As the World Caves In

piece by piece, time by time

           As Skye was getting ready for her 4th year at Hogwarts, she packed all her clothes, books and grabbed her tiny white snake, Asmo (short for Asmodeus). Went down to the kitchen where her parents were waiting for her to have the usual talk. They had the same talk every year before school started. "So what will you tell your friends when they ask about your parents?"her dad asked with a serious face. "They work at the ministry" she answered instantly. "Good, now what about that thing on your arm?" her dad asked. "When I was smaller i burnt myself" the girl answered. "You have to say it like you believe it!" her dad said raising his voice then exiting the kitchen. Because those weren't the truth, either of them.

        Skye's parents were both sorted into slytherin and her father is the perfect example of what a slytherin should act like and believe in. On the other hand her mom was more soft and quiet, she cared more about Skye and her brother. But there was one thing that the whole family had in common: they followed You-Know-Who. Or at least that's what her parents thought of her beliefs. Skye is only 14 years old, her brother is 17 and he's already a death eater and that's the future for the young girl too. But Skye's father tried to speed up the process by giving her the dark mark.

      So his father held a gathering party for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's followers at their big mansion. At these parties they'd talk about how loyal they and their families are and what kind of achievements they did to help the Dark Lord. So at these events the kids had to stand next to their parents with a smile on their face, obeying their parents. But Skye's father had an other idea this time. He talked to Bellatrix Lestrange, one of the Dark Lord's most loyal follower, about turning his daughter into a death eater: "I think it'd be best if you do it Bella" he said. "Oh is little Tommy scared of his 10 year old?" Bellatrix said laughing. "Dont be ridiculous, I'm not scared but I am the host and this is my house so it'd be only appropiate if I stay here while you find her and give her the dark mark. Or are you not up to the challenge?" asked Tom Thorn with a calm tone, giving a little smirk to Bella. "Of course I'm up for it, we'll have a littlle girly chat" the woman said  with a smile on  her face giggling.

     Skye was in the house getting a drink when she got the feeling that someone was watching her. As she was only 10 years old she didn't have a wand but she still started looking for her stalker. She didn't find anyone in the kitchen, thinking it was just her imagination she went out to the garden where the party was being held, but as soon as she set foot outside she felt a hand on her shoulder and in the next moment she was near the woods, about 40 meters from her house. She felt dizzy and sick from the apparition but she didn't have time to think about it, because someone fastly knocked her down to do ground. Skye couldn't see clearly, but she felt pain as Bellatrix started carving  on her forearm, she cried out in pain. Skye started kicking and shouting but no one seemed to hear her. When it seemed like all hope was lost, she heard someone: "Aunt Bellatrix what are you doing?" a boy asked. "Draco didn't your mom ever tell you to not disturb girls talking?" she answered angrily and added "Let us be and just go back to the party". Draco hesitated for a second, looked at the girl, she was in tears and was saying help me under her breath but the boy started to walk away. For a brief second Skye thought why would a rich entitled boy help him it's not even his business. But that all changed when she saw the boy turn around and pushing the women off Skye and grabbing her hand. They started to run and as Skye looked back she saw Bellatrix drawing her wand and pointing it at them. Skye's face was in terror but fortunately Draco noticed that and he grabbed Skye's hand tighter and kept running faster and faster, deeper into the woods.

     They stopped after they couldn't hear Bellatrix's laughter anymore. They looked at each other for a while, catching their breath but Skye broke the silence: "Thank you.." she said timidly. "I don't even know why I did it, my parents are gonna be mad.." he said angrily but Skye noticed that there was despair in his tone. "Do you want to just not go back for a while?" she asked. "Yeah I'd like that" Draco answered with a little smirk on his face. They just sat there, with their backs at a tree not saying anything but after some time Draco asked Skye: "So are you a pureblood?" "Yeah why is that so important to you?" she quipped. "It should be important for you too.." he responded fumingly. Skye looked at him weirdly, she thought this boy must really think greatly of his family. She looked down at her forearm and saw that it was still bleeding and you could see that Bellatrix tried to give her the dark mark but fortunately she did not succeed, sadly it wil probably leave a mark. "What was she doing to you?" Draco asked. "My father probably convinced her to give me the dark mark" she saw that Draco's face turned white. "My father would probably do the same to me" he said commiseratingly. They were both sad but started laughing.

     They've been friends since, it's a complicated relationship that they have because they don't show affection in public, rather just tease each other, but they spend most of their time together and Dray (Skye gave this nickname for Draco) gets jealous easily (although he tries to hide it) when Skye hangs out with her non slytherin friends.