Hello Folks! This is my first time writing fanfic even though I've read lots of it. I'm super excited and this is just the beginning of the story. I'm hoping that I can get some good feedback on this first chapter to see what I'm doing right and wrong. Thank you!

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my OCs, everything else is JK Rowling's

Prologue-

A 2-year-old Elara stood on a stool at the counter with her dad, watching him make spaghetti for dinner. Her mother was out and her and her dad were waiting to surprise her with a delicious dinner or spaghetti, garlic bread, and cake. Just when her dad got done pulling the bread out of the oven, they heard a crack outside the door and heard it creak open. "Good timing Nova, dinner is just about done…" he trailed off when he saw the figure standing at the door was not her mum, but a tall dark looking lady pointing her wand at him. She yelled some words and all Elara saw was her dad get hit by green light and fall backwards. She screamed. The dark lady started walking toward her and all her little self could do was stand there frozen in shock. The dark lady bent down to her and laughed.

"Daddy's dead, nobody can protect you now", snarled the dark lady who grabbed Elara and apparated with her in her arms.

They appeared at an old house and she was carried in by the lady and placed in a chair and bound to it. Another lady with white hair walked into the room and stared at the child. "I see you brought the child, Bella"

"Yes, Cissy, now all we have to do is get her mother to come", said Bella and the white-haired lady disappeared with a crack.

"Looks like it's just you and me darling, your mother might never believe there's a real threat to your life if we don't really do something" the dark lady said. Elara saw the wand pointed at her and the red light and felt nothing but pain after that. She screamed and kicked and cried for mummy, but nobody came. The pain suddenly stopped, and the dark lady laughed at the scared child and pulled out a silver knife. "Some people believe I'm above hurting a child, but I have no boundaries" she told Elara and pulled the collar of the child's shirt down and pressed the knife to her pale skin, "I'm going to make sure your mother never forgets what happens to those who betray their families and blood", Elara felt searing pain again and screamed as the lady carved words that she did not know into her body.

Nova was back from the meeting with the Order and immediately could tell something was wrong. The door was open and there was a burning smell coming from the kitchen. She walked in a screamed when she saw her husband lying on the floor, she immediately knelt next to him to feel for a pulse and sobbed when she found none. Nova screamed Elara's name, searched the house, and quickly discovered that her daughter was gone. She headed back to the kitchen to search for clues to who could've taken her child, as a member of the Order she had a large target on her back. Suddenly, she heard a crack behind her and saw Narcissa Malfoy behind her, "What are you doing in my house?" she snarled.

"What do you think, Nova? You took some valuable information with us when you betrayed the family, did you think we were just going to let you be?"

"This house was protected, how the hell did you find us?!" shouted Nova angrily.

"It clearly wasn't enough, was it?" sneered Narcissa.

"Where did you people take my daughter?"

"That's why I'm here darling, she's in Bella's care, don't worry we've instructed her not to touch her, that'll only be a problem if you refuse to come with us" said Narcissa. Nova sobbed at that,

"You really believe Bella wouldn't touch her? YOU'RE SO NAÏVE!" Nova screamed, "Bella is so fucking sadistic! She doesn't care what happens to a child! She takes joy in causing pain!"

"Ridiculous", Narcissa scoffed, "She can follow orders well enough. Come on now, we're leaving", she grabbed Nova's arm and disapparated.

Bella smiled at her work on the child. Nova would never be able forget the crime she committed against their family; the word traitor was carved deep into the collarbone of the child. She had sunk the knife in so deep that she had hit bone.

Narcissa and Nova appeared on the scene with a crack; Bella raised a hand and waved; a sadistic smile was painted across her face. "Just in time to see my handiwork my dear sister", Bella gestured toward to a passed-out Elara with blood dripping down her neck, Nova sank to her knees and sobbed at the sight. Bella walked up to Nova and grabbed her hair to pull her head to look at her, "Now, unless you want your daughter to more torture, you will do exactly what we tell you", whispered Bellatrix dangerously.

The next few months were the worst of Nova's life. Immediately after Bella had summoned the Dark Lord and she was forced to take the dark mark and become a death-eater. She had been forced to watch her sisters torture and kill her friends from the Order with the information and had to watch their faces turn to hate when they saw Nova and realized her betrayal. The worst was being forced to watch the death and torture of Molly Weasley's brothers Fabian and Gideon Prewett. They had been some of her best friends within the Order and she was forced to watch them die.

Her sisters had kept Elara in the Malfoy Manor as insurance of Nova's obedience and she had watched as her daughter had woken up and cried from the pain of the wound on her neck. Nova had held Elara while she cried and had tried to help her with the nightmares and the constant fear that Elara lived in, but Nova was desperate and was barely coping with her own fear.

The day that the Dark Lord died, Nova had quickly grabbed Elara and apparated to a small forest in the West Midlands. They lived in a small shelter of branches while and trees for about a week, while Nova built a small house for both her and Elara, she put up more protective charms around the house. Nova changed hers and Elara's last name to Grey and changed her own name to Lyra, all of this was in the hope that nobody would recognize her or her daughter. She changed her own appearance, dyed and cut her hair, changed her eye color, and transfigured her nose to another shape; Nova did everything in her power to keep her and her daughter unknown and safe.

The first time Elara left that forest was when she received her Hogwarts letter nine years later.