"You didn't mean it," I start. "Just go away Clove," he whispers dully. But I don't go away, I can't do that. Instead I lay down beside him and wrap my arms around him. My arm aches when I do, but I ignore the pain. For once love is stronger. We stay like that as the sun dips down from the sky. Because he needs me right now, and I'm not going anywhere.

"Carina Anne Fox you are sentenced to live out the rest of your life at Trenton State Sanatorium for the Criminally Insane for the crime of stabbing and killing your 10 year old sister Sarah Henry Fox and you father Anthony Albert Christian Fox. We pray you get better in the name of the holy spirit." The big oak doors close behind me, sealing out the world and my life.

'If the darkness was there it was buried deep within'. Nina feels normal. However there is a darkness deep within her and as the years go on it blossoms and finds roots deep inside her. Years later they wonder what happened to her, what turned her that way. All they remember is the sweet girl between Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini.

'If the darkness was there, it was buried deep within' Nina Snape is normal, well normal for a Witch that is. However evil lies in the shadows-waiting, and answers to questions asked long ago begin to rise to the surface, in a course of events Nina never expected. The darkness within unfolds, and truths are found. Truths that were probably best left un-found.