Name: Love, Loss, and Family
Disclaimer: NOT MINE!
Summary: Charlie meets a young woman named Denise Devins. Single and the new guardian of her five siblings after her parents death, she needs all the help, and love, she can get.
Notes: None (for now)
Pairing: Charlie/Denise(o.c.)

Denise Devins looked again around Platform 93/4. This time she was not there for herself. She was there for her younger sister Nevay. Nevay was short and had brown hair and eyes. She still had her baby fat in her cheeks. She was also eleven and ready to get on the scarlet Hogwarts train and start her first term at the wizarding school. She looked up at Denise with excited eyes.

"Deni, when can I get on the train?" she asked.

"You can get on the train anytime you want to. Probably best to go now, to find a compartment to sit in," Denise said. "Wait, wait Nevay. Don't leave Shuckles." Denise looked down at the small taby cat asleep on Nevays trunk.

Nevay ran back, grabbed the cat, and then hurried to the train. She found a compartment rather easily and yelled to Denise to come see her. This wasn't an easy thing for Denise to do. Even though a man had been nice enough to put Nevays things on the train for her, Denise still had to wrangle her four other siblings.

A year earlier her parents, Blake and Sabrina Devins, had died at the Quidditch World Cup after the attack from the Death Eaters. Since then Denise, being the oldest daughter at the age of twenty two, had gotten custody of her five younger siblings. Nevay was eleven, then Harriette at the age of nine, Joplin was six, Rosetta was four, and Nathaniel was the youngest and only boy at the age of two.

Nevay was a very hyper child, yet very sweet and caring and protective toward her younger siblings. Harriette was quiet and often the forgotten one of the family because of her tendency to just sit in the corner of the room reading or drawing. She was tall for her age and rather skinny with bobbed blonde hair, big blue eyes, and rather large front teeth.

Joplin was a tom boy, preferring to spend her time climbing trees or playing in mud. She had long brown hair and brown eyes. She was short and skinny, perfect for her adventures in the small wooded area behind their house in Romania. Rosetta was small and chubby with baby fat. She was a girlie girl that was always playing princess and playing with her dolls. She had short blonde hair that curled at the ends and light blue eyes like their mother. Nathaniel was the only boy and often played the prince when Rosetta decided she didn't want to play alone. He preferred to be left alone with his toys. He had reddish blonde hair and brown eyes.

Then there was Denise, a so called 'surprise' by her parents, she had been born when her parent shad been 17 in their last year at Hogwarts. There had been 11 years between her and Nevay and consequently, as her parents kept having children, Denise became a kind of second parent. She couldn't complain, she loved her siblings, but something that always made her feel funny and semi-bad was the fact that, after her parents were killed, nothing had really changed. The kids just moved into her house. Denise was short and somewhere between slender and chubby, not the best body. She didn't have a lot of time to spend on herself so her long brown hair was usually up in a untidy bun and her brown eyes were often red from lack of sleep.

She worked in Romania but hadn't lived there long. She and her siblings had grown up in London but Denise had taken on a job for the Ministry of Magic which had recently relocated her to a small wizarding town in Romania. She worked at a Dragon Rehabilitation center, seeing as she worked in the Care for Magical Creatures office at the Ministry. She enjoyed her job, and the money they paid her.

Denise looked at Nevay hanging out the window.

"Nevi, I can't come over there right now. I love you so much. Send me an owl after sorting and the feast. And for goodness sake sit down! The train is starting to move!" she yelled.

Nevay waved good-bye and sat down and Denise watched her sister as she headed for her first term. She knew she would miss Nevay around the house, but she knew she would be safe under the care and watch of Albus Dumbledore. Denise took one last look, rallied the children, and made her way for the Muggle part of Kings Cross Station.

TBC...

A/N: Charlie will be in the next chapter. I wanted this to show you Denise and her story. :)