Chapter Two

Served Cold

Hello victims!
I can almost taste it,
It's the need to see you die,
You thought you had it made,
Well here's your final shock surprise,
How do you like it,
My unfaithful friend?
How do you like it?
How do you like my Sweet Revenge?

Sweet Revenge-Motorhead

They might never come back for me. They might plan on leaving me here to die. I have to do something I am desperate. I know Montague will kill Angelina unless I stop him. The more I move the tighter the ropes become, but I can't just give up, I won't give up. I've survived and I have Angelina, for that I owe it to Fred to stay alive, he could have had this life and here I am pissing mines away. I close my eyes and really focus on making the ropes vanish. I refuse to die I won't let my twins' death be in vain. When I open my eyes and concentrate If I did to the glass surely I can do to the ropes, but nothing happens. I concentrate even harder and something does happen but not the thing I was hoping for. The ropes get even tighter. Pain shoots across my body as the ropes touch my ribs which I am sure are broken.

Take easy George you can do this. I pep talk myself. I close my eyes and try again the ropes give but their still to tight to escape from. C'mon you don't have anytime to spare. I bit down on my lip and try again and finally I am free. Wandless magic comes through again! I run for the door and out into the street. A caterwauling charm goes off. I don't bother trying to turn it off I've got to find Angelina. I don't know where they've taken her, but I know she has to be close by. I message via the D.A. coin that I am in Knockturn alley I'm free and that I'm looking for Angelina. I hear some one coming my way and slip between buildings. Lucian Bole making his way toward the sound of the charm probably come to check that I'm still tied up. Just like that arrogant berk Montague to only send one person after me. I stay hidden until he's almost in front of me. I'm still in the shadows and Lucian doesn't see me until it's too late. My fist smashes him in the face three and before he even has the chance to recognise who I am he's out cold.

He slumps to the ground and I pat him down until I find his wand. It's not my wand but it's better than no wand. I drag his unconscious body in-between the two buildings and cast Petrificus Totalus on him. Even though I've preformed wandless magic twice I still feel batter now that I have a wand.

I hear a crack and see someone has apparated into the street in front of me. I ducked back between the buildings again, and then look round the corner and see Harry Potter headed my way. I step from behind the building and point my wand at his chest. "What were the last words Fred ever uttered?"

"I don't think I've heard you joke since you were-." Harry says thickly. I lower my wand. It's really him.

"You've not found her?" Harry asks

"No "

"So you got my message?"

"Yes." Harry says but the way he says it lets me know he's about to tell me something else, something I don't want to hear.

"What?"

"Angelina sent a message earlier she said she might be walking into trap."

"Fucking hell!"

"There's more, Hermione recognised one of the True Death Eaters we rounded up today as the girl who sold her your engagement ring."

I can't say anything I feel too cold.

"She's Montague's niece."

"Montague said something about old magic called Maranipulus."

"Doesn't ring a bell, but Hermione's bound to have heard of it."

"That engagement ring." I say feeling embarrassed. "It made me see things."

"What kind of things?" Harry asks.

"Fred, I wasn't just seeing him though I touched him talk to him. It was him, but I know that it wasn't him."

Harry doesn't say anything for awhile.

"You think I'm a nutter don't you?" I'm not about to tell him I almost offed myself because Fred asked me to. I know Fred would never ask me to kill myself, but the pain of losing Fred has been beyond anything I have ever had to endure and I just wanted to see him again. I wanted to believe that Fred really had found his way back to me. If anyone could do it Fred could I thought. I guess I've never fully accept the fact that Fred is never coming back. Never. It's like something that I have to keep learning.

"No, I think it's something to do with Maranipulus."

"Doesn't matter we can sort it out later right now I need to find Angelina."

"I've got people looking trust me we'll find her."

Yes but will we find her dead or alive? That is a thought I don't want to speak into existence so I don't voice it out loud. "Let's split up." I say. A thought has just occurred to me; Montague knew exactly where to find me, but how did he even know I was in Knockturn alley? How did he know I'd escaped from Hospital? Mitch. I shake my head. Dealers, so damn opportunistic. My dealer is working for Montague. Mitch let me crash at that flat because that's where Montague wanted me. I can't even be properly hurt or feel betrayed it's the nature of the beast. It doesn't explain how Montague know I flew the coup, but it does give me a lead.

I'm going to beat Mitch to a bloody pulp unless he tells me where Angelina is. I know he knows where she is, but he'd never tell me with an Auror hanging around so I had to get rid of Harry. It starts raining again and the wind picks up. Water whips in my face but I don't care I need to find Angelina. Mitch is probably in a pub looking for a punter.

Fate is in my friend tonight. I find Mitch in the first pub I go in. He's sitting in the back hidden in the darkness hiding just like a roach. I make my way over to him. When he sees me he tries to run, but I'm too fast for him. "I know you set me up." I jab my newly acquired wand into his quivering Adam's apple. "You want to keep living you'd better tell me where Montague took Angelina." I grab his hand and pries his wand out of his hand.

"I don't know anything."

I grab Mitch by the collar and give him and shake him violently. "Try again."

"I swear I don't."

I punch him in the nose. "Where the hell is she?"

"My nose! You've broken it!"

"I'll break a lot more of your fucking bones if you don't tell me where my fiancée is."

"Le Arts Noir." Mitch says. "His family owns it."

"You're coming with me and if you trying to trick me-."

"I'm not I swear. He took her in the back way down all these stairs." I follow him to Le Arts Noir , there are a set of steps just like he described. The steps lead down into a pit of darkness. How scared Angelina must have been going down all these steps. I hate Montague even more for setting her up like this. I hate him so much that I want to kill him and if he's done anything to her I will even if I have to die to do it.

"This is far as I go mate." Mitch says. I hear a scream and suddenly I don't care about Mitch I race down the steps as fast I can without killing myself.

The door opens as soon as I step foot on the landing. Peregrine rushes out at me wand pointed. I jump to the side as he cries. "Impedimenta!" The spell hits the wall behind me and explodes.

I point my wand at some weeds just behind Peregrine and yell "Treppe!" The weeds begin to grow longer and longer wrapping themselves around Peregrine until he looks like a green mummy.

I race though the doorway into the flat. Angelina is in the middle of the room struggling with Montague who is straddling her. He's trying to wrap his hands around her neck but she is fighting him with everything that she has. I run to her and kick the exposed side of Montague's face stunning him enough to make him let go of Angelina before reaching down and throwing him off of her. He rolls across the floor but is back up on his feet in an instant.

"Been waiting for this day." He says. There is blood running down his nose and he doesn't even bother to wipe it away.

"Well let's have it out just me and you." I say. "Angie get out of here!"

"No! I'm not leaving you."

Damn her and her stubbornness. "Angelina catch!" I yell and toss her Mitch's wand. She easily catches it. She was a chaser after all.

Montague points his wand at the two of and shouts "Bombarda!"

The two of us jump to opposite side to avoid being hit by his spell. It flies past us just shy of hitting us and blast a hole through the wall behind us.

I spin round and point my ill gotten wand at Montague and shout "Sectumsempra!" He dodges the spell. Quickly before he can fire off another spell I cast one of my own. "Sinkandun!" The spell hits him and he pulled down into the floor as if it were made of quicksand. He is trapped from the chest down. His wand is knocked from his hand and I use the summoning charm to bring it to me and tuck it away in my back pocket.

"Angie are you all right?"

As large as he is Goyle managed to stay hidden in the shop's tiny bathroom. He comes charging out of it right at Angelina. I run to her just as he pulls out his wand and pokes her in the throat with it, but instead of cursing her with some nasty spell he cries out in pain and falls to his knees. Angelina backs away from him quickly before he can fall on top of her. There is blood on Angelina's hand. She's holding a knife. She's stabbed him.

Goyle cries out holding his hand over his stab wound and then falls back down and doesn't move.

I point my wand at Goyle "Suerederma." His wound close up as if it were done up by Muggle stitches. Not that I've stopped him from bleeding out I point my wand again and cry out. "Immobulus!" I'll have no more trouble from him. "Now will you get out of here?" I ask Angelina. "I can handle things from here you should go get help."

"George I already told you I'm not-."

Angelina is cut off mid sentence as Montague rushes me from across the room. He pushes me into the opposite wall and wraps his hands around my neck and squeezes tight. His muscular body is pressing me into the wall so that my arms are trapped helplessly at my side. I can feel my chest trying to expand, but no matter how I try and get air in I can't. Lights pop in front of my eyes. Damn Montague is strong. I keep trying to free my arms, but I can feel myself blacking out. My knees start to buckle when I hear a roar like yell.

Angelina launches herself across the room and jumps onto Montague's back like a lioness going after prey. "Get your fucking hands off him!" She yells sinking her nails into into his scalp and yanking his head back. Montague's forced to let go of me as Angelina has a hold of him. Her nails are digging into his scalp so deeply they draw blood. Her free hand smashes into Montague's mouth. He fails around the room trying to fling her off of him, but she won't let go.

I point my stolen wand at the two of them and wait until I can get a clear shot of Montague. It comes a second later when he spins around hoping to hurl Angelina to the ground it doesn't work, but it does give me a perfect shot of his chest. "Contractuscorpus." The force of my spell hits Montague so hard it knocks Angelina off of his back. She land on her feet and dances away from Montague. Montague hits the floor hard and lies still. Not for long though a second later his muscle contract so hard that he is just resting on his head and heels while the rest of his body arches up like a bow.

The spell doesn't hold him. Montague breaks free and I wonder if he too knows wandless magic.

"You bitch!" Montague says to Angelina as he struggles to his feet. "Do you really think love can save the day?" He staggers towards.

I do." She says and takes his wand from my back pocket and points at him. "Crucio!" Angelina scream at Montague.

There is anguish in her scream. There is anger in her scream. Never in my life have I heard Angelina scream like that before. "Crucio!" She screams again her face contours and she no longer looks like herself. "Crucio!"

The spell hits Montague full force and he screams like he's been lit on fire. They say that for crucio to properly work you need to want to cause the person pain. You've got to mean it. Angelina means it.

"Crucio!" She screams louder. "Crucio!"

"Angelina stop! You'll kill him." I yell. It might be Montague's wand but it sure does seem to be listening to Angelina.

"I know. I want to kill him." She walks up to him and stands over him. "I'd be doing the world a favour. How many people do you reckon would miss a killer and a rapist?" She kicks him. "Those Muggle girls he killed them, and Merlin knows how may others. Oh and don't forget what this dirty prick did to me. Plus me killing him with his own wand is poetic justice."

"You're not a killer Angie."

She points Montague's wand at his prone body with a shaking hand. "Crucio." She screams again. Montague is practically sobbing now."I guess there's no getting off on receiving this kind of pain is there Monty?" Angelina says scathingly.

"Kill him and you'll lose yourself."

"I'm already lost."

"Not like you will be if you kill him trust me. Mum she hasn't been quite the same since she had to kill Bellatrix. She did it to save Ginny's life, but she still had to take a life do it, and it's not something you just get over, Angelina. This isn't self-defense any more and you're not saving anyone's life. This would be murder. That's not you Angie. You are not a murder."

She sighs then her wand falls lax at her side. "What should we do with piece of shit then?" Angelina says in a weary and relenting voice.

"In here!" I hear Harry call out. "They're in here." We've been found. Harry and several others rush into Le Arts Noir. I turn and turn to look at Angelina. Her clothes are torn her mouth is busted and she got a black eye. She looks down at Montague while crying silently.

I pull her into my arms "It's over now." I say and kiss her forehead. Even as I say it I know that it's far from over. I know that it's really not the end, but the beginning of the healing process.

"Thank Merlin the two of you are all right." Harry says. "I was worried that I wouldn't find the two of you in time."

"You don't have to worry about the two of us." I say. "There's nothing that we can't take on when we work together."

"That's right." Angelina says between her tears.

I pick her up off of her feet and into my arms and stare into her face for the longest time. She is everything to me and then some.

"I knew you would save me." She tells me.

"Same." I tell her and walk outside and apparate to St. Mungo's. I've grown to have a love hate relationship with this place.

Once I hand Angelina over to the healers. Once she's gone I realize that it's time for me to face the music. I'll probably be going to Azkaban now since I violated the conditions of my rehabilitation by escaping this place. I don't care it was worth it to save Angelina and if I had it to do all over again I would do the exact same thing.

I go back to my room which is no longer in the rehab unit and lie on my bed and stare at the ceiling.

There is a knock on the open doorway and then a voice ask. "Mind if I come in?"

I look to the doorway and see Bill standing there.

"Of course not." I say beyond happy that he's shown up finally.

He strides right up to my bed and hugs me hard.

"Ow, the ribs. The ribs!" I cry. "What are you trying to break them again?"

"Sorry." he says backing away quickly. "I'm sorry for a lot of things actually."

"Look you don't have to-."

Bill holds up a hand to stop me. "No, I do. I could have lost you tonight and it made me realize what a dick I've been. My little brother needed me and I wasn't there for you."

I can't look at him if I do I'm going to start crying.

"I'm going to be a father soon and I'm scared. I'm so bloody scared."

"You mean Fleur is here?"

"Yeah, but the healer say it will be hours yet."

"Congratulations."

"Thanks. I already love my child more than I've ever loved anything in this world and I realise that if my child messes up I don't want to treat them the way I treated you. Mum and dad never treated you that way. No one in our family did but me."

"Why did you?"

"I felt like I failed you." He says. "I'm the oldest and it's always been my job to look after the rest of you and keep you out of trouble. I didn't do that for you or for Fred."

"That's what Charlie said."

"Wanker!" Bill says and we both laugh.

"You know my downfall isn't anyone fault but my own, right?"

"All I know is that you went through the one of the worst losses anyone can ever go through and all I did was judge you."

"Everyday hurts, but I'm learning that it does get better. It no longer hurts to think about Fred."

"Yeah, doesn't hurt for me so much either."

I hadn't thought about the others in my family mourning Fred. Being his twin made me selfish with my grief as if it only belonged to me.

"Good, it's what Fred would have wanted."

"I know."

"Glad that Angelina is all right. Are the two of you back together?"

"Yes."

"Good. I've always thought the two of you were well suited for each other."

"Really? You don't think it's weird?"

"She and Fred were school crushes, but what the two of you have is real."

"I still think he'd hex me if he knew."

Bill smirks. "Yeah, he would do."

For the first time I realise now similar my smirk is to his.

"Thank you for coming to see me."

"Hey, what are big for?" He hugs me again gently this time. "I've got your back from now on and I always will."

"Why your back isn't good enough?"

Bill groans.

"Fred would have found that hysterical."

This time Bill chuckles.

"You should get back to your wife." I say.

Bill looks at the clock. "It's been twenty minutes already? I guess I should be going."

"Give Fleur my love."

Charlie nods and then he's gone.

I don't know what's going to be come of me, but at least I know the people I love are safe and love me just as much as I love them. Once again love saves the day when nothing else could, and as long as I am loved I know that I'll be all right.