Essie Snape's fourth year at Hogwarts proves it will be a stressful one before it even begins when she learns the reason why her parents have been fighting with each other for the last few weeks of the summer. AU. Part X of Family Branches.
"I was glad," he began quietly, averting his eyes from my own and onto the blanket he was steadily picking at. "I was glad that the first face I woke up to was yours. Part of me was almost glad that I got so badly injured because how else would I have seen you again? Godric, I was almost thankful for it, isn't that insane?"
"What do you want?" I demanded, stopping in my step to glare at the younger boy. The shorter boy looked up at me with a small smile; why was he always smiling? "Well?" "I wanted to talk to you about something," he explained. "Since when were we friends?"
Colin creía que yo era hermosa. Por eso murió por mí. Saltó frente a la maldición asesina que habría supuesto mi final. Le amé mucho, y sé que él también me amaba. Es por eso que lo hizo. Pero ahora estoy rota. Y nunca volveré a ser hermosa.
On a fine day, during summer holidays, two Hogwarts students, one pure-blood, one Muggle-born meet in a small market town in the north of England.