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A/N - I hope you guys are still with me. Here is the next chapter, and I hope ya'll like it. This story is winding down, and I'm finished writing it. I've just got to type the chapters and put them up.
Oh, and just so that everyone knows -and I don't get flamed!- this chapter should probably be rated 'R' because of references to rape, as well as consensual couplings. I'm sorry if anyone finds this offensive, but it has to be for the way I want the story to work out.
So, if you don't want to read something that deals with a very adult situation, please skip down to the bottom where the chapter ends, and I'll go over the highlights of what happened in the chapter.
Once again, if you are not allowed to read something like this, then please skip to the bottom. I don't want anyone flaming me because they are not mature enough to handle something that unfortunately happens to people.
Later,
A.A.
Chapter 42
Sable and Remus spent the evening on the bank of the river and walking through the forest surrounding the little village, talking and watching the sun sink below the horizon. They had spent more time than intended away from her house, and it was already dark when they wound up going back. They had spent a pleasant evening with each other, and felt as though they were ready to face Hogwarts again, now that the vacation was nearly over with.
As they walked up the lane to her house, Sable noticed that it was still dark, which was odd considering she had thought her parents would be home by now.
"Shouldn't your mum and dad be back by now, love?" Remus asked as they walked up the driveway. "It's nearly nine o'clock."
"I thought they were, to be honest." Sable said, pulling her key from her pocket and inserting it into the doorknob. "They might have been caught up at the office or something. It wouldn't surprise me if they did. But mom usually sends me and owl if she's going to be late. This is just odd." Sable pulled the door open and flicked the light switch on, effectively illuminating the living room of the small cottage like house. Unfortunately, what caught their attention was not exactly anyone would want to see.
On the floor, in the very center of the living room, were Robert and Carol Robbins, gagged and bound by ropes. On each of their sides were two broken pieces of wood, the only thing left of their wands. All around them, chairs were turned over and mirrors were broke. It looked like someone had went on a rampage in the house. There were scorch marks on the walls were some ill-aimed spells had collided with the sheet-rock, and pieces of shattered porcelain on the far end of the floor where Carol Robbins china doll collection had been.
"What in the bloody Hell happened here?!" Remus shouted, running to the two squirming parents to untie their bindings. "Are you guys okay?!"
"Mom! Dad!" Sable yelled, running beside her boyfriend to kneel beside the two gagged adults. "What's going on?" Before either of the adults could say anything, another person made themself known in the house.
"Take another step, and they're as good as dead." Came a drawling voice from behind the crouching teenagers. "That goes for you two brats as well." Sable and Remus froze in front of Carol and Robert Robbins, unwilling to move. Sable heard the footsteps falling behind her as a black cloaked, white masked Death Eater walked up behind her and Remus, and jerked the two of them from their kneeling positions on the floor, turning them to face the two other Death Eaters in the room, grabbing their wands from their pockets in the process.
"What do you want with us?" Sable demanded, her rage at seeing the murderers in her home. "Now what are you after?"
"Silence, you insolent half-breed!" her captor said, pulling back his hand and slapping her as heard as he could. Sable reeled from the hit and hit the ground hard. Remus growled and lunged at his girlfriend's captor, more protective of her than ever due to the bond they shared, but the other two cloaked individuals quickly pulled their wands and secured Remus in ropes, placing him next to Sable's parents. Sable, after being pulled up from the floor, gagged and bound with ropes, watched as the cloaked men manhandled her boyfriend and parents, unable to say anything.
"We've got them all." said the apparent leader of the group. "Let's get out of here." The other two men nodded in silent agreement and latched onto their victim's collars before Dis-Apparating to Merlin knew where. Sable cried out as they disappeared, but her captor shut her up quickly.
"Now, now, there is no need to cry, my pretty." He cooed, stroking a finger down her cheek. "Your family and that blasted wolf will be fine as long as you cooperate with us." Chills ran down her as the man's hands moved lower and lower until they rested on the waistband of her blue jeans. "Perhaps if you're a good little girl, we will get to play a little game. I know I've been waiting for a long time to get my hands on you." Sable growled and tried to jerk away from the man, but only succeeded in causing the ropes to tighten and cut into her skin. She could feel nothing but revulsion at her captor, and wondered frantically what was going on, and why they were looking for her again. The men laughed and pulled her back to him.
"Feisty little thing aren't you? No matter, after my Lord is finished with you, you will happily succumb to what I have planned for you." He laughed as another shiver passed through her before they Disapparated and landed in the front of a manor that Sable had never seen before. Her heart was beating nonstop, and there was beads of sweat forming on her face from fear.
When they arrived at the gate to the mansion, the Death Eaters levitated their captures through the wrought iron fence and into the vast house. Sable's heart was pounding in her chest, and she started to struggle violently. Beside her, she could hear both of her parents squirming, as well as Remus. Their low pitched growls went unheard to the Death Eaters, but she knew that if any of them got loose from their captors, someone was going to die. She jerked again as the man carrying her moved closer to the door. A sharp blow to her shoulder blades caused her to wince and stop squirming.
"Behave yourself, girl." One of the men snarled. "Our Lord likes good little, well behaved ladies." Sable growled and continued to struggle until one of the men stopped in the hallway, and turned to her, raising his hand to slap her face.
"Bitch! I told you to be still!" He yelled, bringing his hand down to slap her, but another hand shot out from another new Death Eater and stopped her assailant.
"I suggest you control yourself, my brother." The new man said calmly. "Our Lord ordered her capture without hurting her. Do you want to chance his wrath for leaving a mark on the girl?" Sable looked to her Death Eater turned protector and frowned, wondering why they still wanted her unhurt. It didn't make any sense. These men were murderers, and yet their supposed 'leader' wanted her unharmed? 'Where's the bloody sense in that?' she thought angrily.
"Throw them in the holding cells." Growled her protector. "Our Lord will be here shortly to do as he pleases with them."
"Separate them from each other as well." One of the others said. The remaining two Death Eaters that had been accompanying them said nothing, only nodded in understanding and took a pair. "And no one is to put their hands on the girl!"
Sable watched as her and Remus was taken down into the bowels of the mansion along with her parents. Once they reached a staircase, the Death Eater with her parents took a sharp left turn while her own captor continued to follow the stairs downward. It was not long after that when she and Remus were thrown into separate cells, and the Stunning spells removed. 'This is bad.' she thought grimly. 'This is really, really, really bad!'
Remus shook off the affects of the Stunning spell and looked around, taking in the damp, humid cell he had been thrown into. The room was small, just big enough for him to stretch out, and tall enough to stand, but that was it. The confined space did not allow for any large amount of movement. On the wall to his left there were two iron rings protruding from the wall, as well as a set of shackles on the floor. The right hand corner was where a pile of soured hay, mixed with rat droppings was placed.
"Remus!" came a strident voice from the hallway. "Are you okay over there?" Remus ran to the door and peered out of the small opening at the top that had been left open, but barred.
"Sable?" he asked frantically. "Where are you at?"
"I'm in the cell right across from yours." she said loudly. "Are you okay? They didn't hurt you did they?"
"I'm fine." he said hastily. "What about you?"
"Oh, I'm fine, other than the fact that I'm chained to this damned wall, can't move, and my cell mates just happen to be some of Wormtail's less than desirable family members." she said sarcastically.
"Where are your mum and dad?" He asked.
"I thing they took them to another floor, farther up." she said. "I can't sense them here."
"I can't hear or smell them anymore." Remus said, trying to catch a whiff of the two adults. He suddenly heard the rattle of Sables's holding manacles, and then a curse.
"Bloody Hell!" she yelled. "The bastards actually have some brains left!"
"What's going on?" he asked. "What's wrong?"
"I tried changing into my wolf form to get out, but the manacles just readjusted to fit my paws. Fucking bastard Death Eaters!!" She cried. Remus leaned his head up against the cold wall and sighed in frustration and fear. They were being held in a mansion over run by Death Eaters somewhere in the middle of nowhere, and didn't have their wands, or any other form of defense.
"Remus?" Sable asked timidly, the fight nearly gone from her voice.
"Yeah?"
"Remus, I'm scared." she said quietly. "I don't want to be here. I want to go home." Remus sighed once again. It was bad, really bad. Sable never admitted her fears, never. Her voice was low and scared, reminding him of a toddler in the dark instead of a grown witch.
"I know, love." he said. "I'm scared too, but we'll find a way out of this, I promise. We'll get out of here, I know it. Can you move at all with those chains on you?"
"Enough to stand and lie down." She answered. "But I can't stand up because I hit my head on the ceiling, and I don't particularly want to lay in rat droppings."
"Well, try to calm down and get some rest if you can." he said. "There's nothing we can do now, but wait." Remus heard Sable mumble and the rattle of the chains as she moved around in the cell. 'Merlin, we are in trouble now.' he thought. 'How are we going to get out of this one?'
A few hours later...
Sable had actually managed to doze off for a few minutes after being up most of the night, when the door to her cell swung open to reveal a white masked Death Eater. Sable scrambled from her lying position and glared at the man.
"What do you want now?" she snapped. "Come to kill me already?"
"Sable!" Remus called out. "What's going on over there?"
"I've got a visitor." she yelled. "And not a very pleasant one at that!"
"You're coming with me, Ms. Robbins." the man said firmly. "My Lord wishes to see you and your family, as well as that werewolf you're so fond of." The man pulled out his wand an d said a quick succession of spells, effectively silencing Sable and tying her up. "Oh, and if you even try to turn wolf and escape," he said, pulling her into the hallway where her parents and Remus were bound and gagged, "all three die, very slowly. So I suggest you think before you act." Sable glared at the man, then took a closer look at her parents and Remus. They didn't seem any worse for wear, but they sure looked angry as all hell.
The Death Eaters in the hallway led them out of the floor for the holding cells and up numerous flights of stairs until they came to a huge set of double doors The closest man knocked on the oak doors and waited as it was opened by yet another masked figure.
"You've brought them." Came Avery's familiar voice into Remus and Sable's ears. "Excellent! The Master will be pleased." Sable and the others were ushered into the room and placed in the middle of a circle of gathered, masked Death Eaters, who were utterly silent. Avery stood to the right of a platform and raised his hands.
"My brothers, our Master is here. Welcome our leader as such, and with the respect he deserves." he cried. Sable watched, utterly horrified as a tall figure wrapped in a black cloak slipped from the shadows and sat down in an ornate, gilded chair that had been set upon a rased dais at the head of the room. The assembled Death Eaters bowed low to the man, but she and her family and Remus stood absolutely still, glaring at the figure.
'So this is the freakin' psychopath that ordered my parents to attack me.' Sable thought, watching as the man sat on the chair. 'He sure seems like a cocky git. What the hell does he want now?'
The man set on the chair and pulled his head back, revealing a set of serpent like green eyes, and a thin, cruel mouth surrounded by pale skin. Thick black hair, tinged with gray, hung to his shoulders, and an aristocratic nose perched on his face. If it wouldn't be for the fact that Sable knew this was the rumored killer Voldemort, she would have taken him for some aging British aristocrat.
"My Lord Voldemort," said one of the men who had rose to his feet. "You have called us here. We await your orders." Voldemort looked a the bound captives and smiled evilly as his eyes settled on Sable, seeing her jerk as a shiver of fear passed down her body.
"My brothers," the man said, rising from his seat and descending the steps. "We have before us four people who have running through their bodies, the blood of one of the most feared dark creatures f our world, the blood of a werewolf. These four people have been brought here today to find if they will join our cause, turning against the very people who shunned them. The very people who have pushed them away and forced them to keep in secret what they are." Voldemort lifted the silencing spell on the four captives, only to find that they were growling at him. "Your anger is amusing." He said nonchalantly. "But put is aside. I offer you the chance to take your revenge on those that have shunned you. To have a place of securing during a time of war and upheaval. Will you deny your safety?"
"We want nothing to do with you and your schemes, you murderer!" Robert Robbins snarled. "I'd rather die than be one of your sorry lackeys!"
"Quite a temper, Mr. Robbins." Voldemort said easily. "You were a hard one to break those few months ago, that you were. I see your extended stay in St. Mungos has not altered your perception."
"You attacked our daughter." Carol said venomously. "Using us as bait. And now you want us to join your ranks? You are crazy!" Voldemort actually smiled as he looked at the angered woman.
"So is it safe to assume that you decline my offer as well?" he asked.
"Damn straight!" Carol hissed.
"Well, what about you two?" He asked, looking at Remus and Sable, a glint in his eye. "Do you defer as well?"
"Never will I help the likes of you." Remus growled.
"Ms. Robbins?"
"I want nothing to do with you, or those misguided fools you call followers." Sable spat, looking eye to eye with the evil wizard. "The whole lot of you are a bunch of filthy, disgusting murderers." Voldemort smiled and walked to stand in front of the girl.
"The young she-wolf has spirit, even when facing death." he mused. "That is commendable in such a creature like yourself."
"You'll find that creatures like me tend to fight the hardest when they are backed into a corner, or when they know their end is near." she said icily looking straight at him. His evil green eyes bored into her own violet ones, and she felt another tremor go through her body.
"True." the wizard said, seemingly contemplating her words. "How true. But how long will your will to fight hold out? How long before you give up and give out?"
"I can fight as long as I have to." she said evenly, suddenly wondering where thee conversation was heading.
"Even with your family's and boyfriend's life is to forfeit?" he asked. Sable blanched and looked back to her parents and Remus, who had become silent. "Would you continue to fight me, when I hold the lives of the three people you love the most, in my hands?"
"You twisted son-of-a-bitch!" Sable hissed.
"What do you want with her?" Robert Robbins asked, paling considerably. "What do you want from us?"
"Ms. Robbins has been my target since she arrived back at Hogwarts." He said. "One of my most trusted followers told me of her aptitude for potion manipulation which is nearly as great as one of my most trusted followers -possibly even better than-, as well as her rather unique capabilities due to her bloodline. Since then, I have strived to attain her to my purpose. With abilities like hers at my disposal, my army of followers would be nearly unstoppable. The three of you, however, hold no interest for me, and merely got in the way of my plans."
"So I'm the one you want then?" Sable asked. "My parents were used as bait, and Remus is caught up in it because he's my boyfriend?"
"As astute as ever, Ms. Robbins." Voldemort said. "Of course, I would expect no less from an ingenious mind such as yours."
"Then let them go." Sable said. "They're not the ones you want, so let'em go."
"I can't do that." he said coldly.
"Why the Hell not?!" Sable growled.
"They are a sort of insurance, if you will." he explained. "Insurance that you will cooperate with me and become one of my followers. You are a tough young woman, I'll concede that, but you will not let someone suffer because of you. I know that, and so do they." He pointed to her parents and Remus, a maniacal grin on his face.
"Sable, don't listen to him." Remus said quietly. "He's messing with your head."
"Baby," Carol said. "Don't worry about us. We'll be fine!"
"Don't give into him, Meadow." her father said gently. "He's just trying to bully you."
"I'm not bullying anyone." Voldemort said. "I am merely giving your lovely daughter an option. Will she hand herself and her abilities over to me, or will she refuse and forfeit your lives, as well as her own because she can't drop her pride and do what is sensible?"
"You bloody bastard!" Remus yelled. "You're going to kill us anyway, whether she accepts or not!"
"Are you sure, young man?" the wizard asked, peering down at Remus. "I am a wizard of my word. You will live if Sabriel accepts." Voldemort watched as shadows of doubt passed over the young woman's mind. "Seeing as how you need some time to think about it, I will give you a few hours to formulate your answer." Voldemort stepped back onto the raised dias and waved his hand. "Bring them back to their holding cells." he said, an evil grin on his fac. "And find some way to entertain Ms. Robbins, will you Avery. She seems to need to work off some excess tension at the moment." Sable felt the chill run down her as someone Stunned her, then a set of hands tug her back towards the door. The whole time, here eyes were locked on Voldemort's as she was pulled out of the room.
They were taken back down to the holding cells and released from the Stunning spells. Sable, absolutely exhausted both physically and mentally, just curled into a ball and tried to shut out the thoughts in her head......and what she knew she would have to do in order to save her parents and Remus.
A few hours later....
(A/N: Okay, here is where the whole adult part starts. If you want to skip it, go to the next little set of squiggles --)
'We've been back in these damned cells for hours.' Remus thought angrily. ' What are they planning on doing to us?' He sat back down and waited, but a few minutes later, he heard someone coming into the hallway.
"...fun with her. I can't wait to see how much of a fight she will put up." came one man's voice. "She's a feisty one. Lots of fight in her."
"Too bad she is already accounted for." Came yet another voice. "I'm sure he's going to enjoy humiliating her during her first time. I just wish I would be there to see it."
"Who says she is untouched?" The first one said. "Lupin probably got his claws on her long ago."
"Well, we'll find out soon enough, won't we?" came the other man's voice. "Or at least he will."
"Yes. How I wish I was in his position right now." the first man said, a chuckle in his voice.
'They're going to rape her!' Remus thought frantically, jumping to his feet and squinting through the door. "Sable!! Sable!! Wake up!!"
"Remus?" she called back, her voice oddly devoid of any form of emotion. "What is it?" The two teens had said little to each other after being put back in the cells, and the sudden change in her voice worried Remus. He knew she had been shackled back to the walls, but something else was the matter with her. It was like she was a zombie, devoid of any sort of life.
"There's someone coming for you." he said, searching for the words to express his helplessness at the situation. "They're going to hurt..."
"I know." she said, cutting him off with cold, calculating voice. "I know, Remus."
"Sable...."
"Are you awake, my pretty little wolf?" came the second Death Eater's voice. "Someone wants to see you."
"Leave her alone, you sick bastards!" Remus yelled, beating on the door. "Don't touch her!" The shorter of the two men walked over to Remus' cell, blocking his view of the other man who was going into Sable's cell.
"Worried about your little girlfriend?" he taunted, his voice sinister and low. Remus growled at the man when he heard Sable's struggle across the hall. "Don't worry about her. We'll take good really, really good care of her."
"If you lay one finger on her...." he snarled.
"What'll you do, Lupin?" he barked. "You're locked in a cell, without a wand, and separated from the rest of your little buddies. You're helpless." Remus growled and shook his head, trying to place the familiar voice, when it suddenly hit him as to who stood in front of him.
"Flint!" he said coldly. "You sick bastard! She's never done anything to you! Why are you doing this to her?"
"We'll bring her back soon enough." he said. "It all depends on how well she complies with our wishes." Remus heard the clank of the shackles as the other Death Eater slapped them onto Sable's wrists after subduing her with a Stunning spell. And he also heard a hiss of pain when the spell was released and Sable was conscious of her surroundings again.
"When I get my hands on you...." the werewolf threatened.
"That will never happen." Flint said, pulling the hood of his cloak back to reveal his face. "As soon as Voldemort gets what he wants, you will be disposed of accordingly." Remus growled and looked out at Sable as the Slytherin Quidditch captain moved. She was standing in between the two men, her hands shackled in front of her, and a gag in her mouth. He looked at the chained bracelets and her wrists, blanching completely white.
"You bastards!" he yelled angrily. "Those shackles are silver! You'll kill her!" Sable looked towards Remus' cell, seeing his sparkling blue-amber eyes. She felt her tears come up, knowing what was to come. The silver shackles were burning into her wrists, preventing her from shifting into her wolfish form. She whimpered as the metal touched a raw, red section on her wrist where the metal had already reacted with the dormant lycanthropy in her system, but held her head high, looking right at Remus, pleading for his forgiveness.
"She will be fine." said the other Death Eater who Remus immediately recognized as Avery, another Slytherin student in their year. "Lord Voldemort said for us to keep her entertained and that is what we plan on doing."
"Sable....I'm sorry." Remus said. Sable nodded and tried to smile, and convey that she did not blame him for what was going to happen to her. The Death Eaters led Sable away and Remus fell to the floor after he lost sight of her, helpless to get her away from her captors, and the torture they'd have planned for her. He put his head in his own hands and shook his head, wishing he could hep her. He knew they were going to hurt her, but one thought comforted him somewhat. 'None of those bastards will be her first.' he thought, remembering what had happened on the bank of the river a few hours before they had been captured and brought to the mansion. 'That was definitely something that kept us from getting back to her house on time.' he thought sardonically.
His mind replayed those hours of complete bliss they had shared down by the small river that ran beside Godric's Hollow. Her parents had not gotten home yet, leaving them to their own devices. Sable had been bored, and suggested a walk around the village. Remus had agreed, having nothing better to do during their last few peaceful hours before they had to go back to Hogwarts. Both of them had been riding the waves of hormonal chaos since the full moon almost a week before, but something had seemed different as they sat down on the bank of the river.
He had not known what it was that had finally snapped in the both of them while they were sitting on the riverbank, reminiscing about when they had first met, but things had escalated quickly from a snog session to some major heavy petting. In hindsight, Remus was amazed that the both of them had been able to hold back from each other for so long. Ever since the beginning of the year, he had been so close to her during the full moons and afterwards, even to the point of sleeping in the same bed with her during the week of the transformations after they had gotten together, and they had been able to control themselves and their hormonal impulses.
But that evening was different. Remus did not know if it had been him, or just the simple fact that they were away from Hogwarts, but everything just seemed so right for the two of them...
Flashback
"Remus, we're out in the open." Sable whispered, running her hands through his already disheveled hair while he kissed her neck. They had started cuddling a few minutes earlier. But it seemed as though one thing had led to another, and now they were snogging in broad daylight.
"So?" he said, concentrating his attention on her, and only her. Sable smiled coyly and pulled away, earning a small growl from her boyfriend.
"Come on." she said, pulling him up from their position on the bank of the river.. "I know where we can go, and we won't be seen."
End Flashback
She had taken him to a small place far back into the forest surrounding the village. There were thick shrubs all around, so they were hidden from view. She had used her wand to conjure a cloak and spread it out on the ground, pulling him down with her, and smiling as they resumed their previous activities, now safely away from the prying eyes of her neighbors. It hadn't taken very long before he had started to het heady from the hormones surging through him, causing him to push their snogging and petting to a more risque level. Sable had apparently noticed the change in him , and had not fought it, although he had suspected shw too was feeling just as needy as he had been.
Flashback
"Are you sure about this?" Remus asked, stopping at the last button that held her shirt on her body. Sable was in his lap, kissing his neck and shoulders and breathing heavily from his ministrations. "We can still stop, if you don't feel comfortable with this." Even though he was secretly hoping she wouldn't ask him to stop, he needed to know that he had her consent before going anywhere else. She looked at him and smiled cockily.
"If you stop now, after getting me this worked up, you're gonna have hell to pay, love." she grinned, putting her hands on his and undoing the last button of her shirt, allowing it to fall off her shoulders.
"I don't want to hurt you, Sable." he rasped, pulling her closer to him. "I...I love you...too much to do that...to hurt you."
"You won't hurt me, Remus." she said. "And even if you do, I know it won't be because you wanted to. I know you'd never purposely hurt me. I know that, and I have faith in you."
End Flashback
And so it had happened. Sable had lovingly given him something he would forever treasure, something she could never take back. It had not been his first time, and Sable knew that, but she had not cared. After it was all over, and they were walking to her house, she had made him tell her who his first time had been with, and she had mentally made a note to have a little talk with that girl when she got back to school. But he knew she had been untouched when he tore through her maiden barrier, and watched the tears in her eyes as the pain swept through her body, causing her to tremble and shake.He knew she was hurting, but it was the innocent tears that she had shed for him that made him love her even more.
The realization that she had been able to ignore the instinctual habits of her blood her whole life, while he had caved and given in a few years ago, made him respect her so much. He knew how hard it had been to ignore the basic instincts of a werewolf, and at the time, he was more than surprised that she had not already slept with someone else to relieve some of the tension.
Flashback
"Are you alright, love?" he asked, looking down at her from his position on top of her. "Did I hurt you bad?" Sable blinked back her tears and shook her head.
"I'm fine, just give me a few seconds." she rasped. "I need to get used to this." Remus nodded and laid his head on her shoulder, painfully forcing himself to wait until she'd had time to adjust to the intrusion her body was suffering.
"You're gonna be the death of me." he growled a few minutes later as she shifted beneath him. Sable had gotten over the majority of the discomfort by now, but there was still a dull throb, and she knew she would be sore the next day.
"But what a way to go, huh?" she asked, smiling up at him to show that she was okay. Remus only smiled at her, knowing for the second time in his life that there was someone who truly loved him.
End Flashback
Now, he sat in a holding cell, waiting for the filthy Death Eaters to bring her back. He'd been replaying the memories over and over in his head as the minutes turned into a half hour, then an hour, then two hours. It was not long after the second hour passed that Remus heard someone coming once again, and heard the sound of metal being pulled along the floor. He jumped to the door of the cell and looked out, only to see Sable being led back in by two black cloaked Death Eaters.
"Sable!" he cried, wanting to know if she was okay. "Sable, are you alright? What did they do to you?!"
"She's alive, you filth." said Avery crossly as he pulled out a set of keys from his robes.
"Sable, answer me!" he said, looking through the bars to take in her ripped shirt and unbuttoned denim shorts. There were red whelps on her thighs and the skin on her wrist was charred from prolonge contact with the silver shackles. There were tear stains on her face and her eyes were still red from crying. Her hair was our of its ponytail and falling around her shoulders in messy black waves.
"I'm fine, Remus." she answered, her voice once again devoid of any emotion, though it did crack at the end of the sentence, as though she had screamed too much at someone. "A little roughed over, but I'm fine."
"Put her in here with me, please." Remus begged, banging on the door.
"Why should we?" Flint asked.
"We can't hurt you." Remus said quickly. "We're unarmed and you've got wands. What could we possibly do?"
"Voldemort said to keep you separated said Flint. Remus was about to say something else when another Death Eater came into the hallway, his hood pulled over his face to hide his identity.
"Put her in there with him." he said calmly.
"But..."
"They can't do anything, and they might as well spend their last few hours together." he said coldly, pulling the keys from Avery and unlocking the shackles on Sable. "Get away from the door, Lupin." Remus moved as far back as he could and waited. The Death Eater opened the door and roughly shoved Sable into his waiting arms. "Make the best of your time. Although I doubt she has enough energy or stamina left to do anything more than fall asleep."
The three men walked away, and Remus said nothing to Sable until he was sure they were long gone. He looked down at her and frowned. She was shaking violently, and he could smell the saltiness of her tears forming. He sat down, pulling her with him and settling her on his lap.
"Are you okay, love?" he whispered as her tears started falling "What did they do?"
"I'm....fine." she choked out between sobs. "They didn't....hurt me...very....bad. Only..one touched...me. But it...wasn't...Flint...or Avery."
"Sable, I'm so sorry." he said, rocking her gently "I'm so sorry."
"I was scared." she whispered a few minutes later. "They told me that we're going to be brought before Voldemort again in a few hours."
"We'll be fine." he said. "No matter what happens, don't give into them. We'll find a way out of this, I promise."
"I'm scared, Remus." she said quietly. "I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do to help everyone."
"We'll get out of this." Remus said, rocking her gently. "I promise you that we'll get out of this." Sable cried harder and he held her tightly until she fell into a semi-fitful sleep. 'We will get out of here.' he though with determination. 'I'll get you out of here, somehow.'
A few hours later
(A/N: Okay, back to the PG stuff now)
The few hours of brief respite was over too soon, and Remus and Sable were awakened by the sounds of people coming down the hall. Sable shuttered and pressed into Remus.
"They're coming again." she whimpered.
"I know, love." he said, holding her. They watched as four Death Eaters appeared in front of them as the door to the holding cell opened.
"Time to go, kiddies." one of the said, pointing a wand at them. "Lord Voldemort wishes to see you and hear your answer to his generous offer." Sable, steeling herself for the coming horrors, got out of Remus' lap and stood, glaring at the four men in front of her. They wore no masks, but their hoods were pulled down over their faces, hiding their identities, even though she recognized one as Avery, and one as Flint. Remus stood beside her, holding her hand and growling. The Death Eaters seemed hesitant to acknowledge the boy's existence, and backed out of the room.
"No shackles this time?" Sable asked as she walked out of the dungeon cell.
"They're not needed." Flint said. "You've been punished enough as is. And you knew better than to change. We have orders to kill you and the boy if you do." Sable whirled around and glared at the boy.
"What about my parents, Flint, you bloody asshole!" she growled. "Where are they?"
"You will see shortly, Robbins." Flint said, pulling the hood away from his face. "So I suggest you shut up and get to moving. Lord Voldemort does not like to be kept waiting." Sable turned back around when he prodded her with his wand, but remained silent the rest of the way.
They soon found themselves once again in the room with the gilded chair on the raised dias. This time, her parents were kneeling on the ground, seemingly untouched.
"Mom! Dad!" she yelled, making a mad dash towards them, only to come face to face with the tip of a wand.
"Move back, Robbins." Avery hissed. "Or I'll kill them right in front of you." Sable glared, but backed up, and remained silent.
"Put the wand away, my brother." came Voldemort's cool voice from the shadows behind the chair. "She is not to be harmed in anyway." Sable hissed as the evil wizard responsible for all of this once again sat in the ornate chair and looked down upon her. The Death Eaters around Sable and Remus stepped back, allowing them to kneel and take the gags from Carol and Robert Robbins' mouths.
The cold Lord watched as the girl spoke quietly with her parents, reassuring herself that they were indeed okay. His eyes strayed to her charred wrists, and he narrowed his eyes in anger. His orders had been to jail her, not shackle her. When Sable finally stood, helping her parents up, the evil wizard stepped to the bottom of the dias.
"What happened to your wrists?" he asked, motioning towards her hands.
"One of your lackey's decided to shackle her to the wall of the holding cell." Remus barked, glaring at him. "With cuffs and chains made of pure silver!"
"Is this true?" he asked Sable, looking her over carefully.
"Yes." she said evenly. "Not that you would care. They told me they were acting on your orders."
"I ordered them to merely detain you." Voldemort shot back. "Not chain you. Who done it?"
"How should I know?" Sable said sarcastically. "You all look the same with those damned masks on. I'm a wolf, not a psychic. I don't know who done it! Although it was probably that bastard Flint and his stupid side-kick Avery!"
"Lucius!" called Voldemort loudly. "Come here immediately!"
"Yes, Master?" came a tall blonde man who Remus immediately recognized as Lucius Malfoy, a snobby aristocratic wizard with more money than he knew what to do with.
"Who brought Ms. Robbins to the holding cells?"
"Avery and Flint." he said automatically. Voldemort seemed peeved, but only a fractional amount.
"I will deal with their stupidity later." he said, going back up to the dias and seating himself there. "Have you thought about my offer, Ms. Robbins?"
"Yes." Sable answered, stepping in front of Remus and her family.
"And your answer then?"
"I will join you if, and only if, you free Remus and my parents." she stated calmly, looking at the wizard calmly. Behind her, Sable heard her parents begin to protest, only to be silenced by a Silencing charm and bound with ropes once again.
"You are in no position to be making stipulations, young woman." Voldemort said wearily.
"And you're the one that wants me to begin with." Sable countered. "Let them go, or kill me now."
"Sable, you're crazy to do this!" Remus yelled. "You're playing right into his hands!"
"What. Other. Choice. Do. I. Have?" she ground out, turning to face Remus. "I won't have your blood on my hands, nor that of my parents."
"Sable...please don't." he begged. "You can't do this. You don't have the heart to be a Death Eater. You can't purposely hurt anyone."
"I'll do what I have to in order to keep us all safe." she said stonily.
"I won't let you do this, Sable." he stated, walking up to her.
"I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter, my love." she said sadly. "I'm sorry, but this is the only thing I can do, to keep you alive."
"Very well put." Voldemort said evenly, watching the two teenagers interact. "But unfortunately, it is time to put an end to the indecisiveness that seems to plague you, Ms. Robbins." The wizard raised his hand and motioned towards them. Four Death Eaters stepped forward and forcefully separated Sable and Remus, silencing and binding the young man. Remus was placed on the floor next to Sable's parents as she watched. Another Death Eater walked to Lucius Malfoy and then came to stand on each side of Sable.
The two men grabbed her elbows and walked to the first tier of the dias and forced her to kneel, her head bowed. Voldemort rose, beckoning his two servants away, and leaving Sable kneeled before him.
"Do you accept your fate, Ms. Robbins?" he asked coldly. "Will you join with us to help purge the wizarding world of impure blood?"
"Get them out of here, and I'll do whatever you want." she said curtly.
"You have my word that after this, they will never have to see my face again." he said evilly, a ghost of a smile on his lips.
"Then do what you must." she answered, closing her eyes. Voldemort smiled in superiority and raised his wand.
"My brothers," he announced. "We will soon be welcoming a new member into our flock. Do you agree with her passage into your distinguished ranks?" A roar of approval sounded from the fifty or so men in the room. "Very well then. And who will be willing to teach this woman our ways and beliefs?"
"I am willing." came a voice to Sable's immediate left. She dared not look up to see whom it was, but she recognized the voice immediately, and her rage grew. "I will teach her properly, as Lucius has taught me."
"Ah, yes, one of my youngest and most trusted followers." Voldemort said. "You will teach her well." The psycho wizard looked down at Sable and smiled. "And are you ready to receive the mark of our ranks?"
"Yes." Sable said evenly, steeling herself for the unknown. Behind her, she heard her parents and Remus struggling and trying to get free, if only to stop her.
"If I may intercede, my Lord." came the voice of her 'teacher'. "I believe it would be prudent to mark her somewhere other than normal, considering it will be most odd when she starts wearing clothing to cover it up."
"You are right, my son." he said, looking at her kneeling form and noticing the exposed skin where her shirt had been ripped, revealing the smooth skin of her waist. "It will be painfully obvious to those who know her well. I know what to do, however. Stand, Sabriel Robbins, and face your new family."
Remus watched as Sable stood up and slowly turned to face the crowd, tears in her eyes, but her head held high in defiance. Voldemort raised his wand and pointed it to here back before uttering a complex spell Remus had not caught. A green light shot from the wand and circled around Sable's waist. She cried out in pain and sunk to the floor on her hands and knees, but the wizard held the spell until a blackened pattern began to burn into her skin.
He watched, horrified and helpless, as the darkened lines grew wider, and began fading out in a scale-like pattern. Remus suddenly realized that Lucius and Sable's new 'teacher' had picked her up from the floor and held her up roughly. Remus' eyes were trained on Sable's waist as the two lines came around her body and curved around her belly button, the line on the left curing under her navel, and the one on the right curving above it. Remus blanched as the mark began to take shape. 'He's marking her with...snakes!!!' he thought angrily.
Sable's face was tear stained and red from the pain coursing through her body. It felt like someone was holding a hot iron to her waist and back. She buckled once again when the spell was lifted, and the Death Eaters beside her let her fall to the floor. When the pain subsided, she stood up and touched her waist gently, looking down to see what Voldemort had done. She shook her head and frowned. He had burned a mark into her alright. It was a pair or snakes wrapped around her waist, forming a circle, with one head over her navel and another below.
"That wasn't so bad, now was it?" Voldemort asked, smirking at her.
"I've done my part." Sable said, her voice cracking slightly as she wiped away a few tears from her face. "Now do your part. Let them go." Voldemort nodded and stepped down from the dias.
"Yes. I did say they would never have to see me again, did I not?" He asked rhetorically. "You see there is a problem though."
"What?" Sable asked, her heart in her throat.
"If I let your parents go, they will inform the Ministry as to my whereabouts." Voldemort said easily. "And I cannot allow that to happen."
"So put a memory charm on them and let them go." Sable said defiantly. "Surely you can do that."
"I have a better idea." Voldemort said. "They will never have to see my face again, tis true. But it will be because they're dead."
"What?!!?" Sable screeched, jumping towards him, only to be caught by the two closest men in black cloaks. "You said you'd let them go!"
"Au contraire," Voldemort said, shaking his finger at her. "I said that they would never see my face again, and they won't." Before Sable could get another word in edgewise, Voldemort pointed his wand at Robert and Carol Robbins and muttered the Unforgivable Curse that caused instant death. "Avada Kedavra!"
Remus saw Sable's parents fall to the floor as the light hit them, surrounding their body, and that was it. They did not move again. His eyes careened back to Sable, who was still being held by the two Death Eaters. She was staring at the bodies of her parents as two more men picked them up.
"Put their bodies in the holding cell where Ms. Robbins was." Voldemort said quickly, a hard edge to his voice. "She will begin her instructions immediately."
"You sick bastard!" Sable yelled, struggling against her captors.
"Take the werewolf to his own cell. He will be used as insurance to make sure our newest acquisition complies with our wished." Voldemort said, sweeping back up to the chair and seating himself. Remus, still bound, felt as he was lifted and levitated out of the room by his captors. The last thing he sw before the doors closed was Sable, kneeling on the ground, crying as Voldemort looked down from his position on the raised platform. When the doors had shut, Sable looked up to see Voldemort sneering down at her.
"Severus!"
"Yes, Master?"
"You asked permission to train her." He said. "Take her and begin immediately. I want my newest asset to be a well behaved, obedient young woman. Am I understood?"
"Of course, my Lord." Snape stepped forward, pulling her up and sneering at her. "I'll do it with the utmost pleasure." Sable glared at her classmate, but remained silent as he pulled her roughly out of the room and up numerous flights of stairs before entering a lavishly decorated bedroom. He threw her on the bed and growled, pulling his cloak away to reveal a sneer on his face.
"Well, Robbins." he said coldly. "I hope you're happy. I told you to keep your mouth shut!"
"You filthy bastard!" Sable growled. "Not you again! Haven't you done enough to me for one day? As if earlier wasn't bad enough! Now I've got to put up with you again?" She shivered as the memories of earlier came back to her. Snape had been the one assigned to 'relieve her of the stress' Voldemort had commented on. She had not told Remus that it was Snape that had put his hands on her, not really seeing a reason to make him more angry, but she was beginning to wish she had.
"If you'd have listened to me and kept your mouth shut, your parents would probably still be alive!" Snape snapped. "So I don't want to hear it! And as for earlier, I only did what I had to in order to keep the both of us from getting killed. There were people watching us, to make sure that I did not take it easy on you! If I hadn't have done that, we would have both been killed! Just because I'm one of Voldemort's follower's doesn't mean he won't hesitate to kill me! You should be thanking me!"
"Thanking you?" she screamed. "Thanking you? Do you have any idea how humiliating it is to be forced into.....that?"
"You'll get over it." he said coldly. "There's more important things to worry about."
"And what are they?" she asked. Snape looked over at her and frowned, his features turning contrite for a moment.
"Getting your sorry hide out of here!" he barked. "You and Lupin both!"
"What?" she asked, not wanting to fall for a trick. "How?"
"Voldemort won't call you again tonight. He's had his fun for the evening." he said completely serious. "I'm going to Dumbledore to get you out of here."
"Dumbledore knows you're a Death Eater?" Sable asked skeptically, folding her arms across her chest.
"Yes." he answered curtly. "I've been spying for him for some time now."
"How long?" Sable asked. "Did you know about my parents being captured and used as bait for me to come to Voldemort's side?"
"None of your business." he said firmly, completely ignoring the last question she threw at him. "Now listen to me carefully. I'm taking you back to the holding cells and putting you with Lupin. I'm going to lock the doors and padlock it so you can't get out. But beneath the hay is a phial of highly concentrated acid. Pour it on the lock and get out. Flint is on guard duty, and he has your wands. Find some way to get them from him. Once you get them, get to the entrance floor and hide somewhere until midnight. I'll arrange it with Dumbledore to attack by then. You'll get a clear shot out as long as you're near the front entrance. Can you do that?"
"Why are you doing this, Severus?" she asked after a moment of staring at him to determine whether he was lying to her or not. "I thought you hated me and Remus."
"I don't hate you, Robbins." he said, looking at her. "I never have, no matter how you may have took my actions. Lupin, however, is another matter all together. But, I have enough blood on my hands without adding yours and Lupin's to the mix. I don't want anymore on my conscious." Sable said nothing as she looked at his troubled face. She had never suspected Snape of being a Death Eater, although she was sure Remus and the others had. He was mean, crude, cruel, and sadistic at times, but Sable had never suspected him to be a murderer. Little did she know, that he had went to Dumbledore and confessed to everything not long after the attack on her parents. The old man had been understanding, and Snape had felt obliged to try and rectify his mistakes by acting as an informant for Dumbledore, and the new group he was gathering to fight Voldemort, known as the Order of the Phoenix.
"There's another reason why you're doing this, isn't there?" she asked quietly, going to stand in front of him and trying to look him in the eye.
"My reasons are my own." he said curtly, staring straight at her. "It's none of your concern or business as to why I'm doing this. So don't question it." Sable said nothing else, but only nodded in response. Snape, taking this as acquiescence, turned and walked towards the door way, motioning for her to follow.
"We'll be there." she said as he opened the door and led her out and towards the dungeons. "You can count on that."
A/N - Okay, I know there are some people who probably absolutely hated this chapter. I didn't exactly like writing it myself! Anyhow, things will work out, I promise.
Synopsis: Here's the short version.
-Sable, Remus, and her parents are kidnaped and brought before Voldemort.
- He offers them the chance to join him as Death Eaters, but they refuse.
- Voldemort kills Sable's parents, after she agrees to become a follower under the condition that Voldemort lets Remus and her parents go.
- Snape becomes her 'teacher' in the beliefs and ways of the Death Eaters.
- Snape, who is already spying for Dumbledore, concocts a plan to get her out of there, as well as Remus, even though he still holds a big grudge against Remus.
