"You're just a stranger, I know everything about"
- Olivia Rodrigo.
IT'S BEEN 15 YEARS SINCE ATHENA BLACK was murdered by death eaters. Or at least that's what the Wizarding world thinks.
In fact she had no idea that wizards and magic even exist...
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WAKING UP TO A PILLOW REPEATEDLY BEING SLAMMED into Athena's face isn't the most ideal way to wake up, but to Emilia it is.
"Emilia please it's 7 in the morning!" Athena groaned pulling the blanket back over her face.
"Exactly Athena we need to be up and early for our first day of lessons!" Emilia said as she ripped the blanket off Athenas body, dragging her up.
"You're lucky you're my best friend Emilia!"
"You mean your only friend, besides Regulus of course!" She smirked
"Let's just go get breakfast, it's always good the first morning back!" Athena said as she was putting on her uniform , cutting the conversation short not wanting to admit she's right.
As they entered the Great Hall Athena noticed half of Slytherin house was yet to wake up but majority of the other houses were already seated chatting away.
"Time to see which one of us is cursed with double potions with the Gryffindors this year!" Emilia said as she passed Athena her timetable.
As they took a look at eachothers timetables they noticed that it was in fact Athena who was cursed this year.
"Oh I thank whoever made the classes this year!" Emilia smiled happily as she was having potions with Ravenclaw this year.
"I don't, look this is totally unfair, majority of my classes are with Gryffindors except for Astronomy!" Athena grumbled as she took a bit into her jam toast.
"Where's Regulus?" Emilia questioned noticing he hadn't come down yet.
"Probably overslept, see Barty and Evan aren't here either" Athena said.
Just as she had finished talking Regulus , Barty and Evan all came in. Though Regulus held a sour look on his face...
"What's the matter with you, wake up on the wrong side of the bed?" Athena questioned as Regulus sat down opposite her and harshly bit into a slice of toast.
"Sirius is what happened!" He rolled his eyes.
"What did the liar do now?" Athena asked as she sipped on a glass of pumpkin juice.
"Oh the usual, him being an egotistical arse and not understanding that I don't want to speak to him!" He snapped.
"Him and his friends are staring at you both" Emilia whispered to us.
Athena turned her head to the Gryffindor table and there they were staring, not even hiding the fact they were looking at them, though it looked more like a glare from Sirius and Potter.
"Whatever, I'm going to head to the library, I got a free this morning and I want a new book to read, see you in DADA Emilia " Athena stated as she got up leaving Emilia and Regulus behind.
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The library was quiet this morning as many of the younger students were already in lessons . No one was really sat at the tables and many of the bookcases had started to grow thick layers of dust as they hadn't been touched all summer long.
As Athena navigated her way through the different types of genres , she stopped at the healing textbooks, picking up a book from the shelf which she hadn't read before. She would never experience what it's like to be an actual healer as she was expected to marry pure and carry children so the closest thing to experience that is the textbooks.
As Athena checked out the book she made her way down to the Black lake, more specifically the old oak tree that stood there. It's a peaceful place to sit and read as it overlooks the whole lake and not many students walk past here.
As she sat herself down she started to flick through the different chapters the book had to offer. She started with the symptoms of dragon pox and made her way through different conditions such as spattergroit and vanishing sickness.
As she finished reading a chapter on the properties of pepperup potion she heard the sound of rocks and stones being walked on. Just her luck it was James Potter.
"Oh I didn't know anyone was here!" He said as he was holding was seemed to be a large amount of parchment.
"Im leaving anyways!" Athena said snapping her book closed and started to leave.
"Wait!" She heard him call from behind, causing her to turn round with a confused look on her face.
"What?!" Athena said already annoyed that he ruined her reading time.
"Erm... how are you?" He asked as he starts to scratch the back of his head.
"I was actually very well until you decided to show up!" Athena snapped.
"Right sorry" he flushed
"Is there something you need or are you going to continue to stand and stare at your shoes?" She questioned.
"Erm I need to sorta talk to you about Sirius, it's very important!" He said.
"Well go find someone who cares then?" She scoffed as she started to walk away.
"Merlin can you stop being a bitch for a minute and listen to what I have to say!" He groaned as he started to walk after me.
"Listen Potter whatever you have to say I'm not interested alright? Sirius is no concern of mine anymore!" Athena yelled at him hoping he would get the message.
"I don't get it, he told me you guys were okay with him leaving, and that you were still going to speak when he started living with me, Why all of a sudden you act like he doesn't exist?"
"Well Potter maybe you shouldn't believe everything he tells you because he's a liar...maybe get to know the whole story before you pick a side to defend!"
"You're not answering my question.. why are you acting like he doesn't exist?"
"Listen here Potter he might be your charity case and your new brother but don't get yourself involved with things that don't concern you!" She snapped.
"You see here Black, this does concern me! it concerned me the minute he showed up at my house soaking wet from the rain and had bruises all down his back, it concerned me when he slept for 10 hours straight and then starts flinching when he woke up!" James yelled.
Athena signed as she started to hear all what happened to Sirius after he left Girmmauld Place.
"Like I said Potter, he's not concern of mine!"
"Merlin I don't know why I even bothered to speak to you when all you do is act like a bitch. Sirius was right..."
"I don't know why you tried either Potter, you and Sirius can both fuck off , now leave me alone!" Athena snapped storming away as she felt tears in the back of my eyes threatening to leak.
__________________________ A/N: NO ATHENA HATE PLS 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 She's just going thru some stuff okay . And I did tell you guys that there's gonna be some major sibling angst so ....
