mysteriousmissy26
Rose Lily Potter thought she'd finally outrun her past.
After surviving Voldemort, finishing Hogwarts, and escaping to Kanto with Hermione Granger, Rose becomes a Pokémon Trainer, raises a Charmander into one of her greatest partners, and somehow falls hopelessly in love with the terrifying Lt. Surge.
Hermione finds her own future with Lance.
Years of fighting are finally replaced by Pokémon journeys, laughter, love, and eventually marriage.
Rose tells Surge about Britain.
Just...the abbreviated version.
Then, three months after their wedding, an urgent summons brings both couples and their Pokémon back to Hogwarts.
Friends are hugged.
Old jokes return.
Draco gets called Ferret.
And everything is wonderful-
until a letter from Rose's immortal ancestor, Thanatos, appears.
Along with books containing Rose's entire life.
Suddenly, everyone who survived the war is running for the Great Lake while Rose screams about her fucking Potter luck and Surge discovers his wife left out considerably more than a few details.
The cupboard.
The neglect.
The yearly battles.
The friends she couldn't save.
The godfather she loved and lost.
The war that stole her childhood.
And the night seventeen-year-old Rose Potter walked alone into the Forbidden Forest knowing she was going there to die.
Surge knows war.
He knows what it means to survive one.
What he doesn't know is how to sit beside the woman he loves and read about a little girl with his wife's green eyes being broken over and over again-
and somehow growing into the woman who taught a Charmander to trust her, challenged him for a Thunder Badge, stole his heart, and never once told him just how many scars were hidden beneath her laughter.
The most feared Gym Leader in Kanto has faced war before.
But nothing prepared Lt. Surge for Rose Potter's.