A/N: Hi everyone. I'm updating again. I had this chapter written for a while now. But I didn't want to put it up until I got more reviews. (I only got 2 last chapter. Was it bad?) Well, either way, this is the second half to the escape scene. I really like this chapter, so I hope you do too. This story is definitely drawing to an end. But its ok, we all wait in anticipation for HBP, so I'm gonna take a break until then. Hope you enjoy the second half!

Thanks to April9876 and a little ­magic for reviewing. And thanks to anyone who reviewed before and after this point.

Thanks with all my heart to my beta Charlie who always makes me feel like I could give JK a run for her money. (Though I know I couldn't…its always nice to have such praises.) So…Thanks!

And on to the story…

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Angelina felt like she had been running forever. The darkness never seemed to recede and she was weary of lighting her wand, lest she attract her captor. Each door she ran through took her to another hallway. Sometimes the hallways were long and twisting; sometimes they were short with only one or two doors lining the sides. Along with darkness there seemed to be a constant hum of whispered voices. The little man that had captured her must have alerted others. They all seemed to be just behind the doors and Angelina expected someone to jump out and attack her at any second. So, she ran on. Her Quidditch training never seemed more valuable than now.

After many, many minutes of running through doors and hallways, Angelina stopped. Or more, she stumbled. Her breath came out in painful wheezes as she leaned against the wall. She had the unnerving feeling that she was never going to get out. She felt trapped in a maze and she was almost sure she had been in this hallway before.

She had never liked mazes, not even the ones on paper. She hated the feeling of being trapped with the exit in sight, but the route unclear to her.

Whispered voices echoed from behind closed doors, but Angelina just leaned her head back against the wall and closed her eyes. She was sure the voices were testimony to the slight hysteria she felt coming on. She was going to be running forever.

The whispers eventually grew louder and were suddenly followed by footsteps. Angelina opened her eyes to see a door blast open.

She turned around and ducked down just as a white-hot jet of purple light flew close to her head.

"Expelliarmus!" she shot back over her shoulder.

She didn't know if her spell hit its mark as she raced towards the end of the hallway with its solitary door. Apparently it didn't for soon she heard footsteps following her.

"Relashio!" the voice screamed.

Just then the door at the end of the hallway opened and the little man who had abducted her jumped into the hallway.

"Incarcerous!" he screamed at the same time.

Angelina thought fast.

"Protego!"

A shield enclosed her as the two curses bounced off it. The first spell bounced off harmlessly into the surrounding wall. The second spell, cast sloppily by the little man, bounced off towards the man who had cast the first spell.

"Gobbo!" the man yelled as magical ropes wrapped around him, trapping his wand hand.

"Master!" the little man squealed in fright.

Angelina used this distraction to take aim.

"Stupefy!"

The little man slumped over, unconscious in front of the door.

"Arg!" the other man screamed.

Angelina looked back and finally saw who had thrown out the first curse. But actually, she didn't see who it was for the man was wearing a white Death Eater mask.

Angelina ran to the door at the end of the hallway, stepping over the little man sprawled on the floor. The last thing she saw as she ran through the door and flung it closed was the Death Eater breaking through the magical ropes and glaring at her.

Again she ran. The hallway was another long and dark one, lined with doors. She chose one at random and ran through it. Another hallway followed. Again she ran.

She felt like she was going in circles, but Angelina was beyond caring now. Another door took her into a short hallway with two doors on the left and one on the right. She made her way blindly to the farthest door on the left when a door burst open behind her.

Startled, she turned around and pointed her wand.

"Impedimen—"

"Angie, wait!"

Her hand shook as she stopped her spell in mid-cast.

A wand light came on and she felt almost weak with relief at seeing Oliver's face.

"Angie. We gotta get you out of here."

He walked over to her and she noticed he was limping a little. The amount of danger that they were in hit her again.

"Your leg…" she breathed out.

"Yeah, I met up with one of them in a hallway not long ago," Oliver said holding her close. "Damn, you're bleeding," he said grabbing her head.

She reached up gingerly to touch her forehead and winced as her finger brushed across a fresh cut. That purple spell had hit her after all. She felt chills starting to creep up her body and knew it was the first sign of panic. She could not afford to panic now, though. She grabbed Oliver's hand, pulling him towards the door she had intended to go through before.

"Wait," he said. He reached into his pocket and retrieved what looked like a silver coin. A half of it was missing.

"Questio Dimidium," he whispered, touching the tip of his wand to the coin. The coin rose in the air and glowed red. It floated over to the one door on the right and hovered in front of it.

"What does that—" she started to ask.

He grabbed her hand. "Let's go."

They opened the door and the coin sailed through the door into another hallway. It floated to a door on the right and hovered there, waiting for them to catch up.

The coin continued to lead the two through many hallways.

"That was a search spell?" Angelina finally asked as they went through yet another door into a dark hallway. "You've found the exit, then?"

The coin floated on, choosing a door and hovering in front of it.

"No…" he answered slowly.

The last door had led them not to another hallway, but a lighted room. They cautiously stepped inside and watched as the coin floated to the door at the other end. It now produced a bright green glow.

"We're looking for Fred." Oliver said at last. He walked towards the door.

"Fred came too?"

Something didn't feel right to Angelina and she couldn't quite place it.

Oliver turned the knob, looking over his shoulder. "And I think we've found him."

As Oliver disappeared behind the door, Angelina realized what seemed so eerie. The whispered voices had stopped. The constant footsteps had seized. The absolute silence was deafening and without thinking, Angelina rushed in after him.

"Somnus" a raspy voice wheezed out before she had really set foot through the door.

And all went dark.

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Angelina woke up to hear voices.

"I'm surprised you managed that spell, Gobbo."

The agitated voice sounded far away. Another voice sounded much closer.

"Yes, master. I put her to sleep."

Angelina realized the voice of the little man right away. She lay right where she was, feigning sleep. She couldn't have been out but a couple seconds.

"Good," the other voice said with a sneer. "I tire of your mistakes."

Angelina heard the little man gulp. Then the other voice came again.

"Tie her up quick and put her with the others. I will dispose of them all."

"Yes…yes, master. What about Potter?"

The other voice laughed sinisterly. "What Potter? Gobbo, you disappoint me. You have gone senile in your years. How can you mistake this…this, Quidditch player for The Boy Who Lived?"

"But…but…"

"Quiet! Do what I say or you will be joining these three."

The little man conjured ropes and began to tie her feet together. Angelina peaked open one eye to see her lying in a room not unlike the first one she had been held in. In the far corner of her vision she saw Oliver and…Fred! They were both bound and gagged. Fred looked to have been beaten up quite badly.

Angelina looked down towards her feet to see her captor struggling with the rope. His back was turned. Angelina looked across the room and saw the man in the Death Eater mask watching over the boys, his back turned as well.

Angelina knew this was her chance.

"Impediamenta" she whispered towards the little man. His hands stopped working immediately as he froze over her feet.

Angelina hurriedly undid the rope on her feet, watching to make sure the Death Eater still had his back turned.

"Gobbo! Do not make me ask for her another time!"

As the Death Eater made a frustrated noise and turned towards her, Angelina pointed her wand at the armoire behind him.

"Reducto!" she screamed.

The huge cabinet seemed to explode and fell over onto the man. His body became submerged under the planks of wood and the frame of the cabinet.

"Master...!"

The little man struggled against the spell. Angelina knew she didn't have much time.

She ran over to Oliver, the closer of the two boys, and removed the gag. He was fighting to say something.

"Get him first. He doesn't seem to be breathing!"

Angelina looked over to Fred whose face was pale as ash and very still. She untied his bounds and leaned in close to his face. He was barely breathing. She ran through her healing spells she had spent a whole summer learning at healing camp after her 5th year. Only one came to mind that could actually help him, and as she muttered the correct words, she just hoped he would hold until they got out.

"You…you…whore. You…you…sp…spiteful…sl…sl…slut!"

Angelina barely registered the little man's tortured quarreling. He was still fighting the bounds of the spell—and it was wearing off—but she was too preoccupied to notice.

"Oh…oh…my…my…master. You…you…wretch. You…you…you killed him!"

Angelina was knocked backward as a spell hit her square in the chest. She hadn't even heard the little man utter the incantation. She lay sprawled next to the man in the Death Eater mask. He was starting to stir.

"You killed master!" the little man wheezed from across the room.

Angelina could barely lift her head, but she saw him standing menacingly on the other side of the room. He apparently didn't notice that his master was stirring behind Angelina. His face was filled with a rage she had never seen before.

"Now," he said in a low growl, "I must kill you!"

"No!" Oliver screamed from where he still lay bounded with magic.

Fred shifted slightly, moaning against his painful wounds.

The little man raised his wand high and screamed wildly—

"Avada Kedavra"

Angelina closed her eyes tightly, knowing she could not escape the killing curse. Even behind her eyelids she could see the glow of the green light racing towards her. Time seemed to slow down as she waited an eternity for the spell to take her life.

An eternity didn't last that much longer.

"MASTER!"

Angelina opened her eyes to find herself very much alive and unharmed. Across the room the little man was in a fit. He jerked and twitched in what seemed like agony.

"MASTER! OH, MASTER!" He screamed at the top of his lungs.

Angelina looked behind her where she saw that the man in the Death Eater mask had managed to sit up before…before…

She looked at him. The Death Eater mask hid his face, but his body was slack and…lifeless.

Ignoring the screams coming from the writhing little man, Angelina reached over and removed the white mask.

Vacant eyes stared back at her. His mouth was slightly opened in surprise and his face was even more pasty and pale than Fred's had been.

Angelina dropped the mask and scuttled away. She had never seen death before and she felt her stomach churn uncomfortably. She had just managed to hold on to her lunch as strong arms came around her and pulled her close. Oliver had gotten out of his bounds.

"Angie…"

That one whispered word, spoken close to her ear, seemed to block out the gruesome image of death.

The little man still wailed pitifully but Angie didn't hear anymore. She turned around and buried her head into Oliver's shoulder. And for the second time since Oliver had come back into her life, he held her while she cried.

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A/N: Please…please…please?…review! lol. Hope you enjoyed it. See you soon with the final (or so) chapter. :-)

---Crzy