Chapter eighteen: Memory is valuable
It had been four months since Calynn had not seen her parents. Her stay at the Evans' house had been incredible during all those months, within thirty days they would enter Hogwarts and that day Lily and Calynn would go out to play in the garden after breakfast.
The girls went down to the table already dressed for breakfast and going out to the patio.
"Good morning," both girls said happily.
"Good morning, it's time for breakfast," Lily's mother greeted them kindly as she left a couple of dishes with delicious toast on the table.
Everyone took a seat in the dining room and began to chat very enthusiastically.
"It's very nice of you not to be disturbed by my stay," little Black said to the woman.
"You're welcome," Lily's mother replied as they continued to have breakfast.
Some time passed while they ate talking about some details of Hogwarts, the desire they had to know the castle, all the questions they wanted to answer about the magic and the moments that had happened during those last months.
"Petunia hasn't come down, we should go talk to her," Lily's mother told her husband after she finished doing the dishes.
"Mom, see you in a little while," Lily told her mother that she was climbing the wooden stairs. "We will go out to play the garden with Severus, we don't think it will take long."
"I love you. See you later." The redhead said goodbye from the stairs as she began talking to her husband.
They were about to leave when they met two people that Calynn recognized instantly. She walked back instinctively, but tripped over her owl and fell to the ground. Given this, the girl took her new wand from the bag of her denim jeans and although she didn't know any spells, she felt powerful.
"Expelliarmus!" Her mother shouted as the little girl's wand flew out.
The woman looked hatefully at her daughter, apparently not expected to pull a wand. Lily was facing Calynn attached to the wall trying to hide something under her clothes, the mother pointed to her daughter with the wand and the father to the redhead.
"Incarcerous!" Exclaimed both parents at the same time that a rope came out of the tip of the wand of each Death Eater and tied the girls tightly.
Her parents began casting spells everywhere, possibly to get Lily's parents' attention as they broke the windows and some dishes making the greatest noise possible. A photo of the Evans family fell at Lily's feet as the glass that protected it broke.
Both parents ran down and saw the two-unknown people in their house and before they could scream each had pointed the wand at a father of the redhead.
"No!" Little Black shouted, "don't hurt them!" Druella just nudged the girl so that she fell to the floor.
It was too late; the parents of the future Death Eater began to torture the redhead's parents right in front of two eleven-year-old girls.
"Enough!" Lily shouted, trying to move towards her friend's parents, but she only managed to fall to the ground, watching everything from there with tears in her eyes, a broken heart and a monumental impotence.
"Stop, they are not to blame for anything!" The future Death Eater shouted again.
The parents stopped, but continued to point to Mr. and Mrs. Evans who were on the ground because of the spell. They were weakened and tired, their expressions of fear on their faces were only a sign of how worried they were and how fearful they were at the magic of those people.
"Desmaius!" The girl's parents shouted as a ray of bluish light came out of her wands, leaving Lily's parents unconscious. They began to hear footsteps on the stairs, little Black's parents were waiting for who was coming. It was Petunia, when she got to where they were the little girl's face darkened and turned pale, she saw her parents, then the Death Eaters and finally her sister who begged her to leave with the few gestures she managed to emit.
Calynn's mother approached Petunia while pointing her wand at her.
"Don't hurt her!" Lily shouted, pleading for her sister from the floor.
When Druella arrived with Petunia, the girl stepped back.
"If you don't want to have the same fate as them," the woman began, pointing to Mr. and Mrs. Evans, "you don't have to say anything about your sister or my daughter, did you understand?"
Petunia nodded without thinking without turning to see her sister or Calynn, her gaze was lost on her unconscious parents.
"Now get out of here," Calynn's mother told Petunia, still pointing at the girl with the wand.
Petunia obeyed and climbed the stairs without turning back.
The Death Eater parents returned to where Mr. and Mrs. Evans were and pointed them with the wand.
"Obliviate!" Each Death Eater shouted at Lily's parents as a bluish green light came out of her wands directly at both adults.
Lily who was lying on the floor could see that in the photo of the Evans family she disappeared leaving only Petunia and her parents. Lily could not contain herself and tears slid down the little girl's cheeks falling into the frame of the photo where she had once been. That moment had totally broken her heart, she didn't know exactly how they had done that, but everything indicated that this spell was to erase a person's memory.
"It is time to leave, they will soon wake up," Cygnus said to his wife.
The Death Eaters who turned their backs on the girls turned and picked up the things they had bought in the alley with a levitational spell, including their owls and each other's trunks.
"Get up!" Druella ordered Lily.
"No," said Lily coldly. Calynn was surprised at her resistance. She would have done it instantly knowing that this woman was totally evil.
"Get up, mudblood!" Said Calynn's mother.
"I can't," the redhead replied, trying to move her arms from the ropes that held them violently.
"Both are equal, weak," said Druella, shaking her head. "Imperio!"
Hearing those words, Calynn looked up and saw her friend under the influence of that curse so pleasant that she allowed herself to have complete control of a person, remembering what she had not felt in a long time.
"Leave her alone, Druella," Calynn spoke this time with annoyance and a challenging tone at the same time.
"You mean mom," the Death Eater snapped angrily and watching the girl in an evil way.
"No, you're just Druella to me," little Black repeated coldly, causing the woman to give her a hateful look.
There was a moment of silence maybe her mother didn't answer because she felt the same about her daughter or because she would take revenge later. Either way, Calynn would know later.
They left the house while with the levitational spell they carried things from the alley and the girls who were moored walked necessarily down the street, passing in front of the garden where they used to play.
Lily and Calynn turned around hoping to find Severus there but had no luck. They reached the threshold of the old home of the future Death Eater and entered through the door. Calynn was strong even though she was too sad, inside that place she had spent the best and worst moments of her life, especially during those last months before she went to live with Lily.
They were directed to a room and closed the door leaving out their alley shopping.
The Death Eaters pointed them with the wand and removed the ropes that held them. At that moment Lily took out her wand that she had kept hidden under her clothes, Calynn wanted to do the same, but remembered that her mother had removed her wand, began to search for her and saw that Druella was holding her.
"Expelliarmus!" Her mother shouted as the redhead's wand flew through the air.
The parents pointed them with two wands at each one as a precaution. They were not afraid, but they no longer wanted to escape any of the two girls, one could tell the truth about the parents of little Black and the other they needed to fulfill their plans.
"Did you really believe that two eleven-year-old girls would defeat us?" Asked Druella with a mocking smile on her face. "Is this what you wanted Calynn? You have made things more difficult," her mother continued without letting them answer.
"She has nothing to do with this," the girl managed to say nervously. "Leave her alone, return her family and stay with me," the girl finished. Immediately a thunderous laugh from Druella could be heard at that comment.
"Of course not, she has delayed many things and she has decided to be part of this," her father explained this time.
Silence reigned in the room for a few seconds until Druella broke it.
"You are lucky to be here," she said.
"Lucky?" Lily dared to ask.
"Your parents don't remember you," Calynn's mother scoffed trying to make Lily feel bad, but she didn't get it, she just kept a neutral expression. "You won't mind if I take this," Druella said, pointing to the girls' wands and mocking them and then laughing out loud while closing the door with magic.
The girls waited for a moment without making noise waiting for Calynn's parents to move away from the door, just listening to their footsteps.
Lily who was pale threw herself on the floor when her legs couldn't hold her anymore. She began to cry silently.
"I thought maybe ..." She paused for a breath, "Petunia loved me!"
"She loves you," Calynn said awkwardly trying to sound safe, she wasn't sure what to mention to make her friend feel better.
"It's not like that, Calynn Black!" Lily said between sobs. Calynn felt even worse when she heard her friend calling her by her full name.
"I'm sorry ..." whispered little Black with tears in her eyes. Lily didn't answer anything, she just kept crying. "This is all my fault," the little girl said, hitting the floor. "I knew that in the end someone was going to suffer because of me, I knew that all this was too risky."
The redhead looked up as if she barely noticed her attitude towards her friend.
"No, it isn't," Lily said sweetly, still crying.
"I shouldn't have gotten into this," Calynn said guiltfully. This time the little girl really felt guilty, she knew that if she didn't exist, Lily wouldn't be going through that.
"I offered you my house," said the redhead.
"But I agreed," the Black girl protested, "I should have refused, we both knew it was too risky and I even took it," she said.
"I insisted," Lily said.
"But your parents, it's all my fault," Calynn began.
"Forget who's to blame, we have to start looking for a way out," said Lily, rising from the ground.
"You do not get it? We are locked up, without a wand and nothing to defend ourselves with," Calynn said and then sighed. "We will have to stay here until we die of hunger or my parents kill us first."
"There must be a way, for example, to break this window," Lily said, pointing to a window that was almost on the edge of the room.
"With what? We have nothing," Calynn said, staring at the room that was completely empty. "Also, where would we go?" Calynn said without avoiding sounding worried.
Lily could not answer that question, she knew that even if they managed to get out of there they would have nowhere to go.
"Maybe... Severus ..." Lily said after a while, but she was interrupted.
"I don't want to put anyone else in this," the little shepherd confessed. "It is not for discussion."
After that it was Calynn who overcame her tears, because the adrenaline had vanished.
"I had already forgotten this feeling," Calynn said, then sighed.
Both girls headed towards the window to contemplate the large green grass garden that surrounded the huge tree trunk where they used to spend most of their time. The little land that was next to the wide trunk was completely dry, Calynn remembered the day she had made Severus sink into it, while remembering it a smile covered her face that was still a little pale and a pair of crystalline tears slid down her cheeks.
"Do you think we will visit that place again one day?" Lily asked hopefully.
Calynn hesitated to answer because she didn't know the exact answer either.
"I hope so." Were the only words the little girl managed to mention.
Several hours passed while the girls walked through the empty room that had once been the living room, although she did not have many memories in it. The minutes seemed hours while the little ones watched the only clock that decorated the room. They could not help feeling fear, Calynn's parents could arrive at any moment and they had nothing to defend themselves with.
The night came after long hours and they began to realize that they needed light. Calynn went to where the switch was and activated it, but to their bad luck nothing happened, they decided to choose a place to sleep on the floor before the sun went down completely.
They lay together as one day they slept in their comfortable beds at Lily's house, now they would sleep on the floor quite uncomfortably and with great fear running through them completely.
"She called me mudblood," Lily said, between sobs.
"What's wrong with it?" Asked Calynn confused.
"It's a way of telling the Muggle sons. What if they hurt me more for their blood preference?" the redhead asked very worried, that had not thought it before.
"Don't worry about that now," Calynn replied and then yawned. "I think as long as they feel superior, they won't try to hurt us anymore," she finished.
Despite sleeping on the floor, both girls were too tired to chat because it had been a heavy day that they would never forget.
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