Disclaimer: I'm not J.K. Rowling. I'm just having some fun.
Inspired by the prompt Mistaken Identity from some LiveJournal page. I can't remember where, though.
Mistaken Identity: During Order of the Phoenix, which makes Vera...20.
It always amazed her that everyone thought she was the oldest daughter of Sirius Black. Nobody ever bothered to fit the pieces together that all of Sirius Black's children are in Gryffindor, while she's in Slytherin. Nobody ever tried to figure out that she had an uncanny resemblance to the youngest Black brother. Nobody ever came to realize that her cousins, Arlena and James, had inherited Sirius' laid back elegance, while she had inherited her father's regal elegance. Nobody realized that she called her 'mother' Aunt Elaine.
Vera Isabella Black hated living a lie.
She never corrected anybody when they assumed Sirius Black was her father. Why? They had accepted her, deemed her acceptable, and believed she would be the one that would restore the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black to its former glory. She was a Slytherin, after all. She had a reputation in the house of the sly and cunning.
She was waiting for the perfect moment to bring the truth to light, when it would be the most advantageous for her. The offer Lucius gave her for when the time had come to join them was playing in the back of her mind as she got dressed. She also remembered her uncle refusing to let her do what Dumbledore had planned for her to do. The look of shock and disbelief on his face will forever be imprinted in her memory when she had accepted the dangerous mission.
Earlier she had sent an owl to Lucius about taking up his offer, and had promptly received a reply telling her to arrive at the Malfoy Manor in fifteen minutes. She had been standing in the shadows for far too long; this was the moment.
As she apparated away to Malfoy Manor, she started her descent into darkness.
A/N: Introducing Vera Isabella Black, an OC of mine. She's also appeared in a little drabble of mine at the age of 5. SO I decided to create this story of drabbles/one-shots that are various events from Vera's life, since I don't have the time to start a new story and I just can't get all of these plot bunnies out of my head. :P Anyways, I'll be specific about when these occur, how old she is or what yr...SO YEAH. FEEDBACK IS APPRECIATED.