(A/N): Hey Guys! So, I'm in Health. Don't worry, I've finished all my work, yay! Also, I go to Canberra in FOUR DAYS! WOO! Blood Begets Blood, the AU of this story now has four chapters, by the way, and I have fifteen pages of a screenplay done. I am achieving a lot today, oh yes. SO, I decided to try and conquer this chapter I've been putting off for a while now.
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Leo
My father was dead, my sister was upstairs packing, and I was facing down my mother and stepfather with both of their wands pushed into my face. Was I crazy to be taking on two experienced duellists? Probably. But was I going to give in and forfeit?
God no.
My mental shields had been up since before I had even reached the house, and the first attack was inevitably a psychic one, but upon failing to make a dent in my defenses, my mother immediately switched tactics.
"Avada-" She was cut off as I went into Sensory Alert, everything slowing down and allowing me to dodge around the spark of green light that erupted from her wand, forcing my way to the side, grabbing her wand as I did.
Twisting, I managed to pull it out of her hand as I finally reached the small patch of space between her back and the stairs, jabbing her own wand into the back of her neck.
"You can't use magic outside of school." My stepfather reminded me, and my mother spun on me, wearing a cruel smirk.
Until I shoved her off her feet, that is.
She landed, bottom first, close to the opposite wall, and I turned to the man I had once thought to be my father, ducking under the jet of green light as it sped towards me, and kicking out, the sole of my shoe making contact with his knee.
"Aah!" He screamed out- I could tell I had broken his knee, but with a punch to the face, he was out for the count, and I was left facing my mother again.
"You know, Leonides, I should have killed you while you were sleeping in your cot." I tilted my head to the side briefly.
"I really wouldn't put it past you." She ran at me, but I easily dodged it, tripping her up and sending her sprawling to the ground.
I jumped over her figure, racing up the stairs to find my sister's room.
"Mia, we gotta go." I said as I slammed the door shut behind me, and she quickly clicked the locks shut on her almost full school trunk.
Both of our heads snapped to the side as we heard our mother's footsteps on the stairs, and I pushed the window open, scooping Mia up in my arms and grabbing her trunk with my free hand and, as the door exploded off it's hinges, leapt into the open air.
The landing was somewhat rough, especially considering the smoothness of my usual landings, but I put the pain in my ankle aside, and, trying to ignore the weight in both my arms, ran.
And ran.
And ran.
I ran all the way home, all the way to the Ellwood estate, which, I guess, was now mine.
Not that all that mattered to me at this point.
My father was dead.
I could feel the back of my eyes start to sting with unshed tears, but they remained that way.
Mia was safe.
She was in my arms, and she was safe.
I focused on that, the fact that, after almost fifteen years, I had finally gotten my little sister out of there.
She was safe.
And, for now, so was I.
(A/N): So, what did you think?
It's lunch time in ten minutes, so I won't get another chapter in, but I might write a chapter in my book during Photography, and maybe one in History and Geography if I don't have a shitload of work to do. Which I probably do. Maybe. I can never remember what we have to do in that stupid class.
FOUR DAYS!
I'm so excited!
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This chapter has had some substantial edits made to it on 31/12/22 - Cipicia attacks Leo psychically, and Leo says that he knows he broke Sebastiens' knee. I also originally said that Mia 'zipped her trunk shut' which doesn't make sense, so I changed it to 'clicked the locks shut on her almost full school trunk'.