𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 [Harry James Potter]

Chapter 1: Death

Death

Trigger warning: Violence, Gore, Child abuse, Mentions of sexual assault

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She heared the squelch of blood before the droplets touched her face.

She caught her breath as she watched with a bloody syringe in her hand as her victim fumbled over and choked on his own his blood, however this pathetic excuse of a man was no true victim.

She knew what happened to the young and naive girls that wandered too far, if it wasn't the creatures of the night trying to lure them outside, it was the so-called 'caregivers' that would leave with a girl for a mandatory search, and bring them back looking disorientated and covered with bruises, the young slytherin witch knew that was to be her fate.

The orphanage was never a safe place for her growing up. Dumbledore had told her that placing her in such a dark place was for her safety. But in favour of safety from the outside world, she was forced to endure the horrors of 'Saeptuose's Orphanage'.

Vera understood she was to be kept away from anything resembling civilization because of what happened at the ministry of magic only weeks ago, she also knew her friends saw her in a different light after she used an unforgivable curse on Bellatrix for what she had done to Sirius as well as defending Harry from Voldemort, something even Dumbledore was shocked by.

When she managed to reach her room she wiped her hands with a towel that previously hung on her metal bed frame to rid her hands of the blood. She grounded her teeth in frustration at the noise her rusty bedsprings made as she climbed in, fearing someone would hear her.

She turned on her side, expecting to see Nora to be sleeping but their small rusty bed was empty. Nora arrived in Orphanage when she was two and Vera was seven. Ever since then, the girl became her responsibility. She took care of the girl and was the only parent figure Nora knew. She was the only reason Vera came back to the Orphanage almost every holiday.

Vera had saved Nora from Drowning when she was two years old and therefore was forced to look after her because of it. The other girls in the orphanage heard that the toddler was a muggleborn and so they put her in a grass weaved basket and sent her down the icy river near the orphanage in hopes that she would float.

Vera being only seven, plunged into the water, not knowing how to swim but still ended saving the both of them.

From there on the other girls avoided both of them.

It had not even been ten minutes before the bells started ringing to alert the staff that there had been a breach. Vera understood that she'd be thrown into solitary confinement for what she had done this time, even if it was self-defence.