The Devil In Disguise (Marcel/Harry Fanfic)

Everything seemed to be going wrong, as soon as I came home from school around 6 because I had an detention from missing some of my class's, my father was waiting for me in the living room.

Nialls words to me in the morning where still echoing in my mind, no matter how I tried to block them out...

"I can see the heart of you Ruby Nimh and its covered in their blood"

"Who gave the orders!"

"Murderer"

Stop thinking about it Ruby! I told myself angrily.

"Ruby?" My dads voice came from the living room. I tensed slightly. Something about his voice sounded wrong? On edge.

"Yes Dad?" I answered and I hung my coat up.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?" My dad asked, he sounded tired and something else?

"Sure" I replied as I started to walk to the living room.

I opened the door and my dad was sitting down, staring into the unlit fire place, he looked deep in thought, as I stepped inside he patted the spot on the sofa next to him "Come and sit next to me for a minute"

I started have a strange feeling in my stomach, it was like something was wriggling down in there, making me squirm.

My dad didn't talk for a while and he looked at me, his gaze seemed intense, making me squirm even more.

What was even worse than the look, he didn't look angry, he looked sad? Very sad...

I noticed some of his clothes were scuffed with dirt and ripped as if someone had been throwing him around, I didn't know how accurate my guess was.

My dad took a deep sigh then put his hands to his face then looked at me as he said "Where did I go wrong Ruby?"

I stared at him for almost a minute then said while my heart started to feel odd like someone was couching it and squeezing "D-dad?" I stammered.

My dad asked me tiredly "Where did I go wrong? Raising you?"

The hand around my heart squeezed harder as I shook my head "I don't-"

He interrupted me "I thought if I never talked about her, if I carried on with my job, making sure none of those monsters would come for you, you wouldn't get sucked into this...Just like your mother was..."

I gaped at him, my brain hurting, trying to figure out what he was talking about then I knew...
"You know!" I gasped "You know about vam-"

My father snapped "Of course I know! I'm a hunter! Thats my job, to hunt vampires a-and I know your just like your mother..."

I whispered, my voice cracking "You m-make like that sound like a bad t-thing"

He suddenly stood up angrily, making me jump slightly and shouted, actually shouted "Of course its a bad thing! She was killed slaying those vampires! She was murdered doing her so called Job! I always tried desperately to stop her, knowing one day they would get her, she had already made it to a extremely good age as a slayer because they were usually killed by then but did she listen? No! I hoped you would make her see sense, that you needed her but as soon as you were born she went back to slaying again and I was right...three weeks after you were born she went out to do some more slaying a-and... y-you know what happened..."

My father was breathing hard afterwards, I had a feeling he had wanted to get this out of his chest for a long time.

My father looked at me intently as he pleaded, his eyes welling up with tears, his voice of a desperate man who didn't want to loose anyone else he loved "I'm hunting vamps for the money, thats it, I'm working for the hunters organisation but as soon as you got a stable job on your own I planned to stop"

He grabbed my hands in in his own an I watched as tears started to drip down from my fathers face then he pleaded, I couldn't even register my father was actaully begging "P-please Ruby, please don't do this... This is suicide! No slayer has ever died of old age. I know what you did in the past, its angered all the vampires even more! If you carry on as a slayer you will die!"

He squeezed my hand even more and my heart felt like it was bursting, the invisible hands around my heart impossible tight. My strong father, who I had never seen cry before was completely a mess in front of me as he begged brokenly...

"Please, P-please Ruby...My daughter....My only daughter...P-please don't do this!"

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