How It Started

Chapter 61 - Selina Black

My heart was beating, the stabbing pain in my forehead was a reminder of what I had just been exposed to. I reached up for my head wiping at the pain, as I brought my hand back down into my eyes view I couldn't only see red, the red of blood.

I closed my eyes but was flashed with the images of what had just happened in the room. Moments prior to the rest of the groups arrival Hermione and I were locked into the room. We had looked for an exit which had proved unsuccessful. I remember feeling betrayal and I knew that this could very well be the end. Bellatrix had opened the door smiling as she skipped inside, she left the door slightly adjacent so anyone walking past could see the violent acts she was doing.

Hermione and I stood side by side as she played the game of "ini mini miny moe" Hermione and I being the victims. She had landed on me, at first she pointed her wand out the tip of it slicing at my forehead which was created the cut, which was now gushing blood. I had screamed to which bellatrix only laughed. Her icy words kept repeating themselves over and over;

"I'll kill you just as I killed your father, but first I'll kill your friend, she'll be dead because of you" Bellatrix had used the freezing spell, I couldn't move or talk but I could see everything that was happening, everything she was doing to hermione.

She had used the crucio curse and played with Hermiones body just as though she was a rag doll, the screams of hermione were those of which I would never forget. Bellatrix had then carved the word "MudBlood" into the forearm of Hermione, exactly where a death eaters mark would of been had she been one of them.

"Lina, Lina it's me, Freddie" Fred said standing beside me, he brought me back into attention on exactly what was going on.

With the help of dobby of course, Vesper had managed to render Bellatrix useless, she was now unconscious, still breathing but unconscious on the floor. Whatever our plan was now we had to move quickly, it would only be a matter of time before the rest of the death eaters would come, inspecting the now, non-screaming room. I looked at the only escape the door, it was now shut and I assumed locked.

"Hermione.... Her arm....where is she?" I asked back desperately trying to reach her, I moved out of the grip of Fred and scanned the room.

I saw her resting against Ron I moved over to her reaching my own hand onto her arm, the word was written with such definition I assumed it would scar. The blood was still fresh and was starting to form a slight pooling effect as it fell into the floor.

"Lina you're bleeding" Hermione said laughing, I think the loss of blood for the both of us had made us somewhat delirious.

No matter what anyone would make up, or tell us, we had the unspoken agreement that we wouldn't repeat the events that we had endured with Bellatrix, to no one, why suffer more?

"You have to go and quickly" The voice of Draco ran through the room, he was standing facing all of us his hair neatly combed to one side, he wore a crisp black suit. It was matching the dress that Vesper had changed into. I was more than surprised to see Draco helping us, I had thought that he was too far gone, and had been corrupted just like Theodore had been.

"You, you bitch" I said pointing my gaze at Vesper as I felt Hermiones hands wrap around my arm.

"Lina leave her, she's not worth it" Hermione said, her voice was so faint that I had to solely focus on her voice and no other sounds around us. Her voice sounded corse and showed evidence of the cut sliced in it.

"You should be grateful, I'm helping you aren't I do you know how much trouble this could place us it" She said tossing each one of us our wands. I bent down picking through the pile until I found mine.

"Grateful, I should be grateful, i- we all could have been killed because of you, you're the reason we're here you told the snatchers about us did you not!?" I questioned her, her face froze and she looked ashamed. Without saying a single word she admitted that it was her who had told the snatchers our location.

"You don't get it, why would you, I have no choice if I don't complete what he says he'll do worse that just torture you" she said, she didn't make a sound by silent tears were falling down her face.

I took several steps forward I was now inches away from her, I slapped her across the face.

"Gotta admit you kind of deserved that" Draco said laughing, he was the only person laughing.

"So what are you apart of them now?!" I asked, referring to the death eaters.

"No, in theory I am the mark proves that but I'm not with them, I never wanted to be Draco and I never had the choice not to be, we had to, we had no choice" her story was heartbreaking and if wasn't for the fact I was standing in a psychopathic death eater house I would of mostly likely have believed her and comforted her.

"Lina are you ok?" Draco said. The room was starting to shake and I could feel myself swaying from left to right. I assumed it was because of the blood draining from my head, I pulled my hand up to my head placing enough pressure onto it. I could of easily casted a spell but the sudden hissing sound was distracting me.

The swaying was too much and I remember falling to the floor, I could hear people around me, and I felt Freds hand touch my head, but all I could focus on was the snake like object coming towards the group.

"Nagini" I said before my eyes gave way and I fell into an unconscious state.