(NOTE : again, will update soon Flash back - will be going back 2 normal
time and Harry next chapter)
Sirius looked down at Lana, as the sunlight filtered through the slightly open curtains. Her dark brown hair was mussed up, a little blood was in it. Sirius felt his heart ache so bad, the guilt of letting her get captured almost too much to bear these past 2 days, and then the sitting around and being told not to do anything...He had to do something...But no, Dumbledore told him, theres nothing you can do now. He hated that Dumbledore spoke about her like she was already dead, and after the power that Lana had burst through last night, how he had explained what had happened, that she had sacrificed herself to save him, Lily and James. Sirius was angry. His heart had been breaking these past few days, he had been tearing his hair out, just wanting Lana back alive.
Lana turned onto her stomach in her sleep, pulling the covers away from her, they were irritating her back. As she pulled them down, he saw the deep lacerations that went diagonally across her back, still fresh and raw and one had started bleeding slightly. His eyes travelled to the purple and yellow bruise on the bottom of her back, where she had said, in her weakened state, was there because she fell. He climbed out bed and walked over to the cabinet, took out some cloths and dipped them in water, walked over to the bed and wiped at the blood gently. He bit his lip as Lana winced in her sleep, and just as he finished, she groaned and turned over onto her side. She began itching the long, deep gash on her arm. He was suprised that she hadnt bled to death from it. He grabbed her hands and held them gently apart, so she couldnt make it, if possible, any worse. She had done this to herself protecting them. It should have been him protecting her. He was proud as hell of her tho, her complete selflessness.
She squirmed under his grasp, and he had to hold her tighter then he could have liked, and she kicked out at him, screaming "get off me, get off me" and Sirius felt a few tears fall for her, and she woke up and looked up at him, stopping screaming.
She was breathing hard, and it took her a few moments to realise that it was Sirius kneeling above her, holding her hands gently but firmly. Lana stopped struggling under his grasp and lay there, quiet and still, realising that she was at home with Sirius and she had managed to escape with her life. Barely.
"Im sorry" she whispered and he looked at her, horrified.
"What are you apologising for Lana?" he asked "Im the one thats sorry...I left you to get caught - " the words caught in his throat and Lana sat up, looking at him.
"No, it was my fault...I dont even know what happened..Where all that power came from..I just" Lana shook her head, shutitng her eyes and moving closer to Sirius, wrapping her arms around him and snuggling onto his shoulder, kissed his neck a little. "Im alive...Thats all that matters."
"I'm never letting you go now" he said, holding her tight and close.
When Lily, James, Sirius, Remus and Mad-Eye had saw her last night, they wanted to use magic on her to heal her injuries, but Lana had shook her head, saying that she had had enough magic used on her body these past few days, thankyou very much, and she just wanted to rest. To her great relief and appreciation, Dumbledore had agreed, saying the wounds would heal themselves in time and that Lana needed a great deal of rest to recover, mentally and phyisically. She was battered, bruised, broken beyond belief and just wanted to sleep. Dumbledore had told her to take as much time as she needed to rest before she could fill them in on what had happened.
~*~*~*~*~*~A FEW DAYS EARLIER~*~*~*~*~*~
Lana, Sirius, Lily and James had just left Remus at the Shrieking Shack and were walking down to the Three Broomsticks, (on Lanas request, instead of apparating, she wanted to walk) when Voldemort, and 8 Death Eaters appeared. The only one with her hood down was Bellatrix Lestrange.
"Hello cousin" she said to Sirius, who snorted.
"No cousin of mine, you evil bitch" he retorted, as he reached for his wand. Lily and James already had theirs in their hands.
"Tut tut Sirius, such language" she laughed.
The Death Eaters formed a square around Lily, James, Sirius and Lana. Two Death Eaters per person. Voldemorts stood to the bottom of them, facing Lana.
"Whats the matter, Voldy," James said "Have to gang up on us cos you know we'd kill you all easily?" he taunted.
"How dare you mock The Lord!" Lestrange said, enraged.
James and Sirius let out a laugh. "Some Lord" James said. Lily shushed him.
"Such arrogance" Voldemort spoke. "Well, I guess killing 4 out of the 6 closest to Dumbledore is as good as all 6...Besides, Ive been meaning to send him a message, and you seem to be constantly getting in my way. Two birds, one stone, you get me?"
"If youre so sure of yourself, why dont you send your little boy scouts home and kill us yourself?" Sirius asked, looking at the two Death Eaters that decided they were gonna have a pop at him, but looking at Lana from the corner of his eye, wondering why she hadnt got her wand out.
Lana was frozen to the spot, with fear, this was the first time shed come face to face with Voldemort. She managed to note that Lily James and Sirus had backed into kind of a square, leaving only the front of their bodies open to attack, whilst Lana didnt know what to do first, grab her wand or run, or who to watch.
Sirius reached out with his free hand and wrapped it around her wrist, pulling her towards him. "Lana..Honey...Get your damn wand out" he told her.
James was actually terrified, but he was still an arrogant son of a bitch, and a damn good wizard, the best of his generation, along with Sirius. And he wasnt going to go down without a bit of banter and without a fight first. He took Lilys right hand in his left hand and squeezed it tightly.
Sirius was thinking rapidly of curses, but to be honest, all he cared about was Lana. Self-preservation used to be his biggest motivation, but now his biggest motivation for fighting was Lanas safety. Also, Lily and James. He would die for his friends, his girlfriend before ever running out them. Self-preservation came a big second to that, but again, he only didnt want to die and leave Lana.
"I love you" he whispered.
"Oh how sweet" Voldemort sneered. "Must say though, a good choice of last words. Because they are. Your. Last. Words."
Lana still hadnt grabbed her wand, and Sirius was really woried that she would be hurt.
Lestrange laughed manically at Sirius, her eyes glinting, bordering on psychotic.
"Awwwwwwww" she mocked.
"Youre gonna die, Bella, and Im gonna be there to watch it," Sirius told her.
"Dont talk like that." Lana whispered, although she hadnt moved her lips at all. Sirius noticed this, and Lily and James eyes wavered a little as they must have heard it too. But none of them said anything. "Dont talk like were going to die here. Were not."
"Lana..get your damn wand" Sirius whispered again.
The Death Eaters moved closer, their wands raised, waiting for Voldemorts command.
Lana didnt know why she hadnt reached for her "damn wand". But she did feel her surivival instincts kicking in. Fight or flight. Definately not flight. She would never abandon her friends and Sirius just to save her own ass. Right now, she was halfway through deciding what to do when she felt Sirius hand on hers. Lana was torn between fear and anger. The anger was getting more and more, especially as she heard Lestrange mocking Sirius. Lana felt a strange sensation flowing through her. It started at her feet, and worked its way up through her body. The energy, the heat that she felt was making the hairs on her arms stand up. As the feeling reached her hands and face, she looked down and saw that she was crackling. Little sparks of blue and red were sparking from her upturned palms. Lana was totally confused, but the power that she was feeling, oh the power...It was intoxicating, and totally seductive. Lana felt herself surrendering to the power, and what an effect it had.
The Death Eaters had paused, staring at Lana.
Sirius, James and Lily frowned, and half glanced at Lana as she stepped away from them, and stood about 3 metres away from Voldemort.
"What the hell are you doing?!?" James shouted after her, and Lily had gone even whiter.
"Lana no" she whispered, having some idea of what she thought Lana was doing.
Sirius stared at the Death Eaters oppsite Lana, and saw them raise their wands.
Voldemort stared at Lana, at the way the energy around her crackled.
"Enough of this bullshit" he said, and raised his wand as, The Death Eaters, as one, at Voldemorts command, shouted
"CRUCIO"
"NOOOOOOOOOO" Lana screamed, and flung her arms out, parallel to the ground, the two middle fingers on her hands down, her thumbs pressing down on them.
A blast of cold air whipped around the group, and surrounded Sirius, Lily and James, with only a gap where Lana was stood. The cold air fizzled and cracked with energy, making loud bangs as the "Crucio" curse rebounded off the invisible shield that Lana had threw up and the Death Eaters scrambled to dodge them as they deflected off the dome. Lana lifted her arms up a little more, and the bottom 3 feet of the dome became fire, it ripped around the bottom from Lanas left side to her right side.
Voldemorts eyes widened in panic, and the screams of the Death Eaters who had got hit with their own curse barely reached Lanas ears, she was to far gone in the power to really control anything.
Over head, the sky went dark and lightning crashed.
The Death Eaters had recovered and were now bashing the protective dome with all kinds of curses, and it was mentally, emotionally and physically hurting Lana, as each spell hit the dome, a scratch appeared on Lanas back, getting longer and deeper as more spells hit it. She was struggling to keep it up.
The dome flickered for a second, and a spell got through and just grazed Lily and Sirius head, missing them by millimetres. Sirius was watching Lana, as was Lily and James, having no idea how she was doing what she was doing. Sirius noticed the blood seeping through Lanas white t-shirt and shouted to her.
"LANA STOP IT! YOURE HURTING YOURSELF!"
Lana saw this, and flung her right arm across her left, and blasted the four Death Eaters into the air, sending bits of the ground flying into the air. The screams of the Death Eaters as Lana burnt them up using a dangerous power, one that she didnt know she had, Pyrokenisis. She was shaking violently, grinding her teeth through the pain.
Voldemort roared in anger, and the remaining Death Eaters continued throwing spells at the dome, and the cuts continued getting deeper and longer and bleeding more as they did so.
"HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?" Voldemort roared, flinging a curse at it himself, just above Lanas head, and when that hit, Lana fell to her knees, screaming as the cuts went deeper.
"LANA! STOP IT! ITS HURTING YOU! LET THE DAMN WALL DOWN" Sirius shouted to her.
"Sirius come ON!" James said, pulling at him.
"NO! I CANT LEAVE HER!"
Lana turned and looked at Sirius, Lily and James. Her eyes were glowing a bright white. "GO! IM NOT DOING THIS FOR THE FUN OF IT YOU KNOW!"
James marveled at her. Still able to be sarcastic.
"Come on Sirius," James said again, still tugging at him with one hand and holding Lily with the other.
"NO!"
"Looks to me like she can handle herself" James noted.
"LANA!" Sirius shouted, as she screamed in pain and almost fell from her knees onto her face.
"DAMMIT GO!" she screamed, and James yanked Sirius away, and then they disapparated with a soft pop.
Lana fell to the floor, bleeding heavily, exhausted, and Voldemort lifted his hand up to stop his Death Eaters from killing her.
He was filled with rage, but also a deep curiousity. "Looks like we have ourselves something very powerful here..." he mused, and muttered something that tied Lana up and then he disappeared with Lana.
~*~*~*~*~*~ABOUT 10 MINUTES LATER~*~*~*~*~*~
Sirius paced the Order of the Phoenix's Headquaters as he waited for Dumbledore to get back from outside the Shrieking Shack with Lana.
"I cant believe it...I cant believe what she did..." Lily muttered, still white and shaking. "What did she do?" she asked, looking around at James, Sirius, Mad-Eye, Peter, the Longbottoms, and a few other members.
"She saved us, thats what she did" Sirius said sharply. "I dont know how tho, I dont what she did, you cant, you just cant deflect or protect yourself from those curses...But Lana did. She deflected and protected us, and everytime she did, it etched away at her body, making her bleed all over the place."
"Bravest thing Ive ever seen" James muttered. "Well, guess Im not the most powerful wizard of our generation, eh Sirius?" he said, trying to lighten the mood.
"I shouldnt have let her do it. I should be protecting her." Sirius said, finally sitting down.
"Well youre all safe, and thats the main thing" Mad Eye said.
"NO ITS NOT! LANAS STILL OUT THERE! SHE COULD BE DEAD! SHE COULD BE DEAD!" Sirius said, his voice breaking.
"Sooner dead than in the hands of Voldemort." Moody stated.
Peter was talking with the other members. "What is she, Moody? No one can do that. Not even Dumbledore."
Moody shrugged.
James was comforting Lily, who was shaken and had started crying again.
Sirius was banging his head against the wall.
Moody was leaning against the table.
Dumbledore walked in, his face ashen, carrying something in his hand.
The whole room turned expectantly to Dumbledore. Sirius turned around slowly and looked at Dumbledore.
"Where is she?" he asked, his voice shaking.
"Sirius, I - " Dumbledore began.
"Dont tell me shes not there." Sirius pleaded.
Dumbledore shook his head. "Im sorry Sirius."
He felt like all the air had gone out of the room. He could barely breathe, couldnt listen to this.
Lily broke down sobbing. James was shocked beyond words.
"Do I even want to know what you found?" he asked, his whole body trembling, his voice shaking so badly.
"A lot of blood. And this." Dumbledore said, opening his hand and showing Sirius the gold locket that he had brought Lana for her birthday, about 3 days ago. He handed it to Sirius, who was trembling so much he almost dropped it.
"Is...Do...But..Shes still alive, right?" he asked, not daring to hope too much.
"I think so, yes."
"YOU THINK!?! THATS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! SHE HAS TO BE! SHE HAS TO BE ALIVE!" Sirius shouted, thumping the wall at the side of him.
Lily ran from the room and into the bathroom, and vomited.
He bit down hard on his lip, making it bleed as he pulled his hand out of the wall.
"Sirius...From what you told me...Lana has an awesome power that goes far beyond what any of us have ever seen or dealt with before. So my train of thought is, that, having seen this, Voldemort will keep Lana alive. Try and figure out what she is. Try and get her onto the dark side."
"Lana would never" Sirius said quietly.
//////////////////// VOLDEMORTS WEAKNESS \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Lana knew before she opened her eyes that she was chained up. Her wrists were sore from how tight they were, and she pulled her hands to her face to push her hair from it. The chains gave and Lana pushed the hair from her face, and let out a groan, because her back was hurting like hell.
"Our guest has finally woken up." said a voice that sent chills all the way down Lanas spine. Voldemort.
Oh God, Lana thought..."Sirius!" she said, sitting up quickly and biting on her lip to not scream in pain. She opened her eyes and saw...well just blackness to start off with. Her eyes adjusted to the dark, damp cavern lit by a few candles. She looked at the cuffs around her wrists. They were about 3 inches long,preventing her from bending her wrists. At least my hands are seperate, Lana thought, and looked up, seeing the chains were long, to give her some space to walk around. She leant back against the caves scratchy, rough wall and looked at the people in front of her. She was terrified.
Voldemort chuckled at Lana. "Hes safe....For now."
"What did you do?" Lana asked, her voice shaking, in fear of Voldemort, in fear that Sirius was dead, and in slight anger.
"Nothing...Thanks to you." a voice from the corner said, if you could classify a corner.
Lana strained her eyes to see that around 20 Death Eaters were stood in a semi-circle around her, with Voldemort in the centre, his wand pointed right at her.
"Silence," Voldemort commanded. "But he is quite right. How did you do that Lana?" he asked, and he sounded mildy curious.
Lana didnt know what to do. She didnt know, but if she said she didnt know, he would kill her because she had no information. She licked her lips and looked around at the 20 Death Eaters, and knew it was no point in trying to make a break for it. Like I could anyway, Lana thought, with these bloody things on me. She decided that the best thing, well, the best you could get, although it wasnt smart, was to act like she did know.
"Like Id tell you." she said simply.
Voldemort narrowed his eyes and took a step towards Lana. "You will tell me. How did you block those curses? Its impossible."
"Obviously not if I did it." Lana said, sarcastically, and she couldnt believe she had just said that. She clapped her hands over her mouth.
"How dare you be so disrespectful!" Lestrange said, and a flash of blue light flew from her wand, and Lana ducked, and its singed her hair slightly.
"Rude ! We're talking !" Lana said to Lestrange, and Voldemort chuckled slightly.
"Fiesty little girl." he commented, smiling at Lana, then he turned his gaze to Lestrange. "Dont do that."
"Sorry Master" Lestrange said, stepping back.
Lana shook her head. "Wow. Youre all so whipped."
Voldemort chuckled again. "Dumbledores got you pretty whipped too, Lana."
"Im suprised you can say his name. Hed kick your ass. No, wait, let me rephrase....He HAS kicked your ass."
Voldemorts faced darkened. "Let me rephrase. Sirius has you whipped."
Lana shrugged. "So?" this shocked Voldemort, and a ripple went through the cavern. "Id rather be whipped by someone I love with all my heart and soul, than whipped by someone who I only love out of fear for him."
Her heart ached to think of Sirius, of what he must be going through..and that meant if Sirius was okay, so were Lily and James. Lana had felt her belief that Voldemort would fall wavering a little lately, and also she felt her belief that they were all going to make it out a live wavering a LOT. But there was one person who kept Lana hoping, believing, and in this case, knowing that she had to survive and make it out of here, and that was Sirius. True, she would rather die than see him die, but just as much she didnt want to die and leave him. Or leave him alone. Lana would rather have her heart broken that break Sirius by dying.
Voldemort looked down at Lana. "Aww, how cute are you? Loving someone like Sirius...you know he can never love you back as much as you want him too."
"What the hell would you know about what we have? You cant love. You never have. In fact, I dont think you even born with a goddam soul." Lana snapped, hardly believing she was being so brave. But he was pissing her off !
"I wonder how he would feel, if I killed you, dismembered you and..Sent him the various body parts."
Lana stood up, spread her arms wide. "Go for it." she said, eyes glittering.
A ripple went around the room, and the Death Eaters stirred a little.
He raised his wand, and pointed it at Lanas chest. She lifted her chin. "Free shot." she told him.
Voldemort sighed. "You know I dont like to do that. I like to..Make you think you have a sporting chance by giving you back your wand."
"I dont need my wand" Lana said, the words just rolling out of her mouth.
"True..You dont seem to need your wand." Voldemort lowered his wand. "But still...I wonder what Sirius would say, finding his dead lovers body in little itty bitty pieces..."
Lestrange laughed. "The ikkle kiddy love Siriusy..."
"Do you think hed cry, Lana..." Voldemort tormented her, his eyes glittering malicously. "Do you think hed cry? Do you think hed go into a rage and come stampeding after me, and that Lily, James and the rest of your little group of buddies would come after him, but wait...Its too late. Theyve already walked into the trap. Then I kill them all....And send their remains to Dumbledore?"
Lana looked at his steely gaze, and gave him one right back.
"Or maybe...Maybe...Theyre already doing that." Voldemort said. Lanas heart started hammering in her chest.
"What do you mean?"
Voldemort grinned. "Maybe I dont have to be that graphic....Maybe I just have to...Hint that you could be dead, that should be enough to send them coming after you...and after me..then - " Voldemort flicked his wand "flick flick flick flick flick..all dead. All your fault. And youd watch, too."
The Death Eaters laughed lowly.
Lanas head was spinning. Voldemort hadnt planned on them getting away, so when he grabbed Lana...he saw the perfect opportunity to draw them to him...Oh God. Theyre all gonna die and its all my fault...No, wait..thats what Voldemort wants you to think....Hmm...Come on, come on...Lana think of something dammit...
"Okay." she said..and immediately wondered where the hell she was gonna go from there.
"Okay?" Voldemort asked.
"Okay. Do it. Id love to see you get shot down when your at your most arrogant...I thought James was a swell-head, but....Not compared to you." Lana waved her arms in the air "OOooooooo Im the Dark Lord, Ooooo Im so BAD" she mocked him, "I have all these people around me, but I had to use the Imperius curse on them to get them to join me, cos they all knew what an ASSHOLE I am....And how much of a LAME wizard I am.."
This caused shrieks of outrage from the Death Eaters, and several shot spells and curses at her, but Lanas eyes went white and she deflected them easily, smashing into the sides of the cavarn.
"SUCH DISRESPECT!" Lestrange shouted over and over again.
"Cos I cant to ANYTHING on my own...I have to have all these people around me to remind me of how BAD I am..cos im BAD BAD BAD.." Lana continued mocking, and stopped, an insane kind of grin on her face.
Sirius looked down at Lana, as the sunlight filtered through the slightly open curtains. Her dark brown hair was mussed up, a little blood was in it. Sirius felt his heart ache so bad, the guilt of letting her get captured almost too much to bear these past 2 days, and then the sitting around and being told not to do anything...He had to do something...But no, Dumbledore told him, theres nothing you can do now. He hated that Dumbledore spoke about her like she was already dead, and after the power that Lana had burst through last night, how he had explained what had happened, that she had sacrificed herself to save him, Lily and James. Sirius was angry. His heart had been breaking these past few days, he had been tearing his hair out, just wanting Lana back alive.
Lana turned onto her stomach in her sleep, pulling the covers away from her, they were irritating her back. As she pulled them down, he saw the deep lacerations that went diagonally across her back, still fresh and raw and one had started bleeding slightly. His eyes travelled to the purple and yellow bruise on the bottom of her back, where she had said, in her weakened state, was there because she fell. He climbed out bed and walked over to the cabinet, took out some cloths and dipped them in water, walked over to the bed and wiped at the blood gently. He bit his lip as Lana winced in her sleep, and just as he finished, she groaned and turned over onto her side. She began itching the long, deep gash on her arm. He was suprised that she hadnt bled to death from it. He grabbed her hands and held them gently apart, so she couldnt make it, if possible, any worse. She had done this to herself protecting them. It should have been him protecting her. He was proud as hell of her tho, her complete selflessness.
She squirmed under his grasp, and he had to hold her tighter then he could have liked, and she kicked out at him, screaming "get off me, get off me" and Sirius felt a few tears fall for her, and she woke up and looked up at him, stopping screaming.
She was breathing hard, and it took her a few moments to realise that it was Sirius kneeling above her, holding her hands gently but firmly. Lana stopped struggling under his grasp and lay there, quiet and still, realising that she was at home with Sirius and she had managed to escape with her life. Barely.
"Im sorry" she whispered and he looked at her, horrified.
"What are you apologising for Lana?" he asked "Im the one thats sorry...I left you to get caught - " the words caught in his throat and Lana sat up, looking at him.
"No, it was my fault...I dont even know what happened..Where all that power came from..I just" Lana shook her head, shutitng her eyes and moving closer to Sirius, wrapping her arms around him and snuggling onto his shoulder, kissed his neck a little. "Im alive...Thats all that matters."
"I'm never letting you go now" he said, holding her tight and close.
When Lily, James, Sirius, Remus and Mad-Eye had saw her last night, they wanted to use magic on her to heal her injuries, but Lana had shook her head, saying that she had had enough magic used on her body these past few days, thankyou very much, and she just wanted to rest. To her great relief and appreciation, Dumbledore had agreed, saying the wounds would heal themselves in time and that Lana needed a great deal of rest to recover, mentally and phyisically. She was battered, bruised, broken beyond belief and just wanted to sleep. Dumbledore had told her to take as much time as she needed to rest before she could fill them in on what had happened.
~*~*~*~*~*~A FEW DAYS EARLIER~*~*~*~*~*~
Lana, Sirius, Lily and James had just left Remus at the Shrieking Shack and were walking down to the Three Broomsticks, (on Lanas request, instead of apparating, she wanted to walk) when Voldemort, and 8 Death Eaters appeared. The only one with her hood down was Bellatrix Lestrange.
"Hello cousin" she said to Sirius, who snorted.
"No cousin of mine, you evil bitch" he retorted, as he reached for his wand. Lily and James already had theirs in their hands.
"Tut tut Sirius, such language" she laughed.
The Death Eaters formed a square around Lily, James, Sirius and Lana. Two Death Eaters per person. Voldemorts stood to the bottom of them, facing Lana.
"Whats the matter, Voldy," James said "Have to gang up on us cos you know we'd kill you all easily?" he taunted.
"How dare you mock The Lord!" Lestrange said, enraged.
James and Sirius let out a laugh. "Some Lord" James said. Lily shushed him.
"Such arrogance" Voldemort spoke. "Well, I guess killing 4 out of the 6 closest to Dumbledore is as good as all 6...Besides, Ive been meaning to send him a message, and you seem to be constantly getting in my way. Two birds, one stone, you get me?"
"If youre so sure of yourself, why dont you send your little boy scouts home and kill us yourself?" Sirius asked, looking at the two Death Eaters that decided they were gonna have a pop at him, but looking at Lana from the corner of his eye, wondering why she hadnt got her wand out.
Lana was frozen to the spot, with fear, this was the first time shed come face to face with Voldemort. She managed to note that Lily James and Sirus had backed into kind of a square, leaving only the front of their bodies open to attack, whilst Lana didnt know what to do first, grab her wand or run, or who to watch.
Sirius reached out with his free hand and wrapped it around her wrist, pulling her towards him. "Lana..Honey...Get your damn wand out" he told her.
James was actually terrified, but he was still an arrogant son of a bitch, and a damn good wizard, the best of his generation, along with Sirius. And he wasnt going to go down without a bit of banter and without a fight first. He took Lilys right hand in his left hand and squeezed it tightly.
Sirius was thinking rapidly of curses, but to be honest, all he cared about was Lana. Self-preservation used to be his biggest motivation, but now his biggest motivation for fighting was Lanas safety. Also, Lily and James. He would die for his friends, his girlfriend before ever running out them. Self-preservation came a big second to that, but again, he only didnt want to die and leave Lana.
"I love you" he whispered.
"Oh how sweet" Voldemort sneered. "Must say though, a good choice of last words. Because they are. Your. Last. Words."
Lana still hadnt grabbed her wand, and Sirius was really woried that she would be hurt.
Lestrange laughed manically at Sirius, her eyes glinting, bordering on psychotic.
"Awwwwwwww" she mocked.
"Youre gonna die, Bella, and Im gonna be there to watch it," Sirius told her.
"Dont talk like that." Lana whispered, although she hadnt moved her lips at all. Sirius noticed this, and Lily and James eyes wavered a little as they must have heard it too. But none of them said anything. "Dont talk like were going to die here. Were not."
"Lana..get your damn wand" Sirius whispered again.
The Death Eaters moved closer, their wands raised, waiting for Voldemorts command.
Lana didnt know why she hadnt reached for her "damn wand". But she did feel her surivival instincts kicking in. Fight or flight. Definately not flight. She would never abandon her friends and Sirius just to save her own ass. Right now, she was halfway through deciding what to do when she felt Sirius hand on hers. Lana was torn between fear and anger. The anger was getting more and more, especially as she heard Lestrange mocking Sirius. Lana felt a strange sensation flowing through her. It started at her feet, and worked its way up through her body. The energy, the heat that she felt was making the hairs on her arms stand up. As the feeling reached her hands and face, she looked down and saw that she was crackling. Little sparks of blue and red were sparking from her upturned palms. Lana was totally confused, but the power that she was feeling, oh the power...It was intoxicating, and totally seductive. Lana felt herself surrendering to the power, and what an effect it had.
The Death Eaters had paused, staring at Lana.
Sirius, James and Lily frowned, and half glanced at Lana as she stepped away from them, and stood about 3 metres away from Voldemort.
"What the hell are you doing?!?" James shouted after her, and Lily had gone even whiter.
"Lana no" she whispered, having some idea of what she thought Lana was doing.
Sirius stared at the Death Eaters oppsite Lana, and saw them raise their wands.
Voldemort stared at Lana, at the way the energy around her crackled.
"Enough of this bullshit" he said, and raised his wand as, The Death Eaters, as one, at Voldemorts command, shouted
"CRUCIO"
"NOOOOOOOOOO" Lana screamed, and flung her arms out, parallel to the ground, the two middle fingers on her hands down, her thumbs pressing down on them.
A blast of cold air whipped around the group, and surrounded Sirius, Lily and James, with only a gap where Lana was stood. The cold air fizzled and cracked with energy, making loud bangs as the "Crucio" curse rebounded off the invisible shield that Lana had threw up and the Death Eaters scrambled to dodge them as they deflected off the dome. Lana lifted her arms up a little more, and the bottom 3 feet of the dome became fire, it ripped around the bottom from Lanas left side to her right side.
Voldemorts eyes widened in panic, and the screams of the Death Eaters who had got hit with their own curse barely reached Lanas ears, she was to far gone in the power to really control anything.
Over head, the sky went dark and lightning crashed.
The Death Eaters had recovered and were now bashing the protective dome with all kinds of curses, and it was mentally, emotionally and physically hurting Lana, as each spell hit the dome, a scratch appeared on Lanas back, getting longer and deeper as more spells hit it. She was struggling to keep it up.
The dome flickered for a second, and a spell got through and just grazed Lily and Sirius head, missing them by millimetres. Sirius was watching Lana, as was Lily and James, having no idea how she was doing what she was doing. Sirius noticed the blood seeping through Lanas white t-shirt and shouted to her.
"LANA STOP IT! YOURE HURTING YOURSELF!"
Lana saw this, and flung her right arm across her left, and blasted the four Death Eaters into the air, sending bits of the ground flying into the air. The screams of the Death Eaters as Lana burnt them up using a dangerous power, one that she didnt know she had, Pyrokenisis. She was shaking violently, grinding her teeth through the pain.
Voldemort roared in anger, and the remaining Death Eaters continued throwing spells at the dome, and the cuts continued getting deeper and longer and bleeding more as they did so.
"HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?" Voldemort roared, flinging a curse at it himself, just above Lanas head, and when that hit, Lana fell to her knees, screaming as the cuts went deeper.
"LANA! STOP IT! ITS HURTING YOU! LET THE DAMN WALL DOWN" Sirius shouted to her.
"Sirius come ON!" James said, pulling at him.
"NO! I CANT LEAVE HER!"
Lana turned and looked at Sirius, Lily and James. Her eyes were glowing a bright white. "GO! IM NOT DOING THIS FOR THE FUN OF IT YOU KNOW!"
James marveled at her. Still able to be sarcastic.
"Come on Sirius," James said again, still tugging at him with one hand and holding Lily with the other.
"NO!"
"Looks to me like she can handle herself" James noted.
"LANA!" Sirius shouted, as she screamed in pain and almost fell from her knees onto her face.
"DAMMIT GO!" she screamed, and James yanked Sirius away, and then they disapparated with a soft pop.
Lana fell to the floor, bleeding heavily, exhausted, and Voldemort lifted his hand up to stop his Death Eaters from killing her.
He was filled with rage, but also a deep curiousity. "Looks like we have ourselves something very powerful here..." he mused, and muttered something that tied Lana up and then he disappeared with Lana.
~*~*~*~*~*~ABOUT 10 MINUTES LATER~*~*~*~*~*~
Sirius paced the Order of the Phoenix's Headquaters as he waited for Dumbledore to get back from outside the Shrieking Shack with Lana.
"I cant believe it...I cant believe what she did..." Lily muttered, still white and shaking. "What did she do?" she asked, looking around at James, Sirius, Mad-Eye, Peter, the Longbottoms, and a few other members.
"She saved us, thats what she did" Sirius said sharply. "I dont know how tho, I dont what she did, you cant, you just cant deflect or protect yourself from those curses...But Lana did. She deflected and protected us, and everytime she did, it etched away at her body, making her bleed all over the place."
"Bravest thing Ive ever seen" James muttered. "Well, guess Im not the most powerful wizard of our generation, eh Sirius?" he said, trying to lighten the mood.
"I shouldnt have let her do it. I should be protecting her." Sirius said, finally sitting down.
"Well youre all safe, and thats the main thing" Mad Eye said.
"NO ITS NOT! LANAS STILL OUT THERE! SHE COULD BE DEAD! SHE COULD BE DEAD!" Sirius said, his voice breaking.
"Sooner dead than in the hands of Voldemort." Moody stated.
Peter was talking with the other members. "What is she, Moody? No one can do that. Not even Dumbledore."
Moody shrugged.
James was comforting Lily, who was shaken and had started crying again.
Sirius was banging his head against the wall.
Moody was leaning against the table.
Dumbledore walked in, his face ashen, carrying something in his hand.
The whole room turned expectantly to Dumbledore. Sirius turned around slowly and looked at Dumbledore.
"Where is she?" he asked, his voice shaking.
"Sirius, I - " Dumbledore began.
"Dont tell me shes not there." Sirius pleaded.
Dumbledore shook his head. "Im sorry Sirius."
He felt like all the air had gone out of the room. He could barely breathe, couldnt listen to this.
Lily broke down sobbing. James was shocked beyond words.
"Do I even want to know what you found?" he asked, his whole body trembling, his voice shaking so badly.
"A lot of blood. And this." Dumbledore said, opening his hand and showing Sirius the gold locket that he had brought Lana for her birthday, about 3 days ago. He handed it to Sirius, who was trembling so much he almost dropped it.
"Is...Do...But..Shes still alive, right?" he asked, not daring to hope too much.
"I think so, yes."
"YOU THINK!?! THATS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! SHE HAS TO BE! SHE HAS TO BE ALIVE!" Sirius shouted, thumping the wall at the side of him.
Lily ran from the room and into the bathroom, and vomited.
He bit down hard on his lip, making it bleed as he pulled his hand out of the wall.
"Sirius...From what you told me...Lana has an awesome power that goes far beyond what any of us have ever seen or dealt with before. So my train of thought is, that, having seen this, Voldemort will keep Lana alive. Try and figure out what she is. Try and get her onto the dark side."
"Lana would never" Sirius said quietly.
//////////////////// VOLDEMORTS WEAKNESS \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Lana knew before she opened her eyes that she was chained up. Her wrists were sore from how tight they were, and she pulled her hands to her face to push her hair from it. The chains gave and Lana pushed the hair from her face, and let out a groan, because her back was hurting like hell.
"Our guest has finally woken up." said a voice that sent chills all the way down Lanas spine. Voldemort.
Oh God, Lana thought..."Sirius!" she said, sitting up quickly and biting on her lip to not scream in pain. She opened her eyes and saw...well just blackness to start off with. Her eyes adjusted to the dark, damp cavern lit by a few candles. She looked at the cuffs around her wrists. They were about 3 inches long,preventing her from bending her wrists. At least my hands are seperate, Lana thought, and looked up, seeing the chains were long, to give her some space to walk around. She leant back against the caves scratchy, rough wall and looked at the people in front of her. She was terrified.
Voldemort chuckled at Lana. "Hes safe....For now."
"What did you do?" Lana asked, her voice shaking, in fear of Voldemort, in fear that Sirius was dead, and in slight anger.
"Nothing...Thanks to you." a voice from the corner said, if you could classify a corner.
Lana strained her eyes to see that around 20 Death Eaters were stood in a semi-circle around her, with Voldemort in the centre, his wand pointed right at her.
"Silence," Voldemort commanded. "But he is quite right. How did you do that Lana?" he asked, and he sounded mildy curious.
Lana didnt know what to do. She didnt know, but if she said she didnt know, he would kill her because she had no information. She licked her lips and looked around at the 20 Death Eaters, and knew it was no point in trying to make a break for it. Like I could anyway, Lana thought, with these bloody things on me. She decided that the best thing, well, the best you could get, although it wasnt smart, was to act like she did know.
"Like Id tell you." she said simply.
Voldemort narrowed his eyes and took a step towards Lana. "You will tell me. How did you block those curses? Its impossible."
"Obviously not if I did it." Lana said, sarcastically, and she couldnt believe she had just said that. She clapped her hands over her mouth.
"How dare you be so disrespectful!" Lestrange said, and a flash of blue light flew from her wand, and Lana ducked, and its singed her hair slightly.
"Rude ! We're talking !" Lana said to Lestrange, and Voldemort chuckled slightly.
"Fiesty little girl." he commented, smiling at Lana, then he turned his gaze to Lestrange. "Dont do that."
"Sorry Master" Lestrange said, stepping back.
Lana shook her head. "Wow. Youre all so whipped."
Voldemort chuckled again. "Dumbledores got you pretty whipped too, Lana."
"Im suprised you can say his name. Hed kick your ass. No, wait, let me rephrase....He HAS kicked your ass."
Voldemorts faced darkened. "Let me rephrase. Sirius has you whipped."
Lana shrugged. "So?" this shocked Voldemort, and a ripple went through the cavern. "Id rather be whipped by someone I love with all my heart and soul, than whipped by someone who I only love out of fear for him."
Her heart ached to think of Sirius, of what he must be going through..and that meant if Sirius was okay, so were Lily and James. Lana had felt her belief that Voldemort would fall wavering a little lately, and also she felt her belief that they were all going to make it out a live wavering a LOT. But there was one person who kept Lana hoping, believing, and in this case, knowing that she had to survive and make it out of here, and that was Sirius. True, she would rather die than see him die, but just as much she didnt want to die and leave him. Or leave him alone. Lana would rather have her heart broken that break Sirius by dying.
Voldemort looked down at Lana. "Aww, how cute are you? Loving someone like Sirius...you know he can never love you back as much as you want him too."
"What the hell would you know about what we have? You cant love. You never have. In fact, I dont think you even born with a goddam soul." Lana snapped, hardly believing she was being so brave. But he was pissing her off !
"I wonder how he would feel, if I killed you, dismembered you and..Sent him the various body parts."
Lana stood up, spread her arms wide. "Go for it." she said, eyes glittering.
A ripple went around the room, and the Death Eaters stirred a little.
He raised his wand, and pointed it at Lanas chest. She lifted her chin. "Free shot." she told him.
Voldemort sighed. "You know I dont like to do that. I like to..Make you think you have a sporting chance by giving you back your wand."
"I dont need my wand" Lana said, the words just rolling out of her mouth.
"True..You dont seem to need your wand." Voldemort lowered his wand. "But still...I wonder what Sirius would say, finding his dead lovers body in little itty bitty pieces..."
Lestrange laughed. "The ikkle kiddy love Siriusy..."
"Do you think hed cry, Lana..." Voldemort tormented her, his eyes glittering malicously. "Do you think hed cry? Do you think hed go into a rage and come stampeding after me, and that Lily, James and the rest of your little group of buddies would come after him, but wait...Its too late. Theyve already walked into the trap. Then I kill them all....And send their remains to Dumbledore?"
Lana looked at his steely gaze, and gave him one right back.
"Or maybe...Maybe...Theyre already doing that." Voldemort said. Lanas heart started hammering in her chest.
"What do you mean?"
Voldemort grinned. "Maybe I dont have to be that graphic....Maybe I just have to...Hint that you could be dead, that should be enough to send them coming after you...and after me..then - " Voldemort flicked his wand "flick flick flick flick flick..all dead. All your fault. And youd watch, too."
The Death Eaters laughed lowly.
Lanas head was spinning. Voldemort hadnt planned on them getting away, so when he grabbed Lana...he saw the perfect opportunity to draw them to him...Oh God. Theyre all gonna die and its all my fault...No, wait..thats what Voldemort wants you to think....Hmm...Come on, come on...Lana think of something dammit...
"Okay." she said..and immediately wondered where the hell she was gonna go from there.
"Okay?" Voldemort asked.
"Okay. Do it. Id love to see you get shot down when your at your most arrogant...I thought James was a swell-head, but....Not compared to you." Lana waved her arms in the air "OOooooooo Im the Dark Lord, Ooooo Im so BAD" she mocked him, "I have all these people around me, but I had to use the Imperius curse on them to get them to join me, cos they all knew what an ASSHOLE I am....And how much of a LAME wizard I am.."
This caused shrieks of outrage from the Death Eaters, and several shot spells and curses at her, but Lanas eyes went white and she deflected them easily, smashing into the sides of the cavarn.
"SUCH DISRESPECT!" Lestrange shouted over and over again.
"Cos I cant to ANYTHING on my own...I have to have all these people around me to remind me of how BAD I am..cos im BAD BAD BAD.." Lana continued mocking, and stopped, an insane kind of grin on her face.
