Chapter 5
"Calysta!" Hermione yelled down the corridor, chasing after her friend. "Callie, wait!" She continued running until she caught up to Calysta. "Calysta," She spun her friend around to face her. "What in the world is wrong with you?" She gasped, catching her breath.
"I'm sorry Hermione, I'm just busy. I'll talk to you later." And at that Calysta walked off, leaving her friend to stare after her as she left her in the corridor.
Later Hermione caught up with Ron and Harry, and she explained to them what was going on with their friend. She was worried, really worried. "What if something's wrong with her? She won't talk to me, and she always talks to me. I'm worried about her Harry." Hermione was almost to tears as she talked to the two boys who were also concerned with their friend.
Abelinda walked into the Slytherin common room later on that evening and was heading straight to her room when Draco stopped her. "What has gotten into you Bell?" He said, making sure she couldn't get up the stairs.
"Nothing Draco, I swear. Don't worry about me." She tried to get around him, but he wouldn't let her go. "Come on Draco, let me go to bed." She pushed until he finally gave in, realizing she wasn't going to give up when she pulled out her wand. He watched her as she went up the stairs. He had no idea what had gotten into her. She usually told him everything and always confided in him. Something had to be wrong, and he was worried.
"Did anyone follow you?" Calysta said as Abelinda walked into the hidden corridor on the fourth floor. Their newest hiding spot after Hermione almost figured out the previous one.
"No. I made sure to shake Draco from my side just in time to get here." Abelinda said, checking her back to make sure no one had actually followed her. They couldn't risk getting caught, not now, not after everything they had already accomplished.
"Good, cause I'm almost done."
"Really? That's great." Abelinda said with an excitement that hadn't been in her voice for months now.
"Yes, but you're not going to like the results of what's going to happen though." Calysta said, looking at her cousin dead in her eyes.
"What do you mean?" Abelinda said, worried.
"You're going to black out. You're not going to know what's happening to you for at least a minute until you regain consciousness. When you do, you won't know where you are. You have to regain your surroundings before you do anything." Calysta looked at her cousin once more. "Promise me that you won't do anything stupid once you've taken the potion?"
"I promise."
"Alright. Well, prepare for the worst tasting potion you will ever drink in your life." Calysta handed Abelinda a small vile of a dark liquid with vapors so strong Abelinda almost got sick at the smell of it.
"I have to drink this?" She said, almost vomiting at the stench.
"Yes. If you want to see what's going on back home, you have to." Calysta pushed the vile back towards Abelinda.
"Bottoms up." And at that, Abelinda drink the potion. The room went dark, she didn't know where she was. She knew to remain calm though, and wait until she came to. Suddenly, she awoke. She looked around and saw her father, head down with a bottle of rum sitting in front of him. He looked unclean, like he hadn't taken a shower in days and his hair was stringy and dirty. She stood up and started walking over to him when she heard voices. She jumped and hid behind the pantry and listened intently to the voices.
"You can't help him Lucius. He won't move." Abelinda heard her mother's voice, scared and quick, talking to none other than Lucius Malfoy.
"Don't worry dear Margurite. I'll figure something out." She heard the drawl of Mr. Malfoy and the scraping of a chair as he sat down and the shuffle of feet as her mother hurried out of the room. "Carline. You need to get out of this. What is happening to you?"
"He's coming back Lucius. He's coming back." Carline Valentine said, with pure fear in his voice.
"What?"
"I know of it Lucius. He came to me, two weeks ago, in a dream. He's coming back and there's nothing we can do to stop it. He knows that we gave up on him Lucius, he knows everything." And at that, Carline broke down into tears. Abelinda was itching to hear more, but the second she was about to come out from behind the pantry, she woke up in the corridor, her cousin half asleep across from her against the wall.
Calysta jumped up at the sound of her cousin coming back to consciousness. "Well, what did you see?" She said, looking at Abelinda eagerly.
Abelinda looked at Calysta, and she broke down and cried.
