Ok, here is my second chapter. Like I said before, I am working on finishing the entire story before I get into posting continuously. Well here is the next chapter. I am warning you, there will be a lot of unanswered questions that will be revealed later in the story. Well keep reviewing and let me know what you think!
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Chapter Two
A Visitor
The next two days flew by abnormally fast and Elissia was in a state of panic. It was frightening for her to deal with the fact that after more than fourteen years of silence, someone from her past sends her a letter stating that they are coming to speak with her. Elissia racked her brain trying to decipher who the culprit could possibly be. Because there were only a handful of people who knew of her existence and the ones who did, she wanted nothing to do with.
Yet between all of the chaos, there remained one small detail that frightened Elissia the most. Because on that day exactly eleven years before, when she had first purchased her house, there had been multiple spells placed upon it; all in order to make the old manor almost completely undetectable to both muggles and the magical world. Elissia knew that only an extremely powerful wizard could have possibly broken all of the charms in order to send her that letter. The young women's heart almost stopped beating and her skin became cold as ice when she pictured the only person she knew that had that kind of raw power.
Elissia sat down by the window in her bedroom for hours that day, counting down the seconds until she finally came face to face with the one wizard whom she feared above all else. Nevertheless, the simple fact that he had something that he wished to speak with her about, made Elissia even more terrified. There was nothing that he had to say, that she wanted to hear.
Looking down at the rags that she had on and coming to realization that she was in no fit state to greet any guest. Elissia stood up and walked over to her dresser; pulling out a long black dress. After changing her clothes she placed her hair up into a tight black bun on the back of her head and fixed it so little curls framed her face. Elissia tied her cloak around her neck, which covered up any exposed skin and placed her wand into the top right pocket. She then walked over to her vanity and pulled off a black sheet that had been covering the mirror for years. Standing there, she examined her own reflection. Not much had changed since the last time she had looked, except for the fact that there was one small thing that was missing.
Elissia reached down and unlocked a drawer that had been shut for many years. Inside was a silver pendant necklace of a unicorn horn with a serpent curled around it. Even after all this time, sitting in the dust, it had never lost its shine. The necklace had once belonged to Elissia's mother and was passed down to her by her father, when she had first started Hogwarts. He had informed her that it was a gift of courage as he fastened it around her neck. Yet when Elissia's parents had been killed, the courage died. Nevertheless, here it was once more, out and around her neck.
"Give me strength," she whispered as Elissia clutched her hand tightly around the pendent.
Elissia's grip only increased as a loud "pop" came from behind her indicating that someone had apparated into the room. Slowly she turned around and standing by the fireplace was a very tall, skinny wizard in a dark emerald green cloak. When his hood was removed, Elissia gave a cry and collapsed into the chair behind her.
For the wizard who toward above her was not whom she had expected it to be at all. But rather her old headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. It was as if a great weight had been lifted off her shoulders. Elissia was so relieved that a bright smile lit her face and she quickly wiped tears from her eyes. It felt odd to be smiling, since she had not done so for a very long time.
"Hello Elissia," Dumbledore said, peering at her with twinkling eyes, over his half mood spectacles.
"Hello Professor," she replied still wiping leftover tears that stained her pale flawless complexion.
"I had hoped you would be pleased to see me, but that was quite the welcome," he chuckled to himself.
"I just…I had thought you were going to be…" she paused but could not continue.
"You thought that I would be Volde…" Elissia jumped to her feet.
"DO NOT UTTER THAT NAME IN THIS HOUSE!" She screamed and Dumbledore did not seem in the least bit taken aback by her sudden outburst. After Elissia had calmed down, she looked once more into his sparkling eyes. "Please."
Dumbledore nodded his head understandingly; he was reminded fondly of the timid, yet mildly outspoken young woman who had once attended his school. However, very little was left of that beautiful young witch, as the radiant figure of the woman she had become, sat before him in a chair.
"There will come a time when you will realize that you have nothing to fear." Dumbledore said, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Yes, that may be so. But today is not that day," Elissia replied. "Now, what did you wish to speak to me about?"
"Uhh, yes. There is much we need to discuss. But first, we could do with a little bit of sunlight. I can hardly see your face." With a swish of his wand the curtains flew open and Elissia quickly covered her eyes as bright rays of light came cascading into the room.
"Dumbledore, you are one of the few people who know of what I am and yet you continue to forget that I am not very fond of sunlight." Elissia pulled the hood of her cloak up over her face.
"I do not merely forget, child. You have hidden in the world of darkness for far too long. Elissia, it is time that you rejoin the world of the living."
"I have plenty of time to live Professor, if living is what you'd call it." Elissia said resentfully. She had wallowed in her own self-pity for far too long and now it had become like a raw habit that was deeply imbedded into her very skin. "I just wish to be left in peace, to escape from the pain that seems to haunt me, even out here in the middle of nowhere. Yet somehow, nothing fails at reminding me that I will never be at peace. For I had been cursed since the day I was born." Elissia finished with a sigh.
"Peace does not come merely by hiding from your fears and letting your past eat away at your soul. You should know that better than most. All of your guilt and anger will slowly drive you mad. Elissia you must fight, you must break the hold that your brother has placed upon you and face your fears. Only then you will have the peace that you so fondly desire." Dumbledore spoke softly.
"It is easy for you to speak so carelessly of what you know nothing about. Do you not think that I have tried? Do you not think that I have fought? Well, I have been fighting for the last twenty years of my life and I am tired." Elissia placed her head in her hands and sighed. "I just wish to be left alone. Where I'm away from the demons that haunt me."
"Is that really what you want, Elissia?" Dumbledore said with a hint of sympathy in his voice. He conjured up an old brown chair with a flick of his wrist and sat down across from her. "To be left alone…"
"Yes," she replied. Yet this time her answer was faint.
Elissia got the odd feeling that she was back in a classroom at Hogwarts once more, answering a question that she did not know the answer to. Getting aggravated at being spoken to like a little child, she stood up and began pacing the room, avoiding the light from the window. "Dumbledore, I am no longer one of your students. I am perfectly capable of making my own decisions."
"Of course," Dumbledore agreed and Elissia thought she had seen a small twitch in the corner of his mouth, underneath that tangle of silver beard.
"Then why do you insist on demanding me to do things that I am so forcefully against?" She stopped pacing and looked at him.
"I do not demand you to do anything. I merely suggest what I feel is best." Elissia knew that he was right and that she was highly overreacting.
"I know," She said as her voice softened. "But do you really think that leaving here is what is best?"
"I do," Dumbeldore nodded. "Now this brings me to what I have came here to discuss with you." He picked up his wand once more and tapped the table that sat in between there two chairs. With a small flash, there appeared a silver tray with two goblets and a tiny plate of sandwiches. "Care for a drink," he motioned towards the table. Elissia shook her head no and with a sudden urge to clean, went to straighten up her bed. She had forgotten to make it that morning and the blankets lay sprawled everywhere.
Elissia picked up the book she had read the night before in order to place it back on the bookshelf. She turned around and took one-step but she could go no farther. Her whole body began to tremble and the book slid out of her grasp landing with a loud thump upon the bedroom floor. Elissia grabbed the bedpost and remained hunched over as if she had taken a hard blow to the stomach.
Dumbledore who had been watching out of the corner of his eyes spoke in a fatherly tone. "Sit down," Elissia obeyed and returned to her chair. "Now have a drink."
;"I told you I'm not thirsty," Elissia said weakly.
"I insist," She hesitated but reached down and lifted the goblet up to her mouth. An intriguing smell reached her nose and before she could respond, it made her incapable to resist. In the back of her mind Elissia knew of what it was she was about to drink but her animal instincts took over. She tilted it upwards and let the warm liquid run down her throat. It was a feeling of pure obis as new life pumped throughout her veins. However, a sudden excruciating pain in her jawbone and mouth made her come back to reality. Throwing the cup to the floor Elissia looked up horrified at what had just happened.
"You tricked me," Elissia yelled as her voice became slightly slurred.
"I helped you, Elissia." Dumbledore said. "How could you allow yourself to become so weak?" He looked over at her sternly. "You can not simply ignore the symptoms. It will kill you!"
"Then I will die!" Elissia screamed. "It is a horrible, disgusting thing and I will not lower myself to such disgraceful behavior." Tears were falling from her eyes as the pain continued. "Besides… that's exactly what he wants! If I give in now there would be nothing separating me from some despicable creature."
Elissia fought to hold back the change and once the pain had subsided, she sat back exhausted into the chair. "Are you alright?" Dumbledore asked.
"Just say what you have come to say and leave me be!" Elissia spat out in rage.
"As you wish." He looked slightly concerned but remained where he was. "I have come to ask you to take a teaching position at Hogwarts."
"What?" Elissia asked shocked as she sat up in her seat.
"I wish for you to come and teach Defense Against the Dark Arts at the school."
Elissia laughed slightly as her solemn mood disappeared as quickly as it had come. "Dumbledore, don't think I'm not flattered you would ask. But I do not think many of the parents would enjoy me teaching there children." Elissia looked grave. "Besides I don't feel entirely confident in my ability to prevent any accidents from occurring." She did not specifically mention what exactly these accidents were, but Dumbledore knew and that was all that mattered.
"Do not worry about the parents. Most of them surely would remember you from there own days at Hogwarts. Besides, it is not up to them who I choose to teach at my school. Also you know as well has I do that there are ways of preventing your transformation."
"Sometimes those procedures do not work. What happens if they fail and I change? There would be nothing stopping me from hurting a student or myself. I have no control over my actions when I am in that state." Dumbledore made no expression as to what he was thinking.
"I will not risk hurting a child Dumbledore! So I am very sorry but I will have to decline your offer." The old wizard just nodded his head.
"Then I must respect your decision. For you know of your restrictions far better than I do. However, please, if you do not wish to become a professor would you at least consider a somewhat smaller position such as a teacher's assistant. So that you would be able to leave quickly without suspicion if anything does occur. Besides I have asked Professor Snape and he has reluctantly agreed to produce an elixir that may help with your situation."
"Severus? He is a teacher at Hogwarts." Elissia asked, not sure if she had heard him correctly.
"Yes, he has been a professor for some time now."
"Poor children," Elissia could not help but laugh at the odd vision of seeing Severus Snape teaching in a classroom. Back when they were in school, he had been even more of an outcast than Elissia was. "Besides I highly doubt that I should be drinking anything that Snape gives to me. He would most likely poison me any chance that he could get." Dumbledore chuckled slight as he looked over his own goblet filled to the top with a sparkling, slightly transparent liquid. Then a thought came into Elissia's mind. "Why don't you get Snape to teach the class? He was always very fond of the Dark Arts back when we were in school." Thinking of her brother, Elissia shuddered.
"I have my reasons," Dumbledore replied. "Now have you come to a decision about my offer?"
"Yes, I guess that I shall agree to take the job. It may do me some good to get out of this house. It was welcoming at first but now it feels like a prison. I just hope that after fifteen years, at least some things have changed. Yet I doubt it could possible get any worse."
Thank you to:
drop-depp-gorgeous- Yes I do love dark and mysterious Sirius/Oc fics. Sorry I haven't got the chance to go and read yours but I will do that as soon as possible. I hope you liked this chapter, let me know what you think of it so far.
C.M.Higgins- HI! I am happy to see that you are reading this story as well. Yeah I actually just got back into reading Harry Potter fics. I am writing two different stories at one time. Its complicated but I am doing my best. I hope you liked this chapter.
EarthAngel 7996- Thank you, I'm glad you like the first chapter and I hope you liked this one as much.
Eaterofdeath- Thanks, well the story is set during the 5th book. But most of the last chapter was a flash back in a dream. At the end she woke up.
Annoriel- Hey! I am so happy that you decided to read my story. I really do like once again and when are you going to post another chapter. Here is my second chapter, I hope you enjoyed it.
Nexiumchick- Hey, I love you story so much and I am really sorry that I haven't had the chance to review. I have been working hard on all of my stories. Well I am glad you are enjoying my story. Let me know what you think of this chapter.
Nicky Black- Thank you so much for the compliments. I am so happy that you like Elissia, I really did try to make her an interesting character. It's always hard to make a OC that people actually think is good. I hope you liked this chapter as much as you did the first one. I know there wasn't any Sirius in this one but he will be coming in the next chapter.
Swt Chry 2005- Sorry that It took me long to update. But like I said in the A/N of the first chapter, I am trying to get some chapters written ahead of time before I start continuously posting. But I am so happy that you like my story and I hope you continue reading. Don't worry I won't take as long to update next time.
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BlackWiltedRose
