Draco waited in one of the caravans that had been pulled by two horses. The entire town had come along with them, not to save Jade but under the impression that they were going to entertain the Queen and bring gifts for her. The gypsies had all used this opportunity to hide inside of the caravans and go along with Draco to save Jade. They needed to be disguised like the others and blend in so as not to get caught; especially Draco. Draco heard the men and women of the towns singing loudly and making music with their instruments to keep the atmosphere in high spirits.

Draco didn't think the Queen deserved at all to have the attention and good hearts of the people that were earnest to meet her and shower her with their hard earned crops and tendered meat. That woman was a coldhearted and selfish kidnapping murderer. Draco clenched the handle of his sword tightly as he thought about what Jade might be going through right now or maybe she might not even be alive. He wanted so badly to go into the castle and violently push his sword into the Queen's heart. Even if Jade were alive or dead, Draco swore that he'd hurt the person responsible for Jade's kidnapping. The caravan stopped and everyone quieted to hear the voices outside.

"And what's this? The market comes to the Castle?" one of the royal guards asked hitting one of the caravans.

"Yes and we'd like to come in for her Majesty." Someone in the other wagons had said.

Draco sat and waited anxiously. If they said no, he'd jump out of the caravan right now without anyone restraining him to stay.

"The Queen is never pleased with unexpected visitors." The guard said.

Draco smirked; he knew all too well how much the Queen didn't like unexpected visitors, she was holding one of them in her castle somewhere.

"But we've bought singers, dancers, whores for her guards, foods and other entertainment!" Draco heard a woman say. He looked around the entire caravan and saw the other gypsies that were dressed up as women. He would have thought it was funny if he wasn't thinking about Jade all the time. Annabelle sat next to him, feeling more anxious than he was. She was going to risk being killed because she had been assisting them ever since she had met them. She saved Jade from being caught by one of the guards and even saved their lives in many ways. If it weren't for her, Draco too would have been with Jade in the Queen's grasp.


"Your Majesty." the royal guard announced, walking into the throne room where the Queen sat in her throne room. He bowed his head, looking at the floor, not daring to look at the Queen.

"Speak." The Queen snapped coldly.

"Your Majesty, a flock of townspeople have arrived in your honor. They seek your permission to allow them to be invited. " The guard said. He didn't see the cold smirk forming on her lips and was surprised when she had said

"Bring them in with wide and open arms."

The caravan moved and everyone cheered that they had been allowed into the castle. They had entered the grounds of the castle and stopped their caravans on castle grounds to make their tents and set their booths up. Draco stepped out of the caravan himself and pulled his cap lower to not attract the attention of any of the guards with his platinum blonde hair. His face was dirty and almost unrecognizable and his brown painter's outfit was covered in colors and dye that he had taken from the other artists that were also present in one of the many caravans that came along.

Annabelle also stepped out in the clothes that she had came with and looked around with Draco to see the vast amounts of people that had come with them. It was like a marketplace where people unfolded their belongings and got ready for the Queen. So far none of the Queens men had recognized them and they weren't going to with all of these people.

Draco waited until the night had fallen. He was going to wait and rescue Jade at the time that was most convenient. Everyone was sleeping and the guards had stood next to the gate, nodding off into sleep. Draco looked up to see Paul signal the women that he had met in the whorehouses just a few hours before the battle had taken place. The women got out of their caravans and quietly walked away to divert the guards attention. Draco needed this precious time to slip into the castle with Annabelle, find Jade and take the Portkey back to Hogwarts. Draco watched the women flirt with the guards, getting them to drop their weapons and lean against the wall, grinning devilishly. He saw the ladies take the three guards that had been guarding the entrance of the castle and take them away into one of the tents nearby.

"Go! Now." Paul hissed, pushing Draco and Annabelle lightly.

Two other gypsies who were completely identical twins went with them, dressed up as women but completely armed and dangerous. They slipped into the castle and tiptoed their way towards the dungeons. Draco felt somewhat nervous. Something didn't seem right. The entire castle was abandoned and easily present for him to take Jade away. Why did he feel as if this calm and suspicious castle was going to completely ruin everything he had?

Annabelle took his arm and quickly led through the long corridors that were adorned with tapestries, armors and other important pieces of the castle. They approached a spiraling staircase that was narrow and was lit up with the torches on the walls. Even though the torches were burning with fire, the walls were clammy and cold from the heavy looking bricks of the staircases and the entire castle. There was an eerie feeling about it, and was nothing like Hogwarts which felt much safer, warmer and much like a home. Annabelle cautiously entered and Draco seemed confused. Weren't the dungeons at the very bottom of the castle? Why was it all the way in the towers? They heard a few voices up there and they all had froze. Draco listened intently, knowing that they were coming from where they were approaching but they seemed far away.

"We can't stand around here. We're bound to get caught." One of the gypsies whispered.

Draco, Annabelle and the other two gypsies stealthily ascended the steps and saw two guards standing in front of a dark and bolted doorway. Annabelle turned back to Draco and gestures that Jade was in there, locked up like the Queens prisoners.

"So how are we going to get to her? They probably have the keys." Draco said seeing Annabelle nod.

"Well mate, that is why we are here." One of the gypsies said. They both grinned and Draco looked at them and oddly remembered the Weasley twins in Hogwarts.

"Good luck." Draco said seeing them give him a nod. They both left and Draco and Annabelle watched them walk with their long gowns and tightened bodices, revealing their low cut tops. They wore wigs and painted their faces to resemble women but Draco and Annabelle knew that they were much more threatening than that.

"Yoo hoo." One of them said getting the guards attention.

"Just what in the name of God are you both doing here?" the guard asked, his grip tightening on his club. Draco saw one of the gypsies place a hand on the guards arm and noted that the guard looked puzzled and stunned that a woman had the nerve to actually touch him.

"What a strong, strong arm." The gypsy said tracing his finger with the guard's arm. The second guard that watched his friend being stroked by what looked like a whore gulped and stared at them with fascination.

"Everyone said you both had to stay here while the others went around and enjoyed downstairs…didn't they?" the other gypsy asked walking up to the second guard.

Draco looked at Annabelle who looked like she was dying in laughter. He didn't have the time to laugh, Jade was inside and he needed to get her out! While the gypsies were successfully coaxing the guards away, Draco and Annabelle waited patiently until they were out of sight so they could make the move to save Jade. Suddenly, the armor next to Annabelle was knocked down and both Draco and Annabelle jumped at the sound of heavy metal falling into pieces on the stone ground. Annabelle looked highly apologetic since it was her who knocked the armor down while she was laughing at the sight that the gypsies and the guards had displayed. Now, all traces of laughter were gone and were replaced by fear and horror as the guards started to shout and come after them.

"INTRUDERS! ALERT THE QUEEN AND THE MEN AT ARMS!" the guards hollered, making a swing at Draco who leapt out of the way of the guards who flew down the stairs.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Draco shouted to the one below. Draco turned and was almost met with a fatal blow but the gypsy had intervened and knocked the heel of his dagger to the back of the guards head, resulting the guard to fall unconscious and bleeding.

"Go on and save Jade! We will take care of these dung sacks!" the gypsy assured Draco who was grateful for their help and took the keys from their hands and running off to save Jade.

Annabelle was with him as Draco fumbled to understand which key could open the locks of the dungeon door. Annabelle patted his shoulder and he turned around, seeing her allow herself. She took the keys from him and with swift movements; she unlocked the door and opened it with a shove. Draco nearly vomited when the door had opened. It was dark and he couldn't see anything but he could definitely smell the bad odor of urine and rotting death.

"Jade?" Draco said through his nearly strangled voice.

He heard chains moving and rats squeaking but he couldn't hear Jade's voice. The dungeon was extremely cold and there was just a tiny sliver of moonlight that made its way across the moon, hitting only Jade's leg. Draco ran towards Jade, seeing her look drained from the power and energy she had left in her.

"What did they do to you?" Draco asked lifting her head up, seeing her try hard to concentrate on him. Jade was feeling nauseous and starving. She had gone two days without food and really didn't even mind eating rats, as long as she had something in her system to keep her alive. The smell of the dungeons had kept her hunger at bay but not for long. Now Draco was trying to speak to her but she could hear them in a muff, nothing was clear to her, not even his face. She felt her wrists go free which were raw and numb from the tightened shackles on the walls.

"Can you stand up?" Draco asked Jade who looked like she was in absolutely no shape to walk or even breathe. He picked her up and carried her away into the hallway from the dungeon, seeing her face entirely pale and sickly looking. Annabelle grabbed his arm and Draco looked at her, seeing Annabelle look forward with a terrified expression. She instantly bowed down.

"My, my what do we have here?" a vicious voice asked behind Draco. "And you thought you would have taken my prisoner away from-" the Queen abruptly stopped, her face faltering when she saw Draco turn and meet eyes with her.

Draco waited anxiously. He dreaded this moment and knew all too well that he was going to fail. There wasn't a foolproof plan to take each other away, now they were dead for sure. He waited for the Queen to order her guards to lock him and Jade up for death but was surprised seeing her face look oddly…tender. What was wrong with her?

"Henry? You've finally come back for me?" she asked, her voice breaking. Draco stood there in confusion and anger. Just what on earth did she think she was playing at?

"Henry?" Draco spat.

"Oh Henry! I have played with your life and almost lost you again! You are alive! You've come back to me from the other world!" the Queen said walking up towards him. She stretched her hand out to touch his face but he stepped back, tempestuously.

"Don't you dare try to touch me." He hissed, seeing her eyes well up in tears.

"Henry please come back to me. It is me, Castile! Your Castile! You've come back to me after so long." She said desperately.

Draco was absolutely confused and horrified. The old Queen was mistaking him of a man named Henry who she seemed to still be in love with.

"I'm Draco, not Henry-"

"You are Henry! My Henry! I will not let you go back with the Portkey, especially with her." The Queen almost shrilled, pointing to Jade. She looked down to Jade who let a small groan escape and looked as if she were going to rip her off of Draco's arms and throw her out of the tower.

"She is nothing to you." The Queen hissed. Draco narrowed his eyes at her.

"And neither are you anything to me." He said just as horribly. The Queen clenched her jaw and gave him a cold glare.

"No…you will stay here with me…you will stay with me unless she dies." The Queen said pointing to Jade who was starting to feel heavy in Draco's arms.

Draco blinked at the Queen, unable to catch what the Queen had told him.

"I do not need the Portkey Henry. I only wanted the Portkey to have you back. Now that you are here, back again, I will not have any use for it." She said.

Draco didn't want to be stuck in a rut where he had to stay because the Queen thought of him as one of her long lost loves that ran away from her, even though Draco didn't blame the poor bloke.

"You will stay with me Henry. I know you will." The Queen said with cool confidence that Draco found threatening.

"How do you know that I'll stay with you? What makes you so sure about that?" Draco asked abrasively.

The Queen glanced down to Jade and a wrinkled smirk came over her face.

"Trust me…you will stay."

Jade woke up to Annabelle who gently fed her, along with another woman who held her up, gently opening her mouth. Annabelle watched Jade with a heavy heart, feeding her, seeing Jade come around but still weak as ever.

"Poor creature. She needs a lot of sleep and water." Annabelle's mother said stroking Jade's head softly. Annabelle set the plate down and helped her mother take Jade to wash.

While Annabelle gently poured water and cleaned Jade with a washcloth, she couldn't help but think how devastated Jade would be when she would wake up to find that the Queen had taken Draco away from her. Annabelle wanted to cry for herself and Jade. She thought about the very first time she heard Draco and Jade together a few nights ago, but could Jade ever endure even thinking about the Queen of Castile and Draco together, sharing a bed? Jade was now what Annabelle and her mother was…a servant of the castle of Castile.