A/N: I know, I said that the updates would come more often. But I'm busy, busy, busy!

Day by day, Remus's health improved. Neither the Healers nor I could explain it. I would stay at St. Mungo's 24 hours a day, stopping at my old home to change and take showers. When Remus was sleeping, I'd talk to Kylee or other patients.

One was named Hannah Abbott. She had been a student at Hogwarts when the war had really heated up. She told me about the battle – how the seventh years were given a choice to stay or leave, how the younger students were told to leave, and how some snuck back in and died – and about herself. She was a Hufflepuff, and she decided to stay, and for her deed, she was stuck in St. Mungo's.

"You see," she told me once, "This ward's for people with mysterious dark magic cast upon them. The Healers don't know what's happened to us, so they just stick us in this ward." She showed me that her hands were chained to the bed. "Some Death Eater cast a spell, and as soon as my hands are free, I try to strangle myself. I don't know why or how, and neither do the Healers. So, I'm stuck here for a while. If I ever get out, it'll be in handcuffs."

I even got the chance to see Alice and Frank Longbottom. It scared me to see them, to tell the truth. Alice had always been normal. A little strange, but normal. I had always envied her for that. Now I didn't envy her in the slightest. It was weird. A person I had envied was in a worse position than I was in.

While I was visiting them, their son came in. I had seen him when he was a little baby. He looked very different.

For one thing, he was eighteen. There was a little height difference since the last time I had seen him. And when he had been a baby, he had looked so frail. He had been a fat baby, fat but frail. Now he looked anything but frail. There was a look of rebellion in his eyes. Hannah had told me about what he had done in his seventh year at Hogwarts, but still. He was covered in burns, too. From head to toe. Every visible inch of his body had burns on it.

Neville came in every day to visit his parents. So it made sense that I met up with him. When I saw him, he was sitting by his parents' beds, accepting gum wrappers from them. When he heard me come in, he jumped a couple of inches.

"Hello?" I said tentatively.

"Who are you?" he asked suspiciously.

"I'm an old friend of your parents."

"Oh."

"How long have they been like this?"

"Years."

There's something you have to know about me. Back at Morgan's, they didn't teach the same type of magic that they taught at Hogwarts. At Morgan's, I never used a wand. We learned more complex versions of normal spells. The best example was Legilimency.

In England, the primary form of Legilimency was simply seeing random memories until one got to be a fairly accomplished Legilimens. In America, you could hear thoughts. They didn't even have to be the thoughts that the person was thinking at the moment. You got to hear the thoughts that repeated themselves most in the person's head. And once you were good at it, you could choose which thoughts and memories you wanted to hear and see.

I gently touched Alice on the shoulder. I immediately began to see memories from Alice's past. I concentrated harder, and found myself seeing a scene that gave me the chills. Alice, Frank, and Bellatrix Lestrange were standing in a dark alleyway, wands drawn.

"It's two against one," I heard Frank mutter to Alice. I saw her nod, her short hair bobbing. But at the last second, Bellatrix turned her wand from Alice to Frank.

"Crucio!" she screamed.

"No!" Alice shrieked. And the sight went on for hours. Frank was on the ground, shaking. He was in so much pain that he couldn't scream. But next to him, Alice was crying, yelling, begging. I saw that Bellatrix held Alice's wand in her left hand, while she casted the Cruciatus Curse on Frank with her right. It was a while before Frank passed out. Alice screamed again, and tried to shake him, fearing that he was dead.

"Don't worry," Bellatrix sneered at her, "He's not dead. He just will never be the same." With that, she turned her wand on Alice. I watched the scene again, only Bellatrix attacked Alice instead of Frank. It took even longer for Alice to fall. When she was finally on the ground, crying silently, I saw what she saw next.

Bellatrix let her wand fall by her side, as she began to smile maliciously. Her smile scared me. There was nothing that I hated more than Bellatrix's smile.

"If I let you go now," Bellatrix hissed, bending down to whisper in Alice's ear, "You'd recover. Your mind would erase any memory of this night. But I won't let that happen. You will suffer for the rest of your life. Your own son will be embarrassed to admit that you were his mother."

With that, she took a step back, raising her wand to her temple. Alice was still laying on the ground, gasping for air. Bellatrix pulled a silver string from her head, and bent back down over Alice. She inserted this string into Alice's temple.

"You'll never forget this moment. This pain won't go 'll always have this memory. And it will be the first thing you see when you wake up, and the last thing you see before you fall asleep." As the string entered Alice's head, she let out a blood-curdling scream. Bellatrix let out a cackle. Alice was barely conscious. The memory was fuzzy. But I saw Bellatrix bend over Frank before the memory ended.

I knew what I had to do. I pulled out my wand and held it to Alice's temple. I concentrated hard on the memory that I wanted to remove, and pulled. A silver string followed the wand. A couple minutes later, Alice opened her eyes. She blinked a couple of times, confused.

"Where am I?" she asked softly. I told her everything that had happened. When I finished, I waged another war on Bellatrix in Frank's head. I left soon afterwards. I wanted Neville to be alone with his parents when he saw the real people for the first time since he was a baby.

My job in St. Mungo's was done. Alice's war was won. I sat on Remus's bed for another week after that.

A/N: Wow. That was…unexpected, right? Well, it should've been, cause even I didn't see that coming. Seriously. I made that up as I went along. I love it when that happens. Please review!