RISING IN FIRE.
PHOENIX FURY.
CHAPTER 6: SAVE SATAN.
"Here's to passing your drivers test." Danni clinked their glasses together.
"And to the red Toyota, Yaris that I pick up tomorrow." Sam/Harry smiled.
"Cheers."
"How your classes going?" Jade asked as she put down her glass.
"Good. I seem to zipping through the coursework. Teachers happy with it and so am I."
"What you doing again?"
"English every other night for an hour and half, with Art and IT three times a week." Sam/Harry said as she took a sip of her lager.
"And you do this around yoga, kick boxing, tai kwon do at the gym, as well as the salon."
"Yep."
"Girl do ever just rest?" Danni asked.
"Nope don't have the time."
"Sam you're seventeen not forty. I worry about you is all." Jade said watching her closely.
"Guys I'm fine really, I like keeping busy." Sam/Harry smiled at her friends. "Jade don't worry about me I can take care of myself. Now I better get going I know a feline in need of food and I have some studying to do." Sam/Harry hugged the two girls and left the pub.
"Jade she's doing fine." Danni nudged her.
"I know I just… we have families to look out for us she has no one. I guess I feel protective of her." Jade sighed looking into her drink.
"Don't let her hear that or she'll pummel you into dust. You've seen her apartment it's cleaner then our place. She gets fantastic grades and she works hard. She's come along way from three months ago."
"Yeah your right. Come on lets get another drink and head home." Jade pulled her friend to the bar.
Albus looked out at into the February weather and sighed.
"It's been over three months Albus don't you think you should give up." Minerva said from behind him.
He turned around and sat in his chair. "She didn't even stay till Christmas to open her presents."
"Can you blame her?" Minerva asked softly.
Albus looked away.
"Albus no one, not even Voldemort, can find her. Let her be, she deserves this." She said and summoned a chessboard and tea.
"I miss her and I worry about her being alone. What if Tom finds her first?" He moved forward his white pawn.
"Wouldn't he have more chance then us because of their connection? If he can't find her then nor can we. You can't keep doing this to yourself you old coot." Minerva said and handed him some tea. "I've stopped the search for her."
Albus looked up ready to argue.
"We must concentrate on the war, we can't look for someone when we don't know what they look like or what name their going by. Severus is still on the inside so if Tom does find her first he can save her." She hated pointing that out after the last time Harry was in Voldemort's clutches and what Snape had had to do then but it was the truth. "We have to have faith."
"It's not that simple."
"When is life ever simple Albus?"
Harry closed her apartment door behind her and hung up her coat and scarf. She kicked of her shoes and fell onto the sofa without evening turning on the lights.
"Meow."
"I know, I know, you want your dinner." Harry got up and went into the kitchen and got his cat food. "Eat up Gizmo mama's got to work."
She closed the curtains and walked to the wall of book and one of her lamps turned on a wave of her hand.
She turned on her laptop and sat on the sofa typing away. "Another word for cruel…" A small thesaurus flew into her outstretched hand. "Barbarous, dire, bloodthirsty, inhuman, merciless, ruthless."
"The merciless wind howled at her at she stepped away from the window. She could do nothing to stop the cruelness of her ruthless father as he beat the man beneath her but her heart broke with each merciless lash of her fathers whip." She read out and then nodded satisfied before getting back into her typing rhythm.
An hour later she was done she saved her work and charged her laptop battery before standing and stretching. She thought over her homework timetable. (Ok English is done, IT was done last night so art tomorrow after IT class.)
She smiled as she flicked her wrist and the bookcases opened to reveal her magic books. She pulled out the ones she needed before closing the bookcases. She walked up the steps into the loft and put the books on her bedside of her king-size bed. She changed into her pjs and slipped under the covers. She ran a brush through her dark hair before braiding it and lying back against the pillows. She bent her knees and picked up one of the books and a note pad and pen and began to make notes as she read. After an hour of notes she lay down her pen and put everything away before lying down and closing her eyes drifting into a deep sleep.
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Harry looked around. She recognized the place she's dreamed of it before… in her fourth year when the dreams began. She unconsciously walked through the house like a ghost and ended up in the ballroom. At the far end was a large black and gold chair.
She froze when she saw who sat in that chair with a large snake slithering around it.
The last of the Riddle Family Tom Marvolo Riddle or as he as renamed himself, Lord Voldemort.
Long fingered hands on the armrests. Dark robes against pale skin. Dark red eyes, slits for a nose like a snake. A sinister smile on his face which always meant something bad was going to happen. Tearing her eyes away she looked around the ballroom.
Deatheaters lined each side of the ballroom. Candlelight glittered of their white-silver masks. She noticed the smallest deatheater and his shinning silver hand. (Wormtail.) She thought with anger, hate and disgust.
There was a crack and a figure bowed on one knee before him. "You called for me my Lord."
She shivered recognizing the voice. (Snape.)
"Ah yes Severus my dear friend, stand up. Your report please."
Snape stood not looking to the others but he knew they were there she knew. "Fudge is falling without Dumbledore's support, he will be kicked out in matter of days. There are Aunor's at the school apparently for protection. Dumbledore is calling off the search for Potter."
"Any leads?"
"None. Potter has hidden well."
There was silence. Voldemort kept his eyes on Snape as if he was something that interested him. "You've been in my service since you were a young man. You have killed in my name. You have spied on that headmaster fool. You told many secrets of Dumbledore's and Harry Potter's."
She could feel Snape tense at the reminiscing. She felt chilled as he looked at Voldemort. Something was wrong, something was going to happen, she could feel it.
"Are you a loyal servant to me Severus?" The Dark Lord asked as he stepped closer to Snape.
Harry froze, now she understood. He knew. She felt it. His anger and sense of betrayal from one on his inner circle.
"Yes my Lord." He answered without any hesitation. She knew he did not sense the trap he was in for Voldemort played these games to test his followers regularly. But this was no game.
"You lie." Voldemort hissed.
Snape had obviously realized the game was up and went for his wand.
"Traitor." Voldemort flicked his hand out and Snape flew across the room and into the wall.
"You will be punished Severus for your betrayal. Oh you will be punished."
He pointed his wand at Snape and hissed, "Cruio."
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Harry sat bolt upright breathing hard after a scream had left her lips.
(His cover's blown. I need to warn someone.) Were the first thoughts in her head after the pain faded slightly to bearable.
'Why? He hurt you. Why should you help him?' A little voice asked softly.
(Because otherwise I am no better then any of them.) She answered shaking her head. The little voice could either be the devil on her shoulder or the angel and today it seemed to be the devil.
(I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm going to save Satan.) She went to her jewellery box and pulled out a white feather. She whispered in Latin roughly translated it meant 'I summon you return to me.'
A white owl appeared in her hand where the feather had been. Hedwig starred at Harry and then blinked as if making sure what she was seeing was real. Hedwig flew to her shoulder and gently nipped her ear. "I've missed you to girl but this is important." She wrote a quick note and gave it to Hedwig and opened the window. "Hurry my friend." Hedwig hooted and flew out the window.
"That's Hedwig." Minerva said as Hedwig landed on Albus's shoulder and dropped the note in his lap.
Voldemort knows Snape is the spy. Hurry to Riddle mansion. You haven't much time.
Albus understood and acted quickly.
(I've done the best I can do. I've got work tomorrow so now I need sleep.) Harry closed her eyes after she clamed her nerves and swallowed plenty of hot chocolate.
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Harry looked around. "Oh no." She was by the doorway of the ballroom. Deatheaters were in a large circle in the middle of the room.
Inside the circle a figure was chained and hanging by his hands from the chandelier above. Blood dripped to the floor, his clothes in ruins.
Voldemort looked up at him with a cold smile. "Do you want me to end it Severus? Do you want me to end the pain?"
Severus didn't make a sound. Harry sighed with relief at least Snape was still alive, for the moment anyway. She walked closer weaving through the bodies to step unseen into the circle.
"You see that's what I like about you. Your control. No one has ever been able to break it … except one person. And that's why you hated her isn't it?" Voldemort smiled as he walked around Snape.
"You hated Harry Potter because you couldn't have her. Even when I gave her to you. You didn't have her. She hated you, she didn't give in to you, fought you all the way." Voldemort then turned to face Severus. "That's one of the things I regret. That I didn't get a chance to taste her, smell her, to have her in my arms. But I will. Oh I will." He whispered.
Harry was stunned and confused by his words and looked at Snape. She didn't understand what Voldemort was talking about but she knew by Snape's face he did.
"I think one good curse will finish you off. I have to admit you have impressed me with how well you've held up. You always were my favourite, so much like me. So I would like to know why you betrayed us? What have you told them? Answer me."
Snape stayed quiet.
"No. It would have been better if you'd had, it might have bought you more time but now you have none." He raised his wand just as there was explosion.
The ground shook making Lord Voldemort and the Deatheaters fall to the ground, Snape swung slightly back and fourth under the force of the explosion.
Harry stood unaffected by what was happening. She walked close to Snape and said softly. "Hold on Snape." (I cannot believe I'm telling Snape to hold so he can be rescue and live. The man who helped make my life hell. There is something seriously wrong with me.)
'What we're human?' A little voice said sarcastically.
(Shut up.)
"Hello Tom." A voice said from the silence that had followed the explosion.
The dust cleared revealing Albus standing there with dozens of Aunors.
Voldemort sensing it was a rescue for Snape decided to try and get their first, he pointed his wand at Snape, "Avada Kedavra!"
As the curse left his lips the chain that held Snape up snapped making him crash to the floor saving him from the curse.
Voldemort cursed and vanished Deatheaters quickly following.
"How is he?" Albus asked after he made sure they were safe. Before they had left they'd been spilt into teams with specific purposes. Team one keep everyone alive. Team two save Snape. Team three try to capture bad guys.
Arthur made Snape swallow blood replenisher and pressed a portkey into his hand taking him straight to Hogwarts Hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey's care. "I think we got here just in time."
(I saved Snape's life. Oh I bet he's gonna love that when he hears.) Harry smiled at them as the dream started to fade.
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Harry opened her eyes, she sat up and got out of bed, she wouldn't be getting any more sleep tonight.
Severus Snape opened his eyes and slowly moved his head to the side where he sensed a presence. "Shh Severus, drink this." Albus helped him sip some water.
"How did you know?" He asked softly.
"A note delivered by Harry's owl so I presume from her. It told us your cover was blown and to go to Riddle mansion. If we had arrived any later you would have died Severus. She saved your life." Albus said softly.
Severus blinked in surprise. All he could thin was, (Why do Potters always save me life?)
END OF CHAPTER 6
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