"He used to." Katie's voice was still strangely devoid of emotion. "But I'm not sure what will happen from now on." She sighed, considering it for a moment. "I think I'd prefer if he simply didn't come anymore." Katie was well aware that option would possibly be the hardest for Sophie, but she still thought it better than to have an unwilling Marcus coming to visit. Well, not that Marcus could ever be persuaded to do something that he didn't want to anyway. Katie shook her head.
"The truth is neither of us know how this is going to work yet," she pondered, noticing her voice sounded remarkably calm considering the growing despair she was actually feeling. "She will be a little confused, I don't think there's any way to avoid this." She frowned. "We're confused ourselves."
As soon as Katie finished her last sentence, Sophie came padding downstairs, looking surly, and made her way over to them. Katie was about to protest and ask her to go back to her room when the child spoke.
"There's a man upstairs," she complained with a frown. It was clear that she didn't approve in the slightest of said man's presence.
"What?" Katie's heart skipped a beat, her eyes widening. "Where?!"
"In my bedroom," Sophie answered, frowning. "He's annoying. I don't like him."
Katie had her wand in her hand before her daughter had finished talking and, before she even had a chance to register what she was doing, she had disappeared with a loud pop. Half a second later, she had Apparated into Sophie's room, not so much to investigate as to curse whatever incautious idiot that had the audacity of finding his way into her house to oblivion. But there was no one there anymore. The window she had locked and so carefully warded half an hour before laid wide open, but, apparently, the man had already left.