An/- Here begins the fifth book that is the Order of the Phoenix, hope you will continue reading as there is tons of more to come, I eagerly wait your .

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Chapter 22

The month of June had faded and brought in the beginning of July, it hadn't rained as off yet in England due to a dry spell that had begun that May. Rachel made her way once again to 12, Grimmauld Place with Jean next to her trying to make her feel better, but it had been one month since Rachel had not managed to laugh, the smile on her face was gone, the heart on her sleeve had gone back inside and into the protective case of her ribs, the Jean she found amusing and charming was now nothing but an annoyance. But, Jean was not the reason for her annoyance and insecurity, but her daughter.

A month ago her daughter had almost been murdered by most feared wizard of their time, six crucios—six crucios to the chest, Potter had explained. She shuddered at the thought of her princess go through it. She smirked lightly, Audrey was no princess, she was a tough nut like she had said, she was so hard to break and it was commendable. Rachel knocked on the door of 12 Grimmauld Place which was answered by Molly Weasley, she had been her senior by three years, she was charming and warm just like her husband and their family.

"Rachel, Jean how have you been?" smiled Molly as Rachel gave her a faint smile while Jean grinned at her handsomely, she let them in.

Rachel's mind refused to focus on the meeting, she still wondered what her daughter would be doing at that moment at home in France, she had been afraid of Audrey's sudden change in behaviour, the girl hardly ate anymore, she refused to speak too much and when she did they were cold biting comments or just a brief approval or disapproval of things, all Audrey did the whole day was sit in her room, lock it and read. She had became cold and even when she spoke to Minerva through the floo, Rachel could feel how uncomfortable she got as she tried her best to be civil and polite but it was all an act.

Rachel knew Audrey was furious, she knew she must feel cheated that her reality had been a lie and this was not fair according to Audrey, that her surname did not exist and yet she would have to use it till the air was clear and safe, but when was it ever safe and when would the air clear now that it was cloudy and stormy again. Rachel knew Audrey needed time, but minute by minute, day by day she knew her daughter was slipping away from her, all Rachel could hope was for her forgiveness but they needed time, time together. The order meetings never gave her that—now that Voldemort was back, her father had set up the Order of the Phoenix once again, but this time the ministry's refusal to recognize the danger that was ahead brought more load on the shoulders of the Order as people had started suspecting Dumbledore's words because of the Prophets absurd writings, it was true nowadays people would believe anything that was less threatening then find a solution to the threat.

Today the order was discussing whether or not they should be bringing Harry to Grimmauld Place before his birthday or not. The discussion had broken into an argument as Sirius led the half that agreed that the boy should be brought here while Snape was disagreeing with him completely.

"Snape—pah! Why was he here in the first place—bloody no good death eater—hah! A spy—he thought he was too cool to be called a spy—he thought he was risking his oh so dear life out every day in front of Voldemort as he gathered information for them—who was the real bloody 'THEM'!" she thought distastefully as she supported Sirius completely even if she knew what was correct, she just wanted to defy him, in any way she could, anyway she could punch him in the groin would be a perfect mood lifter for her.

"Silence!" shouted Dumbledore as the room now went quiet as he muttered that he agreed with Snape which put a snarky smirk on the bastards face. Oh! How she wished she could punch that smirk off, how she wished she could—she stopped as looked Snape turn around to look at something under the table, fix his shoe lace, she noticed sharp red scars at the back of his neck through the dark hair that fell softly right there, she knew those marks they were legendary punishments issued by the dark lord to his servants. He looked back at her as he straightened his collar hiding the marks away from her, she turned away sheepishly.

The meeting was adjourned a while later as Rachel walked her way to the kitchen were the Weasley siblings were sitting with the Granger girl, she seemed to have been invited by Ginny to spend time together in the summer and she did not seem to mind that she was now living in Grimmauld place according to Dumbledore's orders. Of course she did not mind she was muggle born, the more time she spent around the magical folk the better for her, she would learn more and possibly be safer when the time came.

"Ms. Adams—how is Audrey?" asked Hermione, Rachel turned around and greeted the girl with a small smile as she noticed Snape brush past Jean and prepare himself a cup of tea from the same tea pot she had used only a few moments ago.

"Brilliant—she's brilliant," lied Rachel through her teeth as Jean ruined everything for her.

"If you call sitting in that bloody room all day normal Ray—really she needs to get out of there or she'll turn in a zombie," he remarked tartly as Rachel clenched her cup more tightly as she set her mug down on the table, Hermione looked at her worriedly her eyes shifting from Rachel to Ron who was staring at Snape drinking tea his mouth slightly open in shock as she looked at what he was looking at. Snape set his cup down, his tea cup was now empty, he had finished a large mug of boiling hot tea in the matter of seconds, this surprised Hermione as well but she turned her attention back to Rachel who was sipping her tea slowly.

"Could you give her this?" asked Hermione pulling out a few envelopes from her butt pocket and handed it to Rachel.

"Another one from Mr. Potter?" sighed Rachel as Hermione nodded and Rachel smiled, that boy really liked her girl.

Dumbledore entered the kitchen hoping to get some tea for himself, he poured some tea and looked at Severus as that man bid him good day and walk back towards the main door. Albus rested his eyes on Rachel as she looked back at him and he remembered something.

"Ah! I had been meaning to give you this," he said handing Rachel a letter, she eyed it curiously, it was registered to one- Audrey Adams, 15, Park Apartments, Paris, France.

It was a Hogwarts letter addressed to her daughter, she remembered a similar one that she had gotten when Audrey had turned eleven but she had begged Maxine into securing a position in the school for her daughter and Maxine had obliged courteously. Rachel sighed, she did not know how Audrey was going to take this.

"She won't be receiving her Beauxbatons letter this year—I have already spoken to Madam Maxine," said Albus taking another sip of the tea as he noticed the children in the kitchen beam as Hermione excused herself, he knew she was going to write this to Harry.

"Why can't you give this to her yourself?" Rachel asked as she slumped while her annoying father smiled at her—that stupid grin that he gave her that told her that she knew the answer to the question.

"I feel that it would only be most appropriate—" began Albus as Rachel cut him rudely.

"Fine," she snapped sharply and snatched the envelope from his hand, she did not need another one of his ridiculous sermons, she quickly kissed Jean and said goodbye as he smiled at her. She then glared softly at her father and stormed her way out of the room and back to living room to floo back home, Albus chuckled and shook his head, his daughter had grown way more than he had expected.

Rachel flooed back to her flat, she could hear soft music playing from Audrey's room. It was almost time for lunch and Rachel thought she would give Audrey her letters at lunch, possibly even breaking the news of their return to England where they dwelled from.

Rachel opened the fridge to look for the chicken legs; she quickly made a batter and marinated them as she fried them quickly. A little help of magic ensured that they would be ready quickly. Rachel placed the plate of chicken legs on the dining table and two plates, with two glasses and a large bottle of cold Coke she had managed to buy yesterday on her shopping with Molly for groceries from the muggle store near Grimmauld Place.

A lovely aroma filed through Audrey's closed door as it went under her book and filled her senses as her stomach cried for a morsel of food, she hadn't eaten anything since lunch yesterday. She refused to eat dinner and her mother had not been present when she had woken up, the toast had gone cold and the cereal was the only thing left and but the milk as over, so she sat in her room and waited for maybe dinner tonight because her mother may not return till evening.

Audrey pulled her wand to her heart and put the book down; she walked to her door and opened it as the ladder dropped to the floor of the first floor of the duplex. She peered from the main staircase to see that the table was set for lunch on it was the fried chicken that smelled heavenly; her stomach growled begging her to pull the chicken apart and fill her. Audrey went down the staircase cautiously; she could hear her mother working in the kitchen. Audrey slowly and noiselessly settled down into a chair and began filling her plate with the chicken, she felt that it would be impolite to eat without her mother but she was too hungry to care. Audrey noticed two letters addressed to her, she opened the first one to see that it was another one from Harry inquiring about her whereabouts, he seemed very angry as she could feel the animosity rising in the letter but she could not write much to him, like she had said her Grandfather had strictly instructed her not to, but then again she didn't know much of what was happening either, so she wrote whatever little she could and sent a letter or two to him only to gain a reply that was much sharper and distant than the previous one.

Audrey noticed the other letter addressed to her, she turned it around to see the Hogwarts crest seal the opening, she sighed—so this was how they were going to play it. This was how she was going to be forced to leave France and settle down in England—start a new life—new friends—new everything. Audrey had known something like that would be coming and that her mother's frequent visits of London were with motive of their permanent removal from France, but this was playing it dirty—this was the last thing that came to her mind—not that she had a serious problem with Hogwarts it was just that she did not want to leave everything behind—she wasn't ready—not yet. She was mad and she decided that she would have to come out strong on her mother but there was a sound in the kitchen that made her jump from her seat. Her mother had yelped in pain, a cut lined her finger as blood poured out of it. Audrey walked up behind her cautiously as she approached her, she hadn't been speaking to the woman since a month so she did not really know what to expect when.

Just as Audrey was behind her, she saw that her mother just stood there as the blood flowed heavily from her finger as tears ran down her face, she suppressed sobs so that Audrey couldn't hear. This was the first time in her entire life that Audrey had caught her mother sobbing like a little girl.

"Mum?" she called softly from behind as she placed her hand on her mother's shoulder, noticing the woman go stiff under her touch, she pulled away slightly. She noticed her mother take a deep breath and wipe her face as she turned a small smile on her face.

"Darling—go on I've put lunch on the table," said Rachel as she looked into her daughter's eyes as she suppressed another sob.

"Why are you crying?" asked Audrey her eyes welding up with tears, seeing her mother go weak was a very different feeling for Audrey, she did not like it, she was getting emotional for a woman who had lied to her—hell yes, she was her mother—that moment Audrey decided to lay of the act, to do whatever she was told, she finally saw how much she had hurt the woman.

"I—stupid onions," lied Rachel, Audrey knew there were no onions in the vicinity; she wrapped her arms around her mother's thin frame as she let the tears leave her eyes.

Rachel fell to her knees as she pulled Audrey closer to her heart, both mother and daughter cried on the kitchen floor holding each other till Audrey fell asleep as Rachel stroked her hair softly, sometimes blowing on her daughters head so that she wouldn't feel hot.

Rachel noticed that Audrey had grown over the year, she had possibly shot a foot in height and her curves were finally falling into place, she was becoming a woman, a very intelligent lady. Rachel chuckled to herself as she pressed her lips into Audrey's head. No, she was still her baby—she would always be her princess.

The entire next week Audrey tried her best to explain to Leon and Gabrielle as to why she wouldn't be able to attend Beauxbatons, they had refused to understand but in the end had finally succumbed to the fact that however much they whined, it would be futile, their best friend would go no matter what they said. So after eternal promises to write to each other every week and a few tears the three friends had had their final meeting and said their goodbyes.

That morning had been hard on Audrey but never the less, she would be leaving soon, she had to prepare herself for what was to come, she scribbled a letter to Harry and Hermione telling them about her Hogwarts letter, she knew Hermione was with the Weasley's she would tell Ron and the others. Hermione had been very pleased, but Harry had not replied, maybe he was still angry about the fact that Audrey hadn't written to him in one week.

Audrey came down to the kitchen after she set featherless Henry off to Hermione once more, she saw a long black envelope with Air France written on it, a tiny note was attached to the envelope.

Sweetheart,

As you can tell I am not at home right now—but order work needs too much of my time. I believe though, that it is time you made your way here, seeing as I cannot get you to London myself, you need to make your way to Heathrow on your own. Yes, Darling you'll be flying by muggle transport because they feel it is the safest. Once you are here Remus will greet you at the gate, he will be with another witch by the name of Nymphadora Tonks, she has pink hair—I think you'll be able to identify her without any problem.

I did not have time to pull out your passport from the cupboard, it is inside my black wardrobe in a silver shoe box, there are also a thousand Euros and three hundred pounds that I believe you might need for food and emergency, you're passport is on the top.

Also Audrey, do not touch anything else in there, it might explode. You're plane leaves at six today evening; I cannot wait to see you dearest.

Love

Mum.

Audrey sighed to herself as she made her way to her room, she pulled out her wand and fit everything she needed into her blue trunk, she quickly changed the colour of the trunk from blue to black, she was pleased that she could do some amount of magic at home since her house had been registered by their ministry under her mother's name and therefore magic inside the apartment was permitted seeing that they always thought it was her mother who was doing it. Audrey quickly shrunk the trunk and pushed it into her small black satchel, another handy charm she had managed to learn after a lot of patience and trial obviously without Jean's help. She then changed her clothes and put on a black tank top and blue denim shorts tying a jacket around her waist she pushed her red converse on and went to her mother's room. She opened the wardrobe and pulled out what she had been instructed to, the money and her passport which she noticed wasn't French at all but British it seemed like she hadn't been French at all, after all she had been born in Britain making her a British citizen it only made sense that her mother had not applied for citizenship here at all. She sighed as she put her passport in her satchel along with the ticket. Audrey almost shut the wardrobe when she saw that next to the silver shoe box was another brown box. She opened it but pulled her face away unless it exploded, but it didn't she peered into it finding a large amount of photographs. There were some of her as a baby, some magical some muggle, then there were a several of her mother when she had been younger. Some with her friends and most with one boy in particular, she noticed his Slytherine tie as she wondered about him, although his face had been burnt by a wand tip, could he be, who she thought he was? She pushed the picture into her satchel she did not know why but she thought it would be useful in some way as she closed the box again several old parchments fell out as she browsed through them telling her they were nothing but letters. She decided to read them as she sat down on her mother's bed, she recognized that the handwriting was her father's—the man who had written love letters to her mother. She read one as she smiled.

"Dear Ray,

I cannot tell you how wonderful you make me feel, it's like the universe is blessing me after a large turmoil of hatred. Sometimes I wondered why someone like you could ever love someone as wretched as I—but dearest you look at me and that thought is gone—it is gone—as I wait for us to meet next time—sneak glances in the library brush past each other in potions or steal kisses outside Hogsmeade—how I desire to tell you how much I love you—but I can never put that in words. Ray, I love you too much—words are nothing compared to what my heart feels. I ache for you—I want to make you so happy.

Eternally in love

H.B.P.

H.B.P., why was his name H.B.P? Who the bloody hell was H.B.P—why did she not know who he was—the boy in the picture with her fifteen year old mother. Who was he?

Audrey gulped, she knew her mother wouldn't be coming back home, her wardrobe was almost empty apart from a few ugly robes here and there, Audrey picked up the box and shrunk it to fit into her satchel, she closed it and checked her watch, it was almost 3.30 in the afternoon.

She walked out of the door, turned around to take a last look, a sigh and she shut the door behind her, for some reason she was sure she wouldn't be returning for a very long time.

She hailed herself a taxi and was at the Charles de Gaulle airport, she made her way through customs and walked around duty free after she got her boarding pass, she seemed pleased by the fact that her mother had gotten her flying first class, maybe best for protection, she snorted to herself as she bought something to eat and settled down at the starbucks with a cold java with whipped cream.

She looked at her watch and checked the time, it felt like the flight hadn't even gotten in yet and she had a whole one and a half hours to herself, she smirked, maybe she could use some of those Euros that her mother had so nicely given her for emergency purposes. She went around duty free looking for things, she found a clothes store that hoisted nice dresses and to her surprise she actually bought a black one, her mother was so going to kill her if she asked for any balance, truth was for now she did not care and it wasn't like she loved to shop but muggle clothes sometimes attracted her, she wondered if she should by a souvenir. Audrey giggled to herself as she did, a snow globe Eiffel tower now sat snugly in her satchel.

"Flight no AY-254 bound for London, Heathrow airport has now arrived, passengers are requested to report at terminal number 6," said the announcer, as Audrey turned around and made her way to the gate. They weren't boarding yet so she decided to wait as she carefully tucked her wand into her satchel and pulled out her passport, ticket and boarding pass as she sat down in the waiting area, it was full of tourist this time of the year, a large tour was waiting to board the same plane, she closed her eyes and hoped for an airbus, she remembered how terrible it had been when she and her mother had travelled by economy to Italy, the person besides her mother had puked into the bag making her feel sick as well.

"Flight no. AY-254 will now be boarding business class," announced the announcer lady, Audrey recognized her French accent, Air France—perfect way to say Au Reviour.

Audrey had dosed off during the flight about twenty minutes before landing the airhostess woke her up and handed her a Sprite, she yawned softly as she made her way to the toilets, quickly finishing her business she got back to her seat in time as the seatbelt sign went on once again. A few minutes and Audrey could see the big Ben from above as the plane descended its altitude and got through a smooth landing. Most of the tourist in the economic class were still sitting and talking amongst themselves as the plane doors were opened, hot air filled in the air-conditioned atmosphere as Audrey was the first to one out. She walked her way out of the gate and immigration and then she walked herself to the gate where she stood on her toes looking for her godfather and some woman with pink hair.

"Where is she?" Nymphadora Tonks asked getting impatient; problem was she didn't even know what the girl looked like as she stood on her toes looking at the people pouring through the airport gate.

"Should we have made a board or something?" she added as she looked for something to stand on top off.

Remus Lupin closed his eyes for the tenth time that evening; he was growing increasingly annoyed with the woman next to him. What had he gotten himself into? This woman was insufferably annoying, her constant questioning was putting Remus off in every possible way, plus he had not seen Audrey in a while, he knew she would not be very pleased with him just coming around to pick her up and then again where the bloody hell was she?

"Is that her—Remus—is that her?" asked Tonks repeating herself as she pointed out to a girl in a girl dress with heels, Remus snorted, if Tonks thought Audrey was some hot French model, she was going to be in for a surprise.

"Hey, was looking bloody all over the bloody place!" said a disgruntled voice from besides Remus. He turned and smiled, she hadn't changed a bit except, well she had grown into a woman, he found it a little odd to be looking at her this way, it amused him. He pulled her into a strong hug as she did not put her arms around him as he chuckled he knew she was mad.

"Where's the chic with the pink hair?" snorted Audrey and before Remus could point out a woman came up to him puffing.

"I don't know where she is Remus—I—"Tonks stopped talking as she looked at the fourteen year old in shorts and a tank top.

"Audrey Adams-?" Tonks asked sceptically as the girl looked at her oddly checking her hair out, it wasn't pink but thankfully dirty blonde quite similar to what was on Remus's head.

"Audrey this is Nymphadora Tonks," said Remus, he was thankful that they would finally be going to Grimmauld Place and he could finally get rid of Tonks. He did not understand why they wanted her to hook up with him, he was four years her senior, she was Sirius's cousin and an annoying little pest, all she did was talk—talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk and talk.

He looked at Audrey as she raised her eyebrows at the woman—Nymphadora, what the-! Why would anyone call their kid Nymphadora?

"You can call me Dora—you know it's easier to pronounce," said Tonks pulling her satchel from her, Remus sniggered, she was in for it—Audrey was pissed and now Tonks had done it, she had gone at thought that Audrey wasn't fluent in English; it was funny because she hardly looked French.

"I can very well call you Nymphadora—there is nothing wrong with my English and I would certain greatly appreciate if you did not touch my things!" snapped Audrey wildly as Tonks looked at her and shut her eyes tight and pursed her lips apologetically.

"No really—I'd be grateful if you just called me Tonks—or Dora—trust me my school life wasn't pleasant with that name," she said sadly as she let go of Audrey's bag.

"I can tell why," she sneered murderously as they walked out of the airport to hail a taxi.

"I'll get us a cab," smiled Tonks as Audrey threw her a faint smile as Remus nodded and sighed as she walked down to the end of the sidewalk stretching her hand out.

"At least-she doesn't have pink hair," said Audrey in an odd way as a taxi passed her without stopping, the lesser attention they attracted the better.

"Why did you get a mental girl with you anyways?" she muttered as Remus looked at her.

"She is mental isn't she?" he asked fondly as Audrey smirked and pushed her satchel onto Remus, he pulled her close to his side and pushed the satchel up his shoulder.

"Quite-," she replied as another taxi passed the woman by and she stomped her foot in anger ready to hurl abuses at the driver.

"Your mother is trying to set me up with her—piss off," said Remus as Audrey laughed, she couldn't fathom the thought of Remus with this woman, she was way too immature for his taste, she was clumsy and he was super careful, she seemed like a lost little girl, while Remus getting lost was still a sight Audrey wanted to see.

"Come on!" shouted Tonks happily as she finally got a cab as they shuffled in, Audrey sat in the middle between the began to hum a tune.

Audrey pulled on the Remus's sleeve as he smiled down at her as she muttered.

"If you make this mental bubblegum chic my godmother—I'll disown you," said Audrey a small smile plastered on her face and Remus knew he was going to be teased the entire summer with Tonks but he didn't mind, he pushed his head down into Audrey's head and kissed it, she was back, he could tell from that stupid smile on her face, she was back to being Audrey Adams.

The taxi stopped outside a well lighted lane as Tonks paid the driver some pounds and they got off, the taxi drove away and the three started walking down the lane, Audrey noticed several apartments with windows in their living rooms where the muggles were watching television, possibly another telecast of something on BBC.

"My dad's muggle born, loves to watch the telly like these blokes," said Tonks as she tried to speak to the other two rather serious people she was walking with she wasn't surprised when she did not receive a reply. She felt rather inferior to the people she was walking with, she did not understand why but it was pretty obvious that they thought she was a stupid klutz, even Remus who she had a crush on every since school was rather aloof when he spoke to her and now she had proven to be of a rather irate personality to this girl as well.

"Remus told me you want to become an auror?" Tonks asked finally getting the girl's attention as she pushed her head up and away from the small chit Remus had handed her, which she carefully pushed back into his hand.

"No—I wanted to become an auror—but I have—I think I want to become a spinner," replied Audrey as Tonks looked at her funnily.

"A spinner? Impressive—you think you can twist your arms around?" asked Tonks jokingly.

"Yea—I think I'm up for that," replied Audrey smiling genuinely for the first time as Tonks felt much better talking to the girl now than before.

"Your mother won't allow it," said Remus coming into the conversation as Audrey looked at him cheekily.

"Humph! I don't need permission," she said haughtily as Remus chuckled and shook his head.

"She's going to kill you when she finds out," he replied.

"We'll see about that—and besides you'll be backing me up," said Audrey matter of factly as Remus pushed an eyebrow up.

"Really? What makes you say that?" he asked as they stopped in front of two building joint by an alleyway, they shook and moved apart making way for a another two storey one with a unkempt garden and a gate that manifested from the ground, Audrey started at it with her mouth open and then turned to reply.

"Oh yes, unless you want me to help my mum in—," she began as he looked at her wide eyes, he knew he should not have let her into that, as he sighed and looked sternly at her, she smirked in a customary fashion and pulled her satchel away from his shoulder and pushed it up her own wiggling her eyebrows and making kissy faces behind Tonks's back.

"Fine," he said through gritted teeth as Tonks turned around as she held open the door so that Audrey could get in, the girl thanked her and smiled at her oddly. Remus walked up behind her and mistakenly brushed his hand on Tonks's making her blush deeply as she instantly moved it, making him realise what he had done, he too blushed lightly.

"This is going to be so much fun," said Audrey smirking as Tonks looked at her inquisitively.

"Just! Just! Go inside Drey!" said Remus exasperatedly as he pushed Tonks and himself into the house.

AN/-You may have also noticed that i have made Nymphadora Sirius's cousin and four years younger to him and remus-I thought it was best that way. RLNT forever-sorry i just think they're damn cute.

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