Chapter 12
Conversations and Research
Ginny opened her eyes slowly as she awoke. A few feet in front of her a fire is burning in the fireplace. She tried to move, but found that she could only move her neck and head.
"Hello, Ginny." Spoke a familiar raspy voice. Ginny looked to her left, where the dark hooded wizard sat. "So I hear you found my diary."
She nodded her head timidly. 'What is he up to?' She thought.
"My guess is you told it everything about you, but never bothered to ask it who 'he' was." He leaned forward. "Correct?"
Ginny nodded her head.
"You can talk to me, I won't hurt you."
Ginny opened her mouth, except she was interrupted before even made a peep.
"Yet." Ginny looked to her right to see Lucius Malfoy standing in the doorway with a sneer on his face.
"What are you doing here?" Voldermort roared as he flew to the doorway.
"Master, why are we wasting our time with this? Let's just kill them and move on."
"Are you questioning me, Malfoy?" Voldermort growled.
"Sir, I want to know what the point of all of this is. We've never taken prisoners before; and the aliens?"
"Kavar is a formidable ally, even though he is a bit egotistical. I need to know who the girl is."
"Why master?"
"Her eyes haunt me, I've seen them before."
"Maybe we killed her mum."
"No, it's something else."
"Master."
"Lucius, as I recall you just discovered your step-son is at Hogwarts. You should do something about it." Voldermort suggested.
Lucius bowed his head reverently. "Yes, master." He turned to leave.
"And Lucius, (Lucius turned back) if you ever question me again, you will be where Snape is now."
Lucius turned a shade whiter. "Y-yes, master." He left closing the door silently behind him.
Voldermort glided over to the chair and sat down. "So where were we?"
Maria awakes to see Michael, no Rath looking down at her. She turned her head to the right to see Lonnie looking down at Snape. "There's something so sad about a man who turns on his best friend." Lonnie said.
Maria saw that Snape was awake and looking at her through half closed eyelids. "Killing your brother is worse."
Lonnie smiled at Maria. "Do ya believe everything you hear?"
"When it comes from a reputable source."
"Hmm." Lonnie smiled. "Like who Tess?"
"Ava, she wasn't like Tess."
Rath laughs. "They're the same person."
"And yet (she pulled herself into a sitting position) Michael and Isabel are completely different than you two lowly creatures."
Lonnie raised her hand to smack Maria.
"Lonnie!" They turn to see Nicolas and Kavar walking down the steps.
"Lucky save." Lonnie hissed as she stood up, and walked over to Kavar. She leaned forward and kissed Kavar. Maria glanced up at Rath to see him give the two a steely-eyed look. Rath glanced down and saw Maria smiling at his pain.
Michael was sitting in the common room staring aimlessly at the fireplace when Hermione walks in from her room. "Hi, are you going to lunch?"
"I'm not hungry." He mumbled not looking up.
Hermione looked at Michael. 'He's so cute,' she thought. 'Whoa, where did that come from?' She thought as her eyes traced over his face. "Are you alright?" She asked as she sat next to him.
"I don't know Maria is usually the one who makes me feel better when something happens, but…"
"You feel lost without her."
"Yeah, when we arrive here I knew I should have questioned everything. Why Maria's last name was so familiar to Dumbledore, why Dumbledore recognized us, why wizards are even real. But we were all so tired from running and hiding, and I wanted to believe that we could actually be safe here."
"You are safe here, well, if your enemies had not found you." She sighed, "Maria, wouldn't want you to mope around, would she?"
"Probably not."
She stood up and took his right hand, "so come on." She smiled.
He looked up at her, "okay." He slowly stood up and let Hermione drag him out to the hall.
"So where were we?"
"You're not going to hurt me?" Ginny whispered.
"Yes."
Ginny swallowed waiting for whatever the dark lord was going to do.
"You'd never know by looking at me, but I was in love once."
"Huh?"
He ignored her and continued. "I met her at the beginning of my second year, she was a first year. So young and innocent and happy, she made me happy. If it were not for our fight, I would have never opened the Chamber. She made me so mad, but when I saw her petrified, it broke my heart and I had to close it. Then a few months after we consummated our love, she vanished. I searched everywhere for her. I never found her."
"Sounds sad," Ginny whispered.
"Tragic, that's why you, Ginny, are going to help me find her."
"What?"
"That's why we brought you here."
Kavar crouched over Maria. "The spell works like electronic bugs. Except it's in you head, we'll be able to see and hear everything you do. Nicolas will be connected to you, I'll be connected to the professor, and Voldermort to Ginny."
"And what will keep us from removing the spell?" Maria asked.
"Memory charms," Lonnie said. "Yo this is going to be so wicked."
"And we'll be able to watch over your baby." Kavar added.
Maria froze as Snape's eyes dared to her. "How?"
Nicolas waved his hand. "Private indeed."
"You little bastard!" Maria flew toward him breaking the body bind.
"How'd she do that?" Lonnie asked as Maria tackled Nicolas.
Kavar pulled Maria off Nicolas. "It's probably the baby's power." He threw Maria to Rath who held her tight.
"You don't have to do this." Maria whispered into his chest.
"I have to, he'll kill me." Rath hissed.
"Please, Rath."
"Rath, take her upstairs." Kavar commanded.
"No." Maria struggled, but Rath slung her over his shoulder.
The Roswellians, along with the trio, Dumbledore, Amy, Sirus, and McGonigall are gathered in the teacher's room that night before dinner. Kyle and Isabel are preparing to dream walk Snape as the rest watch.
Isabel looks around; she can't see anything. It's dark and black. "Your baby." She heard Kavar say.
"You bastard!" Maria yells.
"Snape, what's going on?" Isabel asked. Isabel saw through his eyes as Snape opened his eyes and looked up at Isabel, no Lonnie. The room materialized and Isabel could see everything, the whole basement. Rath is carrying Maria upstairs. "Snape, where is Ginny?"
"Upstairs."
"Is she okay?"
"Fine, they know about Maria's baby. Contact Rath he's weak, break him."
Isabel left. She opened her eyes and looked around; she's back in the teacher's room. "Iz?" Max asked.
"I think they're going to do something."
"Kyle, what did you see?" Michael asked. "Kyle?"
Kyle's eyes are still closed.
"He's still in there." Liz whispered.
Going in Kyle had a different plan; he wanted to see Lucius Malfoy. He closed his eyes and found himself in a dilapidated study. Sitting in a chair in front of a fireplace is a dark hooded figure. Malfoy sits in the chair next to the dark lord. "Master, my son will not want to join us."
"Your son?"
"Kyle."
"Kyle?"
"I didn't know until last night that he was here, born a squib. The aliens changed him."
"Well, you will just have to convince him."
"Yes, master." Lucius started to stand. "Master, I still do not trust them."
"Nor do I, when I get what I want I promise you they will be gone."
Kyle opened his eyes to see everyone's eyes were on him..
"Where did you go?" Max asked in his leader tone.
"I got lost and ended up in Lucius Malfoy." Draco looked at him with concern. "Voldermort is using Kavar for something. Once he gets it, he's going to kill Kavar and company."
"We still don't what they want from the three?" Remus asked.
Kyle and Isabel shook their heads no. "Snape told me that Rath is weak and we may be able to persuade him." Isabel informed them.
"Does anyone know where this house is?" Kyle asked.
"House?" Sirus asked.
"Yes, they are definitely in a house."
"The Riddle house," Amy whispered. "I know where it is." She spoke a bit louder. Everyone looked to her. "I never actually thought he'd go back there. He always told me he hated it."
"He's stupider than everyone thought." Michael commented.
"Or smarter," Liz added, "no one would expect to return to a place he loathes."
"So when do we saddle up?" Michael asked, receiving curious/confused looks from the kids. "Sorry muggle movie reference." Hermione smiled.
Dumbledore pulled out a map and laid it on the table they were all sitting around. The map unfolded itself to cover the entire table. Amy stood and looked it over.
"There," she said as she points to a spot outside a town a few miles from the Malfoy residence. "It's a large dilapidated house with a large stone basement. Which is probably where he is keeping them."
Dumbledore looked to Sirus, then to McGonigall. "I want you two to make your way there tonight and scout the area out. Tomorrow morning we will meet you all here before breakfast and we will make our plan."
"Why them?" Max asked. Before their eyes, McGonigall and Sirus transformed. "Oh," Max said as they changed back.
Everyone began to leave for dinner.
"Professor Dumbledore?" Isabel asked. "Can I talk to you about something?"
Dumbledore waited until everyone left. "Why don't we talk as we walk to the hall."
She nodded her head as he led her out the door. "With all the excitement I forgot to tell everyone that I tried out for the Quidditch team, I'm a chaser."
"Congratulations."
"Thank you, I want to know about the wizard who was my donor."
"Well, I may have something in my private library, and you can check the school library."
"What was her name?"
"Ah, how silly of me, Vanessa Willows."
"Vanessa," Isabel whispered to herself as she entered the great hall. She looked around and joined Kyle at the Slytherin table, "hey."
Kyle slid over. "Hey, you okay?"
"Yeah, but it's payback time for the other night." Kyle looked up in surprise. "The dream walking," she hissed.
"Oh."
"I need help with some research and you're it."
"Oh, okay."
"God, what did you think I meant?"
Kyle turned pink, "nothing." He then scooped some food into his mouth, so Isabel couldn't ask him anything else.
During the study time after dinner, Liz went to the library and stacked up on books about animangi. She is determined to figure out how they did it.
Meanwhile Hermione is in the common room opening a package she received at breakfast. Harry thought it looked about the size of a shoebox and wondered what is inside. Hermione untied the string holding it closed and opened it to reveal photographs, newspaper articles, and other papers. "A few summers ago my parents went to a Dental Convention in Roswell, New Mexico. My father described this girl with "perfect" teeth working at a diner. While there my parents' interest in the supernatural or paranormal started. For awhile they were obsessed with UFO's and alien."
Ron and Harry looked at each other, her and then glanced over to where Michael was playing exploding snap with the twins, who were trying to cheer him up.
"You're really serious aren't you?" Harry asked turning back to Hermione.
She nodded her head.
"Wait, you said the thing crashed in 1947, so how come Michael and the rest look like they're 20?" Ron asked.
"I don't know, yet." Hermione said.
Later close to 10pm, Sirus and McGonigall apparated to a mile from the house. They transformed and headed toward the house. As they came upon it, they both saw a hazy force field surrounding the house. McGonigall climbed into a nearby tree as Sirus pushed his right paw forward through the field. He felt nothing and continued all the way through. Once inside he looked up at the cat. She winked and then sat still. He continued toward the house as he neared the back door he heard voices. One was the boy who took Ginny and the other was Michael's with a funny accent.
"Why do I have to make the drop?" Michael's voice whined.
"Because we want you to switch with Michael and tell us by owl everything you hear and see."
"So I have to play spy wit' the wizards?"
"Yes."
"But then what are the bugs for?"
"You're the back up in case they discover the bugs." Sirus peered around the corner.
"Yo, you ain't gonna bug me too, are ya?"
The boy glared at Rath. "Do you want us to?"
"No, nah, I ain't into that. Plus I don't trust that magic crap."
"Speaking of crap." The boy smiled, "from what I hear looks like Mikey is taking classes. So I'd go get some basics from the long haired albino."
Rath groaned.
Sirus heard the door open and slam closed.
"Idiot." The boy muttered.
Again the door opened and slammed. Sirus sniffed around the house, he caught Maria's scent near a cracked window. He peered inside to see Maria sleeping next to Ginny. Snape was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly a loud scream pierced through the silence. Maria and Ginny jumped away. Sirus howled as Snape screamed again. He heard Maria whisper his name. He turned and ran. He met McGonigall outside the force field.
**Sorry about the wait, unfortunately the next chapter is going to take me a while. I have major writer's block, but just give me some time, and keep the praise coming. Nothing helps me more than a little encouragement. J**