Dreams of the Dark One
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Chapter 1: A Gift From the Dark Lord
Serverus looked down at the young woman who had just been thrown at his feet. No she was more like a girl, she could barely be 20 years of age but her soft features made her look much younger. Her hair was a disheveled, a mess of jet black tangles. Her robes were torn and dirty. She was definitely a sight for sore eyes. But now she belonged to him. A gift from the Dark Lord. Voldemort had so graciously bestowed Serverus of this girl when she had no longer pleased him. Severus knew Voldemort was trying to get some kind of information out of the girl, but she had resisted and he had tired of trying to pry it from her. In any other situation the Dark Lord would have simply killed the girl, but this time he hadn't.
He had said that it was high time Severus had a woman in his life and had ordered Severus to take the girl as his wife. That would mean taking her back to Hogwarts and having to deal with all of the questions that would come with a spontaneously acquired bride.
'Damn, Dumbledore is going to have a field day with this one and at my expense too great, just great.' Severus said to himself as he easily picked the girl up and apparated back to the school.
Severus decided that the first thing to do was get the girl to his rooms and get her cleaned up, then he would talk to her and find out what kind of mess she had gotten him into. He laid the still silent girl on his bed and went to the bathroom to start the bath, as he walked back into his bedroom he noticed that the girl had sat up and was studying him.
"I started the bath for you, once your done cleaning up please come out into the study. I'll lay some fresh robes on the bed for you." He said a little too brusquely as he swept out of the room.
The girl paid no mind to his put-out manner and walked slowly into the bathroom. She removed her robes and stepped gingerly into the bath, favoring her right side which held a large bruise above her hip. Though the Dark Lord had not killed her over the information he sought he had defiantly thought that torturing her would get her to talk. Well, she had proved him wrong and now she was promised to marry this dark older man, whom although was quite attractive had a definite unfriendly disposition about him. She didn't think he would be to happy when he found out more about her and all of her secrets, but she would just have to deal with that when it came. For now she would focus on getting herself clean and washing away the grime that came with spending numerous days in the dungeons of the Dark Lord.
Severus paced up and down the floor of his study waiting for the girl to finish her bath. He wondered what was talking her so long and was just about to go check on her when the door from his room opened. There stood a vision, easily one of the most beautiful things Severus had ever seen in his entire life. It took him a few seconds to realize that his beautiful being in front of him was in fact the girl that was to be his wife. She had washed her hair and now instead of a ball of knots it was straight and glossy and fell to her waist. Her face was clean of dirt and her cheeks held a rosy glow, but the main thing that Severus noticed were her eyes. Her eyes were the color of amber, light red that seemed to almost glow from the inside. He had never seen eyes of the color and the contrast between them and her dark black hair was startling.
It took Severus a few minutes to realize he was staring at the girl, and finally he motioned for her to sit down in a chair by the hearth.
"I suppose this is as awkward for you as it is for me. Let's see I guess we could start if you told me your name then I would know what to call you." Severus said as he looked up expectantly towards the girl.
She simply sat there silent for a few moments before she stood up and walked to his desk where she picked up a quill and scratched something of a piece of parchment. She then walked back to Severus and handed him the parchment as she sat back down.
Severus read what she had written on the paper then looked up at her quizzically.
"Alchemy? Your name is Alchemy?"