Beautiful Darkness by EssTheDreamer
***Prologue***
It starts the day that they collide, twin tornadoes in a grey world.
Her with five books layered in her hands, him with a skull-and-serpent mark on his arm.
Her with anger and pulsing magic in her hair, him with frustration and a storm in his eyes.
Her books (Is Magic Real?, Telekinesis, Elemental Control, Are You Normal?, and the Pureblood Directory) all tumbled to the wet ground, and his wand, brown and tipped with cool iron, fell to the ground, as well.
He picked up the Pureblood Directory, and she picked up his wand, her fingers catching a shock from the hawthorn wood.
"Why do you have this?" asked both, at the same time.
He was surprised to see a muggle (well, he assumed she was), and she was surprised to see a human with one of those fabled wands that she read about in the old abandoned library.
"I was curious," replied the girl.
"It's mine," replied the boy.
The boy reaches for his wand, but the girl, thinking he's about to hurt her, holds out the wand, and slashes the air with it, sending a burst of blue towards the boy.
When the jet of blue hit him, he collapsed on the ground.
The girl, not knowing what to do, picks up her books, and places it in her bag (which she really should've done earlier), and grabs the boy and holds him upright, walking him to her house, thanking the gods above that her house is nearby.
Its the beginning of something different, and the foray into a new world.
But they don't know that.
Yet.