Chapter One

A sandy blond haired boy about the age of seven flew around a dark brown haired woman. The boy's smile seemed to take up his whole face as his broom rode him over the ground. The woman, who was his mother, stood laughing as she watched him.

"I'm going higher, mummy!" The boy rose higher and he joined in his mother's laughter.

"Don't go too high, Ced!" His mother called up to him.

He nodded as he shot off. His mother stood watching him fly after invisible Snitches with a look of pure happiness on her face. But the look was lost when the boy disappeared.

"Mummy!" He yelled, his voice was far away.

The woman's head flew around, trying to find where his voice was coming from.

"Mummy!"

"Cedric! Where are you?" She was shaking.

"Mum, it's me." This time the voice was different, more feminine and softer. "Mum, you're having another dream."

Lena Williams opened her blue eyes and was met with the face of her seventeen year old daughter, Alexia Diggory. Alexia's face didn't hold the worry that her voice did, but as soon as her mother woke that worry was replaced with relief.

"You were dreaming about him again," Alexia said, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"I didn't wake you up did I?" Lena asked a she sat herself up.

"No, Artemis did," Alexia answered, pointed at the black owl that was sitting on the foot of the bed.

Lena held out her arm and the owl flew to it. It hooted at her as it dropped the letter it had been carrying into her lap.

"Thank you." Lena smiled at the bird before it took off out of the room.

Alexia watched as she mother opened the parchment and read it. She noticed what the broken seal looked like and smiled.

"What's school want?" she asked.

"Professor McGonagall wants me to come and teach," Lena answered.

At first Alexia's face looked like she hadn't gotten a Christmas, then it relaxed into a smile.

"Does this mean I won't have to do my Transfiguration homework?" Alexia smiled sweetly.

"No, that's not what it means," Lena said as she popped her on top of the head with the letter she had just received.

"Darn."

Lena laughed as she pulled the covers off of her and slid out of the bed.

"Is your brother up?"

"No, want me to get him up?"

"No, let him sleep," Lena said as she pulled on her dressing gown. "Your father had him out late at that match."

Alexia followed her mother down the hall and stairs, through the living room and into the kitchen. She sat down at the island and watched as her mother started waving her wand, making pots and pans fly out of the cabinets. They landed on the stove as eggs and bacon flew out of the refrigerator.

"Are we going to Diagon Alley today?" Alexia asked.

"Yes, we need to get your's and Julian's school things," Lena answered as she began to cook.

"Can we look at brooms?"

"Are you actually going to play this year?"

"That wasn't my fault. The Bludger hit my wrist," Alexia complained.

"I know, I was joking," Lena said. "I guess we can. Are you going to be meeting Justin there?"

"He's bringing Scott," Alexia answered looking at the island top.

"You say that like it's a bad thing, I thought you and Scott were friends?" Lena said turning around to look at her daughter.

"We are, he's just kinda, I don't know," Alexia shrugged. "He's been acting weird since Justin and I started dating."

"Because Justin's spending so much time with you. Before it was him and Justin with you popping in from time to time."

"You're no help."

"I'm just saying that's what it is," Lena smiled. "Give him some time, he'll get use to it in time."

Justin Miller and Scott Filch had been Alexia's best friends since she had started at Hogwarts. But things had changed when Justin and Alexia started dating the year before. Now things seemed to have became very strained between the three.

"I want french toast," Julian Diggory announced as he pulled himself up into the chair that was beside his sister.

Lena nodded as she turned back to the stove. Breakfast was ate and the children climbed back upstairs to get ready to go to Diagon Alley. Lena stood at the sink, her hands on either side of it. Her mind racing toward the dream Alexia had woken her up from. It had been three years and she was still having nightmares about her oldest child. The child that had been taken away from her.

She shut her eyes tightly, not allowing tears to fall. She was gripping the counter top so tightly that her knuckles were white. She shook her head, pushing Cedric Diggory far away into the back of her mind, where she kept him. She let go of the counter and made her way back upstairs.

Julian held tightly to his mother's hand as he, Alexia, and Lena walked through the stone archway and into Diagon Alley. It was no longer the ghost town it had been a month before. Harry Potter had once again saved the Wizarding World and things were starting to become normal again. But no matter how normal things were, Lena still found herself grabbing Alexia's hand as she did when the girl was a child. Alexia looked over at her mother, she was torn between wanting to pull away and wanting to hold on tight to keep her mother happy.

"There's my favorite little family in the whole world," a voice said behind them.

"UNCLE LINK!" Julian exclaimed pulling his hand away from Lena and running for the older man.

Lincoln Burrows had came into Lena's life twenty years earlier and soon became her best friend. Now he was really the only one she had stayed in contacted with that she had known at Hogwarts, aside from her ex-husband Amos Diggory.

"ACTION MAN!" Link yelled as he hugged Julian tightly.

Julian was a mini verison of Amos. Alexia took more after Lena.

"And just what are you doing here?" Lena asked, placing her hands on her hips. "You're suppose to be working."

"I am," Link said as he let go of Julian and hugging Alexia. "I'm on a lunch break. I'm watching out for Ollivander today."

"Why?" Alexia asked.

"He's demanded Auror guarding until all the Death Eaters that captured him are placed in Azkaban," Link explained. "I got the luck of the draw today."

"Lucky you," Lena smirked.

Link smiled and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"So what are you all doing today?" Link asked as he walked with them.

"We're getting school stuff," Alexia answered.

"I get a wand," Julian said jumping up and down.

"You can't use it until you get to school." Alexia said in a know it all tone.

"So, I'm getting one and that's all that matters," Julian said puffing his chest out a bit.

"Are they always like this?" Link asked.

"Yes," Lena answered. "You get to miss it by not coming by but once a month."

"Now I know why I don't have kids," Link laughed.

"You don't have kids because you're still a kid yourself," Alexia said.

"Ouch," Link grabbed at his heart. "You hurt me."

Alexia smiled.

"She's got a point there," Lena said.

"Hush you," Link glared. "Only reason I'm not married is cause Diggory got to you before me."

"Whatever," Lena rolled her eyes as they walked into the bookstore.

"Yeah, whatever. You know you want me," Link grinned.

"She's gonna turn you into a slug, Uncle Link," Alexia said.

"She's been threatening me with that since we met, she hasn't done it yet," Link replied.

"There's no time like the present," Lena grinned.

Link scowled at her before smiling one of his charming smiles.

"You wouldn't because you love me," he said.

"Mummy," Julian pulled on Lena's robe.

"Yes?" She asked.

"Can I get that book?" he pointed at a book on Quidditch. "It's daddy's favorite team."

Lena nodded as she watched him go pick it up and then follow his sister to get his school books.

"So how are things with Amos?" Link said as he crossed his arms and watched Lena frown.

"What do you think?" She asked with an indifferent tone.

"So no chance in the happy little family becoming one again?"

"Lincoln, you know the answer to that already."

"I just thought you might have changed your mind," he shrugged.

"I haven't in the last two years, I don't see it happening now."

Link shrugged. He didn't like seeing Lena unhappy and that's all she had been the last three years of her life. Not that he could blame her.

"I'm taking the Transfigurations position at Hogwarts," Lena said, changing the subject.

"That's great!" Link hugged her tightly. "You need to get out of that house."

"I get out of the house." Lena complained.

"No you don't, Mum," Alexia said as she and Julian walked back up with their books.

Lena rolled her eyes as the left the store.

"Can I go to the Quidditch store?" Alexia asked. "Justin's suppose to be there."

"Yeah, take you're brother with you," Link said. "I need to talk to your mom some more."

Alexia nodded and grabbed Julian's hand and made their way down the street. Lena watched them go into the store, followed by someone she knew. Someone she knew very well. It was William Filch with his two younger children.

"Lens, you need to listen to this," Link said in a very serious voice. "I have a few more minutes and I want you to know this before I have to go back to work."

"What?" Lena looked back up at him.

"Kingsley got Pettigrew yesterday."

Lena's face paled as she wrapped her arms around herself.

"He admitted to every thing." Link looked down at the ground, he hated telling her this, but he knew she'd want to know. "Including about what happened that night."

Lena shut her eyes.

"He's going to get the Dementor's Kiss." Link said watching her flinch. "I have to go now, but I'll come by tomorrow night for dinner."

Lena nodded as he hugged her. She watched him walk off before walking to the Quidditch store. She found Alexia and Julian standing with Justin and Scott. Scott and Alexia seemed to be arguing about a broom.

"Mum, can I have a broom?" Julian asked.

"You're a first year," Justin said. "First years aren't allowed to have them."

"No fair," Julian pouted.

Justin nodded. Justin was a shaggy blond haired brown eyed boy that stood about head taller then most people his age. Scott looked just like his dad, who happened to walk up at that moment.

Alexia looked at Will and then at her mother, noticing how pale Lena was.

"Mum?" she questioned.

"Not now," Lena said as she stared at Will for a moment.

She hadn't seen him since his wife's funeral three years earlier. She gulped and turned to Julian.

"Why don't you go look at the Appleby's stuff?" Lena suggested trying to keep her youngest child happy.

"Hey Miss W," Justin smiled.

"Hello Justin," Lena said as she watched Julian out of the corner of her eye.

"Miss Williams, have you met my dad?" Scott asked, gesturing to Will.

"Um," Lena looked at Will. "No, I don't believe I have. Lena Williams." Lena stuck out her hand for him to shake.

"Will Filch," Will said shaking her hand quickly before letting it go.

"And this is Alexia," Scott said pointing to Alexia.

"Nice to meet you, Alexia," Will said, smiling.

Alexia smiled.

"Is this the broom you're wanting?" Lena asked, wanting to leave the store as soon as she could.

"Yes." Alexia nodded.

"Ok," Lena said. "I'm going to get your brother."

"Can I stay with Justin and Scott?" Alexia asked.

Lena looked at her daughter's two friends and then at Will.

"Alright, but no Knockturn Alley and I want you to meet me in the Leaky Cauldron in three hours," Lena said before walking off.

Lena got the broom along with a sweatshirt for Julian. She pulled Julian out of the store, giving one last look at Will. They did they're shopping and went to wait on Alexia. Lena's head wasn't really in her shopping, it was slipping back to a different time. A time when things were a lot simpler then they were and she hadn't had to act like she didn't know him.

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Thanks for reading. This chapter was written by November Falls.
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