Chapter 8 Meeting Mr. Wright

Severus stood in line between Nott and who he thought was Avery. But now standing there he saw Avery over in a corner whispering with Goyle. This wasn't good, the 'Avery' beside him hadn't spoken the whole trip, nor had he corrected him, when he addressed him wrong he had never taken the Death Eater mask off his face. The more secrets the Death eaters had the harder his job became, and now standing in a line preparing to defend themselves to the dark Lord for having failed, well his job just couldn't be any harder.

A door opened and in glided the snake like man, traling behind him, his pet cobra. Snape raised walls and pushed memories to the forefront of his mind as subtly as Slytherin himself.

"Tell me, who failed me?" The Dark Lord demanded as he sat himself on a plateform above them.

Just as Snape knew he would, Nott spoke up. "It was him, My Lord. He had the stone and lost it to those Weasley blood traitors."

"Ah my newest Death Eater, and I had such high hopes for you. A shame you let me down on your first mission. Tell me, boy, how did you fail so miserably." Voldermort stood from the throne and stepped off the plateform crossing the room to stand in front of the black clad man. Snape saw Voldermorts eyes concentrate fully on the man and he knew that Voldermort was looking into the mans head to see just how he had lost the stone.

Voldermort drew himself out of the Death Eaters mind and gripped the injured arm with a harsh pressure. "You failed me, to a slip of a girl! You lost to this young Dumbledore! I could kill you, if I didn't have a better use for you!" he screamed still holding onto the injured arm in a vice grip. The Death Eater was brought to his knees with the pain of it all.

"Forgive me, My Lord. I underestimated her strength. I will do what ever you want me to do to correct my mistakes." With that he bent to one knee and kissed the hem of Voldermorts robe.

"I do wish the rest of you would pat attention to this one, he gets it." Voldermort smiled liplessly, then began again. "All but these four leave." Voldermort commanded. Soon the room was empty except for the four, Voldermort, and his cobra. "You did hit the girl pretty hard with the cruciatus..." The Dark Lord murmered to himself. "I think I shall send a gift her way, make the healing process a bit more... interesting."

"I want an insider!" His voise dropped to a frighting hiss. "I want to know more about this girl. Before she was only 'Miss Hannah' the newest member of Hogwarts staff, and now what do we find?" He asked looking pointedly at Snape. "She's a Dumbledore!" He then turned back to new member and hissed "Your to be my new insider, you will join the staff of Hogwarts, is that understood?".

"Yes, My Lord."

"Good and don't disappoint me. " Voldermort then looked back to his damaged arm and sneered "Go get yourself fixed up."

With that the Death Eater disappeared with a 'pop' leaving Severus and the two other to wait for instructions.

"Now for you bunch of failures. Crucio!"

Carina cringed in her bed, the cold weather was screwing with her healing, and her joints felt like she had jammed every single one of them. Her muscles began to quiver and unable to control it, her whole body began to shake and jump. What was worse was that every move and shift of her body brought on new waves of pain, one after another.

"Ahhh... Madam Pomfrey!" she called in desperation.

"Coming deary!" The Madam called back, and was by her side in half a second. "Oh dear, oh dear." she said shaking her head and waving her wand over Carina's shaking form.

"Whats wrong with me?" Carina pleaded looking up at the Madam with her big blue eyes.

"Your body is responding to the dramatic change in the weather, it seems that dementors are surrounding the school. I believe they were sent by... You-Know-Who just to slow your healing." She waved her hand over the entire bed and Carina's convulsions finally stopped. "A heating charm over your bed will block out any attempt he can take at you with the weather." Madam Pomfrey smiled and returned to her office.

Carina sat on her bed thinking, now that she had seen Severus it made it all that much harder being away from him. She remembered her dad telling her how two strong Legilimens could connect their mind in a link to communicate with each other, maybe if she really stretched her mind out for his she could at least make some kind of a contact with him. So she closed her eyes and focused on his.

She was smart enough to know that it wouldn't be as easy as just thinking of him, in fact he needed to have his mind focused on her. So for hours she sat in her bed casting her mind out to him just waiting for him to think of her.

Finally she felt a presence in the void of the space her mind was searching, so she focused in and saw that his thoughts were concerns for her health, she smiled and sent him a message to his mind. "Severus? Are you okay?"

"Carina!? Where are you!?"

"In the hospital wing! Are you okay?"

"I'll be find, quick listen to me, the Death Eater that you hit is coming to Hogwarts as a spy. You need to be weary of any new staff member, stay as far away from them as you can, do you understand?"

"Yes.You don't sound so good, are you sure your alright."

"I'm... I'm...fin..."

"Severus! Severus!" But she could already feel the link severed. She put her head in her hands and forced herself to breathe and calm down. He sounded more tired then anything. He probably was just going to sleep and she had interurpted. He didn't sound like he was too pained, not anymore then usual. "AHH!" she cried and threw her head back on her pillow. It was then that she discovered her forehead and neck was covered in sweat, she must have been over focused, especially since she didn't notice.

"Are you alright?" a voice croaked for the bed next to hers.

Carina spun fast and saw a person laying in the cot next to hers, then her eye swept around the room and she saw another person in a bed on down the row. "I'm fine. I didn't realize I wasn't alone anymore."

"Yeah... you were pretty engrossed in thinking when we came in." He shifted and grunted in pain then looked back to her. "So what brings you here?"

"Just a nasty curse, you?" she asked as she took in his face and what she could see of his upper body. He had a strong structure to his jaw and a long thin nose and his brow were very dignified. His long dark brown hair was wavy and matched his dark brown eyes.

He raised one of his eye brows and with a smirk said "It was nothing, just encountered ten dementors and was fending them off when that lump over there got in my way..."

"Oh please, with that busted arm of yours, you should be kissing my boots in gratitude." said the patient whom they had thought was asleep.

"My arms isn't near as busted as yours, sir." The brown eyed man threw back.

"Sure, but you still needed me to drag you into the gates you ingrate!"

"I.." he stopped at the laughter he heard from the bed beside him, turning he looked to see Carina covering her mouth with her hands and shaking with laughter. "Well I'm happy to be of service to your humor." the man smirked.

"Heh heh. My names is Carina Dumbledore, it's nice to meet you." She smiled to the man.

"Nice to meet you Miss Dumbledore, I'm Adrianne Wright." he said with a nod.

They talked on and off the rest of the evening but eventually the guff unknown man told them to hush and go to sleep. So they went to sleep. Carina's sleep was anything but restful, she was stuck in a nightmare. She was working hard running around the Burrow doing small meaningless tasks for the Order, and anytime she asked something people avoided her. She moved from room to room trying to get anyone to talk to her. She came to a room where a lot of the Order were gathered and having a meeting. She put her ear to the door and heard the worst words ever uttered. "We found Severus's body down by the Black Lake, it seems that the Dark Lord found out his true allegiance. We've buried him. Now for our next topic..."

Next Topic!? They had moved on so quickly! And they hadn't even told her! The pain in her body was nothing compared to this pain. She sat on the floor beside the door and put her hand to her heart that was aching so terribly. Finally with a stab of pain and guilt she awoke. She looked around the hospital room and rejoiced that it had been all a bad dream. Then she thought back to earlier and what Severus had told her. There was a spy here! She stood, shaking, from the bed and moved to fire, and in a flash of green left, completely unaware of the eyes watching her every move.

A/N Sorry once again I was unable to find any time to sit and write. Really I'm sorry and I will try to update tomorrow. I thought finishing school would give me time but was mistaken. Plus my family has been staying in this week so I couldn't get away from then for two seconds, sure the snow was fun but when it melted I was stuck with them! Nah I love them.

Debjunk- thanks! I thought it was funny to just kinda throw in that they had accomplished the mission.

maraudergirl02- thank you! I liked the sweetness they share when it comes to each other. I suppose it's tenderness.

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