Dark Star Prologue; before the beginning

Prologue; before the beginning

Mrs. Snape of Spinner's End was looking worried outside the window. Her black eyes reflected in the on coming street lights. She stood on the tips of her toes, seeing she wasn't very tall. Her thin hands and long fingers brushed her black hair out of her heart-shaped face. She had a sweet small nose and fair skin. But further she looked as if something was bothering her very much. It was getting late and her husband, Mr. Snape, was arriving late from his work. Nervous as she was, she wicked and flicked a small, thin wooden stick. This was not an ordinary wooden stick. This was a magic wand. As Mrs. Snape was not an ordinary woman but a witch. She looked outside again and saw headlights coming on the entering of the street. Mrs. Snape's breathing sped up. Her husband was home, at last. She flicked her wand and it left the entire house spotless, before putting it away. Her husband was what she called a muggle. Someone with not a drop of magical blood in his or her veins.

The front door creaked open and was closed again with a very loud Bang! as a tall man stepped into the living room. He had a sallow skin and short black hair with grey at the roots. And enormous long hooked nose and baby blue eyes set above it.

“Eileen” set Mr. Snape to his wife.

Mrs. Snape could smell an air of strong alcohol and cigarettes.

“Eileen, what have you been doing today?” Mr. Snape asked his wife in a defensive tone, as if he was being attacked by his wife.

“Cleaning.” Mrs. Snape replied, but her voice had an screechy sound to it.

“How nice.” Mr. Snape said with a bored tone to his voice.

“When's diners ready?” asked Mr. Snape while taking the news paper in his hands.

“20 minutes my way. One hour, your way.” Mrs. Snape answered her husband.

“Good.” Mr. Snape said while walking towards the stairs, to read his news paper in their bedroom, as he always did.

“I'll see you in an hour then.”

Mrs. Snape stared angry at he back of the retreating form of her husband. She cleared her mind and sighed as she walked away to the kitchen to get started on diner. She passed a mirror and absent mindedly petted her beach ball sized belly. Eileen Snape was pregnant with her first child.

She let her mind wander freely while chopping up ingredients, not bothering to use a knife but waving her wand back and forward. Asking herself why she married Tobias, before she told him she was a witch. He let slip, several times a week, that he hated magic and everything that was just the least bit suspicious. He had forbidden his wife to preform magic at any time or anywhere. But ever since she got pregnant he had to give in to the hormones raging trough her body. So, after hours and days of fighting with each other, Mr. Snape told his wife she was aloud to use magic when he was away. However, when Tobias Snape returned home from work or the pub she was to get rid of her wand immediately. And it would be best if there was nothing magical around. Not for Eileen, not for Tobias and not for their unborn child. Though she had given it thought to leave Tobias, there where two reasons that she stayed. The first was that she had no family and no money to go anywhere. She also was seven months pregnant. And second, she loved Tobias with her entire heart.

From the diary of Eileen Snape – Prince.

January 1^st; Happy New Year. My contractions are getting worse, even out of control I would say. Tobias is scared of the timing, he does not want to drive to the hospital at night, when he has been drinking. He also does not know what to do when the baby comes sooner then when he's not home.

January 4^th; Tobias took a week of work, to stay here and clean the house as I have gotten this big I can barely leave the bed. He told me he was concerned about money.

January 9^th; I just gave birth to a baby boy. We have decided to call him Severus. Tobias seems happy, but I’m not sure what he will do if he finds out that Severus might be a wizard.

January 30^th; I got into a row with Tobias, because I got an owl from an old school friend whom heard about me getting a baby. The package contained baby clothing and a request for pictures. Tobias hit me when he found out and then left for the pub, to go and drink again.

February 8^th; Severus just made a chair levitate while I was changing his clothes. Good thing Tobias was not here.

February 19^th; Tobias got fired. Hell broke loose as he raged on and on about it. Severus cried all day long. There was no silencing that boy.

March 11^th; Tobias found a new job, at the post office. He also found out about Severus' magical gifts.

April 6^th; Things are well. Still not much money. Tobias asked me if I could not produce money, by magic. I explained the magical rules. He did not like that very much.

On a drowsy raining morning in September Mrs. Snape sat at the breakfast table – waiting for her husband, Mr. Snape, to finish his breakfast. Mr. Snape noticed and put down his fork and looked at his wife in a funny way.

“Yes?” He said – in a slightly curious tone.

“Isn't breakfast good?” Mrs. Snape asked back in return.

“I guess it's okay.”

“Good.”

“What is on your mind?” Mr. Snape asked raising his eyebrow.

“Well,” she said, weighing the words in her mind.

“What?” Mr. Snape said, anger the base emotion in his tone.

“We, we, are having another baby. I'm pregnant again.”

Mr. Snape his mouth fell open and he rose from his chair and flying with arms open to his wife. After a long minute Mr. Snape went back to his chair and took another bite of his eggs.

“I just hope that this child will not become a freak, like you and Severus.” after he said this, he stood up again and left for work.

From the diary of Eileen Snape – Prince.

October 31^th; I've been to the hospital, there seems to be something wrong with the baby. We had no idea what.

November 11^st; I've been having nightmare's and I seem to have a craving for sweets. The baby moved for the firs time. 3 months pregnant.

December 25^th; I wanted to buy Severus a nice gift, but money is low. Well he is to young to remember anyway. Merry Christmas.

January 18^th; Everything is fine with the baby again. I'm getting very big.

March 4^th; I asked my neighbours to watch Severus when we need to go to the hospital.

March 21^th; I was brewing a potion. But then something was very odd about it. A few drops splashed over my body.

May 4^th; Getting ready to give birth – days are dragging.

May 8^th; I finally gave birth. And guess what, it's a girl. Tobias insisted to name her Angel and I agreed. She has his eyes. Baby blue.