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Orphaned No More
Chapter Four
Baby Tom and Harry had just fallen asleep after crying for a good two hours. Merope sure had her hands full. Her abused childhood left her with scars and painful memories but no knowledge about how to raise babies.
Naming them had been the most ordinary thing she had done in her ordinary life.
Like folks would say "Tom, Dick and Harry" to symbolise commonfolk or everyone. She named her boys Tom and Harry just for that reason.
She mused that if she had triplets she would have named her third child Dick.
But something nagged her that doing so would subject the poor child to a lifetime of name calling and mockery. So she abandoned that thought.
Commonfolk, Normal people with no added complications or sufferings that made their lives miserable. She wanted her boys to have normal uncomplicated lives thus she named them so.
The fact that Tom was her (bewitched) husband's name was something she wanted to pass off as a coincidence. But a little part of her wanted that man to have a part to play in the boys lives. If he ever came to forgiving her.
Maybe thats what made her come to his home. To the neighborhood she had grown up in before her father and brother had been sentenced to Azkaban for attacking Tom, angry at the fact that their Parseltongued pureblood daughter had fallen in love with a muggle.
Before she had planned to bewitch him and win his love and be with him as her obsessions with him wanted.
Seeing the babies now made her want to torture herself.
"How foolish had I been"
She painfully whispered to herself as she searched for a hairpin in her dirty long hair, that was actually a wand that she had managed to ask a witch to transfigure into a pin. And also to make it so that it turned back into a wand after speaking a certain word.
She plucked out the hairpin from where she found it.
"Reverto" she chanted and her old battered wand was in her hands again.
MORE THAN A WEEK AGO
The witch had been kind to her. Before Merope realized the need to thank the witch properly and went back into the pub they had met in just a few minutes ago, the witch had disappeared. Merope wondered where the witch went so quickly. A raven outside the pub kept cawing so Merope distractedly went about going on with her business of reaching Riddle Manor. Abandoning the task of searching for her helper.
PRESENT
Raoul and Jenny had been very kind to her the past week. She was thinking of a way to thank them. The fact that Tom had not thrown her out made her hope reach the top of its possible existance.
But the hate and betrayal in his eyes when he had left her pregnant almost a month ago made her want to slit her hope's throat till it was not there anymore.
He would never accept her. Letting her stay might just have been because of her children. "Our Children" She thought with a pang in her broken heart. But she forbade her mind to think such ungrateful thoughts. She would have to do with being allowed to stay at the Manor. Her family's Shack was no place to raise little babies. Raoul's shed was better kept than it infact.
She felt bad about him being reloacted because of her but Raoul insisted. Saying something about finally getting the privacy he needed for his experiments.
She did not ask and he did not tell.
Everyone had secrets to keep and she respected that. She had not told them she was a witch afterall.
"Telling Tom had not worked out very nicely" She thought with a shudder.
She proceeded to transfigure a few apples, that she had found in the Manor gardens, into apple pie. She had never been schooled properly in magic. Not at Hogwarts nor anywhere else. So she managed to blow up two or so apples before getting one right.
The few spells she knew came from practicing from the few tomes she found in her father's dusty old library after he and her brother had been sent to Azkaban.
She tasted the pie to make sure it was edible and upon satisfying her worries she brought it out of the shed and started looking for Raoul and Jenny.
After looking around the gardens she found Jenny dusting the windows from inside the Manor. Jenny did not seem to notice her.
Nor did she notice the bushes near the window ruffling and shuffling as if someone was hiding in them.
Merope took a few steps back. She was not a brave person. Someone was here. And that person had their eyes on Jenny.
Something clicked in her. Jenny was her friend. A relation she had never had before. Someone who cared about her. A kind person. And she was in danger.
Merope took a few calculated long strides towards the bush and had her wand pointed at the bush in a matter of seconds.
But she stopped. Her wand was touching something. Someone. And that someone made a manly yelp of surprise upon being spotted by Merope.
But she could not see anyone. Jenny had left the windows by now. Unaware of what was happening outside
Merope's heart leapt to her throat. A disllusionment charm! A wizard was here!
"Morfin? Is that you?" she called out her brother's name in fear and with even more unwillingness she said "Father?"
A distinct smell of fertilizer made it to her nose. The man had probably started sweating.
Realization dawned on her as the pie dropped from her hands and she ran from there back to the shed.
He followed her.
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A pretty obvious cliffhanger. I'll make the next ones more difficult ;)