occasus [regulus black]

𝐱𝐱𝐢𝐢𝐢.

A strong sting in her left arm woke Estelle from her sleep. Her right arm touched the mattress next to her searchingly. Only to find the place next to her cold and Regulus gone. Slightly confused, she sat up and looked around the dorm just to then checked the also empty bathroom. He wasn't here. Another, even stronger, sting in her arm made her flinch and she looked into the mirror, her hair was a tangled mess, her lips looked bruised and love marks were plastered over her neck and cleavage. Being left alone now, made her frown in disgust, she felt dirty and used.

Just a few minutes after the ice cold water from the shower had hit her skin, her arm began hurting again, but this time more intense and sharp. She had to hold onto the wall to not fall and looked down at it. For the first time she actually realized what it looked like. Grotesque obviously, it didn't belong to her, underlined by the scratches and redness around it. Whenever it got really bad she tried to scrape it off, rip it off, the pain didn't matter, all she wanted was for the dark mark to disappear. Looking at it now she saw the snake moving around the skull and Estelle could feel her heart drop and legs get soft.

He was calling her and she had to obey, if she valued her life.
There was a place in the dark forest, where you could apparate from. Surrounded by trees and all sorts of greens, ironically not a single flower was blooming around that area. The sucking sensation behind her stomach surprised her every time and she landed a bit unsafe.

Under her feet was a cobblestone road leading up to a massive mansion, divided into three towers, that were all connected to each other. The closer she came the heavier she could feel the dark magic clinging onto her. It felt like she would inhale the darkness with every breath.

"It is delightful to finally be meeting you, Selwyn."

A man with long bright hair, reminding her of her own said, while approaching her and taking her hand to guide her inside. The light inside was better and she could now be completely sure that the man bringing her inside was Lucius Malfoy.

"It's an honor to be here." She wanted to rip her tongue out for saying this, but instead she let him pull her into a formal hug and slightly kiss both of her cheeks. Forcing herself to nod and smile at him as a response before she followed him further into the mansion.

"It's about time if you ask me."

"Definitely. But we can't forget that even though he took long he's still the youngest to join us ever."

"I think the Selwyn girl is even younger."

"Yeah, but she didn't have a choice didn't she? I bet she would snitch on us at the first possible chance."

"Is that her?"

The mumbling about her and whoever he was went on and on, until Lucius stopped before two woman with stroud faces, one of them with hair as bright as Lucius and hers and the other with a whole lot of untamed black curls. For a second Estelle forgot about the act she had to put on to survive this and froze in her step at the sight of Bellatrix. All she wanted to do was strangle her and watch the life slowly fade from her eyes.

"Oh, Hello Estelle, I wanted to congratulate you on your outstanding performance in Hogwarts, it looked very real. Like you were actually friends with the dirty mudblood before I've done us all a favor and killed her." The high pitched sound and childish speaking pattern made the hairs on her whole body stand up. Pressing down her jaw and fists to try and loose some of the tension building up in her she could just smile and nod. Until she realized the questioning look on Bellatrix face and knew she was expecting to say something.

"Yes. It was hard to act, to pretend to like that filthy mudblood."

She felt sick.

"What a pity, that I've already killed her. You could've done it otherwise."