Fleamont Potter was terrified.
So terrified, he didn't think he'd be able to sleep.
But he tried his hardest to get a bit of rest.
Biggest mistake in his life.
He woke up, screaming at the top of his lungs, and his parents holding him down, because he was trashe
Monty just sobbed.
His father, Henry, just held him in his arms and his mother, Charlotte, just whispered comforting words in his ear.
Monty kept crying.
"I need you to calm down and listen to me." Henry said very softly. "Monty, what happened to you?"
Monty took a couple of shaky breaths.
"Yeah, that's it, take a couple of deep breaths." Charlotte said encouragingly.
Monty coughed and took a deep breath.
"You feel better?" Henry asked.
"A bit." Monty shyly replied.
"Now, d'you want to tell us what that was all about?"
"It's - I have a dream every night, that I'm walking through a graveyard, and I always stop at the same grave. Ariana Marie."
Henry paled.
"And then - and then -"
"It's okay, you don't have to tell us." Charlotte said, stroking Monty's hair softly.
"And, then someone starts to kill me and they do it - and that's when I wake up." Monty finished, finally turning into a crying mess.
Henry and Charlotte held their crying son in their arms.
"I think it's time you know something." Charlotte said, wiping her tears away from her eyes.
"Monty, when you were born, you were supposed to have a sister." Henry said.
Monty just stayed silent.
"And her name was Ariana Marie." Charlotte said, her body shaking with silent tears. "She died a few weeks before you and Jack were born, but Ariana died." Charlotte let out a sob. "My sweet girl, my little girl." She started to cry.
Monty hugged his mother tightly.
He'd always thought there was a part of him missing.
"Only me and your father never knew that Ariana died." Charlotte whispered. "We only found out after you and Jack had arrived in this world, and I had surgery to remove Ariana from me, and when I woke up, your dad was holding her."
"Was there any hope?" Monty asked.
"No." Charlotte whispered, holding Monty's hand and squeezing it tightly.
"None at all." Henry said, a haunted look in his eyes.
"The Healers handed Ariana to me, because your mum was still unconscious, and-" Henry started to cry. "She was the most beautiful baby girl I'd ever seen in my life. Light blue eyes, a tuft of red hair and the tiniest fingers." Henry sobbed and wiped his eyes. "But she wasn't breathing. That's when it hit me. I was never going to see her smile, I was never going to protect her from boys. It hit that me and Lottie had lost our daughter, Ariana Marie. "
The three Potters cried together that night, grieving for the Potter they never knew, Ariana.
Monty decides to visit Ariana's grave.
He walks throughout the graves, looking for Ariana Marie Potter.
Monty finds his little sister quickly enough.
He wipes his eyes.
Ariana Marie Potter
Died 30th September 1935
Baby Girl of Henry and Charlotte Potter.
Baby Sister of Charlus, Edward, Daniel, Jackson and Fleamont Potter
Fly High, Little Angel.
Monty wiped his tears away from his eyes.
"Hi there, baby sis." He whispered softly. "It's your big brother Monty."
And as Monty placed a single rose on his sister's grave, he could have swore he heard a baby's chuckle but then a breeze blew by, and Monty shaked it away.
Ariana Potter would live on.
