Disclaimer: I don't own anything ( except Ann Dumbledor and Brianna Le Fey there figments of my corrupt imagination. ) JKR does. I just borrow them for my own amusement.( And for their amusement.)

Author note: This chapter had to be broken down into 2 chapters, re- vamped, re- vamped again, and left alone for a while. Hence the lateness and as always to Sephy...thank you for reading my rants and most of all for liking them.

"I thank you for giving me that much." Severus gave a little bow. After all these years she was still beautiful to him. All these years and he still desired her. Same fiery temper, Hair still long, red and curly, Shape a perfect hour glass. Only one problem her temper which scared even him at times was directed at him now." Won't you sit." Motions for her to sit on the bed.

"I 'd rather stand after what I just heard thank you." She brushed off some dirt form her jeans. Still having her wand ready to kill him if she had to" I remember you walked a very fine line but that." Points her wand at the door where Lucius Malfoy was moments before making a face of disgust.

"Don't judge me."It was low with a hint of menace.

"Just start talking before I start hexing."

"As you wish. Where-" She waves her hands to stop him as if fending of something.

"Not here though. He could come back with more Death Eaters and I have already had that pleasure. Let's go somewhere else." Looks at the door where Malfoy was in utter contempt.

" Where did you have in mind ? " She was jealous of Malfoy. He thought. She still loves me.

"Anywhere but here." She looked around the room still disgusted at one point it held Malfoy's presence.

"I thought only old ghosts haunted me." He raised and inquisitive eye brow at her.

"I'm putting some trust in you right now Severus please don't fuck it up and push your luck."She pointed her wand at his bedroom door. " You go first." Severus walked past her and down the stairs. Staying only a few paces ahead of her. He reached for the front doors door knob and looked back. She pointed her wand for him to go out. He sighed and opened the door. A blast of cold air hit them both. He heard her draw in her breath. She had been living in the US. She wasn't used to living this far north anymore.

" You can't go out in the cold like that. " Looking her up and down appraisingly.

" Move." She pushed him out the door and closed it behind her. The night was bitter cold but She wasn't going to let him know she suffered. Damn her for just wearing a flimsy button up shirt. Why did she choose too look like a typical American fashion model. They had just left the front gate and were about to be in the middle of the street. " Give me your wand." He rolled his eyes at her but did as she asked. He let his hand rest on hers before she jerked it away and put both her wand and his in the back pocket of her jeans." Now move."

After seventeen years there feet still knew where to go. She still follows his lead as they walk in shadows to a park of sorts a few blocks away. She had met him here a couple of times when they were younger. She even sketched him sitting under the tree that they came to, now that she thought about it. Only if it were possible to go back to that time.

Severus stopped a few paces before the tall wide oak. Ann kept walking and put her back to it crossing her arms over her chest trying to fight the shivers. She looked at the ground before looking at him.

The eyes she could never resist. Deep dark and haunting. To others they looked cold but if you stared at them long enough there was more. No man who tried could compare to him. She had dated guys but they always fell short of some ideal that didn't have a name till hours before. After all this time she still loved him. Severus made to touch her cheek and she took out her wand and kept it level with his heart. He dropped his arm to his side and looked at the ground. Shaking his head sadly.

"You have no faith in me." He looked up at her and saw the eyes he wanted to drown in. Still. " Angel I could have killed you just now if I had wanted to, you know that."

" You forget I do know you. Your like a cat with a mouse when you want to Severus you can prolong the execution when you wish to. Your also very subtle in your torments. This could be one of them."

" I never tormented you !" He hissed at her." It's what you heard from Lucius that's turned you from me."

" Possibly..." He gave her a look of dis belief. " Okay yes."

" Angel you have known that I walked a very thin line. I 've been doing it now for a very long time. Seventeen years. The Dark Lord fell after we wiped your mind only to come back recently. Another war has started and once again I have to walk a very fine line. Alone. Then at least you were-" can't finish it fighting tears back and about to choke on them.

" I remember you telling me sometimes you couldn't find the line anymore and it terrified you."Lowers her wand a little." Is it still the same now ? "

" It's still that way now. Not too much has changed since you've been away. Well that's not entirely true. I have shutdown since I left you. The way I was our last year in school is the face I show the world."

" I remember." Shivers involuntarily and not from the cold. In there last year he had changed dramatically. Even towards her. He still cared about her but it wasn't the same anymore. It was as if his father had printed itself on his son when he died. " Cold, cruel, calculating."

" Never with you." Tries to touch her again only to have the wand come back.

" Where is everyone ? " waves her wand from side to side.

" Most of the players you knew are dead. Lilly, James, Sirius,-"

" God Damn. " Looks down at the ground shaking her head.

" There's more. I'm sorry you're hearing this from me but your fathers gone too." Once again he was doing all the dirty work. Once again he had to cause her hurt. Ann's knees gave out and she slid down the tree and tears slowly start to fall down her cheeks. Severus kneeled and tried to get near her to comfort her but she still held the wand right at his heart.

" Lilly's baby Harry? What about him ? "

" He's alive. "

" Oh thank god for small favors." She let out her breath that she didn't realize she was holding. " How is he ? "

"Fine."It came out slow threw his clenched jaw, and full of hate. The little brat this is all his fault. She gets up off the ground and Severus rises too.

" I want to know one thing and I will trust you after I hear the truth and I will know if your lying." Jabs her wand at his chest to accentuate her point.

" And that would be? "

" Voldermort was at the height of his power. If you hadn't turn sides I think he would have won. But you turned on him...why? " There was a long silence before he answered her. He thought long and hard. It was a simple and fair question but the answer was complicated. It could be brought down to one thing.

" Put simply he made promises he couldn't keep."

Ann Nodded her head. " So what have you been doing ? "

" I have been plotting with your Father and The Order. I don't know if you remember-"

" I remember. Dad refused to let me and Mom join. He was afraid that Mom would revert to her 'old habits' shall we say, and I would turn into something 'Bad'."

" For the last 17 years ever since the day I held you in your Mothers house and we wiped your memory clean... I didn't want to but-"

" In all honesty if I remember right none did."

" What do you remember ? "

" Everything... Now. It feels like I just woke up from a living dream. I feel like I have walked into a nightmare."

" Tell me what you remember about that night."

" Wait a second you're the one who supposed to be telling me things here."

" Humor me if you will. "

" I guess if it will get me answers quicker. "

" It will."

Ann shrugs and begins a tale of long ago.

It was a dark and stormy night in the in the States. It was pouring down rain and the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland's eastern Shore threatened to over flow and wipe out the little houses that dotted the beach. A little house in the middle of the strip was the only one with it's lights on. All the other's houses light were out. The inhabitants fast asleep, except for one house was not asleep. The events that were about to unfold in the house were as great as the storm. That night a very complicated spell was about to be performed by two powerful witches and two powerful wizards, and every ones life was about to get a little more complicated.

In this little house on the shore an old woman sits on her kitchen counter with her wand loosely in her hands while a much older man sits at the kitchen table eating lemon drops. Both look as if there is nothing wrong with the world at all.

The old woman Brianna Le Fey does not look like she is nearing sixty at all. She looks like she is nearing thirty, but then again the Le Fey line were all like that. Brianna was a strikingly beautiful woman in an old medieval way. Delicate features that hid the monster she could be. Her daughter was the opposite. Ann looked like she could raise hell but kept the 'evil within' in close check. Brianna was so proud the day Little Ann was sorted into Gryffindor. All Le Fey's before were Slytherines to the core. Not her baby. Ann had done what no other Le Fey had. Finally the Le Fey's had paid there dues for Morgana's treachery to Merlin.

" Well looks like we picked a hell of a night for this." Pointing her wand at the kitchen window.

" Yes but it will make being hit by lightning all the more plausible."

" Yes it will." Nods sadly." All her things of the past have been locked away. I have already figured stories to tell her about her schooling or anything about her past. I have to lie to my own child. I hate lying to you and her. Contrary to popular belief."

" I forgave you for that a long time ago. "

" I know, but I should have told you I was pregnant with Ann. I should have told you sooner she was yours. I was a coward."

" It's in the past now. Besides she has been raised fairly well if I may say so. Only once or twice did she cause any real mayhem. She has kept her ancestors mischief of causing trouble from coming out of her. I say you did very well."

" Yes she doesn't resort to her mothers tricks of-"

" Nothing happened that night Brianna that I didn't want. "

" Albus are we doing the right thing for her now ? "

" I hope so Brianna. I truly do hope so. "

" We 're asking her to give up so much and were also asking him to give her up."

" Yes but your visions have never been wrong. Even the Ministry listens to them from time to time."

" No they haven't been wrong. Have you told Lilly the vision I had of her and James ? "

" No. We may still yet avoid that fate."

" I doubt that. Ann will be that baby's last hope. When we're all gone. She will give him the fire he needs to fight him."

" Yes-"

A knock at the door stops their conversation.

" It's probably Lilly."Brianna jumps of the counter and opens the door. Sure enough it was Lilly Potter. Lilly came threw and stood on the welcome mat as Brianna shut the door.

" I'm here." Shakes her hands to get all the salt water off them. Brianna goes to the counter and gets her a hand towel.

"Oh thanks Mss Bri." Wipes her hands and gives the older woman the towel. " That is one heck of a storm. I thought storms at home were bad." Wrings out her hair on the mat. She looked like a drowned rat that got thrown onto the beach." Lucky for me Ann brought me here when we were in school or I would have never been able to apparate here." Shakes her robes a little before using her wand for a drying spell." Sorry about all the water Miss Bri." Looking at the floor covered in water."

" Don't worry about it Lilly." Brianna points her wand at the floor and it is automatically dry again. " Nothing to fret about."

" Where's Ann?"

" She's up in her room we're just waiting for Severus." Another pound at the door.

" Sounds like Severus is here. " Sure enough it was Severus and he looked no worse then Lilly. His black hair seemed to be like paint falling down his face. He put a goblet down on the table before administering a drying spell to his clothes and Brianna's linoleum floor.

"I've the sleeping draft like you asked. She won't dream or remember anything at all." Once the spell was administered steam began to rise off of his clothes. He looked at the steaming goblet sitting on an ordinary kitchen island and balled his hands into fists. Maybe if he stared at it long enough it would go away and this whole scene would be nothing but a bad dream.

" Lilly why don't you go get Ann. I think Severus has something he'd like to say." Brianna smiled and watched Lilly leave the kitchen an go up the stairs.

In her room an was looking at a picture book she had made over the years. She looked at the picture of her Lilly, James, and Sirius at the Potters wedding. The people in the picture were waving at her and they were all happy. She had managed to get threw that whole day without killing Sirius. She turned the little books page and was greeted by a picture of her and Sirius holding little Harry. Little Harry was tugging on her hair while her and Sirius were laughing. Only when the two god parents were around there god child were they happy with each other.

The last page held the most sadness. It was taken just a ways down on the this very same beach. The dark haired, hooked nosed figure was sitting on the sand waving at her, and for once he was smiling. The picture was taken a month ago after a very important question was asked. The sun was shining and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Nor was there any worries. Not now. The sky had opened up and chased all her happiness away.

Lilly had been standing in the door way watching her friend flip threw memory lane and wondered just as Brianna did. Where they doing the right thing ?

" What if I don't want to do this ? " She closed the little book and looked up at her friend. Lilly came and sat down on the edge of the bed next to her taking the book and looking at it.

" Then we don't do it, but you did agree this is the best we can do."

" Severus agreed to this." She looked at Lilly but Lilly could not look at her. She couldn't imagine a life without Harry and James and here she was robbing her best friend of a life she should be living.

" He did. He's as afraid as we all are."

" He finally asked me to marry him Lilly."

" I know but we all agreed this is the best we can do." She closed the picture book and looked at her friend. The puffy eyes and the tear stained cheeks said it all." I hate it too. We may never see each other again."

" He can hide me away."

" Ann you can't stay hidden in some cage." Lilly put the book down and took her friends face in her hands. " You liked Hogwarts and look what you did to that. Just imagine if your locked in some tower..."

" That's not it ." Lilly let her go and looked at Ann puzzled." You don't trust him."

" Yes I do trust Severus. I don't know why but I do." Lilly got of the bed and began looking around." Severus would try but in the end he would fail. Locking you in a cage is not the answer."

" And what were going to do tonight is the answer."

"You know as well as I that the spell Obliviate Totalas Maximus is the only way. Once it's cast it will send a shockwave threw out the magical world and everyone who ever knew you will simply forget. Well almost everyone Me, your mother, father ,and Severus will be the only ones to remember. We were going to erase his mind too but he wouldn't hear it. That was when we decided to make him your own personal remember all. Voldermort could walk right by you and he wouldn't even know it was you.

" Lilly-"

" We're all afraid that Voldermort will lead you down a path that you will never come back from. All the good you've done will be erased. Do you want to be remembered as the one who helped Voldermort destroy the world?

Down stairs another argument against the inevitable has started.

"She agreed to this ? " He couldn't look at them. He hated this whole thing. It wasn't fair. Life had never been fair to him. His final moment of sunshine was being snatched away. The only conciliation was that Black would never have her either. Small favors.

" She did." Albus answered before opening another box of lemon heads.

" You're sure you explained everything ? " He looked at the old man now and wanted him dead.

" Yes." Dumbledor did not look at him but kept eating his lemon heads. He had omitted a few things but he didn't want to make this situation any harder then it already was.

" You left nothing out ? " He looked to Ann's mother for the answers now.

" Severus she told me that you finally asked but you said it yourself Voldermort is obsessed with killing The Potters and finding her. Even you fear what will happen to her. We have to hide her and the boy. The best way we can."

" I could do it you know. Keep her safe and hidden from him." It was his last hope. If they believed him he would take her far away and they would both hide.

" Severus you know as well as we do no cage can hold her. Look at all the trouble she caused in school and she wanted to be there." Brianna snorts.

" I hate this." His last hope is gone. He looks at the floor. He can't stand to be in the same room with either of them.

" It has to be done Severus time has run out."Dumbledor said as he looked at the poor man.

"I can still hate it." He hissed out threw clenched teeth. Ann and Lilly come down the stairs and into the kitchen. Her mother puts the potion in her hand before she can get to Severus.

" Drink it all." Ann takes the cup and downs the purple liquid. It tastes horrible.

"Severus will hold you while it's done so there will be no real damage. If any of us dies little pieces of your memory will come back but the key is Severus. When the time is right he will awaken all the sleeping memories you'll have." Her father almost chokes on his own words.

Severus moves behind her and places his hand on her shoulder and his wand lightly at her temple, then begins to whisper in her ear.

" When you see his mark, the dark mark over your head you'll know I'm near."

Ann nods her head slowly." You will remember me your past everything for the spell will be broken." Nods again and grips his hand on her shoulder. "You'll remember I did this only cause I love you." His voice shook.

" Look in Lilly's eyes Ann..."

" I saw a flash of purple light and I woke up in the hospital. Mom and the doctors told me that I was struck by lightning. I couldn't remember things and it was chalked up to the shock. Everything that had to do with magic I assume was kept in the box with my wand. She never used magic and I couldn't remember it." Shrugs it all away. " And here we are. I remember everything like you said I would."