Chasers & Beaters

•fears & futures•

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d.diggory's POV
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"Do you have any idea what you've done?" My mother yelled as my we entered my house. "I had your life planned out, I had you with someone who could bring you status and power." My mother said and my father went directly to the kitchen and poured a glass to the brim with bourbon.

"Why can't I just marry someone I love?" I asked her timidly. "Because you don't get a blood choice, Diana! You were born to be a legacy! A continuation! You aren't important- you don't make change. Youre nothing but a girl- not even. You are my pawn. If I tell you to fly, forget using a broom I want you to defy gravity." My mother yelled in my face and she drank from the glass my father poured her.

I stood still as if completely frozen in place. I looked over at Amos. He was in shambles, he stood shakey on the couch as the two of us still hadn't eaten. Then my mother moved toward me again. "Oh my sweet girl." She said and her hand played with strands of my hair that were curling up. "You have been primed and primed your whole life for what I've been arranging. Your ambition though has been nothing but a set back and nucense. You have no idea what you've done." She said and yanked my hair.

"You had a line up since you were 15 but then you became quidditch captain and prefect and it decreased. You became the perfect Slytherin and your line up went down to two. My dear, tonight you we're almost a Black. You were meant to be Sirius' redemption. And then James Fleamont Potter grabbed you by the waist and you melted." Mother said and she drank more bourbon.

"Here is how you life will go child. Your life when you stick to the choices I make for you. You will graduate hogwarts no less then a head girl, you will marry Tom Riddle. You will have kids until you produce a boy. You will take the last name Gaunt and be thankful to me." She said and fear coursed through my veins. "Aw darling you will never get love. What possibly made you think you deserved it." She said and finished her drink.

My father walked to my mother and linked arms with her and he walked them over to the fireplace, "Christmas, Lestrange dinner." My father said then floo-ed away. I looked at Ced and the room span.

I fainted and fell on the floor as Amos tried to help me up he fainted too. I saw my vision blur and I heard a voice. There was also a thud but that was Amo's body hitting the floor. Then before it all went to black I saw a person standing over me with their hands on my shoulders.

When I woke up I had been in bed, wearing pajamas with 3 glasses of water on my bedside table and a tray of food next to me. My hair was in a pony tail and not in one giant rats nest which I think was the greatest surprise of the morning. When I moved to sit up I had seen James and Sirius on the floor sleeping.

They were on top of a rug with the smallest blanket I'd ever seen and they were fighting over it in their sleep. "Wingardium leviosa." I whispered and pointed my wand at the two boys and floating them to my bed. And once they were laying down I covered them with my blanket. Then I walked out to the living room to see Amos on the couch with a blanket covering him, a glass of water near him and a plate of food.

I turned to the kitchen and went straight to the coffee machine. As it began to brew, I heard Amos groaning and waking up. However I couldn't wait for him to be fully cognizant to eat my food. So as any human does when deprived of food, the second I got my hands on a roughly made peanut butter and jelly sandwich I practically inhaled it. I drank a glass of water and then gave Amos the first cup of coffee.

His resembled mine for the first time in a long time. It was messy and unkept, leaving it in a curly state. "Good Morning, sleepy head." And he groaned. "If I recall correctly our mother has you set up to marry a substitute teacher." Oh dear merlin, "Can you not be a wanker this early in the morning? And if I recall you are set to wed Evanna Rosier, oh you know the biggest player of your class." I said to him.

"Fair enough." Amos said and then he ate his food. "SHIT." I heard Sirius scream then a large thud came after. "BLOODY FUCKING HELL?" James yelled after. And then we heard the sound of running. "Oh thank god I thought you died." Sirius said, "I thought a previous wish for you to stop existing came true. I also fell off your bed onto the floor. It was a very comfortable floor, a 9/10 experience. I would recommend." James said and sat on the counter next to me.

"So last night, we did it." Sirius said. "We were supposed to be betrothed, then you ran away." I said and James grit his teeth slightly, I heard the noise. "Oh well is it too much to as for a cup of coffee, betrothed?" Sirius asked. "Ah yes. Here it is, black like my heart that doesn't love you." I said and winked.

"I am truly hurt, in a deep depression now." Sirius said and drank the coffee. He then made a face. "But really can I please have sugar and cream?" He asked and James got up to find it and give it to him.