crucio ━ harry potter (1)

iii. weeks

The one she hasn't gone into.

It was Sirius room, except it wasn't her dad's room, it was pre-dad one. She was slightly scared to go in there.

She entered Sirius room, and the first thing she noticed was how dark the room was. There were several muggle posters on the wall plus several photos of women in bikinis. The room itself was much smaller than Regulus' one.

Her eyes went towards the piano in the middle of the room.

She sat down on the small stool and opened up the hood. Using her sleeve she removed the dust from the individual keys. She didn't know Sirius played the piano. She pressed down on one of the kegs and was surprised how loud it seemed.

She remembered the first song she learned on the piano was one of her favorite songs.

Hesitantly, she started to press the keys and the way the piano worked went right to her head. She remembered how many times she played the piano when she was in Aleksander Mansion.

Unfortunately Aurora didn't remember the first person who showed her piano.

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Regulus Black sat at the piano with a young black haired child on his lap.

"Good girl, now this one." Regulus says giving her a small kiss on the head.

He pressed down on the piano key and she repeated his action. When he didn't do it again, she looked at him as if asking him why wasn't he doing it again.

"Now this one, yeah press that one."

Her small finger gently put all her power into pressing the key down, and when it didn't work, her bottom lip started to tremble.

"No, no, no need to cry."

"Hmm."

"Don't cry, please. I hate seeing it."

Regulus pressed down the key and she gave a grin as if she was the one who was doing it.

A knock on Regulus' bedroom door made the black haired girl look up from her spot in confusion. Regulus quickly put Aurora on the bed and threw a blanket over her head to hide her just incase.

He heard Aurora let out a noise of shock.

When he opened the door, and saw his brother he
felt instantly relaxed. Sirius reached forward quickly hugging him, the two gave each other a smile.

"Thank you again for minding her." Sirius looked around the room, and let out a small sigh when he saw his daughter sitting upright under the blanket. "Oh no. I wonder where Aurora is."

A series of laughs was heard.

"You don't need to thank me, it was actual great, thank you. It's been nice having her here. She likes the piano."

"Oh does, she?" Sirius asked pulling the blanket off her head. Aurora let out a sigh done with playing and Sirius picked her up. He glances at her and she rests her head on his shoulder. "Do you like the piano?"

"Lok wha rege sho me."

Sirius and Regulus exchanged equally confused looks.

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It had been what felt likes years that she spent in the Other World. She started to loose track of the day and decided to call everyday Friday.

Aurora was done, she couldn't take it no longer. She had barely any nails left at this stage, she was constantly on the verge of a breakdown. Every time she slept she was getting nightmares of what happened when she died. She had a headache almost everyday.

She remembered how her biggest worry was the fact that she called Sirius, dad. Now her biggest worry was that she would never be able to.

Aurora realised why she hated silence so much and why she had always spoke out of turn. She came to the the conclusion that was because of how she grew up. She grew up in a household where speaking her thoughts would result in a punishment.

She also realised that's why when she came to Hogwarts she expressed her emotions freely, and was often very loud and opinionated.

When the night of the full moon here, she stood outside twelve Grimmauld. She cleared her throat and looked down at the words she found in her mothers journal.

Gently, she whispered underneath her lips and repeated the words.

Hesitantly she reached into her bag and pulled out a small knife. She grimaced and gently prodded the top of her pinky finger. Immediately, it drew blood and she drew the symbol that her mother had on her wedding ring and she had on her bracelet. The Aleksander symbol she had decided to call it.

She was finally leaving. She was finally getting out of this place and as she heard her clock tick twelve she flickered the last drop of blood onto the symbol as she quickly chanted, her arms extended whilst doing so.

"I believe me mittere ad founding aleksanders ut ubi ego pertinent, ut seeked de conspectu meo sunt viscera mea super carorum."

She opened her eye and nothing happened. She repeats the words and it was nothing.

Slowly as she spoke, her vision begun to get cloud as a white spark flew in front of her. Her eyes widened when particles started to form around each other. Slowly, it begun to get bigger. Hope built up in Aurora for the first time in weeks and she continued changing the words, the portal slowly formed from the white lightly.

And then in the flicker of an eye the portal had disappeared, shattering not only her chance she had of leaving but her hope. Immediately, she heard the watch on her wrist flicker past twelve, and when she looked down she seen it was a minute past twelve, meaning it would no longer work.

Never ever had a brief span seem like an eternity. As she felt her consciousness ebbing away as clear and concise as it was mere moments ago, it was coming to an end. Her eyes grow heavy from the strenuous effects of excessive agitation

"No, no-" Aurora voice had come out just above a whisper and she sprinted forward into absolutely nothing. "This...this can't be happening."

Just as Aurora was about to move, she heard the sound of movement from behind her. She saw something move from the corner of her eye. When she turned, her body collided with someone's else sending her flying on top of the male.

Instantly she had let out a belching scream which muted the boys scream. Once she had stopped, every part of her body froze when she saw the person under her, her eyes widened along with his.

Oddly enough the position they were in currently was the same position they met in.

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opp opp opp very short chapter but whatever