Enchanted by freckles - Garreth Weasley & Sebastian Sallow x female MC

99th chapter

We stood in front of a gate which was decorated with lots of snakes. It reminded me a bit of the scriptorium door at Hogwarts.

Ominis snorted and began to speak to the snakes in Parseltongue. He hated to speak Parseltongue, but he was the only Parseltongue of us.

"There's no turning back now. They know. But they won't just attack us.", Ominis said softly and turned even paler than he was anyway.

The gate opened and we entered. Ominis continued to speak Parseltongue, and I saw a plethora of large snakes moving around the property. A few of them approached us. Garreth stepped in front of me, reaching out to protect me, but the snakes moved to Ominis.

"Don't worry, these are old friends of mine," he said softly as the snakes slithered up his body. He talked to them in Parseltongue.

"It's just my father and Perilian there," he said quietly, "but with just these two, we'll have more than enough to do."

Most of the snakes ignored us while the others lingered at Ominis.

"Be careful. My father and my brother have some snakes too. One more poisonous than the other."

We slowly walked towards the house. It was scary. The whole house was gloomy and Garreth seemed to be overwhelmed by all the darkness.

"I didn't know that not only people but also objects could be filled with darkness.", he whispered.

We walked through the house and heard nothing but our own footsteps and the hissing of the snakes. We went to a large room on the first floor. There was nothing in this room but a few candles and two armchairs that were turned towards the windows.

"After more than ten years, you grace us again with your presence. Nice. You missed the death of your mother. She was really sad." Said the rough voice that we already knew from Ominis memories.

"She would certainly be disappointed if she knew that you still associate with half-bloods and blood traitors," he said, turning to face us.

He looked a lot like Ominis, but he was much older than I assumed. He must have been in his mid 60's. But his presence scared me.

"And Sebastian Sallow is free again? Interesting. Well, how was Azkaban?" asked Perilian and turned to us. I looked at Sebastian that he would have liked to rage out.

"It was a nice holiday, thank you for making this possible for me, dear Perilian.", Sebastian said, while his voice was unexpectedly soft.

"Why? Why did you do that? Why did you murder my family?" I asked quietly.

"That asks of all people, the French family butcher? Quite simply. Your blood is almost as valuable as ours. That's why you should marry Ominis. Unfortunately, your parents didn't want that, and Ominis chose to stick with the dirty Sallow girl instead of honoring his family. And what we did with the Lewis was just punishment for turning down our friendly offer. But now that you're here, we can catch up," said Ominis father.

Suddenly the whole room went black and I felt my body fall to the floor.

Oh no, please no, I thought to myself and tried to move, but my body didn't obey me anymore.

Suddenly it got light again and I saw that the others were also lying on the ground.

Oh no, no, no, please no. We were all paralyzed. Perilian walked up to us and sat the other four against a wall so they could face him. In the end, he grabbed my body. But he didn't line me up, instead he put me down on the floor in the middle of the room.