I Will Always Love You

Chapter 25 - Making up

August 3rd

Rosetta's POV:

"Morning" me and James both call as we hear Rory trudge down the stairs
"Mornin" he responds heading over to sit with us
"Wow you've done your hair, that's a good start" he rolls his eyes shaking his head
"I'm heading home today" he tells us both
"Really?" I ask surprised
"I love Rosalie, I did marry her, I wouldn't have if I generally didn't care"
"Don't tell us that, tell her that" James interrupts
"What about Pansy?" He huffs
"Look I wasn't ready to be a dad, and to be honest I'm still not but I do want to try to make more of an effort like I did when she was first born. I know I took a step back but, argh, I don't know; what do I know about kids?" he raises his hands in the air
"It's a learning curve" James shrugs
"Easy for you to say, your a natural" I comment watching my husband feed Harry, he just winks in response.
"It's not easy but that child needs you and regardless of whether your ready now or not you have to be there for her" I smile
"You don't want her to hate you" I roll my eyes at James' comment, "just look at Regulus, he hated his parents growing up and for a long time it messed with his head and he became a horrible bully, your surroundings affect you"
"Reg was never a bully he just spent a lot of time with bullies" i chime in
"Well I'm off" Rory gets up and leaves without so much as a bye

"Bit sudden" James remarks, i hum in response
"Speaking of having awkward conversations I'm going to go and see Petunia" James, clearly not expecting that, spits out the water he had just put in his mouth.
"Your going to see Petunia?" He questions as he cleans up the mess
"Yes, she is still my sister; besides I need to tell her that not making an appearance at Lily's funeral was unacceptable" after a moment of silence i get up "you know what, I'm going to go now before I talk myself out of it"
"Right now"
"Yep" And i apparate out, appearing right in front of my sisters house that she shares with Vernon Dursley and there som Dudley.

I knock on hard trying to calm myself seen as I haven't seen my sister in Merlin knows how long.

"We don't want to buy anything" a gruff voice sounds, I look up and Vernon falters "what do you want?!" He looks me up and down observing me with a look of hatred clear on his face.
"I-is my sister here?" I ask stuttering slightly, he huffs lightly before turning around
"Petunia!" I hear footsteps approach
"Vernon" she turns the corner and spots me and the same look Vernon was wearing a second ago appears on my sisters face along with another emotion I don't recognise "what do you want?!" She demands harshly
"Lily died" i bluntly reply
"I know" is all I get in return
"We had a funeral for her"
"I know"
"Oh so you did get the message"
"Of course I did!"
"I didn't see you there, I know you weren't there because I spoke to everyone there. Even though I was a mess I had to speak to everyone, people who barely knew Lily were telling me how sorry they were. Where were you?!" Petunia looks up and down the street
"Will you keep your voice down?!" She hisses
"Why should I?" She places a hand over my mouth
"come in" she opens the door wide and when I don't immediately head in her eyes widen and I give in walking through the entrance and into the old fashioned living room where Vernon is sat doing a quiz as Dudley sits in a high chair throwing food on the floor. "Well sit" she commands impatiently
"What's it doing in our house?" Vernon points towards me
"Charming, what do you see in him?" I ask my sister who simply glares at me
"We'll sit up here" I get up and follow her to the small round table in the kitchen area. We sit in silence "well!" Petunia eventually breaks the silence urging my to hurry up
"She is/ was your sister do you really hate us that much?" I pause "I needed you, our parents died Petunia, then our sister. I may be married and living my own life but I still want you in it" Petunia sits in silence "do you even care about me?"
"No!" Vernon calls from the other room
"Good to know" I wipe away the tears that had managed to form before getting up and going to leave.
"Rosetta" my big sister calls out, I head back over and sit down, she sighs "I do care, you are still my sister and so was Lily."
"Then why didn't you go to the funeral?" I ask
"Because, this may come as a shock to you but, I wasn't sure I'd be welcome"
"I invited you" I comment as if it's the most obvious thing which it kind of is
"Yes but all those thin- people, your people, I couldn't fit in with them and honestly I wasn't sure Lily would have wanted me there" she sits back in her seat looking uneasy
"She still loved you as I do." I pause "remember the time we went to the park when me and Rory were 5, you were 10 and you took us there by yourself for the first time. I fell over and my knee hit the ground hard and I was bleeding a lot, you were so panicked that mum and dad would yell at you and never let you take us again that you took off your leg warmers and put them on my legs before taking us home, before bed I went into your room to give them back and you let me keep them." I laugh at the memory "I still have them"

(Just imagine leg warmers were invented sooner because this is just cute.)

"Mum came into my room later asking why you were wearing them and I said whilst we were at the park you said you wanted to be just like me so I let you wear them." She tells me and I laugh
"See we were close once, me being a witch shouldn't change that"
"Maybe we could take the boys to the park?" She states reluctantly
"Yeah" I nod, I go to get up to leave but quickly remember something "by the way should any wizard come hear asking about Harry don't say I have him" Petunia scrunches up her face confused "okay basically everyone believes he's dead in the wizarding world and I want to keep it that way"
"Why?"

Well I could say that it's because he was supposed to go to you but I was scared you'd hurt him and be unkind to him like you were to me and my other siblings when we were younger but given that she's giving sisterhood another chance I doubt it'd be a good idea.

"It's complicated, a lot has happened in the wizarding world, for instance a full blown war, I'll explain at some point" she nods thankfully not commenting any further. "I should go"

"Bye"
"Bye" I wave at her before apparating out

I think that went well

A.N

I have to say when I first started this series I wasn't ever going to have the two make up but now I think it'd be nice for them to be brought together after Lily's death.

Sister support.

What do you think? I'd love to hear your thoughts

Lily