She had been asleep for a while, and Trenton wondered whether or not he should wake her up. Finally he pushed himself out of his chair and kneeled down next to the couch. He placed the end of his wand on top of her head and muttered something.
Ginny groaned and her eyes fluttered open. She smiled at Trenton. "Thank you."
He nodded and looked at her. Something was pulling him forward. He wanted to touch her. But he didn't. Instead she pulled him up by his shirt. Trenton blinked. He was now lying next to her, inches away from her face.
Ginny cuddled into his chest. She didn't seem to be aware of the oddness going on.
"Ehm.. Ginny?" Trenton said in his low voice.
"What?" she sighed sleepily.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I am avoiding getting up," she said into his shirt.
"Yes, I noticed that. But why am I here?"
"To protect me." Ginny pulled his arm around her waist with her eyes closed.
Trenton blinked. "I.. you.. we.. we shouldn't.."
Ginny opened her eyes. "We aren't doing anything."
"If I lie here any longer, we might be," Trenton warned.
Ginny blinked up at him. Her eyes were so innocent, but the placement of her hips at the moment was not. "What do you--"
Trenton put her fingers to her lips. She searched his face, which seemed to be getting closer to her own. He slid his hand down and cradled her head.
"Don't," Ginny said.
Trenton's brow furrowed. "Don't what?" He grinned. "We aren't doing anything."
Ginny smiled.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Abby stood in the doorway staring at Ginny and Trenton.
"Why.. are you so close.. to my sister...?" Ron asked rigidly.
Trenton had frantically jumped off the couch and across the room. Ginny was sitting upright with her eyes wide.
"Weasley, we weren't doing anything," Trenton said, regaining composure.
"You were TOUCHING!" Ron shrieked.
"..No we weren't," Trenton said calmly. Ron gave him a murderous glare. "Oh, you didn't mean THAT kind of touching?"
"You were on the couch with MY SISTER, you.. you GIANT!" Ron hopped in the air.
Harry, Hermione, and Abby were grinning.
"Abby.." Trenton said. "You're all right."
Abby nodded. "I'm fine."
Ginny huffed and Trenton looked at her. "...You're going to let your brother eat me alive, aren't you?"
Everyone was uncomfortably quiet.
"Heh.. heh-heh-heh.. eheheheh.. I'm laughing cause I'm nervous." Trenton shifted. "Where's.. uhm.. where's Malfoy?"
"We're going to go get him out of his closet now," Hermione answered.
"He's gay? Wouldn't have guessed." Trenton shrugged.
"No need to go all the way to his room," said a female voice.
All six of them turned around to see Bellatrix and the other Death Eaters standing in the hallway. Then they heard something else.
"Pop-dweeeee-zing-zabah-zang! Haha!"
"Who is that?" Abby asked.
"Move, you big coat rack. HAHA! Get it? Coat.. rack.. HAHAHAHAHA!" Draco pushed through the Death Eaters who looked extremely annoyed.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Abby, Ginny, and Trenton all stared at him. Bellatrix rolled her eyes. "Oh get over it, taking the trip down the stairs with him was enough for me to strangle him with rope. Didn't have rope though. Started unclasping my bra."
"Hahahaha! She kicked me down the stairs. Isn't that FUNNY?!" Draco wobbled; an unnatural looking smile on his face.
Abby worriedly stepped forward and grabbed him by the shoulder. His eyes widened happily at her. "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he squealed. "You know.. your eyes remind me of chlorophyl. Hey that rhymed!"
Abby looked at the others. They were horrified by Draco's state. Each of them pocketed their wands.
"So.. where is Lucius? I wish to see him." Bellatrix grinned through her mask.
Draco hicupped and rolled his head freakishly on his shoulders. "Squizzawk!"
Trenton walked toward Ginny who was standing by the couch and Ginny realised he was shielding her.
"He was in the dungeons," Ginny said from behind Trenton. He closed his eyes tightly, then looked back at her. She glanced at him through somewhat wide eyes.
"What was that?" Bellatrix asked.
"You heard me. He's in the dungeons. We attacked him and then locked him in there." Ginny was shaking slightly but her face was resolute.
Bellatrix's black eyes surveyed her through her mask. "A couple of kids attacked Lucius? And dragged him into the dungeons? Nice try."
Ginny shook her head. "You may choose not to believe me, but that was the way of it. Now you can trust us, considering we're all pretty scared out of our minds here, or you can not. Although it is easier to just believe us."
Bellatrix gave her an odd sort of look. "I know who you are..." she started. "Yes. You're one of the Weasleys. I believe our families are rather interconnected. Although, you are traitors to your bloodline. But you.. yes, I know you from something else. You opened the Chamber of Secrets. You were Tom's toy. Perhaps you aren't at all like your family.."
Clearly, Bellatrix did not know the full story. Ginny had been possessed. She did not do these things because she wanted to. But perhaps she could pretend.
Ginny grinned. "Yes. It was, indeed, I who opened the Chamber in my first year. My life's seemed a bit.. empty without Tom Riddle."
Trenton looked at her. He understood what she was doing, but for some reason it made his stomach tumble repeatedly inside of him.
Ginny smiled, almost sickly. "Shall I lead the way?"
Bellatrix returned the facial expression. "Please, Miss Weasley."
Ginny strode to the place where the stones slid to reveal the dungeons. She got down onto her knees and pressed on the stone slabs. The third one opened to her touch. The entrance was now revealed. She stood up and faced Bellatrix, her classmates, and the other Death Eaters.
"I am sure you do not trust me enough to have my wand out. But the passage is very dark. Lucius is in the second to last cell on the left. Would you and your.. friends.. like to go first?" Ginny hid a shudder.
Bellatrix grinned. "I would like that, yes." She beckoned the Death Eaters to follow her. Stepping down onto the first step, she lit her wand and proceeded downward. Then she stopped and faced Ginny, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Trenton, and Abby. "You will stay behind us, or I will kill you. I doubt Lucius will miss his son very much. He is a disappointment."
She proceeded downward. The Death Eaters followed, and then Ginny began to go down as well. Trenton grabbed her shoulder.
"What are you doing?" he asked in a harsh whisper.
"I'm going to get rid of them," she said simply.
He let her shoulder go and watched as she stepped down into the passage. Harry, Ron, and Hermione went in after her. Trenton looked at Abby. Draco was absentmindedly sniffing the wall.
"Rubber ducky, you're the one!" He began slamming his head into a large heavy picture frame. Abby grabbed him by the arm and pulled him over.
Trenton looked down at her. "Want me to go behind you?"
She grinned at him. "You better not mean that the way you're used to."
She went down into the passage pulling Draco.
"You know, this place is veeeeeery dark, mmhmm. Did you know, that.. uh.. what is your name? Sheeba? Arthur? Naki-naki-tutu? GARFUNKEL--"
Abby cut him off by cupping his mouth with her hand.
Hermione looked back, then she waited up for them. "I can reverse the spell on him," she whispered. She held out her wand and quietly muttered "Finite Incantatem!"
Draco wobbled. Abby swung an arm around his back. He shook his head, and then realised who was standing next to him. "Abby.." he breathed.
"Shh." Abby looked dirty and stressed. "You need to pretend you're insane."
Draco blinked at her in the dim light. "..I'm sorry, what?" he asked quietly.
"We just removed a spell they had on you. You acted like an oblivious little kid. Just.. pretend the spell is still on you when they look at you."
Draco looked ahead of them. He saw silhouettes of the Death Eaters just barely. He nodded his head, understanding.
"How far down is it, Miss Weasley?" Bellatrix called.
"Not far now," Ginny answered. "He was unconscious when we brought him here. He might be awake now. Try calling for him?"
Bellatrix let out a shrill "LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCIUSSSSSSSSSSSS! Can you HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?"
Draco held his head. "Gods, woman," he muttered.
Abby elbowed him. He grinned at her and she rolled her eyes. "You're shameless."
"You know what's great at getting rid of headaches?" he whispered.
"Getting hit on the head with a bat?" She retorted quietly.
Draco grinned. "You want me."
"Quiet, one of them is looking back at us."
Draco did jumping jacks.
Abby looked at him blankly. "...I've never wanted you more."
Bellatrix stopped. One of the Death Eaters tripped and fell onto the stone floor.
Harry raised his eyebrows. "Graceful."
Bellatrix spun around and glared at him. Then she faced forward again. "He must still be unconscious. And this is the second to last cell on the left."
One of the Death Eaters tapped her on her shoulder. "Bella.. that's your right."
She shifted. "Oh."
Hermione snorted quietly. Bellatrix opened the cell door by magic and stepped inside.
"Miss Weasley, please come in here with me," Bellatrix called.
Ginny started forward. Harry crossed his arms. "Afraid of the dark, Lestrange?"
Bellatrix squinted at him. "As a precaution. If this is a trick, then Ginny will be stuck with me. And I will kill her."
"You say that often. Is that your mantra?" Harry asked.
"Indeed."
She kicked a body with her foot. It didn't make a movement. She proceeded to the next lump of human. Ginny looked around the cell with half-closed eyes. The stench was getting to her again, and the sight was just too horrific for her to look at calmly.
The Death Eaters filed in as well. They began lighting their wands and looking for Lucius. Ginny took this as an opportunity to get out of the cell. She inched towards the door and all of a sudden, Trenton had her by the arm and yanked her out. Draco slammed the cell door closed, and began to repel the spells that the Death Eaters and Bellatrix were shooting towards them. He muttered a spell that would make even the most complex spell unable to open the cell. All seven were running as fast as they could down the corridor. Green light was filling the passage, but the Death Eaters were unable to get out. Ginny was the last one out before Draco, and as she ran up the stairs and into the house she tripped. There was a loud crack and a small gasp. Her left leg was broken. Trenton flew forward, but Draco was quicker. He muttered a spell and she floated as though on a stretcher.
The others surrounded Ginny. Abby stood next to Draco and held onto his arm. "We need to get back."
"Draco, you took floo powder directly into your house, correct?" Trenton said.
Draco nodded. "But it only works from one room, and that's where my father is. I'm sure he's up by now. We're better off going out the front door. But.. this manor has a spell on it. It will stop anyone from leaving if they've betrayed my father. Stole something, and the like. We could get killed just leaving."
Abby shook her head. "There's another way. Follow me."
The others followed her. Trenton directed Ginny with his wand. They ran up the steps of the grande staircase and went to the left. Then they turned into Draco's room.
He grinned at her back. "So this really is your answer to everything?"
She turned around and gave him a smug look. "I liked you better when you were insane. Anyway, isn't this the way you got to me?"
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco nodded. But Draco, who didn't know how they got out the first time, didn't understand how going into another dungeon place would help. "But how do we get OUT of THERE, hmm?"
Abby shook her head. "We got out of there a different way last time. That's not the problem..."
She opened the wardrobe without warning. Abby, Draco, and Harry had been sucked in. A moment later, Ron, Hermione, Trenton and the floating whimpering Ginny appeared with them. Trenton brushed the hair off of Ginny's sweaty forehead and kissed it.
He looked at her. "You'll be all right."
She nodded and closed her eyes tightly. The pain in her leg was searing.
Abby led the six of them down the corridor leading to the cells. When she approached the cell with their way out Draco grabbed her by the shoulder.
"Just curious. You made it sound as though there was a problem?" He raised his eyebrows at her.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione grinned.
"Well.." Abby started. "The problem is.. getting you to go through with this."
Draco looked between faces. "What?"
"We escaped through a crap hole."
Draco blinked. "Well visit me when I'm a skeleton, won't you?" He leaned against the bars of a cell.
Hermione snorted. "Oh come on, Malfoy. It's just a bit of--"
"Feces?" Draco said interrupting her. "You're all sick."
"You haven't mentioned how much we smell, yet," Abby said crossing her arms.
"Oh, I was just being nice to YOU, Abby. I told the Wonder Trio over here how much they stunk when we were coming up the stairs." He grinned.
"Fine then. You'll just have to stay here and wait for someone sweet-smelling to save you with a shiny claw-footed bathtub. G'day." Abby smiled and lowered herself into the crap hole. Harry, Ron, Hermione, followed her out. Trenton pulled Ginny vertical to him and lowered the both of them inside. When they were all out, they waited to see if Draco was behind them.
"Bugger. Bugger bugger bugger. Shit, fuck, damn, fuck, fuckfuckfuck. This is disgusting. I won't do this. I won't." Draco stepped towards the crap hole and lowered himself in. "This is unhygenic. I'm going to get blemishes all over my body. This is sick. This is gross. This is wrong. This is-- THANK GOD! I SEE THE SKY!"
Draco pulled himself out and frantically wiped himself off. The rest of them laughed. He looked up.
"Shut up. And where are we?"
"Not far from the store we came here from in the first place," Harry said.
"Oh. Right. I should have know that. I mean.. I DID know that. Heh.. let's go," Draco muttered and stalked towards the door of a shop.
"Ehm.. Draco? Wrong shop." It was Trenton, and he was grinning. He smashed the glass in a different door, and unlocked it from the inside.
Hermione blinked at him. "You're a wizard, Montague. Use your wand."
He grinned. "That's usually my motto..."
Hermione rolled her eyes and stepped inside as Trenton held the door for her. Ginny floated in, and the rest followed. They stepped up to the fireplace, each grabbing floo powder and repeating "Seventh Year Slytherin Boys' Dormitory." Trenton and Ginny were the only ones left.
"You're going to need to hold onto me really tightly, all right?" he said to her.
She nodded and he pulled her vertically and wrapped his arms firmly around her waist. She did the same. He stepped into the fireplace and they were gone.
Ginny groaned and her eyes fluttered open. She smiled at Trenton. "Thank you."
He nodded and looked at her. Something was pulling him forward. He wanted to touch her. But he didn't. Instead she pulled him up by his shirt. Trenton blinked. He was now lying next to her, inches away from her face.
Ginny cuddled into his chest. She didn't seem to be aware of the oddness going on.
"Ehm.. Ginny?" Trenton said in his low voice.
"What?" she sighed sleepily.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I am avoiding getting up," she said into his shirt.
"Yes, I noticed that. But why am I here?"
"To protect me." Ginny pulled his arm around her waist with her eyes closed.
Trenton blinked. "I.. you.. we.. we shouldn't.."
Ginny opened her eyes. "We aren't doing anything."
"If I lie here any longer, we might be," Trenton warned.
Ginny blinked up at him. Her eyes were so innocent, but the placement of her hips at the moment was not. "What do you--"
Trenton put her fingers to her lips. She searched his face, which seemed to be getting closer to her own. He slid his hand down and cradled her head.
"Don't," Ginny said.
Trenton's brow furrowed. "Don't what?" He grinned. "We aren't doing anything."
Ginny smiled.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Abby stood in the doorway staring at Ginny and Trenton.
"Why.. are you so close.. to my sister...?" Ron asked rigidly.
Trenton had frantically jumped off the couch and across the room. Ginny was sitting upright with her eyes wide.
"Weasley, we weren't doing anything," Trenton said, regaining composure.
"You were TOUCHING!" Ron shrieked.
"..No we weren't," Trenton said calmly. Ron gave him a murderous glare. "Oh, you didn't mean THAT kind of touching?"
"You were on the couch with MY SISTER, you.. you GIANT!" Ron hopped in the air.
Harry, Hermione, and Abby were grinning.
"Abby.." Trenton said. "You're all right."
Abby nodded. "I'm fine."
Ginny huffed and Trenton looked at her. "...You're going to let your brother eat me alive, aren't you?"
Everyone was uncomfortably quiet.
"Heh.. heh-heh-heh.. eheheheh.. I'm laughing cause I'm nervous." Trenton shifted. "Where's.. uhm.. where's Malfoy?"
"We're going to go get him out of his closet now," Hermione answered.
"He's gay? Wouldn't have guessed." Trenton shrugged.
"No need to go all the way to his room," said a female voice.
All six of them turned around to see Bellatrix and the other Death Eaters standing in the hallway. Then they heard something else.
"Pop-dweeeee-zing-zabah-zang! Haha!"
"Who is that?" Abby asked.
"Move, you big coat rack. HAHA! Get it? Coat.. rack.. HAHAHAHAHA!" Draco pushed through the Death Eaters who looked extremely annoyed.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Abby, Ginny, and Trenton all stared at him. Bellatrix rolled her eyes. "Oh get over it, taking the trip down the stairs with him was enough for me to strangle him with rope. Didn't have rope though. Started unclasping my bra."
"Hahahaha! She kicked me down the stairs. Isn't that FUNNY?!" Draco wobbled; an unnatural looking smile on his face.
Abby worriedly stepped forward and grabbed him by the shoulder. His eyes widened happily at her. "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he squealed. "You know.. your eyes remind me of chlorophyl. Hey that rhymed!"
Abby looked at the others. They were horrified by Draco's state. Each of them pocketed their wands.
"So.. where is Lucius? I wish to see him." Bellatrix grinned through her mask.
Draco hicupped and rolled his head freakishly on his shoulders. "Squizzawk!"
Trenton walked toward Ginny who was standing by the couch and Ginny realised he was shielding her.
"He was in the dungeons," Ginny said from behind Trenton. He closed his eyes tightly, then looked back at her. She glanced at him through somewhat wide eyes.
"What was that?" Bellatrix asked.
"You heard me. He's in the dungeons. We attacked him and then locked him in there." Ginny was shaking slightly but her face was resolute.
Bellatrix's black eyes surveyed her through her mask. "A couple of kids attacked Lucius? And dragged him into the dungeons? Nice try."
Ginny shook her head. "You may choose not to believe me, but that was the way of it. Now you can trust us, considering we're all pretty scared out of our minds here, or you can not. Although it is easier to just believe us."
Bellatrix gave her an odd sort of look. "I know who you are..." she started. "Yes. You're one of the Weasleys. I believe our families are rather interconnected. Although, you are traitors to your bloodline. But you.. yes, I know you from something else. You opened the Chamber of Secrets. You were Tom's toy. Perhaps you aren't at all like your family.."
Clearly, Bellatrix did not know the full story. Ginny had been possessed. She did not do these things because she wanted to. But perhaps she could pretend.
Ginny grinned. "Yes. It was, indeed, I who opened the Chamber in my first year. My life's seemed a bit.. empty without Tom Riddle."
Trenton looked at her. He understood what she was doing, but for some reason it made his stomach tumble repeatedly inside of him.
Ginny smiled, almost sickly. "Shall I lead the way?"
Bellatrix returned the facial expression. "Please, Miss Weasley."
Ginny strode to the place where the stones slid to reveal the dungeons. She got down onto her knees and pressed on the stone slabs. The third one opened to her touch. The entrance was now revealed. She stood up and faced Bellatrix, her classmates, and the other Death Eaters.
"I am sure you do not trust me enough to have my wand out. But the passage is very dark. Lucius is in the second to last cell on the left. Would you and your.. friends.. like to go first?" Ginny hid a shudder.
Bellatrix grinned. "I would like that, yes." She beckoned the Death Eaters to follow her. Stepping down onto the first step, she lit her wand and proceeded downward. Then she stopped and faced Ginny, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Trenton, and Abby. "You will stay behind us, or I will kill you. I doubt Lucius will miss his son very much. He is a disappointment."
She proceeded downward. The Death Eaters followed, and then Ginny began to go down as well. Trenton grabbed her shoulder.
"What are you doing?" he asked in a harsh whisper.
"I'm going to get rid of them," she said simply.
He let her shoulder go and watched as she stepped down into the passage. Harry, Ron, and Hermione went in after her. Trenton looked at Abby. Draco was absentmindedly sniffing the wall.
"Rubber ducky, you're the one!" He began slamming his head into a large heavy picture frame. Abby grabbed him by the arm and pulled him over.
Trenton looked down at her. "Want me to go behind you?"
She grinned at him. "You better not mean that the way you're used to."
She went down into the passage pulling Draco.
"You know, this place is veeeeeery dark, mmhmm. Did you know, that.. uh.. what is your name? Sheeba? Arthur? Naki-naki-tutu? GARFUNKEL--"
Abby cut him off by cupping his mouth with her hand.
Hermione looked back, then she waited up for them. "I can reverse the spell on him," she whispered. She held out her wand and quietly muttered "Finite Incantatem!"
Draco wobbled. Abby swung an arm around his back. He shook his head, and then realised who was standing next to him. "Abby.." he breathed.
"Shh." Abby looked dirty and stressed. "You need to pretend you're insane."
Draco blinked at her in the dim light. "..I'm sorry, what?" he asked quietly.
"We just removed a spell they had on you. You acted like an oblivious little kid. Just.. pretend the spell is still on you when they look at you."
Draco looked ahead of them. He saw silhouettes of the Death Eaters just barely. He nodded his head, understanding.
"How far down is it, Miss Weasley?" Bellatrix called.
"Not far now," Ginny answered. "He was unconscious when we brought him here. He might be awake now. Try calling for him?"
Bellatrix let out a shrill "LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCIUSSSSSSSSSSSS! Can you HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?"
Draco held his head. "Gods, woman," he muttered.
Abby elbowed him. He grinned at her and she rolled her eyes. "You're shameless."
"You know what's great at getting rid of headaches?" he whispered.
"Getting hit on the head with a bat?" She retorted quietly.
Draco grinned. "You want me."
"Quiet, one of them is looking back at us."
Draco did jumping jacks.
Abby looked at him blankly. "...I've never wanted you more."
Bellatrix stopped. One of the Death Eaters tripped and fell onto the stone floor.
Harry raised his eyebrows. "Graceful."
Bellatrix spun around and glared at him. Then she faced forward again. "He must still be unconscious. And this is the second to last cell on the left."
One of the Death Eaters tapped her on her shoulder. "Bella.. that's your right."
She shifted. "Oh."
Hermione snorted quietly. Bellatrix opened the cell door by magic and stepped inside.
"Miss Weasley, please come in here with me," Bellatrix called.
Ginny started forward. Harry crossed his arms. "Afraid of the dark, Lestrange?"
Bellatrix squinted at him. "As a precaution. If this is a trick, then Ginny will be stuck with me. And I will kill her."
"You say that often. Is that your mantra?" Harry asked.
"Indeed."
She kicked a body with her foot. It didn't make a movement. She proceeded to the next lump of human. Ginny looked around the cell with half-closed eyes. The stench was getting to her again, and the sight was just too horrific for her to look at calmly.
The Death Eaters filed in as well. They began lighting their wands and looking for Lucius. Ginny took this as an opportunity to get out of the cell. She inched towards the door and all of a sudden, Trenton had her by the arm and yanked her out. Draco slammed the cell door closed, and began to repel the spells that the Death Eaters and Bellatrix were shooting towards them. He muttered a spell that would make even the most complex spell unable to open the cell. All seven were running as fast as they could down the corridor. Green light was filling the passage, but the Death Eaters were unable to get out. Ginny was the last one out before Draco, and as she ran up the stairs and into the house she tripped. There was a loud crack and a small gasp. Her left leg was broken. Trenton flew forward, but Draco was quicker. He muttered a spell and she floated as though on a stretcher.
The others surrounded Ginny. Abby stood next to Draco and held onto his arm. "We need to get back."
"Draco, you took floo powder directly into your house, correct?" Trenton said.
Draco nodded. "But it only works from one room, and that's where my father is. I'm sure he's up by now. We're better off going out the front door. But.. this manor has a spell on it. It will stop anyone from leaving if they've betrayed my father. Stole something, and the like. We could get killed just leaving."
Abby shook her head. "There's another way. Follow me."
The others followed her. Trenton directed Ginny with his wand. They ran up the steps of the grande staircase and went to the left. Then they turned into Draco's room.
He grinned at her back. "So this really is your answer to everything?"
She turned around and gave him a smug look. "I liked you better when you were insane. Anyway, isn't this the way you got to me?"
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco nodded. But Draco, who didn't know how they got out the first time, didn't understand how going into another dungeon place would help. "But how do we get OUT of THERE, hmm?"
Abby shook her head. "We got out of there a different way last time. That's not the problem..."
She opened the wardrobe without warning. Abby, Draco, and Harry had been sucked in. A moment later, Ron, Hermione, Trenton and the floating whimpering Ginny appeared with them. Trenton brushed the hair off of Ginny's sweaty forehead and kissed it.
He looked at her. "You'll be all right."
She nodded and closed her eyes tightly. The pain in her leg was searing.
Abby led the six of them down the corridor leading to the cells. When she approached the cell with their way out Draco grabbed her by the shoulder.
"Just curious. You made it sound as though there was a problem?" He raised his eyebrows at her.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione grinned.
"Well.." Abby started. "The problem is.. getting you to go through with this."
Draco looked between faces. "What?"
"We escaped through a crap hole."
Draco blinked. "Well visit me when I'm a skeleton, won't you?" He leaned against the bars of a cell.
Hermione snorted. "Oh come on, Malfoy. It's just a bit of--"
"Feces?" Draco said interrupting her. "You're all sick."
"You haven't mentioned how much we smell, yet," Abby said crossing her arms.
"Oh, I was just being nice to YOU, Abby. I told the Wonder Trio over here how much they stunk when we were coming up the stairs." He grinned.
"Fine then. You'll just have to stay here and wait for someone sweet-smelling to save you with a shiny claw-footed bathtub. G'day." Abby smiled and lowered herself into the crap hole. Harry, Ron, Hermione, followed her out. Trenton pulled Ginny vertical to him and lowered the both of them inside. When they were all out, they waited to see if Draco was behind them.
"Bugger. Bugger bugger bugger. Shit, fuck, damn, fuck, fuckfuckfuck. This is disgusting. I won't do this. I won't." Draco stepped towards the crap hole and lowered himself in. "This is unhygenic. I'm going to get blemishes all over my body. This is sick. This is gross. This is wrong. This is-- THANK GOD! I SEE THE SKY!"
Draco pulled himself out and frantically wiped himself off. The rest of them laughed. He looked up.
"Shut up. And where are we?"
"Not far from the store we came here from in the first place," Harry said.
"Oh. Right. I should have know that. I mean.. I DID know that. Heh.. let's go," Draco muttered and stalked towards the door of a shop.
"Ehm.. Draco? Wrong shop." It was Trenton, and he was grinning. He smashed the glass in a different door, and unlocked it from the inside.
Hermione blinked at him. "You're a wizard, Montague. Use your wand."
He grinned. "That's usually my motto..."
Hermione rolled her eyes and stepped inside as Trenton held the door for her. Ginny floated in, and the rest followed. They stepped up to the fireplace, each grabbing floo powder and repeating "Seventh Year Slytherin Boys' Dormitory." Trenton and Ginny were the only ones left.
"You're going to need to hold onto me really tightly, all right?" he said to her.
She nodded and he pulled her vertically and wrapped his arms firmly around her waist. She did the same. He stepped into the fireplace and they were gone.