A/N: Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone! I see we have some new readers and reviewers, which is progress! Pat yourselves on the back, we have 20 favorites now on this story. And I consider this a really bad story or at least, I have for awhile now, but you guys are starting to make me think differently about my story. It's a positive change, I think, so yay!

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Selena climbed off the train and moved out of the way of other students, who were looking for their family. She couldn't believe that just a few hours ago, she had left Hogwarts as a student for the last time. It kind of made her sad to think that it was all over, that she had to find a job now, no longer dependent solely on her grandmother's and Aberforth's money.

Time to grow up…Selena thought, pulling her hair back into a ponytail. And become what I was destined to be…

She reached down and grabbed her birdcage where her black owl perched, hooting softly. The daughter of Voldemort held the birdcage up so that she was eyelevel with her owl. His golden eyes looked at her, though they were slightly closed.

"Well, you may not like it but we're moving in with George and the Weasleys," Selena said with a slight smile. "I don't care how many girlfriends you left back at Hogwarts, but you're just going to have to break their little hearts. We're never going back there again, Anubis."

Anubis hooted balefully and tried to nip at her fingers. Selena shook the cage a little bit before setting it down on top of her trunk.

"Someone definitely doesn't deserve to receive a fat mouse for a few days," Selena commented, pulling out her wand. "You'd make a lovely stuffed bird, though."

Anubis quieted down and turned his back on her. Selena smiled and waited for Evelyn and the others to find her. As she waited, she felt someone's eyes on her and a familiar sick feeling came over her. With a frown, Selena turned and saw that, not more than ten yards away from her, Malfoy stood watching her.

"What the hell do you want, Draco?" she demanded, her eyes glittering darkly.

"We have some unfinished business to deal with, Selena," Draco said, his wand held at the ready.

"Not now duckling," a familiar voice said as a woman appeared next to Draco. "The master only wants confirmation that Dumbledore was made weak."

Selena's eyes narrowed as she looked into the dark eyes of her mother. Time had not changed the face of the woman that Selena despised more than anyone in the world. There was still a pleasant plumpness to her face and her dark eyes glittered with adoration for only one person: Voldemort. Selena felt sick looking at her mother, but refused to look away.

"Yeah, Draco…it's not like you can defeat me in a duel anyway," Selena muttered, examining her wand like she didn't know what it was for. "And as for Dumbledore's condition…he won't be much of a threat to Father when it comes to taking over the Ministry."

"The Dark Lord will be very glad to hear that," Jacqueline crooned with a dark smile. Her smile dropped for a moment. "Something is different about you, dear." Her nostrils flared. "You smell like a blood traitor."

"That would be because I hang out with blood traitors," Selena stated, glancing around. "You shouldn't even be here, Jacqueline."

"Who's to stop me from going anywhere these days?" Jacqueline asked, wrapping an arm around Malfoy's shoulders. "The Ministry?" She laughed.

"Keep it down!" Selena ordered, her eyes narrowing again as she looked at her mother. "Do you want the Order on your ass?"

"Such language! Where did you learn such foul language?"

"The Weasleys taught her," Draco explained, looking at Jacqueline with a smile. "And Potter."

"Jacqueline, Malfoy, go away." Selena ordered, spotting a bobbing pink haired head amongst the crowd with a group of flaming red hair. "Before I grow rather unpleasant with you!"

"Ah, you're ashamed of me," Jacqueline commented, crossing the distance between the three of them. "That explains why you didn't come to break your dear Mummy out of Azkaban when you broke out Bella…Honestly, did you convince the Dark Lord that I was dead?"

"No."

"Pity, it would have made our reunion more memorable." Jacqueline smiled and placed a cold kiss on Selena's cheek. "I shall see you when the Ministry falls, my dear." Her eyes landed on Anubis. "How nice of you to keep that bird in remembrance of your grandmother…"

"Go away!" Selena seethed, her eyes darkening in her anger.

Draco and Jacqueline smirked triumphantly and backed away from her.

Selena watched as the two disappeared with two cracks, rubbing her hand against her face in an attempt to rub the feeling of the kiss off her face. Evelyn stormed over, holding her cage where her great horned owl perched.

"Was that who I thought it was?" Evelyn demanded, her eyes burning blacker than Jacqueline's.

"Depends on who you're talking about. The stupid git or the incredibly ugly hag," Harry said, holding Evelyn's hand.

"I already know the git was Draco!" Evelyn snapped, her eyes narrowing. "Was that Jacqueline le Roux?"

"Well, it wasn't Bellatrix," Selena replied, reaching down to pick up her luggage. Though it would have been better if it were…I would have loved to smack that hag across the face…Ooh! She just gets under my skin like a mite and I just got to -!

Evelyn pushed Selena away from her things. "Don't you toy with me, Selena! That bitch killed my mother and you didn't kill her to avenge my mother? What kind of sister are you?"

Selena didn't look at her. "I'm merely an adopted sister…Your mother was not mine and therefore, I don't feel the need to avenge your mother. Avenge you, yes, but not your mother."
"Selena-! Oh…Go jump off a cliff!" Evelyn snapped, turning her back on her sister.

Selena scooped up her cage and levitated her trunk, shrinking it to an impossibly small size. "Fine…if that'll make you happy." She looked towards George as he approached. "Where's the nearest cliff?"

"I don't know," George said, wrapping an arm around her waist, his hand finding a place in her pocket. "And knowing that you have suicidal tendencies, I just can't tell you unless I have a net to catch you before the unavoidable stop."

Selena rolled her eyes and jumped when Fred pinched her side. "Hey!"

"Mum, you have to fatten up Selena," Fred said with a smirk in the direction of his mother who was doting on Ginny. "Look at her, the fattest thing on her is her ample bosom. Everything else is skin and bones and if I know George, which I do very well, he's worried about her weight." He looked at Selena again. "You must weigh forty pounds."

Selena bristled with mock anger. "Actually, I weigh 120 pounds."She punched him on the arm. "And you better stop making comments about my breasts. Yes, they are large, but I don't like people commenting on them. Or staring…" She elbowed George, who had gone glassy-eyed. "George Weasley!"

George smiled and looked down at her. "Yes pet?"

"Not one word!" Selena ordered, poking him sharply in the belly. "Understand?"

"Perfectly, I won't breathe a word that you're p-!" Selena elbowed him again and he gasped. "Mum, look at all the abuse I take for this beautiful woman of my dreams! I deserve Ron's share of dessert from now on."

Molly looked at him with a smile. "Now George, that's just how Selena shows she loves you. You've said that many times before, you can't take it back now." Her eyes turned to Selena and softened. "Selena dear, you really must eat something when we get back home. Fred is right for once. You are a bit too skinny."

"I am not," Selena complained, pocketing her trunk. "If anyone is too skinny, it has to be Evelyn. She only weighs 100 pounds. And everyone knows that's not healthy for when a baby comes along."

Evelyn's eyes narrowed at Selena as Molly hugged her and Harry, making a complete circle around the group. "I hate you," she hissed. "Absolutely hate you!"

George smiled and looked over at Fred. "Don't you think there's too much love going on here?"

"Absolutely," Fred agreed before grabbing Evelyn by the arm and pulling her over to stand next to Selena. "Now you two need to shake hands or hug or have a make out session to get past this little bump in the road."

"She didn't kill Jacqueline when she had the chance three minutes ago!" Evelyn growled, pointing at Selena. "And she poisoned my uncle!"

"For the last time Evelyn, I didn't poison your uncle," Selena muttered, leaning against George. "I supplied the poison, he took it by his own free will, and I gave him the antidote that saved his life. Get over yourself already."

"What about Jacqueline?" Evelyn demanded in French. "Why didn't you kill her?"

Selena gave her a look before answering in the same tongue. "Do you really want me to get killed by Voldemort for disobeying a direct order? He told me not to kill her because he needs his best Death Eaters to be with him now that so many of them have died. I would if I could because that woman makes my skin crawl, but I can't. So get over yourself and realize I'm doing to best that I can, given my circumstances."

Evelyn blinked stupidly and nodded, looking away. "Fine…I don't hate you as much, but you're pushing it."

Selena smiled slightly. "I know."

Fred looked slightly disappointed. "Why must all the conversations you two have be in French where no one can understand anything you two say?"
"Because we're French and we don't want you to know what we're saying," Evelyn replied which caused Molly to smile.

"The boys just need to learn the language of love to catch a girl's attention," Molly said with a dreamy smile. "If only Arthur knew French…"

"I am not learning the language of the devil," Ron grumbled, glaring at Selena. "Sorry Hermione, but you can forget me learning French as long as that bloody woman is French."

Selena smiled prettily and allowed George to take Anubis' cage away from her. "Aw Ron, afraid to learn a little extra language."

"Piss off."

"Now you've done it," George said as Selena straightened and her eyes narrowed. "Everyone scatter!"
Selena marched over to Ron and kneed him in the groin as sharply as she could. He doubled over and she smashed his nose with her fist, grabbing onto one of his ears and twisting.

"Don't you ever say that to me again," Selena hissed in a sickly sweet voice that reminded one of Umbridge. "Do you understand Ronald?"

Hermione moved as if to go against Selena, but Fred held her back. "Let him learn his lesson," Fred urged. "We all have to learn it some time."

Selena smiled and released Ron, knocking him to the floor. "Let's go George. I'm feeling a little peckish after all."

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Selena sat outside the Burrow in the backyard, watching the boys de-gnome the garden. She kept shooting spells at the gnomes to keep them confused for longer in hopes that they wouldn't come back. Evelyn sat on a bench next to her, a hand resting lightly on her stomach. Selena reached over and flicked that hand.

"If you want Molly to find out about the baby in your belly sooner, then I'd keep that hand where it's at," Selena muttered before looking back at the boys. "You know how she gets over 'happy' news like that... I plan to keep my problem quiet until it is too late for her to squeeze me to death."

Evelyn smiled slightly and patted her stomach gently before putting her hand on top of her knee with the other one. "Molly's approval isn't the one I'm worried about. She loves babies…but…I am worried about Dad's reaction." Her smile dropped. "I haven't told him about either of us yet and I'm starting to think that he'll be beyond pissed to know that his two daughters are…you know."

Selena ran a hand through her hair for a moment, thinking. "Didn't we already discuss this? Our dad is going to be angry about this, but…" She leaned forward, resting her elbows on the table. "My father is going to be absolutely livid…Or pleased that there's another connection between me and the Order, giving me even more trust from the Order for having assimilated completely into their group." She rolled her eyes. "Whatever the feelings, I'm not happy."

"Why? I thought you'd be thrilled to have a mini-George or mini-you in your tummy…"

Selena stared at a spot on the table, a frown situated firmly on her face. "I have dreams Evelyn…I want to play for a professional Quidditch team…I want to retire when I'm thirty-five and work at St. Mungo's, making potions and curing poisons…Hell, I want to be the one that figures out how to cure werewolves, just to get stupid Lupin off my back…" The corner of her lips twitched. "I want to write romance novels that are tasteful but full of passion, in my spare time." Her eyes turned to her sister. "How can I do those things now that I'm…"

She cut off abruptly when someone wrapped their arms around her and swung her away from the table. Her wand hand twitched, but never came close to her wand because she realized the person hugging her so tightly around the middle was Charlie. Bill laughed from the sidelines.

Evelyn and Selena's faces dropped at the sight of Bill because that could only mean one thing… Fleur was at the Burrow.

"Dammit Charlie!" Selena gasped, jumping out of his arms and spinning around. "Warn someone when you're about to do something like that!"

Charlie laughed, his eyes sparkling with his uproarious laughter. "Sorry 'Lena, but you don't get the chance to surprise a feisty dragon more than once. I had to do it." He held out one of his large, calloused hands. "We're still friends, right?"

Selena shook his hand once. "Oui, Charlie."

Evelyn made a disapproving sound. "Bill…do you have to be here?"

"Yes, Mom asked that I be home for tonight's graduation celebration for the members of our extended family," Bill said, wrapping an arm around her shoulders in a one-armed hug. "C'mon Eve, you can't say you didn't miss me."

"It's not you that I'm upset about being here," Evelyn replied, pushing him away like he had some kind of disease. "It's her…"

"Who?"

"You're charming, yet narcissistic and overwhelmingly snobby wife," Selena answered for her sister, "who we just happen to hate from back in our time at Beauxbatons Academy. She was rude and prissy and…why am I wasting more air on her than I need?" She promptly sat down next to Evelyn. "We just hate her and if I ever marry into your family, I'm not going to invite her over to any parties I may throw."

"But that means Bill can't come either," Evelyn pointed out, looking at Selena. "He's awfully in love with her."

"You're right. Bill, you're not invited either."

"But I'll be your brother-in-law," Bill protested. "I'm George's older brother…"

"Sorry Bill, but unless you let me turn your prissy wife into a little white ferret, you're not invited." Selena spread her fingers out on a table and grabbed a knife, poking the point rapidly between her splayed fingers. "She'd make a lovely ferret…"

"No deal."

"Suit yourself. You're banned from my life." She pointed the knife at him when he made to hug her. "Do not hug me when I can smell her on you."

"All right, deny me something I was looking forward to since I heard that you received top marks on your N.E.W.T.s," Bill popped his shirts collar and slid his hands into his pockets, hunching his shoulders. "I see how fast you've turned your back on me."

"Drama queen," Selena, Charlie, and Evelyn said at the same time before laughing.

"What is so funny?" Fleur asked, gliding over with her wand levitating pots and plates of food ahead of her.

"You thinking your IQ test gave you a high number," Selena muttered, stabbing her knife into the table in between her right hand's fore- and middle fingers.

"Selena, I really do wish you would stop doing that to my knives," Molly said, adding more things to the table with a flick of her wand. Her eyes landed on Evelyn for a moment, looking at her curiously. "Evelyn, you…you're not pregnant, are you dear?"

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Evelyn blanched and everyone fell silent, staring at her. "Um…I…uh...might be…?" She looked around her desperately seeking a lifeline, but everyone looked shocked, even Selena.

Molly's eyes sparkled with happiness and she collected Evelyn into her arms, squeezing her tightly in a hug. "I'm so happy for you…You should have waited until you were married though…" Molly rambled, hugging Evelyn even tighter. "Harry's the father, right? Oh! I'm so happy for you!"

"Thanks Molly," Evelyn murmured, her eyes watering. "Hug Harry now…"

Selena laughed quietly when Harry was tackled next by Molly, who pulled him into a backbreaking hug. George came over and plopped himself down next to her, putting his hand over hers on the table. She glanced at him with a smile on her face and leaned her head lightly against his shoulder.

"Arthur!" Molly called out once she released Harry. "Arthur! You won't believe the news! Evelyn's pregnant!"

Evelyn blanched even whiter when she saw all the people who had started coming out of the Burrow. Arthur, Tonks, Lupin, Kingsley, Snape, Minerva, Mad-Eye Moody, and a weak Albus Dumbledore supported by none other than her own father. She was delighted to see some, but horrified at the thought of the others hearing the news. Her eyes lowered to look at her hands when she saw the stony face of her father, knowing she had let him down.

Tonks patted her on the back and took a seat on the opposite side of her. Evelyn felt Selena move her chair away when Lupin sat down next to Tonks. It didn't surprise her that Selena would act this way. There was a long standing hate between her and Lupin that only one of them was willing to acknowledge publicly.

"Um, well…Congratulations Harry and Evelyn," Arthur said, sitting down at the head of the table.

Evelyn noticed that Snape sat across from Selena, but refused to look at her. Personally, Evelyn hoped his relationship with her sister had taken a nosedive and that Selena would return to her normal self, talking about everything with Evelyn instead of some greasy old professor. She shuddered at disturbing thought that things might have grown more serious between the two if they had been allowed to bond more at Hogwarts.

Thank God that Hogwarts is in our past now, Evelyn mused with a sigh of relief as plates were passed around. No more Slytherin except for Selena, Snape, and any of the Death Eaters that we manage to take down…No more classes and endless time with Harry…

Harry was seated further down the table, engrossed in a conversation with the Originals, Kingsley, and Ginny. They were going on and on about Aurors and getting a job as one. Evelyn, though interested in becoming an Auror too, decided to tune them out because she wasn't in the mood to hear about more years of training and tests. Besides, the Ministry wasn't going to be running smoothly for awhile, now that Voldemort was back and threatening to take it over. Her dream would have to wait for awhile until the war was over, she was married, and she had had the baby.

"So you're pregnant," Aberforth said, sitting across from her with Albus. "When were you planning on telling me, Evelyn Alice?"

Phew! He only used one middle name…that means he's not as angry as I thought he'd be…Evelyn thought, before nodding. "I was going to tell you when I found out, but I didn't have the time. I was studying for my N.E.W.T.s and working on getting my graduation plans in order…Daddy, I just didn't know how to tell you that I was pregnant when you've always wanted me to get married before I had a baby."

Aberforth's eyes softened, but not by much. "Are you going to keep it?"

"Of course."

"Good." He accepted the bowl of green beans as it was passed around. "You'll have to find a job now."

"What?"

"I can't support another child on my salary and if you're grown up enough to get pregnant, you're old enough to get a job." His eyes turned to Selena and Evelyn felt a little moment of smugness at the thought of her sister getting the same treatment. "Selena, have you found a job yet?"

"I have a couple offers from different Quidditch teams, but nothing that interests me right now," Selena replied smoothly, putting a little food on her plate as she passed the plates around. "Ireland wants me on their team and Britain, but I haven't made any commitment yet, seeing as they just want me to be another Chaser."

"Chasers make a killing when it comes to sports," George said, sneaking more food onto Selena's plate and his when she wasn't looking.

"That's because they get beat up the most," Fred pointed out, supporting his brother's plan.

"I want to be a Seeker."

"You can't have everything you want." Evelyn smiled at what the twins were doing until she realized Tonks was sneaking food onto her plate as well. "Tonks!"

"Sorry, but you have to put some weight on for the baby," Tonks whispered, putting a hand on her own swollen belly. "Trust me; baby is happier when there's plenty of good food to go around."

Evelyn wanted to make a face, but she knew that Tonks would probably make the face right back with subtle changes to make her laugh. She closed her eyes and concentrated on an image in her head and her hair turned a pale blonde, her natural hair color. It was the color of her mother's hair and helped comfort her when she needed to feel close to her mother.

Mommy, I miss you…

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Selena glanced over at Evelyn as everyone talked over dessert a couple of hours later. She knew that it had been hard on the girl to have her secret announced to the adults, but she was not keen on repeating the same thing on herself. Her eyes turned down the table for a moment when she felt eyes on her, thinking that it was Snape again, but it wasn't.

Lupin was looking at her out of the corner of his eye as he ate his pudding. Selena realized with a start as she held his gaze that he knew her secrets. The secret of her pregnancy and the secret of her family were in his grasp, but Selena was sure there had been no spies around her. Not even Voldemort knew she was pregnant, yet this man, this werewolf knew.

Dammit…

Selena felt someone move beside her and looked back at her plate. One spoonful of pudding had remained, now sat three more huge spoonfuls that almost turned into a fourth one. Her eyes narrowed as she looked at George who held the guilty spoon.

"George…"

"'Lena, you have to eat more," George stated, plopping the extra pudding onto his plate, "because you are…"

"Don't say it," Selena ordered in a hushed whisper. "Don't say anything and stop putting more food on my plate! I am stuffed as it is...You're just making it worse."

George smiled and put a dab of pudding on her nose. Selena shot him an annoyed look and reached for a napkin, but her hand stilled when he put his on top of it. "Whatever you say, pet," he whispered back, kissing the pudding off her nose.

Selena blinked with surprise and nearly dropped her spoon onto her lap. She blushed and looked down at her chocolate pudding with a soft, uncertain smile on her face. The heir of Salazar Slytherin tried to take a drink of juice, knowing she couldn't have wine or fire-whiskey, but found that there was none left in her cup. Her eyes travelled along the table in search of the juice container. Snape had it on his side of the table.

"Severus," she said, trying to pretend like everything was still cool between them. "Will you pass the juice?"

Kingsley heard that and looked down at her. "Why aren't you drinking fire-whiskey? I recall you saying that it would be the first thing you'd drink after graduation…"

Selena sighed and scratched her left arm. "I just don't feel like drinking fire-whiskey right now."

"Could that be because you're planning on getting pregnant?" Tonks asked, peering around Evelyn.

The table became uncomfortably quiet around Selena. She stared at Tonks like she was crazy. "No…"

"Perhaps it is because Miss Charis is already pregnant," Lupin said, helping himself to some fire-whiskey as if to mock her inability to have any. "Am I correct, Selena?"

Selena would have loved to jump over her sister and Tonks and punch Lupin in his teeth. There could be no way to divert the attention off of herself because everyone was curious about the truth. Selena felt the desire to turn into her Animagus form and run for the countryside where she could be free from prying eyes and the wizard war. Not even Dumbledore or Voldemort would find her.

Selena glanced at George when he slipped his hand on top of hers once more and sighed. His uncertain smile offered her little comfort, but she took what she could.

"Selena?" Molly asked, her hands braced on the table as if she was waiting for a reason to bounce up and launch herself at her son and Selena. "Are you pregnant too?"

Selena and George nodded at the same time. The older Order members looked at each other and started whispering to each other while Molly leapt out of her seat and wrapped her arms around Selena. Selena had never been hugged by an older woman since her grandmother had passed away, so it was both odd and welcomed as she was squeezed tightly by her boyfriend's mother. Molly pulled back for a moment and looked down at the dark haired witch for a moment.

"Do you know how far along you are?"

Selena nodded again. "One month."

Molly smiled pleasantly and hugged George just as tightly as she had hugged Selena. "Now George, this means you'll have to marry her someday in the near future…We can't have her raising the child in an unwed family environment…"

"I know Mum."

"The same for you, Harry and Evelyn. Marriage is important to this family and I expect you to get married soon if you're able to."

"It shouldn't be too hard," George said, rubbing the back of Selena's hand with his thumb. "All I have to do is ask You-Know-Who if I can marry his daughter…There's no risk in that, is there?"

Selena made a face and looked down the table as some of the adults rose and walked away. She saw the triumphant gleam in Lupin's eyes as he walked away and hated it. Charlie and

Bill offered their congratulations to their brother while Fleur plopped herself across from Selena and Evelyn and started rambling on and on about a double wedding which Selena ignored. She had a feeling that her life was soon going to be turned upside down by one man, who spread distrust in her like a disease…

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A/N: Selena is in for some rough patches, but so are Evelyn and Harry. It's all in the master plan that is slowly being revealed to me as I type up these chapters, word by agonizing word…(Really, I'm having to force myself to write after all of my homework is done…) and I'm starting to enjoy it.

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