Chapter 38: Curious Behavior
Delaney was meeting her dad, Sirius and Maggie in the Room of Requirement about a month into the term.
"So, what do you need to tell us sweetie?" Remus asked gently.
"You remember that letter I received from Percy's girlfriend Audrey right before the vacation ended."
"Yes."
"I went to the muggle tea shop and it turns out that Audrey is my god-sister and her parents are my god parents. I was having a good time until Audrey's mum started spewing lies about my dad."
"What did she say?" Sirius and Maggie asked venomously.
"She called my dad a coward. I told her he wasn't a coward. She twisted around the story I've known to be true since I was thirteen by saying that he abandoned her when he found out she was pregnant."
"I did not abandon Caroline, she broke up with me before she even mentioned she was pregnant. If she wants proof I think I still have the message written down," Remus said, angrily.
"Where do these people live, I want to set them straight," Sirius said, angrily almost punching the wall.
"Unfortunately they're muggles so there's not much we can do," Delaney said.
"So, Audrey is a muggle born?" Remus asked.
He was still fuming.
Delaney nodded and continued the story. "I told her that I've always known it to be the other way around. She said my mum would've never done that."
"Though I wanted her to be perfect I knew she wasn't but neither was I," Remus said.
"Then she said you only helped raise me because you felt guilty that you weren't there for me sooner."
"It's not like I had a choice. You already know that I would've raised you if I had the chance," Remus said.
"I just got up and left. I went back to the Weasleys and they noticed something was wrong almost instantly and Bill and Chip chased me up to my room. They comforted me as I told them the story. Bill asked if they had ever met you and I told him no and said who are they to judge you."
"Correct," Maggie said.
Delaney smirked slightly at her step mum but Maggie didn't catch it.
"Charlie asked if there was anyone who could set this straight I told him that Hermione's parents could so a few days later we apparated to Hermione's parents house. I asked them if they knew I had godparents. They said yes after a few minutes and then asked if I was upset that they didn't tell me. I tell them no and they ask how I found out and I tell them that Audrey is dating Percy. They say Audrey is a sweetheart. I then ask if they know them and Jacob scoffs and says Unfortunately."
"I would agree," Sirius said.
Delaney nodded and continued the story, "They never agreed that should be my godparents in the first place. Audrey's parents aren't what they seem. Her mum is quite controlling and hew dad has a violent temper though he seems harmless at first."
"They sound like my parents minus being Pureblood maniacs that is," Sirius shuddered.
"Aunt Jane said they got my mum to do some illegal things just to fit in with them."
"Caroline was a bad girl?" Remus asked surprised that his ex- girlfriend had done illegal things she seemed so innocent boy was he wrong.
Delaney nodded and said. "I was shocked too, dad. Then when she met you at the muggle library she started to become her old self again. She was ecstatic when you asked her to go steady. They said they were shocked when they found out that she had broken up with you and she was pregnant with me. She thought you would leave her first if she had told you."
"I wouldn't have," Remus said, firmly.
"I know that, dad. I'm sure she still loved you hence my middle name," Delaney said.
"Well, this is awkward now," Maggie laughed lightly.
Remus kissed Maggie's cheek.
"Is that the end of the story?" Sirius asked.
"Not quite. They gave me a letter that Audrey wrote them after her first month at Hogwarts. She was a Hufflepuff. The cute thing in the letter that she mentioned Percy not by name but still and now they're dating," Delaney smiled.
Everyone nodded.
It was a few days later, Delaney was walking with Hermione. She noticed that Hermione seemed stressed.
"Penny for your thoughts, Mione?" Delaney asked.
"Don't call me that," She snapped.
"I've called you that since we were kids," Delaney said.
"Oh, sorry I'm just stressed."
"What's wrong?"
"I've been doing research about the prophecy that Dumbledore told us about."
"There's a prophecy?"
Hermione nodded and said. "Yes, there is. Harry's the subject. I just wish the other person this prophecy could refer to could be."
"Who else could the prophecy refer to?"
"Neville," She said bluntly.
"So, you would rather have my best friend/boyfriend go through this instead of Harry. How selfish is that!" Delaney exclaimed angrily.
"Yes," She said.
Delaney just ran off. She couldn't believe that Hermione would say that. She ran towards the lake where she knew Neville was tending the plants.
"Neville!" She exclaimed running towards him.
He turned to her smiling and she jumped at him. This caught him off guard but he reacted just quick enough to wrap his arms around her waist.
They snogged more passionately by the minute. Neville could feel that familiar sensation in his nether regions but he knew this didn't feel right. Delaney was never this aggressive in this area minus when he first told her he loved her. He pulled away.
"Neville!" Delaney complained.
"Love, this isn't like you. We've discussed that we want to wait until marriage," Neville stated, calmly putting her down on the ground.
"That is if we end up getting married."
"Who says we won't?" Neville smiled at her.
Delaney sighed.
"You know this doesn't mean, I don't love you. You're my heart and soul. Always have been and always will be," Neville smiled, kissing her temple.
Delaney didn't reply she just walked away. This worried Neville. Delaney was never like this but it's not like he didn't enjoy it obvious by the familiar sensation in his nether regions. They've almost gone that far but like he told Delaney they had discussed they want to wait until they were married. He also wondered why she thought they wouldn't get married.
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