Chapter Text
RABBIT HOLE:
Introduction
All too often, the rabbit hole is as
deep as you have dug it
Every time a member of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black is born, the gods flip a coin. Or at least that's what the old adage said.
Cassiopeia Black was one of the brightest of her generation. She had the power, the prestige, and the ambition.
But she was also arrogant, like her namesake. Cassiopeia believed in the false greatness of the blood in her veins, and it had a price.
Dorea Black, her younger sister, remembered that day like it was her last.
The day before their leave for their fifth-year at Hogwarts, Cassiopeia had left for a stroll through the Black Forest near Castle Black. It was near midnight when she returned.
Her porcelain skin was sullen, her steel-grey eyes shook with mania, and blood dug itself beneath the crevices of her once manicured nails.
The once poised girl was now a wreck, she had fallen from the precipice of her greatness.
What happened to you, Dorea would ask as she ferried her secretly into her room. Cassiopeia's mouth would open and close, but only a whisper would leave the once boisterous girl.
I made a deal. I'm sorry.
All Dorea would remember of her sister was her trembling body and her tortured silence because by the next day, she would be gone.
None of it made sense. Everyone watched Cassiopeia Black board the Hogwarts Express. They watched her get into her Thestral carriage.
That day, Cassiopeia Black disappeared. And she would not be the last.
For now, there would be no explanations for her words.
(At least not yet. For it was too soon.)
Aurora Potter 𖤝 Megan Suri
(BRIAR BEAUTY). XV. You owe a debt you never made.
Mary Lou Vance 𖤝 Myha'la Herrold
(WILD CARD). XV. Wrong place wrong time.
ADDITIONAL CAST.
Emmeline Vance 𖤝 Taylor Polidore
Cassiopeia Black 𖤝 Lauren Graham
Everyone Else 𖤝 As Described