Chapter 3

She glared at him and pouted. "I don't have a seat."

"Oh, that does seem to be a problem. Maybe you could sit on the floor." Tom smirked.

"I am not a dog, Tom." Ashley stated sweetly, Draco tensed up as the teens turned to looked at her fear. Everyone saw this and watched.

"Oh, well that is good to know. Well then maybe you could sit on the table." Tom lifted an eyebrow.

Ashley sighed as she took a step toward him, "I am also not an pet, Tom."

Tom pretended to think. "Well that is a good reason. Then where shall you sit? In someone's lap maybe?"

Ashley hummed as she took another step closer, "And who's lap, Tom? Almost everyone here is taken. I wouldn't want to upset anyone."

"Good point. Well I Believe Marcus isn't." Tom stated.

Ashley shook her head as she took another step, "Yes he is." Marcus looked at her. "Charlie was disowned yesterday." Marcus smiled softly and nodded to her as she took another step.

"Oh well then I think the only other not taken preson is me." Tom sighed. "I guess you will have to sit in my lap."

Ashley nodded, "It would seem so, Tom." She had reached his chair, moved his arm and sat down on his lap with her legs hanging over the right side of his chair. He wrapped an arm around her waist so she wouldn't fall. She smiled. "Better."

Tom laughed, "I am glad I could help."

Draco stared at them before he looked to Hermione, "Mya? I am wake, right?"

Hermione nodded slowly as she stared at then as well. Harry began to laugh, "Trix?"

"Yes, Harry." Ashley smiled.

"You are in Tom's lap." Harry pointed out.

Ashley acted shocked, "What?! I am! Oh dear!" She giggled as Harry laughed again.

"Who are you?" Draco asked.

"Oh Dray dear." Ashley pouted. "That is mean."

"No honest. You let Mya hit Molly, you don't attack Ron, you haven't yelled at Blaise yet and now you are... sitting... in Tom Riddle's Lap! Who are you?" Draco stood, "And where the hell have you been?"

Ashley rolled her eyes, "Sit!" He did to everyone's shock. "Now, I know that the last year I have been a little chaotic..." The teens stared at her, she sighed, "...okay a lot chaotic but let's face it. With all that we found out it is understandable. Now Draco, I apoloigised for attacking you but I told you not to follow me. I warned you, you didn't listen." Draco sighed and nodded, rubbing his chest in remembrance. "And as for Mya hitting Molly, she earned it. It took everything in me not to attack Ron but I am already in enough trouble with the Minister from attacking Lockhart without a good reason. although think them giving him back his memory is a damn good reason." Ashley sighed, the teens laughed. "Now as for Blaise, I can't yell at him without knowing what happened for you to get your wand taken and you not to be able to write me." Blaise shifted in his seat as Draco glared at him. "I will deal with that later. Now there were no chairs, I will not sit on the floor. I am not a pet, no matter how much Ron seems to think I am, so the table is not an option" Tom grip tightened, she smiled and rubbed his arm. "It is okay, Tom." He relaxed as she turned back Tom. "And as I pointed out, eveyone is taken. I wasn't going to sit in their laps. Besides, he is comfy."

Harry laughed, "How do you know he comfy?"

"Nagini told me." Ashley stated, the teens frose.

"Nagini. The Snake. Told you." Harry stated as he stood and glared at her. "Told YOU! A SNAKE! You are a Parseltongue! And didn't tell me! You knew that I could, everyone knows that I can but decided to not tell me that you could. You didn't think that I deserved to know that you could talk to snakes. What you are so high and Migh..."

"SILENCE!" Ashley shouted as her power lashed out and cut his cheek. Harry stopped talking and sat down, with his head down as she tried to calm down. "You dare talk to me that way?" She stood and walked ot him, as everyone frose to watch her. The kids looked ahead of them in fear, not looking at her or Harry. "You think that this is about you?" She grabbed his chair, turned it to her and lend over him, placing her hands on the arms of the chair so she was in face. "You think that you can demand things of me?" Her power lashed out and cut a corner off Draco's chair, he flinched but didn't move. "You think that I am to bow down and do as you tell me, Harry James Potter? Is that it?!"

Harry didn't lift his head, "No Mistress."

She watched him as she took deep breaths. Suddenly she saw his blood and gasped, she pushed away from him. "Oh! Fred!" Fred let go of Lucius' hand, jumped over the table and ran to her. He pulled her into his arms and dug his nails into her arms, she hiss but relaxed in his hold. After a moment she fell to her knees and Fred stepped to the side. "Potter, I..."

"It is okay, Mistress." Harry whispered. "It is small, I pushed to far. You have been stressed and I pushed you to far."

Ashley shook her head, "It is unexcusable. I should never hurt you. You should never fear me. I don't know what happened. I was fine and then it was red. Oh Harry..." She looked up at him, tears in her eyes. "I am truely sorry."

Harry lifted his head and smiled softly at her, "You would never hurt us on purpose, Mistress. We know this. Something set you off but it had nothing to do with me."

"Mistress?" Draco whispered.

"Yes Dear." Ashley answered.

"When was last time slept?" Draco asked, "Was it after or before we found the artifact?"

Ashley hummed, "Before." The teens nodded as Fred held out a hand for her. She stood and walked to Harry. She whispered something and the cut was gone. She kissed his cheek. He sighed. She turned to kissed Draco's. "Thank you Dear. You always know what I need."

"Your welcome Mistress." Draco smiled as Hermione smiled with pride.

Ashley let Fred walk her to Tom, where she sat. He waited until she was confortable before walking and sitting next to Lucius again. "Thank you Fred."

"I will always guard you Mistress." Fred smirked at her.

"I know." Ashley smiled at him before she rested her head on Tom's shoulder and rested.

The teens didn't talk or move until they hear her soft snore. They relaxed, Hermione got out of her chair and check Harry as Draco and Theo turned his chair back around. Fred put his head down on the table and growled softly. He growled at Hermione, "You have been with her all week. How did you not notice she hadn't slept?"

Hermione sighed and rubbed her face. "I spent most my time dodging Ron and his grabby hands." She ran her hands into her hair, gripped her hair and pulled. "What if hadn't been Harry? Or one of us at all? What if she hadn't stopped?" Hermione began to cry. "We have to find that last artifact and free her from this curse."

Draco pulled her into his arms, "Shh, Mya. It will be okay. We will find it, the hard part is keeping her sane while we look." Draco removed her hands from her hair and rocked her softly. "It will be okay. Just breath."

Theo pulled Harry to him, lifting his face to look at him, "Are you okay?"

"Yes, it really was small." Harry sighed, "It was as if the curse knew that she would flip if she hurt me to bad. I felt it pull itself back."

Theo smiled before kissing him, "Good, please try to not upset her again." Harry nodded and hugged him.

Blaise laid his head on the table, "Draco, thank you."

Draco looked to him in confusion, "For?"

"Not telling her what I did." Blaise answered. "We both know that it wouldn't have held back if it had been me instead of Harry. Not after what I did to her."

Hermione and Harry tensed as Fred growled at him, "You will never speak of that again."

Blaise held up his hands, "I know Fred, I know."

Draco sighed, "Don't thank me Blaise." He snapped, "The only reason I didn't say anything is because it is Tollers last day in the Manor and I promised to not make a big mess for him." Draco glared at his ex-best friend. "Blood is hard to get out the floor."

Blaise flinched but nodded. "I know, thanks anyways."

George sighed, "Blaise, I know you are sorry but she doesn't trust you yet. We don't either, maybe it is time for you to go."

Blaise nodded and stood, "My lord, I must leave. If you need me, call." Blaise was gone.

The teens sighed and relaxed as they sat back down. Tom looked to Fred, "What was that?"

Fred looked at him then down to Ashley. "After Ashley was born, her mother threw her out. Gave her to someone who used her for darkness. Cursed her. The only way to save her is to find these six artifacts form the spell and destroy them. We have found and destroyed five. We have been looking for the sixth but have had no luck. She was nearly insane when we found her. She has gotten a control on it with each artifact but sometimes, as you saw today, she loses control and becomes hostal. Sometimes it takes a while to get her back and many people get hurt but thankfully when Harry, Hermione and Luna are involved, it only takes her seeing them bleed for her to snap out of it."

"And the Mistress part?" Lucius asked softly.

Fred and the teens smiled, "She is our Mistress. She has saved each and everyone of us. From the world, the darkness, death or ourselves. She has saved us and brought us back from the darkness, we are hers and she protects us, teaches us and loves us." Hermione answered.

"Blaise?" Bellatrix asked.

The teens tensed as Draco glared at the table and tears fell. "He nearly killed her. She has given us ourselves back, each of us in our own way. Blaise was fighting Pansy, Pansy is trying to destroy Blaise and his family. Ashley told us that Pansy was lost and scared but one day Blaise had had enough he went to attack Pansy but Ashley moved her and took the hit. The cutting curse, right across the chest. He stared at her as she bleed on the ground. Pansy panicked and used fire to burn the wound shut but Blaise stood there. He whispered something about her betraying him, she lost control and accidently..." Draco paused as he shook. "... accidently kill Pansy's best friend before we could calm her down. Pansy forgave her but she hasn't forgiven herself or Blaise."

"The last artifact?" Fanrir asked.

"A black cauldron that had belong to Morgana." Harry sighed. "The one on display was a fake."

"The break in was you?!" Lucius asked and laughed as Fred and Draco looked anywhere but each other. "Nice work boys."

Fred smirked, "I don't know what you speak of but if I did I believe I would say, Thank you."

"Dray?" Harmione asked, he looked to her. "How did Blaise get you in trouble? Why did she take your wand? And why could you write anyone?"

Draco sighed. "Blaise has been drinking himself numb every night since the fight." The teens gasped. "Narcissa found his bottles and assumed that they were mine. I told her they weren't and she took my wand, locked me in my room, locked my owl away and magicked my windows. Said I wouldn't go anywhere until I told the truth and she wasn't going to let me write my friends to send me some. I told the truth and she just shut the door in my face, Mya. That is why I won't talk to her, Mya. She doesn't care what I say, she already has her opinions and I am a lier, a drunk and a cheat." Draco snapped, Hermione glared at Narcissa as Fred growled.

"Dray." Fred whispered, Draco looked at him. "You know we love you." Draco nodded, "Good, if she ever forces you that point again, You'll tell us, right?" Draco nodded.

"Before you jumped off one of the school towers?" George adds. Lucius, Bellatrix and Tom gasped and look at him as he looks down and nods.