I do not own Harry Potter or the Characters/Places in it. I do own Amalthea Vitani and her family

Chapter 9

Twilight Serenade

No, no FUCK!

"Why the hell didn't you help?" Draco growled out, his eyes turning to frightening metallic silver. His hand shot out, grabbing the throat of the man standing right there.

"I'm not helping a Vitani. That man killed my daughter, the less of those monsters the better."

"That was HIS daughter. SHE didn't do anything to you!"

"Like I said, the less of those monsters the better."

"If I don't find her, I'm going to hunt you down and do everything that man is going to do to her, to you" Draco whispered menacingly.

"HA. Let me tell the Minister of Magic that you said that and see how long you still have a job."

"You're awfully puny to be making threats."

"You can't do anything to me without damaging you're family's already ruined reputation."

"Well I happen to know, on good authority, that I can Apparate you to Egypt and do whatever the hell I want to you. Then, I can erase your memory and leave you there, so men like the one that just died and the one that took Thea, can have at it. No one would know you were missing." Draco saw his eyes widen and the man started stuttering

"Yo…yo…you wouldn't do…do…do that would you?"

"If I can't find her, your fire place is the first one I'm coming through." Draco dropped the man to the ground and turned to walk away. He didn't get two steps before the man called out to him.

"WAIT! That man dropped this. It might help." Scrambling to his feet, the short, pudgy, balding man handed him a blue poker chip with red in the middle.

Draco took the poker chip and nodded his head to the man.

Making his way back up to the stage, he noticed that Zain was sitting on the steps with his head in his hands; drops of water stained the step his feet were on. Draco slowly approached, noticing Zain's shoulders shaking.

"Hey I got this….."

"He said he would leave her alone. He said he would leave her out of this. I should have known. I thought it was so weird when he asked me to stand down and let her take head of house…"

"YOU DID WHAT?"

"I signed a wizard oath, saying that I didn't want to be head of house once Amon was dead; making, Amalthea the mater familias."

"Holy Merlin, Zain are you crazy?" Draco sighed; sitting down next to the brooding Auror.

"He said he would rape and murder her in front of me, the same way he did mother in front of her."

Draco's snapped his head towards Zain.

"You didn't want to leave her alone, did you?"

"Hell no. What kind of monster do you think I am?"

"Well frankly, I don't know you. So I thought you were a complete dick."

Zain laughed. Draco had seen more emotions out of this man next to him, in the past 5 minutes than he had ever seen in the whole 4 years he'd been an Auror and met him for the first time during training. Draco's last initiation task was to beat Zain during an Egyptian dual; nothing was against the rules. It had taken Draco two weeks to tire him out enough to get his knee to hit the ground. Zain's lithe form helped him in a lot of ways that Draco's bulkier build didn't allow. Draco had taken to calling him twinkle toes behind his back until Zain heard him talking about him one day; knocking Draco down in one punch.

"I was a dick. I should never have trusted my father. I knew he was up to something; I saw it in Thea's eyes when she arrived, she knew it too. MERLIN! How could I have been so stupid?"

"Well, we can't worry about that. You have to tell me everything he's said to you since after your mother's death. Anything and everything could be a clue. OH and look. The man that took Thea dropped this."

"Oh no. No NO NO NO NO….." Zain started shaking his head, he stood up, and took the longest strides he could to get to his dead fathers body.

"HOW COULD YOU?" Zain started kicking his father's body and he reached down to punch him when someone grabbed his fist in mid-air. When he looked up after screaming, he saw 7 wands concentrated on him.

"Mr. Vitani. How about you tell us what's going on?" Kingsley demanded in his business voice.

"How about you let HIM explain!" Zain all but growled out; throwing the poker chip at Neferkare.

Neferkare's eyes grew so big Draco thought they were about to pop out of his skull.

"If the man that took Miss Vitani, is truly part of this group, then we have about a week before she is dead."

Zain was still being held by Theodore Nott, who was in similar build to Draco and about 2 inches taller. He looked down to the ground and started silently crying. Draco didn't understand what the hell was going on.

"What the fuck is that thing?" Draco cried out.

"Perhaps, we should all go back to my office at the Ministry. Clearly this is going to take a while." Kingsley said with a growing suspicion.

"Yes. Perhaps we should Minister. If you would let me, I have papers back in Egypt that will help you with this case."

"I'm sorry to break our trust Neferkare, but I'm sending two of my men with you. Under these circumstances, I can't let you go alone."

"That is fine Kingsley."

"Zain and Draco, you go with Neferkare, the rest of you come with me. I feel like we're going to need a big team this time."

Theodore let go of Zain, who started to walk towards Neferkare, his eyes fiercely trained on the man in front of him; Draco did the same, knowing that between him and Zain, the man was toast if he tried anything.

Zain was racked with guilt; Thea was going to die because of him, if they didn't get there in enough time. Hopefully, she had something they wanted or maybe Thea's other side would come out and protect her. Zain looked up towards the moon pleading his twilight serenade….Merlin, I'd give her my wings if they'd help her at all.