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/ “Spell,” / Warning: Child Abuse, mention of Rape, Underage Sex and Slash/Shouta, and Violence. This is going to be one of the darkest chapters in this part of the story.
Chapter Two
The Life of Lorraine Strange (Part 1)
Brightsummer:
Brightsummer was an old Steel Mill/Seaside Town, It's over five hundred years and the town was only a few hours from London. The town has an interesting history, five hundred years ago the town was a work town and had a children’s work house. The children in the work house were used for the Steel Mill and other cheap labour needed around the town. The Mill made many things; farming tools, weapons, carts, wheels, and some toys for rich kids, just naming a few of the items made.
Now as time passed, laws changed so children couldn’t work in the Mill. Since the law changed about underage child workers (although in Brightsummer they continued to use children until shortly before World War One), the work house became an orphanage which was now known as Saint Charles Orphanage, but how it was run over time was both good and bad. But the more recent past is where things get interesting.
Sadly, in the late 1950’s due to debts that the gained over time, the Mill was forced to close down due to the lack of funding.
Because of the Steel Mill being closed down, there weren’t many jobs available in Brightsummer, and so the town slowly became a Slum Town.
To get money, the people became drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes and a wide variety of other things to gain money.
By the early 1970’s Brightsummer was almost ready to close down for good, even if there was some money coming into the town thanks to the mysterious Tom Marvolo Riddle. But his money wasn’t enough, they needed a lot more to keep the town going, and in the early 1970’s they finally got the money. The source of this money was a man by the name of Marcus Pearl from America, who came to England to settle down.
Marcus Pearl was thirty year old rich man who got his money from investing in companies in America, the money also came from an inheritance from his parents who were well off. The reason that Marcus came to Brightsummer was to start a new life. He had no family left in America, as they died in the World War Two, and he wanted to leave to get away from the bad memories. So he travelled the world, trying to find a place he could call home and to raise a family - and if he was lucky use his money to help people. As his parents had helped people with their money, even if they didn’t have as much as he had now, now he wanted to help people. After a few years of travelling, he ended up in Brightsummer and helped to make it somewhat better.
The first thing that he did was to fully restore the docking area so that more ships could come and go, and in turn get more money back into the town. He also built a small movie set, which made small movies from time to time. But it was mostly used for porn films, as it seemed to bring in more money. Using the movie set for porn, Marcus knew it would attract a specific type of people to the town. And the town would never really be a ‘good’ place to be, so much as acceptable and probably lots of stuff happening that, while not evil, was shady but perfectly legal (well not all was legal, some was illegal, but as long as it wasn’t seen, the people of Brightsummer didn’t much care) and kept everyone happy and in decent shape, in the state of their lives. Then with the help of the town, they built a small cinema. The last thing that he built for the town was Brightsummer's Pier, where Arcade games and fair rides were found. Thanks to all this, the town was saved from closing and more people were brought to the town.
As for Saint Charles Orphanage, over the years it gained a reputation, mainly bad. The Caretakers that were seemingly attracted to the place where, more often than not, child abusers at the very least. The only reason they weren’t closed down was because some of the Carers knew powerful people that stopped the orphanage being closed down and the people from being fired. But in 1960’s as the town was in need for money, a man named Tom Marvolo Riddle - who once lived there as an orphan - bought the orphanage and changed it for the better - or so it seemed to the public eye. Within the walls is a different story.
Tom also brought most of the building around the seaside where he turned them into something out of the dark ages. This meant that the people and the inside of the shops and the taverns looked like they came from medieval times. Tom also bought a few buildings near the docks and turned them into taverns for the sailors, and helped to pay for some of the repairs on the docks. Sadly, however, the taverns near the docks were used as brothels, but it did bring in some money to the town, so nothing was done about it.
However, in the late 1970’s as the town was getting back on its feet, a new problem came for them: The Shadow Stalkers. The Shadow Stalkers were made up of seven people, Ash - who was the leader - Sparks, Crusher, Sylphs, Slipstream, Fangs, and Claws. They first came into town to find somewhere to stay for a while, until they planned what to do next. However, seeing what the town had to offer, the Shadow Stalkers decided to stay in Brightsummer. The gang had enough of moving from to town to town all the time and wanted somewhere to call home; And Brightsummer was the best as any to settle down. Since that day they decided to live in Brightsummer they used their skills to control some of the town in the shadows.
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It had been six long years - six painful years - since eight year old Lorraine Strange (Lorie to the few friends that she had), arrived at Saint Charles Orphanage.
To the public eye Saint Charles was the best, it provided the orphans with the best that it had. Fine food, clothes, and anything else the orphans needed. However, behind closed doors it was a different story. The Carers allowed the bullies bully the younger children, and do what they liked as long as the public don’t see them do it. If the bullies were caught bullying in public, they would be punished as normal people would punish a bully, otherwise they could do whatever they wanted. Should anyone tell someone outside about the bullying or the other things that happen within the wall of the Orphanage, the Caretakers would tell people that person was a trouble maker and was always telling lies and making trouble. However, no one really knew the true secrets of Saint Charles had, the deepest and darkest ones, not even the orphans.
At this time Lorraine was eight years old, and was about four foot five. She had long, thick dark red hair with bright green eyes. All she knew about herself was her first name and date of birth, and this was only due to a necklace that she had had as long as she could remember having it; it was the only thing connecting her to her mysterious past. She hoped that one day would lead her to whoever her parents were. It was her eighth birthday and she was walking around the area of Brightsummer, thinking about her life so far and her life at Saint Charles.
As long as she could remember, she had always hated her life at Saint Charles. Even disregarding the bullying, she still always felt uneasy there. Lorraine didn’t know what it was about the place; apart for the bullying where they would tease her about her name and hit her, everything seemed to be fine at the orphanage, and yet something felt odd about the place that she couldn’t work out. All she knew was that she could feel a lot of ill intent there. The children would tease her by calling her Miss Strange, the daughter of Doctor Strange from the comic book Doctor Strange. They would also use some other references to the comic to tease her; this was something that made her upset and angry, as it made it hard to make friends. They did this not only because of her surname, but also because of the strange things that would happen around the Orphanage that no one could explain.
When the bullying first began, Lorraine went to the Head Carer, Mrs. Emma Wolf, to inform her of the older students picking on her. Mrs. Wolf was a thirty-five year widow, who had dark brown hair and eyes. Instead of helping her, Lorraine was shocked when Mrs. Wolf told her that the bullies could do whatever they wanted, as they were more important than she was. Though Lorraine didn’t know how they were important. She tried to tell others about the bullying within the orphanage, but Mrs. Wolf and the other caretakers told people that she was a trouble maker and the ring leader of those who said bad things about the orphanage, and to her surprise, people believed Mrs. Wolf and didn’t look into it. This was when Lorraine learned that there was more to the orphanage then it seemed.
Because of this, when she was six years old, she decided to spend as much time as she could away from the place by walking the streets.
Some might find it strange that a six year old could look after herself, but Lorraine learnt that most of the strange things that happened around the orphanage she was responsible for. At first she wasn’t too sure if it she was doing it or not, but over time she realized that it was her fault. She became convinced when she tried and succeeded in summoning things when she was five and a half. She had tried as a test to see if she really was responsible for some of the strange going-ons.
Whilst she was honing her summoning skills - to make sure she could do it faster and unnoticed - she remembered one of the things that happened around her. This memory made her realize that she would like to try to make things float. As she thought that if she could make things float, even herself, she thought she could do anything: She could float things from high places down to her, and if she could make herself to float, she could float over high walls, or get things from high places!
So for the next six months, Lorraine practised these two skills until she was sure she had mastered them. By the time she was six, she could summon things from a far distance and she was learning to summon things from people’s pockets without being noticed. As for floating things, she could float most things - apart from things that were heavier then she was - up to three meters. She could also make herself float up to three meters. Only after she learned these skills did she started to walk the streets.
Although Lorraine had learned these skills, she forgot to learn one thing: how to protect herself. It was something she would soon regret not learning.
As Lorraine was walking around the streets, she saw many girls with their mummies and she felt jealous of them. She knew that it was important for a child to have a mummy and daddy. But based on what she heard from the female Caretakers it was more important to have a mother - something to do with a bond between mother and daughter. She didn’t know what was special about the bond, but it did make her start to wonder if her own mother loved her or not.
She often had dreamed of a red headed lady with green eyes, the lady would sing to her and tell her that she loved her. Sometimes, Lorraine believed that these dreams were forgotten memories and were not just dreams - she thought this so she could feel that her mummy did love her. In some of these dreams, she dreamed that she was with another baby, a boy, who Lorraine thought was her brother, in these dreams they were always playing with each other.
Although she had some good dreams, maybe memories, she had one strange nightmare. She was hidden within a cupboard unable to move, but she could hear two voices, a man's and a lady's. Lorraine thought the lady's voice belonged to the voice of her dream 'mummy'. The lady's voice was begging someone not to kill someone, but to kill her instead. But Lorraine heard the man laugh evilly, and told the lady to step aside and he would deal with her later. From what Lorraine could tell, the lady wouldn't and this made the man mad and said some that she wasn't familiar with and then there was a flash of green light. Once the flash of light happened, she would either wake up in a sweat or the nightmare would start again. The thing about the nightmare was that she didn't know who the man could be, or who her 'mummy' - if she was her 'mummy' - was trying to save.
Anyway, after walking around the streets for a few hours, Lorraine realized seven men following her. She wasn't sure why they would be doing this, but she could feel ill intent from them and knew that whatever the reason for them following her, it wasn't good. So she started to walk a bit faster to get away from them, but they picked up the pace as well. So realizing that she had to lose them, she started to run for it and not look back. After running for a while and thinking that she lost them for the moment, she went down an alleyway thinking she could hide down there until she was sure it was safe to come out. Once she was in the alleyway, she went as far as she could and hid behind some dustbins and hoped that the men that were following her wouldn't find her.
But luck wasn’t with her that day, as after only a few minutes of hiding behind the dustbins, the men that were following her came into the alleyway. Hoping that they didn’t see her come in, she stayed as quiet and as still as she could. But her hopes were cut short as one of the men shouted out, “Come out, come out little girl, we saw you run in here.”
But Lorraine was too afraid to move, as she wasn’t sure what the men wanted from her, but could feel that whatever it was, it wasn’t good. And she was right. The men went farther down the alleyway, until they got to the dustbins that Lorraine was hiding behind. Then one of the men said “Come out from behind the bins little girl, make it easier on yourself.”
Lorraine knew that she had to escape, but she was too fearful too move. Before she could do anything about her fear, the dustbins had suddenly moved and she saw the seven men that had been following her. She saw that they were wearing jeans and leather jackets saying ‘Shadow Stalkers’, each of them had different coloured hair: red, blue, blond, black, brown, silver and last one looked like it was styled to look like lighting. The one with red hair said, as he picked Lorraine up and stroked her face, “Looks like you’re right Sparks, she is pretty. I just hope she's more fun than the last one Crusher picked, she was no fun at all.”
“I’m hurt Ash,” mock-pouted the one with lighting styled hair - who Lorraine thought must be Sparks, “You know I’ve got better taste in girls than Crusher has.”
“You’re right.” The red headed one that Lorraine guessed to be Ash said, “He always goes for the non-fighters which are no fun at all. Now, let’s see what we have here...” ‘Ash’ began to move his hand closer to Lorraine’s shirt.
Whilst this was going on, Lorraine was afraid and she didn’t know what these people were talking about, but she knew it wasn’t good for her and she knew she had to escape somehow. So when Ash began to move his hand closer to her she saw some dustbins and loose rubbish behind Ash and his gang. So quickly coming up with an idea and hoping it would work, she summoned the dustbins and loose rubbish behind Ash and his gang. As she had hoped, the things that she summoned hit the gang and they looked turned to see who did it. As Ash turned he loosened his grip a bit, and it was enough to get herself free. Once free, she ran as fast as she could back to Saint Charles before the gang even knew what was happening.
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When the dustbins and loose rubbish hit the Shadow Stalkers, they wondered who would dare do this to them. They knew there were only a few in the town who would dare to interfere with them, as most of the town paid them protection money. The protection was from people who were outside the town and looking for trouble, they also protected them from new gangs that would appear from time to time in the town. The townspeople also paid them to do jobs that weren’t above board, and the Shadow Stalkers could do without raising too many questions. All they asked in return was that the people turn a blind eye to what they did, no matter what it might be.
Throughout their time in Brightsummer, the Shadow Stalkers only had to show a few people what would happen if they didn’t turn a blind eye. So they knew that not many would interfere with them, and the ones who might interfere were out of town by the weekend.
As they turned to see who might try and interfere with them, they saw that the young girl they were going to some fun with escaping. So Ash shouted out, “Sparks, Crusher after her!”
But before they could start to pursue the girl, the member with black hair spoke up, “Ash I wouldn’t advise that.”
“Why not Claws?” Ash asked.
“Two reasons, Ash. The first is that I think it was her that sent the dustbins at us, which means she's a powerful magical girl if it was her. And if it was her, we don’t know what else she could do. The second is that I sense she has a great destiny ahead of her, I don’t know what it is but I do sense she’ll be more powerful as she becomes older. Giving her reason to come after us when she grows more powerful is ill-advised. The fates themselves will be watching over the girl, attempts to end her life will most likely end in failure.”
After hearing this Ash stopped Sparks and Crusher from getting the girl for a moment and turned to the blond haired member and asked “Slipstream, what can you sense from her?” Slipstream had the ability to sense things many couldn't, so his council was asked quite often when the group was having trouble making a decision.
For the next few moments Slipstream didn’t say anything, but looked like he was in a deep thought before he said “Claws is right Ash, she's powerful and with training she could be more powerful than the lot of us. Although there’s something missing from her to get there, some kind of binding or something to someone. Once she finds this person, I wouldn’t want to upset either of them.”
Nodding, Ash started to brainstorm. He knew that they couldn’t go after her, as they had a rule that they wouldn’t use any magical children for their fun. As they feared that when the children grew older and learned to control their magic they might come looking for them for revenge.
But then there was what Claws had said, the 'great destiny' bit. Normally Claws could at least tell what it was, but with this girl he couldn’t, and that worried him. “Claws,” Ash began after thinking for a few moments, “I want you, Sparks and Fangs to keep an eye on her. Don’t interfere unless her life is in danger, I want to know more about her. If she's got a destiny as great as you say ahead of her I want to find a way to use it to our advantage. So the rest of you are going to find out what you can about the girl, I want to know who we're dealing with.”
And with that they parted and went to do what they had been ordered to do, meanwhile Ash went back to their headquarters. There was something about the girl he just couldn’t put his finger on, and he thought some of the books he had might help him to find out what it was.
OoOoO
Back with Lorraine
Once Lorraine left the alley, she ran as fast as she could back to Saint Charles, all the while hoping that she lost the Shadow Stalkers. It didn’t take long before she arrived back at the orphanage, but she found that it was locked up. Lorraine felt foolish as she remembered that the Caretakers of the orphanage took the children out for the day, seeing as it was the weekend.
The Caretakers would take the orphans to the Cinema for the afternoon on Saturdays, and depending when the film would finish, they would take the orphans to either to the seaside or to the arcades and the fair. Or if the movie set was filming, they would take them to see it being made.
Lorraine wasn’t worried about being locked out, as she knew where the spare key was hidden. Seeing as some of the Caretakers and some of the older orphans were allowed out at nights, Mrs. Wolf built a flour bed area made of brick and hid the spare key behind a loose brick. This was so if the staff or the older orphans were late getting back, they would have a way in.
Once inside the orphanage Lorraine heard some sounds coming from upstairs, which was strange seeing that everyone was meant to be out for the day. But she thought it was possible that either someone was ill and couldn’t go out that day, or someone had come home early for some reason. But there was also a part of her felt that something was wrong, and she should find a Caretaker. But a big part of her couldn’t, as she didn’t want to look foolish and be made fun of if she was wrong. So as quietly as possible, she went upstairs to see who was there.
As Lorraine went upstairs she was surprised to see one of the bedroom doors was half open, normally when everyone was out the doors would be closed in case a fire started. So when she walked to the door and peeked inside, she was confused and scared of what she saw.
She saw David, a six year old boy who had been at the orphanage for a year, naked and shaking in fear. As she carefully looked round, Lorraine saw two other men in the room both of whom were naked as well. One man had black hair with a scar on his face, whilst the other man had long red hair with scars on his back. She was so shocked at what she saw she found she couldn’t move. As she looked on, she saw the man with red hair made David kneel in front of the other man, and the other man hold his penis in his hand and told David to suck it. David was too afraid to do anything though.
Lorraine could tell that the black haired man wasn’t happy with David not doing as he told, so he hit him across the face as the black haired man told David angrily to suck his dick like a lollipop, or he would get much worse then a back-hand.
Out of fear, David did as he was told. She was even more shocked because the man with red hair came up to the black haired man and kissed him. As the two men was kissing, the man with red hair put a hand onto David’s head and started to push and pull it from the black haired man’s penis.
This only lasted until the black haired man gave a strange moan and a strange white cream came out of David’s mouth, causing him to start coughing. Lorraine then saw the red and black haired men started to touch and kiss David for a short while before they placed David onto the bed face down. Lorraine started shaking in fear as she saw the red haired man force his penis into David, causing the boy to start screaming.
As David screamed, Lorraine realized that she had to get him out of there so they could both run for help. Lorraine knew that she couldn’t just run in and get David from the bad men. So she tried to summon David, but when she tried she wasn’t able to for some reason. Although she hated the idea she knew she had to run and get some help for David, hoping he would be okay Lorraine moved as quietly as she could from the door and went downstairs. She ran into Mrs. Wolf.
Sighing with the relief at seeing Mrs. Wolf, Lorraine told her what she had just seen. As she explained Lorraine saw fear and shock on Mrs. Wolf's face, which Lorraine thought was because of what she told her. At first Mrs. Wolf didn't seem to want to believe it and told Lorraine that she was just seeing things and it didn't really happen. But Lorraine didn’t give up and kept on about it. In the end though, Lorraine dragged the Mrs. Wolf up the stairs to show her.
But as she got up the stairs, she saw that the door to the room that she saw David and the bad men were in was closed. When she opened the door, the room was empty and it looked like that the room hadn’t been used since that morning. Lorraine couldn't understand this, she had just left to get help not too long ago and she didn't see how the room could look like this in a short time.
Mrs. Wolf seemed to be worried about Lorraine, and asked Lorraine to come to her office so they could talk about what she had seen and work out why she would see it. Once in the office, Mrs. Wolf asked if Lorraine wanted a drink in which Lorraine said yes. As Mrs. Wolf was getting the drinks, she started to ask Lorraine why she wasn't with the others and how she got into the orphanage when it was meant to be locked. So Lorraine told her that she felt down and wanted some time to herself. She told Mrs. Wolf that as she was walking around the town, she was thinking about her real parents and wondered if they cared for her or not.
Lorraine also told Mrs. Wolf about the Shadow Stalkers and what they did. What she left out was how she really escaped the Shadow Stalkers. She also told Mrs. Wolf about how she knew about the spare key. That was the last thing she could remember as she drank the tea Mrs. Wolf give her before everything went dark.
When she came too, she was in the garden shed; she had no memories of what happened in the orphanage or about the spare key. Instead, she remembered running back to the orphanage after what happened with the Shadow Stalkers, but instead of going into the orphanage, she went into the shed to wait for the others to return. As she waited for them to get back, she fell asleep. She was awakened a few hours later by Mrs. Wolf who found her in the shed. She then spent the rest of the day planning on how to defend herself from people like the Shadow Stalkers and anyone else who would want to hurt her.
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As Lorraine went to sleep that night, her dreams were haunted by the memories of what she had forgotten that day. When she awoke, it was still dark and she couldn’t get back to sleep because of the dreams haunted her sleep, so she thought about the nightmare. It was about a boy, David, who had been at the orphanage for a year. It was strange, in the nightmare David was forced to suck a man’s penis and then someone forced his penis into David’s bum. Lorraine wondered how she had this nightmare at all, since she'd never even seen a penis before. Seeing that she wasn’t going to sleep anytime soon she decided to take a walk around the orphanage as that normally helped her to sleep.
As Lorraine was walking the ground floor, she heard voices coming from Mrs. Wolf’s office. Wondering who would be there this time of night, she quietly walked toward the office and listened, “- but we do have a problem, and this is why I asked you to come tonight Mr. Malfoy.” Lorraine heard Mrs. Wolf say to someone. As carefully as she could she looked through the gap in the door. Lorraine saw a man in early thirties; he had a pale, pointed face with long pale blond hair. The man wore a black robe, which Lorraine thought was strange, and held a cane in his hands. There was something about the man that made Lorraine ill and wanted nothing to do with the man. As she was examining the man, she heard Mrs. Wolf say, “I believe the wards you put up are weakening, as over the last two weekends Miss. Strange was able to come into the orphanage whilst some important people were… enjoying out product.”
As Lorraine was wondering what wards were, and what Mrs. Wolf meant by the funny way she said 'product' along with the fact that she had walked into them, but had no memory of it she heard a male voice say, “There’s nothing wrong with the wards. I checked them a month ago when I was last here. It’s just that the girl is much more powerful then we first suspected.”
“So why not bind her magic then?” Lorraine heard Mrs. Wolf asked, “It would be better for everyone.”
Lorraine was confused at what Mrs. Wolf said, it seemed that Mrs. Wolf thought that she had magic. She knew that couldn’t be right, magic wasn’t real, was it? It would explain all the weird things that happened around the orphanage and how she could make things float and summon things to her though. As she was thinking about this, she heard Mr. Malfoy say, “No, it’s important that her magic stays free, we removed the blocks she already had for a reason. It is our hope that she’ll learn to control her magic and in turn learn wandless magic.”
“‘Our hope’?” Mrs. Wolf parroted.
“Those who are loyal to the Dark Lord.” Mr. Malfoy explained abidingly, “We know that although our Lord was defeated by Potter, we know that the Dark Lord is out there gaining power to return. I know He’ll be angry at us for not looking for Him, but it’s unsafe for us to look for Him whilst Dumbledore is keeping watch over us. Instead we’re preparing for his return by building him a new army loyal to the Dark Lord. It is why when we first noticed Miss Strange, we hoped that when she is eleven and ready to learn more about magic we could get her on our side.”
“You’re foolish to follow Voldemort, but -” Mrs. Wolf began, but was interrupted by an angry Mr. Malfoy. Lorraine saw him get up, pull a strange stick from his cane and point it at Mrs. Wolf, and say angrily, “Do not say the Dark Lord’s name, you are -” but that was all Mr. Malfoy was able to say when Lorraine saw him forced back down into his chair by an invisible force.
Lorraine was shocked at what she saw: the strange stick and the invisible force that pushed Mr. Malfoy back into his chair. Her shock wasn’t going to end there though, as she saw Mrs. Wolf get up from her chair and walk around the chair to stand a few feet from Mr. Malfoy. What Lorraine saw now shocked her even more; she saw a dark shadow creep over Mrs. Wolf’s face, which was now full of hate, anger and coldness.
She was furthermore shocked as she heard Mrs. Wolf say coldly to Mr. Malfoy, “You’re forgetting who you’re talking to Lucius, I am not some foolish Muggle or Mudblood. I’m Daphne le Fey; Rune Mistress, and last descendent of Morgan le Fey. And if it wasn’t for Lucifer turning me into a near Squib, I would have given Voldemort a run for his money as a Dark Lady. And before you threaten me Lucius, you should remember two things. First is that I know a lot about this town both the normal and magical side of it, and I’ve kept reports of everything I know. So if you decided to have me killed or have my memories wiped or do anything else to me, I’ve got plans set up so that the reports would be sent to people in the right places in the Muggle and Wizarding World. And as you know, if the Muggle World learns about the Wizarding World, and learns what happens in this town, they won’t be too happy with the Wizarding World and who knows what will happen then.” She gave Mr. Malfoy an evil smile.
Whilst Lorraine was trying to understand about what Ms. le Fey said about Muggle, Mudblood, Muggle and Wizarding World, she heard Ms. le Fey continue, “Another thing you should remember is that you need me more then I need you. You need me as I am the only one willing to allow you to use these children for your plans and desires. True, you could find someone else and control them one way or another, but none of them would know runes as well as I do. And you need someone who knows runes for these wards of yours, as well as for your future plans. So before you start threatening someone, know who you’re dealing with.”
After hearing what she just did, Lorraine knew that she couldn’t stay here any longer. She needed to get out of there and try and get some help, as the children here were in danger from these two. So backing up slowly, so as not to make a sound, she worked her way to the stairs so that she could get some of her things before she left the place.
However, as she was backing up, she didn’t notice a stand that an old vase that Daphne had brought was on. If she did see it, she wouldn’t have bumped into it and knocked the vase off, which promptly broke when it hit the flour. And with the sound of the vase braking, Daphne undid the rune work on Mr. Malfoy, just in case she needed his help, and went out to see what had made the sound. She was shocked to see Lorraine out there and was wondering if she had heard anything and if she did how much, so in a kind tone of voice she asked, “Lorraine dear, what are you doing up this time of night? Is everything alright?”
Not wanting to get caught having overheard what she did, she quickly thought of something to say. She said, “I-I’m sorry about the vase Mrs. Wolf, I couldn’t sleep because of what happened to me earlier and thought to take a walk to clear my mind, but as I was walking, I didn’t notice the stool.”
Daphne wasn’t happy about the vase braking, in fact she was fuming as she got it three hundred years ago, but she knew she couldn’t let it show. So she said calmly, “No worries dear, it must have been frightening, why don’t you come into my office and I'll make you a warm glass of milk, I find that it helps me to sleep.” She also believed that Lorraine wasn’t telling her everything and she did hear something, as Lorraine was acting weirdly and she wanted to know what the young girl had overheard.
Not knowing what knowing what to do, Lorraine pretended to yawn as she said “Th-that’s alright Mrs. Wolf, I think I’ll be fine without it, I'll just got back to bed.” And with that she started to walk towards the stairs, but Daphne stopped her as she said “Lorraine dear, please come to my office as I need a word anyway.”
Pretending to yawn again, Lorraine said “Can it wait ‘til morning Mrs. Wolf? I'm tired and want to sleep.”
Daphne now knew that she knew something, so she said “I’m sorry to hear that... Lucius come out here, we have a problem.” She called over her shoulder.
“What’s the problem?” Lucius said, rubbing his sore limbs.
“It seems that Lorraine here might have overheard us talking.” Daphne explained.
Fearing what might happen to her she started rambling, “I didn’t hear anything that you and Mr. Malfoy were talking about.” She covered her mouth with her hands as she caught her mistake.
“How else would you know Lucius’ surname?” Daphne asked, “Tell me what you heard and things will be easier for you.”
“I didn’t hear anything, I promise.” Lorraine said fearfully.
“I’m sorry to hear that Lorraine.” She turned to Lucius. “If you don’t mind making her forget about this evening, I think it would be for the best.”
With a smile Lucius pulled the top of his cane off to reveal a strange looking stick and pointed it at Lorraine. Before she could do anything, he said / “Obliviate,” / and with that one word, Lorraine wouldn’t remember a single thing that she had heard that night.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Author’s Notes: Hi all, here ends another chapter of Children of the Darkness; Dark Beginnings, I hope that you all like the story and you would take a few more minutes to give a review. As I would like to hear what you think and any ideas you would like to happen in the story.
I’m still looking for help with ideas on how Harry and Lorrain can seduce and flirt with people, to get what they want. I’m asking as you all know, I’m not an expert in this kind of things, and I would like to ask for your thoughts and ideas in this area.
I’m planning to add technology into this story, namely nanobots and a few other things, and I was wondering what you thought of this idea. Please let me know what you think, as I would like to hear what you think and to hear what ideas you might have. I was thinking of using nanoborts so Muggles could become metamorphmagus, have super strength, speed, sight and hearing naming a few ideas for the nanoborts.
Chapter Two
The Life of Lorraine Strange (Part 1)
Brightsummer:
Brightsummer was an old Steel Mill/Seaside Town, It's over five hundred years and the town was only a few hours from London. The town has an interesting history, five hundred years ago the town was a work town and had a children’s work house. The children in the work house were used for the Steel Mill and other cheap labour needed around the town. The Mill made many things; farming tools, weapons, carts, wheels, and some toys for rich kids, just naming a few of the items made.
Now as time passed, laws changed so children couldn’t work in the Mill. Since the law changed about underage child workers (although in Brightsummer they continued to use children until shortly before World War One), the work house became an orphanage which was now known as Saint Charles Orphanage, but how it was run over time was both good and bad. But the more recent past is where things get interesting.
Sadly, in the late 1950’s due to debts that the gained over time, the Mill was forced to close down due to the lack of funding.
Because of the Steel Mill being closed down, there weren’t many jobs available in Brightsummer, and so the town slowly became a Slum Town.
To get money, the people became drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes and a wide variety of other things to gain money.
By the early 1970’s Brightsummer was almost ready to close down for good, even if there was some money coming into the town thanks to the mysterious Tom Marvolo Riddle. But his money wasn’t enough, they needed a lot more to keep the town going, and in the early 1970’s they finally got the money. The source of this money was a man by the name of Marcus Pearl from America, who came to England to settle down.
Marcus Pearl was thirty year old rich man who got his money from investing in companies in America, the money also came from an inheritance from his parents who were well off. The reason that Marcus came to Brightsummer was to start a new life. He had no family left in America, as they died in the World War Two, and he wanted to leave to get away from the bad memories. So he travelled the world, trying to find a place he could call home and to raise a family - and if he was lucky use his money to help people. As his parents had helped people with their money, even if they didn’t have as much as he had now, now he wanted to help people. After a few years of travelling, he ended up in Brightsummer and helped to make it somewhat better.
The first thing that he did was to fully restore the docking area so that more ships could come and go, and in turn get more money back into the town. He also built a small movie set, which made small movies from time to time. But it was mostly used for porn films, as it seemed to bring in more money. Using the movie set for porn, Marcus knew it would attract a specific type of people to the town. And the town would never really be a ‘good’ place to be, so much as acceptable and probably lots of stuff happening that, while not evil, was shady but perfectly legal (well not all was legal, some was illegal, but as long as it wasn’t seen, the people of Brightsummer didn’t much care) and kept everyone happy and in decent shape, in the state of their lives. Then with the help of the town, they built a small cinema. The last thing that he built for the town was Brightsummer's Pier, where Arcade games and fair rides were found. Thanks to all this, the town was saved from closing and more people were brought to the town.
As for Saint Charles Orphanage, over the years it gained a reputation, mainly bad. The Caretakers that were seemingly attracted to the place where, more often than not, child abusers at the very least. The only reason they weren’t closed down was because some of the Carers knew powerful people that stopped the orphanage being closed down and the people from being fired. But in 1960’s as the town was in need for money, a man named Tom Marvolo Riddle - who once lived there as an orphan - bought the orphanage and changed it for the better - or so it seemed to the public eye. Within the walls is a different story.
Tom also brought most of the building around the seaside where he turned them into something out of the dark ages. This meant that the people and the inside of the shops and the taverns looked like they came from medieval times. Tom also bought a few buildings near the docks and turned them into taverns for the sailors, and helped to pay for some of the repairs on the docks. Sadly, however, the taverns near the docks were used as brothels, but it did bring in some money to the town, so nothing was done about it.
However, in the late 1970’s as the town was getting back on its feet, a new problem came for them: The Shadow Stalkers. The Shadow Stalkers were made up of seven people, Ash - who was the leader - Sparks, Crusher, Sylphs, Slipstream, Fangs, and Claws. They first came into town to find somewhere to stay for a while, until they planned what to do next. However, seeing what the town had to offer, the Shadow Stalkers decided to stay in Brightsummer. The gang had enough of moving from to town to town all the time and wanted somewhere to call home; And Brightsummer was the best as any to settle down. Since that day they decided to live in Brightsummer they used their skills to control some of the town in the shadows.
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It had been six long years - six painful years - since eight year old Lorraine Strange (Lorie to the few friends that she had), arrived at Saint Charles Orphanage.
To the public eye Saint Charles was the best, it provided the orphans with the best that it had. Fine food, clothes, and anything else the orphans needed. However, behind closed doors it was a different story. The Carers allowed the bullies bully the younger children, and do what they liked as long as the public don’t see them do it. If the bullies were caught bullying in public, they would be punished as normal people would punish a bully, otherwise they could do whatever they wanted. Should anyone tell someone outside about the bullying or the other things that happen within the wall of the Orphanage, the Caretakers would tell people that person was a trouble maker and was always telling lies and making trouble. However, no one really knew the true secrets of Saint Charles had, the deepest and darkest ones, not even the orphans.
At this time Lorraine was eight years old, and was about four foot five. She had long, thick dark red hair with bright green eyes. All she knew about herself was her first name and date of birth, and this was only due to a necklace that she had had as long as she could remember having it; it was the only thing connecting her to her mysterious past. She hoped that one day would lead her to whoever her parents were. It was her eighth birthday and she was walking around the area of Brightsummer, thinking about her life so far and her life at Saint Charles.
As long as she could remember, she had always hated her life at Saint Charles. Even disregarding the bullying, she still always felt uneasy there. Lorraine didn’t know what it was about the place; apart for the bullying where they would tease her about her name and hit her, everything seemed to be fine at the orphanage, and yet something felt odd about the place that she couldn’t work out. All she knew was that she could feel a lot of ill intent there. The children would tease her by calling her Miss Strange, the daughter of Doctor Strange from the comic book Doctor Strange. They would also use some other references to the comic to tease her; this was something that made her upset and angry, as it made it hard to make friends. They did this not only because of her surname, but also because of the strange things that would happen around the Orphanage that no one could explain.
When the bullying first began, Lorraine went to the Head Carer, Mrs. Emma Wolf, to inform her of the older students picking on her. Mrs. Wolf was a thirty-five year widow, who had dark brown hair and eyes. Instead of helping her, Lorraine was shocked when Mrs. Wolf told her that the bullies could do whatever they wanted, as they were more important than she was. Though Lorraine didn’t know how they were important. She tried to tell others about the bullying within the orphanage, but Mrs. Wolf and the other caretakers told people that she was a trouble maker and the ring leader of those who said bad things about the orphanage, and to her surprise, people believed Mrs. Wolf and didn’t look into it. This was when Lorraine learned that there was more to the orphanage then it seemed.
Because of this, when she was six years old, she decided to spend as much time as she could away from the place by walking the streets.
Some might find it strange that a six year old could look after herself, but Lorraine learnt that most of the strange things that happened around the orphanage she was responsible for. At first she wasn’t too sure if it she was doing it or not, but over time she realized that it was her fault. She became convinced when she tried and succeeded in summoning things when she was five and a half. She had tried as a test to see if she really was responsible for some of the strange going-ons.
Whilst she was honing her summoning skills - to make sure she could do it faster and unnoticed - she remembered one of the things that happened around her. This memory made her realize that she would like to try to make things float. As she thought that if she could make things float, even herself, she thought she could do anything: She could float things from high places down to her, and if she could make herself to float, she could float over high walls, or get things from high places!
So for the next six months, Lorraine practised these two skills until she was sure she had mastered them. By the time she was six, she could summon things from a far distance and she was learning to summon things from people’s pockets without being noticed. As for floating things, she could float most things - apart from things that were heavier then she was - up to three meters. She could also make herself float up to three meters. Only after she learned these skills did she started to walk the streets.
Although Lorraine had learned these skills, she forgot to learn one thing: how to protect herself. It was something she would soon regret not learning.
As Lorraine was walking around the streets, she saw many girls with their mummies and she felt jealous of them. She knew that it was important for a child to have a mummy and daddy. But based on what she heard from the female Caretakers it was more important to have a mother - something to do with a bond between mother and daughter. She didn’t know what was special about the bond, but it did make her start to wonder if her own mother loved her or not.
She often had dreamed of a red headed lady with green eyes, the lady would sing to her and tell her that she loved her. Sometimes, Lorraine believed that these dreams were forgotten memories and were not just dreams - she thought this so she could feel that her mummy did love her. In some of these dreams, she dreamed that she was with another baby, a boy, who Lorraine thought was her brother, in these dreams they were always playing with each other.
Although she had some good dreams, maybe memories, she had one strange nightmare. She was hidden within a cupboard unable to move, but she could hear two voices, a man's and a lady's. Lorraine thought the lady's voice belonged to the voice of her dream 'mummy'. The lady's voice was begging someone not to kill someone, but to kill her instead. But Lorraine heard the man laugh evilly, and told the lady to step aside and he would deal with her later. From what Lorraine could tell, the lady wouldn't and this made the man mad and said some that she wasn't familiar with and then there was a flash of green light. Once the flash of light happened, she would either wake up in a sweat or the nightmare would start again. The thing about the nightmare was that she didn't know who the man could be, or who her 'mummy' - if she was her 'mummy' - was trying to save.
Anyway, after walking around the streets for a few hours, Lorraine realized seven men following her. She wasn't sure why they would be doing this, but she could feel ill intent from them and knew that whatever the reason for them following her, it wasn't good. So she started to walk a bit faster to get away from them, but they picked up the pace as well. So realizing that she had to lose them, she started to run for it and not look back. After running for a while and thinking that she lost them for the moment, she went down an alleyway thinking she could hide down there until she was sure it was safe to come out. Once she was in the alleyway, she went as far as she could and hid behind some dustbins and hoped that the men that were following her wouldn't find her.
But luck wasn’t with her that day, as after only a few minutes of hiding behind the dustbins, the men that were following her came into the alleyway. Hoping that they didn’t see her come in, she stayed as quiet and as still as she could. But her hopes were cut short as one of the men shouted out, “Come out, come out little girl, we saw you run in here.”
But Lorraine was too afraid to move, as she wasn’t sure what the men wanted from her, but could feel that whatever it was, it wasn’t good. And she was right. The men went farther down the alleyway, until they got to the dustbins that Lorraine was hiding behind. Then one of the men said “Come out from behind the bins little girl, make it easier on yourself.”
Lorraine knew that she had to escape, but she was too fearful too move. Before she could do anything about her fear, the dustbins had suddenly moved and she saw the seven men that had been following her. She saw that they were wearing jeans and leather jackets saying ‘Shadow Stalkers’, each of them had different coloured hair: red, blue, blond, black, brown, silver and last one looked like it was styled to look like lighting. The one with red hair said, as he picked Lorraine up and stroked her face, “Looks like you’re right Sparks, she is pretty. I just hope she's more fun than the last one Crusher picked, she was no fun at all.”
“I’m hurt Ash,” mock-pouted the one with lighting styled hair - who Lorraine thought must be Sparks, “You know I’ve got better taste in girls than Crusher has.”
“You’re right.” The red headed one that Lorraine guessed to be Ash said, “He always goes for the non-fighters which are no fun at all. Now, let’s see what we have here...” ‘Ash’ began to move his hand closer to Lorraine’s shirt.
Whilst this was going on, Lorraine was afraid and she didn’t know what these people were talking about, but she knew it wasn’t good for her and she knew she had to escape somehow. So when Ash began to move his hand closer to her she saw some dustbins and loose rubbish behind Ash and his gang. So quickly coming up with an idea and hoping it would work, she summoned the dustbins and loose rubbish behind Ash and his gang. As she had hoped, the things that she summoned hit the gang and they looked turned to see who did it. As Ash turned he loosened his grip a bit, and it was enough to get herself free. Once free, she ran as fast as she could back to Saint Charles before the gang even knew what was happening.
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When the dustbins and loose rubbish hit the Shadow Stalkers, they wondered who would dare do this to them. They knew there were only a few in the town who would dare to interfere with them, as most of the town paid them protection money. The protection was from people who were outside the town and looking for trouble, they also protected them from new gangs that would appear from time to time in the town. The townspeople also paid them to do jobs that weren’t above board, and the Shadow Stalkers could do without raising too many questions. All they asked in return was that the people turn a blind eye to what they did, no matter what it might be.
Throughout their time in Brightsummer, the Shadow Stalkers only had to show a few people what would happen if they didn’t turn a blind eye. So they knew that not many would interfere with them, and the ones who might interfere were out of town by the weekend.
As they turned to see who might try and interfere with them, they saw that the young girl they were going to some fun with escaping. So Ash shouted out, “Sparks, Crusher after her!”
But before they could start to pursue the girl, the member with black hair spoke up, “Ash I wouldn’t advise that.”
“Why not Claws?” Ash asked.
“Two reasons, Ash. The first is that I think it was her that sent the dustbins at us, which means she's a powerful magical girl if it was her. And if it was her, we don’t know what else she could do. The second is that I sense she has a great destiny ahead of her, I don’t know what it is but I do sense she’ll be more powerful as she becomes older. Giving her reason to come after us when she grows more powerful is ill-advised. The fates themselves will be watching over the girl, attempts to end her life will most likely end in failure.”
After hearing this Ash stopped Sparks and Crusher from getting the girl for a moment and turned to the blond haired member and asked “Slipstream, what can you sense from her?” Slipstream had the ability to sense things many couldn't, so his council was asked quite often when the group was having trouble making a decision.
For the next few moments Slipstream didn’t say anything, but looked like he was in a deep thought before he said “Claws is right Ash, she's powerful and with training she could be more powerful than the lot of us. Although there’s something missing from her to get there, some kind of binding or something to someone. Once she finds this person, I wouldn’t want to upset either of them.”
Nodding, Ash started to brainstorm. He knew that they couldn’t go after her, as they had a rule that they wouldn’t use any magical children for their fun. As they feared that when the children grew older and learned to control their magic they might come looking for them for revenge.
But then there was what Claws had said, the 'great destiny' bit. Normally Claws could at least tell what it was, but with this girl he couldn’t, and that worried him. “Claws,” Ash began after thinking for a few moments, “I want you, Sparks and Fangs to keep an eye on her. Don’t interfere unless her life is in danger, I want to know more about her. If she's got a destiny as great as you say ahead of her I want to find a way to use it to our advantage. So the rest of you are going to find out what you can about the girl, I want to know who we're dealing with.”
And with that they parted and went to do what they had been ordered to do, meanwhile Ash went back to their headquarters. There was something about the girl he just couldn’t put his finger on, and he thought some of the books he had might help him to find out what it was.
OoOoO
Back with Lorraine
Once Lorraine left the alley, she ran as fast as she could back to Saint Charles, all the while hoping that she lost the Shadow Stalkers. It didn’t take long before she arrived back at the orphanage, but she found that it was locked up. Lorraine felt foolish as she remembered that the Caretakers of the orphanage took the children out for the day, seeing as it was the weekend.
The Caretakers would take the orphans to the Cinema for the afternoon on Saturdays, and depending when the film would finish, they would take the orphans to either to the seaside or to the arcades and the fair. Or if the movie set was filming, they would take them to see it being made.
Lorraine wasn’t worried about being locked out, as she knew where the spare key was hidden. Seeing as some of the Caretakers and some of the older orphans were allowed out at nights, Mrs. Wolf built a flour bed area made of brick and hid the spare key behind a loose brick. This was so if the staff or the older orphans were late getting back, they would have a way in.
Once inside the orphanage Lorraine heard some sounds coming from upstairs, which was strange seeing that everyone was meant to be out for the day. But she thought it was possible that either someone was ill and couldn’t go out that day, or someone had come home early for some reason. But there was also a part of her felt that something was wrong, and she should find a Caretaker. But a big part of her couldn’t, as she didn’t want to look foolish and be made fun of if she was wrong. So as quietly as possible, she went upstairs to see who was there.
As Lorraine went upstairs she was surprised to see one of the bedroom doors was half open, normally when everyone was out the doors would be closed in case a fire started. So when she walked to the door and peeked inside, she was confused and scared of what she saw.
She saw David, a six year old boy who had been at the orphanage for a year, naked and shaking in fear. As she carefully looked round, Lorraine saw two other men in the room both of whom were naked as well. One man had black hair with a scar on his face, whilst the other man had long red hair with scars on his back. She was so shocked at what she saw she found she couldn’t move. As she looked on, she saw the man with red hair made David kneel in front of the other man, and the other man hold his penis in his hand and told David to suck it. David was too afraid to do anything though.
Lorraine could tell that the black haired man wasn’t happy with David not doing as he told, so he hit him across the face as the black haired man told David angrily to suck his dick like a lollipop, or he would get much worse then a back-hand.
Out of fear, David did as he was told. She was even more shocked because the man with red hair came up to the black haired man and kissed him. As the two men was kissing, the man with red hair put a hand onto David’s head and started to push and pull it from the black haired man’s penis.
This only lasted until the black haired man gave a strange moan and a strange white cream came out of David’s mouth, causing him to start coughing. Lorraine then saw the red and black haired men started to touch and kiss David for a short while before they placed David onto the bed face down. Lorraine started shaking in fear as she saw the red haired man force his penis into David, causing the boy to start screaming.
As David screamed, Lorraine realized that she had to get him out of there so they could both run for help. Lorraine knew that she couldn’t just run in and get David from the bad men. So she tried to summon David, but when she tried she wasn’t able to for some reason. Although she hated the idea she knew she had to run and get some help for David, hoping he would be okay Lorraine moved as quietly as she could from the door and went downstairs. She ran into Mrs. Wolf.
Sighing with the relief at seeing Mrs. Wolf, Lorraine told her what she had just seen. As she explained Lorraine saw fear and shock on Mrs. Wolf's face, which Lorraine thought was because of what she told her. At first Mrs. Wolf didn't seem to want to believe it and told Lorraine that she was just seeing things and it didn't really happen. But Lorraine didn’t give up and kept on about it. In the end though, Lorraine dragged the Mrs. Wolf up the stairs to show her.
But as she got up the stairs, she saw that the door to the room that she saw David and the bad men were in was closed. When she opened the door, the room was empty and it looked like that the room hadn’t been used since that morning. Lorraine couldn't understand this, she had just left to get help not too long ago and she didn't see how the room could look like this in a short time.
Mrs. Wolf seemed to be worried about Lorraine, and asked Lorraine to come to her office so they could talk about what she had seen and work out why she would see it. Once in the office, Mrs. Wolf asked if Lorraine wanted a drink in which Lorraine said yes. As Mrs. Wolf was getting the drinks, she started to ask Lorraine why she wasn't with the others and how she got into the orphanage when it was meant to be locked. So Lorraine told her that she felt down and wanted some time to herself. She told Mrs. Wolf that as she was walking around the town, she was thinking about her real parents and wondered if they cared for her or not.
Lorraine also told Mrs. Wolf about the Shadow Stalkers and what they did. What she left out was how she really escaped the Shadow Stalkers. She also told Mrs. Wolf about how she knew about the spare key. That was the last thing she could remember as she drank the tea Mrs. Wolf give her before everything went dark.
When she came too, she was in the garden shed; she had no memories of what happened in the orphanage or about the spare key. Instead, she remembered running back to the orphanage after what happened with the Shadow Stalkers, but instead of going into the orphanage, she went into the shed to wait for the others to return. As she waited for them to get back, she fell asleep. She was awakened a few hours later by Mrs. Wolf who found her in the shed. She then spent the rest of the day planning on how to defend herself from people like the Shadow Stalkers and anyone else who would want to hurt her.
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As Lorraine went to sleep that night, her dreams were haunted by the memories of what she had forgotten that day. When she awoke, it was still dark and she couldn’t get back to sleep because of the dreams haunted her sleep, so she thought about the nightmare. It was about a boy, David, who had been at the orphanage for a year. It was strange, in the nightmare David was forced to suck a man’s penis and then someone forced his penis into David’s bum. Lorraine wondered how she had this nightmare at all, since she'd never even seen a penis before. Seeing that she wasn’t going to sleep anytime soon she decided to take a walk around the orphanage as that normally helped her to sleep.
As Lorraine was walking the ground floor, she heard voices coming from Mrs. Wolf’s office. Wondering who would be there this time of night, she quietly walked toward the office and listened, “- but we do have a problem, and this is why I asked you to come tonight Mr. Malfoy.” Lorraine heard Mrs. Wolf say to someone. As carefully as she could she looked through the gap in the door. Lorraine saw a man in early thirties; he had a pale, pointed face with long pale blond hair. The man wore a black robe, which Lorraine thought was strange, and held a cane in his hands. There was something about the man that made Lorraine ill and wanted nothing to do with the man. As she was examining the man, she heard Mrs. Wolf say, “I believe the wards you put up are weakening, as over the last two weekends Miss. Strange was able to come into the orphanage whilst some important people were… enjoying out product.”
As Lorraine was wondering what wards were, and what Mrs. Wolf meant by the funny way she said 'product' along with the fact that she had walked into them, but had no memory of it she heard a male voice say, “There’s nothing wrong with the wards. I checked them a month ago when I was last here. It’s just that the girl is much more powerful then we first suspected.”
“So why not bind her magic then?” Lorraine heard Mrs. Wolf asked, “It would be better for everyone.”
Lorraine was confused at what Mrs. Wolf said, it seemed that Mrs. Wolf thought that she had magic. She knew that couldn’t be right, magic wasn’t real, was it? It would explain all the weird things that happened around the orphanage and how she could make things float and summon things to her though. As she was thinking about this, she heard Mr. Malfoy say, “No, it’s important that her magic stays free, we removed the blocks she already had for a reason. It is our hope that she’ll learn to control her magic and in turn learn wandless magic.”
“‘Our hope’?” Mrs. Wolf parroted.
“Those who are loyal to the Dark Lord.” Mr. Malfoy explained abidingly, “We know that although our Lord was defeated by Potter, we know that the Dark Lord is out there gaining power to return. I know He’ll be angry at us for not looking for Him, but it’s unsafe for us to look for Him whilst Dumbledore is keeping watch over us. Instead we’re preparing for his return by building him a new army loyal to the Dark Lord. It is why when we first noticed Miss Strange, we hoped that when she is eleven and ready to learn more about magic we could get her on our side.”
“You’re foolish to follow Voldemort, but -” Mrs. Wolf began, but was interrupted by an angry Mr. Malfoy. Lorraine saw him get up, pull a strange stick from his cane and point it at Mrs. Wolf, and say angrily, “Do not say the Dark Lord’s name, you are -” but that was all Mr. Malfoy was able to say when Lorraine saw him forced back down into his chair by an invisible force.
Lorraine was shocked at what she saw: the strange stick and the invisible force that pushed Mr. Malfoy back into his chair. Her shock wasn’t going to end there though, as she saw Mrs. Wolf get up from her chair and walk around the chair to stand a few feet from Mr. Malfoy. What Lorraine saw now shocked her even more; she saw a dark shadow creep over Mrs. Wolf’s face, which was now full of hate, anger and coldness.
She was furthermore shocked as she heard Mrs. Wolf say coldly to Mr. Malfoy, “You’re forgetting who you’re talking to Lucius, I am not some foolish Muggle or Mudblood. I’m Daphne le Fey; Rune Mistress, and last descendent of Morgan le Fey. And if it wasn’t for Lucifer turning me into a near Squib, I would have given Voldemort a run for his money as a Dark Lady. And before you threaten me Lucius, you should remember two things. First is that I know a lot about this town both the normal and magical side of it, and I’ve kept reports of everything I know. So if you decided to have me killed or have my memories wiped or do anything else to me, I’ve got plans set up so that the reports would be sent to people in the right places in the Muggle and Wizarding World. And as you know, if the Muggle World learns about the Wizarding World, and learns what happens in this town, they won’t be too happy with the Wizarding World and who knows what will happen then.” She gave Mr. Malfoy an evil smile.
Whilst Lorraine was trying to understand about what Ms. le Fey said about Muggle, Mudblood, Muggle and Wizarding World, she heard Ms. le Fey continue, “Another thing you should remember is that you need me more then I need you. You need me as I am the only one willing to allow you to use these children for your plans and desires. True, you could find someone else and control them one way or another, but none of them would know runes as well as I do. And you need someone who knows runes for these wards of yours, as well as for your future plans. So before you start threatening someone, know who you’re dealing with.”
After hearing what she just did, Lorraine knew that she couldn’t stay here any longer. She needed to get out of there and try and get some help, as the children here were in danger from these two. So backing up slowly, so as not to make a sound, she worked her way to the stairs so that she could get some of her things before she left the place.
However, as she was backing up, she didn’t notice a stand that an old vase that Daphne had brought was on. If she did see it, she wouldn’t have bumped into it and knocked the vase off, which promptly broke when it hit the flour. And with the sound of the vase braking, Daphne undid the rune work on Mr. Malfoy, just in case she needed his help, and went out to see what had made the sound. She was shocked to see Lorraine out there and was wondering if she had heard anything and if she did how much, so in a kind tone of voice she asked, “Lorraine dear, what are you doing up this time of night? Is everything alright?”
Not wanting to get caught having overheard what she did, she quickly thought of something to say. She said, “I-I’m sorry about the vase Mrs. Wolf, I couldn’t sleep because of what happened to me earlier and thought to take a walk to clear my mind, but as I was walking, I didn’t notice the stool.”
Daphne wasn’t happy about the vase braking, in fact she was fuming as she got it three hundred years ago, but she knew she couldn’t let it show. So she said calmly, “No worries dear, it must have been frightening, why don’t you come into my office and I'll make you a warm glass of milk, I find that it helps me to sleep.” She also believed that Lorraine wasn’t telling her everything and she did hear something, as Lorraine was acting weirdly and she wanted to know what the young girl had overheard.
Not knowing what knowing what to do, Lorraine pretended to yawn as she said “Th-that’s alright Mrs. Wolf, I think I’ll be fine without it, I'll just got back to bed.” And with that she started to walk towards the stairs, but Daphne stopped her as she said “Lorraine dear, please come to my office as I need a word anyway.”
Pretending to yawn again, Lorraine said “Can it wait ‘til morning Mrs. Wolf? I'm tired and want to sleep.”
Daphne now knew that she knew something, so she said “I’m sorry to hear that... Lucius come out here, we have a problem.” She called over her shoulder.
“What’s the problem?” Lucius said, rubbing his sore limbs.
“It seems that Lorraine here might have overheard us talking.” Daphne explained.
Fearing what might happen to her she started rambling, “I didn’t hear anything that you and Mr. Malfoy were talking about.” She covered her mouth with her hands as she caught her mistake.
“How else would you know Lucius’ surname?” Daphne asked, “Tell me what you heard and things will be easier for you.”
“I didn’t hear anything, I promise.” Lorraine said fearfully.
“I’m sorry to hear that Lorraine.” She turned to Lucius. “If you don’t mind making her forget about this evening, I think it would be for the best.”
With a smile Lucius pulled the top of his cane off to reveal a strange looking stick and pointed it at Lorraine. Before she could do anything, he said / “Obliviate,” / and with that one word, Lorraine wouldn’t remember a single thing that she had heard that night.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Author’s Notes: Hi all, here ends another chapter of Children of the Darkness; Dark Beginnings, I hope that you all like the story and you would take a few more minutes to give a review. As I would like to hear what you think and any ideas you would like to happen in the story.
I’m still looking for help with ideas on how Harry and Lorrain can seduce and flirt with people, to get what they want. I’m asking as you all know, I’m not an expert in this kind of things, and I would like to ask for your thoughts and ideas in this area.
I’m planning to add technology into this story, namely nanobots and a few other things, and I was wondering what you thought of this idea. Please let me know what you think, as I would like to hear what you think and to hear what ideas you might have. I was thinking of using nanoborts so Muggles could become metamorphmagus, have super strength, speed, sight and hearing naming a few ideas for the nanoborts.
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