The Heiress

Chapter 1: Free

By: Mortania Hottersander

A/N: This first chapter was given by the challenge by xoxoxox LOVE xoxoxox on the Forums. I'm going to write the rest of the chapters myself, but If you're interested in it: www. Fanfiction topic / 1714 / 45586846 /1/ Use-this-as-your-first-chapter-your-creativity-finishes-the-story (Remove the spaces).

Disclaimer: I don't own the regular characters that are familiar.

She had seen shadows... she had heard whispers... but it had been years since she'd seen the light of day or seen the face of a person. Years since she had felt the whip of the wind, the spray of the sea... the warmth of the sun, and yet, she yearned for these things.

A plate of food was shoved under a thick door daily, and occasionally she was taken somewhere where she was bathed, but she was always blind folded. She often talked to herself, sometimes she would sing too. She liked her voice, it was the closest thing she had to human contact...

She didn't understand why she wasn't allowed to see people. She didn't know how long she'd been there, but she still felt like a child. She was scared and alone... and she wanted to see her mother.

Her last memory was one from years before. She was five years old. She had gotten up to go climb in bed with her mother in the middle of the night, but as she walked through the halls of her home, there was another who did as well. She remembered hearing a creak in the wood of the floor behind her, but she never got the chance to see who or what was there. Everything went black, and when she finally opened her eyes, she was here.

She had heard whispers outside the door a few times. One time there was a woman who argued with a man about her.

"We could free her. We can hide her somewhere safe," said the woman. "This isn't right. Keeping the poor girl locked up like she is. She has no idea who she is or why we're keeping her like a horrible prisoner, she's been here since she was 5!"

"No, it's too dangerous. You know what we've been told to do and we will do just that" said the man. "It's the end of it, Molly."

She was in favor of the woman, of course. But she was still here. She'd also heard whispers of 'Harry Potter', whoever that was, and others too. She didn't know why it was dangerous for her to be free until years after hearing the woman and man.

There were always guards outside her doors, this she learned quickly, they could be heard walking up and down the stone hall, and their shadows could be seen under the door. One night when she was almost asleep, she heard one of them say something. She didn't hear it completely, but the parts she did hear were, "Too dangerous... as a weapon... we'd lose... joined the others"

She sighed at her few memories she'd had since she was five. She didn't know how old she was now... but she could tell that her legs were longer, and she had developed in a few areas.

She rested her head against the stone wall. She closed her eyes and hoped for sleep, and as she did every night, hoped she wouldn't wake up. But just as she started to drift off to sleep, she heard a loud boom that shook the entire building and she shot up straight.

The place seemed to be falling to the ground. The walls were shaking and small rocks started to fall from the ceiling. Then, there was another loud boom. The walls shook again and this time, she heard a large crack and then a crash of stone against stone right next to her. She couldn't see but it felt like the roof was coming down.

She started to scream for help. But nobody answered, and again there was a large crash and stone kept falling. Looking around her room, she grabbed the blanket that Molly had given her and sat in the corner of the room with the blanket over her head. "Look in that room!" A voice yelled over the commotion. She looked around wildly, looking for a way to escape just as the door swung open and a man in a mask appeared. He seemed to stop in his tracks when he caught sight of the girl, "Great Merlin, it can't be…" and then mumbled a spell under his breath, as he took a step forward, and just like before, everything went black.