Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or places that you recognize. Everything belongs to JK Rowling and the idea belongs to itsjulialol. I'm just finishing this story.

Sorry I haven't updated in SOOO long. I had the most massive case of writer's block.

Chapter 10

Albus woke up disoriented. He tried to remember what had happened; as hard as he tried every time he tried to think back his head felt like it was getting hit by a load of bricks.

One thing he knew for sure was he'd been raped, he just couldn't remember who. He remembered what it felt like; it seemed he was trapped in his mind and his body was acting against his will. Last night came back to him in flashes, whoever raped him had performed a memory charm, but it wasn't a very effective one.

He felt so dirty. He had lost the one thing that hadn't been tainted or taken from his life; his innocence and he hadn't even remembered who'd did it. He had always dreamed that his first time would be with someone special, not him being a victim of something he couldn't even remember. He felt wetness on his cheeks; he realized that he was crying. It was a foreign feeling; he hadn't cried in a long time.

He couldn't do this. He got up and pulled on his clothes. He was determined to forget even the little that he remembered.

"What is it with you and sneaking around?" Nicholas teased as he and Lily stepped inside the passage behind the statue of Gregory the Smarmy, minutes after breakfast that Saturday.

Lily just smiled as they continued along to the Honeydukes Cellar.

"So where are we apparating to today?" Nicholas asked.

Lily sat down on a crate and looked up at him. "London."

Nicholas looked surprised. "London? Where? You realize I'd have to have seen this place before to apparate there, or else something could go horribly wrong."

Lily reached into her backpack and brought out a photograph. "That's why I have a picture." She said as she handed it to Nicholas.

He looked at it closely memorizing every single little detail for a few minutes. Before he stood up and held his arm out to Lily.

She looked alarmed. "Ready to go already?"

"Yeah, I suppose. It's not like I'm going to get any more ready by sitting and staring at a picture." Nicholas shrugged.

They both clasped hands and spun on the spot; disapparating to London.

Oliver Wood had never been beyond devastated in his whole life. Now standing by his daughter's bedside in St. Mungo's he finally understood the expression 'when the dam broke'. Katie was all out weeping by Cecilia's side, and he had succumbed to almost tears more than once; but he had decided he needed to be strong. Not just for himself, but for his wife and children too.

He didn't want to think about the fact that his daughter was so badly scorched that she might die; so he thought about the irony of the situation. He thought about how a few days ago he would've been happy if Cecilia had shown the slightest magical tendency, but now he figured they would've been better off if she hadn't.

He thought he had made the right choice by not telling Nicholas that his sister was in St. Mungo's. Nicholas would've gone hell and back to see Cecilia and he couldn't let that happen. For one Nicholas would've been expelled for sneaking out of the school, then if he hadn't been expelled his grades and Quidditch ability would drastically go down. He had told his other son Alex about what happened to his sister, but had warned him not to mention this to Nicholas. Oliver hoped he had made the right choice as he stood up to get some coffee. It always seemed that he fucked up again and again.

Annie Longbottom had been in love with Albus Potter since her first year. When people asked her why she wouldn't date she'd tell them her dad would get angry; but the truth was she didn't want to date anybody who wasn't Albus. She knew him like she knew the back of her hand. So that's why she noticed something was extremely wrong with him when he sat down for breakfast. She scooted over to Al on the bench.

"Al?" She asked.

"Huh." He mumbled absentmindedly.

"Are you alright, it seems like something is wrong." Annie asked concernedly.

She saw something like alarm pass through Albus' eyes for a moment; she deduced there was something most definitely wrong.

"Nothing." He muttered not looking at her.

"Well," she said as she stood up. "If you ever need to talk about anything, you can always come to me." She smiled warmly at him before leaving to go get ready for the day.

Lily and Nicholas ungracefully landed on the top step of Number 12 Grimmauld Place.

"So this is it?" Nicholas queried as he looked about.

"Yes." Lily sighed. She squared her shoulders as she made her way to the door. It was now or never, she thought as she pushed it open.

A house elf popped up in front of them. Lily looked surprised. "Kreacher? What are you doing here?"

The elf bowed low. "Master Harry, has asked Kreacher to take care of Miss?"

There were a million thoughts running through her head at the moment. He father knew, and he hadn't told them. She felt weak at the knees. Nicholas held her hand.

"Kreacher, can you please take me to my mum?" Lily said weakly.

Kreacher bowed once again, as he led Nicholas and Lily into the house.

Nicholas was surprised. He had never seen her so vulnerable, it seemed like the moment her mum was around, all her walls came crashing down.

Albus Potter stood pacing around his dormitory. He had tried to forget, but 'it' kept creeping into his thoughts. Rose has approached him asking what was wrong, but he had yelled at her to go away. When Scorpius came to ask him what was wrong; Albus used the pretense of Scorpius sleeping with his sister and cheating on Rose as being angry with him. He needed to talk to someone. He had to go talk to Annie Longbottom as she was the only one who he thought he could trust right now; she'd help him figure this out.

He went down to the common room and approached Annie who was sitting by the fireplace reading a book. It looked like she hadn't gone to Hogsmeade today either.

"Er Annie," He cleared his throat. She looked up at him expectantly. "Can I…er…talk to you?"

"Of course, Al, anytime. Like I said this morning." She said smiling up at him. "Why don't we go to the kitchens to talk?' She said as she stood up gracefully.

Albus nodded dumbly.

"Lily!" Ginny Potter gasped, as Kreacher bowed himself out of the room.

"Mum." Lily said coldly. Ginny winced at the amount of spite in her daughter's voice.

"How are you?" Ginny said. "Who's you're friend?" She remarked gesturing to Nicholas.

Lily's eyes turned hard. "I'm doing as fine as a one would do when their life is a big mess and their mum leaves them." She said sardonically.

"And my boyfriend is none of your concern." She finished. Nicholas felt a warmth in his heart as Lily referred to him as her boyfriend.

Ginny licked her lips nervously as she sat down on the couch, and gestured for the pair to sit on the sofa opposite of her. "So Lily, how have you been, and James and Albus and Teddy. How—."

"Excuse me Mum." Lily cut across Ginny's speech. "I didn't come here to exchange pleasantries to you. I came here because you wanted to explain. So explain." Lily's voice broke slightly at the end.

Ginny glanced at Nicholas. "It would be best if you—."

"No," Lily interrupted, eyes blazing. "Anything you want to say, you can say it in front of Nicholas." Nicholas nodded silently.

"Ok." Ginny started again. "The reason I left was because I wasn't feeling well. The Wizarding War still haunted me, and I didn't want to expose you to that. I left, because I didn't want you all to be exposed to an unstable mum. Someone who couldn't take care of you.

"So I planned to make my leave. I had hoped that all your aunts and Luna would help your Dad take care of you all. And they did. I spent my years traveling around the world calming myself, learning how to control the grief and the anger, learning how to suppress the memories. I did.

"I decided that I would come back after I finished all that. I've been trying to come back for the past year and a half, but I couldn't. I was too scared. I mean I walked out on all of you when you were just little children. I gave your father so much grief. I want to come back now. I want to be a part of your lives again." Ginny finished, looking at Lily earnestly.

Lily swallowed. Her mother had just poured her thoughts out to her; but Lily couldn't bring herself to do the same. She didn't want to be hurt again, so she did the worst thing. She pushed her mum away.

"I'm sorry I don't feel the same way about letting you come back into our lives again. I'm pretty sure I can speak the same for James, Albus, and Teddy, and especially Dad. You hurt us, you tore our family apart, and you left. I don't think I can forgive that. Albus and I are like strangers to each other. As soon as James and teddy graduated and got a job they moved out, and we barely see them. Dad is literally married to his job; he doesn't even talk to us anymore. Now that we're finally adjusting after all these years, you decide to come bursting back in; acting like everything is fine and we'll let you in with hugs and kisses. Everything is not fine. I can't forgive you now, but maybe someday I'll be able to. I'm sorry." Lily stood up as tears splashed down her face, and walked out of the room, out of the house, and into the street with Nicholas in tow.

She turned to Nicholas in the busy street and sobbed into his sweater. "I'm such a bitch. I can't believe I just did that."

Nicholas rubbed soothing circles into her back as he led her into a muggle café.

Albus told Annie what happened to him, and how he couldn't remember who raped him, basically he poured his thoughts and fears out to her.

Annie was staring silently at Albus. She looked speechless. Albus made to stand up and leave; Annie was probably disgusted. As he started to walk away Annie grabbed his hand and held him back.

"Wait," Annie said. "I think I can help you. There are ways of bringing memories back, but I'm going to need you to cooperate."

"You can help me?" Albus said trying not to get his hopes up too high.

"Isn't that what I just said?" Annie laughed. "But you can't tell anyone what we're doing." She looked at Albus seriously.

Albus nodded.

"Alright, we need a place where we can meet."

"How about the Room of Requirement?" Albus suggested.

"That's good. Alright I'll see you tomorrow night after everyone goes to sleep." Annie said as she stood up. "Take care, Al."

Lily had calmed down some after having a coffee, and Lily and Nicholas were both laughing at a table.

"This is nice." Nicholas commented as thunder rumbled through the sky. "Just sitting here and talking, and not worrying about anything."

"If only it could be like this every day." Lily muttered.

"C'mon we'd better get inside." Nicholas replied as the rain started to fall.

As they were getting up an owl flew by and dropped a letter on Nicholas' lap.

"Open it." Lily said.

Nicholas opened it and started to read. His face turned paler and paler as his eyes flew across the page; his mood darkening.

Lily placed a hand on his shoulder. "What is it?"

"I have to go. I have to go right now. She needs me." Nicholas said hysterically.

"Who needs you? What is going on?" Lily asked confused.

"My sister, she's in St. Mungo's. She's badly burned."

"Hold on. We can't go. People might wonder why we're not in Hogwarts. We might get in huge trouble. Let me see that." Lily said frantically as she snatched the letter from him and started reading.

"Your brother Alex says not to go. He's just telling you what's going on. She's going to be fine she just got burned. Trust me, those heal in no time." Lily soothed.

Nicholas still looked unconvinced.

Lily noticing this dragged him to an alleyway. "C'mon we can go to St. Mungo's tonight. I'm sure it'll be nothing."

"How are we going to manage that?" Nicholas looked curious.

"I have a plan." Lily stated with a wicked glint in her eye.

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