"Expelliamus!" Harry's wand shot out of his hand. "Petrificus Totalus!" Harry's arms snapped to his side as he fell to the floor.
"You should have checked the room before entering Mister Potter. I thought that would have been the first thing someone like you would have thought of," Lucius taunted, as a Death Eater passed him Harry's wand, "or maybe you were a bit distracted?" Lucius smirked at Harry as he twiddled his wand between his fingers.
Harry's eyes flicked around the room. There were Death Eaters appearing everywhere, some out of rooms, some apparating.
But where were the dementors? The cold that had washed over him while he was with Frizz, his mother's voice, the frost on the window.
"You may be wondering where the Dementors are," Harry's eyes flicked back to Lucius. "I can tell by the way you are looking at any surface that might have been frozen over. And in answer to your question, they aren't here. We used one to lure you back to the apartment, but that one is now gone, returned to the battle in England. Which reminds me, we should get on. We wouldn't want to miss watching Potter's followers fall down one by one now would we?"
There was a collective murmuring among the Death Eaters, some harsh short barks of laugher.
"Avery, McKinnon, get the girls from the other room."
Harry tried not to let his eyes widen in horror as the two men pulled Toni and Hermione roughly out of the closet with no purpose.
"You know these two then," drawled Lucius.
They were tied in Muggle ropes. Toni's bottom lip was bleeding and Hermione rested her weight only on her right foot as if something had been done to the other leg.
"We didn't see the point in magical bonds for useless Muggles," sneered Lucius, his eyes narrowing. "Cut the ropes, I want Potter to have to watch as they both writhe with pain. I want him to know it is all his fault."
Please don't try and run, please don't try and run, Harry pleaded with them silently, There is no chance of escape, they'll catch you, and you may die, and it'll be all my fault. Just stay put and they might let you go.
Harry heard a gruff 'Relashio' and all hell broke lose.
The closest hooded Death Eater buckled to the ground as Toni's foot connected with his groin; another Death Eater went flying as Hermione shoved him to one side and made a beeline for Severus; another Death Eater down as Toni shoved her fingers into his eyes.
The Death Eaters began to get their bearings and realise what was happening, but it was too late, Hermione reached out for Severus and grabbed hold of his arm.
Severus immediately changed from himself into a woman.
Blonde hair lengthened and his features turned more feminine. Hermione stared at the form as she morphed and changed, her eyes staring cold and empty back at Hermione -Toni, lying motionless on the floor. Hermione's eyes widened and her hand shot to her mouth. From her already precarious position she fell back with a horrible crack onto the tiles.
Toni hit the Death Eater's neck with the flat of her hand, before she herself could be hit.
"Reducto!" with a loud bang Toni flew backwards and slammed against the wall. She fell down and with a most sickening crunch slumped behind the table, where Harry couldn't see her.
"Crucio!" Lucius shrieked. Hermione writhed and shrieked with pain, clawing at her own skin, convulsing and twisting.
Lucius lifted his wand, and Hermione fell still, apart from her shaking.
"Oh, and I was so tempted to keep them alive too. We have needed a house elf ever since you forced Dobby to leave us, Potter."
But Harry was only half listening; he was staring at the Toni lying dead on the floor. What was it? A crude spell on an object to make it turn into someone you know - dead?
He didn't have much more time to ponder.
With a huge shriek Toni was up from behind the table launching herself at Lucius, her hands secured around his neck. They toppled over and Toni brought her knee and pressed Lucius' stomach hard. Lucius began to turn purple.
"No, we might hit Lucius!" shouted a Death Eater as his fellows raised their wands. In an instant Death Eaters were converging on them. Toni was kicked off Lucius and toppled over, knocking her dead counterpart in the process.
The dead Toni immediately morphed into a dead Hermione, her eyes lifeless, blood dripping from a hole in her chest. Both Hermiones were kicked aside as the Death Eaters attacked Toni.
Lucius slowly picked himself up and straightened his robes, "Enough!" he raised his hand to still the Death Eaters.
They backed off to the wall of the room, leaving Toni shaking in a heap.
"Aww," sneered Lucius, "What to do now, nowhere to go, nothing to do?"
Toni gasped and(,) blood splattered from her mouth onto the floor as she stood, "Don't do that to Hermione again."
"What was that?" asked Lucius, shoving his face up to hers, showing off his best sneer, "I couldn't hear you through that fat lip you have."
"I said – Don't do that to Hermione again, you bastard," Lucius head whipped to the side as she slapped him.
"Hm," Lucius touched his cheek where she had slapped him "I won't... but you will." Toni's brow crinkled in confusion, "Pretificus Totalus," Toni keeled over and lay still.
"Get rid of it, we can no longer use it," Lucius waved his hand at the closest Death Eater, "Then we'll show them what pain really means,"
The Death Eater advanced. He paused for a second, looking between the two Hermiones.
He chose the one furthest from Harry and reached for her. He was just about to grab her arm when her hand shot out and twisted his wrist back with a sickening crack. The Death Eater screamed.
"How dare you hurt Toni!" shouted Hermione. She lunged for his legs and barrel rolled into him, sending him flying. He landed with thud. Hermione twisted his nose which emitted another crack, just as Lucius shouted "Avada Kedava," The Death Eater she was attacking bucked, and blocked the path between the spell and her.
"Avad Ke-"
"No," Lucius once again held up his hand, "After this, I want to cause them both as much pain as possible. Petrificus Totalus."
Hermione also keeled onto the floor.
"Between them what damage have they managed to perform?"
The Death Eaters made their way to their fallen comrades and examined them.
"The brown haired one shoved McNair into the table- his rib's broken, and she made you kill Parkinson. The blonde one de fertilised Smith, Weasley can't see a thing, and Chang isn't breathing."
"Right," Lucius rolled up the sleeves of his robes, "I'm going to make them suffer every bit of pain they have caused. Shunpike, get rid of that Boggart."
Stan advanced and touched the 'dead' Hermione. She immediately turned into a werewolf.
"Riddikulus," mumbled Stan, the werewolf was suddenly wearing a pink bonnet and matching cape, Stan let out a bark like laugh and the wolf in drag disappeared in a puff of lilac smoke.
A boggart! When did I get more scared of Severus dying than a Dementor? Why would I be scared of him dying? I hate him, I hate him, I hate him. These past few weeks with him have messed up my head. I don't know what to think. I hate him.
"You'll know what I mean now," Lucius snarled at the motionless Toni, "I won't be doing anything to her, but you will. Finite Incantatem. Imperio." Toni was released from her bindings, but she immediately went rigid under Lucius' spell. "Now I'll show you what I can do."
A smile spread across Lucius lips' as, with a flick of his eyelids Toni started moving across the room towards Hermione, tears streaming down her face, her hand reaching for a knife out of the kitchen draw.
SSHP
Frizz swung her legs back and forth with the movement of the chair on the lift. She didn't believe for one moment that Harry had gone back to his apartment because of his hangover.
Something was wrong. Toni and Hermione missing in the morning, she had gone to the boulangerie to try and find Hermione, and had been told there that Hermione hadn't turned up for work that morning. She had gone to the ski school at lesson change over to try and catch Toni, but had been told that Toni hadn't turned up for any of her lessons either.
She had gone to Harry's, he had been there, but then collapsed in the snow, mumbling out for 'him not to kill her'.
There was definitely something wrong.
Fizz thought back to this morning. She had noticed something out of place that morning, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
Frizz pulled off her gloves to apply her lip salve.
Ha! There was someone going for the black ski jump again – she loved to watch people go over that thing. No, fall over it.
She leant forward in her set to get another look, stuffing her lip salve back in her pocket.
The skier flew over the jump, crossing his skis in mid jump. And failing to un-cross them, pulling his skis off when he landed and sending him straight into the trees.
Frizz jeered him and pulled her scarf up around her mouth- it had suddenly gone colder.
The skier dragged himself out of the trees; Frizz banged her hands down on the bar and hooted at him.
She sat back in her seat, having had her fun, and pulled her hand away from the bar, the frost peeling off and sticking to her hand.
Frost?
It hadn't been cold enough to frost these past few days, she remembered Toni complaining about how none of the stupid skiers fell over anymore because it wasn't cold enough for slippery frost.
And... this morning, the frost on Harry's window, and on Toni and Hermione's door handle. Only it had been no where else.
I have to find Severus, Frizz thought as she slid off the ski lift. She skidded to a halt to put on her gloves, pondering about where she should look.
"...Severus Snape, why wasn't he in Potter's apartment?"
"I told you, I don't know anything. Lucius just said we need to find the real Snape. He wasn't at the apartment where we expected him to be."
"How do you know he's still on the mountain, he could be in Africa for all we know."
"Lucius found his wand in Potter's apartment, he ain't going any where. Now stop jabbering and look at the map."
"What are we going to do with him once we found him?"
"I told you, I don't know, but after his betrayal to the Dark Lord it ain't gonna be pretty."
"I hope we get to watch what Lucius does to him, and to Potter. Let's find Snape quick so we can get back and have some fun. I think we should start in Sixt. Come on."
The two clad in black behind Frizz skied away and left her desperate.
Wands? Dark Lords? And who was this Lucius guy? He didn't sound like the kind of guy you'd invite round for a cup of tea and a slice of cake. And what had Severus and Harry done to get a hit team after them?
It didn't matter, she needed to warn Severus, and tell him about everyone going missing.
Now where to look?
If only she knew where Severus...
Frizz raised her eyes to the heavens and stared angrily at some birds flying over, shitting on peoples heads.
That was it!
Severus hated birds, he avoided them when ever he could, Frizz remembered him telling her. And the sign for Flaine was a bird because there were no birds in Flaine because it was too cold on that side of the mountain in winter.
Yes! Now that she thought about it, Severus loved Cafe Bleu in Flaine, he went out of his way to have lunch there.
If I hurry, thought Frizz, I'll be in Flaine by lunch.
She knew it was a long shot, but what else did she have to go on?
She set off in the opposite direction to the men who had left earlier. They were probably faster skiers than her, but at least she was going in the right direction.
What do you think of my awesome up-dating skills? .:Applauds self:.
I hope you like this chapter. I wasn't sure about it because this is my first time writing anything like this, although I think it isn't bad for a first try.
A HUGE thank you to my reviewers, you make my life worth living. I'm very sorry if I haven't replied to your reviews, it's because Hermione was replying before because Fan Fiction was blocked at school and I couldn't get online, but now its unblocked and I am replying again. There was a bit of confusion in the crossover, we think we replied to them all but we aren't sure. If not very sorry.
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