Yea! A new chapter. See told you I'd update as soon as I could. Well hope you enjoy the chapter. Things really get rolling from here on out.

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Chapter Eight

Questions, Answers, and a Decision

"There's a story that's often told. About those that failed Him and what happened to them. He rarely ever outright kills those that have failed him, but instead he does something worst. He throws them into the Dark. The place where people go, but never come back. The vast pit of black that has no escape, where no one's ever come out of." Damon shuddered for a moment.

"What can you tell us of the Dark?" Neville asked.

Damon looked at him. "Nothing. I've never been there. I've never seen it. I've only heard the stories and heard the screams of terror as those that failed were brought before it."

"That's a lot of bloody help." Cho snapped.

"So, maybe this place is just full of monsters like we saw outside. It would be a reason why no one's ever escaped. They get killed before they do. Has anyone ever entered with a wand?" Neville asked.

Damon shook his head. "No they're usually thrown in unclothed. No weapons, nothing that could help them."

Cho closed her eyes, taking a slow deep breath. Neville cast a look at her. She looked pale and worn, her eyes were red rimmed and there was a shakiness about her. Neville assumed it was from all the pain in her back. He glanced back to Damon, he could probably heal her. If he could be trusted with the wand.

"What were you doing in the Gryffindor common room?" Neville asked.

Damon suddenly laughed. "Nothing. It was all a big coincidence me being there."

"What were you doing there?" Neville asked again.

"Nothing. I was there…watching." He said after a moment.

Neville glanced at Cho in confusion. She returned his look and glared at Damon. "Watching what?" She asked, her voice cold.

"You know…invisibility has some perks." Damon tried laughing but the look on Cho's face stopped him.

Cho suddenly snorted in disgust. "This pervert was watching the girls while he was invisible, weren't you?" Cho glared at Damon and he slowly nodded.

Neville shook his head. "How long?"

"Look Samuel doesn't care what we do on our free time. As long as we're not discovered or do anything stupid."

"How long have you all been in the school?" Neville asked.

"About a week and a half now."

"How did you get into the school?" Cho asked, still glaring.

"We're invisible. We just walked in the front doors and toward an abandoned part of the castle. No one saw us and no one knew we were there."

"What are you doing in the castle? What are you up to?" Cho asked.

"Look I haven't been doing this long. I was asked by my friend Jacob if I wanted to join in on a job. A couple of weeks work, mostly just sitting around and watching out for things. At the end we'd get a big cut of whatever we got. I don't even really know what the hell Samuel and his other Weirdoes are doing." Damon explained.

"You still haven't told us anything." Cho said. Neville could here the barely constrained anger behind her words. Damon picked up on it also and began speaking again.

"My job was only to watch. Watch out for any nosy students and professors that might disturb Samuel. I wasn't told much of what they were doing, much of anything at all. Just to watch."

Cho sighed. "What use are you if you don't know anything?" She asked.

"Why does one of them look like Draco? One of your little gang of men. Why does one of them look like Draco?" Neville asked, ignoring Cho.

Damon frowned, thinking. "That's Samuel. He's a strange bugger. He in charge of us all, making sure we do what we're supposed to do. But I don't know why, I've never asked, but he enjoys pretending to be that little prick Draco. He wants to be him, I guess. So he takes his place a time or two." Damon explained. He looked at Cho and Neville. "I didn't ask him why he does it. I guess it tickles his fancy." Suddenly Damon began laughing. "You know it was he who got turned into an animal the other day in the Great Hall. You should have seen him afterward, he was throwing death threats around."

Neville thought for a moment. Hermione had been attacked after Draco had left the hospital wing. Had that been this Samuel? "Is he the one who attacked Hermione?" Neville asked.

Damon stopped laughing and pursed his lips, thinking. "Yeah. I think so. He and his band of merry men said they were going to take care of some business, I guess he's out to get those that made him look stupid." Damon nodded, still smiling at the image.

Neville sighed. What was going on here? Cho was right in that Damon wasn't much help. Either he was lying or he really didn't know what this Samuel was up to. What were they looking for. There were some things about his story that didn't seem right. How could he know of the Dark if he'd only met with these people a few weeks ago, did he work for You Know Who? Neville rubbed his aching eyes and glanced at Cho.

"How are you doing?" Cho suddenly asked Damon. He blinked in surprise, taking a long pause before answering.

"Leg hurts like hell, head hurts like hell, and I'm thirsty as hell." Damon responded.

"We're all injured here. We all need food, water, rest, and to be healed. You're no use to us with your leg broken and there's things you still have to answer." Cho said, staring unblinkingly at Damon. Damon shifted uncomfortably under her gaze. "If we just leave your leg the way it is any longer, it'll swell and it'll be hell to walk in. As much as I'd just like to leave you the way you are, we're going to have to heal you."

"Great." Damon said, a bit of sarcasm in his voice.

"There's nothing great about your situation. You're…our prisoner now." Cho said, Neville glanced at her, but she continued forward, her words a little rushed. "I don't know who or what you are. For all we know you work for You Know Who. So for now we're taking you prisoner. You'll do what we say when we say it. No complaining, no questioning." Cho folded her arms across her chest. "You have a lot to answer for, Damon."

Damon was quiet, he glanced at Neville, then back to Cho. "Fine. Just heal my leg."

"You know of this place. You know of this Dark." Cho continued, ignoring his words. "We're going to need to know everything you know about this place, because we're going to try to get out of here on our own."

"You're mad." Damon whispered.

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