Make It Right

to Mrs Gallagher, for reminding me i've still got work to do, tnx. i'd almost forgotten about his story, i think i might be ready for it again. i can believe its over a year since i started this story!!!



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Ch. 24; House Elves

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Warm, dry, but still aching, Lilith made her way down to the kitchen to make Lily’s night bottle and make a small meal for herself. She hadn’t eaten since dinner and that was seven hours ago.

The sight she met was to say the least shocking. A small yelp escaped her lips. The small creatures froze, then immediately bowing before her.

“Wildy apologises my Lady. We didn’t mean to wake our Lady, please do not punish us.”

Lilith was standing on the lowest step, gaping and staring at the weird creatures with floppy ears and hands with four fingers. Well, Tom forgot to mention this in his explanation of the magic world.

Finally, regaining her ability to speak she stuttered.

“W- what are you”

Wildy, who seemed to be the one in charge spoke up again.


“We are your house elves, my Lady. We are from Slytherin Castle. Our Master requested our aid in this household.”

“Aid?”

“Yes. It is preposterous that a Lady of your status should do such petty tasks.”

“My status? I don’t have a status.” Lilith was still confused. Thinking she was still sleeping, she pinched her sore arm lightly, only to be rewarded with a burning sting- she was awake alright.


“You are now a part of the ancient and very powerful lines of Slytherin and Hufflepuff. Your status is considered royalty in our world, due to the pairing with our Lord, my Lady. Naturally, no one besides our Lord and his gard (the Death Eaters) knows of you existence and identity, only the Inner Circle of you status.”

“Why?” she croaked.

“For your protection, my Lady. The guards have a first priority order to see to your protection.”


“What is a first priority order?”

“It means that the order that sees to that you and our Lords child are safe, oversteps all other orders if you are in any kind of dangerous or uncomfortable situation.”

“Oh, okay. Thank you for clearing that up for me. Could you please call me Lilith? All the ‘my Lady’ are a bit weird”


The house elves nodded.


“Now, let’s see. Um I just came down to grab a bite and make a bottle of milk for Lily, so I’ll just do that and leave you all to it, or should I help you with anything…” Lilith’s attempt of being polite received quite a weird welcome.


“Oh, no Lady Lilith” Wildy said and dragged Lilith off the stairs placed her in a large comfy lazy boy, she conjured with a snap of her tiny fingers.


“You just sit here Lady Lilith, and we’ll have food ready in minutes.” Lilith just nodded, not knowing what else to do.

‘This has got to be some sort of wacko dream of mine. Did Keith hit me over the head so hard I lost my mind?’

Lilith got snapped out of her thoughts by a very old looking house elf. Seeing him, she nearly jumped out of her chair, but the elf didn’t seem to notice, he just continued talking.


“Our Master made fine choice choosing you to birth his second heir. An unexpected choice, but the smartest I see two hundred years, hmm, yes.” He said scratching his chin.

“But then again Master was smart match himself. Inbreeding stole magic, stole mind. Mother Merope know this. Mother Merope do smart match too, chose love, not blood. Love make strong magic.”

“He chose me? Intentionally?”

“No. Instincts choose you. You his mate. Master not in control.”

“Is it like a dual personality or something?”

“I can say no more. Master wishes to tell himself. I finish. I go now.”


“No, tell me more.”

“I no wish to anger Master. Master is good. Master not punish like others.”

“..!”

“Me had many masters. Ordinary masters. Master is good. Treats elves like family, not punish, not yell. We eat good, we live good. Not overworked. We get to have families of our own and marry. No other master ever let us do nice things. Master talk and ask for advice, he care what we think is right. We be around a long time, we wise, Master knows.” The elder house elf said before snapping his fingers and disappearing in a loud ‘crack’.

Lilith sat wide-eyed, processing the massive amount of information she had just received, plus the fact that there were elves, doing magic in her house.


‘Oh Keith is going to love his. Practically allergic of anything not completely normal he is. Ha, guess nothing is normal in this household!’

“Wildy made midnight snack for Lady Lilith and bottle for the heir. Would you like a house elf to feed her?”

“No I’ll do it. Thank you.”

The House Elves snapped their finger and disappeared, leaving Lilith in confusion.


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