Chapter 14: The accident
When Maria woke up the next morning she felt unusual tired and cold. She put a blanket around her shoulders and walked down to the kitchen tightly wrapped into it.
"Have you seen dad?" she asked the two death eaters that was sitting around the kitchen table, speaking with each other in low voices.
"Maria, are you alright?" one of the death eaters asked worried.
Maria identified him as Rockwood and sat down on a chair."
"I'm just freezing that's all". She answered truthfully. "Have you seen dad or not?"
"You shouldn't disturb him right now. He's in a bad mood", the other death eater said. It was Dolohov.
"Please just tell me where he is", Maria begged.
"You never give up, do you? He's somewhere. I don't know where. You should be in bed if you don't feel well."
"I'm fine I'm going to go outside for a while."
"You're not going outside if you're not feeling well. Go to your room and get some rest instead", Rockwood protested.
"I don't take orders from you", she spat and walked out through the back door."
"Maria wait. You know what I mean. If anything happens to you, we are the ones to get the blame. At least put a cloak on so you won't get worse", Rockwood said and gave her a cloak.
Maria took it and walked through the snow. She saw Rockwood turn and walk inside the warm house again.
When she had walked for a while, she felt dizzy again, sat down on an overturned oak, and looked out over the icy lake. The everything went black and Maria fell down in the deep snow.
She woke up a couple of minutes later, almost completely buried in the snow. She fumbled after the wand with her blue fingers and sent a shower of red sparks into the air.
Another couple of minutes and she was laying in Rockwood's arms.
"I told you to stay inside", he whined.
"I didn't know that I would be sick and faint", she retorted.
Maria felt him open the door and that is was warm inside.
"What happened?" a threatening voice said from behind them.
Rockwood stopped and hesitated to turn around.
"I asked you a question and expect an answer", Voldemort continued when Rockwood didn't answer.
Rockwood quickly turned and put Maria down on the floor before kneeling at his Lords feet and started to tell.
When he had told the whole story was Voldemort furious.
"You mean you let my daughter walk outside despite that she was sick?"
"I tried to top her, but she refused to listen", Rockwood defended himself.
"Not enough", Voldemort cut off. "Now leave."
Rockwood was gone in a second and Voldemort picked Maria up. He walked silently with her to his study where he put her down in a bed.
Maria woke up a couple of seconds later and pulled the blanket closer around her. A couple of feet away she saw a man screaming in pain on the floor. She sat up carefully, stood up on unsteady legs, and somehow walked to her father.
"Dad, when does school start again", she shivered.
"In two days. You think you'll manage?"
Maria nodded and wobbled back to the bed.
Two days later Maria sat on the Hogwarts express back to Hogwarts. Suddenly the door burst open and Maria flew up from her seat.
"Draco", she muttered when Draco Malfoy entered the compartment.
"Dad told me you'd been sick. Is it true?" he asked merciless.
"I haven't been that sick. I just lay unconscious in the snow for a couple of minutes." Draco looked at her and the sat down in front of Maria.
"You never answered my letter, by the way", Maria continued.
"I wasn't able to. Sad about Devon tough, but I think you look alright." Maria stared out the window, completely ignoring what Draco said.
Suddenly the train stopped and Draco and Maria flew into each other, staying unconscious on the floor.
When Maria opened her eyes again the white, bright light in the room dazzled her. Suddenly it changed into a more red color and Maria had no longer the ability to change her red eyes to her normal color blue. Maria heard the door open and closed her eyes hard.
"I know that you're awake, miss", a nurse said.
She slowly opened her eyes and watched the nurse take an unwilling step back.
"Y-You're h-his d-daughter", she stammered and backed a couple of more steps.
"Congratulations", Maria said sarcastic.
The nurse closed her eyes and opened them a second later, hoping that all of this would be a nightmare.
"Lucius", Maria whispered and a second later Lucius stood before eyes, bowing slightly.
This was something all of the death eaters had started with lately. She didn't like it, but she would probably get used to it soon.
"What do you want? I'm busy", Lucius spat, but didn't move.
Maria nodded towards the nurse and Lucius turned to look at her.
She knows who I am. Can you do something about it? Not here, but somewhere where they can't blame me for it."
"Why would you get the blame?" Lucius said and raised his wand towards the nurse.
"Maybe some nice person would accuse me of it since I'm the daughter of the Dark Lord, but I don't know. I doubt dad would be very happy with you if something happened to me", Maria said threatingly.
"Maybe some nice person would accuse me of it since I'm the daughter of the Dark Lord, but I don't know. I doubt dad would be very happy with you if something happened to me", Maria said threatingly.
Lucius nodded slowly before casting the Imperius curse upon the nurse and took her out of the room. Marias eyes color finally went back to normal and she gave a sigh of relief.
She looked around noticing Draco in the bed next to her.
' Poor Draco', she thought. 'My father at least cares about me, but Lucius doesn't care about you at all.'
Suddenly the doors opened again and interrupted Marias thoughts. It was Lucius coming back.
"She won't be a problem anymore", he said before bowing and disapparated.
He didn't even look at Draco.
Suddenly another nurse entered the room and walked to check on Draco. When she was done, she walked over to Maria.
"You're awake now", she stated and put her hand on Marias forehead.
"Don't touch me, mudblood", Maria snapped and pulled the hand away.
Maria watched as the nurses eyes were filled with water and she smiled to herself.
"What's your name?" the nurse asked when she had recovered from Marias outburst.
"Maria", she sighed, forcing herself to look into the nurses eyes.
"I have to contact your and the boy's parents, or they might worry.
"That won't be necessary. I get sick often and if there's something, you can just tell me", Maria said icily.
"I'm sure you do, but I would like to speak with your parents anyway", the nurse said stubbornly.
"Fine. My mother is dead, so if you can't communicate with the dead I doubt you will be able to contact her and I don't know where my father is at the moment. The only thing I can tell you about him is that he goes under the name of Voldemort."
She watched as the nurse flinched in the same way as the other had done. The only difference was that Maria hadn't planned for this one to die. She had worked on some kind of hypnosis for a long time and she longed to try it on something other the spiders and mice. This was a good opportunity.
"Look into my eyes", she ordered and the nurse did as she was told. "You won't tell anyone about this, because if you do you will suffer the Cruciatus curse until the point of death", Maria continued. "Now, tell me about my sickness."
"It's something in your blood. Either some poison or you have been exposed of a curse several times when you were younger. It gives you a tendency of fainting when you're under stress or when you're sick. Sometimes when you least expect it. That's all we know so far."
"What happened with Draco?" she asked, pointing with her wand towards Draco.
"He's just unconscious from the accident. He'll be waking up soon", the nurse said, now almost completely back to normal again. But just almost.
"You're awake", a voice said, relieved and looked into the eyes of Dumbledore.
"Yes. What happened?" Maria asked.
"There was something wrong with the train. An accident of course. I hope you and Mr. Malfoy didn't suffer any hard injuries.
"We're fine. Just a little bruised."
Suddenly there was a loud bang and Lucius Malfoy showed up again. This time wearing a hood and mask.
"Are you completely insane?" Maria asked chocked. "In a hospital. How the hell do you think?"
Dumbledore petrified Lucius and went to get some aurors. Maria waved with her wand and everything went back to normal.
"Are you completely insane?" Maria asked again.
"Sorry", Lucius said. "But it was important. Your father wants to speak with you."
"He always want to speak with me", Maria muttered and took Lucius hand.
The second later Maria was standing in a dark room. Lucius disappeared before Maria could blink.
"How are you?" her father asked, nodding against a pain-relieving potion that was standing on a table.
"I'm fine", Maria said, taking the potion. She immediately felt how the headache disappeared. "I have to get back to St Mungos or they'll get suspicious."
"Sure. Tell Lucius. He's closest", Voldemort said and Maria ran to find him.
She was back at St Mungos a second later.
Suddenly the doors burst open and a couple of aurors showed up to take Lucius with them.
"Maria, have you seen the death eater?" Dumbledore asked, giving Maria a strict look.
"He left. Got tired of waiting, I presume", Maria sighed.
The aurors left and the room was finally silent. The only people still left in the room was Maria and Draco and Draco was still unconscious, so she lay down to wait for him to wake up. A couple of minutes later she fell into a deep sleep.