Chapter 5
(Five months later)
Harry had been talking with Carlisle mostly alone for the last few months and now they were about to talk about his fourth year. Over the last few months Harry had told him everything about what had happened at the Dursley's and everything that had happened up till his fourth year in great detail. Carlisle had been very understanding and had helped him start to see that he was not a freak or unnatural for being a wizard and for not being able to defend himself from those who had hurt him. But Harry still had a hard time thinking that the deaths of those he had loved and lost were not his fault.
"Harry, we are now on your fourth year at Hogwarts, you warned me last time that his would be hard for you and I want you to know that I am here for you. If you need to take a break then do, if need to cry then do so. Sometimes it is the only way to get over what has happened and start to heal." He paused waiting for Harry give him some sign he understood and when he got it he continued "Then let us begin. Know you are not alone anymore."
Both of them had been so caught up in their conversation and thoughts that neither of them heard someone come into the house. Edward had thought that their session had ended an hour ago but Harry and Carlisle had been talking about other things first but Edward wanted to know more about this strange young man who had taken over his every thought. Edward had been hiding that he had been starting to be able to do things like what Harry had been describing in his sessions and it confused him to no end how he could possibly have magic. He had a feeling he would find out something tonight that would change everything but he did not know what that could be. He was then startled out of his thoughts when Harry began to speak.
"Fourth year had just begun and I already felt more alone than ever, all I knew was that everyone who cared for me had conditions except for my two godfather's they were the only ones who wanted me for me.
I was sitting by the black lake and it was late, I had a knife in my hand I was going to end it all that night. I sat there talking to myself asking why no one saw me or wanted just me but something I represented or had. I was so deeply involved with my thoughts that I had not noticed that someone had snuck up on me and was listening until I had the knife ready at my wrist and he stopped me. His name was Ce-Cedric." Harry stumbled over the name his breath hitching with sadness. He sniffed and wiped his eyes of tears before he continued "He took the knife from my hand and talked me down. After a while I broke down in his arms and he held me as I told him everything from past to what I felt he never once said a word, just held and comforting me.
After a while I finally calmed down and had told him many things I had never told anyone I thought he would think me a freak too but he didn't. He walked me back to Griffindor Tower but before I went inside he pulled me back into his arms told me that if I ever needed to talk or just needed someone to be there with no conditions attached then I could come to him and he would do whatever he could to help me. Over the next few weeks I talked to him about my fears for the upcoming year about something would happen that would put me and those I cared for in danger once more. The night before the champions were chosen for the tri-wizard tournament Cedric had taken me to the room of requirement and held me in his arms as I told him how scared I was. That night he told me that if something did happen he would be there and that he would not leave my side." Harry paused for a few moments gathering himself as he ran his hand though his hair.
Edward had not been able to see into Harry's mind since he had learned that Edward was a mind reader and he had put his occlomency shields up so Edward knew that he images he was receiving playing this out in his mind where of another origin as Harry's mind was still a wall to him.
"The three champions had been chosen and for a second I thought I was safe but then a fourth name came from the Goblet of Fire and that is when we knew I was entered under a fourth school someone had tricked the cup. I was now forced to compete in a deadly tournament and I was scared. After we where let out I ran into Cedric's arms I couldn't stop shaking. He took me to the room of requirement and after a while of calming me down he promised he would help me through the tournament that we would work together so we would both be ready. The first task was Dragons, and because of us training together we came out tied for first place. The Yule Ball was to be held in two months, Cedric and I still spent a lot of time together as we figured out the clue from the egg we got from the Dragon pretty quickly. He was always reading one particular book though and I didn't have a clue why until two nights before the Yule Ball. We where once again in the room we had created and asked to talk to me and I knew I had started to fall in love with him. He showed me the book he had been reading and it talked about soul bonded mates, I was confused but he explained quite quickly. Cedric had read the book when he was younger and there were a few things that could be possible tips that a person was or wasn't your soul mate. It was also very rare to have one so when he told me he had been seeing some of the signs and remember that there was a spell in the book that could be used to confirm it. I was kind of devastated because I thought he was talking about someone else but he then asked how I would feel if I was indeed his soul mate. I told him I was already starting to fall for him and that I would love to have him as my soul mate but that I did not think it was possible. He told me that the spell was there as a way to test the type of bonds you had with a person each bond had a different color, he asked me if I wanted him to try it so that could see what type of bond we had. I agreed thinking I had nothing to lose so he did the spell and it was confirmed that we were soul mates as the aura around us both from the spell was a bright gold the color of a soul mate bond and the strongest one at that." Harry had tears running down his face as he stopped and was lost in the memories of his soul bonded not knowing that downstairs the same memories from another's point of view were racing through Edwards mind but he still did not know why.
After calming down enough Harry kept going "We went to the ball together shocking everyone but it was the best night of my life because after the ball had ended we snuck out of the school and went to Gringotts Wizarding Bank and had the soul mate bond performed. After it as done our magic blended, our souls linked, and for all intents and purposes we were married. I could not have been happier than I was then, even with the second task happening we had six wonderful months together before the third task came. We made it together through the maze and got to the cup, he wanted me to take it but I told we'd take it together and it would be a Hogwarts win. But the cup was a portkey it took us to the graveyard I had been dreaming about all year. My head was splitting because of the pain I told him to get back to the cup, but he refused to leave me. Then I heard parsultongue and a spell hit Cedric, I could not make out what Voldemort had said through the pain but Cedric fell the ground and looked dead and then his body just disappeared the pain from the bond splintering nearly broke me then and there. Soul mates are not supposed to live without each other and I now know why, the pain of a splinter and broken bond is a pain nothing else can compare too." Harry sobbed for a few minutes before he spoke again "After I had fought Voldemort after he had gained his body back and gotten back to Hogwarts his spy in the school who had been masquerading as Mad-eye Moody but was really Barty Crouch Jr. tried to kill me. But in the end I was saved by my headmaster and a few of my teachers. Things just got worse after that but I tell you more later, I just can't right now. I need a little time to let go of him again." After that Harry Appriated silently out of the house and to a small clearing in his back yard.
Edward had seen everything up until Cedric had fallen and disappeared but he knew what had really happened. He bend over holding his head in pain as it felt like his mind was overloaded with so many memories of a life that had been his. When it was finally over Edward's eyes were wide in shock "Oh god Harry, What have they put you through." Edward closed his eyes now knowing why he had started being able to do magic and strange memories had flitted though his mind. He also knew he could not let Harry suffer anymore and raced up the stairs knowing what he had to do not knowing he had already left.
Edited 5/3/2019
