A/N: Exams are over! And I'm pretty sure I completely failed them, so I am taking my mind off the imminent results by writing another chapter :) Enjoy! And please don't forget to review…it will take you thirty seconds and would make me so happy.

Disclaimer: I really wish I owned the Harry Potter world, but sadly all I own are my crappy exam results.

Scorpius POV
Hogwarts Library

The scene seemed momentarily frozen. Everyone was staring at Swarna. Even James appeared to have been distracted from yelling at Suzy.

'Well?' I said impatiently as Swarna stared at her phone. 'What does it say?' Fear was flooding through my chest. If Swarna didn't want to say, it must be pretty bad.

'Swarna?' asked Helen quietly, putting a hand on her arm. I could hear the worry in her voice. 'What does it say?'

Swarna looked up, a puzzled look on her face. 'I….don't know,' she said.

'How did she manage to send you a message anyway?' asked James curiously. 'I thought those things worked by pressing numbers and being able to hear each other talk?'

'You can send text to each other,' said Helen impatiently. 'What does it say, Swarna?'

'Send text? What on earth is the point of that?' persisted James. Despite my worry for Rose, I felt a slight tinge of curiosity.

'So you can send for help in situations like this, obviously' snapped Helen impatiently. She turned back to Swarna. 'How can you not know what it says?'

Swarna held out the phone. 'I think Rose sent this in a hurry….I don't think she checked what she was typing….'

Not willing to wait any longer, I impatiently snatched the phone out of her hand and examined it. There was no visible message on it that I could see.

'Other side, Scorpius,' said Swarna gently, taking it out of my hand and turning it over.

Now I could see it. A large, square surface on the top of the phone was illuminated, and words were indeed printed on it. Or what looked like words. To be precise, what the message actually said was 'tom is toledort im baud with jake'

I barely had a second to react before James grabbed the phone from my hand, stared at it briefly, and then roared 'Who the hell is Jake?!'

'How can you even be sure this is from Rose?' I practically exploded at Swarna, ignoring him. This message got us nowhere. It made no sense at all.

'It's her number,' said Swarna briefly, and, as I started to reply, 'Look, I don't have time to explain how the phone works, but I know its her, all right?'

Reluctantly, I accepted this, and she continued, 'I know what Rose did when she was sending this, and we can work out what she meant, but it may take some time.'

'We don't have time,' I said through gritted teeth, and she rounded on me.

'Unless we decipher this, message, Scorpius, we can't get anywhere. Unless you have some miraculous way of finding them?'

I opened my mouth, closed it again, and nodded briefly. 'How do we work it out?'

Swarna began to explain the concept of something she referred to as 'predictive texting'. It was one of the most complicated things I'd ever heard of. Apparently it was so complicated her own phone couldn't even do it, as it had a full keyboard (I stopped even trying to understand at this point), which meant we'd have to figure out what words could be formed from various letter combinations, which she wrote on bits of parchment and handed round. I stared at mine, internally groaning. While I'd always enjoyed puzzles, now was not the time.

'Well,' offered James weakly. 'The first word is Tom.'

Rose POV

I made to hurriedly stash the phone out of sight, but Tom was there in a second, holding his hand out.

'Rose.' The mere sound of my name sent chills up and down my spine. His voice was like ice. His eyes were flashing, and perhaps for the first time, I fully appreciated exactly what we were dealing with. I swallowed, suddenly hoping my friends and family would turn up soon with some genius, well thought out, foolproof plan.

'Give me that.' I suddenly realised, with a desperate flash of hope, that he wouldn't be able to recognise the phone for what it was. And my plea for help had already been sent. He wouldn't be able to do anything. Still, I was reluctant to hand over my only weapon. I could use it to convey more information to Swarna, if Tom let anything slip.

'Rose,' he said again, then whipped his want out, pointing it at Lily, who was still huddled in the corner. 'Give me that, or I'll hurt her.'

'Don't give it to him, Rose,' Lily said hoarsely, holding her head up a fraction higher. I felt a sudden rush of affection for her, but was already holding the phone out to Tom. I couldn't watch her get hurt.

Tom took the phone from my hand, and stared at it, turning it over in his hands.

'What is this?' he asked, his eyes locking with mine. I suddenly remembered my uncle telling me Voldemort had been skilled at Legilimency, and looked down, breaking eye contact.

'Tell me.' His voice was deathly quiet, and his wand rose again, this time pointing at me.

***

Grünwald Palace, Germany

Climbing out of the fireplace, Albus and Nigel stood up, dusted themselves down, and proceeded to look around the tower in which they had emerged.

There was a pause.

'Um, Al?' asked Nigel, in a small voice. 'I think we may have come out of the wrong fireplace.'

***

Scorpius POV
Hogwarts Library

Fifteen minutes later, we had ascertained that the first part of the message meant 'Tom is Voldemort.' Even though we had already known this, having confirmation of it was enough to double the size of the ice block that was currently residing in my stomach.

We still hadn't worked out the identity of the mysterious Jake, nor had we any idea what Rose meant by saying she was a baud. I stared desperately at the page, the letters swirling around in front of my eyes. The first one had to be an A, a B or a C, and so did the second one….that could make…AB…CA….and then I saw it.

'Cave!' I shouted, leaping out of my chair, and making everyone jump. 'She means 'in cave' not 'im baud!'''

Swarna looked incredibly relieved. 'That's brilliant, Scorpius!' she said, smiling warmly.

'Wait,' James interrupted. 'We still don't know who 'Jake' is.'

'Does it matter?' Hugo asked. 'There's only one cave it could be.'

He grabbed the biography of Voldemort I'd found earlier and began rifling through its pages.

'Yep, when he was a child, he was in a Muggle orphanage, and took two children with him to a cave on the south coast, where he terrorised them.' He looked up, his eyes shining. 'It must be that cave! I remember Uncle Harry described it as having a lake inside, with a Horcrux in the middle.'

Now it was Swarna's turn to jump out of her seat. 'That'is it! Lake! Not Jake!'

James looked profoundly relieved at hearing that there wasn't in fact a person named Jake now involved in the situation. I had to admit that I felt slightly relieved as well. The fewer people we had to rescue the better.

'Right,' said Helen practically. 'Where is this cave?'

Hugo consulted the book again. 'It's just outside Brighton, on a particularly dangerous stretch of coastline. Apparently Muggles avoid it, due to a number of accidents that have taken place there.'

'How do we get there?' I asked breathlessly. Finally, we could move.

'Apparition,' said Suzy abruptly, and I started. I'd almost forgotten she was there. 'James, Hugo and I can take the rest of you by Side-Along Apparition, if we get outside of the grounds.'

We all looked at each other, then, as one, sprinted for the door.

***

Five minutes later, having managed to sneak through the gates one by one using a broomstick and James' Invisibility Cloak – which I hadn't even realised he had – we were standing outside of the Hogwarts grounds, in a place we could Apparate from.

James dumped the broomsticks on the ground, the quickly covered them with the Cloak, before coming back to the rest of us and taking Swarna's arm. Helen and Lucy each grabbed Hugo, leaving me to link arms with Suzy.

James took a deep breath. 'OK everyone, let's go.'

'We're really doing this,' said Lucy, locking eyes with me.

I nodded, but before I could reply, Suzy turned, pulling me with her. Everything went black.

***

A few seconds later, we materialised on thin strip of beach. I gasped for breath and felt the sea air enter my lungs, then looked up to see the dark, gaping mouth of a cave in front of us. We stood for a second, in a row, looking up at it, then I braced myself and led the way in.

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