[HP] Can you be gentle with me

So, on September [-]st, Tahlia was woken up by Nigel with a happy face. After a leisurely breakfast, they got into Derek's car and drove all the way to the airport in Edinburgh.

At this time, I have to admire the invention of Muggles. It only takes more than an hour to fly from Edinburgh to London. There is no need to set off a day earlier to catch the morning train. These days, Tahlia is completely used to the life of eternal darkness in front of her eyes. Her hearing has become much sharper than before, mainly because she can even hear at the counter when Derek often hides in the studio complaining about the increasingly tricky requests of customers, which also makes her often in the office suddenly. Laughing out loud in front of the guests and having to embarrassingly pretend nothing happened.

"Why do you feel so excited today?" It didn't take long for them to arrive at the station, Tahlia let Nigel drag her forward without a word, and Derek followed behind with the big cart at a leisurely pace.

"You'll find out later!" Nigel said, but he didn't slow down at all, as if he was anxious to move forward.

"Hey, Nigel—"

Along the way, Tahlia was dragged forward by Nigel like this, and after a few minutes, she knew exactly what Nigel was anxious about.

"Tahlia!"

The moment she heard the voice, Tahlia stopped abruptly. The panic that appeared on her face was too late to hide. She unconsciously let go of Nigel's hand. She took a few steps back in a panic, just in time to be walked from behind. Derek was caught on top of him, and she immediately turned her head, looking straight at him.

Tahlia opened her mouth silently, as if she was accusing Derek of something──

"Take it easy." She heard Derek's calm voice. "Take it easy, Tahlia...Nigel knows what he's doing—"

"But—" Tahlia opened her mouth again, this time making a sound but still unable to utter a complete sentence, as if she had suddenly lost all speech.

This is definitely not what she expected... She is not prepared at all- she is not prepared to meet anyone here... Especially this person is-

"Tahlia."

In an instant, the owner of the voice had moved in front of her, Tahlia was stiff all over, she didn't know how to face this person, he was the one she felt most guilty all along──

"Si... Sirius." She even called his name tremblingly. "……haven't seen you for a long time."

"Hi." Sirius replied briefly.

Then the scene seemed to be silenced suddenly, and even the noise around them couldn't affect them.

In fact, Sirius wanted to say something, he had a lot of things to say in his mind, including asking why she left without saying a word again, or why she showed that panicked expression when she saw him, but standing still After arriving in front of Tahlia, he couldn't say anything.

It felt as if he knew the answer all along.

It seemed that subconsciously he wasn't surprised that Tahlia would leave at all, yeah, he shouldn't be surprised, Tahlia was hurt too much here, whether he wanted to admit it or not, he was one of the accomplices who hurt her.

"Hello."

Finally, it was a blond man behind Tahlia who broke the silence, a man with piercing eyes, a confident gaze that made his aqua blue eyes look even more dazzling.

"Hello." Sirius nodded politely, reaching back to hold the man's hand. "You are—"

"Derek Hilton." While Sirius was sizing him up, Derek was also observing this unusually handsome black-haired man. "I guess you're Sirius Black."

Sirius' eyes widened slightly.

"You're Harry Potter's godfather, and Nigel loves Harry..." Derek continued. "He told you that Tahlia would be here today?" He paused for a moment, looking ahead at Nigel, who was already chatting with Harry. "I know Nigel wrote to him."

Sirius nodded slowly.

"So during this time, Tahlia is staying with you."

Derek didn't answer, just pushed Tahlia slightly forward.

And Tahlia also knew what Derek wanted to express, she reached out decisively and grabbed Derek's hand that hadn't had time to retract, and held it tightly before turning back to Sirius. "He's been with me, Sirius—he's been with me all the time I couldn't see." As she spoke, she slightly raised her left hand, which was clasped with Derek, the silver-white The ring gleamed in the morning light that streamed in from the top of the station. "Derek is my fiancé."

"fiancé……"

Sirius couldn't speak at all, and for a long time just stared blankly at Tahlia and the man beside her, not to mention what she just said...

To be honest, the fact that Tahlia had a fiancé in such a short period of time made him unable to accept it for a while, and he stammered for a while. "You...wait, so you mean, you said you—" His eyes widened. "Are you blind?"

Tahlia nodded slowly. "Since St. Mungo's woke up, I can't see..."

"But..." Sirius became incoherent. "But you... I thought they cured you—"

"That's a spell cast by Voldemort. I'm lucky to be blind, Sirius." Tahlia said softly. "Perhaps... this is more proof that even Merlin doesn't want me to stay in the wizarding world." She finally expressed her inner thoughts, subconsciously clenched Derek's hand. "I can't stay there anymore, I can't do anything without my eyesight."

"It's not like that—"

"Isn't it?" Tahlia frowned slightly. "So tell me, what else can I do?"

Sirius shut his mouth for a moment.

He really can't think of any work in the magic world that doesn't require the use of vision, and what Tahlia hates the most in his life is this feeling of powerlessness that can't do anything──

So that's it?Maybe Tahlia was right, maybe this was really Merlin's will.

Thinking, he sighed.

"I just want you to be happy."

"I'm trying to be happy." Tahlia said seriously. "I think I've improved a lot...you can ask Derek—"

Sirius returned his attention to the blond man, and found that he met his gaze without fear at all, which made him smile unconsciously. "I think, since Tahlia agreed to your marriage proposal, it means that you really have something special about you." His tone was much calmer than he had imagined. He thought it would be difficult for him to accept, but in fact But no, the person in front of him gave him a better impression than he expected. "I think you'll treat him well."

"Of course." Derek nodded resolutely.

Sirius fell silent.

It seemed that he didn't need to say anything anymore, anyway, it was a good thing that Tahlia decided to let go of the past and start over, not to mention that it also meant that she would not be obsessed with Snape anymore.The only thing he needs to do is to wish her sincerely, that's all.

"The train is leaving soon." He spoke again quietly. "I think it's better for me to take Harry and them there first."

"Hmm." Tahlia responded softly, raised her hands, and paused for a moment in mid-air, but finally she hugged Sirius and whispered something in his ear. "Thank you... for everything you have done for me."

Sirius froze for a moment, then laughed helplessly, reached out and patted her on the back, carefully pushed her away, let Derek step forward to support her, nodded politely to them again, and then turned around , let Harry and Nigel follow him and leave...

"We... time to go back," Tahlia whispered.

"Okay." Derek said, took her hand gently, turned around and walked forward slowly.

Of course he will treat her well, even if the man didn't say so, he still intends to do so for the rest of his life, no matter what, he will always love her and let her live happily forever...

"When do you think our wedding should be held?"

"Eh?"

Derek laughed out loud, lowered his head and branded a kiss on the forehead of the woman who froze for a moment. "You heard me right, the wedding, our wedding."

"Oh..." Tahlia was still in a daze, letting Derek lead her on. "Yes, our wedding..."

"Why don't we go to church when Nigel comes back for Christmas." Derek squeezed Tahlia's hand even tighter. "Then we'll have a simple banquet and invite some people over—"

Derek talked on and on, but Tahlia fell silent uncontrollably.

It never occurred to her that one day she would—what should I say, have a wedding…even when she said yes to Derek's proposal, she never thought that there would be a wedding after that.

Can she really do it?Unconsciously, he squeezed Derek's hand back.

Can she really have the perfect and happy wedding that Derek described?

Tahlia suddenly became frightened, what if everything was one of her dreams again?This is not the first time she has this kind of imagination of a happy life, and no matter how many times it appears, even if she knows it is a dream, she will still fall into it involuntarily, and after several struggles, she barely wakes up from the dream...

And now, could this be another picture she imagined──

Maybe she didn't wake up at all, or maybe, Voldemort's curse was to trap her in a dreamlike dream, from which she could never get out...

Shouldn't-

Well……

"pain!"

With a sudden sting in her cheek, Tahlia pulled herself out of the mess of thoughts and looked up angrily. "Derek!"

But the man who pinched his face fiercely just now smiled cheerfully. "You were thinking wildly again just now, Tahlia..." He let go of the hand that was originally holding Tahlia, and quickly changed to hug her whole body. "You're not dreaming, I'm real...I'm pretty sure I'm real."

"People in dreams will say they are real, Derek." Tahlia said angrily, stretched out her hands and rubbed her sore cheeks, the sad expression on her face was fully revealed, making the man hugging her smile even harder loudly.

This made Tahlia even more annoyed, and she turned her face away angrily and said nothing, even on the plane, she didn't speak until they finally returned to the door of their store.

There seemed to be a lot of tourists in the town that day, and Tahlia could feel Derek holding her tightly, only letting go for a while on the way, after all, many people passed by them along the way, but he never Let anyone hit her.

This feeling of being so naturally protected even in daily life stimulated Tahlia heavily, maybe she was obsessed with this feeling at first...

Derek walked Tahlia into the store and locked the door behind him.

"Wait a minute, I'm going to get something..."

Tahlia came back to her senses, nodded, and walked slowly to one of the windows, habitually reaching out to arrange some of the things on it, and not long after, she heard Derek's footsteps coming out of the studio inside.

"We're still open for later, right?" Tahlia asked casually.

"Not today." Derek's voice was next to her in an instant, and Tahlia blinked and turned around.

"Why—oh!"

In the next second, severe pain hit.

Tahlia's eyes widened in disbelief, and she subconsciously held down her abdomen with one hand. The warm liquid constantly escaping from the wound covered her hands, and she could only press tightly, even though this did not slow down the blood gushing out at all. . "De..." She managed to utter a word, but at that moment, her feet completely lost strength, and she collapsed straight to the ground like a scarecrow without support. "you……"

Kuang bang.

The metal knife fell to the ground, but Tahlia had only one thought on her mind now.

Why……

"For...why—"