So this is my first fanfiction. Please bear with me It's going to have a very sad theme going at first and it might be a little confusing. It'll make sense as we travel deeper into Chikiko's tale. Remember, even though this takes place in Hogwarts, it's slightly AU and not completely canon. This first chapter is going to be short, but they will get way longer. Also remember that she is only 11. She's a small, broken child.
Eye of the tiger
chapter one: why me?
"It was your fault you know." he sneered at her crumpled, sobbing form.
"Look at me!" he screamed.
But she couldn't do it. She couldn't meet the gaze of this monster.
"You stupid little bitch! It's all your fault your mommy died!" It was then that she finally met his gaze.
"Go to hell" she muttered weakly as she thought back to the day she got her scars.
Screams. That's what she woke to, not her mother's singsong voice promising pancakes. Screams. And fire. Fire everywhere. Her mother's lifeless form beside her. Her brothers crying from the next room over. Her 'father' no where in sight. Adrenalin pumped through her veins. But no noise came from her mother. Crushed. Crushed beneath a pillar. Chikako is barely conscious of warm sticky liquid dripping down her face and midsection. She couldn't be dead! Why mommy? Why not her instead? She would surely die for the woman who raised her! But she couldn't die instead. Her mum is dead. No! No no no no no no! And then everything went black.
"Oh, back from your little daydream I see." her father taunted "Well, since mommy's dead I guess you have to do her job again, don't you?"
As his shadow loomed over her, she braced herself for what was to come and knew this was all to protect her brothers from him. Even so, a question she frequently asked but was seldom answered flitted to her mind.
Why me?