Summary: Aishe is a witch and Gypsy with a stepmother Erinn who abuses her. She is fighting for her life.

Disclaimer: I own Erinn, Aishe, her father, people's attitudes unless they are J.K. Rowling's, along with the plot. Other than that folks I do not own single beep beep beep beep beep beep thing.

He had a wand raised just like Erinn with black robes billowing and dark eyes glittering dangerously. She stopped and looked at the man horror clearly seen on her face. Then she dropped her wand and backed away hands up. And then she smiled.

"Having fun Professor Snape." He did not answer but picked up the half-conscious girl and cast a spell binding the woman tight. The girl protested but with her weakness she quickly slept.

"I am not done with you Erinn," he spat and walked out the door.

It took a while to register what was going on. She was in a room with a dozen or so white beds and a group of adults shouting at each other.

"Please don't!" she said trying to sit up. Pain raked her body sending waves of fatigue. She leaned over and threw up everything she had making her gasp for breath. Everyone rushed towards her and the nurse stopped them only letting the person that saved her come. The medi-witch cleaned the mess while the wizard helped her back to her place and put a hand on her shoulder. She was embarrassed and calm all at the same time.

Like a baby, stillborn,
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.

K.D. Lang (A bird on a wire)

"Sir I think that it was the Crucius curse. She had never had it enter her system before." The man said to someone near by.

She tugged on the black robe and startled him.

"Yes?" he said with a raise eyebrow.

"Why did you come to my house?" He was about to sneer but Professor McGonagall went by her side and clasped her hand.

"Have you been abused before? Just nod or shake your head."

She nodded her head. "Who abuses you?" She asked.

Aishe looked at her hand that was still in contact with the teacher's. "It hurts and whenever and as far as can remember, it hurts like I'm being whipped in the face." She said tears rolling down her face. Astonished that she was crying in front of everyone she hastily wiped them away. The elderly woman smiled sorrow on her face and she backed away.

"Here this is a blood replenishing potion and pain killer potion," said the nurse handing her two vials. She took them trembling and downed them both. She lifted up a hand and went to her right temple. Her scar was still there and she was proud of it.

"Who gave you that scar?" someone asked.

"Professor Snape knows."

"Erinn?" he asked.

"No it's Tinkerbelle," she said sarcastically but remembering her manners she said sorry.

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Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.

K.D. Lang (A bird on a wire)

The headmaster Dumbledore told her news about her parents and the ministry. The elderly woman Professor McGonagall helped her renew her past and Professor Snape came on random occasions.

"So how do you feel?" the black covered man asked. She had been in the room for 2 days.

"Good I guess," she said wincing as she readjusted herself. Madam Pomfrey said she had an ill healed rib and it would take a few days to heal again.

"How do you know Erinn?" she asked the man and flinched scared of what he would say. He was scary and seemed powerful.

He sighed and looked at her his eyes full of worry.

"She is a death eater Aishe. The dark lord told her to marry another wizard and make sure that The One with the Culture that is Almost No More. There is a prophecy about that person and I guess that's you. What is you culture anyways?" he asked.

"Romany or Gypsy Hitler killed a lot of us in World War 2. We have no country. My da was…is one…So was my mother…Erinn is Irish." She said it matter-a-fact but when she stopped she had a kind of horror in her face. "I…I shouldn't have told you that."

"Why?" he asked. He said it without emotion but he pushed her for more information.

"Why are you interrogating me?" she asked.

"I am not interrogating me. And I am a professor and you are to call me sir or Professor!" his black eyes bore into her and she looked away ashamed and angry.

"Stop being so harsh Severus! Aishe time for your potions and sleep." Said the medi-witch fussing over her. She learned a while back that if you groan she would think you would be hurt.

She took it and fell asleep. Her mother was there, coming towards her with open arms but at the same time Aishe could not see her. Then men and women with black cloaks and masks killed her. Her father held his wife clearly in pain and Erinn very clearly was running after her with a butcher knife. And she woke up.

She forgot to breath and tears started rolling down her face. Snape stood up and lifted up her upper body.

"Breath. In and out…no please!" She fell back unconscious breathing in slow agonizing breaths.

"Poppy! She is going into shock!" he yelled sending the plumb nurse running.

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch;
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

K.D. Lang (A bird on a wire)