A/N: We don't own Harry Potter. Yet another chapter written by White-Tiger. Enjoy!
"Who are you people?" Tori said with some strength in her voice. The man who had grabbed her turned to her as she stood her ground. He looked familiar, but at that point she couldn't place him. She was scared, but she wasn't about to let him know that. "Why am I here?"
A swift smack solved her courage problem, and landed her a spot on the floor. This man was quite vicious and no matter what she tried she couldn't seem to find that inner power like she had with Malfoy. Then it clicked, Malfoy! That platinum blonde hair all slicked back, that wanna-be look of superiority, and that voice that could cut through glass with its sharpness.
"We'll ask the questions," The man, whom she figured out, was Lucius Malfoy, stated quite plainly. The look in his eyes promised Victoria great pain is she disobeyed him. Actually it promised her pain anyways. "You are only to speak when spoken to, and you will address us as either Sir or Master. Do you understand?"
"Yes… Sir," Tori replied from her position on the floor. She didn't know what they wanted from her, but chances were that it wasn't good. Suddenly another voice broke through her frazzled mind.
"Now, now Malfoy. I did tell you not to harm her. She is very precious to me, and I can't have you harming that beautiful pure blood face. Now leave." Tori looked up and gasped. This man had to be the one called Voldemort. His eyes were narrow and his nose was nothing more than slits, just like a snake.
"But, Master. What about the revenge for my son? You promised." Confusion and betrayal flashed across Lucius' features. Voldemort just looked from his lowly servant, over to the young girl on the floor.
"I said leave. I've changed my mind."
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Severus walked into the Three Broomsticks, about fifteen minutes after Tori left to find out whom the mystery person was, to find Ginifer sitting all alone with a worried look on her face.
"Ms. Taylor, where's Ms. Miller?"
Gin's heart sank as the man that she had grown to love over the years asked about another woman, and the worst part was that he was asking about her best friend.
'Just when Tori finds someone else to occupy her time with, he gets interested in her,' she thought with a slight twinge of jealousy.
"She got a message from a secret admirer from one of the waitresses and went to check it out. Why?" she said trying to sound as sweet and appealing as she could manage without making herself sick.
"How long has she been gone?"
"About fifteen minutes." Ginifer shot Severus a look of confusion, she couldn't think of any reason why he would keep asking so many questions about Tori when she had already said she wasn't around. "Why?"
"Where did she go to meet him?"
"Outside," Gin answered before pointing over at the waitress behind the bar. "The waitress said he was too shy to come up to her while we were together. So Tori went out to meet him, but they probably went somewhere more secluded to talk. What's going on?"
"Would she normally leave you alone without so much as a good-bye or any knowledge of where she might be going?"
"No. How would you know whether or not if she said anything to me?" Gin said as she began to fear the worst had happened. Severus' next words confirmed her darkest fears.
Completely disregarding her question, he simply stated, "She may have been taken by the Dark Lord."
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"Are you Voldemort?" it was meek, but audible. She stood up so she could look him in the eyes as he circled around her trying to intimidate her.
"You are either very brave or very stupid to use that name, young one." He replied before pulling out his wand to invoke fear before punishing her for speaking out of turn.
But when he had it pointed at her, she didn't become afraid, she went a little dark, it was just her eyes flashing from a dark blue sapphire to the amethyst version of her eyes as she found a little of her inner darkness, and she felt she had more confidence against this "Dark Lord".
"I'm neither. I just know that I don't have any reason to fear you. My friends will come for me, and then you're dead." Voldemort narrowed his eyes at the young impetuous girl, and let out a low growl. She started to back away from the mad man with a wand as her fear began to mount; her eyes reverting back to blue.
"Crucio!"
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"We need to check your book. Where is it?" Snape said in a hurried tone. There was no telling what the Dark Lord would do with her in his possession, and he didn't want to even think about what would happen if Lucius got hold of her.
"Back at the school. I think Dumbledore still had it from when Tori was in his office punishing Draco." Gin said as she stood, feeling the fear for her friend rise over the jealousy.
Snape rubbed his temples unconsciously at the mention of that event. "We should hurry. If we can find her soon, he might not have hurt her too badly."
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Tori's screams were deafening. The pain shot throughout her body as she lay on the floor cringing against it. It was even worse than thousands of needles prickling her skin. When he called forth the curse, she lost all the courage she had gained and felt its full power flowing through her body. If she had been at her full Darkness, she would have been able to disregard it or dissipate it, but instead she was forced to face the pain.
"Please… Stop!"
"Have you learned your lesson?"
"Yes. I am sorry," she was still laying on the ground wrapping her arms around her ribs trying to subdue the pain he had caused, and was still causing.
The Dark Lord came nearer to her, leaned down next to her ear, and whispered, "Good," he said as he removed the curse from her. "Now I have some things that I would like to discuss with you."
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"Albus! Where's the book?" Snape said, desperately trying to hide the apprehension and fear in his voice about what could be happening to the girl.
Dumbledore handed Gin the book and asked, "Where's Ms. Miller? I thought she was with you Ms. Taylor."
"That's what we're trying to find out Headmaster. She went out to meet some boy while we were at the Three Broomsticks, and I haven't seen her since."
Gin searched the book for answers, but came to the end of her book and turned ghost white.
"What's wrong Ms. Taylor?" Severus tried to focus her attention, but he was getting nowhere.
"The book… It's… There… The book..." Gin began to hyperventilate as the fear increased.
Severus placed his hands on either side of her face and made her look at him. "What's wrong?" His softened eyes and features helped her to calm down enough to finish her thoughts out loud.
"The book finishes off where Tori goes to meet her mystery man, and doesn't say who it was. It's finished." She began to laugh in hysterics. "There are no more pages. The book is useless to help us find her."