No, I'm not J. K. Rowling. Although I do steal her cloths and wear
them and watch her every move. LOL I'm just kidding. But anyway, I do
not own Harry Potter. Although I do own the characters Faida and
Tobias in this story. So you cant have them!!!! They belong to
me!!!!!!! ^_^ * evil laughs of hysteria *
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The sun was setting over a quiet cottage house that the Raye family called home. A man turned to pick up a little girl who was tugging at his shirt. The little girl laughed, her black curly hair flying around her face as her father spinned her in circles. The both of them were spinning until they fell to the ground, which made them laugh even more.
"We'd better head back inside before it gets dark," the man said. The girl pouted but reluctantly agreed. He held her hand as they walked into the house.
"Mom!" the little girl called. But no response was heard. The girl ran through the house, looking for her mother. She stopped and realized that her mother was not in the house. She turned to look for her father, but he seemed to have disappeared also.
"Mommy! Daddy! Where are you?!" the girl yelled, fear filling her voice. She ran through the house again and came to the living room. The front door was open and a faint green light flooded through it. She slowly walked to the door. She pushed through it and looked for what was causing the weird light. She stopped dead when she saw what was taking place in her front yard.
Four hooded figures were standing huddled around something. They raised their wands and stepped backwards. The girl stifled a scream as she saw her parents being levitated from the ground. She heard a voice whisper from one of the dark faces. A spell. Suddenly, the two floating wizard started to twist and wither in agony, their screams filling the air. The girl watched in horror as the blood started to flow from unknown wounds on them. The were imploding into themselves, there veins and arteries bursting and flowing outwards. The screams grew silent. And the only movement was the lifeless twitching of their nerves weakening and dieing.
"MOMMY! DADDY!!" the little girl screamed. The hooded ones looked up at the trembling girl. The pieces of her parents fell to the ground, the spell broken. The girl ran to her lifeless parents, desperate to revive them. Before she had gone a few feet one of the hooded ones grabbed her and pulled her away.
"What do we do with the girl?" the hooded one asked.
"Our lord wants her alive. Take her to him," another said.
The girl started screaming and tried to break free of the man's grip. But he only wrapped his hands tighter around her arm, making the girl wince in pain.
"Now be a good girl. Maybe you'll live if you do as we say," he said. The girl only responded with more screams and tugs. "Dammit girl! Shut up!" the man pulled her hair until she was raised from the ground. The girl's screams were now of pain. " I said, SHUT THE HELL UP!" the man yelled again as he threw the girl on the ground. She brought her arm down to catch herself, but she missed and her wrist was broken on impact. The man towered over her, as her screams were replaced with heavy sobbing. "I'll give you something to cry about!" the man kicked the little girl in the chest. The girl laid on the ground, trying to get her wind back. The metallic flavor of blood filled her mouth as she bit down hard on her lip. She was trying desperately not to scream. She only laid there as the people around her only gawked and laughed at her suffering. She turned her eyes to her parents. Her mother's decapated head was only a foot or so from her. The girl frantically tried to reach for it. To caress her mother's cheek before the bad men killed her or worse. But she could not reach, but her fingers did touch some of the ruby red blood that covered the ground like newly fallen rain. The girl layed on the cold ground, willing herself to die. She welcomed the icy stillness of the earth. But her wishes were blown apart by a bruising kick to the stomach.
"HEY! You awake? You better be! You can't die yet!" the man yelled down at her.
She felt dizzy. She couldn't breathe. Her vision started to blur and she looked over at her parents for the last time.
"Mommy. Daddy." she whispered, before the darkness took her.
* * *
Faida woke in a cold sweat. It was only a dream. but for her it was all too real. She often dreamed of what happened to her eight years ago. When her parents were killed. Faida had learned to get over her sorrow. She couldn't let people see her like this. It was a weakness. She sat up and ran her fingers through her raven hair. It was curly and almost floated down her back. She had always been admired for her hair. It had perfect curls, but it wasn't frizzy at all. It was like twisted silk. And against her milky smooth skin she seemed to glow.
The girl looked around her. She was on a train. Oh yes, she remembered now. Faida was going to that Hogwarts School. She smiled to herself. She was so happy at being able to go. Maybe she could actually make it her home. A home.. Faida had never had a real home. There had been places that her and Tobias had stayed for a long time, but they always had to move sooner or later. It was not safe to stay in one place for long. They might catch us.
She looked up at the man sitting across from her. He was awake of course. He was always awake. He only slept when he had to, he was always watching over her. Protecting her.
"Why don't you go to sleep? You need it. You haven't slept in three days. It should be safe to sleep here on the train," Faida said. He only looked at me and smirked, his blue-black hair falling into his face. Tobias's hair had always bothered her. He kept it rather long for a boy and it always looked like he needed a haircut. His skin was very pale and it rippled over his fine-toned muscles like silk. And his eyes were a pure black. Tobias had told her a long time ago not to worry about his insomnia. That he could go perfectly well with over a week of no sleep. He could do a lot of things normal people couldn't.
He smiled his sly smile he always gave her when she asked him a question she already knew the answer to. His lips pulled back to reveal two small, but sharp, fangs. Tobias was a vampire.
"Don't ask stupid questions, Faida," was all he said.
"Sorry." She mumbled sarcastically. Tobias had been the only friend she had had for a very long time. She cared for him greatly, and he was like a brother to her. But he didn't hold conversations very well. And sometimes he could be a real jerk. But she knew he cared for her greatly and would do anything for her. Faida did miss having fun and missed being able to play. She was 17 and had never really gone through her teenage stage. When she was put under Tobias's care she had been forced to go strait from childhood to adulthood. Hopefully this school would be a start for her. Maybe she could make friends with people and hang out and be normal for a change! Or at least pretend to be. She envied the kids she saw on her travels who played with their friends and didn't have a care in the world. She desperately wanted that life.
Her thoughts were interrupted when the train stopped at a station. The train had been empty but now kids of all ages were coming in and taking their seats. She looked out her window and saw a boy. He looked about her age. He had very light blond hair and it was sleeked back. A group of girls were gawking at him, trying to get his attention. But he only smirked and walked toward the train.
"Hello. Do you mind too much if we join you? The other compartments are all full and there are a few seats left in here." Faida looked up to see a girl with bushy brown hair and two boys standing behind her. One had bright red hair and the other had black. They looked friendly and were smiling at them.
"Sure, we'd be glad to have you," Faida said cheerfully. Tobias barely looked up and only gave a low grunt. But Faida was glad to have the company. Now was her chance.
They looked for seats. There was two left by Faida and one by Tobias. None of the teens looked excited about sitting by the annoyed looking man. Faida giggled and got up and sat beside Tobias, leaving the three seats open. They all three sighed in relief and took the seats opposite of Faida and Tobias. All three introduced themselves as Hermoine, Harry, and Ron.
"It's a pleasure to met you. My name is Faida Raye. And that stiff over there is Tobias," she said pointing at Tobias. "Don't be afraid of him. He just doesn't talk much, so don't expect it. You learn to love him though." She smiled at Tobias. He only grunted and turned his face to look out the window. They only took the gesture as one of annoyance, but really he had done it to hide a light blush that had gone across his face.
"You're new this year right? What year will you be in?" Hermione asked.
"Yea. I'll be in sixth," Faida said.
"Where did you transfer from?" Harry asked, suddenly very interested in the girl.
Faida panicked. What should she tell them? Certainly not the truth. That would bring up to many questions. But she really didn't want to lie to her new friends. Faida glanced at Tobias out of the corner of her eye. He was glaring at her. She knew that look. The, don't you dare, look. What should she say?
"Umm. Well, I was always home schooled. And we've traveled around a lot because. Tobias is." She said, desperately trying to make something believable up. Damn her! Why didn't she come up with something earlier?! She searched her mind, and said the first thing that popped to her. "A tutor! Yea! We traveled around so he could learn and teach people about. stuff. like, about how to protect themselves. But we decided to go to Hogwarts, for me to go to school and for Tobias to teach. He's the new defense against the dark arts teacher." This part was not a lie. Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts, had offered him the job when he had refused to leave Faida. She looked at Tobias again. He nodded, meaning he approved of her excuse. She sighed in relief. Now everything would be fine as long as they didn't ask any more questions.
"Cool. So you're our new DADA teacher, huh? Is Tobias your first or second name?" Ron asked. Faida waited for Tobias' response. Tobias didn't have a last name. He was just. Tobias.
"You will refer to me as Professor Aquilus," Tobias muttered plainly. Faida smiled. Professor Aquilus? He must of come up with it. Creative. Aquilus. it meant black in Latin. Yep, that was Tobias all right.
All three teens in front of them nodded in understanding.
The group sat and talked about many things. Ron and Hermione told her about their families. Harry seemed quiet about the subject, but no one pushed it. The two boys brought up a debate over who would win the World Cup this year. Tobias never got into the conversations. He only sat and stared out the window. He would occasionally grunt or nod when referred to, but nothing else was heard, which, this was normal for Tobias. After a few failed attempts at making chitchat with the dark man the trio gave up and talked just to Faida. The time on the train passed by quickly and Faida found herself becoming very good friends with them. And they accepted her without question. She couldn't remember being so happy.
Suddenly, the door opened to reveal a boy with silver hair strut into the room. It was the same boy she had seen out the window at the station. Two boys who resembled gorillas followed him.
"Well, well. Hello Potter! I see that you and these-" the boy cut short when he noticed Faida. The evil snicker on his face was replaced with what seemed like awe when he saw her. He blinked several times before stuttering, "Umm. hi."
Faida smiled, but then realized that she was staring dumbly at the boy. She quickly looked away, staring at a spot on the floor. He automatically regained his posture and turned back to the three very amused faces.
"Well, you three shouldn't even be here! A mudblood, weasel, and poser are hardly worthy company for this lovely woman!" he sputtered angrily to the trio. Faida blushed at the harsh complement, but stood up to defend her new friends.
"Thank you. But I really do not think that you have any room to speak, when you are being followed around by two monkeys," Faida said. The boy turned a brilliant red. The platinum haired teen opened and closed his mouth, looking a lot like a dumbfounded fish. Faida smiled, he was sort of cute when he wasn't snickering.
"Well. I." then he suddenly burst out laughing. "Too true." He smiled charmingly at her and walked out the door, followed by the other two. Faida could only stare confused as they left. She wasn't expecting that! Her trance was broken by laughter and a slap on her back.
"That was brilliant, Faida! Malfoy has never been told off speechless like that! He couldn't even think of a comeback! Bloody brilliant!" Ron laughed.
"Is that his name? Malfoy?" She asked.
"Yeah. Draco Malfoy. And his henchmen were Crabe and Goyle. They're in Slytherin. Dreadful, they are," Hermione hissed.
"Slytherin?" Faida asked, confused by this new word. All three looked at her shocked.
"You don't know about the houses?!" Harry asked. Faida shuck her head no. They suddenly broke into a description of the houses. Griffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. They told her about the house cup, and the sorting hat. Finally, Faida nodded in understanding.
"I wonder which house I'll be in?" she said, wondering to herself.
"I'd give anything you'll be in Griffindor with us," Ron said.
"I hope so! But I'd be happy with anything as long as it's not Slytherin!" the raven-haired girl said cheerfully.
"Oh, trust me! You're not Slytherin material!" Hermione said, patting Faida on the back.
Tobias sat in his corner staring out the window, as he had the whole trip. He heard the bushy-haired girl's comment. Not Slytherin material. Oh, my Faida. if only you knew. A hint of despair flashed in his onyx eyes as he stared at the approaching castle lights.
* * *
The sun was setting over a quiet cottage house that the Raye family called home. A man turned to pick up a little girl who was tugging at his shirt. The little girl laughed, her black curly hair flying around her face as her father spinned her in circles. The both of them were spinning until they fell to the ground, which made them laugh even more.
"We'd better head back inside before it gets dark," the man said. The girl pouted but reluctantly agreed. He held her hand as they walked into the house.
"Mom!" the little girl called. But no response was heard. The girl ran through the house, looking for her mother. She stopped and realized that her mother was not in the house. She turned to look for her father, but he seemed to have disappeared also.
"Mommy! Daddy! Where are you?!" the girl yelled, fear filling her voice. She ran through the house again and came to the living room. The front door was open and a faint green light flooded through it. She slowly walked to the door. She pushed through it and looked for what was causing the weird light. She stopped dead when she saw what was taking place in her front yard.
Four hooded figures were standing huddled around something. They raised their wands and stepped backwards. The girl stifled a scream as she saw her parents being levitated from the ground. She heard a voice whisper from one of the dark faces. A spell. Suddenly, the two floating wizard started to twist and wither in agony, their screams filling the air. The girl watched in horror as the blood started to flow from unknown wounds on them. The were imploding into themselves, there veins and arteries bursting and flowing outwards. The screams grew silent. And the only movement was the lifeless twitching of their nerves weakening and dieing.
"MOMMY! DADDY!!" the little girl screamed. The hooded ones looked up at the trembling girl. The pieces of her parents fell to the ground, the spell broken. The girl ran to her lifeless parents, desperate to revive them. Before she had gone a few feet one of the hooded ones grabbed her and pulled her away.
"What do we do with the girl?" the hooded one asked.
"Our lord wants her alive. Take her to him," another said.
The girl started screaming and tried to break free of the man's grip. But he only wrapped his hands tighter around her arm, making the girl wince in pain.
"Now be a good girl. Maybe you'll live if you do as we say," he said. The girl only responded with more screams and tugs. "Dammit girl! Shut up!" the man pulled her hair until she was raised from the ground. The girl's screams were now of pain. " I said, SHUT THE HELL UP!" the man yelled again as he threw the girl on the ground. She brought her arm down to catch herself, but she missed and her wrist was broken on impact. The man towered over her, as her screams were replaced with heavy sobbing. "I'll give you something to cry about!" the man kicked the little girl in the chest. The girl laid on the ground, trying to get her wind back. The metallic flavor of blood filled her mouth as she bit down hard on her lip. She was trying desperately not to scream. She only laid there as the people around her only gawked and laughed at her suffering. She turned her eyes to her parents. Her mother's decapated head was only a foot or so from her. The girl frantically tried to reach for it. To caress her mother's cheek before the bad men killed her or worse. But she could not reach, but her fingers did touch some of the ruby red blood that covered the ground like newly fallen rain. The girl layed on the cold ground, willing herself to die. She welcomed the icy stillness of the earth. But her wishes were blown apart by a bruising kick to the stomach.
"HEY! You awake? You better be! You can't die yet!" the man yelled down at her.
She felt dizzy. She couldn't breathe. Her vision started to blur and she looked over at her parents for the last time.
"Mommy. Daddy." she whispered, before the darkness took her.
* * *
Faida woke in a cold sweat. It was only a dream. but for her it was all too real. She often dreamed of what happened to her eight years ago. When her parents were killed. Faida had learned to get over her sorrow. She couldn't let people see her like this. It was a weakness. She sat up and ran her fingers through her raven hair. It was curly and almost floated down her back. She had always been admired for her hair. It had perfect curls, but it wasn't frizzy at all. It was like twisted silk. And against her milky smooth skin she seemed to glow.
The girl looked around her. She was on a train. Oh yes, she remembered now. Faida was going to that Hogwarts School. She smiled to herself. She was so happy at being able to go. Maybe she could actually make it her home. A home.. Faida had never had a real home. There had been places that her and Tobias had stayed for a long time, but they always had to move sooner or later. It was not safe to stay in one place for long. They might catch us.
She looked up at the man sitting across from her. He was awake of course. He was always awake. He only slept when he had to, he was always watching over her. Protecting her.
"Why don't you go to sleep? You need it. You haven't slept in three days. It should be safe to sleep here on the train," Faida said. He only looked at me and smirked, his blue-black hair falling into his face. Tobias's hair had always bothered her. He kept it rather long for a boy and it always looked like he needed a haircut. His skin was very pale and it rippled over his fine-toned muscles like silk. And his eyes were a pure black. Tobias had told her a long time ago not to worry about his insomnia. That he could go perfectly well with over a week of no sleep. He could do a lot of things normal people couldn't.
He smiled his sly smile he always gave her when she asked him a question she already knew the answer to. His lips pulled back to reveal two small, but sharp, fangs. Tobias was a vampire.
"Don't ask stupid questions, Faida," was all he said.
"Sorry." She mumbled sarcastically. Tobias had been the only friend she had had for a very long time. She cared for him greatly, and he was like a brother to her. But he didn't hold conversations very well. And sometimes he could be a real jerk. But she knew he cared for her greatly and would do anything for her. Faida did miss having fun and missed being able to play. She was 17 and had never really gone through her teenage stage. When she was put under Tobias's care she had been forced to go strait from childhood to adulthood. Hopefully this school would be a start for her. Maybe she could make friends with people and hang out and be normal for a change! Or at least pretend to be. She envied the kids she saw on her travels who played with their friends and didn't have a care in the world. She desperately wanted that life.
Her thoughts were interrupted when the train stopped at a station. The train had been empty but now kids of all ages were coming in and taking their seats. She looked out her window and saw a boy. He looked about her age. He had very light blond hair and it was sleeked back. A group of girls were gawking at him, trying to get his attention. But he only smirked and walked toward the train.
"Hello. Do you mind too much if we join you? The other compartments are all full and there are a few seats left in here." Faida looked up to see a girl with bushy brown hair and two boys standing behind her. One had bright red hair and the other had black. They looked friendly and were smiling at them.
"Sure, we'd be glad to have you," Faida said cheerfully. Tobias barely looked up and only gave a low grunt. But Faida was glad to have the company. Now was her chance.
They looked for seats. There was two left by Faida and one by Tobias. None of the teens looked excited about sitting by the annoyed looking man. Faida giggled and got up and sat beside Tobias, leaving the three seats open. They all three sighed in relief and took the seats opposite of Faida and Tobias. All three introduced themselves as Hermoine, Harry, and Ron.
"It's a pleasure to met you. My name is Faida Raye. And that stiff over there is Tobias," she said pointing at Tobias. "Don't be afraid of him. He just doesn't talk much, so don't expect it. You learn to love him though." She smiled at Tobias. He only grunted and turned his face to look out the window. They only took the gesture as one of annoyance, but really he had done it to hide a light blush that had gone across his face.
"You're new this year right? What year will you be in?" Hermione asked.
"Yea. I'll be in sixth," Faida said.
"Where did you transfer from?" Harry asked, suddenly very interested in the girl.
Faida panicked. What should she tell them? Certainly not the truth. That would bring up to many questions. But she really didn't want to lie to her new friends. Faida glanced at Tobias out of the corner of her eye. He was glaring at her. She knew that look. The, don't you dare, look. What should she say?
"Umm. Well, I was always home schooled. And we've traveled around a lot because. Tobias is." She said, desperately trying to make something believable up. Damn her! Why didn't she come up with something earlier?! She searched her mind, and said the first thing that popped to her. "A tutor! Yea! We traveled around so he could learn and teach people about. stuff. like, about how to protect themselves. But we decided to go to Hogwarts, for me to go to school and for Tobias to teach. He's the new defense against the dark arts teacher." This part was not a lie. Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts, had offered him the job when he had refused to leave Faida. She looked at Tobias again. He nodded, meaning he approved of her excuse. She sighed in relief. Now everything would be fine as long as they didn't ask any more questions.
"Cool. So you're our new DADA teacher, huh? Is Tobias your first or second name?" Ron asked. Faida waited for Tobias' response. Tobias didn't have a last name. He was just. Tobias.
"You will refer to me as Professor Aquilus," Tobias muttered plainly. Faida smiled. Professor Aquilus? He must of come up with it. Creative. Aquilus. it meant black in Latin. Yep, that was Tobias all right.
All three teens in front of them nodded in understanding.
The group sat and talked about many things. Ron and Hermione told her about their families. Harry seemed quiet about the subject, but no one pushed it. The two boys brought up a debate over who would win the World Cup this year. Tobias never got into the conversations. He only sat and stared out the window. He would occasionally grunt or nod when referred to, but nothing else was heard, which, this was normal for Tobias. After a few failed attempts at making chitchat with the dark man the trio gave up and talked just to Faida. The time on the train passed by quickly and Faida found herself becoming very good friends with them. And they accepted her without question. She couldn't remember being so happy.
Suddenly, the door opened to reveal a boy with silver hair strut into the room. It was the same boy she had seen out the window at the station. Two boys who resembled gorillas followed him.
"Well, well. Hello Potter! I see that you and these-" the boy cut short when he noticed Faida. The evil snicker on his face was replaced with what seemed like awe when he saw her. He blinked several times before stuttering, "Umm. hi."
Faida smiled, but then realized that she was staring dumbly at the boy. She quickly looked away, staring at a spot on the floor. He automatically regained his posture and turned back to the three very amused faces.
"Well, you three shouldn't even be here! A mudblood, weasel, and poser are hardly worthy company for this lovely woman!" he sputtered angrily to the trio. Faida blushed at the harsh complement, but stood up to defend her new friends.
"Thank you. But I really do not think that you have any room to speak, when you are being followed around by two monkeys," Faida said. The boy turned a brilliant red. The platinum haired teen opened and closed his mouth, looking a lot like a dumbfounded fish. Faida smiled, he was sort of cute when he wasn't snickering.
"Well. I." then he suddenly burst out laughing. "Too true." He smiled charmingly at her and walked out the door, followed by the other two. Faida could only stare confused as they left. She wasn't expecting that! Her trance was broken by laughter and a slap on her back.
"That was brilliant, Faida! Malfoy has never been told off speechless like that! He couldn't even think of a comeback! Bloody brilliant!" Ron laughed.
"Is that his name? Malfoy?" She asked.
"Yeah. Draco Malfoy. And his henchmen were Crabe and Goyle. They're in Slytherin. Dreadful, they are," Hermione hissed.
"Slytherin?" Faida asked, confused by this new word. All three looked at her shocked.
"You don't know about the houses?!" Harry asked. Faida shuck her head no. They suddenly broke into a description of the houses. Griffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. They told her about the house cup, and the sorting hat. Finally, Faida nodded in understanding.
"I wonder which house I'll be in?" she said, wondering to herself.
"I'd give anything you'll be in Griffindor with us," Ron said.
"I hope so! But I'd be happy with anything as long as it's not Slytherin!" the raven-haired girl said cheerfully.
"Oh, trust me! You're not Slytherin material!" Hermione said, patting Faida on the back.
Tobias sat in his corner staring out the window, as he had the whole trip. He heard the bushy-haired girl's comment. Not Slytherin material. Oh, my Faida. if only you knew. A hint of despair flashed in his onyx eyes as he stared at the approaching castle lights.