As another day passed by the pressing concern about the Death Eaters trying to enter your mind weighed down upon your soul. They had to wait three days for their most powerful legilimen, Brutus MacNair, to arrive so you were safe for the time being. But what if he was able to get into your mind and those Occlumency lessons with Snape were just useless. What if they saw the meetings in the DA room, all your friends would be revealed as Dumbledore's recruits. Or what if he saw you over the summer when you had stayed a little while at Twelve Grimmauld Place where the Order Headquarters was hidden. There were so many things at risk and unlike you Ron and Draco had never learned Occlumency... You could not risk them or you giving away such important information; you three had to escape and you had to escape soon.

"We have to get out of here, them reading our mind is too risky" you whispered in Draco's ear that morning; Ron and Raven were still fast asleep.
"I know, I know... but how?" he responded with anxiety in his icy blue eyes.
"I have been thinking and I believe I actually have a decent plan" you said with a twinkle in your honey brown eyes. Come on, you were the Anna Darcy... the queen of mischief and one the cleverest students in Hogwarts, very rarely did you lack a brilliant plan of action.

"Raven? I erm- I wanted to say that I am really sorry" you said a few hours later when both Ron and Raven had woken up and Draco had secretively informed Ron of your plan.
"Sorry? Sorry about what?" Raven inquired giving you a peculiar look.
"About- well about when you asked me to heal that cut on your stomach and I said no. That was really insensitive of me and you have been nothing, but nice to us during our stay here unlike the others. You have to understand I was just a little apprehensive of you, but now- if you still want me to that is- I will gladly heal that cut for you" you said a voice that sounded sincerely apologetic; you were always a fantastic actress.
"Really? Thanks Darcy, the thing hurts like you wouldn't believe!" Raven exclaimed. "Wait- why the hell are you suddenly being so nice?" he asked suspiciously.
"I felt guilty I guess" you said with a shrug, "Do you want me to heal it or not?" you asked.
"Oh- okay sorry, just can't be too careful" he replied lifting up his shirt.
"Now Raven, this is a pretty serious injury and it might take me awhile. You are going to take of your entire shirt, so I can work with it easier" you told him.
He smirked at you, "Ah- Draco you better watch out, I think your gal is hitting on me" he chuckled and you slapped him on the arm indignantly. "Alright, alright" he gave in taking off his shirt that just happened to be holding his wand in the front pocket; now it was your turn to smirk.

"Just hold still, okay darlin'?" you said moving to Raven's side and casually kicking his shirt back to where Ron and Draco were sitting and waiting. You slowly slid your hand over his abdomen whispering the spell under your breath. You purposely leaned over a little so some cleavage was showing and not really to your surprise that was all Raven could focus on as you healed him up. 'Typical guy' you thought to yourself as you watched Draco retrieve Raven's wand from the corner of your eye; he slipped it in into the back pocket of your pants and a smile broke out on your face. "There all done!" you exclaimed patting him on his now injury free tummy.

"Thanks Anna" Raven said as you stood up over and slowly moved your hand around to your back pocket. With a swift, sudden movement you whipped his wand out in front of you, "Silencio!" you hissed. He jumped instantly and opened his mouth, but no words came out. He lunged immediately at you, but you were too quick, "Petrificus Totalus!" you hissed quietly as to draw no attention to your cell. His limbs snapped together instantly and he fell down to the ground paralyzed. You leaned over and looked him straight in the eye, "I am really sorry about this Raven, honestly I did like you, but I am not going to wait around and get myself and my friends killed" you whispered to him before straightening up. "Ready?" you asked the boys.
"Ready" they responded together.

You took keys from Raven's pocket, which you used to slowly and cautiously open the cell door. You stuck your head out and peered down both ends of the corridor to make sure that the coast was clear. "Okay guys we only get one shot at this, if we are caught- well basically we are dead" you said.
"Thanks Anna, real encouraging" Ron said sarcastically rolling his eyes at you.
You ignored his comment, "Stay close behind me... I will lead, because I have the wand" they had elected you to hold the wand, because you were the one who knew the most spells and were the best in casting them.
"Anna" Draco said before the three of you began your perilous journey to freedom, "Just know that I love you okay" he whispered kissing you passionately on the lips, for what very well could be your last kiss.
"I love you too Draco..."

The three of you snuck out into the dark, dingy hallway in a tight knit group with you leading the way, Ron in the middle and Draco watching the back closely. When you reached the end of the hallway you turned down the right hallway rather than the staircase you knew led to the room where you had been tortured. Surprisingly you got most of the way through without meeting another Death Eater until you met someone halfway down the third passage.

"What the hell? How did you three get out?" you stopped dead in your tracks when you saw Freddie standing in front of you. He ripped out his wand straight away and pointed it at you, "I don't know how you little buggers managed to get out, but I do know that you are going right back where you came from and I will be a hero for it" he said with a conceited smirk on his face. "Prepared to die my friends?" he chuckled. You glared back at him and pointed Raven's stolen wand at him, "Oh so you want to duel Darcy? Well bring it on" he sneered.

"REDUCTO!" he screamed before you even had time to react and you were thrown violently back into Ron in a cloud of red and blue sparks.
"IMPEDIMENTA!" you yelled from the ground and his movements suddenly slowed down before he was able to shout another spell. "STUPEFY!" you yelled, but since you were still on the ground your aim was off and the spell whizzed right past his head without hitting him. By this time your spell had worn off on him and he had raised his own wand again.
"STUPEFY!" he yelled at you and the jet of red light came shooting toward you.
"PROTEGO!" you shouted and a shield appeared in front of you bouncing the spell right back toward him, but he was able to move out of the way just in time.

"Ah- a worthy competitor Darcy my lass! Not that I didn't expect it from you" he smirked.
"Enough talk Freddie... I want to be back at Hogwarts before dinner time" you chortled.
"Over my dead body" he hissed.
"I don't have any problem with that mate... PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" you screamed suddenly, but again he was able to evade getting hit.
"CRUCIO!" Freddie hissed and that same agonizing pain shot through you making you fall down to the ground trembling. "It is over now kiddies" Freddie hissed and then he opened his mouth to yell another spell, but you reacted too quickly for him...
"SILENCIO!" you shouted through your pain and as he made a swishing motion like a blade with his wand no words came out. That didn't stop the spell all the way however, because it suddenly felt like a sword had slashed across your stomach. It took all you had not to scream out in pain when the spell hit you; you looked up at Freddie's smiling face through your tears and never had you felt so determined to get revenge on someone in your entire life. "EXPELLIARMUS!" you screamed with all the strength you had left and Freddie's wand shot out of his hand and right into Draco's.

At this you collapsed too weak to be of any more help in the battle and Draco stepped out in front of you. "Look who has got the wand now Freddie" Draco sneered threateningly, "You are going to pay for touching my girlfriend you filthy little bastard-" he said angrily.
"J-Just p-paralyze him..." you said quietly to Draco knowing very well that he planned on bringing truth to Freddie's words, 'Over my dead body', but you didn't want anyone to die. "He w-will be in enough tr-trouble when they f-find out he l-let us get away" you added; your voice faltering.
"Yeah listen to your girlfriend mate, don't kill me" Freddie pleaded for his life and you felt like laughing. He had been so tough before, but now he was on the ground crying like a little girl whose doll got stolen.
Draco looked down at you and you gave him a pleading look; he sighed before muttering "Petrificus Totalus" immobilizing Freddie there in the middle of the hall.

"Now let's get the hell out of here" Ron suggested picking you up into his arms knowing very well you could no longer walk; he had seen the painful side effects of the curse that Freddie had used on you before in the Department of Mysteries when Dolohov used it on Hermione.
"I second that" Draco said now taking over the lead with Freddie's wand in hand.
"Me three" you agreed trying to keep your eyes open in case they needed help. Your heart leapt when you saw sunlight approaching at the end of the hall. Finally you allowed your eyes to fall shut thinking you were almost to freedom, but that thought vanished when you felt Ron stop dead in his tracks...

"Where do you children think you are going?"