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Chapter 21
19 BBY (1994), Potter Manor
It was the Friday of the meeting and both Charlus and Dorea were getting ready for it. They were both curious as to what the meeting entailed, they also were wondering as to who the head of House Le Fay was. As they finished getting ready, Charlus assured James that he and Dorea would be fine. They walked over to the floo and went straight to the Leaky Cauldron.
19 BBY (1994), Diagon Alley
Charlus and Dorea came out of the floo and greeted Tom. Seeing that they were a bit early, they decided to take a stroll through Diagon Alley. Making their way to the back, they went into Diagon Alley and slowly browsed the windows to the stores. And just taking the time to see the changes and compare them to when they were younger. Soon they were at Gringotts and made their way up to a teller. Charlus looked at the Goblin, "My name is Charlus Potter. I am here to check on my family assets." The Goblin nodded and directed them to a meeting room. When they entered the meeting room, they saw three women. One had beautiful silk blonde hair, beautiful pale skin, grey eyes and pointed ears. The second had cropped brown hair, beautiful fair skin, and intense blue eyes. The third woman could not be seen as she was wearing a black cloak to hide her features. The blonde woman spoke up, "Greeting Lord and Lady Potter. My name is Lady Aelrue Le Fay, but I have gone by Master Fay for quite some time. With me is Grandmaster Satele Shan of the Eternal Order and Mother Nyriss, leader of the Dathomirian witches know as the Nightsisters." At each introduction, the women nodded. Charlus looked at Master Fay and said, "Greetings Master Fay. Please call me Charlus. I was shocked to see a request to meet with house Le Fay. It had been to my belief that house Le Fay died with the Lady Morgana." Dorea spoke up and said, "Please call me Dorea. And I must agree with my husband. I am curious to why you asked to meet us." Master Fay nodded before saying, "Before I get into that, I have some information that you need to understand before the basis of our meeting happens. It concerns your granddaughter Vaylin. I will give you an oath so you know what I am about to say is the truth as it will be hard to understand." Both Charlus and Dorea nodded and waited for Master Fay to give her oath. Once Master Fay gave her oath, she went into all of the history that both Vaylin and Satele had told her as they had both taken Veritaserum to make sure she knew it was the truth. She then went into the most recent history and how they had gotten here, only leaving out that she had changed physically. Master Fay also left out the family lines for the time being.
Many hours had passed and both Charlus and Dorea where holding tumblers of Firewhiskey. While it was hard for them to accept, they knew that with the oath of Master Fay telling the truth, they would do what they could to get their granddaughter back. They looked at Master Fay and Charlus asked, "So you are saying that while our granddaughter is thirty-three, she is technically over three thousand years old instead of thirteen." Master Fay nodded sadly and said, "I am afraid so. I am truly sorry." Dorea spoke up and said, "I would like to see her, even if she is not thirteen, she is still my granddaughter." At this, Satele spoke up, "Your granddaughter has gone through many changes. The first time was when she took what you would call a purging potion. It revealed her elven ancestry. The second time she went through changes was when she was when she fought an enemy and took her place as a leader. She had to undergo a ritual to qualify for being the leader. The ritual changed her and while she does not have noticeable pointed ears, she has changed a lot." Charlus looked at Satele and said, "I don't care about that, I just want my granddaughter back." At this Dorea nodded. Soon Nyriss spoke up and asked with many voices echoing under hers, "Even with the dark past she carries? You still want her to be a part of your family?" Charlus looked at Nyriss and said, "She was not in control of herself when she went dark. And she was in a war both times, but she is still our granddaughter and I will love her no matter what her past was like." Dorea nodded and said, "I missed being able to be with her, even if she is thirty-three and has done some dark things, I just want to have my granddaughter back in my life." At this Master Fay and Satele smiled. Nyriss stood up and shocked both Charlus and Dorea as they saw her height of 2.30 meters. Soon the cloak fell and they saw a woman with very pale skin, black facial patterns, long black, sickly green that reminded them of the killing curse with black sclera, long black hair but they recognized most was the dark aristocratic features of the Black family. They also noticed that her left arm seemed to be made completely out of metal. Dorea carefully stood and walked up to Nyriss and asked, "Vaylin, is it really you?" At this Vaylin smiled and nodded. Dorea practically slammed into Vaylin, hugging her tightly, afraid that if she let go then Vaylin would disappear again. This caused Vaylin to stumble a bit as she was still getting use to the tall height. Charlus got up and hugged Vaylin tightly. Vaylin hugged them back, a little awkward of showing affection to anyone other than Satele and, when she was alive, Senya.
Charlus and Dorea asked as many questions as they could think of to learn about their Granddaughter. Soon it was about closing time for Gringotts, and Charlus asked, "What do you want me to tell James and Lily? They will want to know you are alive and to introduce them to their wife Bellatrix and your siblings." Just as Charlus said that Raggok entered the room and Vaylin gave him a murderous glare and asked, "And how is the Bellatrix their wife?" Both Charlus and Dorea were shocked to see the Goblin scared to the point he was shaking. Soon Raggok stumbled out, "Well, I was unsure of how you would react as I did not know what culture you came from. For all I know, you could hate a marriage with more than one spouse or a marriage to those of the same gender. I figured that once I knew of how you would react to that by knowing your culture, I would tell you about Lady Bellatrix." Vaylin's glare only intensified but she said, "I understand your hesitation to give me the information as it is a wise idea. But it also left me unprepared for something and that could have easily caused my death. Do not make the same mistake with me again." Raggok quickly nodded and told them that Gringotts was closing before he ran out of the room. Charlus and Dorea were impressed as it was said very few things scare a Goblin. Vaylin relaxed before looking at her grandparents, saying, "First tell them that the meeting was about information about me. Tell them that you witnessed an oath so that they understand that you where told the truth. And once that has been able to be accepted tell them that I went through many changes that are not of my own doing, but unforeseen circumstances. Again, when they are able to accept that, I will meet with them." Charlus and Dorea nodded at this and knew it was the best option for the time being. They quickly hugged Vaylin goodbye and asked if they could meet up again some time. Vaylin said she would be in contact at some point to meet up again. Soon Charlus and Dorea were on their way back to Potter Manor.
19 BBY (1994), Potter Manor
Charlus and Dorea finally made it home to Potter Manor. They noticed that James, Lily and Bellatrix were waiting for them. James looked at his parents and asked, "Did everything go okay?" Charlus nodded and then sat down, not knowing what to say. Dorea sat beside him and held his arm in comfort. Charlus looked at James and said, "I know this may be difficult to understand, but first you must know that the Lady Le Fay gave an oath that everything she told us was the truth. The oath accepted and she told us that Vaylin is alive." This caused James and Lily to ask many questions such as "Is she all right?" and "Why is she not here with you?" as well as "What happened to her?" Charlus held up his hand to quiet them down. Once they quieted, he told them a bit about what happened of how Vaylin's life was. He also told them that she was not the young thirteen year old girl they were expecting as she was actually in her thirties. Charlus left out the information such as her fall to the Dark as well as the wars she was in and that she been in many wars as well as being over three thousand years old and going through many physical changes. James and Lily were both shocked and asked for some time to process all that they had been told. Charlus nodded as James and Lily left to go to bed. Bellatrix waited for them to be out of the room before asking, "It was bad, wasn't it. Is that the reason you withheld information?" Charlus looked at Bellatrix and said, "Not so much as bad, as it is painful to understand and possibly accept about a family member you remember as being a one year old child." Bellatrix nodded and then walked after James and Lily to help them get though this as they had helped her in many ways.
Chapter 21 is done. A review said that they were confused at how Vaylin could be in her thirties yet also be over three thousand years old. While technically she is over three thousand, she spent that time frozen in a stasis pod when she was thirty and she spent the next three years helping in the clone wars. The pace is going to slow down a bit now. As always my lovely readers, I hope you are enjoying the story and please leave a review as I do enjoy knowing what you think. ArchAngelofDeath