Authors Note: Ok finally, this was written last weekend but I hadn't had that much time, but for your enjoyment here is the next installment of Carter's life. For all those people who enjoyed the french a few chapters ago and so I have added some in.
I don't own, check other chapters for disclaimers
The day after the school holidays started, Andromeda asked Teddy and Victorie to take Carter to her parents and other family members' graves for the first time, as she wouldn't be able to herself, and as Carter had not told anyone about her situation, she wouldn't be able to visit them with her parents. They set out after breakfast to the cemetery near Carter's parents house, and she found them without difficulty, she spotted her sisters' graves first, written on the headstone was;
Kayla Celeste Nickel Ariel Amethyst Nickel
Daughters of Celeste and David Nickel
12 December 2001 28 July 2004
17 December 2010 17 December 2010
Once a part of a family, always a part of a family
She cried and then she broke down in tears wanting to see her sisters with her again, and not for them to be dead. She moved to the next headstone to the left and found her Aunt Mikayla, and both of her muggle grandparents;
Mikayla Estelle Nickel
Beloved Daughter of Estelle and Edwin
Loved Sister of David and Sister in Law to Celeste
Amazing Aunt to Ariel, Carter and Kayla
16 November 1982- 20 December 2012
Estelle Elisabeth Nickel
Wife to Edwin, Mother to Mikayla and David and Mother in Law to Celeste
Beloved Grandmother to Ariel, Carter and Kayla
3 February 1958-15 August 2012
Edwin David Nickel
Husband to Estelle, Father to Mikayla and David and Father in Law to Celeste
Loved Grandfather to Ariel, Carter and Kayla
27 July 1975-13 October 2006
Fighting until the end
Nothing stopped Carter crying at this tombstone either looking at the names of two of the family members names that she never really knew. She dared herself to look at the tombstone next to her sisters' on the right and found her late parents;
Celeste Amethyst Nickel (nee Black) David Edwin Nickel
Daughter of Sirius Black and Amethyst Son of Estelle and Edwin Nickel
Mother of Ariel, Carter and Kayla Brother to Mikayla, Father to Ariel, Carter and Kayla
5 January 1980-1 August 2017 24 June 1979 -1 August 2017
Together forever, protecting those who they love
She shed so many tears in the graveyard not bothering to look at anymore, she didn't think she could handle it, Victorie conjured up a rose for each tombstone, and Carter placed them mumbling apologies under her breath. After four hours they apparated back to Andromeda's house. That night she had another relapse, and bled more than she had previously at Hogwarts, when it was over she resumed looking through her photo album.
The next morning when Carter awoke she found the Daily Prophet, and found another article about the attack; Aurors are still completely baffled by the murder of David and Celeste Nickel
The Auror office is no closer to figuring out who killed David and Celeste Nickel, as they are to the mysterious third patch of blood in the house. Everything has been analysed and nothing has been found out, are the Aurors clueless? Or is the murderer a mastermind? No Aurors were free to comment due to the heavy workload, but we can exclusively announce that there have been some related incidents, that may give them a hint, which is why they have been looking over the previous case files of the murders of their daughters Ariel and Kayla, and the death of Mikayla Nickel. Hopefully the whole ordeal will be solved sometime soon.
Thoughts raced around her head, what if they found out that Carter was still alive, or that she knew all of the details of the murder, her thoughts were interrupted by an owl tapping on the window, with a piece of parchment bound to it's leg. She unbound it and read the letter which said;
Dear Carter,
Hope your having a good time with your guardian or parents or whoever you're spending your time with,
I'm great, and I can't wait to see you next week, well on Sunday, I think my parents are worried about me because I won't shut up about all the things we did at Hogwarts, and how amazing it is to have you, Al and Rose as my best friends.
Anyway, Dad is peering over my shoulder, and he says hello, he wants me to tell you that he will be picking you up from the Ministry's fountain thing, I forgot what it's called but anyway at 5pm on Sunday.
Please respond, Dad's just left, I'm sending this with his owl so please send it back as soon as possible
Scorp
"I have details", she ran downstairs and told Andromeda before writing back to Scorp
Scorp,
RELAX!
I'm great and I'm staying with my guardian at the moment,
my guardian says that it's fine for me to be at the ministry at that time, I'll probably be there early,
Tell your parents I said hi as well, and I can't wait til next week either
BYEEE!
Carter
She quickly attached the note to the owl's leg and it flew off into the distance. The rest of the week passed quickly, and the happiness of seeing her friends helped Carter to get through that week, without a relapse, Carter, Rose, Al and Scorpius had been corresponding via owls all week. On Saturday night Carter repacked her bags ready to go to the Malfoy's the next day, because she was so excited.
It was early Sunday morning and Carter was flicking through her photo album and reading the letters that she had written to her parents and sisters throughout the year, when Teddy knocked on the door with bubblegum pink hair and his natural amber eyes. He tapped on his watch saying that it was time to go, she put the photo album back in her bag and said farewell to Andromeda, they apparated to the Ministry of Magic's Auror department and Teddy left Carter in his office while he attended a meeting. He came back briefly for lunch and then went to another meeting that took three hours. She entertained herself by playing with a Rubik's cube on his desk, and by looking at all the photos on the walls, there were so many on the desk as well. When she had finished looking at the photos she saw a pinboard with all the cases that were being conducted, she saw the smiling picture of her parents, and then the photo next to it was their dead bodies, it was saddening for her to see this, and so she looked away. When Teddy came back he worked at his desk until 4:45pm, when he decided to take Carter to the Fountain of Magical Brethren where she would wait for Draco Malfoy. It took them ten minutes to get there, and then they said goodbye.
She waited for Draco to show up, and he arrived at exactly 5pm. "Hello Mr. Malfoy" she greeted him.
"Hello Carter, are you ready to go?" he asked
"Yes" she replied, no sooner had the word slipped out of her mouth she felt the twisting and turning of being hurled through the air, and arrived at Scorpius' home. As soon as they landed, Draco took her luggage to the spare room. She did not even have enough time to steady herself before she was pinned to the floor by Scorpius in a bone crushing hug, she hugged him back, just not so tightly. Eventually Scorpius' mother came down the stairs, and he released Carter from his grasp. Scorpius took Carter for a tour of the house, then they did their homework to get it over and done with, then they had the rest of the week to muck about, and have heaps of fun. Scorpius' parents didn't really have much to do with the pair, not wanting to intrude, they just ate meals together, and sometimes went on outings together.
All too soon the next Sunday came, and it was time for Carter to go to Rose's house. Scorpius and Carter said their goodbyes just before 4:30pm, when Draco, took her via apparition to the Ministry, to the place where he collected her.
"Thank you for having me Mr. Malfoy" said Carter, before he left
"No problems. Do you know where you are supposed to wait for King of the Weas- Mr. Weasley?" He asked
"Yup" and without another word he left, and she headed to the Auror Office, the way that Teddy had shown her the previous week. She found the office without issue, and knocked on the office door to where she thought Mr. Weasley's office was, the door opened and there was Teddy sitting at his desk snogging Victorie.
He looked up, and to say he was surprised was an understatement, he recovered himself as quickly as possible, and she buttoned her shirt back up "Carter what an, er, unexpected surprise!" said Teddy
"Um… wrong door… oops" she said squirming in the uncomfortableness of the situation.
"Nevermind-" started Teddy before Victorie cut across and said "Qui avez-vous perdu?" (Who have you lost?)
"J'ai cherche pour votre oncle" Carter answered (I'm looking for your uncle) while Teddy was looking quite confused.
"Quel oncle?" responded Victorie laughing (Which Uncle?)
"Ron Weasley" Carter answered, at this Teddy was completely baffled, and whispered to Victorie for a translation of the situation. After a couple of minutes he nodded, and decided to take Carter over, they left the room with Teddy saying in an imitation of the Terminator voice "I'll be back" Victorie giggled and they went further down the corridor.
They finally reached the door, and knocked, it was opened immediately by Ron before he even asked anything Teddy said "She knocked on my office door, thinking it was yours" he winked at Carter and then left back to his girlfriend to do some more "paperwork". She turned around and sat on a comfy armchair, until they had to go, she noticed many images of her parents, and then many photos of Rose, Hugo, him and Rose's mum around the place, some of Harry Potter, him and his wife. When it was time to leave, they walked to the fireplace, and flooed into the home of this part of the Weasley family resides, where Rose was anxiously waiting by the fireplace. Ron came out first followed by an unbalanced Carter, who fell flat on her face when she landed, Hugo laughed and Rose uncomfortably stared at her 'baby' brother until he finally shut up, she helped Carter up then the two hugged. Carter said a quick hello to Hugo, and Rose's mother, then she followed Rose to her bedroom and they talked and talked and talked about random topics that came up (what they had been doing for the past two weeks of the school holidays, what Scorp's family is like, what they would do next year in various subjects, holiday homework (which was brought up by Rose, and it wasn't lingered on for long) and at one point the discussion was about gnomes). Quickly dinner was served and the affair was completely different to the Malfoy's, they all served themselves from all of the possibilities on the table, people would talk whenever, and it reminded her of how her family would never be able to do any of this with her. They played wizards chess before bed and Rose thrashed Carter in five moves, they then went to bed, but before she did, Carter looked at the photo album and noticed a new photo that had been added, it was of her and Rose, after she arrived in style via floo powder.
The next morning Rose woke up, and took a shower while she could, she then replayed many memories in her brain, that she had with her family and with her friends, Rose stirred, and so Carter decided to use the moments to study the room, it was filled with photos that hung around the room, she was surprised to find a picture of the four of them, she saw other photos, ones with Al and her, ones with her entire family. There were also many Chudley Cannons and Holyhead Harpies posters around the room, Carter's bed was next to Rose's, there were two trunks in the corner of the room, and they belonged to the pair. Various Rose's were painted on the walls, and on the bed sheets, there was a single red rose in the middle of a white quilt cover. Rose awoke and she jumped out of bed, saying a quick hello to Carter, then raced down the stairs, with Carter in tow, and sat at the dining table, where bacon was being cooked. Ron was next to his wife trying to help cook, when Hugo appeared from a cloud of black smoke, Hermione then interrogated him, about where, and how he got the smoke, all Carter heard was Uncle George, and a grunt that came from Hermione.
They ate in silence, Hermione stared at Hugo the entire time, while Carter, Rose and Ron where all giggling (well in Ron's case laughing) under their breaths. After breakfast they went into the backyard and played Quidditch, Rose and Ron vs. Hugo and Carter, the game started, and Carter and Rose were chasers, while Hugo and Ron were keepers. Carter gained possession of the quaffle and scored the first points of the game, it continued, and they were matched at 100 each way, Carter had possession of the quaffle, when another relapse started, she tried to land safely, it didn't work, and she fell straight from the broom to the ground, she would have hit the ground quite hard, and quickly had Ron not have seen this, and stopped her with arresto momentum. She bled , and woke up in the bed she was using in Rose's room, bandaged up, and a massive headache, she quickly understood what had happened, and she then looked around to find Rose on her bed, watching her.
"Well, hi to you too Rose" greeted Carter, while Rose sat there with a shocked expression on her face.
'So you fall off a broom, bleeding, unconscious, and the first thing you say is "Well, hi to you too Rose"?' she questioned in a joking tone, but there was a hint of worry in her voice also.
"Yep, well would you rather me say, Where am I?" she asked sarcastically "Well I guess I could also say, 'Hey, I fell off a broom from at least 50 metres in the air and I survived.'" Rose just stared, then she left the room.
Soon enough Rose's parents arrived into the room, and started to check up on her and see if she was alright, and if she could remember why she fell off her broom. When she was asked this, she quickly came up with the lie, that she simply lost her balance, and before she could regain it, she fell off, which wasn't a complete lie, it just wasn't the full truth, they seemed satisfied with the answer, and left her alone with Rose.
For the rest of her visit she didn't do too much, but they went on outings, but they didn't play Quidditch again, for her safety. On Sunday around lunch they flooed to the Burrow with Carter's things, and her entrance was even more elegant than the one she had entering Rose's home, she epically failed, landing on her face once again, covered in soot and her bags, when she emerged from the fire, she exclaimed "Can I get any worse at flooing, I mean I am a clutz" just as she had finished her statement, a blur appeared before her and seemed more determined than Scorpius to squeeze her to death, it was Al.
Standing behind him, were the rest of the Weasley/ Potter/ Lupin gang laughing their heads off, at their discomfort, before Al's mum decided to save the poor girl before she suffocated, "Albus Severus Potter let her go, before she suffocates" said Ginny half laughing and half serious. All the members of the Potter/Weasley/ Lupin gang who Carter had not met or, had not told anyone that she had met were introduced, and Carter was shocked at the size of the family yet again, because they look a lot bigger than the family did in photos. After an amazing lunch served by Molly, and some of the other family members, all the kids except Teddy and Victorie went outside to play Quidditch, Carter agreed to be referee, it was team Flowers (Lily (who chose the name of the team despite the fact nobody wanted it) Rose, Albus, Louis, Hugo) vs. Muscles (Fred, James(who also chose the name of the team), Roxanne, Dominique and Lucy) while Lucy commentated the game. Eventually the flowers won with Al catching the snitch.
After the game it was time to leave, so Rose and Carter said goodbye, then side-along apparated with Ginny, to their home. When they landed Carter said "Yep, I definitely like apparating better than the floo network" while the others all laughed. Al showed her up to the guest room, but when she left the room she saw a smirk on James' face that only was there when he was plotting or a plan for a prank that had gone correctly. Before dinner Al and Carter talked and talked and well you get the picture. They talked about their plans for the rest of the summer, and then dinner was ready…
They went down the stairs and ate pasta for dinner, James continued to look up at the ceiling, as if something was about to fall down onto Carter's head, then she felt it, there was a massive fake spider on top of her head, fake cockroaches were also entangled into her hair. Instead of doing the normal girly thing, she continued to eat, and James' grin stopped, and he was wondering if it had actually worked. When they had finished dinner, Al whispered to her about the spider and cockroach in her hair and she answered "watch this", and he obliged. She walked over to James and said whilst picking cockroaches and the spider out of her hair "James, if you're going to prank me, you are going to have to do better than this" handing back the cockroaches, and then she skipped off up the stairs with a laughing Albus behind her, James was left there dumbstruck.
Over the summer holidays they did many things, they went to Hogsmead, Diagon Alley, the Burrow, and Rose's house several times. Sometimes they went swimming, and Carter concealed her arms with the spell. When she wasn't in the water, she wore skivvys and other cover ups, so that no one would see the scars. Many unsuccessful attempts at pranks were done to Carter by James, and every time she told him to try harder. The photo album was added to, many times, with all the good times that they had. On August 1 2018 she was especially sad, because it was the 1 year anniversary of the attack and her parents death, no person knew what was wrong, but it was obvious that it was a onetime thing, because the next day she was completely happy again, well as happy as she could be.
31st August was Carter's birthday, she woke up early, and flicked through the photo album and read the letters she sent parents, that were redirected to her. Her thoughts were interrupted by a tapping at the window, it was a large owl with a parcel attatched to it. She opened the scroll and it said;
Dear Carter,
When we were searching through your parents house I found this bracelet,
I'm giving it to you as there it was your mother's,
and I thought it would cheer you up.
Happy Birthday
Teddy
She opened it up, and in there was a charm bracelet with mini icons of the world on it, everywhere that her mother had been. She loved the gift and put it on her wrist. She got dressed and then grabbed her jacket. Carter put her hand in the pocket and found another note addressed to her;
Carter,
If you are reading this then we are dead, and it is your 12th Birthday,
firstly Happy Birthday Darling.
Secondly there is a necklace that belonged to me, and your Aunt Mikayla, Grandma Estelle, her mother and you get the picture.
It is yours now, and when your daughter turns 12 you can give it to her.
Remember we love you forever
Mum & Dad
She cried, and put her hand into her pocket again, and pulled out a beautiful necklace that Carter fell in love with immediately; she put it on and then went downstairs. She was greeted by a chorus of Happy Birthday, and bacon and eggs for breakfast. The day progressed, there was a joint party for Carter's birthday and a farewell party for all the members of the family leaving to go to Hogwarts, there was a chocolate mud cake, and lots of food. All in all it was a great day, and then they packed for the train ride tomorrow. The last thought that Carter had before going to sleep was get back to Hogwarts.
Authors Note: You like, I need your opinion please! next chapter will be here sometime prior to 2013