Ok my second story! And don't worry; Change Of Life will be updated soon. Just as soon as I get my creative butt working on chap 7 and I will soon. Hopefully
But ok enjoy the new story and do not think on the title b/c it will be eventually explained. I hope.
Ok we all know how the disclaimer works, so yah I don't own HP blah but I own Lady Rache, and her family and I don't own any name from the Sevenwaters Trilogy (Which is an awesome book series. I suggest u read them)
Ok people
This is normal speech
This is a vision
This is a thought
This is raven speech
As for the songs on last chapter:
They were (In the order they were "Played")
Avril Lavinge- Freak Out
Roy Bennett and Sid Tepper- Nuttin For ChristmasKelly Clarkson- A Moment Like This
AFI- Silver And Cold
Stone Sour- Through Glass
Shania Twain- Forever and Always
Evanescence- Hello
Chapter 14: The Chat
Anne was sleeping so soundly that she didn't even hear Severus open her door and didn't feel him gently shacking her, but she did here his voice calling, seeming miles away. She was lost in her dream and she couldn't get out.
'Anne was again standing behind Conor, who was shacking in anger. He swung around and glared at her. Anne noticed the empty bottles on floor behind him.
" How could you, Anne? Why did go do something so stupid?" Conor raged, his hands clenched in tight fists.
" Conor, why are you so mad? I don't know what I did!" Anne said calmly, gently touching his shoulder, but her pulled away and slapped her, sending her ground in shock.
' Conor would never hit me! He doesn't even drink. Why is he now?' Anne curled up against the wall farthest from him and began to rock back and forth as the songs poured out of her, booming in the small room they were in and Conor could do nothing to stop her.
"Another dream that will never come true
Just to compliment your sorrow
Another life that I've taken from you
A gift to add on to your pain and suffering
Another truth you can never believe
Has crippled you completely
All the cries you're beginning to hear
Trapped in your mind, and the sound is deafening
Let me enlighten you
This is the way I pray
Living just isn't hard enough
Burn me alive, inside
Living my life's not hard enough
Take everything away
Another nightmare about to come true
Will manifest tomorrow
Another love that I've taken from you
Lost in time, on the edge of suffering
Another taste of the evil I breed
Will level you completely
Bring to life everything that you fear
Live in the dark, and the world is threatening
Let me enlighten you
This is the way i pray
Living just isn't hard enough
burn me alive; inside
living my life's not hard enough
take everything away
Return to me, return to me, return to me, turn to me, leave me no one
Turn to me, return to me, return to me, turn to me, cast aside
Return to me, return to me, return to me, turn to me, leave me no one
Turn to me, return to me, return to me, you've made me turn away
Living just isn't hard enough
burn me alive, inside
Living my life's not hard enough,
they take everything from you
Living just isn't hard enough
burn me alive, inside
living my life's not hard enough
take everything away"
" Anne, stop this at once! I won't have this anymore!" Conor moved swiftly and grabbed Anne's wrists and pulled her up and glared at her, but as soon as he heard the song wafting out of her, he dropped her, his hands burning.
"I've given up on giving up slowly, I'm blending in so
You won't even know me apart from this whole world that shares my fate
This one last bullet you mention is my one last shot at redemption
Because I know to live you must give your life away
And I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and
I've been locked inside that house all the while You hold the key
And I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though there's no way in knowing where to go promise I'm going because
I gotta get outta here
I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I gotta get outta here
And I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I'm begging you to be my escape
I'm giving up on doing this alone now
'Cause I've failed and I'm ready to be shown how
He's told me the way and I'm trying to get there
And this life sentence that I'm serving
I admit that I'm every bit deserving
But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
'Cause I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and
I've been locked inside that house all the while You hold the key
And I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though there's no way in knowing where to go promise I'm going because
I gotta get outta here
I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I gotta get outta here
And I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I'm begging you to be my escape
I've been locked inside that house all the while you hold the key
And I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there's no way in knowing where to go, promise I'm going because
I gotta get outta here
Cause I'm afraid that this complacency is something I can't shake
I gotta get outta here
And I'm begging You, I'm begging You, I'm begging You to be my escape.
I am a hostage to my own humanity
Self detained and forced to live in this mess I've made
And all I'm asking is for You to do what You can with me
But I can't ask You to give what You already gave
Cause I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and
I've been locked inside that house all the while you hold the key
And I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there's no way in knowing where to go, promise I'm going because
I gotta get outta here
Cause I'm afraid that this complacency is something I can't shake
I gotta get outta here
And I'm begging You, I'm begging You, I'm begging You to be my escape.
I fought You for so long
I should have let You in
Oh how we regret those things we do
And all I was trying to do was save my own skin
But so were You"
Anne glanced up and saw her songs were hurting Conor.
" Wait. Wait one minute! YOUR NOT CONOR!" Anne was on her feet and instantly knew what to do. " At least the voice and manners isn't him. Sure, you look the part, but you missed a few things. For one: Conor would never hit me, two: Conor doesn't drink and three: Conor knows that I cannot stop the music. You're not Conor. WHERE IS HE?"
" Well, aren't we the smart girl. Took you long enough to figure it out." The man stood up and shed his disguise. He looked familiar, where had Anne seen him before? That's it!
" Malfoy. Lucius Malfoy. What the hell do you want?" Anne was growing angry, the visions from Draco streaming through her head.
" Why, to bring you to my master. He so wants to see you and use you." Malfoy sneered at her.
" Use me? For my Seer gifts right? Does even know who he is messing with?" Anne sneered back.
" A child who is too big for her britches."
" How about a child with a rather large family behind her."
" Ha! The Potter's are dead and you and your annoying brother are the last."
" Well, did you even consider the family I grew up with? Became the heir too? The power I posses now that I am the leader of said family?"
" Power? Your eleven years old! What power could you possibly have?"
" Tell me, Lucius. Have you ever heard of Vampiric elves?" Anne asked, slowly letting her elf side show through, eyes becoming sharper, hair glossier, and body more lean.
" Yes, who hasn't? They inhabit all of Europe and Asia." He answered, suddenly taking in her appearances.
" Actually, the family is spread out all over the world, even Iceland. I always get strange gifts from them." Anne smirked.
" What are you getting at, Potter?" Lucius asked, growing impatient.
" Lucius, you are looking at the leader of the Vampiric elves. I came into power in August, when Liadan dies. I hold three times as much power in my hand then you have total, Lucius. So, you wanna tell me where Conor is or do we have to do this the hard way?" Anne was sneering at him, it strangely resembling Severus's.
" What's the hard part?" Lucius asked.
" Oh, I poke and prod into your mind until it's so full of holes, you can't even talk without drooling and spurting your dark secrets." Anne's voice was cheery, but it held its coldness as she glared at the elder Malfoy.
" Then, I could just do even after you give me what I want just to get some damn proof of what you have been doing to Narcissa and Draco."
" What do you know of it?" He launched out.
" A lot, actually. My Seer gifts are quite helpful every now and then and it gave me enough resolve to keep Draco from you, whom by the way, he granted me full permission to do anything to get him and his mother away from you."
Lucius seemed shocked and angry, but his face fell and he looked up at Anne.
" Fine, I will tell you. He.." Anne stopped him.
" You know what? Not here. We're going to go pay a visit to my father. He will know what to do with you. Bastard." Anne tied him up and dragged him out and a familiar angry song wafted out of her as she walked out of the room, dragging the captive behind her.
"Hey girl you know you drive me crazy
one look puts the rhythm in my hand.
Still I'll never understand why you hang around
I see what's going down.
Cover up with make up in the mirror
tell yourself it's never gonna happen again
you cry alone and then he swears he loves you.
Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.
A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wade around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down.
I see the way you go and say your right again,
say your right again
heed my lecture
Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down a new life she has.
Face down in the dirt she says, this doesn't hurt she says I finally had enough..
Face down in the dirt she says, this doesn't hurt she says I finally had enough..
Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down a new life she has.
One day she will tell you that she has had enough
it's coming round again.
Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down a new life she has.
Face down in the dirt she says, this doesn't hurt she says I finally had enough.."
…'
Anne's eyes fluttered open and she saw Severus over her, still gently shacking her.
" Dad?" She asked groggily.
" Finally. I have been trying to get you up for the past hour." He sat down on the side, still holding her hand.
" Sorry. Lost in a vision, wasn't a normal one I can tell you that." Anne sat up and leaned against him.
" You ok?"
" Yah. What time is it?"
" Eleven."
" Holy crap, I am so late!" Anne moved to get out of the bed, but Severus stopped her.
" Anne, it's eleven o'clock at night. You have been asleep all day, which I am grateful for. Had you been awake, you would have suffered side effects of the poison." Severus placed her back against the pillows while talking, his eyes growing serious.
" So you figured it out? What was it?" Anne was now sitting straight up, despite her father's efforts to push her back.
" It is an extremely rare and dangerous poison. It is known only to the wizarding world and there have been only a handful of people that have owned it. Not even the Ministry knows about the owners. It is illegal to even have it growing in your garden, and trust me, it is not a weed, so if it's growing, you or someone in her house planted it. Its name is Dangla." Severus stopped as he watched Anne work something out in her head.
" Dad, does Dumbledore own any Dangla?" Anne's head now in her hands as she pondered the thought.
" I believe he does own some, probably got it in the last war, knowing him." He answered.
" He was staring at my table, probably at me. I sit in the same spot ever time. He knew I would sit there, so he poisoned the items around me. Dad, can you control who gets sick?"
"Yah, that is why it is so dangerous and illegal." Severus was looking grim as he watched Anne.
" I refused to help him. I told him right before my family left. Told him, I wouldn't be his toy and I wouldn't allow him to Harry as well. He knew! That son of a bitch knew! He knew Harry was being beat!" Anne was pulsing rage and Severus flinched as the heat passed through him.
Anne looked up at him.
" Dad, I don't trust him."
" Neither do I. What do you suppose we do?" Severus was eyeing his daughter.
" Watch out for Harry from the shadows. I suspect that Dumbledore was upset that Harry wasn't here during break, because there is proof he isn't the heir of Slytherin! He wasn't even here. Dumbledore is in for a rude awaking if he thinks I am letting him do this. Just wait until I am done with my plan and he wont ever bug Harry again."
Anne was not even looking at Severus; instead she was glaring into the bedspread.
" And what do you plan on doing while I am watching Harry from the shadows?" He asked, grabbing her hand.
" Oh, I plan on writing my family and informing them on what happened. I also plan on them bring mother and father. You will love them dad. They're as crazy for potions as you are. But they know their poisons as well. I knew at once what plant you were talking about. Before we burned it, there were huge patches of it all over the forest. We didn't think anything on it; until one of the young ones got sick and said he had eaten some leaves. Liadan instantly knew the plant when she was shown it. We instantly went out and burned every patch. Took forever but it never grew back. But anyway, don't get ride of the goblet. They will want to examine it and then you will have to experts backing you whenever you decide to confront the Headmaster." Anne looked up and saw Severus smirking at her.
" What?"
" That is exactly what I would do if I were you."
" Well, am I your kid or not? I get it from somewhere." Anne smirked at him, copying his almost exactly.
" Yah you're my kid."
A sudden wave of pain coursed through her, sending her into small spasms.
" Anne! What's wrong?" Severus was at once pouring a potion down her throat, it working at once. The pain faded, but her head still pounding.
" You alright now?" Severus asked, moving her to lay back.
" Yah, head just pounding. That was bad." Anne whispered.
" I can tell. Listen, go back to bed and I will leave half a vile of pain remover potion on you dresser. I have to patrol, but I will be back at midnight." He brushed a stray hair out of her eyes.
" Ok, dad." Anne answered, her mind preoccupied.
Severus left and at once Anne was sitting straight and was plotting her plan against Dumbledore. As she worked, music played and she was singing along without realizing it.
"We dream of ways to break these iron bars.
We dream of black nights without moon or stars.
We dream of tunnels and of sleeping guards.
We dream of blackouts in the prison yard.
Heartbroken, we found,
(A gleam of hope)
Harken to the sound,
(A whistle blows)
Heaven sent reply,
(However small)
Evidence of life
(Beyond these walls)
Born and bred
(In this machine)
Wardens dread
(To see us dream)
We hold tight
(To legends of)
Real life,
(The way it was before)
We dream of jailers throwing down their arms.
We dream of open gates and no alarms.
We dream of ways to break these iron bars.
We dream of black nights without moon or stars.
We dream of ways to break these iron bars.
We dream of black nights without moon or stars.
We dream of ways to break these iron bars.
We dream of black nights without moon or stars.
Heartbroken, we found,
(A gleam of hope)
Harken to the sound,
(A whistle blows)
Heaven sent reply,
(However small)
Evidence of life
(Beyond these walls)
Born and bred
(In this machine)
Wardens dread
(To see us dream)
We hold tight
(To legends of)
Real life,
(The way it was before)
Look to the day the earth will shake.
These weathered walls will fall away.
Look to the day the earth will shake.
These weathered walls will fall away.
Look to the day the earth will shake.
These weathered walls will fall away.
Look to the day the earth will shake.
These weathered walls will fall away."
Her thoughts were now on what the old coot had done.
"Walking, waiting
Alone without a care
Hoping and hating
Things that I can't bear
Did you think it's cool to walk right up to take my life and fuck it up, well did you?
Well did you?
I see hell in your eyes
Taken in by surprise (surprise)
Touching you makes me feel alive
Touching you makes me die inside
Walking, waiting
Alone without a care
Hoping and hating
Things that I can't bear
Did you think it's cool to walk right up to take my life and fuck it up, well did you?
I-hate-you
I see hell in your eyes
Taken in by surprise (surprise)
Touching you makes me feel alive (hell in your eyes)
Touching you makes me die inside
I've slept so long without you
It's tearing me apart too
How did it get so far?
Playing games with this old heart
I've killed a million petty souls
But I couldn't kill you
I've slept so long without you
(touching you makes me die inside)
I see hell in your eyes (touching u makes me die inside)
Taken in by surprise (touching u makes me die inside)
Touching you makes me feel alive (touching u makes me die inside)
Touching you makes me die inside (touching u makes me die inside)
i see hell in your yes (I see hell in your eyes)
taken in by surprise.
Touching you makes me feel alive
touching you makes me die inside.
I see hell in your eyes!
Taken in by surprise..."
Anne was walking the halls very late at night. She had made sure she was going during Severus's patrol and was walking to the owlerly. She was almost there when a noise in front of her caused her to jump into the shadows.
It was Filch and Mrs. Norris.
Anne waited until they passed to breath again continue to the owlerly, only to bump into Severus.
" Dad, you scared me!" Anne stood back and noticed the look of suspicion on his face.
" What are you doing out of the quarters?" he asked, pulling her into the corner.
" I was heading to the owlerly. If I don't send the letter know, Dumbly will stop me." Anne explained, glancing around.
" Ok, move and be back in the room before dawn, you hear me?" Severus said quietly but sternly.
" Yah, thanks dad." She pecked his check and took off for the tower.
Anne sent the letter and was petting Hedwig, Harry's owl, and watching the small school owl fly off with the letter.
Anne began to let her thoughts wander and began to softly sing into the sky, her thoughts swarming around her family.
" Hear me
Hear me
You gotta be out there
You gotta be somewhere
Wherever you are
I'm waiting
'Cause there are these nights when
I sing myself to sleep
And I'm hopin' my dreams
Bring you close to me
Are you listening?
Hear me
I'm cryin' out
I'm ready now
Turn my world upside down
Find me
I'm lost inside the crowd
It's getting loud
I need you to see
I'm screaming for you to please
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me
Can you hear me?
Hear me
I used to be scared of
Letting someone in
But it gets so lonely
Being on my own
No one to talk to
And no one to hold me
I'm not always strong
Oh, I need you here
Are you listening?
Hear me
I'm cryin' out
I'm ready now
Turn my world upside down
Find me
I'm lost inside the crowd
It's getting loud
I need you to see
I'm screaming for you to please
Hear me
I'm restless and wild
I fall, but I try
I need someone to understand
Can you hear me?
I'm lost in my thoughts
And baby I've fought
For all that I've got
Can you hear me?
Hear me
I'm cryin' out
I'm ready now
Turn my world upside down
Find me
I'm lost inside the crowd
It's getting loud
I need you to see
I'm screaming for you to please
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me
Can you hear me?
Hear me
hear me
hear me
Can you hear me?
Oh, oh, oh, oh...
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me"
She at once noticed the lightening sky and moved quickly out of the owlerly and back to Severus's quarter (earning a reproachful glare from Lord Slytherin) and was back in her room before dawn even broke.
Severus moved to wake the lazy child, but when he got to her side, he saw her eyes were wide open and was staring at the ceiling.
" Anne?" He asked, sitting down.
" Yah?"
" Are you hungry?"
" Yah, I will be there in a minute." Anne said, sitting up as she spoke.
Severus walked out of the room and Anne stood in the middle, gazing at herself in the mirror.
' By the gods, let my brother come to no harm this year. I will hate if you let Dumbledore have his way.'
Anne was now glaring half-hearted at the images in the mirror and was begging the fates to tell her what they meant.
" Prison gates won't open up for me
On these hands and knees I'm crawlin'
Oh, I reach for you
Well I'm terrified of these four walls
These iron bars can't hold my soul in
All I need is you
Come please I'm callin'
And oh I scream for you
Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin'
Show me what it's like
To be the last one standing
And teach me wrong from right
And I'll show you what I can be
Say it for me
Say it to me
And I'll leave this life behind me
Say it if it's worth saving me
Heaven's gates won't open up for me
With these broken wings I'm fallin'
And all I see is you
These city walls ain't got no love for me
I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story
And oh I scream for you
Come please I'm callin'
And all I need from you
Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin'
Show me what it's like
To be the last one standing
And teach me wrong from right
And I'll show you what I can be
Say it for me
Say it to me
And I'll leave this life behind me
Say it if it's worth saving me
Hurry I'm fallin'
All I need is you
Come please I'm callin'
And oh, I scream for you
Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin'
Show me what it's like
To be the last one standing
And teach me wrong from right
And I'll show you what I can be
Say it for me
Say it to me
And I'll leave this life behind me
Say it if it's worth saving me
Hurry I'm fallin'"
Severus now stood in the doorway, watching Anne glare into the mirror and watched as the mirror began to crack as another song wafted from the girl.
'We aren't your little toys!'
Anne yelled at the voices in the mirror.
"We're more than carbon and chemicals
We are the image of the invisible
Free will is ours and we can't let go
We are the image of the invisible
We can't allow this, the quiet cull
We are the image of the invisible
So we sing out this, our canticle
We are the image of the invisible
We all were lost and we are found
No one can stop us or slow us down
We are the named and we are known
We know that we'll never walk alone
We're more than static and dial tone
We are the image of the invisible
We're emblematic of the unknown
We are the image of the invisible
So raise the banner, bend back your bows
We are the image of the invisible
Remove the cancer, take back your souls
We are the image of the invisible
We all were lost and we are found
No one can stop us or slow us down
We are the named and we are known
We know that we'll never walk alone
Though all the world may hate us, we are named
The shadow overtake us, we are known
We're more than carbon and chemicals
Free will is ours and we can't let go
We are the image of the invisible
We're more than carbon and chemicals
We are the image of the invisible
Free will is ours and we can't let go
We are the image of the invisible
We can't allow this, the quiet cull
We are the image of the invisible
So we sing out this, our canticle
We are the image of the invisible
We all were lost and we are found
No one can stop us or slow us down
We are the named and we are known
We know that we'll never walk alone
We all were lost and we are found
No one can stop us or slow us down
We are the named and we are known
We know that we'll never walk alone
Raise up the banner, bend back your bows
Remove the cancer, take back your souls"
The mirror exploded and shards were flying right at Anne, but a wall of fire rose at once between the shards and her and was gone in a split second. The fire disappeared, leaving no signs that it was even there.
" What was that? How did you summon that fire?" Severus moved at once to her side and began to search for any wounds, although he found none.
" I'm not called a fire mage for nothing, dad. I have elemental powers. My strongest being fire, my second being air. I have little to no control over earth and water, but it is enough to keep me safe. Roslyn was my teacher in the village before she died. Had she not trained me, this whole school would have been burnt to the ground already, for she taught me to control and harness the wild fire inside of me." Anne was now gazing up at Severus, her eyes pleading for pride from him.
" You amaze me more every day, Anne. I think I like the fact that I am your dad even more." Severus wrapped an arm around her shoulder and lead the way to the kitchen, where the smell of bacon hit Anne's nose and her mouth began to water and her stomach growling.
" Ok, lets eat." Severus said, laughing at her.
" It's about time." Anne smiled and sat down opposite him.
((A/N: Ok done! Wow 20 and ¼ pages. Not bad. So what do you think? Evil dumbly. Hehe he will get his due. Oh by the way, I am running out of songs, so if you could send me links to some new ones, I will see if they will work into the story. Who knows, maybe they will work for the Chamber scene HINT HINT))