Daughter of the Dark

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Chapter Six

Serena couldn't believe the nerve of Bellatrix Lestrange! Telling her what to do? Since when did Serena listen to her? And Serena befriending Potter and his gang was about as likely as Snape washing his hair. Never in a million years would she get along with the trio! Serena wasn't a goody-goody Gryffindor like they were. She was a black hearted Slytherin.

Or was she?

The sorting hat had placed her in Gryffindor. She was the first of her family in many years to be placed in Gryffindor. Had the sorting hat seen something in her? Something good? Just the thought made Serena feel nauseous.

But she was Bellatrix's daughter and she had to follow her mother's orders. No matter how much she disagreed with the orders she still had to follow them. She would just have to act like she was their friend and convince them that she was afraid of Bellatrix and Snape. It would be hard but she could do it. She was used to faking different things and was quite a good actress. And hopefully the trio was too stupid to see through her disguise.

Serena entered the Gryffindor common room and spotted the trio sitting by the fire. So Serena snuck past them and went up to dormitories. As she sat on her bed she got an idea. She had to tell Snape about it. So she snuck back out of Gryffindor Tower and head down to the main level. Once on the first floor, she headed down to the dungeons. Snape would be down there for sure by now.

She entered his classroom and he turned to see her. A nasty, pissed off look came across his face and he glided over to her, wand out and pointed at her.

"What the hell is wrong with you? Huh?" he said.

"I don't know what the hell you are talking about!" replied Serena, confused.

"Sure you don't!" Snape sneered.

"I really don't know! Honest!"

"Since when are you honest, you little bitch!" cried Snape, firing a spell at her. Serena ducked it and pulled her wand.

"I only wanted to talk to you!"

"Sure you did!" he said, preparing to fire another spell at her.

"I thought…"

"You thought wrong! You obviously didn't think that I would find out that you were faking it all these years! I told the Dark Lord time after time to do away with you! Did he listen? NO! He listened to that bitch Bellatrix!"

"Well in case someone forgot to tell the traitor the plan," Serena spat at Snape. "I'm supposed to be freaking friends with the freaking goody-goody trio!"

"Shut your bloody trap!" cried Snape flinging another curse at her, knocking her to the ground.

Serena fell onto some broken glass, slicing her hands and knees and causing a few cuts on her face. She reached for her dropped wand but she wasn't fast enough. Snape cried, "Expelliarmus!" and her wand flew to his side.

Serena froze, and was for the first time in her life really scared and defenseless. Snape had a smile that looked like a snarl plastered on his face. He raised his wand and flung a curse that send her slamming into the wall behind her. She fell back onto the floor, face first. She bit her lip causing it to bleed. She would not scream. She would not give him that satisfaction. Snape threw another curse at her and another, each one worse than the previous one.

Finally Serena remembered that she had hidden a dagger in her sleeve. She pulled it and flung it at Snape, slicing his face. Snape howled in pain and clutched his face, dropping her wand on the floor. Serena willed her wand to come to her and it did.

"Come back here you bitch! I'm not finished with you yet!" called Snape as Serena ran stumbling from the dungeons. And she didn't stop running until she reached Gryffindor Tower. She gave the password to the Fat Lady and fell into the common room. She collapsed on the floor and everyone looked up when they heard her hit the floor.

The following day, Serena awoke in the hospital wing to see the trio sitting in chairs around her bed. She blinked several times and then tried to sit up then feeling all the pain she couldn't and stopped trying.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Well we were hoping you could tell us…" said Harry.

"About?"

"About why you came stumbling into the common room looking like you were in a fight and then collapsing on the floor," said Hermione.

"Oh I did get into a fight…"

"Really?" asked Ron, interested.

"Really."

"Did someone attack you?" asked Hermione, concerned.

"Yeah."

"Was it a student?"

"No."

"A teacher!" Hermione exclaimed, shocked.

"Well I guess you could call him a teacher if you really wanted too…"

"Who was it?" asked Harry having a sneaking suspicion that he knew already who it was and she confirmed it.

"Snape attacked me."

"Why would he do such a thing?" Hermione questioned Serena.

"He raised me and thought that I had turned traitor and attacked me because of it. He took my wand and fired spells at me. I don't know what they were but they were terrible and each one was worse than the last. Finally I remembered that I had a hidden dagger and threw it at him, causing him to drop my wand. My wand flew back into my hand and I ran. I never stopped running…"

"Then you came to the Tower and fell through the portrait hole..." added Harry quietly.

"Yeah."

"We've got to tell Dumbledore!" cried Hermione. "He needs to know!"

"No!" protested Serena. "If you tell him than Snape will know that it was me and he'll come after me!"

"No he wouldn't. He'd have to get through us first…" said Harry.

Serena gulped. She didn't know these three very well but already they were prepared to protect her from Snape. She shouldn't need protection but the fight that she had with Snape had proven her wrong. It was only a matter of time before her life was in serious danger and then she would need all the help that she could get...

Author's Notes:

Serena changed from being evil into being who she truly was as soon as Snape attacked her. She realized that it was time to stop living a lie. Next update due on Saturday, May 14th!