(A/N): Hey Guys! So, back to the story, two chapters in one night, yay!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Shari, Nicholai, Mia, Brooke, Cipicia, Jonothan, Lisbet and Quiggly.

Leo

That statement terrified me, but I managed, only just, to keep control of my emotions as my mother exited the room, chuckling darkly as she knew just how scared I was.

I was on the verge of hyperventilating.

After everything that woman, related to me by blood, my own mother, had done to me, I had a right to be horrified.

Not just the physical abuse, but the verbal as well, and the mind games she was so adept at playing.

Just the thought of that woman scared the shit out of me, and she knew it. It was obvious, in her eyes, as they stared down at me with a tinge of amusement in those otherwise cold and hollow eyes.

She enjoyed the pain she caused me, and in the state I was, weakened and chained to the cold stone slab, I had no way to fight back, and that terrified me.

I had to struggle to hold back tears as I fell into my darker thoughts.

What would she do to me?

Would I ever see my family and friends again?

Would I stay sane?

The last two I highly doubted.

This was my mother, she had never been kind to me from the minute I was born, she got pleasure from my pain, she was cunning and imaginative, a true Slytherin.

She had ways of getting what she wanted, though what that was I had no clue.

Was she just doing this for the fun of it, or did she have a specific reason?

I hadn't seen her in three years, and her last visit hadn't exact left me fully intact.

I struggled against the chain around my left wrist, tugging and flexing my arm in an attempt to worm out of it or to pull it out of the stone, but it wouldn't budge, and I realised that I was weaker than a human.

I rested the back of my head against the stone, before raising my free hand to gingerly touch the side of my neck where Lisbet's teeth had cut into my neck.

Why?

What reason did she, a vampire, have to bite another vampire, or half-vampire?

It was just bizarre.

I winced though, as my fingers gingerly brushed the area, a shock of pain flowing through my body, and I wondered if this was what Elaine had felt after she had been bitten.

It was like my whole body was hot, and throbbing with pain, my head felt like someone had stuffed it with mothballs, not painful yet but cloudy...

As I pulled my fingers away, holding them in front of my eyes, my vision swam and I gasped quietly.

No blood on my fingers.

I reached down carefully, feeling along my side where the shard of glass had pierced me, and felt a slight discomfort in that area, but when I pulled my hand back, there was no blood on my skin other than that which had dried on my shirt.

I was confused for a few minutes, a lone in the darkness, the only light being the moonlight streaming in from the window, when I got my first good look around, and realised exactly I was.

"Home." I mumbled stupidly, astonished.

It was the house I had lived and grown in for the first seven years of my life, why had she brought me back here?

I flinched as the door was pushed open again, bracing myself for the pain I expected to follow as I turned my head towards the opening, before my eyes widened, and my mouth fell open in a gape.

"Mia..." I whispered, recognising her immediately, before wincing and shaking my head, regretting the action as my vision swam again.

I tried to squirm away as she approached, but she placed a hand on mine, rendering me motionless, though not by my own intent.

"Mia." I said, as if to reaffirm that this was her, she was actually here, with me.

"Leo." She teased in reply, a small smile gracing her lips, and I stared at her for a second, before realising who I was talking to, and why I was here.

"Just get it over with." I muttered, squeezing my eyes shut tightly, awaiting whatever punishment my little sister was trained to inflict upon me.

"I'm not going to hurt you Leo." The statement startled me so much that my eyes were forced open once more, and I blinked a single time in confusion before meeting her own eyes.

"Then...why are you here?" She seemed a little hurt by the question, before she glanced down my body and shrugged as if the answer was obvious.

"You're my brother...I'm here to help you." I stared at her for a few seconds before shaking my head.

"No. Mia, no. Don't do anything stupid, don't do anything I-" She rolled her eyes, cutting me off.

"Don't do anything you wouldn't do? And what wouldn't you do to help me if I was in this same situation?" I blinked, thinking it over, and realising that she was talking absolute sense.

"Mia, no." I stated firmly, but she only glared at me, looking rather like a grumpy cat, before she moved to my left side, and I heard the clink of the chain around my wrists, before it fell away, and she lifted a key into my eye line. "You'll get caught!" I exclaimed in a whisper, trying to talk some sense into her, but she shook her head.

"They'll never know it was me." She seemed sure of herself, flashing me a confident smile I knew was utter bullcrap.

Even in my weakened state though, I heard the footsteps before her, and managed to force her under a table with a particularly long tablecloth on the opposite side of the room, only just returning to the stone slab before the door was pushed open, and none other than my mother entered.

Her eyes widened as she saw me standing, and unchained, and she raised her wand, white as the driven snow, to my face.

"And how did you do this?" She hissed, her lips pulling back over her teeth in a sinister way, and I had barely any warning before the word left her lips. "Crucio!"

The familiar spell left me writhing in pain on the floor, though I wasn't really aware of the surface underneath me, only the pain I was currently experiencing. I just wanted it to end, and I didn't have a thought conscious enough to pray that Mia wouldn't do anything stupid in the mean time.

After what felt like hours of pain, but was probably only for a few minutes, the pain subsided slowly, and I was free to open my eyes, looking directly up into the cruel sneer on my mother's face.

"This is what you deserve, you dirty monster." She snarled, before raising her hand, grasping my face in her hand, her sharpened nails digging into my skin, but I could barely feel them after the pain I had already experienced. "But-" She paused, the scowl disappearing as she replaced it with a calm, almost pleasant look. "We're going to make a deal." Her voice was sweet once again, and I was more scared than ever.

A deal?

What could she possibly want from me?

Without warning, and a very quick movement, like the strike of a viper, she fished something from her pocket, a vial full of a thick liquid the colour of the sky at night, and levered my mouth open by clenching her fingers down on either side of my cheeks, before pouring the contents in, and forcing me to swallow.

It tasted horrible, and burnt, like acid.

"What-?" I gagged, cutting myself off before falling to all fours on the ground as she released my face. "What was that?" I managed to ask, panting thickly as it stung my throat, and carved a fiery path down to my stomach.

"It-" She was cut off as the door opened again, but this time, it was kicked in, off its hinges. She was thrown out of the way, and a figure stepped into my view, so I lifted my head to stare them in the face.

"You?" I asked, perplexed, before my vision swam again, and I collapsed.

"Me."

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