The Girl-Who-Lived
Chapter 10
Then run up to the clearing Edward wanted to take me too was exhilarating and one of the scariest things I had ever experienced. I had always enjoyed flying, it made me feel free to be able to feel the find on my face, flowing through my hair. Running with Edward like that was like that, but you had no control over where you were going, or the speed at which you want, it was just like flying shotgun.
When we got to the clearing, I stared at all the different colour plants in amazement, but summoned my broom anyway.
"Do you know what happens to us when we go into the sun?" Edward asked from the shade of the woods, his arms crossed across his chest and his voice grim.
"Of course I do." I whispered, walking so I was stood in front of him, less than an inch apart. "I have seen creatures only people who have seen death can see, faced a dragon, seen grindylows, Acromantula, Basilisks, Half giants and giants, Death Eaters, Veela's and elves and goblins, werewolves, Animagi, Ghosts, Poltergeists, Hippogriffs, Three headed dogs…And even a few vampires. Edward, when we began to date, I accepted you in your entirety. I don't care if you use to drink human blood or if you chose to in the future. I don't care if you sparkle more than an LGBT parade. I don't care if you could kill me in a heartbeat. If you drank human blood in your past, then I am proud that you managed to stop. If you drink human blood in the future, then I will be glad that you are being you. If you sparkle then I we can dance like we're in a ballroom. I don't care if you could hurt me because I know you bloody well wont, and if you do, I'll hex the crap out of you." I smiled, giving him a peck on the lips, making him smile. "I love you and nothing will change that, so get used to it sparkles." I grinned, pulling him into the sun light.
"Hey!" He frowned, but I could tell he was faking. "Why do I get the nickname Sparkles? Why not Alice or Rosalie?"
"Because," I smirked, "They didn't nickname me little lady"
"That is just unfair" He pouted as he wrapped his arms around me.
"Oh grow up" I rolled my eyes, my arms winding around his neck. "What are you? Like a hundred?" I laughed as he smiled, cocking his head to the side.
"Near enough" He muttered with a smile, kissing my forehead softly.
"Believe it or not, you're not the darkest creature in the world, nor the darkest I have ever encountered. So you, lover, need to bloody well get your priorities straight. You do have a soul, believe me, I have met people without them." I said, giving him a quick kiss as I smiled lovingly at him.
"How can you say that, Elizabeth? I hunted humans for years…murdered them, drained them dry." Edward said, his voice stained as he looked at me as if he was baring his soul.
"You are no worse than me…I murdered my teacher when I was eleven. My friends set fire to one of our teachers. I blew my Aunt up. I caused my teacher to lose all his memories. I almost killed a student. There are good sides to bad things. I have been told that you only hunted criminals. I killed my teacher because he was corrupted. Possessed by an evil being if you will. My friends almost set fire to a teacher for me because it distracted someone who was jinxing my broom, causing me to hang on for dear life. I blew up my aunt because she was a rude, discriminative bitch who deserved to be sent up into the sky with her weasel of a dog left to sulk. I almost killed a student because of my gift with snakes. While it looked like I was ordering an attack, I was talking it out of one. If you hadn't hunted on those humans, how many people would they have gone on to kill or traumatise? How many lives did you save by killing a few humans?" I asked, sitting down in the meadow, basking in the sunlight.
"That doesn't mean I have a soul" He muttered petulantly as he sat down beside me.
"My father lost his soul once. Had it sucked out by a Dementor. You have a soul- something not everyone in my world has. In Azkaban there are hundreds, if not thousands, of inmates that are lacking a soul. They're shells of the people they use to be. First comes madness, the build-up of Dementor attacks until they finally take your soul. You scream and should, covered in dirt with your fresh prison tattoos printed on your body. They say the madness is the worst part. All the hate you feel, having to relive your worst memories. Then they take your soul and it's all quite. Azkaban is always filled with crazed screams because it's that or the silence of death. They body is alive, but it's like no one's home. They don't feel, talk, eat, and drink…nothing. They just sit there as their body slowly dies. You, Edward Antony Mason Culled, have a soul. You talk, you hunt, you socialise, move and have fun, and above all, you love. You love your family and hopefully you love me. How could you love if you didn't have a soul?" I said, pinning him down as I straddled him, silently weighting myself so he couldn't move me before jabbing my finger in his chest as I spoke.
"I do love you" He admitted, looking at me with adoring eyes, like I was the most important thing in his life. "More than anything in this world and the next." He said kissing me deeply.
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I was relaxing at home when the goblin from the bank fire called. I was chilling from out day off from training as we Elizabeth and I tended to train at least a little bit six days a week.
"Miss Black?" Griphook called as the Floo burst into life.
"Ah, Griphook, I'm afraid she isn't here right now. Is there anything I can do to help?" I asked, getting up from the sofa where I had been relaxing, reading Quidditch Weekly.
"Well Narcissia and Draco Malfoy request audience with the head of the black family. They are currently waiting here, at the bank, for her arrival." Griphook said and I heard some people moving around in the back ground.
"Right, well I shall call for her immediately. She is out on business at the moment, but I am sure she can apparate herself here and delay her business for now. Family is important." I replied with a stiff nod. "I shall talk to you soon."
Coming from the fire I ran a hand through my hair. Narcissa had never wanted to marry Lucius but had no say in it because of the contract between our families. I knew she had a good heart, but that son of hers was a Malfoy…
Drawing my wand, I sent a Patronus to her, hoping she wouldn't be too 'busy' with Edward.
It didn't take long for her reply.
'Narcissa and Draco Malfoy seek an audience with me? I don't see why not. We were quite good friends at school in my last year when Granger and Weasley turned their backs on me. I'll be home soon. Edward is going back to his because I'm not quite sure how long this will take. I'll be home soon, I just need to go back to the Cullen's and collects some of my stuff.' The stag said before disappearing.
I paced the floor for a while, wondering how I didn't know of Draco and Elizabeth's friendship. Last I had heard they were enemies for Merlin's sake!
I didn't have long to ponder this as Elizabeth Apparated in. The wards were set to allow our magical signatures in, in any kind of travel.
"Right, so are we meeting them at Gringotts?" she asked as she straightened her black button up shirt.
"Yeah, did you want me to come with you?" I asked, ever concerned for my daughter. "I would prefer it if I could go through first, make sure it's safe for you to come through."
"If you want, then you can go and check that no one is hiding in there, ready to kill me" She said, smiling as she rolled her eyes.
She may have been joking, but I was not. Throwing her a stern look, I muttered for her to stay there before going through the floo. Floo wasn't my favourite method of transportation, but I had to admit it did have it's uses.
Stepping out of the floo and into Griphook's office, I quickly scanned the room, noticing that not only were Narcissa and Draco were her, but Severus Snape as well. Damn. What was funny was that they seemed to think that I was head of the black family! They must not have been made privy to the conversation between Griphook and I.
"Lord Black, I know that this may come as a shock-" Narcissia began as she stepped towards me imploringly, a pleading look in her eyes.
"Wait! Cissy, I am not head of the black family." I said, unable to keep the smirk off my lips.
"Then whom, pray tell" Severus sneered, "Is head of house Black?"
With a full out grin on my face I went back to the floo and stuck my head in, calling Elizabeth that it was safe to come through, making sure not to mention any names.
A couple seconds later, Elizabeth came strolling out with a well-practised grace. It had been awfully difficult to teacher her how to use the floo without having her fall over when she came out. Turns out the Weasley's didn't really teach her how to use it that well.
"Elizabeth?!" Both Draco and Severus asked at the same time in shock. Severus?! Glaring at him, I considered why that snake knew my daughter in a first name basis.
"Hey Dray, Sev!" She called, running to them and hugging them both.
"SEV?!" I spluttered indignantly, causing both the ladies to giggle and the Slytherin's to smirk.
"Problem, Black?" Snape asked with a raised eyebrow. I so wanted to beat that bloody smirk off his face.
"How the hell do you know my daughter on a first name basis?" I demanded to know, never ceasing in my glare.
"Dad, he's my teacher and my best friend's godfather. We got to know each other when I began my friendship with Draco. They helped me a lot with my potion which were drastically, well, drastically crap to be honest. I think the only person worse than me in the class was possibly Nevil." My daughter said with a roll of her eyes, like my problem was completely irrational, which it totally wasn't.
"Oh, I wouldn't go that far, Elizabeth. Weasley was holding you back, you were about average, but he dragged your grades down." Snape smiled down at her like they were old friends.
"Liz, you look so different, I hardly recognised you." Draco said, was that tears I saw in his eyes? Merlin, this was worse than I thought.
"I know. Sirius adopted me when Ced-" She said, her voice wavering and just halting altogether when his name was mentioned. She whimpered and tears began to brim in her eyes, Draco wrapped his arms around her in comfort and Snape rubbed her back. Narcissia was in just as much shock as I was. "Sirius adopted me when that happened and we moved away. I miss my old hair, but I think this look suits me just as well." She smiled, hugging the young Slytherin back. "I'm guessing that you are all here because of the war?"
Narcissia took this as her que. "Lady Black, I know that this may come as a shock, but Severus, my son and I want no part in this war. At least no part that currently exists. We never wished to serve the dark lord, in in Severus's case, become a spy for Dumbledore. What we do wish is to follow you. Weather that is to stay out of the war or fight as a third part in the war. What we would like, and hope you accept, is to reinstate us in the house of black, making my marriage null and my son a Black. I am your aunt and he is your cousin and we would very much like to be part of the black family once more." She said, stepping towards her, like she had my, her eyes wide, if not slightly confused at the scene between my daughter and the two male Slytherin's.
"Narcissia Malfoy. I do not know you personally, but I do know your son. Knowing what I do in both my heart and my head, I welcome you back into the family of Black. While I am sure of his loyalties, I am still uneasy of yours, but the way I see it is that you truly could not be worse than my previous aunt. Welcome back to house Black." She smiled before shocking everyone in the room and drawing my sister onto her arm for a brief hug. Pulling away she turned to face Snape. "Severus. While you have not been in house Black, I invite you into it. While my Father may not agree, you have been my second Godfather, appointed by Lily, so with this in mind, I invite you into the family as both mine and Draco's uncle" She smiled and I really, really wanted to punch that smug look off that ugly face of his.
"I will have to think about it" He said with a bow and a smile. Slimy git.
"Right, well do you wanna come and life with us?" She asked and I was all about to faint from shock.
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I hadn't really been surprised that Dray and Sev had come to me. We had spoken when we were at Hogwarts about how they never wanted to serve the dark or light sides of the war. I could tell that my dad wasn't exactly thrilled with my decision, but in the long run, it was my decision.
After telling them where we lived and changing the wards, we all floo'ed back to the house/manor.
"Wow, nice place, cuz" Draco remarked as I showed them to their rooms. Narcissia's was next to Sirius's because I figures that they were the most likely to get along while Draco and Severus were either side of me. The rooms were all in pale creams and I had shrugged at each of the doorways and told them to decorate it however they liked. When we got to Draco's room he grabbed my arm and pulled me in to help him decorate. Then I remembered.
"Oh, Draco, there's a few things I need to tell you." I casually muttered as I spelled one of his walls green, leaving the others white. He was, surprisingly, keeping with the modern and light theme.
"Yeah?" He questioned, poking the white shelving with his wand like he hadn't seen anything like it. I supposed he happen. The shelving was on the green wall, to the left of his bed and in the style of two boxes on top of each other.
"Yeah. I'm actually dating a vampire and going to muggle high school. You're going as well, here you phone. See ya." I said in a rush, leaving his room and running into mine. Looking around I decided I needed to redecorate. I wanted something that showed my house pride. Something that suited the modern muggle side of me, but also my witch side. Picking up my mobile, I scrolled down until I found Edward's name and sent him a quick text telling him to come over. I put the phone down on the desk in my room and drew my wand. I had some decorating to do.
A/N: Hey, I know that it has been a while since I updated, but I hadn't had the chance due to personal reasons. I hope to get back to write a chapter a day pretty soon.
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