alerted quickly and the search started but also like Victories' case no clues were left about where Dominique could have gone, who took her and how they took her.
"Nothing what so ever" Harry said slamming the report on DNA found on Dominique's pram down on Ron's desk.
"The only people found to have went near the pram that day was Dom, Fleur and George and of course George and Fleur didn't do it" Harry continued slumping into the chair behind his desk.
"I could have told you that this morning so what's with the attitude" Ron said frustrated.
"Because Caison just told me to get you and go arrest a possible suspect" Harry said sadly but Ron sat up straighter.
"What then why are we sitting around here Harry come on let's go?" Ron said standing up and making towards the door Harry didn't move though.
"Ron he wants us to arrest George" Ron stopped in his tracks and turned around.
"What why how could he think George is behind it he's family" Ron said his anger rising.
"I don't know I think he's as desperate as us and wants to feel like the department is doing something"
"Arresting George is, is just ridiculous" Ron said his face getting redder by the second so Harry talked more quietly to prevent his temper rising more.
"I know but we have to do it because Caison said if we don't we'll get chucked off the case and that's even worse don't worry Ron he would be in Azkaban I made sure that George would be in the cells downstairs under the pretense that we need him close for questioning" Ron was seeing Harry's reasoning more now and slowly nodded.
"Harry, Ron I thought you weren't coming" Molly said as she opened the door to the burrow giving Ron and Harry the first glance of the warm dinner set out for everyone that they were about to ruin.
"We're not staying we…" Harry began but Ron cut him off.
"We have to get back soon but we thought we'd come say hi and…and…" Ron trailed off not knowing what to say.
"Lets just get it over with quickly" Ron whispered to Harry, Harry nodded and stepping inside drew his wand and pointed it at George.
"Harry, Ron what do you think you are doing" Molly said bristling as Ron copied Harry's movements but they blocked her out as Harry said the words that left the whole table in an uproar.
"George Fabien Weasley you are hereby taking into custody by the auror department as a suspect in the case of the missing girls Victoire and Dominique Weasley" While the rest of the table shouted at Ron and Harry George just sat there and nodded before putting up his arms in surrender.
The fact that George had been arrested was splashed across the Daily Prophet the next morning and none of the family could go out without being ambushed by journalists. George though was only in custody for a week though because of Ron and Harry's efforts to free him and was released with a full apology from the ministry.
The endless journalists where ever he went during that week though had forced Percy to spend more time in muggle London where in a small café he met Audrey Watson. The two got to know each other quite quickly and married only a year after meeting then exactly a year afterwards Molly Weasley was born named after her grandmother.
"She's beautiful Molly" Andromeda said smiling at the 5 month old baby in her arms Molly ha invited Andromeda around but had to babysit her granddaughter Molly suddenly because Audrey's father had become ill and she had to go and see him but couldn't risk taking Molly and catching what her father had, also Percy couldn't get the time off work which left Molly babysitting.
"Grandma Andy, Grandma Molly look" A six-year old Teddy Lupin said running in from the garden holding a worm.
"Oh lovely dear" Molly said taking the worm not even flinching raising six boys made her an expert in dealing with whatever a child brought into the house.
"Teddy go wash your hands and then come back and see Molly" Andromeda said nodding towards the bathroom door.
Once Teddy came back he stood next to his Grandma Andy and stared at the baby in her arms baby Molly stared back and then one little hand reached out and grasped Teddy's hand making Andromeda and Molly smile.
"How about we settle her down in the living room" Molly said quietly to Teddy before taking her granddaughter from Andromeda and going into the living room lay Molly down in her pram which was next to the sofa this meant that Teddy was able to stand on the sofa and look down into the pram.
"Now I have an important job for you Teddy you stay in here and if Molly starts to cry come and get me straight away can you do that for me" Molly said patting Teddy's head as he nodded enthusiastically ecstatic at getting such an important grown up job.
"Hi Molly my names Teddy" he said to the little girl as soon as grandma Molly left the room
"I'm six which means I'm older then you and can be your big cousin," he continued but Molly just stared up at him.
"Hey do you want to see my Marvin Miggs the mad Muggle comic Uncle Ron gave it to me one minute" Teddy hooped of the sofa and made his way to the large rucksack of toys he had insisted on bringing to the burrow he spent a great deal of time emptying the rucksack until finding the comic at the very bottom.
"Found it" Teddy said triumphantly jumping back onto the sofa and holding the comic aloft for Molly to see but she wasn't there the pram was empty.
"Grandma!" teddy shouted through and Molly came to the door.
"What is it Teddy?" she asked not hearing a baby cry.
"Do you have Molly?" Teddy asked Molly shook her head then stepping forward saw the empty pram.
"Teddy sweetheart please your not hiding her are you because that's very bad" Molly said clinging onto the last possibility but Teddy just shook his head and watched his usually strong Grandma Molly be reduced to tears.
Angelina glanced at the Daily Prophet briefly on the kitchen table with the headline of the year anniversary of Molly Weasley's disappearance, which had nearly made Percy and Audrey break up, a whole year and a lot had happened in that year Angelina married George Weasley by eloping not wanting the big wedding that Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron had (it was a double wedding).
Not long after the weddings Ginny had become pregnant and had a boy called James Sirius Potter. Fleur as well had taken tentative steps into motherhood again and had a boy called Louis Weasley. Angelina herself had twins a boy and a girl called Fred and Roxanne Weasley.
A quick glance at the other articles in the Daily Prophet was all she had before one of the twins started crying and the other one not to be put out joined in to.
"Oh it's so nice to come home to peace and quiet" she heard George say jokingly as she entered the nursery.
"Oh my big boy what is the matter" Angelina said going o Fred's crib first and picking him up that seemed to do it though and he quieted down straight away. Angelina went over to Roxanne who was still crying and expertly swooped down and picked her up as well so she was holding both of them in her arms. Unlike their cousins the Weasley gene was not dominant in the twins instead they had their mothers dark skin and dark hair but they both had George's brown eyes.
"So how are my troublemakers in training" George said coming into the nursery and taking Roxanne from Angelina.
"How's daddies princess then?" he asked the small girl who just yawned and closed her eye's to go back to sleep.
"It seems daddy's boring but my Freddie still awake" Angelina said bouncing the baby boy up and down in her arms making him giggle softly. George laughed and then settled Roxy back into her crib while Angelina did the same for Fred.
"George, George" Angelina said sleepily nudging her husband who continued to snore on ignoring his wife and the cries of the baby from the room next door.
"Oh Freddie what's wrong?" Angelina said sleepily walking into the nursery and picking up Fred who was crying as she checked him though he didn't need a new nappy, he wasn't hungry and he wasn't ill but he continued to cry.
"Shush baby you'll wake up your sister" Angelina said turning round for the first time to look at Roxanne who was breathing steadily. Fred eventually calmed after Angelina walked him round the living room a few times before she settled him back in his crib and turned once more to look at Roxanne only to find an empty crib.
"GEORGE!" Angelina screamed turning back quickly and picking Fred back up just as George came barreling into the room wand aloft.
"What, what is it?" he said still half asleep Angeline just cried softly hugging Fred and pointed towards Roxanne's empty crib.
"Five minutes I left the room for five minutes that's all!" Angelina said breaking down into fresh new tears after answering the same question the auror department had asked her about ten times now. She was sitting in her living room on the sofa being asked questions on Roxanne's disappearance again which she could answer in her sleep now.
"Please just go" Angelina heard her sister in law Hermione ask calmly to the auror who left immediately but she was still sobbing into her hand uncontrollably and only vaguely registered the comforting arm put round her shoulder by Hermione.
"Why, why my baby girl, why any of the girls?" Angelina sobbed and Hermione for once didn't have an answer because James, Louis and Fred were still here but the girls were gone.
In the coming months as well when Hermione learnt she was pregnant none of the boys were taken and when Ron and Hermione learnt that they were going to have a baby Hermione researched old magical bonds that could be an extra layer of protection between her and her baby.
"Ron, Ron do the spell," Hermione shouted from the kitchen where she was cleaning the dishes from lunch.
"Yeah, yeah" Ron said taking his wand out and nonverbally doing the spell making white sparkles of light hover over his 7-month-old daughter briefly making her reach up and try to grab the sparkles but they just disappeared.
"Ron take him for me" Harry said making Ron look up and quickly take his nephew who was only a month younger then Rose called Albus or Al. Harry then instead of standing up to get something picked Rose up off the floor.
"Thought it was about time to swap" Harry said sneakily hugging Rose while Ron discovered Al's full nappy.
"Oh mate he's your son" Ron said trying to hand Al back to Harry but Harry just laughed and said.
"Sorry can't I'm holding Rose" Ron continued to argue with Harry who was still laughing until Hermione walked in and sweeping down took Al from Ron and left again saying.
"Poor baby with a ridiculous Uncle and father"
"Hey!" Roan and Harry shouted at her retreating back.
"So when does Hermione get back to work?" Harry asked, trying to keep Rose from taking his glasses at the same time, Hermione since she had left school had worked in the ministry department of law and had went through all the old laws still in place but not enforced and got rid of them because they were about muggleborn's in the magical community and how they didn't have as many rights as a pureblood witch or wizard.
"Well she doesn't she managed to get a position where she can work from home and only go in to the office once a week" Ron said and Harry and him then got into a long conversation about the ministry and jobs while Rose still in Harry's arms looked back and forth between them before drifting off sleepily.
"Oh Harry she's falling asleep" Hermione said coming back into the room holding Al who unlike Rose was wide awake Harry and Ron for the first time noticed the asleep baby and carefully they settled her carefully into the Moses basket in the living room and Ron kept one hand on it rocking it back and forth while Harry and Hermione sat opposite him with Al in the middle of them all playing with his favourite toy which was a cuddly stag.
Ron continued to rock the Moses basket with Rose in back and forth vaguely listening to Hermione who was talking about the latest anti muggleborn law which was centuries old that she was having difficulty getting rid of. As he continued to rock the basket though he noticed something strange it seemed to get lighter and then in panic he tipped the basket so far that if Rose was in it she would have fallen out but she wasn't there.
"No" he heard Hermione say quietly before he turned around and saw her faint Harry catching her.
"But we were in the room how" Harry said but Ron was speechless with grief and confusion.
No clue's nothing again the room and every room the girls had disappeared from was searched for any signs of dark or ancient magic but none were found. No hope at all was the mood of the family as a couple years went by and birthdays and anniversary's of the girl's disappearance went by.
"Percy please hold her for me while I get something" Audrey Weasley said putting her 5month old daughter Lucy, who was four years younger then her sister Molly, into Percy's arm who was sitting as his desk.
"Hi Lucy how are you do you want to know what daddies doing?" Percy said using one arm to hold Lucy and the other to continue the long report he had been writing.
"Yes darling put her to sleep with your report it works a lot better then the lullaby's" Audrey shouted through laughing from the other room.
"Are we going now?" Percy said laughing a bit as well Audrey came back through and nodded and then they went to the Leaky Cauldron Percy taken Audrey and Lucy by car though because Audrey was a muggle and didn't like apparition.
"Hey Harry, Ginny" Audrey said on walking into the pub and waving to her sister and brother in-law who were sitting in a corner. The two couples had their meal and chatted away all the while passing Lucy around the group.
"It was lovely to see you two and Ginny congratulations" Audrey said finally hugging Ginny and congratulating her one last time because the news Harry and Ginny had shared was that Ginny was pregnant again.
"Wow little Ginny's going to be a mother of three now I remember when she was just tiny" Percy said on the ride home turning to grin at Audrey who was sitting in the back next to Lucy's car seat.
"Yes three children" Audrey seemed to say sadly looking down at Lucy and thinking back to the time when Molly who would have been four years old now sat in that car seat.
"Audrey are you ok" Percy said worriedly turning again to look concerned at his wife Audrey looked up to reply to him but instead shouted.
"PERCY LOOK OUT!" but it was too late Percy managed to swerve the fox on the road but went head first into a ditch. The narrow country lane the car had crashed was deserted until hours later when another passing car discovered the couple unconscious inside.
"Mrs. Weasley my names doctor Brandon you've been in a car accident along with your husband" was the explanation Audrey got when she woke up in a muggle hospital, as Percy would call it.
"Percy where is he" she wearily said noticing the throbbing pain in her head for the first time.
"He was discharged two days ago and is in the waiting room right now" doctor Brandon said bustling about Audrey's bed taking notes.
"Was Lucy ok?" Audrey finally said but doctor Brandon looked up in confusing.
"Mrs. Weasley you and your husband were the only people in the car" the distress of that sentence was evident in Audrey's face but the doctor didn't comprehend the meaning instead he left the room and two minutes later Percy came in.
"Thank god your awake," he said hugging her and kissing her forehead Audrey pushed him away though and said.
"Lucy where's Lucy" but the grief stricken look and the evidence of tears in his eyes was all the answer Audrey got and needed to understand the situation.
'Baby Lucy Weasley was travelling in the car with her mother and father when the car veered of the road on Porlick Hill into a ditch leaving her parent unconscious when help came though there was no sign of the Baby and only when her father woke up a day later were authorities aware that Lucy had been present in the car too' Audrey watched from her hospital bed the news play out in front of her and pictures of herself, Percy and Lucy pop up onto the screen.
"Turn it off" she said quietly when the news changed to something else and Percy who had been sitting on the chair watching the news as well got up and turned off the TV before going back to the silent vigilant him and Audrey had done all day practically all week praying in their minds that there baby would be found.
"James Sirius Potter don't you dare hit your brother" Ginny said telling off her three year old who was in the process and trying to hit 2 year old Albus after Al had thrown food in his face.
"Teddy stop laughing" Harry said calmly to the ten years old sitting beside him at the dinner table. It was just a normal weekend ant the Potter's plus Teddy were having dinner. Ginny had, had her first daughter a little over three months ago and Lily Luna Potter now lay peacefully in Harry's arms ignoring the antics of her family.
"Here Harry let me hold her you haven't ate anything yet" Ginny said leaning across the table to take Lily. Ever since she was born Lily had rarely been left alone or looked away from at least one or both of her parents stayed awake at night to watch her and when exhaustion was getting the better of her Lily's grandparents took over, on one occasion Charlie stayed up for 24 hours taking care of the little girl when he visited from Romania.
"Auntie Ginny can I hold her?" Teddy inquired giving Ginny the puppy dog eyes that got him whatever he wanted most of the time.
"Ginny gave Harry a nervous look but an encouraging nod from him saw Lily being placed carefully on Teddy's lap with both arms supporting her.
"I hold Lily I'm big brother" James asked but Harry shook his head.
"No mate you're not big enough" James pouted making Ginny giggle and lean across to kiss her eldest cheek Al then not to be left out crawled out of his chair and into his father lap.
Teddy meanwhile was still holding Lily his chair was facing the window and he was nodding and stuff he could see out of the window Lily of course ignored him but he was content to talk to the small girl.
"Hey Lily there was a fox just there did you see" Teddy said looking down again after seeing a fox dart through the garden but something was wrong Lily was getting colder even though it was nice and warm in the house and then small ribbons of light seemed to wrap around her quickly.
"UNCLE HARRY!" Teddy yelled frightened catching Harry and Ginny's attention.
"NO!" Harry yelled but it was too late the ribbons of light finished wrapping around her and then faded taking Lily with them.
"Oh god Harry" Ginny wailed holding James and Albus close to her.
"Teddy, Teddy tell me what happened Teddy!" Harry said frantically kneeling in front of Teddy's chair and taking the boy's shoulders Teddy just cried though and tried to say.
"Uncle Harry I…" but Harry interrupted him.
"Please Teddy you need to tell me quickly"
"Let him speak Harry" Ginny managed to shout through the noise because James and Albus were crying now frightened by there parents reactions.
"My hands they hurt" Teddy managed to sob alerting Harry to look down and see the burn marks on the boy's hands. Teddy was rushed to St Mungos which from there Harry contacted the family and auror department.
Once recovered and bandaged up Teddy was able to tell them what had happened with the ribbons of lights wrapping around Lily and while he was an eye witness no clues or ideas at all could be taken from what Teddy saw so the case went once again cold and the Weasley's and Potter's had to get on with life grieving for the daughters they had lost and caring for the sons they had.