Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and never will. It belongs to the brilliant mind of JKRowling, and I do not make any money off of this piece of work.

Title: Alyssum
Characters: Alison Harriet Potter (Harry Potter), Bill Weasley, Severus Snape, Rosalita Weasley, Vincent Weasley, Molly Weasley, Fred and George Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Sirius Black, and other various OCs.
Pairings: Ron/Hermione, Bill/Harry
Rating: M
Chapter: 29
Genre: Supernatural/Drama
Words for chapter: 1,333
Warnings: Female!Vampire!Harry, AU, OCs, het, language, vampires, manipulative!Dumbledore, violence, post-Hogwarts, post-Voldemort, and the standard whatever else this demented author thinks up.
Summary: Alison Harriet, Harry, Potter disappeared at the age of twenty-one. Years later, a vampire, though no one knows it, appears in London with a striking resemblance to the Girl-Who-Lived. Yet she didn't come alone, as a man arrived with her. Now the duo must survive a normal life filled with challenges and plots to ruin their happiness. Can they pull through, or will one little fact destroy them?
Notes: As with some ideas recently, a female!Harry with a creature element has attracted me. The plot bunny appeared and I actually wanted to write it. The title comes from a plant that appears in the story and relates to Alison. Also, Harry will be called Alison in text and either Alison or Harry by the characters.

Chapter 29: Repercussions

Bill and Alison arrived at the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix with their children. Arthur was the one to greet them when they got there. He looked around and began to lead them up the stairs. It was easy for them to figure out that they were being shown where to put the children. That was fine by them. Both kids were rubbing their eyes. They were still in their pyjamas and wanted to go back to sleep. Arthur let them go into the room and tuck the children in on their own. He wasn't about to intrude on the parental ritual. He waited for them to come out.

They came out minutes later. Arthur led them to the kitchen. It was a given that the meeting would be held there. It was where they had always met in the past. They walked into the kitchen and saw that everyone was VERY calm. It was a little too calm as far as Alison was concerned. The way things were happening wasn't right. They were both expecting a grim atmosphere. Bill cleared his throat. "What's going on?" He took Alison's hand. He was worried about what was going to happen.

Arthur looked at them and held out a letter that had been on the table. It was addressed to Alison. He waited for Alison to take it. "This was found with the injured person. It was addressed to you." She could see that. She took the envelope and turned it over. She saw that the seal had been broken. She scowled. She didn't like that they had read her mail, even if it was from someone connected to the psychopath.

She looked at them. "Why did you open it?" She knew that someone in the room was the one to have done so. Bill stepped closer to his wife. He would make sure that they quickly left if they needed to. He wasn't going to let them harm his wife. After all, he knew how quickly they could turn on people.

Arthur then looked over at Molly and Ron. He actually glared. That startled both Alison and Bill. They had never seen the man do that. It was obvious that he didn't like what they had done. He then shook his head. "They were the ones that opened it while we were waiting for you. They also decided to read the contents of the letter aloud." The tone of his voice was cold enough to freeze the room. It was a shock to see that the normally docile Arthur Weasley could become that angry.

Alison frowned. She didn't like it either, but she felt like she had to ask what was in the letter. She didn't want to read it if she could avoid it. "So, what did the letter say?" She raised an eyebrow. She was unhappy with what she was hearing.

Sirius sighed and rubbed his eyes. "They all know now." He then looked at Alison. She went pale. There was only one thing that Sirius could mean with those words. She didn't like that at all. Bill pulled her into his arms and held onto her. He also knew what Sirius meant when he had said that.

Bill let out a slow breath. "So, all of you now know. What are you going to do? Are you going to hurt my wife?" He shot them a look that said that they could try. Yet, it also said that he would hurt them for even conceiving of such a thing. He wasn't about let them harm her. That was completely against everything that he stood for.

Kingsley cleared his throat. Everyone looked at him. He looked at them. "She isn't breaking any laws. We just wanted to know when and what happened? It's not everyday that someone we know is turned into a Day Walker." He then shot Molly a look. It seemed that the woman hadn't impressed anyone with her more recent comments against the woman that had helped save them from Voldemort.

Alison's face went even paler than anyone would have thought possible. Bill rubbed her arms. He wanted to try and get her to relax. She didn't seem to want to. He kissed her cheek. "I'll take care of it. Why don't you go and be with the kids?" Alison nodded and saw that Molly was trying to speak. The woman's mouth was opening to say something. Alison didn't like that something was going to come out of that woman's mouth at all.

Remus sighed. "Before you even worry about Molly and Ronald, they can't say anything. We had to spell the two of them silent." He shot the two redheads a look. Alison smiled at that and returned Bill's kiss. She then left the room as quickly as she could. She didn't want to be around when Bill explained what had happened. It was hard enough for her to deal with the nightmares as it was.

Bill sighed after she left. He didn't want to talk about this anymore than Alison wanted to relive it. "Remus and Sirius know what happen." He looked at them. "I'm glad that they didn't say anything." He then looked back at the others. "What happened is dark and it hurts everyone that knows." He rubbed his eyes as he thought about what to say. He was finding this very hard.

Bill then closed his eyes. "Alison was kidnapped two weeks prior to our wedding. I didn't tell anyone because I knew that she would hate everyone looking for her. She was missing for two days. Since she was a bit crazy with the wedding planning, it wasn't a surprise that nobody saw her at the time." He chuckled at the memory of her craziness. He then shook his head. "She had kind of been secluding herself naturally. What had happened was that a Day Walker had taken her. He wanted to kill her." He had to stop again. His mind wanted to push what he was thinking about away. Instead, he pushed himself to say what he had to. "Luckily, he had made the mistake of sharing some of his blood with her. It wasn't a mistake that he had meant to make. Alison had cut him when she was trying to make him leave her alone. It was after he had beaten her and taken blood." He opened his eyes and saw confusion on the faces of a few people. That meant that he needed to explain a few things.

He focused on a spot over all of their heads. "A little bit of blood being shared by a Day Walker has a chance of changing those who are magically powerful enough. As a result of the cut that he had, she ended up ingesting the blood that had dripped into her mouth. The Day Walker used it to his advantage when he realized what had happened. In fact, he forced her to drink more. It seems as if Alison's change into a Day Walker was violent. She says that she felt as if she was going to be torn apart." Bill had to stop again. This was a hard topic for him to talk about. "When she came to, he was dead. He had been torn apart. She then rushed out and returned home. She arrived right as I got home from another day of searching. She was covered in blood and bruises. She collapsed the moment that she saw me." That was where he stopped for good. He didn't want to think about it anymore.

Everyone else was silent. Remus looked at the rest of the Order. "All of this means that we need to protect her. We can't let her be endangered because of this." Most of the group nodded. Molly and Ron were the only ones that didn't. The group fell completely silent. After all, they had been left with a lot to think about.

A/N: Well, there we go. Alison's secret is out. Later.