I would like to apologize to any re-readers or for anyone who had read this story before this edit. The scene in this chapter and many others was and are far too graphic for any fanfiction and though I don't plan on taking down this story, I do plan on removing in-depth details.
A/N:
This Chapter May Be Triggering To Many Audiences And Has A Very Descriptive Scene Of Sexual Assault, Abuse, & Torture.
Viewers Discretion Is Highly Advised.
Twisted Infatuation
"Lucius, Delly! Come down here you two have received something!" Mum yelled from down stairs, I turned over to look at my twin who had a wide smile on his face.
"Do you think it's our Hogwarts letters mother and father always talk about?" He asked excitedly.
"I don't know Lucius but there's only one way to find out!" I exclaimed as I jumped up from his bed and dragged him out of his room with me.
We ran down the stairs and into the kitchen to see two letters set on the island in front of our mum who had an all-knowing smirk on her face with her head slightly tilted to the side, she nodded her head signaling for us to take a seat.
I looked over at my twin with a look of pure joy, he had mirrored the same one. We quickly took a seat in front of the letter with our name on them and violently opened them to reveal our acceptance note to Hogwarts and our supply list.
HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Ms. Malfoy,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. All items on the supply list can be purchased at Diagon Alley. We await your owl no later than July 31st.
Enclosed please find your travel ticket. Please make your way to Kings Cross Station and into platform 9¾ where you will meet the Hogwarts Express. Term begins on September 1st.
Students shall be required to report to the Chamber of Reception upon arrival. We very much look forward to receiving you as a part of Hogwarts Heritage.
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Professor Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
I looked at the letter in awe and then quickly pulled out the supply list, Lucius following right after.
HOGWARTS SCHOOL LIST
UNIFORM
3 sets of plain work robes (black).
1 plain pointed hat (black) for day wear.
1 pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar).
1 winter cloak (black, with silver fastenings).
*Please note that all people's clothes should carry name tags.*
COURSE BOOKS
All students should have a copy of each of the following:
The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1), Miranda Goshawk.
A History of Magic, Bathilda Bagshot.
Magical Theory, Adalbert Waffing.
A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration, Emeric Ewitch.
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungai, Phyllida Spore.
Magical Drafts and Potions, Arsenius Figger.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander.
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection, Quentin Trimble.
'Merlin, that's a lot of books' I thought and Lucius looked as if he thought the same thing to which he scrunched his nose in disgust, I was always the smarter twin who didn't find reading to be a drag, I quite enjoyed it sometimes, Lucius on the other hand, yes he was smart, intelligent even, but you would never catch him studying or reading for fun.
OTHER EQUIPMENT
1 wand.
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2).
1 set glass or crystal phials.
1 set brass scales.
Students may also bring an owl or a cat or a toad.
PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICK.
"We can't bring our own broomsticks?!" Lucius and I shouted in union, we both had a very strong connection with our broomsticks, we even named them, Woody and Wally.
"Or maybe you two can be grateful you guys got into the school?" Mum said in a sarcastic tone as she crossed her arms. "Anyways, I will owl the school back, then we can go to Diagon Alley and you two will get all your supplies and your own owls."
The annoyance of not bringing our own broomstick quickly washed away as excitement and daydreams about the school all flooded over, but the happiness and joy was soon crushed as I heard the manor's doors open then slam shut. All of our giggles and little comments about Hogwarts quickly silenced as father walked into the kitchen.
"Well don't stop on my account" He snarled.
"The children got their notes dear" Mum explained as she gave Lucius and I a proud smile, Lucius' face went emotionless, he was always scared of father and always had a pledge to make him proud, no matter the cost. He acted like a different person around him. Whenever Lucius would make a mistake, father would somehow make it my fault and punish me for it, which I don't mind too much about, I rather it be me to get hurt than him.
"Well well then, isn't that just splendid news" Father uttered sarcastically, Lucius looked down as he pretended to re-read his Hogwarts note but I kept eye contact with him. He glared back at me as if he was challenging me.
"Delphinus, do you know what happened to the last Malfoy who wasn't assigned to Slytherin?"
"No, no I do not," I replied back truthfully.
"Exactly, don't forget about that." He spat at me. He always favored Lucius and never brought him any harm, I couldn't help but feel a little envious but as I said, I rather it be me to get hurt than him.
"Abraxas!" mum yelled as she hit him with the 'Daily Prophet'.
"Well it's true Nashira, I don't have to worry about Lucius not becoming a Slytherin, but Delphinus always has her head in those useless books, and acts braver than she can truly keep up with, if she becomes either in any other house especially Gryffindor I will not allow her back in this Manor and that's settled!" He growled back to my mum, Lucius looked at me and had an apologetic expression but I just shrugged with a smile. I didn't want him knowing that father had an effect on me.
After a while of begging and asking, we had finally gone to the Diagon Alley, we got all of our required school supplies and Lucius and I both got two owls from the same litter, they were Eurasian eagle owls. I named mine Lynx and he named his Dorado. We both made fun of each other's names for the owls but we had an agreement to keep it with the letter L and D.
Once we got back to the Manor after getting everything we quickly packed up our trunks as if our life depended on it, because they kind of did, our mum told us to pack the night before but we were too busy talking so we had forgotten and now we were about to leave to go to the station.
"Lucius Abraxas Malfoy if you don't finish packing in the next five minutes I swear on Merlin's Beard that things will not end pretty." I heard a muffled yell come from downstairs, I couldn't help but snicker as the fact mum used his full name, I looked up at him with his face red hot with fear and embarrassment and out of pettiness I stuck my tongue out and put a L shape on my forehead.
"Delphinus Nashira Malfoy that means you too! You both were to finish last night, we must leave soon!"
My face immediately got red hot and I quickly but neatly started packing everything in my trunks, I only packed into two trunks but Lucius insisted he needed three for his hair products. Mum and father had taken us to the station, mum couldn't help but let a few tears escape her eyes yet father kept a stern look on his face.
After finally detaching ourselves off of our mum Lucius said his goodbyes to father but I didn't bother and decided to make my way into the train but he yelled something that made me stop in my tracks.
"Be sure to make us proud, Delphinus. I'd hate for there to be consequences." I rolled my eyes at father's absurd comment and walked throughout the long train. I sat next to a girl with short blonde hair who was in the same year as me, and a boy with dark brown fluffy hair that almost seemed black, she said her name was Narcissa Black, the boy introduced himself as Calloway Nott but Narcissa and I just called him Cal, we all got along really quickly, all of our parents were friends but since we were all to young we had never attended any balls for us to meet earlier.
Narcissa, Cal, and I started walking through the hallway to find my brother, once I finally did I saw him around two boys and a girl, Bellatrix Black, Severus Snape, and Evan Rosier. Narcissa stopped once she saw Lucius and started to smooth out her robe and finger brush her hair.
It was obvious Narcissa and my brother had a crush on eachother, we all talked and got along. It was cool most of us were all pure-bloods, and were all going to be into Slytherin.
About thirty minutes through the train ride a boy came and sat next to me to where it was Severus, Bellatrix and Lucius, with Narcissa on his lap on one side and Evan, Cal, me, and now the other boy on the other side, his name was Leo and I couldn't help but find him the smallest bit cute, but I kept that fact to myself for if my brother were to ever find that out he would embarrass the pure-blood out of me. We were all first years so we knew that we would all be sticking together.
Once the train ride had finally ended, Narcissa, Bellatrix, Leo, Cal, and I were already inseparable, Lucius had Severus and Evan on his side as if they were his bodyguards.
Narcissa and I couldn't help but admire our surroundings, we were in front of the Great Hall, there were floating candles around the ceiling, four rows of tables with each house sitting at them. Names were getting called as they were sorted into their houses, Cal, Bellatrix, Leo, Narcissa, Evan, and Severus had all gotten into Slytherin.
"Malfoy, Lucius."
He made his way up to the stool in front of everyone and before Professor McGonagall even fully placed the hat on his head the hat had already called "SLYTHERIN" I clapped for him and cheered as the line of Slytherin's all did the same.
"Malfoy, Delphinus."
I felt anxious butterflies in my stomach as I walked up to the sorting hat, I made eye contact with Lucius who had given me a slight nod with a smile. The hat had hesitated when it was placed on my head which had the hall filled with a loud silence as everyone waited for the hat to speak.
The hat finally said: "GRYFFINDOR."
My eyes widened as my heart dropped, I looked over at Lucius who had a worried facial expression, I looked over at the row that was clapping and slowly walked over there with my head held low.
I didn't eat or communicate with anyone in my house even though they had tried to speak with me, I kept sneaking glances over at Slytherin to see Lucius' eyes not once leaving me, I zoned out as I looked back down at my plate and placed my head in my hand while I fiddled with the uneaten food.
The group of Gryffindor's slowly all left the table and I followed, the Perfects showed us the password, our common room, and our dorms, even though I was terrified and gloomy about getting into Gryffindor the scenery of the common rooms and dorms were gorgeous. I was considered lucky because I only had one roommate as everyone else had around two to six. I made my way to my dorm and slumped onto my bed. I didn't want to tell my parents, mainly my father, that I had gotten into Gryffindor. My roommate was still not here so I was alone in the dorm, I slowly unpacked my stuff and then went under my covers until I heard a loud pop sound followed by a thump which made me jump.
My room's old book scent soon filled with English tea and Dandelions. I knew immediately who it was, I looked up to see my mother in my dorm, she made her way to my bed and sat down next to me as she rubbed my leg giving it a small reassuring squeeze.
"So I heard about you getting into Gryffindor." She said while giving me a smile which practically screamed 'I'm sorry.'
"Listen, I know what your father says and I'm telling you now that won't be the case with me, I don't care what house you got into dear I will always love you. I will do as much as I can to keep it from him but once he finds out..." She sighed.
"I won't be able to come home, will I?" I asked with a shaky breath.
She lightly shook her head which caused my breathing to hitch and she noticed, she pulled me into a hug "I will always be here for you okay?" She pulled away from the hug and placed her hands on my shoulders.
"Listen, I have a friend who's family is all in Gryffindor, Euphemia Potter, she's a healer, you can trust them okay? If you ever need to go somewhere you can go there I've already spoken with her she is more than happy to help you," She took my palm and placed a silver spoon into my hand with a silk handkerchief wrapped around it.
"Here, this is a port key, if you ever find yourself in a situation and need to go to a place to stay go there alright? Euphemia will owl me and I will meet you there but hopefully your father's attitude won't last long but if it does always keep this on you, I need to go back to the manor but I love you dear and I know you'll do okay you've always been so strong and brave" she gave me a quick tight hug as she made her way to my fireplace and grabbed the floo powder from the top.
"Malfoy Manor."
Silence.
Five Years Later
Summer Before Sixth Year, Sixteen Years Old
For the very first time since I was placed in Hogwarts, I finally left for the summer to spend it with Leo. The idea had me thrilled, I hardly even remembered what land off of the school even looked like and I was so excited to explore it with the love of my life. Yet it seemed as if there had been a change of plans based off the fact that I hadn't left the house once. I don't exactly know what had been going on with him to be completely honest. The man who was always sweet, open, silly, and just truly amazing, had been replaced with an insecure, aggressive, arsehole. Now don't get me wrong I don't want to bad mouth Leo, I love him and always will, yet recently it seems like he was switched with another person, he was no longer the boy I fell in love with.
I knew my friends were noticing something was off since I hadn't gone to single party I was invited too. Even though I usually spent my breaks at Hogwarts, I would still get permission from Professors to floo in and out, but there were still rules, no spending the night, getting intoxicated, yah, blah, dah. So you could imagine the huge downgrade this was.
Besides the point that I got sorted into Gryffindor me, Cal, Narcissa, Bellatrix, Lucius, Evan, Leo, and Severus were still inseparable, In second year another boy was sorted into Slytherin, Narcissa and Bellatrix's younger cousin, Regulus Black, and we all practically adopted him into our group. Yes I was sorted into a different house but we all think the hat made a mistake, I still sat at the Slytherin tables and I practically had my own dorm in the Slytherin common room, it's just an abandoned room no one was assigned but Narcissa and I had cleaned it out and now we all use it as a hangout spot and it's where I sleep. About three months after sorting in first year Leo asked me to Hogsmeade and though it was just a small kiddy crush we've been together since. I still haven't spent one holiday at Malfoy Manor or seen my mum and father since I got sorted and even though I have a welcoming house that has 'open doors' for me with the Potter's I have only spent holidays and breaks at Hogwarts, meaning this was my first time leaving Hogwarts, except for Hogsmeade, bars, clubs, etc. in five years.
Also the fact that I would rather be homeless on the cold streets than willingly spend a day at the Potter's house.
I received yet another party invitation from Lucius, they all think I'm ignoring them at this point and I've finally decided that tonight I don't care what he says. Leo left a few hours ago leaving me alone here with his older brother in this huge arse house, now I know a good question is probably why not just say fuck it and go? Well, until now, I wanted to play the sweet house-wife girlfriend role to keep him happy, yet tonight something was nagging at me to just maybe live a little for the first time.
So yes, I finally decided to go to the party. Leo was out anyways which meant the only person I had to avoid was his brother, who loved to act like mine, he always made sure my outfits were appropriate, or that I ate, just the little things, but he was in his room so I just assumed he was sleeping. Taking the small opportunity, I decided to put on a laced black bralette with a velvet red skirt, pairing it with some black high heels.
I made my way to the fireplace but my high heels betrayed me and made loud clicking sounds on the marble floors.
"Goin' somewhere?" A dark voice appeared and I quickly turned around to see Corvus leaning on the wall behind me.
"Shit" I spat under my breath, I turned around and gave him a sarcastic smile.
"Yes actually I am" I turned back around to grab some floo powder but a cold hand quickly grabbed my wrist and turned me around.
"No fucking way you're going out in...that, where the hell is the rest of it?" He interrogated while rolling his tongue through his cheek.
"Rest of what?"
"That!" He exclaimed as he pointed his finger up and down my outfit.
"Fine I'll wear a jacket you prude. But come on, Corvus it's almost the end of summer and I've hardly even gone outside yet." I pleaded, and though it took time and effort, he reluctantly backed off under the condition that I wore his hoodie, which I obviously obliged.
"Nott Manor" I yelled as I threw the floo powder into the fireplace. I landed into the living room as everyone's eyes fixated on me as the chatter came to a halt.
"How are you all doing?" I smiled as I took off Corvus' hoodie and threw it over to the couch as the room erupted in multiple different yells and cheers, as an embarrassed pink hue grew on my cheeks, I felt the attention of all my friends engulf me as the group I haven't seen in ages finally began to approach.
"Bitch! Oh my Merlin you're here!" Narcissa bellowed as she ran over to me. "I haven't seen you all summer what the fuck is that all about?" She questioned as she gave me a fake serious face.
"Leo hasn't been letting me, I genuinely had to sneak to this one while he was out" I rolled my eyes and made my way to the coffee table to grab a water bottle, shocking to many, yet I never drink or do any drugs, I don't see the point in taking different forms of practical poison to feel a temporary euphoria. That was always the one thing Lucius and I had always bumped heads about. He was an addict to everything and the last time I tried to tell him off for it we didn't speak for weeks afterwards.
"Lucius?"
"Lucius, this isn't funny, where are you?"
I walked down the halls of the dorms before I heard his voice coming from the hangout room aka my room, I opened the door to see him leaning down onto the coffee table plugging his left nostril as he took a deep inhale while moving his head across the surface, is he seriously doing coke right now?
He was sitting with Landon Whitmoore, the school's drug seller, and some more Slytherin's.
"Lucius, can I talk to you real quick?" I asked, annoyed.
His head shot up to me and his smile dropped, he knows I hate drugs meaning he knows I'm pissed off.
He let out a quiet groan as he sat up and walked over to me leaning and tripping over himself, the second his foot reached the hallway wood floor I grabbed him by his collar and slammed the door, I led him to his room since mine was..occupied.
"Are you seriously doing fucking lines Lucius?" I spat at him.
"It's not that big of a deal Del stop tripping and let loose"
"Lucius, what is that stoner talk? People fucking die by doing that shit what are you doing?"
"Listen Del just because you don't exactly have parents anymore doesn't mean the same for me trust me I got the whole drug talk I don't need it from you as well" He spat before leaving the room, leaving me shocked.
"Del?" A voice broke me out of the memory, I looked over to see Cal waving me over who was sitting next to my twin, Evan, and Regulus Black who were all clearly stoned.
"What's up Gryffindork?" Cal asked while he pulled me into a hug, once we pulled away he kept his arm over my shoulder.
"It's about time you actually show up to something I haven't seen you over the whole summer" Lucius said sternly but had then pulled me into a hug.
"Yeah well you can blame Leo for that one, he hasn't let me out of the house this whole summer I had to sneak out to get here because he's out with some friends" I said while taking a break to take a sip of some water, I hummed at the feeling of the drink cooling my throat as it went down. "But he's honestly getting on my nerves, I don't know he's just acting differently." The four boy's stayed quiet as they pressed their mouths in a thin line looking right behind me.
"Is that so?" I heard a voice behind me and I knew exactly who it was. I squeezed my eyes shut and scrunched my face in discomfort knowing he heard everything I said.
"Fuck" I muttered under my breath then slowly turned around to see Leo holding a red cup in his hand as he tilted his head with his eyebrow lifted daring for me to reply.
"Oh hey Leo what are you doing here?" I asked awkwardly as I spread the words out trying to make the sentence as long as I could so he didn't reply.
"I could ask you the same thing, Del, I thought you were at home?" He said, his voice slightly shaky from trying to hide the anger in it.
"Well that's our que, have fun with...that" Evan said as he grabbed Lucius and Regulus' arms who were both snickering and they made their way to the living room. Cal just stayed there in silence until he burst out laughing and followed the other three.
"I can't watch this shit good luck with trouble in paradise"
"Look Leo I'm sorry, I just wanted to see my friends and my brother I haven't seen them all summer" I spoke truthfully but he didn't seem to believe me. Why doesn't he believe me? I have nothing to lie about.
"We are going to go back to the party and act as if nothing happened but the second we get back to the manor we're going to have a talk." He spat at me, looking up and down at my outfit with disgust on his face, I let out a silent groan, I was sick and tired of constant arguing and bickering with him, I really did love him but things didn't seem to be as they used to anymore.
The party went on, we laughed, they drank and smoked, we bonded and caught up, but I couldn't get rid of the ick feeling in the back of my head about what's going to happen once we get back to his home.
"Del are you okay?" I looked up to see Regulus leaning back on the chair with legs spread wide as he observed my behavior, most of everyone left so now it was just our group and a few other Slytherin's.
No one else was really paying attention to us caught up in their own conversations, except for Leo who was on the same couch as Regulus who was watching me deep in his own thoughts. I quickly smiled with furrowed eyebrows waving Regulus off, acting like I was clueless to what he was talking about.
"Yeah of course, why wouldn't I?" I smiled, Regulus looked me up and down once more before smiling and breaking off into a new conversation with Leo and even though they were talking back and forth Leo kept his gaze on me.
I tried my hardest to not meet his demanding eye contact by looking around the house as if I've never stepped a foot inside before, which to be fair, I haven't.
I soon felt the cushions on my left and right dip as two arms went over my shoulders, the fresh pine scent told me immediately who it was.
"Boys." I smirked at the clearly drunk Carrow twins who had lopsided grins.
"Del." Atlas grinned to my left, I had always been close with the two, but Atlas and I always had a flirty but nonsexual friendship.
"We haven't seen you in a while, where have you been?" Kenji asked on my right.
"Yea you always come to our parties, I was quite offended when I didn't see you last week." Atlas sarcastically pouted.
"You're staying at Hogwarts right? Did the teachers suddenly make a new rule that you can't leave the castle anymore?" The two started to give me a headache from looking left and right so I leant my head back on the edge of the couch with my gaze on the ceiling.
"No, this summer I decided to go with Leo."
"So now I'm definitely offended, Greengrass went to our party yet you didn't, I thought you liked us, amor." Atlas added some distaste to Leo's last name, he had never been a fan of him and would sometimes flirt with me just to try and annoy him, but Leo always knew nothing went on between us, key word knew. I looked up to see Leo scowling at me like I had just made out with Atlas in front of him, he never got jealous especially of Atlas, basically everyone knew that if Atlas would get with any Malfoy in the room, It'd be Lucius. "Is there a reason your little boyfriend is glaring at us like he's going to commit bloody murder." He whispered in my ear, keeping his gaze on Leo with a smirk.
"We have to go." Leo spat before I could open my mouth to reply to Atlas.
He stalked over and harshly grabbed my wrist gaining a small yelp from me which alerted both the twins.
"Oi calm down will you." Kenji snapped and gripped my arm and pulled it out of Leo's grasp.
"What's your problem?" Atlas snarled.
Soon the attention started to come to the four of us, the Carrow twins were always in fights so it wasn't abnormal but it didn't make it any less interesting.
"Del we're leaving." Leo ignored the two sets of narrowed eyes on him and kept his gaze on me.
"That's a load of rubbish, she's not going with you, you're drunk, just go sit in a corner and calm down for a minute." Atlas demanded immediately sobering as he finally stood up, slightly towering Leo as Kenji lightly gripped my chin and led it in his direction.
"Are you alright?" He asked as he observed my slightly irritated wrist before his eyes began racing around every inch of skin I had showing, inspecting for any other possible wounds.
"Yeah I'm fine he just caught me by surprise." Kenji didn't look convinced as his eyes trailed up to my own with concern.
"Del, he doesn't hit you does he?" He asked in a hushed whisper with furrowed eyebrows as the arguing between Atlas and Leo grew louder "I've noticed him recently, he's not the same and I can tell that you've seen it too."
My eyes widened immediately by the question as I frantically shook my head. "No no of course not, he is probably just drunk and didn't realize how hard he grabbed me I'm fine really, and he is too, I promise."
"Woah, woah, woah, what's going on over here." My gaze broke from Kenji to see Cal in between Atlas and Leo.
"Your friend is fucking psycho if he thinks Del is going with him."
"Mate, they're practically married, she's been staying with him this whole summer, why wouldn't she go with him?" Cal asked with amusement and confusion written along his face.
"Hold on, you guys are arguing about Del?" Lucius stepped in, then diverting his eyes to me. "Is everything alright?"
"Yes-"
"No." both the twins objected.
"He's a drunken mess and needs to calm down." Atlas added as Kenji nodded.
I finally stood up and walked away slightly from the crowd not liking the attention.
"Is everything alright? What's going on over there?" A soft voice came from behind me.
I turned around to see Sydney Whitmoore with a red plastic cup filled with some type of liquor and a frown on her face referring to the small crowd in the living area. She looked different, her eyes were slightly sunken in and she seemed skinnier than usual.
Sydney was technically in both Slytherin and Hufflepuff, a Slytherpuff was what we called her, but she usually spent her time with her boyfriend Altair Avery. We weren't super close but we've hung out a couple of times.
"Just the Carrow twins." I shrugged, she immediately 'oh'd' knowingly.
"How've you been?" I asked carefully not wanting to point out that she didn't seem okay.
"I've been alright, Avery and I broke up which kinda sucks but I'll get over it." She shrugged. I was shocked to hear those words and almost cringed by the use of her using his last name, they've been together since third year and seemed to be inseparable.
I nodded and gave a small apology, we both finally made our way to the small crowd, Leo and Atlas were no longer next to each other but were both still glaring, once I came into view Lucius approached us.
He gave her a small smile before looking back over to me.
"Do you want to go back with Leo? If you don't then you'll obviously be welcome here Cal's parents are gone for the summer."
"No it's okay, me and Leo should probably talk. I think something's bothering him and I don't want him to leave alone, he's drunk and floo powder can be dangerous if used under the influence."
"Merlin, you are too responsible." He laughed while giving me a quick hug as we said our goodbyes, I said my goodbyes to everyone else and gave hugs to people as I made my way next to Leo, he firmly grabbed my wrist as if I were going to try to escape his grasp, both the twins eyes were glued to his hand with scowls on their faces. I picked up the powder and threw it into the fireplace.
"Greengrass Manor."
The second we landed in his dark living room he dragged me into his room and shoved me forcefully onto the bed. I gasped in shock by the aggression as dread washed over me, I began to think him leaving on bad terms was the best idea.
I stayed on his bed and didn't move a muscle. I didn't want to upset him any more, if I had learned anything from my father it is to just listen and let them release their anger before you try to speak.
He made his way to his desk and started writing something, they were short messages, if I had counted correctly he had written about five or six letters, he sealed them all and placed them in his owls beak and the owl flew away, he stayed at his desk and cupped his face into his palms as he let out a frustrated sigh. He soon leaned back into his chair, bouncing his leg as he fiddled with his pocket knife, he then slammed it into the desk leaving its blade first into the mahogany wood as he stomped out of his chair going to the door.
"Stay." He said as he pointed his finger to me as if I were a dog and made his way out of his room I only heard a few muffled sounds but all I knew was he was talking to Corvus.
"I'm going to invite a few of my mates over, stay out of my room." Leo spat at his brother. I heard Corvus let out a dark snicker.
"I don't give a fuck what you and you're jerking buddies are up to just keep it down and keep me out of it."
I hadn't heard any other sounds except for someone stomping down the stairs. Leo suddenly burst through the door which caused me to flinch by the sudden noise, his eyes were no longer playful and full of love; they were pitch black with no way for me to see how he truly felt.
"What? Are you scared?" He laughed in a taunting tone as he grabbed my chin forcing me to look at him. I faintly shook my head back n' forth with wide eyes. That was a lie, a very big lie.
"Hmm...well you should be" He hummed then quickly grabbed the stolen wand which was not under his name from the bedside table and muttered something and before I knew it everything was black.
* * *
Waking up, I was immediately met with a breeze in areas I knew shouldn't have been exposed. Where was my skirt? I still had my undergarments on, yet the lack of true clothing made my fear peak, especially when I began remembering what had happened with Leo. He was so mad at me, and for what? Because I showed to a party?
As the seconds went by, I began to become more aware of not only my surroundings but myself as well, why do my eyes feel so heavy while my senses felt slowed down, I couldn't even think straight and anytime I tried to move a muscle it felt as if it were pounds of extra weight, did he drug me? Of course he wouldn't. He isn't crazy.
What is going on right now?
I heard faint talking outside the door but I couldn't exactly comprehend what anyone was saying. All I knew is that there were more than two people there.
"C'mon dude this is fucked up" I heard one of them say a little bit louder just to the point I could barely hear.
"Shut the fuck up dude and here drink this, it'll make you feel better everyone else already did" Another one whispered, it was Leo.
"Fuck no I'm not doing this" he said and I heard their shoes hitting the floor with each step.
"Remember what I said about your sister Cepheus."
The walking stopped then everything went silent, I could still hear their whispers but I couldn't make out anything they were saying.
The door soon swung open, jumping up and grabbing the comforter I quickly attempted to cover myself to the best of my ability, I scooted back as far as I could when Leo walked in with his mates from school.
Mulciber, Avery, Pucey, Yaxley and Parkinson.
"Ahh you're awake, perfect." Leo praised.
"What is going on Leo?" My voice was shaky and slurred, I felt extremely uncomfortable and confused. I was half naked and barely covering my body with six other boys in the room one of them being Corvus' friend. I looked away in fear.
"You need to learn how to fucking obey, you fucking belong to me, meaning you do as I say when I say." I felt my eyes prickle with tears as he talked, he made his way over to me and placed his hands on the bed posts leaning forwards. He'd never spoken to me in such a way before, his voice held no sympathy, nor an ounce of humanity.
"Here's what's going to happen, since you wanted to dress and act like a fucking whore you'll be fucking treated like the one you are." He sighed before turning around and looking at the rest of his friends "Turn around and get on those pretty little arms and knees of yours and cooperate."
"You're kidding right? Leo this isn't funny!" I begged. My delusional mind, no matter the alarms that were going off in there, I still would never accept the fact that he was in fact being serious. He wasn't bluffing, and that is something I'd never be able to comprehend.
He rolled his neck and dragged his tongue on the inside of his cheek out of frustration.
"Fine then, we'll do it the hard way" He stated before quickly reaching forwards, grabbing my shoulders, I started squirming and kicking, anything I could do to get him away from me, I even began screaming out to Corvus for help, yet it wasn't enough, none of it was. He flipped me over and held me down, going as far as complete grabbing the back of my head and shoving my face into the satin sheets below me like I were a dog who'd wet the bed. My cries muffled, and soon my physical attempts were ceased as well.
"Petrificus Totalus."
I've always loved painting, drawing, and sketching. Anything that had to do with creating a story on a piece of paper, I adored it, and mainly because every painting or drawing, no matter what it be, had a back story.
Painting is for pictures too hard to understand, so let me paint you a picture of a girl who has a little too much to understand.. her heart was a two ton brick in her fist that kept her pinned to the exact spot on the ground they wanted her to be in. When she's sixteen and those forty-seven minutes felt like eternity, as she kept clinging to her sanity like it was the last molecule of burned up air in a gas chamber, knowing and fearing, that if she were to ever let it go, then she would suffocate into a world of suffering.
Her innocence was ripped up and thrown away with the drop of their pants, and her sheets will forever stay soaked with the company of her own tears, she'd be trembling with the sound of her own frozen voice cracking, shattering, and melting into puddles that she would try to pick up with dirty hands, with a dirty heart dripping into the exact consistency of the mud that they carelessly left her in.
If I knew her what would I say? That there's something beautiful about skinned knees and bruised arms? Merlin, I can't even admit to myself that this had happened to me, and the truth is that I never will. The fault I would feel when I think that because I didn't speak, he- they, could go on to ruin another perfect thing, a perfect thing who's picture looked a whole lot like mine.
I know my story is important, but I also know that I would never be brave enough to share it.
"Reparifors."
I felt myself collapse, finally being freed from paralyzation sounds nice, yet the second my body fell, the aching began to spread from my abdomen all the way down to my toes that were curled in pure disgust. The lower of my back felt as if it had been completely butchered, each guy thinking it'd be fun to sign their name like I was a damn contract. My lungs were banging against my ribs, begging and pleading for more air as I gasped for more of it, while my heart felt as if it completely flat lined. The physical pain was unexplainable, yet the mental pain, the mental pain would forever stay branded in my brain in the way no scars ever would.
I would never forgive myself for this, I could hear Leo speaking with me in the background, but nothing audible was made out, his words were going through one ear and out the other, I feared what may come if I were to stay quiet, yet even when I opened my mouth, no words came out, I stayed quiet, I was shaking so hard I couldn't even cry or speak.
His anger was quick to get the best of him, and I soon felt him grip the back of my hair and drag me off of the bed. I landed harshly onto the cold wood floors, I felt the brutal carvings in my back, the ones I only wished they were joking about, as soon as my back made contact.
"Answer me when I'm fucking talking to you!" He screamed into my face, but all I could do was stare up at him in pure awe. It was like I was watching through a window, there was no way that this was my life, that this was Leo above me right now, and that it wasn't him behind me five minutes ago. How, that in just a span of hours, is it possible for someone's life to completely turn upside down?
My disobedience was not appreciated, and he showed me that the second he began ruthlessly jamming, kicking, and stomping into my side. I broke. Physically and Mentally. Rolling away as fast as I could whilst shouts of agony left my mouth I finally broke the silence.
"Fine, you want to stay quiet? Let's see how quiet you can stay." He taunted, completely getting a kick out of this. Did he think this was a game? Was he on psychedelics right now? Because I refuse to accept the fact that he was lucid, that he understood what he was doing to me, what he just did to me, what he just took from me.
I could only imagine the guilt he would feel this next morning.
As the tears strolled down my cheeks, I attempted to pull myself up, only having one free hand as the other clung onto my side, yet he was there the second I was up and stable, grabbing me by my throat I gasped and immediately grasped his hands in attempts to pull away from him.
The next thing I knew my back was crashing back onto the floor.
My mind finally began to fade in and out of consciousness. Finally. Just put me to sleep, get me out of this damn nightmare, and put me back in my real life.
"I'm going to ask you one more time, do you want to stay quiet still?" I couldn't comprehend any words, only moans, and whimpers of pain escaped my lips from all his body weight that was now on my newly shattered and bruised ribs.
He took my answer as a yes, he lifted my chin with his finger and pouted.
"Shame such a pretty face has to get ruined."
What I did? I don't know, and sometimes, that's okay, because sometimes, you didn't do anything. Not everything is your fault. These were all the things I reminded everyone around me, so why couldn't I accept that just maybe this wasn't my fault? Why am I so determined on finding out what I did wrong? Where did I go wrong?
"You're a real fucking whore you know that? You probably enjoyed that didn't you? Well then I think I need to give you a real punishment then don't I?"
I love him, this isn't him right now. This isn't my life, this is all a nightmare, and soon enough I would wake up from it all.
I love him.
I love him?
So why is he being so mean to me?
"Crucio"
I love him.
Please, Merlin, let him love me.
I love him.
This isn't real, he would never do this to me, I don't know this man above me.
Yet all this Leo did was laugh, he laughed at me, while kneeling down beside me. He reached his hand out and I instantly flinched away, I flinched away from Leo, yet nonetheless he continued to lay his hand on my head and brush the hair off of my sweaty, irritated, cheekbone.
"You know I love you right baby? But you need to know how to listen." Standing back up he brushed off his pants and released a deep, pained sigh, "Which is why I am doing this, when it's all over we can go back to normal, I just don't know how to make you remember this, you'll take this as a lesson and grow."
He did love me?
So why was he doing this to me?
My racing thoughts didn't allow me to hear his next words.
I didn't register the hesitation in his voice, nor did I register the way that even he second guessed his next words, and I definitely didn't register when he finally stuttered out the curse.
I felt two large slashes go down my abdomen and soon blood was all I was able to see, feel, and taste, the worst part wasn't even the pain but the fact that the spell was created by my bestfriend and was now being used on me.
Severus had never truly explained what the curse had done so both Leo and I both held shock and fear in our eyes once we realized how harsh the damage had been.
"Leo I said keep it the fuck down I've heard screaming for the past fucking hour what the hell is going on in there" Soon a loud pounding sound came from the door and the rattle of the doorknob which was locked, it went quiet for a moment and the only thing heard were my panicked whimpers until the door was flung open, Corvus' eyes went wide, eyeing all the blood then he looked over to Leo who was standing above me.
"Leo what the fuck!?" He quickly ran over to me trying to heal the cut but nothing was working, he didn't know the healing spell for it, I couldn't remember it, I was mumbling all the possible counter-curses for it but Corvus was too panicked to listen to what I was saying.
"Leo what the fuck did you do to her?"
"Help me" I managed to speak out to him as I rolled over and spat out all the new incoming blood from my mouth.
Corvus immediately looked at Leo who kept his eyes on me in shock realizing what he had just done coming back into soberness and I hated that once I saw tears in his eyes, I felt more sympathy for him than I did myself.
Leo's reaction to my plea was delayed but by the time he realized he quickly spat on me.
"You fucking cunt!" He yelled.
Leo grabbed the knife that was plunged into the desk and tried to attack me with it but Corvus immediately jumped over and pinned him down. "Get the fuck out of here Del, get to a healer!" Corvus yelled as Leo started to fight off his brother.
I had no clue where to go, I wanted to go to my mum and have her to tell me everything would be okay but I knew that couldn't happen, I didn't want to go to Cal's house because my brother and friends were still there and I didn't want to scare them plus how would I even begin to explain what happened. Where could I fucking go?
"Listen, I have a friend who's family is all in Gryffindor, Euphemia Potter, she's a healer, you can trust them okay? If you ever need to go somewhere you can go there I've already spoken with her she is more than happy to help you,"
I tried to get up but pain erupted throughout my body but I had to fight it, I crawled over to my trunk and looked through it, I had kept the portkey on me ever since my mother gave it to me but I never used it, and of course now that I needed it I couldn't find it.
"Del fucking get out!" Corvus yelled once again.
"I'm fucking trying!" I cried back with my hand wrapped around the cuts in my stomach to attempt to stop the bleeding, I could taste the metallic tang on my tongue and had to fight the bile that dared to rise.
"Here, what are you looking for?" Corvus panicked as he finally reached beside me, I looked over my shoulder to see Leo laying on the floor, he looked like he was hardly breathing and I couldn't help the pained gasp that left my mouth.
I loved him.
I could feel something being placed over my shoulders, looking down I saw a random button down now giving me some sort of protection from the public eye. Cherishing it, I quickly wrapped it around myself, ignoring the way it immediately grew soaked in my blood.
"C'mon, Del, what are you looking for, help me get you out of here, do you have a port key?" Corvus begged, I could hear his voice shaking in panic, and his fear only made mine grow. Corvus was one of the most stable people I knew. If he wasn't okay, then I sure as hell wasn't.
I nodded in response and he quickly understood. Grabbing my trunk he turned the whole thing upside down, and right on top of the pile, I spotted it.
"Go, I'll find you alright?" He promised, grabbing the sides of my face he kissed my forehead before grabbing the handkerchief and unraveling it carefully before he allowed it to fall directly into my hands. Not allowing me anytime to register until I felt like I was spinning at hundreds of miles per hour.
I immediately landed on the cold hard pavement under me earning a loud cry. I looked up to see a large mansion, but I didn't have any time to appreciate my surroundings. I quickly got up, earning another loud groan. I didn't know what time it was but I just needed help, the cut felt like it had gotten significantly deeper by now, I only had a bra, underwear, and a thin dress shirt that was soaked in my blood still wrapped around me.
I limped over, practically crawled to the door and knocked on it frantically. This was a whole new low for me, and even in such desperate times, I still felt absolutely mortified.
When the door opened, a women appeared, who I would only assume to be Euphemia. On different circumstances I'd shake her hand or give her a hug, yet today, I unfortunately had no time for chit-chat.
"I'm sorry I had nowhere else to go" I choked out, yet as the words escaped, warm metallic liquid began to slip out of my mouth. As soon as I noticed this I tried to use my hand to cup the blood so it wouldn't fall onto her porch but my hands were too shaky making it easily slipped through my fingertips.
"Fleamont, get the children upstairs now!"
I heard the people inside object but Euphemia snapped back and yelled 'now' leading to everyone rushing up the stairs. The woman in front of me began to notice my unstable footing, my knees were practically buckling every second that passed by, and just before I finally wasn't able to fight the urge to fall any longer, she was quick to grab my waist before I fell to her porch.
Though I bit my tongue as harshly as I could, the feeling of her hands gripping onto my fractured ribs emitted a guttural groan from my throat, no longer able to even support the weight of my own head, with embarrassment, I allowed for my forehead to fall and rest onto her chest.
"What's going on-oh my Merlin" Another figure walked up and I didn't need to look to see if that her husband had joined us.
"Fleamont prepare the couch now."
Without letting a second go to waste, we finally all began moving into the house. I could see towels flying over and neatly placing over the couch as all the pillows flew off and onto the floor in my peripheral vision.
With each step that I had to take, I begged for us to stop. I couldn't stop the word vomit that was escaping my mouth, it was pure pain and angst taking over my tongue. The pain was so insufferable that all I wanted was for everything to end. Everything. This wasn't my life anymore, I couldn't live with these memories.
"You're Nashira's daughter correct, Delphinus was it?" Euphemia asked as she observed my wounds, I gave her a faint nod in response. I could smell her pity from miles away as she looked down at me with pure horror.
"What did this to you? Merlin, how could someone do this to someone?" Fleamont gasped out, his tone no higher than a whisper and I could tell that he too couldn't control the words escaping his mouth. He looked frozen in shock.
"May I?" Euphemia asked slowly, I knew she was referring to opening the dress shirt, I didn't even have to remove my eyes from the ceiling to confirm it. I gave her a nod and the second I felt the breeze reach my skin that was soaked in my own sweat and blood I clenched my eyes closed, feeling tears brush their way down my cheeks and turned my head to face the cushion walls of the couch. I didn't want to see what was now scarred onto my body.
I could hear the choked gasps from the both of them, the sound of pure horror, registered to me of sounds of disgustment. I knew that wasn't the case, but I also knew that my body would forever have deep lacerations on my stomach, the skin I used to be so comfortable in, the same skin that hadn't even been touched with ink, now tarnished by two deep ugly scars. I let a pained sob finally pass through my lips, I finally let myself mourn the person I used to be.
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Soon I heard footsteps leading from the staircase and once I looked over I saw Lily Evans who looked at me with wide eyes.
"Delphinus?"
"Lily sweetheart, get upstairs now!" Euphemia pleaded.
"I heard you screaming I wanted to see if everything was alright, I know why it's not healing, whoever did that used the Sectumsempra curse, there's only one type of counter-curse that can heal it." Lily said as she ran over to me and reached for her wand from her pants.
"Vulnera Sanentur"
My eyes widened in shock that she knew the spell and counter-curse, I knew her and Severus were friends but I never knew how close they were
We all watched as the cut finally healed. Lily stood next to Fleamont and Euphemia let out a sigh of relief, she looked at me and gave me a worried sum look.
I tried to sit up but quickly whimpered in pain and fell back down into the couch.
Euphemia quickly looked at me and looked down at my ribs as her brows furrowed with sympathy.
"Dear I can't lie to you this will hurt but it will be fast okay?" I gave her a faint nod, she looked back over to Lily.
"Thank you Lily, but please go back upstairs and don't let any of the others come back down to respect her privacy."
Lily nodded as he ran back upstairs and Euphemia nodded to Fleamont telling him to follow him.
-3rd Person Pov-
Fleamont went upstairs following Lily and went into James' room to see everyone else in there.
"What the bloody hell is going on down there we heard people screaming" James asked panicked.
"I can't say just yet but stay up here, everyone is fi-" Fleamont tried to comfort but was quickly cut off by Delphinus' shrieks in pain.
"I know it hurts dear but it will be over soon" Euphemia's faint voice was heard from upstairs.
"Yea sure sounds like everything's fine" James snapped as he went to cover Lily's ears with a worried sum look as he practically begged his father with answers with his eyes.
"Who's down there?" Sirius asked.
Lily stayed silent trying to calm herself from what he had just seen.
"Lily, did you see anything when you went down there?" Peter asked as he set down his chicken wing, no longer hungry for his appetite had quickly disappeared once they heard another painful yell from Delphinus, her voice cracking and raspy.
"No Lily didn't see anything now I need you all to stay up here no matter what you hear, I will lock you all in here if that's necessary" Fleamont gave Lily a pointed look for her not to speak of what she just saw and she nodded.
Fleamont left the room and went back down to the living area to see Euphemia kneeling next to her with tears in her eyes trying to comfort Delphinus. Delphinus was clutching onto Euphemia's hand panting and crying.
"One last time and then this will all be over okay? One...Two...Three."
"Brackium Emendo."
Another loud shriek came from Delphinus' voice as her desperate pleas and yells filled the house, but Euphemia was right, it was finally over, the physical pain at least. Delphinus knew she was going to have to explain what had happened and a part of her truly wanted to, she needed to hear that everything would be alright.
The three sat there for a minute as Delphinus caught her breath, a thick layer of sweat coated her whole body, Fleamont sat down on the coffee table in front of the couch while Euphemia moved to the end of the couch where Delphinus' feet had rested, she caressed her knee in comfort.
"Delphinus I understand if you can't or don't feel comfortable, but can you tell us what happened?" Euphemia asked as she continued rubbing her knee as reassurance, and to both Euphemia and Fleamont surprise, Delphinus nodded weakly.
Euphemia gave her a small smile and got up and went to the kitchen. She soon came out with a cup of tea and placed it in front of the girl. Delphinus had tried to get up but Fleamont quickly went over to her lightly pressing her back down by her shoulder.
"You need to stay down dear," Fleamont said.
Delphinus nodded again as she took a deep inhale and exhale, preparing herself to relieve everything that had happened.
"Delphinus you don't need to tell us" Fleamont said worryingly not knowing what to expect from her story but Delphinus shook her head.
"No I want to" She said in almost a whisper, and that's what she did, she told Euphemia and Fleamont everything not leaving out a single detail, the only thing she did leave out were the names and the carvings, not ready to admit to herself that the person she genuinely believed was the one had done this to her, by the end of the story Euphemia was crying harder than Delphinus and Fleamont had let out a tear or two hearing the story.
"Delphinus I am so so sorry this happened to you" Euphemia wept.
Everyone upstairs had heard Euphemia's cries for she wasn't a silent crier and everybody was confused not knowing what was going on. James and Sirius insisted on using a spell for them all to hear but Lily quickly shot down that plan and told them it wasn't right. All of them except for Remus and Frank kept interrogating her asking what she saw but all Lily said was that he saw Euphemia and Fleamont on the couch talking with a girl, she tried to leave out as much detail as she could.
Euphemia had stayed down with Delphinus talking with her, she gave her a vial to prevent any pregnancy or sexual transmitted diseases, Euphemia had owled Nashira over and to their surprise Nashira actually made it, she hadn't seen her daughter in over five years but they wrote back and forth practically everyday.
Once Delphinus had told the story once again Nashira was bawling, she blamed herself for not having her over for the summer but Delphinus had quickly shot down that thought and said there was nothing anyone could've done, both Nashira and the Potter parents stayed with Delphinus the whole night, Euphemia and Nashira had helped the girl bathe off all the dirt, sweat, blood, and most disgustingly, all the cum that the boys had oh so carelessly let drip down her thighs.
All three of them had soon led Delphinus all the way up to a guest room for her to stay, the Potter parents thought it would be best for her to use one of the rooms on the third level since Delphinus had requested that no one else knew she were there, Euphemia had given the two Malfoy's the night together alone.
The next morning came around and Delphinus hadn't gotten any sleep, Nashira had to go back home early in the morning before her husband had woken up, he was the reason that she couldn't see Delphinus anymore because Abraxas never allowed her, he was worried that the Blood-Traitor in her was contagious and didn't want her to corrupt the family anymore than she already had.
Euphemia had told everyone downstairs that nothing had happened and of course no one believed her but they knew to keep their mouths shut because Euphemia was never one to lie, meaning it was for the best.
Delphinus had heard a small knock on her door and once she tried to stand up she immediately fell down onto the floor hard from her legs, still incredibly sore from the night before.
"What was that?" Sirius asked as he looked over to his non-biological brother.
"Good question but it was probably nothing like last night" James rolled his eyes looking back down at his plate, he and his best friend were the only ones still thinking about the night before.
Euphemia's eyes filled with worry as she ran upstairs to see what had happened.
"And there she goes, keeping once another secret" James scoffed, he didn't want to be mad or annoyed with his parents but they were always close, they never withheld truth from each other.
"James I understand you're curious but this isn't our place to speak of please just move on" Fleamont said, or more like begged, Fleamont and James had an extremely unbreakable bond and the father was worried that if his son had pushed him hard enough he might break.
"It's kind of hard to move on from dad, last night we literally heard a girl screaming at the top of her lungs from our living room and mom bawling her eyes out now tell me how I can just move on from that if you two are keeping secrets, I'm bloody worried and scared dad?" James shot back with worry in his voice.
"Never mind, I'm going up to my room" James sighed as he went to their room to which Sirius followed and discussed last night's events.
Euphemia had ran into the guest room to see Delphinus on the floor and Lily by her side trying to help her up but Delphinus jolted away from her touch.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Potter I came up here because I heard noises and then she fell so I tried to help her up but she flinched, and Delphinus I'm sorry I made you flinch I didn't mean too" Lily rambled on in panic.
"Lily it's fine I didn't mean to flinch and sorry for making lots of noise Mrs. Potter, and please it's just Del." She replied embarrassed. Lily held out her hand and hesitantly Del grabbed it pulling herself up but once she was standing pain shot through her legs as they started to tremble and Del groaned in pain as she fell back down.
Euphemia quickly ran up to her as Lily and her helped pick up Del and placed her on the bed, Lily noticed her trembling legs and gave Euphemia a questioning look but Euphemia kept her eyes down as she looked at her feet with disgust from what they did to her and pain that she had to go through that rushing in her veins.
"Thank you for your help Lily but I can take it from here" Euphemia smiled at him as she left knowing that Del didn't want to be in the presence of anyone else at the moment. Lily quickly nodded, adding another apology as she went back downstairs.
She sat down next to Remus as she joined the conversation going on between him, Peter, Alice, Frank and Fleamont, but the conversation was soon interrupted by a knock on the door, Fleamont looked at everyone in confusion not knowing if they had any other guests planning on coming over but by their reaction they didn't, he signaled for them to go back upstairs and he went to approach the door.
The five of them complied as they made their way up to James room, once they all got in there James shot them a confused look on why they all came in.
"Fleamont told us to come up here and someone knocked on the door." Peter complained as he plopped himself onto James' bed.
James rolled his eyes at the amount of secrets they are keeping about last night's events. "Shocker," he mumbled.
James and Sirius decided to throw one last party before school started up again and invited most of the Gryffindor house, some of the Hufflepuff, few of the Ravenclaw, and none from Slytherin since they had their own party and because they simply did not like them, and even after the party ended James and Sirius convinced Alice, Frank, Lily, Remus, and Peter to stay the night, but only about an hour or two later a mystery guest came over and it shook all of them to their core.
Once Fleamont knew everyone was in James' room he went back downstairs and opened the door to see a boy at the door with a black eye and a busted lip.
"Is Delphinus here?"
A/N: This chapter was extremely dark but I do want to point out that not every chapter will be like this, same with the length of the story, this is a lot longer than I usually write in stories, I usually have about 3,500-5,000 words per story and this one was near 12,100, unless you guys prefer the length like this I will probably shorten the rest of the chapters.
P.S. one thing to keep in mind is that Corvus curses like a sailor, basically in almost every sentence he says there's some type of profanity in it so don't expect him to have 'proper language'
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