Warning: Will contain a scenes of extreme punishment. (Whipping) Read with caution...
Recomended listening: Whisper by Vadim Kiselev
Chapter 5
Embry's P.O.V.
I still haven't seen Madaline in three days! Snape's here... but not Madaline. Arianna says that her bed has been empty and untouched for the past three days. I was about to fall asleep in Divination when Arianna shook my shoulder. I looked up and she pointed towards the door... Madaline. I sat up straighter as Madaline walked by me; she looked at me for a moment, but, before I could even smile, she turned her attention away, as if she had been looking at something that wasn't real, and went to her seat. I looked at Arianna and she looked towards me mouthing 'what the hell?'. I shrugged my shoulders and looked up at Madaline, one last time. At lunch, I could hear the whispers about Madaline echoing down the table.
"She just stared at him in Divination," started one girl. "like she could see right through him. She didn't even give him a small smile, like she had been for a while."
"Are you serious?" asked another girl, "I thought... he was something special to her though."
"I know... He's the only one that she's let in, without a fight."
I focused on another conversation.
"Now, what would give a 16 year old a glow like that?" asked a guy, rhetorically.
"No way, you don't think-" the girl was cut off.
"Oh, yeah... she's been shagged."
That was the last straw, I got up from the table and went to the Ballet room. Just as I expected, Madaline was in there... I went in, but, right as I was about to say something, she whimpered. I stood still and watched as she did horizontal splits up the mirror, as she held onto the Barr with one hand and hand her other hand on her shin. My mouth went slack... Damn, she's so flexible, and so damn hot, when she does that. Even though she was wearing a dark green leotard, pale pink tights, and pointe shoes... She looked sexy. She switched legs and whimpered as she stretched... She couldn't have had sex, could she? Who would she have done it with?
"Embry?" looked shocked as she stopped stretching, grimacing as she lowered her leg, "What are you doing here?"
I narrowed my eyes at her, "Are you hurt?"
"Of course not," she turned her back to me and moved to the other side of the Barr, "What would make you ask such a thing?"
She stretched her leg up on the Barr and whimpered, quietly,"You're whimpering..."
She scoffed, "No, I'm no..."
I moved to stand in front of her, "I have wolf ears, I heard you. So don't lie to me!"
"It's none of your concern, Embry," she face away from me, "so, just drop it!"
I moved to stand in front of her, again, "I won't... I care about you, too much."
"Don't..."
"Why not? Give me one good reason why I shouldn't care about you."
She lowered her leg and cast her eyes to the floor, "It's not safe..."
"What do you mean?"
"Embry, there are things you don't know about me." She looked back up at me. "If you knew, or got too close... I could get you killed, unintentionally."
"I'm not going anywhere..."
"Embry-"
"No, I love you, Madaline. You're my imprint, my wolf chose you as my mate... So, I'm not going anywhere."
"You l-love me? M-mate?" She shook her head and backed away from me, "This can't happen... I'm sorry."
"Madaline-"
"Everything alright in here?" I heard a familiar voice behind me, "Mr. Call... Madaline?"
"Just fine, Father," answered Madaline, then she looked at me, "Embry was just leaving..."
"Yeah..." I sighed, "just leaving..."
Snape spoke again, "Well, run along, Call. You have a class to get to and Madaline has one coming in."
"Of course, Professor..."
I left the room, but eavesdropped outside the door.
"Are you alright, my dear?" asked Snape.
"I'm fine, Father," spoke Madaline, "Bartemius was just a little rough last night. I'm fine... just a little sore, is all."
"I should have a word with Barty Junior, then."
"Father, I asked him to... I wanted to experience it before we parted ways for a while." Snape made a grunting sound, "I love him, Father, and he loves me."
"I'm still trying to get used to that fact... I saw how he looked at you, years ago. He was in love with you, even then." He sighed, deeply, "You can cancel your dance classes, if you need to."
"I'm fine, Father... Just need some more stretching and I'll be good as new."
I went to Transfiguration and sat down in my seat as I pondered over what I had just heard. So she did have sex... with some guy named Bartemius, Barty Junior, or whatever. I can't believe it! And... she's in love with him... not me. Why do I feel like fate likes to make me her bitch?
"Embry?"
I looked up, "Hi, Professor..."
Mogonagall came over to me, "What's troubling you, dear?"
"It's nothing... just, Madaline."
"Madaline Snape?" I nodded, "Oh, there's a great deal you don't know about her. It'd be best just to keep your distance."
"That's what she told me!"
"She's a wise witch... She's said that for your own good."
"What... is she trouble?"
"Trouble? Great Merlin, no! She's just... going through a lot. It'd be wise not to get too involved with her."
I was about to speak, but someone called my name.
"Embry..." I turned around and saw Dumbledor. "Come with me, my boy." he motioned with his first two fingers as he spoke.
"Yes, Professor..."
I followed him to his office and he locked the door behind us. He sat at his desk and he had me sit down in one of the chairs in front of it.
"How do you like Hogwarts?" he asked.
"It's nice... I've really made myself at home." I replied.
"So... you like it here?"
"Yeah... I've made a couple new friends. Madaline Snape and Arianna Black..."
"Are you and Arianna..." he gave me a look.
"Oh, no, sir! She's a great friend, but she likes girls. Even then... I think we're distant cousins."
"Forgive me... You say that Madaline is your friend?"
Why does that come as a shock to even the teachers?
"She started out as my tutor..." I explained, "... then she opened up a bit more."
"How much more?" he looked interested.
"She told me how what happened to her mom."
He leaned forward, "How much did she tell you?"
"Just that a man named Voldemort killed her in front of Madaline and Professor Snape." He was silent, "That's not the whole story is it?"
"I'm afraid not... you see, Tanya Snape was tourtured in front o her husband and daughter. Madaline was only 12..."
"Oh, my, God... Why did Voldemort do it/"
"It's better if I show you..." He went over to a cupboard full of clear vials and started searching in it.
"Show me?" I got up and went over to him.
"Here it is..." He started walking and I followed after him. He poured the vial's contents into a dish full of water and looked at me, "This is a memory made up from the memories of three different people. Severus Snape, Madaline Snape, and Bartemius Crouch Junior..." I froze at the mention of the name Bartemius. Madaline...
"Why are you showing me?"
"You need to understand why Madaline is the way she is."
"Why me?"
"She's your imprint?" I froze, "Exactly my point... I'm not going to lie to you, Embry. What you are about to see is not for the faint of heart. There is violence, cruelty, inhumane punishment, gorey, grisly sights, and nudity... all mainly Madaline. Are you sure you're ready?"
I swallowed thickly and nodded, "Yeah..."
"Alright... stick your face in. It'll be alright to breathe once you're inside the memory."
I nodded and put my face in the water. When I opened my eyes, I was standing in a room with dark wood floors, white walls, and a fireplace at the end of the room. There were men, one blonde woman, and one curly headed woman all standing in hte room in dark clothing. It was storming outside, lightning flashing, and thunder shaking the room. I could hear whispering in the hallway and went to go see who it was. I saw Snap, a young girl with thin hair an inch or two past her shoulders, and a woman with dark, dark, brown hair to her waist, blue eyes, and a couple shades darker skin tone than Snape. Tanya Snape...
"No matter what happens," Tanya started, "don't compromise yourselves for me."
"Mother-" Madaline was cut off.
"Don't... you must be strong, Darling." she kissed Madaline's forehead, kissed Snape's lips, and hugged them both, at the same time, tightly. "I love you both, so much."
They walked right through me and into the giant room. I went back to where I was orignally standing and saw a man with long, platnium blonde, hair bring a body wrapped in a black cloth into the room. He put the body in a chair and a man with a hood that covered his face, except for two eyeholes, went and stood by the body.
"Come forward..." rasped the body.
Tanya Snape came forward and bowed on one knee, "My Lord..."
"Stand, Witch!" his voice was laced with venom, and Tanya stood. "You do not deserve to bow and call me 'Lord'! You have betrayed me and your family! This traitor has been passing information to the Aurors in the Ministry, instead of it being the other way around, as she lead us to believe! And for that... you shall be executed!"
"No!" screamed Madaline as she started running towards Tanya.
"Restrain her!" barked the body. Two men held Madaline by her upper arms and Madaline struggled against them, "You all will watch this!"
The man in the hood stepped forward and his wand turned into a whip. Tanya tried to back away, but chains came up from the floor, locked around her wrists, and pulled her to her knees on the floor. I watched and gasped as I held my hand to my mouth as the whip cracked against her back. I could see the lines of red through her white shirt. She cried out as another blow hit her back and I looked around the room. All faces were blank on the man, the blonde woman's face was blank, the curly headed woman was smiling as if she got some sick pleasure at watching Tanya get tortured, Snape stood still, but had tears falling at the sight of his wife, and Madaline had tears streaming from her, bloodshot, blue eyes as she screamed and struggled to free her arms.
"No!" she wailed, "Mummy! No, stop! You're hurting her! Mother!"
Tanya continued to scream as blood now splattered across her neck, face, and floor. The chains dug into her wrists as she struggled, making her bleed more. The blood running down her fingers and onto the floor. The hooded man continued to whip Tanya, until Tanya stopped screaming from pain. The chains disappeared and the hooded man held Tanya, standing up, as her eyes remained half drooped and blood dripped onto the floor. I hadn't even realised that I was crying, until I tasted something salty on my lips and tongue. The body was handed a wand and he pointed it at Tanya.
"Avada Kedavra!" cried the body.
"No!" wailed Madaline.
Her mother fell to the floor, lifeless, and Madaline's knees gave out as she cried out in agony. The men let her go and stepped away from her as she cried. She pounded the floor with closed fists as she cried. I saw two men go over and hoist Madaline to her feet, roughly. They took her over to the body, who I figured out was Voldemort, and chains came from the celing to wrap around her wrists and hold them up and out to her sides, like she was being crucified. Chains wrapped around her ankles and Madaline continued to sob as she became limp. The men ripped her shirt from her body, ripped off her bra, and the hooded man stalked over to her, blood still dripping off the whip as the men tore the rest of her clothes from her body.
"This will teach you..." spoke Voldemort, calmly.
The whip cracked against her ribs and she cried out in pain. Another strike to her shoulder and my knees buckled as she let out a blood curdling scream. Tears soaked my cheeks as I held my hands to my mouth and watched the horrifying scene in front of me. Blood ran down her pale legs and onto the floor as the lashes and screams continued. When the torture ceased, she had gashes on her back, shoulders, stomach, breasts, arms, and legs. Her hair was matted with blood and her body was covered, dripping onto the floor and adding to the puddle beneath her. Her head hung limp as she passed out from loss of blood. The chains disappeared and Madaline's unconcious form fell into the puddle of her and her mother's blood. Everybody except Snape and a man with medium brown hair, semi-stubble, brown eyes, and a black trench coat left the room. Snape collapsed and crawled over to his wife and daughter. He held Madaline in his left arm and Tanya in his right as he cried. He held them to his chest and the other man went over to Madaline and pressed his first two fingers to her neck.
"Oh, my babies..." cried Snape.
"She's not dead, Severus..." spoke the man, unshed tears in his eyes as he looked at Madaline, love prominate in his gaze.
"Take her, Bartemius, I need... I need..."
"I understand..." He nodded and scooped Madaline into his arms.
Bartemius knelt on the floor and set her back down. He took off his trench coat and wrapped it around Madaline's naked body. He picked back up and disappeared as Snape continued to mourn the loss of his wife. The last thing I saw was Snape kiss the top of his wife's head as he rocked back and forth, sobbing, then the scenery changed. I was in a light blue bathroom with white tile and saw Bartemius carrying Madaline, still in his trench coat, to the tub. He knelt down and sat her upright against the tub as he got the hot water running. When the water was warm, he took his coat off of her and put her in the tub. He cleaned her wounds and washed her hair and body of the blood and sweat. He rinsed the soap out of her hair and off her body, the suds and bloody water disappearing down the drain. Bartemius grabbed a bottle labled 'Esscence of Ditany' and used the dropper to put it in her wounds. I watched as the potion healed her, muscels and layers of skin repairing right in front of me. All that was left were scars where her wounds had been repaired. I see why she had a paper of scar disgusing spells and potions, now. Bartemius lifted her out of the tub and wrapped a towel around her. He carried her into a bedroom and laid down with her in his arms, after kicking off his boots. He pulled a blanket over them and her eyes flitted open.
"Bartemius?" she whispered.
"Shhh... it's alright," he kissed her forehead, "I've got you..."
She snuggled closer to his chest and I was brought back to reality. I backed away and started going towards the door.
"Why did you show me that?" I trembled.
"You need to understand-" he started, but I cut him off.
"No! That was private to both Madaline and Professor Snape... it would've been different if Madaline or Professor Snape had showed me. It was not your right to do that!"
I grabbed my books and flew down the hallways to Transfiguration. I didn't even make it to the classroom, I fell to the floor and started sobbing. Oh, Madaline... I'm so sorry for what he did to you and your mother.
Author's Note: I hoped you enjoyed this chapter! There will be a Barty lemon next chapter! Review? :3