"Narcissa?" Molly whispered into the cell where the blonde was sitting curled up on the stone floor. Her eyes widened as she crawled over and reached through the bars to grasp Mrs. Weasley's hands. "We're going to get you out of here…" Molly assured her, holding her hands tighter as he head spun to each side keeping both corridors within her vision in case anyone was coming.
Suddenly Bellatrix apparated in and twisted Molly's arm around her back making her cry out in pain. "Where are the rest of them?" She hissed in her ear. Molly felt tears breaking her eyes as she gasped "I, I don't know!" Bellatrix grimaced and tossed her into the now open cell with Narcissa summoning her wand from her robes.
"Did you hear that?" Draco asked prodding Ginny, as they explored the south dungeons. Ginny felt her heart drop as she nodded her head. She had heard a woman's shriek but had hoped it was just a trick of an echo.
"Come on!" Draco tugged her arm towards a long eerie looking corridor. It was dark but both were afraid of lighting their wands because Draco had warned her of the alarms Lucius had made. Ginny gripped his arm tightly as they heard small movements around them.
Ginny released an ear splitting scream as they bumped into three hunched figures. Hermione collapsed onto the floor, her skin liquid paper white. Ron woke her as Harry shuffled his feet, not wanting to look at Ginny. Draco shoved them aside impatiently as he pulled Ginny with him.
Draco waving his wand in a complicated set of motions until finally what seemed like a large glowing map appeared in front of them. "A Map of the dungeons shows every living person." Draco explained examining the map closely. There were about twelve figures standing in shadows on the map. Draco took a few steps back and forth and began tracing a path from where his figure was moving from. Draco kept walking and Ginny followed; her path illuminated by the map.
Climbing a small set of stone steps Draco led them into another cobble stone hallway but there were two women hovering in a tiny cell. Ginny began to run forward but Draco threw his arm to block her as he whispered a few more spells and suddenly about four inches in front of their faces; a silver mist was stretching down the hall. Ginny nodded and stepped back looking at their mothers.
"Honey!" Molly whispered running the length of the cell as close as possible to her daughter. "Molly, I have an idea now hold on okay?" Molly nodded stepping away as Draco spoke to her. "She took your wands didn't you?" Both nodded. Draco pulled out his wand and pointing it at Ginny then at her mother.
Suddenly Molly looked down and saw a much thinner body than her own. About to shriek, she opened her mouth but Draco clamped a hand over her mouth. Molly, or Ginny's eyes widened but she closed her mouth. Shakily Molly's arm raised Ginny's wand and switched Draco with his mother. So now their bodies left the way they had entered, trying to escape until Molly side along apparated to the Burrow with Narcissa. Ginny tapped a secret code to on her enchanted coin to the others in their: "rescue group".
Draco hugged Ginny to congratulate her on a job well done, but for no apparent reason they turned back into themselves and Bellatrix appeared. "Aah, my nephew and… it… Pleasure…" She leered at them, whipping open the cell door. Grabbing Ginny by her long red hair Bellatrix brought her shrieking to the sitting room with Draco where over twenty death eaters were seated eating.
Ginny stood upright and clutched at Draco's arm for comfort as a tall olive skinned death eater stood up and swept his hand in a strange motion that revealed their entire search party bound and gagged, grouped on the floor; with the exception of Molly and Narcissa, their coins and wands lying in front of them.
Ginny went for them but was wrapped in a tighter rope than she had ever felt in her life. The ropes loosened slightly but not enough for her to stop breathing in small shallow breaths. Draco was tied behind her, both tied to an expensive black chair.
Bellatrix smiled once more, but it was an evil smile and it was somewhat near their direction, but not at them. A young woman was standing up, her skin pale, her hair falling in long chestnut colored curls, her bright green eyes staring out from her hood.
"Draco…" She purred, tracing his cheek with a long nail. Draco shivered and tried to pull away but she kept her hand there. "Do you know who I am Draco? It's been a long time…"
Draco's eyes widened as he whispered a: "Yes, Teresa I know who you are…" Ginny nearly broke her neck trying to twist in her ropes. "Good…" She mumbled moving away from his cheek.
"Oh where are my manners?! Draco! You should have told me about your pretty little friend here… I havent even made introductions, oh how rude." The woman smiled as Ginny racked her brains. Teresa looked so familiar.
"I am Lord Voldemort's Daughter, Miss Weasley. I was conceived oh twenty years ago by accident, but those details are unimportant, what is important though, is that I'm alive, my father kept me safe, I have lived under many different names, identities. I never lived with him, almost never even lived in the same country. He was always hiding. He had a nanny for me, when I was young she would always tell me we were going on vacation, I thought it was special, but from when I was about eleven, he began tutoring me in the dark arts. To carry on his legacy. At first I resisted the dark arts; I wanted to work in Herbology but my father created a rather," She rubbed her back in pain. "Painfully convincing argument you see. So I've been training, been trained by his most trusted advisors, sometimes by father himself. But that was rare, he knew his downfall was imminent, so he made sure I was ready, and I am. Draco, don't you remember when you were only twelve and I made such frequent visits to you dorm, to check you were practicing your unforgivables, oh such memories." Teresa finished speaking and stepped back to look at Ginny.
"Now you know why I look so familiar, you saw my fathers sixteen year old self in that dam diary. I was the one who used a time turner to go back in time and tell him to do so. I blame myself for the destruction of that horcrux. We share certain qualities, don't we?" Teresa snickered and turned back to Bellatrix.
"Bella! Stop cowering and drag yourself over here!" She barked at the woman. "Y-Yes Mistress?" Bellatrix asked kneeling low, kissing the hem of her robes. "Better, now prepare them for the horcrux testing, I must know which of them is the strongest, now MOVE!" The house shook slightly as Teresa's voice boomed and her eyes shone scarlet, if only for a moment.
Bella swept all the prisoners up into the air and began to take them to one of the larger bedrooms. Finally reaching her destination all of the people hit the ground with a painful thump. They all stood uncomfortably (They were still tied up) and looked at one another, then the locked door that Bella had left through.
Charlie decided to stand up in helped Ginny into the bed along with Hermione and Fleur; so they could get some rest. Finally about six hours later Bellatrix barged back in. All the men were exhausted but there seemed to be something keeping them awake even though the girls were still powerfully asleep. Bella stormed into the bathroom and Charlie woke the girls up helping them get out of the bed as well.
Finally Bella was standing in their room, her arms full of Jeans, T-Shirts, and Trainers. She distributed them without a word and with a quick flick of her wand the ropes rolled off their ankles and wrists.
Everyone pulled on the muggle clothing and waited patiently at the door, well almost everyone.
"Draco! Help me!" Ginny hissed as she tied the ropes together, looking at the minimum hundred foot drop. Hermione had tried apparating but it seemed there were anti apparition charms covering the room, but no protecting charms on the window, they had thrown books found on shelves out the window and nothing happened. Suddenly they heard heavy footsteps approaching the door.
They shoved the thick ropes under the bed and stood with the rest of the family. "Let's go!" Bellatrix commanded leading them out two by two to a grand ballroom. There was a huge altar set up in the middle.
"D-D-Draco, w-what i-is th-this?" Ginny whispered. "I don't know Gin." Draco looked ahead and saw Teresa standing in front of them in long black robes. Her eyes were closed and she was waving her arms back in forth, creating an enormous wind sneding her hair and robes billowing around her.
Like a tornado a long blue mat spun onto the ground, sitting calmly in place. Teresa walked forward and pulled Draco out of Ginny's grasp. "Now I'll bet you all are wondering why you are first off: here, second: in muggle attire, and third; why I need Draco, or all of you for that matter. Well it's quite simple, I am going to do what my father could not, take over the magical world! It's something that will be easy to me, well with a few select peoples help. LINE UP!" Her eyes flashed scarlet again as the ground shook under her booming voice.
Everyone hurried into one behind another as she floated onto the ground. "Now, we are going to duel, it will be easier if your robes do not weigh you down, I am used to it. Do your best, I show no mercy. But now that I think about it, pair up. Spend less time, narrowing you all down. This is to see which of you I shall transfigure into an animal, and then into a horcrux, but he or she must be strong, in able to survive the transformation into a horcrux .Oh and Draco here, he was my best friend when we were young, he will rule with me, but to keep things even, he can duel as well, but be warned, killing me is futile, for what ever pair will simply harvest my soul within them, I will take them over. Ten of you will die."
Stepping back onto the mat Teresa summoned forward the first pair: Charlie and Arthur. "IMPERIO!" The two yelled pointing their wand at her. Teresa was shot up into the air and began to twist but hit the floor grinning like a maniac Teresa raised her wand: "AVADA KEDERVA!" Charlie crumpled to the ground as Arthur turned his wand on Teresa. "FRALMENTE!" Arthur shouted. A long black sheet of ice began forming around Teresa's body, enveloping her, suffocating her, until she was completely frozen within it.
But suddenly the ice began to crack, and after a minute of the crack making its way through the glass the entire block shattered. Teresa was shot out of it landing among the broken ice. Rising into the air she pointed her wand at Arthur who keeled over; stunned.
Fred ran to his side, accompanied by George as they tried to wake their father up. Ginny ran to his other side as fast as possible and aimed the killing curse at Teresa who dodged it but it hit Bellatrix. Draco pushed his fears aside as he pointed his wand at Teresa when she wasn't looking.
She wasn't ready for it. She lay twitching on the ground, screaming as though she was being painfully killed, and in reality she was. Her eyes were rolling and she was clawing at the ground for it to stop. Draco lifted the curse as she lay still. "I tortured her to insanity. She isnt dead, but she's not there." He whispered hoarsely. Ginny rushed to his side as he revived Arthur.
Ginny stood up bravely and pointed to her brother's corpse. He was spun into a long black coffin and she made it disappear. Arthur, Fred, and George all helped Draco back into the room they had come from, holding back the tears they wanted so desperately to shed as Harry, Ron, and Hermione tried to get Ginny out of there.
Draco kept murmuring to himself, "I tortured her… over and over again." Ginny could not walk straight: "I killed a person! Oh how could I kill anyone?" Ron finally scooped her up into his arms and had to tie her to his back as he climbed down the rope out of their window. He kept Ginny in his arms until he had apparated them to the house and laid her to sleep in her bed.
"Draco, you have my blessing." Ron assured him as he walked past. Draco looked at Ginny sleeping peacefully and Draco was filled with the guilt that racked him for driving Teresa to insanity.
But he didn't want to lose Ginny not without her knowing. He walked swiftly to her bed and sat down facing her back. He touched her cheek with his hand shivering as he whispered close in her ear. "I love you."