"Well what do we have here?" Bellatrix asked keeping her wand pointed at my face. "My nephew is bed with the bitch witch who cursed me,"
Clearly she hadn't forgotten about the Curcio in the department of mysteries.
"Bellatrix," Draco spoke calmly beside me like I didn't have a wand pointed at my face.
"Thanks for leading me right to her," Bellatrix winked at the blonde and my stomach dropped. I knew better than to trust him! Why had my brain not been enough to convince me of what was right in front of me. This was a set up, everything he said was fake, all of the information I shared with him was shared with others!
"Stand up," she ordered me, gripping her wand a little tighter. "We have already wasted enough time we have to go,"
"I'm not going anywhere with you," I informed her, feeling down beside me where I knew my wand had been last night when I closed my eyes.
"Oh really?" She then laughed showing her chipped and blackened teeth before using her other arm to hold up a wand, an ash wand with a blue stone, my wand. "I'd say you were wrong again,"
The urge to reach over and choke out the blonde beside literally made my hands burn.
"Where are we going?" If I could waste enough time hopefully someone would barge in and I could escape.
"You don't get to ask questions," she didn't take time to think over her answer. "Just be glad I've decided not to curse you yet,"
Draco had stood up on the other side of the bed and was slipping his jacket on, clearly he was going with her.
"What's keeping you from doing it? Scared?" I didn't know why those words came out of my mouth, I very much doubted there was a reason she didn't.
She only laughed at the question.
"Let's go," she ordered again.
"I don't know if you heard me but.."
"Ace!" Draco interrupted me from once again telling her I wasn't going.
"Don't you dare speak to me," I pointed a finger out at him, it was my only defense at the moment. I focused everything else on keeping my mind shut, I didn't know if the curly haired brunette had the same power as her master but the last thing I'd want her to see is the crushing feeling of being fooled by Draco Malfoy.
"Enough of this!" She grabbed my ankle. "I wouldn't move unless you want to be splinched," before I could move out of her grasp Draco grabbed her other arm and we were gone.
Moments later my ass hit the ground on the other side of a large iron gate.
"Welcome home," Bellatrix smirked at me before letting me go, walking towards the large home that was off in the distance. "Try and run if you'd like!" She laughed not looking back and the hedged that lined the gravel driveway seemed to move in closer, and without a doubt I knew they were enchanted to grab anyone who dared to run.
Draco didn't look back at me as he followed his Aunt towards the house.
Sighing I stood up dusting the back of the jeans I had slept in last night and ran my hands through my hair trying to think of a plan. I had no wand, no broom, no floo powder and I had been lying to Joanna about where I had been staying, when I didn't come home she'd check at the Lovegood's not Daphne's.
I had dug myself into a hole so I did the only thing there was to do, I followed the duo up the gravel path rethinking every mistake I had made.
Draco Malfoy was a snake in the grass, and I had known it all along even if my heart didn't listen. I knew better than to trust him, he was a Death Eater I had seen the proof, he had told me he had wanted to be one, it wasn't forced on him! Contrary to what Blaise had said about him.
Now I was entering into the den of snakes.
The front door seemed to open for us without it being touched and no one was on the other side, it was just an empty hallways but I noticed the temperature in the large stone home was at least 10 degrees cooler than it was outside in the summer air.
"Welcome to Malfoy Manor," a woman that looked suspiciously like Draco spoke as the hallway opened into a large room that would have been a living room but it looked like no one had ever dared sit in the room.
"Cissy, now is not the time!" Bellatrix once again grabbed my arm and hauled me towards a large grand staircase. "She's not here for you to pay hostess!"
Draco had disappeared before I could take my eyes off his Mother and back towards the stairs, he had clearly finished whatever he was set out to do.
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Bellatrix had left me in a room that was decorated as a simple guest room, so nothing of use was available. Without my wand I was pretty much useless, I had tried multiple times to use wandless magic to escape the room but it seemed to only work when I didn't need it to. Part of me, the dumb part had thought Draco would come and rescue me but after hours I had let that idea die.
Without anyone entering the room a dinner plate appeared on the desk in the corner along with a glass of what I assumed was water but I stayed clear of the dinner completely and continued to search the room for any sort of escape.
Finally after that I laid on the large four poster bed and shut my eyes.
No one was coming to save me.
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I woke up to a hissing noise and a completely dark room, the only bit of light I could see was from under the doorway. I wasn't sure how long I was asleep but I now knew it was far after the sun had set. I stood and felt down the side of the wall for a switch for the light over head and the moment I did and my eyes adjusted to the light I noticed a piece of parchment on the ground by the door, it had clearly been slipped under.
I knew who it would be from before I even opened it but I still opened it .
Ace,
I didn't plan this, I haven't lied about anything.
DM
I balled the paper up and threw it against the wall, anger was coursing though my veins of course he would try and cover up his lies, maybe he hadn't planned on staying last night so he wasn't around when I was taken. How else would they know I was there?
I used my fist to beat against the door hoping I'd annoy someone in the house, anyone to come and let me out. The more I hit it with no success the more pissed off I'd get! I had barely been out of school for a month and I was already taken by Death Eaters! The whole point of my Mother's plan was to keep me out of this life and I was walking into it willingly being led by a grey eyed boy that took my breath away.
It seemed both my Mother and I were fools for evil.
I started using my shoulder to shove my weight against the mahogany door with all my might.
"OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!" I yelled as I hit it again, anger still swelling through my body, "OPEN IT NOW!" I yelled again only this time as I hit the door it opened. I felt my magic rise though my veins moments before I was in the hallway. Finally wandless magic paid off for more than getting into people's minds.
I didn't waste anytime following the path that Bellatrix had lead me in once I had entered the Malfoy home. Once I got to the large staircase I started preparing myself for a fight to get out but was surprised to see no one was around. I had learned my lesson in the Ministry the last time that happened; Dumbledore himself had told me never assume you're alone.
Once I descended the stairs and turned the corner to be back in the formal living room a voice rang out from the dark corner instantly bringing goosebumps to my skin.
"It took you long enough, we'll have to work on that," I had heard the voice before, it rang through my mind for months before I even was in the same room as him.
"Voldemort," I squinted at him trying to see thought the darkness.
"Addison," he replied back.
"Where is my Mother?" That had been my whole purpose, somehow I had lost that thought in the arms of Draco and in the home of Daphne. I had stopped searching for her and I had been swept into the world of good vs evil.
"If you leave you'll never find out," he stood up and came towards me finally he was in the light and my legs wouldn't allow me to move, the face I had prepared myself to see wasn't in front of me. He was no longer pale and lanky, before me was a man that didn't look to be older than 30, a head full of dark hair that had a sort of wave to it that matched mine along with my blue eyes. I had seen him once before like this in Draco's mind but I had forgotten that he could look like this after seeing the skeleton of him months ago.
"Take me to her now!" I demanded, refusing to move from my spot.
"You really aren't in the position to make demands Addison," he moved even closer, "But, I will make a deal with you,"
"The way I see it, you aren't in the position to be making deals,"
"That's where you're wrong Addison," his smirk matched the one I knew passed my face on a regular basis, "You're wandless, without a way to escape, motherless, and powerless,"
"I'm anything but powerless," I didn't know if I was assuring him or myself.
"I guarantee you're powerless against the charms that'll keep you on the Malfoy grounds, the same power that keeps anyone from getting in without my say so,"
"That's a chance I'm willing to take," he continued smirking and moved his face in closer to mine, making sure there wasn't an inch of darkness covering him.
"Even if that chance is on your Mother's life?" He raised his eyebrows like even he was impressed with the threat he made. "Honestly, I'd be doing you a favor, I find...Mothers hold you back," I knew nothing about the man before me, had he a mother somewhere? Did I have a Riddle Grandmother.
"Where is she?"
"Stay, and you'll find out," he shrugged his shoulders, "Leave and you won't! It's simple!"
"ADDISON!" My heart started beating ten times faster than it ever had as I looked up at the top of the stairs where I had heard the voice, "GO!" There she was! My Mom in all her manic glory! Her hair was pulled up in a knotted bun and she was in her normal all black! There wasn't any physical damage from what I could see.
"Mom!" I yelled and turned towards the stairs before a cold hand grabbed the back of my arm keeping me from moving closer to the woman I had been searching for! Moments later there was a pop of someone apparating in and disappearing with her before I could even reach out for her.
"Like I said," he spoke as I still struggled to get out of his grasp and up towards where I had just seen her. "Stay and you'll find out, go and you never will,"
"I'll stay," I didn't need to think about it, I had seen her she was alive.
"Good," I looked down as i felt something slide into my hand, it was my wand. "You're lessons start now," he smirked coming infront of me. "Curcio!" Pain over took me and soon my brain was free of any thoughts of the woman I had just seen, only pain.
