The Captive guests!
Teasing Greyback is such fun! Tough decisions to make. What will the captive guests do?
After they escaped from Malfoy Manor, Hermione led them to Grimmauld Place. The wards allowed them in and let the prisoners in as well. They took them down to the basement to the old cells.
Rowle and Scabior were tied to chairs in one cell. Right beside them, poor Greyback suffered a different fate. He was clapped into iron wrist bands and chained to the wall. Rowle woke up and looked around blearily. "Scabior? Where are you? Greyback, you here? C'mon! One of you answer me!" he growled.
"Bloody hell, what the fuck did we do last night!" groaned Scabior, his head pounding.
"Shut up, both of you, I'm trying to sleep over here." Greyback grumbled without opening his eyes. Just then, they heard the door open above them. The Snatcher and the Death Eater perked up at the sound of female voices. Greyback opened his eyes long enough to roll them and promptly closed them again.
"Oh, Ginny! He's so awesome, you gotta see him to believe it! Not that Rowle and Scabior aren't but Greyback, omg!" raved Hermione excitedly.
"All right, I have got to see this werewolf! I've never seen you this excited about anybody before, including my brother!" Ginny laughed.
"Oh, you think this is her excited, wait until she actually lays eyes on him!" Luna giggled.
Rowle and Scabior were dying laughing as they listened to the girls. Greyback knew he'd NEVER hear the end of it now!
"Greyback has a girlfriend, Greyback has a girlfriend!" they chanted in unison. Then they launched into an old nursery rhyme.
"Hermione and Greyback sittin' in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes love, then comes marriage
Then wee little Greyback in a baby carriage" the two sang as they teased the werewolf. If his arms had been loose, he'd definitely have been face palming.
Just then, there was a loud squeal. "FENNIE!" Hermione Granger raced over and unlatched his cell. She ran inside and THREW herself on the surprised werewolf! "Fennie, my Fennie! Ginny, look at him! This is my Fennie, isn't he gorgeous!" Ginny and Luna were laughing heartily at him. "We can go traveling around the world, Fennie! I'm scared of heights but I think I could see from the top of the Eiffel Tower if you were holding me! Have you ever been to China, we could walk on the Great Wall there! Oh, it's going to be so much fun, Fennie!"
By this time, Rowle and Scabior had almost laughed themselves to death. Ginny turned her attention to them. "So you said one of these two was a gift to me. Which one is Scabior?"
Luna, who had been dreamily staring at Rowle, pointed at the Snatcher. Both he and Rowle were now focused on Luna and Ginny. Ginny eyed Scabior interestedly as he returned the look.
Remus, Moody, Arthur Weasley and Kingsley Shacklebolt came down the steps, along with Harry and Ron. Ron and Moody both exploded with anger at the sight of both the cell door standing open and one Hermione Granger wrapped lovingly around the werewolf Greyback! The others were too busy laughing at the gobsmacked expression on the werewolf's face.
"Bloody hell, Granger! Get the hell out of there! I told you, you could visit the blighter, I didn't say you could set him free!" Moody snarled at her.
"I AM visiting with him! It wouldn't be a proper visit with me at the bars and him all the way over here at the wall!" Hermione glared defiantly at Moody, still hanging onto Greyback's shoulders.
"Hermione, sweetie, we're about to question them. No, no, don't look at me like that. You can't stay, you have to go back up with Harry and Ron. I promise you, sweetie, we won't hurt him but we need to question him and the other two. Possibly they might be allowed to go free, depending on their answers." Remus smiled as she pouted at having to leave Greyback.
She covered his face in kisses. "I'll be back, Fennie, ok? Maybe they'll be ready to release you." She reluctantly left the cell and went back up with Ginny and Luna.
Remus waited until she was out of sight, then looked at Greyback. "You know, if you insist on staying with Voldemort, you're going to break her heart. She was so proud when she got here with you. She just knew 'her Fenrir' would be ready to come over to our side. Same goes for you, Rowle. Luna is convinced you don't want to be a Death Eater and that you can convince young Scabior to cross sides, too."
"So, boys. What is your answer?" asked Arthur Weasley. He looked kindly at them.
They looked at each other silently. 'Were they ready to try and leave the Dark Lord's service?' Greyback looked at Remus, then Arthur. Neither of them showed anything other than interest in his answer. He thought about the young witch who was seemingly 'crazy about' him.
"IF I cross sides, no Azkaban, I'll disappear and you'll never see me again. Of course, if that little girl was serious about everything she just said, she'd be going with me. You'd never see her again, are you prepared for that, Remus?" he cocked a brow at the younger werewolf.
"Hermione knows her own mind. If she says that's her choice, then there's nothing we can do about it. She'll do what she wants to do. If that's disappearing with you, all we can do is wish her well and hope she talks you into bringing her back for visits." Remus spread his heads out. Fenrir slumped down as he silently thought about his choices. 'Stay chained up or change sides with the possibility of a pretty girl at the end.
Remus looked at Rowle and Scabior. "And you two. The same goes. You can stay here in these cells or change sides like Luna and Ginny are hoping you will. I'll keep the girls upstairs today. I'll come back down tomorrow to hear your answers." He turned back. "I will, however, let them come back down briefly to see you."
He went back up, followed by Arthur. Moody glared at them, then stomped back upstairs. A moment later, the girls ran back down. Once again, Hermione unlatched Greyback's cell and ran in, jumping into his lap and throwing her arms around his neck. Ginny and Luna were content to sit at the bars where Rowle and Scabior had their own chairs pushed against. Of course, none of the girls were armed. That was the only way that Moody would agree to let them visit the prisoners.
Soon Remus came back. "Come on, girls, visitation is over. They have a lot of thinking to do and decisions to make." Ginny and Luna groaned but bid Rowle and Scabior goodbye, promising to visit again the next day. Hermione cried and had to be almost pried off of Greyback. Ginny and Luna both promised her madly that they would personally make sure she got to come back the next day.
Again, Remus waited until she was out of sight. Then he fixed Greyback with a stern glare. "Remember what I said, Greyback. You don't change sides, you'll break that little girl's heart." He turned and left the prisoners with a lot of thinking to do and some tough decisions to make.