Draco P.O.V
I'm just sat around my dining table at the minute. Some of the Dark Lords Death Eaters have gone to crash the Wesley's wedding and I'm so worried because I know Ava will be there with them. I'm hoping that she gets out in time and I know Snape and Blaise are thinking the sae things.
Just then there's was a knock on the door. "Come in" the Dark Lord says. The door opens and a Death Eater walks in smirking. That's not good.
"Sorry for interrupting, my Lord, but we have the one you're looking for. She also knows where the Potter boy is hiding."
"Bring her in."
Please don't be Ava! Please don't be Ava!
My heart drops into my stomach when I see him dragging Ava into the room, but it quickly turns into angry when I see an handprint on her cheek. I glance at Snape and see that he's gone very pale. Ava flinches when the the Dark Lord suddenly looks at her.
"Ahh! It's so good to finally meet you, Ava Snape, or should I say Sophie Snape."
Me and Blaise frown whilst my mother and father nervously look at each other from the corner of their eye. I look at Ava's ring and see that it's dark blue which means she's scared.
The Dark Lord looks at Snape. "I will deal with you later, Severus" Snape doesn't say anything and looks at the table. Ava looks at her father but he doesn't look at her, mainly because he's got his back to her.
"So" the Dark Lord says, looking back at Ava, "you're Sophie Snape? Harry Potter's younger cousin?"
What the fuck! All this time they have been saying that they see each other as family and it turns out that they actually are family. Why didn't I pick up on something like this before?
The Dark Lord gets up and walks over to Ava, who moves back a little. He grabs her arm and pulls her closer to him. He moves her hair out of the way and slowly starts moving the strap of dress. What the fuck is he doing?! Ava closes her eyes but he must have told her to look at him because she opens her eyes and looks at him with tears in her eyes.
He points his wand at her shoulder and something appears. "Ahh! The famous scar."
What the fuck - again! She's got the same scar as Potter. I'm still in shock. Ava looks at me but the Dark Lord grabs her face and makes her look at him.
"Look at me, and only me! Do you understand me?" he growls. Ava nods and he lets go of her face. "I hear you were there the night I went to Potter's. Not only did I fail to kill Harry Potter, but I also failed to kill you, why?"
"I-I don't know. I don't remember anything from that night."
"I'm going to kill you, Sophie" he says, looking at her up and down. "Your death is coming soon, but first, I do believe you have some information for me."
"Information?" she frowns.
"Yes, I heard from one of my follows that you know where Harry Potter is hiding."
"I don't know where he's gone."
He slaps her across the face, which makes me flinch a little. "Don't lie to me, Sophie Snape! Where has Harry Potter gone?"
Ava doesn't say anything, which is a bad idea. A very bad idea indeed. "Answer me - Crucio!" he shouts. Ava falls to the floor and screams in pain. Her scream her echoing around the room. The Dark Lord lowers his wand and Ava stops screaming.
"I will ask you again, Sophie, and do not lie to me. Where is Harry Potter?"
"I-I don't know."
"Crucio!" Ava starts screaming again and I grab my mothers hand. "I told you don't to lie to me, Sophie" the Dark Lord shouts over her screams of pain. He lowers his wand again and Ava is lying on the floor breathing heavily and crying quietly.
"That hurt, didn't it, Sophie?" she nods. "And you don't want to go through that again, do you, Sophie?" she shakes her head. "Then tell me where the boy is."
"I can't" he points his wand at her. "I don't know where he's gone" she quickly adds. The Dark Lord flicks his wand but instead of using the Cruciatus Curseon her again, he makes a deep cut appear on her right cheek. She lets out a high pinch yell and tries to stop the bleeding.
"Move your hand" the Dark Lord orders Ava. She hesitates before moving her hand, and to my surprise, he heals her cut, but she's now left with a scar on her cheek that's probably about 7 or 8 cm long.
The Dark Lord looks at me and smirks. Oh no! He's going to make me do something to Ava and I'll have to do or he could end up killing her.
"Curse the girl, Draco!" I feel the colour drain from my face. Blaise, Snape and my mother and father all look at me. "Draco!" the Dark Lord shouts, which makes me jump.
I look at Ava only to find her looking at me. She mouths the words 'do it' when she sees me looking at her. I stand up and walk over to her. I pull out my wand but end up dropping it on the floor because I'm shaking too much. I pick it and point it at her.
"Crucio."
It's not powerful though so she doesn't scream, but she does whimper in pain so I know that it's still hurting her. I quickly lower my wand and look at Ava but she doesn't open her eyes.
"Again, Draco" the Dark Lord whisper in my ear. I jump because I didn't realise he was so close to me. Ava slowly opens her eyes, they're red and puffy from crying. She looks so weak and vulnerable. I've never seen her like this before.
"I want to hear her scream this time" the Dark Lord growls quietly in my ear.
I point my wand at Ava again. "Crucio" but again, the same things happen. She just whimpers in pain. I go to lower my wand but the Dark Lord grabs my hand and holds it in place. I try to pull my hand back but he's got a tight grip on my hand.
"S-stop" Ava whispers. "Please."
I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
I use all my strength and pull my hand out of his grip.
The Dark Lord glares at me. "Pathetic, just like your father!" he hissed like a snake. "Sit down!"
I sit back down at the table and if looks could kill, then I would be 6 feet under from the look Snape is giving me at the minute. Dunno why he's looking at me like that for. He knows that I didn't have a choice!
"Severus" the Dark Lord says softly. "I do believe that it's your turn."
Ava slowly sits up and looks at her father. She blinks and tears just fall from her eyes but she hasn't even got the strength to wipe them away.
"My Lord, what good would that do?"
"Do not question me, Severus. Curse her!"
Snape looks the Dark Lord in the eye. "I'm not hurting my daughter."
"How ironic" Ava mumbled, which makes Snape lower his head.
"Yes, Sophie" the Dark Lord says, looking at her. "Your father doesn't want to curse you because he doesn't want to hurt you, but he has already hurt you, hasn't he, Sophie?"
"Yeah" Ava says, lying back on the floor. "That's what's ironic about it."
I see a tears fall from Snape's eye but he quickly wipes it away.
"Bellatrix" the Dark Lord smirks. "Take her. Do whatever you want to make her talk, but I order you not to kill her. I and I alone will be the one to kill her."
"Yes, my Lord" she smirks, before standing up and walking over to Ava, who looks like she's about to pass out. As soon as Bellatrix reaches Ava, she slaps her across the face. The noise echoes around the room. I feel my mother tense up next to me.
I hate this. I really fucking hate it. I'm about to watch my own auntie torture my girlfriend and there's nothing I can do about it. I can't help her without getting her killed.
"Get up, you filthy little thing" Bellatrix orders. Ava stumbles as she stands up but manages to stay on her feet. "Let's have a chat, shall we, just us girls" Bellatrix smirks before dragging Ava into a little room that's in the corner of the dining room.
I sit there staring at the door, praying that Bellatrix will go easy on Ava, but I'm just kidding myself if I believe that's going to happen. I mean, look what she did to Ava at the Ministry of Magic.
I've been looking at the door for 20 minutes and I've heard nothing coming from that room and I know it's not sound proof or anything, so what the hell is Bellatrix doing in there? I glance at my mother and see that she looks as worried as me. She squeezes my hand from under the table.
"ANSWER ME! - CRUCIO!" Bellatrix yells, making Ava scream for the first time in 20 minutes. Ava stops screaming but almost at once she screaming again and she doesn't stop. There was no break, her screams just kept getting louder and louder.
Bellatrix walks back into the room with a knife in her hand. It's got blood on. I feel sick. I feel like I'm about to throw up at the thought of what Bellatrix is doing to my girlfriend. "She's passed out, my Lord."
"Did she give you Potter's location?"
"No, my Lord. She's still saying that she doesn't know where the boy is hiding."
"Maybe that's because she's telling the truth" I say without thinking. The Dark Lord looks at me and I quickly look at the table just in case he takes his angry out on Ava.
"Wormtail" the Dark Lord shouts and I sigh a little in relief. Wormtail walks over to him and bows. "Take the girl to the dungeons. I will find another way of making her talk."
"Yes, my Lord" he walks into the room but there was a sudden bright light and he gets thrown backwards and lands on the floor. "My Lord" he gasps. "The door was booby-trapped. My Lord, the girl isn't in the room."
"What? That's imposable!"
"I looked around, my Lord, the room was empty."
The Dark Lord stand up and walks into the room. "No!" he shouts. "Where did she go? How could she get out of this room?"
I'm so confused at the minute. There's no way out of that room, so where the hell did she go?
The Dark Lord walks back out and looks at us. "I order everyone to keep an eye out for her. If you find her, you will bring her back to me, alive. That's alive, Greyback!"
"Yes, my Lord. I won't kill her, my Lord" Greyback looks at Snape and smirks. "But think about what I could do to her though. Do you think she's been de-flowered yet? Because if not, then I'm more than happy to do it."
Snape stand up and grabs him around the neck. "If you touch my daughter in any way, then I will make sure that it's the last thing you ever do! Do you understand me?" he growled angrily.
"Relax, Snape. It was only a question."
"I said, do you understand me?" Snape growls, as he tightens his grip on Greyback's neck which makes him start struggling to breath. I don't think I've even seen Snape this angry before. He could kill Greyback if someone doesn't stop him.
"ANSWER ME, PET!"
"Y-yes" Greyback choked out. Snape lets go of his neck and Greyback starts coughing so he could get his breath back.
The Dark Lord doesn't say anything and sits there smirking. "The meeting is over. Everyone is dismissed" he says and the Death Eater start disappearing one by one.
The Dark Lord stand up and looks at me, Blaise, my mother and father and Snape. "If I find out that any of you have hidden the girl from me, then I will kill you all. Do I make myself clear?"
We all nod and he disappears on the spot. I wait a few second before getting up and rushing over to the room with the others following me.
"Ava" I whisper. "Ava, are you in here?"
"I'm here" she whisper back. I look around but I can't see her anywhere. "Has everyone gone?"
"Yes sweetheart" my mother says. "It's just us."
I hear her sigh in relief before she appear in front of Snape. I look at her and see that she's got bruises and little red marks on her arms, neck and face. It looks like Bellatrix was hitting her before she used the torture curse and her knife on her. She also got a bandage on her left arm.
Snape looks at her. "A Disillusionment Charm, you clever girl" Ava doesn't say anything and just hugs him tight and breaks down crying. Snape looks like he's about to cry himself.
"Ava?" I frown when I see her arms go limp down by her side. Snape looks down which makes me do the same and I see that she's passed out. Snape picks her up and holds her in his arm like she's a new born baby.
"Are you going to take her home?" my mother asks.
"I can't. Wormtail is there" Snape sighs, looking at Ava. "He will rat her out to the Dark Lord like the little vermin that he is."
"She can stay here" I say, making everyone look at me. "In our secret room, well, it's not really a secret room but he doesn't know about it so she will be safe until she's better."
"What do you say, Severus?" my father asks. "You have my word that we will keep her safe while she's here."
"Ok, but I want you to send me an owl the second she wakes up."
"We will, Severus" my mother says. "I will just go and make sure that the coast is clear" she walks out of the room and I just stare at Ava. Her cheeks are stained with tears. Her breathing is slow and relaxed. And her left arm looks paler from the rest of her body. I wonder what Bellatrix did to her arm?
"There's no one here" my mothers says, walking back into the room. We all leave the room and quickly rush upstairs and into the secret where Blaise closes the door behind us. Snape walks over to the bed and lies Ava down.
"Do you think we should look at her arm?" Blaise asks, making us all look at him. "What? We all know that Ava would never show us once she's awake."
"Yes" Snape agrees. "Yes, I think we should."
He takes off the bandage and we all gasp when we see that it's a Dark Mark. A bloody Dark Mark, and when I say bloody, I mean literally. Bellatrix has only gone and cut the Dark Mark into her arm. No wonder she was screaming so loud.
Snape pulls out his wand and tries every spell he could think of in order to get rid of it, but nothing worked. He growls angrily and waves his wand which makes a bandage wrap around her arm.
"Her knife must have been cursed" my mother says quietly, "which means there's nothing you can do to get rid of it. She will have that on her arm forever."
I clench my fists in anger. How dare Bellatrix put something as disgusting as that on Ava's arm. How dare she use a cursed knife on my girlfriend. She's going to pay for this. I'm going to make her pay.
"I have to go, but please send me an owl when she wakes up" Snape says, looking at my mother and father.
"We will, Severus" my father says. He nods and kisses Ava on the forehead, then disappears on the spot.
My mother looks at me and Blaise. "I'm staying" we both say before she could ask us. She nods.
"Ok, we will leave you to it, but let us know when she wakes up."
We nod and she leave the room with my father following her.
Ava has been passed out for about 3 hours and me and Blaise haven't said one word to each other. I'm lying next to her and Blaise is sat at the end on the bed. We have no idea what to say to each other. All I keep thinking about is Ava begging me to stop hurting her.
That memory is probably going to haunt my dreams for a good few months, so are her screams. I never want to hear her scream like that again. It was too painful to listen to.
"Draco" Blaise says, snapping me out of my thought. "Draco, Ava is waking up."
I look at Ava and see her slowly opening her eyes. She looks at me then looks around the room. "Where's my dad?" she asks. Her voice sounds like she's got a sore throat.
"He went home" I tell her. "It would have looked to suspicious to Wormtail if he stayed here."
"I want him. I want my dad."
"I will tell Narcissa and Lucius that you're awake and they will send an owl to your father" Blaise says, before walking out of the room.
I look at Ava only to find her staring at her left arm. "Do you know what's there?" she asks, still looking at her arm.
"Yes, we all do."
"It's going to be on my arm forever" she mumbles. "I'm never going to be able to wear short sleeves tops again, or going swimming, or …" she trails off when she starts crying. I hate seeing her cry, and it's because of my auntie. My fucked up auntie.
I don't know what to say to her so I just pull her into a hug where she hugs me tight. Just then Blaise and my mother and father walk back into the room.
My mother looks at Ava. "I've sent an owl to your father so he will be here when he can."
"So, care to explain how you did a Disillusionment Charm without a wand?" Blaise asks. "Because I'm pretty sure that they would have took yours off you, so how did you do that charm?"
"They took my bag off me because they saw that it had a wand in there, but little did they know that it was a fake one and I still had my wand on me."
"But how?" I ask, looking at her up and down. "You have nowhere to put it."
"My locket" she says, showing us the locket around her neck. "I've put an Undetectable Extension Charm on it. It's got everything I need in there, inducing my wand."
"And the door?" my father asks. "What did you do to that?"
"It's called a flash bomb. I got it from Fred and George's joke shop. I quickly throw it on the floor when Pettigrew walked in, then used a spell to make him fly backwards. Whilst he was talking to his lord, I quickly did the Disillusionment Charm."
I was about to say something but stop when Ava suddenly gasps.
"What's wrong?" I frown.
"I've just remembered something" she goes into her locket and pulls out a hand mirror. She looks at us. "Don't say anything."
We nod and she looks into the mirror. "Show me Harry Potter - Harry, are you there? Harry?"
She shakes the mirror and looks in it again. "Show me Ron Weasley - come on, pick up, Ron" she groans when nothing happened.
"Hermione better answer" she says, shaking the mirror. "Show me Hermione Granger - Hermione? Hermione, are you where? Come on, pick up - pick up - Hermione" she smiles.
"Ava, oh thank god you're ok" we hear Granger say from inside the mirror. That's pretty cool. "What happen to your cheek?"
"Nothing. Where's Ron and Harry."
"Ron is downstairs and Harry has locked himself in his room."
"How is he?"
"Not good. He ran off the second he felt your pain. Ava, what the hell was happening to you? Harry wouldn't stop screaming, it was rather scary actually. Me and Ron didn't know what to do."
Me and Blaise frown at each other. Why did Potter go through what Ava did? That doesn't make any sense. I'll ask her later.
Ava wipes away her tears. "I will explain everything when I see you, but I need you to get Ron and Harry for me, there's some stuff I need to tell you."
"Ok, I'll be back in a minute."
"How come Potter was going through what you were?" I whisper.
Ava looks at me. "We are connected through our scars, which means we can feel each others pain but not physically go through what the other one goes through. It explains why my shoulder kept on hurting throughout the years, and remember that time my hand was hurting for no reason, well, turns out that Harry was using punishing quills at the time and I could feel everything."
I was about to say something but get cut off by Potter talking from the mirror. "Ava" she looks in the mirror. "How are you feeling? And don't say you're fine because I know for a fact you're not" he says.
"If you know how I'm feeling then I don't need to tell you, do I?"
"I guess not" he mumbles. "Wait, where are you?"
"I'm not telling you that."
"Why not?"
"Because you will come and get me."
"Too bloody right I will. I promised to keep you safe and that's what I'm going to do."
"I'm still not telling you. You're not getting caught because of me."
"I don't care about that."
"Well I do!" Ava snaps. "Do you really think I want you getting yourself killed because of me? I'm fine where I am so don't come looking for me."
"Ok" Potter mutters.
"I mean it Harry! You come looking for me and I will kill you myself."
I snort a little which make my mother nudge me to be quiet.
"Ok, jeez! I won't come looking for you."
"Ok good. Now we have that cleared up, there's some things I need to tell you."
"What things?" Weasley asks.
"Well, first of all, you can't say his name."
"Who's name?" Potter asks.
"Ron's name" she says, rolling her eyes.
"Why can't you say my name?" Weasley asks.
"Oh my god" Ava mutters to herself. She looks into the mirror. "Hermione, can you do the honours since I'm not there."
"Yeah sure" she says, then we hear a smacking sound, which makes Ava laugh and me and Blaise smirk at each other.
"Ow! What the hell was that for?" Potter and Weasley asks.
"For being a pair of dicks. It was pretty obvious who I was talking about."
"Alright, fine" Potter says. "Why can't say his name?"
"His name is tabooed. If you say his name then Snatchers will appear to wherever you're staying. Any protection charms will be broken the second you say his name. It's how Dolohov and Rowle find you when you were in that cafe."
"What's a Snatcher?" Ganger asks.
"They are a bunch of people that are going around hunting down Muggle-Borns and taking them to the Ministry, but it will be different if they catch you, Harry, all of you actually. They won't take you to the Ministry, they will being you to Malfoy Manor because that's where he's staying at the minute."
"How do you know all of this?" Potter asks.
"Bellatrix told me."
So that's why the room was quiet for 20 minutes, because Bellatrix was telling Ava all of this. Pretty stupid of her if you ask me.
"What?" they all shout.
"Shit" Ava whispers.
"You're at Malfoy Manor?" Ganger asks.
"I'm coming to get you" Potter says.
"No you're not!" Ava hissed. "Didn't you hear what I said about him being here? He would kill you before you could walk through the front door. Stay where you are, Harry, and I promise I will see you soon."
Potter groans. "Ok, fine! We're at -"
"I know where you are" Ava cuts him off. "I recognise the wallpaper behind you. Is he there with you?"
He? Who the hell is he?
"Yeah" Weasley says. "He's asleep at the minute. Do you want me to wake him?"
"No, let him sleep and I will see you as soon as I can."
"Ok" Potter says. "Be carful and stay safe."
"And there will be a hot chocolate with your name on for when you arrive" Granger adds.
"Sounds lovely. Bye guys."
"Bye Ava" Potter, Weasley and Granger say together. Ava sighs and puts the mirror back in her locket.
"Who is he?" I ask a little harsher than I meant.
"Sirius Black, jealous arse" Ava smirks, which makes Blaise and my mother snort into their hand.
"I'm wasn't jealous" I huff. "I just wanted to know who he was, that's all."
"How come Bellatrix told you all of that information anyway?" Blaise asks.
"She was going on about how Harry can't help but say his name, and that it was only a matter of time before he said it. Then she started laughing saying that I've got no way of telling him before it's too late, but she didn't know that I've got a two way mirror."
"Why didn't you tell me about you and Potter?" I ask.
"I promised people that I wouldn't say anything."
"I'm not just anyone though, am I? You could have told me, you know. I wouldn't have said anything."
"I know you wouldn't, but you're too close to him and Dumbledore feared that he could look into your mind and find out about me and Harry, not that it really matters anymore."
"How did he even find out?" I ask.
"Bellatrix told him. Sirius accidentally called me Sophie when we were at the Ministry, so yet again, she's fucked everything up."
My mother and father glance at each other whilst I frown. "What do you mean?"
"She find out about my mom and dad and told him for no reason. She didn't need to rat them out, but she did because she's so wrapped up in Pure-Blood bullshit, that she just saw a Mud-Blood instead of a person. Instead of a mom."
Both my mother and Ava have tears in their eyes. We all jump when Snape suddenly appears in the room. Ava dives out of bed and groans in pain but she ignores it and rushes over to her father and hugs him.
"I forgive you, dad. I forgive you for everything. I could have died back there and I wouldn't have got the chance to tell you. I don't care that you're with him. I don't care that you're a Death Eater. I don't care about any of it. None of it matters anymore, but I am still angry and confused about that night in the tower and I don't understand why, but I love you, dad. I love you so much and just want you back."
Snape looks so relieved that Ava said all of that. He probably thought that Ava was never going to forgive him for what he'd done.
"I love you too, my Ava" he says, hugging her tighter. "And you will understand everything in the sweetheart."
"When we win this war, and believe me we will, you better come back to me alive because I need you. I need my dad, now more than ever."
"I promise I will come back to you, Ava."
"Ok, good" she whispers.
"I've bought you some potions, by the way" Snape says.
"I don't want them, I mean, I do, but I just want to stay like this for a little longer."
Me, Blaise, and my mother and father just stand there and let them have their little moment. Snape pulls away after a while and pulls out two small potion bottles.
"This potion is a pain relief, and this one is a sleeping draught" he says, handing them to her. Ava smiles and takes them off him.
Snape looks at his daughter. "You're going to go after Potter, aren't you?"
Ava nods.
"No! No way!" I say, making Ava look at me. "He's got all of his Death Eaters looking for you, A! It's too dangerous to go off on your own."
"I won't be on my own, I will be with Harry."
"Oh yeah, because Potter is really going to look after you, isn't he? He couldn't even protect you at the wedding."
"That's wasn't Harry fault!" Ava hissed. "He tried to save me but I told Hermione to take him because he would have got caught too, then we would all be in shit."
Snape sighs and puts his hands on Ava's shoulders. "Just promise me that you will be careful when you're off gallivanting with Potter."
Ava snorted when Snape said gallivanting. "I promise I will be careful when I'm off gallivanting with Harry."
He kisses the top of her and whispers something in her ear, which makes her smile, then he disappears into thin air. I was about to ask her what her father said to her, but I stop myself at the last minute since I didn't really need to know.
I look at my mother, father and Blaise with a look that they understood immediately.
"Right then" my mother says, "we will leave you to it, but call Acer if you need anything, don't come downstairs just in case someone turns up."
"We will" I say. They nod and leave the room.
"Ava" I whisper the second the door closed. She looks at me. "I'm so sorry that I t-tortured you."
"It's fine. I know you didn't have a choice."
"No! No, it's really not fine! You were in pain because of me."
"But I wasn't in pain for long."
"The second time you were. You begged me to stop. I would have stopped sooner but he held my hand in place."
Ava looks at me. "I didn't mean to say that. It just kind of slipped out."
"Bullshit, Ava. Something like that wouldn't just slip out
"It did, I swear."
I shake my head. "I don't believe you, A. You wanted me to stop because I was hurting you" I look at her. "What does it feel like? Being under that curse?"
"You sure you want to know?"
"Yes, I want to know what I put you through."
"You didn't put me through anything."
"I tortured you!" I shout at her, which makes her move back a little. I put my hands on her cheeks. "I tortured you, Ava. Me! Your boyfriend! I should never have hurt you like that. I should have let him hurt me instead. I don't even know what I was thinking."
"I told you to do it" she mumbles.
"But I shouldn't have listened to you. I shouldn't have hurt you like I did. I should have just stayed at the table. I should have -"
Ava shuts me up with a kiss, it's a good job too, or I would have just kept on rambling. I go to take her dress off but she stops me. "Wait - not tonight. Everywhere still hurts, so I just want to relax for tonight."
"Yeah" I clear my throat. "Yeah, sorry, I should have realised. I'll just get you something to wear."
She nods and I walk over to my wardrobe and pulls out a pair of jegging bottoms and a t-shirt. I turn around and see Ava drinking the pain relief potion, then she drinks the sleeping draught. I hand her the clothes and she quickly gets changed then lies down on the bed. I walk over to her and lie down next to her.
She smiles at me and holds my hand which makes me smile, then we just lied there in comfortable silence.