A/N: I am so awfully sorry but this chapter would just not work with me. I wrote it over three different times with three completely different turns of events and none of them sat well with me. It just didn't feel right and I refused to update with a weak chapter. But finally this is done. It's a bit of a cliffie for which you can leave me copious amounts of hate in my inbox and reviews (it's fine you're allowed) but I hope you like this LONG AWAITED chapter and leave a little review to tell me I haven't failed you all.

Many thanks and don't forget to be checking out the "sister" story of this one and the origin of the challenge; Ms. Louis Cordice Zabini, "Is it a Gift or A Curse?"

A Terrible Discovery

Pansy was wrong, when she woke the next morning she looked over to her best friend's bed only it was empty, and unmade. Astoria was a neat-freak but everything was scattered.

'What the hell?' Pansy shoved aside her blankets and looked over. Bedding was on the floor, Astoria's toiletries were heaped higgledy-piggledy over the cold stone. She looked at the black wand scorches under the bed and across the granite walls and finally her dark eyes fell on the blue and grey coat of arms underneath the bed. Leaping under the bed she grabbed the scrap of fabric and screamed.

"FUCK!" She yelled as she saw the nail marks in the bed post and ran out of the room. Ignoring the cat calls from the various students milling around the common room she flew up to the room that Draco and Blaise shared with a couple of boys and hammered on the door.

"Easy Pansy, I know you're willing to drop them for almost anyone but I think you need underwear on for that." One of the urchins in their year, Riley Briggs hollered from the foot of the stairs, without even looking Pansy sent a hex behind her and heard Brigg's squeal as he was launched upside down.

"Pans, what is wrong?" Blaise opened the door and yawned, he didn't even make a comment at the flailing Riley; however he was surprised when Pansy barged past and burst into tears.

"What's wrong?" Draco sat up, wiping the sleep away from his eyes.

"She's gone. Astoria's gone, none of her stuff is there and there were signs of a struggle and I found this." Pansy sobbed and hiccupped, barely even noticing that her ankles were sinking through the floor. Blaise tugged under her arms and sat her on the bed as Draco rushed around, yanking on trousers and a shirt while Pansy sobbed on the bed. "There was even this." She showed the scrap of fabric.

"What do we do?" Blaise said as he dressed just as quickly.

"I should let Briggs down." Pansy sighed and automatically stood up, it took a lot of effort for her to pull herself together and started to traipse back down the stairs.

"Pansy go get dressed, we need to find Daphne." Draco whispered in the girl's ear and her brain kickstarted again. Daphne. Bloody Daphne Greengrass.

"We should get Weasley as well." She whispered back, smirking as Blaise finished her spell on Riley and he fell in a rather ungraceful heap. Getting back to the empty dorm, Pansy threw on a skirt and a t-shirt and joined Draco and Blaise at the foot of the stairs with a determined look on her face.

"I'll find the Gryffindors." Blaise whispered and mentally started calling for Luna as they headed into the main body of the school. However they didn't have to look far; Saint Potter and Granger were huddled with Luna and looked just as frantic as Pansy did.

'Luna, abandoned classroom, third floor, bring those two.' He mentally whispered and saw the blonde nod and started to tug the two confused Gryffindors.

When they were all huddled in together Hermione almost exploded.

"Where's that bloody Greengrass, she's taken Ron hasn't she?!" Her shrill voice was raising and it was Harry that had to silence her, lest they had a live porno kick off in front of them.

"We think the Greengrass family have taken them, Astoria's gone as well." Draco said quietly and seriously and Hermione stopped herself from continuing her rant.

"Astoria's gone as well?" Harry looked towards Pansy, seeing she was close to tears, the dark haired Slytherin girl nodded, biting her lip and blinking quickly to stop the unshed tears from falling. Silently the Chosen One wrapped his arms around Pansy who sobbed into his shoulder.

"You don't know what they'll do to her. She's disgraced them, dirtied their name by hanging around with Ronald. He's a blood traitor and they're purists through and through." Pansy's voice was thick from the crying.

"Mr and Mrs Greengrass are almost as bad as my parents." Draco said quietly and watched as Hermione hovered near him. Instead of holding his hand, the brunette looped her arm through his blazer clad one and offered comfort by resting her head on his shoulder; it was all they could do with her power.

"You know where Astoria lives?" Luna asked from the corner and the four turned to see her encased in Blaise's tall frame, his arms creating a barrier around her slight form.

"Yeah I've been there almost every summer." Pansy hiccupped again, wiping away tears but not moving from Harry's proximity.

"Then we need to go there." Blaise said simply. "We'll have to tell Snape first, I think he has the right to know one of his students has been kidnapped…"

"No, no teachers." Harry cut the Italian off. "We do this solely with us. We leave a note to Snape or whoever and we go there ourselves. This doesn't need to be publicised." Harry said firmly.

"You know your way in definitely Pansy?" Hermione murmured, Harry could already see the ideas flashing across her head.

"I know my way in and around. What's concerning is the security on the place. I can apparate us to the point outside their boundaries but they have caterwauling charms and an array of deterrents." Pansy cocked her head as she remembered every scrap of information.

"From what I can see in Pansy's head some of them are pretty complex." Luna said dreamily from the corner; she had perfected her talent by zoning in on just an individual's head and if she was particularly connected, like Blaise and her, she could almost see out of their eyes.

"You're forgetting we have a Ravenclaw and the brightest witch of the age on our side." Draco hummed, feeling Hermione giggle, her eyes laughing at his compliment.

"Her mother was the smartest witch for Hogwarts grades until Hermione came along." Pansy reminded them. "It's going to be tough."

"We do this this afternoon. It's a Hogsmeade afternoon we can easily sneak away." Draco and Harry looked at one another and for the first time there was no scathing look or distrust, only determination.

A/N: Excuse the spelling mistakes I just wanted it published before my month deadline!