The Marauders: Year One (female)

41. The Invisibility Cloak

For hours after Lillian had had to leave to due some extra tutoring with Olivia (Merlin knows, he didn't need the revision), Sirius remained under the desk in the library, her head in her arms.

She was more worried than she let on, even with that whole chat with Evans.

She wondered who was doing all that to Remus, and why.

'WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE A GOOD DAUGHTER FOR ONCE?' Walburga Black bellowed at Sirius, brandishing her wand threateningly. Sirius cowered back.

'WHY?' she roared. 'Speak up!'

Sirius gathered all of her courage together. 'Maybe I don't want to be like you!' she yelled back. 'You're horrible and evil, the whole lot of you!

She spat at her mother.

Her mother gave a growl of fury and caught the girl by her waist, and pulled her by her hair and ears, kicking and shrieking to the cellar.

Orion Black came out of his study. 'What's all this noise?' he roared.

'Your daughter is having an outburst,' said Walburga grimly.

Orion's eyes sparked with anger. 'We'll give her a good spell in the cellar, then, and see how she fares when she comes out. But until then...'

He hosed a large blast of freezing, icy cold water at Sirius, who shrieked, and fell into a puddle on the floor, trying to breathe... the water burning her nose as everything started to grow cold and fuzzy...

Months Later...

'I've had enough!' yelled Orion, as he and Sirius had yet another yelling match. 'I won't have you spreading your filthy ideas to your sister! She is everything you should be!'

Regula watched with wide, scared eyes. Sirius looked at her, her grey eyes sad, trying to tell Regula everything that she could not...

'I won't stop talking to Dromeda just because you hate her! I like Ted! I don't care if he's a Muggle! And neither should you!'

'Come here, you filthy blood traitor brat!' Orion screamed, spittle flying from his lips. 'And you! Regula! Make sure you never turn out like your sister!'

Sirius let out a shriek of horror as he came for her, and she tried to dodge him, but her mother caught her tightly about the waist, and held her as Orion dragged her to the toilet and dumped her in the bathtub.

Sirius braced herself as her parents cursed the water to be freezing cold, and they held her under the cold water again, until she could not breathe... Orion yanked her head up at long last to allow her a breath. A dead Black heir was of no use to him.