Always In Your Shadow

Serving as the introduction to a multi-part fanfiction serial set in the world of Harry Potter, this novella-length fanfiction is also available on fanfiction.net under the same pen-name. Bellatrix Lestrange dreams of nothing more than raising her daughter Calista to be a perfect servant of the Dark Lord, but when Bellatrix is apprehended by Aurors and imprisoned in Azkaban, Calista's true parentage is unearthed - because she's not Rodolphus' child after all, but… (more)

Serving as the introduction to a multi-part fanfiction serial set in the world of Harry Potter, this novella-length fanfiction is also available on fanfiction.net under the same pen-name. Bellatrix Lestrange dreams of nothing more than raising her daughter Calista to be a perfect servant of the Dark Lord, but when Bellatrix is apprehended by Aurors and imprisoned in Azkaban, Calista's true parentage is unearthed - because she's not Rodolphus' child after all, but the product of a brief and ill-advised affair with Severus Snape following his rejection by Lily Evans. Now Severus needs to find the strength and devotion to raise a child he never intended to have. Six-year-old Calista is irrevocably damaged from Bellatrix's twisted ambitions for her and countless abuses. Can Severus provide a loving home when he has never known one himself? Even as Calista slowly begins to emerge from the darkness of her past, Bellatrix demonstrates the ability to affect her daughter even from within the walls of Azkaban Prison, determined to make her daughter the perfect servant for the Dark Lord after all. Severus wants to save his newfound family, but saving Calista means openly aligning himself against one of Lord Voldemort's favorite servants, forfeiting his life should the Dark Lord ever return.