Chapter 3
Chapter 8
Everything ached. Pain, that was the first thing Ginny became aware of when she was slowly regaining consciousness. She opened her eyes a bit. After a bit her vision became a bit into focus. She noticed she was lying on the cold stone floor in some sort of basement. She sat up. The stone floor was not very good for her already hurting muscles. She shivered. It was cold and damp and dark. Ginny could hardly see her hand in front of her face.
Remembering what had happened before she blacked out, she began to panic.
Where am I? Where is that Death Eater?
She listened carefully for any sounds. Nothing. Ginny didn't know how long she was in that room. There were no windows as far as she could see and no light to look on her watch. Fumbling for her wand she noticed it wasn't in her pocket.
Ginny you idiot of course they have taken it from you! These are Death Eaters we're dealing with! She reproached herself.
After what seemed like an eternity she heard footsteps. Someone was definitely coming.
The door creaked open and a Death Eater came in. At once the room was illuminated. The Death Eater removed his mask and Ginny gasped. Lucius Malfoy was standing right there with cold blue eyes smiling. It was not a friendly smile, but a predatory one.
"How nice to see you again Ginerva...May I call you Ginerva?" he said falsely sweet.
"No" came the reply.
"Now Ginerva, I am here to escort you to your...session..."
Session? "Session?" she asked.
"You will know soon enough, come!" he ordered and grabbed her arm. Ginny however did not really feel like going so she started struggling.
SLAP! Lucius hit her and roared "YOU WILL BEHAVE PROPERLY OR YOU WILL BE PUNISHED"
Ginny had stopped struggling, knowing it was no use and she was still a bit dazed from the slap. That man had serious issues! He dragged her out of the room into a long corridor. While practically being shoved forward she tried to remember everything that may come of use. Every door, every window. The ceiling was high and the walls were full of paintings. The people in it although able to move in it were standing perfectly still. They did not smile or anything, just stared. They passed doors, but every single one of them was closed.
Shit! I have to see if there's a fireplace somewhere, so that if I can brake free that would be an escape option
Nevertheless all doors were closed. The windows were large and all Ginny could see trough them was a HUGE garden. Grass everywhere. She couldn't even see the end of it. Ginny noticed that some of the paintings looked very like the Malfoys she knew! Blonde silvery hair. Cold eyes and everything. These must be relatives of Malfoy. Which would mean this will probably be the Malfoy Manor.
"So Malfoy Manor huh?" Ginny said after AGAIN being shoved to walk faster. She heard him mutter "smart girl" but he said nothing else. After a few more minutes walking (or rather being shoved) they came to two HUGE doors. It was made of a dark type of wood and engraved with snakes all over. Lucius came up and muttered something. Then he touched the door with the tip of his wand and the doors practically flew open.
They stepped in.
It was also a huge room. (What isn't huge here?) It was at least 5 Quidditch Fields. But that wasn't the only thing that Ginny noticed. It was hard not to miss the...hundreds of Death Eaters!
They were all kneeling, their heads at the opposite wall of where Ginny was standing. Lucius shoved her and Ginny began walking. The Death Eaters cleared a bit to make a path for them to go trough. Once they reached the other side of the room Ginny saw him. He was tall and had a large black cloak on, but Ginny knew that it was him! It reeked of evil.
"Ah" he said. "We meet again little Ginny"
"Yeah, didn't know I was even invited to this little gathering, guess my invitation had gotten lost with the owl?" Sarcasm dripping off her every word.
"It seems it must have, I apologize for every...inconvenience you may have endured"
"Well, I don't think that inconvenience is the right word to describe it" She said while bringing her hand to the place where Lucius had hit her. Voldemort took of his cloak and Ginny had to stifle a scream! This...this thing isn't even human anymore. His wrinkled skin, his blood red eyes boring into her own.
He advanced towards her. Ginny did not step back. She would show him that she wasn't afraid. He brought his bony hand with long scary fingers to her bruising cheek and touched it. Ginny couldn't help it, she winced. Her cheek hurt where he touched it. It was like ICE running over it.
He withdrew his hand and turned to Lucius.
"Was I not clear when I told you that you were not to harm her?" a deadly tone lay in it. A flicker of fear went trough his eyes, but was quickly covered with an icy mask.
"The girl was intolerant my Lord, I had to punish her" the way he said it was almost pleading, as if pleading Voldemort not to torture him.
Voldemort raised his wand and the feared word was spoken:
"Crucio!" Ginny watched as Lucius fell to the ground writhing in pain and screaming. After Voldemort stopped he turned back to Ginny. He stood close to her:
"Ginerva? Are you scared of me?"
Ginny held her head high and even made the little distance they had between them so small their faces were inches from each other. Then she spoke clearly, firm and for every Death Eater to hear...
"No, I am not"
Voldemort stepped back and spoke.
"...You should...be…Crucio!"
It was so fast that Gin didn't even saw him raise his hand and saying it. She had no time to escape it and stood there awaiting the inevitable...
It hit her and she fell to her knees. Pain shot trough her like a thousand knives stabbing her all over. She had never experienced such pain. Ginny bit her lip. She would not scream out no matter what. She tasted her own crimson blood from biting so hard. And then it suddenly stopped.
She fell to the ground breathing heavily and not being able to move much. Breath tickled her ear and HE spoke again.
"Tomorrow your training session will begin! You'd better get you're rest, you're gonna need it" And with that last sentence in her mind, she passed out...
