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The Snake & The Raven

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“Wait!” she nearly screamed at the stranger, attempting to stop the girl before she ran off. She might have been a first-year, but Regina was no fool. She’d seen and lived magic since before she could even walk, and the one she just witnessed in front of her eyes was, without a doubt, much more powerful than her fellow student’s unconvincing explanation.

Regina carefully examined what happened next. The magical cloth so easily evaded the girl’s grasp, including her magic and within seconds, it quickly lunged itself onto her skirt and held tight like its entire existence depended on Regina keeping it safe.

Whoever this student was—that was not an ordinary spell, Regina was certain of it now, and for a long moment all she could do was gape at the enchanted object in awe, wondering what it was supposed to mean.

Regina slowly reached for the cloth and easily tore it away from her skirt. She could feel every fiber of magic running through the material, tingling at the tips of her fingers. It didn’t make any attempt to fight, or get away from her grasp, it almost felt like it was on a mission to find her.

“This—this thing,” she muttered, glancing up to meet the older girl’s distraught and bewildered expression. Regina kept a surprisingly calm tone, despite the unusual circumstances. For some reason, she just knew she shouldn’t be worried. But she did insist on getting some answers. Real answers.

“That is not a regular spell. Why was it running from you?”

Now Zelena was getting frustrated. She was certain she had done the spell right, but obviously it hadn't. Now she was short of days work of work, planning, and gathering of expensive ingredients, and all she had to show for it was a splinter on her finger from the drop of blood she had to add to the potion. It was all waste.

It was impossible to try and grab the cloth at this point. It was tight into the younger girl's pocket, and unless she wanted to get in more trouble, it wasn't going anywhere. The last thing she needed was a lecture from McGonagall about personal boundries. She would just have to accept the fact she was toast, and this Slytherin would be turning her into Snape lickity split. That is, unless she could use her Ravenclaw thinking to convince her otherwise.

"Fine, you're right," Zelena said, "This isn't a normal spell. I lied. I'm just trying out something, and obviously it didn't work as planned."

Zelena continued her quick thinking, hoping to ripen the deal to something that would keep the first year Slytherin's mouth shut. Something that any normal Slytherin would jump at the offer to.

"Look, if you don't tell anyone about this, I'll...I'll tell the professors that you were involved in the experiment, and you'll probably get loads of glory or something. Especially since you're a first year. Alright?"

Zelena bit her lip hoping the girl would take her offer. But something told her this first year was more clever than she let on.

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Crime & Punishment | Harry Potter AU | Dorothy & Zelena

Dorothy woke up from her sleep with an awful ache in her stomach. Her fellow Gryffindor fourth years were sound asleep in their four poster beds, not making a single sound. Everything about the room was calm and peaceful, but the internal battle inside of Dorothy’s head was not. She needed to go to the restroom, that was evident, but that would be that she’d be out of bed during the night, and she could easily get into trouble, especially with Zelena on duty, and that was not something a girl who was hoping to be chosen as Prefect next year needs.

Eventually, Dorothy had no choice, her stomach was aching badly and she simply couldn’t handle it anymore. She swiftly got out of bed and made her way down to the common room, holding up her baggy pajamas that was kindly given to her by a Hufflepuff seventh year upon finding about what Dorothy referred to as her “muggle situation”.

Dorothy left the common room and carefully made her way down the tower steps, not wanting to trip over her own pants and draw attention to herself. Once she got to the bottom, she made her way down the corridor, thinking only one thing to hers: “Don’t run into Green, don’t ruin into Green.” Dorothy was so focused on holding up her pants and trying not to get caught, she didn’t even notice who was standing at the end of the corridor.

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The night watch was quite a nostalgic duty for Zelena, one she had not had the chance to perform since her last year. After becoming Head Girl, she wasn’t required to take time to monitor the halls anymore. She was now in charge of ordering the Prefects herself. However, that night, a fellow Ravenclaw Prefect, Penelope Clearwater, had begged her for the night off to get in a bit of extra studying. Zelena knew full well she was lying, and wanted to spend some extra time with the Weasley Prefect boy she fancied, and she didn’t mind at all. Zelena missed the silence of Hogwarts at midnight, and wanted to get in as much as she could before she’d be inevitably leaving the school come the end of term.

However, one thorn in her side and a nuisance she could wait to be rid of come summer, was the impudent and impulsive farm girl that the fellow students called Dorothy. Zelena didn’t know what it was, maybe she reminded her too much of herself, or maybe she secretly felt threatened by her gung-ho attitude to take Zelena’s place, but she did not like her. At all. In her time at Hogwarts she’d met a lot of ambitious students that she adored, but never one that came across so...obnoxious.

Which, by Zelena’s fortune, made it all the more enjoyable when Dorothy Brown came tiptoeing down the hall in her pajamas, completely unaware that Zelena was standing at the end of it holding up her illuminated wand for light. It was almost too easy. And by all her interactions with Brown, she could wait for her to try and talk back with utter disrespect and land herself in detention.

Zelena turned into Head Girl mode, which meant laying down the rules and demanding a fellow student’s attention. She declared her voice, hoping to get a little shock out of Dorothy, “Hold it. You’re out of bed, and it’s passed midnight. You better have a good reason, Brown, or it’ll be your house points.”

The Snake & The Raven

It’s been an excruciating long day for Regina. As the end of the school year approached, the stress has been overwhelming than before, causing her more than a few breakdowns already (not that she would ever admit it, though).

She always thought that Hogwarts, finally learning magic, would be an amazing opportunity for her. She’d become a proud Slytherin, just like Mother, be at the top of her classes and make her proud.

In reality, none of that happened. Ever since Regina was old enough to study more and satisfy her need to learn about Hogwarts and its history, Regina questioned her house loyalties. Slytherin was all she knew since the day she was born, her mother made sure of it, but Regina realized that was not who she wanted to be. Reading about the powerful and terrible wizards and witches that came out of this house frightened her. Surely the houses couldn’t really be just a simple matter of black and white like that, though. Her mother wasn’t evil and Regina loved her deeply, but she didn’t want to grow up and become like her, and being in Slytherin – it might be inevitable… No. Regina’s loyalties laid with Gryffindor. This is where hear heart truly belonged, she knew it without a doubt. But her mother would never accept it. Cora Mills’ daughter could never be in any house other than Slytherin.

So when the Sorting Hat proved her heart to be right, even though she presented signs of a true Slytherin as well, Regina found herself making a choice. She chose Slytherin and the Hat accepted.

She hated every second of it. The only source of solace for her this year was the woods. This was the place where she felt free, even if just for a while, and this was where she headed now. Regina needed to pull herself together in order to pass her finals and leave this year behind.

Before she could make her way out of the dungeons, though, something flew straight at her direction and floated in front of her. Regina let out a gasp and looked around to find a young girl standing not too far ahead, looking as stunned as her. Regina frowned. A Ravenclaw. Well, that was… unexpected.

But she was immediately fascinated by the stranger, as the cloth started to glow on its own accord. Something told her she could trust the girl, unlike any of her so called house ‘friends’, and Regina found herself gaping with awe. “How did you do that?” She questioned the red-head. She seemed no more than a year older than her, maybe two, and Regina already admired her skills.

“You’re not supposed to be down here, you know. No one goes anywhere near the Slytherin common room except for Slytherins,” Regina warned. If any of her housemates found an intruder down here, it wouldn’t end well. Regina was curious, though, and she narrowed her eyes at the girl. She couldn’t imagine any person who’d go there on their own free will.

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As she was racing at the speed of light, Zelena stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the innocent, first year, black haired Slytherin girl who’d caught her red handed. Panic shivered down Zelena’s whole blody. If there was anyone who would go running to Snape, it was a first year Slytherin. This was it for Zelena. All the hard work he’d put in, all her dreams of becoming Head Girl and winning the house-cup for Ravenclaw on her merits alone were now out the window. She would never be a prefect. She wouldn’t even get into fourth year, she was getting expelled. She was getting expelled that night.

In a pinch she tried to cough up something to distract the girl’s attention, “Hi! U-Um, right, you’re a Slytherin, I’m a Ravenclaw, I really shouldn’t be here. I’ll just be going...”

The attempt to change the subject failed, and Zelena noticed that the girl was fixated on the floating piece of cloth that Zelena had enchanted. The advanced medieval blood magic that wasn’t even taught at Hogwarts anymore. She was a Ravenclaw, she had to come up with a clever excuse quick. “Oh, that--t-that’s not--don’t worry about that, one of Flitwick’s students broke his wand. Happens a lot. H-He...sent a Ravenclaw to retrieve it! He’s head of house, after all. Alright, bye!”

Zelena reached her hand forward to grab the now brightly glowing blue cloth, but her grip slipped into the air when the cloth scurried out of the way like a clever ground squirrel. Thanks to Zelena’s brilliant spell, the cloth now had a mind of its own. Brilliant. Every time Zelena tried to grab it, it did a mid-air dance and evaded her hand swiftly. It was like it was taunting her.

Quick thinking, Zelena grabbed her dark green wand from her robe and pointed it at the cloth, declaring, “Immobu--”

--But the cloth was quicker. Like an attracted magnet, the cloth zoomed into the Slytherin girl’s pocket and clinged to her skirt for security. Zelena’s eyes widened. She could already picture the smug, crooked nose face of Professor Snape when he proudly gave Zelena detention for the rest of her life.

Something was very apparently odd about the behavior of the enchanted cloth. The spell was crafted to hone in on the nearest blood relative of Zelena, and she was positive she’d done it correctly, so why was it sticking to a first year girl she’d never even seen before?

Zelena had nothing else to say that could save her skin. She just stood and stared absolutely distraught and jaw-dropped.

The Snake & The Raven

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Zelena was completely over the hassle. The whole day had been exhausting--from skipping around on the Time-Turner to make all her classes and getting stuck with the dung-duties in Care of Magical Creatures, nothing was going right. But nothing was getting in the way of what she was about to do.

Getting a note to the restricted section of the library was draining. But, luckily, Zelena had the privilege of getting top marks in Professor Binns’s History of Magic class, the rarest feat known to wizard-kind, so it was easy to play the teacher’s pet card and get him to write her a note. She didn’t know why more people didn’t make more of an effort in History of Magic, it was by far the easiest class she had.

Zelena was planning a potion-induced spell, and it wasn’t going to go wrong. She already had the book, and she already had the potion brewing secretly under a table in the most cobweb infested section of the library. Today was the day. The last thing she had to put in the potion...was her blood.

Zelena had one plan and one plan only--find out where she came from. If writing countless letters to the Ministry wouldn’t work, then she would find out herself. If everything went as planned, Zelena would enchant a rag with a locator charm to light up whenever one of her immediate family was near. With the school year ending, it would be the perfect opportunity to make a trip to the popular wizarding hotspots and see if she would get lucky and get a reaction.

And so, Zelena did everything the book said. After adding her blood, she stirred twice counter-clockwise, and added the piece of cloth. After soaking for a second, she removed the cloth and recited the words “Genus Locus!”

Suddenly, much to Zelena’s surprise, there was a reaction. Immediately, Zelena figured something had gone wrong and one of Professor Snape’s ingredients was miss-labeled, causing the whole thing to go awry. She tried to grab it, but strangely, as not listed anywhere in the spellbook, the cloth began to levitate away at running speed.

Zelena panicked. If she got caught breaking all these school rules, she’d loose her chances for becoming a prefect in her 5th year for sure. Zelena tried casting spells at the flying cloth, but it was no use. The piece of cloth was on the move, and it was on the way to the Hogwarts dungeons. Specifically, the Slytherin common room.

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Cora smiled at Regina, relieved her daughter had picked up on her silent cues, and that Zelena seemed oblivious to their communication. For all that Cora would insist Zelena was every bit as much her daughter as Regina, there was no way to alter the fact that Cora would always have the more natural relationship with Regina. Whatever faults she’d had, Cora had raised Regina. The two knew each other in ways Zelena did not.

“Hunter? Is that not a boy’s name?” Cora asked, yanked from her thoughts when Zelena spoke. It was clever, perhaps, but Cora inwardly cringed at the thought of calling her granddaughter Hunter. Though she said nothing else, conscious of how hyper-critical she had been with Regina. The last thing she wanted was to push Zelena away in the same fashion.

“We really shouldn’t all be here,” Cora said. “I shouldn’t be, anyway.” She stared down again at the baby, caught in between concern over Hades and the safety of her family, and enjoying this small moment between the four of them. Her family had never felt so large, nor so complete. Cora shifted slightly, such that she could move one hand of her own to join the interlocked hands of her daughter and granddaughter.

“…we’ll need a plan, before dealing with Hades…”

Her mother’s comment on the baby’s name suggestion hasn’t surprised Regina. Not in a bit. Zelena, however… she didn’t know Cora like Regina did, and so as not to stir any fuss on the matter, Regina shot a glance at her mother and quickly interrupted. “I like Hunter,” though if she was being honest, witches and thieves, their child… something she and Robin could never have… that wound still hurt. But now wasn’t the time to dwell on it. Not under the circumstances and not when her beautiful niece already owned her heart and made it easier on her. “I’m sure Robin would appreciate the irony,” she added with a smile.

The air was heavy with tension as they tried to ignore the most important subject, but it didn’t take long for Zelena to bring it up. And Regina knew, before she even said a word, her sister worried she might have assumed she was part of it all along. But Regina was quick to dismiss her fear. “I know you weren’t part of it, Zelena. None of this is your fault. I’m just glad you and the baby got away before it was too late.” She swallowed, trying not to think of the consequences if Cora hadn’t found Zelena on time or if Zelena had thrown a tantrum and ran back to Hades with her daughter.

When her mother interlocked their hands she turned to look at her again. “You are here now, mother. Nothing else matters. And we will find a plan,” she promised. How? That was the hardest part to figure out but Regina knew they weren’t going to just give up without a fight. They would do whatever it takes to keep the town safe. She looked at her sister with a hopeful glance for something, anything that might help them defeat him. After all, there was no one who knew Hades as well as Zelena did.

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Zelena was beyond grateful and relieved that her sister didn’t hold her accountable for anything that had happened. Despite blaming herself for everything, it was nice to have support for once in her life. It was something she was going to have to get used to.

Still, the threat from Hades remained unwavering. Zelena thought to herself any possible way to alter Hades’s motivation, any thing whatsoever to use as a weakness to talk him down, or...strike him down. A gut formed in her stomach thinking about it, but there weren’t many other options.

“The biggest problem here is that Hades is a god.” Zelena said frankly. “I’ve read every magical book there is talking about the rarest and unbreakable forms of magic, and killing deities was never even a footnote. At least they’re not as frightening as Genies.”

Zelena reflected on everything she’d learned about Hades in the time that he’d know him. He ruled the Underworld, he favored blue flames, and he “loved” Zelena. But that wasn’t enough, there had to be more. He loved decay, hated hope, he despised his brother for cursing his heart--

That was it. Zelena had an idea.

“Wait a second--” Zelena said to her family, “His heart! Our kiss restarted it, so that means he has to have one. We might not able to crush it, but what if we could control it? You’re the expert on this, mother, what do you think?”

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Cora’s head shot up, eyes locking with her youngest daughter as Zelena rushed towards her. Cora lifted an eyebrow, as if to say didn’t I tell you not to come? But the small smile reassured that everything was all right regardless. For now it seemed, Zelena was quite firmly with them. So Cora gave a small nod, letting Regina know that her mission had been successful.

Though that may have been obvious by Zelena’s reaction alone, which warmed Cora’s heart more than she could say. For a moment she could imagine the two girls were still children. She could picture the bright pink dress up clothes and the ridiculous make up- and wondered again at her own foolishness. Why hadn’t this been enough?

Cora shifted the babe in arms just slightly, and moved towards her daughters, a smile on her face. “I see you made it here,” Cora said rather ambiguously, making no mention of their rather covert agreement in regards to Zelena. She lifted her eyebrows again, silently indicating that Regina should play along. “We were just discussing your niece here…she still doesn’t have a name.”

When Zelena made an eye contact, Regina returned it with a smile but her nerves quickly settled in as she tried to get a hint, any sign that might tell her if their mother had already broken the news to Zelena. She found what she was looking for when Regina inevitably exchanged a glance with her mother – a small reassuring nod to say it was done (not before Cora had given her one of those scolding glances for disobeying her, which did very little to startle her.)

Shifting her gaze back to her sister, Regina walked to meet her halfway. “I promised I would,” she replied and without much thinking, Regina pulled her into a quick hug. They haven’t been apart for too long, granted, but there was a moment down there that Regina thought they would never make it out, that she never again would get the chance to see her sister. Or her niece.

She let go of Zelena just as their mother joined the two. Cora’s greeting confused her and Regina narrowed her eyes, wordlessly gaping at the woman. She quickly got the hint, though, and responded immediately. “Just barely,” she whispered, looking down at the baby in her mother’s arms. Regina couldn’t help but catch one of her tiny flailing hands and run her thumb across the back of the baby’s palm. “Yeah, I’m not sure Baby Hood might work when she’s twenty,” she laughed, trying to push aside any thought about battling evil Gods and focus on this more than precious family moment.

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“I really like Hunter. I know I got it from a paint catalogue, but if you think about Robin being a thief and witches being hunted there’s kind of a cute irony, don’t you think?” Zelena was skipping through her words brightly and thoughtlessly, just so happy that her whole immediate family was reunited in the land of the living.

However, the vibe she was getting from her mother and her sister was that there wasn’t a lot more time for happy celebration. As much as she wanted to ignore it, the immediate threat that Hades was posing shouldn’t be ignored any longer. She knew this, but she really didn’t want to talk about it.

“Mother told me about what happened with Hades.” she said unhappily. There was a moment in her head where she thought perhaps Regina assumed Zelena was involved somehow, so she began to ramble, “I had no idea he was trying to do that, I swear I didn’t. He was lying to me the whole time. I can’t even tell if that ‘true love’s kiss’ was a lie or not.”

Zelena and exhaled and atempted to grin again. She turned to her mother, who was holding her granddaughter without letting a peep come out of her. She had a docile baby, but it was reassuring that she felt comfortable in Cora’s arms. “But hey, we all made it, didn’t we? That’s more than I was expecting during that whole ‘trip to hell’ thing,” she jested, hoping to lighten the mood with a wicked joke.

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“I know you do. We can have that,” she smiled reassuringly at her sister before her face grew serious again. “Robin is…” Regina started but paused immediately, trying not to turn her gaze towards the man, not trusting herself to keep her emotions at bay if she sees him. “He probably hates me right now for doing it… but I really do believe in you. You just have to promise me you’d never give me, or Robin, a reason to regret this.”

“I promise” Zelena said genuinely. For one of the first times in her life she meant every word of what she was saying. She gazed happily at her daughter, and then her eyes turned back onto her sister with a grin, “Would you like to hold her before we go? You’re practically as much of her mummy as I am.” Even though Zelena had just been given the trust of her daughter again, she really wanted to give Regina a demonstration of her trust. But more so, she wanted to see Regina smile.

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“I don’t know what he wants,” Cora said, gaze transfixed on the infant in her arms. Love was a funny thing, she was realizing. She had always underestimated it- that was not a mistake she’d ever be making again. By some small miracle she’d been given a second chance with her family. She would not waste it. “I’m sure you’ve had more thoughts than I…”

Regina was reluctant to let her mother find Zelena on her own. They had no choice but to tell her sister the whole truth about Hades and she needed to be there when they do. But her mother insisted. And deep down, Regina knew it would indeed be easier coming from their mother alone. Who knew how Zelena would react if she was the one to break her the news…

But she couldn’t just wait and do nothing either. So despite her mother’s wishes, Regina followed behind.

Relief washed over her when she finally stumbled upon the two, standing together with the tiny pink bundle, and her mother being charmed by her new granddaughter. Regina swallowed the lump forming in her throat and despite the bittersweet feeling she cracked a smile, staying far enough not to interrupt the moment.

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“I have had quite a few ideas...” Zelena smiled to her mother, who’s own grin while holding the baby was a sight for sore eyes after being stuck in the land of the dead. “I haven’t had the chance to run them by Robin, or Regina, but I suppose I could squeeze a few by you--”

In her excitement, Zelena looked up and caught the eye of the oak tree behind Cora that now had a familiar face next to it. Seeing the black clothing, she had a moment of panic in case it might have been Hades, but it wasn’t. It was Zelena’s sister.

The relief flooded Zelena’s face and turned every pale spot rosy red. The fear boiling in her stomach that she’d never see her sister again instantly melted away. She couldn’t grin happier. They exchanged eye contact and smiles for a brief second, and while Cora was holding the baby, Zelena bolted forward as fast as her heels could take her, crying out, “Regina? REGINA! You made it! You made it out!”

Regina let out a heavy breath, realizing she never actually had time to just sit and think through the whole situation yet; hell, she never even got the chance to explain it to Robin, but she knew Zelena was right. “Honestly?” she started, slightly shaking her head as she tried to wrap her mind around everything. “We’ve been through hell because of you, Zelena, none of this is easy. But those memories… we were happy once, even if for such a short time. And…” Regina paused, her emotions quickly starting to weight over her as she looked at her sister. “What kind of person will I be if I rob you of the chance to be happy again?“

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Zelena was taken aback by the honestly. Not because it hurt, but because it felt so genuine. “You really feel that way?” she said, trying to hide a smile but mostly fighting back a tear that was resting behind her eyeball waiting for the right moment. “I don’t want to give you any reason to regret trusting me. I want both of us to be happy. Plus the four of us--the five of us.”

“The thing is, I think he did it to punish me…for…for abandoning you,” Cora admitted. “He said something…accusing me of caring for Regina but not you. I realize now…he did this to me because he loves you. That’s why he’s dangerous, sweetheart.”

But then all semblance of fear rather melted away, at least for the moment, when Cora found herself with an infant in her arms. It had been a long time, too long really, since she’d last held a child with a beating heart in her chest. And that child had been Zelena herself. “Please be careful,” Cora said quietly. “If he hurts you, I’ll…god or not, I’ll kill him myself.”

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“Love is powerful. Hades must want to use it for a weapon.” Zelena nodded, reluctant but observant to the truth that she couldn’t ignore. It felt better knowing that there was real love within her family. And, that if she tried, her, Cora and Regina could have more between the three of them than Hades would ever hope to muster, with her daughter cradled in the middle. “We still haven’t given her a name. Any ideas?”

Cora lowered her hands, shifting the edges of her sleeves slightly so as to reveal the very end of the burn scars which now ran up and down her arms. She’d been without magic at the time, and couldn’t heal the wounds. “Yes…he wouldn’t say why he wanted to know, you see. I thought he might hurt you.”

Cora let the moment sit in silence for a bit, allowing Zelena time to absorb what was certain to be a nasty blow. Cora really did hate to be the bearer of this bad news, so soon after re-uniting with her first born. But someone had to. “Love alone, however powerful, can’t always change someone.”