PART ONE ( EYE OF THE HURRICANE ) CHAPTER SEVEN:
007 || Little Wolfie
"pt, i: in which bellatrix lestrange's past comes back to haunt aurelia black in the worst way possible . . ."
"DON'T TELL YOUR mother you've been gambling," Arthur says to Fred and George, his tone on the verge of begging.
"Don't worry, dad," Fred says gleefully, "We've got big plans for this money, we don't want it confiscated."
Arthur opens his mouth to ask exactly what they've got planned but then promptly shut his mouth, deciding it's best he doesn't know. Aurelia laughs at the expression on Arthur's face; she's sitting on Fred's shoulder this time as they descend the purple-carpeted stairs.
"What's so funny, Blue," Fred asks.
"Oh, nothing," She giggles, shaking her head.
They soon get caught up in the crowds that are leaving the stadium as well. The loud screaming, singing, and chatter causes Aurelia to grow tense. Too loud and too crowded, she feels trapped and she feels like she's being watched. Aurelia's too afraid to turn around, afraid that she'll see something again.
It can't be here, Aurelia tells herself, this isn't the woods behind Malfoy Manor. Still, Aurelia can't bring herself to look over her shoulder. She's afraid she might see the wolf.
"I'm not going to drop you, Blue," Fred chuckles, "You can loosen your grip, you'll be fine. I've got you."
"Oh," Aurelia mumbles, relaxing her hold. Fred's right, you're perfectly fine, Aurelia thinks to herself, pushing the feeling that somebody's watching her to the back of her mind. She should've turned around and then maybe, just maybe she might've seen that she's indeed being watched. Amidst the celebrating crowd stands a raven-haired woman that neither fits in or stands out, she's staring at Aurelia with a murderous expression.
"I'll get you just yet, Little Wolfie, I'll make you pay," She mutters, dark blue eyes full of rage.
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THE WALK BACK to their tent is filled with excited chatter about the game they had just watched. Ron and Ellie are, unsurprisingly, ranting and raving about Viktor Krum. Aurelia sits on Fred's shoulders, still feeling quite tensed even though she knows she's in a safe space. Fred and George share a look, before they begin to taunt Ron and Ellie.
"There's no one like Krum," Ron exclaims.
"Krum," Fred echoes in a funny voice.
"Dumb Krum," George says in the same funny voice.
Ellie and Ron glare at the twins.
"He's like a bird," Ron compliments fiercely, "The way he flies!"
The twins pretend to be birds as they circle around Ron. Aurelia and the others laugh at the scene but their laughter is drowned out by Fred's obnoxious bird calls.
"He's more than an athlete —"
"Is he a Brain then? Or a Princess? Or a Criminal? Ooh, or is he a Basketcase," Aurelia taunts.
Ron doesn't get it, so he glares at her, while Ellie rolls his eyes at her lame Muggle reference.
"He's an artist," Ron hisses at Aurelia.
Aurelia doubles over laughing, that's the most dramatic thing Aurelia's heard anyone say about someone else ever. But then again, this is coming from the girl who had once spent twenty minutes describing Neville's eyes to Neville, himself, when he had described them as a plain, boring, brown colour. Neville had complimented her eyes first and when she had complimented his in return but he dismissed her compliment, she, of course, wouldn't stand for it.
"I think you're in love, Ron," Ginny teases.
"He's totally twitterpated," Aurelia laughs in agreement.
"Sod off," Ron snaps, scowling at the two girls.
"Viktor, I love you! Viktor, I do! When we're apart my heart beats only for you!" Fred and George sing loudly as they wrap Ron and Ellie in the Ireland flag.
"Alright kids, settle down," Arthur says, handing out mugs hot cocoa.
Aurelia takes hers eagerly "Thank you, Mr. Weasley!"
"Arthur!"
"Thank you, Mr. Arthur!"
She grins at him and he sighs exasperated as he turns to Ginny and gives her a mug.
"After this, we're all going to bed, we've got a lot to do tomorrow," Arthur tells the lot of them, they all groan in agreement although none of them are the least bit tired.
Sipping on their hot cocoa, Ellie and Ron continue to fiercely defend Viktor Krum from the twins while the older Weasley boys have a heated debate with Harry, Hermione, Pollux, and Ginny. Mae sits slightly behind Aurelia, brushing her blue curls and occasionally butting into the discussion in front of them. But, for the most part she watches Aurelia worriedly. It's not until Ginny falls asleep at the table, spilling her hot cocoa everywhere does Arthur send them all to their beds.
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AURELIA DOESN'T FALL asleep. She's tired as hell but no matter how hard she tries to fall asleep she can't. She's never slept in a tent before but she hates it. Everything's got her on edge, she feels exposed. Every little snap of branch or a shadow passing the tent, sends her further into a panicked frenzy. Aurelia thinks about crawling into bed with Mae but she's a little too scared to move and she doesn't want to disturb her. After all, she should be over this by now, what happened to her is over and done with, it's been years — but what if it's the werewolf?
No, Aurelia tells herself, no, you're safe, she reassures herself as she tries to steady her breathing. It's not even a full moon. If it was, there's no way a werewolf would make it to these grounds with loads of Ministry workers around. You're safe, you're safe, you're —
A shrill scream echoes through the night.
You're about to die, you're about to die, you're about to die.
Aurelia lifts her head up and glances around the tent, no one else stirs and maybe, just maybe that scream had been in her head. It had to of been, the others would've woken up, wouldn't they? She grips her sheets tightly, her blood running cold despite her efforts to calm her self. Something is wrong. Then comes another scream and Aurelia knows it's not in her head because Mae hears it to. The redhead sits up quickly and glances over at Aurelia, concern written all over her sharp features.
"Did you have a —"
A third scream.
Mae's green eyes widen in horror as she gets out of her bed and stumbles over to Hermione and Ginny. Something's wrong, oh, Merlin! Something's terribly wrong. The faint smell of something burning fills Aurelia's nose and she feels sick.
"Hermione, Ginerva wake —" Mae's cut off by another shrill scream that sounds as if it's right outside their tent. She shakes the girls awake as the screaming becomes more frequent "Get up and get your shoes on!"
Aurelia practically dives for her shoes as Mae goes to look outside the tent "Arthur! Art — oh, Merlin!"
Mae turns to the young girls and tells them "Hurry up!"
"What's going on," Ginny asks, confused and terrified.
"Death-Eaters," Mae replies, "I think they're going after Muggles . . . Hurry — OH!"
Arthur comes bursting into their tent "Wake up! Wake — oh! Come on then!" Arthur exclaims, grabbing Ginny and Hermione, who are pulling on their shoes.
"We need to get to the woods, it's not safe out here," He says urgently.
Mae grabs onto Aurelia and pulls her out of the tent, the others follow after them. It's mass chaos outside, tents are on fire, there are literally people up in the air, screaming bloody murder, as Death-Eaters on the ground controlled them. Aurelia's terrified as she huddles into her mum's side, that is until she hears a little boy wailing, she looks up to see a little blond boy no older than five in the air, struggling to get down. She's filled with rage as her eyes land on the Death-Eater controlling him. It's a woman, she can see the Death-Eater's wild raven curls and she can hear her shrill cackle as the little boy screams for help.
"Hey," Aurelia screams fiercely, "Hey! Let him —"
She tries to go after the Death-Eater but Mae pulls her back, exclaiming: "Aurelia are you mad?! You wouldn't stand a chance against a Death-Eater, let the professionals handle it!"
Her green eyes are wide and fearful as she stares up at Aurelia, holding the younger girl in place.
"Don't," Mae says firmly and Aurelia nods her head, glancing over the boys, Fred, George, Harry, and Ron are looking around, seemingly just as scared as she is.
"We're going to help the Ministry! You lot get to the woods, I'll come and fetch you when we've sorted this out," Arthur tells them as he, Percy, Charlie, and Bill rush forward to help the floating Muggles.
"C'mon!" Fred yells, grabbing ahold of Ginny's hand and dragging her toward the trees. The others follow suit, Mae holds tightly onto Aurelia's arm as they run after the twins.
They don't get very far as there's a high-pitched yelp in the distance and Mae suddenly halts, her eyes widening in fear as she yelps: "Ellie!"
Aurelia realises, horrified, the he hadn't been with the other boys. Shit, shit, shit! She thinks, leave it to Ellie to sleep through something like this. And then she realises that the yelp they heard must have been his.
"Aurelia, listen to me carefully, okay, get to those trees and find the others, and stay there until I come back with Ellie," Mae instructs Aurelia and when she nods, Mae smiles weakly and presses a kiss to Aurelia's forehead, saying: "Good girl."
Then she runs back towards the tents, Aurelia hesitates for a moment before turning on her heel and running for the trees. When she comes to stop, the twins and Ginny were long gone and so were Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Either she had went in completely different direction they had or they went further into the woods then she had.
"Harry! Hermione! Ron," She yells out, her lower lip trembling but she gets no response, "Fred, Ginny! George!"
Still, no response. She's scared and alone and on the verge of a panic attack.
SNAP!
Aurelia yelps and jumps toward the sound of a snapping branch, there's a faint chuckle and she pulls her wand out of her jumper pocket, point.
"Who — who's there," Aurelia yells, "Fred, George, if that's you, this isn't funny!"
SNAP!
A branch snaps behind her and she whirls around, pointing her wand in the general area in which the sound came from, she casts a very weak 'Lumos' but she can't make anything out of the little light she had produced.
SNAP!
The sound is to her left this time, Aurelia chokes back a sob.
SNAP!
It's on her right.
SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!
The sound of branches breaking is all around, circling her like a predator stalking its' prey. Aurelia can hardly breathe, she's so scared. She's half-expecting the werewolf to come through the trees. But, this is not the those woods, there is no full moon. No matter how much it looks like the woods surrounding Malfoy Manor, it's not, it's not, it's not.
"BOO! GUESS WHO," A woman's voice shrieks in her ear, laughing madly.
Aurelia barely has time to scream when the woman stuns her. The spell has enough force to send Aurelia flying into the nearest tree, hitting it with a harsh thud. "FUCK," Aurelia screams in pain, tears burning her eyes as she struggles to pull herself to her knees. She grips her wand in her had as she fights to catch her breath, when she had hit the tree, it had knocked all the air from her lungs.
Aurelia looks up at the woman who had attack her, it's Gwen fucking Goyle. Her family's worst enemy. She struggles to get to her knees, her legs are shaking so badly. Oh, fuck! Oh, I'm so dead! Goyle smiles at Aurelia, a smile that makes her skin crawl. I'm going to die tonight, it seems whoever's watching over her, if that's a thing, is really upping the ante this year.
She can see the hatred in Goyle's eyes. As far back as she can remember, Goyle's always hated her, the few memories she has of the woman all basically include either a.) Gwen Goyle glaring at her as though she's the spawn of Satan b.) Gwen Goyle trying to maim, seriously injure, and possibly trying to kill her, and c.) both of those events combined.
"Remember me, Little Wolfie," Goyle taunts.
Aurelia swallows thickly, watching the Death-Eater stalk forward ever so slowly. She presses her aching back into the trunk of tree she had slammed into. Aurelia feels like a caged animal despite having her wand, her mind in blanking and she can't think of any good spells to use against her.
Goyle must think she's unarmed as she continues to taunt Aurelia in a high-pitched baby voice. "Bella's not here to save you now, Little Wolfie . . . No one's here to save you, not even Bella's Squib whore is here, you're all on your own. A whimpering, pathetic mutt with no one to come and rescue you."
Goyle's dark grey eyes are alight with excitement, her short wand pointed at Aurelia, shaking wildly as she rambles on. "I've waited years for this and now I'm finally going to have you screaming for mercy at my feet like the weak, filthy mutt you are. You'll be begging for the sweet release of death once I'm finished with you!"
"I'm a Malfoy," Aurelia says, her wand gripped tightly in her hand and she waits for the perfect moment to strike. She hopes she doesn't have too, perhaps Goyle has her mixed up with some other child — not likely given Aurelia's memories of Goyle but she's still hopeful, she doesn't want to die a brutal death. "I'm Asterope Aurelia Malfoy, I'm the daughter of Narcissa and Lucius Malfoy, I've got pure blood! Please, I'm b — begging you, I'm just — I'm just a kid —"
Goyle laughs maniacally "You're not a kid, you're a flithy half-breed!"
The Death-Eater raises her wand quicker than a flash of lightning and squeals "Cru — CIO!"
Aurelia swears she's been set on fire, she screams out in agony as every part of her body feels like it's being pierced with sharp, hot knives. Her mind goes blank, the pain is too much, it's horrible. Being attacked twice by werewolves were like a walk in the park compared to this, quite honestly she would prefer to be facing another werewolf than go through this. A blindingly painful jolt hits her in the centre of her back and then it feels like someone has taken a sharp blade and dragged it all the way down her spine, Aurelia finds her voice and she screams and screams
"M — M — Mae," She screams as she digs her nails into the damp Earth, "N — n — no! St — st — STOP! SOME — SOMEBODY HELP! PL — PLEASE!"
Goyle's practically beside herself with laughter as she lifts the curse.
"You're pathetic! And weak, just like your mother!" Goyle barks, grinning like mad as she skips over to Aurelia. Her voice is raspy as she says that and Aurelia recalls hearing her earlier when talking to that German girl. It seems that Goyle's been watching her all night, maybe all day as well.
Goyle pulls Aurelia to her knees and spits in her face "You — you ruined her! You — you and that — that boy!"
"STUPEFY," Aurelia screams, putting all her strength in that spell.
It's doesn't look as strong as the one she was hit with but considering Aurelia's weak, in pain, and it's only her second time using that spell, it does a good enough job. It shocks Goyle enough to let go of her and stumble backwards a bit and that's all that Aurelia needs. Aurelia pulls herself to her feet, shakily, and takes off running but she doesn't get very far as Goyle's quick to recover. She stumbles past the tree line, her goal's to get close enough for a Ministry Worker to either see or hear her.
"Help! Help — help me," Aurelia screams.
Goyle's gaining on her and Aurelia tries to run faster but she's so weak, her legs are aching so badly.
"CRUCIO!"
The spell hits her square in the back and she falls to her feet screaming in agony. Aurelia curls into herself, wanting the pain to end, she wanted someone to come and stop Goyle.
"HEL — HELP M — ME!"
"Pathetic," Goyle laughs as she kicks Aurelia in the chest, "But, I do love it when the put up a fight. It makes it all the more entertaining!"
Aurelia, despite feeling like she's on the verge of death, tries to crawl away from her. Goyle cackles at the sight, enjoying every scream that leaves the bitch's mouth. She's not going to let Asterope get away this time. Neither that Squib Whore or Bellatrix are here to save their precious little star. Goyle's got her now.
"HELP!"
Goyle giggles "Do you actually think that someone's going to —"
"Expelliarmus," A familiar female voice calls out and disarms Goyle, "What are you doing, Gris, you're going to kill her!"
"Well, why can't I?!"
"You know why!"
Aurelia looks up, trying to catch her breath as she's released from the Torture Curse, and she's met with the sight of Xanthea Rowle. Aurelia frowns, of course she's still in contact with other Death-Eaters. Repentant, my ass.
"No, honestly, Rowle, I don't."
"Our lord wants it alive for Bellabitch, it is her present when the time comes."
Aurelia starts to crawl away as quickly as she can while they bicker about these that don't make sense to Aurelia, her head is swimming and she needs help and honestly, it doesn't even sound like they're speaking English.
"He can find something else, although you and I both know that Lestrange deserves shit."
"You cannot kill it, the Dark Lord wants it, there's nothing else that will measure up to Lestrange's greatest desire so we can't kill it! He'd have our heads — and stop moving you, filthy brat!"
Aurelia's eyes widen in horror "Oh, bullocks."
"Bullocks, indeed — CRUCIO!"
Once again, Aurelia's entire body is placed under the worst pain she's ever felt as Xanthea Rowle points her wand at her and laughs. Goyle gives Rowle a dirty look as Aurelia screams bloody murder, after a minute she knocks the wand out of Rowle's hand.
"We can't kill it," Goyle says in a perfect imitation of Rowle's voice, "Hogswash, you just want to kill her by yourself!"
Before Rowle can say anything, they're interrupted by people calling out for Aurelia.
"Aurelia?!"
"Blue?!"
It's the Percy and his older brothers! Oh, thank Merlin! Someone heard her. "Per — per — Percy! Be — be careful, it's Goy — Goyle and Rowle, she —" She's cut off by Goyle who kicks her in the face. Aurelia howls in pain, her nose breaks with a sickeningly loud snap and blood goes gushing down her face. She hears four sets of footsteps approaching quickly.
"Aurelia?! Are you — she's over here! Bill! Charlie! I found her!"
"Perdy! Be Carebul — Goyle —"
"CRUCIO!"
"Shit, Bill! It's Goyle! Percy, be careful — Percy, no!"
Aurelia struggles to lift her head, where's Percy? Is he alright?
Merlin, it hurts! Her face is wet with her tears and blood and she's in so much pain, so — Merlin, please — Merlin, make it stop — kill me! She wants to die; dying would be so much better than this pain — oh, God! Please, just let it end! Aurelia screams, her shaking hands tear at the wet grass as she tries to pull herself away from Goyle, begging: "Please, st — stop!"
She's ignored, she looks up as best as she can to see that Xanthea Rowle has vanished. She's can't tell for sure, her vision is too blurry to tell for sure, she rests her head onto the grass again as her head had gotten to heavy to lift.
"Leave, Weasley," Goyle hisses, glancing at the redheaded boy that's quickly approaching her, "Leave, I'd hate to spill blood as pure as yours even if you're a traitor, just leave —"
"STUPEFY," Percy bellows and Goyle gets thrown back a foot but she's quick to recover.
"Alarte Ascendare," Goyle calls out and Percy yelps as he's tossed in the air.
Goyle looks annoyed as she giggles "Guess I'll have to make this experiment quick, Little Wolfie — AVADA KEDAVRA!"
A bright flash of green light blinds Aurelia and she holds her breath, closing her eyes. Oh, fuck, I'm dead! I'm dead and I'm still in pain! I can't believe God has the audacity to do this to me!
There's a regretful expression that flickers across her face for the briefest of moments and then Goyle giggles shrilly, her giggle is cut short by a loud popping noise and then with that there's no noise from Goyle or Rowle. They got away, fuck, Aurelia thinks.
Charlie comes bursting to the trees "Percy, are you — Oh, Merlin. Percy?
Percy lets out a breathless scream "Au — Aurelia! No! No!"
Charlie looks at Aurelia's stiff, bloody body "Is — is she dead?"
Percy doesn't answer, launching himself at Aurelia's body, hysterically sobbing through gasps for breath. When he collides with her body, she lets out an inaudible "Oof!" The smells of burnt grass invades her nostrils. I'm alive! She realises, praise Jesus! Hallelujah! Goyle's curse had missed her by barely an inch, the ground right by her nose had been singed upon impact. She had almost died.
Bill stumbles in Charlie "Where'd Goyle go, Charlie?! Where — Merlin, Aurelia . . . She's — She's dead?"
No! She tries moving but with Percy on top of her, she can barely move a muscle.
"I — I think so, Goyle ran off. She got away again," Charlie replies, sounding near tears.
"Percy g'it off," Aurelia hisses weakly, he does so without hesitation letting out a horrified scream. Aurelia tries to pull herself up but she's far too week, dark spots are dancing across her vision, she wants to go to sleep so, so badly.
"Merlin! She — She's alive," Charlie gasps.
"H — h — how," Percy splutters, looking both fearful and relieved.
"I'm a witch —" She says teasingly but weakly, "— wait." Wait, that's a Muggle reference. She's not a Muggle. "Oh," She mumbles, frowning.
"Percy, help her up, she's got to go to St. Mungo's! Who knows what Goyle's done to her," Charlie commands.
"I don't wanna go to St. Mungo's I wanna go to sleep," Aurelia whines, pouting.
"No," Charlie roars, "Don't go to sleep and, uh — DON'T GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT!"
"What light," Aurelia questions, confused. Almost as if on cue a bright green light brightens the night sky and Charlie gasps in horror, so does Percy. "Do you mean that light?" Aurelia wonders innocently.
"N — no," Bill stammers, "No, Percy take her to St. Mungo's. Once she's been checked in come right back, Charlie and I are going to find the others."
Percy helps her stand and quickly realises she's far too weak to stand on her own so he picks her up.
"Oh, I — I see how tis, you — you'll only pick m'up if I — beat dead," Aurelia slurs almost incoherently then promptly passes out.
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MAE IS SEARCHING around wildly for her daughter, her left hand is burning and her body feels fuzzy. Something's wrong with Aurelia. She should've never left her alone. Ellie's tugging on her arm, apologising profusely for what he had gotten involved with, they made him, he was scared. But, his apologies fall on deaf ears as Mae's mind is elsewhere. Her daughter is in trouble, she is hurt. They wander quickly through the trees but there's no sight of her.
"Mum, I'm sorry," Ellie cries desperately, "I am s — so sorry! I —"
Mae turns to him "Don't you — don't. You didn't mean to, for now, let's put this behind us, we'll handle it tomorrow — we can handle it then. We — we need to find Aurelia."
Ellie swallows thickly "Yeah — yeah, before Goyle and Rowle do."
Mae freezes "She — she — that bitch is here? Both of them are here?" She knew it, Aurelia's hurt, she's in danger.
"Yes, I saw her — them — I think they're looking for, Blue."
"Oh, Merlin! Oh, bullocks! What have I done?! I —"
"Auntie Mae," Ginny's voice calls out from somewhere close by in the woods. Shortly after, Ginny comes running towards them, the twins following right behind her; Ellie rushes forward and hugs George.
"Where is Aurelia," Mae asks, looking at the three of them, Fred and Ginny share confused looks as Mae tearfully demands: "Where is she?! Where is my daughter?!"
"We thought, well, we thought she was with you," Fred replies nervously.
"Oh, Merlin," Mae sobs.
"She could be with Ron, Hermione, and Harry," Ginny supplies.
"Well, where are they?!"
"We . . . Don't exactly know."
"Well, that's loads of help," Mae snaps, hysterical.
"I'm sure Blue's fine," George says, looking away from Ellie.
At that moment, an older woman comes running through "A CHILD'S BEEN KILLED! A CHILD'S BEEN KILLED!"
"That's not her, Mum," Ellie tells Mae quickly, "She doesn't mean —"
Mae wails loudly, her knees feel weak. She's dead, Aurelia's dead. Oh, she can feel it. Her daughter is dead, the one she vowed to protect is dead!
Bill comes running after the woman "Ma'am it — Aunt Mae! Oh, you're all pretty well here, thank —"
"Where's my daughter," Mae shrieks, lunging at Bill.
He frowns "Percy's —"
"Is she dead?! Has she really been killed?!"
"No, well, not exactly."
"What the bloody hell do you mean 'not exactly' what's happened," Mae cries, "Where is she, William?!"
"She was hit with the Killing Curse," Bill says and everyone goes still.
Mae's blood runs cold, her body feels even fuzzier and her left hand throbs.
"But, she's alive," He says after a moment's pause, looking quite unsure of himself and the events that had just unfolded.
"WHAT?!"
"HOW?!"
"It can't be —"
"HARRY SUR —"
"SHUT UP," Mae screams over the kids' questions.
They do, looking both confused and mortified and so Bill continues "Goyle had ahold of her and was torturing her, Percy heard her screams and he ran off to go find Aurelia and Charlie and I followed him. Percy wasn't thinking and he run straight into a losing battle but Goyle had no interest in him and tossed him aside to kill Aurelia. Goyle hit her with the Killing Curse and Aurelia was still for a few moments but then she woke up . . . Percy's taken her to St. Mungo's —"
"I —"
"We have to find the others first, Aunt Mae, besides it's highly unlikely that they'll let you see her at the moment," Bill tells her, "My little brother and his friends are still out there and I need to find them, so can you please take them back to our tent, I've been told that it's safe to go back now."
Mae nods numbly.
"Thank you, she's in good hands, Aunt Mae. As soon as you get them back to the tent, you can go. I can find the others on my own."
She nods again. Dread fills Mae's stomach, she had promised her that she would protect Aurelia and she had failed. She had worked so hard to keep Aurelia alive and safe. Their fourteen years of hard work had gone to hell in less than an hour. Her daughter could be dying for all she knows and it's all her fault.