A/N; Hello! Well, thanks to those whom reviewed! I just want to say that this story takes place AFTER GOF but OoTP never took place so Sirius is ALIVE! Well... now go on and read!
Ps: does anyone read the songs in the beginning of the chapter? I just want to know!
Full Summery: After being accused a murder right after the Tournament, Ron 'runs away' to America, hoping to start over anew. But three years later, his wife is struck by a curse that will end her life in one year. There is no cure for the curse, except a powerful potion. But no one knows how to brew it, well, except one. So leaving his wife at a famous wizard hospital in California, Ron and his two year-old Daughter go to England, where the only man who knows how to brew it lives. And that man is Severus Snapes, Potion Professor at Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. So here are the big questions: will his family and friends accept Ron again? And will his wife's life be saved?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any song/ quote that I will use. They belong to their respectable owners/ creators. But anything that I have made up belongs to me!
X o X o X
How far back should I have to go? Tell me.
Everything is so painfully vivid.
The truth is, we couldn't understand each other,
So I left and didn't look back.
Fall unto a light sleep, it encompasses my very being
I never carry out my promises
So long ago, I threw away my brightness
And like the light from the morning, it can never return.
It lies beside this cold heart, frozen
So completely mindless that it persists forever
Numbly, I gather the remnants of my emotions,
And searching for redemption, I...
Fall into a light sleep, on a lonely night
I'm beginning to learn the designs of sorrow
The hiding away of your warm presence
Makes me fear the overflowing darkness
Fall into a light sleep, it encompasses my very being
I never carry out my promises
So long ago, I threw away my brightness
And like the light form the morning sun, it can never return.
-Half Pain, from the anime Witch Hunter Robin
X o X o X
Wind
Chapter Four: Half Pain
"Is it me or has Snape been acting oddly during class?" Hermione asked during lunch. Harry shrugged. "Do you think it has to do with the little girl?" Hermione pondered out loud.
"Maybe it's his kid." Harry said with his mouth full. "Argh... Snape being a father... crap, I've lost my appetite." Harry placed his fork down.
Hermione ignored the last part of Harry's comment. "I'm going to the Library for the rest of our lunch. I'll see you in DADA class?" Harry nodded as Hermione got her stuff and headed out.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four," Harry counted as he played with his food, "three, two, one, and he goes after her." Harry looked up to see Draco get up from his seat and leave the Great Hall.
"Okay, Harry. What the hell is up with you counting down from ten every time Hermione leaves for the Library?" Neville asked.
"Oh, nothing." Harry then began to pack his books. "I'm heading to Grey's class early today, later." As soon as Harry left the Great Hall he went immediately to an empty hallway and pulled out the Marauder's Map. He quickly looked for the Library. When he found it he smiled when he saw that the dot with Hermione's name and the dot with Draco's name was right next to each other.
"I so knew it!" he said to himself. He was about to roll up the map and put it away when he noticed something. It was a dot, by the looks of it the person was sleeping, and it was labeled 'Amory Weasley'. "What the-" Harry began to say but was soon cut off when he saw a dot that was heading to Snape's classroom. His eyes widened when he saw what it was labeled.
"Ah!" he yelled when someone placed their hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see Hermione standing there. "Oh, hey, Hermione." He said sheepishly.
"Hello, Harry. What are you doing with that map?" She asked eyeing the piece of parchment.
"Well... I.... Um, err... well I found something interesting."
Hermione arched one of her eyebrows. "Oh really. What?"
"Well it is two things really."
"Oh please do tell." Hermione said sarcastically as she leaned on her side against the wall.
"Well, first thing. The little girl, her last name is Weasley." Harry said.
Hermione's eyes widen. "What-?"
"And second," Harry cut her off, "right now, Ron is in this school."
Hermione got off the wall and yelped, "WHAT?" Harry then repeated, "Ron is here!"
X o X o X
"Ah, Mr. Weasley. What do I owe the pleasure?" Snape sneered at Ron as he entered the dark dungeon/ classroom.
"Hello, Severus. I just want to make sure that you will make the potion tonight." Ron answered as he took a seat at one of the desk.
"I do plan on starting it tonight. Don't worry, you don't need to be there." Severus turned back to his papers that he was grading. When he looked up he noticed tat Ron was still there. "Anything else?"
"Well, yes. I was just wondering if you knew who was responsible for placing that portkey, enrolling me into Western Academy, and making me an American citizen the moment I stood up." Ron replied.
"Are you trying to say that I planed your escape?" the potion professor questioned. Ron nodded. "Well, I heard in a Death Eater meeting about their plan that had to do with getting you falsely accused, so I told Albus who got the portkey and talked to the headmaster of your school. From there on it were all Albus and that other headmaster's work. I was just the messenger. Anything else?"
"Nope, thanks." Ron then got up and left the classroom. Severus glared at door before returning to his papers.
X o X o X
"Okay, he left Snape's classroom..." Harry muttered as he looked at the map. "Where are you going?" he asked the dot that was labeled 'Ronald Weasley'.
Hermione paced around the empty classroom. "Harry, do you think that Ron is avoiding us?" Harry just shrugged. "I don't think Ron wants to see us, Harry. C'mon lunch is almost over-"
"He disappeared!" Harry exclaimed as the dot disappeared from the map.
Hermione turned around to face Harry. "What do you mean, disappeared?"
Harry showed her the map. "I was following the dot, but when it came to here," Harry said pointing with his index finger, "It just disappeared!"
Hermione looked at the spot where Harry pointed out. "Lets go... classes are about to start." She sighed and picked up her stuff and walked out of the empty classroom.
X o X o X
Ron entered the common room find Amory sitting on the floor with a bunch of crayons and drawing pictures on a parchment. Ron smiled, she was to busy with her picture to notice her father was in the room.
When she did notice Ron was just about to enter his bedroom. "Hi, Daddy." Ron turned around and waved at his daughter before entering his room. Once upon entering he head to his desk and took out a parchment and began to write four letters, one to Dr. Ni, another to Elaine, one to his in-laws, and another to Layla.
X o X o X
"Where's the professor?" someone asked. Seventh years Gryffindors and HufflePuff were gathered in the DADA classroom waiting for Professor Grey. Just then a man who looked exactly their age entered the classroom.
"Hello, my name is Ted Yukahama, call me Mr. Yuka. I'll be teaching Defense Against Dark Arts for today. Your professor became ill, and wasn't able to teach for today." Mr. Yuka walked up to the front of the room.
"Aren't you our age?" Harry asked from his seat in the front row.
"Yes, but I'm a full legal wizard. I received my education in America, and we graduate at age 15, just like you teacher Professor Faye Grey." It was then when people noticed his American accent. "Well today your teacher had plan you guys to do a fifty page worksheet... screw her. What do you guys want to learn?"
Hermione raised her hand. "Yes, girl who is seating right next to The Boy Who Lived?"
"Can we talk about-"Hermione started but was cut off when the door opened.
"TEDDY YUKAHAMA!" Professor Grey looked mad. "WHAT THE HELL?" she bellowed at the 'substitute teacher'.
"Hey baby! Long time no see! What's crackalackin?" Mr. Yuka said with a grin on his face.
Prof. Grey looked at Mr. Yuka then at her class. "What are you doing?"
"Teaching your class since you came down with a nasty cold." Mr. Yuka answered.
"DO I LOOK SICK TO YOU?" she screamed at Mr. Yuka.
"You look angry." Said a student who received a glare from the DADA teacher.
"Besides, you seem stress. I remember the old Faye, you were like a hippie stuck in the 90s, ah... good times." Mr. Yuka said with a smile on his face as if he was remembering. "Well, anyways. Can I speak with you, Faye?"
"I have a class to teach." Prof. Grey said through her teeth.
"Well, then." Mr. Yuka turned to the class. "No class for today!" Everyone was caught off guard when he announced it. "Like I said: SCRAM!" and with that the class pick up their things and began to file out of the DADA classroom.
As Harry, Hermione, Neville, Lavender, Hannah Abbot, and other Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs passed by Mr. Yuka and Prof. Grey they over heard their conversation:
"Why are you and Casper here anyways? And why is Casper's daughter-?" Prof. Grey began but Mr. Yuka cut her off mid-sentence.
"Look, remember the attack at Penguin Av. From three days ago? Layla was there and got hit by a hex." Mr. Yuka told the DADA professor. That was all Harry and Hermione heard, everything else was inaudible, but they caught the last part of the conversation, "And we need that potion, cause if we don't got it then she dies..." following that your could hear Grey's gasp.
Once out in the hall Harry turned to Hermione. "Who dies?"
Hermione thought for a moment. "Obviously the little girl's mother, remember? I heard her say something about her mom being sick last night during the Halloween feast."
"And that little girl's last name is Weasley." Harry said.
Hermione's eyes widen when she made the connection. "I've got it! Harry, Ron went to the States got his education there and graduated when he was 15. He married and had a kid, that little girl." Hermione was about to say something but stopped when she realized something. "When you do the math, the little girl should be born some time in June.... When Ron was 15..."
Harry stopped Hermione before she got any farther. "Look, Hermione. Lets just find Ron, get the story from him instead of making all these guesses. Besides from what we over heard Ron's wife might be dieing."
"Yeah, tonight. Lets go find Ron and get the real thing." Hermione said nodding.
"What about Ron?" The two turned around to see Ginny standing there. "You guys know where Ron is?" she whispered.
X o X o X
Molly Weasley sat on the couch in the family room of the Borrow. It was been three days since it was declared that her youngest son was innocent. 'What kind of mother am I? How could've I believed that Ron was a Death Eater?' Molly asked herself.
The mother of seven children sat alone in her house. She looked up at the clock. Arthur was at work, so was Bill, Charlie, Percy, and the Twins. Ginny was in school. But to Molly's surprised the hand with Ron's face on it moved from Home to Unknown.
She remembered for the very first two weeks that Ron went missing and was still thought of being a Death Eater, the clock said Unknown until min September when it went to between Home and School. But, Ron was never at the Borrow, nor at Hogwarts. By seeing that Molly believed that Ron found another place to call home and probably started a new life.
The redhead woman sighed heavily and took a sip of her tea. Then the door open from the kitchen. Molly turned around with hope when see saw some red hair. But she was soon disappointed when she saw another son. "Fred?"
"Are you that disappointed to see me, Mom?" Fred asked jokingly. He laid some of his stuff on the kitchen table and made his way to where his mother sat. "I told George to watch the shop while I came to see you, ya' know, to check up on you to see how you are..."
"I see." Molly continued to stare at her teacup. "I was hoping for... never mind..." she sighed.
"You were hoping that I was Ron, eh?" Fred asked. "Don't worry, now that the bounty thing on his head is off, he will come out of hiding. Don't worry, Mom. We will have Ron back with us." Fred said hopefully.
Molly stared at the clock. The hand with Fred already moved to Home. Oh how she wished that the Hand for Ron was at Home, but it wasn't.
X o X o X
A/N: Okay, I hoped that you all like this chapter! Please, please, please REVIEW!
Just to let everyone know, this story is the first version to an idea I had. Once I finish this one, there will be a second version, but the plot will be different (in away) and some OC characters from this story will be in it(like Layla), but other will not (like Amory!). I just wanted to let you know, so now I did...
The last part in this chapter reminds me of a quote I found in a manga (comic book) called Saiyuki. I plan to use that quote in the finial chapter of this story, don't worry, that will be a LONG time from NOW, so once you see the chapter with the quote at the beginning, or end, then you know that this story is truly finish! But this is the quote:
"Who do you suppose decided birds are free? They can fly wherever they choose... But if there is no branch for them to return to... They might regret having wings, don't you think? Perhaps true freedom is having a home to return to." –from the anime Gensomaden Saiyuki .
I just love the quote! SANZO-SAMA IS SO SEXY! (Even though he was not the one who said it but still...) well, here is a special thanks to the people who reviewed:
Sha're
S.R
Lisitea
Janette
Sara
MyLoveSnape
Onyx
Emerald
Artemis
Kungzoune
And Demora
Thanks you all! Please keep on reading! (and check out my other fanfics!)
-LalathePanda
PS: so... does anyone read the songs at the beginning of each chapter?
Ps: does anyone read the songs in the beginning of the chapter? I just want to know!
Full Summery: After being accused a murder right after the Tournament, Ron 'runs away' to America, hoping to start over anew. But three years later, his wife is struck by a curse that will end her life in one year. There is no cure for the curse, except a powerful potion. But no one knows how to brew it, well, except one. So leaving his wife at a famous wizard hospital in California, Ron and his two year-old Daughter go to England, where the only man who knows how to brew it lives. And that man is Severus Snapes, Potion Professor at Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. So here are the big questions: will his family and friends accept Ron again? And will his wife's life be saved?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any song/ quote that I will use. They belong to their respectable owners/ creators. But anything that I have made up belongs to me!
X o X o X
How far back should I have to go? Tell me.
Everything is so painfully vivid.
The truth is, we couldn't understand each other,
So I left and didn't look back.
Fall unto a light sleep, it encompasses my very being
I never carry out my promises
So long ago, I threw away my brightness
And like the light from the morning, it can never return.
It lies beside this cold heart, frozen
So completely mindless that it persists forever
Numbly, I gather the remnants of my emotions,
And searching for redemption, I...
Fall into a light sleep, on a lonely night
I'm beginning to learn the designs of sorrow
The hiding away of your warm presence
Makes me fear the overflowing darkness
Fall into a light sleep, it encompasses my very being
I never carry out my promises
So long ago, I threw away my brightness
And like the light form the morning sun, it can never return.
-Half Pain, from the anime Witch Hunter Robin
X o X o X
Wind
Chapter Four: Half Pain
"Is it me or has Snape been acting oddly during class?" Hermione asked during lunch. Harry shrugged. "Do you think it has to do with the little girl?" Hermione pondered out loud.
"Maybe it's his kid." Harry said with his mouth full. "Argh... Snape being a father... crap, I've lost my appetite." Harry placed his fork down.
Hermione ignored the last part of Harry's comment. "I'm going to the Library for the rest of our lunch. I'll see you in DADA class?" Harry nodded as Hermione got her stuff and headed out.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four," Harry counted as he played with his food, "three, two, one, and he goes after her." Harry looked up to see Draco get up from his seat and leave the Great Hall.
"Okay, Harry. What the hell is up with you counting down from ten every time Hermione leaves for the Library?" Neville asked.
"Oh, nothing." Harry then began to pack his books. "I'm heading to Grey's class early today, later." As soon as Harry left the Great Hall he went immediately to an empty hallway and pulled out the Marauder's Map. He quickly looked for the Library. When he found it he smiled when he saw that the dot with Hermione's name and the dot with Draco's name was right next to each other.
"I so knew it!" he said to himself. He was about to roll up the map and put it away when he noticed something. It was a dot, by the looks of it the person was sleeping, and it was labeled 'Amory Weasley'. "What the-" Harry began to say but was soon cut off when he saw a dot that was heading to Snape's classroom. His eyes widened when he saw what it was labeled.
"Ah!" he yelled when someone placed their hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see Hermione standing there. "Oh, hey, Hermione." He said sheepishly.
"Hello, Harry. What are you doing with that map?" She asked eyeing the piece of parchment.
"Well... I.... Um, err... well I found something interesting."
Hermione arched one of her eyebrows. "Oh really. What?"
"Well it is two things really."
"Oh please do tell." Hermione said sarcastically as she leaned on her side against the wall.
"Well, first thing. The little girl, her last name is Weasley." Harry said.
Hermione's eyes widen. "What-?"
"And second," Harry cut her off, "right now, Ron is in this school."
Hermione got off the wall and yelped, "WHAT?" Harry then repeated, "Ron is here!"
X o X o X
"Ah, Mr. Weasley. What do I owe the pleasure?" Snape sneered at Ron as he entered the dark dungeon/ classroom.
"Hello, Severus. I just want to make sure that you will make the potion tonight." Ron answered as he took a seat at one of the desk.
"I do plan on starting it tonight. Don't worry, you don't need to be there." Severus turned back to his papers that he was grading. When he looked up he noticed tat Ron was still there. "Anything else?"
"Well, yes. I was just wondering if you knew who was responsible for placing that portkey, enrolling me into Western Academy, and making me an American citizen the moment I stood up." Ron replied.
"Are you trying to say that I planed your escape?" the potion professor questioned. Ron nodded. "Well, I heard in a Death Eater meeting about their plan that had to do with getting you falsely accused, so I told Albus who got the portkey and talked to the headmaster of your school. From there on it were all Albus and that other headmaster's work. I was just the messenger. Anything else?"
"Nope, thanks." Ron then got up and left the classroom. Severus glared at door before returning to his papers.
X o X o X
"Okay, he left Snape's classroom..." Harry muttered as he looked at the map. "Where are you going?" he asked the dot that was labeled 'Ronald Weasley'.
Hermione paced around the empty classroom. "Harry, do you think that Ron is avoiding us?" Harry just shrugged. "I don't think Ron wants to see us, Harry. C'mon lunch is almost over-"
"He disappeared!" Harry exclaimed as the dot disappeared from the map.
Hermione turned around to face Harry. "What do you mean, disappeared?"
Harry showed her the map. "I was following the dot, but when it came to here," Harry said pointing with his index finger, "It just disappeared!"
Hermione looked at the spot where Harry pointed out. "Lets go... classes are about to start." She sighed and picked up her stuff and walked out of the empty classroom.
X o X o X
Ron entered the common room find Amory sitting on the floor with a bunch of crayons and drawing pictures on a parchment. Ron smiled, she was to busy with her picture to notice her father was in the room.
When she did notice Ron was just about to enter his bedroom. "Hi, Daddy." Ron turned around and waved at his daughter before entering his room. Once upon entering he head to his desk and took out a parchment and began to write four letters, one to Dr. Ni, another to Elaine, one to his in-laws, and another to Layla.
X o X o X
"Where's the professor?" someone asked. Seventh years Gryffindors and HufflePuff were gathered in the DADA classroom waiting for Professor Grey. Just then a man who looked exactly their age entered the classroom.
"Hello, my name is Ted Yukahama, call me Mr. Yuka. I'll be teaching Defense Against Dark Arts for today. Your professor became ill, and wasn't able to teach for today." Mr. Yuka walked up to the front of the room.
"Aren't you our age?" Harry asked from his seat in the front row.
"Yes, but I'm a full legal wizard. I received my education in America, and we graduate at age 15, just like you teacher Professor Faye Grey." It was then when people noticed his American accent. "Well today your teacher had plan you guys to do a fifty page worksheet... screw her. What do you guys want to learn?"
Hermione raised her hand. "Yes, girl who is seating right next to The Boy Who Lived?"
"Can we talk about-"Hermione started but was cut off when the door opened.
"TEDDY YUKAHAMA!" Professor Grey looked mad. "WHAT THE HELL?" she bellowed at the 'substitute teacher'.
"Hey baby! Long time no see! What's crackalackin?" Mr. Yuka said with a grin on his face.
Prof. Grey looked at Mr. Yuka then at her class. "What are you doing?"
"Teaching your class since you came down with a nasty cold." Mr. Yuka answered.
"DO I LOOK SICK TO YOU?" she screamed at Mr. Yuka.
"You look angry." Said a student who received a glare from the DADA teacher.
"Besides, you seem stress. I remember the old Faye, you were like a hippie stuck in the 90s, ah... good times." Mr. Yuka said with a smile on his face as if he was remembering. "Well, anyways. Can I speak with you, Faye?"
"I have a class to teach." Prof. Grey said through her teeth.
"Well, then." Mr. Yuka turned to the class. "No class for today!" Everyone was caught off guard when he announced it. "Like I said: SCRAM!" and with that the class pick up their things and began to file out of the DADA classroom.
As Harry, Hermione, Neville, Lavender, Hannah Abbot, and other Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs passed by Mr. Yuka and Prof. Grey they over heard their conversation:
"Why are you and Casper here anyways? And why is Casper's daughter-?" Prof. Grey began but Mr. Yuka cut her off mid-sentence.
"Look, remember the attack at Penguin Av. From three days ago? Layla was there and got hit by a hex." Mr. Yuka told the DADA professor. That was all Harry and Hermione heard, everything else was inaudible, but they caught the last part of the conversation, "And we need that potion, cause if we don't got it then she dies..." following that your could hear Grey's gasp.
Once out in the hall Harry turned to Hermione. "Who dies?"
Hermione thought for a moment. "Obviously the little girl's mother, remember? I heard her say something about her mom being sick last night during the Halloween feast."
"And that little girl's last name is Weasley." Harry said.
Hermione's eyes widen when she made the connection. "I've got it! Harry, Ron went to the States got his education there and graduated when he was 15. He married and had a kid, that little girl." Hermione was about to say something but stopped when she realized something. "When you do the math, the little girl should be born some time in June.... When Ron was 15..."
Harry stopped Hermione before she got any farther. "Look, Hermione. Lets just find Ron, get the story from him instead of making all these guesses. Besides from what we over heard Ron's wife might be dieing."
"Yeah, tonight. Lets go find Ron and get the real thing." Hermione said nodding.
"What about Ron?" The two turned around to see Ginny standing there. "You guys know where Ron is?" she whispered.
X o X o X
Molly Weasley sat on the couch in the family room of the Borrow. It was been three days since it was declared that her youngest son was innocent. 'What kind of mother am I? How could've I believed that Ron was a Death Eater?' Molly asked herself.
The mother of seven children sat alone in her house. She looked up at the clock. Arthur was at work, so was Bill, Charlie, Percy, and the Twins. Ginny was in school. But to Molly's surprised the hand with Ron's face on it moved from Home to Unknown.
She remembered for the very first two weeks that Ron went missing and was still thought of being a Death Eater, the clock said Unknown until min September when it went to between Home and School. But, Ron was never at the Borrow, nor at Hogwarts. By seeing that Molly believed that Ron found another place to call home and probably started a new life.
The redhead woman sighed heavily and took a sip of her tea. Then the door open from the kitchen. Molly turned around with hope when see saw some red hair. But she was soon disappointed when she saw another son. "Fred?"
"Are you that disappointed to see me, Mom?" Fred asked jokingly. He laid some of his stuff on the kitchen table and made his way to where his mother sat. "I told George to watch the shop while I came to see you, ya' know, to check up on you to see how you are..."
"I see." Molly continued to stare at her teacup. "I was hoping for... never mind..." she sighed.
"You were hoping that I was Ron, eh?" Fred asked. "Don't worry, now that the bounty thing on his head is off, he will come out of hiding. Don't worry, Mom. We will have Ron back with us." Fred said hopefully.
Molly stared at the clock. The hand with Fred already moved to Home. Oh how she wished that the Hand for Ron was at Home, but it wasn't.
X o X o X
A/N: Okay, I hoped that you all like this chapter! Please, please, please REVIEW!
Just to let everyone know, this story is the first version to an idea I had. Once I finish this one, there will be a second version, but the plot will be different (in away) and some OC characters from this story will be in it(like Layla), but other will not (like Amory!). I just wanted to let you know, so now I did...
The last part in this chapter reminds me of a quote I found in a manga (comic book) called Saiyuki. I plan to use that quote in the finial chapter of this story, don't worry, that will be a LONG time from NOW, so once you see the chapter with the quote at the beginning, or end, then you know that this story is truly finish! But this is the quote:
"Who do you suppose decided birds are free? They can fly wherever they choose... But if there is no branch for them to return to... They might regret having wings, don't you think? Perhaps true freedom is having a home to return to." –from the anime Gensomaden Saiyuki .
I just love the quote! SANZO-SAMA IS SO SEXY! (Even though he was not the one who said it but still...) well, here is a special thanks to the people who reviewed:
Sha're
S.R
Lisitea
Janette
Sara
MyLoveSnape
Onyx
Emerald
Artemis
Kungzoune
And Demora
Thanks you all! Please keep on reading! (and check out my other fanfics!)
-LalathePanda
PS: so... does anyone read the songs at the beginning of each chapter?