A summary of Ch. 18
Rosalyn was seemingly 'hypnotized' by Voldemort's 'rape'. Alexander walked in at the moment Rosalyn started willingly letting Voldemort have his way with her. He was crushed and threw a necklace down in the place where they were. It had the supposedly destroyed ring from the night she turned the first time. He went out towards the exit of the building and then shouted a spell which left him on the ground clutching a bleeding stomach. As the chapter ended he passed out as a door clicked open and someone screamed.
Chapter 19When Voldemort left two minutes after Alexander came in, Rosalyn noticed something lying on the ground. She walks over to it and picks it up realizing that it is the ring Alexander had to give to her on the night when she attacked that restaurant. She drops it and falls to her knees. She starts to cry as realization of what she's done finally enters her mind. She picks up her robe and puts it on. Her eyes are now devoid of the pleasure they had once shown now filled with anger, sadness, fear, and betrayal. She breaks the curses put on her as she steels her resolve and hurries out of the door. It clicks open and she screams at the sight that greets her.
Alexander lays there limp and bleeding. He hears the scream of Rosalyn but he passes out. He is getting paler by the minute as blood leaks from the poorly plugged wound in his stomach. His eyes flutter open and he sees Rosalyn trying desperately to cover the wound and stop the blood.
"Why do I have to be so weak willed? If I was more like him this would never have happened. WHY?!?!" Rosalyn yells sobbing as she lays herself over the wound to try to stop the blood.
Alexander smiles to himself and moves his hands around her. "So the transfer did work in that way as well." He says weakly also muttering an incantation at his stomach which stops the blood and bandages the wound.
Rosalyn sits up startled and sees him smiling his eyes open though sort of glazed over. She lays down and sobs on his chest.
"Why didn't you do that the first time this happened?" she asks through the sobs.
"Because, love, I didn't want to live if I lost you twice." He says getting a bit paler from all the blood loss catching up to him. "I need… get… S...int… Mu…'s...s…oon."
His eyes sort of unfocus and cross. He wraps his arms around Rosalyn and kisses her on the cheek. His arms go limp as she lifts him up. She runs with him out of the door of the place and Disapperates to Black Manor. She runs in and looks for anyone who might be there and then realizes it's September the first.
She apparatus to the edge of the Hogwarts grounds and runs up to the castle with Alexander. She bursts the doors and into the Great Hall. The students look at the man in her arms and the blood all over her robes and hands in shock.
"Help! HELP!!! He's tried to kill himself and now he's gone into shock!!" screams Rosalyn.
Dumbledore stands up at the high table and hurries down to them. Rosalyn has slunk down to her knees still holding him. Dumbledore checks him over.
"He needs to get to St. Mungo's immediately. I'll go and floo message them. Come with me." Says Dumbledore as he hurries to his office Rosalyn right behind him.
They reach it and Dumbledore says a password and they hurry up the spiraling staircase. He takes a pinch of a golden powder and throws it into the fireplace saying 'St. Mungo's Critical Injuries Ward.' A head appears in the fire.
"What may I do for you?" she says before she sees Alexander and then she says "Oh my. Pass him through right now."
"Can I come through with him?" Rosalyn asks.
"Sure you can." Says the lady. "You appear to have tried valiantly to plug his wound." Rosalyn nods and steps through as the head disappears from the fire.
"I hope he lives." Says Dumbledore.
In the Great Hall there is a lot of talk about the scene they just saw. The students are abuzz with talk about the lady and the man they just saw. The professors are just sitting there staring except for Andre, Falcore, Sirius, and Remus. (A/N: Sirius and Remus are just visiting for a while.) They are staring at each other mouths hanging open. Drake gets up from his place at the Gryffindor table and runs up to them.
"What the heck was that?" says Drake.
"I think it was a nearly dead Alexander and a broken inside Rosalyn." Says Falcore.
"I wonder if what she said is true though. I wonder if Alexander really did try to kill himself." Says Andre.
"Why was that blood all over Rosalyn?" says Remus.
"Maybe she did it. I mean Voldemort did take her to totally convert her back to the dark arts again." Says Sirius.
"No. The Alma Transfer would have re-strengthened her will even if it took a while. I guess he saw something that tore him up and did something that tore her up and turned her back to the Rosalyn he knew for a few years before the fateful night at the restaurant. Maybe he left his necklace with the crushed diamond ring on it." Says Falcore.
"Yes that is very possible. I didn't notice it on his neck." Says Drake.
At the Gryffindor table the conversation is taking a slightly more one sided turn. "I think that lady tried to kill him. Did you see all that blood on her?" says Seamus.
"Yeah. And didn't she look like a sort of lady You-Know-Who?" says Neville.
"Yeah. I bet you she did do it. 2 Knuts. You want to make a bet Harry?" says Dean.
"No. She didn't do it. She loves the man who was in her arms to much to have done it." Says Harry. "But I think Neville is right about the lady Voldemort appearance. I wonder what he did to her. Her nose seemed like his and her pupils seemed a little snakelike too. Oh no… I wonder if he was trying to make her his…"
"How do you know them?" asks Dean.
"Um. They helped to save Ron's family, and they have been staying with Sirius and I in Black Manor." Says Harry. "Ron, Hermione, let's go to the staff table and join Sirius and Remus."
Ron and Hermione nod and the trio gets up and goes up to the high table. They go to the group and they tell them all about the conversation.
"Hmm. I didn't notice that change. Are you sure?" says Falcore.
"Yes I'm sure. Six people saw the same thing." Says Harry.
"Seven. I noticed it too." Says Drake.
"Oh my." Says Remus. "This isn't good. You do realize what this means don't you?" They all shake their heads no. "It means he's trying to make her his… his…"
"My queen has escaped. Bring her back, immediately. I hadn't finished her transformation. She must be changed totally before she can be fully turned back to our side." Says the cold, cruel voice of Voldemort.
"Yes my lord. Immediately master." The 6 Death Eaters present say together.
"Excellent." Says Voldemort. "GO NOW!!"
"Oh my… What can we do to stop it?" says Falcore after Remus explains.
"I don't know. I heard of one thing you could try once… but I'm not sure if Alexander has enough left to try it after the Alma Transfer and now this. But if she is changed with what the Alma Transfer transferred still inside her it could change him too. He would be horrible as the next Voldemort. He is way too powerful..." says Remus getting cut off.
"STOP THINKING LIKE THIS!!" Falcore says yelling for the last part and the whole Great Hall goes quite. "See I demand a sort of respect at times."
"Yea, when you're mad you do." Says Drake.
The conversation takes a lighter turn from there. Harry is still thinking about the way she looked.
"What's wrong with my face?" says Rosalyn as she looks in a mirror in the hospital room where Alexander is laying in the Intensive Care Unit.
"Well, you look a little bit like Voldemort, dear." The mirror says.
Rosalyn's eyes widen in shock as she finally realizes it. "OH no…" she mumbles to herself. "That's what he was doing." She starts silently crying. "I don't want to be his queen."
She turns and sees Alexander laying there having struggled to stay alive and it breaks her down inside even more. She makes a silent vow to herself to strengthen her will and make his sacrifice worth it. [He won't get me.] she thinks to herself. [Alexander didn't sacrifice 4 years of his life looking for me and 2 years going through hell thinking I was dead to have me run and turn to Voldemort a month later.]
Rosalyn looks at his open unfocused eyes and suddenly notices something… "His eyes are snakelike too." She says. "OH no. If I turn so will he. Maybe he felt that deep inside of him and that's why he tried to kill himself. On top of me leaving him again, seemingly, he felt himself turning and he didn't want to become what had taken me away. Why didn't I feel it though?"
"Because you had to many other feelings going on to feel that one. It was dulled." Says Alexander.
Rosalyn looks down into his smiling face and hugs him. "Ow! I'm still a little sore. Be careful." Says Alexander.
Rosalyn loosens her grip and just sits there holding him gently thinking about their possible life together and about something else that could happen soon, their family.