Chapter 3

His eyes widened as he stood up sending Angel to the floor, "Bloody bugger I forgot that" he cursed as he helped her up. "How are we going to explain were both late?"

She looked at her watch and then at him, "If I make a run for it I might be on time."

He nodded as she whirled around and ran out off the classroom. Panting she rounded the corner and flew into the classroom, her face red and wet with sweat. She came barging in at high speed "I forgot" muttering as she breathed deeply "I thought we had Muggle studies"

"Then why are you looking so hot" Harry asked her "that's next door."

Angel was turning red rapidly... she was blushing out off control and she saw they notissed it. She sat down next to Cryssy and tried to calm her self down... How was she ever going to get out off this?

"Well I was lost too" Cryssy smiled "I mean one I am new… but the classroom changes every lesson. And Snape is late too… does he need to explain it"

Harry flushed and nodded "Your right"

Angel nodded thankfully at Cryssy "yeah" she smiled "he never gives explanations", at that moment he trotted through the door casually and faced his class.

"This is our seventh year Oclumency" he began not looking at his students "and we will start practising on each other this term, you have newts this year and I expect you all to have outstanding on your exams" He turned around on his heel and looked at Harry. "You Potter will team up with La Velle. And you miss Dean will team up with me." He grinned wickedly he was going to be all to pleased to find out her secrets. How wrong he was, she was twice as powerful in mind reading than he would ever be.

Angel nodded "Yes sir," she shot Cryssy a thoughtful glance who was looking horror struck.

Angel felt worry jolt through her body when she looked at Cryssy, forgetting Snape was there she whispered to her friend

"Cryssy are you okay"

Her eyes were narrowed and she looked at her friend closely. Something about this situation did not suit her. She was scarred and yet she had no idea why. Wondering slightly why she felt so connected to Cryssy she padded her on the shoulder.

"Cryssy do you hear me?"

"Hmm, oh yeah I am fine… Just lost in thoughts for a moment" Cryssy tried to smile, she needed to cut her thoughts off or else Harry would find out she was Voldemorts daughter… She did not want to be it but she had no choice he had made created her from his own blood a long time ago. She sighed she had a mission and she had no idea how to complete it and now there was the fact that The boy you were suppose to stay away from and watch upon can now start reading your mind from today onward.

Angel eyed her again and then nodded "if you say so" she quirked an eyebrow and looked at Snape. Stupidly enough she picked up the last thought Cryssy had " The boy you were suppose to stay away from and watch upon can now start reading your mind from today onwards." Shaking off the feeling she looked at Cryssy again, the boy she was supposed to stay away from... She wanted to say something when Snape pulled them apart.

"Start practising, Miss Dean with me"

"Yes, sir" she nodded as he took out his wand and faced her.

"When ever you're ready Miss Dean"

She frowned and nodded again "Ready"

"Well Miss Dean" Snape said smirking "you go first"

A twinkle shown in her eyes as she made ready to cast a Legilimens. "Yes sir," she said pointing her hands at him and looking him in the eye "when you're ready"

"Ready" he nodded

Smiling she cast the curse "Legilimens!" A warm fussy feeling coursed through her veins as Snape was thrown back a bit.

He had been ready, but not for this. He could block his mind from everyone even Voldemort but she was in with the blink off an eye. Damn he thought I should have used a bloody pensive.

"Damn" he thought "I should have used a bloody pensive." Angel giggled and muttered under her breath, "Yes You should have Professor". Her black hair had gone out off her rubber band and was moving around wildly on her back, her eyes had turned from blue to black as she edged him closer to a wall. Now that I have you I am not letting go, she thought while he heard every word she said. She tried to stop herself but she had been afraid off this. Her powers were strong and dangerous and she knew her parents had not been Deatheaters for nothing. Her parents had both been very powerful wizards and they had combined them when they had their second daughter. That had been Angel. When she finally left home at the age off twenty she was accepted to Hogwarts under the conditions she would not use her powers. But with something as tempting as this she found she had no will to stop herself. As tears sprung into her eyes she saw how Snape was beaten by his father, how Snape had lost his mother thanks to a beating. How he had begged to be a deatheater, how he was taunted by Potter and Black. How much it hurt seeing young Harry potter enter his class, how afraid he was he would go through the same as all those years ago. How he had attacked her father while he held a baby and how the Avada Kedavra curse he cast touched her and gave her the mark.

The scar on her forearm seared with pain and she was thrown out off his mind when Cryssy gasped and Harry screamed her name.

Cryssy had undergone the same, she had peered into Harry's mind and saw the green sparks shoot towards his parents. Finally her eyes fluttered closed and she sank to the ground, there was so much death in his past she thought when Harry started screaming her name.

Angel looked at her forearm and then at Snape who was standing breathlessly against a wall... She knew now, how could she ever love him again. He tried to kill her. She staggered backwards and fell onto the floor, this couldn't be happing. How could he not have told her, and then wonder crept into her did he even know that she was the baby he attacked. Did he even care? She looked at the heavily panting Cryssy and saw worry and pain on her unconscious face as well, out off the corner off her eye she saw Snape sink to the floor trying to catch his breath, sweat drops falling from his face. She didn't care anymore.

Cryssy woke up trembling and grabbed her head, the sleeve off her left arm falling down, the moment Cryssy notissed it she let her arm fall down and pushed her sleeve back to her palm hoping no one saw.

Harry was to busy fussing over Cryssy to notice the dark tattoo on her arm, he was looking from Cryssy to Angel "Are you okay"

"Yes thank you Harry" Cryssy muttered as she rubbed the back off her head

Her eyes widened when she saw Cryssy's sleeve creep and even though Harry had seen it, he did not really think it was there. Angel for one knew for certain what she had seen, she had it herself though not given to her by Voldemort it was still there. "I'm fine" she crooked as she crawled over to where Cryssy was lying and picked a stray strand off hair out off her face. Worried she looked at her friend and understood at once that she had gone through the same thing with Harry; she averted her eyes from Cryssy to make sure she wasn't tempted to read her mind. Even though she had seen the dark mark grow fiercely black on her arm she wasn't going to judge Cryssy, she was her friend and she knew there was a lot more to this girl than just the Dark mark.

"You alright" Cryssy asked her before she had the change to?"

Angel shivered "yes thanks Cryssy, I am fine... And you"

"I'm fine" Cryssy muttered as she tried to pry herself off the floor.

She looked at Cryssy and Harry who were staring at Snape. Giving him one look tears started streaming off her face and she stormed out off the room.

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"She saw" he thought "I saw, how could that be. I didn't attack her did I.." his face was screwed up with concentration when he tried to remember for himself. A dark night flashed before his eyes and a woman talking to a man.

"I am not running because I like it, you are the one so keen on betraying our master. Your lucky Severus did not murder you, or her."

"What do you mean, he never saw her."

"Are you that thick-headed, the scar on her left forearm that looks like the black mark, he tried to kill you whit a curse but it backfired and hit her instead, do you really think he does not know that."

Snape looked at Angel's father, this must be the attack they were talking about, He saw him hide her under his arms as a young man approached. He had black hair and a white mask, his long black robes billowing behind him as he ran after her father.

"You betrayed the dark lord, Jack for this you must pay." his voice he thought it sounded so familiar and yet he could link nor his own voice or the name Jack.

"But Severus" her father pleaded, "we were friends"

"I know Jack, however I have no choice"

"You Severus Snape are telling me you have no choice, you have more off a choice then I ever had"

The name hit him like a brick wall, "Snape"

he muttered as he pulled down his mask. "You know Jack that I am what I am, and no I have no choice, if I were betrayed you would have no chance at all…"

"But Severus common, if I can brake free, why can't you?" he saw himself looking at her father when his eyes flashed; he knew he noticed her, He saw the battle behind his own eyes grew denser and harder. Tears spilled down his cheeks when he said the one thing she did not want to. "I am sorry Jack, Avada Kedavra…" Green sparks flew from his wand and bolted towards her father… at the last moment, the spell seemed to loose effect and bounce off her making the scar that would mark her for life. he looked at himself and realized he had put a charm on her before admitting the killing charm, he realized he might just have saved their lives without her ever knowing it…

He jerked back when two hands grabbed him to help him up, he realised it was her. He had attacked her so many years ago. That is why she felt so familiar, why she felt like he was her own. He shuddered when he heard the voices return to his head and looked up. "Where is Angel?" was all he could force himself to say.

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Angel was running so fast she did not even notice that classes had ended. She was whirling past students and bumped half off them over. "He attacked us. I hate him; dad was never the same after that. If he had not attacked us mother would never have been able to kill him. Dad and her sister she thought, she missed Candia."

She had run out onto the grounds when Dumbledore notissed it "oh no" he thought as he hurried out off his office and set after her

Tears were streaming down her face as she entered the dark forest without even knowing. She had no idea where to go but she needed to get away, from school, from him... from life... She never felt a pair off cold grey eyes focused on her.

Out off nowhere red sparks collided with her back and she crashed to the ground groaning as a sneering voice started to laugh...

"Ahhh Miss Dean, the reason why my son has left me... This shall be your ending."

"Malfoy" Angel stuttered "When did you get out"

"Last night" he sneered "and my master wants you... but not after I have had my fun"

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Snape had run out into the hall and collided with Dumbledore on his search for Angel "headmaster" he stumbled uneasy

"No time for words Severus, Angel is in grave danger." he looked at his young friend with great sadness, he knew exactly what had happened between Angel and Severus and was happy that Snape had finally found some one to care for. But what he feared was coming true at rapid speed. He had blocked the memory off Snape attacking Angel so many years ago and now that mistake was hitting him in the face like a brick wall. He had felt a deatheater creeping around for a while now and feared it was Lucius Malfoy.

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"Fun" Angel stuttered. "Malfoy, stay away from me she had crawled behind a tree and was trying to stand, but her legs would not budge. "What did you do" she whimpered as Malfoy stepped up to her.

"Never mind that, tell me Miss Dean" he snapped as he closed in on her "What did you do to my son, he was going to follow me in my footsteps and now he despises me."

Angel shuddered when is face was inches from hers "I did nothing Malfoy. Draco was never going to follow Voldemort."

He shuddered and hit her hard in the face "Do not ever call the Dark lords name you filthy little Mud blood"

"You know as well as I do I am no mud blood Malfoy" she roared as he slammed her into the tree

"I don't know what my master wants with you, but I hope it will be painful.

She screamed as he tried to kiss her and did her best to fight him off.

Her legs would still not work, but her arms were flailing around dangerously. "Stay away from me Malfoy"

"Aw common" he smiled "don't tell me you never wanted it"

"What" she muttered

"I know you were trying to get my son to notice you. And all because you wanted Me."

"You've lost it Malfoy" she screamed as she saw Severus, Dumbledore, Harry and Cryssy nearing her.

Dumbledore yelled a curse sending Malfoy into a tree next to her and with told Harry and Cryssy to stay behind. Apparently they had followed Dumbledore out when they saw Angel cross the grounds towards the dark forest.

She toppled backwards, as she turned to crawl away and she saw Cryssy staring transfixed on the scene.
Snape turned to help her up, but she swatted him away muttering a counter curse as she accepted help from Dumbledore. She had not so much as looked at him when she walked to Cryssy and notissed she was not watching the scene, but Malfoy intensely. Turning on her heel she looked at Malfoy herself and advanced on him.

"Awww" he muttered "the little girl feels safe now... ahhh and she brought a familiar friend" he nodded at Cryssy

"Crystella my dear, how are you these days"

Cryssy's eyes widened, he had notissed her. Damn he could give away her position and betray her, her eyes narrowed and she tried to make a confused but very angry face "I am sorry do I know you?"

"Leave her alone" Angel muttered "and no I was never afraid off you... I just did not get much change to do something now did I" as Malfoy shot a glance off surprise towards Cryssy.

Snape looked at Angel as she tried her best to ignore him. A sharp pain rushed through his heart as anger took over and he attacked Malfoy head on.

Angel choked when she heard the words and the look Cryssy gave Malfoy... she was a death eater. She wondered for a moment how a young girl like Cryssy could have such a high status but she knew for an instance that there was a lot more to Cryssy. If she truly had been a death eater with all her heart she would not feel so dearly for every one around her. At the moment she wanted to say something to Cryssy she was pushed over by Snape, her eyes widened as he attacked his best friend.

"You" he raged "What did you do to her, why did she scream. I swear Malfoy if you have hurt her I will kill you."

Malfoy quirked an eyebrow. "I think Snape, that your master would not like your reaction just now... What would he think if he knew you had feelings for his play toy?"

"Professor Snape really does care for you Angel" Cryssy said as she finally tarred her eyes away from Malfoy and looked at her friend

Her eyes widened as Cryssy acknowledged how much Snape cared for her and whimpered. "Harry didn't know" she whispered and then faced him "no... No... I uhm... we are friends... he cared for me when I was a baby. Nothing more" she hoped to god he would buy it.

Harry nodded "I understood that" he knew Snape did not love, but he could believe he would care for someone.

Angel looked at Dumbledore as he separated the two fighting men. She could not help but let out a cough as she saw them fighting over a girl.

Out off nowhere Lucius turned around on them and sent a hex to Dumbledore and Snape; both men fell to the ground to late to act on it. As he advanced on Cryssy and started telling things about her Angel snapped. Her eyes grew pitch black as her hair flew up around her. A dark glow surrounded her and she made a noise so strange it drowned out Lucius voice. She knew there was something with Cryssy, but she was going to tell Angel herself and Harry did not need to know any off it. Her voice sounded weary as she spoke to Lucius and it seemed that she was flowing above the ground. "you Lucius Malfoy, shall be punished for your crimes against both wizards and muggleborns." Angel had lost herself. She had no idea what was happening all she could feel was anger and pain.

A strange black light shot out off her hands and Lucius was lifted up into the air screaming "You can't kill me"

"I won't Malfoy" she spoke again "Death is no punishment. Nor is pain... Your worst fate shall come true."

He sank to the ground breathing heavily clutching his chest.

"What have you done to me?"

"You are no longer a wizard, but a muggle... step out off line and you shall have to come to muggle court. And trust me" she snickered "their punishment is much worse then ours" as she said these last words she sank to the ground, her eyes shut she crashed into the soil off the earth barely breathing.

Snape perked up when Dumbledore asked some one to bring her to the hospital wing and immediately offered to do so. "I will take her headmaster" He had seen but a part of her powers that lay well hidden beneath the surface and yet he did not fear them. He saw what she had done to Malfoy and understood at once why he and the dark lord would want her. He knew she was never going to forgive him for what he had done in the past and yet he was certain her fury had come from the attack on him. She never even saw Dumbledore being attacked and through the whole thing her eyes were transfixed on him. He did not know how right he was, but it was not only the feelings for him that had set her off.

She felt the curse off Malfoy wave over her when he attacked Snape and understood at once that the dark mark he had given her had connected them. Maybe that was the reason she was in pain sometimes without cause. She remembered the times she had doubled over in pain and had no idea where it came from, the same pain that would vanish soon after. Both her anger on the attack and the pain off it had finally brought her to free her true self. She knew what she was now, why she was a wolf (animagi form)... why her dark powers were so strong... She shared blood off many people... her mother had cheated on her father and when she was still an embryo her blood had mingled with that off the man she hated the most. Tom Riddle...

Angel moaned as Poppy dabbed her forehead, "what the" she murmured as she shot up "I am the daughter off him" she whispered as tears welled up in her eyes. She seemed to be crying a lot lately.

"Who is your father" Snape asked concerned

Angel shot him a look, she had not notissed him next to her.

"Angel" he started, there was so much he needed to tell her but he never got to finish his line.

She had sprung herself to him and was kissing him through her tears, how could she be mad at him, she realised that the curse he shot at her father had been to save her. So much had become clear the last few hours.

He kissed her back passionately not caring who saw.

Angel was having a mad fight with herself, on one hand she knew Dumbledore was watching but on the other she could not let go off Severus. She needed him. When she was finally able to let him go she sat back down onto the bed and sighed.

Dumbledore smiled at them and padded Poppy on to her back. She had her hands clapped over her mouth and her eyes looked so big they were ready to pop out.

"I... am sorry" Angel stuttered as she looked at Poppy

"No… no apologies needed, I understand… no words from me" she smiled as she busied herself in her office and left the couple and Dumbledore alone"

"What happened" he asked concerned

Angel shrugged, "I don't know what exactly happened out there"

"that is not really what I meant Angel" Dumbledore smiled at her

Angel started blushing and was for once in her life lost for words.

"I am sorry Headmaster" Snape interrupted her nervous fits. "This seems to be my entire fault. I advanced on Miss Dean"

Her eyes refocused and it was out before she knew it "When will you stop calling me Miss Dean already" she clapped her hand over her mouth and looked at Dumbledore who merely giggled.

"I am sorry" she muttered as Snape sat down onto the bed and pulled her into a hug

"that's okay Angel"

"And still" Dumbledore smiled "I did not mean that either. I want to know the reason Angel why you stalked off so angry and wandered into the forest alone."

Her breath was caught in the back off her throat, she did not want to tell it but she knew she had to.

"I... Uhm" she started as Snape tried to tell his own bit. She poked him and told him to let her tell it.
"I don't really know professor, we had Oclumency and Severus paired up with me. I... I know you told me to never use my mind abilities but I could not stop it from happening. I absorbed everything. He I mean Professor Snape, has attacked my father a long time ago and is the reason I am who I am now. I... he" she stuttered "my parents were death eaters and I have no idea why they stopped following him, but he send Severus to destroy them. He didn't I know that now, I was just so blinded by my own fury that I did not realize that. All I saw was him attacking my father."

Snape had let his eyes fall to the ground and a sad sniffle was coming from him, he did not cry, he could not... or at least not in the presence off Dumbledore. He wondered slightly if he could in front off Angel.

She watched Snape crumble up beside her and looked at Dumbledore.

"Its is alright my Dear. We will talk in the morning. You two get some rest."

She helped Snape up and both walked side by side to his private quarters, not to come out until early next morning. She had curled up against Severus and he sneaked his hand across her back as she pushed him into the headboard off his bed.

As he looked down he saw that she had drifted off to sleep, not wanting to wake her he closed his eyes and drifted off into his dreams.

She shrieked when she woke up the next morning and poking him she ran out yelling that breakfast had started ten minutes ago. Rushing up to her room she crashed into Cryssy and pulled her along with her. "Need to talk"

"Oef" Cryssy yelped as she was dragged into Angel's room

Angel giggled as she dressed herself in fresh robes and turned around. "How was your night" she smiled wickedly

She knew a lot more about Cryssy now... not everything but more and she didn't care... Some thing inside her loved Cryssy as a sister.

"Nothing much happened, I had to cope with Harry" Cryssy sighed "I had no idea what to say… anyway how could I, I had no idea what was going on. And you I haven't seen you return to your room?"

She felt happy and like she had had not a care in the world. Why she had no idea but she liked it. "I know" she giggled "I was like, helping Severus to his room because he seemed really tired and I sat with him a while and next thing I knew it was morning. God I have never slept so good in my entire life." She was positively bubbling with energy and ran around the room giggling. "Common lets get to breakfast" she giggled again as she bounced out off the room bobbing down the stairs not knowing Cryssy was not in that good a mood.

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Cryssy looked after her darkly. She did know what was going on, she had a mission and Malfoy almost ended it. Not only did she need to bring Harry back but also Angel, she sighed she had never thought she would have feelings for both and that was the cause off her failing this mission. She had come to Hogwarts because Dumbledore had thought it wise, he knew what she was and he tried his best to convince her that even though she was Voldemorts daughter she could still chose for herself. She however did not know anymore, a part off her wanted to stay where she was and yet the biggest part told her to let go and live her own life. She hated what her father made her do and did not want to be at his side, but she had no choice. His blood was flowing through her veins and it kept her prisoner, it was her doom if her found out her blood boiled for the boy she needed to betray.

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Angel had it all planned out… and easy and peaceful day... The thought flew from her mind when she entered the great hall... Snape was raging at some first years and she let out a muffled giggle. She had no idea as to why, but she was in her usual first week off school mood. Bobbing up to him she smiled sweetly and yelled loudly "10 points from Professor Snape" before bobbing back to her table and sitting down to eat. Leaving Snape so perplexed he never notissed the first years slipping away. Smiling at Cryssy she told her she had Muggle studies this morning and that she would see them later at Herbology. Winking when she stood up after breakfast she scurried along the lines, poked Snape screaming a giggly "poke" and was not seen any more until next class.