Chapter 9
A few weeks had passed, and there was still no sign of Isabelle anywhere near. The Order had been in contact with Malfoy, but he had chosen to deny everything.
Catherine and Charlie had rarely seen each other, as they were both bust searching and teaching. There was finally a point in time where Cate thought she would have a moment of peace between classes when the door flew open and Severus burst in.
"I've found a way to get Isabelle back."'
"If she's still alive." Catherine muttered from her desk.
"Cate, I can guarantee that this will work. All we need to do is get you alone with Draco, and he'll give in."
"And what gives you this idea?"
"Draco has always found you attractive, you could pressure him into anything."
"Tell me where and when, and I'll do it." The twenty-one-year-old replied from her desk.
"After class, floo to the Malfoy Manor." Severus left the rom just as the bell sounded. Not even a moment later, students began filling up the classroom as they took their seats
Catherine began the lesson by simply letting the students talk amongst themselves and get settled while she decided what to do with them that class.
"All right!" She shouted out through the noise, "Turn to page four-hundred and sixty-three, read through it and take notes."
The class dug into their bags to retrieve their textbooks, quills and parchment. Silence then overtook the room as the students stopped talking. Cate sighed lightly as she pulled a stack of homework towards her that was long overdue for marking.
Not even five minutes into the silence of the lesson, the door creaked open and a person took a few footsteps in.
"State your name and the reason why you're late." Catherine mumbled.
"Uh...Professor...?" One of her students began. Cate looked up, and saw a black hooded, death eater standing in the middle of the classroom, wand raised, pointing toward her.
"What'd'you want?" The young woman asked as she whipped out her own wand.
"Avada Kedavra!" The voice said sharply, waving their wand. Cate dived behind her desk as half the wall where she had previously stood blew into pieces.
"Impendi..." She began, however, a swich of the death eater's wand caused her to writer over in pain.
"Avada..." The person was cut off by Catherine this time.
"SECTUMSEMPRA!" She thought of the killing curse her father had taught her.
The death eater fell to the ground and blood poured from under the hood and beneath the robes, drenching the area in crimson. With another wave of Cate's wand, the attacker fell completely dead, jet black, wavy hair exposed itself from beneath the hood. As Catherine approached the death eater, she levitated the mask off, and her scream echoed throughout the school.
Down in the deep dungeons, Severus had heard her, from a distance down the hallway, Charlie could identify that his wife was in danger, and from the headmistress office, McGonagall had a sense to alert The Order of the Phoenix .
However, out of all of these people that heard the screams, and sensed the danger, only one came running. After calmly telling his class that there was nothing wrong, and that he would be back shortly, Snape hurried over.
The man entered through the already open classroom door to see his daughter standing over a dead body, frozen with shock.
"Catherine? What happened in here?"