"This is for the snakes and the people they bite
For the friends I've made, for the sleepless nights
For the warning signs I've completely ignored
There's an amount to take, reasons to take more
It's no big surprise you turned out this way
When they close their eyes and prayed you would change"
•••
"What is the point of having you if you can't open the door by yoursel- Cassiopeia." Her mother was as wicked as ever. She held her wand up to her only daughters face as if she was a stranger. "What are you doing here?"
"Mother, I was wrong to go. I couldn't live like that. Please let me in to explain myself." Cass hoped her lie was believable. It must have been because her mother put her wand down and grabbed Cass's wrist and wanked her inside.
"Why are you here?" Cass's sweet, sweet mother asked her right after she dragged her in the house.
"I was wrong. I shouldn't have left. I couldn't stand being with those," Cass didn't want to say it, "blood traitors. Please mother, will you let me back. I'll behave I promise." Cass just now realized her father, Aunt Druella, Uncle Cygnus, Bellatrix, Rodophlus Lestrange, Narcissa, and Lucius Malfoy were all standing in the door way to the dining room watching Cass and her mother's interaction.
"How we know she's not a spy?" Belarus asked. But thankfully Cass was ready for this question.
"I'm a Hufflepuff!" She exclaimed almost too quickly, "Sense of justice, loyalty, patience, and a propensity for hard work, those are the traits of a Hufflepuff. Sense of justice, I want to see justice in the Wizarding World." Justice for muggleborns, "Loyalty, I can be- I am very loyal to my family and the Dark Lord," Cass would never be loyal to them, "Patience, I can wait for you guys to trust me again," She'd have to wait, " and hard work, I can work hard for him, I promise." But Cass's fingers were crossed.
Her mother looked at her family. then back to Cass, "Crucio!" A searing pain went through Cass's whole body. Her brain felt like it could turn to mush. She finally remembered why people went crazy after being hit with this curse so many times. This was a familiar pain for Cass, it had just been so long since she felt it, "That's for leaving, now get up and get to the dinner table."
That was surprisingly simple. Hurt like hell, but it was quick. Now Cass just needed them to trust her. She sat at her old seat in the dining room, sill hurting from the unforgivable curse her mother just hit her with, and she got a weird sense of deja vu. Conversation went on as normal, did they really already trust her? They were talking about Voldemort right infront of her, this seems to easy. Bellatrix must have felt the same way.
"So are we just going to trust her that quickly?" She interrupted everyone to say.
"Yes, Bella we are." Druella responded.
"Why? For all we know she is a spy for Dumbledore." Oh shit, was she already caught.
The whole table laughed. It felt like a ton of bricks was lifted off Cass's shoulders.
"Like a Hufflepuff could be a spy!" Lucius laughed.
"We are trusting her because she is family, she is out blood, and out of all of our kids she is the least likely to betray us." Walpurga said after the laughter died down, "She was playing charades with her brothers, obviously. She would never be disloyal to our sacred family."
Oh how her mother was wrong.
"The meeting with the Dark Lord is here tomorrow, and he needs more young followers. Ones he can trust at Hogwarts, the pathetic excuse of a school. Cassiopeia is the perfect person for the job. She is a Black after all." Orion told the table.
Everything was going according to plan. Cass would rather die than be at a Death Eater meeting. But she'd also rather die than having her brothers and James in a world like this, if she is a Death Eater, she can protect them.
Dinner ended after an hour or so and Narcissa took Cass back to her dust collected room. It was just how she left it.
"I think this is brave of you Cass." Narcissa told her, calling her Cass, a name she was thankful to finally be called after all this time.
"What do you mean?" Cass was still in high alert.
"To do this, I mean when you go back to school your brothers are going to hate you. Especially Sirius." Cass didn't need this reminder.
"I wouldn't say brave. This is a necessary thing to be done. To help the Dark Lord." Lying was getting easier.
"You're right. Get some sleep sweetheart. You have a big day tomorrow." Her cousin said, shutting the door to her room.
Cass just sat on her bed. Right now she could be at the Potters house laughing with her brothers and their friends. Right now she could be with James. But she isn't. Things never work out the way they are supposed to, don't they?
A very familiar owl flew through Cass's window. It was Sirius's.
"Cass, are you okay? I owled Andy to make sure you got there safe and she said you weren't there. I hope you are safe. Please write me back when you get this and let me know you are safe.
SOB"
At least Andromeda knew that Cass wasn't the monster Sirius would think she is in a week when they got back to school.
Cass folded the letter neatly then put it in the loose floor board under her bed that no one knew about. Some of her stuff was still there from when she still lived there. A muggle magazine and pen. Cass laughed to herself. She thought these things were so fascinating back then. Now she has many of these thing back at Hogwarts, but she couldn't use them anymore. She had to be the perfect child.
She had to be the Heir of the Black family.
Cass went to bed, anxious for the next day.
(song- Twin Sized Mattress, The Front Bottoms)
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Under the Virgo Moon | James Potter
Novela JuvenilCassiopeia Black would do anything to protect her family. She also doesn't believe family always means blood. She is the youngest daughter in the Nobel and most Ancient House of Black by 20 minuets. This is because she is Regulus' twin. But what wil...
