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Journal: to Alicia
[Warded to Alicia] -- I can't wait to spend tomorrow with you and the kids (they're joining, right?) but wanted to ask... Sometime soon, can we have a night to ourselves? Not like Sunday, but one where I'm fully of my mind. There's something we need to talk about.

[Private] -- I don't know what to do. Father says I can't continue things with Alicia, that she won't understand the position he was in, that I should never breathe of a word of the truth to anyone outside the family, of course. But Alicia is family. She is the woman that I love and my best friend and I am blessed by some ridiculously gracious being to have her in my life. I won't let my father's mistakes take her away from me, especially without her even knowing why. I have to tell her. I don't know that she'll ever forgive my family, or me for keeping it from her, but I have to tell her either way. If she goes to the Ministry, it will be my fault when my father is undoubtedly brought back to London and tried, but I don't think she would. I can't see her, knowing our reasons for why he did what he did, turning him in, turning all of us in for keeping the secret, but it's a chance I need to take.

I'm not a religious man, but I'll be praying to Merlin's ghost and the Bloody Barron until the conversation, that's for sure.