Chapter Four: A year of bitter loneliness.

It had been a year and a half since he saw Ravenna and just writing to last known address with her father and then he tried her mother's address and came up with nothing. He found out about that night about the note and he tried everything to keep her there in his life and apologized his 10 pages of letters and wrote "I promise to apologize to your face if you give me the chance. I love you Ravenna please write me back!"

He begged in his letters to come back. Ravenna never wrote back and he didn't blame her not one bit. He remembered every harsh word he said to her that night. She never came over to his house for Christmas and he still had her presents in his study and still kept her bracelet.

His foster mother Narcissa even asked Lucius for help in tracking her down but came back with the same information and they knew of Marcus and Ravenna's spat since Draco asked his mother to help him find her since she left the school as the teacher's aide. They met Ravenna tons of times since she would come over to help him study during NEWTS in his first seventh year and then they asked about her parents. Ravenna was always ashamed her parents weren't exactly rich like the Malfoy's or Marcus' mother's family. And she was ashamed by her parents divorce and the spectacle of them fighting over her just so the other one doesn't pay custody of her and she asked for emancipation and come and live with Marcus in his house at Ealling but then she got an order for her to go under massive evaluations by both her parents and then she ran away and the Malfoy's noticed she wouldn't have clean hair and she always felt sick during the summer months and she was just waiting til October and be 18 and be free, but Mr. Malfoy had to send her back home but not without a good stern talking to about how she could come back and stay with them and teach Draco. His foster parents were great with children of troubled lives and he was grateful even though people didn't see that side of them at all.

"Master Marcus?" Minnie asked. He hated whenever she called him that.

"Yes Miss Minnie?" He said only to make her angry. She wasn't called Miss Minnie and preferred that.

"An owl for you with another post of yours saying "Not at this address." She handed him the empty envelope and he noticed it was opened by someone and they must of throw the letter out. Marcus had tried everywhere he could think of. He even tried her Uncle Tony and Kellie in the state called Indiana but no luck. They wrote him back saying she hadn't been in Indiana since she was 14 and they would try and find her. It wasn't like Ravenna to keep herself a secret and she was eccentric and accepted the weird things in her life and embraced being a smart, young, sweet capable girl and could really slap a guy hard. He cried as Minnie hugged him and said "Master Marcus it's ok maybe Ravenna can't answer because she's busy teaching students at another school." trying to calm him and she even handed him his sweets from Mrs. Malfoy for this month.

Marcus gladly ate them. It was early in the morning and he was up for his game and practice for his team and he had gained a lot of money from being a chaser on Falmouth Falcons and he got famous in a game he won against Victor Krum and then got more fan mail from girls that wanted to date him, guys who hated him, and from some nice fans. Natalia became sort of his girlfriend even though he was hung up on Ravenna and then he needed some release and started using Natalia whenever he wanted and she wasn't caring since she used him a lot during school and afterwards and she wasn't the brightest and for Merlin's sake she drank too much and one time she got poisioned badly by an ex and Marcus saved her and paid for her medical care thinking she would have more sense and then after she used him for some more money she went right back out with the guy who almost killed her so Marcus put a stop to their toxic relationship and they hadn't had contact until a week ago saying she was pregnant and that he might be the father. Marcus didn't believe her since they only had sex the one time after Ravenna left and it was on Christmas break over a year and a half ago but he only used Natalia for events for Quidditch player balls, interviews, and to a friend's wedding which was Graham's.

"Marcus you should get to practice since it's almost time to be there." Minnie said and she left the room.

Marcus with a sigh and Ravenna's bracelet on his nightstand next to his bed was staring back at him and he apparated away to his Quidditch practice where he was early too as usual.

"Just another day without you." He whispered to the last picture of Ravenna and him together after his first seventh year and her wearing a white dress and her Slytherin graduating robes.

He flew around on his broomstick and kept thinking of Ravenna and how she was today. He dodged another bludger and threw another winning goal and his team had dominated the game by beating French team with 480 points to a dismal 50 points. His teammates jumped up and down and he celebrated by washing off and feeling his back for more bruises and he found he had recieved several on his legs and he didn't feel a thing, he was preoccupied by Ravenna and her undying silence.

He got home and saw that the fire was lit and someone was sitting in his chair and crept closely up on them and realized it was Minnie simply sound asleep after a day of hard work keeping the house magically clean and dirt free.

"Minnie did you wait up for me again." Marcus asked and she turned over and woke up and said "Yes Master Marcus." and he picked her up and placed her into her corridors and putting her into bed and she was almost 200 years old and she had aged since being with Marcus. He placed her under her covers on her soft bed he constructed for her to easily get in and out of and placed it on the floor.

"Thank you Master Marcus." She said and before she fell back to sleep she said "Another Post came for you Marcus, it smelled of perfume and written by a creative hand." and then she drifted off to sleep.

He walked out of Minnie's quarters and went to his chair in his parlor where he found Minnie and saw on the table next to the chair was a letter and it was just simply addressed Marcus Flint in purple ink. It smelled of a familar perfume and he opened the letter and it said "I'm ready for the face to face in your last letter."

"RAVENNA!" He shouted and ran to his bedroom and started to pace and re read the letter over and over and it read on the second line "Meet me at Diagon Alley at the Bookstore. You know the one."

He grabbed some clean clothes and placed his colonge on and grabbed her bracelet and this was the day he'd ask her.

Draco had written a letter as well under her letter it was addressed to him as "Big bro" and it said "I got a letter from her and she asked if you were ok. I'm sorry I'm so excited I forgot to say it was from Ravenna. My father's contact Franklin Webbs had contacted an office in Romania and she's been working there as an a teacher to the Romanian school for witchcraft at an all girl school and teaching them English and potions. I can't believe we found her, I forwarded your message to you as soon as possible. GOOD LUCK MARCUS! Don't blow it this time!"

Marcus smiled and dashed off to see his one true love. He apparated inside the Leaky Caludron and went towards his entrance to Diagon Alley and he went through and went to the bookstore's window and saw her purchasing a book and looking around her in the store for what Marcus believed was him. She finally sighed and purchased the book and left to walk out of the bookstore. He clutched her bracelet and got away from the window and walked in front of her and she bumped into him and she said "Excuse I'm so sorry I was looking for somebody..." She stopped talking and said "Marcus Flint?" Marcus smirked and said "Hello Rave, I missed you." She smiled and cried a stream a tears from her eyes and he hugged her and said "Let's get something to drink, I just got your letter from Draco since I was at my Quidditch match."

"I forgot you had your own place and I asked Draco to send you my letter. I'm sorry I didn't write back but the way we left things I just felt extremely ashamed and felt really bad for slapping you but you hurt me that day." Ravenna said and trying not to cry.

"I know and I'm sorry Rave, please forgive me?" Marcus said with a soft smile trying to stop himself from crying. He held up her bracelet from all those years ago and she smiled at him and began to laugh and asked "Why did you keep that Marcus?"

"Because I loved you back then and still do Rave, I loved since the day I met you when I bumped into you before we got into the boats and they we talked after that day. I knew you were apart me, apart of my soul Rave. Remember when we conjured our Patronuses yours was a raven and mine was a crow. You said they shared the same destiny. I want to still share my destiny with you." Marcus said finally admitting his feelings for her as they walked through Diagon Alley.

"Marcus I always loved you and I'm sorry I left and never wrote back and I'm so sorry I didn't tell you what I was writing about on that note..." Marcus interrupted her by saying "I found out after I beat up Graham, and he showed me the note and then from that I wrote you to every location I thought you were at and sent you letter after letter."

"I got everyone. I kept them and I would read them over and over since my mother would forward your mail to me. I told her not to tell you and write 'Not at this address.' only because I was so mad at you and then the last letter you wrote broke my heart. In the note you admitted you had feelings for me and said you would do anything to see my face again just to apologize and would gladly get slapped by me." Ravenna said trying not to cry.

Marcus immeditately grabbed her hand and apparated her and him to his house and said "We can have dinner and catch up and start from there right?" and then shocked him by kissing his lips and pulled him into a passionate kiss and then pulled away. "I wanted to do that since truth or dare was over that night in the common room."

"I love you Ravenna Persephone Valo." Marcus said and called for Minnie as she knew she might have gotten up since she slept in the early afternoons before preparing dinner. His house elf Minnie and Melvin came into the room and asked "Yes Master Marcus and guest?"

"Please prepare dinner for two tonight and Minnie please meet Ravenna." Marcus said and she smiled at him and said "Nice to meet you Mistress Ravenna I told master you would come here soon."

"Hello Minnie and yes I knew I would come here too. You look lovely with your bow on." Ravenna smiled and Minnie bowed graciously to her.

"Dinner will be served in one hour and would lady of honor like a cup of tea?" Minnie asked.

"Yes please." Ravenna said and they sat in his parlor for the tea to be served. The two once best friends now something more than friends were talking about his professional career in Quidditch and her teaching at a Romanian school for young girls.

"So when Lucius called upon the school where I was working the headmistress Avlia Andrews had me report to her office and I spoke with Lucius' collegue about my information and if I was who I was. We spoke about the Malfoy's and you of course and he said they had been looking for me for a year and a half and then I thought back to your letters and knew I had to see you again." Ravenna said as tea came into the parlor by Minnie.

"Thank you Minnie." Ravenna said and Marcus smiled at her and Minnie went to cook dinner.

"I missed you so much, I thought about taking a leave from Quidditch just to find you and here you are in my house, eating dinner with me and that kiss was beyond amazing." Marcus said with a smile.

"We could do that again." She said and leaned forward and her black and red dress had a low v-neck cut and she had enormous breasts like in school but there she was with her cleavage staring at him in his face and he leaned forward as well only nervous and grabbed her and kissed her passionately this time and he felt her hips in his hands and combed her body with his hands and came up to her breasts and touched them softly and she moaned and kissed him more aggresively and he in return did the same and he ran his tongue along her teeth for access in her mouth and she opened her mouth slightly and his tongue explored her mouth excessively and he rolled her over to be underneath him as he continued his passionate kissing and his felt their to her bra concealing those breasts and and unsnapped her bra and unzipped her dress and it slid right off of her and she undid his collar shirt, unzipped his pants and ran her hands through his hair.

Minnie came in to the parlor that dinner was served but found them making out on the couch in the parlor.
"Oh I'm sorry Master Marcus and Lady Ravenna." Minnie said and took off from the parlor to the kitchen.

"Maybe I should say I'm sorry for being almost naked in front of her. " Ravenna insisted but Marcus said "No I'll do it. She's my faithful companion and knows not to think of you shamefully. She merely wanted us to have our dinner."

"Minnie I do apologize for my behavior in the parlor it's just you know how I feel about her Minnie, she's my everything." Marcus said but Minnie smiled and giggled at him for being shy.

"I have seen in the nude before Marcus when you were drunk on your 19th birthday." Minnie said.

"Ok well again I'm sorry." Marcus said and walked into the parlor and Ravenna was now dressed fully and took her purse with her to set it on the coat rack.

"I was hoping you would be still lying on the couch when I got back." Marcus said smirking at her.

"I was tempted very badly but I decided to that we should eat Minnie's dinner it smells great." Ravenna said.

"She made us something wonderful I think" Marcus said with a smile.

He escorted her to the dining room and pulled her chair out for her and then he sat across from her since it was just the two of them they used the smaller table. They started dinner off with cream of chicken soup and then went to the main course of steak, mashed potatoes, carrots, and holindae sauce and then for the dessert they had brownies and vanilla frozen yogurt. She smiled at him because he had yogurt on his chin. She dapped it with her napkin and then he got up and picked her up and they went off to his room and they sat for about three hours talking about anything and everything. He wanted another kiss and wanted it badly but was afraid he scare her off.

"Can I kiss you?" He asked tenderly and played with her hair and she replied with "Yes Marcus please do."

They kissed passionately for almost thirty minutes of mindless passion and caressing and touching each other in passionate ways. She nearly screamed with exstacy when he kissed her neck and nibbled on her ear lobe. "Marcus." She moaned his name inbetween kisses and pulling each other on top of one another. He took off her dress yet again and unsnapped her bra and revealed her large breasts for such a slender woman and then he took off her high heels and threw them across the floor and then she was only covered by her lacy white panties and she was staring at him with her big brown eyes actually begging him to take them off.

"Are you sure?" Marcus asked. "Yes Marcus its what we both want." Ravenna said and unbuttoned his black collar shirt and then undid his pants and threw his belt across the floor. He ripped her panties with his hands and said "You're all I want in the world."

"Marcus make love to me." Ravenna begged him for to take control of her and to give into her desires since she was 15 and make love to him . It was going to happen and she wanted him this whole time.

"I love you." They both said at the same time when Marcus entered her womanhood and he began to caress her back as he thrusted into her deeper and deeper and she moaned loudly and placed her hand over her mouth but Marcus didn't want that. "Make all the noise you want Rave I love your noises. AHHH Ravenna oh for merlin's sake you're so good." He was screaming and she was screaming as they both climaxed after about 1 hour and half of love making. She began to kiss him passionately and he didn't stop her. He wanted this for quite some time and she had as well wanted to be with him, in his arms, and loved by him.

"Marcus you were amazing, the most wonderful thing I felt, I love you." Ravenna moaned in exstacy and he couldn't help but feel this was the fairy tale ending he wanted with Ravenna and can't believe he got her back.

"Ravenna I love you so much." He said kissing her forehead and she fell asleep in his arms and she was exhausted and so was he. They fell asleep and he woke up early to see she was still there and not just dreamed it and covered up under the covers and with his night robe on he went down to see Minnie about cooking breakfast for his guest and Minnie was already up making breakfast and making plates fit for a king and his queen.

"Minnie good morning." Marcus said and saw that she was smiling at him with her big greenish yellow eyes for of happiness for him.

"Good morning isn't it master Marcus." She said and then giggled.

"Did you hear us Minnie?" Marcus asked a little weirded out.

"Yes but we all ignored it and cleaned the dinner table and did our evening chores." Minnie said with a grin.

"Minnie please don't be so giddy it makes me nervous young lady." Marcus said and Minnie handed him his tray of food and he climbed the stairs and into his room.

Ravenna still sleeping and he grabbed the table and sat the breakfast on that and brought it to the bed and then shook her awake. Her makeup slightly smeared and she looked well rested and she smiled. "Good morning handsome." He replied to her and said "Morning Mrs. Flint." She smiled and giggled and said "If only someday you ask me that." Marcus immediately took the hint and made a mental note to buy her an engagement ring that day.

"Hungry?" Marcus asked. "A little, mostly thirsty." She said. He handed her a cup of orange juice and had some and placed it back the other nightstand.

"Did I mention you were amazing last night Marcus?" Ravenna said playing with his hair and then kissed his lips.

"Yes more than once last night. " He said and then moved the tray again to the other side of the room and hopped back into bed with her and began their activites from last night all over again.

TO BE CONTINUED...