Hey, GBUSALKMH here, and for all of you who have been patiently waiting for an update on Deal With It, I am sorry to say that the story is on hiatus. Over the past few months I have been battling slight depression and I have had no desire or energy to write.

As some of you may know, my cousin left in February for Army Training and his leaving has had an unexpected impact on my life. I have been crying all of the time, and suicide has not been to far from my thoughts. Last Saturday, I talked to my cousin again and we talked about all of the things that were bothering me with him gone. Now my cousin is eight years older then me and his sudden desire to understand what I was thinking shocked me enough to bring me slightly out of the depression.

Sunday, June 26 was his birthday and I talked to him again. He knows how I am feeling and we have been talking about other options for me. Finally, I have found the strength and will to live in a most unexpected place. With his help, my depression has almost completely been forgotten. Now my outlook on life has changed along with how I feel about myself. This has inspired me to write again. The emptiness inside of me is no longer such a strong feeling. This is the story of Kaitlyn Black's cousin and his daughter, with betrayals real and horror more terrifying then the Black family has ever experienced. This may give away some of the ending to Deal With It, but you won't know that until my desire to continue that story returns.

DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately I do not own Harry Potter. Keith and Elizabeth Black are mine though, so ask permission before using them.

Prologue

"What are you thinking, Elizabeth?" a stern looking woman asked the crying teenager in front of her.

Elizabeth, or Beth as her father called her, ignored her mother's question and stared out of the carriage with eyes filled with hatred. The wind blew her long, straight black hair into her eyes, but Beth didn't care. Just a week ago, her father had been arrested because his father had been a Death Eater. Beth's mother had forced her father to have sex with her, but when she got pregnant, it was him who was left to care for Beth. Beth's father was fourteen when her mother became pregnant with her, and to Beth, he was both a father and a best friend. He had always been there for her, always understood her, and always let her know how much he loved her.

Her father, Keith Black had been in the U.S. Army since Beth was eight years old. At the age of twenty-two, Keith had been commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant after completing college with a R.O.T.C. scholarship. Just eight months ago, Keith was able to leave his military career behind him and was working on establishing some stability in their life for Beth's sake.

They moved into an apartment in Seattle, Washington, leaving Kansas and their past behind them. Two years into Keith's active tour of duty, he married Beth's step mom, Jamie. At the age of fourteen, Beth's life was finally normal. She had the world's greatest Dad, and an amazing step mom who didn't care that Beth wasn't her biological daughter; she loved Beth anyway. Things were great, until that horrible night last week. Albus Dumbledore had finally found out who her grandfather was, and did the one thing he could to bring Beth's once stable life crumbling to the ground. He arrested her father without reason and put her in the immediate care of her mother, even though Jamie had full custody of her by law.

"Elizabeth, you are acting like a two year old now grow up and stop sulking!" her mother ordered sharply.

"Go to hell," Beth hissed, her voice dripping with venom and hate. "My father was just arrested for something he didn't do, I just found out that my mother abandoned me when I was born and wants custody of me, and now I have to go to a school run by a fucked up nut case who uses people."

"Albus Dumbledore is the greatest wizard this world has ever known, and don't you dare insult him!" her mother hissed slapping Beth across the face. "Your father is a murderer, just like the rest of his family, and it is about time the Blacks pay for the harm they have caused society."

"Why should the Blacks pay for the things you did, mother?" Beth spat. "And I am a Black, like it or not, I don't really care. And for your information James Ballhein is the greatest wizard to walk the Earth since the time of Merlin. Dumbledore's an ass, and I'll insult him if I want to you bitch."

Jumping out of the carriage, Beth turned around for one last retort against her mother. "I am a Black not a Malfoy. My loyalty lies in the Black family alone. Voldemort can suck his bloody dick for all I fuckin care. Goodbye Narcissa Malfoy."

"Your Grandfather is an insult too purebloods every where!" her mother yelled.

"Regulus Black was a coward," Beth hissed. "Keith Black was nothing like his father." Elizabeth cried out in anguish. "It isn't fair! I want my Dad! It isn't my fault I am the granddaughter of Regulus Black. It isn't my fault Dumbledore thinks Jamie is incapable of caring for me! All I want is my Daddy!"

Far away in a cell deep within Azkaban Fortress, Keith Black began to cry. At twenty-eight years old, and the father of a fourteen-year-old, Azkaban was not were he needed to be. He had heard his daughter's cry and his anger at the wizarding world grew immensely. What must Jamie be thinking?

"I do not want my daughter growing up a witch. No one should go through what we have had to," Keith said to the man he shared a cell with.

"Yeah, no kidding, Keith. They have no idea what they have done by arresting us. They thought we were dangerous in the Second War, and we were on their side then. I don't know, Keith, but all I can say is that they will pay dearly for what they have done to us," Ryan Lupin said comforting his oldest cousin.

"Yea, and now with Beth at Hogwarts, Clark stands a much better chance at locating her and receiving her help in setting us free. Dumbledore will pay, as will that bastard brother of mine. I gave him back his father, and he still does shit when Dumbledore arrests us all. The precious Boy-Who-Fuckin-Lived is going to die a painful death if I have any say in it," growled Kaitlyn Black.

"Relax, Katy. Plotting to murder the minister of magic will get us no where. But Keith, crying can't help either. Look at it this way- at least Beth is at Hogwarts and not with Narcissa or Lucius," Kevin Black said, attempting to console Keith.

Footsteps in the hallway brought them out of their conversations. Anger and rage grew in all of them. Ryan moved quickly to hold Keith back, and Kevin did the same with Kaitlyn.

"HOW DARE YOU!" Keith roared. "HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR FACE HERE AFTER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO US! YOU TOOK MY DAUGHTER AWAY FROM ME DAMN IT! YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THIS FAMILY, HARRY POTTER!"

Please read and review! I know it is short, but it is just the prologue. Chapter length may not be up to par right away considering how my life is right now. For the record, Keith's personality is based on my cousin's and Beth's is based on mine. As such, you may see some resemblance in personality between Kaitlyn Black and Beth, though Beth's attitude matches mine during my depression while Kaitlyn's matches mine before my cousin left for the army. While I am on it, all OC's in any story I write is based on an actual person. And as for the characters partly introduced in Deal With It are back in this story, yet it has been seven years from where I left Deal With It on hiatus. Thank you all for your continued support and I ask once more that you keep my cousin and my family in your prayers.