Second to Go- *Nine*
A/n OKay, i might to 12 instead of 10. it wont fit in 10.
Sirius and Remus were awoken by a very worried Dumbledore, after they'd groggily come round to the land of the living, he explained what was going on.
"Listen, this is very important." Dumbledore silenced the two marauders. "I sent Fawkes after Edea, just to keep watch over her, and Fawkes returned just now, i have reason to believe Edea is in a great deal of trouble with Voldemort himself."
"I knew it." Sirius loked pale.
"Fawkes will lead to you to the cave where she disappeared, i suggest you take Buckbeat. Don't try to kill them, just get her out of there." Dumbledore warned Remus and Sirius as they pulled on their cloaks. "Do i have your word you wont try anything?"
"You have," Sirius and Remus nodded, heading out of the door.
***
"Well, i didn't think you'd be here alone." Voldemort sat down in his chair after getting rid of the dementors, watching Edea be chained to the cave wall by a gleeful Malfoy. "A little presumptuous, don't you think?.. Oh no i forgot, you dont think, you just run staight on and do the deed don't you."
"I'm not even going to grace that comment..."
"SILENCE!" Voldemort shouted, "You know, you remind me very much of that idiot partner of yours, Sirius Black. Full of himself, and look where that got him."
"Sirius is none of your business."
"I wonder if they've even noticed you're missing yet." Voldemort smiled, "Probably not, always wrapped up in his own things wasn't he..."
"Actually..." Edea stopped as she saw a stout figure come in through the cave mouth and bow down to Voldemort.
"You remember Miss DuCruet, don't you Wormtail?" Voldemort talked to the figure.
"Y... yes master." Peter squeaked.
"Oh, you." Edea said resignedly. "The biggest mistake your parents made was you."
"That wasn't very nice." Malfoy sneered, "I suggest you choose your words wisely, DuCruet."
"Oh" Edea pulled forward as much as possible, "Cuz you're just so scary, aren't you."
"You are unafraid?" Voldemort smiled oddly.
"Thats for me to know." Edea said simply. "I know something you don't know."
"Really?" Volemort stood up ripping her sleeve off, "Does it have somehing to do with..."
He looked at her wrist, there was nothing there. "Where's the curse?"
"What a good ques....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh." Voldemort had placed the Cruciatus curse on her before she could finish.
***
Harry woke up suddenly. His scar was burning with pain. He had been dreaming, it was all blurry and he couldnt quite remember, but he was sure Lucius Malfoy was present. Grabbing his cloak, he made his way up to Dumbledore's office.
***
Sirius scanned the face of the cliff, Fawkes had disappeared in through a hole, and he was looking for a way up the rock without attracting the attention that he would if he and Remus were on Buckbeat.
"Maybe as the dog.." Remus whispered to Sirius. He didn't finish his sentence as a scream was heard.
"Eddie." Sirius muttered, grasping at the rocks as he transformed into the black dog. He carefully trod a path close to the cliff-face, that slowly, Remus followed.
***
By the seventh unforgivable, Edea was slumped against the floor, one more and she would have had it. She was already drifting in and out of consciousness, she didn't see the phoenix flying in, neither did she see Sirius launch at Voldemort's back, ripping away his wand whilst Remus aimed a few hexes at the two death eaters. Voldemort threw Sirius off, enraged, he ran at the crouched form of Wormtail and stole his wand.
"Accio wand." Sirius shouted, grabbing Wormtail's wand as Voldemort aimed it at Remus.
***
"Yes, Harry?" Dumbledore ushered the boy into his office.
"My scar.." Harry started, "It was throbbing, and woke me up just minutes ago..."
"Yes, that fits rather well." Dumbledore muttered.
"I loked for Sirius and Lupin, but they weren't there..."
"Lupin and Black are on a quick retrieval mission for me, it seems one of ours has gotten into a slight mess." Dumbledore frowned, "They should come back soon."
"Professor DuCruet..." Harry mumbled, "What happened?"
"I'm not sure." Dumbledore said quietly, "I hope she's in a state to tell us when they return.
***
Voldemort turned to face Sirius, who looked slightly less confident now. Remus somehow picked up the Dark Lord's large chair and flung it round, hitting Voldemort unconscious. Sirius ran at Edea, charming the chains to unlock, letting Remus hold off Malfoy and Peter, he lifted Edea over his shoulder and whistled to Buckbeat who hovered just at the cave's mouth, Sirius jumped, landing on the creature's back.
Remus walked backwards, still shouting curses, and ducking from return hexes. He climbed on behind Sirius and Buckbeat flew off, towards Hogwarts.
"We could have caught Peter." Sirius muttered as the flew across the Thames.
"I doubt it." Remus answered after a while. "Much to difficult, and we had an agreement to honour."
"True." Sirius agreed
"She okay?" Remus asked concerned.
"No idea. Breathing, yes but not much else." Sirius awkwardly pulled his coak off, covering Edea.
"We should stop somewhere, or our dear friend's wings might give way."
"Next deserted field," Sirius promised.
***
Harry walked back to his dorm. His head spinning with information and worry. What if Sirius and Remus didn't come back? what if they were injured or worse.... He couldn't sleep, and just sat by the window looking out to the forbidden forest.
***
"Okay, you tie up Buckbeat and I'll take Eddie." Sirius climbed off the hippogriff who was looking a little worse for wear. "We're not far from Hogwarts now, I know for a fact that Hogsmeade is about 25miles due northeast from here."
"How can you tell."
"Look at the stars, in this season orion always points to Hogwarts."
"Very clever." Remus nodded, "How did you find that out?"
"You get bored in Azkaban, believe me." Sirius sighed, sitting back against a tree. "You think we should try to get her awake?"
"If you think it'd help." Remus said concerned. "Her wand's sticking out of her boot, look."
"Oh." Sirius pulled out her wand. "Look at that, still perfect all this time after she bought it."
"Well, she was pretty possessive of those things." Remus smiled weakly pulling his cloak around him. "What do muggles do to wake people?"
"Slap them, apparently." Sirius said dubiously. "I wonder if.."
"uh no.. Sirius let me." Remus pointed his wand at Edea, "Risvegliarsi." he muttered.
Edea spluttered, then let out a moan "My.. head.. hurts..."
"Remus," Sirius shot a look of gratitude to his friend, "Have i ever told you how much i love you?"
"Countless times." Remus smiled yawning.
"S'okay Eddie." Sirius muttered, "I told you not to go."
"Bugger off." She answered. "I... got told.. to go."
"Who told you?"
"Bagman." Edea yawned. "Contagious." she whispered, as she fell aslep.
"Bagman's contagious?" Sirius asked confused
"No she was saying my yawning's contagious." Remus held back a laugh at Sirius's face. "Sleep. She'll be there in the morning you know."
"Not with my luck." Sirius moaned.
***
As morning dawned upon Hogwarts, a sleepy Ron found Harry, bleary eyed staring out at the forest.
"You okay?"
"They've gone to help." Harry muttered.
"Who have?"
"Lupin and Sirius." Harry had to smother a yawn. "They're supposed to be back now."
"I'm sure they'll be back soon." Ron looked at Harry. "You should eat something, mum always said it made you feel better."
"yeah." harry pulled on some socks, "I'll catch you down there."
"'Kay." Ron took a last concerned look at his friend before heading down.
At the table, Harry was unusually quiet, even the twins noticed. After the bell rang, he silently disappaered off to his first lesson. Hermione followed him, determined to cheer him up.
***
Remus woke up to the sound of birds singing and a smell of cooking sausages. "Sirius?" he asked
"Oh yeah." Sirius munched on his sausage, "I forgot to wake you, here." He handed Remus a sausage on a stick. "I can cook, and who knew?"
"Uh, i always knew you had it in you somewhere." Remus attempted a smile. "how's the Dayah?"
"Sleeping." Sirius pointed out the obvious as always.
"You want me to wake her again?" Remus offered.
"No." Sirius shook his head. "Let Dumbledore decide, anyway, we should be going."
They bowed to Buckbeat, and climbed back on.
TBC... argh.. shall i let her die... hehehheheheeheee that would be fun!
A/n OKay, i might to 12 instead of 10. it wont fit in 10.
Sirius and Remus were awoken by a very worried Dumbledore, after they'd groggily come round to the land of the living, he explained what was going on.
"Listen, this is very important." Dumbledore silenced the two marauders. "I sent Fawkes after Edea, just to keep watch over her, and Fawkes returned just now, i have reason to believe Edea is in a great deal of trouble with Voldemort himself."
"I knew it." Sirius loked pale.
"Fawkes will lead to you to the cave where she disappeared, i suggest you take Buckbeat. Don't try to kill them, just get her out of there." Dumbledore warned Remus and Sirius as they pulled on their cloaks. "Do i have your word you wont try anything?"
"You have," Sirius and Remus nodded, heading out of the door.
***
"Well, i didn't think you'd be here alone." Voldemort sat down in his chair after getting rid of the dementors, watching Edea be chained to the cave wall by a gleeful Malfoy. "A little presumptuous, don't you think?.. Oh no i forgot, you dont think, you just run staight on and do the deed don't you."
"I'm not even going to grace that comment..."
"SILENCE!" Voldemort shouted, "You know, you remind me very much of that idiot partner of yours, Sirius Black. Full of himself, and look where that got him."
"Sirius is none of your business."
"I wonder if they've even noticed you're missing yet." Voldemort smiled, "Probably not, always wrapped up in his own things wasn't he..."
"Actually..." Edea stopped as she saw a stout figure come in through the cave mouth and bow down to Voldemort.
"You remember Miss DuCruet, don't you Wormtail?" Voldemort talked to the figure.
"Y... yes master." Peter squeaked.
"Oh, you." Edea said resignedly. "The biggest mistake your parents made was you."
"That wasn't very nice." Malfoy sneered, "I suggest you choose your words wisely, DuCruet."
"Oh" Edea pulled forward as much as possible, "Cuz you're just so scary, aren't you."
"You are unafraid?" Voldemort smiled oddly.
"Thats for me to know." Edea said simply. "I know something you don't know."
"Really?" Volemort stood up ripping her sleeve off, "Does it have somehing to do with..."
He looked at her wrist, there was nothing there. "Where's the curse?"
"What a good ques....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh." Voldemort had placed the Cruciatus curse on her before she could finish.
***
Harry woke up suddenly. His scar was burning with pain. He had been dreaming, it was all blurry and he couldnt quite remember, but he was sure Lucius Malfoy was present. Grabbing his cloak, he made his way up to Dumbledore's office.
***
Sirius scanned the face of the cliff, Fawkes had disappeared in through a hole, and he was looking for a way up the rock without attracting the attention that he would if he and Remus were on Buckbeat.
"Maybe as the dog.." Remus whispered to Sirius. He didn't finish his sentence as a scream was heard.
"Eddie." Sirius muttered, grasping at the rocks as he transformed into the black dog. He carefully trod a path close to the cliff-face, that slowly, Remus followed.
***
By the seventh unforgivable, Edea was slumped against the floor, one more and she would have had it. She was already drifting in and out of consciousness, she didn't see the phoenix flying in, neither did she see Sirius launch at Voldemort's back, ripping away his wand whilst Remus aimed a few hexes at the two death eaters. Voldemort threw Sirius off, enraged, he ran at the crouched form of Wormtail and stole his wand.
"Accio wand." Sirius shouted, grabbing Wormtail's wand as Voldemort aimed it at Remus.
***
"Yes, Harry?" Dumbledore ushered the boy into his office.
"My scar.." Harry started, "It was throbbing, and woke me up just minutes ago..."
"Yes, that fits rather well." Dumbledore muttered.
"I loked for Sirius and Lupin, but they weren't there..."
"Lupin and Black are on a quick retrieval mission for me, it seems one of ours has gotten into a slight mess." Dumbledore frowned, "They should come back soon."
"Professor DuCruet..." Harry mumbled, "What happened?"
"I'm not sure." Dumbledore said quietly, "I hope she's in a state to tell us when they return.
***
Voldemort turned to face Sirius, who looked slightly less confident now. Remus somehow picked up the Dark Lord's large chair and flung it round, hitting Voldemort unconscious. Sirius ran at Edea, charming the chains to unlock, letting Remus hold off Malfoy and Peter, he lifted Edea over his shoulder and whistled to Buckbeat who hovered just at the cave's mouth, Sirius jumped, landing on the creature's back.
Remus walked backwards, still shouting curses, and ducking from return hexes. He climbed on behind Sirius and Buckbeat flew off, towards Hogwarts.
"We could have caught Peter." Sirius muttered as the flew across the Thames.
"I doubt it." Remus answered after a while. "Much to difficult, and we had an agreement to honour."
"True." Sirius agreed
"She okay?" Remus asked concerned.
"No idea. Breathing, yes but not much else." Sirius awkwardly pulled his coak off, covering Edea.
"We should stop somewhere, or our dear friend's wings might give way."
"Next deserted field," Sirius promised.
***
Harry walked back to his dorm. His head spinning with information and worry. What if Sirius and Remus didn't come back? what if they were injured or worse.... He couldn't sleep, and just sat by the window looking out to the forbidden forest.
***
"Okay, you tie up Buckbeat and I'll take Eddie." Sirius climbed off the hippogriff who was looking a little worse for wear. "We're not far from Hogwarts now, I know for a fact that Hogsmeade is about 25miles due northeast from here."
"How can you tell."
"Look at the stars, in this season orion always points to Hogwarts."
"Very clever." Remus nodded, "How did you find that out?"
"You get bored in Azkaban, believe me." Sirius sighed, sitting back against a tree. "You think we should try to get her awake?"
"If you think it'd help." Remus said concerned. "Her wand's sticking out of her boot, look."
"Oh." Sirius pulled out her wand. "Look at that, still perfect all this time after she bought it."
"Well, she was pretty possessive of those things." Remus smiled weakly pulling his cloak around him. "What do muggles do to wake people?"
"Slap them, apparently." Sirius said dubiously. "I wonder if.."
"uh no.. Sirius let me." Remus pointed his wand at Edea, "Risvegliarsi." he muttered.
Edea spluttered, then let out a moan "My.. head.. hurts..."
"Remus," Sirius shot a look of gratitude to his friend, "Have i ever told you how much i love you?"
"Countless times." Remus smiled yawning.
"S'okay Eddie." Sirius muttered, "I told you not to go."
"Bugger off." She answered. "I... got told.. to go."
"Who told you?"
"Bagman." Edea yawned. "Contagious." she whispered, as she fell aslep.
"Bagman's contagious?" Sirius asked confused
"No she was saying my yawning's contagious." Remus held back a laugh at Sirius's face. "Sleep. She'll be there in the morning you know."
"Not with my luck." Sirius moaned.
***
As morning dawned upon Hogwarts, a sleepy Ron found Harry, bleary eyed staring out at the forest.
"You okay?"
"They've gone to help." Harry muttered.
"Who have?"
"Lupin and Sirius." Harry had to smother a yawn. "They're supposed to be back now."
"I'm sure they'll be back soon." Ron looked at Harry. "You should eat something, mum always said it made you feel better."
"yeah." harry pulled on some socks, "I'll catch you down there."
"'Kay." Ron took a last concerned look at his friend before heading down.
At the table, Harry was unusually quiet, even the twins noticed. After the bell rang, he silently disappaered off to his first lesson. Hermione followed him, determined to cheer him up.
***
Remus woke up to the sound of birds singing and a smell of cooking sausages. "Sirius?" he asked
"Oh yeah." Sirius munched on his sausage, "I forgot to wake you, here." He handed Remus a sausage on a stick. "I can cook, and who knew?"
"Uh, i always knew you had it in you somewhere." Remus attempted a smile. "how's the Dayah?"
"Sleeping." Sirius pointed out the obvious as always.
"You want me to wake her again?" Remus offered.
"No." Sirius shook his head. "Let Dumbledore decide, anyway, we should be going."
They bowed to Buckbeat, and climbed back on.
TBC... argh.. shall i let her die... hehehheheheeheee that would be fun!