I do not own the Harry Potter Franchise. They belong to J.K Rowling and probably some other people.
I wrote this because, being summer, I actually have time to write now, and also because there is a severe lack of decent Charlie Weasely centered fics out there. This first chapter is really just a rough preview. Let me know what you think.
Bellatrix Lestrange went into labor on New Years Eve. She refused the aid of a mediwizard and only permitted her sister, Narcissa to be in the room with her. Outside of the room, Rodolphus Lestrange paced impatiently. At 11:52 pm Narcissa handed Bellatrix a tiny, raven-haired baby, much to both sisters surprise, at exactly 12:01am a second baby followed. Rodolphus hurried off to inform their Dark Lord of the birth of Bellatrix's twins. He told his master that Bellatrix gave birth to fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. In celebration, five death-eaters hunted down and killed Gideon and Fabian Prewett; Bellatrix laughed for days because of that.
After several days, Bellatrix decided to name her son Orion Pollux Black-Lestrange and her daughter Nyx Druella Lestrange, no one dared ask her why she hyphenated her sons name, but Narcissa knew that it was Bellatrix's way of pointing out to Rodolphus that these were HER children.
The twins grew up rather quickly. They got into trouble often, although their punishments usually included a stay in the dungeon/prison of their mother's house. They delighted in the many friends that their parents had over, especially Severus Snape who would often bring them sweets. The sight of their parents covering their faces with white masks before disapparating was most they ever saw of either Bellatrix or Rodolphus.
On Halloween of the twins ninth year they woke up to hear frantic running and screams outside their bedroom. They could only hear small portions of what was being said. "Yes. The Potters!" "The Dark Lord is dead?" one more scream, this one from their mother, "Peter Pettigrew!" before someone blasted their door of its hinges and their parents along with their Aunt Narcissa and Uncle Lucius came into the room.
Orion and Nyx spent the next seven years with the Malfoys. They both cared for their baby cousin, Draco, as if he was their own brother. They attended Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizadry. Orion found the Malfoys less friendly after he was sorted into the Gryffindor house, and Nyx resented the sorting hat for placing her in Slytherin; as far from her brother as possible. When they turned sixteen, Orion ran away from the Malfoys and his name was blasted off the family tree, Nyx's name followed soon after when she humiliated her family for refusing to a marriage proposal from Etienne Zabini. After this, the Malfoys covered up quite well that they had a niece or nephew. Very few remembered the Lestrange twins, but upon her escape from prison their mother began a frantic search for them. The search ended in bloodshed.