Darkness at Dawn
A/N: First of all, thank you so much for all of the reviews, and comments on this! I really appreciate it! Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Harry Potter. All credit for HP goes to J.K Rowling, and her amazing books!
Chapter 2
Night of the Hunter
Sabrina was frozen. Not just because it was madly cold outside but because she knew that somebody dangerous was standing only inches behind her. Even though she was only seventeen years old she knew danger when she sensed it.
Oh my god, this is bad, this is very bad. She was terrified to turn around, wondering what horrific image she might see. No, I will not turn around, she told herself, it was just my imagination, yea lets go with that. As much as she told herself that there was nobody behind her, she could still feel the man's presence. What on earth did he mean by, "Now we just keep on running into each other."
The serene calming sound of the forest had gone. The crickets stopped chirping, the frogs stopped croaking, and the owls flew away. There was nothing left but the sound of silence.
"Now Sabrina, aren't ya going to be a nice lil' girl and say 'ello back? It is Sabrina, wasn't it?"
Sabrina nearly fainted as the last words left his mouth. How does he know my name? Sabrina wasn't able to keep her head turned away for much longer. With caution she turned her head around to look at the owner of the man with the smooth voice.
She observed him quickly. He was very tall. He wore some old black combat boots, dark plaid pants that were nearly skin tight, with a studded black belt around them. He had a dark green vest that looked like it could use a good cleaning, and a black leather coat that had a red band wrapped around his left arm. On top of that he wore a washed out scarf. What an odd fashion sense.
As she continued to look up at him, her warm dark brown eyes met his piercing ice cold blue ones. His look gave her the chills, his eyes were beautifully stunning but incredibly terrifying. He had long dark brown hair that was really messy. It was all pulled back in a black ribbon. Almost immediately she noticed he had a long red streak of hair that stood out from the rest of the brown mess.
He let out a soft chuckle.
"Of course I know its you, luv. How can I forget?"
Sabrina's eyes widened in fear, she was shocked on how he knew her name. She had never seen him before in her entire life…until now at least.
He began to smirk at her as if he were waiting, just waiting for her to do something.
Then finally, Sabrina knew she needed to do something to get away from him. This man was giving off a bad vibe. She rose to her feet, and ran away from him towards the tent.
Adrenaline rush, the icy cold air whipped her face, moving one foot in front of the other. It was her getaway…or at least that is what she thought. Before she could even run ten feet, somehow the man ended up right in front of her. How was that even possible? He was behind her when she ran from him, and suddenly he was in front of her!
Not able to stop her momentum from running in time, she crashed right into his body.
As she ran into him, he grabbed both of her shoulders, and pinned her against a nearby tree. Her back slammed against the tree, and Sabrina could have sworn she felt her spine crack. She was now deathly terrified of this aggressive stranger.
She let out a scream for help, praying that one of her friends might hear her. Before she was able to scream any more, the man placed his left hand over her mouth as he continued to pin her against the tree.
Why is he doing this? What is going on?
The man let out a full on laugh as he kept his voice down so that Sabrina's friends in the tent wouldn't hear what was going on outside.
"See that's the thing, you Muggles can run away from me all you like, but I will always end up in front of you."
What the hell is a Muggle? Was she hearing things right?
Sabrina tried to say something to him, but all she was able to make out was muffled underneath the tight grip around her mouth. He was pressing his hand so hard on her mouth that she was not able to breathe.
She began clawing and scratching his hand that was placed around her mouth.
"Now luv, I promise ta let go, if ya promise not to scream anymore." The man said to her in almost a mocking singsong voice.
She nodded her head fiercely at him. Hoping that if she followed what he said, he would keep his word.
He slowly moved his large hand away from her rosy lips. Sabrina couldn't help but notice a gold ring of a stag on his hand.
Gasping for fresh air a terror awakened inside of her. To make matters worse not only was she was worried for her safety, but she was worried even more about the safety of her friends. This man was not friendly at all, and she didn't know how much harm he was capable of.
He continued to stare her in the eyes when she found her voice to speak up to him. "Wha-what do you want f-from m-me? H-how do you-you know my na-name?" Her voice was uncontrollably shaky as she was fighting back tears.
"Hmph, ya really don' remember anythin', do you princess?"
PRINCESS? Who was he to be calling her princess? If this were a different situation, she would have shouted at him. Sadly it wasn't, this was the real life. She wasn't the one in control, he, this man who was pinning her against a tree, who was holding her against her will had all the power.
"I-I don't know w-what you're talking about!" she said
"Mmm, well I'd expect tha' ya don't remember anythin', luv." He continued as her looked her in the eyes.
What does that mean?
"Huh?" she said
"Wha' I mean is…" but before he was unable to finish his sentence Sabrina's survival instincts began to kick in.
She began attempting to punch him, trying to push him away from her. He then swiftly grabbed both of her flinging arms, and held her by the wrists soon making her arms immobile. To make sure she really wouldn't move from him he pushed himself against her. Pressing his body against hers with such force that the tree behind her felt as if it could have moved.
She was struggling against him trying everything in an attempt to get him off of her. Her attempts were futile, he was too strong.
"Get off of me!"
He laughed a little at this, as if her struggling amused him. He looked at her, his eyes gazing her up and down, taking her in. He smiled.
She was absolutely disgusted by this.
"Luv, you can hit me all you like, but jus' remember that I'm goin' ta get you back fer it." He moved in even closer to her, as he was now crushing her thin 5' 4" body.
Obviously this isn't a very comfortable position to be in, in fact she was in a lot of pain. Too much for comfort, she let out a cry of pain. Unfortunately the man took her scream as a scream for help, so he did what he had to do if she screamed again.
He placed his free hand around her mouth again as he held her wrists in the other.
"Wha' did I say 'bout screamin'?" His voice sounded angry this time, but there was still a hint of softness to this harsh voice. "Now, I'm goin' to give you a choice 'ere, luv."
"You 'ave something very important to me that I need back…So I'm going ta give you two options in wha' you can do."
She shook her head, as she knew that these options he was about to give her would not be a walk in the park.
"You can either have option A which is to give me the item that I need, and ya might leave untouched…or there's option B…" He finished this sentence with a huge smirk across his face.
Gosh how she just wanted to get out of this situation!
"Can you guess wha' option B is, luv?" He moved the hand that was covering her mouth to her wavy brown hair and began to tousle it.
She needed to get away from this man, and fast!
"Leave me alone, I-I'm going back to my friends!" There was a trace of fear in her voice, but she hoped that the man wouldn't notice it. She wanted to appear strong and intimidating so that she could show him whose boss, but her attempts seemed useless. Plus, she hated the way he was playing with her as if she was his own personal Barbie doll.
"Ah, ah, ah," he shook his head at her, "I don't think so lovey, you're mine now." As he said this he brought his hand down to her waist he let go of her wrists with his other hand, and grabbed her head.
Sabrina screamed. What the hell is he doing? When she screamed it was not from pain, but from fear of the unknown.
She now knew that because she had screamed, he would cover her mouth again. She braced herself expecting a grubby hand to come up to her mouth once more, but to her utter shock and disgust it wasn't his hand that fell upon her mouth. Instead it was his lips! What the…? He was kissing her!
Eww, eww, eww, eww! WHAT THE HELL? Was she missing something, because she had just met this monster, now he was kissing her and talking to her as if he had known her for weeks!
She just stood there pinned against the tree in shock, as this man was practically eating her. She really didn't know how to react to him at first, she had never been kissed like that by a boy before (except for her ex-boyfriend who never really gave her a kiss because he did not like "PDA") If she was in a different situation with a different man, this might have been enjoyable. This was not exactly the way she had been planning her first kiss. She felt his tongue slide in her mouth. That was her wake up call to terms with what was happening right now.
She tried letting out another cry for help as he continued to kiss her. This was so wrong on so many levels! She was seventeen, and god knows how old this man was! He had to be at least thirty! She needed to get him away from him, and fast, before he could get too carried away with himself. So with little hesitation she used her only defense that might catch him off guard. For sure it did as she bit down as hard as she could on his slimy tongue.
He quickly pulled away from her. She actually bit him! His face was full of shock as he completely let go of her.
Even though he had freed her, she was standing up against the tree as she was surprised by her actions as well.
Adding even more shock and surprises to the night, she took her recently freed right hand and slapped the man across the face.
"How dare you kiss me!" Her voice was now stronger than ever. Her anger almost as strong as her fear. With all these different emotions running high she couldn't help the tears that rolled down her innocent face.
Crap. She just hit somebody! She just hit the person who was attacking her! She had never hurt a person in her entire life (well at least not physically). She didn't mean to hit him, but he was violating her. It was her right to be able to, it was her natural instinct.
She looked him in those icy eyes once more, and found surprise and anger in them. Oh crap, maybe I shouldn't have hit him. Bad idea, bad idea. Only now, it was too late to take back the slap. Worse of all, he was angry, most definitely angry.
Without much warning man took Sabrina by the neck, and lifted her up off of the ground. She was being strangled. She was clawing at his hand that was wrapped around her delicate neck in an attempt for him to let go so that she would be able to breathe.
He then slammed her to the cold ground, and jumped on top of her. This man is a monster, a horrible, dangerous monster! Why is he doing this? How can he? He let go of her neck slowly and in another quick movement grabbed her tiny wrists again so she wouldn't put up a fight. The rest of him was pinning her against the forest floor. Sabrina was now crying and she didn't care what he thought of it, she just wanted out.
"That wasn't very nice, luv," he began, "I tried bein' a gentlemen to you, but you ain't acting like a polite lil' Mary Jane. I tried being friendly, and this is how ya repay me? So we going to do this the 'ard way."
Gentlemen? Friendly? To me? You've got to be joking!
"Why, why a-are you doing th-this t-to me-e-e?" She yelled at him with tears choking her up. Now all she could hope was that one of her friends had heard her.
That was the most she could pray for.
He pulled out something from the inside of his coat pocket. At first she thought he was going to pull out a knife, but instead it was some item that resembled a nicely polished stick.
"Keep. Your. Voice. Down." He spoke quietly as he brought the stick thing up to her face. It looked as if her was threatening her with it. What was he going to do with it, poke her to death?
"NO!" She spat back at him in an unnaturally loud voice. "STOP! Get off of ME!" She was screaming to the top of her lungs, like she should have done in the first place. Her friends had to have heard her scream now.
The man didn't look very pleased at all.
"Luv, it be best if ya kept quiet…" He went on and placed his filthy hand over her mouth to shut her up while the other continued to point the stick at her face. The force of his body was enough to keep her pinned to the ground for good.
Sabrina looked over their tent, which was a good twenty feet away, and thought a miracle had just happened.
She let out a sigh of relief as she saw her best friend Kendal-Lynn walk out of the camping tent. Thank god! She had heard her. She was saved! Four vs. one, there was no way that this man with a useless stick could beat four girls who just so happened to be on their schools Varsity Volleyball team.
The man who was lying on top of Sabrina had defiantly noticed Kendal-Lynn walking out of the tent, it's as if he knew what Sabrina's next move would be.
"Now luv," he whispered into her ear, "If ya call on your friend that'll only make more trouble than necessary. 'N I suggest if you don' want to see 'er dead, it'll be smart of you ta not make an effin ruckus." He now stared at Kendal-Lynn as if trying to predict what move she was going to make next.
He turned back to the girl he was on top of as she instantly stopped struggling against him when the last words had left his mouth.
Kill? My friends? He wouldn't! Would he? Damn it, I am so screwed! She was so close to calling on her friends but now she thought of their safety. The last thing she wanted to see was her friends getting hurt because of her.
If you don't want to see her dead. Did he really mean that?
As much as Sabrina wanted to retaliate against him, she had no other choice but to obey him. Her life, and more importantly her friends' lives depended on it.
Tears were flooding down Sabrina's face as if she had sprung a leak. She was so scared. The man over her was now smirking at her. He was actually smirking! That bastard! She was in so much emotional and physical pain, and the more she cried it seemed like the more he enjoyed it! This is sick!
Confused, yes. Terrified, yes. Worried, yes. Disgusted, hell yes. Could this get any worse?
Sabrina continued to lay motionless on the ground. The man slowly moved his hand away from her mouth.
She had so many things to say to him, but all her mouth managed her to say was, "You are a monster." Her voice was barley audible, but he understood it very clearly.
"Why thank you, luv," he began in a hushed voice, "but if you don' mind, I like to be called Scabior."
"Scabior?"
"Yea, that's ma name and don't ya forget it…'cause apparently you tend to not remember a lot, do you luv?" He said this with a great smirk on his face.
All she wanted to do was slap him again, and look at anything but that horrible smirk. If she did end up hitting him again it would be very bad, very, very bad.
Before she was able to say another word to this Scabior guy, somebody else spoke instead.
"Sabrina?"
Kendal-Lynn walked around the tent. Her voice sounded extremely worried as she was moving her head all over, trying to spot her missing friend. Sabrina knew she wouldn't be able to spot her right away because she was down by the lake, forced on the snowy wet ground.
Scabior, who was still on top of her, had placed his index finger gently to her lips as to shush her.
"Sabrina? Sabrina this isn't funny! Where are you?"
Great, Kendal-Lynn was freaking out, but why wouldn't she be? It was cold, dark, and strictly speaking they weren't even supposed to be in this part of the forest.
Her friend ran back into the tent to wake up Tori and Jessa. Sabrina heard her yelling at them to get up. As much as Sabrina wanted them to find her a big part of her didn't. She knew that if they found her they would find Scabior, and if Scabior found them he might hurt them. She just didn't want to see her best friends get hurt.
Sabrina's teary brown eyes fell upon Scabior's ice cold blue one's. They pieced her body like a thousand needles had fallen into her. Worse of all, his filthy finger was still on her mouth and she had the sudden urge to bite it in hopes that somehow she could get away. Only, she knew it wouldn't turn out too well for her considering the last time she ran from him didn't turn out the way she planned.
He looked as if he was waiting for something, almost as if he wanted her friends to spot him on top of her.
Her attention now flooded back to Kendal-Lynn.
"She was right there a second ago!" Kendal-Lynn came out of the tent almost pointing towards the lake, as Tori and Jessa quickly followed her out.
They were all frantically looking around for her.
"What the hell is she doing? Seriously, this late at night? In this temperature?" Jessa began shouting at her friends, not out of anger but because of her worried heart.
"C'mon you guys, we've got to find her!" Tori spoke as her voice was trembling a little bit from the cold.
"No duh we have to find her Tori!" Jessa mocked Tori's last comment. "Yet again," Jessa directed this question to Kendal-Lynn, "what the hell was she doing?
"She was just going to go and brush her teeth, and…"
"You let her go out in the woods by herself? Are you crazy Kendal-Lynn? Why in the name of…"
"Ok, Jessa! No need for insulting me right now! I get it. It was stupid of me to let her go out alone."
"Way past stupid."
"Anyway, as I was saying." Kendal-Lynn flashed Jess a dirty look. "There is no freaking way it takes somebody twenty minutes to brush their teeth."
Kendal-Lynn was now pacing up and down the side of the tent attempting to calm herself down. "Ok, were not going to find her by just standing here!"
"Right," Jessa spoke, her voice a little more gentle that last, "Lets split up and look for her. She couldn't have wondered off too far, right? If any of you find her or something just yell, ok!"
Tori ran back inside the tent and brought back flashlights for each of them. "Ok you guys, lets not go out too far." She handed out the flashlights to them.
"Yea, yea. Tori, check by that lake over there." Kendal-Lynn directed her to the lake where Scabior was.
"By-by myself?" questioned Tori in a squeaky voice.
"That's kind of the whole point of 'splitting up'." Kendal-Lynn informed her.
"But it's f-freezing."
"Oh, suck it up! Our best friend is missing!" Jessa shouted at her as she went over to look behind the tent. Kendal-Lynn headed off in the opposite direction from Jessa. Tori reluctantly started heading toward the direction of Sabrina and Scabior.
Oh no, oh no, no, no. Tori please don't come! Please don't. Sabrina continuously pleaded in her head. Her focus was now back to Scabior, and he now had an even greater nasty smirk on his face! Damn him!
Scabior didn't move at all from the position he was in. He looked as if he was waiting for Sabrina's precious little friends to fall right into his trap. This man would have his fun one way or another.
Tori's short figure and dirty blonde hair were coming closer and closer into view. Her footsteps grew louder and louder until she stopped dead in her tracks.
She spotted them.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Sorry it took me so long to update.
My computer stopped working, and I just recently got it fixed! Anyway, hope you liked Chapter 2! Chapter 3 should be out soon! :)