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Summary:Bellatrix had a child that no one besides Rabastan and Rodolphus knew about, but because of some desperate move to get away from aurors they had to leave their child in the care of muggles. Now eleven years later we follow the life of Lacerta Black and her journey at discovering friends, enemies and most of all the love of her parents.
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Chapter 6 – End of March beginning of April
"You know, I really wonder about Flitwick." Lucy grumbled one early Saturday morning.
"Why do you say that?" Octavia questioned. Lacerta had disappeared once again with Lycoris.
"He's been all weird and stuff, like he's planning something." Octavia nodded and thought back to the day before…
Flitwick had just walked into the classroom and was already starting to babble on about a new project.
"I have planned a very special surprise for you all. Next week Wednesday, we'll be starting on a new enchantment. Now I won't tell you more about it, but I know you'll enjoy it." He was smiling like a Cheshire cat. Octavia could only wonder what it was that he had planned.
"Octavia, really must you so openly ignore me?" Lucy said, staring at her friend. Octavia blinked and then opened her mouth to say something.
"No, no, don't even say it, I'm not interested." Octavia rolled her eyes and continued walking along the Entrance Hall.
"Via, Lucy, wait up." The two of them turned and waited as Dorea walked up to them.
"Morning, so where have you been?" Dorea asked.
"We went to breakfast early so that we could take a stroll outside. You were still asleep and Lacerta had left to go somewhere with Lycoris." Lucy replied cutting Octavia off. Dorea looked at her strangely.
"Morning Octavia." She said. Octavia was about to reply once more and once again Lucy cut her off.
"No, you are been silenced. I won't have talking for the morning, you can't just ignore someone when they ask you questions so now you will not answer anyone or talk to anyone until I say so." Dorea's eyebrows shot up and Octavia got a very furious look on her face and her eyes flashed with annoyance.
"Ah, did I miss something?" Dorea murmured.
"Yes, I asked missy over here a question and she just ignored me." Lucy said sharply. Octavia rolled her eyes, huffed in annoyance and strode off down the corridor and out the giant oak doors, leaving the other two alone in the Entrance Hall.
"Well, I'm off. I have loads to do for class you know." Dorea said. She walked away and Lucy sighed. She'd have to walk the grounds another day, she walked back down to the dungeons and bumped into Draco.
"Oh good, there you are." He said.
"Mm yes, here I am. What do you want?" He gave her a look and then spoke.
"That stupid bird is going to be beheaded today and I wanted to pull a prank on the stupid Gryffindors Golden Trio. You want to join in?" Lucy looked thoughtful. She nodded and followed her brother out of the dungeons once again.
Draco, Greg and Lucy were standing just behind a few stones talking amongst themselves.
"I think, I'll leave its head outside their portrait." Draco was saying when he saw a flash of blue.
"Ah, come to see the show." He said smartly. Dean Thomas stalked up to him bellowing insults.
"You, you foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach!" He pointed his wand at Draco's neck.
"Don't you dare talk to my brother that way you filthy little mudblood." Lucy said growing angry.
"Leave him a lone Dean, he's not worth it." Ron said. Draco thought it was over, but how wrong he was, a fist flew at him and it hit him square in the jaw.
"Come on Draco." Lucy said pulling him away. They ran back inside, Draco sprouting off once again.
"I'm going to get that jumped up little mudblood, you mark my words." He said, rubbing his jaw. The three of them walked back through the tunnel and out into the courtyard.
"No worries Draco, we'll get that stupid filthy mudblood soon." Lucy said haughtily. Draco nodded and smirked and Greg just nodded.
Down near the small fountain sat a smiling Lacerta and a blushing Lycoris.
"You know Cass, I'd like to kiss you properly, but tradition is against it and besides I might get the proper chance once we have signed our marriage contract." Lacerta was nodding.
"True, I also wish to kiss you, but as you said tradition says no until the signing of a contract." They sat their on the bench, near the fountain in a state of bliss.
"Take a walk with me please." Lycoris asked softly. Lacerta nodded and together they walked along the grounds. They eventually stopped by the Black Lake and sat down enjoying each others company. Lacerta studied Lycoris' features, while he rested his eyes. He had shoulder length, mouse blonde hair and his lips were a perfect bow shape unlike hers yet similar. His jaw was strong and his cheek bones weren't high, but were in perfect proportion with his face. He was broad shouldered and he was tall, taller than she and shorter than her father. He opened an eye and looked at her, his lips curved into a smile when she blushed at been caught staring. He had sterling blue eyes which shimmered with silver and odd combination, but she adored them. They were like her own unique eyes black with gleaming violet that would be more prominent when she was angry.
"What are you staring at?" she smiled.
"Just looking at you my future husband." He grinned and pulled her closer to his body so that they could lay under the tall oak tree at the water's edge.
Octavia had just arrived in the Owlery to send the man who sold her the necklaces a letter asking why they had been affected when she tore the gem from her eye.
Hector,
I am writing to you because of a recent occurrence. I bought three necklaces from you a while ago and you told me that they would connect my mind to my two friends. I have subsequently removed the gem from my right eye and when I did there was a flash of blinding white light and then our eyes would not stop bleeding.
Our medi-witch has fixed that up, but I want to know why that happened?
Octavia Meliflua.
She sent a school barn owl out and walked back down the spiral stairs. She walked back through the court yard and in through the oak doors. It was lunch time and she was starved.
Dorea had finally finished her essay for Transfiguration and was walking to the Great Hall for lunch when she spotted Lucy and Draco walking just a few paces ahead of her.
"Hey. What have you two been up to?" Draco grunted and Lucy sighed.
"Hi Rea, Draco wanted to prank the Gryffindors with placing the hippogriff's head outside their entrance portrait, but the mudblood punched him in the face. Where have you been this morning?" Dorea patted Draco's back.
"Don't worry Draco, we'll get them back. Lucy I told you earlier, I was finishing off my homework. Where are Octavia and Lacerta?"
"Oh Lacerta is still with Lycoris and Octavia is somewhere." Dorea nodded and they rounded the corner and strode into the Great Hall. Octavia was already sitting at the table, but hadn't filled her plate, she was waiting on her friends.
"It's about time you all arrived. I'm starving and I was been a lady by waiting on her friends." Octavia said, waving them over.
"Like hell, we weren't sure where you were." Lucy muttered.
"I sent a letter to someone and I've just about had it with you and your attitude Lucy. I want to let you know something. I never ignored your question, I was lost in thought, you said you suspected Flitwick to have planned something and if you'd have listened in class you'd have heard him say that he did indeed have something planned for next week Wednesday. I was going to tell this to you, but you kept interrupting me so I gave up." Lucy's mouth was open in a silent 'O'.
"I'm sorry Via, I guess I was been stupid." Octavia smiled slightly.
"It's alright Lucy, just please don't do it again." Lucy nodded and sat down next to her friend. Lacerta finally walked into the Hall with Lycoris following soon after. They looked like the happy blissful couple they were.
"Aw, look at them so cute together." Dorea said smiling.
"Yeah, real charming." Lucy replied.
"What's up with you? Are you jealous of them?" Octavia asked.
"What? No, I'm not jealous of them, I'm jealous of the relationship that they have with each other, I only wish that I could walk around with Leonid with me." Octavia nodded in understanding. She wished that she had someone with her, but she couldn't.
Lunch was uneventful, Hagrid was upset and was constantly wiping his eyes, and Ron, Harry, Dean and Seamus were looking glum. Draco was still cheesed off with Dean Thomas. Lacerta was sitting with Lycoris who had eventually joined her and her friends for lunch, Lucy was talking animatedly with Dorea and Octavia.
"Octavia, surely there is someone you fancy in this place." Lacerta said. Dorea was suddenly interested as was Draco and Lucy.
"There is, but they're not here in Hogwarts." Lucy's eyebrow rose.
"Really now, male or female?" Octavia narrowed her eyes.
"I'm not telling you. It's for me to know and for you lot to find out way later on." She smirked at Dorea's disappointed look.
"Oh alright, it's a female." Dorea grinned. Lucy just smiled and Draco looked horrified.
"Are you serious? That's not proper for a pure-blooded witch, Via." She turned a very angry glare on him and he instantly shrank back.
"I knowthat! I am well aware of the protocol Draco, I won't act upon these feeling's, my father will have a proposal or more sometime soon and I will have to pick out one of the many male suitors." Draco sighed in relief.
"You scared me cousin, I thought you were really going to act on the feelings you hold and then we'd lose you." Octavia smiled and slung an arm over his shoulders.
"Have I ever told you how much I love you." He got a disgusted look on his face.
"Get off, that's so sappy." He sniffed.
"So what I did was sappy oh, and 'then we'd lose you.' And you call me sappy." Octavia laughed. The few you'd heard the conversation laughed at Draco and he huffed.
"Oh really Via, you just had to embarrass me." Octavia only fluttered her eyelashes at him.
"What a lovely couple you two would make." Lucy mocked earning her two glares and a few echoing laughs.
"That's pushing it Malfoy." Octavia said in an overly calm tone.
"Mm I'm sure. You're full of it." Lucy chuckled. Octavia finally cracked a smile and chuckled along with her friends.
"Well you lot, I'm going to go. I have lots to do." Lycoris said.
"Oh don't go Lyc, we only just finished lunch." Lacerta had turned to face him and wasn't looking at her friends. They made sappy faces at her and Lycoris was having a hard time not laughing out right. He couldn't hold it in anymore and he burst into chuckles at the four family members. Lacerta turned sharply to see and found them all pulling faces at her.
"Hey! That isn't funny, wait until you're in love then I'll mock you lot as well." They just laughed. Lycoris kissed her cheek and walked out of the Hall.
"You are all so mean." Daphne suddenly said sniggering.
"Oh come of it Daph, you know we love her, she's family you know." Dorea said smiling.
"True, true. Are any of you going to Hogsmeade tomorrow?" Lucy shook her head.
"Nah, I'm staying in bed, I want to catch up on my beauty sleep." Draco rolled his eyes.
"I'm going." Lacerta said with a small smile."Me too." Dorea and Octavia said in unison.
"I'll be joining you as well." Draco said after taking a sip of his pumpkin juice.
"That's great, meet up at nine in the Entrance Hall?" they all nodded their heads.
Sunday came around and the little bit of sun the dungeons got was what woke up Octavia.
"Come on you get up." She said sending a stinging hex at Lacerta.
"Ouch! What was that for?" Lacerta shrieked.
"You needed to be woken up, so I did." Octavia said grinning. Lacerta scowled, but got up anyway. After showering and do their hair and brushing their teeth the two girls strolled down the long hallway and up some stairs until they reached third year floor. They didn't wait to long before, Daphne and Dorea walked out of their dorm. After walking up the stairs the two fourth years and three third years met up in the Entrance Hall at exactly eight-fifty five.
"Excellent, we're all ready, let's go." Daphne said smiling. They all walked down the gravel path toward the gates of Hogwarts and passed through the thick veil of coldness that came from the Dementors."Where to first?" Lucy asked whilst surveying the area.
"How about we go to The Three Broomsticks?" Draco replied nonchalantly.
"Sounds like a plan." Dorea smiled. So the five students walked into The Three Broomsticks and found an empty booth in the back of the pub away from prying ears and eyes.
"Well now. What can I get you five?" a voice said quite suddenly that Lacerta jumped and Daphne squealed.
"Sorry." Daphne whispered.
"We'll have a round of butterbeers, please." Octavia said, her voice having the Romanian lilt to it. She was busy reading through a small slip of paper that held a variety of food choices.
"Will that be all?" It was the bar woman Madam Rosmerta.
"For now." Octavia replied once again, her eyes never leaving the paper slip. Lacerta was smiling.
"You will have to decide what food you want soon Via, the bar keep won't wait for long." Octavia smiled and rolled her eyes. Madam Rosmerta had come back and had taken their orders about ten minutes prior.
"You know, I think that our dear Lucy is quite lonely." Dorea said.
"Why do you think that?" Daphne pondered.
"Isn't it obvious Daph, Lucy is missing her beloved Leonid." Lacerta concluded.
"Hmm, yes, I did forget." Daphne replied. Madam Rosmerta reappeared with their food orders and the five Hogwarts students ate.
"I'm thinking of inviting a few friends of ours to the Manor this summer, it'll be quite wonderful to spend time with you all." Draco said after they'd finished with their food.
"Sounds lovely, I'd have to ask father though." Octavia said quietly.
"I'd like to see you all as well." Daphne said with a smile.
"Yes, but we don't want to see you." Octavia said with a serious face. Daphne looked up in shock, but noticed the amused glint in her friend's eyes.
"That wasn't funny Octavia." She snapped.
"You scared me for a moment." She said softly.
Octavia just chuckled. The five of them sat in the pub for a few minutes more when Draco spotted three students leaving the pub, three very familiar students.
"Look at that, the Irish Filth, the Weasel and the Mudblood have just left the pub. Shall we follow them?" The others nodded and left The Three Broomsticks. The five of them followed Seamus, Ron and Dean all the way down to the Shrieking Shack. They had put silencing charms on their shoes so the two other students never heard their approach.
"You want to move closer?" they heard Seamus say.
"Huh?" Ron answered stupidly."Toward the Shrieking Shack is what I meant." Seamus said with a touch of irritation.
"Oh… ah no, I'm okay thanks." Ron sounded reluctant. Draco snickered softly and moved forward.
"Well, well, well, it's the Weasel and two gay friends shopping for their new home. It's a bit ostentatious for you isn't Weasley, don't your family sleep in ah… one room?" Octavia laughed as did Lacerta. Dorea and Daphne just snickered.
"Shove off, Malfoy!" Ron spat.
"Look at that Draco, the blood traitor is protecting his mudblood sluts. Come, come Weasley you can do better than that filth, there are plenty of other blood traitors out there for you, save yourself the embarrassment of sleeping with that." Lacerta spat with an evil glint in her eye, one that looked eerily like her deranged mother. Seamus and Dean started spluttering.
None of them knew that Harry was standing with an angry expression on his face, hiding under his invisibility cloak. Dorea and Daphne were hit by silencing charms and the freezing charm. Lacerta had the freezing charm placed on her along with a silencing charm. She went rigid and then fell backwards without a sound her head hitting a small jiggered rock that was hidden underneath a blanket of snow. Octavia had moved forward and had stopped next to Draco intent on making a snide remark that is until… Thunk!
She'd been hit in the side of the face with a snowball and Draco received one to the back of the head. The two of them turned around and found their friends frozen stiff lying on the ground. Lacerta had a small pool of blood trailing down the embankment and had a look of horror plastered on her face.
"Who's there?" Draco shouted. No reply came, but he soon found himself been dragged down the path leading to the Shrieking Shack. He was trying to grab onto anything possible, but it was no use. Eventually the person or in this case Harry, stopped pulling on Draco's shoes, he shot up and ran back to where his friends were, only he didn't stop to help them he just continued up the embankment and into the trees. Harry took his cloak off and started chuckling along with Seamus and Dean. Ron was still hyperventilating, but he was slowly starting to calm down.
"What are we going to do about them?" Seamus asked.
"Leave them there, they deserved it anyway." Ron said with a venomous undertone lacing his voice.
"Ron, we can't do that." Dean said.
"Then what should we do?" Ron all but shouted at his friends.
"Leave that to us." Stated a voice that sounded familiar to them all, Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil came stalking down the embankment.
"Ah… Okay." Harry said softly. After all what does one do with four girls? Harry, Ron, Seamus and Dean all ran back up the slope and disappeared, leaving two Gryffindor girls all to themselves.
"Pay back time." They said rubbing their hands together.