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Orphaned no More

Chapter Nine

Raoul wanted to comfort Jenny. To hold her and tell her that it was not what she thought it was. He was not one of THEM.

But that would be a lie.

THREE YEARS AGO

Raoul's ability to throw off the imperius curse and him being a natural Occlumens had paved a straight path into him being selected as an Unspeakable right out of Hogwarts.

He was given a fake back story to live by, that he was a Durmstang drop out who had learned magic from sheer self practice so that no one would ever expect him to be anything more than an average wizard. He made no friends and his family was nothing he would mention to anyone anyways.

He was an illegitimate son of a Spanish wizard who was made to have a child with a Veela, both under an imperius curse to sate the experimental curiosity of a very powerful dark yet mad researcher who lived off inhumane experiments until he was caught and executed by the Department of Mysteries.

The DOM then proceeded to take responsibility to raise the child into an Unspeakable as it was far too late to abort the child even magically and no one wanted an innocent's blood on their hands.

A male half-Veela born under the imperius curse, it made him immune to the imperius and made him a natural occlumens. It could never be determined whether or not he would exhibit any other characteristics that any other Half-Veelas exhibited as females. He grew up normally under the care of ministry care takers and exhibited nothing supernatural. That was until word of his parentage got out and a psychologically deranged and celibate witch tried to put him under the imperius when he was fifteen to make him believe she was his mother. This happened in Diagon Alley in broad daylight.

He showed no reaction to the curse at all. Not having known what spell the witch had just performed on him, he smiled and told her to try pranking someone else and bade her farewell.

She was not arrested as no curse was registered having been casted but her foiled attempt made her angrily raise magical hell in a muggle pub where she was arrested and the muggle bystanders were obliviated by Aurors.

It was not until her memories were viewed that Raoul's immunity to the Imperius got out and the Ministry gave itself a pat on the back for taking custody of him when they did seventeen years ago.

It was to be his first task as an Unspeakable, to assist two aurors in rescuing a muggle girl from two wizards who were using her as a hostage to make the people of her village give up the land they had been living on for years.

They did not dare touch her out of fears of contracting some muggle disease but they did cast the Cruciatus on her once when she tried to run away.

It was at that time, while she was writhing in pain on the floor, that Raoul and his team of Aurors infiltrated the building she was being held in. They disarmed the wizards and took them away for their trial and Raoul, with his face and voice magically masked as per Unspeakable standards, found her in another room to obliviate her.

As he got close to her and pointed his wand at her she lashed out at him, breaking out of the ropes that held her, thinking him to be one of her captors and snatched his wand and nearly snapped it into two before a stinging hex set up in the wand, intended to react to someone other than Raoul holding the wand, made her drop it. She did however get a good look at the wand and would be sure to recognize it if she ever saw it again.

She looked at him fearfully as he just stood there and did nothing.

"Please calm down" Said Raoul to her in an attempt to pacify her.

She did not seem pacified. "You were going to hurt me, just like they did" she spat angrily as she fixed a few wild strands of blonde hair from her face and crossed her arms, "Calming down is the last thing on my mind".

Raoul got a better view of her face and nearly caught himself blushing as he looked away. She was beautiful.

She could not see his expressions as his face was masked magically; she mistook him to be looking away out of disgust. Anger boiled in her. The wand bearing men had been calling her a disgusting piece of filth ever since they had kidnapped her a few days ago. "He held a wand and thus must be one of them" she reasoned with herself.

She did not waste a second in ramming herself into his body and throwing him off balance sprawled on the floor, and then running out of the building with her memories intact.

Raoul sat there dumbfounded; He had just been bested by an unarmed girl, a very beautiful blonde unarmed girl. He face palmed and chuckled to himself as he picked up his wand and went to report in to his superiors.

He left out that he failed to obliviate her because something within him did not want her to ever face wizards again. Something within him wanted to protect her.

He began frequenting the village she lived in without his Unspeakable mask in place and befriended the bar owner of the pub she worked in. She was a bar maid and he became a bartender. Drunken men tried to tease and taunt her and approached her for her beauty and he would fight them off. He did not get a "Thank you" out of her until the fifth time he fought for her. Her kidnapping had made her very untrusting of strangers.

Slowly they became good acquaintances and over more than two years they became close friends.

The Department of Mysteries did not favor Raoul's absence from the magical world for so long but he along with his caretakers convinced them that being an Unspeakable was not by his choice but by their decision. They let him off under a Magical Oath that they would only let him do as he willed if he kept his identity secret. The moment he revealed it they would be notified and action would be taken.

Once a rich man and his wife were seated at the bar during the day, the wife was crying about her young son disappearing and the man was trying to calm her down. They had stopped at the bar to have a drink to drown their sorrows.

Jenny was nothing if not compassionate. She brought the woman a glass of water and calmed her down and even asked her for any paintings or Photographs she had of her son so that she could help find him.

The gesture warmed the woman up enough to make her smile. As Jenny was going away from their table another drunkard blocked her path and tried to flirt with her. Raoul was nearby and he fought him out of the bar.

The owner of the bar was not happy. Business was already down and Raoul fighting possible clients off did not help things. He asked Raoul and Jenny to make employment arrangements elsewhere.

The rich man and woman seated there saw the whole thing and were outraged by the employer firing the two young people. Before Raoul and Jenny left the bar the woman offered them employment at her Manor and made sure to tell the bar owner that they would not be visiting his bar again. Apparently her husband had gone and fired all of their staff at the Manor recently and they were in need of helpers.

This is how Raoul and Jenny came to be at Riddle Manor.

He would never let her walk home alone and would always walk her home at night, she however insisted that he let her walk to work in the morning by herself as she needed to be self reliant more often.

He had been given permanent residence at the Manor's garden shed when the Riddles got word of him not having ever seen his family.

And it was right outside that shed that Raoul proposed to Jenny on the Christmas Eve of 1926. Right before she would leave for a few days to spend holidays with her family and not come to work.

She had blushed fiercely and hugged him in response and walked home smiling all the way that night but had never replied to his proposal.

Raoul figured she would when she felt like it.

PRESENT

Of course now he was afraid she hated him and would never want to see him again.

….. Please R&R I hope it was up to your liking