Chapter 3

Lyric sped back to the hotel and quickly parking her bike she ran in swiftly pulling out her mobile, she ran Antonin and as soon as he answered she rapidly began talking to her while she ran up the stairs to their suite.

Antonin couldn't detect a word of what she was saying and said "Darling, darling, slow down! I can't hear a word you're saying, look is everything alright at school. I'll just go into the living room, the reception is better there!"

She quickly reached their rooms and hurriedly opened the door and ran in slamming the door behind her.

She closed her phone as Antonin moved swiftly into the living room where their front door was, he watched her as she leaned against the door panting.

He moved over to her and said "Darling what's wrong?" She looked up at him and said "They were there, at school." He frowned and said "Who was?"

Her lip trembled and said "My parents! They're transferring me to Hogwarts; they're going to be here soon. I don't know what to do; they've pulled me out early to catch me up on magic before September!"

He took her gently into her arms and said "It's going to be fine okay; going to Hogwarts is good thing. We'll go down to the suite they rented together; I'm not going to leave you. I promised you when you were 10 that I would never leave you and I won't!"

Lyric looked up at him tears brimming in her eyes and said "Thanks Dad! God you should have seen Lucy's reaction to what I looked like, you looked at me like Laura does. Like I'm a freak, oh you know what she said to me, it's actually laughable. She said I wasn't like her and her parents, it was hilarious; she was referring to the fact that they knew magic and I didn't. I was so close to telling her, um just wondering what are you going to do about the deatheater thing?"

He grinned and said "Deatheater thing? I was under imperius the whole of that war; I didn't want to do these things. After all I now run a muggle hotel despite the fact that most of its occupants are wizards and witches."

Lyric laughed and said "Alright let's do this." Antonin smiled and said "Darling um, you might want to change your top. You can kind of see your dark mark in that one, let's just hope they didn't see it already."

Lyric grinned and said "Good point, don't worry I had my jacket on so they wouldn't have seen but changing might be a good idea. Probably a good thing I haven't met the Dark Lord and got his mark yet, that's going to be harder to hide."

Antonin nodded and waited as she replaced her top with a plain black t-shirt. They then made their way down to the suite her parents were paying for; she quickly made her way in with Antonin behind her.

Not two minutes later there was a knock on the door, she took a deep breath and went to open it as Antonin took a seat on the two seated sofa.

She let them in and then took the seat next to Antonin, they frowned at her and said "Loretta this is a family meeting, who is this?"

Lyric held her head high and said "This is Antonin Dolohov, my dad!" They all glared at him and said "Loretta he is a deatheater; get away from him."

Lyric glowered at them and said "Don't you dare insult my dad again." Antonin put his hand on hers and said "Lyric it's okay, I understand why they would be upset. Mr and Mrs Isse, I want to assure you that I was under the imperius curse and had no wish to be a deatheater. I was forced and I have suffered from the guilt and regret of what I was forced to do, I care for your daughter like my own and would do nothing to hurt her. I actually own this hotel, would a deatheater own a hotel for muggles?"

They looked at him suspiciously and said "We do not trust you but you seem to care for our daughter and from what I can see she cares for you like a parent. But it still remains that this is a family discussion and we would prefer it if you would leave us to it."

Lyric held onto Antonin and said "He stays, he is family. Whatever is said will affect him as well so he should be allowed to hear what is going on. If he leaves so do I!"

Her parents obviously gritted their teeth but nodded, and they started by saying "Right as you know we have finally decided to send you to Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore has finally convinced us that you do deserve to be educated in magic.

We've pulled you out of school now so that you can study some so you will not have to go in at the beginning but you will be able to go in around 3rd year. Now we need to have a talk about your clothing, well the mutilations you have done to your body and of course your name. Your name is Loretta not Lyric."

Lyric laughed and said "My name is Lyric, it has been for the past 7 years. I don't intend to use Loretta and yes my name I had a question about that as well. I want to permanently change it to Lyric and I don't want to be an Isse anymore, I want to be a Dolohov. I need you to sign the paperwork which has Dad adopt me legally, I would give up any rights to any fortune you may leave me and I would be his daughter."

Her parents and her dad stared at her and said "You cannot be serious?" She inclined her head and said "You haven't been my parents since you refused to let me go to Hogwarts, Dad's been keeping an eye on me since I was 5 and he took me in as a daughter as soon as he noticed I had magic.

It's actually one of the things I need to talk to you about, you didn't need to pull me out of school. Dad's been teaching magic ever since he learned you rejected my Hogwarts letter, I have wand and I'm good at magic.

I won't be the 3rd or 4th year, I'm on par with Lucy and I'm good enough to be in her year. But I don't want be your daughter anymore, you didn't care enough about me to help me.

You wouldn't look after me once you thought I had no magic, when we found out I did you didn't care. Dad did, I don't want you as parents, I want him.

You gave up the rights to tell me what to do, when you rejected my Hogwarts letter. Now sign the damn papers and let me be free of you for good."

Her parents stared at her and said "No, you are our daughter and you will stay Loretta Isse. As you do not need to be trained in magic we will spend the rest of the time before you go to Hogwarts correcting your behaviour and turning you into the young lady you should be, not the tramp you look like."

Lyric glared at her family and said "I'm not going anywhere with you, I may not be able to change my name without your permission but I'm not your daughter and I will not answer to Loretta Isse.

My name is Lyric Dolohov even if it's not legal, as for what I look like I don't care what you think. I like who I am and that's not going to change, I like piercings, my tattoos and my hair.

If you don't tough shit, I'm not going to change to become someone you're proud of. I gave up on doing that when I was 11, I tried to so hard to be what you wanted, to have magic.

Finally when I got it, it wasn't enough. I was never perfect like Lucy, but I learned I don't have to be. Dad loves me how I am, he doesn't care what I look like, how many tattoos I have or if I have magic or not.

Now I'm not going home with you, I'm staying here until I have to go to Hogwarts. You can have any mail from Hogwarts sent directly to me, I might see you on the platform until then goodbye."

Her parents glowered and said "You will do as you're told young lady, we're not going to continue paying for you to live here on your own. You're coming home with us, or you'll be on the streets."

Lyric couldn't help it she burst into laughter and said "Look around stupid, I don't live here. No one does, I live with dad. He owns the hotel and lives here; we live together in his suite.

I will never be homeless so go ahead, stop renting this place I don't care. By the way did you want to know how many tattoos I have, I have six and I'm planning on getting a new one in the summer. Goodbye, I hope to god I never see you again."

She stood and walked out of the room, Antonin stood and said "You've lost her I'm afraid, and before you think off claiming I stole her, I didn't I helped her."

He walked out the room and up to their shared suite, where he found her swiftly picking the lock on the alcohol cupboard.

He sighed and moving over to her said "Darling, that is not the way to deal with this! We're going to get you ready for Hogwarts and for meeting the Dark Lord in the summer. It's going to be alright, you're going to stay here with me, I'm not letting you go back to them."

Lyric smiled and said "You always know what to say Dad, hot chocolate and a movie?" He smiled and said "With marshmallows."