Chapter 9

Callie hadn't heard from her husband or step-daughter in three or four days, and was getting angrier and angrier. Then one day while she was drinking a cup of tea, Voldemort Apparated into the room looking very angry.

"I want to have a word with you Tom, what the HELL were you thinking of, just taking Charlotte away without even telling me!" Callie's anger surfaced.

"Oh shut up woman, I've got more important things to discuss. My Horcrux count is running out, ones missing, two are destroyed…I need to find them all and keep them safe, which I want you to do."

Callie was not listening. She was horrified. "You…you have Horcuxes? You never told me that…how could you manipulate your life like that, destroy your soul…" she looked at him, like she had been since he had returned, like she didn't know him at all.

"Now is not the time Callidora, it's old news, I need them safe, I NEED IMMORTALITY!" a silence followed, as Callie shook her head in disbelief. Neither of them spoke for a while, leaving an awkward pause as they remembered what had happened the night they had last been together. Callie tried to look her husband in the eye, but he would not take it, so she changed the topic.

"Tom, Charlie is not ready to follow you. She's only young, it's not right."

"Callidora, she is exactly who I need for the plan, and she's my flesh and blood she'll go onto great, GREAT things!" he looked ecstatic.

"Oh, for God's sake Tom!" she was frantic. "She's a Ravenclaw!"

At this point, Charlie had entered the house, and was listening from the next room.

Voldemort was in shock. His voice was a whisper. "What?"

"She's a Ravenclaw. Not Slytherin, she's not like you, she…"

"But, that's not possible, not a daughter of mine, and her mother was Slytherin…"

"NO I WASN'T TOM! I WAS A RAVENCLAW!"

Charlie stepped into the room and her and her father spoke at the same time.

"What?"

"Charlie!"

"You're my mum?" Charlie was speechless.

"You were a Ravenclaw?" he was furious.

Callie was shocked. "Y-yes, I'm your mother, and I was in Ravenclaw."

Voldemort fumed, and Disapparated, leaving Callie and her new found mother together.