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Fear Itself Part III

Laura ran down the hallway following the white light of the patronus ahead of her. It was going a bit fast, but she had not trouble keeping up with it. The light, it gave off a long silvery white trail in its wake and even if she could no longer see the patronus she could see the light. It was taking her places she had never known were even there in this house, and she thought that they had explored this whole area. Was it taking her in short cuts? Or opening that were just created by magic? Or maybe it was somehow making its own opening in the walls. However it was happing she was glad it was.

She could hear Edgar behind her he was probably keeping up better then she was, but was allowing her to be ahead of him, taking care of things that would sneak up on them. Or was he making her take care of the things ahead of them? Either way, she knew the patronus wouldn't take them into any place that had immediate danger.

Soon she entered a large room, it seemed like the patronus had stopped in its tracks and it stood in the middle of the room next to a small hand made fire place. Laura looked around and saw that just a bit away from the fire was Heather sitting next to Sturgis. It looked like they were arguing.

Sighing, Laura walked over and pasted right through the patronus making it fade away into the air. "Anything I can help you lot with?" She asked placing her hand on her hips.

"Laura!" Heather exclaimed and shot up. "About time someone got here, Christ, I've been waiting forever."

She rolled her eyes and knelt down next to him. "What exactly is the problem?" She asked as she took her wand out and began taking in all the damage.

"Well one rib is cracked, and he says his arm is broken, but I don't believe him. I mean I only heard one crack and that was it. If it was broken I would have heard that break as well. He's just being a cry baby." She said as she knelt down as well.

"It is broken!" He exclaimed and winced as Laura tenderly touched the arm.

"I don't know if it's broken or not, there's swelling everywhere, and you'll be pretty badly bruised… What happened?" Laura asked as she saw these odd wounds.

"Devil's snare." Heather answered.

Laura nodded. "Well that explains the fire."

"He wouldn't be in such bad condition if he just did what I told him and stayed still!"

"Well I wouldn't be in such condition if you thought of the bloody spell in time!" Sturgis yelled.

"Not my fault I have trouble remembering things that happened seven years ago! Maybe if you paid better attention in class then you would have remembered yourself!"

"Who says I didn't remember!?"

"If you did then why not say the spell yourself rather then crying like a baby for me to do it!?"

"You'd be crying like a baby too if you were getting constricted by devil's snare!"

"I was getting constricted!"

"Guys…" Laura said interrupting them as they continued to yell at one another. She looked around the room with wide eyes and fear etching into her face. "Where'd Edgar go?"

Heather and Sturgis ended their argument abruptly and looked around as well. Heather stood, Laura was still caring for Sturgis on the ground, but with one eyes looking around for him.

"Maybe…" Heather began as she turned in circles looking. "Maybe he… you know what? He's probably right around the corner making sure it's all safe, or ya know what? He's probably gonna pop out and scare us half to death." She said as she walked over to the neighboring hallway. "Edgar Bones you git! Get out here!"

Laura swallowed a lump in her throat as she looked back down to the badly bruised chest and stomach of Sturgis Podemore. "Oh God…" She murmured, knowing that they wouldn't get out of this one too easy.

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"Albus, we have to give up this search." Minerva McGonagall said as she walked down the hall with him. They were originally on their own for this, but she had teamed up with the Headmaster as time went on. Thinking it was best if they were not alone. She only hoped that everyone else had found someone to be with, hopefully the younger members of the Order had been able to stay in their pairs.

The old man nodded. "I know, but I am not sure how to do that. We could get out, but there's no way to tell everyone to get out, we have no idea where everyone is."

"Send a messenger patronus." She suggested.

"I could do that, but if I did then I would also alert any unwanted people in this house of what we're doing. Besides, even if we did all get together, it would be hard to find the way out. A messenger patronus can do a lot, but it can not find the way out of this place for us."

She nodded and then turned around sharply as if she saw something behind her. "Albus," she began sternly. "We're getting those children together, now. So if you don't send out a message to them I will."

"I think it would be best we both did." He smiled and raised his wand, Minerva did the same and both on them in unison cast the patronus charm. A phoenix burst from Dumbledore's wand and a cat from McGonagall's, the two animals looked back at the ones who cast them.

"Go find anyone you can and bring them here." Dumbledore commanded of the patronus's.

"What if there are death eater's about?" She asked him.

"Then we fight." He answered.

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Sirius had his arm around Remus's shoulders as they walked down the halls, Lily with her arms around his waist. Remus still kept his head down and his hands in his pockets, whenever there was a sound or movement he would jump and growl, rather then jump and gasp. Sirius was used to this, being with him on pretty much every full moon for the past three years, Lily on the other hand... not so much.

When ever Remus had made any inhuman noise she tried not to make a face, or flinch away but it was weird, she had never seen him transform, or transformed. Hell, she had never even seen a real werewolf before. But apparently he somehow noticed her distress and looked down in a whimper.

"Aw, Remy." She said and stopped to give him a hug. Sirius stopped to and let her hug him, feeling great sympathy for his lycanthrope friend. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it honest. It's just this place, makes ya jumpy." She said pulling away.

He nodded his head. "I know, I know you don't mean it Lils..." He lisped, still not used to the large fangs.

"Are you going to look up now?" She asked.

He shook his head.

"C'mon o'l buddy." Sirius said wrapping his arm around his shoulders. "Let's go find Dumbles, he can fix it. He can fix everything."

"That might be going a bit far, don't you think?" Remus asked with a grin, looking up slightly.

Sirius shook his head confidently. "You should know better then anyone, Moony. Dumbledore is the greatest wizard of all time, he knows all and he can solve all." He ranted with his arm that wasn't currently around his friend spread out.

"Right." Remus said as they turned a corner and the second they made this turn a large silvery phoenix stood, or rather floated, before them. "That's Dumbledore's patronus." Remus said with his head fully up and staring wide eyed with his mouth open. "What's it doing here?"

"I told you so." Sirius said and the phoenix turned around.

Lily began jogging after it. "I bet we have to follow it."

"Brilliant deduction Lily." He responded sarcastically as he followed her down the hall along with Remus.

The trio took many turns throughout the house and almost stopped as they reached a flight of unsteady stairs. The patronus just floated up them but the actual people that stood at the bottom stared at the old steps in worry. The patronus must have noticed they were no longer following it because it turned and went down about half way and then came back up.

"It must be safe." Remus said looking at the stairs, not believing his own words.

"Yeah..." Lily agreed poking the steps with her toe. "The patronus wouldn't lead us to a place that wasn't safe... right?"

"You pansies." Sirius said and bolted up the stairs two at a time.

"Sirius!" Remus cried and chased his friend up the stairs. "You idiot you'll get yourself killed!"

"Both of you!" Lily screamed from the bottom as she clutched the banisters with her hands making her knuckles turn white. "Come back here! You reckless gits!" She yelled as she began walking up the stairs more carefully.

When she reached the top she let out a long breath, thankful that she was able to get up there without falling to her death. "I'm going to kill you both." She said with closed eyes, leaning up against the wall.

"Well, do it later cuz we're losing the phoenix." Sirius said and the three set off again following it.

It was only about another five minutes or so of running through the house taking various turns and twists until they reached a dead end. The phoenix disappeared into the air around them and they were left to stare at the wall in utter confusion. "What's going on...?" Sirius said as he slowly took his wand out, fearing a trap.

Lily took hers out as well; Remus on the other hand felt no need for a wand. The only weapon he needed at the moment was his claws and fangs. They were threatening enough he thought.

Two figures then seemed to appear out of the woodwork and walk closer. Sirius was about to throw about a spell until he felt his wand leave his hand, someone had performed magic without speaking. The taller figure grabbed the wand he had stolen from Sirius and in the dark; Sirius could have sworn he had seen a twinkle in the eye of the person.

"Sirius, my boy, you must keep a better grip on your wand."

"Professor!" Sirius said with relief, as they all calmed down and smiled slightly, now that they knew that this was no threat. "Why... why in Merlin's name were you hiding in the woodwork?"

"In case of unpleasant visitors." He responded. "I'm glad you're all safe."

"Well... not really." Lily said and gave Remus and nudge forward. "Something's happened."

McGonagall gasped and ran forward to her former student. "Oh my dear!" She said and cupped his face in one of her hands so she could have a better look.

"I was afraid of this." Dumbledore spoke gravely.

"Of what?" The Transfiguration professor asked turning around sharply to see him, but still keeping a motherly and protective grip on the younger boy. "What were you scared of? Why was I not informed of any of this?"

"The spells this house is covered in, the boggarts are enchanted they are actually becoming what we fear most rather then just taking the shape of them. Our young Mr. Lupin saw the full moon in his boggart, it became the full moon. But since it is still not a true moon in the night sky, the change was only slight."

"Slight?" Remus exclaimed and looked at his with sad yellow eyes. "You call this slight!?"

Dumbledore walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder and gave a reassuring grin. "I'll admit it is quite bad, but I believe I can reverse it."

Sirius smiled and turned to his friend who was still with McGonagall. "See Moony? It'll all be better, no worries at all." He ignored the small tidbit that Dumbledore said he believed he could reverse it rather then saying he knew he could.

At that moment they saw a silvery white light running to them and they turned around. A cat was thinning into the air and behind it stood two girls and a boy. One of the girls was quickly pinpointed as Andy, her height was unmistakable and the boy was Peter, his build was very distinctive. The other girl they soon realized to be Dorcas Meadows.

"Wormtail!" Sirius cried out. "Ya made it!" He walked over and ruffled his friends hair.

"Oh damn, Remus." Andy said and walked over too; taking in the half transformation. "Hmmm..." She sighed as she nodded her head while biting the inside of her cheek. "Kinky." She concluded.

Remus smiled unknowingly bearing white fangs to her.

She ignored that and smiled back, giving him a kiss. "Ya look better then ya do the night of the full moon."

Remus snickered slightly and put his arm around her, she leaned on him and turned over to the rest of the group. "So, when is everyone else due to get here?" She asked.

"Any moment I think." Their headmaster responded.

"How are we going to get out, Professor?" Dorcas asked pretending Remus wasn't there, truth be told, like this he frightened her.

"We'll wait for the rest of our companions to get here before we start concerning our self over such details. It may take all of us to figure out a decent plan."

"Albus, what is the meaning of this?" They heard the gruff voice of Mad-Eye Moody coming from behind.

Dumbledore held his hand up to stop his from speaking. "I am sorry, but unfortunately not all of us have that eye of yours. We can not see when boggarts are ready to jump out at us. I'm afraid there is nothing here to find, we must stop."

"Well," Sirius said reaching into his coat pocket. "I found these actually." He enlarged the papers he had taken from the room he found and looked at them. "I don't know if they mean anything, they were just sort of in a pile." He handed them over to Moody.

The man looked at them and grunted a few times. "What are these circles spots?" He asked.

"Huh?" Sirius asked and looked over, all over the papers were circles letters. "I dunno, I didn't see them before."

"We'll have to figure them out later, Alastor." Dumbledore said. "For now, we have some more of the children coming."

In the distance they saw Heather, Sturgis and Laura coming, Sturgis seemed to be hobbling slightly. His one arm was around Heather's shoulders and his other one had a tight grip on his wand. There was bandages all over him and the one of this arms was in a sling, this was the side he was holding his wand in. Along with the white bandages there was bruises covering his skin.

"What happened to you guys?" Andy asked looking them up and down.

"Devil's snare." Heather answered. "A whole room full of it."

"Damn..."

"And you?" She asked noticing Remus. "Looks like we didn't have the most fun."

"Boggarts." Remus said with his head down once again. "They uh, they kinda... became the moon I think. Kinda..."

"I think I got it." Heather said being sympathetic and not needing him to continue. "So where is everyone?"

"My brother has sent me a patronus, apparently he found a portkey and was teleported out of this place. He's back at HQ waiting for us." Dumbledore said.

"Well," Sturgis said looking around the room. "We're missing the brother's, Edgar, Maureen and Benjy."

"And Caradoc," Sirius spoke up. "He seemed to just disappear, I looked for him, but I couldn't find him, honest, I looked." He said worrying that people would think he didn't look because of his dislike for the man.

Dumbledore seemed to understand and smiled at him. "I understand, it's perfectly alright. I'm sure we'll find him. Say, Alastor, could you look through the walls and see who else is in this house? I'm sure if we tried we could get everyone together."

"I am, Albus." Mad-Eye said glaring through the hard wood walls. "Maureen and Benjy are on their way, following your patronus Minerva. There's Edhgar, Albus, you're patronus is heading towards him, he looks confused... a bit scared I'd say... but I don't see the brother's. It seems they aren't even in the house anymore."

"Not in the house?" Lily asked, worried. "Well then did they find a way out or... or did they..."

"Find a portkey." James finished.

"Well," Laura said with slight panic rising in her voice. "I mean, that means they found each other that their together and you know they're both strong wizards, that means they can defeat anything... Right?" She asked looking around desperately at the older wizards and witch.

"I'm sure they're fine, Laura." Sirius said in a calm, comforting tone as he wrapped his arm around her. He only meant to be acting as a friend, but since their encounter at the wedding, which Sirius still didn't remember, it felt slightly uncomfortable. But she didn't have the heart to tell him that, she knew he meant no harm.

"Their coming." Moody said and seconds later the two came running up to the group.

"Oh thank Merlin!" Maureen yelled as she gave them all a big hug when she saw them pausing when she saw Remus but hugged him regardless. "I thought I'd never see any of you ever again!"

Benjy didn't hug he settled with shaking hands. "It was terrifying," he began. "We were stuck in a maze of sorts. How can a house have a maze? And how can a house be this large anyway? This place has more secret passageways then Hogwarts."

"I don't know about that." Sirius said with a smirk, thinking back to his Marauding days.

"Now just Edgar, right?" Andy said looking around the group, "well and the boys but... uh..."

"The Prewett's aren't coming, they're not here." Moody growled at her frustrrated that he had to say this so many times. Remus responded to that 'growl' at his girlfriend when Moody turned around he gave a quick snap and growl to his back.

And giggled and slapped him on the chest lightly and Sirius who happen to be standing right next to them snorted in laughter and ruffled his friends hair. "That's the Moony we all know and love." He said and sneaked a peek in Moody's direction. His back was turned, but with that eye of his he knew he was glaring at them.

A couple minutes later they saw Edgar come through

"That's everybody." Moody sounded out.

"What about Gideon and Fabian?" Maureen asked desperatly not wanting to leave them behind, althought she knew they would have too.

"They seem to be missing." McGonagall said walking over. "I'm sorry dear, we can't find them. They're not here." She renforced. "Along with Caradoc I'm afriad we'll have to leave without them."

"No..." She moaned and put her face in her hands.

"I'm sure they're fine." Benjy said putting his hand around her before looking up at everyone around him. "Now, how do we get out of here? I think we've all noticed by now the blasted spells around this place. We can't apparate."

Dumbledore nodded. "We will find a way out."

Andy let go of Remus and walked around, a few times she knocked her fist on the wall listening. Remus followed her around with a furrowed brow. "Love, what are you doing?" He asked.

"Listenin'." She responded as she moved around and knocked on some more walls. It looked like someone had just given her back luck and she was now knocking on wood.

"Well obviously, but for what?"

As she knocked on one wall she smirked. "Hear that?" By now almost everyone was staring at her.

"What?" Dorcas asked from the back, still staying clear of Remus.

"The sound, listen over here." She moved to another wall and knocked and then back to this one. "Ya hear the difference?"

"No." Heather said with a blank stare.

Remus, being a werewolf and half transformed at the moment, nodded his head. "yeah, I hear it, but what does that have to do with anything."

"Well," she grinned and took her wand out. "With super power wolfy hearing I can hear how hollow these walls are, and on the other side of this wall is a damn big space. I'd bet'cha it's outside."

"Ms. Volk, I don't know if I approve what you're suggesting." Dumbledore said with authority in his voice and yet a mischievous glint in his eye, betraying what he was telling her.

"Blow this walls ass up." She said and pointed her wand at the wall.

"Ms. Volk!" McGonagall cried. "I'm sure there is a more proper solution!"

"Blow it up!" Sirius yelled.

"Andy no!" Lily said putting her hands on her hips.

"Go Andy, go!" Benjy yelled.

The room was split in two sections, half saying to blow it up and the other half saying to leave it be that she would kill them all. Andy of course being Andy, the rash, unpredictable American... I think we all know which option she picked.

In seconds the wall was blown out and the one after that and the one after that. This was not outside it seems, just a large room. Dust, and debris was flying all around them, landing in their hair and shoulders. Many of them had to duck and avoid the splintered wood that was falling hard around them.

Finally at the third dangerous explosion Andy smiled as she saw the moonlight filtering though the gaping hole in the wall. "See! Look there's outside! I told you I'd get all out of here!"

"You never said that!" Maureen yelled as all of them ran to the gap in the wall that seemed to be closing it self up.

"Well I should have!" She screamed.

"It's closing up!" James yelled as he tightly gripped Lily's hand, making sure she didn't fall behind.

"Once more for luck!" Andy laughed with the biggest smile on her face ever and she thrust her wand to the quickly self healing wall. One last gigantic explosion sounded out, maybe a bit bigger then intended because the whole house began to come crashing down to the ground.

"Dammit!" Heather yelled from the back as she helped Sturgis limp to the man made exit. "Now look what you did!

"Shut up!" Andy cried back.

The large group through the open hole just in time as the rest of the house came crashing down the behind them. Once they were at a safe distance they were able to watch the remains of it collapse. It was quite a sight to see, but some of them were angry at the fact she destroyed one of their only leads to Voldemort.

"Hey! I just got us out of there!" Andy said trying to defend her actions.

"And you completely demolished every lead be had on Voldemort, don't you think before you act?" Moody roared at her, obviously very angry, even his magical eye was glaring at her.

"We have those papers." Sirius butted in. "Maybe that was all that's there. And besides I'm happy that that house was destroyed! I mean hell that place was dangerous! We lost three people there tonight, and I wasn't hoping to stay longer and lose more."

"This arguing." Dumbledore said stepping into the fight. "Is not solving a thing, Ms. Volk may have acted rash, but you can not deny that the house held dark magic in it. We all may have been doomed if we stayed in much longer."

Mad-Eye grumbled at him and began walking in a different direction. "Better go then, don't want to stay around this place much longer then we have to."

The group moaned as they followed him back to the sight of the portkey. It was even worse now that they were walking at night, every now and then something would move in the bushes or in the forest and all of them would freak out. Of course, Mad-Eye wouldn't he could see what was behind the trees and know it was only a deer or possum or some other night animal.

People seemed to be gripping one another in pairs, couples were together and even those non couples were clutching one another. Laura was even clinging to Sirius, she hadn't really noticed it was him though, she would have grabbed anyone she could hug tightly.

Finally they reached the portkey, Moody activated it right away to take them back to HQ. No one even said a word, they just grabbed a hold of the thing and waited for it to take them away from this eternally creepy place. A few moments after everyone had took a firm grip on it they all felt a strong pull at their naval and the scenery around them faded away into nothingness.

Seconds later the group landed on the porch of their HQ, some of the more experienced wizards landed on their feet, but some landed smack dab on their butts, it hurt. They slowly got up and walked to the door, Mad-Eye had already limped inside.

"I really should practice that." Sirius said holding his back like an old man as he stood up.

"Come on, let's head inside." James said and the group of young Order members began walking in.

After only a few seconds of entering they saw Gideon and Fabian Prewett sitting on the couch with equal sly smiles on their faces. It seemed that Moody was grilling them, seeing if they were the real brothers or death eaters in disguise. But they all knew it was them, as they passed by giving the boy relived looks, they both winked simultaneously at them all. Now, if only they could reverse what had happened to Remus this wouldn't have turned out all that bad... cause, you know, Caradoc was still missing.

Lisa: This should have been up on tuesday or somthin' but we ran into a longevity error in the chapter and I had to go off and fix it. Sorry. But that was it and stick around for more... please? And review? That'd be nice.