Authors Note: I disclaim HP, and please enjoy, despite that it will get sad during this chapter.
With a crack Teddy and Carter arrived in a suburban house, surrounded with pictures of many different people looking really happy, almost like a family. The house looked peaceful and welcoming, and then a woman entered, with similar attributes to Teddy, and Carter presumed that she was Andromeda Tonks.
"Teddy, are you ok? I thought you were at Victorie's for another few hours, and who is this?" said Andromeda curiously
"Gran, I'm fine, this girl showed up at Vic's and she said she needed to see you, and so I brought her here" said Teddy.
"Ok then, so who are you, and why are you looking for me?" asked Andromeda
"I'm Carter Elisabeth Nickel, I'm the daughter of David and Celeste Black, and apparently I'm supposed to give you this." said Carter almost bursting into tears, and handing the curious woman the piece of parchment with her parents' letter on it.
"Thank you, dear, go and make yourself comfortable on the couch for now." Said Andromeda kindly and Carter obliged "Teddy, go and sit with her, she is obviously in pain, and please go and check her injuries while I read this"
Teddy left to go and join Carter while Andromeda read the piece of parchment that said:
Dear Andromeda,
If you're reading this then I am dead along with my husband, and either A. Carter followed our instructions or B. you found her in Diagon Alley.
I need to ask you for a favour and if you choose to accept it, then I will be forever in your debt, as I mentioned earlier we must be dead, and thus there is no one else to look after Carter. Please take care of her, as I can no longer do that, give her a home and feed her.
If you won't do this for me, please do it for your favourite cousin and my father (Sirius Black)
If you do this, I am eternally grateful!
Celeste Nickel (nee Black)
Andromeda read this, and decided to provide a home for Carter, and then remembered the Prophet from this morning stating that Celeste and David had been found dead in their home. Until she heard Teddy call her…
Meanwhile in the living room, Teddy was talking to Carter about his family, and how they had died fighting for a better world. Then unexpectedly Carter fainted from the relapse of pain, and her limbs started to bleed again. Teddy had no idea what to do, and just got the wounds out in the open, for him to see, he was horrified by what he saw, and immediately called Andromeda, to help him.
Andromeda came running into the room, and saw Carter limp on the floor bleeding from all four limbs and her head. Carter's light brown hair was covered in blood, and there were bite marks all over her body. In her limbs the words Filthy Half Blood were carved in, and her neck was bleeding, from a gash. Quickly Andromeda did a blood replenishing spell and wrapped up her injuries in bandages.
A few hours later Carter awoke in a bed, still in pain, but awake. She noticed Andromeda and said "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to faint, it just happens sometimes."
"It's fine, not your fault, but I would like to get to know you better" replied Andromeda
"What do you want to know exactly?" asked Carter
"How old you are, how you acquired these injuries, does anyone know about you except Teddy and I?"
"Um… Okay then… I am ten years old, my birthday is the 31st August, and I have received my Hogwarts letter. I received some of these injuries when I was three, and my two sisters Ariel and Kayla were killed by Death Eaters, and the others I received about a week ago, from the same Death Eaters when my parents were killed. The only people who know about me are; you, Teddy, and the Weasley's." Replied Carter
"Which Weasley's do you mean?"
"Bill, Fleur, Victorie, Dominique and Louis" she responded quickly
Then they talked about her possessions, and Andromeda left her alone, to heal.
The next day Carter went down the stairs, and saw the daily prophet and the report on her parents' deaths, and how the Aurors had no clue as to how there was three types of blood on the floor, but only two dead people. Over the two months Carter barely left the house for her own safety, and continued to relive the pain, over and over again, but they were slowly becoming easier to deal with.
On her birthday, Andromeda held a small party with only Fleur, Bill, Victorie, Teddy, Dominique and Louis. Carter was quite upset about not being able to share this day with her family, but tried her best to enjoy it. She received her mother's old photo album for her birthday, with pictures, of her childhood and her family being happy, and it was the greatest gift she could ever have asked for. In the evening she packed all her things at the last minute because she was still a Black and a Nickel, and organisation had always come to be a hard thing, unless it came to appearance.
Authors Note: Ok so Hogwarts Express next, co-insides with the epilogue, just changed a bit to include Carter. R&R
