Disclaimer: I do not own harry potter or any of its characters.

stardiamond94: You are awesome :D You have been with me since the beginning and I love it! Thank you! :D

Thank you for reviews and all the alerts! Its awesome!:D

One & One Makes Two

Chapter 14

Dresses and Memories

(It's Friday, two days after Draco and Brelynn looked at the flat.)

~Brelynn & Jessica~

Breakfast went by without a problem and once done they were all practically dragged to Hogsmeade. Jessica knew exactly what store the men needed to go to and what store she wanted to take Brelynn to.

Jessica sent the men in one direction and carted Brelynn off in another saying to meet them in the middle of Hogsmeade at 11:30.

They had gotten there at around 8 and the store had just opened. Jessica was ecstatic. For three hours straight without a break, the auburn shorty had Brelynn trying on all kinds of things, from the full skirts and low cut bodices to mermaid style skirts with such a tight bodice line that she could hardly breathe. She was seriously thinking about hexing her best friend and finding her brother and fiancé and hiding behind them.

"Jessica, I really don't want to wear these long skirts, I'm going to trip and fall. Why don't you look at the shorter ones? They are a lot more reasonable, this isn't actually a wedding you know and the real one isn't 'til after graduation. Then I'll wear the long skirts and hardly breathe dresses that I look incredibly ravishing in, as you say." Brelynn was trying to stay calm with her friend and catch her breath at the same time, it wasn't really working well. Jessica had made her put on this mermaid style dress that was way too tight, she couldn't breathe or walk in it. It did look quite gorgeous on her. It emphasized her chest quite nicely.

"All right, give me a second." With that she left to go and grab new dresses.

Brelynn went back into the dressing room and stripped the dress off quickly, taking in a deep much needed breath, and slipped on the robe that was there for customer convenience when waiting in between dresses. She sat and waited for the next torture session to begin. If one could tell, the young girl absolutely didn't like this; she hated dresses, make-up, doing her hair, all the stuff that normal teenage girls love to death. She liked to be covered, no skin showing, since the war she didn't like to let people see all the scars that littered her body.

She stood up, untied the robe and let it drop to the floor as she stood in front of the full length mirror. Her eyes were closed as it fell, revealing herself in a blue strapless bra and matching panties and hideously scarred body too.

The air in her lungs was lost as she opened her eyes and saw herself. Unsurprisingly tears came to her as Brelynn looked herself up and down, long marks criss-crossed on her forearms, ring marks around her wrists where they had shackled her wrists and arms to the wall so she had no way of moving them, no way of hitting or fighting them.

Next she looked at her legs, long they were they looked just as bad, they had shackled her legs too, criss-crossing marks from the tops of her thighs to her ankles. No way of movement, they had been thorough. Her eyes moved to her stomach next, there was something that looked like claws that dug into her and they had. They had let Fenrir Grayback have a time with her. He had, had fun clawing at her chest and stomach leaving his mark forever, making sure she knew it was him who did this, that she would never forget. Four claws had scared her from the top of her right shoulder all the way down to her left hip and then even a little into the left thigh. That was one of the worst ones she had, it had hurt so much, and it healed on its own only because they refused to heal any of her injuries no matter how close they brought her to death.

She turned around and looked at her back it was the worst next to her chest being ripped opened. Whip slashes cover the full length of her back; from the tops of her shoulders to the lowest point on her back. Some looked to be actually much older than the war and they were she didn't get all of her scars just from the war. Mary had made her suffer the years that she lived with her, made damn well sure.

Brelynn had played her part in the war, helping Harry; she actually played a bigger part than most thought. But before all that she had seen horrors that not even the Golden Trio would be able to withstand, it would have broken their will, they would have gone insane, given in, they wouldn't be who they were today. No matter how much they irritated Brelynn, she wouldn't want them to go through that.

Jessica walked into the dressing room with a bag to see her best friend standing in front of the mirror with nothing but her knickers and bra on, staring at her back, shaking so bad that Jessica thought she was going to collapse.

The older Gryffindor hung up the bag on the rack and walked over to the shaking girl. Jessica met her eyes in the mirror; she was scared, a scared little girl reliving her memories, all the pain, terror, and horror, that came with her past.

Jessica stayed were she was and tried speaking with her, calm and firm, just like all the other times she had to do this when Brelynn's memories took her over. "Brelynn, you're safe. Do you hear me?" Jessica took a step closer, then abruptly took two back at the look on Brelynn's face. Her mask that she hid behind, locked herself behind had shattered and that meant Jessica couldn't come near her, she was too vulnerable.

"Hey, Hey. Brelynn look at me. Your fine, see no blood, no open wounds. You're with me. Do you remember me, who I am?" Jessica had her hands up, palms facing the younger girl, to show that she was safe, that she wasn't going to harm her.

"Jessica, Jessica Johnston. My best friend since first year, the girl who has saved my life more times than I can count and is also sentencing me to hours of torture trying on dress and shoes that kill my feet." Jessica smiled at that and stepped forward 'til she reached Brelynn, picked up the robe and helped the girl into it, then hugged the hell out of her.

"Good, you know where you are and what's going on. This one was shorter. That's good." Jessica rubbed her arms and gave her another smile. "When was the last one?"

Brelynn shrugged, "I don't remember. Besides the nightmares, you'd have to as Daddy or Bubby when the last episode was. I don't remember the last time I had an episode and if I did it probably wasn't that bad." Jessica still had a smile.

"That's good, you're doing better and that's all that counts. Oh hey! Did you receive a flower this year, yet?" And just like that Brelynn was smiling and completely forgot about her episode, just like Jessica had wanted her to.

"No, but he might not send me one because of the law." Brelynn sighed, "But hey, It was good while it lasted." She gave a small smile, then "Okay, what did you get me this time?"

Jessica laughed at her before she could say anything, "Close your eyes. I don't want you seeing this one 'til the ceremony."

Brelynns face lit up like a Christmas tree when Jessica said that. "Really this is the one, no more torture!" Brelynn was jumping up and down by that point, with Jessica laughing full heartedly.

"Yes and close your eyes! Or you're not going to be done and I'll make you go and try on more dresses." The young one shut up immediately and closed her eyes, her best friend shook her head and slipped the girl into the dress.

Hope yall like it!

tell me if it makes sense...or not lol