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AN: This is just continued from the last chapter. Thanks to all who reviewed! Now, R/R!!

Disclaimer: Let me just say, that if I owned Harry Potter, I would have him tied up in my room. He would be my sex puppy. And unfortunately, all I have is a life size 2D look alike...damn it. (lol)

Recap: Chapter 7

FLASHBACK

"Hey Ann! You get us some seats; I'm going to go get some popcorn."

"Um, yea... Um...sure." Annie, who had been staring at an odd looking man answered. That man stood out. Everyone else was wearing jeans and a t-shirt, or a halter-top like Annie was. But that man, that one odd man was wearing an odd black cloak that went almost to his ankles. He was also wearing his hood. "Who on earth would wear a hood in a movie theatre...especially since it isn't raining...?" Annie thought to herself.

End of Flashback

"It was scary, and I don't know why I couldn't figure out he was a wizard. But then again, my memory had been erased." She chuckled at herself. "I enjoyed myself after the movie, but I really had to pee. Muggle drinks can really take a toll on you. So, when I went to the bathroom, I found that guy again. Kerrie, you can tell Becky all about this when you get home."

FLASHBACK

When Annie went to wash her hands, she saw something strange. Well, she thought she saw something. She thought she saw a guy in the mirror. But when she realized the guy with the odd cloak was really standing behind her, she flipped out. She turned and went to scream, but he did first.

"Stupefy!"

The man quickly swished his wand, and out of the end came long binding ropes that quickly went to her feet and hands. He picked her up, and carried her outside. People were staring, but he didn't care. Avoiding their eyes, he walked swiftly around the corner to where he found his broomstick. Setting Annie down, then reaching in his cloak, he pulled out his wand and whacked Annie hard on her head.

If anyone had been watching, it probably would've looked like Annie was getting beaten, but it was dark out by now, and they were in the shadows. He then turned and did the spell on himself. As soon as the wand touched his head, he felt as if someone had cracked an egg there. It was cold, and it seemed to be running all the way down to his feet. He smiled, knowing that he had just disillusioned himself and Annie.

Grabbing Annie, he got on the broom, and took off. It was then, when Annie woke up. She began to scream, but when she looked down, it all seemed to make sense to her. The memory had come back. She was a witch, and now she was flying. Wanting to pretend she was a bird, Annie spread her wings out, but stopped, because her hands had been tied in front of her. Beneath, her legs too, had been tied. Then turning around she did scream, for she was being kidnapped by, "LUKE? HELP! OH gods SOMEONE HELP ME!"

"Shut up!" He was sitting behind her, handling the broom, and was preparing to land. By her wiggling around, it was distracting him. They finally landed outside his manor. Luke led her inside, and away from his bedroom where his wife lay, not knowing anything, sleeping soundly with her baby of one year.

He led her into a room that looked as if it was a place where one would hold meetings. He thrust her into a chair. "Keep quiet." Someone had arrived at his door. Minutes later, Luke came back smiling. The man at the door was from the Ministry; he had accused Lucius of being a Death Eater; he got out of going to Azkaban by apologizing and saying he was under the Imperius Curse.

"You..." he had a menacing smile on tact. He began to laugh in the same way. "You...will not," he started shaking his head, and if Annie wasn't scared half to death, she would have found it incredibly funny. The man had gone completely mad! "Will not...survive this. I told you the Dark Lord will get you for what you have done...and now, you will pay...CRUCIO!!"

As that comes with the Cruciatus Curse, is excruciating pain. (Hence the Latin root.) And that is exactly what Annie felt. Excruciating pain. It started in her head, then moved slowly down her body like someone stuck a knife in her and dragged in all the way down. But it wasn't just that one knife. It was a fork, a spoon, and any other pointy kitchen utensil you can think of. The pain was every single kind of pain combined. Menstrual pain, ear pain, stomach pain, butt pain, vaginal pain, head pain, airplane (? lol) (sorry had to add that one in.) every pain you can think of.

And then it stopped. Like a sudden sand storm that leaves as quickly as it had come. She had somehow ended up on the floor, and tried desperately to get up. "You stay in this room, and never leave." That was all he had to say before snapping the door shut. If his wife wasn't home, he would've slammed it, but he also didn't want to wake his son. Two weeks passed in that little room, and Luke would only let her out when Narcissa, his wife, would go out shopping. She had only been allowed to bathe 3 times out of the two weeks, and was fed only once a day. Annie was stuck as a prisoner, until one day, he let her out.

He repeated the same process as before to get Annie invisible, and then brought her on a broom straight to the secret entrance of the Ministry of Magic. After dialing the code on the phone like machine, and informing the female voice of his name and business, two badges slid out of the chute where money usually comes out. The badge for Annie read: Annette Moore: Experimentation Object, for Lucius had said to the box, that he was bringing someone as a testing object for some private experiment the Ministry was performing.

She looked at Lucius, aghast, but he ignored her. Just then, the phone booth began to take them underground. Lucius wasted no time. He walked past the front desk and straight into a circular room filled with nothing but doors. An outsider, like Annie, would have had to try several doors before she actually found the right one, but because Luke was a member of the ministry, he walked to his left straight towards the door he had chosen.

When the door opened, the first thing Annie thought of was a movie theater. It looked exactly like an amphitheater, like the one's used in ancient times. The room was dimly lit and rectangular, and the center was sunk in, just like the Coliseum (correct me if I'm wrong.) in Rome. It was the most beautifully uncanny thing Annie had ever seen, for in the very middle, where the stage would be, was an arch, and hanging from the arch, was a shabby curtain like veil.

"Move it," Luke pursued, and pushed her down the stone steps. He brought her all the way down the stairs and straight up the dais to where the arch stood.

Annie was beyond afraid, now, and didn't know what to do. She could here little whispers, and it gave her an eerie shiver. Then, without warning, Lucius turned her around, and gave her a hard, rough, and very impassionate kiss. Annie turned red at this, and touched her hand to her now bruised lips.

Taking advantage of Annie being caught off guard, he pushed her into the veil. And she did not fall out the other end.

END OF FLASHBACK

"Y...you went be—hind the veil?" Harry asked half startled and half impressed. "What is it like? But wait, I thought you die behind the veil."

"Wait," Kerrie interrupted. "Didn't you go behind the veil too?" She was talking to Sirius; he nodded. "But, I did research on it with Hermione! You can't escape from behind the veil. No one's done it before!"

Chuckling, he responded, "I guess I'm the first to do a lot of things. Before you know it, everyone will be escaping out from behind the veil as well. Just like Azkaban."

Annie smiled. Then Harry asked in a quiet dark tone, "What is it like in there? Why does everyone say that you die behind the veil?"

Sirius sighed, and thought for a while before he spoke. He then decided on, "You never actually die behind the veil. You're just sort of...separated from your soul." He said it very slowly, as if he was thinking of what to say as he was talking.

"It felt like you were dead, though," Annie added. "As if you were stuck floating around space, but only, without a space suit. All of the air is shoved out of you, and then before you know it, breathing is like...no longer necessary. I was stuck like that for fourteen and a half years. Luckily, Sirius only had to stay behind the veil for about ten months. I really thought all was lost until I saw Sirius."

"And I, her." Sirius added. "She was kind of floating around when my cousin shoved me behind the veil. It was scary, because I could here you screaming, Harry. But I couldn't get back out."

"Oh," Annie interrupted. "And those voices you heard..."

Sirius pointed to Annie, and then in unison they said, "That was me (her)."

"Huh?" Harry asked, not sure what they were talking about.

Kerrie sat on the bed, amazed. They were so in love, the two could complete each other's sentences. She suddenly wished that she had someone to do that with.

"Do you remember when you first saw the veil, and you and Luna heard those voices?" Annie asked. "That was me, and some other person, but mostly me." She added as an afterthought.

"So," Kerrie began. "I guess the question leads down to this:"

Harry nodded, and said,"Yeah, how did you two escape?"

Sirius and Annie looked at each other, and then began laughing. Flabbergasted, Harry turned to Kerrie for an explanation, but she had the same look of confusion.

Finally, Sirius asked, "Are you two...?"

Harry gave another look of confusion, this time mixed with the go-on;-finish-your-sentence look. Kerrie on the other hand turned bright red, and said in an undertone, "N-no."

Then, wide eyed, Harry said, "What in the bloody hell made you think that?"

In an abnormal motherly-tone, Annie said, "You two have been squirming about all through my story. And either you two both coincidently have to use the loo, or you fancy each other."

"Yeah," Sirius added. "First Kerrie would pull her legs under her, and then you would lie down on your belly, Harry. You two would move, ironically, at the same time, and you two would brush up against each other."

"And after that, you would hesitantly smile at each other."

"Yeah, Harry," Sirius said in a boyish manner. "If you want to snog her, just go for it!"

With Harry turning as bright as Ron's hair, Kerrie knew she had to come up with some distraction. "You two are avoiding the subject! How did you escape?" Harry didn't verbally thank her, but she knew in his head he was.

"Oh, right." Annie said. "How we escaped. It was disgusting, but as the Ministry runs experiments, they come in and check on us every three days. Everyone around me was slowly dying, but somehow I knew there was more for me to do. I kept thinking that for those fourteen years, and then when I saw Sirius, I knew what we had to do. With every doorway, there is an entrance and an exit. Even if we couldn't leave the same way we had come. That veil was some kind of dark magic I wasn't sure about, but I knew bits and pieces of it."

"She was just like Hermione," Sirius whispered to Harry, though the girls overheard. "A good for everything know it all." They chuckled, but Annie gave Sirius a hard look, making them stop immediately.

"Sirius knew a little because of his family backgrounds, and I learned it from the faithful library, and Luke. We knew that if voices could get out, that so could some kind of physical form. So we looked for a back door. Not a literal form, but just a type of flaw in the project. Well, apparently the veil is a type of torture. Like the death camps during the Holocaust, Kerrie."

Kerrie sat awestruck. "It's a place to keep half-breeds away from everyone else." Annie continued. "They say they would like to stop Voldemort, yet are they not doing the same thing? Because my dad had parents who were Muggle, I was a half-breed. But Sirius was a full-breed, and has been for a long time. I guess that if a pureblood holds their wand between the Veil and freezes it with a spell, then one can get through. And the only other way to get someone out is for someone on the outside to help them out."

"Remus couldn't help me," Sirius said, "because he knew not only the side effects (because he's a werewolf) but they were fighting a war between the Death Eaters. Please try to understand that we needed you to go after Voldemort. Otherwise, he would've tried to help you get me out."

"So, when I finally got out, I immediately wrote the letter to you, Kerrie. But we are in hiding, so no one can know we are here, ok?"

Harry and Kerrie nodded in agreement, then Sirius, realizing how dark it was, said, "You two have to get back to school!"

"Oh, Gosh," Kerrie said. "Someone's bound to be looking for us, especially my brother. You know he doesn't trust you."

Both Harry and Sirius scowled. Then Sirius said, "The Malfoy's don't trust anyone."

Kerrie, smiling gratefully at her newfound family, got up and sat on a startled Sirius to hug him. "It's so great to have a family again. I love you, Sirius." She then turned to her mom and said her farewells. And then, Harry and Kerrie were off. They took the back way, through the Whomping Willow, as to get back to the school faster. The two talked the whole way, discussing everything they had learned.

AN: Did you like it? I hope so. I worked so hard on these chapters. I promise there will be more HG/DM/RW action in the next chapter. Everyone seems to be getting a little closer. If you have any questions, tell me in your review, and I'll either email you, or tell you about it in my next chapters. If for some reason you can't review, email me and tell me what you thought there. So, do your stuff. Please R/R!

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