Disclaimer: I don't own anything except this story, and Julia, the rest belongs to J.K. Rowling

Something's wrong

The Weasley's were still sitting around the table and ate the rest of their breakfast.

They had all been a little take aback by Julia's sudden leave.

George hadn't been able to eat more after she had left, he had been too worried.

He had seen a glimpse in her eyes that looked like she was a little scared.

Something inside him tried to comfort him with the fact that Julia liked to be on time and didn't want people to wait for her, so maybe that was it, she had forgotten the time and was about to be late for something.

But George also felt something else inside him, he felt like something was wrong, terribly wrong.

"George dear, are you alright? You look a little pale" his mother said.

He looked up "Eerm, yeah mum, I'm fine" he said, "eer, I think I'm just going to see if everything's alright with, eerm, the shop" he got up from the table.

"I'll see you later" he said, he saw the surprised faces of his family before he disappeared with a Pop.

He appeared in the back of his shop a little after.

He wanted to make sure that Julia was okay, what she probably was, he would just check to be sure.

He turned around and walked through the door and into the shop.

As he walked towards the next door he looked outside the window.

He stopped up abruptly and had a horrified look on his face, "JULIA!" he screamed and ran out of the shop as fast as he could, a tear running down his cheek.

She disappeared from the Burrow with a Pop and reappeared in front of her own shop a second later.

"You're late!" an angry and impatient voice came from behind her and she quickly turned to see a man standing in front of her, arms crossed and his right food tabbing the ground impatiently.

"I know sir, I'm sorry, the time-" she said but was cut off by the man.

"Yes the time! You have wasted some of my valuable time and you are wasting more by talking!" ha said in an angry voice "I have to get back to the ministry, so, do you have it or not?"

"Yes sir, I do, one minute" she said and opened the door to her shop and ran inside.

She ran into the back of her shop and started to look through the shelves there.

"Veritaserum, where are you," she mumbled to herself "Veritase- Aha, there you where" she said and picked up a small bottle with a clear potion inside.

"Here you go Minister" she said as she handed the man the bottle.

He looked at it, "Good, you must be the only one we can trust to make this potion" he said looking at her.

She simply nodded her head thinking that that wasn't a very good thing to hear, because it would mean that he did not trust many of the potion makers that worked for him.

What have our world become? she thought to herself and sighed slightly.

"Well, I must be leaving," the man said "important things to get done" he stretched his hand and Julia shook it.

"Goodbye and thank you" he said as he walked out the door.

"You're welcome Minister" she said.

After he had left she went into the room in the back again and started to sort the potions she had on the shelves.

She heard the door to the shop open and footsteps walking over the floor.

"I'll be right there" she called as she put a potion labelled 'Love Potion' down on a table.

She walked into the shop, looking around, but no one was there.

That's odd, she thought Didn't I hear the door open? she looked around again.

I guess not, she thought as she walked over to the counter.

She picked up the empty vase that stood there thinking that she would put it out in the back.

She turned around and looked right into a pair of cold, steely grey eyes.

She gasped and dropped the vase on the floor, causing it to break into hundreds of little pieces.

"Wha-what are you do-doing here?" she asked terrified.

"What? No warm welcoming?" Lucius Malfoy's voice drawled, "the rumours that goes around says that you are such a kind person" his voice sounded with disgust.

"What do you want from me?" she asked bravely, taking a step away from him.

"Oh, not me," he said and smirked and took a step towards her "the Dark Lord," his smirk turned into an evil grin.

"What does Voldemort want from me?" she asked more bravely than before and felt stronger as she saw him flinch by the name of his master.

"Scared of you masters name?" she asked thinking to herself that she shouldn't have said that.

He took out his wand in a quick move and pointed it at her heart, "You can do this the easy way or" his voice had a deadly mad tone "the painful way"

She looked into his cold eyes that showed nothing but hatred.

"Had you been a death eater" he said lifting her cheek up with the end of his wand "you would have been perfect as my son's wife"

"You mean the son that is forced to do as your master tells him or he'll get killed?"

Sparks flew out of his wand and left burn wounds on Julia's cheek, and she saw anger boiling in his eyes.

"You little-" he said and slapped her hard, leaving a bright red mark on her other cheek.

She kept standing still, looking directly into his hate-filled eyes, afraid of what would happen to her, but she did not let it show.

"You must think very little of you life" he whispered in death anger, "follow me or feel the consequences"

"I would never follow you willingly" she said taking a step away from him again, slowly trying to pull out her wand without him noticing.

But too late, he had seen, "Expelliarmus" he yelled and her wand flew abruptly out of her hand and landed on the floor in the other end of the room.

"The consequences then" he smiled grimly, a mad glimpse in his eyes.

She took another step back, trying to come up with a plan.

"Or have you changed your mind?" he asked "do you wish to follow me to the Dark Lord, and help him?"

"Never!" she said in the strongest voice she could.

"Your choice" he said evilly and pointed his wand at her sending a spell at her.

It hit her right in the chest and she was brutally thrown backwards and out of the shop window.

She felt pieces of the broken glass cut into her skin all over her body, blood streaming down her cheek along with tears of pain.

She tried to move, but was unable too because of the pain.

"I will come back for you" Lucius Malfoy's voice drawled and he kicked her in the ribs.

A cry of pain escaped from her lips, and she could taste blood in her mouth.

She heard a Pop, and knew he was gone, but she was still unable to move, she felt more salty tears run down her cheeks and felt a stinging pain as the tears meet with the wounds on her cheek.

Things were going black before her eyes, "Julia!" the word were screamed but it sounded as a whisper.

Everything went black as her head tilted to the left, causing more pieces of glass to slice into her skin.