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Chapter 11: Knapped

Alexis woke early that morning after another nightmare. It was then she decided to skip her classes and sleep in with a dreamless sleep potion that Madame Pomfrey had given her a few weeks ago.

Alexis realized she was sweating through her pajamas when she sat up and pulled her knees to her chest, laying her face on them. She sobbed silently, as to not wake the sleeping boys in the adjacent room. The dream kept replaying itself in her mind. Repeatedly she saw Voldemort kill her brother and Draco because she was 'disobedient'. He did not even bother to use the killing curse, slashing the boys' throats and holding her back so that she could not heal them. She could still smell their blood and see the looks in their eyes as they fought for their lives, struggling to breathe. She sobbed as she always did when she had these horrid nightmares that plagued her.

She looked up after hearing scuffling and saw a talk dark haired boy. "Lex, are you alright?" Harry asked running his hand through his hair.

"Fine, Raven," Alexis forced a smile. "Go back to sleep."

"Don't lie to me Alexis," Harry sat next to her. He poured some water into the bowl by her bed and dipped a washcloth in the cool water. He rubbed the cloth on her back. "What happened?"

"Nothing," Alexis muttered and hid her face in her knees. "It was just a nightmare. Where's Draco?"

"Sleeping," Harry said shortly. "Tell me about it."

"No."

"Lex, don't be so stubborn," Harry told her. "You'll feel better if you tell me."

"No I won't," Alexis' head snapped up and she looked into Harry's eyes. "He's trying to scare me, and it's not going to work. So just forget about it."

"Well he's doing a good job about it if you're waking up sweating and crying," Harry rubbed her back soothingly. "Tell me."

Alexis smiled weakly and leaned into her brother's embrace. "I would rather not talk about it. Just promise me one thing."

"What's that?"

"Promise me that you and Draco won't come after me," Alexis said quietly. "When He comes to get me."

"I'm not going let Voldemort just take you!" Harry growled.

"Fine," Alexis huffed. "Do what you want, but don't say I didn't warn you."

"What are you going on about?" Harry eyed her.

"Never mind…" Alexis' head nodded and she shook herself awake. "Raven, go back to sleep. You shouldn't waste sleep over me."

"I'm not going to leave you like this," Harry told her, rubbing her back, still hugging her. "I know what it's like after these nightmares. Tell me about it, please."

"I'd rather not," Alexis inhaled deeply. The sent of blood was fading, and instead she got a nose full of Harry's musky sent. Harry looked at her with pleading eyes. Alexis sighed and gave in. "It was just another dream about Voldie offing you and Draco."

"Obviously it was more than that," Harry said softly, squeezing his sister. "Tell me."

Alexis muttered something and after some more coaxing from Harry she finally told him. "He forced me to watch the life drain out of you and Draco," Alexis began slowly, eyes closed. "He slashed your throats and kept me from healing you. I could see the look of terror in yours and Draco's eyes. I could smell the blood and taste the fear. Oh, gods, I could feel the pain in my chest. You both were begging me to help, but I couldn't. My final punishment was watching you die."

Harry shushed her softly rocking her back and forth, like Hermione and Ron used to do to him when he had nightmares.

He pulled her out of her bed and grabbed the dreamless sleep potion off her nightstand. Alexis looked puzzled and allowed herself to be led into the adjacent room where Draco lay sleeping. Harry motioned for her to crawl into bed and handed her the potion to drink.

Alexis opened her mouth to say something, but Harry shook his head and she downed the potion, grimacing. She snuggled into the pillows and felt Harry lay besides her. She knew Harry thought, and knew, she would feel safe with him and Draco, so for the first time that morning, Alexis smiled and fell asleep.

"What's she doing in here?" Draco asked Harry softly.

"Shhh," Harry told him. "You'll wake her."

Alexis buried her face deeper into the pillow and listened to the boys talk. "Why did she come in here?"

"I told her to," Harry said shortly.

"Why?"

"Because she had a nightmare."

"She hasn't had a nightmare bad enough to crawl into bed with me in a long time," Draco said thoughtfully. "How bad was it?"

"Bad enough to make her cry," Harry told him. "Now either go back to sleep or take a damned shower. I'm tired."

"As am I, so both of you shut your traps," Alexis snuggled deeper into the blankets.

"Go back to your own bed," Draco poked her.

"Bite me," Alexis groaned, pulling herself out of bed. "At least someone cared enough about little ol' me to come check on me after my nightmare. By the way, I'm not going to classes today."

"And why not?" Draco asked as Harry mumbled something.

"Because, Draco, I'm tired and cranky and I got maybe four fucking hours of sleep," Alexis huffed. "So if it's ok with you, Master Draco, I would like to get some sleep."

Draco winced. "I was just asking. I don't have a good feeling about leaving you here."

Alexis waved her hand. "Don't worry about it. I won't leave my room, I promise. G'night."

The last thing Alexis remember before falling asleep was Harry tucking her in before leaving to the Great Hall. A few hours later, Alexis woke up by being slammed against the wall with a sickening crack.

"What the FUCK?" Alexis groaned standing, feeling the blood run down her back while having a hand wrap tightly around her neck.

Alexis choked and looked into the eyes of Peter Pettigrew. "If you call anyone for help or scream I'll make the remainder of your life miserable."

Alexis glared as he tightened his grip. She gagged and struggled to breathe and nodded her agreement. Peter loosened his grip. "Just in case," he muttered the silencing charm and Alexis glared. "Now be a good girl and take hold of this Portkey."

Alexis shook her head and folded her arms quickly. Peter wrapped his hand around her throat again and put his lips uncomfortably close to her ear. "Do it," he hissed. Alexis cringed and cursed herself for being weak. "And if you tell your good for nothing brother where we are, I promise, you'll live to regret it."

Alexis swallowed and nodded, holding her hand out to the Portkey, feeling the familiar tug and ended up somewhere she didn't recognize.

Peter turned to her and leaned into her ear. "You look exactly like your mother," he purred. He kissed her cheek as Alexis flinched away. "It's a shame the Dark Lord had to kill her before I got to repay her for making me her secret keeper. But I can always repay her through you."

Alexis closed her eyes before the tears could escape. Just then, she heard a familiar voice. "Wormtail, leave the girl alone," Lucius growled. "Alexis, come."

Alexis scurried to the elder Malfoy and followed him to a room. "Alexis, sit," Lucius motioned to a vacant chair. She did as she was told. "I'll be back to collect you, for now, relax, Wormtail will leave you alone, if he knows what's good for him."

Alexis nodded and sat quietly (well not that she had much of a choice, but you get the point). She looked around the room. It was dark, except for the light coming in from the window. Alexis looked around and noticed she was in a bedroom. The fire in the fireplace was roaring and outside, snow was coming down

fast. It was the middle of January and the feel of spring was coming.

Alexis climbed onto the window seat and hugged her knees looking out the window. Spring was coming and she wouldn't be able to see it. She wouldn't be able to see the Weasley twins again, or Ron's and Hermione's baby girl (which according to Alexis' premonition, would be born in about two years), or Harry's and Draco's wedding, or her 18th birthday. Alexis sighed and continued staring out of the window when the door opened again.

"Alexis," Lucius told her. "Come."

Alexis stood, feeling awkward in her bloodied pajamas and followed Lucius down to the kitchen. He put a plate in front of her and told her to eat.

Alexis gave him a quizzical look. "The Dark Lord wants your strength up, you will eat."

Alexis nodded and ate slowly. Savoring what could very well be her last meal. After she was done eating she was ushered back to the bedroom, where they were holding her captive. Alexis sighed and went back to her window seat, not trusting the men enough to go to sleep.

'Please don't let them come after me,' Alexis prayed silently. 'Please let them go on without me.'

Meanwhile, back at Hogwarts

"What do you mean she's gone?" Harry and Draco yelled. They were standing in Professor Dumbledore's office with the Order members, Ron, Hermione, Seamus, and Blaise.

"She can't be gone!" Harry yelled. "She was in her room a few hours ago! How does someone just disappear?!"

"Harry calm down," Ron told him. Harry wasn't listening to him and continued on his rant.

"She's my flesh and blood! I'll FUCKING KILL Voldemort if he hurts her," Harry growled.

"Harry, you have to kill him anyways," Draco said. "I'll fucking kill Marcus, that prat."

The Weasley twins, Sirius, and Remus were also ranting.

"You know who I should've killed? Peter…that no good, sorry, pitiful excuse of a man," Harry growled. "I'm sorry I ever fucking saved his fucking life, that rat…"

Ron had enough of this, Dumbledore was standing there looking amused and all the Order members were mad in one form or another. Ron stood on Dumbledore's desk. "EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

Everyone turned to look at him and gaped. Even Harry, who was thoroughly pissed and took this kidnapping more personal than all the other ones stopped ranting. "There's nothing we can accomplish if we get mad and start yelling at each other. We need to formulate a plan and get Alexis back," Ron took a breath. "The only way we can do that is if everyone remains calm. I know most of us have gotten attached to Alex over the past several months, and she has never once hidden from us the fact that Voldemort's lackeys were going to come 'collect' her. To be completely honest we should have been ready for this, but none of us wanted to believe it was going to happen. Now we need to listen to Dumbledore, ok? So everyone keep their traps shut for fifteen minutes so that Dumbledore can tell us what both what the evidence tells us happened and what he believes happened."

"Thank you Mr. Weasley," Dumbledore smiled as Ron climbed off the desk.

"Ron, that was so…hot," Hermione cooed. Ron blushed and took his seat next to his girlfriend.

"That took some serious balls, Weasley," Blaise smirked.

"Yeah, who knew the Weasel had it in him," Draco smirked, earning a sarcastic laugh and semi-soft punch from Ron.

"And who knew ferrets had a sense of humor," Ron retorted. He took a deep breath and smiled at a grinning Draco. "Professor, if you please."

"I was informed by Dobby and Winky, two of the House Elves here," Dumbledore explained. "While they were cleaning Miss Potter's room, that there was blood dripping from the walls, with a large pool at the bottom. Also footprints were found indicating a struggle of some sort. While Severus and I went to investigate the scene, the rest of the school was enjoying their lunch. When we arrived, we did, in fact, see an alarming amount of blood covering the wall furthest from the bed and a pool of blood at the floor of the wall. Alexis Potter was in fact taken by force. We do not, however, have to be concerned with her injuries from this attack, since they should be healed by now." Dumbledore looked thoughtful. "I also believe that Marcus and his sons had no part of this kidnapping. Therefore, one of Voldemort's other men would have done it. I'm willing to say Peter."

"Why not Lucius?" Remus asked him.

"My father would never lay a hand on Alexis," Draco growled. "If he had come to collect her, she wouldn't have been harmed in any way."

Harry had his face buried in his hands. "We have to do something. One of the last things she said to me was to promise that Draco and I wouldn't go after her. She knew, she knew and she didn't tell me." Harry paused. "She had a nightmare this morning. Apparently Voldemort slashed mine and Draco's throats, forcing her to watch us die." Harry swallowed thickly. "It wasn't a vision…just a nightmare he was feeding her."

Everyone looked at Harry. "Harry," Draco began softly. "That wasn't the first time she had that dream." Harry and the rest of the Order looked at Draco confused. "She started getting those dreams when we figured out what our prophecy really meant, in 4th year." Draco bit his lip. "In some dreams we would be dismembered, others tortured, but in all she was forced to watch us die. I remember a few times I woke up and she was in the bathroom throwing up and coughing up blood. He made her feel what he was doing to us. She'd wake up with cuts and bruises. Father said that it was Voldemort's way of making sure she gave him what he wanted." Draco cracked a smile. "She's always been too stubborn for her own good."

Fred cleared his throat. "Harry? Do you think you can…you know, contact her?"

"I don't know," Harry said sadly. "I can try."

'Alexis? Can you hear me?'

'Yes.'

Harry smiled. 'Are you ok?'

'As good as expected.'

Harry's brow furrowed. "What the bloody hell does that mean!?"

"Uh, Harry," George began. "Not aloud."

Harry shook his head. "Sorry."

'I'm fine Raven.'

'You heard that?'

'It helps when you think what you say.'

Harry smiled. 'Where are you?'

'In a bedroom, in a house, somewhere…I don't know.'

Harry bit his lip. 'How did you get there?'

'I, erm, Peter woke me up…and he…erm, he made me take hold of a Portkey and we were here.'

'What did he do to make you go with him?'

'Oh, the usual. Threatened harm to me, to kill me. Nothing out of the ordinary, I daresay.'

Harry growled. 'How's your injury?'

'Oh, my head? It's fine…I'm stuck in these bloodied pjs though.'

'Ok, you tell me where you are when you find out.'

'No. You are not coming after me, I can handle myself.'

'Alexis…please.'

'I know what's going to happen and now's not the time for you to look for me,' she paused. 'You'll know where I am when you need to. Goodbye, big brother.'

Harry scowled as the Order stared at him. "Well?" The Twins said together.

"Oh, uhm…she's fine, she says her head has healed. Erm, Peter got her and Portkeyed her out of Hogwarts. She doesn't know where she is, but she says I will when it's time for me to know."

"If I'm not mistaken Lucius is good for something," Remus sighed.

"Father will make sure she's safe from harm," Draco said softly closing his eyes. "When Jacob raped her and she told me and I told Father, he cursed Jacob. Father believes that Alexis should be unharmed until Voldemort gets what he wants from her."

"What will happen to her if she gives him what he wants?" Hermione asked softly.

Draco swallowed thickly and opened his mouth, but no words came out. Blaise sighed. "He'll either kill her or give her to the Death Eaters to play with," Blaise paused thoughtfully. "If she does give him what he wants, I hope he has enough humanity left in him to kill her."

Harry and the twins snapped. "How could you hope that?"

"She deserves to live!"

"She-"

Blaise cut in. "The only reason she's survived this long is because of her powers. If they are taken away from her and she is given to the Death Eaters so they can play with her, she will not survive, at least not mentally. She will withdraw and she will beg to die. You don't know what they will do to her, and trust me, she'd be better off dead." Blaise paused. "As long as she keeps her power she's safe from anything Voldemort may want to do to her."

Draco nodded. "However, the longer she holds on to her power, the angrier he'll get. And that means he will make her suffer if she does finally give it up."

Snape grunted. "I realize that the common belief is that all Slytherins are cowards, but Miss Potter is not a normal Slytherin. She won't give Voldemort what he wants, no matter how long he tortures her," Snape paused. "If I'm not mistaken, that's exactly why she refuses to tell you where she is."

"Why's that?" Draco asked.

"I don't know if you are aware of Miss Potter's attachment to you both," McGonagal sighed softly. "But it's there, and it's been evident since she started here. She worked hard to ensure your relationship to each other and she worked hard to protect Mr. Potter from his nightmares. She's done quite a job with that, if you hadn't noticed, Mr. Potter."

"I didn't know she was getting my nightmares…" Harry said softly to himself, as Draco squeezed his hand.

"The only way Voldemort will get her to give up her power, to him, is to kill you both," Snape stated. "He knows, however, that to get to you, Mr. Potter, he needs to put Miss Potter in harms way."

Harry put his face in his hands. "So what you're saying is that I need to find her to save her, but I need to stay away to save me?"

"That sounds to be the jest of it," Tonks said softly, watching Harry.

"This was so much easier when I just had to kill Voldemort, no Alexis and no Draco," Harry muttered. "I mean it was live or die. I used to think there wasn't any thing to live for. Sirius was dead, my parents are dead, Cedric is dead. People were dying because of me. And now I have the choice to be a coward and let Alexis die, or go after her and possibly dying myself." He paused and stood. "I'm going for a walk. I have to clear my head."

Harry walked out of the office and Sirius stood. "I'm going to go talk to him."

Remus shook his head. "Not now, Siri, this is something he needs to do on his own."

"Like hell it is," Draco stood, followed by Blaise and the Gryffindors. "I won't let him do this alone. Not now, not ever."

Before any of the adults in the Order could say anything, the kids ran out after Harry.

"Harry, wait up," Ron yelled down the corridor. Harry turned to face the students running up to him.

Draco walked up to Harry and buried his face in the crook of Harry's neck and wrapped his arms around his waist pulling him close. Harry hesitantly wrapped his arms around Draco and sigh. "Harry we'll find her."

"What if we don't? She doesn't want us to come after her." Harry sighed sadly and put his forehead on Draco's shoulder.

"We will find her Harry," Hermione told him. "She said you'd know where to find her when the time's right. Don't you loose faith Harry, because if you do, we all will."

"This isn't easy for me 'Mione," Harry grumbled. "I can't be the world's rock. I won't be it. I fight for what I believe in, not what everyone expects me to fight for. I chose Gryffindor because I didn't want to become what Voldemort is. The decisions I've made were probably more selfish than anything, and now…now I need to find a way to rescue the last bit of blood I have left."

"That's not true Harry," Seamus began. "You went into the Chambers of Secrets to save Gin, so don't try to tell us all your decisions have been made for you. You've always put people first, and maybe, maybe Alex knows what she's doing and can take care of herself until it's time for you to find her."

Harry sighed, felt Draco's breath on his neck, and swallowed, hugging him closer.

"Well leave you two alone," Ron said as Pansy ran up.

"Is it true?" Pansy halted with Crabbe right behind her.

"Yes the sky has fallen Goosey Loosey," Hermione muttered.

"Goosey Loosey?" Pansy asked. "Who the hell is Goosey Loosey?"

For the first time since they found out that Alexis was missing, Harry smiled and bursted into giggles. Hermione and Seamus smiled, knowing the story, but the others looked at him like he was crazy. "Oh crap," Draco moved back from Harry, watching him closely. "My boyfriend has officially cracked."

While everyone was staring at Harry, Dean came running up in a panic. "Ron! Harry!" Dean gasped. "Ginny!"

"What are you talking about?" Ron asked as Harry stopped laughing.

"She's," Dean took a deep breath. "Ginny's gone! I can't find her any where!"

"WHAT?!" Ron bellowed.

"Calm down, she might still be in school," Hermione said calmly. "Harry, the map."

Ron nodded impatiently as Harry took the map out of his pocket and muttered, "I solemnly swear I'm up to no good."

Harry's eyes scanned the map quickly, looking for Weasley. The only Weasleys the map showed was Ron, George, and Fred. His eyes grew. Muttering "Mischief managed" he looked at Ron and shook his head. "You know what this means…" Harry trailed off.

"That fucker!" Ron yelled. "What does he think he's doing with her now!?"

"We should go tell Dumbledore," Hermione said, turning back to the office with Ron, Pansy, Dean, Draco, Harry, and Crabbe behind her.

When the group got there, the Order meeting was still going on. The group was out of breath and began talking at the same time.

"One at a time," Dumbledore stated.

"Ginny-"

"She's not-"

"Missing!"

"What?" Dumbledore asked.

"Ginny's missing!" they yelled together.

"This is not good," Dumbledore began sitting. He shuffled through the papers on his desk until he found what he was looking for. "Indeed, we are in trouble." He looked up. "Today is the initiation for the 7th year Slytherins. Severus, gather everyone in the Great Hall. Two of our students have gone missing, make sure no one else has. Dismissed." The teachers scurried out, the Twins flooed to the Burrow, and Remus and Sirius escorted the students to the Great Hall.

Meanwhile…

"It is time, Alexis," Lucius walked in the room and escorted her down to the basement. He lifted the silencing charm and knocked on the door.

"Enter," a voice drawled. The two stepped in the dark room. "Ah, Lucius, at last. What about the others?"

"We weren't able to retrieve them," Lucius said regretfully.

"Very well, the one I need most is here." Fingers snapped and the lights went on. Alexis' eyes grew when she realized that this was Voldemort. "Now, girl are you ready?"

"Ready for what?" Alexis drawled sounding calmer that she felt.

Voldemort laughed a bitter laugh, causing Marcus and Lucius to laugh with him. He stopped abruptly. "To join my ranks of course."

Alexis smiled bitterly. "Not even if hell froze over."

"I thought you'd feel that way, child," Voldemort grinned. "Wormtail!"

Peter walked in with a frantic Ginny. "How do you feel now?"

"Drop dead!"

"Right on!" Ginny shouted.

"Shut up!" Voldemort shouted. "Crucio!"

Ginny withered on the ground screaming in pain. "STOP IT!" Alexis shouted.

Voldemort lifted the curse. "Last chance, will you join us?"

"If she stays alive, yes," Alexis said, sounding defeated.

"NO! Alexis don't do it!"

"I have too…" Alexis was pushed towards Voldemort and forced to kneel down.

"I knew you'd see it my way," Voldemort began speaking in Parseltongue. Alexis felt pain in her left arm, beyond anything she's ever felt. Drenched in sweat and barely able to stand, Alexis prayed that one day, Harry and her parents would forgive her. "Now for unfinished business." He turned to Ginny. "Advara-"

"NO!" Alexis screamed and gathered her strength to jump on Ginny and Apparate out.

When they arrived in an alley at Diagon Alley, Alexis climbed off the girl. "Are you ok?"

She nodded and fell out of consciousness. "Damn it!" Alexis cursed under her breath. She leaned against the wall, feeling weaker. "Here goes nothing."

Alexis lifted Ginny onto her back, breathing painfully. Alexis Apparated to Hogsmead.

Once arrived, people stared as Alexis limped out of Hogsmead and towards Hogwarts. She tripped several times and felt faint, struggling to go on, she crawled until she felt she could stand. With Ginny still on her back, Alexis climbed the steps towards the Entrance Hall slowly.

Alexis walked towards the Great Hall and leaned against the doors that opened, causing Alexis to fall forwards with Ginny toppling over her.

The students gasped, some running forwards to help. "No," Alexis whispered shielding herself from the others. They flew back into other students.

Harry stepped forwards. "Alexis?"

"Forgive me," She murmured, untangling herself from Ginny and backing away.

"You didn't do anything," He took a step towards her.

"I did more than you know," the barrier went up again, effectively keeping Harry away.

Harry looked around confused. Draco came up next to him. "She does that when she's scared."

"Alexis, please!"

"NO!" Alexis screamed out in pain. She ground her teeth together. "Let's see how you like it!" She growled to herself, forcing the pain she was feeling from the Mark back through it. She fainted with exhaustion.

Harry made to move forwards, when Draco stopped him. "Don't, the barrier is still up."

Dumbledore appeared suddenly, announcing that Ginny Weasley was fine and her family was visiting with her now. He looked over at Remus. "Go to her."

Remus opened his mouth to object, but complied. For some reason he was able to step through her barrier. He carried her to the Hospital wing where Ginny was sleeping and the Weasleys were watching over her.

"Alexis, sweetie, wake up," Remus murmured. She groaned as he slapped her cheeks softly. Her eyes grew wide in panic. "What happened?"

"Please…don't make me tell you," she choked. "I can't."

"Sweetie tell me."

"Ginny?"

"She's fine," Remus told her. "Tell us what happened. We want to help."

"You can't."

"Tell us Lexie!" Harry begged, as Draco squeezed his hand encouragingly.

"You'll hate me."

"No I won't."

"Yes you will!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"Children," Sirius said. "Alexis we need to know what happened."

Alexis leaned back defeated and held out her left arm. Draco stepped forwards and rolled up her sleeve showing her Dark Mark. He stumbled back into Harry. "No…" he whispered.

"How could you?" Harry wondered aloud.

"To save her life," Alexis said weakly. "He was going to kill her. I hope you all will forgive me one day." With that, the young Potter fell into a deep sleep.

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