AN: The evil Severus is referred to as Snape in the last part of this chapter.
Enter Voldemort
(Last Time)
Fifteen minutes later Regulus walked over to the two and tied what had to be a portkey onto their wrists. When it activated both were still kneeling on the ground with the Death Eaters surrounding them. When they landed they were staring up at the one place neither ever wanted to see again, Riddle Manor.
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The Death Eaters hauled the two to their feet and dragged the two toward the house. Regulus led the group through the Manor, until they reached the room Voldemort had set up as his throne room. It looked as if it had once been the formal sitting room, now it was done in what Harry referred to as dank, dark, and evil. The Death Eaters deposited the two prisoners onto the floor in front of the empty throne and spelled them into a kneeling position. Everyone except Regulus left, so the three were seemingly alone for the moment. Harry and Ria were placed just far enough away from each that they were unable to touch, so neither could offer the other support.
After an hour the door banged open and Lord Voldemort came sweeping in. Regulus dropped to knees in front of him, and Harry and Ria, who was looking through Harry's eyes, stared at Voldemort in open shock. This Voldemort looked nothing like the one they had dealt with in their world. He was tall, with black hair, piercing blue eyes, and aristocratic features. Nothing like the serpentine creature the other Voldemort had become. Both agreed that he more terrifying like this because he looked like a normal person, but with evil insanity marring his eyes and face.
He swept past the kneeling twins and ignored them except to run a hand down Ria's cheek as he passed her. At Voldemort's nod Regulus gave his report of the events that led to the capture of the twins. "Why didn't you bring in the others?" Voldemort demanded. "I'm sorry my Lord, but it seemed more important to bring you these two without loss of your forces than to try and fight them off." "Very well Black, you reasoning is sound for now. You are dismissed." As Regulus walked out of the room, Voldemort turned his full attention on the twins for the first time.
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Regulus apperated back to headquarters as soon as he was dismissed from his audience with Voldemort. He needed to make his report and make sure everyone was okay. When he arrived he found that the outside walls and the roof of the building had been repaired. He walked through the door and had barely made it two steps into the house before he was bombarded with questions, which he answered to the best of his abilities, but he had no idea what was happening to the twins at the moment.
Neither Sirius nor Remus was speaking and Regulus couldn't blame them. They had just witnessed their lovers being carted off, by Death Eaters, in tears. Remus was holding onto Cuil as if he was the only thing keeping him sane. Cuil was whimpering knowing somehow that something was wrong. The other dimension travelers had maps of Riddle Manor and the surrounding area spread out on the table trying to think of the best way to get in and bypass the wards. Severus and Draco were both offering counters to the Dark Wards that surrounded the manor. James, Lily, Peter, Moony, and Padfoot were looking just as distressed as the travelers; all of them had thrown themselves into the tasks they had been assigned, doing anything to forget about what had happened anyway possible. Regulus walked over to them and began to help.
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With his full attention upon them the twins began to fear what exactly he was going to do to them. "Now we will start out with an easy question, what are your names?" He waited for them to answer, but when neither made any move to do so he began to get angry. "Answer me!" The twins shook their heads. "Well then I guess I will have to force it out of you," Voldemort snapped and a house elf appeared, he sent the elf to get Snape and McNair. When the two the men came in both adorned smirks when they saw the two young people at the feet of their lord. At his master's signal Snape walked over to Harry and administered a dose of Veritaserum to him. They waited for it to kick in, then Voldemort restated his question, but Harry fought the potion and he refused to answer again. After ten minutes it became apparent to the men that the Veritaserum would not have an affect.
They turned their attention to Ria, not bothering to counter the truth serum, instead letting Harry keep fighting it. Ria shrank back slightly from their gazes, but she couldn't move, her knees were bruised and she had milk wetting the front of her shirt. "Imperio" Ria felt the lightness of the curse, Tell me who you are, NO; she threw him out of her head. "Well, well, two very strong opponents. I will break you both, so it would just be easier if you gave in now." Harry answered him, "You will never break us. I dare you to try your worse." "You speak, it's good to know you are not mute. Snape take the boy to a cell then come back." Snape bowed, grabbed Harry, and exited the room. McNair walked over to Ria and at the command of his lord removed her shirt. Both he and Voldemort were surprised to see that she was covered in scars that looked as if they came from many rounds of torture. Ria shivered as the cold dungeon air hit her skin and she wondered what they were going to do to her. She could no longer see anything, she heard the door open and footsteps walk toward the throne.
Voldemort noticed the frantic roving of her eyes, and smirked with the knowledge that this prisoner was in the dark about what they could and would do to her. He signaled his men to be silent and with a silencing charm on his feet he moved around until he was directly in front of Ria and then he reached forward and brushed her cheek with his hand causing Ria to flinch away from him. He kept stroking her cheek then Ria felt the cold metal blade of a knife reach out and cut a small line down the opposite cheek. "Now child, you wouldn't want us to mess up your pretty face, so tell us what we want to know." Ria vehemently shook her head, brining her cheek into contact with the blade again. "Don't be like that girl, you want to go back to your child don't you? Tell me who you are and why you're here and I will let you go back home." "I am me, and I am here because your sniveling servants took me away from my family and brought me here," Ria answered smiling cheekily. Voldemort slapped her hard for that, "Stupid child, you will not leave here alive." "Don't make promises you won't be able to keep." "I think I am going to enjoy breaking you little girl, you are pretty enough to be one of my toys. McNair take to the cell opposite of her companions." Ria was dragged out of the room, down multiple stone passageways, and into a cold, small room.
