Nadine Athena Zabini

Prologue

The twentieth of August 1980 was a cold, dark, bleak and wet day. Completely the opposite of what the Zabini's felt. The day before had been the birth of their two wonderful children.

"What should we call them?" asked Christopher Zabini as he stared lovingly down at the two beautiful children in his wife's arms.

"I was thinking Blaise for the boy, after my grandfather." asked Alexandria softly.

"How about Blaise Xavier, after both our grandfathers. I think I remember being told that they had once been good friends." Christopher thought out loud.

"Blaise Xavier Zabini. It works. But what about our lovely baby girl?" and both parents turned their eyes to the almost identical baby girl with clumps of dark hair and big grey-blue eyes.

"How about Nadine?"

"Nadine?"

"I just thought it sounded nice." smiled Christopher. Alexandria smiled at her husbands suggestion.

"Nadine Athena Zabini? I like it." she said softly to herself.

"Me too." agreed Christopher.

"Alex, Chris!" Narcissa exclaimed as she walked in with a two month old Draco.

"Cissa, Lucius! How are you? How is little Draco?" Alex asked.

"Draco's been fine. Wow! Look at your two! A boy and a girl. What are their names?"

"Blaise Xavier and Nadine Athena."

"That's beautiful…" sighed Narcissa happily.

"Is Draco's middle name Lucius?"

"Yes, I quite like the name even if Lucius himself doesn't." laughed Narcissa.

"It's going to be great! They're going to be in the same year at Hogwarts!"

"I know! We will need to start teaching them early though, I don't want them to go Hogwarts with out a bit of knowledge in spells, I feel sorry for all the muggleborns that start there."

"I know its terrible, you think they'd give them a years notice so they can practice a few things, obviously not spells, that's illegal…"

"Christopher, could I talk to you outside." Lucius said quietly as the two women talked excitedly about the upcoming events they wanted to plan for their children. They walked out the door but Lucius kept walking until they got out onto the quiet night street. The weather had mainly staid the same, wet and cold.

"Why are we out here?" asked Chris, now slightly worried.

"I need to tell you something." Lucius said grimly.

"Well I got that part, but what is it?"

"A prophecy came to the ministry yesterday. I cannot remember it word for word but it stated that twins would be born in the month of September, they would be a boy and a girl and the girl would posses the Black Power and would be the key to helping another prophecy which will decide the fate of the Dark Lords demise."

"Okay but what has this got to do with us?" asked Chris quietly, hoping that he was not telling him what he was.

"I've checked all the birth records of magical children for this past September and you and Alex are the only couple who have had twins. I'm so sorry but if the Dark Lord find out about this then you're as good as dead. You'll have to put Nadine into hiding. It would not do for all of you to go into hiding, that would seem suspicious." Lucius said quietly to his best friend.

"No. it cant be. Not Nadine. How could this happen? How could I tell Alex? I can't do that to her. It would break her heart. We've barely had them two weeks. We can't give them up." Chris rambled on all the while silent tears started to descend down his cheeks which were tinged pink from the cold.

"I'm so sorry but you wont need to give up both, only Nadine. You could keep Blaise and tell the dark lord that she was taken from the hospital at night. it's the only way to keep Nadine and the rest of your family safe, and also if the prophecy is true then she is the Key to destroying the Dark Lord. That is if your Occlumency is up to scratch and he doesn't read your thoughts."

Christopher thought it over and decided that he couldn't risk the lives of his family and possibly millions more if the prophecy was true.

"Alright." he said weakly and started to walk back to the hospital room.

As soon as he walked in Alexandria knew that something was wrong.

"What's wrong, honey?" she asked as the smile that she had slowly melted.

Christopher spent the next hour explaining what they needed to do and consoling his wife as she sobbed hysterically into his shoulder.

A week later Christopher was walking up the door of a young couple that he had been observing for the past week. After watching a breakdown they had when finding out that they could not have children and then how they lived with the fact and continued to do their duties with work and such. He learned that they were not the richest of people but were still well off as they owned their own private dentistry. He decided they were the best choice for his child. His only problem was that his daughter would grow up not knowing what magic was and what amazing powers she held as the couple were muggles.

He walked up to the doorstep and lay the cot with the small sleeping baby on the step and placed a warming charm on her. He bent down and placed a gentle kiss to her forehead of now brown hair after Dumbledore had placed the Glamour charm on her.

He sat a small envelope in the cot along with a silver necklace with emerald green jewels in the shape of a snake.

He stood their for a couple of seconds and then quickly knocked the door and apparated around the corner. He listened as he heard a woman's cry and a mans exclamations. He waited until he heard the door close and apparated back to his home to comfort his wife who was grieving for their child which they would not get to see until her sixteenth birthday.