AN: Hello! Sorry for the long wait! I promise the story only gets better from here, but MAN my real life has been hectic! So first, I had finals, then moving out the Springs and back to Denver, then my first day back I get not one but TWO jobs( Ok well it is my old job back and it's the same company just different locations), but it is still two jobs. And OMG! Man are people bitchy in retail, seriously the new location that I am working at, I really feel bad for the people who shop there that treat the sales people like ****. Is life really that bad where your only gratification is from being mean to people? I just don't get it! So some guy I asked him how he was doing, and he got upset that I asked that!

And THEN I get my uni. Grades and my math teacher gave me an F, which I did NOT do that bad in that class. I should have gotten an A, I mean I show up and always get A's on the tests, I even help out the other students and convince him to just give the entire class A's instead of tests! So what if I am a total know it all and answer his questions before he finishes asking them and tell him to ask harder questions. I mean an F! I don't get F's. Oh and my iTouch home button broke. Gah, at least it is summer. It will only get better.

OK my little rant is over. New chapter. C'est good. More to come, might not be every week, but more is coming. Next chapter has new characters(A certain Lord Voldy ;)) and a new POV. Creamsodafloat, you are welcome in advance. ;)

Also a huge thank you to Christie for editing this! Best teacher ever. 3 ya! Also thanks for realizing where this story is going so fast second chapter that you have realized what is going to happen ;)

Ohhh also, I realized that Durmstrang is not in Bulgaria, but is in Norway, so I changed all mentions of it to Norway. Hope that doesn't throw anybody off. :)

Oh yes, before I forget. I am not JKR, I don't own anything.

Chapter 5

"Get up." A smooth voice commanded. I opened my eyes to find Barty kneeling down over me, wand out and pointed at my face. "I said get up." He commanded me again, making it clear that I did not follow his orders he might hurt me. After the events of my most recent escape attempt I was not going to argue with him. I sat up and he backed off, his wand trained on me. I got out of the bed, wishing that I had some form of protection other than my pajamas. I kept my arms pressed firmly by my sides in fear as he made me walk out in front of him to the sitting area by the pool.

Barty looked me in the eye and said levelly, "Now this is what happens to bad girls who try to escape when her captors treat her nicer than they should. Let's see you get out of this, Portia. Your precious Antonin isn't here to protect you or erase your memory." The real Barty was starting to show through his sometimes kind façade. The Barty today wasn't the guy that I had started to grow fond of; no he was sick and twisted. He came from a special breed of creature (were these magical guys even human?) that only the lowest circle of hell would take. I guess Antonin and Karkaroff were the same; they did the same things as him. If my memory had been modified, who knows what they had done or would do in the future? If I was going to survive this I needed to get away quickly. While I was rapidly thinking through this, he cursed me.

"Crucio!" he said, pointing his wand at me. I felt as if I had been hit by a freight train. Every muscle in my body screamed in agony, and my body was contorted in an unnatural position. I fell to my knees, huddled up. It felt as if my insides were on fire and as if my head was going to explode. I tried to keep from screaming, denying him the satisfaction, but I once one howl escaped my lips, I couldn't stop screaming. When he had told me that he tortured people, I didn't realize that he actually used spells on them. I thought he had been just saying that to scare me. After what felt like ages but was probably only a few seconds he let up the curse. The pain stopped instantly, and I struggled back to my feet.

"Now are you going to try to escape again? Hmm? Or have you learned your lesson?" he asked calmly. I tried backing away from him towards the pool. On the other side was a door to the library. If I could just make it over there maybe I could get in and barricade the door. "Aww Port, you don't want to talk? Oh well. We'll do it again: Crusio!" he stated. A second wave of pain hit. I screamed again. Though I tried to keep cam and fight, but there was no fighting it. I wondered how many times they had used this curse on me. Why did they do it? I mean, if they bothered to erase my memory, where was the fun for them? After a few more seconds he let up on the curse again, following me as I tried to move away. I pushed the chairs in front of me, hoping to put more distance between us. I made it to the edge of the pool before he spoke again.

"Portia, do you really think that it's smart to be so close to the water? I could so easily hit you again. And you might fall in and I'd just let you be for a while," he continued smirking. "Dolohov might not be happy to find his pet drowned." He had an almost a purring tone, as if he were trying to play with me. Unfortunately it wasn't going to work. I had come to see that I was a lot stronger than he gave me credit for. I wasn't going to grovel at his feet, begging for him to forgive me and stop. I would fight him until it was physically impossible.

"Still no?" he asked questioningly. "Well, you're asking for it now. I could stop, we could be friends, like we were, as long as you obey me and stop trying to escape." He smiled, moving closer. It was as if he were, just asking me to change my mind, as if he might change his. But he knew that I wasn't stupid enough to fall for it. Things could never go back to the way they were at the beginning, when I had been more gullible. His smile faded as he lifted his wand to curse me again. I frantically looked for a diversion to stop him and noticed a plant hanging above him on the wall. It wasn't close enough to harm him, but I looked at it fixedly and hoped for a miracle. I was about to scream for him to stop when the plant on the wall fell and crashed down over his head, knocking his wand aside. I took my chance and dove towards the library.

Nonetheless, I wasn't fast enough, as I sprinted by the pool. A blast of red light jutted out of Barty's wand as it fell, hitting me. I fell into what I had supposed was the pool, but instead of feeling cold hard water a soft cushion broke my fall before I was submerged into the water. I shot up for air gasping to see Barty come barreling into the water after me. He had lost his wand when he was hit. I tried to move away from him through the water but to no avail. He caught me, grabbed onto my shoulders to push me down. I kicked and punched at him, trying to get away. I was lucky and landed a right hook to his nose. Stunned, he reached up to feel his nose, which gave me a few lucky seconds to move away from him. Soon he was after me again, however, even with blood pouring out of his nose.

As we were fighting I had the feeling that we both had magnetic fields, but instead of being pulled together we were pushed apart. If Barty lounged for me, he was repelled by an invisible force. After a few minutes, he staggered back panting and exhausted. He started laughing. It scared me: He was mental; he had to be to laugh like that. He's trying to kill me one second and the next he's laughing, I thought. But then he calmly reached out his hand, and his wand obediently shot into it. In that instant, all hope I had was lost.

"Where is that little devil Pavi?" Barty asked. I looked around confused. I hadn't known that Pavi could do magic. I then realized what Barty was talking about: Pavi must have been helping me. He had done something for the plant to hit Barty. I thanked my lucky stars that he was there.

Pavi suddenly appeared by the kitchen door, watching the two of us. I saw confusion on his face.

"Well elf, did you help her?" Barty asked him. I was surprised at how cruel he was to Pavi. Pavi looked at me and then back to Barty and shook his head no.

"Answer me, vermin! Did you or did you not help her?" Barty challenged him. Pavi shook his head again. I knew he must have helped me, since there was no way that I could have made the plant hit Barty, but I figured he was trying to cover his tracks

"Crucio." Barty said pointing his wand at Pavi. With a red flash I saw him fall. I screamed, shocked to see him hurt Pavi so heartlessly.

"What is going on here?" Antonin yelled as he barged in, second looking like he was about to kill somebody. My only hope is that it wasn't me.

"Nothing, just testing out a theory." Barty replied laughing. Barty climbed out of the pool and with a crack he was gone. Still, I had a sinking feeling that that wasn't the last time I would see him.

Antonin walked over to my side of the pool and offered me a hand up. I glanced up him and started to back away, worried that he was might harm me if I accepted his help. But he smiled. "Port, it's OK. I'm not going to hurt you. I am just trying to help." He wore that same disarming smile that I had come to trust. In spite of his apparently kind gesture I couldn't help but think of pulling him into the pool. But I allowed Antonin to help me and soon he was conjuring up some fluffy towels for me.

"Let's get you changed and dry," he said as we walked back to my room, leaving me to change in private. I came out when I was dressed. Walking into the kitchen I found find him putting together some lunch.

"Thanks," I said making him look up. He just smiled and went back to work. I knew I shouldn't have tried to escape again. It was useless escaping. When I did manage to get away, I was always caught. On top of that, it felt foolish to try and get away when at least Antonin treated me so nicely.

AN: Sorry for the earlier rant, Ok so maybe not that sorry, but still be nice to sales people, seriously we aren't that annoying and usually can help you find stuff. I know sounds stupid, people being paid to be helpful, but really that's what we are there for.

EME22 Thank you again for the review! :) Yeah it sucks writing bad stuff, but it happens and it is important. But it gets better, it may get a little worse, but it does get better.

Creamsodafloat Thanks for the review! Always love reading your thoughts on things :). Yep she is being tortured, but it does get better. I love catching people off guard. Lol. Expect that. :)

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