The Ice Queen [s.b.]

↠teen detectives, 1.14

October 9th. 6:30 a.m.

Anna sprints out of the great hall and back to her dorm where Bellatrix is waiting for her.

"What's up, Bells?" she asks.

"Got yourself disowned like my bloodtraitor sister, huh?" she says rudely.

Anna grimaces, "What are you going to do, Bella? Kill me? The lessons you've been taking with Tom are seriously messing you up. You can still back out, remember?"

"Darling, if I wanted to kill you, I would. As it stands, I just want to harm you enough you're landed in the Hospital Wing for a bit."

"Gee, thanks," Anna says sarcastically. "But if that's what you wish, I'm not going to fight you."

"Then the mission the Dark Lord gave me will be a lot easier," she says. "Confundo. Petrificus totalus. Sectumsempra." Bellatrix had used a spell newly invented by Severus Snape.

Anna freezes, and drops to the floor as blood pools all around her body. Thing is, she supposedly doesn't remember who did it because she was confounded. Minutes later, Andromeda Black walks in to find her. Andy shrieks. 

Anna's taken to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey un-body-binds her and Anna asks for Alice and Lily. Then, she passes out.

"Oh my Merlin, what happened?" Lily asks upon her arrival.

"She doesn't remember," Andromeda explains. "Poppy's healing her, but she'll be in the hospital wing for a couple days."

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Alice asks gently, but Lily goes into full mother-mode.

"WHO DID THIS TO LEE?" she roars.

Andy sighs, "I'm trying to figure that out. I'm Andromeda Black. The announcer in quidditch games, Bella and Narcissa's older sister (not anymore, though) and I'm a good friend of Lee's. I was the one that found her."

"Oh," Lily says in a small voice. "She talks about you loads."

"If you're Lily, then she talks about you a lot, too. She had called me to her dorm to tell me something. Do you happen to know what?" Andy asks in her big sister voice.

Lily debates her answer, before saying, "Alice, do you think you could give us the room?"

Alice, ever the nice person, nods. "Should I go find Sirius?"

"No!" Andy and Lily say in unison. Lily adds, "He'll freak out. We need to deal with this calmly."

Andy nods in agreement. Alice leaves.

Lily and Andy take the seat next to the girl currently passed out in the hospital bed.

"I assume her parents didn't react well to her telling them no?" Andy guesses.

Lily nods, "They disowned her."

Andy inhales sharply, looking to her unconscious friend with sympathy.

"I'm sure it was a pureblood, then. Or someone who's trying to be a Death Eater," Andy sighs. "The things I don't understand are who can beat her, or why would she let them win, and what in the hell this spell is. We should work together on this. Once Sirius find out, we won't be able to get anything done. As it stands, the Slytherins might not have closed ranks."

"I agree. I have a free period next, what about you?"

"DADA, but what's more defense against the dark arts than finding an attempted murderer? In other words, I'm skipping," Andy says nonchalantly.

"Right," Lily mutters. "We should get going. I vote we find Lucius first."

"He won't talk to you. You are muggle-born, correct?"