Rose was fiddling around, trying to start a diary of memories, something she had been told could help make you remember something you had forgotten but found she only seemed to forget more when she tried to think of them. At the moment she could hardly remember what she had had for breakfast.
"Rose!" She looked up, startled at the slightly angry voice that was undoubtedly directed at her and was met with the ferocious gaze of none other than Dominique Weasely.
"Hello?" Dom froze as she realized exactly how mean she had sounded and how that had to have seemed to Rose.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scream at you, just been looking everywhere for you is all, got a little frustrated." Rose blinked in surprise at the beautiful girl before her, amazed she had just apologized, according to Albus she never apologized.
"Don't worry about it. What did you need?"
Dom frowned slightly, seeming slightly apprehensive, they had only ever spoken to one another in the Common Room and that had only really been when the others were around too, "I was wondering if you wanted to join this club James has got going, the DA. Apparently his dad started it so he wanted to keep it going and so I was wondering if you wanted to join…." She trailed off, unsure.
Rose immediately reached for the paper smile and held it to her face, "Sure, I'd love to. Thank you Dominique."
Dominique frowned slightly; something about Rose Whatever-Her-Last-Name-Was calling her by her full name just didn't sit well with her, "Call me Dom, will you?"
Rose's eyes widened a fraction or two in surprise before softening, "When do we start Dom?"
Dom grinned, that felt better, "Now actually if you want to come. Al said Scorpius would be there. Really besides you two it's mostly going to be all Weasleys and Potters until we find other people. Apparently James wants to keep his new club top secret."
Rose raised an eyebrow, "So he invited the clumsiest person in the entire school?"
Dom laughed, "Yup. Who better to keep a secret?"
Rose shook her head in amusement as she gathered up her things. Dom frowned as she caught sight of the memory diary and with a questioning glance at Rose that was answered with a semi hesitant nod she flipped through it.
I remember wood.
There were voices.
They loved me and each other.
Cradle, I was in a cradle.
I think someone was singing.
Red?
There was a baby crying but it wasn't me.
I remember Laughter. Joy.
A man.
Nothing. Who am I kidding, I don't remember anything.
I think I had a pop tart for breakfast but I can't remember.
"What is this Rose?" Dom's voice was quiet as she read over the slivers of memories, mostly of Hogwarts, happy things, things Rose actually WANTED to remember.
Rose was quiet for a moment and Dom turned her wondering eyes to her, pleading for an answer and she sighed, "Mrs. Malfoy gave it to me last Christmas. Someone had told her that writing stuff down can help you remember other stuff. So far, as you can see, it's not really helping."
Dom glanced back down at the book she was holding, "So you really don't remember anything?"
Rose glanced down at the floor uncomfortably, "Nothing from before the orphanage, nothing really- nothing that makes sense."
"When…. How old were you?"
Rose thought for a moment before answering, "Well… its third year. Most people don't start Hogwarts till they're about eleven so that would make me thirteen… subtract seven years…. I was six? I think…"
Dom gaped at her, "You don't know how old you are? Rose!"
Rose blushed furiously, "I know… That's why I'm trying to remember. When they found me I was OLD enough to remember I just… didn't. A couple Muggle doctors said something about how amnesia could be caused by stress and such but he also said that in some cases it could go away, that I could remember eventually but… nothing. It's all a blank."
Dom felt something raging in her chest and before she really knew what she was doing she was hugging Rose tightly, the diary forgotten, "Rose it's alright. Sometimes…."Dom's eyes filled with tears as she thought of something they all tried to forget, "Sometimes it's ok to just… forget. Ok?"
Rose had tensed up terribly when Dom had launched herself at her but before she knew what was happening they were both crying into the other's shoulders, comforting the other as tears fell mercilessly from their eyes. It felt different to cry into the shoulder of someone who was little more than a stranger to her but… It felt right.
When they finally stepped away they both wiped their eyes, grateful for the company of the other and Dom laughed, "Geez Ro, I haven't cried like that in ages. James is going to kill me when we get to the Room of Requirement."
Rose wiped her eyes again and raised her now tearstained paper smile, "I'm sure he'll forgive us for being late Dom."
Dom smiled and took Rose's hand, "Come on then Ro, let's go join Dumbledore's Army."
They hurried to the seventh floor and into the Room of Requirement where the army of Weasleys and Potters and Malfoy greeted them with various degrees of excitement.
James came running over, glaring at Dom, "Hey! What took you so long? Did you get lost or something on your way up?"
Dom just smiled and shrugged, knowing he'd lose focus as soon as he noticed the newest member. Sure enough, his eyes slid to the person beside her and his eyes widened comically when he realized it was Rose.
"Rose! You decided to join us then? I wanted sure you'd want to." He looked childish with the giddy grin on his face.
Rose nodded happily, "Figured it couldn't be THAT lame if Dom was in it."
James's grin stretch impossibly further, "Hey! Don't be mean Rose! You're supposed to be the nice one!"
Rose rolled her eyes, amused, "Well then don't be lame James."
Teddy began cackling behind James who turned to glare at him. When at last Teddy managed to compose himself he stepped forward and enveloped Rose in a huge bear hug, "Glad you're joining Dumbledore's Army Rose, I was starting to think James's head was going to get big but with you here there's really no chance of that, is there?"
Rose hummed in agreement and amusement and Teddy finally pulled back, his hair turning a brilliant red before returning to its usual brilliant blue hue.
It didn't escape her as she glanced around that all the Weasleys in the room weren't all still in Hogwarts. In fact, she was quite sure Teddy, whom she had grown moderately closer to last year, had graduated last year. They had obviously snuck in for one reason or another and were now all practicing magic with each other.
Rose had been swarmed by Weasleys and Potters and didn't really get a chance to try any new spells at the moment but she didn't mind. She was really just enjoying talking to everyone and watching and listening.
Scorpius came over (Stumbled more like it) and began to chatter on about the new defensive spells everyone was teaching him and how Lily had taught him her mother's killer Bat Bogey hex and Rose would have laughed if she hadn't known that any laugh she gave wasn't real. She found that she really loved this bunch of people and frankly, she thought with a rueful glance down at her diary, she could go without remembering just so long as she could stay with them.
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