Chapter 8- Taken away.

Ginny was in someone's arms. The hand in front of her eyes was now holding her up. She was not sure if she passed out, but she felt rather dizzy.

The person who was holding her, was running with all his might. She looked up and tried to look at her captors face. All that she could see was dark hair. There were people running after them. She could hear there voices through the fog.

The dizziness didn't allow her to really understand what was going on. Her mind was as fogged as the world around her. The dark hair reminded her of Harry, but the person was too tall to be him. Her view was hazy, but she tried to make out the face of her captor.

She was sure it was a man. His nose was big. And familiar... She thought about it for a second, and through her hazy mind came the image of a familiar surrounding. The classes that she hated the most, in the dungeon, with a very annoying professor..

'Professor Snape?'-she asked almost without thinking.

The man looked at her and smiled. She couldn't be sure that it was him. She had never seen him smile in school.

Her mind seemed to be clearing up a bit, and the shock of what was happening to her was slowly sinking in.

She was being taken.

She wanted to fight against her captor but her body was too lazy for that. She felt like sleeping. Her whole body was in a dormant state.

Her mind filled with thoughts of what would happen to her family if she was taken. He would kill them. Voldemort would kill them all. She wanted to fight, to scream, to do something. But she could hardly find her voice.

'No please.'-she said in a low voice.-'He will kill them.'

The man looked at her, and smiled.

'Don't worry,'-said a familiar voice-'they'll be all right.'

The voices were still ringing through the fog. She knew that they were being pursued.

'How do you get out off this damn garden?'-the man let out in frustration. And then, in a joking tone he added to her-'Maybe the fog wasn't such a good idea after all.'

Before Ginny could make out what was happening, there were spells flying through the air.

The fog didn't allow her to see what was going on, but the man seemed to be looking for something.

There was a voice calling out her name in the fog. Her husband was calling to her.

'Ginny! Ginny where are you?'

She could hear the fury in his voice, and for a moment she wondered what would be worse. That she got away, or that she actually got caught.

'Don't answer him!'-said the man in a stressed voice. He had stopped running and was looking at her with attentive eyes.

He put her on her feet, though she could barely hold herself up. With one arm around her, to support her, he was holding something in his other hand. And then he did nothing but wait.

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Fury!!! That was the only thing cursing through him. He had called his most faithful Death Eaters, and they were spread through the garden. He had tried to vanish the mist, but whatever part of it he made disappear, more came out from nowhere to take its place.

He was running to the place from where her scream had came from, and had only found the sleeping form of Norah in the way. The mist seemed to be the work of his former Death eater.

Ginny should be asleep by now as well. The protections he had placed on her against this sort of thing wouldn't last long, and then the brat would take her away.

Oh, he was sure that it was the brat taking her. Only he had the nerve to come and steal from him in his own home.

He called out to her, not that he thought that he would get an answer.

Someone was going to pay dearly for this. This palace was the most secure place he could make. He was sure now that he had a spy among his Death Eaters.

He could hear someone running. He called out to his men, and ran as fast as he could. There was a dark figure with something in his arms. The death eaters went in pursued, and whenever they thought they had a good view of the figure, they casted a stunning spell.

The air was ringing with Stupefy's, but the red beams hit nothing but the trees.

'Ginny!'-he called out again. No answer came.

The figure stopped, and Voldemort ran towards the figure. With all his might he pointed the wand right to the figure. He could see it better know. It wasn't the Potter brat, but Snape himself. He was standing still, with Ginny in his arms, and smiling.

Voldemort got ready to stun him, but much to his surprise he didn't seem a bit worried. Snape placed her on her feet, took something from his pocket, and held her hand.

Voldemort casted the stunning spell, and the red beam flew through the air, cutting the fog, but the instant before it hit the target he disappeared, and the beam hit the tree behind him instead.

Voldemort let out a yell in fury. Lucius was beside him looking puzzled.

'My lord, I thought that it was impossible to use apparition or port keys here.'

'And it is.'-he let out in anger. 'There is a spy among us.'

'But there were so few who knew where she was kept. If there is a spy, then it must be an inner circle Death Eater.'

Draco was performing a few spells on the place from were Snape had disappeared.

'This place has been charmed to allow apparating. They seem to have planned this right.-he said finally.

'Well, Ginny can't apparate, I made sure of that, so they must have used a port key instead.'-said Voldemort

'And if they used a port key, then we can track them down.'-finished Lucius for him.

And with that they directed themselves to the palace.

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Ginny saw her husband, pointing the wand directly at them. And as soon as he shot, she felt a strange pulling sensation around her navel. She had almost forgotten how it felt like travelling by port key. Next thing she knew, she was in what looked like an old Egyptian tomb. It was badly lit, with nothing but a few torches and the paintings on the walls made her feel nervous.

Her head was still hazy, but it was slowly clearing.

She looked up at the figure that was holding her up. Snape looked at her and smiled. Then he picked her up and made her sit on what looked like an old sarcophagus.

'Your head will clear up soon, now that we are out of the fog.'

'Professor Snape?'-she asked dumb founded.

'Call me Severus. I'm not your professor anymore.'

'But I thought you were dead.'

It seemed like that everyone that she thought dead was coming back to life the past few weeks.

'I know.'-he simply said. And then he looked at a large doorway, as if expecting someone.

And much to Ginny's surprise, McGonagall came to meet them.

It was like the return of the living dead. Didn't anyone stay dead anymore? It filled her heart with anger to think that the ones she thought that were dead, were in fact alive, and together, wile she was stuck with Voldemort and grieving for them.

Her head seemed to have finally cleared, and the impact of what had happened came down on her all at once.

Her teachers were alive and they had kidnapped her, and now all her family was going to die. This just couldn't get any worse.

She couldn't help herself and started to cry. McGonagall ran to her side and held her.

'Now, now. No need to cry. Everything will be all right. You are away from that place now.'-she said while she held Ginny.

'How can everything be all right?'-Ginny said between sobs.-'He's going to kill them now.'

McGonagall looked puzzled for a moment, and then Snape stepped in.

'Don't worry, no one is going to die. Voldemort is not an idiot. He won't kill your family, because he expects to get you back.'

Ginny looked up at him. If what he said was true then her family would be safe. Still, she felt uneasy.

'Why? Why did you wait two years to let me know you were alive? Why didn't you went to get me before?'

McGonagall made a sad face wile she looked at her. She sat on the sarcophagus beside her, and hugged her.

'I'm so sorry Ginny. But we couldn't risk it. It is too much of a long story to tell you now. We are safe here for a wile, but not for long. We are just waiting for Harry and the others to come back and then we can tell you were to apparate.'

'But I can't apparate.'-Ginny said.

It was Snape's turn to look puzzled.

'What do you mean you can't apparate? You passed all the tests in Hogwarts.'-he said with concern.

'I mean I can't apparate. I tried wile I was in the palace a few times, before I knew. Before I knew he had my family. It didn't work.'

'That was probably because the palace had anti apparition charms. Try now. To the other side of the room.'

Ginny concentrated for a moment and tried to apparate. But nothing happened. Seeing that she couldn't do it, her former professors looked at each other.

'It's all right.'-McGonagall said.'-We can use a port key.'

Ginny looked at her former teachers. There was so much she wanted to ask them. They had started to discuss how they were going to set up a port key to their base. Apparently it had a lot of wards around it.

She thought about her situation for a moment. If her family was safe, then she was finally rid of the nightmare of the last two years. Maybe they knew where her family was. Maybe they would release them and she would be able to see them after all. Maybe, she thought, she was finally free.

The conversation stopped when the sound of someone apparating rang through the old crypt.

'It must be them.'-Snape said. But then the sound of a lot more people apparating made him look alarmed. Both McGonagall and Snape took out there wands.

Voices echoed through the crypt, and one voice in particular made Ginny's heart freeze.

'Spread out and find them!'

Voldemort was here.

Snape grabbed her arm, and cursed under his breath.

'How on earth did they find us?'

The sound of footsteps filled the tomb. It seemed like there were Death Eaters in all the passages out of the room. There was no way out.

McGonagall opened a secret passage way, and Snape led Ginny through it. It wasn't really a passage way, but more of small secret room. It had no light in it, except the one that came from small holes in the wall.

From inside she could see not only the room she was in, as well as several others.

McGonagall stayed outside and closed the entrance.

'I'll try to make a diversion, with some luck I'll take them to the other side of the tomb. You get her out of here as soon as the path is clear.'- she said to the wall. And then she disappeared into one of the corridors.

Snape was still holding Ginny, and when they saw from one of the holes Voldemort walking into the room, he placed a hand over her mouth, as if to stop her from calling him.

The Death Eaters searched the room, as well as all the others rooms she could see. She was amazed at the size of the crypt. And in fact it seemed familiar to her.

There were two Death Eaters in the room were she came from, as well as Voldemort himself. They weren't able to get out.

'Search everything. I want them found.'-he said to one of them, while the other remained at his side.

Soon she heard the sound of shouts, and spells, from one of the other rooms. McGonagall was running from the Death Eaters, and she actually killed two of them before she was stunned. Voldemort ran out of the room he was in, and after a wile he arrived at the other room, leaving one Death Eater behind.

He looked down at the stunned form that was McGonagall. He kicked it, and then he revived her. A Death Eater picked her up and placed her on her knees.

'Where are they?'-Voldemort asked. McGonagall remained silent.

He pointed his wand at her, and Ginny closed her eyes, for she already knew what came next. She heard Voldemort say, Crucio, and then she waited for the screams to come.

The sound of McGonagall's screams filled the old tomb, along with the laughter of the Death Eaters.

Ginny tried to cover her ears, but the sound still went through. She just couldn't let this happen. She had to do something. She wanted to shout at him to stop. She wanted to give herself up, as long as it made him stop. She bit down on Snape's hand, to make him let go of her, but he only held her tighter. She actually made him bleed, but he neither said anything, nor moved.

The commotion however drove the Death Eater out of the room. Snape waited a moment, and then opened the passage way, with his hand still over Ginny's mouth. She looked one last time at McGonagall's limp form, before she was dragged out.

Snape took her out of the room by one of its many corridors. And after they were clear of the sound of the screams, he broke in to a careful run, always checking every corner. Ginny's eyes were filled with tears. She just couldn't take it. She was in such a state that she just let herself be guided by Snape.

They came to what she thought was a dead end, but in an instant she remembered what it truly was.

She had been in this crypt before, with her family on their trip to Egypt. This was one of the tombs she had visited. And the dead end was in fact a well placed secret passage way. Snape used his wand, to open a small portion of the wall. And beyond it there was a small stream that disappeared in to the earth.

'What about McGonagall?'-she asked Snape.

'She will be all right. They won't kill her, at least not yet. Can you swim?'

She looked baffled at him. He surely didn't expect her to swim in that current?!

'Yes but.'-she didn't have time to finish the sentence, because a push came from behind and she dived in to the cold water.

Snape dived after her, took her hand and they both disappeared in to the earth.

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