Lily Black
Chapter 1
Lily Black strode down the golden sand of Worthing beach, lost in her thoughts. To an outsider and a glance they would have seen a young girl, of about twenty human years of age, with straight black hair and a modest figure, but for someone to peer into her deep blue eyes would physically shiver at the cold ice that lay inside. Her eyes claimed her years were much, much more then the innocent age of twenty, they shone with knowledge of the world, of knowing the pain that could be brought with words or actions, or lack of. This was a young woman who was no longer naïve.
Her facial features were sharp, her tongue shaper, she was also one of the few whose bite was as bad as the bark, especially with all of her training, Earthly or not. She was a solitary being, wondering alone and unable to trust more then select few people, just as she had always been, since the deaths of her mother and stepfather and her biological father's false imprisonment.
Lily sighed and sat on a near by bench, watching the children play, the dogs running and the adults sun bathing and occasionally throwing an order to the young ones. She felt the normal bout of envy when she watched these family scenes.
It had taken 3 years to regain the use of her voice, after 3 years of verbal abuse from fellow orphans and 'carers'. Then a boy twice her size pushed her down the stairs, the first and last physical thing anyone did to her. Having hit her head on the banister, it did two things, one was turn on the switch to her voice (in non-literal terms) and two send a burst of raw, accidental magic towards the idiotic boy. The magic itself had healed her head wound and forced the boy into a wall, rendering him unconscious, just as a squib was about to reprimand her, Lily begun to use her newly found voice, yelling in perfect clarity, as if she had used her voice constantly, exactly where the carers could shove their heads, then she ran.
Soon she stumbled across the Leaky Cauldron, her foster home only being a half hour away. The newly appointed Minister, Cornelius Fudge, was fearful that the fact she had been put in an abusive place as a mistake would do terrible damage to his career and immediately made her a ward to the Ministry. Soon, she was sold to Lucius Malfoy, but knowing immediately, with an instinct only belonging to a child, that he would hurt her, she struggled and ran. The same instinct took her to the Department of Mysteries and she fell through the veil.
It was then she was appointed the Guardian of the Veil and given the secrets of it. Over a thousand years ago it was developed as an alternative to Azkaban, instead either killing them if they were guilty of murder themselves or, if they were innocent, sent out the other portal, which lay, to the South, in Worthing, a small seaside town next to Brighton. However, this was not ideal for greedy politicians who wanted to frame the opposition, for they would simply come back and ruin the initiators career. In the world of politics, this is the way it was. Rumours started, claiming the veil was not a success; that the project had failed. It got so the veil was forgotten, except by those who tried to decode it's secret. Lily's duty was to protect this secret for now, until the world was ready. But for now it would remain a secret weapon, for the sole use of God's chosen, not the Prophesised one.
Lily's job was to send any innocent who fell through to a location where they would be safe, for example, an orphan who once fell through, in similar circumstances to herself, had her memory of the veil erased and was sent to a foster home Lily had set up herself, thanks to funding from her best friend, local millionaire Leo Silverwing, a muggle wiccan. But that was not her only ability, she had many in fact, some not even she knew of. But she had the power to defend. That was her duty.
As Lily mused over this, she felt a familiar spark; someone was coming through the veil, and would be at her flat soon! Lily got up and sprinted to her flat. Thankfully she got there five minutes before he or she was due to come through. A report was on her kitchen table, as was normal. It quickly stated the person had been in the limbo of the veil for 3 months, which was quite a while admittedly, simply because he had so many rights and wrongs to go through. Lily allowed a small smile at Gabriel, one of the angels, working through tons of lists. A glowing emitted from the apparently invisible veil and Lily, having checked her appearance, walked in. The man fell through and as Lily helped him up, she looked into blue eyes identical to her own. Both sapphire eyes looked into the other in shock.
What do you think? Methinks I didn't do badly…
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Disclaimer: In no shape or form do I own the characters of the Harry Potter World, that honour and right belongs solely to the original author JK Rowling. The Plot and extra characters, however, belong solely to me.