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They found themselves to be in a very large field.
"Where are we?" asked Kate.
"Mexico" he said, and pointed to the trees.
"Look"
The wind blew past and the leaves rustled together, only they weren't leaves. They were a brilliant orange foilage of monarch butterflies. She sat breathless.
"How did you know?" she asked.
"You were mumbling yesterday, I though it was only fitting" he said, starting to sound like himself.
"Beautiful" she said. "They're beautiful."
And indeed they were. Each one was a frame of intricate black lines, filled in with a bright orange. White dots lined the edges and they flapped their wings very slowly. Trees and trees all around them were hosting at least three hunderd of the butterflies and she begged to be underneath the trees. Severus obligingly rolled her into the spaced out forest of trees. She closed her eyes for a second, and breathed in the air. Then stretched her hand out to the branch of a nearby tree. Severus bent it down a little and she let a small monarch crawl onto her finger.
"You are a majestic thing" she said to it and look at it level with her eyes.
There was a loud bang as a tree next to them toppled over, its inhabitants quickly flying away. Kate whipped her head around.
"What's going on?" she asked to Severus.
He didn't even think about the possibility. Lucius and Macnair blasted trees left and right, making butterflies shoot of them and create an orange fog of flying insects.
"Severus! We've found you at last! Peter gave us some interesting information about how you and your daughter destroyed our Lord" said Lucius.
Macnair swung his short axe around on a cord, he liked physical objects. There was more blood when something was hit.
"Get away Lucius!" shouted Severus, he took out his wand and pointed at his opponent.
The axe flew in a dangerous arc in his direction and he wasn't fast enough to dodge. It grazed his fingertips and chopped his wand neatly in two. He gripped his bleeding fingers, and backed away.
"Traitor Severus! It's a shame Master didn't find you earlier, he would have had so much fun torturing you" said Lucius laughing and bounded forth.
"Obliviate!" he shouted, the spell shot through a few butterflies which dropped dead and Severus was able to dodge it.
Lucius cursed.
"These damned butterflies, I can't get a good shot at him."
Macnair took from his arsenal of hunting knives, a long curved one and grinned ferally.
"We'll get close enough" he assured, and they ran at Severus.
"Agrrahh!"
Severus fell to the ground as Macnair stabbed his shoulder from behind. He had no seen him coming until too late. Kate screamed, not being able to do much else. But being sensible, she stopped and tried to think of something to do.
Blood poured out of his shoulder as Macnair pounced on his back to deliver another blow. His whole right side was numb, all he could feel was somethig warm gushing out and he rolled over painfully to get Macnair off. On the ground, he saw the two pieces of his wand. The dragon heartstring was slashed in the wood splintered in a few places. His view was blocked by obstruction and looked up to find it was Kate, manuvering herself to pick up his broken wand.
/Oh no, they're going to see her/ was his only thought as Macnair plunged the knife repeatedly into his leg.
Kate's heart pounded, she had reached the site of his wand and heard him scream. He was actually next to her, but the whirlwind of confused butterflies kept her hidden from view as she attemtped to retrieve the pieces of his wand.
"I hope this works, I really do" she said and reached over, bent as far as she could over the side of the wheelchair, but it wasn't enough.
Her fingers were almost there, then she was knocked violently out of her seat. It was Lucius.
"So...you're the mudblood my son hates." he said, then kicked her.
The wind was knocked out of Kate and she grabbed the piece of wand. She could see the dragon heartstring inside it and it made her nauseuous. She pointed it at Lucius.
"Stupefy!" a weak spark of energy popped out of the wand, but died out as it made its way towards Lucius.
He laughed.
"You are so pitiful, yet entertaining, I suppose that's the way things are" he pointed his wand at her.
"Destructivo Veda!"
It looked like Kate exploded at those words, there was a brilliant flash of light and Severus screamed, for Kate.
"NO!" he kicked Macnair away and punched Lucius with a hard left hook.
"You bastard!" he yelled and went into a furious procession of kicking and punching, not caring about the pain or the loss of blood he was suffering.
