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Ask Meme Monday: 002

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“A father…?” Nothing could stop the crack in his composure, the wry smile tugging at the side of his lips, trying to be stifled but unrelenting in his sheer joy over the idea.

“Could you promise I wasn’t going to get in trouble with Mollywobbles for it? And that my boys wouldn’t see it?

If so…yes. The nonsense he spouts…he’d deserve it.”

“Oh,” Mary takes pause at the question, chewing her lip nervously as nails picked roughly at the skin of her hands. “I don’t know.” She says quietly, and that’s her honest answer. “I’m very lucky in that, for the most part, I’ve managed to surround myself with rather extraordinary people… I’ll never be as kind as Lily, or as brave as Sirius and James… or have the charisma of someone like Marlene, but I…” She pauses again, “I think I’m a good listener, most of the time. I care enough to listen, to try and help where I can. I just have to hope that’s enough.”

“I wouldn’t call myself desperate, thank you very much.” Molly huffs, “I want a daughter, I do, and wouldn’t you? I’m in a house with my husband and five boys. I think it’s about time we get some more feminine energy in that house, balance things out a bit. Plus.. I sometimes think my sons take after Arthur, or even my brothers, more than they do me. I’d like a daughter to take after me, I don’t know if that’s selfish or a silly thing to wish for, but I think it’d be nice. But, that said,” Molly’s hands come to rest on her stomach, “If this one here isn’t a girl, you can bet I’m still going to love him more than anything. He’ll be counting his lucky stars that I’m his mother one day, that’s for sure.”

“To put it bluntly, I’m devastated.

For Sirius, because it was his brother, for the rest of the family, because it’s hell losing someone, even if you’re a horrid human being. For myself, because…

Look. I can’t say it to Sirius, because I’m not an arsehole, and I’m not going to be the one to pour salt in that wound, but I think he made a mistake. I know-I knew Regulus, and yeah he’d made mistakes. Big ones. But he was…he was rethinking them.

We used to meet up. He and I. It started because of Quidditch, that’s where I really met him, and then I went back to Hogwarts before he left and we got talking…and it’s not like I could go up to Sirius and be like ‘hey mate, so I’ve befriended your Death Eater brother, can I have your approval’. So Lily’s the only one who knew. And he was a good bloke. Real dry wit about him; reminded me of Sirius, to be honest. And I liked him. Might’ve even more than liked him, if I’m really honest. 

And we were making progress. He was going to…at least I think he was…he was close to turning back. He wanted out of the other side, and I was so close…I was real close to convincing him he could do it. 

But I let him down.

And I let Sirius down.

And I guess…you know what happened there.

So yeah…I’m devasted and it hurts, and it all happened in the worst fucking week of my life, but I’m not going to tell Sirius that.

I can’t lose the only Black I’ve got left.”