( chapter sixty-seven )
tw: abuse
CASSIOPEIA BLACK DIDN'T EVEN have time to register her surroundings before she felt a hand collide with her cheek, sending her head snapping to the left.
She let out a gasp of pain, her eyes brimming slightly with tears. She could feel the small pour of blood run down her cheek from where her mothers ring had cut it.
She gulped.
Cassie looked up at her mother, letting out a shaky breath as she did so.
She had never seen so much hatred in a person's eyes than she was seeing right now. There was no hint of remorse, no hint of guilt. But to Cassie, most importantly, there was no hint of love.
There never had been.
"You. . ." Walburga started, looking down at her daughter, letting a satisfied smirk make its way onto her face as she noticed the fear in the girls eyes.
Regulus stared at the two of them, his eyes wide and darting from Cassie to his mother. He felt anger boiling in his blood, he wanted to yell at her to stop. That for once he should love his children instead of trying to mold then into something they're not with force.
After all, clay only stays soft and malleable for a period of time. After that it becomes hard, and one wrong move can make it crack.
Make it unfixable.
Regulus opened his mouth to say something, but before the words could leave his mouth, Walburga was looking at him. The same hatred in her eyes.
The words went from his mouth, he didn't know what to say. Even if he did say anything, it would just make situations worse, for him and Cassie.
"Go up to your room Regulus." Walburga spat, Regulus almost flinched due to the venom in her tone. One he had never realised was so poisonous.
Regulus looked at Cassie once more, who only nodded, not looking at him. Her eyes glued to their mother.
Regulus nodded slightly, turning around and practically running up to his room, he could hear skin meeting skin once again just before he shut his door.
"You what?" Cassie asked, raising an eyebrow as she looked up at her mother. She ignored the growing fear in her chest and the stinging on her cheek.
"You filthy blood-traitor." Walburga spat, quite literally spitting on her daughters face as she spoke.
Cassie opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by the door behined her opening. Her whole body began to shake slightly, she could feel a slight cold sweat run down her forehead and mix with her eyebrow.
She gulped once again, looking at her mother and refusing to look behind her.
Her mother had another satisfied smirk on her face as her eyes looked up behind her Cassie, back to Cassie once again.
Cassies eyes were now filled with more fear than last time, she could see the chilling sweat run down her daughters face. Her wide eyes and the way she was breath fast, but trying not to show it, however, the quick rise and fall of her chest gave it away.
"Cassiopeia."
The voice sent shivers down her spine, it made her heart skip a beat, but not in a good way, before it began to beat at twice the speed it was before.
Cassie slowly turned around, trying not to show the fear she felt.
"Father."
Orion didn't look happy. Hatred was evident on his face and in his dark eyes.
He stepped out of the way, beckoning Cassie into the room with his hand.
Walburga didn't waste a moment before harshly pushing her daughter into the room, Cassie could feel the cold metal from her mothers rings on her back as she was pushed.
Orion shut the door behined the two, locking himself and them inside the room.
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"I want an orange."
"We only have satsumas."
"What kind of bullshit is this-"
"We have satsumas."
James threw a satsuma at Sirius' head, the other boy rolled his eyes as it hit his head.
"You're rude."
"Choke on that satsuma."
Sirius pouted, but began to eat the satsuma in his hands, looking James in the eye as he placed it in his mouth. James rolled his eyes.
He looked away from Sirius, and at the two way mirror that was resting in his lap. Even though he had only been away from Cassie for around two hours, he still missed her more than anything.
The fact that he missed her was also mixed with the worry that he felt at that moment.
He was worried sick that Cassies parents were going to do something too her yet again, he wouldn't put it past them. It made his stomach turn just thinking that she could be in pain at that exact moment in time.
He found a small bit of comfort in holding the two-way mirror close to him. As if he would be able to tell if Cassie was in pain due to the mirror.
He knew that he wouldn't be able too unless she said his name into the mirror, or he said hers. But he wouldn't say her name, he didn't want her parents to overhear him and then punish her even more. He couldn't let that happen.
"Can I have another satsuma?" Sirius said, meaning James was disturbed from his thoughts, be he was thankful he was.
He hated that he kept thinking about the pain Cassie could be in, images of her withering on the floor in pain and screaming for her parents to stop while they stood above her, smirking down at the daughter they were slowly killing. It made his blood boil.
"No."
"Mia! James is being rude." Sirius elongated the word rude, sending James a playful glare as he did so.
Sirius was worried too, but he was trying not to show it. He didn't want to worry James any more than it seemed he was, the worry evident on his face.
He knew Cassie a little better than James did, having been brought up with her, and knew that she would never push her parents so far to the limit she would have died. But he still knew that she would also push them to the point where she would be in a considerable amount of pain for a long time.
"James, don't be rude." Sirius stuck his tongue out at the other boy.
James threw another satsuma at Sirius' head, letting out a small laugh as it bounced off his head and landed splat on the floor.
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Her throat was hoarse, dry from all of the screams that had been emitted in such a short amount of time.
Her forehead was laced with a cold sweat that chilled her shaking body, which felt as if it were never going to keep still again.
Her eyes were overflowing with tears, her cheeks drowned with the salty water that fell from her eyes.
Her body was in so much pain, from the top of her head to the tips of her toes, and it wasn't stopping.
It didn't stop.
When would it stop?
Cassies head was hurting more than anything, this was due to the large cut that was hidden beneath her hair, mixed with the headache she was getting from hearing her own loud screams for what seemed liked hours.
Large bruises were slowly making their way to the surface of her skin, a few cuts were thrown in, blood pouring from them.
The pain stopped.
Cassies breathing was short and shallow, her chest raising and falling too quickly. Her heart was pounding in her ears, she could the blood being pumped around her body.
Her eyes continued to let tears fall from them, however her ears refused to let her hear anything other than her heartbeat and a ringing noise, which was only there in absence of the screams.
The pain was gone for a short moment, before it was there again.
Cassie instantly began to scream once again, her whole body thrashing and withering around on the floor. Furniture moving back as she hit it with her limbs.
But the pain that came from that felt like a small pin prick compare to the other pain she was feeling.
Cassie squeezed her eyes shut, trying to focus on keeping herself awake, she didn't know what would happen if she passed out, or fell asleep.
And she didn't want to know.
The pain stopped again, this time having gone on for a shorter amount of time than before. But it still felt like hours.
Cassie lay on her side, she didn't have the energy to move, not even as she vomited onto the floor, her eyes still closed.
She opened her eyes once she had finished vomiting, however they were still almost completely closed. Her vision invaded slightly by her eyelashes.
She could see her mother and fathers feet, then she could only see one of her mothers and a sharp pain shot through her stomach, her mothers foot was back again.
Cassie vomited once more, before she shut her eyes once again.
Letting the sleep and darkness envelop her.
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