Black Blood Runs Scarlette
Summary : Scarlette Abigail Black was abandoned as a baby, when her parents mysteriously disappeared. She was brought up by Andromeda Tonks, who found her abandoned in the Black family home. Eleven years later, Scarlette attended Hogwarts and was sorted into Gryffindor, when she found a best friend in a girl from her year, Ginny Weasley. But when a Slytherin boy from the year above tells her that he is her cousin, this leaves Scarlette searching for answers. She moves into Malfoy Manor, but just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, a mass breakout from Azkaban leaves her reeling, when she finally finds her answers...and her parents. But is that a good thing?
Disclaimer : All characters, except Scarlette, belong to the genius JK Rowling. All plot-lines belong to me.
Chapter One-Prologue
A black sheep was drifting through the Black family home of 12 Grimmauld Place. It was Sirius and Regulus' home, so Andromeda Tonks did not think that they would mind.
She had read the Daily Prophet that morning to see the large headline of 'LESTRANGE MANOR RAIDED, DEATH EATERS ARRESTED'. Now, with her sister out of the way, Andromeda had thought that then was the safest time for her to collect some things that she had left behind when she eloped with her 'mudblood' husband, Ted Tonks.
She was, mercifully, pulled away from her train of thought by a muffled cry coming from an upstairs room. Andromeda had been making her way upstairs anyway, to reach her old holiday bedroom, but once she reached it, she continued down the corridor, towards the secret hiding place that she had once shared with her sisters and cousins.
The room brought back so many memories of her bitter childhood holidays at Grimmauld Place. Not good memories. The middle Black sister shuddered as she remembered her sister performing the Cruciatus curse on Sirius when he told Aunt Walburga of it's wearabouts. She still remembered his screams. She could feel them ringing in her ears. But she soon realised that some of the screams weren't coming from her memory; they were coming from a crevice behind the toy cabinet.
The woman removed the cabinet and bent down to see what was causing the cries. She was shocked at what she saw. This was the last thing that she would have thought there would be in a child's secret hiding place. For it wasn't someone who had been tortured or maimed by her deranged sister. It was a baby...Andromeda gasped, thinking the words that she would never say in the same sentance as Bellatrix. Her instincts told her that it couldn't be true, but it was the only rational explanation. Her train of thought was interupted yet again when she caught sight of a letter, enveloped in red, with black ink. Andromeda opened it and began to read. It read six words and a kiss;
Scarlette Abigail Black. Treat her well. x