T.W. Mentions of suicide, abandonment, Homophobia, sexism, rejection, murder, death and rape. Please this is a very emotional and serious chapter. DO NOT READ THIS IF this triggers you in any way. I you want to talk my messages are always open but if you get triggered you can wait till the next chapter. Please seek help if you need it. There are people who can help. I love you all, T.
~Narrators POV
Janelle, Alexa, Pam and Gwen stood wide eyed staring at Walburga Blacks lifeless body. "Well this is a surprise" Pam squeaked not taking her eye of the corpse
"What are you four doing here?" Live asked,
"We-e um thought you were in trouble, i saw you leaving our dorm, i was worried so I grabbed the girls and we started to follow you, Walburga was already here when we arrived, and so were you and Theo." Alexa blurted out. "We hid behind the staircase when we heard you and Theo arguing. When we heard the lighting clash we were going to help but Walburga was still there, you know how she's like Live so we didn't approach. When it stopped Walburga opened the door and Well you know she um Well now she's"
"Dead" Gwen said lifting her head to face live.
"Look, before we do anything I want you all to promise me something, what happened here stays here and the same goes for you too Theo." Theo lifted his head up slightly in agreement. Gwen continued "i know you probably have a lot of questions but Live can answer then all later, but first we have a larger problem to deal with" Gwen kicked The corpse making it roll over into the centre of the tower.
"Gwens right" Janelle agreed, Pam and Alexa both nodded. Alexa made her way to Theo and knelt down next to him, she pulled out her wand and began to try and heal his wounds. Live stood dumbfounded as her friends rushed around her trying to clean up the mess she'd made. She didn't know what to say.
"Stop" she called, making the five student halt and stare. "What are you doing?" Alexa smiled softly patting her skirt down.
"Live were trying to help you, you didn't mean to kill her, so we're just trying to make sure your ok."
"But I did mean it, what about that is ok with me, I killed a girl right in front of you all, I almost killed Theo yet you insist on helping me get away with this, your helping a monster, your blinded by affection you'll all regret this, please stop" the tower as silent for a minute.
Until Pam spoke up "your not a monster Live, we know what were doing and we won't regret any of this. My life was nothing until I met you guys. I had nothing. I was useless in class, My foster parents treat me like trash and I am a muggle born so that basically ruined all of my relationships with others from the start. But with you, with all of the people on this tower, I found my home. You made me feel loved and feel safe, you created a world where I can be myself and not have to worry about being judged or hated for just being me. I had nothing before us and I never want to go back to my old life. Live you may think we're wrong and crazy but we are. We're wrong, crazy, weird and messed up in every way. But we're a family. And no matter what you are we stick together. We were never met to work but we do. And I'm not going to let anything get in the way of my happiness. We are family. We protect our own. I will protect our family and if that means getting ride of dead body's and healing electrocuted little boys then I will. Because that what our family does!"
"Live you are our family, we would do anything for you" Alexa reassured.
"Plus you gave us a hand if you didn't kill that bitch then I would have" Janelle laughed.
"Well I guess sometimes you gotta kill a gal" Live smiled. The girls giggled for a while letting the whole nature of this sink in. They were a family whether they liked it or not. They had each found a special place in this family and they all new that form that moment on. Nothing would get between them.
"Come on Live we have a dead Walburga blacks body to get rid of" Gwen broke the silence and walked over to the body and grabbed her shoulders "hey Janelle, do you mind giving me a hand"
"Sure Gwen" Pam walked over and joined Alexa at healing Theo who was beginning to lose more colour to his face.
"Pam let me" Live sat down and began to repeat the same incantations she'd used on her father many months ago. Theo soon regained full consciousness and Alexa had laid his on the sofa for some rest. Live offered it to just kill him but Pam insisted that live had done enough killing for one night. Gwen and Janelle had moved the corpse toward the the edge of the tower they had positioned it so she was dangling legs first over the edge.
"This is fun" Janelle chucked as she positioned Walburgas arm.
"Seriously Janelle we're trying to get ride off a body" Pam smiled leaving Theo and joining Gwen and Janelle. Alexa soon joined and Live made her way over to her friends. "Wait" Theo spluttered propping him self up of the sofa.
"You may have almost taken my life away but you didn't. I want to show you that I can be trusted. I want to help. Let me help you Live" He stuttered shuffling over to the rest of the group. "Look, we spared your life and if you don't shut up and sit back down then Live will kill you, for real this time" Janelle shot.
"What's your deal, your like obsessed with Live, do you like her or something" Alexa protested, Theo burst out laughing clutching is waist as it pained him to laugh.
"Don't be ridiculous, me like a girl, for gods sake, I'm Gay!" Theo just continued to laugh at her and walked up in between Gwen and Pam, placing his hand on Walburgas lower back.
Pam let out a laugh,"sorry mate we didn't know, but why are you helping us?"
"Just like you Ms Hyde I was abandoned, I have no family, I have no friends, I may not be a mudblood but a gay man is close enough, let me do one thing right In my life."
"You know that once we do this we will never be those kids again. We're leaving it all behind" Gwen said looking down at the drop.
"Together" Live said, looking at the five.
"Together" They replied. They all took a deep breath,
"what if we get into trouble?" Alexa asked, staring desperately at her friends.
"Your only in trouble if you get caught" Theo spoke.
With that each person pushed with all their might, throwing her body of the Astronomy tower. A few of them looked away but others watched her body plummet to the ground. They heard a thud and they knew they were no longer friends they were family.
"Quick, we'll all go back to Live and Lexs dorm, we'll be safe there" Janelle said as they all scrambled to get off the tower. Theo pulled out his cloak and threw it over the girls. "We can use this"
"Theo this barely covers our knees" Pam objected, and she was right.
"I'll cast a camouflage charm on Alexa, Pam and I then you guys can take the cloak." Live pulled out her wand and cast the enchantments over her friends, they dashed down the staircase and through the corridors. Until they reached a door covered with puffy stickers and gold lettering. Their home.
Each person found a space in the dorm to rest there heads. They're hearts thumping inside of their chests. "Well who wants a drink?" Alexa said walking over to grab five glasses for the wardrobe. Live grabbed a bottle of fire whisky and started to pour equal amounts into the glasses.
"Make mine a double" Theo said rubbing his eyes. "Four singles and a double for the newbie" Alexa handed the glasses out and laid back on her bed.
"Oh yeah Theo to be invited to the lady's of the round table you need to get us all pumpkin juice in the morning, it's like tradition" Gwen said downing most of her drink.
"Right I guess I better start exposing my self then" Live said.
"I think we take it in turns, Live no pressure" Pam said sighing as she began her story.
The Outcast
"I was orphaned at 9 an attack on my family. I can't even remember what happened. One minute I was being tucked into bed an the next I'm in the hospital watching the blood pour out of my wounds, I can't remember the pain or what my screams sounded like. My mind just locked it away and threw away the key into the deep pond of my thoughts, every time I try to recover them it just pushes me further away. Nobody wants to talk to the little orphan girl, not even my foster parents could look at me straight. I want the truth in a world of lies and deception. Every month I feel the pain rise as I stared out at the moon and stars hoping that there was more to my life than this" Pam curled up by my side wrapping the blanket tighter and tighter round her body. Trying to suffocate all the bad thoughts. She had no family not even a shred of hope left in happiness. She was completely alone. She just dove into her work, not caring about the consequences, because life was unpredictable and she need closure. Her life was stolen from her before should could even enjoy it.
The Abandoned
"After my mother and father divorced, the Hudson name was plunged into disgrace. divorce amongst pureblood family's the same as marrying a muggle, its like treason to the blood royals. I was conceived out of wedlock and that just made the situation worse, I was hated not only by my own family but all my friends. Everyone I ever trusted and loved they left me all because of some papers. You see this is how fragile this world is, if you step a toe out of line ether your family is robbed of its good name and any respect it had gained over decades or you are to be slaughtered like dogs left to die by the people you once trusted with your life. Kind of ironic that they are the ones ending it" Alexa held her head in her hand scrunched up into a ball at the foot of the bed. She was slowly making her way down the path of insanely. Her life was supposed to be that of a queen but she was stripped of anything good before she should even let out a cry. Her life was doomed from the start and there was nothing she could do about it. She just lay there helplessly like she did at the end of my bed. Curled up hiding from the horrid life that was given to her.
The Shadow
"It was hard coming here, at first my brother was top off everything, the class, then he was captain of the quidditch team! God it would take a miracle to top all that my brothers done, I'm always in his shadow. No matter how much people love me I never really feel loved. Truly loved. I was told even by my own mother I would be nothing compared to him, and to stay in my place, cooking and cleaning for my family and then my future husband" Janelle was leaning on the back of my bed. She looked distant and hurt. They felt sorry for her. She was the most confident and powerful person They'd talked to in a long time, but sometimes you can't always be strong. It was never her job to care for others but it was just something she did from the good of her cracked heart. It hurt us it see how broken she was, how all she ever wanted was for someone to love her the way people loved her brother. She was always the one you'd go to talk to about things but nobody ever thought to ask she how she was doing.
The Forgotten
"My family ruled the planet or that's what I thought. I watched my brothers grow into champions but I was stuck cleaning up their mess. They could do what ever they choose to do. Because they were the heirs. The first borns. The men of the family. I tried over and over to prove myself to them, my grade were better than theirs. My magic was better than theirs. Everything I did was to make my mum and dad proud but it never worked. Over and over it was 'Gwenever Loraine Carrol, you should be more like your brothers' and when they became the members of the Alliance it made my parents so happy. We had a party. Everyone was invited. For my 16 birthday I got a birthday card and a note with 300 gallons attached saying we're out today. Go do something. I was forgotten completely forgotten but my family by my friends, it's like I wasn't even alive" Gwen finished, placing her head In her hands. She'd been to the moon and back for a smile from the people who were meant to love her. She was always an overachiever but the route of that was just from the resection of her family.
The Banished
"I had a friend when I was eight he was sweet and kind. He told me we would be together forever. When I told my parents about him how I loved him. More than a friend love. They made a decision to 'try to help the boy'. They killed him. We were playing on some slides and I held his hand to stop him from being scared. He just dropped. That was when I first saw death. They tried to 'rid the devil out of their son'. But I was not possessed. I didn't like women I liked men. They showed me pictures of wending with a man and a woman they tried to dress me up like a man and made me act like one. If that even makes any sense. Over the years I began to question my sanity, wonder if maybe there really was something wrong with me." Theo downed the rest of his drink and snuggled into a corner trying to blend with the shadows of the room. He was embarrassed for being him. That should never be a problem for a person. It hurt to see him like this. How he longed to be normal. But really what is normal anyways.
The Devils Mistress
"Ever since I was a child I was taught to not care. My whole life revolved around power and loyalty. Never trust anyone. Any love, Any hate, Any feeling at all was to be disregarded as weak. When people say every life has a purpose, they mean it to help the people who are going to give up. But my life has a purpose. It was to gain as much power as possible for my family name. I was bread to be a powerhouse for my fathers doings to be utilised at any moment. Half Witch, Half Veela. One of the strongest combinations known to man. My mother was used and raped to give birth to me only to be murdered right in front of me when I no longer needed me. I was taught nothing but to cause pain and suffering to others. Disregard all feeling.I was put through killing exercises and was awarded for the wrong behaviour. I was taught to command and destroy any who stand in my way." Live finished and crossed her legs on her bed. Emotionless. She just shrugged of her word as if they were nothing to her or anyone around her. How it made sense about who she was and what she could do. All because of a war she didn't even start.
They each drank to the night they had and looked back on the memory's. Each person had their own story. Their own past. But together they drank In silence.
"Can I make a toast?" Janelle asked, lifting her glass. The rest of them followed and nodded in agreement. "Tonight was crazy, it was fucking crazy. I just want to say I love you. I love you all. Even though we support different quidditch teams and we believed that one of us tried to conspire agents us and get Grindelwald out of prison but it turned out that another person in the group was the daughter of sed psychopath. I love you all"
"I'll drink to that" Live said downing the rest of her glass.
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Don't worry this is not the end, and there a plenty of more secret to be unveiled.
To take a little bit of a happier turn.
Hey guys !! Today is the 6 month anniversary of when I published the first chapter of TDM. This book was meant to be a small project I worked on during my online lessons because they was boring as hell and now it's at 30k reads. So I wanted to say thank you for your love and support you all mean the world to me. I wrote some small questions below for you to answer, just for some fun Xx Stay safe T.
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