Chapter 4
Cruciatus Curse
Saturday July 11th
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Jeff
had always had a problem sleeping so when he couldn't stay asleep through
the night he wasn't surprised. But that didn't keep him from being
upset when the phone rang the next morning at a quarter to 10. He wasn't
however surprised at who was going to be on the other end of the line.
"Hi
Dad," he said half sleepily, half angry. He was always somewhat angry talking to his Dad but the
early hour on a weekend didn't help.
"Hey,
how did you know it was me?" How his dad was confused at this was beyond
him. This was not the first time he did this.
"Everyone
knows I sleep late, you're the only one inconsiderate enough to still
call." Jeff had stopped trying to be polite to him along time ago. No
sense being the only polite one he thought.
"This
is why we always fight. Cause you always have to be so nasty."
"Well
if you waited till the afternoon to call, then I wouldn't be
upset." This was going to go nowhere, it had to be the 50th time they had this same conversation he thought to himself.
"I'm
your father, I have a right to call you when ever I want." His Dad
thought this was the correct response to any discussion they ever had that
became a fight.
I
can't do this now he though "So what did you want?"
"Never
mind I'll you again when your not in such a nasty mood." And with
that he hung up.
He
was in part thrilled to be off the phone but was still upset he didn't
get in the last word.
****
Jeff
sat in bed watching a movie he had seen a million times before. He
couldn't get to sleep again after that call and anyway he was going to be
getting up in about an hour anyway, Trevor would be over around 1 and he wanted
to be ready to go by then. He had
no clue what they were going to do. There was something about Trevor that had him curious but couldn't
put his finger on it.
Oh
here it is he though, his favorite line and he turned the volume up.
",,,I've come to the conclusion that my
guts have shit for brains."
So fitting to his life, he convinced himself, and
decided it was time to get up and going.
****
Trevor got there a little after one looking like he
had be up for hours and carrying a large brown leather bag which looked like it
had been through a war or two. He
was bouncing with energy and even a new suggestion.
"Before I left London I found out where the wizard
haunts in New York are. There is even a place here on the Long Island. How far
away is Montauk?"
Jeff groaned and was not pleased with this. "
Oh about 2 hours away but on a Saturday in the summer, it should only be 3 or 4
hours, if were lucky." He laughed cynically. They were anything if lucky
so far.
"Then I guess we better get going, it will be
harder to find in the dark."
"Ugh, all right" Jeff wasn't
looking forward to another long drive. Trevor looked thrilled though as he
picked up his bag and headed out door to Jeff's car.
When they got outside Jeff was lagging behind, when
Trevor was sitting outside the car waiting for him.
"Don't mind the mess, I didn't get
to clean it out yesterday and it can get rather nasty after a long road trip, especially
when I'm alone, but on the bright side I still have my entire CD
collection in the car."
"Great! Do you have the new Chemical Brothers
CD?" Trevor asked very excited.
Jeff's eyes rolled "This is gonna be a
long trip"
Trevor looked confused for a second and got in the
car.
It was awhile before Jeff attempted any
conversation, but eventually he got uncomfortable with just the CD
playing. "So did you ever
actually encounter any nasty Death Eaters?"
Trevor did seem to like this question much as he
squirmed and cleared his throat before answering. "Yes, It wasn't a
very pleasant experience."
Even though he could see Trevor wasn't into
discussing this he insisted having this nasty feeling he might end up facing
one. "So what
happened?"
He squirmed some more before answering. "I had
gone somewhere I shouldn't have, and ran into a rather smug one,
afterwards I came to learn it was Lucius Malfoy, I believe he was in that book
you have or at least his son, Draco, is"
Jeff did remember reading about Draco in the section
on Harry's first year at Hogwarts and when he had to go the Forbidden
Forrest.
"Yes well, he didn't take to well to
seeing me and used the Cruciatus Curse on me it." He went pale for a bit.
"What..What
was it like?"
"It was the worst feeling I had ever felt in my life,
If I spent the rest of my life describing it to you, I wouldn't do it
justice, like that work can be used on it. Every part of my body hurt intensly.
Fortunately he didn't do it for to long as we were in a semi public place
and he didn't want to be seen doing this. He was still trying to play
both sides at this point."
Trevor went silent for a few minutes while Jeff
tried to comprehend that kind of pain. He had been hurt badly before but that
was emotionally. He hadn't been physically hurt very bad ever in his
life. Finally Trevor said
something again
"I swore at that point I would make sure I
never let that happen to me again, whatever it takes."
That last part unnerved him, but he soon saw
something to distract as they approached the highway. A sign up ahead,
Southern State Parkway
CLOSED
July 11th-12th
For Construction
"Figures.
Now it will definitely be at least a 3 hour trip probably more." Jeff
already wasn't having a good day and things seemed to be getting worse.
He turned the car around and headed for Sunrise Highway, the only other way to
get out to Montauk. Thing was, it wasn't a real high it as just a main
street, with plenty of traffic lights, that ran through all of Long Island
right to the very end of the island in Montauk.
***
It
was about an hour before either of them spoke up when Trevor said "I have
to warn you, the reason I suggested Montauk as opposed to the other places I
was told about was its high concentration of suspected Dark Arts supports. Not
necessarily supports of the Dark Lord, but they still have been suspected to
collect Dark arts artifacts and to have perform the Unforgivable Curses."
After Trevor's description of the Cruciatus
Curse Jeff didn't like the sound of that.
"But that's not all, supposedly they
have brought a sphinx out there to guard the entrance to there little
community. But I'm pretty good with riddles so it shouldn't be to
much trouble." Trevor was rather confident on this point
Jeff interrupted, "Sorry to doubt you but what
if your wrong?"
"Well let me see something," Trevor
grabbed his bag from the back dug through it for a while before finding what he
was looking for. "Ah, here
it is, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' by Newt Scamander, but it has something that can
help us."
"Yea, I heard of that, there were references
to in the book." Jeff was happy. He wasn't completely clueless.
There was nothing in there that helped them but
still Trevor was confidant, "No problem!"
Jeff was already getting tired of driving but now he
was getting nervous at what might happen if Trevor was a little to confident.
"So
did you actually get any kind of training when you started doing this?"
"Well
there really is not much they can train me to do, all they could do was tell me
about different creatures I might come across, But there is no magic in
me"
He sad that part rather sadly. Jeff couldn't
blame him, since he had read the book he had wished to no end that he was a
wizard and had just been missed by whatever American wizard school there was.
"Though they did give me a owl that I can use
to write to them if need be, but I didn't bring him with me, I left with
my boss back home. I wasn't sure if he could handle a cross Atlantic
flight."
Jeff
had hoped he would have a little bit more then that. The more Trevor talked,
the less confident he was about what they were doing. With no magical power
they were going to hunt down a death eater. This didn't sound like to
good a plan to him.
Ah
its alright, he told himself, it will only be another 2 hours or so and well be
there. And he was right, well
almost, in three hours they were there.