From Eden - Regulus Black (Complete)

Chapter Fifty -

TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL CONTENT!!!!! IMPLIED PAST SEXUAL ASSAULT. TALK OF WEIGHT AND SELF-ESTEEM. PLEASE, BE CAREFUL READING ANNE BEING AN ACTUAL TEEN FOR ONCE.

THE ROOM OF REQUIREMENT

"Anne, I don't like when you do that," James said, watching Anne roll in Sirius' bed like a cat trying to find a comfortable position to sleep in. "I know your bed is a mess of parchment and pins, by what Lily said, but you should keep yourself out of my friend's bed."

"It sounds so wrong when you say it like that," Sirius complained from the bathroom where he was changing into his sleeping clothes.

"It does," agreed Peter from his bed where Remus nodded too, moving his knight to the left and taking another pawn of Peter, who quickly took the knight with his rook. "Why do you have to take everything Anne does to that sense, James?"

Remus laughed, lips curling with disgust by the implications.

"Ew!" Anne exclaimed, laughing.

"Caught you there, mate," the werewolf smirked at his friend.

"Oh, shut it," James said, clearly moody by the implication as well. "You should really fix your bed. You need to sleep in it tonight."

Anne smiled at him, pretending she had no idea that she wasn't going to spend a single moment of that night in her bed.

She had been spending a lot of those nights sleeping out of her own bed; she had ended up falling asleep in Lily's bed with her while the two were doing their homework with the curtains closed so not to wake Marlene, she didn't scream, but she woke Lily up by jumping out of the bed, struggling to breathe; she passed at least two nights in James' bed since his presence seemed to push the nightmares away and even sneaked into Sirius' once when Remus spent the night in the Hospital Wing after a faulty spell during DADA and they slept together since he was anxious and Anne was looking for any excuse possible so not to sleep alone. The nightmares were getting worse since she got back to Hogwarts.

The Potter Manor was clean, there was no memory tainting it, but Hogwarts was the source of all darkness in her mind. It was no surprise that the nightmare came back full force, but it was certainly a lot worse she had thought it was going to be. After having such a complex, but secure support system created around her, she thought things were going to get better and, for a while it did – but after the first nightmare, she was pushed back in the healing. She was fighting to go forward again, but once Professor Snape had told her something that she saw herself thinking of very often: 'healing from that type of hurt takes more than time; it's one step forward and two steps back sometimes.'.

"Yeah, sure," she said, dismissing his order altogether, still lying in Sirius' bed and looking at the ceiling. "What is that?" she asked.

The small black patch on the ceiling right above Sirius' bed had not been there before, she was almost certain of that.

"What?" Remus asked, looking at the ceiling as well.

"Sirius had a small accident with 'incendio' last week," Peter answered.

Sirius walked out of the bathroom eyeing Peter with narrowed eyes.

"How do you even know that?" he asked.

"Because it was three in the morning and you screamed," Peter answered. "I wake up easily."

"Liar," Remus accused, moving another piece of the chess.

"Well, I do when my friend is screaming like a little girl," Peter said, glaring at Remus. "I don't know how you didn't wake up. James wasn't here –"