Disclaimer: Dont own anyone except Ria, Katrina, and her mother. Well their bodies anyway. The song is Broken by Seether featuring Amy Lee. I also own the Amendus Calm potion.

Broken Chapter 3

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph; I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel light when you're gone away

The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

Ria looked at her sisters body, still and lifeless. Thoughts flashed through her mind as the men went to her mother. She ran to her mothers body and tugged at the silver ring that was on her mothers pinky finger. The ring had been a present from the twins, for winter solstice. It was a momento that had memories of a happier time. Which she would not allow to be buried in some mass grave long forgotten.

The ring along with a hair pin from her twins hair, were the only things that she would have to remember her family by. Because the ring was too big went onto a silver chain around her neck, and the hairpin went opposite its twin in her hair.

Another man then stalked in, his robes flared about him when he walked, making him look like a gigantic bat. He looked at the bodies and then he glanced around and at the bed. Seeing the child his mouth thinned to a pale line.

"I suppose, no one remembered that if the child goes catatonic that she will be of no use to the Dark Lord?" He muttered to himself. "Idiots."

A pale hand lifted and clutched the bridge of his nose, then he sighed and pulled two potions from inside his robes.

Blinking Ria juist stared at the man who was coming towards her.

This man gently lifted her chin and told her to drink the potions. It would help with shock and send her into sleep.

Tilting her head to the side she stuck out her hand, motioning for the bottles. Snape looked at the child then, truly looked. Her ebony hair fell in waves around her face, light skin, sprinkled with a generous amount of freckles, a small nose, arched eyebrows above dark cinnamon eyes. She was dressed in an oversized violet nightshirt. Her eyes were calculating as she looked between him and the bottles. He handed the first bottle to her.

She pulled the stopper gently from the first bottle, and a light silvery liquid greeted her. She lifted the bottle to her nose and inhaled its smell.

"Jasmine, Lavender," she blinked. "Cornatious flower. Strong healing properties, it also helps with shocks to the system." Snape was watching carefully, making sure she did nothing to endanger her self or him. She causiously took three small sips and stoppered the bottle again and put it in the nightshirt pocket.

The second bottle was handed to her and she pulled the stopper. Black liquid, She raised her eyebrows at the man. She inhaled the smell, scrunched her nose and blinked quizzically.

At her puzzled expression he responded to the unasked question. "Dreamless sleep. The other one is called Amendus Calm" Snape was impressed, people usually did one of two things when faced with his potions. Either just gulped them down without care because he was a first rate potions master or threw them in his face he again was a potions master.

"How much do I take?" She responded still holding the bottle slightly away from her face because of the noxious smell.

"One drop is sufficant." He paused. "You make keep the calming drought but I need the dreamless sleep back." She nodded and took the potion. Eyes now drooping she handed the potion back to the man and looked around the room. Not wanting to sleep where her sister... fell... she climbed into a soft looking chair and fell asleep.