Chapter 95: Poison For The Ear

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The Grounds, Hogwarts Castle, Wizarding World...

The rain continued to come down as Ursula Black made her way to the grounds of Hogwarts. Per the usual Phaeron had been at the lake reading a bit before he decided to head in for the night. The young witch collapsed onto the ground a foot away from him, seemingly exhausted from hurried flight and her ordeal. Phaeron lept to his feet and raced over toward her. A look of concern plastered across his sallow pale face. He kneeled down beside the ailing witch whom had looked to have been in quite a scuffle.

"Urs?" he said frantically looking her over. "What the hell happened?"

Ursula Black's chaotic dark eyes looked up at Phaeron filled with hurt and fear.

"Urs?" said Phaeron concerned.

"G-Get away.." she rasped.

Phaeron arched an eyebrow in response to her strange behavior.

"Urs...it's me." he said.

"Stay away from me Snape." she said struggling to get her battered body away from him.

"Urs why are you acting like this?" asked the younger Snape. "What's happened...why can't you just tell me?"

Ursula again tried in vain to escape the clutches of a Snape. This time one with concern behind his obsidian eyes. Phaeron knew he wasn't going to get her to talk about what happened not with her being as hysterical as she was. He decided to gently probe her mind for the information. Ursula found herself looking deep into the obsidian eyes of her young lover.

"Legilimens!" said Phaeron focusing on her mind.

He had a time of getting passed her apparent defenses before the images came to him.

{He saw his father clad in his usual ebony attire and glaring down at Ursula with a strange look in his eyes. His pale face twisted in an emotionless mask as he reached down and clasped his long pale fingers around the young witch's throat. The burning rage behind Snape's obsidian eyes had been intense so much so that the evident fear of him radiated through the memory.

Phaeron saw his father continue to try and viciously choke Ursula to death for no apparent reason.

The crazed look in the older wizard's eyes had been most unsettling. }

Phaeron didn't understand any of this. Why was his father trying to kill his girlfriend and what was so bad about her that he had to resort to attempted murder.

"W-What is all this?" he asked in disbelief.

Ursula looked at him apparently fearful.

"My aunt told me that...H-He...that man...you're father...savagely raped my aunt during the war." said the young witch cautiously. "When I confronted him about the incident he went completely mad and started choking me...he probably would have killed me if I hadn't hexed him and escaped."

Phaeron shook his head unable to imagine his father doing anything like that.

He went back into her mind to find evidence of what she had just told him. Sure enough it all had been there as if playing on a reel for his eyes only. Phaeron pulled out of Ursula's mind not knowing what to make of what was happening. His father was not the overly violent type and it didn't seem to make any sense that he would suddenly attack Ursula of all people given his knowledge of his son's relationship with her.

"I-I think you're mistaken." said Phaeron looking at Ursula. "My father would never..."

"You're father was a death eater." reasoned Ursula. "The highest ranking death eater at that...Voldemort's right hand...there is no telling what he's done or to how many people."

Phaeron shook his head.

"My father is a good man." he said not wishing to believe her. "He would never..."

"Never what...murder Muggle-Borns like your mother, or commit rape, or torture innocents?" asked Ursula sounding hurt that he had not believed her. "My Aunt was there Phaeron...I think she would know a thing or two about what death eaters like your father were up to."

Phaeron narrowed his obsidian eyes at the young witch.

"How would you know?" he asked. "Just who is your aunt anyway?"

"Bellatrix LeStrange." replied Ursula with fire behind her chaotic dark eyes.

"T-The mad witch?" asked Phaeron in disbelief. "D-Draco's Aunt...she's...related to you too?"

The young witch nodded.

"The very same." she said. "So you see I have it on good authority just how twisted your death eater father was...if anyone knows it's her."

"My father is not a monster." said Phaeron. "He would never just attack anyone...at least not without provocation on his part."

Ursula sighed.

"Open your eyes Phaeron." she said still sounding hurt. "He's a monster just like everyone said he was...wither you want to believe it or not."

"NO!" shouted Phaeron becoming testy. "My father risked his life to bring down Voldemort, he's a war hero for Merlin's sake."

"Nobody is saying he didn't do his part in terms of the war, I even commend him for that...but there is something seriously wrong with him." replied Ursula understanding Phaeron's attachment to his father. "I'm just saying he's got a dark side too...I found out first hand about it tonight."

The young Slytherin still couldn't make sense of what he saw in Ursula's mind.

She had never lied to him before and coming out of the blue with this information about his father...still she had been the one that outed the truth about Harry Potter as a favor to him despite being expelled from Hogwarts.

"M-My father?" said Phaeron still wrestling with this new information.

Ursula nodded with a sorrowful look on her face.

"I-I'm sorry you had to find out like this Phaeron." she said.

"I-I have to speak to my mother...she...she'll know what to do." said Phaeron trying to come up with a plan of action. "In the mean time we have to find a way to keep you safe."

"I-I can take care of myself." said Ursula trying to reassure him and failing miserably.

She tried to stand up straight and only caused herself to nearly fall over before Phaeron caught her in his arms.

"Take it easy Urs." he said softly.

His emotions were all over the place. His concern for Ursula and his rage toward his own father were at odds with what should be in control. Upon seeing the marks on her arms and neck, his rage had been a clear winner but Ursula needed his help given her condition. He couldn't take her into Hogwarts and thought Hogsmeade Village had been the best place for her.

She took his hand and they neared the edge of the forbidden forest when a crack of thunder filled their ears. Phaeron didn't need to look behind him to be able to tell who it had been.

Ursula seemed to grow all the more terrified as she too noted whom had caused the thunderous sound.

The tale tell signs of smoke reminiscent of the death eaters had been all around.