Blessing in Disguise

The days following the awakening

**Lauren's POV**
  I was currently sat in Head Mistress McGonagall's office,  along with Madam Pomfrey, and who I was told were Ginny's parents, Mr & Mrs. Weasley.
  I was finally strong enough to leave the hospital wing and return to my room 2 days after waking up from "the accident" as everyone has been calling it.
  Before I had a chance to return to my room, Madam Pomfrey told me we need to visit the Head Mistresses office to discuss some important matters going forward .
  I'm still not sure what happened the night of the accident or really much more past the Storting in my first year. I couldn't believe that this accident had stolen 7 whole years of memories from me.
  I was in shock when Madam Pomfrey spoke of this Head Mistress, obviously I could pick up on the fact that things would be different now, 7 years is a long time, but I could never have imagined Dumbledore not being the Head Master at Hogwarts.
  Once we had settled down in McGonagall's office, nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to learn. Shattering my world all over again in matter of days.

  "Miss Anderson, There is much we need to discuss given the current circumstances of your memory loss. We hope that by telling you all of this it will help jog your memory. We don't intended to upset you in any way so if it become to much please do tell us" McGonagall spoke to me.
"Now before we begin, do you have any questions or hesitations about any of this?" Asked McGonagall.
"Umm well, really just one thing that's bothering me professor. My parents, why aren't they here? Surly they must know about the accident right? They would want to be here with me I know it."
As the words left my mouth, I knew the answer to my own question. The answer only confirmed by the looks of pain and sadness in each of the adults eyes that were sitting in the room with me.
"Lauren honey," Mrs. Weasley turned towards me grabbing my hands into hers. She was the brave one to speak up for the group but I could she didn't want to be the one telling me this.
  "There was a war, against you-know-who. Your parents fought bravely, and proud. Just as the fight was ending, your mother turned her back to go make sure you were okay and a curse was thrown at her... she didn't make it." I could hear Mrs. Weasley telling me this, but my mind was unwilling to except. A war had happened and I couldn't remember it and my mother was killed, she was dead and I would never see her smile again, or hear her laugh, she was gone.
Tears were streaming down my face, I couldn't breathe, I was to busy choking on the sobs threatening to come out. Mrs. Weasley just sat there stroking face, rubbing the tears away telling me that my mother loved me, and she was so proud of the women I had become, for fighting for something that I believed in. No one else dared to say anything, waiting for me to make the next move.
We must heave sat like that for ten minutes before I could gain any sort of composure. When I did manage to gain some the only other question I could ask was about my father. This time it was Madam Pomfrey's turn to speak.
  "Lauren do you remember anything about the connection your parents shared?" She asked me.
"They were soulmates weren't they? They shared some sort of connection that bonded them, is what my mom always said. I always thought she was joking and I would roll my eyes at her when she brought it up."
  I let out a soft smile at the thought of my mom going on and on about how her and dad were connected, that they were meant to be together. She was so in love with him and he with her. It always made me so so happy. It was something I looked up to and wanted for myself one day.
"Yes, you would be correct Miss Anderson. What your parents had, there connection was extremely rare."
When she said this she had this look on her face like she was trying to tell me something, but I didn't quite understand what she was trying to convey to me.
  "Miss Anderson, your parents shared a very deep connection with each other" she continued. "They could sense things about one another, knew when the other was in trouble, hurt, anger, or sad etc. When your mother died, your father just couldn't handle it. He was in so much pain, but he tried so hard to hang on for you she told me. The love of his life, his other half had just died and yet had a daughter he had to think about. He wanted to be strong for you, but the curse of a soulmate bond is that when your soulmate dies, your heart just can't handle it. You were the one to tell him that it was okay, that you loved him and your mother very much and you understood they needed to be together again." Madem Pomfrey finished.
  "You were so brave Lauren" Mr. Weasley spoke. "You knew how in love your parents were and that they were meant to be together so you let your father go to you your mother. He passed peacefully knowing you gave your blessing."
  I was trying to wrap my head around it, the fact that both my parents were actually gone and that there soulmate connection was real. I was broken out of my trance at the sound of Madame Pomfreys voice.
"Miss Anderson does any of this sound familiar at all too you? Can you remember anything at all" asked Madam Pomfrey.
  I sat that there not speaking for a long time, with my eyes shut trying to recall anything about what I had just been told. Willing myself to conjure up images of war, or you-know-who, anything from my time at Hogwarts but the longer I sat there trying to think, the more my head hurt. Shaking my head with one last attempt at remembering even the finest of details but I couldn't.
  "I can't remember, I'm sorry I told them sadly."
  "Don't be sorry hun, you've just been through a lot, and everything we just told you is a lot to process. We can't be expecting miracles in one day" Mrs. Weasley spoke to me. "Your memory's will come back in time, you just have to have a little bit faith dear."