Violet POV
I cant believe how nervous I am, Selena after helping to calm me down, got me into some nice clothes.
It was so embarrassing having Selena see me like that, daughters aren't supposed to console their mothers, it should be the other way around, then again I suppose our situation differs.
Dumbledore gave me permission to apparate myself and Selena to the Weasley residence, asking him was nerve-wrecking enough but standing here, right now in a field looking at a cluster of what looks like houses on top of one another. But it looked cosy and sweet.
I look down at myself for the fifth time since coming here, I'm wearing some denim jeans and a white shirt with a pair of cream flats, my wand in my old wand holster that's strapped to my belt, but I had a concealment charm put on it so that only I know it there, an idea I made many years ago when I made it.
"Maybe we should have waited another day" I say, looking at the place nervously, inside will be Mrs Molly Weasley, my old best friend from Hogwarts, and now the adopted mother of my daughter, I owe everything to this family.
"Come on mum, Mother Molly is really excited to see us" says Selena, she's started calling Molly "Mother Molly" around me, she said she'll still call her mum when she's around her and the same with me, it will probably be confusing at first but hopefully we'll be able to work something out.
I take in a deep breath and exhale, this helping my nerves a lot and then finally nod in agreement and she leads us both towards the burrow.
As we approached the front door my nerves came back ten fold, I swear if I could I would apparate back to my chambers now, but I don't want Selena thinking I am a coward, and I don't want to let her down either.
She knocked on the door and after waiting for a couple of minutes a woman with bright red hair, just like Fred and George came out wearing a summer dress with a cardigan, and yet I remember her like it was just yesterday.
"Violet?" she says looking at me with awe, I smile shyly at her and nod, then she suddenly squeals and hurries over to me and hugs me, taking the breath away from me.
"Oh my goodness it is so wonderful to see you again!" she says, I wrap my arms around her and hug her back,
"Its wonderful to see you too Molly" I say.
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"Oh I should have known Selena was your daughter, she's a spitting image of you" says Molly, all of us now in the sitting room drinking tea. I smile over at Selena who's sat watching us in the armchair,
"When did you get out?" asks Molly, looking at me curiously but with some sympathy,
"Nearly a week ago, I've been busy trying to get things done" I say, she smiles and nods,
"How did you two meet?" asks Selena, looking at us innocently, I smile at the memory.
"Well, your mother wasn't exactly the most popular girl in her first year, people said that after the sorting nobody talked to her, never gave a reason as to why, but she was always seen walking to classes and eating alone. So I decided to go to her one lunch and invite her over to the Gryffindor table" says Molly, I smile at this,
"I thought you had come over as a dare, or to pick on me, I wasn't as Molly said very popular, people felt the need to tease and be mean to me" I say, Selena looks at me confused from this, but I shrug my shoulders, even to this day I have no idea why they were like that towards me.
"But when she finally realised that I was being serious in asking her to join me, she had the brightest smile I have ever seen, she came over with me and the Gryffindors welcomed here like family, that was also the day she met Arthur too as he and I were friends then on" says Molly, Selena smiles at this, obviously smiling at our story,
"And after that day the three of us were inseparable, we'd go to class' together, study together, we even swapped tables a few times, me and Arthur would go to the Ravenclaw table" says Molly, I smiled at this, the good old days.
"You know I still have that photo of us" says Molly, I look up at her in surprise and watch as she gets up and roots around some drawers, and then after a few minutes she came back with a photograph,
"Come here sweety" I say to Selena and she comes over and instinctively I bring her on my lap, she smiles at me from this and I see Molly smiling at us from my gesture, then she shows us the picture, its a magical every-day moving picture and there I see my eleven year old self, sitting by the black lake with young Arthur and young Molly, we're all smiling and waving with arms around one another.
"I forgot about that" I say, gazing at the three of us" I say,
"Sometimes me and Arthur go through our Hogwarts pictures for a laugh, shall I bring the rest out?" she asks, I smile and both me and Selena nod vigorously in agreement, then Molly goes back to the draw with a thick aged envelope and brings out many photos onto the coffee table, Selena scoot off my lap and sits between me and Molly as we look through them.
"Oh Molly, these were from the Triwizard Tournament ball, remember you and me trying to do your hair" I say whilst laughing, holding a photo of me and Molly in our gowns looking very beautiful,
Oh yes, that was certainly an eventful night, that was the night Arthur gave me a promise ring" says Molly smiling lovingly, I smile in return remembering the loud scream of surprise she made when he asked her, I almost had a panic attack thinking she was being attacked until I saw them two together hugging.
But then suddenly I see something I didn't predict, a photograph of me, and him.
Selena caught me looking and looked at the photo,
"Who's that?" she asks, I look to her then to Molly who looks at the photo surprised, I exhale the breath I hadn't realised I was holding and look to Selena,
"That's me, and your father" I say, she looks at me surprised then back to the image of her younger father,
"I look like him" she murmurs,
"Only a little sweetie, but your nothing like him, your good, the purest good I have ever known" I say, Molly smiles and nods in agreement, smiling encouragingly to us.
"I think its time we bury the past, the future is now, and we make our own futures" I say, and we all agree, then when I look to the photograph I then use my power to set it on fire, destroying evidence of that part of my life. I wont live the rest of my life looking over my shoulder, I will live my life as I choose, as it should have been if it wasn't for him, the only thing I am grateful for from him is Selena, nothing else connects us, but again that is a big thing. But I know that if by some trickery of fate he returns, I will fight heaven and earth to protect my daughter from him.
Its time to live my life with my friends and my daughter.