Riddle's Spawn (The Dark Lord's Daughter)

Chapter 3

I Pointed at my chest as to say 'me?' and she nodded. I quickly scuttled over to see what she wanted, when I felt my stomach growl quietly. I ignored it. "Hey what's your name?" she asked politely with a smile.

"Erm, Scarlett." I whispered softly with my head down. I didn't want to startle her with my sickly appearance.

"Are you with a parent?" she asked, obviously not knowing my past or the condition I had been in.

"Er, no. You see, I ran away from my foster parents. I'm an Orphan." I said softly without raising my head.

"Oh, I'm sorry Scarlett, I-I didn't mean t-" she was cut off by me,

"Don't worry about it. Really. Nobody ever really cares anyway." I said sadly.

"What was it?" Spoke up the boy, "That made you leave." He explained.

"Lets just say I had had enough." I Finished.

"Oh, I'm sorry! How rude of me. My name is Lily and this is Severus!" she exclaimed happily. Oh how I wish I could be that happy. "Why don't you look up Scarlett?" she asked innocently.

"I-I don't want you to run away. Like all the other kids do." I said shyly peeking up through my dark hair.

"Scarlett," Lily said "We won't judge you, just show us your face." she persuaded kindly, so I lifted my chin and straightened my posture, exposing my pale skin and thin body, my eyes flashed red in fear.

"Oh my!" Lily said as she looked at my frail body, I hadn't eaten in a few days. Severus had the same reaction. "Hey Scarlett?" Lily said to me, "do you want to come stay with my family and I?"

I stood there in shock. Nobody had ever cared about my well being before, especially an older kid. I gaped at the odd couple and they frowned. "It's okay if you don't want to," Severus I think his name was, said. I thought for another moment before smiling, looking up, and saying

"I would love to."

As I walked with the two, I decided to ask them some questions. "Do you mind If I ask you a few questions?" I asked nervously

"Absolutely!" exclaimed Lily, "You are coming to live with me, so why not?" She added.

"Oh, Okay thank you." I said, continuing, "This might be a bit blunt, but I sense magic in your presence, Is there any chance you two are magical?" I asked curiously. Lily looked shocked and turned to Severus, then back to me.

"Ye-Yes we are Magic." Lily said, a shocked look still on her face.

"A wizard and witch to be correct." Severus added obviously less shocked than his female counterpart.

"Well, that's convenient, I am too!" I exclaimed, happy to meet people like me. But of course my happiness was crushed.

"I don't believe you." Severus said with a cold look on his face.

I was shocked at first, but then It faded to anger. "Excuse me?" I hissed lowly. I felt myself get angrier. My eyes glowed red "How dare you accuse me of lying!" I spat, venom laced in my words. Then I hissed in parseltongue to prove my abilities. "Lucifer, come out and say hello to our new friend." Severus looked horrified to say the least, because only a witch of the Slytherin bloodline is able to speak parseltongue. Lucifer slithered out from my sleeve and hissed at the older boy. He gulped.

 "I-Im sorry for ever doubting you Scarlett." He said, Obviously scared that I was going to hurt him or something. I of course, was merciful and didn't hurt him.

"It is okay you didn't know," I muttered and looked around to Lily. She looked slightly amused.

"We are at my house now." She said and lead me into where I would sleep. She explained to me about her horrible older sister Petunia and how she hated magical people. We chatted a bit more then I got an idea.

"Hey Lily?" I said, wanting to ask a question.

"Yeah?" She answered

"Well, you know how I don't really know who I am, In context, because I don't know my last name. I want to find out who my parents were." I said.

"Okay!" She said happily, "But where do we start?" She asked nobody in particular.

"Well," Severus spoke up from the window seat in the corner of my room, "We do know you are related to Salazar Slytherin... "