(Flashback)
"Jillian! Jillian! Where are you, Jillian?" Setta Sapphire's voice rang through the house. She was frantically looking around the house for her eight year old daughter, never mind several missing cooking books and half of a coat hanger.
The other half was sitting outside her husband's study. Along with the few cook books she was looking for. There was only one guess to who would do a thing like that.
"JILLIAN! What did I tell you about your father's study?" She said, swinging the door open. Surely enough, there Jillian was on a step ladder, trying to find some books from the top shelf.
Jillian jumped off the ladder, and smiled innocently while facing her mother. She pretended to scratch her head.
"I don't… quite remember. There was something about…"
"JILLIAN! I told you a hundred times that your father's study was off limits."
"Ha ha… I just remembered you said something like that." She said, still smiling at her.
"What were you doing in here, anyway?" Setta put one hand on her hip and the other hand was occupied by half a coat hanger.
"Looking for books…"
"You know those books are off limits." Setta said sternly.
"I don't see what the problem is. There just history, and documents and such."
"They're very important books." Setta stared glaring at Jillian.
"Whatever. Sorry, I won't do it ever again." Jillian said, sighing.
"You said that last time, Jillian."
"I mean it this time."
"You said that last time, too…" Alaina peeked in around the corner of the doorway, and then vanished before Jillian got a word out to defend herself.
"Okay, now let's get out of here."
"I need to get my books… I left Romeo and Juliet on dad's desk."
"Fine, get the book, and then leave." Setta turns around and starts walking away. "Curiosity killed the cat, remember…" She recites.
"But satisfaction brought it back to life." She mumbled. She then found her copy of Romeo and Juliet and placed in on top of a few of her father's book. Her mum would never find out.
(End Flashback)
Jillian walked down to the Hog's Head with her book bag dragging her into the pub. She usually sneaked off the grounds, along with a few other students, to go to this old dirty pub to hang out on boring nights. As she walked in, she grins at Sky and Iou.
Iou was a funny story. She refused to tell anyone her name. She would just sweetly respond, "I owe you a name." So everyone shortened that to Iou, and said it just as if it was her own name.
Jillian waved to the two, both who were talking to each other.
"Hey, Jill. How many detentions you get for the Snape thing?" Sky asked, grinning. Iou was laughing.
"That was Jill?" She asked, brushing a stray strand of red hair out of her face.
"Yeah… I got two detentions." Jillian mumbled and took a seat next to Sky. She put her book bag on the ground.
"Only two?" Sky gaped at her.
"Dumbledore… your uncle, I mean, let me off easy."
"Wish Albus would do that for me." She huffed.
Jillian laughed lightly, and then picked up the big brown book out of her bag. She opened it to a diary page and started reading it.
"What's that?" Sky said, peering over. "Is it good? I've been trying to find a good book to read."
Iou snorted. "Merlins, you Ravenclaws and your books." Sky gave Iou a glare.
"No… it's just something Dumbledore gave to me. My great-grandfather's book." Jillian shrugged and went back to reading.
She turned the page of the diary to find a registry of names. Which she then realized most of the last names on the list had the name Sapphire. The page showed all the birth dates and death dates of every blood Sapphire and by-marriage Sapphire in the family. She skimmed through it for a while, until she got to her aunt's name.
Elizabeth Jocelyn Sapphire Nott –0- Date of Birth January 31, 1954 -0- Date of Death December 18, 1982
She paused on that date. She knew her aunt died before she was born… but her great-grandfather was also dead at this point. Nobody else had the book at this point. So she looked at the name underneath that. Her fathers.
Benjamin Diones Sapphire -0- Date of Birth October 13, 1955 -0- Date of Death August 17, 2049
She knew that was wrong. Her father was alive… but it predicted the future. It already knows the death of everyone in her family before they even die. And of course, curious Jillian, she read on to the next name…
Setta Isadora O'Connell Sapphire -0- Date of Birth July 28, 1955 -0- Date of Death August 13, 1997
She dropped the book in shock. That was this year, in August. Her mother had only three and a half more months to live.
She quickly picked up the book and her book bag, and ran out of the bar trying not to cry. Sky and Iou looked at her, surprised by Jillian's sudden departure.
So maybe curiosity did kill the cat…
AN: Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been busy… being lazy… having writes block… I'm running out of excuses.
Okay, midterms now… so it's actually easier to get chapters up. Go figure.
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