Chapter two: Downward Spiral.

It was now Marcus Flint's four year and he was now on the Quidditch Team for Slytherin. He was a chaser and grew up another 10 inches and was now six feet tall and he still saw Ravenna and she got just a few inches taller and her black hair got longer pass her shoulders and she wore it in a wavy ponytail and she started to date Adrian and Marcus was now the rumored kid because his parents were gone, the Warringtons never got custody of him and weren't granted to let him stay with them again after this year. Martha Warrington was terribly sadden by the court's decision and found herself with one less son. She was another mother figure taken out from his grasp and the school would call Martha and Castiel Warrington everytime he got into a fight and they defend his actions since Marcus was just a senstive soul and when Oliver Wood got into school Marcus and the Griffyndor would fight to the death sometimes. It didn't help Oliver when he would insult Marcus about his teeth or his mother was probably some whore.

It didn't help matters when it came to the girl he always loved was dating his best friend and he became less of a brother and Cassius was still mad at him for making the team before he did and his once friend wouldn't forgive him about it. Blecthley and Bole were on the team so they talked to him all the time and he was becoming the bully everyone thought he always was. Ravenna never knew that Marcus kept her bracelet from California and he always talked to her but Adrian would guard her away. She was always trying to talk to him as well but Adrian would get mad at her for being around him.

"Professor McGongall?" Ravenna said as she raised her hand to answer the question in the newest assignment of Transfiguration and she sat there on the right side of Adrian and she sat across from Marcus on the opposite side of the room. He looked at her and longed to just talk to her again.

"Correct Ms. Valo. Ten points to Slytherin." The professor said. The bell tolled and she got up and gathered her books and said to Adrian "She'll meet him later." and he left not really caring about her.

She walked up behind Marcus and grabbed his hand and Marcus almost swung when he saw Ravenna and he stopped and said "What is it?"

"I want to be free from him. He won't let me talk to any one of my friends and when did you become such a bully. I remember when..'" Ravenna was interruptted by Marcus when he said "When what I was what? A bit younger and you were a bit crazy?" He barked at her and she looked hurt by that remark and then she turned from him and started walking and then turned around and said "I remember when you and I could talk about everything and I remember when you weren't the bully that everyone made you out to be Marcus. I'm sorry I wasted your time." Ravenna said with a tear falling from one eye and began to walk to her next class.

Marcus started to cut himself when he was in second year to feel something and Ravenna had found the evidence on his arm one day during their talks and she cried for him then and now she still cries over him. She had changed quite a lot her parents divorced, her mother and father always fighting over who gets custody over her. She was almost the same as him, his equal, his soul mate. She sat in Herbology class with Sarah Bramenstein and they chatted and Sarah pointed out her mascara was runny and she lied saying she washed her face in the bathroom. Marcus watched as her conversation grew dull for Ravenna and she stopped talking throughout class. Adrian had become distant from not just Marcus but from Ravenna as well. Every one in the whole school knew he was cheating on her with some Ravenclaw girl named Poppy Waters. Ravenna didn't seem to care if the rumors were true since she was always without Adrian during classes, Hogsmeade trips pretty much everything.

Later that same evening Marcus had actually yelled at Ravenna he went to his room where Cassius was there with Miles and Lucian. They were talking and immediately stopped talking as Marcus entered the room and he grabbed his trusty old swiss army knife and his friends saw he went to the bathroom. Cassius ran after him to the second floor in the boys lavatory and he began to cut himself down his arms because he felt lost in the world. He was almost 15 and his fourth year was the harshness of knowing his one true love was in the arms of his supposed friend and to top it off no one can tell him why his father died or his lovely Ginger was always told someone just attacked him and that was it. No one could find his mother, no one really wanted him in their lives. He was forced to go into a foster home during the soon coming months of summer. Marcus took one last swipe into his arm and went to the sink and ran the water and let his blood pour into the sink and Cassius ran in with Bole and Blecthley and helped cover his arms and knock the swiss army knife out of his hand.

"FLINT! Don't do this please?!" Cassius said keeping pressure agaisnt his arms as the other two performed healing charms on his arms and Marcus was staring into space thinking about his last memory of his mother walking down the stairs with her dark hair, white dress, and taking him to the park with a smile on her face. Then he felt Cassius smack him out of his trance and felt a stinging handprint on his left cheek and someone shaking him.

Cassius looked at him as Marcus took a deep breath in and Bole and Blecthley looked at him in pure horror.

"What's wrong with you FLINT?!" Bole yelled at him. "You could have died, you couldn't have told us if something was that wrong uhh?!" He said sounding incredibly pissed off.

"SHUT UP! I need her back! I want them both back! I can't stand seeing her so sad and alone and the other one is just gone! No one can find her and she's not looking for me! I need her!" Marcus finally yelled at them he covered his mouth in shock realizing he was speaking out loud instead of his mind yelling at him.

"Who? Tell us who Flint. We can help you." Miles said and he realized that he probably crossed a line asking.

"His mother and Ravenna? Am I right Flint?" Cassius asked.

"Just leave me alone!" Marcus battling his tears and he got up from the floor and went into a stall and locked it and started tearing up and finally after hyperventaling he sobbed.

"Alahomora." Bole said and the lock broke and he pulled Flint into a hug. "Look it's going to be ok. I'm sure they'll find her and if Cassius' parents can't get you this summer then my parents can help and I'm sure Blecthley can help as well."

Marcus pushed his friend aside and began to walk away and then said "Rave said she remembered me when I wasn't the bully everyone made me out to be and I yelled at her and she cried and she knew about me cutting a while back and I promised her I stopped, just don't tell her anything about this please. She won't ever try to talk to me again."

He walked back to his dorm and fell into a dream and hopeful sleep. He was back in his old family home with his mother, his father no where in sight. His mother came down the stairs and was wearing her white dress with dark red roses on the pattern and she held little Marcus' hand and led him to a park where muggle children were laughing, mothers calling to their children for lunch and there was a man with blonde hair short and slicked back and he could tell there were curls in hair even though it was slicked back. He grabbed Marcus' mother's hand and kissed it he said "Good morning miss"and she smiled and said "Well hello..."

"FLINT! FLINT!" Cassius shouted trying to wake him up. Marcus woke up in the morning to realize it was Saturday and the Quidditch match was in just an hour and a half from then. He rushed into the bathroom to shower, change into his Quidditch attire and race to the pitch and there they were Ravenna and Adrian fighting again.

"Well you can date your nasty little Ravenclaw because I have been done with you since the first date since you made me pay my own way. I mean you are the worse kisser, you have no idea how much you have cost me. You wouldn't let me even speak to Marcus you big loser! He's my friend and then you accuse me of cheating! I hate you Adrian! You get the hell out of my sight and stay lost!" Ravenna said and she whirled around and her black hair wasn't tied in her usual purple ribbion since the Ravenclaw girl named Poppy Waters pulled her hair and when Marcus saw Poppy she was on the ground with a bloody lip and nose.

Ravenna for the first time in the year sat with her friends Sarah, Amy Ackles, Illyria Jensen, and Samantha Jones. She was rooting for her house. The match was against Ravenclaw. "GO FLINT!" Ravenna shouted as he scored another point. The match lasted for two hours and Higgs had caught the snitch after pressing up against the Ravenclaw's seeker.

*Summer Break*

"In the court of wizarding law it is in the best favor for Marcus Flint to be appointed a ward of the community. He will be placed in a juvenille center for foster children and will be allowed visits from The Warrington family and will be allowed to finish his schooling at Hogwarts and will be appointed a social case worker and will be released out of the foster care upon the wizarding age of 17." The judge banged his gavel and two bailiffs of the court had to seize Marcus from Martha Warrington's arms as she cried. Marcus didn't shed a tear. He knew they tried every legal matter they could and they post poned it for almost a month and a quarter but it looked like he was going into a foster home.

"Marcus Flint will be given his inheritance as well on his 17th birthday." The judge said to the Warrington's and Cassius started to get angry that his best friend was being hauled away to a foster home and won't be able to leave for almost two years. He hated the judge for making such a stupid ruling and taking him from the only family he had.

"Marcus we'll find a way ok son." Castiel Warrington called to him and he hung his head down.

"Castiel what else can we do?" Martha said trying to compose herself. They couldn't have anymore children since Martha had complications when she had Cassius and she grew attached to both of her boys. Cassius and Marcus acted like brothers and she had his friends, teachers, and family friends say this through written testimony and proved it through their last family portraits with Marcus in them.

"All we can do is hope that the attorney can find anything with Christian's will again about Marcus. I'm sorry Martha." Castiel said.

"We should have at least told him about what happened to his father." Martha said as they exited the court room.

Cassius didn't even know about Marcus' father. There watching Marcus being dragged out of the court room and into the social worker's area and she gestured him to follow her; was Adrian Pucey with his father Victor standing there.

"Adrian you should have said something on his behalf. I know you two had that fight but he's yor friend." Victor scolded his son. Adrian felt a twinge of guilt and Victor was a former death eater just like Marcus' father Christian and he could have suffered the same fate as his former friend.

"Yes father I'm sorry sir." Adrian said as if he rehearsed the line too much instead of meaning it.

Adrian knew what happened to Marcus' father and he wanted to tell him but Ravenna was a big set back, she was a great gal and he knew it would hurt Marcus to have Ravenna on his arm but they were attached besides their talks, something they had he would never had have with Ravenna.

Adrian knew that Christian Flint was protecting his son from his former foes in the death eater ranks. They had found out that Marcus' mother was involve in so much more than running off with a random muggle. Ursula Flint went against the Dark Lord's orders and she merely didn't take off from Christian nor love Christian since the marriage was an arranged one and Ursula was known for her beauty and pureblood status and not known for her kindness and her love for a muggle-born wizard named William Jacobs. Her family kept her secret affair hidden since they were on the hit list and married her off to the Flint family. Ursula was merely a victim to a demeaning society and was planning to leave her husband for his cruelity didnt start with Marcus but with her. She wasn't going to leave her son with a man just as mean and hateful as her father and was afraid that Marcus would suffer.

Ursula made a journey to escape from her husband and planned on taking her son with her and her William. They met in a park in the muggle London near Ealling and they were on their way back to sneak her and Marcus' stuff out of the house but a few of Christian's ex-friends were there waiting for her to be killed. They made it a blood bath while Christian was out and Christian would have been framed for his wife's murder and tolerance for a muggle lover of a whore wife. Marcus was screaming for his mother and his new friend and a death eater grabbed Marcus by his collar and was about to just simply snap his neck when a group of aurors joined by Christian Flint started fighting them off and the death eater dropped Marcus to the floor and little Marcus was still screaming for his mommy to wake up and Christian saw another man's body lying next to his wife's and it was her lover and he died protecting her and Christian's son.

"MOMMY! WAKE UP! PLEASE?!" Marcus screamed and Christian took him by his arm and led his son away from his mother's body. An auror by the name of Bailey Connor took her wand out and said "Erasis momentum." the spell would cause him to just forget his short term memory of the event that just happened and no one should ever tell him for the spell would have set backs.

Adrian saw his friend stare down a silver bracelet and then he realized it was Ravenna's. He realized he should have spoke for him. Marcus didn't deserve this.

"Dad can we at least volunteer as a foster family then?" Adrian asked his father Victor that was talking to the Warrington family.

"That might work. We can't since we petitioned the court for it already." Martha said still very upset with the judge.

"We'll try anything and everything." Victor said to Castiel as he consoled his wife and son.

TO BE CONTINUED.