Chapter 10- Stole

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(Stole is a song by Kelly Roland)

When Charolette had left, Sirius had walked outside into the gardens next to the castle. He sat on the bench where she had been sitting picking apart roses only a few days before.

He knew that they needed Charolette He also knew that he needed her.

A loud swoosh sound made him look up. He saw what had to of been 15 figures in black cloaks and 3 really tall and slim figures. Figures that he could not have mistaken for anything else.

"Dementors..." he said under his breath, watching as the Death Eaters led the dementors inside the castle doors. He heard murmured voices coming from the direction of where the death eaters had gone.

"She'll be upstairs, in her room." a voice said.

Sirius turned to dog form and padded up quietly to the castle, entering slowly, trying to go unnoticed. He achieved this, and watching as the death eaters and three dementors walked upstairs towards Charolette's room.

She was right, Sirius thought. But she was wrong too.

He ran up the stairs after the death eaters, hoping to get to Dumbledore's office before they did. They apparently knew better then to enter the headmasters office, because they quietly creeped past the large gargoyle and broke into fast strides down to the Gryffindor tower.

Sirius transformed back into human form and ran over to the gargoyle and quietly whispered the password, stepping up the steps and walking into the older wizard's office.

"Albus, the deatheaters and three dementors are in the castle," he said as calmly as he could, watching as Albus looked up from what looked like the Maurauders map.

"Yes, I know. They're heading up to Charolette's room. They won't find her there, she left some time ago, as you know. But they will go and try to take her daughter. If I know how they think they will figure they can bribe Charolette into coming back."

Sirius looked extremely pale and his stomach churned. What could he do?

"Albus, I have to go get Emma."

"You can't Sirius, the dementors can see through your camaflogue. I can go up and stop them...you need to go get Charolette...I have an idea."

Sirius nodded, trusting the older wizard, and ran off down the hallways and out into the cool night air.

~*~

Charolette looked at her watch. 5 till 7:00, she read. Great, plane takes off in 5 minutes. Perfect.

She looked around her for the first time, actually paying attention to her surroundings. A lot more people had come into the waiting area without her noticing. She didn't know how, they were frightfully loud.

But she had been in a deep trance, seemingly out of it, off in a dream where her and Sirius and Emma were together, safe in a cottage in the country.

The dream had been snapped by the sound of suitcases hitting the hard floor and the chuckling of people as they said hi to friends and family.

If only she had family, Charolette thought, to say goodbye and hello to. She had family, she had Emma, but she couldn't see Emma right now.

The thought stung like a hot needle in her stomach. What if she never saw her daughter again?

She began to drift off into sad thoughts again when a loud yell and thud caught her attention. She turned around and saw Sirius bounding towards her, apparently he had knocked over quiet a few people in his attempts to reach her in time because there was a long line of yelling and angry people behind him.

Charolette felt the anxiety in her stomach explode and fill her body. What was he doing here??

"Sirius?"

Sirius grabbed her arm and began sprinting away from the waiting area. Charolette began to hold back.

"Let go of me Sirius, what the hell is going on here?"

"Charolette, there is NO time to speak right now." he said simply as he picked her up and ran as fast as he could.

By the time he got outside he was out of breath and could barely walk. He ran into the shadows with Charolette still in his arms and apparated to Hogwarts.

~*~

Albus walked quickly to Minerva McGonagall's office. He saw her and quickly pulled her aside.

"Minerva I need you to get Severus and Theodore and everyone in the staff and I need you to follow me up to Gryffindor Tower. Have professor Sprout lead all the students out of the building, except for those near Gryffindor Tower."

Minerva, knowing better then to ask questions, nodded her head and ran off to find the rest of the staff.

Dumbledore headed off towards Gryffindor Tower, his long strides echoing through the halls.

He reached the tower and saw the death eaters tearing apart Charolette's room.

"What the fuck!? Where the fuck is she!!" someone inside the room yelled.

"Shh...calm the hell down, someone will hear you!" another voice said.

"I'm afraid it's too late for that." Albus said smugly as he walked into the room, facing a bunch of now very frightened death eaters. They were all apparently amatuers, because none of them were acting as if they had suffered much punishment from Voldemort.

"Stand back you old croak," the first man said, holding out his wand, his eyes filled with fear.

"You wish you had gotten far enough in school to know what to do now, Goyle." Severus Snape walked into the room, his black eyes blazing and his arm outstretched, holding his long black wand.

Goyle put down his wand, leering at Snape.

"Funny how you have the nerve to come back and face us, Snape," he said mockingly.

"Funny how you have the nerve to come back and face US, Goyle," Snape replied. "Expelliarmus!"

Goyle's wand flew from his hand and landed in Severus'. The other death eaters stood there watching, none of them knowing what to do. The dementors had known beforehand that Charolette wasn't in her room. They had sensed it. So while they left the deatheaters to rummage about the room, they went up into Gryffindor tower, anxious for a kiss.