A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT! THANKS TO MY AMAZING AND WONDERFUL BETA ELENA RAIN! DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT I'M A SKYSCRAPER'S STORY 'WILL WE FIND A HOME JUSTIN'
Alex nodded and softly looked to her brother speaking so softly Justin almost didn't hear her. "Justin…"
"Yeah, Baby Sister?"
"I…when Ginny cursed me I…" Alex inhaled and exhaled a deep breath. Her eyes filled with tears and she choked out "Justin… I remember everything…"
Justin gasped. "What do you mean? What do you remember?"
"My entire childhood...everything I was forced to forget I saw it. It all flashed in my head like a movie in fast forward."
"What...I mean...how...Alex what did you see?"
"Dad...his death...I...I was a witness."
"That's the big secret Dad and Molly were keeping from you?"
Alex nodded. "But that's not it, the Malfoy boy…he was right. Our dad was killed and it's all my fault."
"Alex I'm sure that's not true. I mean you were just baby. How could it have been your fault?"
"IT WAS!" Alex screeched.
"Ok, ok, shhh, tell me what happen."
"All of it?"
"Just about dad's death."
Alex sniffed and inhaled and exhaled a deep breath. "It was just a regular night. Molly was with us that night. Dad and I were fooling around in my room." A small smile appeared on Alex's face making Justin smile with her. "What were you doing?" he asked softly.
"He was tickling me, giving me raspberries on my stomach. I was a giggling mess."
"Of course." Justin teased.
Alex then frowned. "He stopped suddenly and asked me if I had heard anything. Of course I didn't hear anything, but I didn't care, I thought it was another game. He told me to wait in my bedroom and not come out unless he was with me. Then he left the room."
Alex started to shake and her breathing increased. "I don't know where he went or what happen but then this cloaked figure walks in, the same one from my nightmares. He asked me if I was Alex Flynn that was our last name at the time; I nodded and said I was. He told me I had to go with me and he'd take me some place very special that only little girls and boys were allowed to go to. There was no grown-ups allowed…"
"Did you go with him?" Justin asked.
Alex shook her head as tears filled her eyes. "I told him no, I told him I wasn't allowed to go with a stranger. He tried to act as if I knew him and that he was trust worthy but I still wouldn't go with him. I told him I had to ask my mom and dad before I could. So I tried to leave my room but then….th-then it…it started again."
"What did?"
"The pain…"
"From your hand?"
Alex shook her head. "The other pain. The one that made me feel like all my bones in my body were breaking."
"The one from the curse Ginny did on you?"
Alex nodded. "He did it to me too. I was screaming on top of my lungs, crying begging him to stop. He never did. He told me….he told me he wanted me dead, he said I wasn't normal and I didn't deserve to be here on this earth so he was going to kill me."
"Alex…."
"I need to finish, Justin, please?"
Justin nodded.
"Finally dad came running back in and saw what was happening. He tried to stop him from hurting me,"
"But then he started to torture dad and he was screaming out in pain…Justin he was crying." Alex choked out. "I started yelling at that man to stop hurting dad and to just let him go."
"Did he listen?"
Alex shook her head. "I kept begging him to stop and I kept trying to comfort dad and stop the pain. When I was in pain Mom and dad would kiss it better so I tried to kiss his pain away."
"Oh Alex, there wasn't anything you could have done. You were just a baby you didn't even know how to use magic yet."
Alex shook her head as tears started falling down her cheeks, her shaking and breathing increasing with every word. "I know, when that didn't work I went back to begging, I asked this man to end his pain and suffering, make all his pain go away. So he asked me if…if I was sure that's what I wanted, if I really wanted it all to just go away. I said yes and then…." Alex went fully out hysterical. She fell into Justin's arms crying, shaking, and hyperventilating. "Abra Kadrabra." Alex cried hysterically repeating those words over and over again.
Just then Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked in. When they saw Alex they rushed over to her.
"What happen?" Harry asked.
"When Ginny was cursing her it made her remember everything, including our father's death. She witnessed it all."
"Was it Voldamort?" Harry asked.
"YES!" Alex screamed. "YES IT WAS HIM! IT WAS HIM!"
"Ok, Baby, ok shhhh, shhhh, calm down, calm down, take deep breaths." Justin said.
"Abra Kadrabra, Abra Kadrabra, Abra Kadrabra!" Alex cried.
"Baby, what does that mean?" Justin asked.
"Green FLASH! IT'S THE GREEN FLASH MAKE IT GO AWAY!"
Justin looked helplessly to the other.
"It's Avada Kedavra."
"Is now really the time to be correcting her, Hermione?" Ron asked.
"Shut up, that's not what I'm doing!" Hermione growled. She looked to Justin."She's saying the spell wrong, that's why you don't understand it. It's Avada Kedavra not Abra Kadrabra. It's the killing curse Harry and I were telling you about. It's that bright green flash that Alex always saw. So when she says that she's saying Voldamort killed your father with that spell."
"Now it all makes sense, all those nightmares she had about the green flash, it killing our adopted parents and me, it was her remembering our dad's death."
Hermione nodded. "I can calm her down, if you trust me?"
Justin nodded.
Hermione pointed her wand at Alex and whispered something under her breath. Alex stared to calm down. Her breathing returned to normal and her crying stopped along with her shaking.
"Thank you," Justin said.
"You're welcome. Don't worry, it's just a sedative spell, as if she was in the hospital and the doctors sedated her."
"I'm not worried. I trust you." The two shared a smile.
"I'm sorry, Justin, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Alex muttered.
"Alex, what on earth do you have to be sorry for?"
"I killed our dad." She whimpered.
"What, no you didn't, Voldamort did!"
"I ASKED HIM TO!" Alex screamed. "I ASKED HIM TO MAKE THE PAIN AND SUFFERING STOP AND FOR IT ALL TO END SO HE DID! HE ENDED DAD'S LIFE!"
"Alex you asked for him to stop torturing our father, not kill him! Besides you were just a baby you had no idea what you said would result in his death! Alex, Baby, this wasn't your fault."
"Yes it was! That's why Molly and Dad hid it from me!"
"Alex, it wasn't your fault!"
"Justin, look, you need to ease up a little. You can tell her as much as you want that it wasn't her fault but she won't believe you any time soon. But just keep reminding her and keep telling her and one day in the future she'll finally believe you, but right now she really just needs to figure it out for herself and believe it because she knows it's true, not because someone tells her to."
"How do you know?"
"Because I watched my parents die too. I blamed myself for years after they died. Hermione and Ron always tried to tell me it wasn't but I had to learn for myself before I could believe it."
Alex sat up and looked at him."Really?"
Harry nodded. "Let me ask you a question that I had to ask myself." He moved and sat next to her. "Your dad saw Voldamort hurting you right?" Alex nodded. "So he had two choices, he could have turned around to run away, get Molly and Justin, plus himself somewhere safe and let you defend yourself or he could have fought back against Voldamort and tried to save you right? Those were the two choices he had?" Alex nodded. "Yet, he choice to try and protect you, he choice to put his life on the line to keep you safe. Luckily and at the same time sadly for us kids, parents will do anything to protect their children, even give up their own life."
Alex leaned into his arms and Harry hugged her close to his chest and stroked her hair. "Now, I know you won't believe me, but Justin is right, your dad's death wasn't your fault."
Alex just nodded. He was right, she didn't believe him right now, but hopefully soon she'd believe him and she'd be able to move on."Thank you, Harry and Justin."
"You're welcome. Just hang in there, things will get better." Justin said.
Alex just sighed but nodded. She had a hard time believing that.
"Hey, where did Hermione and Ron go?" Justin asked.
Harry looked around to see his friends gone. "They had to talk about something alone."
"I think I may know what it's about, is it my fault?" Justin asked.
Alex nodded. "Everything is your fault." She teased lightly.
Justin chuckled glad to see her feeling better. He tickled her sides making her giggle and squirm. "Well then I guess if you pass out from laughter it will be my fault too, huh?" Justin stopped and smiled at his sister.
"No, it's nobody's fault. This was bound to happen." Harry said. "Hermione and Ron are just two totally different people."
Justin nodded. "What are you guys doing here anyway?"
Harry laughed. "Classes are over, dinner is starting, we were going to invite you two to come with us."
"Oh, wow is it that time already?"
Harry chuckled. "Yeah."
"Well I'm starving, let's go eat."
"I don't want to go." Alex whispered.
"Alex you have to eat." Justin said sternly.
"I want to eat, I just don't want to go out there."
"Why not, nobody knows what happen to you." Harry said.
"Ron and Hermione kept it very private and even asked Professor not to say anything to anyone."
Alex just held up her hand which was still badly wounded, red and swollen. "I don't want people to see this."
"Baby, nobody is going to laugh at you, plus since when are you the self-conscience type." Justin said.
"Since I had something to be self-conscience about."
"Alex, trust me, it's not that bad. If you really feel that uncomfortable just keep your hand in your pocket."
"But that hurts it."
"What if you just hold my hand and keep it down at your side?" Harry asked.
Alex shrugged.
"What if we just grabbed you some food and brought it back here?" Justin offered.
"We're not allowed." Harry sighed.
Justin sighed too. "What about if I hold your hand and we can keep it hidden from sight?"
"No, holding anybody's hand hurt and even if I put on a glove or something it hurts."
"Alex, if you just keep it by your side nobody will notice it." Harry said. "I went a few weeks without anybody noticing it."
Alex sighed but nodded. "Ok, I guess." She sat up, suddenly missing the warm contact of being in Harry's arms.
The trio went out of the room to see Ron and Hermione hugging.
"Is everything ok?" Harry asked.
They broke apart and nodded. "Yeah, everything is perfect."
A few minutes earlier with Ron and Hermione, they were standing outside on the stairs. They were on the part that didn't move so they were safe.
"So…" Ron started.
"So…" Hermione whispered.
"I want to break up." The both said at the same time.
"What?" they both asked at the same time.
"I want to break up." They both said again.
They then both laughed.
"Well it looks like for once we agree on something." Hermione teased.
"I know it's amazing." Ron laughed.
"So I guess that's it?" Hermione asked. Ron nodded sadly. Hermione frowned.
"Ron, you're still my best friend and I'd hate for anything to ruin that. You were really there for me, especially when we realized I'd never be able to make my parents remember me again and I just…I don't want to lose you."
Ron smiled softly. "Hermione, this is me you're talking to. You couldn't lose me if you tried. I'll always be your friend."
"Really?"
"Really, come here." They both hugged each other tightly.
"I love you, Ron."
"I love you too, Hermione."
Just then the picture door opened and the others walked out and the two of them pulled away. Now they were all just friends and they'd all be friends forever but would Harry and Alex, and Justin and Hermione ever be more than that?
A/N so what do you think? Will the four of them ever be more than friends? Leave me your thoughts in a review!
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