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A/N: I would like to take the time to thank Molly-Arthur Weasley, who has graciously offered to put up with me as my Beta. And Also I would like to apologize to my fans who may be reading, I am sorry for the lack of posting that has been apparrent. I work six out of seven days a week and I can barely even find time on my day off to type as I am cleaning. But I would also like to thank you for putting up with my randomness in posting. I am busting ass to be sure that this chapter gets up really soon. And one more thing...This chapter is dark, and it can be quite descriptive at some points. Not for the weak of heart!
Chapter Six: Tragedy Strikes
Jaina couldn't believe her ears when she heard the words out of Hermione's mouth. " He's alive? HE'S WHAT!" That was all she could muster to say at the time but her mind was racing. That no good son of a bitch! He got me pregnant to get brownie points with Voldemort? But he's a...No...That would account for the little magical outburst I've seen from him. GOD DAMN HIM! He was only playing with me for all these years...I'll get him...I swear to god I will. She thought. " Dad...Can you help Harry, Ron and Hermione finish packing up my stuff? I need to run a few errands I forgot about." She said, looking straight at the trio when she said this.
" Jaina NO!"
"Don't!"
"What about the twins!" Harry finally said in a strained whisper.
Jaina shook her head. Nothing was going to get in her way. She could find Jonas if she damned well pleased. And she would be sure that he got more than Hermione had given him at the time.
" Sure Jaina...When will you be back?" Answered Sirius
" Maybe before I apparate into Hogsmead Dad! And that'll be pretty late!" Jaina replied. " I gotta go! Love you!"
And with a last glance at the trio's terrified faces, Jaina apparated.
" WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS SHE THINKING!" Ron cried out. " She'll be killed if she goes up against that many people!"
Harry was horror-struck. Did she not care about her twins? What about George, Remus, and Sirius, all these people that cared for her, let alone loved her. " We have to wait...Might as well go help her pack, even though I don't know how she'll manage to come back."
Sirius stuck his head in the door. With a quick glance at the look on his three favorite gryffindor's faces, he was instantly worried. " How was Pompeii?"
Harry nodded. "Not too damn great and now Jaina's going to get herself bloody frigging raped or killed for all we know." Ron spat out.
" Jaina's gone to do something stupid then?" Sirius said, his face paling.
Jaina arrived in a manor set area, and instantly drew both her wands. She glanced around and noticed four people closing in on her precarious position. She smiled. This was going to be fun, for her at the least. " Come out, come out and play Jonas!" She yelled. With the grace of a prima donna and with the green glittering flame of malice shining in her black eyes, Jaina dueled the first man to step up to her. Hexes, curses and other enchantments were thrown her way, yet nothing touched her.
" Ferula!" the man called, finally tripping the young Black.
Jaina's eyes widened slightly, yet fear never once flickered across her eyes, the flame that mearly glittered before was now blazing, her dark orbs betraying her shock and disgust. She felt both her wands being wretched from her hands, and a dirty rag shoved into her mouth. Instantly she gagged at the rotten taste and kicked as four pairs of eyes looked down on her with a familiar look...A look she had only seen in Jonas once. All at once those hands began to rip the clothing from her body and began to defile her in the most inhuman way possible.
One of the men received a swift foot to his jaw and drew his wand. " Want to fight do you?" came the unmistakable voice of Lucius Malfoy. He smiled sadistically and drew his wand. " I'll give you a struggle...Crucio!"
Jaina tried to hold as still as she could under the sadistic wizard's curse. No..." Still fighting are you? Crabbe, Goyle, Avery? Care to help me?"
The responses were far from Jaina's liking as she felt three more wands inflict the Cruciatus curse upon her. I will... She thought, but even to her, her thoughts didn't hold the conviction they had as sure. Not... She felt a slight tearing sensation in her abdomen. That quickly took her full attention. SCREAM!
Ron looked at the deathly pale Sirius and instantly regretted his little out burst. " Sirius I'm sorry...She's gone to fight without taking anyone with her...The dumb little chit" he whispered
Harry and Hermione both threw him a mean glance at those words. " She's pregnant and hurt Ron...How could you not expect her to not want to do something...She just found out that the man she thought she knew has been toying with her for years on end. She really doesn't care at the moment...She just wants something done." Hermione said.
" Where could have she gone though?" Sirius said in a strained whisper.
" We don't know...But I assure you Sirius...We'll find her if she turns up anywhere." Harry replied.
Sirius could only nod numbly. " We should start packing the rest of her things." Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed him out of the kitchen and sighed heavily.
Jaina writhed in pain, she knew what was happening and had no way to prevent it. If only she had her wand, she could do it. She choked on her breath, trying desperately not to let them hear her scream. She tried to focus on helping her little ones hold on, to numb them from the pain they were all experiencing. Not even out of my womb and they know how harsh the world can be...She thought. Every tear in the uterine wall was like a stab from a dagger, piercing deeper and deeper each time it was thrust into her. She could feel one of them breaking away, losing their hold and slipping away from her. Jaina could feel a piece of her soul going with the poor unborn child. Goddess, if you can hear me...Make this stop...I beg of you...They're dying, I don't want to lose them... she thought desperately. Jaina opened her eyes, feeling an unknown emptiness as the second life she was carrying slipped away. Above her she saw her, the vibrant sun goddess. She was almost pleasurable to look at, even in her state.
The Goddess smiled sympathetically down at Jaina. Her golden tendrils swept over her shoulders as she knelt beside the fallen wicca. Her warm honey eyes took in the battered woman and her eyes closed for a brief moment and a solitary tear fell from her Olympian like visage. Her golden dress never once was dirtied as she sat beside Jaina and gently took the woman into her arms. " My child...I am terribly sorry for the pain and grief you have just endured. My pain is your pain, child and all will be well in time. As for you children I am sorry...No words can match the grief you will feel...But they will be with me. And in a short while I shall allow you one visit, but there is more that must be done before then. But sleep my child...Sleep and allow your mother to heal you..."
Jaina complied, the last thing leaving her vision was her two children being held in the arms of the goddess who had comforted her. Her hands dug into the soil beneath her and all was black.
" Ha! The dumb ass bitch was preggers!" Avery shouted almost gleefully. He raised his wand again, and was stunned from behind.
Lucius, Crabbe, and Goyle all turned and saw a very pissed off Jonas coming their way. " So, going to stick up for your little bitch after all eh?" Lucius cat- called.
Jonas threw down his wand and threw a mean right hook at Lucius, knocking the man to the ground. " I told you...Lucius I told you if she were to come looking for me to let me know and I would have disposed of her myself."
Lucius laughed at this. " No you wouldn't have, you knew she was pregnant...Didn't you?"
Jonas' eyes widened in shock and he looked down at Jaina. Surely enough, there was a great deal of blood and what looked to be raw hamburger at first sight between her legs. Without a second thought, Jonas' wand shot into his hand and Jonas fired off spell after spell at the three Death eaters. He quickly scooped Jaina into his arms. " Jaina, I'm so sorry...I should have never betrayed you...but Lucius threatened to kill you without a second thought if I didn't do what I've done. I do love you...Don't get me wrong...I've always loved you Jaina Demetir Black...If you can find it in you to forgive me...I'll die a happy man..." Jonas whispered against her ear. He felt Jaina stir in his arms.
" Jonas..." Jaina looked up at him. She felt a terrible heartache when she looked at him. They all had misjudged him so badly. He was doing this because he had been trying to protect her. " Kiss me..."
Jonas obliged her, and cast a portkey spell on the pentacle she wore at all times. " Go Jaina...please..." Jonas heard the groans coming from Lucius.
" Not without you." Jaina saw a bit of movement behind him.
Jonas kissed her again, grabbing her hand and closing it around her amulet. " Go..."
The last thing Jaina saw as she was swept away was Lucius casting the killing curse on Jonas and she watched him fall to the ground...
Dead.
Jaina hit hard tile as she arrived in St. Mungo's. She tried to get to her feet, but pain surrounded her in a tight knit circle. Medi-witches and wizards came to her and she tried to throw them all off, grief consuming her and the tears began to flow freely down her face. " Jonas! GOD DAMN YOU JONAS!" she cried out to no one. Her heart felt wretched in three or four ways, and collapsed. Mournful sobs racked her body and she felt a blanket draped over her shoulders. " Contact George Weasley and Sirius Black..."She said. And her world became black once again. Here it was nice. She felt no pain, but yet oddly enough, she felt detatched away from the earth. She saw a beckoning light far off. What she saw was a sight heartbreaking enough that she wished at that moment she would die.
As Jaina entered the light, she saw two beautiful little children,a little girl with onyx eyes and curly brown hair could rival her fathers and a boy, red headed and blue eyed as his grandmother had been. They both looked at her and smiled brightly. " Momma!" they cried out, running to her.
Jaina felt her heart wretch again, harder this time. Here they were, it wasn't some horrific nightmare. She fell hard to her knees, and caught them in her arms. " Arithe...Mikhail...Oh my darlings I'm so sorry..." she whimpered. She clutched her children to her, crying feeling her heart wretch this way and that.
" We don't blame you Momma..." Arithe, the beautiful little clone of Jaina, said, cupping her mothers cheek in her hand.
" We couldn't...We weren't meant to be with you...But we will always love you Momma...And we'll wait for you..." Mikhail finished.
Jaina cried ever harder at this. She felt a hand rest on her shoulder from behind her. " Jonas..." She turned her head and the twins backed away from her. Jaina complied as Jonas pulled her gently to her feet. " Jonas I..."
" Not a word...Just listen...There's not much time left. Arith, Mikhail, go find Lily and James...I wanted to let you know that I love you...I will always love you...But there will be a time that you will need to let go and choose to love another. Promise me that you will do this Jaina."
" Jonas...You can't make me promise that!" she said, nearly exasperatedly. One gaze from Jonas told her he was dead serious about this promise. She sighed and looked down, feeling slightly defeated. " I promise Jonas...But I will not have children."
Jonas sighed and shook his head. " You'll regret saying that one day, let me assure you. We will meet again, that I can promise you..." Jonas replied. He leaned in and brushed a feather light kiss on her lips. " You need to go...They're waiting for you..." Jonas replied.
Jaina looked back to the twins, who were running back to say goodbye to their mother, and then to Jonas.
" I will take care of them. Contrary to your beliefs...I do know how to take care of children." Jonas replied. He took a step aside and allowed Jaina to see the twins one last time while she was still among the living. " Take care you..." His fingers traced her cheek, and wiped away the tears there.
" I will Jonas...Goodbye..." Jaina said. And again, she fell into darkness.
Sirius and George were right there when Jaina's eyes fluttered open, and both quickly launched into interrogating her on the spot.
" Are you alright...I mean, who did this to you?" George cried out, nearly hysterical.
" What the hell were you thinking! Going off on you're own like that! You could have died!" Sirius said sternly.
" George...I'll need to retieve my..." George placed her wands in her lap. " Quite being a step in front of me dammit!"
George couldn't help but to chuckle. " I can't do that Jaina...Sirius...We should let her be..." George finally took a step out of the room, and Sirius followed.
" I expect an owl about this...The healers said you could go to Hogwarts tonight like planned, but they said you need to have weekly checkups with Poppy..." Sirius replied. He hugged his daughter and kissed her forehead. " Behave...And If you need to talk to someone...You should talk to Molly about it..."
Jaina nodded and pulled the curtains around her closed. George had brought clothing for her with him. She loved how thoughtful he could honestly be. She smiled at this, maybe Jonas was right...She could move on. She would just have to do it in very little baby steps. She snorted at that thought. This is going to be interesting to see unfold. She thought bemusedly. As she buttoned her jeans and let her hand lay on her abdomen. Not even twleve hours ago...She sighed heavily. It was going to be hard, yes. But then again, she thought, why would be alive if life was supposed to be easy?
A/N: Now...I've have noticed a multitude of hits for my story...and I have only four reviews...I've reached a decision on this as well. And that decision is:
I will not post the newest chapter unless I recieve 10 reviews per chapter from now on.
I've been losing faith in my writing, and I tend to like getting the input of others for a sotry like this one. My beta is wonderful for this yes, but I would greatly aprreciate it if my goodness or my suckiness is voiced. I would like to know that there are others out there who like reading my story, not just a select few... Please, I've never been really appraised for my work and this is really my only good achievement besides completeing my other fic ' I will'. It's like gaining house points...And at this rate, I'm in last place fighting to get to first...
Now with that out of the way, I'll get back to work on the other chapters I've been typing.
