I just have one thing to say.
Sorry it took so long
Forgive me
That's actually two
Oh well
Chapter 14 The 2nd Attack and Voldie's Trick Part 2
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
Harry, Audrey, Hermione and Ron split themselves into the two groups containing the Order members and led them to attack. Hermione and Ron led their group to the Dementors, while Harry and Audrey led their group to the DE's. ---
Ron and Hermione motioned their group to hurriedly spread out in pairs as the grey cloaked, rotten beings descended down from a hill on them and as all were nearly on them all the Order members yelled "Expecto Patronum!"
Hermione and Ron chose a more direct approach with Ron crushing the Dementors and opening up the earth like a doctor with a sharp tool on a patient while Hermione would just do what came to mind to the nearest DeathEater like hexing, cursing and stabbing them. The DeathEaters where mowed down like a rabbit in a carrot land. Ron changed to use his scythe when the screams were too loud for his ears to take. He started to work side by side with Hermione to defeat the Dementors.
---
Meanwhile Audrey and Harry were working close together in the battle. Harry charged a group of four Deatheaters and picked them off bloody and painfully, one by one. Audrey was now fighting one DE with the dagger in her left hand and at the same time managing to hex two other DE's with the right, shooting off and deflecting spells at the same time.
The Order members which had secured 6 of the rookie DE's switch and started to help out with the Dementors while the other ten from the Boggart squad started to help with the DE's.
(a/n everyone still with me?...good)
Harry was standing back to back with Audrey as he killed three DE's moving on to the next while Audrey was busy killing three others; one by stabbing him in the heart, blood gushing out into her face (think practical) and the other two by some bad ass cursing.
Suddenly one Order member fell down bleeding heavily from his chest and as the DE which had slashed him was about to kill him suddenly saw Harry jump in front it and summon a fireball. (You all know by now how that ends) Audrey was using her control over air to bang some DE's together and out of the way while she charged some more.
---
As Hermione and Ron were finishing off the last of Demoentors and stuff that where crawling on the ground the Order members had already regrouped and disapparated to HQ to tend to the many wounded. It was a miracle that none had died.
Audrey and Harry were far behind checking on the few members still on site when they suddenly they felt a wave of ice seeping down their spine.
"Holly Goddess!" Audrey gasped.
"There's no way that we can face that, not with the state Order is in right now! No way we can call them back with so many injured!" Harry exclaimed.
~ You coming guys? ~ Ron asked having turned around facing them on the far side of the battleground.
~ Go on ahead, we're gonna check some things. ~ Harry replied forced calm.
~ You need any help? ~
~ Nah just some bits and pieces left. We'll see ya at the HQ ~
~ Kay later ~ Ron replied and disappeared.
"Are they gone?" Harry asked Audrey as his locating senses were hardly worth mentioning.
"Yeah, I felt them leave" Audrey replied.
"Let's put up full anti-apparition wards" Harry said.
Audrey nodded as she closed her eyes and waved her hands in a complicated pattern with Harry following suit.
"We can't block them out.He's with them" Audrey said breathlessly.
"I know. Let's just hope that He'll be happy having captured us and refrain from attacking immediately" Harry muttered as he looked all over the site with narrowed eyes after bad omens.
"Let's hope indeed. Dammit! We should've seen this coming!" Audrey cursed.
"How could we?" Harry retorted.
They stood there a couple of seconds, sensing the danger approaching.
"Say Black?" Harry asked as he turned from watching the battlezone.
"Yes, Potter?" Audrey asked with a grim smirk.
"How come we always end up in shit like this?" Harry asked.
"It's our destiny." she whispered "Who gives a shit, we're screwed!" Audrey acknowledged.
Harry snickered but then fast as any bullet stood in fight position as multiplied ten DE's started to apparate from everywhere.
"Well NOW we KNOW we're doomed" Harry muttered sourly as he and Audrey stood back to back surrounded.
"Ah laugh harder Snitch" Audrey said sarcastically.
They were completely surrounded by DE's now. Then one side parted like the red sea on a dry season and through came a black robed man they all knew a little too well to feel comfortable.Voldemort.
~ Do you have the same inkling as I that this was a trap? ~ Harry asked.
~ Yeah, thought I think that Voldie would've liked some other's as well ~ Audrey replied now seeing some of Voldies face.
~ Ah, the wonders of underestimating your enemies ~ Harry added smirking.
~ Thank Merlin for small lucks, though we could need some too. We're in deep shit ~ Audrey replied.
~ You can say that again ~
~ We're in deep shit ~
~ Ah shut it ~
Voldemort finally reached them with a part pleased (they shuddered) and part irritated (a relieved sigh that they could take).
"Well, well, well.Missster Potter and my dear daughter" he hissed.
Harry and Audrey looked coolly at him.
"Tie them up" Voldemort said.
Six DE's rushed to it.
"Six DE's for just the two of us, are you that paranoid?" Harry sneered with a hint of a satisfied smirk.
"Don't try to fool me boy, I've heard what the two of you can do" Voldemort snapped as Harry and Audrey were tied up tight. err very tight indeed.
"Now, sssshall we?"
Voldemort disapparated and the DE's followed with Harry and Audrey. They didn't notice the two mages wave their hands (which was very hard in their bound state) a few seconds before the group disapparated.
---
Meanwhile in the Order of the Phoenix Headquarters Ron was pacing so hard and fast that he was wearing the carpet thin, while Hermione was just sitting looking worried.
"Where in the name of Dante's seven Hell plateaus are they?" she said looking at Ron pacing.
(a/n Dante is a writer who wrote a book foretelling a journey from hell to heaven, his version of hell has 7 layers or plateaus or rings.okay ignore the author here.)
Ron abruptly stopped his pacing and swirled around.
"I'm going back" He summoned the power that allowed him to disapparate but.he didn't go anywhere.
"What the.?" he stammered.
Hermione stood up and tried as well but nothing worked. Suddenly understanding dawned on her and she concentrated.
"Snitch and Nova have placed very strong wards to hold the Order, including us from going back. I recognize their aura's in the wards. But why would they.?" she gasped and looked at Ron.
"Merlin they wouldn't." he said as he now too understood.
They looked at each other and nodded in mutual understanding.
"They would!" they said in unison.
"They must have known danger was close and sent us ahead so no one else would get caught, oh Goddess!" Hermione said as tears started to stream down her face and hugging herself.
"We'd better tell Dumbledore" Ron said, his voice wavering.
They ran out through the portrait hole, through the Entrance Hall and down the corridor, sweeping past surprised students to finally stop at the Headmasters entrance. As they came through the door and explained everything, Dumbledore suddenly looked very old as he heard what had happened to two of his students. Soon the entire Order knew and Molly was weeping while holding Ron in a bone-crushing hug. Hermione was crying on a very lost-looking Remus' shoulder.
'How are we going to explain this to the school, the press and the ministry?' Minerva wondered silently.
While everyone was worried about the happenings to their friends and crying, a little fire and a little breeze appeared in the middle of the room. The fire turned into a dog and the breeze into a panther. The two animals intertwined.
"Snitch, Nova!" Ron gasped.
Everyone looked strangely at him.
"What does that mean?" Remus asked.
"It's from Harry and Audrey" Hermione replied breathlessly.
"How do you know?" Dumbledore asked curious.
"It's their animagi forms" Minerva smartly replied.
Ron and Hermione looked at her with clear surprise.
"How did you know?" Hermione asked.
"I didn't until I saw this; I remember the class in which you were to use a spell to show your animagi form" Minerva replied.
"You're animagi as well?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes, sir" Ron replied.
Dumbledore sighed.
"Any more surprises?" he asked.
"We can communicate telepathically" Hermione confessed.
Remus started to say something.
"Don't bother Remus, we already tried. The connection is blocked, but I don't know if Harry and Audrey are doing that or Voldemort" Ron said.
"Okay, but what does the symbol mean?" Remus asked.
Ron looked at him smiling half-heartedly.
"Don't worry" he answered.
~*~ Somewhere Unknown ~*~
Harry and Audrey had been brought to a cell with as much resistance they could make and had been shackled to the wall after giving even more grief to the DE's when being untied.
"Let's hope that they got the message" Audrey remarked sourly.
Harry smirked "I think they did" The he sobered "Do you think Ron and the rest got the hint?"
"Yeah, but I don't think that they're going to do what it says anyway. You know they'll worry like mad anyway" Audrey replied.
"Can't blame 'em, I would worry in their place" Harry replied.
"So, what do you think ol' Voldski will do?" he asked conversationally.
"The usual I think. First some torture of course which will mean some breaking of bone, crucio, some muggle methods and that shit. Oh and perhaps some reversed psychology.no wait." she trailed off "They're too stupid for that" Audrey replied sadly.
Then the door flew open and three DE's stepped through.
~ And now the shit hits the fan ~ Audrey thought to Harry.
The DE's released them from the wall and pushed them out the door, nearly dropping their balance with their hands tied up and being hung on a wall. They were pushed into a large room where Voldemort was sitting on a throne. Harry and Audrey smirked when they got their baring straight.
"Kneel before your Lord" one DE commanded.
"Your lord is not ours, and will never be" Harry said hotly staring Voldemort in the face.
Audrey looked around the room, disgust clear on her face. Voldemort nodded to the two DE's behind Harry and Audrey. They kicked the mages behind their knees, causing them to fall on their knees.
"Now that you're in an appropriate position we can talk" Voldemort hissed smartly.
Harry and Audrey just growled.
"I want two thingsss of you.firsssstly, tell me everything you know about that little rebel pack of Dumbledore'ssss.and ssssecondly.join me" Voldemort hissed. He got a happy little glint in his evil red tomatoe eyes as he knew the answer as sure as he knew he would give a lollipop to a muggle child.
"Firstly we have no idea what you're talking about and secondly.Screw You!" Audrey spat.
"Oh but we can't have my one and only child saying such foul words" Voldemort began. " That we must remedy at once!"
Harry and Audrey snorted and steeled themselves, knowing what would come.
"CRUCIO" Voldemort hissed, pointing his wand at Harry.
Harry just flinched a little but didn't show anything else. Voldemort hissed and pointed his wand at Audrey, casting the spell once again. She just closed her eyes for a fraction of a second and opened them again.
"Well, well, well, it sssseemssss that you've become much stronger.but how in ssssuch little time I wonder." Voldemort hissed glaring on them with a calculating look.
Harry and Audrey said nothing.
"Well I have my wayssss to find out how thissss all can be" Voldemort hissed. He motioned to the two DE's holding Harry and Audrey. They pulled Harry and Audrey apart and dragged them away in separate directions.
~ Don't tell them anything, Nova ~ Harry said.
~ Would never dream of it, Snitch. Good luck ~ Audrey replied.
~ Ditto ~
---
Harry was dragged into a dungeon and tied to a table of some kind and then left him alone in the room with various things on the walls and the floor.
'What the hell are they gonna do?' he thought, looking around warily.
The three DE's appeared.
'On second though I don't want or need to know' Harry thought as he gulped.
"Well Mr. Potter this is your last chance.tell us what you know, join us or else." one DE spoke leaving the sentence unfinished.
'What a cliché' Harry thought as he rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Do I really need to answer that?" he asked.
The DE's pulled out their wands.
'Now I'm gonna get it' Harry thought.
"CRUCIO!" they yelled.
Harry concentrated and blocked the spells, but he now had four crucious on him and he was weaker than usual because of the battle so a tiny bit of the spells slipped through. He flinched.
Then one of the DE's spat "STACCIARE [1]."
The spell cut through his armour, shirt and also cut his chest. Harry grimaced. He felt the wound starting to bleed.
'This is going to be a long day' he thought as the DE's started to use curse, after curse, after curse.
They occasionally stopped to ask if Harry had changed his mind.to which he continued to reply with a firm NO!
---
Audrey had been tied to the wall again, but this time in a dungeon. Actually it was more like she was hanging form the wall, because she had to stand tiptoed. Then two DE's entered the dungeon carrying a lot of knifes and some hot pokers with some hot coal floating in the air.
'This does not look good' Audrey thought.
The DE's placed the armload of knifes on the table. One removed Audrey's chest armour while the other untied her left arm.
"Well Ms. Black, one chance before things get messy.tell us what we want to know and join us" one DE said as he grabbed a knife and held Audrey's arm. He ran the flat side of the knife along her tanned skin.
"Fuck You!" Audrey spat.
(a/n; Audrey's a bit foul mouthed in this chap ne?)
The DE suddenly jerked the knife down her arm, cutting it deeply. A red gash appeared and started to bleed heavily.
"Do you know what the thousand bleeding cuts torture is?" the DE asked evilly.
"A torture in which the torturer would place a thousand cuts on the victim without letting the victim bleed to death" Audrey replied, with a bad feeling.
"My record is 326 but I'm always in for a new try" the DE said smirking.
"Bully for ya" Audrey replied.
The DE put the knife under her right breast and pulled it down diagonally, cutting through her shirt and stomach area. Audrey closed her eyes as the pain washed over her briefly before she was able to block it out.
'This is going to be a long day' she thought not knowing that on the other side of the dungeons, Harry was thinking the same thing.
~*~
Ron sighed while he and Hermione were looking through three tons of files.
One week had passed and still no sign of Harry and Audrey. They had told everyone that Harry and Audrey had taken an extended leave of absence for some safety measure thing.
Ron and Hermione hardly went to their classes; it wasn't like they needed it. They spent all of that time reading intelligence reports. They had even talked to Snape.unfortunately he didn't know where Harry and Audrey were being kept either since he hadn't been told yet.
"This is hopeless" Ron groaned, throwing the file he was reading away into the pile of three feet forming in the corner.
"We can't give up on them Prowl" Hermione said and summoned the file back - again.
"I'm not saying we should, but this research isn't getting us anywhere" Ron replied heavily.
"So what would you have us do?" Hermione asked looking up.
"Look for them, try to locate their aura.anything but this useless shovelling of papers" Ron replied.
"I think you're right" Hermione said.
Ron gawked at her.
"Come on let's go" Hermione said and stood up not waiting that the gobsmacked birdcatcher would come with her.
Ron numbly followed her outside.
~*~
'One Fucking week, Merlin feels like a Goddamn month' Harry thought as he was being dragged along after yet another torture session.
One of the two DE's who were dragging him let him go and opened a cell door and got thrown in unceremoniously. He saw that Audrey was already in there.sitting against the wall with her eyes closed. Her clothes were mostly ripped and a lot of old and fresh wounds were visible on her body. He probably didn't look any better. The door of the cell was closed with a loud bang.
Harry and Audrey had already tried wandless magic and telepathic communication, but it didn't work.somehow their abilities were being blocked.they couldn't even bind to their element or transform. None of it worked.
Audrey opened her eyes warily and looked at Harry.
"Potter.you look like shit" she said, her usually melodious voice sounding very dry.
"Guess what Black.I feel like shit too. But this is the pot calling the kettle black" Harry replied with a dry voice.
Audrey smiled. This friendly banter had begun to be a way to keep them both from going insane.
"Yeah, I don't feel that well either" Audrey replied.
Harry had sat down next to her and leaned against the wall, closing his eyes. They started to focus their energy to heal faster. They unconsciously held hands. Then they heard footsteps coming closer.
"Is it time already?" Harry muttered.
They let go of each other's hands. The door flew open and six DE's stepped through.
"Come.Lord Voldemort wishes to see you" one DE said evilly.
Harry and Audrey recognized the voice of one of their torturers.
"Oh golly gee, he caught me on a bad hair day too, could you wait a minute?" Audrey said. Her long hair had long since fallen out of the braid and was now loose and flowing around her getting tangled with all the dried blood becoming cakes in it.
Two DE's pulled them up roughly and dragged them out of the cell without another word.
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I'm evil leaving it at this.
Hope you liked it
[1] stacciare is Italian for "to rip" if my memory is correct. I could be wrong.please tell me if so.
Keep on looking for the next chap.
Chapter 15 - Keep on Going
Ja ne
Nova
Sorry it took so long
Forgive me
That's actually two
Oh well
Chapter 14 The 2nd Attack and Voldie's Trick Part 2
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
Harry, Audrey, Hermione and Ron split themselves into the two groups containing the Order members and led them to attack. Hermione and Ron led their group to the Dementors, while Harry and Audrey led their group to the DE's. ---
Ron and Hermione motioned their group to hurriedly spread out in pairs as the grey cloaked, rotten beings descended down from a hill on them and as all were nearly on them all the Order members yelled "Expecto Patronum!"
Hermione and Ron chose a more direct approach with Ron crushing the Dementors and opening up the earth like a doctor with a sharp tool on a patient while Hermione would just do what came to mind to the nearest DeathEater like hexing, cursing and stabbing them. The DeathEaters where mowed down like a rabbit in a carrot land. Ron changed to use his scythe when the screams were too loud for his ears to take. He started to work side by side with Hermione to defeat the Dementors.
---
Meanwhile Audrey and Harry were working close together in the battle. Harry charged a group of four Deatheaters and picked them off bloody and painfully, one by one. Audrey was now fighting one DE with the dagger in her left hand and at the same time managing to hex two other DE's with the right, shooting off and deflecting spells at the same time.
The Order members which had secured 6 of the rookie DE's switch and started to help out with the Dementors while the other ten from the Boggart squad started to help with the DE's.
(a/n everyone still with me?...good)
Harry was standing back to back with Audrey as he killed three DE's moving on to the next while Audrey was busy killing three others; one by stabbing him in the heart, blood gushing out into her face (think practical) and the other two by some bad ass cursing.
Suddenly one Order member fell down bleeding heavily from his chest and as the DE which had slashed him was about to kill him suddenly saw Harry jump in front it and summon a fireball. (You all know by now how that ends) Audrey was using her control over air to bang some DE's together and out of the way while she charged some more.
---
As Hermione and Ron were finishing off the last of Demoentors and stuff that where crawling on the ground the Order members had already regrouped and disapparated to HQ to tend to the many wounded. It was a miracle that none had died.
Audrey and Harry were far behind checking on the few members still on site when they suddenly they felt a wave of ice seeping down their spine.
"Holly Goddess!" Audrey gasped.
"There's no way that we can face that, not with the state Order is in right now! No way we can call them back with so many injured!" Harry exclaimed.
~ You coming guys? ~ Ron asked having turned around facing them on the far side of the battleground.
~ Go on ahead, we're gonna check some things. ~ Harry replied forced calm.
~ You need any help? ~
~ Nah just some bits and pieces left. We'll see ya at the HQ ~
~ Kay later ~ Ron replied and disappeared.
"Are they gone?" Harry asked Audrey as his locating senses were hardly worth mentioning.
"Yeah, I felt them leave" Audrey replied.
"Let's put up full anti-apparition wards" Harry said.
Audrey nodded as she closed her eyes and waved her hands in a complicated pattern with Harry following suit.
"We can't block them out.He's with them" Audrey said breathlessly.
"I know. Let's just hope that He'll be happy having captured us and refrain from attacking immediately" Harry muttered as he looked all over the site with narrowed eyes after bad omens.
"Let's hope indeed. Dammit! We should've seen this coming!" Audrey cursed.
"How could we?" Harry retorted.
They stood there a couple of seconds, sensing the danger approaching.
"Say Black?" Harry asked as he turned from watching the battlezone.
"Yes, Potter?" Audrey asked with a grim smirk.
"How come we always end up in shit like this?" Harry asked.
"It's our destiny." she whispered "Who gives a shit, we're screwed!" Audrey acknowledged.
Harry snickered but then fast as any bullet stood in fight position as multiplied ten DE's started to apparate from everywhere.
"Well NOW we KNOW we're doomed" Harry muttered sourly as he and Audrey stood back to back surrounded.
"Ah laugh harder Snitch" Audrey said sarcastically.
They were completely surrounded by DE's now. Then one side parted like the red sea on a dry season and through came a black robed man they all knew a little too well to feel comfortable.Voldemort.
~ Do you have the same inkling as I that this was a trap? ~ Harry asked.
~ Yeah, thought I think that Voldie would've liked some other's as well ~ Audrey replied now seeing some of Voldies face.
~ Ah, the wonders of underestimating your enemies ~ Harry added smirking.
~ Thank Merlin for small lucks, though we could need some too. We're in deep shit ~ Audrey replied.
~ You can say that again ~
~ We're in deep shit ~
~ Ah shut it ~
Voldemort finally reached them with a part pleased (they shuddered) and part irritated (a relieved sigh that they could take).
"Well, well, well.Missster Potter and my dear daughter" he hissed.
Harry and Audrey looked coolly at him.
"Tie them up" Voldemort said.
Six DE's rushed to it.
"Six DE's for just the two of us, are you that paranoid?" Harry sneered with a hint of a satisfied smirk.
"Don't try to fool me boy, I've heard what the two of you can do" Voldemort snapped as Harry and Audrey were tied up tight. err very tight indeed.
"Now, sssshall we?"
Voldemort disapparated and the DE's followed with Harry and Audrey. They didn't notice the two mages wave their hands (which was very hard in their bound state) a few seconds before the group disapparated.
---
Meanwhile in the Order of the Phoenix Headquarters Ron was pacing so hard and fast that he was wearing the carpet thin, while Hermione was just sitting looking worried.
"Where in the name of Dante's seven Hell plateaus are they?" she said looking at Ron pacing.
(a/n Dante is a writer who wrote a book foretelling a journey from hell to heaven, his version of hell has 7 layers or plateaus or rings.okay ignore the author here.)
Ron abruptly stopped his pacing and swirled around.
"I'm going back" He summoned the power that allowed him to disapparate but.he didn't go anywhere.
"What the.?" he stammered.
Hermione stood up and tried as well but nothing worked. Suddenly understanding dawned on her and she concentrated.
"Snitch and Nova have placed very strong wards to hold the Order, including us from going back. I recognize their aura's in the wards. But why would they.?" she gasped and looked at Ron.
"Merlin they wouldn't." he said as he now too understood.
They looked at each other and nodded in mutual understanding.
"They would!" they said in unison.
"They must have known danger was close and sent us ahead so no one else would get caught, oh Goddess!" Hermione said as tears started to stream down her face and hugging herself.
"We'd better tell Dumbledore" Ron said, his voice wavering.
They ran out through the portrait hole, through the Entrance Hall and down the corridor, sweeping past surprised students to finally stop at the Headmasters entrance. As they came through the door and explained everything, Dumbledore suddenly looked very old as he heard what had happened to two of his students. Soon the entire Order knew and Molly was weeping while holding Ron in a bone-crushing hug. Hermione was crying on a very lost-looking Remus' shoulder.
'How are we going to explain this to the school, the press and the ministry?' Minerva wondered silently.
While everyone was worried about the happenings to their friends and crying, a little fire and a little breeze appeared in the middle of the room. The fire turned into a dog and the breeze into a panther. The two animals intertwined.
"Snitch, Nova!" Ron gasped.
Everyone looked strangely at him.
"What does that mean?" Remus asked.
"It's from Harry and Audrey" Hermione replied breathlessly.
"How do you know?" Dumbledore asked curious.
"It's their animagi forms" Minerva smartly replied.
Ron and Hermione looked at her with clear surprise.
"How did you know?" Hermione asked.
"I didn't until I saw this; I remember the class in which you were to use a spell to show your animagi form" Minerva replied.
"You're animagi as well?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes, sir" Ron replied.
Dumbledore sighed.
"Any more surprises?" he asked.
"We can communicate telepathically" Hermione confessed.
Remus started to say something.
"Don't bother Remus, we already tried. The connection is blocked, but I don't know if Harry and Audrey are doing that or Voldemort" Ron said.
"Okay, but what does the symbol mean?" Remus asked.
Ron looked at him smiling half-heartedly.
"Don't worry" he answered.
~*~ Somewhere Unknown ~*~
Harry and Audrey had been brought to a cell with as much resistance they could make and had been shackled to the wall after giving even more grief to the DE's when being untied.
"Let's hope that they got the message" Audrey remarked sourly.
Harry smirked "I think they did" The he sobered "Do you think Ron and the rest got the hint?"
"Yeah, but I don't think that they're going to do what it says anyway. You know they'll worry like mad anyway" Audrey replied.
"Can't blame 'em, I would worry in their place" Harry replied.
"So, what do you think ol' Voldski will do?" he asked conversationally.
"The usual I think. First some torture of course which will mean some breaking of bone, crucio, some muggle methods and that shit. Oh and perhaps some reversed psychology.no wait." she trailed off "They're too stupid for that" Audrey replied sadly.
Then the door flew open and three DE's stepped through.
~ And now the shit hits the fan ~ Audrey thought to Harry.
The DE's released them from the wall and pushed them out the door, nearly dropping their balance with their hands tied up and being hung on a wall. They were pushed into a large room where Voldemort was sitting on a throne. Harry and Audrey smirked when they got their baring straight.
"Kneel before your Lord" one DE commanded.
"Your lord is not ours, and will never be" Harry said hotly staring Voldemort in the face.
Audrey looked around the room, disgust clear on her face. Voldemort nodded to the two DE's behind Harry and Audrey. They kicked the mages behind their knees, causing them to fall on their knees.
"Now that you're in an appropriate position we can talk" Voldemort hissed smartly.
Harry and Audrey just growled.
"I want two thingsss of you.firsssstly, tell me everything you know about that little rebel pack of Dumbledore'ssss.and ssssecondly.join me" Voldemort hissed. He got a happy little glint in his evil red tomatoe eyes as he knew the answer as sure as he knew he would give a lollipop to a muggle child.
"Firstly we have no idea what you're talking about and secondly.Screw You!" Audrey spat.
"Oh but we can't have my one and only child saying such foul words" Voldemort began. " That we must remedy at once!"
Harry and Audrey snorted and steeled themselves, knowing what would come.
"CRUCIO" Voldemort hissed, pointing his wand at Harry.
Harry just flinched a little but didn't show anything else. Voldemort hissed and pointed his wand at Audrey, casting the spell once again. She just closed her eyes for a fraction of a second and opened them again.
"Well, well, well, it sssseemssss that you've become much stronger.but how in ssssuch little time I wonder." Voldemort hissed glaring on them with a calculating look.
Harry and Audrey said nothing.
"Well I have my wayssss to find out how thissss all can be" Voldemort hissed. He motioned to the two DE's holding Harry and Audrey. They pulled Harry and Audrey apart and dragged them away in separate directions.
~ Don't tell them anything, Nova ~ Harry said.
~ Would never dream of it, Snitch. Good luck ~ Audrey replied.
~ Ditto ~
---
Harry was dragged into a dungeon and tied to a table of some kind and then left him alone in the room with various things on the walls and the floor.
'What the hell are they gonna do?' he thought, looking around warily.
The three DE's appeared.
'On second though I don't want or need to know' Harry thought as he gulped.
"Well Mr. Potter this is your last chance.tell us what you know, join us or else." one DE spoke leaving the sentence unfinished.
'What a cliché' Harry thought as he rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Do I really need to answer that?" he asked.
The DE's pulled out their wands.
'Now I'm gonna get it' Harry thought.
"CRUCIO!" they yelled.
Harry concentrated and blocked the spells, but he now had four crucious on him and he was weaker than usual because of the battle so a tiny bit of the spells slipped through. He flinched.
Then one of the DE's spat "STACCIARE [1]."
The spell cut through his armour, shirt and also cut his chest. Harry grimaced. He felt the wound starting to bleed.
'This is going to be a long day' he thought as the DE's started to use curse, after curse, after curse.
They occasionally stopped to ask if Harry had changed his mind.to which he continued to reply with a firm NO!
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Audrey had been tied to the wall again, but this time in a dungeon. Actually it was more like she was hanging form the wall, because she had to stand tiptoed. Then two DE's entered the dungeon carrying a lot of knifes and some hot pokers with some hot coal floating in the air.
'This does not look good' Audrey thought.
The DE's placed the armload of knifes on the table. One removed Audrey's chest armour while the other untied her left arm.
"Well Ms. Black, one chance before things get messy.tell us what we want to know and join us" one DE said as he grabbed a knife and held Audrey's arm. He ran the flat side of the knife along her tanned skin.
"Fuck You!" Audrey spat.
(a/n; Audrey's a bit foul mouthed in this chap ne?)
The DE suddenly jerked the knife down her arm, cutting it deeply. A red gash appeared and started to bleed heavily.
"Do you know what the thousand bleeding cuts torture is?" the DE asked evilly.
"A torture in which the torturer would place a thousand cuts on the victim without letting the victim bleed to death" Audrey replied, with a bad feeling.
"My record is 326 but I'm always in for a new try" the DE said smirking.
"Bully for ya" Audrey replied.
The DE put the knife under her right breast and pulled it down diagonally, cutting through her shirt and stomach area. Audrey closed her eyes as the pain washed over her briefly before she was able to block it out.
'This is going to be a long day' she thought not knowing that on the other side of the dungeons, Harry was thinking the same thing.
~*~
Ron sighed while he and Hermione were looking through three tons of files.
One week had passed and still no sign of Harry and Audrey. They had told everyone that Harry and Audrey had taken an extended leave of absence for some safety measure thing.
Ron and Hermione hardly went to their classes; it wasn't like they needed it. They spent all of that time reading intelligence reports. They had even talked to Snape.unfortunately he didn't know where Harry and Audrey were being kept either since he hadn't been told yet.
"This is hopeless" Ron groaned, throwing the file he was reading away into the pile of three feet forming in the corner.
"We can't give up on them Prowl" Hermione said and summoned the file back - again.
"I'm not saying we should, but this research isn't getting us anywhere" Ron replied heavily.
"So what would you have us do?" Hermione asked looking up.
"Look for them, try to locate their aura.anything but this useless shovelling of papers" Ron replied.
"I think you're right" Hermione said.
Ron gawked at her.
"Come on let's go" Hermione said and stood up not waiting that the gobsmacked birdcatcher would come with her.
Ron numbly followed her outside.
~*~
'One Fucking week, Merlin feels like a Goddamn month' Harry thought as he was being dragged along after yet another torture session.
One of the two DE's who were dragging him let him go and opened a cell door and got thrown in unceremoniously. He saw that Audrey was already in there.sitting against the wall with her eyes closed. Her clothes were mostly ripped and a lot of old and fresh wounds were visible on her body. He probably didn't look any better. The door of the cell was closed with a loud bang.
Harry and Audrey had already tried wandless magic and telepathic communication, but it didn't work.somehow their abilities were being blocked.they couldn't even bind to their element or transform. None of it worked.
Audrey opened her eyes warily and looked at Harry.
"Potter.you look like shit" she said, her usually melodious voice sounding very dry.
"Guess what Black.I feel like shit too. But this is the pot calling the kettle black" Harry replied with a dry voice.
Audrey smiled. This friendly banter had begun to be a way to keep them both from going insane.
"Yeah, I don't feel that well either" Audrey replied.
Harry had sat down next to her and leaned against the wall, closing his eyes. They started to focus their energy to heal faster. They unconsciously held hands. Then they heard footsteps coming closer.
"Is it time already?" Harry muttered.
They let go of each other's hands. The door flew open and six DE's stepped through.
"Come.Lord Voldemort wishes to see you" one DE said evilly.
Harry and Audrey recognized the voice of one of their torturers.
"Oh golly gee, he caught me on a bad hair day too, could you wait a minute?" Audrey said. Her long hair had long since fallen out of the braid and was now loose and flowing around her getting tangled with all the dried blood becoming cakes in it.
Two DE's pulled them up roughly and dragged them out of the cell without another word.
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I'm evil leaving it at this.
Hope you liked it
[1] stacciare is Italian for "to rip" if my memory is correct. I could be wrong.please tell me if so.
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Chapter 15 - Keep on Going
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