Chapter Six: Die Another Day
"I think I'll find another way
There's so much more to know
I guess I'll die another day
It's not my time to go"
Vider woke up with a pain in her wrists. She looked down and saw she was shackled to a steel chair. She saw someone in dark green robes standing in front of her.
"Hello, Vider." The person said as she lifted off her hood. It revealed her to be a middle-aged woman with silver hair and pale blue eyes. Vider was reminded of someone that she knew.
"I suppose your wondering who I am and why I have captured you. That I will not release to you yet, though the world will know of me before long." She said walking over to Vider.
"I see that you have great skills." She said, stroking the girl's face. "You would be a useful addition to the Slayers. Though I dare say that you are not too tempted to join the ranks of the my followers. Yet."
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It seemed that she and Draco had been flying forever; she had been nearly asleep when she felt her feet brush the ground. Draco set his broom behind a tree and took her hand as they went inside the ancient castle.
"We need to stay together, okay? You never know what sort of things could be in here." He whispered. Ginny thought she heard voices so she and Draco went to investigate. When they got outside the room that the voices were coming from Ginny collapsed against the wall. As Draco bent down to her the door opened slowly.
"Ah, my dear Draco. You've come just in time to witness torture. I know how much you love that."
Draco just stood there.
"Now, son, is that any way to greet your mother?" Narcissa Malfoy said.
"Hello, mother." He said, his voice a low hiss.
"That's a little bit better, but it is still very rude and I think you must be punished. Adflictatio!"
Draco felt a pain worse than anything he had ever felt before. Even worse than when his father put him under the Cruciatus Curse. Suddenly the pain stopped.
"Wonderful little spell, isn't it? I made it myself. Now I think it is time to get this dear of a girl to consent to being a Slayer, don't you think?"
She then said "Praepedio!" and Draco was bound to the wall. Then, making sure Draco was watching, pointed her wand at Vider and said "Distorqueo!" He watched as Vider's body twisted into shapes no one should ever be. His ears rang with the sound of Vider screaming into the night.
He heard Vider yell, "All right, I will join!" The screaming stopped and Vider's shackles dropped. Vider walked over to Narcissa and was ordered to kneel.
"I will now induct you into the ranks of the Slayers." She said, raising her wand. "Narcissus Macula!"
Draco couldn't see very well, but there was definitely something yellow on Vider's ankle. Narcissa turned to Draco.
"I don't want to kill you yet; you and your little friend over there" she pointed to Ginny "will definitely prove useful to me in the future. But we can't have you running around telling all of you little friends now can we? Obliviate!" Draco felt himself drop to the floor, then his eyelids shut and he was in the world of the conscious no more.
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Ginny woke up on a cold hard surface. She opened her eyes and saw she was in the astronomy tower, with Draco lying next to her. She poked him until he woke up.
"Ow, Ginny, what'd you do that for?" He said groggily.
"You wouldn't wake up." She said childishly.
"And that's a good excuse for poking me to death?" He whined.
"Yes."
"Ah, I see your logic now…" He said, pretending to go along with her and then… "Then I will poke you back!"
He started poking her while she desperately tried to fight back.
"Stop it!" She said, giggling.
"What time is it?" She said. He stopped prodding her to look at his watch.
"It's eight. We should probably go to breakfast."
They walked in silence down to the Great Hall. Given that there weren't many people there since it was Boxing Day Draco and Ginny decided to sit together. Across the hall a certain bushy-haired Prefect watched them in curiosity. Who'd have thought; Ginny and Malfoy…