Prologue Part I
Rowena Ravenclaw looked at the two men, torn apart. Rowena was the beauty of the wizarding world with her wavy, brown coffee hair and kind, hazel eyes and slender figure. However, Rowena couldn't figure how she ever got the role. She always had declared that she didn't deserve it because of her nose. It was very flat in her eyes and she hated it. It was a sad fact that her older sister had dropped her when she was a baby and she had a little grudge against her because of it. However, it apparently did no damage to her head because she was the most intelligent witch in her era. Her heart always had been in the right place and she was all for justice and truth, but when Slytherin and Gryffindor got into their fights, she flared up with her short temper. Slytherin, the man she loved. Gryffindor, her best friend…the man she respected. How could she choose?
"Gryffy…" Salazar taunted.
"Stop calling me that!" gritted Gryffindor.
"What? Call you Gryffy? But it's terrible fun," smirked Salazar wickedly.
"You make me sick!"
"It's my personal job, you know."
"I've had enough!" yelled Rowena. Salazar and Gryffindor looked at Rowena expectantly. They both had expected a lecture but they were surprised to find her on the ground in the glory of her salty tears.
"Look at what you've done!" yelled Gryffindor.
"Me? I beg your pardon…I believe it was you!"
"Stop acting so childish! I could just wring both of your necks!" sobbed Rowena.
"We'd end it if you'd hurry and choose what side you are on," said Gryffindor. Rowena looked up horrified at the two men before her. Her morals were always to love the muggle borns and she did love them having a glimmer of muggle blood in her veins. Yet, the love she felt for Slytherin made her forget many of her other morals…could she throw this moral away too? Rowena looked at the two men when she felt a gentle hand. It was her dear friend, Hufflepuff.
"Dear Rowena…just go with what your heart tells you…" she encouraged.
"How can I when my heart is torn apart?" asked Rowena silently. Rowena looked up at Salazar once more before saying, "My friends, I have come to a decision." Rowena stood up and faced her three friends: One her best friend, the other her mentor, and the other her lover. She couldn't get herself to spit out the words but she inhaled sharply and started, "You three are very special to me and I deeply wish this decision was not laid at my feet but as it is…I see that I have no choice. I believe in Justice and fairness…" chocked Rowena, "that's why I have to agree to let in Muggle borns to Hogwarts."
"Are you mad, Rowena?" cried Salazar, "The Purebloods should be the ones to learn magic…they should be the ones to grasp the opportunity their blood rightfully gave to them."
"Are you saying that I shouldn't have learned magic?" Rowena asked.
"What are you saying?"
"I'm not completely Pureblood…I have a glimmer of Muggle blood in me…"Rowena said paling.
"No impossible! Muggle borns should be stupid and…Rowena, tell me you are mistaken! For the love of God tell me you are joking with me!" urged Salazar when Rowena couldn't answer and continued to look down silently crying. Gryffindor looking at this was enraged.
"She's got some Muggle blood in her, so what? Are you going to throw away all the love vows you've made all those years just because of some speck of Muggle blood?!"
"It's none of your business what so ever. This is between Rowena and I, so leave us be…you meddlesome, slimy git…"
"All right, all right…we've got the message," Hufflepuff inserted, "Rowena told us that it was hard to make the decision, but she did make it because she thought it was the right thing. Salazar, can't you just accept it?"
"I want to hear it from Rowena's lips…do you have Muggle blood?"
"Yes…but…"
"All those years…never a word…How could you?" interrupted Slytherin.
"Because I knew you'd react this way! It was very difficult to keep it from you…I love you Salazar…please…don't you still love me?"
"Can you actually ask that after all the lies?" Salazar asked his eyes getting clouded slowly with apathy.
"Salazar, I've tried to soften you for so long of years and loved you…you would never have let me love you if you knew…" Rowena pleaded trying to reach for his arm. Salazar jerked his arm away from her.
"Don't touch me! You're just as filthy as a Mudblood," he hissed. Rowena hearing that stood up tall and looked at him with fire.
"How dare you! I've got some Muggle blood in me and I'm not ashamed of it! You can throw as many insults at me but…they can't hurt me! I won't let it hurt me! I'm not as heartless as most of you Purebloods are! I always believed that a wizard without a heart is no wizard at all…because only love can do real healing and apparently people with no heart can love."
" Oh, I'm so sorry for not sharing the ideals of the famous Rowena Ravenclaw," scoffed Salazar. With that Rowena couldn't keep in her anger or hurt and she lost control. She slapped Salazar with as much force she could. Rowena was shaking uncontrollably.
"I thought…you could be different…I thought you could understand…you know what had happened to me and my family but yet you actually can stand there and mock me…I trusted you! I loved you! The screams of my mother from the hurt my father causes haunts me Salazar…I had trusted my father for so long until he turned on my family…My father had been my role model. After that I believed that I could never love again and yet you proved me wrong and now here I am again…how could you? I hate you!" screamed Rowena collapsing on the floor and crying. Salazar's eyes flashed with compassion but it left as quickly as it came.
"Love is a weakness, Ravenclaw…Deal with it." When Salazar used her last name she quickly looked up. He never used her last name after he had declared he loved her…did this mean he fell out of love with her? Oh the anguish!
"Yes, love is surely a weakness, Slytherin," agreed Rowena while standing up, "That's why right here, right now as you as my witness I make an oath of never loving any one as the likes of you ever again. I wish never to see you…never…you're the cause of my death, Salazar Slytherin…you are!" yelled Rowena running out the door letting the tears flow freely. Slytherin saw the love of his life flee from his grasp. Oh how he loved her…the hurt it caused to hear the words pierce his heart. He turned to the other two and saw that Gryffindor was seething mad and looked like he could run him over like a bull. Hufflepuff was crying silently and looking at the door sadly. Slytherin wanted to kill himself at that moment when he heard his words echo in his head. "Love is a weakness..."
"Good work, Slytherin! I thought I could really trust you because I hadn't seen Rowena so happy before you came into her life but now…I see I shouldn't have let the relationship go on…what a fool I was…"
"Why don't you shut it for once. It would be doing the whole world a big favor. I'm leaving this…It has no hope of a future…Just remember I do have a secret chamber in here and it will unleash a dark creature that only my heir can control. It will take revenge for me by killing all the muggle borns in this school. You're all pathetic muggle loving crowd, aren't you?"
"Slytherin, please…don't leave her like this," pleaded Hufflepuff. Salazar looked at the kind witch with indifference. Hufflepuff was a beauty too with her soft blonde hair and clear green eyes but she was definitely not his type. She was too soft.
"It's not my problem anymore! I don't care what she does with her life…she means nothing to me," smirked Salazar caressing Hufflepuff's check. When Hufflepuff turned her head and blushed, Slytherin laughed.
"Scared? I thought so. You should be…It was nice knowing you Hufflepuff. I hope never to meet you pathetic three ever again," Slytherin grimly said walking toward the door leading him out the castle. His heart was pleading for him to run to Rowena so that he could comfort her, to kiss her. But his body refused to listen. His mind convinced him that his eyes were really opened and that he was doing the right thing. When he approached the great oak doors carved with the four founder's animal, he slowly fingered the snake that was so near the raven. He touched the black animal for the last time before he opened the door to another world. The door that would take him far away from his lost love. Oh how wrong he could be…the love was part of him…the love was in his heart to remain forever. "I loved you, Rowena. I hope you will forget me. It would be easier for you…easier for me. Be happy, my dear Rowena. For your sanity, be happy. Good-bye…" The loud sound of the door closing rang in his head forever until the day he died. It was always remembered as the sound of regrets and his refusal to true happiness…
A.N: hahahahah….this is a H/DR fic…but it's the prologue! So you'll see what will happen. Oh and this is part ONE there is a part TWO…so wait for it! I hope you enjoyed it!! Please R/R!!!
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own any characters in this fic!! I just own the plot!!!