Chapter 23
You just had to go get a drink didn't you Irulan? And you just had to go BY YOURSELF! Oh you are brilliant aren't you? I thought, sitting in the furthest corner of whatever the hell room I was in, of wherever the hell I was. I just HAD to become an auror because I like adventrue and mystery! I should've taken the Ballycastle Bats up on their offer to be their keeper! Don't ask me where I was because I had no clue, nothing around me would help much, considering all I see is black in every direction. Because of the vast darkness that consumed the area all around me, I had no sense of time, therefore did not know if I had been there for two hours or five. The good news is, for however long I've been here, I have not been touched other than me being thrown onto the floor. And I'm good as long as no onw touches me, and I know someone is looking for me.
For those that think I'm handling being kidnapped very well...
hahahahaha! Yeah right, I'm trying to calm myself down!
Eric made two mistakes today, the first was kidnapping me, and the second - ''Accio wand'' I said, suddenly, I felt my wand in my hand - was putting my wand within range of my voice.
''Lumos,'' the tip of my wand ignited, I was in a small dungeon type room, the only way out (that I could see) was a barred door, which is where my wand came in. ''Bloody fucking great!'' I muttered in annoyance. I shone the light from my wand all over the room, finding a vent in the upper right hand corner of the room, and suddenly everything was looking up, hopefully I was small enough to fit through it. Hell, I hoped I was tall enough to reach it!
I stood up, putting my wand in my mouth so I still had some light. I stretched out my arm as far as it would go and still only managed to touch the metal grate that guarded my only excape route, because I figured Eric would have used the Colloportus on the cell door making it impossible for me to open with Alohomora.
''Bugger!'' I muttered, removing my wand from my mouth. I walked up to the bars of the celll, and looked out, I thanked my good karma for the stool that was sitting not far from my cell. ''Accio'' the stool stopped at my cell, but it was too big for it to fit through the bars. I used the reducing spell so the stool could fit into the palm of my hand.
Setting the stool below the vent, I used an enlarging charm to make the stool three times it's normal size, so I had to crawl on top of the thing before I could actually climb into the vent. It was a bit of a hassle getting in and I scratched my stomach against the edge of the opening.
Problem was, right when I was in, I heard ''I brought you something to eat,'' behind me. I started boot-camp crawling through that vent as fast as I could, but behind me, I heard the tray Eric was carrying clatter to the ground, he cursed loudly before shouting ''You think you can get out of here Irulan? I'll find you long before you find the front door, and you'll come right back to this cell, count on that!''
Right, how hard could it be to find my way out of a house, I thought as another vent came into view about twenty feet away.
I knocked the grate out and jumped out of the vent, landing in a small room which I guessed was the first landing into the basement. ''So far, so good,'' I said to myself as I climbed the next set of stairs.
Draco's Point Of View:
''How long is this going to take?'' I asked pacing the length of the kitchen.
''I don't know, Irulan knows how to prevent us from finding her using Scrying, but occasionally, there's a glitch and we can find her.'' Hermione said circling a crystal over a map.
''Great,'' I said sarcastically. ''Where are Ron and Harry?''
''Looking for locations where a spell has been cast with a wand that has the same core material as Irulan's wand.''
''Okay, I'll pretend that I understood that.'' I said, ''But how will what Harry and Ron are looking for help us find Irulan?''
''Because, we're guessing that she's still somewhere in the country. All we need to do is find a wand with the same core as Irulan's that was made by Mr. Ollivander, and we'll lessen our search area,'' she said glancing up at me then bacl at the map of the world.
Suddenly there were two loud cracks, and Harry and Ron were standing next to the table. ''We have good news and bad news,'' Ron said.
''What's the good news?'' I asked.
''We lessened the search area!''
''The bad news is, we only managed to lessen the search area to England,'' Harry said.
''That's all you found out?'' Hermione said.
''Sue us, there are a lot of people with unicorn hair for wand cores,'' Hermione said. Hermione sighed irritably and I could hear her mumbling under her breath about how she should have just done the research herself.
chapter 24
What the hell kind of place is this? I thought with a slight panic. The house was a lot bigger than I anticipated, and hella confusing. Actually, I don't even know if I can classify this place as a house. All the clocks are stopped at 1:13, I have opened windows that lead into walls, doors that led into walls, and walked up a stair case that lead to a ceiling. I am going to go crazy before I get out of here! I swear I have walked into the same room at least three different times, and went in from three different entrances.
I walked into a room, and opened a safe looking door, I didn't even look down before I stepped, and suddenly there was the feeling of weightlessness. My hand snapped out, instinct driving me faster than thought alone, and before the rational half of my mind could catch up, I grabbed onto the ledge. I yelped in pain as the agonizing jolt in my shoulder told me I nearly tore the muscles there causing me to swing around so my other hand could grab the ledge as well. Before I could think about my near brush with death, I was already pulling myself up, cursing my strong yet wiry muscles.
''Holy shit,'' I said gasping for breath, as I backed away from the door. That was nearly a two story drop, I just survived. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, I'm gonna die of a heartattack from this place. ''Okay, just keep calm everyone is probably looking for you by now,'' I muttered standing up and walking out of the room.''I'm putting this room under must avoid.''
I walked down a flight of stairs that winded forty-four times, that only went down nine feet, yeat I found myself on the next lowest floor, this house is so weird. The odd thing was, the next floor, just led to a door that was about five feet high. Opening the door, I found a passageway, what could it hurt? I walked through the small passageway, it was so eerily quiet, I couldn't help but start panicking a bit. The passage was about five feet high so I had to duck my head, and about two feet wide, giving little room for movement.
I held my wand infront of me, the best I could, until I came to a wall. I felt along the wall, finding the cracks of a door, I tried to push it, but it wouldn't budge, then I flung myself against it, oh it opened and also sent me airborn, landing eight feet below in a kitchen. That's not all, I landed on a table managing to get a knife embedded into the artery in my thigh. I think this house has about killed my good karma, I thought, removing the knife and putting pressure on the wound because there's a major artery in both your thighs and upper arms that if punctured deep enough with a large enough object you could bleed to death.
Blood still seeped from under my hand and I realized that I didn't have my wand anymore, it was three feet away from me.
''Great,'' I said laying on the floor and reaching for my wand. I scooted closer, finaly wrapping my hand around the end of it. Sitting back up, I had to pull my pants down to get a good look at the wound. ''Ferula!'' instantly my leg was bandaged, but I was weak from the amount of blood I had already lost. I felt my breathing start to slow, and everything would alternate from double to normal, I tried to stand, but fell back against a cabinet. Suddenly, everything seemed unreal, the kitchen was swirling, all the colors blending together. I couldn't take it anymore, I closed my eyes, not caring if Eric found me, because if he did he'd at least take care of the wound (I hope). Eventually, I felt my hands and feet go numb, then... Nothing...
''Irulan, Irulan can you hear me?''
I opened my eyes, at first the ligh stung and everything was cloudy, but I blinked a few times and everything focused; I was in a hospital room in St. Mungo's. Hermione stood next to the bed, stroking my hair back, Harry stood by the window, and Ron was sleeping in a chair but -
''Where's Draco?'' I asked, my voice hoarse.
''He went to get something to drink,'' Hermiome replied.
''How did you find me? And where was I?''
''You were in Westbury. That bandaging spell you did on yourself, caused Hermione's crystal to drop when she was scrying for you.'' Harry said smiling at me. ''I'm glad you're alright Irulan,'' he walked up to me and kissed my forhead.
''That house was freaking huge! I thought I was never going to get out,'' I said.
''We know, believe me,'' Harry said.
''It had 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, 13 bathrooms, 52 skylights, 40 bedrooms, 2 ballrooms, 2 basements, 40 staircasesm 450 dorrways, 47 fireplaces, and 6 kitchens; You were in kitchen number 4 Irulan.'' Hermione said.
''Did you count all that?'' I asked.
Hermione laughed, ''No, we found the blueprints''.
''Dear Lord, no wonder Eric said he'd find me before I found the front door!'' I said.
The door to my room opened, and Draco walked in carrying a cup from the tea room, but when he saw that I was awake, he dropped the cup spilling it's contents onto the floor, and walked to the bed before hugging me. ''Are you alright?''
''I'm fine, and am I to believe that you helped them find me?'' I asked. Draco's cheeks turned a light shade of pink and he nodded. I smiled and pulled Draco by the back of his head kissing him hard on the mouth. I didn't care that Harry and Hermione were watching and thankfully, neither did Draco.
''Oh that is something I do not want to see when I first wake up!'' Ron shouted in horror. Draco and I pulled away from eachother and started laughing along with Harry and Hermione...