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Shawn woke to the sounds of mumbled voices. His head ached and his eyes were unwilling to open.
"wn?" a muffled voice said.
"hawn?"Shawn tried to move his head away from the sound.
"Shawn!" The voice shouted.
Shawn almost jumped awake.
Shawn blinked in awareness and looked around the room. It was a simple rectangular shaped room with a metal door in the left top hand corner. A few blades were sharpening themselves in the corner. Juliet was staring at him in concern.
"you ok?" she asked. Shawn nodded, his hands slightly trembling. Shawn, Juliet, Lassiter and Gus were against the wall. Shawn assumed Gus had told Juliet about what happened and who Shawn was. It seemed Shawn had been unconscious long enough for all of her intermediate questions to be answered. Shawn struggled against the invisible ropes than tied him to the wall.
"Can you get us out of here?" Gus asked. Lassiter looked at him expectantly. Shawn took a deep breath and searched for his wand. He couldn't find it. It had been taken from his pocket.
"Don't think so. They've taken my wand." Shawn said admitting defeat.
"Great" Lassiter sighed sarcastically. "We're never going to get out of this one"
"We'll be fine Lassie" Shawn told him reassuringly hoping it would be true.
"How long have we been here?" Shawn asked.
"A few hours I think. You've been out of it a while" Gus replied. "What did they do to you? You were out way longer than the rest of us"
Shawn replied hesitantly. "I was struck by the cruciatus curse"
Gus gasped. "What! How long?"
"I don't know. It's impossible to judge. A few seconds can feel like forever".
"What's the cruciatus curse?" Juliet asked.
Shawn opened his mouth to reply but Gus beat him to it.
"It's the pain curse Juliet. That bloody bastard tortured him!" Gus spat out. Juliet's eyes opened wide and Lassiter's mouth opened wider.
"What! They?" Lassiter gasped.
Shawn nodded slowly, showing his still shaking hands.
"Oh my god!" Juliet whispered in horror.
"Don't worry" Shawn reassured her, "I can get a potion to heal my nerves once I'm out of here"
"If we get out of here" Gus corrected, Shawn gave him the look. "Sorry"
"I've been here before" Shawn said slowly, remembering.
"Where are we?" Gus asked looking around.
"We're in Dursleys house." Shawn whispered afraid. "Why did they bring us here?
"Where?" Lassiter asked.
"Harry's house" replied Shawn quietly. "It's abandoned now. The Dursleys escaped just before Harry died"
"I'm sorry" Juliet whispered back. In the corner of the room, blades were sharpening themselves in the corner. In the brief moment of silence, everyone's attention was drawn to the blades.
"That's freaky when they keep doing that" Juliet murmured. Shawn glanced at her before looking intently at the knives.
"I may be able to get them to stop" Shawn said to himself.
"Really? I thought you couldn't do any magic without a wand." Lassiter questioned.
"I can do a few things" Shawn replied.
He looked intently at the knives for a moment and whispered one word.
"Finite"
The knives dropped to the floor with a clang. Juliet grinned in relief and Lassiter nodded at Shawn to congratulate him. Gus just smiled.
"Can you do anything else to get help? Like conjure up a telephone?" Lassiter questioned, "The Chief has no idea where we are".
Shawn thought. Could he send a patronus?
"The Chief wouldn't be able to do anything. They would just get killed before they could find us. They won't be able to defend themselves against wizards or witches" Shawn replied.
"What about someone you know? From the wizarding world" Juliet questioned.
Shawn looked at her and nodded. "Ok, I'll try" he paused, trying to think of a happy memory. He pictured the opening feast of his final year. Everyone with huge smiling faces, tucking into delicious cake. Food scattered around their faces. Hermione not reading up the table for once. Harry, Fred and George by his side singing the Hoggy Hoggy Hogwarts song….
"Expecto Patronum" he said hoarsely. A whisp of white smoke appeared in front of them. It swirled around them in a captivating pattern before fizzling from view, never reaching the corporal patronus.
"Sorry guys" Shawn said sighing, breathing heavily. Defeated.
"No. Shawn don't give up. Try a different memory. You know what really makes you happy. Add that to the power of your spell. Use your…. Special mind to remember them all at the same time."
Shawn almost laughed. "Special huh? Right ok"
Juliet and Lassiter looked at each other in confusion.
Shawn furrowed his brow in concentration, picturing Lassiter face in the fore front of his mind. Smiling, he knew he could do this.
"Expecto Patronum!"
His patronus reached corporal in a matter of seconds. Standing before them, was a brilliant silver pineapple.
Shawn grinned in triumph. Lassiter and Juliet mouths dropped in astonishment. This pineapple had a face. Two beady eyes, a nose, mouth AND it was smiling. Gus burst out laughing!
"It's a pineapple" he laughed. The pineapple only smiled back.
"To George Weasley at the Burrow.
Message: Hey George. Maybe I should have listened to you….. Be my knight in shining armour? You'll find me locked in the same room as you found Harry in our second year. Why? I have no idea. Three muggles with me, don't want them obliviated. Only bring aurors you trust. Oh and, you may have accidently given me and the rest of the station your password so if your still there…..RUN!
The pineapple nodded, still smiling and bobbed out of sight.
"Your patronus…is a pineapple. The ANIMAL that most represents YOU is a PINEAPPLE!" Gus spluttered.
"It's a magic pineapple Gus. They taste the best!" Shawn grinned back.
Lassiter and Juliet laughed.
The laughs were cut short as the sound of foot steps came closer. It was then the leader walked in.
She walked into the centre of the room and placed her wand in her holster. Walking over to the blades, she picked them up of the floor.
"Was the sound annoying you Shawn? So much that you used accidental magic!" she laughed.
"Well…." She whispered, sliding the blade up and down each other. The horrible sound of the blades scratching against each other made them grimaced.
"I'm gonna be nice to you Shawn. I'll purge you of your evilness so you can go to heaven. I promised you a long time ago I would always be there for you Shawn." She said kneeling down in front of Shawn with the blade in her hands.
"I'll get rid of that mark of evil for you" she said determinedly. She released his left arm from behind his back and strapped it down with invisible ropes in front of him.
"Don't you think I hadn't tried before? It won't come off! Not until the Dark Lord is defeated!" Shawn protested.
"Only death eaters call him that!" she spat before noticeably sighing. "Don't worry Shawn. I'll get it off, make you clean again. You just weren't going deep enough" she said threatingly.
She began scraping the knife against his dark mark. Like a potato his skin was peeled and it fell to the floor in chunks.
Gus turned his head and threw up loudly. Juliet started sobbing and cried out for it to stop. Lassiter watched in horror and started crying as Shawn's screams got louder. Having to turn his head at the sight of Shawn's skin lying on the floor. And the amount of blood coming from his arm spreading….
"Stop! Oh god! Please stop!" Juliet screamed desperately, sobbing, looking away.
The leader went deeper and deeper. Cleaning up the blood oozing from the wound every so often and checking for the dark mark. It still remained.
Shawn looked at her, dazed.
"Don't worry Shawn. I know how to get it off" She reassured him, silently amazed he hadn't passed out by now. It didn't reassure him. Not one bit.
The leader took the knife and instead of scraping decided to cut off the actual arm. She dug the knife in just below the elbow and worked hard to cut through the bone.
Gus had fainted…. So had Juliet. Lassiter screamed at her through his tears. He only stopped when a gentle thud of Shawn's arm, fell to the floor. Then he froze in horror.
It wasn't until a few hours later when Gus and Juliet came to they were appalled. The amount of blood steadily grew and they were all restrained so closely together it was beginning to soak into their trousers. The room was filed with a sickly smell. A mixture of blood, Gus' vomit and rotting flesh.
"I can't believe she…..she….." Juliet sobbed.
"It will be ok" Lassiter reassured her and himself. "Shawn's always ok" he whispered, praying.
"Is he even alive?" Juliet sobbed.
Gus nodded slowly. "I can see him breathing"
Shawn groaned.
They all stared at his face. He was pale, his face was covered in cold sweat still but his face seemed to be moving… twitching.
"Is he coming too? Already? It's only been a few hours. He should be dead!" Lassiter fussed.
"He's not human, remember. He's a wizard. They heal faster than we do and have a higher tolerance to pain. Once he stapled his hand to a piece of paper and pulled it out like a thorn shrugging. When I told his dad later, he had healed himself" Gus told them looking intently into Shawn's face.
Juliet's eyes widened.
"But that doesn't mean he can regrow a whole bloody arm!" Lassiter shouted.
"No, it doesn't" Gus mumbled quietly.
Shaun groaned again.
"Shawn? Come on Shawn. You can do it. Come on….Shawn Shawn!" Lassiter urged.
"Hey Lassie" Shawn mumbled. Unhappy to be brought back to the pain of consciousness.
"You in pain?" Juliet asked.
Shawn managed to turn his head. "What do you think. I can see my arm on the floor". He grimaced as he tried to move. He was breathing heavily through the pain. Not knowing how much longer he could stay conscious. He knew he had to through, he was a fighter. He had to save them all.
"Oh Shawn! I'm so sorry! If I had never have come you wouldn't have had to save me! It's all my fault" Juliet cried.
"I'm the one who told you to come" Lassiter mumbled. "It's my fault"
"Hey, If t's anyone's fault it's mine. I'm the one who told you where Shawn was" Gus argued.
"Shut up" Shawn tried to shout but it came out as a normal tone. "This is my fault, I'm sorry I dragged you all in to this but…..she's coming back now"
The footsteps came closer.
"Shawnie! You're awake! How does it feel to be purged of the evilness?" she asked rhetorically.
"Who are you? Let me see the face of my rescuer" Shawn asked.
"Rescuer" she breathed heavily.
"Yes" Shawn gasped. "You saved me from the darkness and brought me back to the light. Show me, who you are"
Slowly the leader removed her mask.
She smiled at him, "It's me Shawnie!"
Shawn's face recoiled in shock. "GINNY!"
"I know it's a shock Shawnie but I did it for the best. Those death eaters killed Fred! They killed my brother. So I killed them back. See, I am fighting again you-know-who in my own way. Not even he has found me. I wear one of the death eaters masks, stolen of Lucius Malfoy. But now….." she paused tears in her eyes. "..We can be together at last. Now I have purged you of your evilness we can finally get married and live happily ever after"
"What?" Shawn asked gobsmacked.
"What sweetie?" she asked cradling his face with her hand.
"We had a moment, but it's over. I don't love you Ginny. I love someone else and have for a long time."
She let go of his face.
"You said we would be happy. You said I would get what I want" she told him forcefully.
"I didn't know what you wanted was me! How the hell was I supposed to know?"
"But….you….they said…." She spluttered.
"I never said I loved you" Shawn told her honestly
Her face turned to anger.
"You're still under You-know-who's command aren't you!" she pointed at him accusingly.
"It makes sense" she told herself, "You're just trying to protect me from him. You can stop sweetie. You know I can handle myself."
"Handle yourself? Is that what you call it? You've been killing people" Lassiter put in.
"Shut up you dirty little muggle or I'll shut it for you!" She snapped.
"How could you Ginny. You used to be such a nice girl. Now look at you" Shawn told her, panting slightly.
"Look at me?" She screeched. "I'm not the one who became a bloody death eater!"
"I'm not the one who had murdered people! You have to really mean the unforgivable Ginny. Really want to cause pain. You're sick!" Shawn spat.
Ginny's face reddened, "you murdered people too" she said solemnly.
"Your brothers are going to be so disappointed in you Ginny" Shawn sighed.
"They'll never know. I have the advantage here. Here we are in Harry's old house, alone. No one knows we are here. Those muggles can't do anything to me and I have your wand" She told me.
Right then the sound of furniture falling was heard. A glace plate shattered and the sound of heavy breathing and mumbled footsteps could be heard.
"You sure?" questioned Shawn.
Ginny drew her wand and used 'Alohomora' to open the heavy metal door.
"Shawn! Where are you" a voice shouted.
"We're in here!" Juliet yelled desperatley.
Ginny pointed her wand at Juliet and suddenly Juliet was rendered mute. She tried to scream at her but she just became red faced as she couldn't hear her voice. Lassiter tried to comfort her but as he couldn't move all he could do was murmur comforting words.
In the next few moments George entered the room with a small group of his friends including Lee Jordan and his girlfriendAngelina Johnson.
"Ginny?" George murmured in amazement.
Ginny turned on her brother and aimed her wand at him.
"Hello dear brother" She replied.
"What have you done?" He asked in amazement.
"I tried to cure him. But the dark mark was too strong" she replied not taking her eyes off him.
George looked at Shawn, he was barely conscious. Just watching.
"Dear merlin! You cut off his arm!" he shouted in disgust.
"It was the only thing I could do! The mark refused to come off! I needed to cure him, so we could be happy together. I tried to peel it off with the knife but it was to evil it remained"
George looked at Shawn once again before looking at his sister and raising his wand.
"I'm sorry Ginny" he murmured before shouting
"Stupefy"
Ginny managed to duck and strike back but it was three against one. Ginny stood no chance. She was quickly defeated and they knocked her unconscious and tied her with invisible roped to make sure she couldn't escape even if she came to.
Once Shawn had seen that Ginny had been taken out he allowed himself to faint. The stars that had been dancing in front of his eyes stopped as darkness washed over him.
"Finite" George commanded pointing his wand at Juliet, Lassiter and Gus in turn, freeing them from their invisible bonds.
"Can you help Shawn" Lassiter pleaded. "Please we need him to be ok! We….I…."
"He'll survive" George told him. "I'll take him to hospital"
But before he went he picked up the two daggers from beside him and a stone out from his pocket.
"erh…..Portus" he said as the daggers automatically cleaned themselves and both the rock and the daggers starting glowing. "These will take you to Santa Barbra. Don't inform the police of anything yet, just go home and get some sleep. I'll make sure Shawn gets home. Go to his apartment in the morning around 9:00. You can go to the station together"
Gus nodded and Juliet blinked back the tears in her eyes.
"You sure he'll be ok?" she asked
George nodded confidently. "He'll be fine. Take them" he said thrusting the two daggers in his hands at Gus and Juliet and the stone at Lassiter.
Gus, Juliet and Lassiter grabbed hold of the items and disappeared with a small pop.
George then grabbed hold of Shawn, picked up his arm with a small grimace. He concentrated and then side apparated Shawn to the emergency department at St Mungo's.
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