From Eden - Regulus Black (Complete)

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Five

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ALASTOR MOODY'S TRUTH

"Are you sure this is a good idea, Anne?" Lily wondered, watching as Anne paced in the parlour, looking through the window every now and again, also looking at the fireplace. "He doesn't need to know everything."

"He barely trusts me as it is, Lily. If I want him as my right-hand-man, which I do, very much, because I need him to be right-hand-man, then he needs to know everything and I wouldn't be surprised or mad if he asks for sordid details to make sure I'm not lying. He might even insist on me taking Veritusserum. That's why I asked the boys to go away and Mia is still in her bedroom; they would get angry if he asked anything untoward, but he will. I know he will. Moody is one of those sceptics," Anne explained. "You were the only one I could rely on to not scare him away and yet keep me calm."

There was a moment of silence. It had been just that. James had still been feeling a bit off about Anne having killed two people; the first one he could understand, it was a battle that she was losing, but the second one she had gone after the fight and that took him off guard. Sirius had never seen Regulus so out of himself before and was still awkward between the two of them, so he was avoiding anywhere Anne or Regulus were. Remus was just giving support to both of his best-friends, while simultaneously trying his best to give distant support to Anne as she got over a broken soul.

The dynamics between Severus and Anne had changed as well, he was pulling away from her again, but this time she had no idea what it was about. The truth was that he had no idea how to deal with how important she had become to him and how hard it was to accept that he loved her enough to cry at the simple thought of losing her – he had never had a sister before, but he thought that was what it would feel like; she was annoying, loud and had a dirty mouth, but the idea of anyone but him being remotely mean to her made him so angry. When Regulus had started screaming at her, he had felt the need to jump in as well, but she had so many people around her already that it made him awkward.

The worst one of all of them, however, had been the dynamics between Anne and Mia. Mia wasn't actually avoiding Anne; she was avoiding everyone. She was completely remote from her reality at the moment and lost in her deep grief and depression. She wouldn't answer anyone at the door and would eat almost every meal in her bedroom with Coco as her only company. The elf was trying her best, but even the small creature would cry at the state of her Mistress. The Mind Healer Lily had gotten into contact with had said that in times like this, all they could do was try to talk to her and open the conversation up in case she ever wanted, but mostly wait it out; Anne thought his sayings were bullshit.

"Regulus is still at Severus' room?" Lily asked.

Regulus had been hiding in there for almost an hour. Moody was late for almost an hour. She was going to present Regulus to him.

"He'll come out when I call for him," Anne answered.

Anne had been sad most of the time as well, Lily had noticed that much, but she was a lot better at functioning through it than Mia. Perhaps, she thought, was just that she was a lot more used to its weight on her chest and back than her mother-in-law was, but still Lily admired her daughter's strength and determination. While Mia took most of her time to suffer and wait for the pain to go away, Anne was ignoring all the pain and focusing on trying to make something useful to make her anger go away as it had done after her attack. Lily wasn't sure which one of them were more dangerous; both of them were bombs, ticking away, waiting for the moment to explode.