Chapter 24

Sherlock Potter Rises Again

I had to lean against the door to keep from collapsing in shock. There was blood everywhere.

Draco's blood.

"H-He's n-not h-here." I stammered, knowing I went chalk white.

"Where is he, then?" Blake asked me.

I was almost sobbing. "They h-have him!" I shouted, bursting into tears.

"Oh, no." Blake got on his knees, wrapping his arms around me. "Blaise, Goyle, get McGonagall. Harry, you get something to steady her nerves." Blake instructed, setting me on my bed.

Harry instantly went to make some hot chocolate as Blake wrapped a blanket around my shoulders.

Harry came back and handed me a mug as Blaise and Goyle came back with McGonagall.

"You say that Mr. Malfoy has been abducted?" McGonagall asked me.

I nodded shakily, swallowing some of the hot chocolate as Harry wrapped an arm around me.

"The bathroom's covered in blood, she's a little traumatized." Harry told the Headmistress, rubbing circles on my lower back and calming me down…at least a little.

McGonagall nodded and set to work investigating as the door burst open and in came a crying Mel.

"YOU!" she screamed, lunging at me and hitting me with as much force that was in her tiny first year body. "YOU GOT MY BROTHER ABDUCTED YOU LITTLE WHORE!"

Blaise grabbed Mel and held her back as I burst into tears again. Mel was right. Draco would still be in the dorm if it wasn't for me.

"Mel!" Harry growled. "Hannah's been upset enough without you putting blame on her!"

Mel glared at me. "I'm telling Mummy on you!" she snapped.

"No need." Narcissa said through the door.

I paled. Now Narcissa was going to blame me for getting her son kidnapped.

Goyle opened the door and in came Narcissa. I tensed, waiting for her to start shouting at me for getting her son kidnapped.

Instead she was crying like I was.

Harry wrapped his arm tighter around me. "Narcissa, I know you're upset, but Hannah's been traumatized and -"

Narcissa shoved Harry aside and wrapped her arms around me. "I know she's been traumatized!" she told Harry. "I'm just as traumatized and very disappointed that my daughter would blame Hannah for what happened to Draco!"

Mel leaned against the wall, huffing, but still crying.

I leaned against Narcissa, still shaken up and crying. The fact that Narcissa didn't blame me was a huge weight off my shoulders.

However, I couldn't be easy knowing that Draco was Skinner knew where going through Skinner knew what.

"I don't blame you, dear." Narcissa told me, smoothing my hair. "And I'm certain Melody Anne doesn't, either." she added, shouting to her daughter.

Mel grumbled. "Sure, yeah, right. Mummy, it's not like Draco was protecting her from whoever went after him!"

"Melody!" Narcissa hissed. "She didn't set the Death Eaters on him either."

"Mrs Malfoy, Ms Malfoy, please." McGonagall broke up the argument. "Ms Potter's obviously shaken up about recent events. Could you please take your argument outside?"

"Yes, Professor." Mel muttered, leaving the room.

Narcissa stood up and kissed my forehead before leaving after Melody.

McGonagall left after Narcissa to control the small shouting match going on in the common room.

That's when I stood up to investigate the "crime scene."

I inhaled deeply, closing my eyes to keep myself from paying too much attention to the blood…the blood…

"Wait a minute…" I got on my knees and found the stains making intricate patterns in the floor. I took some of the blood in my fingers and smelt it.

"This isn't blood!" I said aloud before doing what almost made Harry vomit.

I licked what was on my fingers.

"Relax, dumbass." I said, wiping my hands. "It's tomato sauce." I sighed in relief. "These Death Eaters wanted to give me a heart attack." I muttered before looking at the intricate patterns the sauce made on the floor.

"Wait a minute." I grabbed my broom and mounted it.

"Han, what are you doing!?" Harry shouted.

I hovered over the bathroom floor and gasped.

Whoever kidnapped Draco had written a clue in tomato sauce on the bathroom floor!

Sherlock Potter, here's your first clue

You're lover is waiting for you.

Find the note waiting on the largest mantle

Your first hint is he's waiting in a castle.

"The largest mantle?" I asked, dismounting and dusting myself off. "He's waiting in a castle? This is a castle! Obviously they wouldn't hide him in this castle…the largest mantle is somewhere…in the Headmistress's study!" I shouted, getting up and running from the dorm, to the corridors and up to the tower where McGonagall's study was.

"May I go in?" I asked the stone gargoyle.

"Go right ahead, Ms Potter." the gargoyle moved and I ran up the stairs to wrench open the door, looking frantically around for the note on the fireplace mantle for a sheet of parchment.

There was nothing there.

"Skinner, Fanelli and Faksa!" I shouted, banging on the desk and finding a quarter note fall off the mantle.

I whipped around and picked it up. A quarter note…that was the note!

I found it opened and I opened it to find silvery shining writing inside.

Brilliant, Sherlock, you've found the first clue, well done.

But your war isn't over, the battle's not won.

What's written this note isn't at all ink.

It's more morbid and sickening then you'd ever thing.

What came of this note is a horrible crime.

Hurry Harley Quinn, Draco's waiting on a dime.

"It's not ink…" I thought to myself, starting to pace and run my hand through my hair, touching the note, smearing the word dime.

Instantly I felt the substance…it was warm…almost as if it came from something living.

"Wait…" it brought me back to that night in first year when Draco got us both in detention with Ivy, Harry, Ron and Hermione. What had we done in that night?

Flashback

Hagrid held up a leaf after Filch left, showing us a metallic silvery substance.

"Unicorn blood. Something's been hurting them. Found one dead last week. So we're going to find this one. May have to put the poor beast out of its misery."

Hagrid split us up, Ivy, Ron and Hermione with him, Draco and Harry with me and Fang.

"Wait until my father hears about this!" Draco groaned.

"I know, this is servants' stuff!" I added.

"If I didn't know better, you two, I'd say you were scared." Harry smirked.

"Scared, Potter, please!" Draco scoffed. "I'm just…protecting Hannah from the dangers of the Forest!"

I blushed. "My hero." I mumbled.

There was a snap to my left. Draco and I screamed and I fell against Draco's chest.

"Did you hear that?" Draco and I said together as I looked behind Draco's shoulder for the source of the sound.

Harry scoffed. "Slytherins."

"I'm scared!" I whispered.

"I'm not." Draco said as I backed away from him, he drew himself straight.

"Really, Draco, then why were you screaming like a girl?" Harry asked.

"I wasn't screaming! I was…cheering from the thrill…yeah, that's it. I like the thrill!" Draco snapped defensively.

"Or, you were screaming like a girl." Harry laughed. "If I didn't know better, you screamed higher than Hannah."

"SHUT UP, POTTER!" Draco yelled. "Now let's find this unicorn and get the hell out of…"

Harry, Draco and I suddenly gasped.

We found the unicorn…and it was dead.

Someone came up and started drinking from the neck wound as I made a noise of disgust deep in my throat.

The cloaked figure looked up and my scar burned, just like Harry's.

Draco screamed like a little girl and started running, but came back and I felt him grab my hand.

"COME ON!" he screamed before we booked it.

"Thanks for saving my butt back there." I said shortly before Draco tried to kiss me.

"Anytime, I'd want to get you out of there." Draco looked shaken up.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It's a terrible crime to kill a unicorn from what my Mother told me." Draco explained. "And if you drink a unicorn's blood, it can save your life even if you're an inch from death, but you only live a half life…a cursed life."

That's when it hit me. This note was written in unicorn blood! So that had to have meant…

"The next note's in the Forbidden Forest!" I shouted, shooting up and grabbing my cloak, running out onto the grounds and into the Forest.

I checked mine and Draco's clearing first to check for something, but I saw nothing but a splatter of unicorn blood, leading deep into the Forest, the same path that Draco and I took before Draco tried to kiss me on the only stump in that clearing.

I followed the trail, deeper and deeper into the Forest and foliage I went, almost afraid I was going to get lost and fall victim to whatever creatures wanted to have me for dinner that night.

I followed the splatter until it stopped abruptly at the same clearing the first unicorn I ever saw laid.

It was a skeleton then, bones still in the same position where it fell for the last time. I touched the ribcage of the skeleton and found ridges engraved into the bones.

I looked deep into the bones and found them engraved with writing.

Very smart Potter, with no clue provided

You got this far, your fate now decided.

Your final clue will tell you where your love waits in a bed.

You'll find his location in the Mirror of Erised.

I cocked an eyebrow. "The Mirror of Erised!" I groaned. "Dumbledore moved it somewhere! Great…" I almost started crying again. "I'll never find him!"

Then it hit me. Harry had told me what had happened in first year when he got the Philosopher's Stone!

He had gone into the final chamber and found Professor Quirell waiting for him, with the Mirror of Erised.

Harry had been told by the spirit thingy of Voldemort that was in the back of Quirell's head to look into the mirror.

Harry had seen him with the Philosopher's Stone in his pocket and it fell into his pocket!

But that's besides the point. The point was…the Mirror of Erised…the only thing that had the faintest inkling of where Draco could be…was in the third floor corridor on the right hand side, under the trapdoor that was originally guarded by Fluffy the three headed dog!

I shot up and started to make my way back to the castle, casting the Point Me Charm every so often so I didn't get lost.

I panted when I got back into the Entrance Hall, running up the stairs to the third floor corridor, every part of my body on fire as I ran.

"Lookie, lookie, little Potty out of bed." Peeves cackled. "Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty."

"Buzz off, Peeves!" I snarled, igniting a fireball. "I'm on a mission."

Peeves cackled and backed away, making to shout for Filch.

"I advise that you don't." I said, shooting up with some air, floating at his level. "I will call an exorcist. I think I'd be doing Filch a favour."

Peeves instantly backed off and floated away. "Yes, your Necromancer-ness, Miss Potter, ma'am."

I smirked and let myself drop, going into the side door that Harry had led me through seven years before that night.

Fluffy was long gone and the trapdoor was ajar.

I smirked "All too easy." I said before I jumped down the trapdoor.

I used my Air affinity to hover for a moment after I free fell for a bit, landing gracefully on the ground as I grabbed my wand.

"Lumos Maxima!" I hissed, igniting my wand tip and running from the first chamber that once had Professor Sprout's booby-trap of Venomous Tentacula and into the chamber that had Professor Flitwick's trap of keys.

The key that had opened the door previously had stayed in it's bird form, obviously dead. I took it and unlocked the door, tucking the key into my pocket as I ran into what was once McGonagall's giant chess board.

I ran across the board, past the still pawns and into what used to be Professor Snape's hall of flames and potions. When I stepped into the room, the fire that erupted when Harry, Hermione and I entered last never appeared. The enchantment had died along with Snape.

I ran through the room and threw open the door and gasped.

There stood the Mirror of Erised, and laying across my feet was a human skeleton that wore a familiar tunic.

It was Quirell's skeleton.

I stepped over it with a lurch in my stomach as I walked towards the mirror, Quirell's tunic at my feet.

I looked deep in the mirror, finding an image of myself winking at myself before jumping into Draco's arms, embracing him fully as I saw a familiar background.

It looked like a lake. A lake with something jumping from it, diving in.

I looked past mine and Draco's intertwined figures, which were shedding clothes quicker than I could imaging and focused on the creature leaping.

It was dark green, scaly and made what sounded like whale's song.

"The Loch Ness Monster." I whispered before I paled.

"Draco's in Scotland!?"

The image of me nodded, clothes miraculously on as she pointed to the castle on the bay.

"He's in there." she told me. "You'll find him there. He'll be safe."

Suddenly the image disappeared and I saw blood oozing down the mirror to spell out three words:

Bring the Tome.

I whipped around and started to run back to the dorm to pack things up for a trip to Scotland.

I burst through the common room door and ran up to my dorm, grabbing my Invisibility Cloak and running back down when Harry stopped me.

"Where do you think you're going?" Harry asked me.

"I'm going to get Draco." I told him, starting towards the door.

"No!" Harry snapped. "You're not going God knows where on your own."

"Harry, that's my fiance we're talking about here." I growled. "I'm going, and you're not gonna stop me."

"Yes I am." Harry dragged me up to my dorm and threw me in. "And don't even try to run out, or so help me I'll spank you."

I paled. "You wouldn't dare!" I shouted.

"Hannah, this is your safety we're considering here." Harry said. "And I'm pretty sure Narcissa agrees with me."

"He has a point, dear." Narcissa said, making me jolt at her sudden appearance. "It's bad enough Draco was kidnapped, he'll never forgive himself if something happened to you trying to save him."

"We'll get him in the morning." Harry promised before closing the door and locking it. "Go to sleep!"

When I heard Harry leave with Narcissa, I instantly started pacing. I couldn't sleep knowing that Draco was in Scotland going through Skinner knew what. I had to save him!

Instantly, I cast a silencing Charm around my dorm and grabbed my backpack, throwing things into it.

"Snacks…" I mumbled. "Invisibility Cloak, backup cloak…wand…more snacks Alejandro Hermione's blanket, pillows. And the Tome." I zipped my backpack and looked around my dorm.

I couldn't wait, I opened the window and looked down at the tower's base.

I had no other option…I had to climb down.

I slung one of my legs over the sill and slung over the other before sinking down to grab a vine.

"One step at a time…" I muttered, starting to climb down nervously, holding onto a vine in case I lost my footing.

I held my breath and listened to the frantic beating of my heart as I went down, finally releasing my breath when I felt my feet hit the ground.

I looked to Hogsmeade and realized I couldn't Disapparate where other people were in case someone alerted my brother and Narcissa I was gone.

So, I looked to the mountains.

"Perfect." I muttered, wrapping my Invisibility Cloak around myself and running into the night, through the village and up to the mountains' peak.

I looked back to the castle with a smirk, knowing that the next time I was going to be there, I'd have Draco back with me.

Grabbing my wand, I spun on my heel, muttering a hasty farewell to Hogwarts before I Disapparated.