camellia withlock│draco malfoy ✓

35│the photo album

CHAPTER 34: the photo album

Melia was standing in Albus' office. She had gathered all her stuff and he was telling her about the order and to not send letters to either one of the trio. Ron and Harry would be alright, but she would keep sending letters to Hermione. After he was done, she stepped into the fireplace and said the place she was going, then throwing the powder on the floor. The next thing she knows, she's standing in the living room of Grimmauld Place. She sets her trunk down before walking towards the kitchen where she sees Sirius standing in the doorway.

"Hey there Sugar."

She stares at him with wide eyes, "Since when do you know sign language?"

"Since your second letter, when you told me about your voice. I learnt some words to the others so that if you don't feel comfortable talking, you can sign."

Melia has tears in her eyes now and runs towards him. They stay there hugging each other for what seems like an eternity before someone coughing breaks them apart. She looks to her side to see who it was. There at the table sits Molly, Arthur, Remus, Tonks, Kingsley and Mad-Eye. She takes out her wand and points it right at Mad-Eye, forgetting that it's the real Alastor and not Crouch jr. Sirius snatches away her wand.

"I'm sorry, I forgot that you're not him..." she looks over at Sirius, "May I go to my room? If I have one."

"Yes, of course. Kreacher can bring you there. Kreacher!"

"Mistress Camellia, it's good to see you again. Kreacher will gladly help you." Melia looks at him a little weird but follows leaving the others down in the kitchen. When she's gone they look at Sirius.

"What? Oh, Kreacher. He loved my sister so that means he also took a liking to Melia."

Molly looks at him, "When are you going to tell her?"

"Not yet. She just came home after meeting you-know-who. She needs some time before I tell her."

"At least tell her before the others arrive," Remus says.

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I'm standing in the forest again. Barty Crouch sr. eyes are looking at me. Begging me to stop. But I don't. I keep on saying the curse and a smile creeps up on my lips. No, why am I enjoying this? This isn't me.

"Stop!" I shout at the girl who's supposed to be me. She turns around and looks at me, a horrifying smirk on her lips.

"Oh, come on. Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it a little. The fear in his eyes-"

"Stop it!"

"The silent screams-"

"No, no..."

"The cuts forming on his skin-"

"STOP IT!" the girl backs away a few steps, but her smirk doesn't falter. "This isn't me and it will never be me. I only do this to survive!"

The girl laughs maniacally, "Keep telling yourself that, sweetie. Maybe you'll start to actually believe it in the end..."

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Melia wakes up with a start. Oh, how she wished she was with Draco now. That dream was something different. She had never had a dream like that. They always show her memories but never has one of them had a will of its own. Melia looks at the clock in the room to see that it's 04.14 am. Early, but new record. Even though she sleeps better doesn't mean that she can sleep through the whole night. At least four hours, but this night she slept over five.

She flicks her fingers and her pyjamas change into black sweatpants and a Slytherin quidditch sweater. She may have stolen it from Draco one morning when she was in his room. After she's dressed, Melia walks down to the living room. Kreacher noticed that she was awake and asked if she needed anything. She politely declined, still wondering why he is so nice to her. She remembers clearly in the films that he was an arsehole, but not to her.

She sits down on the sofa and starts to look through the photo album Draco gave her for Christmas. He had found some pictures from when they were younger and put in some newer photos too.

"Why are you up?" someone suddenly says from the door.

She smirks at him, "I could ask you the same."

He laughs and sits down beside her, "What are you looking at?"

Melia gives him the album which he gladly looks at. He smiles seeing the pictures. Sirius never got to see her grow up because of the time he spent in Azkaban. So, seeing this makes him almost cry. Then he notices one of the pictures of Draco and Melia kissing. She notices it too and snatches it away from him.

"You're dating him? I thought you were only friends."

"We were when I sent you that letter. Then on my birthday we kind of kissed and yes..."

"Do Narcissa and Lucius know about this?" she nods her head, "Well, I'm happy as long as you're happy."

He smiles at her and they continue to look at the album. Sirius looks over at Melia a few times, wondering if he's going to tell her or not. "Melia," she closes the album and looks at him. "I wasn't going to tell you this now. Not after everything that has happened, but I think you need to know."

"Know what?"

"Melia, your mother's name was Olivianna Black Withlock. She was my sister, which makes you Camellia Black Withlock."

Melia's face goes blank and her eyes turn white. Sirius tries to come in contact with her, but she just sits there looking into nothing. "Help! Remus, Tonks, someone!"

They come downstairs and wonder what is happening, then they see Melia.

Tonks hurries over to her side, "What is going on?!"

"I don't know. I told her about her mother and then she just turned like this."

Remus looks at her eyes and understands immediately, "I know," their eyes move over to him. "She's remembering. The spell her parents put on her is breaking. You telling her about her mother must have broken it... Lay her down."

They do so and decide that they need to watch over her until she wakes up. Seeing that she has to go through every memory, it may take a while. Sirius was the first to watch over her while the two others went to bed. Then in the morning, they changed. And so they did for almost two weeks.