Summary:
Harry spent a life-time with Ginny all the while still missing his first friend and girlfriend. The night when he laid upon his death bed and took his last breath he was surprised that he woke up to a whole new life…
Meanwhile Sirius has a fateful meeting with an old classmate when he goes back to England. Remus Lupin stumbles upon Nymphadora Tonks in Diagon Alley.
He was so tired. It was if all his energy had been drained. He envied the youngsters outside. So full of life and vigor.
There were many things Harry regretted upon his death-bed but the one that stood out the most was the fact that he had not been there for Cinda Salvattera. His first love, his first friend and his biggest regret.
Ginny had been with him throughout his life however it was clear that she didn't have the same understanding of him as Cinda had. Although she tried her best to satisfy him he wanted so much more that only Cinda could bring to him. Both of them were like the two sides of the one and the same coin. Both had the same childhood experiences so there was more than just sympathy between the.
He tried to remember her face but it was hard to as the years had deteriorated his memory but the feeling of her limp body never went away.
He saw his wife's sad face and his children's and his grandchildren's. They were all by his side at his last moment…
'Wha-?', Harry found himself opening his eyes the minute he closed them.
He found himself staring up on stars but not the ones you saw when you looked up into the sky.
'Hey-!', his voice didn't come out. All that was heard was a baby mumbling.
'My voice? What's happening. Where am I? Ginny, Ron, Hermione…', none of those words came out.
A face peaked down to him from the side. A familiar face. A rush of emotions and memories flooded past his sight.
"Hello Damien. You hungry?", the female asked. "I'll tell your mother".
She was gone for a moment before reappearing again. Harry could hear footsteps coming closer to him and a blonde-haired woman picked him up. He realized now that he was a baby and that the person was his mother. However he also understood that he must have reincarnated as he has another name but what he couldn't understand was what Cinda was doing here. Had she also been reincarnated? His thoughts were broken by the way his mother pulled him towards her breast. Suddenly he was embarrassed and tried to fight however he was a baby and very weak.
'This is so mortifying… I really wished I truly was a baby'.
"Do you think it's going well for Sirius".
'Sirius! He's alive?'.
"Opps, I mean Saul. I'm still not used to the fact that you guys have changed your names to which I really feel sorry about. You guys should have to live like this. You should have been able to live as James and Lily Potter along with Harry peacefully. Yet because of all the political schemes and psychopaths after our son you have to hide here", Cinda's voice sounded pitifully.
'So I'm still Harry Potter?'.
"Well, we just have to do what we can", Harry's mother stated.
'Then she really must be my mother...'.
"You know I'm just glad all of you managed to escape before it was too late", Cinda's voiced had softed a lot. "Harry really deserved to have a normal life and not the life where he has to put his life in front of dangers just to save everyone and keep being worshipped as a hero. And now he will have it".
'Cinda...'.
"What about you? Do you think your soul will return to your body once you're born", Lily Potter looked at her worriedly.
"Hopefully but I wouldn't mind staying as a ghost forever it's kind of awesome actually".
'So you're dead... and it's all my fault'.
"Sweetie what's wrong", Lily picked up Harry and cradled him as she hummed.
'This time I won't break anymore promises!'
From then on Harry found out that he was now named Damien D'Arcy. He was living in France in a big mansion near the coast in a small village that really looked enchanted and straight of a fairy tale however as he turned 3 and was starting school he was living more in Paris as he got the best education the whole system could offer. Basically he was put amongst the snobby and spoiled brats. Thankfully some of them weren't such bad people and he could tolerate the whole situation. As for Cinda, she disappeared one night before Easter Holiday. Although he was crushed by the thought that she might have disappeared forever he soon understood that she had returned to her original body as the day she was born on April the 3rd. He was having faith that they would be reunited soon.
To Harry it was hard to act like a child that's why he was more quieter and more formal than the rest of the children. James and Lily noticed that but took that he was simply an old soul or more mature than other children. Harry had yet told anyone that he had time-traveled and he planned to keep it a secret.
When Harry turned seven which was the age he actually met Cinda at he was starting to become worried that something had happened to her. That she hadn't survived the murder when he read in the news about the mass murder committed by one single man however he saw on the news later when the reporters interviewed the community of that neighborhood, he saw a young girl looking like her exactly and he was glad that she had made it out alive. Then he found out that the rest of her family hadn't been so lucky and he knew what was gonna happen afterwards.
Cinda would have to be taken in by her aunt and be abused by her uncle for the rest of her childhood. He stared at the news and asked his mother if they could take in the child that had survived that night. Lily did feel sorry for the girl however she got a call from Sirius telling her how he was gonna adopt a girl named Cinda Salvaterra. Knowing that the girl had finally returned to being alive she could finally feel less guilt towards the girl who had saved her family a few years before.
"It looks like we can't sweetie", she told Harry.
'Why not!'.
"Why can't we mama?", he looked up at her with big eyes and questioned her.
"Because your godfather Saul and your aunt Cassandra is gonna do it", she smiled.
'Sirius! Really?'
"Okay", Harry didn't probe for anything more.
Months later Sirius and his wife of five years arrived at the D'Arcy mansion in France. It was funny seeing Sirius being married to somebody despite his bachelor air around him but Harry preferred him being married than in some prison that practically ate you alive.
"She's adorable", Lily told them and greeted the child. "I know she was beautiful and sexy when she was a teenager but she is just so adorable right now. No signs of innocent having been taken away".
Harry went to see her and when their eyes met it was if everything had become complete.
The adults later left the two children to play together.
"Damien!", she giggled as he was chasing her throughout the garden.
It was clear to Harry that Cinda had no memories of their past but this made things easier for him to make up all that he did to her in their past life. Knowing now how his life was so meaningless without her in it he became very overprotective over her. He did not want to lose her again.
"Damien!", she gasped as he kissed her lightly on the cheek in front of everyone.
Cassandra and Lily simply chuckled and then looked at each other as if they had the same thought.
Cinda started going to the same french school as Harry and they were known to be very close. Harry himself was very popular with the rest since he had good grades, could play piano and was also athletic. Cinda earned the envy from all the other girls however she proved herself to not be an easy target to bully not to mention that she needed anyone to stand up for her. When Harry heard her speak to the other young girls with such maturity he was suspicious that Cinda might be his Cinda.
One day he caught her red-handed as she stood in front of her mirror. Harry had gone to visit Sirius' mansion that lied in another village closer to Germany. His mother told him to go find Cinda and play with her even though she didn't need to. He would still have gone to look for her. That's when he saw from the door the girl standing in front of her mirror admiring herself and muttering something like "Just a few more years and then I will have them back", she said while touching her breast.
"Being a child sure has its disadvantages", then she turned around as soon as she saw Harry's reflection.
"You're Cinda. I know you are", Harry said and walked slowly forward towards her.
"Yes, Damien I am. Who else would I be", she acted cutely.
"Don't act like a child when you've already been caught red-handed", he said and pushed her against the mirror as he stared into her eyes seriously.
"Stop Damien it hurts!", she tried to struggle herself free from his grasp.
Then he started tickling her.
"Okay, okay, I'll confess", her voice became more mature.
He stopped tickling her.
"So you've gone back to the past as well, I assume?", she looked at him as he nodded. "I had my suspicions".
"Why did you want to keep it a secret?".
"Because I wanted the chance to live a new life without having to deal with my last. Besides it would be very messed up for Sirius- I mean Saul to raise me knowing that I'm already pretty much grown-up. Aren't you doing the same to Madonna and Pierre?".
"Fine, I understand", he told her. "You don't think we should tell them?".
"Absolutely not Harry, don't you dare".
"Yeah, yeah, I think that would mess things up".
"Yes, let's continue act like children", she took his hand and they started to go downstairs for some cake.
Then the two of them kept acting like children in front of adults but when it was only them…
His lips met hers. They were behind a big tree far away from his mansion.
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