Sirius decided to take a leaf out of Harry's book and took a few drinks before spinning the bottle. It landed on Cissy.
"Dare." she said "Hit me with your best shot."
"Concrete Angel." Sirius managed to get out. He flinched and he wasn't the only one. Severus did as well. Hermione made a noise. "Just do it."
She set up the music and let Cissy learn it. While she cursed herself for having such a wide verity of songs. She knew that if they branched into Rock and other genre's she'd have them too.
Finally, Cissy took the head phones off and nodded.
She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen and lace
The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel
Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it'll be too late
[Repeat Chorus]
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
[Repeat Chorus]
"Geesh." Draco moaned, "How many more of these songs do you have on that thing?" Hermione pulled out CD cases one after another. "Do you have the whole muggle world on those things?"
"I also have cassettes."Hermione said pulling some out. "They came before the CD's."
"Got A Track?" Harry snipped.
"Nope." She said giving him a wary smile. " A little too old for me and I don't have vinyl either."
Harry scoffed. He didn't know any music from that time but he was betting Tom did.
Cissy spun and it landed on Severus.
"Try it and you die." he growled.
"I don't know Muggle songs, Severus." Cissy shook her head. "So we'll stick by the game rules."
Severus nodded.
"Truth."
"How old were you when your father first hit you?"
The room stilled.
"You are so dead!" Severus growled. " Six."
He spun the bottle. It landed on Harry/Tom.
"Harry." Harry gave him dead eyes. "Truth or Dare."
"Get it over with." Harry sighed, "What song?"
"Maybe this will inspire something in that thick skull of yours. " Severus said tiredly . Glaring at all the Alcohol . "Never Again."
"Nickelback?"
"That's right."
"It wont." Harry said to him. " Trust me... "
He's drunk again, it's time to fight
She must have done something wrong tonight
The living room becomes a boxing ring
It's time to run when you see him
Clenching his hands
She's just a woman
Never Again
I hear her scream, from down the hall
Amazing she can even talk at all
She cries to me, Go back to bed
I'm terrified that she'll wind up
Dead in his hands, She's just a woman
Never Again
Been there before, but not like this
Seen it before, but not like this
Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again
Just tell the nurse, you slipped and fell
It starts to sting as it starts to swell
She looks at you, she wants the truth
It's right out there in the waiting room
With those hands
Lookin just as sweet as he can
Never Again
Seen it before, but not like this
Been there before, but not like this
Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again
Father's a name you haven't earned yet
You're just a child with a temper
Haven't you heard "Don't hit a lady"?
Kickin' your ass would be a pleasure
He's drunk again, it's time to fight
Same old shit, just on a different night
She grabs the gun, she's had enough
Tonight she'll find out how fucking
Tough is this man
Pulls the trigger as fast as she can
Never Again
Seen it before, but not like this
Been there before, but not like this
Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again'
Harry hadn't stood up so he didn't need to sit down. All eyes were on him.
"Ever thought about singing as career?" Draco asked
"Too big of crowds." Harry shrugged, "And Hermione, can't play guitar, Bass or Drums or anything but classical piano."
Hermione huffed though admitted it was true.
He spun the bottle and landed on Draco.
"Truth or Dare, Draco. "
"Dare." Draco said, he for some reason felt he had to part of this. He'd been on the receiving end of his father's "Punishments" since he could walk. " So what will it be?"
"Numb." Harry said, "With Sirius as the back up singer."
"I know it." Sirius said.
"Hang on, I have to find that one."
"In the "Harry listens to them most" one I should think." Harry said.
"Found it!" Hermione called, Harry's case was the only blue one. "Okay, here you go Draco."
"Remind me to show you a charm that will combine all these and reorder them." Remus said flipping through one. "You'll be able to find the one you want by title. "
"That'd be great." Hermione said, she looked at Sirius. "Is he okay? What about Severus?"
"I'm sure they're both caught up in their own childhoods." Remus sighed, "It would seem only five of us in this room weren't abused." (Sorry everyone I forgot Bella was even there. She's just been so quite and didn't move when Sirius had his break down. I wonder what's going through her head.)
"I wasn't abused." Hermione absently hit Harry with her pillow. Harry huffed.
"You want me to sing this?" Draco asked catching everyone's attention. Harry nodded. "Uh, okay. " he looked at Harry. "How'd you know this was how I felt by the way?"
"I feel the same way every day of my life." Harry replied.
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
[Chorus:]
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
Can't you see that you're smothering me,
Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control?
'Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you.
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you.
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
And every second I waste is more than I can take.
[Chorus:]
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there,
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you.
And I know
I may end up failing too.
But I know
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you.
[Chorus:]
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there,
Become so tired, so much more aware.
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you.
[Chorus:]
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there.
(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there.
(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)
Dobby had appeared in the room and was staring the door had burst open at the start revealing Lucius, his hair back but horns still there, He had stared in his son in shock the whole song. Draco sat down and Cissy comforted him.
"Master!" Dobby cried, "Old Master is getting out! He is breaking down door and I is thinking his shoulder."
"I don't care about his shoulder. " Harry waved his hand. "Did Welburga get her say in?"
"Oh, yes." Dobby said happily, "She was most displeased. I is being able to hear her through elf silencing charms."
"Which is why he broke out." Sirius snorted. "Very well, go help Winky, please, Dobby I think she's trying to get us to drown our sorrows in sweets instead of alcohol. "
"i is agreeing with Winky." Dobby stated boldly. "So I is going to help."
Lucius took his spot and tried to fix his hair. He'd been pulling at it, not becoming of a Malfoy at all, since they'd shut him in there.
Draco spun the bottle. It landed on Bella.
"I'll choose Truth Draco."
Everyone was shocked she seemed more human.
"Were you ever abused?"
"Well, that would all depend on one's definition of Abuse."
"Hermione, definition. " Harry said, "I'm curious myself."
"Physical abuse : Physical abuse is generally defined as "any nonaccidental
physical injury to the child" and can include striking,
kicking, burning, or biting the child, or any action
that results in a physical impairment of the child.
Neglect:
Neglect is frequently defined as the failure of a parent
or other person with responsibility for the child to
provide needed food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or
supervision to the degree that the child's health, safety,
and well-being are threatened with harm.
Abandonment:
In general, it is considered
abandonment of the child when the parent's identity or
whereabouts are unknown, the child has been left by the
parent in circumstances in which the child suffers serious
harm, or the parent has failed to maintain contact with
the child or to provide reasonable support for a specified
period of time.
"For the record I was never abandoned ." Harry stated firmly looking at Hermione. "My parents are dead."
"I wasn't stating that one for you." Hermione stated back. "and I will have you know the Dursley in there own way have abandoned you while you are at school by that definition. "
Harry rolled his eyes. It was times like these when he hated having a know it all as a sister in all but blood.
"Then yes. " Bella said, "I have been abused." Cissy jolted. "I was the eldest. " Bella said, "like Lucius does to you Draco, I often got a cane taken to me. When I did something unbecoming of a Black. "
Harry had flinched at the word cane and everyone had noticed it.
"Hey, wards!" Sirius called out. "If we're not allowed magic and Harry was abused..."
"I was not abused!" Hermione hit Harry with pillow.
"Then why didn't Severus find any marks when they were doing "Seven minuets in Heaven?" Are you letting him keep glamours."
"NO!" Harry screamed as he felt magic rip his glamours off. He glared at his godfather with all of his might . Before he wrapped himself in a cocoon of his sleeping bag they all saw welts, bruises , burns and cuts on his arms and strangle marks going back years around his neck along with some fresh ones. "I'll get you for this."
No one said a word.
