DISCLAIMER: I don't own 'The Twilight Saga' or 'Harry Potter' or any of the characters with the exception of Livvy Wilde. The rest are the property of Mrs. Rowling & Meyer respectively.
The russet colored wolf ran wild and free through the dark moonlit forest. Suddenly it skidded to a stop. Just ahead he could see the back of a girl with flowing, long, dark auburn hair.
Jacob froze as he thought, Livvy? Then he slowly approached the girl. When he was but a few inches away from her, she turned to face him slowly. Tears shined on her face and before Jacob could do anything, he saw her touch the tip of her wand to a mark on her arm.
Jacob heard a roar like thunder from the sky and looked up to see a skull opening its' mouth and from its' mouth black clouds flew down into the clearing. Jacob counted a dozen masked Death Eaters in all as they surrounded him and Livvy. He moved to protect her, but saw that she had vanished.
He didn't have time to look for her as a Death Eater raised his wand and shouted, "Avada Kedavra!" which caused Jacob to sit bolt upright in his dorm room bed. For a moment, he forgot where he was but then remembered he was at Hogwarts and his Uncle Sirius had been missing for almost two weeks now.
He noticed that everyone had begun to groggily get out of bed and get dressed in their robes. Jacob threw off his covers, which had stuck to his sweat-drenched skin, and begun to pull on socks while Harry came over and said to him, "Nightmare?"
"Yeah, about Livvy", Jacob told the boy wizard. Harry pushed up his ground glasses and said, "That's the second one in two days. I think they're telling you something".
Jacob avoided Harry's eyes as he pulled a shirt over his head. He didn't tell Harry that Livvy had confided to him that she was supposed to kill both him and Harry. Jacob just figured it was more beneficial towards everyone that they didn't know this sordid little fact.
Hermione already distrusted Livvy and had warned Jacob to watch his back around her. While Harry and Ron didn't share Hermione's wariness of Livvy, they still didn't favor her all that much. I think because she had recommended to Cho Chang, Harry's crush that she asks Cedric Diggory to the Yule Ball last year.
"Come on, let's get some breakfast. I'm starving", Ron said to Harry and Jacob, already fully clothed and waiting anxiously by the door for them.
On their way down to the Great Hall, Ron said, "So what's the plan in regards to finding Sirius?"
"I think that we'll just have to wait until Voldemort gives me some clue as to his whereabouts, then we head out immediately to get Sirius back", Harry answered and lightly ran a finger over his lightning-shaped scar.
As they reached the entrance to the Great Hall, Jacob saw Livvy leaning against the doorway. When she saw him, a big smile broke out on her face. When Jacob got close enough to her, she pushed off the wall and went to wrap her arms around his neck and give him a long, deep kiss.
"Hi", Jacob said to Livvy when they stopped kissing.
"Hi", Livvy replied, once again smiling as she looked up at Jacob. The past three days that she had been with Jacob had been the best three days of her life.
Livvy never wanted this little affair they had going to end. Though no sooner had she thought that when Draco Malfoy and his cronies showed up, sneering at her and Jacob.
"Don't get too cozy, Black. This one is a Black Widow. She'll suck the life out of you before you even know it", Draco said snidely to Jacob.
"Shut up, Draco! You don't know what you're talking about!" Livvy snapped at the blonde-haired Slytherin boy, clutching Jacob's hand tightly with her left hand.
"That so?" Draco said to Livvy then turned to Jacob and said, "Have you asked her about her family?"
"Why should that matter?" Jacob retorted, while Livvy stiffened beside him. Sensing her distress, his lips curled back and he bared his teeth at Draco, snarling, "I'm warning you; do anything to hurt or upset her and I'll rip your throat out".
Draco only smiled wider and replied, "I'd like to see you try. I'm in leagues with another werewolf, so you don't scare me, Black. Remember Fenrir Greyback, Livvy?"
There was a flash of light and Draco flew across the hall into the wall, where he was pinned. A red-faced Livvy stalked towards him, wand outstretched, as she hissed, "If you ever mention that name again, I swear to God that I'll kill you myself, Malfoy!"
Then Professors Snape and McGonagall were there to restrain Livvy and get Malfoy down from the wall. Turning to Livvy, Professor McGonagall shouted, "I will have no student making death threats in my school! Fifty points from Ravenclaw! And detention for you as well, Miss Wilde! You'll report to Argus Filch in the Trophy Room after classes today!"
Then Professor McGonagall turned to Draco, who had the collar of his robe in Professor Snape's tight-fisted clutch. Looking from the boy to Professor Snape, Professor McGonagall simply said, "I trust that you'll punish Mr. Malfoy accordingly".
"You can trust in me, Minerva", Professor Snape replied and with that said, he dragged Draco away to his office.
Then once he was gone, Professor McGonagall sent Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Jacob one scathing look before reconvening in the Great Hall. Jacob turned to Livvy, touching a hand to her still red face, and asked, "Are you alright?"
Livvy found herself crying into Jacob's arms as she remembered every detail of that horrid night her family died. Fenrir had slaughtered her entire family and she had watched him do it. Then he had proceeded to drag her into a room and rape her.
She had been only ten. Her innocence and happiness was gone in one single blood-drenched night. Then five years later, Fenrir had come for her again, only this time it was to initiate her into the Death Eaters. She had fought as hard as she could, but Fenrir beat her into a bloody submissive pulp, just like he did after he raped her.
No one knew that she had been raped. She never told anyone. It was her dark secret, one that she could never share. She felt ashamed to have been so helpless both times. So she became angry at everyone and everything, until her latest assignment became more than she bargained for.
She didn't know that she would fall in love or that it would be this complicated in doing so. She knew what she had to do for the Dark Lord. She knew her life was at stake unless she did what he asked, but every day that she delayed was another day closer to joining her family.
Some days she felt it was better to be so close to death, to be so close to being free of her enslavement to the Dark Lord and Fenrir, but then an even darker part of herself knew that blood will eventually be spilled either by her hand or the Dark Lord's. It would be better if she did it herself, more poetic justice that way, but her heart begged her not to.
So now she was angry in a whole new way, not at the world in general but at herself for allowing her heart to get in the way of her mission.
* Will Livvy give in to the Dark Lord's demands? Can her love for Jacob save him in the end? Will the Dark Lord ever tell where he has Sirius? All these important questions and more will be answered when we return in 'Black as My Heart'!