Author's note: Alrighty, another chapter! YAY! I worked out some ideas with the world's best idea giver, Jackie! Once I told her what I wanted to happen, she expanded on it, and I related what she said to what I'd said, and now we have a story, for a while anyway. Hope it works out! HUGE thanks to Jackie! More thanks to Bryan for creating the "writing CD", as I've dubbed it, lol.
Melinda, as I'm sure any HP fans will be able to figure out, is mine. As always, nothing you recognize from HP is mine, so yeah…the Melinda thing should go without saying. I simply added her into her family for the sake of simplicity on my part, it saved me from having to create a new family and give them all names.
I think that's all I have to say for now, so onto the replies to reviews.

Jackie: Glad you like the new Eric. I think Eric likes himself now too, lol. He's no longer trying to kill me! YAY! Thanks for the idea help…however, looking at it now, I need to decide (and fast if I'm gonna update this now) who "bob" is gonna be. I have 2 options, both are equal in my mind…and there's no HP fans online to give me a hand..ARGH!

An Anti-Sheep Cheese Muffin: LOL! Eric makes you think of POTC too, huh? Hannah and I have had many Eric related arguments (friendly arguments that is). The POTC version is "Erik", and mine is "Eric" (obviously), thus we both argue how it's spelled..it's rather fun, lol.

dragonruler: Thanks for your MANY reviews. I literally squealed with delight when I saw that many reviews in my mailbox (there were others not from you, but still…). I'm glad you like my stories. If you're interested, I'm also on fictionpress (dot) com with some original stories. My sn there is tweetyiscool29. Just thought I'd mention that, lol.

A Disgrace Redeemed: Chapter 2

Selina came to a few hours later, opening her eyes slowly. She found that she was still in rather a lot of pain, and groaned as she did so, getting the attention of Eric, who had been sitting at her side since he had put her down in a spare room right across the hall from his own.

"Nice to see you chose to come back and join us." Eric said, looking somewhat relieved.
"There was a while there I thought we might've lost you."

Selina turned her head and looked at him, somewhat startled.
"Eric?" She asked weakly.
Eric smiled and nodded.
"How are you feeling?"
"I can barely move. Everything is painful." Selina replied.

"Well, I did my best to fix your external injuries, but given what was done to you, I was expecting this. Here, drink this; it'll make you feel better. It should cure everything internally, with the exception of your wrist, which will probably need to spend a while in bandages to heal properly." Eric said, helping Selina to sit up and handing her a vial full of a potion.

"Why should I bother? They're probably going to kill me anyway. I'm surprised they didn't already." Selina replied, looking down at the covers on the bed she was now sitting up in.

Eric smiled weakly, then gently grasped her chin and slowly turned her head to face him.
"Selina, they won't kill you, I swear it on my life."
"How can you be so sure? Did you even see what happened?
"No, what am I thinking? There's no way you could have, you weren't there. Let me summarize it. My father sees me as a disgrace, the dark lord agreed, and left me to his followers who beat me until I was like this." Selina said.

Eric sighed a little.
"Well, this wasn't entirely how I wanted to tell you, but that's not entirely what happened. I was there; I walked in while you were under crucio. I…" He paused.

"The dark lord is my father." He began again, taking a different approach.
"Given I am his son, thus heir, he's forcing me to find a bride as soon as possible.
"I've…well, I've always had some feelings for you. I know I never showed them, but that was only because I didn't want to appear disloyal to my father. I had to follow everyone else and shun you." Eric paused again.

"You never were like the others." Selina commented, not entirely sure as to where this conversation was going.
"I tried not to be." Eric replied.

The room was silent for a few moments, and then Selina spoke again.
"So, you were saying?"

"Oh, right. My father is forcing me to find a bride and I've always had some feelings for you. When I saw you under crucio, I knew nothing good was going to happen. Then my father let everyone go at you, and I knew I had to act.
"I stepped in and told my father what was being done wasn't right. He told me that if I could tell him why he should spare you and never anyone else, he'd spare me the punishment." Eric paused again.

"I…I told him I wished to have you for my bride. I said that you could possibly become a great asset and that you should be given another chance." Eric continued.

Selina stared blankly at him. He had never seemed to have feelings for her, yet it now appeared that he had enough feelings for her to be willing to save her life and have her be his wife.
His wife? What on earth was going on? Was she now expected to marry him? He'd never been like the others, true, but that didn't mean she would love him immediately and be willing to marry him.

"And your father accepted?" She asked, deciding to express her feelings later.

"He did. He said that you could be mine to heal, and marry. However, the standard pregnancy rules will apply, thus if you end up having a daughter, you'll meet the same fate as your mother." Eric said.

Selina's eyes widened. Pregnancy? Not only was she expected to marry him, but she was also expected to have a child with him?

"I plan on doing everything in my power to prevent that, of course." Eric added quickly, seeing Selina's widened eyes and taking it the wrong way.

"I…I don't know what to say." Selina said.
"Well, perhaps you should take that potion, then start with how you feel about all this. I'm sure it's not easy. Like I said, I'd intended for you to find out in a much different way." Eric said.

Selina looked down at her hand and realized she was still holding the vial of potion, then drank it, handing the empty vial to Eric.

"Better?" Eric asked.
"Much. Except for the wrist, like you said." Selina replied.
"Well, I think that'll heal better if we mix the muggle and magical way, thus the bandages. That potion should help it, but won't heal it entirely." Eric replied.
"Since when do you know so much about healing?" Selina asked.

"Well, I've had an interest in it for a while. I'm actually training to become a healer at St. Mungo's. My father doesn't much like it, but says it's all right with him so long as I work with Allan Lesesne. He's the healer that takes care of my father's followers when they're injured. Last year I was back at Hogwarts, working with Madam Pomfrey, that was actually rather more informative that working with Allan." Eric replied.

"Well, it seems we have something in common then. I'm also mildly interested in healing. I went to Madam Pomfrey last year and asked if there was any way I could get a taste of what it would be like, before making my decision. She arranged it so that I could work with the same Allan Lesesne, and I get paid at the same time. I'm more of an assistant to him really, acting as a muggle nurse, but I still find it gives a feel for what it'd be like." Selina replied.
"Speaking of which, I do believe I was supposed to go work with him today. Do you think you could tell him I'm unable to come, but will see him tomorrow?"

Eric smiled.
"You can tell him yourself. I called him to come and have a look at you and make sure I didn't miss anything. He should be here later."
"Works just as well." Selina replied.

"For now, though, you should rest. It'll help. I'll come by later and we can talk some more." Eric said.
Selina slid back down under the covers, rolling onto her side.
"Alright."

As Eric left, she found herself falling into a rather deep sleep, not realizing how tired she was.

Another author's note: All right, well, I guess Melinda won't be coming in till the next chapter, as this seems to be a good place to end it.
Sorry this chapter seemed to somewhat of a recap of the last one, and is probably kinda boring as a result, but I couldn't think of a better way to do it.
Please don't forget to review, and tell me what you think!
I'm abnormally tired, and am going to bed upon posting this. It is, after all quarter to 4 AM my time.
And now that It's uploaded, and about to be posted, it's almost quarter after 4 my time..ACK!