Orphic

Celeste sat on her bed reading the iliad, she had stolen it from Dorothy Prinn, one of the girls in the orphanage. She was a nice enough girl but she never liked Celeste after she bashed her brother's head in with a rock. In her defence, he deserved it.

Druella turned to look at her from where she was sitting on Sierras bed “You do know we have to be in the boys dorms in” The brunette checked her watch “7 minutes”

“Yes,” Celeste replied.

“And you're sitting in a nightdress and your hair is still damp” Druella scolded, raising an eyebrow

Celeste loved her friends, she truly did but she just wanted to curl up into a ball with her book right now.

“Fine, fine i'm getting ready” Celeste groaned, getting up from her bed and walking to the wardrobe at the end of her bed.

Celeste pulled out the first things she saw and decided that was good enough. It was a pair of black linen trousers paired with a white collared shirt with three buttons at the top.

She stripped off her nightdress until she stood in her underwear staring at her reflection in the mirror. She stared at her figure and her face and felt disgusted.

Celeste knew she was beautiful, realistically she did but staring at herself right now she couldn't disagree more, her eyes were too far apart, her hair had no volume, her mouth didn't fit her face, her hips were too wide for her waist-

“Celeste, sweetheart are you alright?” Druellas voice cut through the chaos in Celestes head.

“Yeah, im fine” Celeste said quickly, turning away from the mirror and quickly putting on the clothes on her bed

She then threw her damp hair into a slicked back bun that made her look far too much like Mrs Cole for her liking.

She decided to keep her face bare, she couldn't stand to look in the mirror long enough to do it.

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Celeste walked into the boys dorms feeling like shit.

The boys dorm was much smaller than the girls, a rectangular room with six beds lining it and a bathroom on the left. No vanities, no bay windows, nothing.

Celeste sat at the edge on toms bed while the girls sat on the other boys beds

Sierra sat beside a grinning Linus flint.

Anabel sat beside Jacks Avery.

Druella sat beside Orion, the two cousins falling into easy conversation.

Celina sat beside Abraxas.

“Wow ladies thanks for that” Leo Yaxley grumbled from his bed, where he sat alone.

“You're welcome,” Celina said with a sarcastic smile.

“Quiet” Tom said, his voice echoing around the room.

The whole room fell immediately silent.

“I found something that you may find interesting,” Tom smiled coldly.

“My charms homework that one of you definitely stole?” Leo joked

“I said QUIET!” Tom boomed and everyone flinched.

Tom composed himself terrifyingly fast after his outburst and that was far scarier than his rage.

“As I was saying, I found something that you might find interesting.”

“And what is that” Celeste said hesitantly

“The chamber of secrets” Tom smirked

“Fuckkkk”

“Holy shit”

“No fucking way”

“Merlin's beard”

Everyone's different variations of curses were breathed from their lips at Tom's words.

However it was Celeste's voice, spoken at the same volume but somehow carried across the room, Celeste often had that effect.

“And what do you plan to do with this information?” She said, turning to look at Tom.

“I plan to open it and finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work” Tom proclaimed and the room erupted in cheers.

“What's the monster? I always wondered what it was.” Yaxley said from the far corner of the room.

At this the whole room quieted. All desperate for the knowledge of the near mythical beast that resided in the castle under their noses.

“A basilisk” Tom smirked

Sierra, Druella, Celeste, Orion and Abraxas all gasped, while the others looked confused.

“What's that?” Anabel asked, leaning back on the bed so that she was practically lying on Avery who looked thrilled to have the gorgeous blonde lying on him.

“Big snake that kills you if you look it in the eye” Sierra said

“That's horrifying, what if you accidentally look it in the eye” Anabel shuddered.

“Then youre fucked” Yaxley joked, smirking at her. Anabel just gave him a disgusted look before continuing to lie on Jacks.

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“Come on Fawley, we’ll stop if you just tell us where the passage is” Anabel crooned from beside Celeste

“I'm not telling you guys shit!” Ezra Fawley screamed, bearing his blood drenched teeth at Celeste, who was grinning.

She loved when they fought back, loved breaking them to her will.

Celina laughed from where she stood, leaning against the wall “She warned you”

Fawley growled, his gryffindor uniform drenched in blood and attempted to lunge at Celeste, fists flying. He was immobilised with a wave of Sierra's wand.

“Tut, tut Fawley, did your parents never teach you not to hit girls, oh wait… they got blown up by Grindelwald didn't they?” Celeste laughed in his face before leaning down over his immobilised body.

“Secare aperta” Celeste grinned while she spoke the words and grinned wider as a gash appeared in his stomach.

It was an extremely dark spell from a book she found in knockturn alley in her second year, she had always wanted to try it out. The spell creates a gash in the stomach that can get deeper or shallower at the casters wish, and didn't leave a single mark after the counter curse was casted.

She willed the gash to go deeper while Anabel pulled his shirt up and took in the injury with an impressed whistle.

“I'm going to need you to teach me that, Celeste,” Anabel said before dipping a finger into the wound and pinching his intestine. Hard.

He was screaming louder than ever now and Celeste hoped the silencing charm was still holding up.

“Did you just pinch his intestine” Celina choked

Anabel just grinned up at her, her arms and hands drenched in blood “Come try it, it's fun” Anabel grinned

Anabel was always right next to Celeste whenever they were torturing someone, Celina and Sierra were always on lookout and occasionally suggesting a spell. Druella was never there, she's always been squeamish, she’d cast a killing curse but cant handle a little blood.

“Okay! I'll tell you but please stop, I'm begging you… please just stop” Fawley finally screamed, he held out longer than they had expected.

“Alright then sweetheart, where is it?” Celeste said, her demeanour immediately switching.

“It's behind a mirror in the fourth floor corridor next to a painting of a fireplace” He sobbed.

“And where does it lead to?” Anabel said, stroking his hair away from his sweaty forehead, her voice laced with faux sympathy.

“A cave in hogsmeade now please stop” He begged

Celeste obliged, performing the counter curse and the wound closed, not even leaving a scar.

Sierra walked up to him, pointed her wand at his bloody clothes and said “Scourgify” His clothes immediately became spotless.

Anabel then fired a stunning spell at him, knocking him unconscious while Celina adjusted his memory with an obliviate.

“Well done, girls” Celeste grinned, and they all grinned back

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Celeste peered into the mirror on the fourth floor, Tom standing beside her.

They had gone to the common room immediately after leaving Ezra in the abandoned classroom they were torturing him, getting the boys and Druella and bringing them up here.

Avery was the one that pulled the mirror off the wall, revealing a secret passage.

They filed in one by one and walked into the passage.

“Lumos” Tom said, his wand lighting up a large tunnel that had no visible end.

“This is spooky” Leo said, from where he was standing next to Druella

“Can you go and be stupid somewhere away from me Yaxley” Duella griped, moving to stand beside Celina.

“I’m not stupid Black, im funny” Leo replied with an eye roll

“Anabel is funny, you're just annoying” Druella argued

“Greengrass isnt funny”

“Yes i am Yaxley-”

“SHUT UP” Tom screamed, making them all halt.

They paused for seconds before continuing on in silence.

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The tunnel opened up into a cave around 40 minutes into their walk, it was dark outside, it was around 11pm on a friday in november.

Tom led them through the cave and into the main village. None of them knew why they were here, they had just been told by Tom to find a passage into hogsmeade.

They walked into the hogs head, out of all the places Celeste expected them to be going to the hogs head wasn't one of them.

They all sat at a table and Tom cast a silencing charm around them.

“I need you all to steal one wand each,” Tom said coldly, looking over them all.

Celeste could see Yaxleys mouth opening to no doubt say something stupid and she stomped on his foot, hard.

“Meet back in the cave once you're finished and if you come back empty handed you will regret it, Celeste you're with me”
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Linus flint was speaking to an older man that was sitting at the bar, trying to get him talking long enough to slip his wand without him noticing.

“So my little jonathan will be starting hogwarts next year, i hope he's a ravenclaw like me but ill be proud of him no matter what house he's in, ya know what i mean, i don't understand how parents can disown their children based on what house they're in”

“Yeah mate, don't get it either” Linus replied

“Here let me buy you a firewhiskey kid,” The man said before shouting to the barman to get him two firewhiskeys, but by the time he turned back around Linus was gone, and so was his wand.

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Druella Black was sitting in a group with three women 5 or 6 years older than her, one had black curly hair, the other with wavy brown hair, similar to her own and the final one was a blonde woman.

They were chatting about everything from the weather to their families.

“My son will not stop crying 24/7 i left him with my husband to deal with because i desperately need a night out” The blonde woman complained

Druella wasn't yet sure how she planned to steal a wand; she just figured if she kept talking long enough an opportunity would arise.

“Are you married” The brunette woman asked Druella

“Me? no, im betrothed though” To her fucking cousin, she was promised to Cygnus when she was two and he was 15, he was 27 now and they were expected to wed when she was 17 and he was 30.

They all gave her sympathetic looks, understanding shining in their eyes.

“I’m going to the bathroom, Capella don't drink my firewhiskey like last time” The brunette said to the black haired woman, who laughed loudly.

This was her chance. She stood up.

“I need the bathroom too, i'll come with you”

They walked into the cramped female bathroom, the brunette drunkenly stumbling every few steps.

“Would you be a dear and hold my bag for me?” The woman said, extending her black bag that Druella grabbed quickly.

As the woman walked into a stall Druella took her wand, plus a really pretty shade of lipstick before placing the bag next to the sink and walking out, quickly casting a disillusionment charm on herself.

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Jacks Avery was sitting at the bar beside an extremely drunk man, and when he said extreme, he meant extremely drunk.

“A was like you once kid, sneaking out of hogwarts and coming to bars to drink and now ive been out of hogwarts for 30 years and i'm here every day now” The man slurred, his breath reeking of firewhiskey

“Sound like you're out living the life” Jacks laughed

“I'm not, kid” The man smiled sadly then went into a long explanation that jacks couldn't be bothered to listen to about how depressed he was, he painted a sympathetic look on his face and gave him a hug, his hand reaching into his back pocket and taking his wand, he slipped it into his pocket before the man had a chance to notice.

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Anabel Greengrass was in a dark corner of the leaky cauldron, hidden from view of where she was perched on the lap of an older man.

His hands were perched on her hips while she straddled him, kissing his neck and the man moaned, wanting more.

Anabel got on her knees in front of the man, quickly checking her surroundings and making sure nobody could see into the curtained off room, that was no doubt here for this exact reason.

She then unbuckled his belt, then pulled his stained trousers down and nearly gagged at the smell on him, she reminded herself it would be appropriate to gag once his dick was in her mouth.

So that's what she did, her mouth moving up and down while her hand stroked the bits that her mouth couldn't reach.

“Fuck, yes youre so much better than my wife was, how old are you again sweetheart”

“Im 14 sir” Anabel said, lifting her head to look at him.

“Oh fuck, im gonna cum all over your face” He groaned, his hips bucking

‘Well, that was fast’ Anabel thought before his release barreled into her mouth, she slipped his wand from his pocket whilst he was still delirious from his orgasam.

“Would Have killed my wife sooner if i'd known i could have this much fun with her gone” The man muttered quietly, pulling his trousers up, obviously not thinking Anabel could hear him.

But she could.

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Orion Black was sitting across from a man in his mid 20’s, he was wearing a leather jacket and grinning at him.

“I remember the days of sneaking out to go get drunk with my friends, what passage did you go through” He said

“Fourth floor mirror” Orion said back to the man, Sopdet, or so he had introduced himself as.

“Ah, i know the one” Sopdet replied

“I'm just back from work see, i'm an auror, had this guy running about luton talking to muggles about how he was a wizard and was trying to use his cock to cast curses on people” Sopdet laughed

“No way” Orion was laughing hysterically.

“I’m telling you, I saw it with my own two eyes” Sopdet had tears in his eyes from laughing so hard.

He didn't want to steal his wand, this man was exactly who Orion wanted to be if he didn't have his parents breathing down his neck. He had to, Tom would kill him if he disobeyed him.

“Lets go to the bar and you can tell me about this guys dick magic” Orion asked and Sopdet agreed, getting up to walk to the bar and Orion grabbed his wand out of his backpack and continued walking with him towards the bar.

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The first person whose wand Sierra tried to steal caught her in the act, thankfully the woman didn't make a scene and just left, she was a ministry worker that was unmarried and childless and wished to keep it that way.

The second woman Sierra decided to go for was a sad looking woman sat at a table in the corner.

“Mind if I join you?” Sierra said.

“Not at all, come sit” She patted the seat beside her.

“Are you alright? You look rather upset” Sierra said and hoped her voice sounded sympathetic because she really didn't feel any.

“No, no, love, I'm alright im just having some marital issues at the moment, i can't have children see, and my husband really wants kids” She said, her face cracking into a weak smile.

“That's a lovely handbag you've got there.” Sierra said, praying she’d fall for the bait, and shut up about her sob story.

“It has snakeskin on the inside. Would you like to see?” She said with a kind smile. Sierra already knew about the snakeskin, Anabel had the exact same bag and had let her borrow it at a gala last year.

“I'd love to” Sierra grinned

Her wand was up Sierra's sleeve before the woman could blink, and walked away with a sigh of relief.

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Leo Yaxley decided he didn't want to steal the first person's wand, or the second, or the third, they were genuinely nice people and he didn't feel like doing that to them.

The fourth person he approached was an older man sitting at the bar.

“Alright?” Leo said sliding into the seat beside him.

“Alright?! No, I'm not alright, that little slut stole my wand!” Well fuck he wouldnt be any good to steal a wand off if he didnt have one.

Leo resorted to tripping a random man, helping him up and taking his wand, then he wouldn't have a chance to know if they were a good person or not.

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Celina Rosier hated the hogs head. So she left, she was wandering the streets of hogsmeade when she came across a family, a woman in her mid thirties playing with her three children out in the snow that was beginning to fall.

She quickly cast a disillusionment charm on herself, she had always been brilliant in charms.

She crept up behind the mother, silent as death and simply grabbed the wand out of her hand and calmly walked away, the mothers confused shouts fading behind her.

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Abraxas Malfoy has never pickpocketed in his life, not for fun, and definitely not because he didn't have enough money.

The first person he had chatted to for a good half hour, then he simply asked for his wand, the man then gave him a funny look, said no and walked away.

He wasn't sure what his thought process was when he simply asked him to hand it over, but it was definitely the wrong one.

He had then decided to go and find the drunkest person he could find only to find that his wand had already been taken.

As a last resort he followed the barman into the back room, wrestled him to the floor, took his wand and obliviated him.

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Celeste was waiting for her friends to return swinging her legs while sitting on the edge of a rock.

“You look bored,” Tom said, walking to stand in front of where she was sitting, her legs on either side of his hips.

“I am bored, they're all out having fun and i'm stuck here” Celeste complained

“This is not your work my dear, your work is world domination at my side” Tom said, lifting a hand to brush her hair out of her face.

“I like the sound of that” She grins

“We’ll live in a world without the mudbloods and blood traitors” Tom said gently, caressing her cheek with the back of his hand.

“You know Tom, there's a chance that you’re a mudblood,” Celeste teased.

Her head cracked against the rock and she crumpled to the ground. Tom was gripping her hair, which he had used to smack her head against the unforgiving surface of the rock.

“Would you like to repeat that Celeste?” Tom said, his eyes were a violent sea and yet she found herself drowning in them.

Celeste vigorously shook her head “I’m sorry my lord it won't happen again” She said, unshed tears shining in her blue eyes but she knew crying would only make it worse for herself.

“Good girl, now get up and compose yourself before they come back, if you look weak it will reflect badly on me.”