They went back to Romania and Enya would begin to plan their wedding which would happen on the first weekend of April only a month away and Enya was stressed, but she didn't want to wait she sent out invitations before she even got a dress. A spring wedding in Romania right there on the grounds- sans dragons of course and they would honeymoon in the mountains for a week and then come back to work. He took over a lot of the workload for the running of things while their office was covered in wedding horror. Her aunt even came to visit to help and his mother was owling daily. Which is why he didn't tell her the egg house had been broken into, or that the horntails were let loose one night, or that they kept having things go missing, or that the ministry was now concerned with sabotage because of some inner vendetta. There were some guys passed up for the job because of Enya choosing Charlie and there was speculation of an affair which lead her to do it.
"Enya loves this job. She worked hard for this job! I am not going to tell her to step down because someone is pulling a few pranks on this campus. She is not in any danger then my fiance she stays right here." he told the head
" Charlie, you have an excellent job waiting for you in England The head of magical law enforcement is nothing to pass up not even for Enya who wouldn't have to work again and if she wanted to she could do the same job away from here and visit here often. Live off base, take the job, Charlie. Your brother in law is well on his way to head of the auror office he and Malfoy both put your name in the running. Malfoy said he wouldn't trust anybody else with his wife in a million years. That's a lot coming from a Malfoy about a Weasley. You'll supervise an entire department of security and patrol. Even though the Dark Lord is gone doesn't mean there aren't still dark wizards out there and you love the work, you're good at the work. Move home to England and be with your family and Enya can have her old job back as under secretary to the head of magical creatures."
Charlie was fuming. " Because some hatchlings were put into danger"
"Because it's a sign of further danger and we have received a few anonymous tips warning us, it's very serious and we want to stop it before it escalates. You of all people know how it is. You were the personal bodyguard of the most influential witch of our time, and you're the brother in law to her counterpart. We know how much Romania means to you, Charlie. The ministry is even willing to let Enya take care of injured magical creatures. She would enjoy that. And with the salary you are being offered you can buy a summer home here in the mountains."
Charlie loved dragons, the thrill of them, their majesticness, their awesomeness.
"Let me think about it." he said grumbling " and we can come here as often as we'd like, eh?"
The head nodded "Yes, Romania is just a pop away."
Charlie walked out of that office that day ready to punch whoever was doing this. He didn't care about money, or anything like that, he cared about Enya, he had spent his last year in England after being injured and he hated it. However, he now had a wife and possibly children to think about.
Enya looked up at him as he walked into the cabin. She smiled and quickly frowned. "What's the matter?"
He sighed " it's nothing, promise." he said plopping down on the couch. " Enya would you ever want to live in England again?"
Enya thought about it a moment. " I love your family and I want my children to have the same things the others would have and that is access to your parents and their aunts and uncles and cousins as often as they'd like, but we're doing well here and until we start having children I see no reason to leave. Of course, I wouldn't want to raise babies here."
He smiled at the thought. " No of course not. It's far too dangerous and you wouldn't need to work."
She nodded. " Exactly. So we would need a security blanket I've been saving up for quite some time so I don't think we would need to worry about that, but we can live off base if you want to keep this job."
Charlie thought about telling her of the head directors offer, but for some reason thought better of it. "Enya, how many children do you want?"
She smiled and put down her knittind needles. " I want as many as I am given."
He laughed. " My mother loves you because you're her. I like big families, but I don't know if I could have myself."
She nodded. "I get that. I just want more than 3."
"More than 3 it is." he said kissing her cheek and she got back to her knitting.
He thought about where they could live if they didn't live in Romania and as he did so drifted off to sleep. He awoke to humming and bustling around in the kitchen.
He smiled and stretched. Enya looked over at him as he walked into the kitchen.
Their evening was normal like it was every night. They went to bed separately since it was well known they were engaged and it was only proper he was seen going into his own cabin and her aunt was in and out during the day and nothing was amiss.
But something woke Charlie at 3 am. Something told him to go check on Enya.
When he arrived her entire cabin was on fire.
He began screaming for help and sounded the alarm.
He assumed she was still in there and with everything he could he tried putting the fire out, but it was a cursed fire. Running to the side of the cabin her bedroom was on he cast a spell and cut a hole in her wall. Thankfully no flames had reached that side. He saw her laying in bed extremely still and he cried out as he saw the flames reach her door. He ran coughing with smoke in his lungs and picked her up just before the flames got to her closet. Jumping over eveything he had to he got them outside. Men and healers were waiting to assist them.
Healer Steele took Enya despite Charlie's protest and he watched her cabin burn. It was no accident it was set and it was by someone who knew he was going to turn down the job offer.
He walked over to a young orderly who was assisting Healer Steele stabilize Enya.
"How is she?"
The orderly stepped away from them and came to him. " She's alive, but thats about it."
He began to cry. He had never cried before like this.
He sent a patronus and an emergency owl to the only person he trusted with matters like these.
"The only thing you can do." an orderly said as he waited in the hospital ward thinking of ever worst scenario "is to go and try to help them figure out what happened."
He wiped his tears and got up and as he did so he recognized a familiar voice. " I need the charts on Enya Flannery stat. I want a completely sterile room prepped away from any crowd, I want no orderlies that are not mine in that room. I want security around every door and entrance surrounding Ms. Flannery am I understood?" she said matter of factly. He could tell she had been woken up by his message and that she had gotten there as quickly as possible. She wore light pink "scrubs" and a white lab coat with her name stitched on it. Her hair was pulled into a pony tail and she was wearing pink converse sneakers. Her belly had only grown bigger making her look like she swallowed a small melon. Behind her was a band of body guards, his brother in law Harry, and a group of english orderlies who knew exactly how their boss worked as they pushed through anyone they had to do exactly what she said.
"Harry, I want your men literally every entrance." she said and Harry nodded. " You heard her." When Verina spoke people listened even the people in charge.
She walked up to him and squeezed his hand. " Your mother is on her way."
As she said it a house elf was escorting his mother into the entrance. She immediately ran to him. Verina walked off barking more orders for people to move and he didn't see her for another three hours.
By the time she came out it had been four hours maybe four and a half since he found Enya. It took her an hour to gather all of her forces. Guess no one was kidding when they said she was powerful. However, it seemed longer. It seemed like time drug on as his mother, Mrs. Finnegan, and he sat in chairs waiting for any news. Verina's house elf never left their side. She would appear with tear or coffee or anything anyone needed out of nowhere, Harry was doing a full investigation, and Charlie didn't even know how Verina thought to call him in.
He came to Charlie before Verina did.
" It was set just like Verina said. She said you told her in the patronus there had been a cursed fire and Enya was hurt. How did you know it was cursed?" he said sitting down beside Charlie.
"It wouldn't go out with normal spells we use on Dragon fire and water didn't work."
Harry nodded. " I understand. I understand also that there had been previous happenings of tampering or vandalizing. "
Charlie shrugged. " That's what they thought."
"Well, they were right, Charlie. 6 eggs were brutally destroyed, 3 hungarian horntails set loose, and 2 other dragons dead. Whoever set Enya's fire was also on their way to your cabin or was already there. Your entire cabin was ransacked and why they didn't kill you I have no clue."
Charlie shook his head. " There was no one in my cabin. I know."
Harry knew he was right. " Your instincts aren't any I would question. But why are they doing this?"
Charlie was at a complete loss but he was outraged. "Its someone on the inside. Someone close to the ministry who knew that I was planning on staying here for the duration. Someone who wanted this job or Enya's job or who wanted Enya."
His mother shuttered. " To think you could both be dead."
Verina walked out of the doors and she looked exhausted and anyone could see she had an air of professionalism as she carried a clip board. Charlie knew there was no good news now. "Enya is alive and finally stable, however, we're quarantining her. She was burned fromt he heat, but thankfully the burns are not too bad. Theyre the least of our worries. Charlie how did you find Enya?"
He arched a brow, but answered it " asleep in her bed."
Verina sighed and rubbed her brow. "She was put there because her arms show marks of restraints, there are traces of dark curses I am sure the cruciatus or something similar and she was stupefied. She was completely knocked out?"
"Yes, she looked asleep."
Verina nodded. " I have to move her, Charlie. I need her in London."
"Verina that's a thirty hour drive unless you plan to apparate her there."
Verina rubbed her temples. " She isn't stable enough to apparate and we can't floo a bed. We have an enchanted medical vehicle it's new- mine and the Knight Bus' handy work and it's better than a helicopter. The ministry can have it here in less than 6 hours and it's another 6 back home, but that won't work because I need her there faster. If we take her to the muggles here we risk exposure. Damn it." she said pacing. " We apparate her straight there." she said and an orderly moved quickly. " Minni, go." she said and Minni was gone in a pop.
Verina pulled something out of her pocket and hit a button on it. Charlie was surprised at what was in her hand as he knew this girl was afraid of electricity. " This is Dr. Gustav I have a trauma level one code m-london, blunt force trauma, 2nd degree burns, possible need of an OR, may have cranial bleed, one collapsed lung left side she's been stabilized. Be on red." she nodded and shut the phone and took out her wand and a blue line of smoke appeared and if you looked closely you can see a fox. " Code red squib gustav, minni is on her way with charts."
She spun on her heel " Harry clear the area."
She disappeared behind doors and within seconds she was coming out with a gurney. He couldn't see Enya, but he knew she was there. She was wrapped tightly in blankets and her head was covered. Verina was putting on a coat and she loosened her arms. She rubbed her stomach and cracked her neck.
"No! You cannot." Charlie said and Verina cut him off.
"You can follow me." she said bluntly " but you called me for a reason. And I am not letting this girl out of my sight or hands." she said and the doors opened and Harry beckoned her.
Verina nodded and pointed to the door. " I need a wide area." his mother grabbed his arm and Enya's aunt had yet to say anything really. Verina walked outside and he watched as two orderlys propped Enya up and Verina scooted behind her. She stood them both up and in a twist they were gone.
Charlie didn't care what happened here he was gone in a pop and in the bustling halls of St. Mungos. He saw the little pink scrubs and heard her barking orders as the unwrapped her. He followed Verina as they ran down a hallway. Verina was screaming out numbers and words he didn't understand but he watched her as she disappeared by double doors that he had never seen before in the hospital. "Charlie!" a familiar voice said and he turned around to see his brother Percy. " Come on let's go sit down in the waiting room."
"How did you get here?" he said as his brother lead him away
" I work for the ministry and closely with the Auror office, Charlie I am the first assistant to the minister. There was a high security alert dispatched this morning from the minister himself. When that happens anyone who works close to the minister comes in. Malfoy was there of course as he's the traveling mouthpiece for the minister and he was telling some blokes that his wife was called in around one this morning. And how he had hoped it wasn't that serious because he was swamped as it is. They only call Verina in for traumas when it's the absolute worst, and she didn't tell him who called her in just that she had to go to Romania then we got another alert saying it was the site director Enya Flannery who had been seriously injured and she was being emergency transferred to London. So I thought I would come over and see if you were alright. They aren't releasing details yet just that Harry put it on absolute high alert and Malfoy is being sent to do political damage control."
"I knew this was going to happen, but I was so stubborn." he said and broke down in the waiting room. " I left her to get hurt. I just didn't think it was serious."
Percy pulled him to his shoulder. " Charlie you couldn't have known."
But that didn't help the impending doom that he felt.
