Recap:
"Father, I'm not a little girl anymore. I can take care of myself. Besides, I have Draco. He will protect me. He promised." I explained with hope in my eyes. Snape sighed, I don't think thar he wanted me to lose my hope. He wanted me to be like mum. To be hopeful and passionate.
"I-" Snape was cut off by the fireplace having green flames and Draco stepped out. He was pale and had blood on his shirt and crusted in his hair. Wow I didn't feel a thing. I walked up to him and hugged him. I noticed hat the blood in his hair and on his shirt wasn't his. It didn't look the same color. Draco's blood was a bright red while the blood on his shirt was tinges darker than his blood should be.
"What happened?" I asked. Draco's eyes glazed over.
"Nothing." he quietly said.
"Draco." I looked at him.
"Give it a rest okay?!" He yelled at me and he stormed away. What's wrong with him.
"I'll go after him." my father told me. I nodded and collapsed into his chair. I looked down at my hands. I shouldn't have said anything.
I guess I should just let Snape handle this for now.
'Alexis.' I heard Draco speak in my mind after twenty minutes.
'What?' I asked in my thoughts.
'I'm sorry for earlier, and we need to talk.' Draco thought to me.
'Okay.' is all I said as I broke off the connection.
Ten minutes later Snape and Draco had came back into Snape's office. I smiled at them as they entered, but my smile dropped when I saw that both of them looked really pale.
"Let's here it." I said to them outloud.
"You are joining us?" Draco asked quietly, meeting my eyes.
"Yes. I'm tired of-" I was cut off by Draco.
"Running. I've got that, but what if I want to break the connection?" Draco asked. He masked his face to remain straight.
"Well then if that's what you want, then you will need to convince me, but convinced or not I'm still going to become a death eater." I told Draco.
"Alexis-" Draco started but now it was my time to cut him off.
"Just be quiet, you don't know what it's like to be me. I've run all my life, and I don't even know who I am anymore. I do know that I love you so I want to keep my life like that." I told Draco. I was angry now.
"What if we talk about this tomorrow?" Snape asked.
"No!" I yelled, "No, we need to talk about this now." I said in a quieter, calmer voice.
"Okay." Snape said and stayed quiet.
"Draco listen, I want to be with you and besides...I have a plan." I said.
"You do?" Draco asked.
"Yes." I said as I smiled up at the two of them.
"So what is it?" Draco asked.
"Well..." I trailed off and then I explained my plan. When I was done I looked at the two and smiled.
"It could work." Snape said.
"Fine." Draco said.
"Okay. So do we all know what we need to do?" I asked.
"Yes." Snape had said as he rushed off to find the potion ingredients.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" I asked.
"It will work." I promised as I stood. on my
tippy toes and kissed Draco.
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The Poison Mark:
"Half blood prince?" I asked Harry. Harry had asked me who the half blood prince was, I of course knew it was my father, but it wasn't my secret to tell.
"Yes, do you know anything about it?" Harry questioned me. I wonder why he is wondering... He couldn't know... could he? No it's impossible. Harry searched my eyes. I think he could sense that I was lying.
"No." I answered in a strong voice and then burst put laughing. I'm not that great at lying. I always over think it when I lie. I try to hard not to laugh, which causes me to laugh. I smiled at Harry who was looking at me suspiciously.
"Are you sure?" Harry asked me.
"Positive." I said as I bit down on my lip to stop myself from laughing.
"Okay." Harry said oddly. I smiled at him innocently. I don't have the slightest of clue of what my expression looked like, but it must've been a sight because Harry started laughing at it.
"What's so funny?" I asked as I folded my arms across my chest.
"Your face." Harry laughed. Oh wow using the muggle jokes now huh?
"Muggle jokes, Harry? Really?" I questioned as I raised an eyebrow. Harry must've heard it from Dudley. Dudley was a mean, fat boy. Harry refers to him as a fat pig, but I see kindness in his heart. I see that Dudley will have a role to play coming up. I just don't know what that may be. I have a feeling that it probably is hope. I don't know why I think that he is hope, but just by hearing about him, I think that he will get a change of heart which is exactly what Harry will need in the end. I am aware that the fight will come soon because of the prophecy that Harry heard last year from his prophecy sphere. I had to take pity on him though on how his last gift from Sirius had been a knife, and the knife had melted through his door. I would be saddened not by the knife being gone, but knowing that the last gift that was given to you by somebody is destroyed. I smile at what I have heard about Dudley. I guess the only way to find out, is if I meet Dudley.
"Well..." Harry smiled sheepishly and looked towards the ground. Harry has great leadership skills, but around me he is Shh and acts like he is a follower rather than a leader. Then again, now that I think about it, other older witches and wizards act similar... That is so odd. I wonder why that is.
"Harry, I mist ask this question, but just know that this isn't a whimsical descision. I have thought long and hard on this, but if I were to take a trip and not come back for a few years, and if I were to not make the greatest of choices, would you still accept me as your sister and let me visit you and you would still love me?" I asked Harry. I added pauses in my question as well. Harry looked at me and his eyes flashed with a fliker of something, I think that it was betrayal...
"What you mean like join the dark lord?" Harry asked. How is Harry on the ball today? Just then I caught a patch of red hair behind Harry. I smiled behind Harry to see Ron. Ron smiled and his ears went pink. He stood next to Harry.
"Er... hello, Alexis." Ron said.
"Ronald." I nodded as his presence and turned back to Harry. I opened my mouth to speak, but was cut off. I haven't seen him since he was poisoned. I was about to ask if he was all better when...
"Harry!" A girl squeeled from down the corridor. Ron and I exchanged a glance as this girl approached. She was actually quite pretty. She had long dark brown hair and was a Ravenclaw. She had hazel eyes.
"Hello Gloria. Meet my sister-" Harry was cut off by Gloria.
"Alexis. So nice to meet you." Gloria said as she came and hugged me. The moment she touched me, I had a vision. I saw Gloria as a young girl watch as her parents were murdered by Voldemort. She sobbed as a Deatheater took her and then the image changed. She had gotten her dark mark and was screaming out in pain. The vision faded and I was back to the present.
"You too." I smiled at Gloria with a fake, cheerful expression. She seemed not to notice that it was fake because she smiled back with the same fake smile that she wore.
"Um... Harry, I have to go. Draco's looking for me." I said to Harry, which wasn't true, but it stopped him from asking questions. I was actually going to sneak over to Hogsmead and go to a small bookstore that was there. It was a secret place that only deatheaters could access and so I knew Snape and Draco were there with Voldemort. Today was the day that I was to change. Today was the day that I would become a Deatheater. I have to admit that I was scared as I went to the cottage and went through the secret path from it through a small patch of woods, which had a barrier in it at somepoint in the small woods. I finally found it. I could feel the thick substance in he air as I ran my ringers through it. I walked through it.
Once I was through I continued and finally saw the town, I looked around and quickly walked behind stores so nobody would be able to see me. I saw Draco standing behind a building. When I saw him, his face looked like he was broken. He must be in pain for him seeing this happen to me. I walked over to him and squeezed his hand. He looked down at my face and I gave him a reassuring smile. He gave me one, but it was only small.
"Okay, look I'm sorry, but I want to be with you and if it means changing then so be it." I said loudly so Voldemort to hear. We had come up with this earlier. Anything we said we didn't mean, or we only half meant it.
"No, there are other ways. You and I could run away together. Now. We could run tint now and never look back." Draco said urgently and it sounded like he was on the verge of tears. Wow, he was a great actor.
"Draco, he'll find us. He'll kill Snape, your parents, and if he finds us... he'll kill both of us. And I could never live with myself if I was the cause of somebody's death." I said ss I took his face in my hands and stood on my tippy toes and kissed Draco on the lips. He instantly wrapped his arm around my waist and kissed me.
"Please." Draco plead as his voice shook.
"No, it's time." I said. I was supposed to act brave, but on the inside I was scared. What if the plan didn't work? I knew that this processed through Draco's mind as well because he looked really pale. Draco led me to the building as he took my hand and led me to the door. He stepped up to the door and pushed up his sleeve and showed it to the door. It opened and Draco went in. I followed after him. The building was cold. I shivered and draco wrapped his arms around me. Everything was dark and dusty. It bad a fireplace, but it was unused. Draco led me up the stairs to the left and I saw a fireplace lit in one of the rooms, but unfortunately that wasn't the room we went into. We went into the room after. I saw Voldemorts face and smiled at him. I put on a brave face and smirked at him.
"Hello, are you prepared my lord?" I asked Voldemort and I bowed. Draco looked at me with worry and so he behind me and had bis hands on his waist. He lowered his head in my neck.
"Yes. Now you must take the oath." Voldemort said.
"I know the oath. I promise as a Deatheater to help make the world a better place. A place where evil will rise. I promise to be loyal to my new family. They will tell me the right ways. I will have to respect them and do as they say. I promise to serve my dark lord. To do whatever he says. I promise to be thee when he needs me." I finished. Voldemort smirks and steps towards me.
"Well good job, now lets do the last part." Voldemort said as he stepped towards me.
"Wait!" I said suddenly.
"Yes? " Voldemort asked me. He wasn't one to have patience.
"Can you promise me that I will be able to stay with Draco. You can't seperate us." I said. Voldemort glanced at my father.
"I don't see any problem in that, do you Severus?" Voldemort asks.
"No my lord." Snape bowed.
"Swear on your life." Draco said harshly.
"Okay fine. Give me your arm." Voldemort said as he grabbed Draco's arm.
I watched as Draco and Voldemort did an unbreakable vow. I didn't pay attention though. I only watched Draco and Draco's face. I was beginning to feel nervous and so I closed my eyes and blocked out everything until I felt Draco come next to me and he wrapped on of his arms around my right shoulder.
"Step forward." Voldemort said and so I obeyed. I turned to look back at Draco. Draco looked tense when I glanced at him. I turned back to look at Voldemort.
Voldemort said something in Parseltongue. And then I felt his want touch my skin. I prepared my mind as I watched as I put a layering of extra skin on my arm. It would stop the poison from going all the way through. I quickly watched as it went through the skin, but it didn't pass through the real one, but it still hurt. I screamed out in pain and Draco was gritting his teeth. I felt bad that he still had to feel it too. I glanced at Draco, apologetically. He looked at me with paid. in his eyes. I screamed again and finally the pain was done. I feel to the ground and saw he poisonous mark, but I could feel that it wasn't on my real skin. I looked at the pitch black mark.
"Now you have joined us. Draco will train you and you are to help him with the cabinet and the death of Albums Dumbledore." Voldemort said and with that he disappeared in a puff of black smoke. I coughed as the smoke entered my lungs. Draco came and kneeled beside me.
"Are you okay?" He asked as he pulled me up to feet.
"I've been better." I smiled.
"Now that you two are done, we have to go." Snape said. I nodded and followed after him. I didn't know what would happen next, but whatever it was, I'd be prepared for it.
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Author's note:
Sorry it's so short. Hope you enjoyed. Don't forget to comment, vote, and fan. I'd really appreciate it.
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