A/N: Audition Update: Initial audition went well and I got THREE callbacks the day after! All three callbacks went well but sadly I wasn't cast in any of the shows I auditioned for. However, it was a lot of fun and great experience so I'm taking it with a grain of salt and using this experience to strengthen my further auditions. Thanks to everyone who wished me luck during the process!
Tallyho!
Chapter 20: Hermione
We're standing around the Western Union Building with a team all around the building and vicinity. Blaise, Q, and Keller are off doing surveillance about a block or two away from here while Harry and Draco are out front, monitoring the street. I sigh and walk out of the building, wrapping my jacket around me as I walk towards Harry and Draco.
"How'd it go?" Harry asks.
I shake my head. "Rostov still refuses to move the meeting. He's convinced that nothing is going to happen since we're all here to and I quote 'prevent anything from happening.' Like we can just determine when the bomb is going to go off or if or where it's going to happen in the area!" I throw my hands in the air and groan. "I don't know what else there is to do."
"Q, you wanna give it a go?" Blaise asks in the earpiece and I hear a snort.
"Hell no! If Rostov won't listen to G, then there's no way in hell he'd listen to me!"
"Oh come on," Draco says. "Don't give up yet, Q. Maybe you could just talk incessantly and he'll cave!"
"Ha, ha, ha, you're hilarious," Q says sarcastically.
"I am pretty funny, now that you mention it," Draco smirks.
"Alright boys, that's enough. We have work to do," I say, looking pointedly at Draco. He shrugs and winks at me before turning his attention to one of the team members whose updating him on the positions of everyone on the team.
Q mutters something in my ear but I miss it and shrug it off. I walk to Harry and give him a small smile. "How are we looking?" I ask.
He returns the smile. "Pretty good. We have all the information except for when the bomb is going to go off but we've got a protection spell over the area and an emergency team ready to go for when the bomb goes off."
"And you? How are you holding up?"
He wraps an arm around me and I lay my head on his shoulder. "I'm alright; little on edge but I'm okay. You?"
I briefly rest my hand on my abdomen before shrugging and lifting my head from his shoulder. "Ask me once this is over," I say and he smirks.
"Uhh guys?" I hear Keller say on the earpiece. "We have a small problem."
"What's up, K?" Harry asks.
"Umm… well, Q and Z have disappeared."
"WHAT?!" Harry, Draco, and I say at the same time.
"What do you mean they disappeared?" Draco says.
"Just that! One moment they were here, then I walked away for a minute -and not even very far- and when I came back they were gone." The panic in his voice is very noticeable.
Immediately Draco and Harry begin to try and get a hold of Q and Blaise and the team is suddenly on high alert that two our team members have vanished into thin air. "Is it possible that they apparated out of the area?" I hear someone ask.
"I would have heard the sound of apparition," Keller says.
"Why would they leave?" Draco asks.
"More importantly, where would they go?" Harry asks. "Their job is here, they have no reason to leave the area unless instructed to do so and they were not told to do so!"
"So what the hell happened to them?" Keller asks.
While they're trying to figure out what happened to Blaise and Q, I wander out a bit into the street, just on a hunch and begin to look around for anything out of the ordinary. What the hell could have happened to Blaise and Q? It's not like them to just vanish; not when we're this close to stopping the next attack. Sure, Blaise had disappeared during the case before, but he was doing solo work; he wouldn't disappear on us now. And Q! Q is one of the most dedicated people I know; sure he talks a lot but he's good at what he does. He wouldn't disappear when we need him most. This is so unlike either of them.
As I'm wandering through the street, I see something out of the corner of my eye that looks like movement. I look towards it and try to see what it is but I don't get the chance when I hear someone scream.
And that's when it starts: the scream, a loud noise, the explosion.
And then everything goes black.
Sorry...