Chapter 9

Miracles, a word my family has come to know. We have had some wonderful miracles happen to us but we have also had our share of tragedies happen to us.

Everyone always wishes for a miracle, a miracle in the time of a crisis. When you lose a loved one or you are afraid how you are going to make it to your next paycheck, miracles are a thing people are always asking for. Problem is you rarely ever get them.

Harry got the miracle of finding out about his Aunt Arabella Evans-Black and Sirius getting the charges dropped against him. Peter Pettigrew finally got the Dementor's kiss that he deserved for betraying Uncle Sirius, Aunt Arabella, and Grandma Lily and Grandpa James. Then Harry found out that his Aunt Adora Aimee Potter, who had been thought to be dead like Arabella, was also very much alive and ended up being one of his best friends. Soon Harry and Adora found out that Harry's twin sister Sadie Susanna was also alive, and before Arabella and Sirius got married they found out that Sadie Susanna had been living her life for most of her life as Susan Bones.

Once Harry thought that there could not be anymore miracles to bring back dead family members, he was wrong. Harry's grandfather Anthony Potter and youngest sister who was to have died the night that Harry's parents died was actually still alive. Anthony had been raising the youngest Potter of them all, Bridget Lynn Potter.

The Gryffindor's had gotten rid of a Slytherin, thanks to Harry and his undying love to his family, wife, and son.

Miracles were defiantly something my family had gotten use to, but they all figured that their luck with miracles was all used up.

What a surprise they would be in for…

"H…how is this possible?" Molly Weasley asked as she felt very faint.

"Sit down dear," Arthur Weasley said to his wife as he helped her over to the loveseat in which he sat down with her. The two supposed dead men in their living room sat down across from them on the couch.

"How is this possible?" Molly asked as her eyes were about to pop out.

"Mum are you okay?" Ronald Weasley said running into the living room to see what in Merlin's name was his mother yelling about.

"No don't come in here Ron!" Arthur yelled because there was no way that they could be sure that the men that were in their living room were not Death Eaters.

Ron's eyes popped out as he saw the two men in the living room, "Get those bloody Death Eaters out of here!"

"We are not Death Eaters," Oliver Wood said standing.

"Prove it," Ron narrowed his eyes.

"You wanted to be an Auror ever since you met the imposter Moody and he said that Adora and Harry would be great Aurors in your fourth year. You told me this two weeks before I supposedly died," Remus Lupin stated.

"Okay, he is good. But you…" Ron spat at Oliver.

"Bridget has a tattoo on her left bottom cheek."

"What!" Molly, Arthur, and Ron yelled at the same time.

"Isn't that Harry's youngest sister? I remember Lily and James talking about that name before…"

"Yes that's his younger sister and she is the trouble maker of them all, speaking of the beautiful Potter Princess…"

"She married Blaise Zambini today," Molly said as tears filled up in her eyes. "I am afraid you are too late my dear."

The Bahamas were incredible and Blaise looked in complete heaven. He was now sleeping, but Bridget was very far from sleep. She sat out on the balcony outside of their suite in a bathrobe with a blanket also wrapped around her. She was now his wife, and somehow she still did not feel right.

Bridget had listened to her family and had moved on after Oliver died. Deep down inside there was still something telling her that he was not dead, but her brain was telling her to ignore her heart. Of course he was not totally dead, he would always live on in her heart.

Tonight had been the first time that Bridget had had sex with anyone since her last night with Oliver alive. Merlin knows how long Blaise had been trying to push into it, and tonight he finally got what he had been asking about.

Although when this was going on, she didn't see Blaise Zambini. She only saw Oliver, which made her feel horrible as Blaise was her husband and she was to have him until death.

In a way though, she felt as though she had betrayed the love of her life.

"Bridget?" Blaise asked and she turned around in her seat. "What are you doing out here?"

"Thinking."

"You want to divorce me already don't you?"

"No silly," Bridget said with a small smile.

"What is wrong then?"

"Nothing."

"Don't you lie to me. It is about what your brother said tonight, isn't it?"

"I do not have a brother."

"Bridget…"

"I am serious Blaise, I do not have a brother and I will go no where near him…."

"What about when we have children?"

"All of my family minus Harry may see them, besides I do not want children for a while."

"But…"

"Blaise we already talked about this," Bridget pointed out. "I am no where near being a mother, in fact I should have waited for us to get married. I honestly do no think I am really ready for this."

"What?"

"I still have strong feelings for Oliver."

"He is dead Bridget."

"I know that," she snapped.

"I will not be married to a woman who swoons over a dead man."

"I am sorry, but I am getting over him." She lied.

"Thank you," Blaise said kissing her passionately. "Want to pick up where we left off from earlier."

"No," Bridget shook her head. "I am too tired."

"Then why are you here?"

"Don't you talk to me like that."

"Sorry," Blaise said trying to cover himself. "I am just still a tad bit angry with Harry."

"I have no idea who you are talking about."

"Fine, then let's go to bed."

Blaise was out in ten minutes, but Bridget lay awake for hours. Wondering what her life would truly be like. Wondering what kind of life she would have had if she would have married Oliver and how beautiful their children would have been. How much of a better lover that Oliver was then Blaise, but then again it is so much better with someone you truly loved.

"Ron what in Merlin's name are you yelling about!" Adora snapped, she hated being pulled out of a deep sleep at about two o'clock in the morning. "You are going to wake Roselyn."

"Too late," came the voice of a very irritable Arabella Black with a crying Roselyn on her hip. "What in Merlin's name are you yelling about and it better be good or I will murder you. This child is the worst to put down at night."

"It is important! You have to follow me to Mum's house!"

"Ronald stop this!" Adora yelled, "You know I have to go back tomorrow and you are trying to keep me up on purpose."

"No I am not, just follow me."

"Fine," Arabella snapped. "But if it is something stupid…"

"Which it most likely is," Adora pitched in.

"Then the two of us are murdering you."

"Fine," Ron sighed. "Just follow me to Mum's house."

"Okay Ron what is the…Merlin's beard!" Adora gasped.

"I see nothing amazing here Ronald," Arabella growled. "Now I will murder you!"

"Still as grumpy as ever," came a voice from behind her that she had not heard in almost three years. "You always did strangle Sirius when he woke you up too early, sorry about that loss."

Arabella turned around with tears in her eyes, "Remus?"

"It is me."

"And me," Oliver Wood said stepping out of the shadows.

"Merlin's beard. Oh no!" Arabella screamed the last part, "We told her to move on….oh Oliver I am so sorry…she married Zambini tonight."

"Mum what…oh Merlin." Ginny, Harry, and James said walking in through the front door.

"Wood?" Harry asked trying to shake off his hangover, "Okay Ginny…you were right, I had way too much to drink."

"What a beautiful little girl," Remus said about Roselyn. "She looks just like him."

"Remus!" Harry then turned to his wife, "It is time I go to St. Mungo's."

"Why?" Ginny asked not taking her eyes off of Oliver nor Remus.

"I have gone crazy and you will have to put admit me."

"Then I am as crazy as you are, because I see them too Harry."

The next day Susan and Draco found out about Oliver and Remus's return from the dead from the Daily Prophet. Remus was staying with Arabella and Adora had decided not to go back for another couple of weeks. Oliver had returned to his mother's home in which she cried for hours, so happy that he was alive.

Soon everyone knew their stories, except for one person, Bridget.

A month later, Bridget Potter still somehow did not know about Oliver's return from the dead. Then again no one in muggle Bahamas knew of her and Blaise had stopped all owls to them.

"Where are you going love?" Blaise asked as Bridget got up at the same time as he did that morning. "You don't have work like I do."

"I know but I promised my aunts that we would have breakfast today."

Blaise not knowing neither of the escape nodded, "You will be home for dinner, right?"

"Of course."

"Aunt Bella? Adora?"

"In the living room," Arabella yelled and Bridget heard Roselyn cooing.

"You're back!" Adora jumped to hug her youngest niece.

"Yes, and I missed you guys so much."

"I missed you," came a voice from behind her that made her cry.

"Adora I am going insane, I am hearing…"

"Me," Oliver Wood said turning Bridget around to look into those eyes that he had dreamed of for over a year now.

"No!" Bridget screamed.

"Bridget please," Oliver said as he had only seen her like this after the rape.

"No, no, no!" She shook her head back and forth, "You are dead. Oh Merlin! I see dead people."

"What's all the screaming about?" Remus Lupin asked walking into the room scratching his head.

"See! Dead people!"

"No," Remus said as he guessed that this was Bridget. "We aren't dead."

"Yes, yes you are!"

"Autumn had us both locked up prisoners," Oliver tried to explain. "I was trying to escape on your wedding night and I ran into Remus. We escaped together."

"Y…you know?" Bridget asked as tears fell down her face.

"Yeah I do," he said looking away from her.

"Uh…I have to show you something Remus," Arabella said dragging him out of the room with Roselyn on her hip.

"I'll come too, I want to see." Adora said following them.

"I am sorry, everyone kept…"

"They already told me everything." Oliver interrupted her, "They told me how you still felt that I was still alive. They told me how they told you to move on and you said that you would accept the proposal of the first man who asked you. Blaise asked you and you accepted, I read that in the Prophet."

"I would have never married him if I…"

"I know," Oliver nodded. Then he grabbed her hands and looked pleadingly into her eyes, "Divorce him and come back to me."

"I…I don't think I can though."

"Why not?"

"You know how I do not believe in divorces and I value the vows."

"You do not belong with him Bridget, we were suppose to marry and ride off into the sunset."

"I know," she began to sob again. "I know…"

"Bridget he's a Death Eater."

"You have been talking to Harry haven't you!"

"Your brother is really sorry…"

"I don't have a brother!"

"No I was not listening to Harry."

"Sounds like you have."

"Bridget he helped Autumn and Neville kidnap me. They helped Blaise into tricking you into dating him again and then marrying him. They have plans for you."

"You have gone insane."

"They want to turn you against your family and get you to help defeat your family, then she would kill you."

"I would never go to the dark side."

"Blaise is with them."

"I don't know who you have become."

"You were suppose to be my wife…"

"But I am Blaise's wife now."

"If I had not escaped Blaise was to bring you to the lair in which I was being held within, they were going to make you watch Autumn kill me. I escaped before that happened."

"How was your day, love?" Blaise asked Bridget over dinner.

"I saw Oliver Wood and Remus Lupin today."

"What!" Blaise said spitting food all over the place.

"Blaise watch out!" His mother snapped.

"Nursing home old woman."

"Be polite to your mother," Bridget yelled.

"Thank you dear."

"Oliver Wood and Remus Lupin are dead, they have been dead." Blaise stated.

"No we all thought they were, but they are very much alive. I heard a very funny story from them too."

"Really?"

"They told me that you are a Death Eater and to marry me was only a plan for me to go against my family."

"What? And you believed that?"

"I don't know what to believe, but I think my family wants nothing to do with me anymore."

"You stay away from Wood, you are my wife."

"Only because I thought he was dead."

Blaise rose from the dinner table and yanked Bridget out of her seat.

"Blaise stop it!"

"You listen to my you damned slut," he said spitting all over her.

"Excuse you!" Bridget screamed, "You will not talk to me like that! I will leave."

Blaise slapped Bridget across her face so hard that she fell to the ground, "I do not believe you!" She yelled as she went to hit him back but then he began to beat her badly.

"Stop it! Blaise stop it!" Blaise's mother was yelling as Bridget tried to fight him off, which just got him even more angry.

After Bridget was black and blue, Blaise looked down at his wife on the ground. "I am going out." He waved his wand at her, "If you leave I will know and I will come home and kill you."

Blaise apparated away and his mother ran to Bridget's side, "Bridget you can not do that. He takes after his father."

"You expect me to put up with this."

"I am sad to say he put a curse upon you."

"So? I would rather die then stay here."

"No sweetheart, he lied."

"What?"

"If you leave you will not kill yourself, you will kill Oliver."

"What!"

"I know, that is the only reason I stayed with Blaise's father."

"You mean I am prisoner here…"

"Forever."

"Well here it is," Arabella said giving the paper to Remus a few days later during breakfast. "The story of how you and Oliver are still alive and how you survived and escaped."

"Thanks."

Back From The Dead

On December 1st, 1999, a miracle happened. Oliver Wood and Remus Lupin arose from the dead, or not so much as the dead. Both of their deaths had been staged.

Remus Lupin had been on his honeymoon three years ago with his now widow, Narcissa Crane-Malfoy-Lupin. Narcissa's ex-husband, Lucius Malfoy was very angry that his ex-wife had left him for another man and had remarried. Even though Malfoy had been cheating on her for years. We have found out from an exclusive interview with Lupin that his wife had indeed been killed in front of him by Malfoy. But to make Lupin suffer even more Malfoy staged Lupin's death. Since this attack three years ago, Lupin has been locked down in a dungeon in Lord Voldemort's lair and now the Queen and King of the Death Eaters lair, being tortured everyday.

Oliver Wood has been missing for almost a year now, in fact the love of his life Bridget Potter-Zambini had finally been convinced by her family that Wood was indeed dead and she moved on. Zambini moved on so fast that she is already married, in fact she got married the exact that Lupin and Wood escaped from the clutches of the Queen and King of the Death Eaters.

Wood and Lupin gave us here at the Daily Prophet exclusive interviews, but Mr. Zambini refused to let us have an interview with his wife.

Ginny knocked on the door of the Zambini estate and a house-elf answered the door, "Ma I help you mistress?"

"I am looking for Mrs. Zambini."

"Mother of the house is not home right now."

"No I am looking for Bridget."

"Oh," the house-elf's eyes began to bug out. "Master says Mistress is not allowed company."

"Ginny dear!" Blaise said coming to the door, "Star." Blaise said turning to the house-elf, "let Mrs. Potter in."

"I…I…"

"I told you Mrs. Potter is welcomed, only two people are not allowed in. Mr. Malfoy and Wood."

"Sorry master."

"Star will bring you to the parlor, I will go get Bridget."

"Where is Bridget?" Ginny asked looking around the room as she stepped into the house.

"Upstairs, she has been feeling under the weather."

Once Blaise was upstairs he took a key out of his pocket and unlocked the door to open up a suite of a room and Bridget was laying upon the bed, "Go away."

"You have company."

"You told your mother and Star that I am to have no company."

"Ginny is here."

"And…"

"Her kid."

Bridget still had her face in the blankets and Blaise walked across the room and pulled her up in which she winced. "You whisper a word of the curse and I will murder not only Wood and you, but I will always kill the entirely of your family. Understand?"

"I know the rules," Bridget said jerking away from him. "If I really wanted to get away from you that much then I would have ran away when we were in Diagon Alley, wouldn't I?"

"I don't know Bridget, I can't ever trust you any more."

Bridget's eyes got livid and she spit in his face. "You can't trust me! We have been married only a month and a half and I found you in bed with Hannah Abbott! You told me you were done with that slut! You have probably given me some disease!"

"Go downstairs and see your friend or do you want another beating?"

"I'm going," Bridget said waving her wand over her face. Makeup looked wonderful and all her bruises and cuts were hidden.

"Ginny!"

"Bridget!" Ginny yelled and hugged Bridget and when Bridget winced Ginny pulled back, "What's wrong?"

"I was sleeping the other night, and you know how much I thrash in my sleep, well I fell off of the bed."

"Bridget, you have to be much more careful."

"I know," Bridget chuckled. "So what are you doing here?"

"I haven't heard from you since you got back, that was a month ago."

"Sorry been busy in you know, newly wedded bliss."

"Yeah right."

"What are you here for Ginny?" Bridget asked irritated, "Because if you are here to disrespect me as your husband did at my wedding then I have no need for you."

"You don't want to see your nephew?"

"James!" Bridget smiled as her face lit up.

Bridget took James from Ginny, "So what's up Ginny?"

"I'm pregnant!"

"Again?"

"Yes again! Oh you don't sound happy."

"Of course I am!" Bridget smiled from ear to ear as she played with James. "When did you find out?"

"A few days after you were on your honeymoon."

"Oh."

"Congratulations!"

"You sure you are okay?"

"Yes, of course I am."

Blaise walked into the room, "Bridget honey."

"Yes," Bridget said smiling from ear to ear trying to put a show on and hoping Ginny was buying it.

"We have to go by St. Mungo's and pick mother up, remember."

"Oh that's right," Bridget said handing her nephew back to Ginny. "Sorry we have to cut this so short."

"We have to do this another time," Ginny said giving Bridget a look.

"Of course," Bridget said hugging Ginny.

Ginny and James left the Zambini manor, but Ginny didn't have a good feeling about this marriage, not a good feeling at all.

Miracles, yes sometimes they can be a blessing but sometimes they can be a total tragedy in disguise.

Remus Lupin and Oliver Wood returning from the dead was a total miracle, but for them to come back from the dead hours after Bridget had married Blaise Zambini was a total tragedy for true love.