All right I'm sorry for the lateness but one-word midterms. Also I really don't remember the layout of Sirius' house so if I get a few details mixed up please don't yell at me
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When Regan walked through the door she found, Sirius, Remus, and Harry waiting for her. "Ready to go?" Asked Harry, he was anxious to see his friends since he hadn't seen them since the last day of school.
"Whatever." Regan replied. Sirius pulled his hand out of his pocket and showed everyone the old button in it. Everyone touched it and Regan felt the pulling of the portkey. When she turned around, she was in a dusty room filled with witches and wizards. She saw several redheads a young woman with bright magenta hair and a man with a strange glass eye.
"Hello" said a middle age woman with red hair. "You must be Regan, I'm Mrs. Weasley."
"Hi" Regan said with a little wave.
"Harry mate good to see you." Said Ron with an excited grin.
"It's good to see you guys." Said Harry. "This is my sister Regan"
"Good to meet you." Said Hermoine.
"Same here." Said Regan. "Harry's told me all about you."
"Has he said anything about us?" Asked George Weasley.
"Let me guess you're the Weasley twins?"
"At your service, I'm Forge, and this here is Gred."
"Nice to meet ya," said Regan. The adults went into the kitchen while the Trio, Ginny, Regan, and the twins were left in the sitting room.
The group sat down and after an uncomfortable silence Ginny finally broke the ice "Where did you get that scar?" she asked pointing to vertical scar on Regan's abdomen.
Regan had forgotten about her c-section scar and quickly wrapped her sweater around her and replied "it's nothing."
"Are you sure?" Hermoine asked. "It looked pretty serious."
"I said its nothing." She yelled.
The group looked at her like she was going to bite their heads off. The twins had to push her. "Now are you sure it looked painful." Said Fred.
"Fine if you really wanna know. I got into a fight a few years ago." Regan replied sarcastically. "
"Sounds dangerous," said Ron.
"Yeah well that's what ya get for going to a public school," she said again sarcastically
Hermoine sensing that it was time to change the subject asked "Harry how well did you do on your O.W.L.s? I mean I got Os and two Es in every thing and Ron did well enough to go through the Auror training."
"I did pretty good, I can go through the training." Harry replied.
"What about your Regan? When are you taking the O.W.Ls?" asked Ron.
"If I take them, I'll be taking them in the spring."
Before anyone could ask what she meant by "if" Mrs. Weasley came in and announced dinner.
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Mrs. Weasley laded down Harry and Regan's plates with food. While Harry ate with relish, Regan ate about half and pushed back her plate.
Mrs. Weasley then began to place more food on her plate. "Eat dear, your far too thin," she tried to coax.
"No thank you Mrs. Weasley, I'm full."
"I insist," said Mrs. Weasley.
"Fine," Regan grumbled, and began to pick at her food.
"So Regan, to you play Quiddich?" Asked Ron.
"No I don't, I can't fly."
"You can't fly!" Ron exclaimed. "Hasn't Harry taught you anything?"
"He tried to teach me but I prefer to stay on the ground."
"Oh" Ron replied before returning to his food.
A few minutes later while the trio were catching up and Regan heard Ron mention how he hated being poor. "Why don't you get a job?" She asked him.
"Get a job? How can I get a job when I'm in school?" Ron asked
"Work during the summer." Regan suggested "I mean I used to have a job."
"You used to work?" Asked Hermoine.
"Yeah, how else was I suppose to pay rent?"
"You had to pay rent," exclaimed George. "Your parents made you pay rent?"
"No, my mother and I had a disagreement last year and she gave me a choice either to do what she wanted me to do or leave, so I left."
"What about your father?" Hermoine asked.
"My father disowned me a few years ago and we haven't talked since."
"You poor dear," said Mrs. Weasley. "But why would your father disown you?"
"What is this 20 questions?" Regan snapped. After a few uncomfortable minutes of silence Regan asked "so when do you think this little war thingy is gonna end?"
Every one stopped eating and Tonks spoke up "it could be months or years. We really don't know, why do you ask?"
"Well the sooner this is over the sooner I can go home."
"Hogwarts is your home," said Sirius.
"No it isn't," She said. "It's my prison. I was lured there under false pretenses and now I'm paying the price."
Every one was looking at her curiously, "what do you mean false pretenses?" Asked Ginny.
"Well to begin with every thing was fine, that is until almost three weeks ago they stole from me."
"What did they steal from you?" Ron asked.
"Something precious. An angel, a savior." Regan started sobbing and said "I'm sorry but I have to go." She ran out of the room and out the door the group still looking at her with bewilderment.
"What did she mean by that? Asked Ron.
"I'm not allowed to talk about it," Harry replied.
"Come on Harry, we tell you everything why can't you tell us now?"
"Ron if Ginny had a secret and I was pressuring you to tell me would you?"
"No," replied Ron with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Then I can't tell you."
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Regan looked around her surroundings with her tear-filled eyes. She saw a high fence all around the back yard and her hopes of escape were crushed. She sat down on the back steps and stared at the twilight. She wasn't surprised when a few minutes later Remus came out and asked "do you want to talk?"
"No," she said.
"Fine," he replied "do you mind if I sit next to you?"
"You're gonna do it even if I say no so go ahead."
Remus sat down beside her and said nothing. After a few minutes, Regan started talking "do you know it just set in?"
"What set in?" Asked Remus confused.
"That I may never see my son again," her voice was steady and calm, she turned her head and faced him. "At first I though that this was a bad dream, that I would wake up and be in my apartment and Liam would be there waiting for me to get us ready for the day. But it's not, it's reality, " silent tears started to well in her eyes almost refusing to shed. "I'm gonna miss so much." She said, her voice quivering." I'm gonna miss his first day of school, his first loose tooth, seeing him go off on his first date, his graduation, his wedding, everything. You know I remember a lot of firsts though, the first time I saw him, the first time I held him, the first time he smiled, his first tooth, his first word, his first step." Regan smiled a small sad smile as she listed the things that Liam had done while the tears in her eyes had finally shed.
"Regan I'm sorry for what we did, we though it was for the best."
"Well ya know what they say, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions.""
Remus didn't know how to respond to that so instead of saying anything the two sat and let the silence envelop them. They sat for almost an hour before Remus says that its time to go back inside.
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Harry sat talking to Ron and Hermoine; Ron was going on and on about Fred and George's joke shop. "It's doing really well," he said.
Hermoine was talking about the trip she took with her parents to Italy. Telling how much fun, she had had and how she hoped Harry had a fun summer.
"Yeah mate, your sister seems to be a bit on the moody side," said Ron.
"She's had a lot to deal with,"
"Like what?" asked Ron.
"I'm not quite sure."
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When Regan and Remus went back in the, they found the Order and Dumbledore in the sitting room "Well if it isn't the all powerful Oz" Regan said with biting sarcasm.
The people in the room looked at her with a mixture of surprise, confusion, and disgust. Surprise because they didn't expect someone that was suppose to be one of them to talk like that. Confusion because most didn't know what she met by "oz" and finally disgust because she had insulted their great leader.
"Well Regan," Dumbledore said in a patronizing tone, "there's someone here who'd like to see you." Dumbledore stepped aside and revealed the little boy who once he saw Regan cried out "Mommy!"
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The people stared at Regan as her son ran up to her. As she picked him up there was light and warmth shining in her eyes. "Missed you Mommy" Liam said in his quite shy voice.
"Mommy missed you too baby, Mommy missed you too." Regan sat down with her son and just held him taking in his smell and the way he felt.
"Umm I don't mean to interrupt but I think that little boy is confused, Regan can't possibly be his mother," sad Ron.
"Not so Mr. Weasley," said Dumbledore. "Everyone this is Regan's son Liam."
Everyone had similar shocked looks on their face "that's impossible," said Mrs. Weasley. "She must have been twelve when she had him."
"Thirteen actually," replied Regan. "Not to sound ungrateful by why now. You told me that I would never see my son again and now after it just sank in that I had lost him forever you show up and."
"It was a test," interrupted Dumbledore. "To see how devoted you were to your son. When I saw you would rather die than live without Liam, I knew that your love would protect him. Not to mention the fact that he was rather unhappy with his foster parents."
"I see," said Regan.
The adults reconvened into the kitchen leaving the Trio, Ginny, and Regan in the sitting room. "So you're a mum." Ron said uncomfortably."
"Yeah, goin' three years now." Regan said not really into the conversation.
"What was it like being pregnant?" Hermoine asked.
" Um it sucked really. I was sick all the time and kept getting nagged at to eat more. But it was cool to feel him move, to feel him kick."
"Cool," said Ron. "What about his father."
"God what is it with you English and fathers?" Regan said annoyed.
"Sorry," said Ron.
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The Order was sitting aroud the kitchen table anxious about Regan and her son.
"How could she have a child?" Asked Mad-Eye Moody outraged.
"Yes," added Mrs. Weasley "she is just a child herself."
"I'm afraid that Regan's story is a bit more complicated than that. " Said Dumbledore. "Her son is probably the only thing keeping her from joining Voldemort."
"if she is that close to falling to the dark side then should we trust her?" Asked Tonks.
"I'm afraid it's more like can she trust us? I know alread that she doesn't trust me as well as Sirius and Remus for taking her son away but it was necessary to prove if her love was strong enough to protect him in the days ahead."
The Order seemed to understand this and Mr, Weasley asked "Where is the boy's father? I mean she does know who the father is? She's not some sort of trollop, is she?"
"Yes Regan knows who Liam's father is, and no she isn't a trollop. Her story is a bit more distubing. When Regan was twelve a teacher from her school kiddnapped her, and brutally raped her. When he was done he left her on the side of the road to die, Regan barely survived the ordeal."
"The poor thing, said Mrs.Weasley in shock. "How awful."
"Yes but she must never know that you know. The experience was particularly painful.With out further ado we shall adjourn."
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Sirius, Remus, Regan, Harry, and Liam left soon after. Regan still untrustworthy about the two men in which she had to live with.
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Again sorry about this being so late.