It was almost midnight and Taryn still hadn't said anything since her rant about everything that was going wrong in her life. "Ready to go to sleep?" Sirius asked as he watched Taryn finish the tea he had made her.
Taryn nodded, putting the cup in the sink and following Sirius to her room. He had already told Lina to go to sleep and read her a story to get her to fall asleep.
Once she and Sirius lay down in bed, Taryn actually spoke. "How long will their honeymoon be?"
"A month."
"A whole month?"
"Thirty days." Sirius told her.
"Thirty days." Taryn sighed, grabbing Sirius's arms and wrapping them around herself.
"Wanna get married?"
"No thanks. Maybe later."
"In a year?"
"Sure." Taryn closed her eyes.
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Taryn woke up before Sirius and crawled out of bed. She felt much better after being with him for so long.
She didn't wake him up before walking over to Lina's room and checking if she was still asleep. She wasn't there, so Taryn searched for her in the small living room. "Oh Lina. Where aaarrrreee you?"
Taryn wandered into the kitchen. No, Lina wasn't there either. She sat down on the kitchen table and closed her eyes to picture where her niece could possibly be. If I were a nine-year-old, where would I be at 7 o'clock?
She wasn't in her room, or the kitchen, or the living room, so what was left was the bathroom, which she had seen empty on the way to the kitchen and outside… The pool!
Taryn sprinted out of the side door and into the backyard. Much to her surprise, she was wrong, and Lina was not in the pool…
So where was she?
Taryn lay back on the soft, slightly wet morning grass and stared up at the leaves of the tree that she was sitting by.
"That girl better show up soon or I'll die of worry. This is just what…" Taryn opened her mouth to scream as somebody in Death Eater robes grabbed her wrists, but no sound came out. Stupid silencing charm!
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When I woke up, Taryn wasn't in the room anymore, much to my disappointment. I had had such a good sleep, and planned on just holding her in her arms for the whole morning, nothing more, but I decided that it was too late, and got out of bed.
I buttoned my shirt up before I left the room and went into the living room, where I was expecting to see Taryn watching cartoons. To my surprise, she wasn't lying on the couch, she wasn't sitting cross-legged on the floor, and she wasn't dancing to a theme song, so I decided that she was probably still eating breakfast and I walked to the kitchen.
I really shocked myself at that moment by looking for Taryn everywhere, including in the refrigerator, under the table and inside a box of cereal. Obviously, she wasn't in any of those places, so I decided to go look around for her in the backyard.
The first thing that came into my head when I opened the door was that I shouldn't have slept so long, because of what I saw under the big oak tree- Half a wand and a red, lion-shaped earring.
I ran over to them and instantly recognized them as Taryn's. After all, I had given her the earring for Valentine's Day in their sixth year and Taryn rarely ever took off those earrings. She even wore them after we had broken up.
As I examined the earring closer, I saw that it was still sort of in her ear. Ouch! It must have been ripped off.
I was asking myself where Taryn had gone… Or who took her.
Once I stopped punching the tree, I found that the best thing to do was to get somebody from the Order. I didn't want to bother James or Lily on their honeymoon, and Peter wasn't exactly fit for the job, so I decided to go get Remus for help.
I ran all the way to his house, which was a longer way away than I thought, but Taryn had ran it before, and I supposed I was able to do it too.
I knocked on the door, waited a moment, and walked in. "Moony! Oh Reeeemus!" I yelled, with a hint of impatience in my voice.
"I'm buuuuusy! Go awaaaaaaaaaay!"
"Whyyyyyyyy?"
No answer. "Is a girl up there?"
Still no answer. "I knew it! You got a girl friend!"
Silence. "As much as I'd like to leave you to alone, this is kind of urgent, a life or death situation if you know what I mean!"
At first I was joking about what I had said, but since Remus still wasn't coming downstairs, I was starting to believe that he was actually up there snogging some girl. It was a scary thought.
Luckily, he came downstairs soon after I started to believe my jokes, with a black towel wrapped around his waist, and his hair wet. "I was taking a shower, Sirius."
"Yeah. Sure."
"So what's the emergency?"
"Taryn. I woke up this morning, and she wasn't anywhere inside, and when I went outside, I saw half of her wand and her earring, which was ripped out of her ear."
The annoyed, yet happy look that had been on Moony's face turned serious instantly. "How do you know?"
"Part of her ear was on it."
Remus didn't even look disgusted. "Well, a Death Eater obviously took her, and he or she is going to get you to come with somebody else from the Order to rescue her, and then they'll try to kill us, or tell us that if we give ourselves up, then they'll let her go, but after we surrender, they'd kill her anyway. So any of the obvious solutions will just end up in you, Taryn and me dying."
"So we won't do that, will we?"
"Nope."
"What other choices do we have?"
"Well, other than letting her die…" I winced when he said this. "We can lure them out of wherever they have her, then get her…"
"Or we could bring a stronger wizard with us. I mean, they can't have more than six Death Eaters guarding her, and we've won 3 to 6 before."
"We've won 1 to 6 to before, Sirius, but I have a feeling they might be planning more than just this. I bet this is part of something big."
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Heh. It's not that bad, is it? See, this is the reason that I changed the second the second genre from drama to action/adventure.
Okay, so I'm out of school, which means more chapters in less time! Extremely loud and happy applause coming from the cartoon section of the audience while a few polite claps come from the real people section