Bellatrix

I woke up feeling sick, like most days, these days. In the beginning I was really annoyed but now it looks like I've accepted my fate. I got out of bed, got dressed into my robes and made my way to the green-light cosy common room.

I saw Lucius talking with Cissy, both of them looked pale with dark circle and melancholy shining in their eyes, but they both put on a smile thinking they could hide it, I knew why Narcissa was looking sick, because well she was, but Lucius had been acting all depressed since yesterday. I always thought that they were similar, my sister and Lucius but today especially.

"What up Cissy?" I skipped over to them.

"Not much, don't you think Lucius looks exceptionally pale today?" she looked at me, she looked worse and worse. If this could stop and we could get some answers, that'd be great.

"Yeah, you do look very white, even for a Malfoy." I smiled at him, no response. "Oh, come on what's wrong?"

"I'm going to say the same thing I told your sister: I'm okay!" no you're not

"Hey, Bella I got a letter from Dad, you want to see it later?" her eyes were rock hard, I didn't see what could be the big deal but I went with it anyway.

Right after my first class, defence against the dark arts I went up to my bed thinking I would maybe read a bit since I had a long break, but right before I even got to the dorm my sister gripped my hand tightly and pulled me towards her. Her eyes were red like she'd been crying but I wasn't sure, she looked into my eyes coolly.

"My room, now" her voice was calm yet ice cold. I followed her. What have I done? I had no idea.

"Cissy? Is this about the letter" we got to her bed, there was no one in the room.

"Yeah" her voice broke, it was quite. Different that what I'd just heard before. She handed me a piece of parchment with beautiful cursive letters on it. It said this

Dear Narcissa, Bellatrix,

You might be wondering why me and your mother decided to write a letter almost right after

you , that is because we could look after you here, but now we can't. I'm sure you've

noticed that you are sick more and more. There is something that we've never told you about

your mother. I'm sure you have noticed that she isn't very good lots of the time. Well this "sickness"

Let's call it passed on to you girls. If you are thinking if your lost sister has this as well, We can't

say for sure, but I'm convinced, she has to. You're still not allowed to search for her, because we will

find out. So this so called sickness is actually a curse. It's very ancient and it requires you to turn

into a snake permanently at some point in your life, the time varies for each person. We are telling

you this now to make sure that you're keeping safe, This is highly secret information so don't

you dare tell anyone. Have a nice snake free year at Hogwarts!

Your father and mother

I looked up at Narcissa, her ocean blue eyes were filled with tears now.

"I don't want to be a snake" she sounded damaged, childish in a way.

"You won't be, we're going to find a cure if it's the last thing we do" I glanced at her, then back at the paper. I liked my voice, it sounded strong even if I wasn't. I walked towards her. And hugged her tight, it was one of those hugs that you don't want to let go of, but eventually you had to painfully and fast.