To Wash Away a Sin

Chapter 3: The Black Lake

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter. If I did, Percy would be bisexual.

Chapter 3: The Black Lake

In a lake shrouded by myth

A daughter and a son will meet

To mend the bonds with a teary mist

Only together will they fulfill this feat

A spirit of false nobility will he oversee

In favor of a blooming hope

Allowing Eris to roam free

In spite of a deathly hollow note

Two worlds reunite

A pact of love and pain

A dark lord will they fight

Under Victory's supreme reign

The heirs to hidden worlds overcome their plight

For hope have they regained

The shadows that danced on the bottom of the Black Lake whispered chilling warnings to her while the merpeople's voices hummed an eerie melody into the currents making for a dark and entrancing song that seemed to be infused with magic.

Perci was not disappointed by her first time in a magical lake. The atmosphere was eerie but not creepy, dark but not dismal. The waters of the lake held a light and playful feel to its magic and the lake itself was full of life. It was a nice place to relax and she had even picked out a favorite spot. It was deep enough in the lake not to be seen but shallow enough to allow for the moon's rays to shine through and gave her easy visibility of the surface.

And that was where she was now, laying in her own patch of moonlight, surrounded by lively and magical waters that were healing both her body and soul, and slowly being lulled to sleep by the lake's song. That is before she was disturbed from her peaceful musings by the feeling of something entering the lake.

"Who the hell could that be? For the gods' sakes, it's the middle of the night!"

Deciding to go investigate, Perci swam toward the surface for a clearer look at the intruder.

The intruder turned out to be feet.

No, thankfully, they were not disembodied feet. But she was wary. She wouldn't put it against the fates to do that to her though. Just look at all the shit they put her through already. She went through literal hell for a girl who she really loved only for it to not work out. She was never bitter about the breakup, it had been mutual after all, but she couldn't help but feel bitter about how the pit affected her relationships and her ability to make new ones. She was a very sociable person and just about lived to serve her friends. To not be able to connect with other people anymore...

She shivered at the thought, unable to bring herself to think of the consequences.

Shaking the stray thoughts out of her head (damn you ADHD!), Perci looked up to see who had the same desire to spend the night at the lake. She was, to say the least, shocked to see the albino kid from earlier today sitting by the lake.

The question was, what was the heir of the noble house of Malfoy doing here of all places?

(Yes she knew his name. Trivia had drilled every ounce of wizard know how in her brain in the weeks before the year started. it's just more fun to annoy people with nicknames.)

He sat on the end of the pier, his feet dangled in the water creating the small ripples she had felt as the intrusion. His face was washed in the pale moonlight erasing all flaws but for the small frown and knit brow he wore. His platinum blond hair glowed white in the moonlight.

He seemed to be lost in thought and if the expression on his face was anything to go by, she would have to say that they were not about pink, fluffy, unicorns who were dancing on rainbows.

But this boy was not the same boy with an ego to rival her uncle that she fought earlier.

Something was different. It was only when she looked up into his eyes that she saw what.

His eyes conveyed emotions that were not there earlier today.

The emotion in his eyes were breathtaking and heartbreaking. Tinged with a bitter false hope, and tainted by hate, he looked stressed and lost.

And she couldn't help but feel drawn to him. She had always been good at helping people, maybe she could help him. Maybe she could find a friend in him. Maybe...

Her thoughts were cut off when she found herself closer to the surface than she had liked to have been and way to close to Draco for comfort. She was about to dive back into the depths of the lake before he noticed her but it was too late. He decided in that moment to look into the lake and spotted her.

He was completely still for a second in shock and while she knew she should have taken advantage to that time to flee, her body seemed to have a different idea.

Her head broke the surface of the lake with out a sound and with barely a ripple. She didn't even have enough thought to allow herself to get wet.

He jumped back, pulling his legs out of the water and seemed ready to sprint back to the castle.

"Wait!" She called out.

He paused, still ready to run but willing to listen. She knew only had one shot at this. She kept her face carefully neutral before speaking.

"Um, hi."

Wow. She could have slapped herself then with how much she was annoyed with herself. She sounded so...awkward. Like really, she was sure she could have done better than that. Stupid, stupid, stup-

"Who are you?"

The question sliced through her internal berating like butter to a knife. She had no time to think on his tone. To wonder if he was asking to know her from school or to know why she was completely dry in the middle of a lake. So she blurted out the first thing she thought of.

"I'm a spirit."

Holy Hera! Why was she so stupid! How was she supposed to pull that off? No scratch that. What type of friendship that is one that started out of a lie? She didn't have the answer, but she knew enough to know that it was nothing good.

But before she could retract her statement, he spoke.

"Really? What are you the spirit of?"

She would imagine that she looked startled and surprised before she gained her composer again. He looked on guard but more relaxed and had settled down on the end of the pier again.

"Well..."

Might as well keep it up. Mentally shrugging, she did just that.

"...I'm the lady of the black lake."

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Hey, Infinity here! So just to start out, no, the prophesy poem thing that I wrote at the beginning of the chapter does not mean all that much to the story. That was just what Perci was hearing in the black lake. It's also a bit of foreshadowing. And I also just wanted to experiment with prophesies so tell me how it is. Thanks to all of you awesome people out there reading this and I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter.

Live fast, burn bright, infinity