Prompt: Halloween
Any time period/pairing/era
Word count: 500-5000
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Story Title : The Halloween Ball
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Drama/?
Fanfic name : -Undisclosed at this time-
Pairing if any: Flora Riddle/Theodore Nott, Draco Malfoy/Hestia Riddle, Tom Riddle/OC
Ocs if any: Lady Ashley Riddle
Summary : Flora and Hestia just came to terms with the fact that they were adopted now they must face the world and unveil themselves and their parents along with their boyfriends Theo and Draco at a Halloween Ball this will test the girls courage, their personal relationships and will demonstrate just a little bit of the power the Riddle family Truly Possess.
The Halloween Ball
Flora Riddle had been sitting staring out the window all day just thinking of what tonightwas… tonight was the Annual Hogwarts Halloween Ball but it was more for her, her twin Hestia and their boyfriends Draco Malfoy and Theodore Nott this was the first night that they were going to show the wizarding world who they were and what they believed this world should be.
As Flora was just about to stand Theo came up to her and said "it's going to be alright, love! We can do this and you know Lord and Lady Riddle will be there watching and they will be so proud of what you and Hestia are going to and have already achieved."
Flora smiled up at Theo and wrapped her arms around him and just held on for a while. They both knew she was stalling getting ready but they didn't mind as long as they were together. They heard footsteps coming up from the hallway just outside the Slytherin Common Room.
It sounded like there was two people then they heard a clear masculine voice announce the password. "Pureblood" the stone wall melted back into a passageway and as Flora and Theo assumed by hearing Dracos voice Floras twin Hestia walked in before Draco.
"Oh, come on dear sister of mine, don't start fretting again it's only our coming out ball" Hestia drawled.
"Now love you know how stressful this whole ordeal has been for Flora she's come into her Riddle powers so quickly and suddenly you can't keep putting pressure on her" Draco exclaimed.
Flora wore a smug grin seeing her twins boyfriend stand up for her and she started to feel a lot better. "Oh do come along sister we do have a lot to do to get ready" she said as she turned around, kissed Theo on the cheek and walked off towards the Riddle sisters room.
Hestia growled at Floras back but nonetheless she followed after her twin to get ready she couldn't show it to her younger sister but she was nervous. She had to demonstrate some of her skill tonight in front of all the staff, students and the most nerve wracking of all her parents.
By the time Hestia reached the room Flora had all her stuff she would need to get ready for the ball out and was magically removing all the hair from her legs, underarms and of course Flora being Flora had to remove the hair from her arms as well.
After removing all the hair she quickly raced into the shower scrubbed down and started the arduous task of getting ready. First she worked on her hair and settled for a simple French twist with some curls framing her face.
Next, she started on her makeup she was going for the natural but dark look so put a nice fair foundation on, pale pink blush and a shining clear gloss. Next she put the black eyeliner and mascara on and magically dried everything. For her eye shadow she decided on Green and Silver representing her house and her heritage of being an ancestor of the Great Salazar Slytherin.
Now putting the diamond and emerald necklace and dangling teardrop earrings on. She turned around and walked to the bed and took the cover off her dress that her mother had bought her and not allowed her to see until the night.
Flora was shocked when she opened the dress, it was beautiful. It was emerald green with silver embroidery on the bodice of the dress. It has thin spaghetti straps and the skirt of the dress was floor length. It looked like it was the perfect fit.
She put some perfume on and called for her sister who was in her silver dressing gown "Hes, can you please help me get into my dress and when I'm finished I'll help you finish getting ready".
"Of course my little flower sister, come on let's get you into this dress fit for a princess". Hestia held the dress up and helped her pull it up. As her sister straightened up she lost her breath "Flora I can't even begin to explain how beautiful you look right now, you are ready for this, we are ready, we will take our rightful place beside our parents tonight and we will succeed".
Flora smiled at her older sister and stepped in front of the mirror and checked the dress from every angle, her sister was correct it was the most amazing dress she had seen it fit like a glove. She couldn't wait for Theo to see it.
She decided to wait until they were both ready to put the shoes that were still in the box on. She turned around to her sister and stated "let's get you ready, let's see what mother picked for you to wear".
Hestia looked down at her feet and asked "can you do something with my hair? I've got my makeup finished and jewellery on I just have no idea what to do with my hair".
Flora tried many hairstyles on her sister each one just didn't look right. She was at it for 20 minutes when she was ready to give up and call for her mother when she waved her wand in a number of complicated swirls, that was when her sisters hair fell into the perfect up do with her bun in a complicated pattern at the back. She smiled and said "perfect".
Hestia looked in the mirror and smiled her sister had done amazing work with her hair. She walked over to her bed and opened the dress bag and got her first look at the gown she was to wear.
Like her sisters it was emerald green it was a floor length gown with two over the shoulder straps, on the left side of the skirt of the dress there was a split from the hip to the floor, as she picked it up and went to step into it she noticed that the sleeves flowed down to join in a V split which was covered by a sheer green and silver material that you could see her spine through. She got Floras help to get into it being extra careful not to step on the dress.
Once they were both in their dresses they stood in front of the mirror and were stunned at how well the dresses fit and how amazing they looked their mother had definitely picked well for the twins.
They slipped their shoes on and noticed they were the same black heels, Floras had a gold snake and Hestias was a silver snake wrapping up and around their ankles.
They walked out into the common room and found the boys pacing back and forth, Flora cleared her throat and the boys spun around and their mouths dropped open and they had a kind of glazed look in their eyes.
Theo was the first to recover and rush to Floras side and said "oh love you look absolutely ravishingly beautiful" whilst he bent over and pecked her on the cheek he held his arm out and asked "shall we?"
The couples walked up slowly towards the Entrance Hall and about half way up the twins Mother met up with them and exclaimed "oh my beautiful girls you look stunning, but there is one thing you are missing for our little revealing" she reached into her bag and pulled out three identical black, green and silver masks and three identical black masks she passed two of the black ones to Theo and Draco and put the other on her wrist to give to the girls father when they met him in the Entrance Hall. She then gave one of the masks to each of the girls and placed her own on.
She said after they all had their masks in place "now your father has announced himself and he said that he had two daughters here in attendance that he would be introducingtonight but he wants it to be a grand entrance so he decided we would all wear masks and take them off one by one at the unveil" the couples nodded their heads and they started to walk again.
They finally reached the Entrance Hall only to find it was empty besides the girls father standing off to the side waiting for their arrival. When they arrived he took is mask from Lady Riddle and slipped it on and took her hand and kissed it.
"Okay my sweet daughters it's time to go in but have a bit of a dance before we unveil who you exactly are" they got ready to walk in and Lord Riddle opened the door with magic and they all walked in as a family.
Every square inch of the Great Hall was decorated in oranges and skeletons and pumpkins and spiders and the ghosts of Hogwarts were floating around as well.
As they walked in the whole hall stopped to look at the stunning couples and wondered exactly who was behind those masks.
"Ah.. welcome… welcome this Halloween ball was a tradition of this schools many years ago and we decided to bring it back every term there will be a different themed ball… now let's have fun and welcome the Badgering Lunatics the newest witching band!"
The couples danced and had a great time until Lord Riddle gave the signal and announced "my daughters are none other than Flora and Hestia Carrow or should I say Riddle!" Just as he finished announcing the girls and their partners took off their masks and showed their true faces for the first time outside of their small circle. The girls resembled their mother the most but you could see their father hidden within them.
Hestia decided to do a small demonstration and that was to call her basilisk Darth Sugar to her but not allow it to look anyone in the eyes. Everyone was awed at how much control she had over the giant snake.
Flora decided to show her ability of time travel without a time turner and everyone was amused to see that Dumbledore was truly speechless in his shock at how much power the twins had been hiding all these years.
Everyone in the hall bowed to the family and the family left their night there. The couples went off on their own to participate in their own Halloween festivities….
The end.. for now
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