Amelia Malfoy walked softly down the marble floors of Malfoy manner, her barefeet barely making a sound on the cold tile beneath her feet. She padded softly over to her brother, Lucius's room and knocked lightly on the door.
After about thirty seconds, the door opened and Lucius Malfoy stood before his younger sister. "Amelia?" he asked, he sounded surprised to see her standing before him.
"Can I come in?" she inquired gently. Lucius looked down at his younger sister, identical to him in so many ways, and yet so different. Everything about her was gentle, from her pale silver blond hair to her wide oddly colored sakura pink eyes. She looked fragile, standing at five foot six, thin as a rail and all legs. She was dressed in her night clothes as she stood goosebumps forming on her arms awaiting his answer.
"Yes of course." he said stepped aside and allowing her to enter his bedroom.
She turned quickly and threw her arms around him. Slightly surprised he slowly wrapped his own arms around her thin frame. "What's this for?" he inquired softly.
"Please be careful." she begged.
Lucius pulled away then, he knew what she was referring to. He was a death eater, and he was being sent on his first mission under Voldemort as soon as Amelia was away at school beginning her sixth year at Hogwarts.
"If anything happens you will be the first to know." he whispered, nodding down to the newly formed tattoo on her left forearm.
The dark mark still had an angry red hue to it, considering the fact that Amelia had recieved it only four days prior.
The girl sighed sadlly and hid her arm behind her slender frame. "That's what worries me. Please be safe Lucius... I know that we have had our differences." she cut off then. She had been sorted into Hufflepuff and he into Slytherin. What bond their shared in their childhood years was quickly lost during their time at Hogwarts. They had even developed a sibling rivarly when Amelia had become the Hufflepuff seaker her second year at Hogwarts. As the chaser on the Slytherin team, he had made sure that the game was hard on her.
"You are still my brother. And I love you." she finished.
Lucius was taken aback, he didn't expect such a sincere confession from his sister, but in some way he was indeed touched. He did love his little sister too. He had made sure to always watch out for her in the background, espeically when it came to the Griffindors and those no good marauders. Especially that blood traitor, Sirius Black.
"I promise I will be careful." he whispered lightly brushing a strand of hair the identical color of his own out of his sister's eyes.
She smiled slightly. "I'm leaving tomorrow. I will miss you Lucius. Owl me when you can." she stated.
Amelia turned to walk to the door when her brother grabbed her arm and yanked her into a bone crushing hug. "I love you too Amelia." before releasing her and allowing her to walk out the door.
The next day; dressed in a pair of skinny jeans, ballet flats, and a flowy pale blue tank top, her tattoo was covered with a bandage around her left arm. Amelia boarded the Hogwarts Express. She preched herself lightly on one of the seats in the first empty compartment she found. Soon she was joined by two of the three Black sisters, Narcissa and Bellatrix. Bellatrix with her heavy lidded eyes and mass of curly black hair looked radiant as always, although her dark eyes glittered with malice. Bellatrix was a year ahead of Amelia, and also in the Slytherin House, staying true to the Black ideas of pure-blood. Narcissa was a year behind Amelia, she was tall and slender like Bellatrix, but unlike the rest of the Black family, her hair was blond. Narcissa was also in the Slytherin House.
"Hello Bella, Cissy. How are you?" she inquired closing and setting her small journal in her bag.
"Hello Amelia." they both greeted happily, soon the three girls were quickly catching up and speaking with one another happily about their summers. Amelia had to admit that the two girls and all their pureblood nonsense was ridiculous, but once aside, the two were very good friends.
"How is Andromeda?" Amelia inquired softly. Although she knew the answer, Andromeda had married Ted Tonks, one of her good friends who graduated from Hogwarts last year. As a result for marrying a half blood, Andromeda was disowned from the Black house. Amelia had helped the two many times to meet together in secret, and keep Narcissa and Bellatrix at bay.
The temperature in the compartment seemed to drop about ten degrees, Narcissa and Bellatrix both exchanged looks before turning back to Amelia. "Our sister is dead to us." Bellatrix answered.
"What?" Amelia asked shock evident on her face.
"She has married a mugblood. Disgraced the Black family!" Bellatrix ranted on.
"But she is your sister, can you seriously..." Amelia found herself at a loss of words. She could never imagine doing something like that to Lucius.
"She betrayed the family, she was even sorted into Slytherin, unlike our traitor of a cousin, Sirius." Narcissa explained.
Amelia just remained silent, her flawless features drawn into sadness and worry, Andromeda and Ted were two of her great friends, Ted like an older brother to her since he was also in the Hufflepuff House. She could never imagine turning her back on any of them. It was then that Amelia realized that if she didn't follow the true beliefs of pure-bloods, then Narcissa and Bellatrix would probably turn their backs on her the same way that they did their own sister.
The train arrived at the station in Hogsmede and the three girls stepped off the train, they approached the carriages and Amelia stopped dead in her tracks. Standing before her was what looked like a skeletal horse with a reptilian head, the creature was covered in a layer of skin and had large batwings. The creature turned and looked at her with pupiless white eyes. The girl gasped and jumped back only to bump into someone.
"Hey watch where you're-" but the angry voice cut itself off when Amelia turned quickly to apologize. He must have noticed the frightened expression on Amelia's face because his anger quickly disappeared.
"Hey... I know you..." he said.
"Amelia, Amelia Malfoy." she said quickly.
The look of recognition became more dominant on his face, "You're friends with Andromeda... and my other cousins" A look of frustration crossed his face when he mentioned Bellatrix and Narcissa.
"But you're not in Slytherin..." he stated more than asked as he looked Amelia up and down with his silver eyes.
Suddenly feeling slightly self conscious, Amelia held up her robes showing the bright yellow cuffs of her black robes "Hufflepuff" she pointed out.
"You're the seeker too!" he cried out.
Amelia smiled slightly, "Yeah, and you're a Beater, right?" she asked.
Sirius nodded and opened his mouth to speak but was cut off when a voice cried out. "Amelia come on!"
"I have to go..." Amelia said.
"See you around, Malfoy." Sirius said with a smirk and a wink before brushing softly past her making his way to another carriage.
Amelia made her way to the carraige, making a wide loop around the frightening skeletal creature pulling them and climbed in with Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Rodolphus LeStrange.
"What are the things pulling the carriage?" she inquired softly.
"What are you talking about, there is nothing pulling the carriage." Narcissa pointed out.
"Yeah, they are enchanted like everything else here." Rodolphus pointed out, wrapping an arm around Bellatrix.
"You mean there is nothing pulling the carriage?" she asked.
"No." Bellatrix answered.
Amelia closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "Maybe I am going insane, ya'll should check me into Azkaban..." she said jokingly.
The other three laughed outloud and Amelia looked out the window of the small carriage, yet next to her was another carraige drawn by two of the strange creatures.