slytherin ⸰ royals

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christmas morning
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         E merson woke up early on the snowy Wednesday
morning to open her presents. she got out of bed and ran into her parents room where they were still sleeping.

"Wake up guys, it's christmas" she said shaking her mum and dad awake

they started getting up so she went and ran into Elijah's room to wake him up

"Elijah, it's christmas we gotta go open our presents buddy" she said slightly shaking his shoulder just enough it should've woken him up

"Elijah?" she said shaking him a little more

he wasn't waking up and she started to slightly panic with tears welling up in her eyes

"MUM, DAD ELIJAH ISN'T WAKING UP" she yelled and her mother and father ran into the room

her mother went over and bent down next to his bed and did some weird pulse checking thing

"CONSTANTINE" she yelled and he ran over next to her

"MUM, DAD WHAT'S WRONG?" emerson asked

her mother just broke out in tears and her father rubbed her shoulder trying to comfort her

it wasn't working

celeste picked up the little boy from the bed and they went downstairs

emerson followed after them confused of what was going on

she had a slight feeling whatever it was it wasn't good

they all flooed to St. Mungo's hospital

'They were in what seemed to be a crowded reception area where rows of witches and wizards sat upon rickety wooden chairs, some looking perfectly normal and perusing out-of-date copies of Witch Weekly, others sporting gruesome disfigurements such as elephant trunks or extra hands sticking out of their chests.

The room was scarcely less quiet than the street outside, for many of the patients were making very peculiar noises...

Witches and wizards in lime-green robes were walking up and down the rows, asking questions and making notes on clipboards'

emerson's parents quickly ran over to the reception desk

"our son won't wake up, and he doesn't have a pulse " emerson's mother started but whispered the last part so emerson couldn't hear

but she did and the tears then came

she tried to hold them back

tears were a sign of weakness and she was not one to be perceived as weak, she was quite the opposite

but at this very moment a part of her world was crumbling away

and she couldn't cry

her eyes wouldn't let her

some say when you feel a immense amount of pain you actually don't feel anything at all.

so she stood there emotionlessly while doctors rushed over to take her little brother away

her mum collapsed into tears into her father's arms and just cried there

the doctors finally came out after what felt like an hour of her mum crying and her father trying to be strong but emerson saw a few tears slip

the doctor said a few things to her mother

but emerson already knew what it was

the thing she feared most for her family at this moment

her brother

gone

and they couldn't do anything

but cry, and wish they could have saved him

wishing it was them instead of him

little did they know that eventually it would be one of them

just not instead