Heaven Tastes Sweeter
Chapter Eight
Soon enough, the pair of Death Eaters came into the room with every intention of taking them to the Dark Lord.
Pansy had been tense the whole time, desperately trying to be ready to strike if needed. It was mad, she, the daughter of an aristocratic pureblood family, having to defend herself against the people who, in theory, were supporting the pureblood cause…
The Slytherin cast a quick glance at Terry, the poor Ravenclaw looked positively terrified and Pansy felt sorry for him, he had actually volunteered for this and was probably regretting it wishing he was back in Hogwarts.
As planned, Pansy got up from her sitting position at the same time the two Death Eaters entered the room.
Both Pansy and Terry were ordered to follow them outside the room to a dark corridor.
Luckily, none of the two Death Eaters had bothered to tie their hands, probably deciding that two students were hardly worth the effort, Pansy decided to make a move and the Slytherin ran towards one of them grabbing the front of his robes with her small hands.
"Noooo!! Please don't take me to HIM…please…" Pansy sobbed so realistically that she was even convincing herself.
The Death Eater found himself pushed back by Pansy and had to get both his hands out of his robes in order to stabilise himself and try to push Pansy away from him.
This was the moment she had waited for. With a quick move, Pansy grabbed the Death Eater wand and, with two fast, successive moves, she shouted:
"Stupefy! Stupefy!"
The two Death Eaters dropped onto the floor stunned.
Too easy.
If Pansy had ever learnt a lesson, it had been that things that looked easy, usually were bound to complicate themselves horrifically fast. For this reason, they needed to get out of there at once.
Pansy turned around and found Terry standing there open mouthed.
"What's wrong Terry?" Pansy asked apprehensively.
"You're a Slytherin…" he stated as if he were informing Pansy of something she didn't know.
"Very sharp of you to notice…" Pansy said sarcastically not really understanding Terry's point.
"I mean…for a moment I found you really cool…but you're a Slytherin…" Terry said as if both being cool AND a Slytherin could just not happen.
Pansy just glared at him not really knowing how to reply.
"We better get out of here…" Terry said after a very brief pregnant silence.
"Of course, wherever we are…" Pansy agreed, thinking for the first time that she didn't have the faintest idea of where exactly they were, other than the fact that they were in some sort of castle.
"Let's look around for something to turn into a portkey…" Terry instructed.
Pansy found an old wooden bucket and gave it to Terry. She hadn't yet mastered to incantation that turned objects into portkeys.
"Portus!" Terry said tapping the bucket with the Death Eater's wand.
Nothing happened. The bucket didn't glow blue nor any other colour.
"Portus!!" Terry tried again.
Nothing.
"It doesn't work!!" Terry said frustrated.
"Oh…forget about it then…let's just run!" Pansy almost shouted.
The two students started running, hoping that they were actually on their way out. Pansy damned her total lack of orientation sense and found it relieving to see that Terry seemed to have a much better idea of where to go.
After a few minutes of running around the place undisturbed, they found themselves in front of a door.
"So…what do we do now?" Pansy asked.
"Don't ask me…I thought you were in charge here…" Terry replied still obviously upset that his 'portus' charm hadn't worked, then seeing the Slytherin's glare, he added "alright then, let's open the door and see what's this way, shall we?"
"Ok…let's do it…" Pansy said pleased to see that her glares actually worked with the Ravenclaw. Usually they only worked with her group of friends, everybody else just ignored them.
Terry opened the door a bit and peered through the clench, seeing something that made him close it again almost instantly.
"Uh oh…" it was his only comment.
"What?" Pansy asked, also whispering, an apprehension feeling raising to her throat threatening to choke her.
"Death Eathers…lots of them…there…" Terry whispered pointing at the door.
"Ah…that's definitely not good…" Pansy replied feeling instantly stupid for saying such a dumb thing.
"Let's go…" Terry said, taking the initiative but, before they actually made it to the first step, the door began to open itself and the two students could hear the voices of a few Death Eaters.
"Run" Pansy whispered breathlessly.
Pansy ran like she had never done before. Terry was again leading the way, this time, she noticed, seeming a lot less sure of where to go.
"This way…I've seen something…I think…" Terry said excitedly, suddenly changing direction to follow yet another corridor, so similar to the previous one, that it gave Pansy the impression they were actually running in circles.
Finally, they arrived to some kind of quad, they saw it was already dark and both were grateful for it since the darkness allowed them to hide, buying themselves enough time to explore the walls surrounding the green square and to gasp for the much needed oxygen.
There…right in front of them, there was a door big enough to look like an external door.
"Are you thinking the same I am?" Terry asked looking at Pansy in the darkness.
"Yes…let's go…" Pansy replied feeling her heartbeat thundering in her ears, if she had ever been this scared before, she really couldn't remember.
They walked keeping themselves as attached to the wall as possible till the reached the door.
"Wait…it's locked…" Terry said, then added using the wand he had 'borrowed', "Alohamora".
The door opened with a clasp. They opened it and found themselves in front of a path and, a few meters to the left, what seemed to be a cliff, beyond it, the darkness of the ocean. Wherever they were, they were somewhere seaside.
Terry took the few steps separating them from the cliff.
"We can do it…let's jump…" he said shocking Pansy.
"What? I'm not jumping…" Pansy said thinking that her madness was contagious.
"No silly…there…I can see some sort of path down there…but we need to jump a bit to reach it…" Terry explained.
Terry jumped first, just to demonstrate to Pansy that it was safe enough.
Then, the two students found themselves running towards safety? Even more danger? Only time would tell…so far, Pansy kept herself going thinking that soon she would be back to Hogwarts and, with a bit of luck she would live to see the next sunrise.
Just in case, Pansy ran a bit faster trying to leave behind that castle and its Death Eaters.
To be continued…
Really long A/N: This is just the starters (it's only the 8th chapter after all)…so I didn't want to get too cruel yet…it looks like Pansy and Terry have had a lucky escape, haven't they? I say, you'll see…thinks are only going to get nastier and nastier…with a happy ending? I don't know yet…
In any case, this is the last chapter for 2004. I'm going on holidays to my parents place so I won't be able to post anything…I will take my laptop with me so I'll be able to write the next chapters…unfortunately my parents don't have internet so I will not be able to upload anything till the 3rd Jan.
Thanks as always for your comments I appreciate each one of them!
I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Peaceful 2005!
Yours,
Sanae