Kat sat in front of her mirror staring at her reflection. It had been
almost two months since Donovan had returned. She had seen him
occasionally, but mostly they communicated by letter. The last two months
had been a living hell at school. Everyone was treating her like the
plague; none of them would forgive her for breaking up with Draco. The only
person who had talked to her was Hermione, but that was only to yell at her
for keeping secrets.
Then the silent treatment began, not one student would talk to her, and the professors' all looked at her in pity. Her father didn't even know what to say to her. The only friends she had anymore were Mrs. Norris and Aniee, and of course Fearchar.
Luckily she was taking her N.E.W.T.s on the 14th, which was only four days away. Her results would arrive in a week, then she would officially graduate the next day and her wedding was planned for two days later. The family had thought it best that they be joined as soon as possible, and a week from Sunday was the day they had chosen.
She sighed softly, Fearchar was across the room, and looked up at the sound of her voice. She looked up at her faithful friend and guardian. One of the few perks of being who she was, she supposed.
"Why do I even pretend anymore Fearchar? Why do I still hide, there's no one to hide from anymore."
"I don't know why ya do it Delwyn, I can't help ya with your mind, tis yours."
"I haven't heard you talk in so long, I'd almost forgot you could." She said with a soft smile.
"You've heard me in your dreams milady, I've never left your side."
"I know, you've been my one constant all my life. It's strange isn't it, we're repeating history."
"Aye milady, that we are."
"Well, this time I'm not letting it end as it did. I'm tired of hiding behind a mask." She said as she stood up and closed her eyes.
Fearchar flew up and turned away as the bright light encompassed the room. Then she noticed the fire in the distance.
"Fearchar, what is it?"
"People are coming milady."
Suddenly a wave of dizziness hit Kat and she sunk to her knees.
Evil was coming.
Taking a deep breath she focused her mind and blocked the wave. Slowly she stood up and walked over to the window. Fearchar was right, there were people coming, torches lined the far shore of the lake.
Closing her eyes she focused her mind on the people out there. She had to see who they were. The darkness was almost overpowering, but she focused through it. She opened her sense and felt for the most power, then followed it. The flames started to appear around her and the other magic began to overwhelm her sense, but she had to work through it. She focused more on the greatest amount of power and slowly he came into focus.
Suddenly the lights of her room burst into her mind as she was thrown out of the vision. She stood up slowly, ignoring the headache that was quickly forming from the strain of the vision and her abrupt exit.
"Fearchar go get Nadine, tell her what is going on. But don't let her or the others come. I won't risk the last of the circle. I'm going to warn the school" she explained as she turned around and pushed aside her mirror and placed her hand on the stones. She waited patiently for the stone wall to move, then took off at a run down the passageway.
Fearchar watched her go, then took off as well.
~*~*~*~*~
Draco walked into the Great Hall and made his way to the Slytherin table. It had been two months since Katia had told him of her betrothal. Two months of absolute hell. He wanted to hate her, he did. But the sad fact was that he loved her.
He had been watching her since Dumbledore made that stupid announcement. Even her cousin gave her the cold shoulder. Looking around the room he saw that she was absent once more. Then again she was probably studying for her N.E.W.T.s on Monday.
"Good evening students. I have no announcements tonight, so without further ado." Dumbledore began but stopped as a part of the wall by the Griffyndor table separated from the rest of the wall.
"What in Merlin's name?" Minerva asked in shock, then her mouth dropped open as a woman ran out of the opening and towards the head table.
The woman wore a sheer lavender dress that went past her feet, with sleeves that were loose and longer than her arms. She had midnight black hair that tumbled down her back reaching down to the floor. Her skin was quite literally as white as snow, and she had large violet eyes.
'Ekaterina!" Severus said in shock as he stood up. Great Merlin she looked exactly like her mother, except for his hair color.
Everyone in the hall looked at her in shock, no one believing that the person before them was the same person they had been treating like 'he who must not be named' for the last two months.
"Aye, it's me. But that isn't important right now. Voldemort is here." She replied as she skidded to a halt in front of the head table.
"Sure, and I'm Morganna LeFay." Pansy said standing up.
"You can't be Kat, she looks nothing like you." Ron replied as he stood up. Bloody hell he was agreeing with a Slytherin and Parkinson at that.
"You know what Ron," she began turning towards him, not caring what they thought of her.
"I've put up with the entire school treating me like crap for the past two months. How could you even know what I look like? For your information, I've looked like this since the truth about my father came out earlier this year, but I've kept my appearance a secret."
"That may be true, but if you want anyone to believe you, then you should prove it." Filch said with a smile, much like the one he would wear when he talked about the old ways of detention.
"We don't have time for this." She replied rolling her eyes as she turned back to the head table.
"I suggest you make time." Millicent said with a smirk.
She sighed, then pointed her wand towards herself and said a quick spell. "Happy?" she asked when she had changed her appearance back to the disguise.
"My word." Minerva said in surprise.
She rolled her eyes once more, "Now that we have established that I'm who I say I am, may I re-point out that Voldemort is almost at our door." God they were acting like idiots.
"That's impossible Katherine, there is no way he could get here." Poppy said with a smile, thinking the girl had dreamed it up or something.
"All right Poppy, why don't you go out there and tell him and the sixty plus Death Eaters that." She replied before turning to Dumbledore.
"Albus, do you really want to risk the safety of the students just because the founders of the school claimed that it was impossible for evil to enter. Come on Albus, we both know that the founders weren't as pure and wonderful as they claimed."
"How dare you!" Minerva said standing up.
"No Minerva, she's right. But Katherine, I still don't think that Voldemort is crazy enough to actually attack the school" Albus replied quickly, not wanting to get Katherine more riled up then she already was, and talk of the founders always did that the quickest.
Shaking her head Kat returned to her true appearance, right now she couldn't waste the magic to keep the facade going. Besides, she had sworn she wouldn't let them win again, she would be herself and no one else.
"Why don't you tell that to him." She replied when they heard the echo of pounding on the front door.
"Dear Merlin." Minerva said in shock as she promptly sat in her chair.
Then everyone started talking at once.
Sighing she turned to her father. "Well Papa, looks like your peoples' way has failed again."
"Aye love, so it would seem, so it would seem." He replied softly. This was it, he knew why Voldemort had come. The old bastard wanted her powers for his own, to have her as one of his followers.
"What is going on here?" a clear voice rang through the hall silencing everyone.
"Nadine?" Kat said turning around on her heels.
"What are you doing here. I told Fearchar to keep the family away from here." She continued, ignoring the looks being thrown around the room as people thought she was loosing it when she began talking to something they couldn't see, as Nadine was too small in fairy form, and blended with the starlight created by the ceiling.
"Like we ever listened. By the way, love seeing the true you again, reminds me of your mother." Nadine replied with a smile. It was about time the girl quit trying to be what people wanted her to be.
Kat shook her head softly. "Where are the others?"
"At the front door, keeping the nutcase busy."
"What! Have you lost your mind?" she yelled. "There's only twelve of us left, what are you trying to do, make it two." She exclaimed, wondering if her aunt had lost her mind
"Three child, your betrothed isn't here." Nadine began, "Besides, we have all the blocking spells, there's only one way left to kill us, and only we know it." She reminded the girl who was trying to keep her thoughts straight.
"Donovan?" Kat asked in shock, ignoring the last part of Nadine's statement.
"Last I checked that was his name, even if he was believed to be dead for seven years."
"Nadine, let's get back to the matter at hand." Kat said rolling her eyes Donovan's whereabouts would have to wait until later. And the last thing they needed at the moment was another argument about him. Nadine was still upset Donovan had taken so long to return to them.
"True, true; I suppose that I may as well get comfortable for myself and the rest of the mortals." She replied as she noticed the students were still looking at Kat as if she was nuts. She quickly began to grow in size until she was standing at eye level with Kat.
"Show off." Kat replied with a smile.
"It's a fairy." Someone whispered
"Aye I'm a fairy, tis not that big a deal." Nadine replied rolling her eyes. 'Foolish mortals, have to say the obvious' she told Kat in their minds, to which Kat only smiled.
"What we should be worrying about is the crazy mortal out there who is trying to get in here."
"Nadine, I don't think that your manners are helping the situation." Severus said softly.
"Oh stuff it Severus, stop being such a wizard or a mortal, either way you are driving me insane."
"Don't start you two, now is not the time." Kat snapped, holding her right hand against her temple. Everyone looked at her in surprise as she her knees gave out and she fell to the floor.
"Delwyn, what is wrong?" Nadine began, and then she suddenly sank to her knees holding her left hand to her head.
Before she had a chance to answer Nadine continued. "Never mind." She replied bringing her other hand up to her head, and carefully rising, though it appeared she was still ready to collapse. "I know what's wrong with you."
Minutes later the doors opened as two men and a woman stumbled in, then they turned and slammed the doors shut. Everyone looked at the new mortal- sized fairies in shock.
"Leslie, Terran, Noreen, what happened?" Kat asked slowly standing to her feet.
"They're dead, the rest of the circle is dead."
"We know." Nadine replied, "Why else do you think she was on her knees, and I was barely standing on my own. We have felt their deaths."
"How did it happen? There is only one way to kill a fairy now that we have preformed the counter-spell against the ways that killed Rory and Eira."
"They knew it." Leslie replied.
"How?" Nadine asked in shock.
"We were betrayed." Noreen replied.
"We'll deal with that later. Now we have to protect the mortals and milady." Terran said as they strode towards the two of them.
"Dumbledore, it has been a long time."
"That it has Leslie, would you mind keeping your wings at bay this time. I don't think Filch would like to deal with the cleanup again." He replied with a smile.
"Of course Albus," he replied inclining his head in a nod. "As you wish."
"Thank you. So it is true, Voldemort has come."
"Aye, tis true." Terran replied. "He will be at our door at any moment."
"Make that now." A voice called from the door. Everyone turned in shock to look at the door.
"I see that you have been expecting me. And look, more fairies for me to destroy."
"Leave them alone Voldemort!" Kat cried stepping in front of them.
"Foolish girl." He replied waving his wand and sending her flying across the room. "Now to finish what the founders of Hogwarts started. The destruction of the fairies." He continued raising his wand and pointing it at the four.
Moments later the room was filled with a bright emerald green light.
"No!" Kat yelled as the light faded, and everyone in the room stopped at the sound of pure anguish in her voice.
She was sitting next to Nadine's body tears streaming down her face as she softly brushed the hair away from the once vibrant amethyst eyes so like her own.
She turned back to Voldemort and looked at him, her eyes blazing. "How did you know how to kill the fairy?"
Voldemort smirked, "Not that it's any of your business child. But I learned of it from him" he replied pointing at the man on his right side. All you could see with his cloak was dark hair and blue eyes peering out.
"Now, since I've answered your foolish question child, get out of the way." He continued waving his wand once more, sending her flying across the room again, until she smacked against the wall by the Griffyndor table then fell down to the floor in a heap.
All of the students stared at where she had hit the wall in ever-growing shock. Hermione and the others looked at the crumpled form on the floor, so close to where they sat, numerous thoughts running through their heads.
"What have I done." Hermione thought as she looked at her cousin on the floor, still not moving.
"Now, where were we." Voldemort began, drawing everyone's attention. "Ah yes, I've come for your daughter Snape. Where is she?"
"She's by the wall where you threw her." A very angry female voice replied. He looked towards the wall to see the girl who should have been unconscious slowly making her way towards the center of the room.
"You're Ekaterina Snape?" he asked surprised. "Ah yes, you do look remarkably like your mother. Except for your father's hair of course. Sorry about that."
Kat snorted, "Sure you're sorry, I'll believe that the day I see you go around kissing babies."
"Watch your tongue. You are speaking to his lordship." The man on his left said
"I know full well who I'm speaking to Lucius. And he is not my lord."
"How dare you." Lucius began once more.
"How dare you Lucius Malfoy. You killed your only daughter and wiped her from the memory of every person in the wizarding community. The only reason I remember her is because my mother told me about her."
"She was no daughter of mine, a useless squib. She deserved nothing more than she got." He sneered.
Everyone gasped and looked at Draco who looked as if he wanted to strangle his father with his bare hands.
"Stop it Lucius." Voldemort hissed. "Now Ekaterina, I have heard a great deal about you, will you join with me?"
She raised one eyebrow, "You ask that as if I wanted to." She replied as she turned to look at her father. "Listen and listen well Riddle, I will never join with a man who tried to destroy people simply because they didn't agree with him or weren't pureblood." She replied as she turned her head towards him, before looking back at her father and walking up to the head table where her wand had somehow ended up when she was being thrown around.
"If that wasn't enough, you tried to kill my mother when I wasn't even a year old, just because she was from the Mediocris clan and had sworn to protect the fairies. Whom you had sworn to destroy just because your ancestor wanted to destroy them and had actually convinced the other founders of this school to help him.
"So, if I didn't make myself clear Riddle, using a saying I learned in the states, you can go jump off the nearest bridge for all I care. I will never be one of your clueless followers. Do I make myself clear?" she asked, with one eyebrow raised as she leaned against the head table with one hand, her other wrapped around her wand, which was still on the table, and behind her back.
"Listen to me you foolish girl, no one calls me by that name, and second, I will have your powers one way or another." He replied.
"Don't threaten me Riddle, you know full well the power I possess. And right now I am angry enough to not care what consequences I have to deal with. You just killed the last of the only people who ever accepted me regardless of what I did in this life."
"I warned you." He began as he raised his wand.
"No, let me reason with her." The man in the cloak said softly, and Voldemort lowered his wand.
"Think about what you are saying." He began walking towards her, ignoring the other death eaters behind him. And the angry man who had wanted to kill her then and there.
Kat stopped mid-thought when she heard his voice. Opening her sense she felt out the magic around her. She didn't even hear her cousin's gasp as she dropped ten more shades in color.
Then the silent treatment began, not one student would talk to her, and the professors' all looked at her in pity. Her father didn't even know what to say to her. The only friends she had anymore were Mrs. Norris and Aniee, and of course Fearchar.
Luckily she was taking her N.E.W.T.s on the 14th, which was only four days away. Her results would arrive in a week, then she would officially graduate the next day and her wedding was planned for two days later. The family had thought it best that they be joined as soon as possible, and a week from Sunday was the day they had chosen.
She sighed softly, Fearchar was across the room, and looked up at the sound of her voice. She looked up at her faithful friend and guardian. One of the few perks of being who she was, she supposed.
"Why do I even pretend anymore Fearchar? Why do I still hide, there's no one to hide from anymore."
"I don't know why ya do it Delwyn, I can't help ya with your mind, tis yours."
"I haven't heard you talk in so long, I'd almost forgot you could." She said with a soft smile.
"You've heard me in your dreams milady, I've never left your side."
"I know, you've been my one constant all my life. It's strange isn't it, we're repeating history."
"Aye milady, that we are."
"Well, this time I'm not letting it end as it did. I'm tired of hiding behind a mask." She said as she stood up and closed her eyes.
Fearchar flew up and turned away as the bright light encompassed the room. Then she noticed the fire in the distance.
"Fearchar, what is it?"
"People are coming milady."
Suddenly a wave of dizziness hit Kat and she sunk to her knees.
Evil was coming.
Taking a deep breath she focused her mind and blocked the wave. Slowly she stood up and walked over to the window. Fearchar was right, there were people coming, torches lined the far shore of the lake.
Closing her eyes she focused her mind on the people out there. She had to see who they were. The darkness was almost overpowering, but she focused through it. She opened her sense and felt for the most power, then followed it. The flames started to appear around her and the other magic began to overwhelm her sense, but she had to work through it. She focused more on the greatest amount of power and slowly he came into focus.
Suddenly the lights of her room burst into her mind as she was thrown out of the vision. She stood up slowly, ignoring the headache that was quickly forming from the strain of the vision and her abrupt exit.
"Fearchar go get Nadine, tell her what is going on. But don't let her or the others come. I won't risk the last of the circle. I'm going to warn the school" she explained as she turned around and pushed aside her mirror and placed her hand on the stones. She waited patiently for the stone wall to move, then took off at a run down the passageway.
Fearchar watched her go, then took off as well.
~*~*~*~*~
Draco walked into the Great Hall and made his way to the Slytherin table. It had been two months since Katia had told him of her betrothal. Two months of absolute hell. He wanted to hate her, he did. But the sad fact was that he loved her.
He had been watching her since Dumbledore made that stupid announcement. Even her cousin gave her the cold shoulder. Looking around the room he saw that she was absent once more. Then again she was probably studying for her N.E.W.T.s on Monday.
"Good evening students. I have no announcements tonight, so without further ado." Dumbledore began but stopped as a part of the wall by the Griffyndor table separated from the rest of the wall.
"What in Merlin's name?" Minerva asked in shock, then her mouth dropped open as a woman ran out of the opening and towards the head table.
The woman wore a sheer lavender dress that went past her feet, with sleeves that were loose and longer than her arms. She had midnight black hair that tumbled down her back reaching down to the floor. Her skin was quite literally as white as snow, and she had large violet eyes.
'Ekaterina!" Severus said in shock as he stood up. Great Merlin she looked exactly like her mother, except for his hair color.
Everyone in the hall looked at her in shock, no one believing that the person before them was the same person they had been treating like 'he who must not be named' for the last two months.
"Aye, it's me. But that isn't important right now. Voldemort is here." She replied as she skidded to a halt in front of the head table.
"Sure, and I'm Morganna LeFay." Pansy said standing up.
"You can't be Kat, she looks nothing like you." Ron replied as he stood up. Bloody hell he was agreeing with a Slytherin and Parkinson at that.
"You know what Ron," she began turning towards him, not caring what they thought of her.
"I've put up with the entire school treating me like crap for the past two months. How could you even know what I look like? For your information, I've looked like this since the truth about my father came out earlier this year, but I've kept my appearance a secret."
"That may be true, but if you want anyone to believe you, then you should prove it." Filch said with a smile, much like the one he would wear when he talked about the old ways of detention.
"We don't have time for this." She replied rolling her eyes as she turned back to the head table.
"I suggest you make time." Millicent said with a smirk.
She sighed, then pointed her wand towards herself and said a quick spell. "Happy?" she asked when she had changed her appearance back to the disguise.
"My word." Minerva said in surprise.
She rolled her eyes once more, "Now that we have established that I'm who I say I am, may I re-point out that Voldemort is almost at our door." God they were acting like idiots.
"That's impossible Katherine, there is no way he could get here." Poppy said with a smile, thinking the girl had dreamed it up or something.
"All right Poppy, why don't you go out there and tell him and the sixty plus Death Eaters that." She replied before turning to Dumbledore.
"Albus, do you really want to risk the safety of the students just because the founders of the school claimed that it was impossible for evil to enter. Come on Albus, we both know that the founders weren't as pure and wonderful as they claimed."
"How dare you!" Minerva said standing up.
"No Minerva, she's right. But Katherine, I still don't think that Voldemort is crazy enough to actually attack the school" Albus replied quickly, not wanting to get Katherine more riled up then she already was, and talk of the founders always did that the quickest.
Shaking her head Kat returned to her true appearance, right now she couldn't waste the magic to keep the facade going. Besides, she had sworn she wouldn't let them win again, she would be herself and no one else.
"Why don't you tell that to him." She replied when they heard the echo of pounding on the front door.
"Dear Merlin." Minerva said in shock as she promptly sat in her chair.
Then everyone started talking at once.
Sighing she turned to her father. "Well Papa, looks like your peoples' way has failed again."
"Aye love, so it would seem, so it would seem." He replied softly. This was it, he knew why Voldemort had come. The old bastard wanted her powers for his own, to have her as one of his followers.
"What is going on here?" a clear voice rang through the hall silencing everyone.
"Nadine?" Kat said turning around on her heels.
"What are you doing here. I told Fearchar to keep the family away from here." She continued, ignoring the looks being thrown around the room as people thought she was loosing it when she began talking to something they couldn't see, as Nadine was too small in fairy form, and blended with the starlight created by the ceiling.
"Like we ever listened. By the way, love seeing the true you again, reminds me of your mother." Nadine replied with a smile. It was about time the girl quit trying to be what people wanted her to be.
Kat shook her head softly. "Where are the others?"
"At the front door, keeping the nutcase busy."
"What! Have you lost your mind?" she yelled. "There's only twelve of us left, what are you trying to do, make it two." She exclaimed, wondering if her aunt had lost her mind
"Three child, your betrothed isn't here." Nadine began, "Besides, we have all the blocking spells, there's only one way left to kill us, and only we know it." She reminded the girl who was trying to keep her thoughts straight.
"Donovan?" Kat asked in shock, ignoring the last part of Nadine's statement.
"Last I checked that was his name, even if he was believed to be dead for seven years."
"Nadine, let's get back to the matter at hand." Kat said rolling her eyes Donovan's whereabouts would have to wait until later. And the last thing they needed at the moment was another argument about him. Nadine was still upset Donovan had taken so long to return to them.
"True, true; I suppose that I may as well get comfortable for myself and the rest of the mortals." She replied as she noticed the students were still looking at Kat as if she was nuts. She quickly began to grow in size until she was standing at eye level with Kat.
"Show off." Kat replied with a smile.
"It's a fairy." Someone whispered
"Aye I'm a fairy, tis not that big a deal." Nadine replied rolling her eyes. 'Foolish mortals, have to say the obvious' she told Kat in their minds, to which Kat only smiled.
"What we should be worrying about is the crazy mortal out there who is trying to get in here."
"Nadine, I don't think that your manners are helping the situation." Severus said softly.
"Oh stuff it Severus, stop being such a wizard or a mortal, either way you are driving me insane."
"Don't start you two, now is not the time." Kat snapped, holding her right hand against her temple. Everyone looked at her in surprise as she her knees gave out and she fell to the floor.
"Delwyn, what is wrong?" Nadine began, and then she suddenly sank to her knees holding her left hand to her head.
Before she had a chance to answer Nadine continued. "Never mind." She replied bringing her other hand up to her head, and carefully rising, though it appeared she was still ready to collapse. "I know what's wrong with you."
Minutes later the doors opened as two men and a woman stumbled in, then they turned and slammed the doors shut. Everyone looked at the new mortal- sized fairies in shock.
"Leslie, Terran, Noreen, what happened?" Kat asked slowly standing to her feet.
"They're dead, the rest of the circle is dead."
"We know." Nadine replied, "Why else do you think she was on her knees, and I was barely standing on my own. We have felt their deaths."
"How did it happen? There is only one way to kill a fairy now that we have preformed the counter-spell against the ways that killed Rory and Eira."
"They knew it." Leslie replied.
"How?" Nadine asked in shock.
"We were betrayed." Noreen replied.
"We'll deal with that later. Now we have to protect the mortals and milady." Terran said as they strode towards the two of them.
"Dumbledore, it has been a long time."
"That it has Leslie, would you mind keeping your wings at bay this time. I don't think Filch would like to deal with the cleanup again." He replied with a smile.
"Of course Albus," he replied inclining his head in a nod. "As you wish."
"Thank you. So it is true, Voldemort has come."
"Aye, tis true." Terran replied. "He will be at our door at any moment."
"Make that now." A voice called from the door. Everyone turned in shock to look at the door.
"I see that you have been expecting me. And look, more fairies for me to destroy."
"Leave them alone Voldemort!" Kat cried stepping in front of them.
"Foolish girl." He replied waving his wand and sending her flying across the room. "Now to finish what the founders of Hogwarts started. The destruction of the fairies." He continued raising his wand and pointing it at the four.
Moments later the room was filled with a bright emerald green light.
"No!" Kat yelled as the light faded, and everyone in the room stopped at the sound of pure anguish in her voice.
She was sitting next to Nadine's body tears streaming down her face as she softly brushed the hair away from the once vibrant amethyst eyes so like her own.
She turned back to Voldemort and looked at him, her eyes blazing. "How did you know how to kill the fairy?"
Voldemort smirked, "Not that it's any of your business child. But I learned of it from him" he replied pointing at the man on his right side. All you could see with his cloak was dark hair and blue eyes peering out.
"Now, since I've answered your foolish question child, get out of the way." He continued waving his wand once more, sending her flying across the room again, until she smacked against the wall by the Griffyndor table then fell down to the floor in a heap.
All of the students stared at where she had hit the wall in ever-growing shock. Hermione and the others looked at the crumpled form on the floor, so close to where they sat, numerous thoughts running through their heads.
"What have I done." Hermione thought as she looked at her cousin on the floor, still not moving.
"Now, where were we." Voldemort began, drawing everyone's attention. "Ah yes, I've come for your daughter Snape. Where is she?"
"She's by the wall where you threw her." A very angry female voice replied. He looked towards the wall to see the girl who should have been unconscious slowly making her way towards the center of the room.
"You're Ekaterina Snape?" he asked surprised. "Ah yes, you do look remarkably like your mother. Except for your father's hair of course. Sorry about that."
Kat snorted, "Sure you're sorry, I'll believe that the day I see you go around kissing babies."
"Watch your tongue. You are speaking to his lordship." The man on his left said
"I know full well who I'm speaking to Lucius. And he is not my lord."
"How dare you." Lucius began once more.
"How dare you Lucius Malfoy. You killed your only daughter and wiped her from the memory of every person in the wizarding community. The only reason I remember her is because my mother told me about her."
"She was no daughter of mine, a useless squib. She deserved nothing more than she got." He sneered.
Everyone gasped and looked at Draco who looked as if he wanted to strangle his father with his bare hands.
"Stop it Lucius." Voldemort hissed. "Now Ekaterina, I have heard a great deal about you, will you join with me?"
She raised one eyebrow, "You ask that as if I wanted to." She replied as she turned to look at her father. "Listen and listen well Riddle, I will never join with a man who tried to destroy people simply because they didn't agree with him or weren't pureblood." She replied as she turned her head towards him, before looking back at her father and walking up to the head table where her wand had somehow ended up when she was being thrown around.
"If that wasn't enough, you tried to kill my mother when I wasn't even a year old, just because she was from the Mediocris clan and had sworn to protect the fairies. Whom you had sworn to destroy just because your ancestor wanted to destroy them and had actually convinced the other founders of this school to help him.
"So, if I didn't make myself clear Riddle, using a saying I learned in the states, you can go jump off the nearest bridge for all I care. I will never be one of your clueless followers. Do I make myself clear?" she asked, with one eyebrow raised as she leaned against the head table with one hand, her other wrapped around her wand, which was still on the table, and behind her back.
"Listen to me you foolish girl, no one calls me by that name, and second, I will have your powers one way or another." He replied.
"Don't threaten me Riddle, you know full well the power I possess. And right now I am angry enough to not care what consequences I have to deal with. You just killed the last of the only people who ever accepted me regardless of what I did in this life."
"I warned you." He began as he raised his wand.
"No, let me reason with her." The man in the cloak said softly, and Voldemort lowered his wand.
"Think about what you are saying." He began walking towards her, ignoring the other death eaters behind him. And the angry man who had wanted to kill her then and there.
Kat stopped mid-thought when she heard his voice. Opening her sense she felt out the magic around her. She didn't even hear her cousin's gasp as she dropped ten more shades in color.
