The Slytherin Princess

𝒜𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒷𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝓊𝓈𝓉

As Draco and I pulled our clothes back on, chuckling at ourselves as we went, we stood up and decided it was time to head back.
When we apparated back to the manor, we strolled in and everyone seemed to be preparing to head to Austria.

We were clutching hands and strolling up the stairs when Bellatrix came racing around the corner and bumped straight into me.

"Oh! Princess! Forgive me, I didn't see you", I only just heard her say, as I saw a vision of her house and the cup I had seen when I touched the horcruxes. The next horcrux was in her house.

"Bells?", I heard Draco, snapping out of my moment, I looked up to see Bella nervously stood in front of me with a bowed head, like she was waiting for me to reprimand her for daring to bump me.

"Oh... Um, Don't let it happen again", I shot, watching her nod and scurry down the stairs while Draco and I continued ascending.

"Are you okay?", he asked, but I shushed him, dragging him through the remaining halls before quickly pulling him into my room.
"Bells, what are you-"

"We need to go to Bellatrix's house! Thats where the next one is. I saw it", I said and Draco looked confused.

"The horcrux? Is at my Aunt Bella's house?", he asked and I nodded seriously.

"Okay... We can go tomorrow-"

"No, we need to go now! A bunch of the death eaters saw us heading up here, nobody even knows you can apparate from this room and they are all busy, nobody will be there", I shot and he looked nervous, "If you just tell me where it is I will go and be back in a minute"

He shook his head then holding up my now ringed hand, "No. We're in this together, Bells, remember?"

"Okay... Then lets go", I said and he seemed hesitant but eventually nodded, quickly whipping us into appartion where we landed in a dark street in front of a dark green house.

"This is it", I said as I began to hear the voices.

"You need blood entry to get in", he began, rolling up a sleeve, before I stopped him.

"No, she will know who was here if we do that...", I began.

"Then how do we get in?"

I swallowed, "We don't..."

I stepped toward the window and peaked in, seeing nobody, I raised my hand and sent an undetectable ball of light into the house, "Homenum revelio", I whispered, watching as the ball remained white, meaning there was nobody inside.

"Draco, close your eyes", I said.

"Why?"

"Plausible deniability. You didn't see anything happen to the house", I said seriously and he nodded, turning around and closing his eyes.

I raised my hands, letting the Fiendfyre dragon spell flow out and light the whole house on fire. It took a few moments but I felt it the second the horcrux was killed. Like a heavy piece on my soul lifted. I felt a jolt as I a vision shot through my mind of the tiara I had once seen. The next horcrux. 
I saw images of Hogwarts, Rowena Ravenclaw and the tiara. No. Not a tiara... A diadem. Rowena Ravenclaw's lost Diadem, I thought as the images continued. 
I could see it was in a box, under a pile of chairs in the room of hidden things at the castle and I let out a sigh as I came back to present. 

There was a screeching sound from the house and an explosion of black smoke burst through the windows, smashing them and sending glass splintering around us. I gasped, so caught up in the feeling of the weight on my soul that I didn't have time to shield the glass fragments that were about to hit us. 
But suddenly, I felt Draco's hands clutching me and pulling me around to face away from the house with him. His chest against my back and his wand raised with a protective shield whipped around us.