Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling...yadda yadda yadda (and I just added the word "yadda" to my online dictionary... do you really think JKR uses words like "yadda"????)

A/N: thanks to my reviewers, Lola Black and bammbean!!! love you! I meant to write a fic about Lucius and a character based on myself, but it just turned into this. Anyway, here's chapter 2!

Chapter 2: Losing Control

"Back? Aidan's back? But he can't—"

"Why can't he be?" Her mother said back at her angrily, as if Idina was the one who left her impregnated and alone. "He's managed to screw up our lives this much, what's stopping him now? "So what are we gonna do?"

Tatiana ran her red nails threw her hair. "I don't know. I just don't know."

"How...when did you talk to him?"

"Last night. He called. Said he....missed us."

"But that was three years ago."

"Yeah, well, he missed a lot then." She sighed deeply.

"Why are you letting him come back? Can't you just tell him, tell him you're over—"

"You think everything is so simple, don't you? IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE!"

"THEN TELL ME WHAT MAKES IT SO DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO GET OVER HIM? WHAT MOM, TELL ME! TELL ME WHY YOU CAN'T JUST TELL HIM TO LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE?"

"You know why I can't do that! You've seen what he's done to me before. Don't be stupid. He's hit you too."

"Yeah, and you're going to let that bastard in this house again? That's real smart."

Idina barely had time to register the words that came out of her own mouth, before she felt a sharp, hot pain on her cheek. Her mother covered her face with her hands, looking scared as to what she had done. She breathed in and out trying to hold back her tears. Idina just looked up at her mother in deep surprise and almost hate. Hands still covering her mouth, Tatiana left the room.

Idina slowly left too, when she saw her mother had gone, and headed for her own room. Her mother had never hit her before, never. Aidan had, several times. In a weird way, she almost expected it from Aidan, much more so than her mother.

You think that I can't see right through your eyes

Scared to death to face reality

No one seems to hear your hidden cries

You're left to face yourself alone

Idina sat at her bed, pulled out a book, and began to read.

"Idina! Let's go!"

She had finished her book by the time her mother was ready to leave. Going downstairs, she thought about how in just a few hours time, she would be back at Hogwarts. Her real home. Her thoughts were interrupted by the presence of Aidan downstairs.

"What are you doing here?" He was lying on the couch in sweats, watching a stolen television.

"Didn't you hear the good news?" he said nonchalantly, "I'm back."

"I see that," Idina said coolly, "So why don't you leave again? We were enjoying it so much."

"Shut up. This is my house, and that kid is mine. You can't stop me from living here."

"Wanna bet?" Aidan laughed, got up slowly from his seat, and walked toward the wall Idina was leaning on.

"You know, you gotta learn how to talk to adults, and you wouldn't be in so much trouble all the time."

Aidan thinks that Tatiana sends Idina away to school because she's a problem child; he doesn't know she's a witch. Idina likes it that way.

"You've gotten rather pretty since I've been gone," he said, letting one finger slowly graze her cheek. He did nothing more, but Idina stayed as still as possible and held her breath tightly, and only released it when he left the room.

When she went outside to drive to the station, she was once again unhappily surprised to find Aidan there, waiting for her.

"What...why isn't my mom driving me?"

"Because she has children to take care of," said a voice behind Idina. It was her mother.

"Aidan will drive you," she said all of this very calmly, and didn't look Idina in the eye.

Tatiana came over to her daughter, gave her a big hug and kissed her hair. She whispered in her ear, "Please. I'm sorry I hurt you. I'm sorry for everything I've done in the past, because the only right thing I've done in my life is having you. Please. Please try to make it work between you two. He's going to be here for good now."

Tatiana pulled away as if she couldn't stand being near her anymore, and told her she loved her.

"I love you too, Mom."

She got in the car somewhat reluctantly. Aidan had already gotten in the car and forced a smile in her direction. Aidan and Idina drove for a while in silence, until Aidan was about to open his mouth to say something. But what he was about to say, Idina never knew, because a loud, sickening crash erupted all around her, and everything went black.