A/N- All I am going to say is I am dreadfully sorry.
Mr. and Mrs. James Potter,
You have heard correctly that we do have a young child name Rose in our care. You do present reasonable evidence that you are her parents, but we still cannot just simply hand her over to you. You have described her perfectly in physical appearance as we had first found her around the time that you say she went missing. You sent us a copy of her birth certificate as well which matches the one that was on the database when we went searching for her identity.
We must question why you did not respond to any of our letters that we sent you previous to this one regarding our finding your child. This is what is making my husband and I question the situation. I hope you can understand why we feel this way. It has been a few years since we sent the first letter and we never received a reply. We have tried all means of contacting you, but nothing has pulled through so far. Please forgive us for being so suspicious and questioning why you are asking about her now instead of replying to our letters when we first sent them several years ago.
My husband and I have grown very fond of Rose over the past few years, raising her as our own child as we can have none ourselves. After not hearing from you for a year after we sent many letters and had the officials send countless letters, we, not long ago, requested to be Rose's legal guardians. We were granted the privilege as the officials saw this as a case of child neglect after not hearing from you for so long. We tried to contact you in all ways possible before we requested to be her guardians, but we couldn't find anyway to reach you. Post wasn't working, the phone number was non existent, the address lead us to an empty condemned house, and we saw reports of the two of you being missing for a few months.
Rose is now under our legal guardianship and we will not be very willing to give her up. It does not seem that you in fact love her as much as you claimed to in your letter. Why didn't you reply to all of our letters? Financial trouble? Struggle in the household? Why did you leave her on our doorstep in the first place? I know you claimed her to be kidnapped or presumed dead, but still, why didn't you send out any missing child reports or contact anyone at her disappearance? I am sorry if I sound rude or brash by making raising these questions and comments, but one wonders about these things sometimes.
If you present some sort of plausible evidence of your story that you told us in your letter, then we might be forced to give up guardianship, but I highly doubt that that will be happening soon. You sound like a very unstable couple living a very dangerous lifestyle, unfit for our little Rose.
With all due respect,
Julia Pennick
Ms. Julia Pennick,
My husband and I wrote to you for a simple thing: to get back our beloved daughter. You have denied us of our only wish. How can you call yourselves her legal guardians and parents? We are her parents! We conceived her and I spend five bloody hours in labor with her. I know that she is in fact MY child. This is preposterous. You cannot call our Rose your Rose. I am her MOTHER! I will always be her MOTHER! I haven't seen my child in too long. When I first heard that she was in your possession I was overjoyed as I thought that I would be able to have her in my arms again, to hold her, to kiss her, to stroke her soft red hair.
We never received these letters that you say you sent to us when you found OUR daughter. Not a single letter or notice. Not one. You'd think we'd have replied to it if we had received one. WE WERE HORRIFIED WHEN WE FOUND THAT SHE WAS GONE! ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIED! WE WERE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT SHE WAS MURDERED! AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION, WE DID GO LOOKING FOR HER! WE DID FILE REPORTS THAT SHE WAS MISSING! THEY JUST PROBABLY DIDN'T REACH YOUR SMALL STUPID EARS THAT ARE ON YOUR SMALL STUPID UGLY FACE! Sorry if you take offence to my comments.
We only knew our daughter for a short time. You have robbed us of our time with her. It is not our fault that she was taken from us. Don't you dare accuse me of neglecting my child! My husband and I loved her more than life itself. Don't you even dare think that we didn't. How would you feel if your only child was taken from you after you hardly even knew her? Oh, that's right, you said you can't have children. Maybe there is a reason for that!
I can present you with as much damned evidence as you want! JUST GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER! I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE HER GUARDIAN OR NOT! SHE IS MY DAUGHTER AND I WANT HER BACK!
With no respect at all,
Lily Potter
Dear Lily Potter,
If you really think that you letter is going to make me even start to think about giving Rose back to you, you are absolutely wrong. I sent your letter to the officials and they are on the watch for you and your husband so don't even think about trying anything or you will be arrested.
You sound like a loon who needs serious therapy and a lesson in parenthood. You said in your first letter that you have another child? I notified the officials of that too. Take warning that if they do ever find you, your son will no longer be in your possession. You do not deserve to have children the way that you are acting. My husband and I have dreamed of having a daughter of our own and now we have one. Nothing is going to take our daughter away from us.
With even less respect,
Julia Pennick
Dumbledore,
Lily is going insane with this whole thing. PLEASE I am begging you, do everything that you can to get Rose back. I am afraid that Lily is going to do something drastic to this Julia lady. I didn't get a chance to read the letter that she last sent to Julia, but Julia's response was not pleasant leading me to believe that Lily's letter wasn't pleasant either.
I really want to get Rose back and would appreciate any help that you can give us. Memory charms might be the way to go to avoid an uproar in the muggle world.
Lily mentioned something about them sending us letters and trying to contact us when they first found Rose. Anyway of finding out whether this is true or not?
Thanks,
James
Snot headed bitch,
This is the last straw. You have insulted me for the last time. This means WAR!
With all the fires in hell (I hope you burn),
Lily Potter
"Lily!" James screamed as he tackled Lily on the living room floor. "This nonsense has got to stop! I have never seen you like this before!"
"James, this woman is keeping us from getting Rose. She is calling herself Rose's mother! I AM ROSE'S MOTHER! ME! NOT HER! ME! And if she can't see that then then…." Lily broke off and burst into tears.
James put his arms around her and pulled her into a tight hug. "I know Lily. I am upset about all of this too, but we have to handle this like mature adults."
Lily cried even harder. "It is just so hard…it's not fair! Sirius said that we were going to be able to get her back! He lied to us!" she screamed between sobs.
James held her tighter to stop her from hitting him. "Sirius did not lie, he just spoke too soon for his own good," James said.
"Well maybe he should think twice before speaking anymore!" she accused.
"I wrote to Dumbledore and he is going to help us ok?" James said soothingly.
Lily nodded slightly. "James, I just want Rose back. I just want her back so bad. Now that I know she is alive I just want her back here with us. I want to hold her and kiss her and hold her some more like I used to. I want to call her my daughter again."
"She will always be our daughter Lily," James whispered.
"I know, but I want her to be only our daughter. That Julia woman has no right to call Rose her daughter," Lily said.
James knew Lily was wrong. Julia had every legal right to call Rose her daughter now, but he wasn't about to say it to Lily and he didn't really want to believe it himself.
"Well hopefully she doesn't take offence to the last letter you had Sirius mail to her. I read it Lily. You shouldn't have said all of that," James said.
Lily stopped crying and looked at him, then started crying again. What had she done? She was acting in a way she had never acted before. She was acting like a raged maniac. She was scaring herself.
"Tomorrow is Sunday and Sirius will have word from Dumbledore as he always does on Sunday. He might have news about Rose or even Rose herself," James said hopefully.
Lily nodded. "Just keep telling me that and I think I'll be fine."
A/N
Sorry about the suckiness of the chapter…I just needed to write something for this story and maybe it will get me out of this horrible writer's block that I have been suffering from. It really stinks. Well please review anyway…even though this chapter should die …lol…well I started the repost of this story…it is called Happily Never After for those of you who haven't found it yet. Lol for those of you who have…thanks for taking the time to read and hopefully review! Well hopefully I can get over this stupid block.Again, sorry for this really really lame chapter...Bye!