Disclaimer: See first chapter

A/N: Think it's getting to the end? Well you're WRONG! Hahaha. Sorry. These stories take place over a year but loads of stuff happens in a year so the whole 'missing children' thing is almost over but the story is about half-way through.

Thank you everyone who reviewed. I love you all!

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Chapter 12: Cornfields and Children

It was about six o'clock when Nathan, Lyndsay, Carlie and Jess met up at the house. Marcus wasn't there and Jess wanted to wait for him. He was out voted.

"We are going to that cornfield now whether you come or not!" Lyndsay announced.

"Yeah" Carlie agreed. "Who knows what Mallory is doing to kids!"

"Kid" Jess corrected. "Only one kid has gone missing"

Carlie and Lyndsay both shook their heads. "We saw more than one kid. There are more but we just don't know who they are" Lyndsay said.

"Nathan come on" Jess knew that Nathan would to agree with since he wasn't one to rush into things.

"Sorry Jess I think we should go now. As Carlie said – who knows what Mallory is doing?" Nathan looked almost surprised at his statement.

Jess threw up his hands in frustration. "FINE! Do what you want! I'm waiting for Marcus!"

Carlie and Lyndsay didn't seem to care about Jess and his spaz as they worked out a way to get to the cornfield.

"I've got it!" Lyndsay announced. "We orb like we used too. Picture the place then orb there" Lyndsay seemed pleased.

"Good idea. Nathan will have to hold our hand or something since he hasn't seen where they are" Carlie explained.

"You guys are idiots going by yourselves" Jess said as they got ready to go.

"You're an idiot for calling us idiots!" Lyndsay snapped at him. Carlie and Nathan snickered.

Jess rolled his eyes. "If you guys die it's your own fault"

"Thanks a lot Jess" Carlie remarked.

"Come on! Quit fighting with Jess and let's get out of here!" Nathan said.

"Right. See you later Jess. If we do die we'll haunt you as ghosts" Lyndsay laughed as the three of them orbed.

Jess remained in his spot for a moment before he sighed and kicked the book of shadows across the room.

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It was sunny and quiet when they arrived. The cornfield was vast and Lyndsay, Carlie and Nathan had no idea where the kids were.

"Where are we anyway?" Lyndsay asked.

"Obviously not in England. It looks like its midday." Carlie said, looking around for some sort of sign.

"It doesn't matter where we are. We need to find those kids!" Nathan said.

"We can't exactly go running into the middle of a cornfield can we?" Lyndsay said.

"Maybe we should yell out or something?" Nathan suggested.

"We also have to keep an eye out for Mallory" Carlie told them.

"Let's find the kids and we'll deal with her when she comes" Lyndsay said.

Nathan cupped his hands and shouted "HELLO! IS ANYONE HERE?"

Carlie and Lyndsay heard nothing but Nathan did.

HELP! WE'RE HERE!

"That way!" Nathan pointed.

Lyndsay, Carlie and Nathan ran down to the cornfield. Running through it was hard. Everything looked the same but Nathan's hyper hearing and Lyndsay's super sight helped greatly. Carlie felt kind of useless but it wasn't the time for it.

"THERE!" Lyndsay and Nathan screamed at once. It was an equipment shed and they could now all hear the screams.

"It's okay we're here" Lyndsay tried to calm them down.

"It's got a lock on it" Nathan stated holding the padlock in his hand.

Carlie grinned. Time for her power to shine. "Stand back!" She told Nathan and stared intently at the lock. It soon turned red and fell off.

Pushing open the door a young boy ran out followed by two girls. The boy spoke quickly and it wasn't in English but Nathan understood every word and spoke back to him.

"His name's Augustus and he says they've been stuck here for about a week" Nathan explained.

"You speak English!" One of the girls cried.

"Your Bree Newton right?" Lyndsay asked. She nodded.

The other girl started up and she was talking in another completely different language.

"Her name is Amy she is from France. She says she was put in here with these other two and couldn't understand a word they said" Nathan explained.

"Why would Mallory do that?" Lyndsay asked. "Put three kids from different countries here?"

Carlie shrugged. "She's a demon so she's probably stupid."

"Stupid am I?" A voice asked.

"Oh shit" Carlie said and turned slowly. There was Mallory in her demon form. Purple and fanged. All six of them let out a scream Carlie, Nathan and Lyndsay grabbed a kid each and began to run.

"Are you getting the feeling we've seen this before?" Lyndsay asked as they ran.

"Yeah. Hang on that mean we're going to bump into" Carlie was cut off as she slammed straight into Jess.

"JESS!" Carlie cried.

"Hey what's going – oh god!" Jess's eyes widened at Mallory behind them.

Mallory let out a roar and swiped her massive claws at them which threw them across the cornfield. All of them landed awkwardly and there were a few snaps.

"My wrist!" Bree cried.

"Nathan you're the healer!" Jess cried as he jumped up when he realized he was sitting on Carlie.

"Yeah right" Nathan shook his head and grabbed Bree's wrist. He closed his eyes and Bree's wrist glowed green and then she smiled. "You fixed it!"

"Think you can fix this?" Carlie asked as she pointed to Amy's arm which was swinging limply.

As Nathan continued to heal the kids who'd all gotten knocked up pretty bad, Lyndsay, Carlie and Jess looked around for Mallory.

"Why are you here?" Lyndsay asked Jess.

"Yeah why are you here?" Carlie said.

"Marcus showed up and told me to come here" Jess answered.

"How'd you know where we were, we didn't tell you" Lyndsay asked.

"Marcus told me the name of the place, its Miner's field" Jess explained.

"Um…guys?" Carlie looked worried. "Mallory's on her way"

"Nathan can you do that spell with your hand like last time?" Lyndsay asked.

"I don't even know what spell I did, it just happened" Nathan cried over his shoulder as he healed the kids.

"And that freeze, who did that?" Carlie asked.

"Look now is not the time to do it as that stupid freak is heading for us!" Jess yelled.

"Um…we should kill her. You knew what a killing curse looked like Jess, how do you do it?" Lyndsay asked.

Jess groaned. "It's illegal. I can't exactly do one now can I?"

Carlie took out her wand. "What's the curse?"

"Carlie unless you wanna live with Sirius I suggest you don't do it" Jess snapped back.

"Come on Mcairn, they won't know" Carlie said. "We're not even in England!"

"Try it wand less" Nathan came over with them.

Carlie put her wand back in her pocket and held out her fingers. "What's the curse?"

"I'm not telling you!" Jess crossed his arms.

"Tell me now!" Carlie cried.

"Jess just tell her!" Lyndsay screamed as Mallory in her purply demon form burst out of the corn.

Jess stuck his own hand out. "AVADA KEDAVRA" He shouted as a jet of green light blasted from the end of his hand. It struck Mallory but didn't kill her.

She was panting but laughing. "You wanna get nasty now? You're not powerful enough to kill me"

Carlie and Lyndsay both had the same idea and both screamed at one: "AVADA KEDAVRA" The two jets of green light struck Mallory and for one terrifying moment they thought they'd killed her but she got back up and a voice yelled in their minds.

/The killing curse won't do it unless she is in her human form/

/how do we do that? / Lyndsay asked.

/You know the spell. It's the last cast spell/ Marcus answered.

Lyndsay stuck out her hand but remained silent as a tiny wavy line that looked like fishing line weaved out of her fingertips and around Mallory. Soon she began to transform into her chubby mousy self.

/DO IT NOW! / Marcus screamed.

Lyndsay, Jess, Nathan and Carlie stuck out their hands and yelled once again "AVADA KEDAVRA" This time the jet's hit Mallory and she fell limp on the ground.

"Did we just?" Lyndsay shivered.

Carlie nodded. "We killed her"

Jess walked over slowly to her body. Her face was blank. Just looking up at them with her cold dead eyes.

Lyndsay spun around and threw up on the ground. Carlie looked as if she wanted to burst into tears, both Jess and Nathan were deathly pale.

"You guys did the right thing" Marcus had appeared finally.

"Where were you?" Carlie demanded.

"You all look pale and tired. Go home. Get some rest. I'll take care of the kids." Marucs dogged the question.

None of them really cared. They just orbed home and passed out on their beds. It was around twelve o'clock when they got back.

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"You look bad Carlie" George remarked at breakfast.

Carlie looked at him. It had shaken them all up. They never thought killing someone would be so easy to do.

"I…had some bad stuff happening" Carlie answered quietly.

"Are you alright?" Fred asked, looking at her.

Carlie nodded and let her gaze wander over to the Slytherin table where Jess looked as bad as she did. He was pale and looked as if he'd had a rough night. He managed a small weak smile at her before going back to talking to his friends.

"So how was detention?" Fred asked.

"Detention?" Carlie echoed.

"You know with Snape?" George said. Carlie let out a large groan. She'd been to busy fighting demons and saving kids to even think of that.

"I didn't go" Carlie murmured.

"He's going to be all over you in potions today" Fred laughed.

"Big deal" Carlie remarked.

"Jeeze Carlie, what's up with you?" George asked.

Carlie jumped up. "I'm fine really. I'm just being stupid about something that's all" She turned and walked out the door.

"I wanna go home and never come back here" Carlie groaned as she walked aimlessly.

"Well go home and never come back here" Jess remarked.

Carlie jumped and spun around. "How do you do that? You are always doing that! Do you just follow me around or something?"

Jess laughed. "You looked annoyed and upset and being the lovely friend that I am I thought 'hey Carlie needs a hug so" Jess threw his arms around Carlie and gave her a squeeze.

"How was that? You feel better now?" Jess laughed as he held onto her.

Carlie was laughing. "Let go you idiot what happens if someone sees us?"

"I confess my undying love for you" Jess smiled.

Carlie looked up at him; he was still a bit taller than her. "How is it that you are the most horrible insensitive person half the time and the other you are the most wonderful caring person?"

Jess shrugged. "Just a great talent I have."

"This makes me feel better but what about you, you look like you had a rough night" Carlie's eyes fell on the dark rings under his eyes.

Jess smiled. "It wasn't about Mallory. She deserved to die. She was a bitch and a demon."

Carlie laughed. "So why do you look so bad?"

Jess looked a bit uncomfortable. "Being a death eaters son makes you see a few things you wish you hadn't" He answered.

Carlie decided not to push it and she gave him a squeeze.

"Carlie!" Fred and George had come over and looked alarmed. Carlie and Jess jumped apart in surprise.

"What are you doing here?" Carlie asked.

"We wanted to see if you're alright and you were snogging him!" Fred pointed at Jess who rolled his eyes.

"Number one: We were hugging. Number two: She was upset and I was being nice and Number three: I have a girlfriend" Jess told them.

"Yeah Tegan wouldn't like it too much if she found out you were making out with her best friend" Carlie laughed.

"See, I have a girlfriend! We were hugging as friends" Jess crossed his arms and began to walk off.

"You're friends with him! He's horrible! Don't you remember the first day of Hogwarts when he called you a mudblood!" Fred exclaimed.

Carlie shrugged. "A lot has changed since then"

George shook his head. "Carlie he is bad news. I'm not saying this because he is a Slytherin, I'm saying this because he is a nasty person and he might take advantage of you"

"I can look after myself. If Jess tries anything I can take him" Carlie smiled imagining herself lighting Jess on fire.

"Carls, what's going on, you've been acting so weird this year. You keep disappearing and this is like the third time we've caught you with him. This can't be just because of your dad" George told her.

Carlie told them that if she like Jess better than them they'd just have to get used to it. With that she walked off.

"Could this day get any freaking worse!" Carlie cried and saw Snape coming towards her. "Turns out it can" Carlie groaned.

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"Hey do you know what happened to Mallory?" Keisha asked as she bit into her sandwich.

"Nope. Haven't seen her since yesterday" Tegan replied.

Nathan and Lyndsay looked guiltily at each other. What were they suppose to say? 'Sorry guys, Mallory was a demon and we killed her'

"She might ring or something tonight" Lyndsay supplied weakly.

Tegan laughed. "It's not like we miss her, it's just we were wondering where she was"

"Yeah that chick was so annoying" Lewis said as he flicked some of his mango at Jax.

Jax ducked and pegged his empty yoghurt container at him. "She never left Lyndsay alone"

Jason shook his head as Lewis and Jax continued to throw food at each other. "She was fine. Probably trying to be cool"

Tegan snorted. "Why would she hang with Lyndsay then?"

Lyndsay didn't reply back. She was too busy thinking of how she was going to make Mallory disappear.

"Maybe she moved" Nathan suddenly piped up.

Lyndsay rolled her eyes. Bloody mind reader.

"Hey guess what Jess sent me a letter!" Tegan suddenly exclaimed.

"What?" Lyndsay and Nathan asked simultaneously. They hadn't heard Jess say about that.

"Yeah" Tegan pulled it out of her pocket. It came last night. Just sitting with the junk mail. "He says he misses me and that Carlie decided to tell the whole year that we're going out" Tegan laughed. "Typical Carlie. Jess is coming at the end of the holidays since his family want to spend Xmas with him"

"You're going away for Christmas aren't you?" Keisha asked.

"Yeah so it's no biggie. Have you heard from Carlie? Is she coming back?" Tegan asked Lyndsay.

"Yeah she is." Lyndsay said.

"It only going to be Jax, me, you, Keisha, Jason and Carlie for the most of the holidays" Lewis told Lyndsay.

"Are you going to Marco's party?" Keisha asked.

"Yeah, we should bring Carlie along. They won't care, there's going to be so many people there that no one will notice" Jax said.

"I'll give her a ring tonight" Lyndsay told them.

"What about Mallory, do we have to bring her along?" Keisha asked.

Lyndsay sighed as she remembered Mallory's eyes staring at her. "No"

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If you're wondering why sometimes I wrote Xmas and others Christmas it's because Tegan actually said Xmas, not Christmas.