Sing All Our Cares Away

Here is another short scene that popped into my head. This one is one that I've thought about a lot ever since reading the last book.

The Lovely Boy was back. She wanted to smile at him but she forgot how. She missed smiling, She thinks that She did it a lot once.

Frank-Dear was staring out as the Lovely Boy made noises beside a silent witch.

Was witch the word?

She shook her head. She didn't know what words were anymore.

The Other put her hand on her stomach as the Lovely Boy made noises to Frank-Dear.

BABY

She knew that one!

The baby cried as she put him in the closet. She kissed his hair and closed the door.

Then the screaming happened.

She closed her eyes to make the screaming stop. It never stopped for long but when the Lovely Boy was here, tall and proud, and looking like Frank-Dear, the screams were whispers and whispers she could drown out by humming.

She began to hum loudly. Drowning out the screams and the cackles and Frank-Dear begging someone to kill him and leave her and-

NEVILLE!

The whispers went away for a moment when the Lovely Boy made noises at him.

MUM!

She knew those too!

She had to give him his present. After all, she needed to give him his present because it was his present and she needed to give it to him.

She thrust her hand out and watched as the Lovely Boy smiled and took it.

Another word and-

MUM again!

That made her smile, made the screams go away.

Neville watched as his mother walked back to her bed humming happily. He squeezed Hannah's hand as they left the ward and made their way to the public floo. "Thanks for coming with me." He said quietly to his wife.

"You wanted to tell them. Maybe they will get a chance to meet Frank one day." Hannah said as they stood in the line. "Would they like me?" She asked him before they used the floo to go home.

His answer came when they arrived at their flat. "They would love you because you love me. If we ever find a miracle and they are cured, then they will tell you that themselves."