A/N: Hey my internet was totally messing up so I'm behind on my updates but the good news for you is I wrote a lot so I'll upload maybe 2 more tomorrow
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It was the second night that she'd slept in her best friend's bed but it seemed like she had been doing it for years. She now knew how he slept, what to listen for in his breathing, and that he liked to hog the covers. Hermione didn't understand the feelings she was having and she found that she began to have the what if's. When she lay down to bed that night she began to think about what it would be like if she had never fell in love with Ron. What if it had been Harry instead? Maybe we would have kids by now; would he love me like he loved Ginny? Would he… wait a minute Hermione what the hell are you thinking?! Shaking her head a little she pulled out of her thoughts, chasing them away for the time being.
The night passed with little interruption and Hermione had fallen asleep shortly after ten p.m. She should have known that things wouldn't stay peachy forever. When Hermione woke up she walked into the kitchen and was greeted by Harry's patronus in Harry's voice it informed her that he had been called in to meet the Minister of Magic and wouldn't be back until lunch time. Hermione shrugged and proceeded to the fridge to whip up something to eat the old fashioned way since she had left her wand on the bedside table. She was almost done making her toast when the brass owl on the mantel informed her that someone was coming.
"Damn it!" she exclaimed grabbing the hot pan out of the oven and slamming it down on the stove. Sucking her burnt fingers she went and pulled the door open. Standing on the threshold was Ronald Weasley, the last person that she had ever wanted to see.
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Severus hadn't slept well. Although he was over Lily Potter and she was nothing but an old friend to him, sometimes she still haunted his dreams. It was never anything bad but it was aggravating especially when he had to get up to deal with every idiot that passed through his classroom door the next day. Last night's dream was especially puzzling, not only was Lily in it but Annalise Nevaro was as well! In the dream Annalise was sitting in her office sobbing, just like his mother had every time his father had beaten her. When Severus approached Annalise to see if he could shut her up she quickly turned into Lily Potter and cried out to him to save her from her heartache.
These dreams were so disturbing that he had made it up in his mind to whip up a potion for a dreamless sleep. He wanted it to end but still as he walked towards the Great Hall he couldn't help but think. What exactly is the heartache that Annalise is facing? The sight that he came to face when he reached his seat was one that he never expected. Annalise was in her now normal chair beside him and even though she had tried to hide it he could see that her eyes were extremely swollen from obvious crying.
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Nobody could ever know about her past. That was the code that Annalise had lived by for most of her life. Nothing had ever been easy for her and she couldn't let her past ruin her, she had to stay strong and if anyone knew what she was battling she would be sent off from Hogwarts to get help. She hadn't slept at all last night; in fact she'd stayed up the whole night sobbing. She had just received a letter from her father saying that her mother had died and that she was to never return to their home again, not even for the funeral. Annalises' father was a muggle and he hated everything to do with magic, the only reason he stayed was because of his love for her mother and her brothers and sisters who were what he called behind her mother's back normal. He raised her sisters and brothers to despise magic and to despise her. She was an emotional time bomb anytime something happened she held her emotions in until it became unbearable.
Although her father hated her he loved to violate her and Annalise had never let another man get close to her until she met her close friend Donald. She was madly in love with him and he seemed to love her, they were inseparable for years and even planned to be married until one night that Annalise walked in on Donald and her normal sister and it was over. Annalise had no family and no friends, the only people that she had were the people of Hogwarts and that was something that she couldn't afford to lose.
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A/N: I'm thinking about splitting the chapters up to focus on one person only like say the next chapter would be about Hermione and the one after that would be about Snape and so on. Let me know what you think
