Remembrance
Ginny woke up three days later, groggy and confused. Sitting up quickly, she looked around fearfully for Lucius Malfoy. Instead of seeing him in her dungeon cell, though, she saw lots of white and a shock of red on a chair next to her. It didn't take long for her to realize that she was sitting on a bed in the Hogwart's Hospital wing, and her mother was sleeping on the chair beside her.
Sighing, relieved, she fell back on the comfortable bed, and threw her arm over her eyes, only to pull it back a second later. All over her arm, were long, thin lines criss-crossing each other in a strange pattern. With a flash Ginny remembered how those had appeared.
Flashback
Ginny hung on the wall by chains, stripped of all her clothes, her wrists screaming at the pain of her weight. Lucius Malfoy stood by her side, wand pointed in front of him. He laughed, a cruel laugh that made Ginny's skin crawl.
"Hmm... Where should I start? Perhaps here, on your legs," He put his wand tip to the top of her thigh and dragged it up and down ,softly. He laughed, the same cold laugh as before, when Ginny shuddered and squirmed, trying to escape. " Or perhaps here." Now he put his wand in between her naked breasts and dragged it down to her navel, leaving a thin, shallow scratch. Ginny tried to kick out, only to find that her ankles were also chained and attached to the wall.
"You won't get away with this, Malfoy. Harry will come to save me." Ginny said defiantly.
" Yes, talk now girl, while you still can. I don't fail to notice that you think Potter will save you, not one of your brothers, nor one of that stupid Order of Phoenix, but Potter. Tell me, do you still fancy him? Do you blush like a little girl when he's around? Still thinking about a romantic kiss before he goes off to kill the evil Dark Lord?" Lucius stopped and smirked at the look on Ginny's face. "Yes, I know all about that. My Lord is great and he knows all things and shares some with his loyal Deatheaters. He knows the deepest darkest secrets of sweet innocent Ginevra Weasley. You know how he knows all this?" Ginny nodded her head and ground out.
"The diary." Malfoy smirked.
"Enough talk, then, you seem to have gotten it all out of your system. Where were we? Ah...yes. I remember. I know just where to start, and don't worry, I'm sure the blood will go well with that blinding hair." Putting his wand to the soft flesh of her shoulder, he dragged it down to the metal cuff on her wrist. Ginny winced in pain and clamped her mouth shut, eyes watering but still open. In the trail that the wand had passed, there was now a deep dark red line, gushing blood. A wave of Malfoy's wand and the cut stopped bleeding, but was still open and red.
"Can't have you faint too soon now. I'll just have to wake you back up, and where is the fun in that?"
After a few more cuts like that, crossing each other to cause more pain, Ginny screamed, her eyes pouring crystal clear tears that fell onto the wet blood. Malfoy, getting twisted satisfaction from the high piercing scream, made the next cut deeper. When Ginny screamed again, Malfoy shivered, closed his eyes and got an unpleasant smile on his face. Opening his eyes, he looked Ginny's body up and down, then stared into her eyes.
"I don't want anyone mixing up my artwork with someone else's. Hm..." Crouching down so he was eye level to Ginny's hip, he put his wand on her right hip and cut in, what felt like, the letters L. M. Leaving them to bleed freely, he took his wand off her flesh and pointed it at the letters. He mumbled a long sentence of Latin words and stood up to stare at his work.
"There, now you will always be mine and everyone will know it. This mark, girl, will never go away, neither will any of the others, but this one is special. It won't heal, and I will always know where you are. Always." Malfoy smiled another unpleasant smile at Ginny, who just stared straight ahead, tears pouring from her eyes, her left arm, shoulder and chest shining with sticky red blood.
End Flashback
Ginny yanked herself back to the present, she was shaking like a leaf in the autumn wind and gasping like a drowning person. She couldn't catch her breath. Fumbling and still shaking, she pulled the suffocating blankets off of her body and pulled up her white nightgown. Her legs were shining with thin silver scars, as was her stomach. There, shining on her hip, were the letters L. M.
"No, no, no, no, no." Ginny mumbled to herself over and over again, slowly getting louder. Finally the yell "NO!" woke her mother up.
"Ginny, dear, it's alright. You're safe, I'm here." Mrs. Weasley sat on the side of the bed holding Ginny, who cried into her shoulder, with tears of her own pouring silently out of her eyes. Molly muttered reassurances into her daughters ear, kissing the top of her head. Finally, tired out from all the crying Ginny fell asleep in her mother's arms.
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"DING DONG! " The doorbell at Grimmauld place rung loudly. Normally, following such a loud noise, Mrs. Black would start screaming, but a year ago, Hermione Granger had had the brilliant idea to cut the picture of Mrs. Black out of the stuck on frame. Obviously it had worked.
Professor Dumbledore opened the door and stepped aside, allowing entrance to Severus Snape and Remus Lupin.
"Good afternoon, Severus, Remus. Come in." He received a nod from Snape in return and a warm smile and handshake from Remus.
" I am to try and convince Lupin to join the Dark Lord, that is the only reason we are together." Snape sneered out, seeing Dumbledore look at him curiously. All three of them started walking towards the kitchen.
"Of course, of course. Delila, Alastor and Hobbes are already here, and that is all who will be joining us." Opening the kitchen door, he gestured for everyone to sit down.
Delila Thomson smiled, her eyes were sparkling like warm sunlight shining on water. She was wearing a light blue robe, and had her hair in a braid that came down to her waist. Delaphius Hobbes sat rigid in his chair, his lips were drawn in what looked like an eternally sharp frown, he had a square jaw and high strong cheekbones, with a prominently curved nose, he looked to be in his late thirties. His eyes were a light green color, slightly secretive and hard looking, appearing as if they were always watching everything, sitting next to him was Alastor Moody. He was as creepy looking as ever, now missing the top of his left ear and half a finger from his left hand, from an attack at Diagon Alley three years ago while Moody was out buying dragon blood. All you could see of his magical eye was the white.
"I would like to start this meeting off, by getting straight to business. If you all don't know already, Ginevra Weasley was kidnaped three days ago, but do not worry, Mr. Potter rescued her the day she was kidnaped, which is extremely lucky, and she will be fine." He paused here but resumed. " As you all know, we've been keeping an extremely close eye on Lucius Malfoy, also known as 'Serpent' when we are in fear of being overheard by anyone or anything. We all know that he has taken the habit of stopping by the Minister's office every morning to say good morning and give him career advice, something we wouldn't have known without the help of Ms. Thompson." Dumbledore smiled at Delila and continued.
"For the past three days, he has stopped doing this. I fear that when Harry came to the rescue of young Ginevra, he found Lucius Malfoy to be the torturer, and took him to the place he is staying, which could prove hazardous to our plans. We almost knew..." Dumbledore trailed off staring at Snape, who was convulsively clutching his left fore arm. Snape nodded, stood and left, without a word or glance at anyone save Dumbledore.
Delila stared after him silently, the color in her eyes churning like troubled water. Remus Lupin's amber eyes watched Dumbledore anxiously. Hobbes and Moody sat there, watching everything. Dumbledore spoke.
" What I would like to point out most, is that, several people have gone missing, some we suspected of being deatheaters, I would like Hobbes to check it out. All other problems will be addressed in our meeting with the whole Order. Until then, I wish you good luck." Hobbes stood and without a word left, followed closely by Moody, who left shaking his head and muttering. Delila sat with a faraway look on her face and Remus was staring at Dumbledore, who was sitting heavily on his chair. Remus spoke first.
" He will be alright, Professor, he always is. Maybe he will come back with some valuable information." Remus stood up and left Dumbledore looking more optimistic. Delila was still sitting there with a strange look on her face. She was brought back to earth by Dumbledore when he took one of her hands that had been resting on the table.
"My dear, he will be fine, and perhaps, like Remus says, he will come back to us with some valuable information." Delila nodded distractedly, and stood.
"Goodbye, Professor." She walked out of the room and Dumbledore heard the front door slam shut. Slumping heavily in his chair, Dumbledore looked like the old man he was.
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Harry was pacing in the Library, like he does often. He had counted the DeathEaters he had caught and there were twenty-three not counting that bastard, Malfoy Harry had looked up all the books he could find on Magical Healing and was reading about the theory behind fixing broken bones by magic. It was complicated, very complicated.
He needed to understand the bones to be able to fix them, he didn't understand them. The other thing he needed was to be powerful, which he was. So it should be easy, right? Wrong! And, to add to all his problems, Ginny was being fed sleep potions so she could recuperate and no one would tell him when she would wake up!
Harry had worked himself so much, that he had actually worn a hole in the floor. Damn! Now he needed to fix this! Voldemort was sooooo gonna pay!
(TBC)
A/N TADA! Chp 12.! Yeah! :) Hope you like this... It's not very happy. Harry is ready to kick some Moldy white Voldy ass! If only he knew where he was hiding...
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