This was causing a scene, and Domitian was not the sort of person who enjoyed causing scenes. Not when he was at the center of them, anyway. His entire existence seemed to revolve around keeping a low profile, and giving his father no reason to reconsider anything about his will — he did not want it known, or said, that his daughter was too volatile to someday make someone a handsome wife. Nevermind that she was only eleven, and throwing a tantrum — this was not the image he expected of his family, or his children.

With a frown, Dom drew his wand (having to let go of her arm briefly to do so) and cast a silencing charm on her.

  

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Bree made this!

One moment she was screaming and the next she could no longer speak. It took her a couple of seconds to realize what had happened. The truth was that her screaming had been so high previously, that she would have lost her voice at some point either way.

She was still furious and her father had taken away her only way of letting off steam. She saw an opportunity in him having released her from his grip and sprinted away down the street. She fell on a woman who had been walking but that didn't deter her — she mouthed a "Sorry!" and kept running.

If her father was so horrible to her, then he didn't deserve to have her as his daughter. That would teach him a lesson! He deserved for her to be kidnapped by criminals, or hit by a carriage, and then, when it was too late, he'd realize how much he'd wronged her and how terrible he had been! She didn't really want anything bad to happen to her, only for her father to think that it did so he could feel bad about it.

Maybe she'd find her long-lost grandmother and live with her. Zenobia had never seen her grandmother after her grandfather divorced her, didn't know where she lived or what she even looked like, but surely she could find her and ask her to live with her? And her father could stay with Nico or maybe have another child or maybe have no children at all because Mama would divorce him for being mean to her and then he'd be lonely and sad with no children.

These were the kind of thoughts that raced in Zen's mind as she ran down Diagon Alley.

  

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He knew she was upset, and that she was being irrational right now — obviously, as this entire ordeal had showcased — but he still hadn't expected that. Muttering a curse under his breath, Dom took off after her. Fortunately, chasing down people who didn't want to be caught was what he did for a living. Unfortunately, Diagon was crowded on that day and she was both smaller than him and apparently cared less about running straight into passersby, so he was making slower progress towards her than he would have liked. He typically had other tools available to him, too, when he was chasing down criminals — he was not going to stun his own daughter in the middle of Diagon Alley to catch up to her, for instance.

When he did catch her, she was going straight back to her room, where he intended to lock her in until dinner at least. Maybe even later. She could go to bed without supper tonight, to think through what she'd done, because this was not okay.

"Zenobia Zabini!" he called, gaining on her but not close enough to snatch her up just yet. "Stop this instant or so help me, you won't have a wand all summer."

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Zenobia heard her father, but that didn't stop her. Even though her lungs burned, she couldn't quite register the sensation since adrenaline was rushing in her body.

Suddenly, she turned left and rushed into a shop with a bunch of owl cages outside. That would catch her father off guard and maybe if they had a fireplace connected to the Floo Network, she could use it to go to... Flora's, or something.

This would be the second shop whose employees would hate the Zabinis. The man, who had been caught off guard, shouted at her, but that didn't stop Zenobia, who headed to the back.

  

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Dom watched his daughter duck into a shop and swore under his breath again. No wand, then. He didn't make threats lightly, and when he did he intended to stick by them. They could come to purchase one in August, but he'd hold onto it until she was ready to board the train to Hogwarts. If she didn't actually need a wand for her first day at school, he might have even held onto it longer — until she had done some penance to prove that she could be trusted with one, since she apparently thought lighting a shop on fire was an appropriate way to demonstrate that she was annoyed with him.

She wasn't going to be back in Diagon Alley that summer, either, he decided. The rest of her school supplies, aside from her wand, could be purchased by one of the servants and delivered to the house. They could pack them away so that she didn't even have a chance to see them until she arrived at Hogwarts. If she was going to act like a toddler, there was no reason they ought to treat her like a young lady, after all.

He entered the shop, holding his wand in one hand though he wasn't sure he intended to use it. With a dark look at the shopkeeper, he stalked back towards where his daughter had disappeared to.

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Zenobia had hoped that there would be a fireplace or a door to the back, but she couldn't find either by the time her father entered the shop. So hiding behind a bunch of owl cages was the only option she had left. If only she could turn to an animal like her father and aunties could. That would have come in handy if she could turn into a spider or something.

  

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It didn't take him long to locate her; she was a child and he tracked criminals for a living, so this was hardly the most sophisticated game of hide and seek he'd been involved in. He had not anticipated his work skills would ever come in handy when dealing with his daughter, but... well, honestly, he had expected his daughter to have grown up a little more by now. Perhaps this was what he got for taking such a hands-off approach to her upbringing. He'd have to ask Matilda what the governness was teaching her, if any degree of self-control hadn't made the list.

Without speaking, he pushed the owl cages in front of her aside and picked her up, hoisting her up high enough she was nearly thrown over his shoulder.

  

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Bree made this!

Towards the end, Zenobia knew that her father would catch her. In any case, she hadn't gone without putting up a fight. She didn't just sit and cry while he was being mean and unfair to her.

She didn't put up a fight when he picked her up, but she did give him a deadly glare. If he hadn't magically silenced her, she would have probably told him that she hated him.

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