AN: Short chapter here, cycling through the same time in different places! Thankyou everyone who has read this far! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! Please leave a review! enjoyyyyyy!

The days passed by slowly, Jasper and Sasha sat in their living room, the atmosphere was tense and Sasha was getting more anxious by the day.

"Are you still mad at me?"Jasper asked, genuinely concerend

Sasha shook her head "I'm just worried about Ebony" Sasha said, and turned her face away, Jasper rose from his seat and crouched down at Sasha's feet.

"Don't worry about her" Jasper said

"She was my best friend, and we destroyed her life"

Jasper stroked his wife's cheek

"You know the appeal is soon, you can come if you want"

Sasha nodded sadly.

Jasper had tried hard to keep news of the appeal hushed, but with just a week to go the news had leaked throughout the ministry, a whisper had just reached Kingsley Shacklebolt's ear and he stepped back in shock

"How on earth did Lucius manage that?"He asked

"Oh, it wasn't Malfoy...rumour has it that the ministers wife asked him to let the appeal through" the other man said "One things for sure, I'm not going to miss it"

Kingsley chuckled

"Oh I agree! I think everyone in the ministry will turn up for it"

"all hoping to see the minister taken down a peg or two I suppose"

"I just hope the girl is okay" Kingsley said with a sigh

"we all hope she's okay" The other man said "And you should know Lucius Malfoy will not stop until she is free, he's very determined that man"

"Arthur, I know that, but, Jasper is just as determined to keep her locked up" and with that Kingsley returned to the auror department.

It seemed that the only person unaware of the appeal was Ebony herself, who laid on the cold floor of her cell, stroking her engagement ring, she felt dark and alone, there was no happiness left in her, she watched from the bars of her cell as madness took hold of the other prisoners and as death eventually took them, she wanted the madness to take her too, she wanted to not have to feel or remember, by then she had already lost all hope of being rescued. She rolled onto her back with a groan, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep, but the screams from the next cell over kept her awake.

Anxiety and adrenaline pulsed throughout Malfoy manor, anxiety being the most predominant thing present in the atmosphere. Lucius Malfoy very rarely doubted himself, self doubt was not in his nature and the fact that he was feeling it scared him. He knew that he could not afford to feel such doubt, he knew he had to stay confident in order to get Ebony out of Azkaban, if he faltered at the appeal, it could make the difference between getting Ebony back and having her left to rot in Azkaban, he knew that Jasper would not make the appeal easy for him, but Jasper did not know Lucius had Sasha's help.

Sasha shared Lucius' anxiety, she did not want Ebony to stay in Azkaban and helping Lucius was the only way she could see of redeeming herself, maybe one day, Ebony would forgive her, maybe one day, Jasper would too, she wondered if she even deserved forgiveness, making the switch was a scary prospect, but she was even more scared of giving her evidence. The appeal was going to be the most important moment of her life, it would either make her or break her, agreeing to help Lucius was the bravest thing that she had ever done, before then she had only done what Jasper had wanted and her father before him, and now she had made her own decision, she felt free as well as anxious and scared, she had already started to change. The change in Sasha was like a distorted mirror of Ebony, as Sasha grew stronger, Ebony grew weaker, their similarity being that both were terrified.

Fear gripped the minds of so many people on that day, Jasper feared that his wife no longer Loved him as she once had, Lucius feared that he would fail the girl he Loved, Sasha feared that she would not be brave enough and Ebony was just afraid. There was no Lord Voldemort for the people to fear, but the wizarding community was afraid, they had grown to fear their government instead.