Episkey My Heart

Visits

The days passed by and Andy never came. Then the days turned into a week and still Andy didn't show up. When one week turned two and still there was no sight of the nice witch, Aster realized she wasn't going to come.

It wasn't the first time a adult changed their mind about her, but it still stung all the same. The night the two weeks mark hit, she cried herself to sleep and promised it was the last time she would do so.

Unfortunately, she didn't manage to keep that promise to herself because every day for the rest of the week, she cried on the shower. Cried for her lost parents, for the brother she didn't know, for the world she wasn't truly a part of and for a woman who didn't keep her promise.

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Two weeks after meeting little Aster and Andromeda was on a warpath.

"How could he do this, Ted?! She was a child she deserved to be among family just as much as Harry. They had no right to part them!" She hissed pacing her bedroom while her husband laid in bed looking at her warily. He knew Blacks had a penchant for exploding when angry and he didn't want to have to redo their bedroom, but he knew better than to offer to move this conversation outside.

"Honey, I wholehearted agree with you. But let's calm down a bit, all this pacing is not going to fix the situation." Andy turned her glare on him and he raised his hands in a sign of surrender.

"How can I calm down, Ted?!" She snapped. "She was just a little baby and they didn't want her! Why, Ted? Why? What made it so simple to take Harry in, but not Aster?"

"You heard what they said, Dromeda, they were having money issues and-" Ted started.

"And they could keep Harry but not Aster? This is ridiculous! If they couldn't take both them, then they shouldn't have taken any of them! They are family, Ted, and Aster didn't even know she had a brother." The more she spoke the lower her voice got, getting quieter under the weight of the fate those people forced upon a child because she didn't have a lightening scar on her forehead.

"I agree, love, I truly do!" Ted said, looking into her eyes earnestly. "But there's no point in being mad now, when there's nothing we can do. Let's try to think of something that will actually help Aster... You were thinking about adopting her, right? We can still do that. I've reading into how to became a foster parent and we can start the whole process first thing tomorrow. That will help Aster much more us screaming about those arses."

"You are right." Andy admitted after a beat. "I just can't believe it, you know? Sure, I can understand they were having money issue, but casting her away because she didn't fit into their pre-molded view of what their child should be like. They took the brother because he was special and everything they ever wanted, but not her. She wasn't good enough to be worth fighting for!"

"Are we still talking about Aster, Dromeda?"

"Of course we are!" She snapped, but in the back of her mind she promised herself to be there for this child who was cast away by her own family for something she couldn't even control. She would be there for this girl the way no one had been for her.

Earlier that day

Today was finally the day.

Andromeda had send quite a few... colorful owls to the Headmaster demanding to talk about the Potter's twins. When his responses kept coming back short and vague, she decided to pay him a little visit at Hogwarts.

If the headmaster was annoyed he didn't show, he greeted her as with they were long lost friends and when she didn't buy it, he just fell silent until she broke it and demanded to know why the last two living Potters were apart.