evanescent┆彡 remus lupin

1┊secrets

It was a rather sunny July afternoon when Evangeline Dalton was welcomed home into the open arms of her mother.

"How was your year, darling?" Claudette fretted, releasing her daughter from her bone-crushing hug. Evangeline rolled her eyes.

"It was adequate. Mind letting me in so I can tell you all about it?"

Claudette let out a slight chuckle, drawing back to allow her daughter to walk through the doors of the Dalton manor. Evangeline, who secretly had her fingers crossed in hopes of being greeted by the presence of a certain person look around, hope deflating as she realised that her wish was not, in fact, granted.

"Mother-" Evangeline said, voice quivering slightly. "Where's father?"

Claudette, who also secretly had her fingers crossed in hope that her daughter would not address that question took note of her dejected manner, slipped her hand onto her daughter shoulder. "Dear, your father is busy with some very important business in the ministry." Her voice had an equally downcast edge to it.

But Evangeline was not buying it. She knew of her father's business in the department of time, and she despised that all the time she could have spent with him was wasted by "urgent matters" from the ministry.

Back in the winter holidays, her father had more urgent business to attend to and was excused for the entire holidays, away in America. In easter, he was whisked off to Japan to deal with some more important business.

"Of course." She said, voice bitter with resent. "Always working, can't bother to welcome his daughter home after another exhausting year, couldn't he?"

"Now now, Evangeline. Your father loves his work." Claudette said nervously, only to find her daughter angrily shoving her hand off her shoulder.

"More than he loves his daughter, I suppose." Evangeline did not wait for a response before she stormed up the stairs, a scowl etched on her face.

Neither of the two imagined the first day of the summer holidays to go the way it did.

Evangeline was still blinded by the bitterness of once again being rejected by her father. She did not care where she ended up as she walked up the stairs, wishing nothing more than to have her father by her side. On the third floor, she paused, finding herself walking into the corridor adjacent to the staircase and into the first door to the left.

She found herself in a large room with bookshelves, a few plushy armchairs and a few small tables with wooden chairs.

The library.

Evangeline felt the corners of her lips twitch up into a smile as she took in her surroundings with a pleased look on her face. She walked over to one of the bookshelves, scanning its contents with her finger brushing over the spines of the book before she found the book she was looking for. With a pleased look on her face, she took it out of the shelf and walked over to the nearest table, eyes already glued to the first page of the book.

However, her peace did not last long. After sitting down on the wooden chair, she placed her book onto the table, to find that there were already things on the table.

At first glance, the items on the table looked like nothing more than a simple gold chain, a gold bracelet and a few open books.

However, Evangeline simply loved pretty things.

So with a gasp, she shut her book and picked up the two pieces of jewellery with an awed smile on her face.

After taking a closer look, Evangeline realised that there was a charm on the necklace and the bracelet. An hourglass, and an hourglass shaped charm with four zeros carved onto it.