Chapter 36 - Resistance

When Anna woke up she tried to move her arms but found she couldn't her wrists were bound to chains attached to the wall. Her head throbbed painfully. She looked around and took in the surroundings. The room was dark, dank and dusty there was a boarded up window in front of her and one door of to the right of her. The window in front had a smidgen of light shining through and as Anna stared at it, it disappeared and the room became dark again. She started looking around for ways to get out. How was she going to break the chains? She didn't have her wand and the chains were magical therefore made them even stronger than normal. Suddenly the door to her right opened and Voldemort walked in. Anna tried to back into the wall wishing it would swallow her up. Anna tried to back into the wall wishing it would swallow her up.

"Ms. Potter, now why would you want to hide from me all these years?" he asked. Anna didn't say anything. "I asked you a question you need to learn some manners, Crucio." He said and Anna felt as though white hot knives were cutting into her skin. She tried not to scream by biting her tongue which caused her tongue to start bleeding. He lifted the curse and laughed softly. Anna fell against the wall breathing hard warm blood filling her mouth.

"You don't scream like your mother and father did," he said.

"What do you want with me?" Anna asked, if he was going to kill her she wanted to know why.

"I haven't been able to perform a good torture in 16 years. Also I know how the fools who love are like, he will be so upset when I show him your dead, and he will be easier to kill when he is grieving." He said his wand still pointing at her. So that was his plan he wanted to torture her because he hadn't had that pleasure in 16 years. She had no other use apart from for him to get to her father. Harry hadn't been keeping her a secret all these years for her sake it was to keep him from pain. No, she thought, he wouldn't do that, don't start thinking like that.

"Now," Voldemort was speaking again and Anna was hard pressed to hear what he was saying, "I also want to try out a few of my own new spells on someone, you see I need all of my Death Eater so you come in very handy in that aspect. But we will save that for another day. I think I will let Bella have some fun now." He said and he walked out, a few seconds later a Death Eater walked in. Before she said anything or Anna could even prepare herself a woman's voice shouted Crucio at her. Anna's body contracted in pain. It took all her self will not to let herself scream, she wouldn't give the woman that pleasure.

"Why won't you scream, maybe some more pain," the woman said and she cast some more spells at Anna. Ones she had never heard before all bringing varying degrees of pain. Anna didn't know how long the woman was there for but Anna just wished she would leave. When it was finally over she left Anna gasping for breath and someone else came in to guard her. But all Anna could think about was the voice of the woman, it sounded familiar, but she couldn't place it. Anna looked toward the boarded up window and couldn't see any light shining through she thought it must be night, but she was far from tired. She wouldn't have slept even if she wanted to.

The next few days were far from fun, everyday some Death Eater would come in and perform curses on Anna to see how they worked. One curse in particular produced deep cuts where ever the wand was placed. Another one was called the Bone Breaking curse and where ever the spell was aimed the bone in that area broke. She had a broken right arm, three broken ribs and a broken jaw which made the piece of bread they forced down her throat every morning even more difficult to chew. As the days drew on Anna was starting to loss hope, she didn't know if anyone would ever come for her. Was she going to stay there until Voldemort decided he didn't need her anymore?

After a week Anna had given up hope of anyone coming to rescue her. If she was going to get out she was going to have to do it herself. But how? She was bound to the wall by magical chains she had no wand and she was getting weaker and weaker as the days went on. Her guard she soon realized was Wormtail, he wouldn't look at her he never spoke to her. She never said anything to him. One morning, Anna had lost track of the days a long time ago, the Death Eater called Bella entered.

"Good morning Anna," she said in a horribly sweet voice. Anna pushed herself against the wall and as far away from Bella as she could. "Ahh what to do today, what to do? You know I always liked the ones when you scream," she said. She pointed her wand at Anna and threw back her head and laughed her hood fell off to reveal dark graying hair and dark eyes that Anna knew.

"You killed my mother," she said quietly as her throat was hoarse from screaming and she couldn't move her jaw much with causing immense pain. Bella turned to look at her and smiled an awful smile Anna remembered in her dreams.

"Yes I did, and I enjoyed it as much as I am enjoying this, however you don't scream as much, she begged for her life—"

"No she didn't I saw, she didn't say anything," Anna said for the first time acknowledging the fact that she had seen Bellatrix Lestrange before. Bella did not say anything she seemed to be shocked by this piece of information, but then she regained her composure.

"You watched me kill her?" Bella asked. "And you didn't do anything? You stood there and watched her die. You didn't even try to save your own mother?" She said smiling as she saw the tears form in Anna's eyes. There was so much truth in those words Anna didn't feel she could take it. She just wanted to die, it would be so much easier. The guilt would be gone and the pain. Why wouldn't they just kill her?