Still don't own. Oh, and Eileen finds a few things to be shockingly familiar...
"Your sword," Eileen said as she walked up to Mirana, the White Queen.
The white queen smiled and took the sword, holding it up with one hand and running the other down the side of the powerful blade. She took a deep breath in relief before sighing and placing the sword with the remaining armor that was standing to the side of the throne.
"Now all we need is our champion," Mirana said eyeing Eileen.
"I really don't want to do this, but… I don't think I can slay a dragon," Eileen said nervously, still hoping that Charlie wouldn't be too angry with her.
"Oh, but my dear-you are the one of prophecy!" Mirana protested, "And the Jabberwocky has killed hundreds of people, innocent people! You are the only one who can do this!"
Eileen stared at her before shaking her head and running off with tears in her eyes. She ran as long and as fast as she could, and her magic apparated her to the house of the woman who had saved her life. It wasn't long before Eileen was sobbing out the entire story of what had been happening and what had happened to the elderly woman, who was watching wisely silent. Her eyes had widened when Eileen had mentioned the Mad Hatter, or Tarrant Hightopp, but the young Slytherin was too distraught to notice.
"Tarrant," she said softly as Eileen finished, "My son. You found my son."
Eileen's eyes widened before she stood up angrily with tears flooding down her face.
"I tell you I have to kill the Jabberwocky, and all you can think of is of the Mad Hatter!" Eileen yelled angrily, and the woman jumped. "This is why I never trust adults!"
And with that she apparated away to the Red Queen's castle to shoot and hex as many possible things as she possibly could into oblivion. With the card soldiers scrambling for survival, people running from her left, right and center, and the Red Queen screaming "Off with her head", Eileen now knew just what it felt like to be a Death Eater, to a degree. She was quite pleased to have sent a bottle of shrinking solution at the Red Queen's head, causing it to shrink for what she knew would be until the Frabjous Day at the latest.
With her anger spent, she went off to Mamareal to talk to the Mad Hatter, who was busy making clothes for her.
"Eileen!" he smiled widely holding up a dress, but stopped short when he noticed that her eyes were red and puffy as she'd been crying. "What is it?"
"I can't slay," she snapped, "I. CAN'T. BLOODY. SLAY!"
"You know what happened," he said quietly, "But in the end, the White Queen won't force you to. If not now, then can you at least tell me why?"
"A friend of mine raises dragons," Eileen explained, "I don't want to betray him by killing one…"
"Eileen," a dragon patronus said as it flew in, "I got a patronus of a butterfly that told me in a woman's voice that you were upset. I figured you'd be upset about killing something, so I just thought I'd let you know that if it's part of a prophecy, then slay it, and don't let me and my morals get in the way. Besides that, you're a Slytherin – you'll think of something to weasel out of trouble in the end anyways."
Eileen scowled with hot tears running down her face yet again. she cast a quick patronus to find that it was not what she thought it was, but of the magical world version of the bandersnatch. She sent it off with a message to Charlie Weasley, and another dragon appeared ten minutes later.
"It is forbidden for Dragon Tamers," the dragon patronus said, and an empty feeling filled her stomach and caused her to feel like something was amiss.
"Then what the hell am I supposed to do now?!" she screamed just before Mirana walked in with a tray of tea for three.
"Trouble?" she asked confused.
"I'll do it," Eileen growled, "I'll kill the bloody damned Jabberwocky. And I'll make sure it's so dead that nothing, nothing can bring it back."
The White Queen and the Hatter paled as Eileen's magic crackled powerfully in the air, and the Hatter's mother walked in with a sorrowful look on her face before seeing her son and then Eileen.
"Mother," Hatter gasped and went over to embrace her.
"Somebody hex me," Eileen muttered before apparating away to the clearing she'd met the Hatter in to scream and cry her lungs and eyes out.
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When she awoke the next morning, a woman that she realized was her mother was standing above her with a sorrowful look in her eyes.
"Love is a fickle thing, isn't it?" she asked, "I fell in love once, was attacked to conceive you, and then finally found my soul mate in my husband. Don't worry, he forgives you."
"Charlie," Eileen growled, "This is ENTIRELY HIS FAULT!"
"If it's his fault then get your revenge by killing the Jabberwocky," Sarah said calmly, "it is the only way for the prophecy to be fulfilled. If you fail, your entire family, our entire lineage, is destroyed. The Hightopp clan is also on its last leg, and the Mad Hatter – well, he's already chosen you."
"Wait, the Hatter actually still cares for me after what I did in that orphanage? After what those boys did to me?" she asked incredulously, and Sarah nodded. "Bloody hell! Why?!"
"Because, you are the first one aside from his mother and the animals who has not shied away from him after he saved the White Queen's life," Sarah explained, "He loves you. He realizes just how strong you are, and how extremely loyal as well. He knows just how dark a secret it is that you've trusted to him, and he knows that it was the one thing that you were the most ashamed to admit."
Eileen sat sulking silently before standing up and apparating away to the castle, donning the armor, and grabbing the sword. She walked outside to find an army of white chess pieces assembled, with the Bandersnatch waiting at the front alongside a white horse that Mirana was on. it was without a word that Eileen went and mounted the bandersnatch, giving Mirana a look that left no room for arguments on whether or not she'd be able to perform her deed.
"Hello, Um," the Red Queen said tartly as Eileen stepped forward once they reached the large battlefield that looked like a large chess board.
"Sister," Mirana pled, blinking her eyes at the Red Queen, whose bulbous head was returned to normal.
"I know what you're doing," the Red Queen spat angrily, "You're trying to blink your little eyes and win me over like you did mother and father! It won't work!"
"Please," Mirana pled again.
"NO! IT'S MY KINGDOM!" she screamed, "JABBERWOCKY!"
Eileen gaped as the Jabberwocky awoke with a loud snapping noise behind the large army of card soldiers. It was a large dragon, with spikes on the sides of its head, and it spat electricity and spoke in a snarl as it crawled forwards dangerously. The two Queens back off into their armies to watch the fight, and Eileen stood gaping still.
"What have I done?" Eileen murmured terrified.
Yes, a terrified and cowardly Slytherin. You know what to do, my lovelies. A large amount of candies and rewards (virtual, of course!) to those who review!
