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Chapter Two

So, What Now?

Beyond the threats spoken by the Bodiless Man and a few grunts of pain from Neville, it was utterly silent in the Tower. Neville was laying on the floor, looking miserable and sick, the Bodiless Man had pushed himself into a sitting position and alternated between glaring at Cho and Neville to staring blankly at the walls of the Tower and Cho...

Cho was sitting in the corner, her hands wrapped around her knees and trying hard to hold back the wave of depression and tears. What had happened? Why was she here? She didn't belong here. This was some kind of mistake! Cho shook her head, she should not have followed Neville. This was his fault. He had dragged her into this situation, catching her up in something he was involved in.

No. Cho sighed, burying her head into her arms. Neville hadn't dragged her along. She had ran after him, after seeing the Bodiless Man running down the stairs. There had been something in the man's face, the pure anger, rage, and hate that had sent a wave of animal fear coursing through her. It had been almost instinct to run after Neville, to run away from the Bodiless Man.

Cho looked down at Neville, for the moment he had his eyes closed. She didn't know how much pain he was in. A concussion was a pretty bad thing, the fall he had taken had been terrible to witness. Luckily she had managed to escape relatively unscathed, beside bashing her knee upon the stone flooring and getting punched by Bloated Arm, she was fine. Neville on the other hand had, from what she could tell, had suffered three broken fingers, along with his head injury. He hadn't said anything about what happened when she had been tossed in the Wardrobe, but she knew that the three broken fingers were not caused by the fall.

"So, what do we do now?" Neville asked, his voice low with an undertone of pain to it.

Why was he asking her? Cho felt another surge of panic. She realized that she was the only one of the three that was relatively undamaged. Neville was in no condition to do much of anything and getting over smashing your head against the stone floor was not something that could be done in mere hours. As for the glaring Bodiless Man, whoever he was and whatever he was, Cho knew he could not be trusted. There was still a little fear in Neville's eyes as he shot a quick glance toward the man.

Cho would have to ask him what was going on. Neville had to be running from him for some reason. Who was the Bodiless Man? She had never seen his face before, the thought that he was probably using the invisible clothing he now wore to sneak around Hogwarts sent a chill down Cho's spine. What was going on?

"I..I don't know." Cho whispered back. She glanced around the Tower. There was no door. There was no way out. The only place where light came into the room was the narrow slit window nearly twenty feet above them. Cho doubted that she could climb up to it, the walls were smooth fitted stone with no way to gain a foot or hand hold on them.

Cho scanned the walls. She had her wand; luckily she had remembered to bring it when she was leaving the Ravenclaw Tower. Maybe there was a way to break apart the stone bricks, make a hole in the wall? Something. Cho concentrated trying hard to remember any spell that could break down walls, she knew of none.

"We have to get out of here." Neville said softly. Cho only nodded back. Unless he could tear down walls, they were stuck here.

"There's no getting out." The Bodiless Man suddenly spoke. He looked at Cho and Neville, his expression grim and angry. "We're in the Dark." He said.

Cho glanced to Neville. He shrugged minutely and then winced from the pain.

"What do...What do you mean?" Cho asked, after a moment's hesitation.

The man laughed bitterly, then suddenly hissed in pain. "We're trapped in this place. There's no way out and we're all dead." He said, his voice strained with pain.

Cho frowned. "What do you know?" She snapped.

The man laughed again. "I know that we're all dead." He said, snarling.

"What do you mean by we're in the Dark?" Neville asked.

The man looked at Neville, as if seeing him for the first time, a flash of anger and rage crossed his face, but it was gone as quickly as it came. "It's where He sends people. People who he doesn't like." The man said..

"Who's He?" Cho asked. What games was this man playing? The Dark? Was it an attempt to scare them? To what purpose?

The Bodiless Man looked at them and then sneered. "Fix my leg and I'll tell you." He said.

"Tell us, then we'll think about fixing your leg." Cho said hotly. She was getting tired of this. What was she caught up in? All she had been doing was going to get some breakfast and put in a couple of hours of studying! She didn't want to be here. She dint' want to caught up in whatever mess Neville and this man were in. All she wanted was to be back in her house and out of this damned tower. "What the hell is going on here? Why were you chasing Neville and why are you invisible! And what the hell is the Dark? Tell us what you know about it!"

The man continued staring at her, Cho glared back at him. Finally he barked out a laugh. "You have a temper, girl. That's good, it's better than your sobbing." He laughed again and Cho only glared at him harder.

"Tell us what you know?" Cho demanded.

"Knowledge has its price." The man said. "Fix my leg and we'll see what I remember."

Cho sighed, suddenly feeling her anger drain away. She leaned back against the stone wall and brushed back a strand of hair. She felt tired, her cheek was starting to throb and she could feel it swelling. She knew in a couple of fours she would be sporting a very ugly bruise; one didn't play Quidditch for years without learning a lot about bruising. "You think I know how to fix your leg? If I know how to heal bones, don't you think I'd have fixed Neville's fingers?"

Neville looked at her, wincing slightly as she spoke. Cho suddenly realized what she had done. She had just given away the only thing they could hold over the Bodiless Man. He was injured, that was obvious from his voice and the fact that he had barely moved in the time they had been in the Tower. Cho sighed, realizing that she would have to begin learning how to take advantage of a situation. The man knew information and she had the power to take the pain he was feeling away.

She tapped her wand against her palm, looking at the man. She was the only one with a wand. Neville had lost his somewhere; she had seen the man drop his before falling into the Wardrobe. She was the only one with magic. She nodded to herself. That was an advantage she held over the man, who cares if she didn't know how to heal his bones. If he knew how to heal bone, then he could bloody well tell her how to do it. She glared at the man and continued to tap her wand. The man was frowning, probably realizing the same thing.

"Cho, look." Neville said, pointing.

Cho looked to where he was pointing and saw a large iron door where moments ago it had been nothing but blank wall. Cho smiled. Maybe they weren't trapped here after all.