Authors Note

WARNING

There is a reference to non consensual sex in this chapter

Chapter Five

She was awoken by a leering evil voice, a finger prodding her in the stomach. 'Ahh is the liddle biddy baby still sleeping' Bellatrix was saying with each poke in her stomach. Novella opened her eyes and saw her black as coal ones looking at her. She backed away scurrying along the floor and stopped as she felt the coldness of the wall slamming into her.

Novella a young woman of seventeen, knew what was coming to her. Whenever Bellatrix was angry she would take it out on her, beating her in any way possible. Every time it happened she was left in a heap on the floor black and blue. And this time would be no different. She braced herself as the blows started to rain down on her. First her stomach then chest then face, always the face last. She beat her until she fell on the floor, then kicked her in the stomach a few times before leaving her once again in a heap on the floor.

Once Novella was left on the floor, Bellatrix was satisfied and left. This is what her life consisted of, whenever He wanted to see her she was there, whenever Bellatrix was angry she was there, it was rare that she saw Severus these days, he was apart from Dobby the only one nice to her. She never saw Dobby any more even on the rare occasions she was out of this dungeon room she didn't see him. Times change but her life was always the same.

She often wondered if she would ever leave this place, years before she had been told she would be moved, but that didn't happen. She often wondered if her parents family was still alive, and whether they were looking for her, if anyone knew where she was. If anyone even knew she existed. She didn't know that far away was a boy who was fighting for the light fighting for the right cause, a sixteen year old boy who didn't even know he had a sister.

A bang in the doorway opened her up from her thoughts, and he stood there watching. 'You are required by the dark lord upstairs. I want no running away as you know what will happen, once you have been spoken to you will return here.' Lucius said to her. He had changed over the years gone older more dishevelled there had been a time when he wasn't around though it hadn't lasted long. She heard whispers around the outside of her door that he was in a place called Azkaban. It seemed like it was a prison of some sort. Maybe he found out there what it was like for her to live like this. Although her home never changed she was given clothes and a meal once a day it was always a house elf that brought the food for her. And once a week they brought her clean clothes to wear. She knew now what these little creatures with the big ears were Dobby had seen to that. Throughout her whole life here Dobby had been there for her, whether it was cleaning her wounds or bringing her food he was there. 'Hurry up woman, it is wrong to keep the dark lord waiting!' Lucius spoke again.

Novella stood up and followed as he walked in front of her. He stopped and turned around, before she could even ask what was happening he had bound her wrists her hands clasped tightly together. 'This will stop you from anything.' He said in an evil voice. 'Now, get upstairs and do not speak unless you are spoken to.'

She walked in front of him, and there was a small rat type looking man at the top of the stairs waiting for her, he turned after throwing a look of disdain towards her and walked forwards. She followed him into a large room filled with people sat around a table. A large snake was coiling in the corner of the room as she walked past she saw a man slithering around the table slowly. 'Ah our little guest has arrived, please child sit' the man gestured to a chair, and she sat down slowly without taking her eyes from his face. 'You may be wondering why I have ordered you child.' He said with a voice that sent pure evil around the room. 'I have been told that you are a special person, your parents James and Lily, created you through pure love, and the blood that runs through your veins is inherited from your Potter family line. Yes Novella Potter is your name, and you have been kept captive in this place for our fight to rule the magical world. You are a most powerful witch and a powerful seer. You have visions in your mind and you will show me what your visions are. You will sit here in this room until one clouds your brain and shows itself to all of us. I want to know how great your power is.'

She couldn't hear anything after that, she could see people talking but couldn't hear what they where saying. She waited for what felt like hours, one by one each person talked, until her eyes clouded over. The dark lord watched from the head of the table, as she went into a trance. 'He will die' she said over and over. 'The one fighting for good will die by the hands of his traitor...' she slumped backwards in the chair and almost fell to the ground.

'And so we have a plan' Voldemort announced to the room. 'Take her back downstairs Wormtail' he said. As they left the room Voldemort turned back to the table. Now we must set this plan in motion, the one who is to die is Dumbledore, with the old fool out out the picture my plan to take over will prevail. First the Ministry then the world.' Severus listened intently to what his aster was saying, he knew that the traitor was him he knew that whoever was given the order to kill Dumbledore wouldn't be able to do it, so the task would fall to him.

'Now all of you leave me, while I think about this menial task, I want to plan it myself. I will call on you all in due course.'

The Death Eaters rose and one by one they came before the dark lord kissing the hem of his robes, before leaving. 'Master' spoke Severus before he left. 'Would you like me to use legilimency on the girl to see if she has had anything in in her dreams? This task has proved fruitful before.'

The dark lord pondered for a moment, his right hand man had always had his best interests at heart. 'Severus, yes I was going to ask you to do this for me, and please bring to me anything you find useful for our cause.'

Severus kissed the hand of him and walked away he followed the route that Wormtail had taken back down to the basement, then the dungeons and walked straight to Novellas room. 'Leave, Wormtail. The dark lord wants me to see to her.' He said. The little rat faced man scurried away from the room. Severus saw the body curled up on the floor, and walked over to her. She awoke to find him stroking her hair back off her face.

'Sev, what happened. How did I get back down here?' she asked him.

'Dear God, she sounds like Lily' Severus thought to himself.

'It is OK, you were brought down here. He wants me to look again, to see if there is anything useful.' Over the years he had told her what he was doing told her of some of the things that witches and wizards could do. She had wanted to know many things about the lives of magical people, but for her own safety he couldn't tell her of the war that was beginning to rage, of Hogwarts or even of Harry, a boy who was fighting for the good. Fighting until his very last breath if he had to the Boy Who Lived her brother. If he told her then she would be in even more danger than she was.

Severus helped her to stand and led her to the centre of the room, once again as he had done many times before he pulled two chairs out of thin air and place them down facing each other. He helped Novella to sit and she leant back into the chair. Sitting opposite he explained like the many times he had before what was about to happen.

She looked directly into his eyes, the blackness of them enveloping her very soul as she felt him gently probing her thoughts and memories. Those black eyes of his she felt like she was melting into them, with every thought and memory that flashed through her mind, they were protecting her so deeply. She knew now that he loved her mother at one point, and for that she was grateful.

He looked at the memories thoughts and her subconscious dreams, that she couldn't remember, he looked through everything from the last few months, since the last time he had looked, and kept going back to one vision that she had had. A vision of Harry being carried by Hagrid into the courtyard at Hogwarts, the castle in ruins dead bodies scattered around the death eaters and Voldemort walking along behind them. Dumbledores Army members of the Order walking towards them from the Great doors of the castle. There was no sound in the vision, but he could see Miss Weasley kneeling on the floor screaming he could see the anguish on her face, and knew that he was seeing the death of Harry Potter. He couldn't tell this to the dark lord, but he had to tell Albus what had transpired tonight, what he had seen in Novellas thoughts.

Coming away from her she slumped sidewards standing quickly he lifted her and carried her to the corner of the room where the sacking lay on the floor he laid her down on it stroked her head once more and left the room with a flick of his wand at the chairs the door closed behind him. Before leaving the dungeons he prepared himself once more before seeing the dark lord. He took a vile out of his robes and took the memory of the vision out of his head, he vanished the vial as he walked towards the stairs.

'Master, there was nothing of any circumstance inside her mind. Would you like to see for yourself.' He asked as he entered the room.

'No need Severus, I trust your judgement. You may go, I am sure you have work to attend to at the school. You do start the new term in a couple of days, you need to get your potions in order.' Severus quickly kissed the hem of Voldemorts robes and turned to leave. With a quick turn and a pop he apparated out of Malfoy Manor.

Meanwhile in the dungeons, Novella was sleeping as peacefully as she had ever slept before. That was until a vision overtook her. A boy the same boy she had been seeing for years, only this time he was a lot older. She saw him breaking into a room, it wasn't the room she was in now, it was bigger and brighter with a four poster bed in the centre. He entered the room with a bang and the door flew off and smashed against the wall. She saw herself sitting cowering in the corner of the room next to a large unlit fireplace. Her arms covering her head her eyes squeezed tightly closed. There were flashes of the light in the hallway, she saw the body of a Malfoy fly into the room his eyes staring blankly into nothing, a dribble of blood falling from his mouth. She saw him the one she had seen for years, walk over to her and hold out his hand, she felt that he was kind, he looked so familiar to her messy hair rounded glasses and a scar on his forehead.

The vision vanished from her as she awoke suddenly. Usually she never remembered them, but this one was so vivid in her mind. She could see the colour of the his eyes as he looked at her in the corner of the room, the brightest green eyes she had ever seen.

Sitting up Novella thought about what she had just witnessed, she thought it strange that she could remember everything when it hadn't happened before.

She wondered what the vision had meant, they always have some sort of meaning whether it was good or not, she knew that Severus always left with a wondering look on his face, after looking into her mind and seeing these visions, but she never knew why because she didn't remember them.

She pondered her thoughts, and came to a realisation that this vision she had just had must be the people rescuing her. Knowing that her rescue would be coming she settled down on her sacking and drifted back off to sleep.

Present Day.

There was quiet around the room as Novella sat on the bed, the years had been quite hard on her but she knew that the vision she had had years before would be coming into action soon, she had been moved to an unknown place the room was the same as it had been in that vision, there was a large four poster bed with the same blankets as she had seen. So she knew her rescue was on the horizon. Severus hadn't been to see her for many years, the last time he did he was very agitated he said that he wouldn't be able to come for a while, as his position had changed. She had been able to keep her thoughts to herself. He hadn't called for her, for a very long time. Maybe that was why she had been moved. The whole fiasco of moving her was uncalled for. It was done in the dead of night, in what she had heard people call disapparation. She was moved from outside her previous home to what looked like another country, she had saw only a glimpse of a piece of material with stars on it as she was bundled into a large house she was led up the stairs into a large white room, filled with splashes of pink here and there. It looked like the room of a child.

She didn't know how long she had been in this place, all she knew was that a Malfoy was with her, she presumed it was some sort of relative, he had white blonde hair and grey eyes, he looked a little like the Malfoy who had taunted her for the many years she lived in the other place. His name was Draco, she remembered some of the things he had said to her, hateful hurtful things.

It never occurred to her that the man who was here with her was the same boy who had taunted her. There was one thing that she didn't like when Draco came into the room in the dead of the night and climbed into bed with her, he did things to her which hurt. She had tried in the beginning to push him away but it was no use she wasn't strong enough, in the end she just lay flat and rigid begging in her head for her soul to be released from the world, waiting for the end to come. He hadn't done that thing to her for a while maybe he was waiting.

Her life was considerably better since they had brought her to this place, although she never saw Severus again, she missed him, he had in his way protected her like a father and she had come to see him like that, he was always so gentle with her.

She hoped that her vision would come to her soon, the one thing she had never forgotten was the man's face, the lightening bolt shape on his forehead and the messy brown hair. She saw his face in her dreams every night, she prayed that it would come soon.

Authors Notes

We have reached the present day, its back to Hogwarts in the next chapter. We wont be seeing Novella again for a few chapters.

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