Another one? {Frankie!}

[LILY LUNA -----]

Lily was having such a rough day. It was ridiculous to say that things had been worse since she had been disowned. To say that would be a complete understatement. Now that she had no money, and no famous name, people didn’t have a reason not to show their hatred. Lily was subjected to torture for her past actions, and she hated it. She was alone all the time, not really having anyone to lean on. She distanced herself from Kara a little bit more, who was willing to help, because she didn’t want to seem helpless. What Lily really wanted was to be Queen again, and for everything to be fine again. She hated this whole thing, and was sick and tired of being approached by the good and the bad.

Her family had also been trying to reconcile with her. She had been getting approached by Weasleys and her brothers, trying to tell her to make up with her father and to come back to the family, but it wasn’t that easy. Now, she was sort-of walking in the shadows, and avoiding everyone. She stuck to herself, deciding that protecting herself from more hurt was more important than trying to climb her way back to the top of the social ladder. She wasn’t even sure that she wanted to be at the top. And that indecisiveness alone, scared her. She went out to the grounds and wandered around, going to the start of the Forbidden Forest and laying there in the grass. She had dark make-up on, a white tank-top, and a pair of skinny jeans with white sneakers. She had a warming charm placed around her, just so she wouldn’t have to wear a coat. She sighed as she toyed with the grass, trying not to think of anything much. Ignorance really was bliss. Sadly, she wasn’t at all ignorant.

-thanks to seven weeks ?! of caution 2.0 for the image! :]

[FRANKLIN JACOB LONGBOTTOM]

It's be some time now. The gossips were getting very annoying and he couldn't believe how that witch threw rumors about the Potter and Weasley families. His father was a good friend of three of them: Hermione, Ronald, and Harry also known as the golden trio to people of the magical heritage. Of course, the one he was worried about was hard to find and he knew that person was trying to avoid him. In the Great Hall the other day, the person in question just ignored him and took off alone. It wasn't very satisfaction to being avoid and ignore since he knew her all his life. It was sad to say the least.

Frankie frowned in frustration and tried his hardness not to trail off his own mind and made assumptions. He knew from some people that she had been disown. He couldn't believe it was true yet it seem to be and he knew if Harry Potter disown his daughter it was the worse news and it hurts soul-deep. Not only for Harry or his family, but for himself, Frank thought to himself. He knew that Harry wouldn't disown his daughter forever, but it would be a tough ride before Lily took back the family name.

He knew Rose was worried and Lucy, he allowed his mind to wander on the night he finally told her his love for her, soon he ripped himself out of the reverie and reprimanded himself. He needed to find Lily and talk with her. He knew what was going on. His dad was a professor here and from him as well from others, Frank got that Lily is being cold-hearted and hardhearted, and a bitch to top it off. Not like the Lily Potter, he watched grow up and entered Hogwarts. He wanted to make it right with her and help her towards a better path. Of course, it's up to her to decide to take it but at least he'll have his say and pray for her response in the long run.

Frankie went into the forest and found out what he knew. It was good to know Lily couldn't block his spell to find her and it was good to have her alone. He had a feeling not to be direct and to try to calmly allow her to talk first as he found on her the grass just ahead. He sighed inwardly. This was going to be rough and tough to do as he walked over to her and sat down on a log nearby. He watched her play with the grass and the memory of watching her as a little girl laughing in the grass played in his mind. He pushed it aside with a mental sigh and waited for Lily to acknowledge him. He had a feeling he might be the first one to speak, but he'll hold his ground.

[LILY LUNA -----]

Lily had been ignoring Frankie’s attempts to talk to her. It was true. She wouldn’t lie about it. She was so sick of people from her family coming up to her and telling her how they wanted to help, and how they wanted to be friends again, and whatever else they had to say. They always had something to say about her situation, and how she had been stupid, and what she had done wrong, and then they listed the ways that they could help. But couldn’t they tell that Lily didn’t exactly want their help? She didn’t understand why they couldn’t get that she just wanted to be left alone. She wanted to be left alone not only because she was still trying to keep away from her family, but because she didn’t want more change.

Everything had changed. She had lost her title, she had lost her boyfriend, she had lost her best-frenemy, she had lost her minions…she had lost everything, even her family. But now, they were all coming back and acting as if nothing had ever happened between them, and that they wanted to be friends. She wished everyone treated her the same, though. When she had been Queen, they had never acknowledged the fact that she had existed. They hadn’t tried to talk to her, they hadn’t tried to connect with her…nothing. They had done nothing. And the moment she messed up, and got disowned, they swooped in and tried to change her. And that hurt.

Because it seemed that, all of a sudden, everyone cared for her. What she thought was that they were embarrassed that someone related to them was bringing disgrace to their name. That was what she had tried to convince herself of. She had tried to implant that thought into her mind, so that their luring attempts did nothing to her. It wasn’t working, though. Slowly, she was being broken down. She couldn’t keep resisting them. It was getting harder and harder every single time someone confronted her. She knew that she should just ignore them, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. They really seemed to have her best interests at heart, and that enough made it hard for her to just listen to them and give what they were saying a chance.

“Frankie, why are you here, again? Come here to try again? To talk some sense into me? To make me go back to the family? Just say what you have to say and get it over with so I can get on with my life.” Lily was so fed up. When would they ever stop?

[FRANKLIN JACOB LONGBOTTOM]

Just like her, wanting to end it in a matter of seconds instead of the fifty minutes he wanted to talk with her. Yes, it would be best to just get it over with, but it wouldn't be over until she at least had a change of behavior. She could be a bit of a bad girl if she wanted; heavens he wanted to be naughty even now and again, but not all of the time and not at the mercy of what she was doing to her family. Furthermore, he cared for her for as long as he could remember knowing her. It was such a pain to have her like this wanted a break from life and being the cold bitch she become. He prayed for strength and for Lily's sanity and grace.

Of course, Lily was only disown in money from what his father said when he talk with him about Lily and what happened to her and her father. However, Lily believed she was disown and that made him even more concern for her well-being. Harry loved her and wouldn't truly disown his little girl. He knew that, but Lily didn't as greedy as she was to what the power of the Potter's name and the money connects to it. He needed to help her and he wouldn't stop. He couldn't allow her to end up worse than she was. She was withdrawing from everything and everybody who cared for her and was willing to help. He wanted to help. If she would only lower her defenses for one second and listened to him.

"Lily, let's just talk in general," Frank decided on this technique. "Of course, just so you know. I'm concern for you and just want to help you. But that's enough of that for now," he pointedly said, "we'll talk about the Triwizard." He suggested and prayed Lily goes for it. He needed her to.

[LILY LUNA -----]

Lily knew that she had only been disowned where the money was concerned. Her father, though, had also taken away her family name, and that, to her, was basically saying that he didn’t want her in the family. She didn’t care what anyone else said, because she knew that if they were in her position, they’d feel exactly the same. She knew she had somewhere to go home to, but why would she want to go to the same house as her father when he claimed to love her when he truly didn’t? How could he love her when he had disowned her, and taken away her family’s name from her? That wasn’t love! That wasn’t any form of love. That’s why she thought he was lying; his actions didn’t in any way, shape, or form, match his words.

Lily raised an eyebrow when Frankie said that he just wanted to talk, in general. Did her ex-cousins co-ordinate the way they went about talking about her? She could just imagine all her ex-cousins sitting at a round table and discussing various methods to try and talk to her. It was stupid, though. She knew that they were smarter than that. Well, most of them were. She just looked at Frankie with a slight incredulity showing in her eyes. She rolled them, and decided that humoring him may be the best course of action. And so she decided that she would talk to him. Of course, it would be far from civil, and it would be heavily laden with sarcasm, but that’s what he’d get for coming to talk to her.

“You want to talk? Okay. Hmm, the TriWizard Tournament…well, I didn’t see it because Hogwarts’ champion was a Hufflepuff, and I don’t give a damn about Hufflepuffs. Oh, and I was planning the take down an old enemy of mine the day the First Task was scheduled, so there was that, too. I heard we were in the lead, which was very disappointing because now James and Albus will be happy, and I hate when they’re happy.” She said, with a sarcastic expression on her face. “What would you like to talk about next, oh-favorite-ex-cousin-of-mine?” She asked, the statement coming out so sarcastic that if anyone heard it, they would’ve been surprised that she hadn’t choked on it.

[FRANKLIN JACOB LONGBOTTOM]

If only Lily knew how hard it was for the rest of her family, and for her father who was beside himself everyday. At least when Franklin checked on Harry, who always seem very distracted lately and was very moody like a big shadow was upon Mr. Potter. Frank's now father, Neville, was worried for him and so Frank was too. Lily didn't know how much it hurt her father to disown her in money and taking the Potter name, but Frank seen Harry and knew for himself how her father felt.

No, it wasn't planned or discussed how Frank was decide to go with trying to speak with her. It was more out of the blue moon and all that gave him this idea. Maybe it wasn't that good, but still it was all he had beside stepping all over her and shaking her to waken her common sense and moved on with her life. So, Frank just had to prayed she, at least, went with it for now.

"Yes," he replied firmly. "You and your charming ways," he said with sarcasm back. "You care too much about your brothers..." he got out of his mouth with a raised eyebrow. "How about your classes?" He replied humorlessly with narrowed eyes at her.