Chapter 25: Answers and Spotting
"Yes, most definitely," Amethyst squealed her purple eyes lighting up a lilac colour in her absolute joy.
Voldemort watched his sister and couldn't help the smile that took over his face at seeing her so happy.
When Draco had asked his permission to ask Amethyst to marry him he'd been wary at allowing it to happen but this reaction showed him that he'd made the right choice.
Draco had asked Voldemort and had also asked Snape knowing Amethyst felt like the potions professor was a father figure both had been hesitant but had agreed.
He was both thrilled and terrified knowing he would have two seriously powerful wizards hunting him if he ever hurt Amethyst.
"You won't hurt me," she whispered in his ear her eyes shining with pure joy.
"Bloody hell!" Ron shouted spraying coffee all over the makeshift table as he read the Daily Prophet.
"What?" Hermione asked concerned as Harry sat up alert.
He turned to paper to his two friend after looking around for Rubicelle.
MALFOY-NASTASIA WEDDING! CONGRADULATIONS TO THE HAPPY PUREBLOODED COUPLE!
"Bloody hell," Harry gaped running a hand through is hair as he looked at the picture of two of his old classmates.
He was surprised to see how elegant and mature they looked decked out in proper robes.
How would his girlfriend take the news?
Especially knowing she wouldn't be able to be there.
"What's causing commotion this morning?"
"Ron," Harry blurted.
Rubicelle raised her eyebrow at the panic in the room.
"I thought we agreed spiders weren't a big thing,"
Ron shuddered.
"You'd have bloody known if it was a spider," he muttered before throwing the paper at her.
She caught it effortlessly raising her eyebrow.
"Just look at it Elle," Hermione said wincing slightly.
Rubicelle looked at it and the teasing smile on her face slipped.
When they had agreed not to speak she hadn't thought about things like this.
Who would be her sister's maid of honour?
Was she planning having children?
An irrational terror of living without knowing these things overcame her.
She threw the paper and prepared to flash to her sister but Harry grabbed her by the shoulder.
"Rubicelle, the sides have been chosen you have to stick by your decision, you can't-"
She wrenched herself away from him.
"She's my sister! She's getting married without me do not dare to tell me that I chose that!" she snarled at him her eyes going completely orangey-red.
Harry winced, the guilt started to swell in him about what she'd given up to be beside him.
"Don't be stupid Rubicelle. You knew what it meant, you knew what manipulating her like we did meant," Hermione said strongly not about to let her best friend do this to herself and to Harry.
"She's getting married, Hermione," Rubicelle said sadly her eyes dimming to a yellow.
Hermione nodded.
"Yes and my parents are in Australia with no idea they ever had a daughter. We all gave something up, Rubicelle, and if you go back on it now you could destroy everything,"
Rubicelle turned on her heel and marched from the tent to hide her tears from them.
What would she do if her sister decided to start a family?
She wouldn't be able to be a part of it.
She was suddenly struck by the thought that no matter what happened she still expected her sister and her new fiancé to get through it without any major grievances.
Was that an omen towards them?
Or a sense of her sister's strength?
Harry found her an hour later kneeling next to a pond.
"Its getting cold, Elle, it's time to come back," he said softly. "I'm so sorry for making you choose between the two of us, Elle, but I need to get rid of Voldemort and I need you to be able to do that,"
Rubicelle looked at him.
She'd had time to calm down and she realised she'd been selfish.
"Harry I made my bed. I chose, I could have had both, I could have squashed my own morals down yet again but you gave me the strength to stand up to her and against her morals for the first time in my life and it was selfish of me to throw that back in your face. I'm stronger because of you Harry, you're my life now and if to have you and to love you, I have to rid myself of my attachments to her then I will because I like who I am around you," she said softly before kissing him.
"There's wind of some more outlaws on the north coast. It was a brilliant idea to have my name made taboo," Voldemort said smirking at his sister.
"I want to go with the bounty hunters," Amethyst said scowling. "I didn't like how the last two handled the job, they only brought back one and a half outlaw,"
Voldemort chuckled.
"You only didn't like it because the blood got on your robes,"
Amethyst sent a fierce snarl at her brother.
"Take Draco with you," Voldemort said rolling his eyes at her dramatics. "He has permission to use force with anyone if anything goes pear shaped,"
"I can handle myself," Amethyst said but went to find her fiancé anyway.
Draco chuckled as she dragged him away ranting as she did.
"He acts like I can't take care of myself," she ranted glowering.
"He cares for you and he knows people know you're his weakness so obviously he isn't going to let you wander alone," Draco said rationally but he knew Voldemort had sent him with her because of his abilities.
She scowled at him.
"Shut up and come on, I'm bored,"
The wards went off and the four Gryffindors froze what they were doing.
"The Death Eaters are near," Hermione whispered.
"How did they find us?" Rubicelle hissed sticking her head out of the tent, she could see wands lit up in the forest near to where they were set up.
"We've being here nearly a month now maybe they've been tracking us?" Ron suggested.
"What do we do?" Hermione asked looking slightly panicked.
"If they catch us we're dead," Harry said dryly.
"The wards aren't good enough to keep them out for long though, we're sitting ducks," Rubicelle said biting her lip.
"Then what do we do?" Ron demanded. "we can't always do this on their terms,"
Rubicelle closed her eyes and before anyone could ask her what she was doing they noticed themselves slowly but surely turning invisible.
"Rubes I didn't know you could do this," Hermione said looking stunned.
Rubicelle looked at her with her eyes a serious orangey-red.
"Run, I'll catch up," she ordered.
Harry went to protest but there was a gong informing them that the wards were completely down.
"Go," she whispered before stepping out the tent. "Can I help you gentlemen?"
There was around five wizards that looked haggled and dangerous glowering down on her.
They started forwards but a voice rang out.
"She isn't the only one here, Potter is around. Find him,"
Rubicelle would have recognised that voice anywhere.
She watched as her sister's figured moved out of the shadow.
Amethyst was disgusted at how ratty and undone her sister looked.
"You could have a better life than this, Rubicelle. Living in tents and roughing it doesn't suit you and I know you wouldn't do it unless there was something more to it," Amethyst stated, circling her sister.
"Congratulations on your engagement, I found out this morning through the paper," Rubicelle said sarcastically although she actually meant it.
There was a familiar scream further from where they stood and Rubicelle became on guard.
Amethyst smirked.
"Granger's down and while the idiots may not be able to see her neither can Weasley or Potter, the question is can you find her emotions before I can find her thoughts?"
Rubicelle couldn't believe how her sister seemed eager to play games with someone's life.
"Find her first and I'll call them all off and tell Tom you all got away but if I win, then I take her with me and see how long it takes for Weasley or Potter to act stupid and try rescue her,"
With that Amethyst transformed and was off like a bolt.
She knew her sister would lead her not only to Granger but to Weasley and Potter as well.
"Run get away she knows you're out here," she heard her sister tell them.
With a ferocious snarl she pounced and landed on the one she believed to be Ron.
"Avada-"
"Avada Kedavra," Draco snapped killing the man about to kill his soon to be wife. "Come on Amethyst,"
Rubicelle blinked and shouted out as she watched her sister, Draco and the bounty hunters disappear with Ron.
"Where have they taken him, Rubicelle?" Harry demanded his eyes wild.
She shook her head.
"I don't know,"
She felt nothing but guilt and sadness not knowing why her sister had taken her friend left her felling helpless.
"We can use him," Amethyst said, looking at the scowling red head that was in a bird cage at the back of Voldemort's chair.
"How?" Voldemort asked, stroking his wand as if wishing to kill part of Harry's support system.
Amethyst smirked and her eyes blazed violet.
"I believe he has information we need and has the means to gain us more information,"
Voldemort stood nodding.
"Get him to help even if it takes you all week to break him," with that he swept from the room.
"I wouldn't help you even if it was the last option on earth," Ron spat at her.
"Lucky for you it isn't an option," Amethyst said before stepping up to him. "you've just had a huge argument with your friends, they've outcasted you and you want your own back. You do it by telling me what you know," she whispered in a near seductive tone.
AN: Just a note, i've just realised the previous chapter has been labelled wrongly, it says that it was Chapter 26 when it was in fact Chapter 24. The chapters are still in the right order its just the heading that was wrong. I'll fix it at a later date once the story is complete. Sorry for any confusion :)