The shadowed prophecy

Chapter 5: confrontation

It was now Friday and when I wasn't in lesson I would be thinking about the meeting Dumbledore had said I should attend. It was the last lesson now and it is potions. Today we would be making the calming draught.

It was nearing the end of the lesson and as snape was going around saying if we had done bad or if we did alright. He came over to mine and ari's table.

"Good enough miss Henderson and miss Andersen definitely looks like the best. Could you stay behind too I need to speak to you" he says and I nod.

"Yes of course" I respond with a smile.

He walks back to his desk and leans on it "alright everyone you will now clean everything up after yourself as quick as possible and I'd like to say there was only one decent enough potion so 10 point to Hufflepuff well done miss Andersen" he says and as soon as people have finished cleaning the bell rings for end of day.

I stay behind to know what it was he wanted o speak about and I'm hoping that it was about the meeting as I would like to know. I walk over to the front and try not seem anxious or scared because I wasn't.

"What did you want to tell me" I ask curiously and he sighs before saying

"The meeting will be happening tomorrow just after lunch so don't go wandering off anywhere or be late it is a rather important meeting you need to attend and I will be there" he says sternly and he kinda turned me on a little.

"Okay I'll be there. It's in his office right?" Straight up to get as much information as possible.

"Yes and you seem to know the password anyway since I was already in his office last time you were up there" he says "you can go now and I'll see you later for your assistance." He says softer and I quickly leave before anything else was exchangedalked down to .

Since I'm going to be assisting him tonight I wanted to be prepared for it by taking my drugs because I would be anxious and stutter because it would just be us in his classroom. The day goes on and leave early at dinner to go back to my dorm and freshen up a bit.

I ended up doing more than thought I'd do and drink less but I still needed to take a quick shower. I had also felt adventurous enough to wear a shorter skirt and open my shirt blouse a little. I wasn't sure I was in the right mindset by being on the drugs but I didn't want to disappoint snape by not showing.

I walked down to the dungeons and I was there 10 minutes early but surprisingly I saw snape walk down the hall about 5 minutes later.

"Hello, your here early. How long have you been here for?" He questions raising one eyebrow.

"I've only been here 5 minutes? What is it you will need my help with today sir." Giving him a slight smile trying not seem like I'm on drugs.

"Today you will help me grade the lower years papers" he says and we walk into his classroom and quickly get started. We were almost finished when I looked at the time on his clock. It was 10:15 and I didn't know how it took so long.

"Oh shit" I said not realising what I had just said"

"Language miss Bernadette" he says and I get a little fidgety when he says my first name because no one has called me that since my parents died. "Why are you fidgeting now you weren't before" he says and looks at me.

"I'm sorry it's just no one has called me by my first name since... since we'll my parents.. umm died" I said not sure if I'd be able to continue the conversation. I just sat there overthinking about my parents again and their deaths. I then realised that I was in the presence of someone and he was in my head looking at my childhood memories of my siblings abuse. I could feel myself get red in the face scared to look at him.

His hand lifted my head from my chin which made me look at him face to face. "Did they do that stuff to you" I didn't respond scared of what might happen. "Don't worry I'm not gonna say a thing" he reassures me and I sigh shakily.

"Yes but I was older then them so mine were a little worse until they died just before my 9th birthday so that was kind of a gift" I said chuckling at the last part but he just stared at me and smiled a little.

"Does anyone know about this, any staff or friends" he asks wanting to know if I had someone to talk to.

"Umm yeah dumbledore knows and mcgonagull and of course my head of house" I say "but as for my friends I told the girls because I have the occasional nightmare and they help but apart from that no one else knows" I say trying not to cry harder.

"That's good. Can I ask another question?" He asks and I nod and say "yes go ahead"

"How much worse was it than what I've just seen. Did they try to do things sexually or was it just verbal and physical violence." He asks and I take a deep breathe.

"There was once or twice where I was sexually abused by my dad and my mum together but the rest was just pure verbal and then hitting and kicking stuff" I say and look down but I feel him rap his arms around me and I was a little taken aback by it but I hug him back. After that he made sure I knew he was here to talk if needed and we finished up. I left after and went straight to bed.