Secrets And Hidden Feelings (A Harry Potter Story)

Chapter 10

Authors Note: This chapter is rated M for Mature.

I storm out of the garden letting the gate swing behind me. Anger coursing through me. How dare that woman. How dare she think just because she's still in love with Harry, that she can just attack me like that. I am only his friend, his work partner. She has nothing to be jealous about. Does she? There they go again, those hidden feelings.

"Helena." Harry yells from behind me.

"Go back to the house Harry." He grabs my arm and spins me around.

"Are you okay?" I roll my eyes.

"Just lovely. Yeah I'm fine. You know, your ex attacking my dead Parents because she's jealous of me, isn't upsetting at all."

"How do you know she's jealous of you?"

"Oh come on Harry, don't be daft. It's clear as day by her actions. She wanted you to herself tonight and when I showed up well that put a kink her plan."

"No, I'm sure it's not like that. She knows we're over. " I can't help but laugh.

"Open your eyes Potter, she still loves you." Harry shakes his head no.

"I saw it in her mind, Harry." I yell but the moment I do I know I shouldn't have.

"You read her mind. Merlin Helena." I roll my eyes and turn and start walking away but Harry steps in front of me.

"You just can't go around poking inside my friends' minds."

"I'll poke around in anyone's mind who has a go at my parents."

"You're just like your Father, always thinking you can do whatever you want." The moment the words leave his mouth I feel like I have been stung by a bee but I also see he regrets his eyes.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean it." I nod and walk around Harry but he grabs my hand, stopping me.

"I don't want to fight with you. You're one of my best friends. I don't want us to part mad at each other." I turn to look at him.

"Me either." He smiles at me, relief in his eyes.

"Come back to the Burrow. Mrs. Weasley just put the kettle on."

"I can't. It's not them, Harry. Ginny I can't be around someone who thinks that of my Parents. I'm sorry." He nods.

"Is there something else bothering you Helena?" Looking at Harry I can't lie to him.

"It hurts, Harry. Not having a family. For just a few minutes it didn't hurt anymore. I felt like I was part of a family."

"The Weasley's are like that."

"But this is just another reminder. I have no family. For Ginny to attack the only family I had, it hurts. She has her Parents. She can cook with her Mum, she can go to her Father for advice. Me, what do I have?"

"Lena."

"I have one grave. One grave to visit my Mum. Dad I don't even know where his body went." He looks at me with a mixture of confusion and guilt.

"After I found him I was so angry. I left him there. Left him alone in that god awful run down shack. I ran into the Forbidden Forest, looking for Voldemort. When I found him I saw him kill you and I knew there was nothing I could do. So I ran, I ran back to the Castle. I gathered my stuff and the things of his I wanted to keep. Then when I was done you were alive and the Battle was happening again." Harry takes my hands in his.

"I knew I had to stay and fight again. I owed it to him. To myself. So I did. When it was over I helped treat the wounded and when I returned to the Shack his body was gone. I don't know where it went. I searched everywhere."