❝𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝.❞
Jupiter Black has been isolated from the outside world her entire life up until the age of thirteen. During a duel with her mother, Jupiter tragically witnesses her death and flees from h...
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 20
I HAVEN'T BEEN SLEEPING. I've been drowning myself in coffee to stay awake as the fear of my mother contacting me again overwhelms me. I'm exhausted, but I can't risk falling asleep.
I haven't been myself, I've been quiet. Silent, completely silent. I've locked myself in my room, closing myself in and hiding away from the outside world. I've been learning new spells, more complex ones with the hope that one could help to completely protect my mind from my mother, to protect me from her.
I haven't found anything useful and I've been making potions, experimenting and testing them on myself. Some potions backfired, but they didn't injure me badly.
Nothing has helped, nothing. I'm terrified that my mother will hurt me, because of how easily she can do it. Of how easily she was able to take control of my already incredibly difficult to penetrate mind.
It's been two weeks since the attack on Mr. Weasley, and in those two weeks I've only slept for less than half an hour each day. If I accidentally fall unconscious, my mind knows that I cannot be asleep and forces me awake.
I've trapped myself in my room, scouring for a solution to help me. And I've resulted in trying to make my own spell, Mentisguardium. It's allowed me to completely close off my mind, but it is draining and incredibly painful when it doesn't have my complete attention.
I hear a knock on my door, but it doesn't open. I've charmed it shut, even locking out my friends, locking out Harry. "Jupiter, sweetheart, lunch is ready." Mrs Weasley says to me from beyond the wooden door. "It's Christmas today, sweetheart. Everyone has gifts for you." She calls out to me.
"Please come down to eat, we miss you." I don't answer. She waits there for a moment before sighing. I can hear her footsteps travel away from the door.
After dinner, or any time she's cooked, she leaves plates of food by my door with the hopes of me eating it. I haven't touched any of the food she's made me, I haven't left my room at all. I have a bathroom connected to my room which is why I don't need to leave it to shower.
I turn back to the mirror, staring at myself as I hold out my wand. I'm practicing Mentisguardium and it makes me feel dazed and drained. I grip my wand tightly in my hand, mumbling the spell under my breath as I try and keep up a constant state of ultimate protection.
My mind is swarming and I'm getting dazed. I'm starving as well as exhausted, I haven't left my room to eat. But I've maintained my body to seam healthy with my ability, it's a facade. A helpful facade that I would not be able to accomplish without my metamorphamgi ability, without my mother's metamorphmagi ability.
