around mid of august, the radio and newspapers only talked of the several more attacks over the "muggle borns" which scared the shit out of everyone. harry was confident that he and aurelia had finished the story of voldemort then and there. also their scars haven't itched or burnt in ages. still, the new uprising of a similar dark wizard made him confused and worried. aurelia was extremely scared out of everyone. she was scared that the sacrifices of her friends and families went down in vain.

on the morning of 28th august, the minister of magic, kingsley shacklebolt visited the potter twins.

"oh, what do we owe the pleasure to have you here mr.kinglsey?" harry asked politely while aurelia gave him a small welcoming smile.

"i'll come on to that harry." kingsley smiled before turning his attention towards aurelia who was sitting on one of the chairs,"congratulations aurelia."

"uh oh thanks." aurelia cracked a smile.

nodding once, kingsley shifted his gaze towards harry and said,"i assume you have heard all about the attacks, harry?"

harry gave a curt nod. kingsley continued,"at first, i thought they were some of the death eaters who were still not under control, so we inquired malfoy and nott but they claim to know nothing about it."

"so is this somebody else we don't know at all?"

"maybe harry." kingsley shrugged,"you are one of the best wizards, one who defeated voldemort and i think you can help us with it."

"i am ready to help you mr.kingsley." harry nodded.

"i would like you to join the post of an auror." kingsley said

"that's. . . that's great." harry admitted glancing at aurelia who looked quite surprised but happy,"it would be an honour really."

**

then came september with nothing better. the attacks didn't stop, the ministry of magic still wasn't able to find out the person behind these attacks. moreover, ginny, hermione and luna left for hogwarts to complete their seventh year. 

aurelia noticed how theodore stopped giving her frequent visits like he did earlier, claiming that his grandfather still wasn't giving up on the thought of getting him married to some pureblood princess.

aurelia felt lonely than ever as both harry and zenith left earlier in the morning and returned back in the evening.

once, when harry still wasn't back but zenith was, aurelia again had coughed out blood. though having zenith with her was a plus point as he immediately gave her a potion and advised her to take it regularly.

it was another regular evening when aurelia was laying down on her bed, going through her old sketches.

"um zenith, someone is here to see you." aurelia heard harry's voice and got up on her feet to find who the person is. walking in the drawing room, aurelia found a familiar person greeting her with a small, shy smile. 

he was the same man aurelia had seen with zenith in the photograph. aurelia responded to his greeting with a smile and stood besides harry.

"coming." zenith yelled from upstairs immediately accompanied by the sound of the footsteps. he reached the door when bradley turned around to face him making him stop dead in his tracks.

"zen." bradley breathed out, his heart thumping loudly in his chest. he knew he had hurt the boy who loved him but nobody knows that bradley had no choice rather than leaving.

"brad?" zenith's voice quivered as if he was trying to figure out that the man standing in front of him was real. it wasn't another one of his dreams or deja vu. 

harry glanced once at aurelia who was beaming at the two men.

giving last smile to zenith, aurelia pulled harry out of the drawing room and towards the long hallway.

"you know him don't you?" harry asked after aurelia had let go of his wrist.

"yes." aurelia nodded,"he's zenith's friend. from america."

"the one who wrote letters to him?"

"not sure about that one." aurelia shrugged,"but where did you meet him?"

"at the ministry. he approached me first asking if i can take him to zenith black." harry explained,"but how does he know that zenith is staying with us?"

aurelia thought about it for a moment before it struck her,"zenith told me that he saw bradley when you two visited diagon alley. now, bradley might have spotted zenith with you and of course everybody knows who you are."

"makes sense." harry commented.

after few minutes of talking bradley left and by that time harry had already went up to his bedroom. zenith genuinely felt happy after clearing everything his heart questioned. he knocked on aurelia's door asking if he could come inside to which aurelia whole heartedly agreed, excited to know how their reunion was.

"so?" aurelia raised one of her eyebrows, looking at zenith who was seated on the edge of the bed.

"we talked." zenith said as if it wasn't obvious.

"what did he say?"

"that his father dragged him here to london and abandoned him from having contact with me." zenith sighed,"though he was able to send few letters secretly as he wanted to escape but every time his father caught him and well he was stuck."

"i told you there must be a reason he left without a word." aurelia smiled warmly earning a nod from zenith,"come on now, go to sleep."

"good night." zenith smiled, walking up to the door and tried to pull it open but it didn't.

"what's wrong?" aurelia frowned when she found him struggling to open the door.

"the door won't open." zenith said, pulling the door handle with much force.

"let me see." aurelia grabbed her wand from the side table and made her way over to the door. having used the spell, the door still didn't open causing zenith to frustratingly pull on his hair.

"what the fuck! this bloody old house." zenith cursed, kicking the door.

"it has been creating problems since past few days." aurelia admitted , remembering when she had to call for harry to push the door from outside.

"harry!" zenith yelled, banging on the door. harry who was opening the door for theodore to enter hurried towards aurelia's bedroom after hearing constant banging and shouts, closely followed by theodore who moments ago had a huge smile on his face.

"oh no not the door again." harry groaned,"okay stay back."

aurelia and zenith did what harry said and backed away, hearing harry's rapid breathing while his constant efforts to open the door.

"are you two alright?" aurelia heard theodore's voice and a smile instantly took upon her worried features.

"yeah." zenith and aurelia chorused. finally harry was able to push open the door and zenith and aurelia breathed out in relief.

"hey." aurelia smiled, engulfing theodore in a hug who responded with a kiss on her forehead. aurelia noticed a paper roll in theodore's hand causing her to look at him with a questioning look.

"oh yeah this." theodore chuckled lightly, unrolling the paper and handed it to aurelia while harry and zenith tried to peek what was written on the paper.

"ultra sound reports?" harry asked, a smile appearing on his lips.

 he had advised theodore and aurelia to go for the test not only because they wanted to know it was a boy/girl but also to know about the health of the baby. the healer had sent him the results at late night and theodore couldn't even wait a night to share it with aurelia.

"oh my god. we're having a baby aurelia." zenith squealed like a girl causing aurelia to let out a chuckle at how girly it sounded.

"really?" harry gasped, nearly touring the paper out of aurelia's grasp to have a look.

"i can't wait for my little aurelia." theodore whispered to aurelia who smiled at him with tears of joy threatening to spill out of her eyes.

 theodore knew that his little girl would be the only one he would ever love more than aurelia.