"Drew, its not going to be ok. I can't even reach you." I said extending my arm toward his bars. He did the same and we could barely touch each other's fingers.
"Just calm down, we will find a way out of this." He said. I sighed and got up to look around my cell. It had a bed with a pillow and that was it. Nothing else was in sight, I didn't have my wand and I couldn't really do anything to get out of here. I looked at the lock on the bars and it was an old fashioned lock, I could probably pick it if I had something handy.
"Hey Drew, do you have anything in your pockets?" I asked him. I heard him dig into his pockets.
"I have a some mints, a safety pin, a dung bomb, and a piece of lint." He said.
"Why do you have a safety pin?" I asked him.
"I don't know, its just there. Why do you want to know?" He asked.
"I want to know because I think I might be able to pick this lock. Now throw me the safety pin." I whispered. He threw it to me and I just able to reach it. I placed it in my pocket because I heard someone coming.
"What's going on in here?" I heard a guy yell.
"What do you think?" I asked with attitude. I was mad but I had to save Sirius and James. I mean I loved Sirius with all my heart and I wouldn't be able to stand it if he had died and I had lived. I would just have to kill myself. The man came up to my cell and stood there just staring. I had recognized him immediately, it was Alfie.
"Alfie?" I asked and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He smiled at me and I shuddered with disgust.
"You filthy rotten asshole!" Drew screamed lunging for Alfie but the bars stopped him.
"Wow, cool it Drew. I came to say that I was sorry." He said,
"Yeah right. I never took you to be one for the dark side." I said.
"Yeah well, you kind of ruined my life. I got into a lot of trouble with the ministry because of you." He said.
"You can control your own actions!" I said clawing at him. He grabbed my hand and I pulled it back violently. It started to sting so I must have pulled something.
"Well, anyway, I'll see you around." He said leaving us there. I was so mad my body was shaking with anger. I wanted to kill him and I hated that I felt that way. It just felt wrong to feel this way.
After a while I started to pick at the lock, we needed to get out of here and soon. I couldn't imagine what would happen if we were stuck here any longer. I was afraid and I wasn't going to show it.
"Is it working?" Drew asked after a while.
"Yeah, if there was one thing I learned from Tray it was how to pick a lock." I said laughing slightly.
"And why did he teach you? Where have you ever used it?" He asked me.
"We went to the school and he picked the lock. He said he wanted to make a statement. You remember that time someone had written that stuff all over the school that only the students could see… that was us." I said laughing.
"I can't believe you didn't tell me that!" He said sounding angry.
"I couldn't, you hated Tray." I said and I got it. The lock clicked and I was free. I slipped out of the door and started on Drew's lock.
"How are we going to get out of here. I'm sure they don't have a fireplace." He said after his lock clicked and he got out as fast as he could.
"As long as we have each other does it really matter. We can fend them all off." I said grabbing his hand. We didn't put up the force field but we quietly walked in the direction that we had come.
"If I had my wand…" I said swearing under my breath.
"Lets steal one." He whispered pointing at the guy who was oblivious to our escape. I nodded and we crept up on him. No one else was in sight. I hit him hard on the head and he blacked out. I stole his wand and I did a disillusionment charm on both of us.
"I'm so glad you are good at charms." He said and we continued to creep along. We stopped when we saw a whole hoard of Death Eaters standing around watching Voldermort in the middle of a big circle. We quietly watched even though ever bone in my body told me to run. Drew kept shaking his head and pulling me away from the group. He took the wand and unlocked the door that was in front of us. We slipped through a small crack between the door and the frame. That led to another corridor that led to another corridor.
"We are never going to get out of here." I whispered to him. He just kept going and then we saw a bunch of Death eaters barge into the corridor we were in. We jumped against the wall as they passed us. They found out that we had escaped.
"Come on." Drew said following them and sure enough they led us outside. We looked around and we were in a graveyard. How were we going to escape? We carefully and quietly walked past the Death Eaters that were roaming looking for us. We broke out in a run toward some lights that we saw.
"We need to get to one of those houses." Drew said pointing to the houses at the bottom of the hill.
"What if Death eaters live there. We can't risk it." I whispered and we headed toward the houses anyway. We just needed to find Diagon Alley or something like it. We wandered along the outskirts of the small town until we felt like passing out because we were so tired.
"I just need to rest." I said sitting on a rock.
"Ash, I don't think we should risk it." He said. We had held hands this whole time just in case something happened.
"Drew, I'm so tired. We have been walking for two hours! We are never going to get home." I said complaining. I was always the complaining twin. He sighed and sat next to me on the rock. We both sighed and leaned on each other. I knew he was tired too because I could feel it once he rested his head on my shoulder.
"We have to get moving." Drew murmured.
"We don't even know where we are. We could be far far away from England." I murmured back. I was just as tired as he was but we couldn't fall asleep. I shook my head to shake out the tiredness and then Drew fell off the rock. And I started to laugh, he just pushed me off the rock too and then we both started to laugh.
"We need Dumbledore." I half cried. Didn't he have some type of connection with us, I mean we were related. We both stood up and we started to trudge along hoping to find something familiar.
"I wish we could apparate." Drew said after another hour of walking. I nodded and we continued on. I was so tired my legs were begging to rest.
"There is a wizarding house." I said pointing to one. It had gnome holes in the front yard. The sun was coming up and I could see someone upstairs getting ready for a new day.
"What if it's a Death Eaters house?" He asked me.
"We can go in or we can walk for another hour or so." I said. He stood there for a while.
"I'm too tired to fight anyone." He said.
"I know, me too." I said and we slowly walked up to the house. I knocked on the door and a few minutes later a woman came down and looked at us expectantly. She looked nice enough and she had robes from the ministry.
"We need help. Can we use your fireplace?" I asked her. She gave us a weird look and I showed her our wand.
"May I ask why?" She asked suspiciously.
"We need to get back to Hogwarts. We need to get some sleep." Drew said and she let us in. I handed her a few Galleons and she gave them back to me.
"Don't worry about it. Tell Dumbledore I said hi though." She and she let us go. We both got in at the same time and shouted Hogwarts. Everything started to swirl and then I recognized the office we had arrived in. It was Dumbledore's. He was pacing the length of his office and we stumbled out of his fireplace.
"Thank God." He said and he gave us a hug. It was morning now and we slinked into the chairs across from his desk. It was morning now and Dumbledore wanted us to see the nurse before we talked to him. We walked in the hospital wing leaning on each other for support. I didn't even get a chance to look up because a mass of red hair was smothering me.
"Oh my god, I woke up and you weren't there and then I ran into McGonagall and she told me that you left with James and then James told me…" But she stopped when Sirius cut in and held me close to him. I took in a deep breath and I felt totally relaxed because of his scent.
"Ash, how could you do that. I have been so worried about you. I thought that you…" But he could say it because his voice was cracking. I knew he was right but I couldn't let him die. Never. Drew was already in a bed close by.
"I couldn't let you die." I said and I noticed that my voice was cracking. Sirius put his strong arms around me and I felt like crying.
"How did you….?" James started but Dumbledore stopped him.
"Why don't we let them get some sleep." Dumbledore said and he escorted the four of them out of the Hospital Wing. Sirius was very reluctant leaving me, he looked as if I would disappear before he came back. I was helped into a bed and I immediately fell asleep. The pillow was so welcoming.