Hi! So, this is my actual ship. I don't actually ship Linny or Asteville, I just put them in my other Fanfiction because I didn't want to do a story of entirely my ships. I don't know what to do for said fanfiction so I thought I'd write this until I get an idea. If you don't know who Astoria is, she is Draco's canon wife. This story is also third person so yeah.

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Astoria was running. (It always starts with running.) She was in a building that appeared to be St. Mungos. Of course she had no idea what she was running from but she was. Until she was met with an invisable barrier that is. In which case everything outside faded into black. 

The bubble she was encaged in started to shrink. It shrunk until it could only fit one Astoria Greengrass bent into a ball. Then it popped. She plummeted. She felt all her bones break as her blood clumped. The blood curse was finally killing her.

When she hit the ground she was screaming from agony as her internal organs shredded themselves into dust particles. Blood streamed from her eyed like tears and she was coughing the same crimson liquid from her lungs. She rolled around on the ground waiting for her to find her mother in the afterlife.

Everything around her blirred and she felt her skin rip itself to reveal just how terrible the hereditary curse was. She wanted to stab herself right then just to end her suffering. Of course, she wouldn't find anything around. even if she could find a knife moving was complete agony. The curse ate her up as though she was a freshly cooked pork roast.

"Astoria..." a familiar voice called, "ASTORIA!!!"

Snap. Astoria opened her eyes to find she had rolled out of bed. She was drenched in cold sweat and started panting. Her older sister Daphne looked down at her worried. Daphne was rather lucky, she didn't inheret the blood curse that killed their mother. Astoria had always felt quite trpped by the curse, if she wanted to live longer she couldn't have children or play sports even if she wanted to.

"Were you having nightmares again?" Daphne said sympathetically.

"They get worse every time," tears welled up in the small brunettes eyes.

"You heard the doctors, if you start showing visible injuries you need to tell them. And look!" the older girl pointed to a large scar on her sisters arm, "We need to go to St. Mungos."

"Okay, tell father I'll be down in a minute."

Daphne left and Astoria struggled to get up. She hated going to St. Mungos. the doctors always said the sae things; 'There's nothing we can do to help', 'I'm sorry, but she doesn't have long', 'Just avoid too much physical activity'. She was tired of it. She wanted to play quidditch, she wanted to have children when she was older, she wanted to live!

Of course there wasn't much she could do. If she was going to die at any moment anyway why waste her youth inside a bubble? Why constantly obide by her fathers ridiculous rules? I'll tell you why. Whe copped all the blame for her mothers death. Was it her fault she had a second child? No! Was it her fault the curse was bestode upon her family? No!

She didn't like her father one bit. Daphne was always favoured for her leadership and, oh yeah, the fact she was straight. Astoria on the other hand knew she was lesbian. Coming from a pureblood famliy meant no chance of exceptance. Her friends knew of course, but they also understood what it was like to live under the same roof as abusive parents. It may not be physical abuse she's facing like her friends, but it sure is emotional.

She had to live by a strict diet aswell making it very difficult to eat the food served at Hogwarts. Hogwarts, now theres a thought that scared her. She knew people would bully her for hating muggle-borns. She of course changed her mind in her third year but no one ever gave her the chance to proove that. All in all she hated her situation.

She couldn't just stand there and brude though. So, she pushed her curse out of her mind and got changed into more suitable clothing. She had formed this strange liking for pleated skirts and were a pale blue one that ended just above the knee. when paired with her favourite navi button up shirt she looked rather smart. She slipped into her lace up ankle boots of black colour and brushed her brunette curls. She was an extraordinarilly beautiful woman and her chocolate eyes and sprinkling of freckles added an adorable factor to the mix.

When she went downstairs to the dining room she was presented with a plate of eggs on toast. She always wondered what it would taste like with salt aswell as pepper, but was never allowed to try it. So, she had to settle for the subtle spice of pepper flying solo. She wasn't complaining of course, but people did look at her weirdly when she only sprinkled pepper onto her food without its pal salt.

"I heat we have to pay the doctors a visit," her father said with evident annoyance.

Astoria nodded timidly.

"Well I hope we won't have to pay for too many visits. It's starting to eat into our budget."

"Father it's not her fault -"

"I know, I know. Doesn't mean I can't inform her."

Her father had always been nicer to Daphne. Even when she contridicted his beliefs. She noticed too but didn't dare mention it as she had never seen or heard the arguments they constantly had. A few of them were resolved when their father slapped Astoria. Merlin the girl wanted to be her older sister. But Daphne was dealing with constantly being pressured to acheive the best. It's probably why she and Draco started dating. (I am aware Draco is clearly gay, but I'm doing this because it adds to storyline and not every ship can be gay.) 

They would be going back to Hogwarts in a week and so they would probably go to Diagon Alley once they were done at St. Mungos. But Astoria really had no idea how strange this year would be. Not only would her condition worsen; but she'd fall in love too.

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Hi again! I know it started a little gruesome but what did you expect!?  Anyhow, I think I'll Write this fanficton while I'm thinking of ideas for Liar Liar Pants on Fire. Please don't hate me for shipping Astoria with Ginny or for putting characters with other characters. I promise I will do other stories with more of my actual ships but I really wanted to write this. Thank you!

       -Turtlefreakakw2 <3