A Legacy of Pain: Rising from the Ashes

Chapter 21: A Mother's Love

Last Time: Poppy spent her day at the magical creature's reserve caring for the beats and prepping everything for their new arrival. After going to speak with Ominis she found the boy listening to hissing from his locket before he quickly closed it when he noticed her. The two spoke for a bit about the new resident that would be coming until Ominis eventually asked Poppy to help him find puffskeins. when pressed for why the boy revealed that Duncan had been spreading rumours about Lizzy and an angry poppy agreed to help. Later that day the new resident, a dragon, arrived with Emery. The two spoke cordially about the dragon, however things became tense once the wizard asked about Lizzy. Eventually a furious Poppy ended up punching and berating Emery for not warning Lizzy Callista would be at the school this year. She then revealed what Callista had done to Lizzy before angrily leaving and telling the boy that if he didn't do something to fix things he would lose Lizzy for ever and deserve it. She then began to make her way to where her ring showed Lizzy to be.

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Breakfast had been a rather reserved affair for a multitude of reasons as Elizabeth retreated into herself for the most part. She managed to keep up with basic conversation for Annie's sake once Poppy had left for the magical creature reserve; but even then she remained quieter than usual. The auburn and purple haired witch couldn't help but dwell on the events of the night prior and what she had done. Everything had started out well with the creation of their animagus potions having been successful. The problem had occurred once the two witches allowed themselves to finally give into the carnal urges they had been suppressing since beginning the process of preparing their potions. In her eagerness and need to share in intimacy with Poppy, Elizabeth had given into her darker desires as well and inflicted pain along with the pleasure her beloved desired.

It was always a struggle not to give into that side of herself when she and Poppy made love; yet she usually could refrain from doing so. Last night she hadn't and the sight of so many minor cuts and bruises on her precious badger's pristine skin sent Elizabeth into a spiral once she came down from her lustful high. While the hufflepuff had insisted that nothing had been done that she truly hated or disliked; the ravenclaw knew that she had gone too far and that frightened her deeply. Even though there had been no lasting damage, especially with a bit of essence of dittany applied to the scrapes, she couldn't get the image fully out of her mind. And what was worse was that she could still feel the heat in her core flare at the memory of what she had done. It was just one more sign of how monstrous she was despite her efforts to be less so. That darkness she both craved and feared would always be with her and she didn't know if she could protect those she loved from it.

Such thoughts weighed her down alongside the knowledge of what she had to do that day. After breakfast Elizabeth spent some time with Annie as they practised their instruments together with some arrangements the elder sister had been putting together recently to work through her emotions. While they had started with just Nyxia and Helena as witnesses; a larger audience had gathered than expected as they played in the music room since there was no class on Saturdays. As it often did; playing music with her little sundrop had helped to lighten her mood somewhat. That mood was dampened slightly by Annie's sadness when Elizabeth told her she had to leave for a few hours to take care of some business at home. The golden blonde had tearfully asked to go with her since she missed their parents; but the auburn haired witch had had to refuse since first years weren't allowed to leave the castle.

That was how Elizabeth found herself standing in her bedroom back at the Wilson estate after using the Room of Requirement's fireplace to travel home. The teen took a deep breath to calm her nerves before adjusting the strap of her satchel on her shoulder so that it was no longer pulling up the sleeve of her school robes. She had been dreading the conversations she needed to have; but didn't want to put them off any longer. "I can do this. They will understand." The witch whispered softly to herself as she took out her wand to cast a disillusionment charm on herself. With her spell up; Elizabeth carefully exited her room and made her way to Evelyn's room while avoiding the staff since they couldn't know she was at the estate.