Chapter 15: The Attack
Draco and Harry pulled apart from the kiss. "We can't tell anyone Draco, not right now. Ron will freak and I am not sure how the Weasley's will react, they are my only family." Harry said, sitting down on the bed.
"Okay, don't worry, we won't." Draco sat down next to him and slipped his arm around Harry's waist. "You thought Jersey took care of you, that was nothing." Draco smiled kissing Harry again.
"Boys, lunch is ready." Molly called up the stairs. Draco took one last look in the mirror and went downstairs with Harry.
"We're eating outside dears. Harry, if you could take the silverware out to Percy it would be a big help." Molly pointed her wand a the cutlery drawer.
"Sure Mrs. Weasley, thanks for letting Draco and I stay." Harry left the kitchen.
"Mrs. Weasley, thank you. I know you hate my father, but thank you for treating me like a human. I'm sorry for how Jersey treated Harry also. It wasn't right for her to string him along like that and then drop him." Draco followed Harry outside, but not before Molly gave him a motherly smile.
"Here Perc, your mum gave them to me. So, how are you?" Harry handed Percy the silverware.
"Thank you Harry. Everything is good, the ministry's under a lot of stress because of You-Know-Who, mind you we had to fire half the staff because of ties to him. Sorry to hear about you and Jersey, I hope you two can still remain friends, she's a more fascinating person I believe if she's your friend, cause then she'll talk to you more instead of wanting to jump your bones. I'm sorry that I didn't mention this earlier Har, but I, well Jersey isn't as innocent as she says she is." Percy said, looking at Harry in the eye. Draco started cracking up at this. "What's so funny about Jersey and I having sex Malfoy?" Percy snapped.
"If you did it with my sister, then I'm the Queen of England!" Draco said, trying to contain his laughter.
"What's going on you two?" Fred asked, walking over.
"Your bother seems to think he shagged my sister." Draco was turning red in the face from containing his laughter.
"Maybe he did Draco, I don't see why this is all funny." Fred said, looking a bit lost.
"No, you don't get it, Jersey is still a virgin. Well, probably not anymore cause our bond has her feeling elated, but she didn't before now. Percy don't even fight, she really wouldn't have, she's too afraid for a couple of reasons. Charlie, I know Jersey has always thought of you as family, because you were friends with David Gantry, and you both were, you still are, considered her second brothers, but some things even I won't tell you. Things happened and they were big enough to make her decide to wait." Draco said with finality.
"Lunch is ready you five, let's eat." Molly called at the table. "So did Bill and Charlie tell you all the great news?"
"No, they didn't." Hermione spoke up, walking up to the table. It seemed she had just arrived.
"They are teaching, Dumbledore thought it would be good to have a few more Order members at Hogwarts. Draco are you alright?" Molly asked, turning towards the paling boy. Draco was chocking and couldn't catch his breath.
"Oh Merlin Draco, what's wrong?" Harry asked. He knew the boy wasn't chocking because he hadn't ate.
"Jers…Manor…Dang-" Draco passed out on the ground. Bill and Charlie were the first out of their chairs, followed by Fred and George.
"Arthur go Floo Lucius and Severus they're in their Ireland manor. Charlie, Bill go to the manor. Fred, George go to Grimmauld Place and inform Dumbledore and Sirius immediately along with Remus. Ginny, go Floo St. Mungos, use the fire place in the study. Ron, Harry help me bring Draco in the house." Molly took control of the situation before it got worse.
"Mrs. Weasley is he going to be okay? What happened?" Harry asked, holding Draco up by the arms.
"I don't know Harry. Here put him down on the couch. He said earlier about him having a connection with Jersey, I think we should be praying that she's okay." Molly Weasley rushed into the kitchen to get a towel and water basin. When she returned she noticed Ron sitting on a chair and Harry sitting by Draco holding his hand. "Harry dear, can you keep this cloth cool, and put in on Draco's forehead. If he wakes don't let him move, and keep the towel on. Is there something on both of your minds?" Molly asked, noticing the boys confused looks.
"Yeah mum, you said especially Remus, why especially him?" Ron asked, looking at Harry's eager face.
"No ones suppose to know this, everyone believes that Blaise's father is Jersey's Godfather, but he isn't, the only person who really knows though are Remus, Severus, and Lucius. The Malfoy family is confusing and people aren't whom they say they are. There will probably be an Order meeting tonight, and all will be explained then." At that time Lucius and Severus came falling out of the fire place.
"Molly what happened?" Severus asked, running to his son's side.
"We don't know, but Jersey is in trouble. We sent Bill and Charlie, Fred and George are contacting Albus. Lucius, Sev it's time to tell everyone the truth. All of it, no holding back to any of us." Molly looked them straight in the eyes. Lucius ran to the fire place and Flooed to the manor.
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"Jersey! Jersey!" Bill called out to the eerily quiet house. "Damn it's huge, we'll never find her in time."
"Sure we will, look follow the roses." Charlie read the note on the balloon smiling. "Someone up there really loves us." Charlie ran up the stairs following the rose petal strewn floor. "On the count of three…One…Two…Three." Bill and Charlie broke down the door.
"Stupefy! Laceros!" Bill yelled pointing his wand at the person holding the pillow above Jersey's head.
"Merlin Bill, it's Zabini!" Charlie said, walking over to the partly dressed, tied up Blaise. "Is she still breathing?"
"Yeah but barely, you wouldn't happen to remember any of those spells she tried to teach us do you?" Bill had his ear close to Jersey's mouth to see if she was breathing.
"No, and we can't move her, Floo would be too dangerous. Picking her up off that bed is too dangerous. I do remember dressidieum." Charlie waved his wand and Jersey was dressed in Soffie shorts and a bikini top. "It's better than nothing, when we get her help they'll be able to hook things up easily, and it doesn't cut off her breathing. "
"Boys, thank you for rescuing her. I'm sure Lucius, Severus, or both of them will be arriving in the sitting room shortly. It should be downstairs on your right. If you could clean up the mess in the hallway, I'm sure Jersey wouldn't want either of them to see that." Albus said, walking into the room.
"Oxygenitus!" Albus waved his wand, conjuring a breathing machine. Remus walked over to the bed, conjured a chair, and took Jersey's hand. "Remus, she'll be okay. She'll know everything by tonight. She'll know. They all will." Albus then went to talk to Bill and Charlie.
"Lucius, Jersey will be okay. Tonight after we get her a Healer, she'll be fine. I'm sure Draco is waking up as we speak. As I have Jersey hooked up to a respirator, it should flow pretty easily through the bond. So boys, what happened?"
"We aren't positive, we went in and Blaise was suffocating her with a pillow. We only knew she was in danger because, before Draco passed out he got out that she was in danger at the manor." Charlie explained, looking in Albus' tired eyes, and to Lucius' worried ones.
"Remus is with her right now, along with Sirius. Though Sirius won't be long he's getting the minister and a few Aurors. I've obviously called an Order meeting, everyone will be there. It's a Grimmauld Place, but in their dungeon. It's the biggest place in the house. All these lies you and your husband have been hiding behind will be discovered, and yes Draco and Jersey will be there. Obviously their enemies know more about them then they do." Albus said, staring at Lucius, the twinkle gone from his eyes. "Bill, Charlie I'm sure that Remus will make you a port key to take Jersey to the Burrow." Albus then escorted Lucius to the main room to wait to the minister and the Aurors.
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"W-where am I?" Draco asked, momentarily disoriented.
"Your on the couch at the Weasley's. Draco are you okay?" Healer Leopold asked.
"Yes, I can breath a lot better, how's Jersey?" Draco asked, trying to sit up.
"Please Mr. Malfoy, stay lying down. Your sister will be fine by tonight, she's a fighter, and she's a lot better than she could have been. I will warn you, she's on a respirator, she has a breathing tube up her nose, and she'll have a sore throat and a couple of bruises."
"Who did it?" Harry asked.
"Now boys, you'll find out later, right now Draco needs to rest. Harry, Padfoot is in the backyard. I'm sure the garden would be a wonderful place to visit, I've always enjoyed how you could sit there and no one would notice you. It makes it very private and a great place to relax." Molly said, walking into the room. Harry got up and walked into the backyard to notice a black dog. He smiled and walked into the garden.
"Molly said that their were privacy wards, no one could notice you if you wanted to change back." Harry sat down on the grass.
"How's Draco?" Sirius asked, sitting down next to Harry and pulling him into a hug.
"He's doing better, he just woke up. Jersey looked terrible when she arrived." Harry said, looking at the ground.
"You still love her, don't you?" Sirius knew it was a dumb question, because the answer was written all over Harry's worried face.
"Yeah, no, I don't know I'm confused. I mean I still love her yes, but well-I um-kissed Draco and I didn't hate it, but I did it after I heard Jersey was engaged, so I don't know if I liked it because I was upset, or liked it because I liked it." Harry explained the best he could.
"If it helps any, for the last two months Blaise has had her under the Imperious curse." Sirius said, looking off at the lake.
"How do you know?" Harry was beyond shocked.
"He admitted it under Vertiserum, said we should have caught it the night he cast it. She was drinking, doing things out of the ordinary. Plus, when she came out of it, she didn't know you two broke up, or that she was engaged. All she remembered was being in bed beside Blaise. When she asked him what happened, he suffocated her almost to death. Her dad's furious. They both are, she's been raped and she can't get that back. She won't let anyone touch or talk to her. She's in that much shock over what happened. The only person to get in there without her freaking is her dad and he has problems getting himself to get inside."
"Merlin, how's she going to survive Hogwarts this year?" Harry asked, feeling slightly guilty.
"They don't want her to go, they as in Albus, her dad, and the Order." Sirius explained.
"Severus, Siri, I know you hate him but you can say his name." Harry said, feeling Sirius was being immature.
"I can't, it doesn't feel right. Harry, don't mention this until the meeting tonight." Sirius then turned into Padfoot and walked away. Harry went inside to Lucius and Severus.
"Mr. Malfoy, Professor, can I go into see Jersey? I want to try to see if I can get her to talk about shopping, or maybe movies or something, to get her mind off of everything." Harry looked hopeless and tired.
"Go ahead Harry, but don't be surprised if she doesn't move or talk. If it doesn't work I'd appreciate it if you slept. You look like Jersey when she was working at St. Mungos." Lucius opened the door for him.
"Jersey, I had a clothing problem I was wondering if you could help me with. See, I have these khaki shorts, and have no idea what shoes to wear, I think that wearing shoes might look stupid, that maybe I should wear sandals, but then wearing sandals and my Hogwarts robes might look stupid. See, I'm in a tight predicament." Harry looked at Jersey's pale lifeless body, her face turned towards the wall, and tear tracks staining her white face. She had an IV, heart monitor, and respirator hooked up to her. 'She's not screaming that's a good sign.' Harry thought to himself.
"I-I've been bad. I got punished. I've been bad. I got punished." Jersey kept repeating.
"Lucius, Severus, she's talking." Harry called out, within moments Lucius, Severus, Albus, Healer Leopold, Remus, and Molly were in the room.
"I've been bad, I got punished." Jersey said again, tears running down her cheeks. She then turned her head towards them.
"Harry, go try to sit on the bed, ask her why she says she's bad. Why does she think she's been punished." The healer said, giving Harry the clipboard. "Write down all the numbers from the machine on that paper. I'll figure out which machine later." Everyone kept encouraging Harry. Finally Harry got to the bed.
"Jersey, can I sit?" Harry asked, trying to control his emotions. He knew he had to stay strong not just for Jersey, but for himself and everyone in the room.
"I've been bad." Harry took that as a yes and sat down. He wrote down the numbers and what machine so the doctor didn't have to guess, and handed it to Molly.
"What did you do that made you bad?" Harry asked, putting his hand on his lap, keeping everything visible.
"I've been punished." Harry waited for her to explain. "You only get punished when you're bad. I was punished so I must have been bad." Harry looked over to the group of people who encouraged him to keep asking questions.
"You weren't bad Jers, you weren't punished. You did nothing wrong, Blaise was a sick person."
"I was under an Unforgivable, I was a slave, I was raped, I was punished. I thought I was good, because you loved me. You're a good guy, and good guys don't date bad people, but you left and loved Draco. He told me. Then I got lost, I got lost and I couldn't get out. I lost my family, I was bad, I got lost and a Malfoy never gets lost." Jersey was crying on Harry's shoulder. Everyone in the room got eerily quiet, they knew from rumors about the Malfoy reputation and Jersey was dead on.
"Jersey, you didn't get lost. You were confused, you're here now. It's my fault you were lost, I should have kept you both away from Blaise, I knew how his father acted and should have known that he would raise his son the exact same way. I'm sorry Jers." Lucius spoke up hoping she wouldn't shut herself up again.
"I almost died Lucius! Everything I loved has been taken away, and all you have to say is 'I should have known.' I lost Harry, I wasn't bad until I lost Harry. I can't even remember what has happened these past two months, and all you can say is 'I should have known!'" Jersey yelled.
"Har, calm her down." Leopold whispered, noticing the machines going haywire.
"Jers, you didn't lose me. Blaise tricked me into kissing Draco, Padfoot asked me if I still loved you, and until a few minutes ago I was confused because I thought I was in love with Draco, but now I know it's because I thought you left me. I heard over the news, and then got the letter Blaise had you write. It said you dated for a while." Harry was crying now also.
"Har, I would never leave you over something that lasted less than a year." Jersey was getting herself back together slowly.
"What? Your letter said five, I read it out loud to Draco and he didn't say anything against it." Harry was shocked.
"Jersey usually keeps her relationships personal, you're the only one the whole family knew about. We just assumed Blaise and Jersey were together, when she went out with you we assumed they broke up, and you were her rebound guy. That was probably why he didn't say anything against it." Lucius filled in.
"Do not say that name! Can I talk to Harry privately please? Daddy, can you wait outside the door?" Jersey looked at Severus and smiled.
"I'll be right outside, don't worry." Severus said, while everyone exited.
"Harry, I can't trust anyone right now, I love you and I want to trust you, but everyone I trust hurts me. I know you won't mean to, but I can't be positive about that. I still love you though, and I know I can't remember the last two months, but I hope I was nice to you and that we loved each other, not physically cause I want to be there for that, but actually in love. I would love to be your girlfriend still, but I need to take it slowly and I don't want you to be stuck in a slow relationship. Plus, Drake's pretty hot, I know that I have no shot against him." Jersey said laughing, she then place her hand on her throat.
"It's going to hurt, he choked you before he, well you know, here take this the healer said it would help with the pain. Look, Hermione once told me I have a hero complex, I like to save and help people. Right now, you need me and I'll be here. I also like to be loyal and to follow my heart, something you taught me, and I'm not going anywhere. I love you Jersey, we'll work on the trust issue, we'll get through this." Harry wanted to kiss her but didn't.
"So, what are we? Friends, confidants, a couple?" Jersey asked, lying down in the bed and taking Harry's hand.
"We're whatever you want us to be." Harry hated seeing Jersey look so vulnerable and weak.
"Can we still be a couple? I like it when we're a couple."
"I would like that also. If I kiss you would that be going to fast?" Harry didn't want to rush into anything. Jersey got up and kissed Harry.
"When I meant taking it slow, I meant not well not-"
"Being physical, we won't. Not until your ready." Harry finished for her, noticing her uncomfortable-ness. He got off the bed and went towards the door.
"Where are you going?" Jersey asked a little worried, her mind kept reverting back to her shock.
"To get your father or dad to help you get a shower. There is an Order meeting and everyone has to be there. Then I'm going to check on Draco, he fainted when, when he was being mean." Harry opened the door, got Severus, and went to Draco.
"How is she?" Draco asked, sitting up on the couch, looking better than ever.
"I got her to talk. She's bruised, hurt, humiliated, and broken. Draco he had her under the Imperious curse for the last two months, she can't remember anything. There's something-"
"Harry she doesn't remember, which means she doesn't know we kissed, and she needs you now. She probably doesn't know you two broke up. I shouldn't have kissed you anyways, I like someone else." Draco jumped in.
"She knows, I told her everything. I was about to tell you that Jers and I are a couple. Speak of the devil." Harry said, looking towards the stairs out of the corner of his eye he saw Draco's mouth drop. Jersey walked down dressed in baggy jeans and a flannel shirt.
"Bill let me borrow the shirt. The pants are Draco's. Daddy told me what he had me wearing all the time, I'm a little afraid of wearing anything like that."
"We understand, but why do you keep calling Blaise, he?" Draco asked, then noticed the tears bursting down her face.
"Jers, he doesn't know, it's okay. Here, you need to keep this on or your breathing will get worse, his spell on your lungs won't wear off for another 12 hours. He took advantage of her." Harry didn't want to say rape in front of Jersey.
"Oh, I understand Har." Draco looked at the ground, he couldn't look at Jersey with all the machines she was hooked up on. She had bruises of Blaise's hands on her neck and arms. She was obviously in pain when she swallowed or coughed because she kept wincing.
"Jersey dear, you look wonderful. It's good to see you up and about." Molly said, holding out her hand.
"Thank you for being kind Molly, but I know what I look like. Thank you for organizing my rescue party also. I could have been far worse." Jersey hugged Molly the best she could.
"Is everyone ready to go? They have everything set up." Lucius said, coming downstairs.
"No." Jersey looked daggers at Lucius.
"Why not?" Lucius asked very confused.
"I'm not going with you. I don't trust you, I'll get hurt. I'll be punished." Jersey was acting like a little kid again.
"Healer Leopold, what's going on? I thought she was fine." Severus asked getting frightened.
"She is fine, when she's around people she trusts, the ones that bring up certain memories will make her regress, for example if she is in front of or sees a picture of a certain young man, she'll go back to her state of shock until he's gone. Which would leave her as a victim and 'Ini' knows it. She'll get better, she just needs a little time, she won't get better the same day it'll take a while." Healer Leopold then left.
"I'll go with her, Bill can apparate us. She trust him." Harry spoke up, taking Jersey's hand.
"My hero." Jersey whispered to him, staring daggers at Lucius again. Everyone else left using Floo or Apparating. When Bill came down the stairs, Harry explained and Bill apparated them to Grimmauld.
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A/N: Yes I know it's a bit sad, and that it's only going to get sadder in the next chapter, but then hopefully things turn around.
Volleypickle16: I'm glad you liked the last chapter, I'm sorry if this one was too sad for you.
Orlin: Ahh, your legendary novella reviews lol. Dragon is sticking his tongue out at you by the way. He says good for you. Harry and Draco did take it good, up until this chapter lol. I'm evil I know it. Bet you changed your mind on how good Blaise was to Jersey compared to Draco hmmm. I bet you didn't see that coming.Dragon runs into the room Look Woman! I can review on whatever story I want. If I wanted to I could write a review for yours so don't even go there,and I am definitely NOT Draco's son!Sticks out tongue and runs away. Glad you liked the last chapter, I hope you at least enjoyed this chapter, and I'm glad that chapter 13 is your favorite still, but hopefully that will change in the future.
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