(A/N: That 'some chick named Vanessa' comes into play right...about...now...)

JKR owns the people and places, I own Karista, Julia, Amaia, Vanessa and the dream...

Chapter 15:Vanessa

Slowly Vanessa opened her eyes. The small amount of light from the stars was enough to make her squint up at the sky.

"It's so cold," she whispered hoarsely. Her voice sounded as if it hadn't been used in a long time. The breeze around her picked up and sent chills down her spine. She tried to sit up, yet she was full of pain. Her left leg was definetly broken as it was no longer straight and she also seemed to have a rather nasty black eye. "Where am I?"

When she did finally manage to sit up, she noticed that her arms were cut and bruised, as well as her robes torn.

"How did I get here?"

She turned her head slightly to the right yet was forced to stop from the dizziness that overcame her. When the world stopped spinning, she noticed she was definetly outside and most noticeably in a park of some sort. She searched the ground for her wand, already dreading that it wasn't there. Sure enough, she gave up.

"Of course whoever did this to me would take my wand," she mumbled, attempting to get up and feeling a shooting pain course through her back. She moaned in pain yet kept attempting to stand until she was finally wobbling on two feet. Off in the distance, she could see a street light and a bench. "Not too far away I hope."

She hobbled along until reaching the bench and sitting down with a rather loud thud. Her ears were now sonar, picking up the littlest sounds. On the ground near her foot was a rolled up newspaper which looked fairly new. She reached down to pick it up, ignoring the pain and grasping it in her bloody hand.

"November 5th, 2001? That can't be right!" she yelled, dropping the paper onto the bench beside her. "How can that…oh. Now it all makes sense."

She laid on the ground, near unconciousness. The five death eaters that had brought her there stood in a semi-circle around her, waiting for something or someone to enter. Finally, the door to her upper right opened and in stepped the person she wanted to kill most.

"Ah, death eaters. Excellent job," Voldemort cackled, lowering himself to the floor and gazing intently into her eyes. In the distance, she could make out Severus. She knew he couldn't help her, it would only blow his cover and make the Order worse off. "Now…Ms. Redgrove, I believe you have much information for us."

"I would never tell you anything, Voldemort," she seethed, not being able to stop a cough that finished at the end of her sentence.

"Oh, but you will. You will tell us what the Order plans for us now. You will tell, mark my words."

"NEVER. You hear me? NEVER," she spat, causing Voldemort to draw back in anger.

"Well, then you shall suffer," Voldemort cursed as he lifted his wand. "CRUCIO!"

All at once the world spun around her as she seized up. They had performed the curse on her too many times for it to take any effect on her. The pain gradually began to subside and Voldemort's face, full of humor, spun back into focus.

"Will you cooperate with me, Vanessa?" he asked her.

"Never," she whimpered. Out of the corner of her eye, she watched as Severus began to shake. He's holding back his tears, she thought, pushing back her own. I'm sorry Severus, she thought to herself as Voldemort pointed his wand at her.

"Say your last words," Voldemort muttered angrily at her.

"I love you, my heart," she whispered loud enough for Severus to hear. With one last look into the cold, snake-like face, the world evaporated around her.

She held her head in her hands for what seemed like an eternity. She knew that she had to get to Hogwarts, yet she couldn't move a muscle.

"I thought I would meet you again, Vanessa," came a cold voice from behind her. She immedeatly recognized it as Lucius Malfoy.

"Oh goody, a death eater who is too scared to fight," Vanessa answered back idly. She turned to face the masked culprit. "Go on, try it."

Lucius moved forward into the street light. "Don't mind if I do. Stupefy!"

Vanessa slumped over the bench, her eyes wide with shock.