Chapter 21

As Elle woke the next morning she found the bear that Vernon had reunited her with at the hospital was still locked tightly under her arm.

smiling she buried her nose in its soft hair and got a swift smell of what her old home had smelt of back at the drive.

Getting up she pulled back her curtains on her four poster bed and went to the toilet before getting dressed and ready for her classes. Wiping the last spec of sleep from her eye and picking her bag up she went to the common room where she met Hermione.

"How you doing?" Elle asked her.

"Ok but I want to talk to you about our Animagus training." she said.

"ok, what's up?" asked Elle.

"Are you still up for it!" said Hermione with a raised eyebrow.

"Yup," said Ellouise nodding.

"Well, we can get going to night if you wish," said Hermione positively.

"I do wish that, a lot;" said an excited Ellouise.

"Right, then met me in here, at eight and can you get your brothers cloak?" asked Hermione.

"Sure, why?"

"Because we're going to need it."

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Looking down on a photo of Elle, Vernon felt a stake in his heart but he had to remember he had done the right thing for his daughter when she had needed him to the very most.

"Do you hate me?" he asked his mother.

He had a just told her everything.

From the lie to the drinking (leaving out the magical part of it.)

Looking at her son Joyce shook her head.

"Could you ever hate Ellouise or Dudley?" the women asked her son already knowing really in her heart what his answer would be.

"No never," he said almost in shook that she had asked him that when she knew how he felt for his kids.

"Then there's your answer,"

"Thank you mum," he said to her.

"It really is no trouble. What you did was adopt and love, protect and keep what otherwise may have been a very lonely girl, and when the time came you gave her up." She said pitching on her views on the whole matter.

"do you remember that story I told you one night before you went to bed. About the two mothers, the baby and the king."

"Yeah. Two mums claim ed to own a baby so the king drew a circle and told them who ever pulled the baby out first got to keep it and be its mum."

"Do you remember what happened." she asked him as a teacher would its five year old pupil.

"One of the mums wouldn't do it. She said she didn't want to hurt the child, that's how he knew she was its mother.

"Exactly. Don't you see love? You stopped pulling. You're her true dad."

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As she sat in the small café that she had arrange to meet her sister and son at Petunia was getting nervous that Lily wouldn't show and this had all been a joke.

But as if then when her doubts had been setting in there they appeared walking side by side and small smile on her sons lips as they met for the first time in months.

"Hey!" said lily as they walked in the door. "Cold day or what?" she asked hear sister trying to keep things normal for all three of them even though it was hard to do that for the mother and son.

Petunia watched as her son sat in a chair and seemed to be waited to be talked to before speaking him self.

"Hello," she grinned at him.

"Hey mum," he said softly to her.

"How are you/" she asked him.

"I'm ok."

"Right I'll get us some drinks," said lily and went to get them know if it was going to be the longest lunch of her entire life.

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"So have you two set a date yet?" James asked Sirius as they walked long by thee river on there lunch break.

"No not yet but I think she wants to and so do I," he nodded. "I've wasted too much time with her already. Its time we started getting ready to be man and wife," he said.

"Are you sure you want this?" asked James.

"Yeah, I didn't think I would ever but I guess I do just want to settle down now. Do you ever regret it?"

"No course not the feeling of being a dada and a husband, more than a man can take sometimes. "

"Yeah we'll after Christmas I don't think Beth will ever see me as a dad."

"At least she doesn't share your blood and hate you."

"And Elle doesn't you," said Sirius to James's

"You think? I tore her from everything she loved and knew. She would have e very right to hate my guts," said James.

"But Ellouise doesn't have a hateful bone in her body does she? She is to, far too, loving for that. Remember the good times you two had in the summer. I know this Christmas was a hard time for you two but she got cold feet. She wasn't feeling good. Give her time." Sirius tried to persuade his friend. He agreed with James that what Ellouise had been through was all Dursleys fault but they had to give the girl a little time to come round now. Or she would never accept her blood line and true heritage.

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As aunt and nephew got to the den that night Dudley had a spring in his step and he was giving lily a true smile.

"Good day honey?" she asked him as they got in to the living room.

"The best. I don't think I knew how much I missed her till I saw her again." he admitted to her.

She looked on him with pride. He was such a sweet sensitive boy when he wanted to be. And he had been thinking a lot more than when she had first met him back in July.

"Good," she said to him and gave him a kiss on the head.

"What we going to do till grandpa gets here" she asked him.

"I know this will sound so weird but can I look over some of Elle and Harry's spell books?" he asked her.

"Well I guess so, but why?" she asked him. Books couldn't be the most exciting thing for him.

"Because I want to know what they are talking about when they get back, from school this time," he said to her. " the only thing coming between us now is the fact they have magic and I don't and if maybe I can sort that out and understand them like I used too when were young again." he said to his aunt.

"Do you know what I think that is?" she asked him.

"What?"

"The best idea you ever had?" said lily with a wink to give him confidence he could do this.

a/n: sorry its so short guys but this was a fill in chapter really just trying to keep the story going to the point where I can get to the second task (three chapters time.) I promise the next chapter will be better.

randypotter1222: that teacher sounds weird. Remember it had been some time since the car crash. A month now and Vernon walked out on Elle. She has to accept he isn't coming back to her this time. I don't know if I like James or not any more. Maybe it's just the last few chapters and then things will go back to normal. (When I like him) thanks for the review!

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