Sam knew exactly where she was when she woke up, she was in the Malfoy dungeons. She couldn't understand why they so desperately wanted her, she would have thought they would have been glad to see the back of her. She slowly got up rubbing arm arms feeling the chill set in, there was no light about so she was in darkness. She began pacing wondering if they would know she was missing, she hoped to god that George wasn't still at her and he would realise she was kidnapped. She looked up as she heard the door opening and the torches lit and her uncle Lucius was stood there, "I see Draco finally managed to track you down" he said and Sam frowned "why were you looking for me, it's not like I was bothering you" she said and Lucius shook his head "couldn't have you running tarnishing my old name" he said. 'Your name! I'm not even related to you!" Sam snapped and Lucius raised his wand and shot a stinging hex her way "you are my daughter and you will not raise your voice to me!" He shouted and Sam collapsed to the floor in pain "you daughter?" She gasped out and he nodded "I would have thought your mother would have told you but evidentially not. Only Bella and I knew about it, I had an affair with your mother and you were the outcome and what a disappointment that was" he snapped. "But now I have you I'm going to make you pay for the embarrassment and shame you have brought on this family!" He said raising his wand again and Sam flinched waiting for the spell to his.
Meanwhile George had went on a bender after he had left Sam, he had been so excited to go home and tell her he had gotten the loan but when he found her in Fred's room he flipped. He began feeling guilty for everything he had said, he regretted it as soon as he left and he hated the way she looked at him she looked so broken. After one too many firewhiskey he headed back to the flat to apologise in the hopes they could make up but his hopes were tarnished when he returned home and Sam was nowhere to be seen. He had hoped that she would have stuck around to talk about their fight but obviously not, he obviously wasn't worth fighting for. He collapsed onto the sofa and felt the tears welling up, everything she had helped fix back into place over the months collapsed back down. He was the same broken man he had been just after the war and he went back to what he knew best, drinking his grief away. That's how Ginny found him three days later passed out on the sofa, "George!" She shouted shaking him awake and he groaned sitting up. "What?" He grumbled "what the hells happened here? Where's Sam?" Ginny asked and George looked at her confused "what are you doing here?" He asked "I came by to check on you and Sam we haven't heard from you guys in days, I'll ask again where's Sam?" Ginny said and George sighed "we had a fight and she left me, it was stupid and I was out of line. I thought she would have stayed but she left" George said quietly and Ginny sighed "George your such an idiot" she said.
He nodded "I know I am Gin, I said som real mean things but I thought that she would have stayed and gave me what for but she didn't. She suggested that maybe we shouldn't be together. I miss her Gin, I love her" he said and Ginny sighed and nodded "well we're going to have a hard time finding since we can't track her magic" she said and George sighed. "Your not going to shout at me for messing things up with her?" He asked and Ginny shook her head "not just now, maybe once we get Sam back" she said. She cast her protronus and sent it to Harry with a message to met her at George's flat, "Harry and Ron will be here soon, maybe we can figure something out but until then I think you should come home to the burrow. I don't think its wise if you stay alone, you'll drink yourself to death" she said and he nodded knowing not to argue with Ginny. He knew he had fucked up major here, it was his job to protect Sam and so far he had arsed it up, he headed to his room to pack a bag and when Harry and Ron showed up Ginny explained what happened.
"He's 100% sure she ran away?" Harry asked and Ginny nodded "he says that it was her idea that they break up" she said and Harry sighed turning to Ron "something just feels off about this" he said and Ron nodded "I've got the same feeling, I would have thought that if she wanted to end it with him she would have came to stay at the burrow. She knows its not safe for hr out there, especially when she's not got a wand" he said and Harry nodded. "You don't think Malfoy would have anything to do with this do you?" Ron asked and Harry sighed "I don't think he would be as stupid as to kidnap her from the flat, plus there's no way for him to get in. Doesn't George have this place warded up to the max" Harry said and Ron nodded "yeah only close blood relatives can pass through, like brothers, sisters or parents" he said and Harry frowned "well it can't be Malfoy because he's a cousin" he said. George came out his room with his bag "does Sam have any brothers or sisters?" Harry asked and George frowned "not that she knows of, she doesn't know who her dad is" he said.
"Why are you asking?" He added and the guys shrugged "just curious, you haven't taken any of your wards down have you?" Ron asked and George shook his head "no I haven't, it's still the same blood relatives and Harry" he said. Ginny sighed "cmon George lets go to the burrow and let Harry and Ron search for clues that might help them find Sam" she said and George nodded and followed Ginny through the floo. He spent the next few weeks at the burrow worried sick about Sam, the guys hadn't been able to find a trace of her at all. It was like she had vanished into thin air, he was really worried about her now blaming himself if anything had happened to her.
Sam had never felt pain like this before, she could hardly move her body. She thought Bellatrix was bad for torturing but Lucius was worse, she still couldn't believe that he was her dad. It was all to much to take in, she just wanted to be wrapped up in George's arms and feel safe again. She felt the tears welling up thinking about him again, she wondered what he would think happened to her. Would he just think that she ran away, she tried to hold on but she could feel herself fading away as the hours passed. She mustered all the power she had in her and raised her hand praying to god it would work. "Expecto Patronum" she croaked out and she sighed in relief when her patronus appeared in front of her the little ferret looked at her curious, "you ned to find george and pass on a message from me" she said and the little ferret nodded and Sam took a deep breath before whispering what she wanted to say.
George was sitting in the living room staring out the window that night in the hopes that he might see Sam walking down the garden path, "George dinners ready" Ginny said breaking him from his thoughts and he sighed getting up and headed to the kitchen to join everyone for dinner. He got seated and his mother filled his plate but he sat pushing it round his plate like he did with most meals, he felt like part of him was missing again without Sam. Everyone was talking amongst one another but George kept his gaze focussed on his plate, he only looked up when he saw something move out of the corner of his eye. Everyone fell silent as a ferret patronus made its way across the kitchen table and stopped in front of George. "Who has a ferret patronus?" Ron asked "curious, mischievous and playful with a calculating mind are associated with a ferret, sounds like a familiar Slytherin we know" Hermione said "who?" Ron and Harry asked confused "Sam" Ginny said rolling her eyes and they went back to looking at the ferret that was staring at George curiously. "What's up little guy?" George said holding his hand out and the patronus ran up George's arm and seemed to be checking the scar were his left ear used to be before settling down in front of him again and Sam's voice started playing.
"George I hope this reaches you wherever you are, I don't have much time left but I just want to say sorry. I love you so much and these past months have been amazing, you've made me realise what a real family is and I wouldn't trade any of it. I know you didn't mean what you said but I guess you were right when you said I was a Malfoy through and through, like father like daughter as they say. I don't want you to blame yourself for whats about to happen to me, I want you to go on. You've proven it to yourself that you can move on from the most trying time of your life and your gong to have to do it again, I know your family will be there for you through this as they were the last time. I feel so privileged to have spent the time I have with you, you are the sweetest, most charming, smartest wizard I have ever met. I'm just sorry that we didn't get to spend more time together than we did. I love you so much George and I never want you to forget that, you made my life so much better by just being in it" Sam said her voice trailing off at the end as she became weaker.
Molly and George had tears running down their faces and Molly wrapped her arms round George trying to comfort him while the others tried to decipher where she could be "George what did she mean by you were right? A Malfoy through and through?" Hermione asked "it was something stupid I said during the fight, I just said she was like them" he said and Ginny raised an eyebrow "she said like father like daughter and she spoke about the Malfoys, you don't think Lucius could be her dad do you?" She asked and Hermione nodded "that's what I was thinking and that would explain how Draco would have gotten through the wards, he would be Sam's half brother" Hermione said.
"I need to go to Malfoy mansion" George said jumping up "no you're staying here Ron and I will go, Lucius is still under observation. We can go in and check on him unannounced if we suspect foul play" Harry said and Ron nodded standing up "Harry's right George you need to stay here" Ron said "but what if she's hurt or what if she doesn't make it" George said "we'll meet you at St. Mungos George. Let us aurors take care of this" Ron said. Harry and Ron quickly dissaparated not giving George time to argue, "cmon George we'll go to St. Mungos and warn them" molly said and George nodded "I need to get her jumper, she'll want it for when she wakes up" George said and Molly nodded "you go get it" she said and he headed out the room. "She's strong Molly, I'm sure she'll pull through" Arthur said and Molly nodded "I'm sure she will be, she's a Weasley now which means she's a fighter" she said and Arthur nodded.
George came back into the room with his quidditch jumper "lets go" he said and Molly nodded and they all flooed to St. Mungos and Arthur went to talk to the healers and warn them. George began pacing waiting for one of the guys to arrive with Sam it was killing him not knowing what state she was in, he looked up when he heard a door bang and Ron was stood there covered in blood carrying Sam's lifeless body and all the blood drained fro George's face this couldn't be happening to him again. He couldn't be losing his other half again. "She's still alive!" Ron shouted rushing up the hall and the healers were quick to rush her into a room and escort Ron out. "Where's harry?" Ginny asked "taking Lucius to Azkaban, he is Sam's father but apparently nobody else knew about it. Draco's also been taken in for kidnapping her but he had nothing to do with her being tortured" Ron explained and they nodded. "How did she cast a protronus without a wand?" Ginny asked "she can do a bit of wandless magic, not much but obviously enough" George said quietly. He was still in shock at the amount of blood there was "did the healers say if she was going to be ok?" George asked Ron and he sighed "they didn't say anything, just threw me out" he said.
Harry joined the Weasley's at the hospital once he dealt with the Malfoy's and began working on the paperwork as they waited in the waiting room, "why don't I go get us some tea?" Ginny said to George but he wouldn't move his focus from the door to Sam's room. He had seen healers come and go and it was setting him on edge that none of them came to talk to them, "whats taking them so long?" He asked and Arthur sighed "George I know your worried but give them time, they will come once they've helped her" he said and it was another half another till a healer came out and made his way over to them. "How is she?" George asked jumping up "she's stable now, she lost an awful lot of blood so we have had to give her quite a few blood-replenishing potions and we've been sorting her wounds and put a salve on so she won't have scars. She's currently in a magically induced coma while her brain heals, she suffered quite a few curses and her body will heal better in the coma. It's just a waiting came now, she will wake up once her body is fully healed" the healer explained "can I see her now?" George asked and the healer nodded "certainly" he said and George didn't wait for the healer to show him into the room. He rushed straight in and over to Sam and took her hand "I'm here Sam and I'm not going anywhere ever again" he said quietly kissing her head.