Disclaimer: not mine. If it was I wouldn't be in debt from student loans*

Sorry for the long wait between chapters. I had chapter 4 mostly written but I didn't like it. Then I had a crazy holiday weekend. I had a group project due this week and two papers as well so it's been a bit chaotic. The next chapter is almost done so hopefully I will have it up for you all in the next few days.

Chapter 4

"I have a meeting with the Decimo and a few others will be present as well," Xanxus told Jade as he escorted her to one of the Varia cars. "Have more questions that need answered too, but no point in making you explain twice. Mammon, did you even notice me following you?"

The wizard snorted; "of course I saw you. I was just going to ignore you until you brought yourself into the conversation."

As Jade listened to her father and her Sky tease each other she smiled brightly. For the first time she felt at peace; she was finally free to set up a place as hers.

"Jade," Regulus began; "I know that we are going to a meeting where you will be told to spill everything and interrogated by those close to us, but would you tell me a bit about you before we arrive?"

Looking a bit nervous, Jade began her tale. "I somehow was placed with the Potter family. In Lily's diary she wrote about how surprised she was when she had a girl as she had been told it would be a boy. Though she was a bit suspicious after they realized I am a metamorph.

"Until All Hallows' Eve when I was fifteen months old, things were okay. Then moldy-shorts showed up. He killed James and Lily begged for my life before he killed her. I was hit with the killing curse and it hurt.

"It was when I first activated my Soul Fire. Pissed Dumbledore off that I didn't have any mark to use as an icon so he carved a lightning bolt on my forehead. Then he did something that kept it from disappearing.

"I woke up at dawn on November 2 at No 4 Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey. And that was my prison for the next ten years. My 'room'" -she scoffed- "was the broom cupboard under the stairs. Of a four bedroom house. For me my cupboard was safe so I grew to like it somewhat. They couldn't hurt me when I was in my cupboard.

"Petunia tried convincing the neighbors I was a no-good brat and failed miserably. As I achieved high grades and had a knack for languages the teachers and most of the neighbors ignored her. When I went to Hogwarts, I was placed in Gryffindor despite the hat thinking I was a snake."

Xanxus was furious at the mention of the cupboard and his scars were livid, a bright red contrasting against his tan skin. This trash that hurt his Little Cloud was going to be annihilated and he would enjoy every moment of their downfall.

"First year, Dumbledore tried a trap on the third floor corridor. Learned later that it had to do with the Flamel's stone and then second year I had to kill a fucking basilisk. Salazar's familiar so it was about 20 meters long and it bit me. The Phoenix cried on it and I lived, but it broke a weird net around my magic and destroyed the tracking devices that the meddler had."

She paused, debating how to bring up the next part. Then decided to just be blunt. "Sirius escaped from Azkaban. They put dementors around the school and I could hear Lily's death. Then my fourth year they almost forced me into the Triwizard Tournament until I pointed out that it wasn't my handwriting on the paper. I was kidnapped at the end of the year and my blood was stolen and used to bring back Voldemort. My fifth year I was tortured with a blood quill by Umbridge because the old goat was saying that witnessed the resurrection of he-who-has-no-nose and I would up having visions of the Department of Mysteries without knowing why all year.

"I broke in when I had a vision of Sirius being tortured. Which, seeing as he was in the Bahamas I knew was fake. I just wanted to see what Dumbledore's secret weapon was.

"It was a false prophecy. I know it was fake because someone else picked it up off the shelf and not me."

"Well." Regulus was speechless. "I am destroying those Dursleys."

Originally Posted 30 November 2017