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Andromeda
She wanted to have one quiet day. Just one, but no the universe had other plans.
Because instead of having her quiet day like she had planned she walked in on her 4 year old daughter, with pink hair dye in her hair and scissors in her small hand.
“I….. Dora what on earth do you think you’re doing?”
Dora looks up to her with her big dark eyes that remind Andromeda so much of her sister.
”I don’t like my hair” she tells her mother, voice serious.
“But we just changed it last week sweetheart”
“yes and i like it last week but not anymore” Dora says, pouting slightly.
Andromeda sighs
”where did you even get the hairdye?”
”Siri got it for me” Dora smiles a big toothy smile
“oh I’m gonna …”
Andromeda should have never let her 18 year old cousin babysit her 4 year old daughter.
She was going to kill him.
“Don’t be mad at Siri mommy, I convinced her” Dora says, still pouting.
“I’m not mad Darling, I just wish you guys would have told me about it”
“well Siri wanted to tell you, but I told her you already said yes” Dora says, now actually managing to look a little sheepish.
”Dori you know you’re not supposed to lie”
“I knowww but I really really didn’t like my hair”
Andromeda sighs again. She would deal with Sirius later. She takes a look at her daughters hair.
“I think we should rinse it out” she tells her daughter who nods enthusiastically.
They do so and when they are done, Andromeda takes a look at the damage. Dora has light brown hair usually so the pink is not that visible.
As Dora sees the result, she gets a sad look in her eyes.
“How about we cut your hair a little hmm?” Andromeda asks and Dora’s eyes light up again.
when they are done Andromeda asks
“how about you go play with Charlie a little, I wanted to pay Molly a visit anyways”
Molly Weasley is their next door Neighbour. She was really friendly to Andromeda and Ted when they first moved in the house and she has Children herself. She helped them settle in the Neighbourhood. Molly is pregnant with her third child at the moment, so Andromeda tries to help her out as much as she can.
Her youngest son Charlie is Dora age and they share their love for troublemaking.
They make their way over to Mollys house. Ted is still at work so they have some time to kill. Andromeda writes Children’s books so she usually works from home. But Ted is a photographer so he is always somewhere.
Dora grabs Andromeda hand and smiles up her mother. Her hair is now shoulder length and slightly pink.
Sometimes Andromeda has a hard time breathing because her daughter reminds her so much of her older sister Bellatrix it hurts.
It hurts even more to know that she has never met one of her sisters. Sometimes Andromeda tells her childhood stories of them. She is always careful to leave her parents out of those story’s.
They reach the burrow. That’s what Molly and Arthur like to call their house. Andromeda knocks at door and a tried looking ginger looking woman opens it.
Two boys come running to the door and the younger one smiles widely as he sees Dora. He runs forward to grab Dora by the hand and pulls her into the house.
Andromeda smiles as she looks after them. She turns to Molly
”are you alright?” She asks the heavily pregnant woman.
“Yes of course dear, come on in. I’ll make you some tea”
“oh no please Molly, I will make myself some tea, you go on and sit down”
Molly smiles gratefully and walks back into the house. Andromeda follows.
After she is done with the tea for both her and Molly she goes into the living room to sit down in one of the chairs next to Molly.
Molly turns on the TV. They sometimes do that, when they both had an exhausting day. They meet up let their kids play and watch TV together.
A commercial is one at the moment. One about hair dye. Andromeda starts to laugh quietly, than her laugh abruptly dies in her throat.
Because immediately after the commercial there is a movie trailer. And a woman with curly Black hair and Doras eyes stares at her through the screen.
Andromeda just freezes. And she forgets for a moment that she isn’t alone in the room.
”that actress looks just like you” Molly says from next to her. Because well, Andromeda had never actually told Molly about her past and her family. She just said they weren’t in contact anymore and left it at that.
“Like freakishly like you Andy, are you related or something?” Molly asks her
Andromeda is still staring at the woman on the screen. Ever since she had left Andromeda had tried everything to avoid watching her sisters movies. Every time she just saw a glimpse of her she had turned around. So this is the first time she had actually seen her sisters face in 5 years. Oh how Andromeda misses her.
She turns to Molly, tears forming in her eyes.
”that’s my sister”