• Dangerous to dream •

• Part 2 - The pink door •

11 years before...

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"Oh Albus, she has his eyes..."

Dumbledore glanced sorrowfully towards Rose

"Rose, do you know why I'm here?"

She hesitated.

"He's not all evil, I loved him and he loved me,
He would never hurt me or Lydia!"

She turned to look at the wise man, she knew she was wrong.

Tears streamed down her luminous cheeks.

Her bright green eyes shining in the moonlight.

"He wants the child Rose, and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way, but in the muggle world she will be safe..."

"NO! you can't send her there! I won't let you"

"I will make sure she is safe there. She will not be harmed"

"You're full of lies! And you always have been! Those muggles are monsters!"

"Not all of them, some are good."

"Why can't she at the least stay with you! He won't go near you!"

"I simply cannot do that"

"Then don't take her from me! Please! She is my everything! I've already lost Tom, I can't loose Lydia!"

"And you won't loose her if you give her away, but if she stays with you...Tom wouldn't hesitate to take her away"

"He wouldn't hurt his own daughter!"

"We do not know that...Tom is powerful...and even if it is not physical think about it mentally...she'd grow up In darkness, and think of her power...you know he would use it...and not for the good"

Roses eyes grew empty...she looked at her peaceful baby.

She knew how strong Lydia was.

How the power she held could be unstoppable.

But she couldn't let her go...she couldn't live knowing that her daughter was going to grow up and that she would never get to see it.

She'd never hear her first words...never see her first steps.

Lydia was the only thing she had of Tom.

And now she was being told to give her away.

Rose grasped the necklace Tom had given her as their engagement...and then placed it round Lydia's small neck.

She turned back round to the old man.

She wanted to believe Albus.

But how could she...he always told her that she would be safe as long as he protected her and now...well now he's leaving...and he's taking Lydia with him.

But his grey eyes looked trusting.

She looked back at her sleeping baby.

And in that moment...she knew that she would never be able to go back to Tom.

Because Tom was gone.

And she'd never be able to fully be able to protect Lydia.

She leant down hand kissed her child on the forehead and turned back round to Albus.