Chapter 25

The Fake

When I Apparated, I found myself in the forest overlooking Loch Ness.

I smirked, looking up at the castle.

It looked like a larger…more grand version of Malfoy Manor (Draco's ancestral home.), only with a moat and drawbridge, the turrets tall, dark and almost crooked.

Ok, small forest and into the castle…no biggie. I thought with a smirk. Grab Draco and get the hell out, deal with Lucius Malfoy and whoever Z is and then I'll be able to walk down the aisle without worrying about being murdered.

I started through the forest and stopped, paling.

There were Death Eaters patrolling the forest.

Fuck. I thought. Ok, now it's kind of a biggie. Now I need a more elaborate plan.

I started to climb a tree and found two Death Eaters waiting in the forest. Chelsey Chamberline and Electricia Munville.

"What are the odds that the brat will even show?" Chamberline asked with a huff.

"Very good, Chamberline." Electricia giggled with a smirk. "And then when she's dead…"

"You start calling yourself Mrs Malfoy, I swear to God I might enroll you into psychiatric therapy."

"We'll find her." Electricia cackled. "And when we do, I want the pleasure of killing her when I see even a tuft of her long black hair."

"NO!" Chelsey hissed. "Cronus wants her dead by no hand but his!"

A sense of déjà-vu washed over me when I heard Bellatrix hissing to Lucius as I drifted in and out of consciousness at Malfoy Manor.

"Let me finish her off, Lucius, the Dark Lord won't care!" Bellatrix pleaded.

"No, Bella! The Dark Lord wants the twins dead by no hand but his!" Lucius hissed back.

I dug through my backpack and smirked when I held something up.

"Ok, this'll work." I said as I held up a vial of Polyjuice Potion and grabbing my wand.

"Stupefy!" I whispered twice, knocking Chamberline down, then Electricia.

I poured a small amount of Potion into a shot glass and yanked some of Chamberline's hair out. (That way Death Eaters would take me seriously because…let's admit it…Electricia was sort of nuts.)

I tossed it in the Potion and it bubbled, becoming a sickening wolf fur brown.

I shuddered, taking a gulp of it and feeling myself starting to bubble, growing as my hair darkened.

I almost screamed from the pain and when it stopped (as quickly as it came) I looked at myself and saw Chelsey Chamberline where Hannah Potter used to me.

I smirked. "Oh, I'm good." I thought before I ran through the woods to find other Death Eaters, Amycus Carrow and former Snatcher Scaboir.

"Hello, gents." I said with a smirk.

"Chamberline…pleasure as always." Scaboir said. "I thought you were supposed to be waiting for Hannah Potter?"

"Electricia let me take a break." I said with an evil grin. "She'll cover for me."

"Leave it to the insane one to want the glory of bringing in Harley Quinn to Cronus and Lucius." Amycus wheezed with a giggle. "Go ahead, Chamberline."

I smirked and started back before I heard a voice in my head.

I wrapped my Invisibility Cloak around myself as I heard the voice taunting me, making me drop to my knees.

"Excellent work, Potter, your mission was a snap. Your prince is now waiting where the Minotaur was trapped. Be careful young Potter, you think you know what to do…but there are some trials there waiting for you!"

I straightened up. "The Minotaur…she used Greek mythology on me!" I said, pacing around. "The Minotaur was a Greek man with the head of the bull…and it spent the remainder of his life before it was killed by Theseus…in the Cretan Maze! That's it! Draco's in the middle of a labyrinth!"

At this I instantly started to run around the castle grounds under my Invisibility Cloak to find the labyrinth.

I found it…dark hedged, looming and evil-looking in front of me. The Maze.

I swallowed. "A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do." I muttered before running into the maze, ignoring the growls, snarls and roars raging through my ears.

I had my dagger in my holster, aching for me to use it as I heard the howl of a werewolf.

"Please don't let Greyback be in here to wait for me." I prayed, crossing myself before going deeper, getting more and more lost by the second.

A swarm of bats came flying at me, screeching with fangs bared.

I paled. "Vampire bats!" I hissed, ducking as the bats started to claw at me.

I whimpered as the bats started to lick the blood bedding through my skin before flying off into the night.

I shook, starting to run through the maze, going left and right, feeling as if I was going around in circles until I heard another growl.

I whipped around and found myself in the presence of a Hippogriff.

I screamed, starting to run as fast as I could through the maze to avoid the rouge Hippogriff when I heard panting.

I whipped around and found myself in the middle of the maze, a clearing.

And laying still in the center of the clearing on a white marble bench…was Draco…torn, broken and bloody. He laid still against the marble, blood staining the front of his blazer and the bench.

"Draco!" I whispered, running into the center of the maze and getting on my knees next to him. "Draco, Draco!"

Draco stirred. "Han…" he muttered, looking to me. "You found me."

"Of course I did." I whispered, throwing my arms around his chest when he sat up, crying that he was ok.

"You shouldn't have done that." Draco told me.

I looked up. "What do you mean?" I asked.

Draco's eyes flashed hazel and he looked into the shrubbery. "NOW!"

I felt someone's taloned hand squeeze my shoulder.

"You're going to make a wonderful Donor, Potter." I heard a familiar voice in my ear.

Suddenly I felt a blinding pain in my lower back.

I screamed and finally realized. This was a trap!

Before I could fight away from what was going on, I fell limp against whoever was holding me's chest as I fell into a vortex with no beginning and no end.

…

Alvaro POV

"Excellent work, Alvaro, well done." Z smirked, standing straight.

I bowed my head. "Thank you." I muttered. "What shall I do with the girl?"

"Bring her into the castle dungeons, and then go back to school…we don't want to arouse suspicions." Z told me, leading me down to the dungeons as I started to formulate a plan.

"If I had to disguise myself as Malfoy, where's the real Malfoy?" I asked Z.

"We hid him somewhere very…secret." Z smirked and opened a cell door. "Put her in, Alvaro."

"Yes, Z." I muttered, setting Hannah into the cell and locking the door.

"I'd go back to school, Alvaro, you don't want to arouse interest with your housemates. You know how they worship the little brat."

I nodded and left the castle, knowing exactly where the Death Eaters hid him.

"The Chamber of Secrets." I muttered before I Disapparated to school.

Little did I know that the minute I Disapparated, the castle was nowhere to be found.

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Draco POV

I pounded against the door, screaming for someone to let me out when I was shocked back.

"Malfoy…" I heard a rat's voice mutter softly.

I looked up and shot up. "YOU!" I shouted, lunging for him, but I was shocked yet again.

"Here, let me." Diamond flicked his wand at me.

"DON'T YOU CAST A SPELL ON ME YOU ROTTEN LITTLE -" I shouted, lunging for his throat and finding I could wrap my hands around his windpipe and crush it without being shocked. "wait a minute…you broke the spell…"

"Yes, Malfoy, I was the one who cast it!"

I squeezed his throat tighter. "What's your problem!" I growled. "You act all good one minute and then all evil the next!"

"If you don't stop trying to kill me, Hannah will end up dead!" Diamond shouted.

I jolted back as if I was shocked again. "What?" I asked.

"Sit down, Malfoy." Diamond said. "There's a lot I have to tell you."

I sat down as Diamond handed me back my wand.

"Look, I know who Z is…but I can't tell you because I made a Reverse Unbreakable Vow for anonymity to her."

"A Reverse Unbreakable Vow?" I raised an eyebrow.

"The same thing as an Unbreakable Vow, but instead of dying if you break your promise, someone else dies."

"Who?" I growled.

"If I tell you who it is, Mel will die."

My heart dropped into my stomach. "Then what is it?" I asked.

"It was Z. Z was the one who Stunned you and locked you in the Chamber of Secrets. It was all a plot to get Hannah to the Death Eaters, because she had it all planned out. They're going to resurrect Ravencroft at the next full moon. They used your identity as a hostage so Hannah would come with the Tome."

I swallowed. "Where is she, you prat!?" I shouted.

"They have her in a castle in Scotland. The castle of Z's family's ancestral home." Diamond said. "You can easily save her…but you have to trust me."

"Why should I trust you! YOU TRIED TO KILL HER!" I shouted.

"Because, I only ever worked with them to save Hannah." Alvaro stated before he started explaining.

He joined the Death Eaters initially, true, to get me out of the picture so he could have Hannah to himself. But when he gave up, he stayed with the Death Eaters for revenge…and then…gradually, the more in love he fell with Hannah…the more he stayed to gather information.

"THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING!" I shouted.

"You wouldn't let me near her!" Diamond shouted. "The point is, I know where Hannah is and I can help you get to her!"

"What's the catch?" I asked.

"No catch!" Alvaro shouted. "Don't you get it, Malfoy? Your true love was kidnapped trying to save you! If you don't get to her at the next full moon, she will be sliced up like a fine cheese and Cronus is going to obtain Hannah's Gift! He will resurrect the Ravencrofts and the world will end! Hannah will die and nothing you do after that is going to stop Cronus or your father from restarting Voldemort's plan to dominate the world! You will die alone if you don't trust me! Hannah will suffer and die while you hold a vendetta over me taking her fucking virginity!"

"IT WAS MY VIRGINITY TO TAKE!" I bellowed, shooting up and glaring at her.

"You know what?" Diamond asked, standing up. "You have no idea!" he shouted. "SHE SCREAMED YOUR NAME WHEN SHE REACHED ORGASM THE FIRST TIME!" he screamed. "YOURS! Not mine. YOUR NAME! She never wanted to believe that you were dead, she sobbed every hour until she learned you weren't. She was going to kill herself! She let herself decline, she let herself almost die! And you know what? She never forgave herself after I had sex with her. She never forgave herself! She knew. She knew she gave me something that she couldn't get back. But you know what? She did."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"She was so guilty about giving herself to me that she took a potion from Luna Lovegood to restore her virginity! Last week, I heard her talking to Hermione and Sheila and Hannah Abbott about what she did…she was so guilty she didn't lose her virginity to you that she took a potion to restore it so she could restore her virginity for you to take. She never forgave herself. She beat herself up every day, sobbed herself to sleep every fucking day you were gone, I heard her! I heard her sobbing 'It should have been Draco! Why didn't I wait?!' she sobbed every night that you were missing, begging to God that she would make things right if you came back to her. She never believed you were dead…we all thought she was fucking delusional when she talked to you in her sleep that night she lost her virginity, but I knew. I knew she was yours the minute I heard her scream your name during orgasm. Yours. Not mine. And ever since she realized she never lost her virginity to you she's been beating herself up. She's never been the same. Now you need to trust me or that woman who never gave up on you, begged, cried, pleaded and screamed for you…the one who's proven she loves you time and time again…she's gonna die. Do you want to be too late, find her dead on a dungeon floor?"

I could feel my heart breaking. Even though I promised we'd never speak of the instance when she lost her virginity to Diamond, I had secretly resented her for not waiting for me. I almost burst into tears knowing that she screamed my name during her first orgasm.

"Alright…alright…I trust you." I said, standing up. "Where is she?" I asked.

Diamond took a breath and whispered the destination to me.

"WHAT!?" I shouted, grabbing my cloak. "Well, let's get Potter and go!"

"That's the thing." Diamond told me. "The castle won't open its doors to others until the full moon."

"That's a week from now!" I shouted. "I can't wait a week!"

"You're gonna have to. We can sneak into the castle when the doors open." Diamond told me.

I nodded reluctantly before we went up to the Head dorms.

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Hannah POV

I stirred, looking to find myself in a dark, damp dungeon, moonlight hitting my face.

I looked around and found myself on a mouldy plank of wood for a bed, a moth eaten blanket serving me as my only source of warmth.

The walls were pure stone, almost like the dungeons in Malfoy Manor, yet the dungeons of Malfoy Manor were kept in the most immaculate shape the house elves could keep it.

I looked around, finding a small aisle in between rows of cells, with the door.

I panicked, looking around before remembering that I had come to Scotland to save Draco.

Then I realized again…the person who was Draco…was a fake!

If Draco was a fake…then where was my Draco?

I started to look for a way to escape when I heard a voice.

"Look all you want, Potter, you're…what do the kids these days call it…oh, yes…a dead duck." a familiar voice said with a sneer in it.

I whipped around and found Z, in a Death Eater's mask.

"YOU!" I growled, grabbing the bars, ignoring the pain in my back and grabbing my backpack to dig for the Tome.

"Looking for this?" Z asked, holding up my Tome. "I went through your backpack and obtained it myself. Smart baby for bringing it. Wanted to save your lover, didn't you?"

"What do you want from me, Z?" I asked.

Z just smirked. "Oh, Ms Potter, poor, Ms Potter…you have no idea who I am, do you?"

I looked carefully at her and noted the black dress…the black robe…the familiar silver woman pin.

It started to ring a bell, especially after Z removed her hood to reveal long blonde hair. She removed her mask and revealed ice blue eyes.

I gasped. "YOU!"

Because staring back at me was none other than Suspiria Laventhorpe.