Chapter 3 The nightmare continues

Raven slowly tried to open his eyes, only to close them again the second the light entered his eyes. His head felt as if someone was drilling their way through his skull. Silently he kept lying still listening for any sounds. He heard absolutely nothing; where ever he was he was alone for the moment at least.

Again he tried to open his eyes; slowly he led the light filter in his brain. When he finally had his eyes open all the way he started to look around himself to try and find out where he was.

The ceiling was a cream color; slowly he turned his head to the left. There he saw an old looking mahogany writing desk. Next he turned his head to the right side, where his eyes noticed two windows. Looking outside of the windows all he could see was the blue air, with some clouds here and there. Looking a bit further down he could make out a lot of trees.

Nothing he saw looked familiar for him, but then again that didn't meant a lot because all that he had ever seen was de inside off his cupboard, number four Privet Drive and the hotel/casino his Uncle took him to every night.

Coming to the conclusion that he had no idea where he was at the moment he decided to explore his room a bit further. Looking past the foot end of the bed he was laying in, he saw a brown wooden door. The walls where painted a forest green color and on the floor was a deep green/black carpet.

He looked at himself and saw that he was naked. This meant that he had no clothes and weapons now. He also noticed that his ankles where shackled to the foot end. Looking further at himself he saw that he had bruises on his legs and chest. On the right side of his body, just below his ribs was a big wound, some blood was seeping out of it. Following his bruised and scratched up arms above his neck, he noticed that those also where shackled to the bed and he had some strange cuffs on his wrist.

He tried to access his magic to get the shackles off, but he could no access his magic. He started to panic, he was hyperventilating and he could not breath, his vision was clouding and black spots where coming into his view, all too soon he passed out again.

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When he woke up for the second time the room was engulfed in black. Raven laid a bit dazed in bed, before the day's events started coming back to him. The change to escape at the moment was almost nil, without his weapons and magic he could not see a way out at the moment.

All he could do at the moment was wait and see. So he lay in bed waiting for someone to come and see him. Gradually it became lighter in the room. Raven was getting tired from lying still all the time, slowly he started dozing. He was awoken by the sound of the door opening.

"You don't have to pretend to be still asleep whore." A male voice sounded. Raven flinched at the word whore and opened his eyes, he saw three men standing in the room. He recognized two men from the day before in the alley. One of those men was standing in front off the door blocking the exit. The other man was standing in front of the windows blocking the other exit. The third man was standing next to his bed. He was long about 6"0; he had black hair, dark brown eyes and a tanned skin. He had a Mediterranean look.

"What do you want from me?" Raven asked.

"You cost me a lot of money whore." The man said. Raven flinched again.

"Please call me Raven. And what do you mean I cost you a lot of money? Who are you? And can you please get the chains off? And can I get my clothes back?" Raven asked going from an angry to a small timed voice while his eyes where moisten over.

"Well Raven your Uncle owns me a lot of money. You see he has a gambling problem and to pay me back the money he owns, he lend me your services until all the money was paid back. So the last couple of months no money came in. So at the moment you still own me two million. My name is Giancarlo Giovanni. Ill unbind you and give you your clothes back if you promise not to attack anyone in this manor and do as you are told. We have a lot to discuss and we don't want to shoot you just to get you to listen to us. You will get your weapons back when you leave this manor." Giancarlo answered Raven.

"Ok, I promise I won't attack anyone in the manor and I will do as I am told." Raven answered.

Giancarlo pulled out his wand and spelled the chains away. Then he walked to the writing desk and pulled Ravens clothes out of the drawer and handed them to Raven. Raven gratefully accepted his clothes back and put them on as fast as possible.

"What about these?" Raven asked pointing at the strange cuffs on his wrists.

"Those are to block your magic. I can control when you can and can't use magic. And if you put op resistance then I can give you pain so that you will listen." Giancarlo threatened.

Raven nodded slowly. "Is it possible to give me my magic at the moment so I can heal myself?" Raven asked.

"Sorry that is not possible at the moment, but if you turn around for a few moments I will heal your side for you." Giancarlo said.

Raven turned around and let Giancarlo spell his wound close. Then everyone walked out of the room, including Raven, they walked through the hall and into Giancarlo's office. There they all sat down. Giancarlo called a house-elf and ordered some tea and sandwiches.

"Now that we had something to eat and drink let's talk. You still own us 2 million, for that you have got to work. So what we will do is call you're Uncle and get him to collect you and you will work again in the evenings." Giancarlo said.

"No, please. I can't go back to my Uncle he will kill me if I come home again. Please." Raven begged.

"Well I could try to get custody over you, but you will need to work for an extra million then." Giancarlo explained.

"If that is the only possibility then I will do that. But I want to keep living with my friends." Raven replied in a small voice.

"Ok you will come every day to the hotel where you worked before, every night from 10 pm until 3 am you will work there. When you are done you are free the apparate back to your friends. Your magic will be blocked from 10 till 3. If you fail to show up we will block your magic the entire next day and we will give you pain waves throughout the whole day. If you fail to show up that evening we will come and get you, because there is a locating spell on the cuffs, and you will not be able to go get back for a month. During that month you will work from 8 am till 3 am and the money you make from 8 am till 10 pm will not be accounted into your 3 million debts. "Giancarlo explained.

Raven timidly nodded. "Is it possible that I get some money every week to live from? Maybe fifty euro? Please?" Raven pleaded.

"That can be arranged, but you only get the money if you have been in every day. You will get the money every Sunday. Your magic is accessible every day from 3 am till 10 pm unless you are in a meeting with one of us. Do you have any more questions?" Giancarlo asked.

"No sir." Raven replied.

"Ok, Mario will escort you back to your room. While you are there I will get the paperwork in order for your custody and make up the contract. In the mean time you will stay in your room. When I have the paperwork done, I will call for you. You will then sign the papers, you get your weapons back and then you can go back to your friends. Ok?"

"Yes sir." Raven was escorted back to his room. There he went to sit at the writing desk and practiced how to write his name. Shadow had started teaching him how to write his name for the last few weeks.

A few hours later Raven was called, he signed the documents got his weapons back and his magic was released. He teleported back to the gang here he was greeted openly. Every one asked a lot of questions, but Raven just wanted to sleep. Slicks stepped up and told everyone they could ask their questions tomorrow and escorted Raven to some sleeping bags.