Edward Wallace strode forward with a large smile on his face, his arms open wide to embrace the young woman in front of him. Wrapping his arms around her, Edward kissed her warmly on the cheek as her dark blonde hair blew around her in the wind.
"Oh, sweetheart I'm so proud of you! Valedictorian of your class! I can't believe my Rosalyn, my little flower, has graduated University!"
"Dad!"
Rosalyn blushed, dipping her head shyly.
"Well why shouldn't I be? Top in your class, Valedictorian, top honors in Potions and the Dark Arts."
"Well thank you Dad," she smiled before looking at him a little wistfully, her smile saddened, "I just wish Mum was here."
Hugging her once more her father whispered, "Me too darling, me too."
A few years later
It was a week after Rosalyn's twenty-seventh birthday and she was hard at work trying to finish a potion she had been working on for quite sometime. With her degrees she had earned in Potions and Dark Arts she had started to do her own independent research on both, and had made advances in making and discovering both several different potions and spells. She was however growing more and more worried by the day for the health of her father. She could tell he was having a harder and harder time each day moving around, just doing the little things, but knew that because he was so proud he wouldn't let her know, and would completely deny it if she brought it up. Watching as it turned the desired color, she bottled her finished potion before cleaning up and leaving her private lab.
"Dad? Are you still in here?"
Knocking on her father's study door, she stuck her head in to find him leaning over his desk coughing strongly.
"Dad?!"
Rosalyn rushed over to her father, a look of fright on her face. Sitting back up, he patted her hand comfortingly and rasped,
"I'm alright sweetheart, I just need some water."
Reaching for his glass of water, she watched him sip it before continuing,
"If you're sureā¦I just wanted to make sure you remembered that Vesper is coming for lunch."
"Ah, yes darling of course. Well then I will go and freshen up, and let me know when she gets here."
"Of course Father."
Watching as his daughter walked away to finish preparing lunch, Edward turned and walked up the stairs to his room. Once inside he shut and locked the door before walking to the bathroom and opening his medicine cabinet. Pulling out a small vial, Edward conjured a glass of water before opening the vial and pouring three drops of a clear potion into the glass. Mixing the water with the potion, Edward looked in the mirror and whispered, "Andromeda help me," before downing the entire glass in one gulp.
