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A./N.: Hi guys! This is a chapter not originating with me. My best pal here on gave me this idea and I hope you enjoy how I put it to use. Please read & review.
LG Andrea
Twas the Nightmare about the Future
For the first time in her entire life Sarah knew how it felt to be loved by a father. It was unadulterated love, no demands, no conditions, no holding back, just love. She lay in his arms and listened to his heart beat. Oddly enough she had no regrets about donating her heart to a total stranger who just happened to have half her genes. Never before had she felt so strongly for anyone.
Her mother had been in her life always. Of course she was wonderful and loving and caring but she couldn't be both mother and father. For one she lacked the necessary body parts. Sarah smiled at that and snuggled closer to her father. Only momentarily she regretted that her parents hadn't gotten married back then. Now that she had cooled down though, she understood all the reasons not to. And if she was honest, Sarah had to admit that Arthur and Molly looked really cute together and so very much in love. She definitely didn't want to break up their marriage. Then she remembered that she still had to apologize to her mother for the horrible way she had talked to her earlier.
But for the moment she was more worried about Arthur. Surely she was squashing him with her weight on his freshly operated and healed chest. Slowly she lifted herself off his frame. Looking up into his face to smile reassuringly at him, she discovered that he was fast asleep.
Carefully she slid of the bed and stood over her father. Smiling benignly down upon him, she pulled up the blanket and tucked her father in as if he were her little son.
Then she settled down to sleep on the couch on the opposite side of the room from his bed. With some twitching and tossing she finally settled down comfortably. With her head resting on the armchair, she observed her father intently, looking out for any signs of distress.
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Molly and Minerva met in the corridor to Arthur's room. Molly had a cup of steaming tea in her hand and a plate with biscuits. Surely her sweet tooth was in the mood for a midnight snack. She nearly collided with Minerva who was in search of her daughter.
"Oh, Molly, I'm sorry. I didn't see you there", she exclaimed but Molly only smiled at her and straightened up again.
"I'm on my way to Arthur with some sweets and tea. You want to join me in case he is asleep ... we need to talk", answered Molly, eyeing her former professor sternly.
Minerva just nodded and looked down to the floor in shame. She could only imagine that talk. And she also remembered the rather painful conversation about the same subject they had had in the hospital. Molly, though, was not letting an uncomfortable atmosphere arise. She smiled warmly at Minerva and extended one hand, still holding the plate with the cookies, to touch her arm.
"I won't jinx you this time. I promise!"
Together they walked over to the door and peeked in through the little window Poppy had created in order to spy on Arthur but not disturb him.
As Molly and Minerva were watching from the window, they found Arthur and Sarah were fast asleep.
Molly chuckled as she listened to her dear husband's light snores. That had been the worst thing to get used to after their wedding.
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Arthur was having a nightmare.
He was once more in his backyard and saw Greyback approach his little daughter. But Ginny was not alone this time. Sarah was standing next to her sister and held her wand drawn, pointing it directly at Greyback's chest. In rapid tempo she sent curse after curse at him but he dodged every single one of them. He was slowly advancing on them with a horrible sneer on his lips.
Arthur was unable to move. He was stuck to the ground despite all his efforts to break free and race to his daughters, to defend them, to die for them if need be.
Out of the corner
of his eye he saw Molly, robes billowing behind her, run forward.
Minerva was right beside her. Now all the women he loved were
standing there in the line of Greyback's drawn wand. Arthur
screamed. His heart was in his throat, beating wildly.
And then
suddenly his heart stopped dead in his chest. Bellatrix had suddenly
come up behind the women and sent a curse straight for Minerva.
Arthur could suddenly move again and immediately threw a protective
charm between Bellatrix and her victim. And then he hexed Bellatrix,
turning her swiftly into a harmless black rat.
Turning around to face Greyback and feeling immensely relieved to have prevented a catastrophe, his heart ached as he saw Molly being hit by a green flash.
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Sarah jerked out of her sleep. Her heart was beating wildly and stopping altogether at frequent intervals. Immediately she glanced over to where Arthur was tossing and turning, sweating and obviously having a nightmare. She sharply turned around at a sound coming from the door and saw Molly and her mother standing there. Her mother had to grabbed at a cup and a plate Molly shoved into her hands, before she rushed to her husband's side and placed a comforting hand on his forehead and chest, calming him down.
Minerva was just smiling knowingly at her daughter and came to sit next to her on the couch.
"You felt him having a nightmare, didn't you?" she asked softly, stroking a stray strand of hair out of her daughter's face.
Her daughter only nodded glumly and sank into her mother's embrace.
"I not only felt it, mum ... I saw it."
