25 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗢𝗳 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. | ❦︎ت︎❄︎

𝖣𝖾𝖼 1: 𝖡𝖾𝗀𝗀𝗂𝗇𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌.

𝖤𝗇𝗃𝗈𝗒!

A giggle came from the hall.

Young Arcadia peeked out from her door to see who it was.

There was a short women, flushed and smiling uncontrollably.

Her father smiled down at the woman, leaning down to kiss her cheek.

She let out a gasp.

What about Mummy?

Their heads turned to her direction.

She shut her door as she ran down the hall.

Mummy's room, was all she could think.

Must get to Mummy's room.

Her father called after her, asking to explain.

She ignored him.

Her older and younger brother came out of their rooms to see what was happening.

They saw the woman and their father and started yelling.

She heard her father shouting "Crucio!"

A tear escaped.

Her poor brothers...

Owen was only four.

Arcadia was twelve.

Eight years difference yet he still got crucioed.

She ran as fast as her legs could carry her.

She opened the door to her mother's room.

Her father yelled an incoherent spell.

She slammed the door.

Her mother heard her arrival and cast a locking spell on the door.

"What's wrong dear?" She croaked.

Her eyes were bloodshot as if she'd been crying.

"Mummy, what's wrong?"

She shook her head, wiping away her tears.

"It's nothing baby. Now, what happened?" She smiled bravely.

"There was a woman with dad... Isn't she Eadward's future wife's mum? Titania's mum?" She asked awkwardly.

Her mother's smile disappeared.

"Did your brothers see her? Did Eadward see her?"

Arcadia nodded her head.

She was leaving against the door, scared of what happened to her mother.

The door banged.

"ALLISSA YOU BITCH, YOU OPEN THIS DOOR NOW YOU UNGREATFULL SWINE!" Her father boomed.

She sprang away from the door, taken by surprise.

Her mother didn't look particularly worried about her abusive husband.

She looked terrible.

"He showed his mistress to my kids? He brought my kids into his mess?!" She cried.

Arcadia looked at her mother, taken aback.

"My dear only daughter, please come here. Give me a hug." She sobbed, holding out her arms.

Arcadia practically flew into her arms.

Her mother stroked her hair lovingly.

"Tell your brothers I love them. I'm sorry I won't be here for Owen's life. He's a beautiful child now. Takes after his mother." She smiled.

Arcadia hugged herother tightly, whispering 'I love you's into her ear.

Her mother threw her on the ground.

Her eyes screamed crazy.

She looked like her death eater descendant.

She pulled out her wand.

And screamed, "Crucio!"

Arcadia was left there, not able to do anything as she watched her mother crucio herself.

She twitched and rolled around like a madwoman.

Arcadia screamed, her mother also screamed.

Her mother pointed her wand at herself, her hand shaking from the crucio curse.

"Avada Kadavra."

She let out another ear piercing scream as her eyes rolled to the back of her head.

Arcadia sobbed over her mother's dead body.

Arcadia had just gotten into Hogwarts.

Her mother was so proud of her.

She looked at the room.

All her mother's belongings.

She rushed around, collecting everything that was her mother's and putting them into a satchel her mother had spelled for her to be infinitely large.

She gathered all her mother's things just in time.

Her father unspelled the door just in time to see his wife's dead body.

Her brothers also came to see what happend.

Titania's mum came too.

And saw the lifeless body of the happy and sweet Alissa Woodson.

((PS, please do not use this as a thing that your characters know. No one but my characters know about this story and Arcadia is trained in occlumency. If you want your character to be close with mine you slowly unlock this story. It is not something someone already knows.))

Signing off, Rose.

((633 words.))