Disclaimer and warning: Everything you recognize belong to J.K. Rowling,
the rest belong to me. I am rating this story PG-13 mainly because I have a
few swears, and this may contain some graphic nature. The first chapter is
all right for now, but in future chapters it might get brutal. Anyways,
enjoy to story.
Chapter One
It was a dark and starry night. It was unusually calm. Lily, a sweet 12-year-old girl, was reading a book in the living room, with one light on. She was sitting on a chair and at the foot of the chair was her 2-year-old German Shepard named Hermes. He lay asleep with his head between his paws.
Everyone else in the house was asleep. Her mother, her father, and her older sister Petunia who was almost 16. Lily's oldest brother Chris was already living on his own. Lily couldn't wait to live on her own. She put down her book and started thinking about Chris, who was 21. Then Lily started giggling, in the dead of night, because she was thinking about Chris's name. His name was Chris, it was Chrysanthemum, and because their mum wanted her children to all have flower names. They just called him Chris so people wouldn't make fun of him.
Hermes' ears perked up and he growled softly. Lily stood up and started rubbing his ears. Maybe he had heard a squirrel. Lily sighed and started walking up stairs to her bedroom to try and get some sleep before it was morning. Lily never got a lot of sleep. Hermes growled under his breath again. Lily sighed and whispered, "Sh. Hermes, it's alright."
Lily was halfway up the stairs when the front door flew open. Three men in black robes entered holding sticks of wood in front of them. Hermes barked loudly. One of the men muttered, "Stupid dog, ignore him, just convince the girl to come with us."
Lily was scared. A different man came over to her and grabbed her arms. She was to frightened to move. The third man who hadn't done anything came over to her and lifted up Lily's chin so she could look at his face. She squeezed her eyes shut. She never saw what his face looked like, she was just too afraid to look at her assailant.
"Look at me, girl," the man said gruffly. Lily slowly opened her eyes. Hermes was barking like crazy right now, but he wasn't attacking. Lily silently prayed that he would bite one of them.
"Lily, is everything alright?" woman's voice called.
Lily didn't say anything. "Tell her you're fine," the man holding her chin said.
"I-I'm fine mum," Lily yelled.
"Ok sweetie, but you might want to get some sleep."
"I'll be up soon," Lily called back.
The man who wasn't holding her arms or her chin smiled. "So Lily, we just came to have a small talk." Lily shuddered. "So what do you think of magic?"
"It's not real," Lily said softly and a few tears leaked out of her eyes.
"What if I was to tell you it is real. Many people practice it," the man said hoarsely. Lily shuddered again.
"There is no such thing," Lily whispered again. There isn't, she thought, unless all my dreaming came true.
All three of the men laughed. "There is a such thing as it Lily," one man said. "I'll prove it."
The man holding her arms let go. She took this moment to run. "Now that wasn't very nice," one laughed gruffly.
Lily tripped over a lamp and it fell with a crash.
"Imperio," one of the men muttered. Lily stood rigid for a second. Hermes was barking wildly again.
"Lily is everything alright?" her father yelled down.
Lily started to say help, but the imperious curse took over, "No father, please come and help." Her voice was monotonous, almost metallic with ice.
"Ok, I'll be right there, let me get your mother."
Lily would have responded, but she had lost all control over what she was doing. Where was Hermes? Lily looked and saw why he hadn't attacked anyone. One of the people had put something that looked like a muzzle over his face and tied him up, only it didn't look like an ordinary muzzle and leash. It looked, stronger.
Lily's mother and father came down. Lily's mum was in a fuzzy pink robe; her father was just in jeans. "Lily?" her mum called out.
"I'm here," her monotonous voice answered.
Lily's mum and dad entered the room. Lily stood there looking at them, an evil glint in her eyes. Suddenly Lily pounced and started attacking her dad. Her mum and dad became scared. Not only were there three men she didn't know in the house, but their sweet youngest daughter was attacking them.
On of the men laughed. "Lily use this," he said and handed her a knife. Lily looked at it in horror. She picked up the knife and pounced on her father, and slipped the knife into his soft flesh. Her mother screamed in horror and Lily continued attacking until he lay motionless.
The only thing that kept her mum from running was the fact that one of the men had grabbed her. "Now your mum Lily."
Lily started crying. "No, I don't want to," she yelled.
"Do it, Lily," he said and used his wand to enforce one of the unforgivable curses.
Lily was straining against it, but she was weak. She jumped at her mother slit her throat before her mum could cry out in pain. Lily stood there, looking at what she had done. Her mum's blood ran over her fingers and crimson spilled from her father onto the floor.
"See Lily, there is magic. I made you do that," one of the men laughed and flipped back his hood to reveal blonde, almost white hair. He laughed again.
"How, what, how could I? Why," she screeched at him.
"Power, is a very useful thing," the blonde man said, enunciating each word.
"I want my mum and dad," Lily cried, kneeling ext to their bodies. In the background Hermes still barked. Lily stood up and didn't even bother to wipe the tears from her face. "Hermes," she said, Hermes stopped barking and looked at his master. Lily took a deep breath and continued. "Attack."
With that one word, Hermes struggled against the leash and bounded forward. With his strength and speed, the leash snapped and he leapt at the blonde haired man and bit him in the arm. Blood spilled form where the dog had bit.
"Hermes," Lily said loudly. The dog stared, "attack!" this time she yelled it. The other men stared at this dog attacking one of them. One of them sighed and pointed the stick he had and muttered something. Hermes collapsed and was breathing rapidly.
"Lily, we want you to come with us. You can have magic to,' one said.
"No!" Lily screamed. "I won't, I won't, I won't!"
"We'll come back for you Lily, you bet that we will," the blonde said, gripping his arm where the dog had bit him. "Get me to the damn hospital you goon."
The three men left, with Lily crying over her dead parents. Petunia was standing in the doorway.
"You, you freak. You murderer! You killed THEM!" Petunia shrieked. Lily looked up at Petunia who had tears falling freely down her face. "I'm leaving!" Petunia yelled and stormed out the door, running down the street to get as far away as she could from her dead parents and her murdering sister.
Lily still knelt there, her hands and knees were soaked in her parents blood. She sat there crying and you thought went through her head. I'm alone, and it's my fault.
Two men walked in the door, but they weren't like the other three who were there before. They were dressed like her, and what her father use to wear. Jeans and a shirt, but they did carry those sticks. Lily cowered in fear of them.
One of the men sighed. "We're to late," he said glancing at the floor. Then he noticed Lily. "They didn't take her?" he asked, more than said.
Lily looked up at them and saw them looking down at her. They seemed so big, she felt so small. One of the men knelt on the floor after kicking the knife, which was still lying on the floor, away. "Hi," he said in a gentle voice, as if speaking to a 4 year old.
Lily curled up in a ball and tried to scoot away from him. "No, you won't make me, I won't go with you, go away!" she screamed, tears running down her cheeks.
The man looked up to his partner. "That partially explains why she wasn't taken."
"Did they make you do this?" the man standing asked?
"Make me, how could they make me. I had the knife and I-I," and then she burst into tears again.
"Check the aura and see if any curses were performed here," one said.
After doing something with his wand, the man nodded, "The Imperious curse, she was forced to kill them."
Lily ignored them. She was rocking back and forth and her breathing was irregular.
"Lily, we don't want to hurt you, we want to help you," one of the men said in a soothing voice.
Lily looked up through her red eyes, "how?"
One of the men managed a weak smile and looked at the dog that was just sleeping soundlessly. The man nodded towards the dog. "That's another reason they didn't get her." The other man nodded slowly.
"I'm Orion, the man kneeling said, and that's my partner Howard. We really do want to help. Will you let us?"
Lily nodded weakly. "Petunia," was all she could say.
"Petunia?" Howard asked.
"Oh, that's her older sister," Orion answered, "I learn way to much doing research," he said and his mouth formed a tight smile, almost like he was going to smile but he wouldn't let himself.
"She, she left, she ran. She, she saw what I did," Lily said, she was shaking again.
"She'll be alright until morning. First, let's find you a place to stay and get this place cleaned up. Howard, you clean this up, Lily can stay with me until school."
"School?" Lily asked.
"School starts in September," Howard explained. "It's a school to learn magic. You'll be safe there. The teachers will help you catch up in no time."
"No," Lily said.
"No?" Howard asked. Orion stayed quiet.
"I don't want to do magic, it's evil. It's wrong." Lily replied.
"Not all magic is bad," Howard explained soothingly.
"But, those people," Lily explained.
Orion cut in, "We can talk about magic later, let's just get you safe. We can go to my house. Howard, clean this up, I want to make sure she's not hurt."
Howard nodded. "I'll clean up. Don't forget you're dog, Lily," he said softly.
Lily nodded and tried to pick up the sleeping German Shepard, but he was to heavy. Orion knelt down and picked him up with ease. Lily nodded slowly.
"Use floo powder," Howard said.
Orion nodded. Howard walked over to the fireplace, which was in the room adjoining to the one they were in. He lit it up with his wand and through some sort of powder into it. The fire glowed a bluish purple.
"Lily, I want you to walk into the fire and say 'Black Hall Manor', ok?"
Lily nodded. She walked into the fire and coughed, then yelled out he name of the house.
Orion turned to Howard and said, "Poor thing, think she'll be alright?"
Howard shook his head no. "I doubt it." He looked at the two dead figures on the floor. "She looks like her mother, at least with that bright red hair."
Orion nodded and walked through, into the fire. The first thing he saw was Lily looking at his son, and his son looking at Lily in shock. Considering it was 2:30 A.M., his son hadn't expected anyone to be in the living room, but there she was.
"Oh um, Lily, this is my son Sirius, Sirius, Lily is going to be staying here for awhile," Orion said. Sirius nodded and Lily looked at Orion pleadingly. Orion didn't understand and Lily just fell to floor in tears again.
"What I do?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing, he's just had a rough night. Lily, are you ok?"
Lily's tears started to subside until she looked at Sirius again through her big green eyes she looked into his brown ones. "I, I just want my family back," she whispered and continued to cry.
Authors note: Thanks for reading. I'll put thank you's here when people actually review. Until then.
Love you all, SkyeLeah
Chapter One
It was a dark and starry night. It was unusually calm. Lily, a sweet 12-year-old girl, was reading a book in the living room, with one light on. She was sitting on a chair and at the foot of the chair was her 2-year-old German Shepard named Hermes. He lay asleep with his head between his paws.
Everyone else in the house was asleep. Her mother, her father, and her older sister Petunia who was almost 16. Lily's oldest brother Chris was already living on his own. Lily couldn't wait to live on her own. She put down her book and started thinking about Chris, who was 21. Then Lily started giggling, in the dead of night, because she was thinking about Chris's name. His name was Chris, it was Chrysanthemum, and because their mum wanted her children to all have flower names. They just called him Chris so people wouldn't make fun of him.
Hermes' ears perked up and he growled softly. Lily stood up and started rubbing his ears. Maybe he had heard a squirrel. Lily sighed and started walking up stairs to her bedroom to try and get some sleep before it was morning. Lily never got a lot of sleep. Hermes growled under his breath again. Lily sighed and whispered, "Sh. Hermes, it's alright."
Lily was halfway up the stairs when the front door flew open. Three men in black robes entered holding sticks of wood in front of them. Hermes barked loudly. One of the men muttered, "Stupid dog, ignore him, just convince the girl to come with us."
Lily was scared. A different man came over to her and grabbed her arms. She was to frightened to move. The third man who hadn't done anything came over to her and lifted up Lily's chin so she could look at his face. She squeezed her eyes shut. She never saw what his face looked like, she was just too afraid to look at her assailant.
"Look at me, girl," the man said gruffly. Lily slowly opened her eyes. Hermes was barking like crazy right now, but he wasn't attacking. Lily silently prayed that he would bite one of them.
"Lily, is everything alright?" woman's voice called.
Lily didn't say anything. "Tell her you're fine," the man holding her chin said.
"I-I'm fine mum," Lily yelled.
"Ok sweetie, but you might want to get some sleep."
"I'll be up soon," Lily called back.
The man who wasn't holding her arms or her chin smiled. "So Lily, we just came to have a small talk." Lily shuddered. "So what do you think of magic?"
"It's not real," Lily said softly and a few tears leaked out of her eyes.
"What if I was to tell you it is real. Many people practice it," the man said hoarsely. Lily shuddered again.
"There is no such thing," Lily whispered again. There isn't, she thought, unless all my dreaming came true.
All three of the men laughed. "There is a such thing as it Lily," one man said. "I'll prove it."
The man holding her arms let go. She took this moment to run. "Now that wasn't very nice," one laughed gruffly.
Lily tripped over a lamp and it fell with a crash.
"Imperio," one of the men muttered. Lily stood rigid for a second. Hermes was barking wildly again.
"Lily is everything alright?" her father yelled down.
Lily started to say help, but the imperious curse took over, "No father, please come and help." Her voice was monotonous, almost metallic with ice.
"Ok, I'll be right there, let me get your mother."
Lily would have responded, but she had lost all control over what she was doing. Where was Hermes? Lily looked and saw why he hadn't attacked anyone. One of the people had put something that looked like a muzzle over his face and tied him up, only it didn't look like an ordinary muzzle and leash. It looked, stronger.
Lily's mother and father came down. Lily's mum was in a fuzzy pink robe; her father was just in jeans. "Lily?" her mum called out.
"I'm here," her monotonous voice answered.
Lily's mum and dad entered the room. Lily stood there looking at them, an evil glint in her eyes. Suddenly Lily pounced and started attacking her dad. Her mum and dad became scared. Not only were there three men she didn't know in the house, but their sweet youngest daughter was attacking them.
On of the men laughed. "Lily use this," he said and handed her a knife. Lily looked at it in horror. She picked up the knife and pounced on her father, and slipped the knife into his soft flesh. Her mother screamed in horror and Lily continued attacking until he lay motionless.
The only thing that kept her mum from running was the fact that one of the men had grabbed her. "Now your mum Lily."
Lily started crying. "No, I don't want to," she yelled.
"Do it, Lily," he said and used his wand to enforce one of the unforgivable curses.
Lily was straining against it, but she was weak. She jumped at her mother slit her throat before her mum could cry out in pain. Lily stood there, looking at what she had done. Her mum's blood ran over her fingers and crimson spilled from her father onto the floor.
"See Lily, there is magic. I made you do that," one of the men laughed and flipped back his hood to reveal blonde, almost white hair. He laughed again.
"How, what, how could I? Why," she screeched at him.
"Power, is a very useful thing," the blonde man said, enunciating each word.
"I want my mum and dad," Lily cried, kneeling ext to their bodies. In the background Hermes still barked. Lily stood up and didn't even bother to wipe the tears from her face. "Hermes," she said, Hermes stopped barking and looked at his master. Lily took a deep breath and continued. "Attack."
With that one word, Hermes struggled against the leash and bounded forward. With his strength and speed, the leash snapped and he leapt at the blonde haired man and bit him in the arm. Blood spilled form where the dog had bit.
"Hermes," Lily said loudly. The dog stared, "attack!" this time she yelled it. The other men stared at this dog attacking one of them. One of them sighed and pointed the stick he had and muttered something. Hermes collapsed and was breathing rapidly.
"Lily, we want you to come with us. You can have magic to,' one said.
"No!" Lily screamed. "I won't, I won't, I won't!"
"We'll come back for you Lily, you bet that we will," the blonde said, gripping his arm where the dog had bit him. "Get me to the damn hospital you goon."
The three men left, with Lily crying over her dead parents. Petunia was standing in the doorway.
"You, you freak. You murderer! You killed THEM!" Petunia shrieked. Lily looked up at Petunia who had tears falling freely down her face. "I'm leaving!" Petunia yelled and stormed out the door, running down the street to get as far away as she could from her dead parents and her murdering sister.
Lily still knelt there, her hands and knees were soaked in her parents blood. She sat there crying and you thought went through her head. I'm alone, and it's my fault.
Two men walked in the door, but they weren't like the other three who were there before. They were dressed like her, and what her father use to wear. Jeans and a shirt, but they did carry those sticks. Lily cowered in fear of them.
One of the men sighed. "We're to late," he said glancing at the floor. Then he noticed Lily. "They didn't take her?" he asked, more than said.
Lily looked up at them and saw them looking down at her. They seemed so big, she felt so small. One of the men knelt on the floor after kicking the knife, which was still lying on the floor, away. "Hi," he said in a gentle voice, as if speaking to a 4 year old.
Lily curled up in a ball and tried to scoot away from him. "No, you won't make me, I won't go with you, go away!" she screamed, tears running down her cheeks.
The man looked up to his partner. "That partially explains why she wasn't taken."
"Did they make you do this?" the man standing asked?
"Make me, how could they make me. I had the knife and I-I," and then she burst into tears again.
"Check the aura and see if any curses were performed here," one said.
After doing something with his wand, the man nodded, "The Imperious curse, she was forced to kill them."
Lily ignored them. She was rocking back and forth and her breathing was irregular.
"Lily, we don't want to hurt you, we want to help you," one of the men said in a soothing voice.
Lily looked up through her red eyes, "how?"
One of the men managed a weak smile and looked at the dog that was just sleeping soundlessly. The man nodded towards the dog. "That's another reason they didn't get her." The other man nodded slowly.
"I'm Orion, the man kneeling said, and that's my partner Howard. We really do want to help. Will you let us?"
Lily nodded weakly. "Petunia," was all she could say.
"Petunia?" Howard asked.
"Oh, that's her older sister," Orion answered, "I learn way to much doing research," he said and his mouth formed a tight smile, almost like he was going to smile but he wouldn't let himself.
"She, she left, she ran. She, she saw what I did," Lily said, she was shaking again.
"She'll be alright until morning. First, let's find you a place to stay and get this place cleaned up. Howard, you clean this up, Lily can stay with me until school."
"School?" Lily asked.
"School starts in September," Howard explained. "It's a school to learn magic. You'll be safe there. The teachers will help you catch up in no time."
"No," Lily said.
"No?" Howard asked. Orion stayed quiet.
"I don't want to do magic, it's evil. It's wrong." Lily replied.
"Not all magic is bad," Howard explained soothingly.
"But, those people," Lily explained.
Orion cut in, "We can talk about magic later, let's just get you safe. We can go to my house. Howard, clean this up, I want to make sure she's not hurt."
Howard nodded. "I'll clean up. Don't forget you're dog, Lily," he said softly.
Lily nodded and tried to pick up the sleeping German Shepard, but he was to heavy. Orion knelt down and picked him up with ease. Lily nodded slowly.
"Use floo powder," Howard said.
Orion nodded. Howard walked over to the fireplace, which was in the room adjoining to the one they were in. He lit it up with his wand and through some sort of powder into it. The fire glowed a bluish purple.
"Lily, I want you to walk into the fire and say 'Black Hall Manor', ok?"
Lily nodded. She walked into the fire and coughed, then yelled out he name of the house.
Orion turned to Howard and said, "Poor thing, think she'll be alright?"
Howard shook his head no. "I doubt it." He looked at the two dead figures on the floor. "She looks like her mother, at least with that bright red hair."
Orion nodded and walked through, into the fire. The first thing he saw was Lily looking at his son, and his son looking at Lily in shock. Considering it was 2:30 A.M., his son hadn't expected anyone to be in the living room, but there she was.
"Oh um, Lily, this is my son Sirius, Sirius, Lily is going to be staying here for awhile," Orion said. Sirius nodded and Lily looked at Orion pleadingly. Orion didn't understand and Lily just fell to floor in tears again.
"What I do?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing, he's just had a rough night. Lily, are you ok?"
Lily's tears started to subside until she looked at Sirius again through her big green eyes she looked into his brown ones. "I, I just want my family back," she whispered and continued to cry.
Authors note: Thanks for reading. I'll put thank you's here when people actually review. Until then.
Love you all, SkyeLeah