Dahlia was excused from lessons for the day and McGonagall assured her that no one would bother her in her room. They didn't wish to move Dahlia from her room and return her to camp as they knew they couldn't get her through the hallways without being seen by anyone and Dahlia had fallen asleep, so they didn't wish to wake her. Loki held her on the floor as she cried herself to sleep before moving her to the bed and sat on the floor beside her bed, not wishing to leave her side. Both boys stayed too, watching over their sister and protecting her from anything that would come to harm her, including herself if they had to.

It was a few hours later when Dahlia began to stir, and the boys quickly ran to her bedside as their father was in the bathroom. She blinked rapidly as she came around and said, "Fen, Jora." She then sat up against the headboard as she asked, "where's dad?"

"Bathroom," Fenrir answered, "only time he's left your side".

"Oh," she said then looked down to her lap.

"Dahlia," Jörmungandr said, "talk to us".

She opened and closed her mouth for a moment, trying to figure out what to say until she looked up and glanced between her brothers and said with such sorrow, "I'm sorry, I am so sorry to the both of you, to all of you. I shouldn't have said what I said in Godric's Hollow".

"It's fine," Fenrir said and was about to say more but Dahlia cut him off.

"No, it's not," she said with a shake of her head, "I used the prophecy against you knowing it would hurt you, I shouldn't be so easily forgiven".

Fenrir shrugged, "too bad because to me you are forgiven". He then glanced to Jörmungandr who nodded, agreeing with his brother.

"But I shouldn't be," she replied, "you should at least be yelling at me or calling me a monster or...just something".

Fenrir sighed, "would it make you happy if we did?" Dahlia nodded. "Fine," he said and thought, "you're a baby who is self-sacrificing moron who can't control her magic, you're a fool to believe you can save everyone, you're a weird hybrid which is probably why your eyes look too close together and you come from an evil killing family. Happy?"

"No," she said immediately, "because I know you don't mean any of it..." she then paused and reached up to her eyes and looked to Jörmungandr and asked, "my eyes aren't weirdly close together, right?"

Fenrir laughed as Jörmungandr rolled his eyes and said, "after what he said, it's the eye thing you hold on to? You look fine, beautiful even, sister". Dahlia then dropped her hand from her face and Jörmungandr caught it and held it and said, "the point is, we all make mistakes, we all say and do things that we don't mean. We knew you didn't mean what you said, but we thought you were grieving over your mother, not trying to push us away".

"But-"

She was immediately cut off by Fenrir, "I swear if we hear but I shouldn't have said it blah blah blah one more time, I am throwing you into that lake".

She then glared at him and said, "you wouldn't dare".

Fenrir instantly picked her up and threw her over his shoulder and Jörmungandr just laughed as he let go her hand and Dahlia began to kick and hit Fenrir and ordered him to let her go. He began to walk to the door but stopped which confused her, until Fenrir did as she said and put her down and she turned to see her father stood at the door. Loki sighed, "of course you would wake up when I'm not there".

They both only took a few steps towards one another before Dahlia leaped into his arms and he held her tightly. He kissed the side of her head as she said, "I'm sorry, dad".

"Just don't ever do it again," he said then put her down.

Dahlia nodded then looked between her brothers and father and asked, "where's Hela?" The three of them looked to one another nervously and Dahlia knew that look instantly and put her head down and said, "she hates me".

"No," the three of them said then Loki tilted her chin up, so she would look at him as he said, "she does not hate you, she is under the impression that you fear her, possibly hate her".

"What?" she exclaimed and frowned, "I don't, I...I have to go see her".

Dahlia went to walk out of the door when Loki said, "don't you think you should change first?"

Dahlia looked down and realised she was only in her school skirt and buttoned up white school shirt that seemed wrinkled too considering she had slept in them. "Oh," she said and nodded.

Fenrir couldn't help but ask, "what's with the short skirt? Midgard can't have changed that much in a thousand years that every girl wears them".

"Brother, you wouldn't believe how much fashion has changed, and I lived in the sea," Jörmungandr said.

Dahlia opened her door as wide as she could and pointed, "out so I can change into one of my dresses, go".

The three of them then left and Dahlia closed the door as she quickly changed into her red gown with gold entwined around the end and the neckline with green sleeves attached to it, with the same gold stitching on the end of sleeves. It was the same dress she wore when her friends saw her for the first time after the reveal and when her brothers had tricked their father, so she could escape camp. With her belt with her dagger, a pouch and her wand, she placed her locket back on before doing her hair. It wasn't long before she was ready and made her way to camp, of course with Akio and Tonks following. She saw that Tonks looked sad when she looked at her and Dahlia assumed, she knew what happened.

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Dahlia was nervous when she entered the royal tent and only hoped her sister was there. Everyone else had left her alone to talk with Hela but she was starting to think speaking to her sister may not be the best thing as she did manage to push one sibling away, she just couldn't have it that Hela believed she hated her.

Entering the tent, she was thankful that her sister was sat at her desk doing work, but Dahlia was surprised when she saw a small looking glass on the table, balanced against a few stacked books as if Hela had been doing work and watching something through the glass at the same time. "Watching anything good?" Dahlia asked as she approached the desk.

Hela didn't look up as she said, "jumping out of that window isn't a wise thing to do, you know papa or the boys would have saved you before you hit the ground or I would have opened a portal from here and grabbed you through it so you landed on the bed".

"I guess I wasn't thinking". Hela hummed in agreement to that but still refused to look up. Dahlia then said, "look, I know I was foolish to think jumping out of a window would work but can we talk...I can act like a big baby again and throw your quill across the room like the last time you wouldn't speak to me..." Hela reacted by putting her quill down and reached for a book and began to flip through the pages, as if searching for something. Dahlia sighed in frustration and said, "I'm not opposed to throwing a book".

Hela sighed as she looked up and said, "talk about what?"

"I don't hate you," Dahlia said bluntly, "I have never hated you nor will I ever hate you".

Hela stood and said, "I don't need your lies".

She attempted to walk away but Dahlia grabbed her arm to stop her and said, "why would I lie?"

Hela ripped her arm out of Dahlia's grasp and exclaimed, "why wouldn't you hate me, why wouldn't you fear me? I mean, look at me," she gestured to her dead blue skin on her left side. She continued, "I meet people and they immediately hate me, people hear stories about me and they hate me, why would I expect anything different about you?"

Dahlia waved her hands in anger for a moment then clenched her fists and exclaimed, "I'm your little sister, I'm not some brainless moron who lives on a different realm growing up hearing of stories of how awful you are. I have never once judged you on your appearance and I think if you'll remember meeting in the dream world, I had you take your mask off because I wanted to meet the real you. I love you so don't you dare believe I hate you, don't you dare tell me I don't love you".

Hela shook her head and responded, "it still doesn't mean you don't fear me. You love me, fine I will accept that, but I know you are scared of me. I saw it in your eyes in the cemetery".

Dahlia frowned as Hela turned to leave and reached the flap of the tent when she froze as Dahlia said, "I fear your love". Hela looked back confused. Dahlia continued, "you really have no idea, do you...Hela, you are the goddess of death, you can kill people with your touch, cause them pain beyond imagination but the first thing I learned about you is your capacity to love. Forget everything else, when you love somebody, you love them so much it can be scary".

Hela now turned and took a few slow steps away from the exit and said, "I don't understand."

Dahlia sighed and said, "okay, listen. When you love someone, you say all the things like I love you, I will do anything for you, I will die for you, I will kill for you, etc. etc. Everyone says those things, even if they don't really mean them. You can fall in and out of love with someone, you can stop loving someone but with you, it's different. I used dad not knowing I was alive and being raised by other people against him because I knew that would hurt him the most. I used the prophecy against the boys because I thought that would hurt them the most. Out of everything I said in Godric's hollow, do you know what was the easiest?"

"What?"

"Threatening myself. I know the prophecy affects you, but I know someone you love dying affects you more. When it came to you, I didn't have to say anything I didn't mean or use the prophecy or use the fact that dad wasn't there. Asking you to kill me, talking about my death, I knew that would get to you more because it was out of your control. You saw the sister you love in front of you, but you also saw someone who was a threat of taking that sister away and you snapped like I knew you would".

Hela shook her head, "I grabbed you by the jaw, I said I would show you why people fear me if you got someone to kill you, you couldn't have known I would do that".

Dahlia hesitated then said, "okay, that I wasn't expecting. I thought asking you to kill me would make you super paranoid about what would happen if you did and you would leave me there or you would slowly draw away from me, making it easier for me to push you away. I mean come on, if I actually wanted to kill myself, no one could stop me".

"Just you try it," Hela said then sighed as she sat in a chair close to her.

Dahlia smiled, "see. The point I'm trying to make is, you love people with all of your heart, mind, body, soul and I was scared of that love. I was scared not for myself but for everyone else at what you would do if I decided my living wasn't worth the hassle it would cause all of you. Especially if it came down to your life or mine..." Dahlia began to slowly walk towards her sister and said, "I guess I'm not so scared anymore, especially considering dad and the boys didn't believe me or want to push me away. I still believe you all love me more than I'm worth, but I'm not so scared of it anymore".

Dahlia was now within reach of Hela and Hela looked to her sister and reached out and said, "come here".

Dahlia put her hand in her sisters and was then pulled onto her lap. Dahlia hid her head within the crook of her sister's neck as Hela wrapped one arm around her tightly and used the other to stroke the young witch's hair. "I'm sorry," Dahlia said.

"It's okay, but you're still a fool for believing we would leave you here. Where in all of the nine realms did you get the idea to push us away?"

"From you," Dahlia said, and Hela's hand instantly stopped stroking her hair.

"What?" Hela gasped, and Dahlia pulled away, so she could see her sister but was still sat on her lap.

"From you," she said again, "you pushed Falcon away, told him lies in order to protect him and he believed you".

Hela sighed, "Falcon and I are different".

"No, you're not. You love him, he loves you, you want to protect him, he's your family no matter what happens between the two of you. I thought if I was like you, push you all away, you'd believe me."

Hela shook her head and said, "you saw what pushing Falcon away did to me".

"I'm okay with being hurt if it means keeping you all safe".

"No, Dahlia. I don't want you to be like me".

Confused, Dahlia said, "why? You're strong, brave, loyal, beautiful, powerful, smart, you're loved and you protect the ones you love. Why wouldn't I want to be like you?"

Hela opened and closed her mouth but eventually said, "I don't think I'm a good role model".

Dahlia hummed in disagreement and tucked her head back into her sister's neck and replied, "I will happily fight anyone who disagrees with me."

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Dahlia was getting her final check-over with Saida and of course, her family was in the tent and everyone was tense as it was Saida's words that would ensure if they were going back to Niflheim or not. She was just analysing the results of the blood she had taken on Dahlia when she began to write them down. Loki seemed to get annoyed and said, "is she fully healed or not?"

Saida tutted at his impatience and Hela said, "papa, let her work, do you want her to make a mistake and Dahlia gets hurt?" Loki remained silent as he folded his arms as of course he didn't wish his child to be hurt any more than she already had.

Saida finally responded, "good health," this made everyone smile, especially Dahlia who was sat on the edge of the bed. Saida added, "she is in perfect health. The scar on her abdomen will always be there but the redness shall go down with time, but I believe she can go back to doing everything like before and travelling through portals".

Dahlia jumped off the bed and wrapped her arms quickly around her father's waist who laughed and kissed the top of her head. Dahlia then moved back and looked between everyone as she said, "can we go home now?"

Hela nodded as Loki said, "yes, we can go home".

"Your majesty," someone said outside of the tent.

"Enter," Hela said.

A soldier then entered and bowed before he said, "your majesty, milords, milady, there are two people here who wish to speak to you. Goblins from Gringotts bank, your majesty".

"Mum's will," Dahlia gasped as she seemed to have almost forgotten about it.

Hela then said to the soldier, "allow them entry to the camp, bring them to the royal tent." He bowed and then left.

The royal family quickly said their thanks to Saida before they left for the royal tent to speak privately to the goblins. It took only a few minutes before the goblins joined them and it was Griphook and another goblin they didn't know the name of. He was a much older goblin than Griphook with very little grey hairs on his head and he wore half-moon glasses. It took Dahlia a moment before she recognised him, he was the goblin she met in first year at Gringotts when she was with Hagrid. He was the one who summoned Griphook to help her and Hagrid with their withdrawals. He was the head goblin of Gringotts.

Goblins being of a high intellectual race, they both bowed upon entry and as the soldier left, Griphook said, "it is a pleasure to see you all again. This is the head goblin of Gringotts, Gnark. Sir, these are Queen Hela of Niflheim, goddess of death, her father Loki, god of mischief and lies, her brothers Fenrir and Jörmungandr and the princess Dahlia".

Gnark bowed his head for a moment and said, "I am honoured to be in your presence," he smiled with his sharp teeth on show.

"Please, sit," Hela said. Hela sat at the head of the table with Loki on her left and Dahlia to her right and Fenrir sat next to Dahlia while Jörmungandr next to their father. Gnark took the other head of the table and Griphook took his right.

Gnark opened up and said, "we at Gringotts have tried for the past six days to locate the missing will of Lily Evans and we have successfully done it. I sincerely pass on my apologies that it has taken almost fifteen years for this will to come to light".

"What stopped it?" Loki asked curious. "I was told Gringotts was one of the safest places to keep money, belongings, and that you have a strict rule about not speaking or telling anyone what lies beneath the vaults".

Gnark had his hands together on the table and Dahlia noticed that they clenched together tighter than they already were, showing the goblin wasn't too pleased. Gnark answered, "Ms Evans, or as we were under the impression, Ms Potter, had not only come to Gringotts to do her will but she bought our most exclusive will package. This means her will is done in private and does not require any fellow witch or wizard to sign as witness, we do not tell the Ministry that such a will exists, and we act with the upmost secrecy and tell no one of its existence until her death".

"But that didn't happen," Fenrir said, "so what happened?"

Gnark replied, "instead of witches and wizards signing as witness, three goblins sign and we swear upon all of our gold that we share the will upon her death. The exclusive package meaning that the head Goblin, myself, and two fellow goblins sign and swear it. I assure you, our word is everything".

"So, what happened?" Hela asked.

"Myself and the other two goblins were unaware of its existence until it was found earlier this morning. It was only then we remembered it".

Dahlia frowned, "you forgot?"

Loki then smirked and said, "someone made you forget. A witch or wizard hexed you to forget its existence."

Gnark nodded, "I assure you all, we at Gringotts do not take an attack of any form on a goblin likely, especially when it interferes with our business, we will be investigating this matter."

"Dumbledore," Dahlia said as she looked down and then looked up to see everyone looking at her, "come on, I'm not the only one thinking he did this. He wanted me with the Dursleys more than anything, he interfered with the other will and knew about it."

"I assure you," Gnark said with a slight hiss, "if Albus Dumbledore is behind this, he will face punishment".

Hela then asked, "how do we know the will you have is the real will?"

Gnark answered, "having our exclusive package also means the will was contained in a containment object so that as soon as it was closed, it would not open again until its reading. It also cannot leave the bank, through physical or magical means. It also has the magical trace of Lily Evans still residing on it".

"So," Loki asked, "where is it?"

Gnark answered, "Ms Evans left a very long list of demands to follow upon the reading of her will that we must do beforehand. It is important that these demands are followed as they are linked to the opening of the will. The letters are being sent out as we speak, letters will be sent out to the five of you as you have been listed as being in the will".

"Five," Fenrir said confused then glanced to Jörmungandr who had a similar look of confusion about why they would be in the will.

"Yes, the five of you. Due to the delay in finding the will, the requests being made by the late Ms Evans and other invitations, the earliest we can do the will reading is tomorrow at 11am".