"Is she alright?"
I heard Flur asked conserned. I felt Alastor nod his head.
"She's a bit stressed...She's be fine."
I sniffled and wiped my eyes and sat down just as Flur offered me a cup of tea. I smiled and took it thanking her. We sat and chatted quietly. Alastor talked with Bill and Remus. Nymph had gone upstairs to check on Teddy who had also been down for a nap. There came a knock at the door.
"Excuse me."
I heard Bill say as he walked to the door.
"Alastor! Elizabeth!"
I got up and rushed to the door to see Harry, blood on his clothes and holding a house elf.
"Dobby..."
Was all I could say. As hard as Alastor and Remus tried they couldn't save him and he passed away peacefully, surrounded by his friends. Bill carved some words into a piece of drift wood that stood as Dobby's head stone. Dobby was child like and very friendly, always there to help and absolutely adored little Katie, she loved to play sock puppetts with him and would giggle every time. After the small service I ushered Harry, Ron and Hermione inside, gave them some hot tea and some supper. I hugged Harry tight, holding him as close to me as I possibly could.
"Don't you ever do that again..."
I said between sniffles.
"I'm sorry Elizabeth, but I had to know exactly what was going on."
"You could have been killed lad. All of you could have."
He shot a look at Hermione, who over the past few years went from mentor to father figure. She looked down avoiding his gaze.
"Sorry..."
Was all Ron could say, I just shook my head. After they got cleaned up Hermione went and sat by the fire place to read she sighed and sat her book down and rested her head on her knees and began crying softly.
"Everything alright Lass?"
Aked Alastor as he at next to her, he rubbed her back soothingly.
"I-I don't know...I don't even think I heard her right..."
Alastor gave her a look of confusion.
"Who?"
She sniffled and wiped her eyes away.
"Bellatrix."
Alastor Huffed.
"It doesn't matter anymore. She's not here, and she cannot hurt you anymore."
Alastor was visibly upset when she told him what Bellatrix had done to her, what she carved into her arm.
"Y-you don't understand...What she said about Elizabeth...She know's who your mother is...Sh-she gave me this to give to you."
She pulled out and envelope out of her bag, the seal was broken.
"I-I'm sorry...I read it..."
She handed it to me. I opened it and read it, It was a copy of my adoption papers and my origonal birth certificate. My heart pounded and I set the envelop down on the coffee table and sat back down in my chair. I didn't read it I just let it lay there.
"I-I can't do it...I can't read it or look at it."
"Elizabeth. You have searched for an answer to who you are for so long and there it is, laying on the table right in front of you."
Said Alastor as he sat next to me on the sofa.
"Whatever those documents say. Will not change how I feel about you, how much I love you. I'm with you through all of this."
I looked at him tears in my eyes, stressed and tired from everything, I knew he loved me, but I was afraid what this would do to our marraige.
"I love you too Alastor...But I need time, I can't look at this right now."
I stood up and walked out of the room and walked out onto the beach and sat in the sand. I don't know how long I stayed there, I had to think about all this. Yes, this is something that I wanted to know my whole entire life, I wanted to know who I was and where I came from, who my real mother was. But holding that envelope in my hands, realizing that those documents held what I had always wanted to know, now terrified me. Up until now, I was ready. Now..I wasn't sure. I felt a pair of arms wrap around me, it was Flur.
"What do I do?"
She smiled at me.
"You will read them. They are just paper, and no matter what is on that paper you will always be Elizabeth Marie Potter Smith Moody."
She was right, a few documents didn't define who I was. I smiled at her a hugged her back.
"Let's go."
She smiled and laughed and we walked in. Alastor sat the envelope on the kitchen table infront of me where I sat, he sat across from me.
"I love you Elizabeth, no matter what."
I nodded. My heart racing and my hands shaking. It was the moment of truth. I opened the envelope and read the birth certficate.
"Baby girl born September 2nd 1971, no name given. Father, unknown. Mother..."
I stopped and felt the blood run from my face.
"Elizabeth?"
I looked up hearing Alastor's voice.
"Mother..."
Tears welled in my eyes, not from sadness but from shock and total fear. I didn't break eye contact with my husband as tears fell and I read the name out loud.
"Bellatrix Lestrange..."
Authers note: Tah dah...R&R