Running from Fate
Chapter 1: Father Dearest
A women's screams could be heard from the two year olds room, causing her to wail endlessly. "Mama! Mama!" the child cried until a tall figure in black robes lifted her out of her crib and held her close, she silently sobbed into the robed mans chest, as he stroked her hair and hummed softly. She soon fell asleep and the robed man brought her out of her room and down a set of marble spiral stairs and into a large open foyer where he met another black robed man.
"Is she asleep Severus?" the new robed man asked
"Yes my lord" answered the man with the child.
"Good, hold out her arm, Severus" the dark lord demanded. Severus pulled her hand loose from clutching his robes and extended her right arm out towards Voldemort palm up. Voldemort took her arm and in his left hand and took his wand in his right, he lifted the wand over her arm and touched to her small forearm, with the contact of the wand a violet tattoo appeared on her entire forearm, depicting a skull and a snake. Severus looked down trying to hide the sadness in his eyes as he watched this small child's life take a deadly turn, he wished more then anything that this child had a different father, but in the end there was nothing he could do, he was a young death eater and loyal to his master no matter what he did to this child, his masters child.
A smile played on Voldemort's lips when the dark mark was complete, he had wanted a son but maybe once she was older her gender could work to an advantage, looking at his daughter in his young death eaters arms, now brandishing his mark, the dark mark he had a brief moment of pride. He looked up at Severus and decided then that he was his favorite of all his death eaters, and most trusted. He then for the first time in her short life took his daughter into his arms and looked into her face, more pride and some other unknown feeling rushed over him. He then carefully placed her back into Severus's arms. With the movement she awoke. "Papa?" the toddler said questioningly. He looked down at her and softly touched her cheek with his left hand. "Papa, where's Mama?" she asked. He removed his hand being snapped back into reality with the question. He looked at his daughter and felt somewhat ashamed for robbing her of a mother, but pulled out of it quickly.
"She's Gone" was all he said as the room quickly filled with more death eaters, and a women dressed in death eater robes, with bright blond hair stepped towards her and took her from Severus's arms. "Come my loyal servants, I have a family to 'recruit', they just recently had a baby boy so I think they'll be easy to convince" another smile played on his lips but this time his smile was cold and sinister making the toddler shiver. Severus flinched, and grew a pleading look. "I think Severus will stay with the child on this one" and with those words all the death eaters but two apparated from the room. The blond female handed the child over to Severus and apparated herself from the room, leaving Severus alone to sob for the love he was about to lose and for the love the child lost on the same day.