Forever is forbidden {Book one}

Chapter one

It's all dark and I can't see a thing.
I turn around, in a frantic fuss to find some light, to find out what is going on. I turn to my right and find a small light in the distance.
I run to it.
There's a man, I guess, as their back is turned slightly away from me so I cant see their face. And a woman, her hair flows out in waves from under her hooded head. They're cloaked in black and are walking towards me with figures in there arms. I run faster, and faster, pulling my aching legs one in front of the other, until I reach them, my wand in hand, pointing it at them. I look at the people in there arms. And I recognise the figures instantly. My mother and father. They're dead. Lying limp and cold in the strangers arms. I let out a strangled cry and screamed.

Astoria Summers

Astoria woke up, panting heavily and sweating.
"Mum? Dad?" She yelled out, hoping someone would come and sooth her nightmare, like they had many times before.

There was no sound.

"Mum?" She called again, surely the elder women should have heard her daughter. "Dad?" The elder man usually came to hold the girl until she had fallen back into her sleep.

Astoria left her bed and made her way to their room. They were not there - their bed unslept in. 'Where are they?' She thought, an unsettled feeling in her stomach.

"Daddy?" She asked, seeing the light on at the bottom of the stair case, hoping for a reply.

"Astoria? Do not move. Stay up there!" Her father called from the bottom of the stairs.

Astoria knew something was wrong so, ignoring her fathers command, she ran down the stairs, only to find two dark, hooded figures standing in front of them, wands pointing at her parents.

"Mum. Dad." She said slowly. "Wha-what's going on?"

"I told you to stay upstairs." Her father, Edward, said, giving her a look full of sorrow. He looked fearful, but not for him self, nor for his wife. He looked fearful for his daughter.

"Tell me where she is!" One of the hooded figures yelled, moving closer to Lorna Summers, Astoria's mother.

"She isn't here. Like I told you when you arrived." She said, wary of the wand pointed at her. "Please, we don't know anything. Leave us alone."

Violet was the next to appear in the small living room of the Summers home, bounding down the stair case. She instantly ran to her mother. Lorna's eyes widened, fear rushing through her self and her husband.

"Mum? What's going on? Why is everyone up? Who are they?" Violet asked, holding onto her mothers hand. But Lorna could not answer her daughter as one of the cloaked figures spoke.

"Oh, look at this. Think we can motivate them to tell us?" One of the, whom Astoria perceived to be men, looked at the other.

"Avada Kedavra!" He yelled, wand pointed at the 10 year old child in front of him.

"No!" Astoria screamed as the green light hit her sister and she fell to the floor. Astoria dan straight to her, sobbing and falling to the floor next to her.

"I love you both so much." Edward spoke; he pointed his wand at the two men but he was not quick enough to speak anymore words. The green light hit him and he was gone.
It was happening too fast. Astoria could not process what was happening. She couldn't save anyone - whe was paralysed. The wand of the man who had killed her father was now pointing at her.

"You have to live, my beautiful daughter. I love you, don't you ever forget it, Astoria. You are loved." Lorna Summers pushed her daughter across the room and was hit with the light that was meant for Astoria.

The girl couldn't speak, but she also couldn't cry any longer. She believed she had no reason to fight for her life without the ones she loved. She looked directly at the attackers and waited patiently for her end, knowing that her mothers sacrifice wouldn't have saved her for long.

"Avada Kedavra!" The tallest one yelled.

The green light raced from the wand, hitting Astoria in the middle of her chest. She expected darkness to overtake, or to be taken to where ever you go when you die. The sky maybe? Or heaven? She wasn't sure. But she didn't.
The green light did not harm her like it should have, but instead seemed to eject from her body in a white light and hit both the attackers, leaving a throbbing sensation in her chest.

The curse had left and a pain so vivid it felt as though her chest was on fire. It felt like a panic attack, but Astoria felt as though she was dying. Maybe she was, but before her eyes closed, she saw an elderly man standing over her. His white beard long, but in perfect shape.

"Pro-pro-professor?" Astoria asked, uncertain of what was happening.

"It's alright Astoria. It's alright." Dumbledore said. "You're safe now."

But Astoria didn't feel safe.