Selena waited with Draco and Hermione yet she was the only one who didn't show any tension as she chatted easily with Hagrid and Charlie about Dragons. Hermione marveled at her ability to remain calm and at the same time have fun or appear to have fun.
"But Hagrid, Horntails are deadly even to the most skilled wizards." Charlie Weasley. "It takes about five or six of us to stun one."
"But a manticore is even harder to handle." Selena pointed out.
"Ever' beastie needs ta be cared for." Hagrid replied refusing to accept that they were unable to be domesticated.
Finally, Mad-eye moody returned. The normal eye was focused on Draco while the other rolled rapidly around in its socket. Seen was the first to look up. "Good evening Professor, which one of us have you come for?" Selena asked a bit too cheery.
Moody's gruff voice broke the spell of calmness that Selena had managed to weave with Hagrid and Charlie's help. "I'll be taking the twitch boy." Draco was dragged to his feet by the scoff of his neck.
The remaining four watched with ill-concealed horror as Moody led the boy away. Hermione groaned and slumped further in her seat while Selena paled.
"What dey doin ta d poor ting?" Hagrid said voicing everyone thoughts out loud. Charlie tried to restart the conversation but no one's heart was in it.
The mood became completely desolated as the sun sank and the female prisoners were dragged back in. The Weasley clan was there but only the younger ones, and their parents. Ron made a point to stare angrily at Hermione but Selena keep Hermione in conversation although she didn't fail to notice Ron's anger. There was no aurors at dinner but Mrs. Weasley sent food for them. Selena didn't say anything but she was getting worried.
After dinner, Fred and George decided to watch the prisoners. Selena smirked; she had a plan for the pair of pranksters.
The Weasley twins thought it was time to amuse their prisoners but Selena had a slightly different thought in mind.
"Fred, George, I believe you two just love pranks!" Selena whispered. "Ever tried making a person crossed eyed? Or twisting their fingers? Or think they are being followed?" selena asked and knew from the shared look between the identical man, she had them hooked.
"What do you want?" one asked.
"We're not freeing you!" the other stated.
"Or giving you information!"
"Or letting you trick us!" the second finished.
Selena smiled. "Actually, I do want information but it's about the ministry," she stated.
"Selena, what are you getting at?" Hermione asked finally getting involved.
"Last time, the ministry was eating out of the madman's hand." She replied sorrowfully. "Also," Selena added staring at Hermione pointedly, "I believe you have some bridges to cross?"
Hermione chanced a glance at Ron who was in the kitchen under orders from his mother to help clean up. "Could you set it up?" Hermione asked the twins who smirked at each other and nodded.
The twins finally put their plan into action after many of the Weasleys went to sleep. Creeping into Ron's room was easy, casting a silencing charm was easy but ensuring he remained so wasn't. Ron was levitated into the twin's room which had a number of silencing charms on it. Hermione sat in the middle of the room, unbound as the boys arranged their brother comfortably on a second chair. Neither participant had their wands, only Forge and Gred had theirs. Selena was still tied to a chair in the living room.
"Rennervate" Fred whispered forcing Ron to awake. "Ronnie-kins!" George crackled "we have someone who wants a few word with you." the twins stated mockingly. They were enjoying this too much!
"Hello Ronald," Hermione said recognizing her cue. "I believe we have important issues to deal with."
"Mione?" He asked stupidly. "What are you doing here?"
Hermione, although she too was still bound to her chair, smiled at his insolence. "What do you mean? Don't you remember I was at dinner, while you glared at me?"
"So, what are you doing here?"
"I enlisted your older and wiser brothers to help you see things my way."
"But Mione, I love you! Why would I not see things your way?" The twins snickered in the background as Ron spoke. He threw them a dirty look but he still did not see how he dug his own grave.
"You Love me?" Hermione asked. She desperately wanted to tackle him and show just how much thought of him. "Ronald, do not lie to me!" she hissed in a Snape like way that made him jump and his eyes widened. "You loved me while you frolicked with Lavender Brown? You loved me when you was trying to control my life?"
"Mione, what are you talking about?" Ron asked clearly confused. The twins shook their head in disbelief and decided that they should enlighten Ron before Hermione lost her temper.
"Ron, it's rather simple," Fred began.
"You don't deserve Hermione." George concluded.
Ron stared at his brothers, his head following them as they spoke. However even as their words hung in the air, his head continued as if he was watching a ping pong match. "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?" he yelled angrily.
"Ronald, we, whatever we have, it's over!" Hermione whispered. "I would prefer if we remain friends." Ron was stunned. He couldn't understand what Hermione was saying. She didn't want to be with him anymore.
"Mione, you can't be serious?" Ron spurted. The twins had to visibly restrain themselves on that one. "Hermione, I love you! I want to be with you!"
Hermione allowed herself a chuckle. "No Ron, you have Lavender. Stay with her and be happy. I already have someone I want to be with." Hermione stated softly. "Fred, George, Can I return, please?" She asked. Fred nodded and casted a levitating charm. George opened the door and Fred returned the girl to the living room but Selena wasn't there. George appeared a few more minutes and stood beside Fred as Hermione sobbed in her bound state.
~~~E Selena E~~~
Selena looked on silently as Fred and George settled in to prank Ron. They took Hermione, still bound to their room and Selena wished her luck. Neither returned and Selena sat to wait in silence. About ten minutes later, Selena couldn't tell since the only clock showed the family's welfare rather than the time, Alastor Moody came in to collect her. "Well, Miss Cytress, The judge will see you now." He wisecracked.
Selena stayed quiet as Moody dragged her out of her seat and into the makeshift interrogation room. Severus and Draco was no way to be seen. Tonks, Shacklebolt and Arthur were waiting in comfortable chairs. Moody tied Selena into a stiff back wooden chair. "Okay then, ready to explain everything?" Shacklebolt stated.
"Then name, age, status," Moody stated placing a vial of clear liquid and a glass of water in front of her. "do you want it in water or just so?" he asked.
"I'll take it in water, thanks." Selena replied with a smile. Arthur poured three drops into the glass of water and helped Selena drink it down. "Selena Cytress Whitegleam, twenty-nine, and pure blood: Metamorphmagus and time traveler."
"We can't doubt the story now," Tonks whispered but she rose her voice to address Selena. "How did you become a metamorphmagus? It is very rare."
Selena sigh, "Your grandmother, Druella Black formally Rosier, had a brother, Evan Rosier, death eater. Rosier raped my great- great grandmother, and she got pregnant. You would know Cecilia Cytress Scarlet, my grandmother and my guardian." Selena replied with a growl, her eyes flashing in shame and strangely there was also pride.
"Yes there is a Cecilia and she is in France." Shacklebolt replied. Selena nodded.
"She is a French auror who just resigned as she now has to care for her orphan granddaughter." Selena attested.
"You're a time traveler?" Moody asked skeptical of that note. "How did you do it?" Selena smirked and turned to look at Moody who focused both his eyes on her.
"What does your magical eye see in my left breast?" Selena asked with her smirk fully in place. The three males present focused on her chest but Tonks looked thoughtful.
"There is some sort of metallic object." Moody replied.
"You could create pockets in your body to conceal items." Tonks stated looking ecstatic. "How do you do it?"
Selena grinned happily. "I could and many wouldn't be looking for something hidden in the body itself. However it's barely enough to keep a wand in plus it moves. The objects change position all the time." Selena finished with a sigh.
Tonks looked fascinated. "I can't do that? How do you do it? I never tried. Could you teach me?"
"Enough!" Moody snapped, "You could chat later!" He grumbled and turned to Selena. "What is that thing?"
"It's a time turner." She replied. "I don't know how Ma got it but it's mine now and I used it." Selena related her tale of traveling back into the past.
"Why did you return?" Arthur asked looking curious.
"Because I have to change the future," Selena whispered.
"What happened in the future?" Shacklebolt asked. Selena gasped finally feeling the Veritaserum. Her mental barriers were feeling pressure from the truth serum.
Selena sighed, she knew she would have to relay her tale at some point. "Could I have a request?" Selena ground out.
"Depends," Arthur replied softly as the other three in the room nodded.
"Can you bring Severus in? I promised I would tell him." Selena confessed. Moody nodded and Tonks returned with a grumbling Severus who was then bound onto a similar chair. "okay, It's a long story. The ultimate beginning was when Hogwarts was invaded but grandma said it was the year Harry Potter stepped foot into the Wizarding World."