Author's note: I told you that I would update. Twice in two days! YAY for
MEEEEE! OK. I decided to take StarryLibra's advice and put lyrics in. I
didn't want to go for "Pink family Portrait" because StarryLibra's got it
in hers lol. SO I went for this song. I don't own it and so on... I hope you
like it, and forgive my naivety because I have never put lyrics in a fic
before and to be honest I am not sure how it is going to work but here
goes... ENJOY!
**************************************************************************** **************
Melody's POV:
When I fell asleep for the second time I managed to get through the night without any more mid-night shenanigans around the kitchen table! It was Saturday so I dragged myself out of bed some time after noon. Skipping breakfast I decided to wonder aimlessly around the huge manor that was my home.
I couldn't believe how big it was. What I had explored in minor detail last night was in fact only the middle but most important area of it. Where my father's quarters were, also the kitchen, dining room, and general living space of the many deatheaters. My rooms were also part of this area and I also discovered a HUGE conference room, were my father and his deatheaters must congregate for meeting and so forth. Off this main area of the house are countless annexes for the most important deatheaters and rooms for the others. Also two other wings. One for the servants, and the other for countless of other reasons such as cellars, a library, practice rooms, dungeons... the list goes on.
I was returning to the kitchen, because I had become aware of my empty stomach when I heard angry shouts issuing from behind two immense double doors. My father's rooms. I could hear three voices in all. Two of them, were unmistakably my parents and they were SCREAMING at each other. The other voice I didn't recognise but it was tinged with worry and helplessness. Timidly I walked quietly to the doors and started to listen to the argument.
"BUT YOU'RE BEING PATHETIC!"
"DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT BELLATRIX!"
"Please! Calm down. What good will it do?"
"OH! SHUT UP! WHO ASKED FOR YOUR OPINION ANYWAY?"
This last angry out burst had come from my mother who then let out a frustrated scold, but she carried on all the same.
"She needs a father..."
"I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE NEEDS! SHE REVOLTS ME!"
"I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT! I SAW THE WAY YOU LOOKED AT HER YESTERDAY. YOU LOVED HER! I KNOW YOU DID. AND FOR CHRIST SAKE, LET GO OF YOUR CONTEMPT FOR LIFE BEFORE IT DESTROY'S EVERTHING THAT YOU HOLD DEAR! DON'T LET YOUR BITTERNESS DESTROY HER!"
"I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! I LIKE LIFE JUST FINE!"
"NOW THERE'S A LIE IF I HAD NEVER HEARD ONE BEFORE!"
"YOU ARE FORGETTING YOUR PLACE!"
"BUT YOU LOVE HER!"
"NO I DON'T!"
I couldn't stand it any more. I through the doors open furiously. Anger clouded my vision and all I could see was red. My mother seeing me tried to force a plastic smile on her face.
"Darling!" she said a little too shrilly. "What are you doing here?" I took a deep cleansing breath before managing to hiss,
"I want to know why my father hates me so much." I said heatedly. My father gave me a look of such hostility and hate that it set my blood on fire just to hold it, but I wouldn't let go. I kept on staring at him with as much hate as I could muster, pain flooding each of my cells. Pain that went far beyond the crucio curse. We stared at each other for what seemed for an eternity before, without any warning hit me full force across my face. Red hot heat seared were he hit me and the blow sent me tumbling back and I hit my head violently against the wall, and he carried on hitting me and kicking me, until a greater darkness threatened to fall upon me. Now I couldn't even hear my mother's outraged screams, as tears of blood rolled down my swollen cheeks.
Once upon a time there was a girl, In her early years she had to learn, How to grow up living in a war that she called home, Never knew just were to shelter from the storm, It hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face, Every time my father's fist would put her in her place, Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room, Hoping that it would all be over soon.
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same, And I still remember how you kept me so afraid, Strength is my mother for all the love she gave, And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday, And I'm OK.
I often wonder why I carry all this guilt, When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I've built, Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door, Echoes of a broken child screaming please no more, Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done, For you it's just a memory but for me it still lives on.
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same, And I still remember how you kept me so afraid, Strength is my mother for all the love she gave, And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday, And I'm OK.
It's not so easy to forget, All the marks you left along her neck, When I was thrown against cold stairs, And everyday afraid to come home in fear of what I might see next.
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same, And I still remember how you kept me so afraid, Strength is my mother for all the love she gave, And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday, And I'm OK.
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door, Echoes of a broken child screaming please no more, Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done, For you it's just a memory but for me it still lives on.
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door, Echoes of a broken child screaming please no more, Daddy please no more...
**************************************************************************** *********
Author's Note: And again I do NOT own this song! Ok happy? I know this was short AGAIN! But hey I'm sure you will live! I know your thinking what a loony Tom is because at first he was I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! And then he goes and beats her up, but there IS a reason! I will update. WISH ME LUCK FOR MY EXAMS TOMORROW! GOOD LUCK IF YOU ARE HAVING YOURS! ECPESSICALLY PRINCESS BELLATRIX! Oh and that reminds me! There WILL be more of Bella/Voldy! C yaz everyone! XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX
P.P.S did the lyrics work?
**************************************************************************** **************
Melody's POV:
When I fell asleep for the second time I managed to get through the night without any more mid-night shenanigans around the kitchen table! It was Saturday so I dragged myself out of bed some time after noon. Skipping breakfast I decided to wonder aimlessly around the huge manor that was my home.
I couldn't believe how big it was. What I had explored in minor detail last night was in fact only the middle but most important area of it. Where my father's quarters were, also the kitchen, dining room, and general living space of the many deatheaters. My rooms were also part of this area and I also discovered a HUGE conference room, were my father and his deatheaters must congregate for meeting and so forth. Off this main area of the house are countless annexes for the most important deatheaters and rooms for the others. Also two other wings. One for the servants, and the other for countless of other reasons such as cellars, a library, practice rooms, dungeons... the list goes on.
I was returning to the kitchen, because I had become aware of my empty stomach when I heard angry shouts issuing from behind two immense double doors. My father's rooms. I could hear three voices in all. Two of them, were unmistakably my parents and they were SCREAMING at each other. The other voice I didn't recognise but it was tinged with worry and helplessness. Timidly I walked quietly to the doors and started to listen to the argument.
"BUT YOU'RE BEING PATHETIC!"
"DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT BELLATRIX!"
"Please! Calm down. What good will it do?"
"OH! SHUT UP! WHO ASKED FOR YOUR OPINION ANYWAY?"
This last angry out burst had come from my mother who then let out a frustrated scold, but she carried on all the same.
"She needs a father..."
"I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE NEEDS! SHE REVOLTS ME!"
"I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT! I SAW THE WAY YOU LOOKED AT HER YESTERDAY. YOU LOVED HER! I KNOW YOU DID. AND FOR CHRIST SAKE, LET GO OF YOUR CONTEMPT FOR LIFE BEFORE IT DESTROY'S EVERTHING THAT YOU HOLD DEAR! DON'T LET YOUR BITTERNESS DESTROY HER!"
"I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! I LIKE LIFE JUST FINE!"
"NOW THERE'S A LIE IF I HAD NEVER HEARD ONE BEFORE!"
"YOU ARE FORGETTING YOUR PLACE!"
"BUT YOU LOVE HER!"
"NO I DON'T!"
I couldn't stand it any more. I through the doors open furiously. Anger clouded my vision and all I could see was red. My mother seeing me tried to force a plastic smile on her face.
"Darling!" she said a little too shrilly. "What are you doing here?" I took a deep cleansing breath before managing to hiss,
"I want to know why my father hates me so much." I said heatedly. My father gave me a look of such hostility and hate that it set my blood on fire just to hold it, but I wouldn't let go. I kept on staring at him with as much hate as I could muster, pain flooding each of my cells. Pain that went far beyond the crucio curse. We stared at each other for what seemed for an eternity before, without any warning hit me full force across my face. Red hot heat seared were he hit me and the blow sent me tumbling back and I hit my head violently against the wall, and he carried on hitting me and kicking me, until a greater darkness threatened to fall upon me. Now I couldn't even hear my mother's outraged screams, as tears of blood rolled down my swollen cheeks.
Once upon a time there was a girl, In her early years she had to learn, How to grow up living in a war that she called home, Never knew just were to shelter from the storm, It hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face, Every time my father's fist would put her in her place, Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room, Hoping that it would all be over soon.
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same, And I still remember how you kept me so afraid, Strength is my mother for all the love she gave, And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday, And I'm OK.
I often wonder why I carry all this guilt, When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I've built, Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door, Echoes of a broken child screaming please no more, Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done, For you it's just a memory but for me it still lives on.
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same, And I still remember how you kept me so afraid, Strength is my mother for all the love she gave, And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday, And I'm OK.
It's not so easy to forget, All the marks you left along her neck, When I was thrown against cold stairs, And everyday afraid to come home in fear of what I might see next.
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same, And I still remember how you kept me so afraid, Strength is my mother for all the love she gave, And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday, And I'm OK.
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door, Echoes of a broken child screaming please no more, Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done, For you it's just a memory but for me it still lives on.
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door, Echoes of a broken child screaming please no more, Daddy please no more...
**************************************************************************** *********
Author's Note: And again I do NOT own this song! Ok happy? I know this was short AGAIN! But hey I'm sure you will live! I know your thinking what a loony Tom is because at first he was I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! And then he goes and beats her up, but there IS a reason! I will update. WISH ME LUCK FOR MY EXAMS TOMORROW! GOOD LUCK IF YOU ARE HAVING YOURS! ECPESSICALLY PRINCESS BELLATRIX! Oh and that reminds me! There WILL be more of Bella/Voldy! C yaz everyone! XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX
P.P.S did the lyrics work?