A/N: Okay, between the whole "OMG! What's going to happen?" and "I can't believe it's going to end soon!" you're wondering something, aren't you? The answer is a MAYBE. Oh, and Ginny and Hermione used to teach at Hogwarts, just for a few years. That's how they know Kay and Paulina.

Chapter Seven:

There was a ring from Paulina's cell phone.

"I'm not pulling over," she muttered to herself, following the car in front of her in the now darkening sky. Close to there my ass! It was eleven when we left; it's got to be at least seven now, probably even later!

She pressed a button on the cell phone and pushed into a slot in the car, allowing it become hands free, enabling her to talk and drive at the same time. "Go, whoever it is. I'm driving."

"Paulina, its Taylor Barnes from LDCRF. You don't happen to have Daphne in there with you, do you?"

Paulina looked back to see the girl sitting next to a shell-shocked Keziah. "Yeah, she's here."

"Okay, good, I would watch out. The Order is onto the fact Keziah's with you. What about Trianne?"

Paulina let out a sigh. "She's been kidnapped."

"Shit!"

"Yeah, I know, tell me about it. It's got something to do with Abby getting attacked too. I saw a dark mark over the damn car, Taylor."

"I guessed as much. Listen, Kay's trying to hold them off from finding you, because they've got a general idea of where you've been. They're here right now actually."

She paused and opened a door.

"She's doing a good job of it," Taylor whispered back into the phone as she closed the door again. "But I don't know how long she can keep it up. They're on the warpath, Paulina. I have never heard Harry so angry in my life. Actually, I've never heard him at all, but still. He's pissed off big time."

Paulina groaned. "I can't believe Kay's doing this for us! She could get really hurt."

Taylor let out a small laugh. "No, Kay's not easily hurt. She can get out of situations pretty easily."

"Hold up," Paulina added, looking out the window of the smashed up car. "I think we're here."

Taylor let out a surprised gasp. "Alright, if you see her…"

"I know what to do." Paulina pushed the phone off and put it back into her car's glove compartment and looked at the two in the back.

"Daphne, you brought your wand, right?"

"I never go anywhere without my wand." Daphne replied, pulling out her wand out her side pocket.

Keziah nodded and added, "I brought mine too, but I think you figured that out." She opened the back car door into the now newly dark landscape, a house not too far from where Paulina had stopped. "I think we're going for there, you guys. It's about five steps away, from what I can tell."

The other two girls got out on Keziah's side, shutting the doors behind them. "Bit pointless locking it," Paulina commented as she put a magical charm on it, waving her wand in a flowery way and mouthing a few words. "It should work. It's pretty strong; at least I would hope it is."

"What would it do?" Keziah questioned.

"It's a memory charm. Anyone who touches it will remember something they had to do earlier that day. It works on wizards too; it's one of those 'stick your name in' charms, meaning that when we get back in we shouldn't be affected by it."

"We really should get going. God knows Kay's stalled for long enough."

"Don't talk like that. She's nineteen years old, she can defend herself. But I see your point." Paulina motioned for Daphne to come closer to her, and Keziah did the same as they walked across, finding themselves at the house rather quickly.

"Do we knock or what?" Keziah wondered, looking at the door.

"I don't know," Paulina replied. "But we can't stand out here forever."

Just as Daphne was about to say something, the door flung open, Michael holding it open.

Paulina raised an eyebrow. "You said it was close by."

"That was the short way."

"So you took the long way so we wouldn't be followed as easily?"

"Yes, sorry about that."

Paulina sighed and rolled her eyes as she stepped in, the other two following her as the door closed.

"Anything happen while you were in the car?" he asked.

Paulina rolled her eyes again.

"Other than the fact that one of my friends called me to tell us that Abby's father has gone into one of his deadly rage fits where he'll hit anything that moves, no, not really."

"What's going on?" someone asked from a door opening. "Am I missing out on something?"

Paulina looked at the new person in the room. "So you'd be Selene, right?"

"Yes," She sharply said, looking at Paulina suspiciously. "And you are?"

"I'm Paulina, that's Keziah, and the brown haired girl is Daphne. I think you're pretty familiar with her cousin, Abby, aren't you?"

"What does she have to do with you?"

"Daphne overheard her parents planning to kill her after the sun sets. And I'm pretty sure the sun's set," Keziah chirped, looking out a small nearby window. "Oh, and besides my sister's been kidnapped by probably the same organization that attacked Abby. I think we've got a lot do with her, actually."

"I don't believe you."

"Okay, you know what?" Daphne said, pushing the two older girls away from her, looking Selene angrily in the eyes. "I heard it with my own two ears. I wouldn't lie about something like that, nor would I spontaneously run away from my house!"

"Yeah, I think we get your point, Daphne. You don't have to scream like that every five minutes so people get you." Paulina grumbled, pulling the younger girl back to her side. "You did that earlier. I'm sorry, but I can only take one screaming fit a day."

Daphne frowned. "Sorry. But I really wouldn't lie about something like that."

"But still…" Selene drifted off, looking upstairs. "I really don't think we should tell her something like that."

"Well then what?" Keziah replied, shrugging her shoulders. "That my sister's been kidnapped, probably by dark wizards who knew the ones who attacked her? What do we tell her?"

There was a screech of tires outside, and an alarm went off.

"Great. They're here." Paulina announced, looking out the nearby window. "How in the hell did they get here so fast?"

"They are Order members, you know…" Keziah trailed off, looking out the window as well, Daphne merely standing in the same spot that she had been earlier, only looking at the ceiling, trying to think, as Keziah and Paulina continued to speak in frantic tones while looking out the window.

"If you don't mind me asking," Michael said after a few minutes of Daphne staring at the ceiling, "How are you and Abby cousins, exactly?"

"Her mother was my dad's sister, and my dad was her dad's best friend in school." She replied, still looking at the ceiling. "I don't like her dad that much to be honest."

"Why not?"

"Cause he sucks and is never around." Another voice replied. It was Abby's as she came into the room, still wearing the same clothes Keziah had given her a few hours ago. She reached out to her cousin, who ran over to her and hugged her. "I'm so sorry, really I am Daphne."

"You're being stupid," Daphne's muffled reply told her.

Keziah and Paulina turned around, the sound of spells getting closer to the nearby door. "I hate to break up the moment, but we've got a problem," Keziah nervously called to the two. "I think we need to get out and preferably soon."

"Oh, let me guess, they're coming to kill me?" Abby replied as she stood up and her cousin went back over to the two other witches.

"Yes, they are. Though I'm not really sure how they found you so fast."

"They're order members, Key."

"That's what I said earlier! But this doesn't make sense!"

Abby looked at the door, which was beginning to creak with holding off spells from the Order members, and after a few tense minutes, it flew open, Daphne barely having time to move before it went flying toward her. A few people in masks were standing in front of them.

"I guess I was wrong then," Keziah whispered as everyone fell silent. "Way wrong."

One of the masked people smiled and took their mask off, revealing a blonde haired woman, the same one who had taunted Trianne a few hours. Selene sucked in a sharp breath and hissed.

"Erika!"

Erika smiled mockingly. "Yes, Selene, it's me. Miss me much?"

"Not really, no, can't say you were much of a friend to me in the first place."

Erika turned to the three witches standing there. "Aw, what's this? Oh, you're Trianne's sister, are you?" she said, her fangs clearly showing once again. "Don't try anything," she added to Daphne, who had begun to point her wand. "Your friends don't stand much of a chance against me, and nor do you."

Abby moved over to her cousin, picking her up, her eyes and expression turning angry.

Erika laughed hysterically in return to this. "Oh, and who's this? Abby, the girl I told the Lestranges and that annoying older Malfoy to kill? Someone's defied death, haven't they?"

"You've done the exact same thing, Erika," Selene coldly replied, staring straight at her. "The Erika I knew couldn't hold her own by herself, let alone attack me."

"That was the Erika you used to know. I've killed a couple powerful wizards since then, or at least drank their blood. Magical blood has amazing properties, did you know that?"

Abby's grip on Daphne grew tighter and her eyes turned a bright blue as she became steadily angrier, but more scared that Daphne would get hurt.

Erika's expression calmed down slightly when she saw Abby again. "But I'd guess you'd already know that, wouldn't you, after turning that little bitch?"

"Shut up."

"You don't scare me. Actually, you've never scared me. You think you're so great, but you're nothing, do you hear me? When I get through with you…"

There was an explosion of spells and loud screams could be heard from some of the Death Eaters. Erika let out an angry yell.

"What's going on here?"

"They've found us!" One of them yelled. "It's the Order!" He was quickly hit by a spell that paralyzed him and he fell to the ground.

Erika growled. "I'll be back. I still have that little bitch." She disappeared with a faint pop with a few Death Eaters in tow as an Order member approached them.

It was Hermione, who looked scared out of her mind. Abby managed to close her eyes before Hermione noticed they were blue instead of brown. She opened them again, and they returned to their normal color. She put Daphne down, who stayed by her side, still scared of what her mother was going to do.

"Do you have any idea how much trouble you're in, Daphne?" She angrily said as she looked at the girl. "You could have been killed, and that may have been the dumbest thing anyone in my life has ever done!"

Abby scoffed slightly. "If you ask me, she was quite courageous to do what she did."

Hermione's eyes narrowed. "I didn't ask you."

"Why are you acting like I'm not even related to you? I haven't done anything wrong!"

"How do you know that? Do you even have control over what you are, Abigail? You could have killed someone and not even known it!"

Selene let out a small, irritated noise. "Contrary to your belief, vampires don't randomly prey on unsuspecting people. More times that not, we try to avoid that."

Hermione folded her arms. "Do you know who you've bitten, then? Do you know who Abigail's father is and who I am?"

"As a matter of fact, yes, I do. Were you threatening me, Hermione?"

Hermione looked slightly shocked. "No… I wasn't."

"Seemed like it to me, but I'm not going to linger on the subject. Listen, we have a mutual enemy. If you can lower your wand for a minute, maybe we can work this out."

Hermione let out an angry sigh but made a motion over her head for the other few witches and wizards to lower their wands.

"Well, then what?"

"Trianne's been kidnapped," Keziah announced again, looking Hermione in the eyes.

"What? Why?"

"You're asking me, Hermione? The delinquent who was a bad influence on your niece?"

Erika arrived in the same dim chamber as she had been earlier, and it was where she spent most of her days now, it only being slightly lit by a few light bulbs that flickered every so often. She could see Trianne angrily staring at her, her legs crossed and her arms folded. Erika looked at the little girl quizzically.

"What do you want?"

"I want out of here."

"Not happening, Trianne. I still need you."

"What usefulness is an eight year old who doesn't even have her own wand yet?"

Erika let out a small laugh again. "You really ought to hold your tongue once or twice when you talk, Trianne. It would probably help."

"You're not going to turn me into a vampire, are you?"

Erika rolled her eyes in impatience. "Trianne, that would completely defeat the purpose of me having you here, little Seer."

Trianne let out a gasp and her eyes widened. "I'm not a Seer!"

Erika scoffed. "Suit yourself, then. I'm quite happy having another female around here. The place is full of men and I haven't had someone to talk to since Bella died, and she was insane enough."

"Bellatrix Lestrange?"

"Yes, you little idiot, Bella is Bellatrix Lestrange. I sent her out to kill your sister's friend but she failed miserably and got herself killed because of it."

Trianne frowned. "She deserved what she got, it's punishment for what she's done to the innocent people she killed!"

Erika came menacingly close to Trianne, her fangs bared. "Who are you to decide punishment, Trianne?"