Thanks again for the reviews. Snape may seem a little ooc in this chapter.
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Regan was released the next morning. Before they left, Madam Pomfrey pulled Sirius and Remus aside "make sure she eats, the girl is seriously under weight, and suffers from malnutrition. I've done everything I can with potions but if she doesn't eat then there' s nothing that I can do."
Sirius understood and said "I'll do my best but that girl is stubborn."
When they returned to quarters Harry was waiting, "Harry I thought I asked you to make yourself scarce." Said Remus.
"I know but I wanted to be here for Regan." Harry replied.
"Harry that's sweet." Regan said, her voice was quiet and sad.
"Do you want to talk?" Harry asked.
"Not right now." Regan said while heading into her bedroom.
Sirius and Remus followed her in and shut the door, Sirius wispered a silencing spell around the room so that Harry wouldn't be able to eavesdrop while Remus spoke to Regan "Regan we feel that you should talk to us about what happened."
"Why." She said her voice showing her annoyance.
"Because we're your guardians and we feel that it's our duty to help you through this difficult time and obviously your past is hindering your ability to move on. This is your time to be a normal teenager."
"My ability to move on?" She asked with anger. You took my son how am I supposed to be? What do you want? Do you want me to be al-all chipper and bright? Oh and by the way I don't need guardians, I'm an adult or at least that's how I've had to act like for the last three years. And it's hard to go back to being treated like a kid when you have one."
"Regan please talk to us, we want to understand you. We want to get to know you." Said Sirius
"Get to know me? How many times to I have to tell you Liam was my life. I didn't have a part of my life that wasn't for him. You wanna know something? I felt worthless after the rape, embarrassed when I had to tell the cops what happened."
"It's going to be ok," said Remus.
"No it's not ok!" She spat. "I couldn't tell you how many times I couldn't sleep at night because I was worried about when Liam was older and he would ask about his father. What was I gonna say sorry sweetie bur you father is a sick bastard with a penchant for little girls. Dammit I was twelve; I should have been talking on the phone with my friends, not worrying about the father of my babies. Her voice quavered at the last word. "You know something your right I do need to talk to someone." She then headed for the door. She went into Harry's room and saw Harry on the bed "hey Harry do you think that I could borrow the Marauders map?"
"Sure but what for?"
"I need to think by myself for a while and I don't want them to follow me."
"Ok" he said while going to his trunk and pulling out the map. "Are you sure that you don't want to talk because I'm here for you."
"Thanks but I really need some time to think." She then left Harry's room and was again confronted by the canines. "
"Where do you think you're going?" Demanded Sirius.
"Out" she replied before going out the door.
"We really need to get a lock on that door." Said Remus.
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Harry couldn't fathom what his sister was going through. He thought that seeing Cedric die was bad but losing someone that you cared so much for must be excruciating. He felt helpless that he couldn't do anything, he could understand her pain but he could also understand why Liam was taken away. He just wished that she could get over this before the term started. Her depression would only be fuel for Malfoy's taunts.
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Regan ran down the corridors and the stairs. She ran until she reached the dungeons, she did need to talk to someone and the only person she could think of was Professor Snape.
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When Snape opened the door, he was surprised to see the daughter of his school rival standing there with tears threatening to fall. "What can I do for you Miss Potter?" he asked trying to hide the concern in his voice with annoyance.
"I'm sorry," She said now with tears falling. "But I need to talk to someone and I have no where else to go."
"Very well Miss Potter come in." Hs voice now openly showed his concern.
"Thank you," she said as she came in. "It's Regan by the way."
"Excuse me?"
"It's Regan, the last name Potter really doesn't mean anything to me."
"Alright so what do you need to talk about?"
Regan sat down on the couch before the fire and started sobbing "I hate it here."
He was at a lost by this display of emotion and he wondered why she had come to him. "I see," he said moving toward her not knowing what to say.
"I just feel so empty without my baby. There's just so much pain and I want it to go away."
Snape sat besides her and asked "Are you sure you want to talk about this to me? Wouldn't you feel more comfortable talking to your guardians or your brother?"
"Fuck my guardians they're the ones who took him away, and Harry he's sweet but he wouldn't understand."
"What would you like me to do?"
"Nothing, I just needed to get outta there and since I can't leave Hogwarts I came to the last place they'd think to look." Her eyes held pain that Snape hadn't seen in a long time. After and uncomfortable silence with only her sobs as sound she started talking again. "I tried to kill myself," she said quietly.
"I heard." Said the Potions Master. "May I ask why did you do it?"
"I wanted to be with my daughter."
Snape was shocked "did she just say daughter" he thought. Then said "but your son."
"His twin." That seemed to snap something in her because she got up and started pacing the room. "You know why I'm here?" Before he could answer, she said, "because I wanted a break. I wanted a break from work, from the bills from everything. God I was a fool. You know my gaurdians, she said with air quotes. "They claim that they're here to help me but they're the ones that have hurt me the most. They've hurt me more then Liam's father." That last sentence had her crying again.
Snape was intrigued when she said Liam's father. "What did he do to you?" he asked almost certain that he knew the answer.
"He beat me then raped me and left me to die by the side of the road like some piece of trash." Snape felt horror fill him but before he could say anything. "But here's the real kicker, he taught at my school. And if that wasn't bad enough the only reason that the cops found him was because when he found out that I was pregnant he tried to kidnap me again."
"Regan I'm sorry." Said Snape, "you must be going through hell."
Regan sat back down and said, "I am. I just wanna hold him. I just wanna make sure that he's ok." She sat there crying overwhelmed with grief. Before Snape realized, the poor girl had cried herself to sleep. Not knowing what else to do he covered her with a blanket and went back to his work.
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Sorry this chapter took so long but my keyboard acted up and it took me a couple of days to get a new one.