Just to clear up a issue-Lee will say anything to cause fear in a person so the story he told in the last story could have happened or could have not happened. He will say many lies to many people in this story and many truths to a lot of people.
writing like this is flashback
'words' are thoughts.
The first thing Fred feels when he steps out of the car is hate. He hates where Lee took his brother, hates the ugly broken down factory that has been George's hell for the last four months. He looks around at the scenery, at the beautiful lake in the distance, its water so blue that you would have thought it was a fake. He looks at the wheat field, seven feet tall and so orange that it looked gold. How could the factory look so horrible when everything about it looks so gorgeous? How could it be so evil when everything else is innocent? He feels a comforting hand on his shoulder and he turns and faces Harry and gives the weakest smile anyone has ever seen.
"Come on Fred; let's see if we can find George." Harry nearly whispers as they both look at the factory's sign, "Nellis Slaughter House." Harry steps forward but stops when Fred doesnt move.
"I can't go in there." Fred whispers as he looks at the factory. He can't face his brother; he couldn't take it if he was died or dying or hurt beyond repair. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if his brother dies right in front of him. What if they can't save him, what if he is somewhere they can't reach? He shivers as he reminds himself that he is brave, he is Fred Weasley, and that Fred does not get frightened.
"Come on Fred." Hermione quietly says as she grabs his arm, he turns to her and gives her the most terrified expression that she has ever seen and so she just lightly rubs his arm and leads him to the entrance. Ron stays back with Louis both looking at the factory without expression. Louis glances at Ron who just kept staring at the sign; he can almost hear Ron muttering under his breath, "Jesus, he kept George in a slaughter house."
"Yeah, come on lets go find your brother." Louis said in his strongest voice trying to stay positive for Ron but honestly he doubts that George is alive, after all Lee is not the most patient person in the world, why wouldn't he have killed George earlier. He wonders if Lee planned everything. He wondered if he planned four months ago that Fred was going to find that page with the factory yesterday. He wondered if he left the pictures of the factories out for Hermione to find and then connect the dots with the drawings yesterday. Did Lee come to the restaurant earlier today to get caught? Is this all part of Lee's plan?
The more Louis walks the more he gets the sense that something is off. Why bring George here? Why did Lee let himself get caught? Why is the factory so open? Why aren't there any signs of life here if Lee has been here yesterday? He could feel the tiniest of hairs standing up on his neck and he looked around carefully, he can't help but feel like someone is watching them. He could almost see the creature, stalking them, hiding in the thick wheat field, could hear the wheat crushing. The strangest thing is other than the crushing of wheat there is no other noise. Where are the birds, the animals? He spins around and looks at the wheat directly behind him, somewhere in the back of his mind someone is screaming 'run.' He steps closer to the wheat and touches it, feeling a sticky substance. He pulls his hand back and look at the substance, a clear substance with pungent smell. He rubs his fingers together for a minute.
"What the hell?" Ron whispers as he touches another wheat plant getting the clear substance on his fingers. Louis and Ron turns to each other, their eyes exploring the same question before Louis looks up. Right above the wheat field is a wire that starts at the door of the factory and loops all the way around to the back of the factory. Getting a very bad feeling about this he grabs his lighter from his back pocket and pushed Ron away from him a little. Ron watched him with curiosity as Louis clicks the button on the lighter making tiny fire come out. Louis quickly put his thumb with has the clear liquid on it and swiped it over the fire.
"Have you gone…" Ron starts but stops dead as he sees fire erupt on the thumb. Louis quickly closes the lighter and drops it to the floor before taking out his wand. One spell later and the fire on his thumb is gone. But that didn't calm either of them down as they look up at the wire again.
"Shit!" Louis screams grabbing Ron's hand he starts to walk faster to the factory door. Once again he hears something moving in the field and getting nervous he walks even faster but he can hear it too walking faster too, and so he starts to run. Looking up he catches sight of the rest of the gang already at the factory door.
"Stop, guys don't open the door." Both Ron and Louis screamed but the gang didn't hear them.
"What, what did they say?" Hermione asked Harry and Fred who both shrugged as Harry grasped the door handle. Ron and Louis saw this and started to speed up racing to the front door.
"Harry get away from the door. Harry it is a trap." Ron screams at Harry but it is already too late, Harry has already started to open the door. Ron and Louis watched in shock as the wire snaps from the door. As soon as the wire is disconnected from the massive door the wire turns into a giant snake of yellow and red as it catches on fire.
"Run." Louis screams and Ron doesnt need to be told twice. He starts to run making sure Louis is keeping up to him as they started the fifteen feet race to the front door. The wire is falling down faster than they are running already touching the tip of the tall wheat's. The field immediately lights up and from the steps of the factory Ron heard Hermione screaming.
"Go inside." Louis screams at the group who just stands there looking shocked as they watch as the field around Louis and Ron becomes one huge fire. Both Ron and Louis lifted their coats so their nose and mouth is protected from the thick smoke. Up ahead they can see Harry and Fred trying to hold back Hermione who is trying to get to Ron.
"Ron keep on running. You are so close now. Let me go, Harry let me the fuck go." She screams as she tries to bite Harry in his arm so he will release her.
"Harry, take Hermione inside the factory, now." Ron ordered as they neared the factory, black scoot is forming on Ron's and Louis's coats.
"Not without you." She screams again but Fred and Harry was already leading her inside the factory. Louis coughs beside Ron making Ron turn around and see that Louis just stopped about two steps ago.
"Louis come on we need to go." Ron says lifting his coat even higher up his face to prevent CO2 poisoning.
"The fire is getting even hotter Ron. I don't think…" Louis begins but Ron has already grabbed Louis by his coat and pushed them both on the floor.
"Come on Louis," Ron screams crawling toward the factory, "no giving up Louis. We need you to help us find George. You can give up afterwards. Just stay low to the ground."
They finally manage to crawl up the wooden steps as everything behind them is a gaint ball of fire. Looking behind them one last time they pushed their way into the factory Ron slipped inside the door instantly coughing and whizzing but Louis stays outside for a minute watching at the flames raise in strength. His thoughts went crazy, 'how are we going to get out of here. The whole field around the factory is on fire, oh god we are trapped here.' And the minute he heads inside he thought he saw someone standing in the middle of the field, a hatchet in hand. He blinks and the person was gone but he still feels like he is being watched. Coughing a little he covers his mouth with his arm before crawling into the factory. The minute he crawls inside Hermione and Harry shuts the door hoping that will be enough to block out the suffocating smoke.
With the door closed the factory is pitch black, the only light that can be seen is the fire from the outside, making the room look sinister. Louis couldn't help but think that the sinister look fits this room. Fred looks away from the door and immediately runs to his brother who is still on the floor coughing. Fred quickly checks for burn injuries as Hermione is making small circles with her hand on his back. Louis watches them by the door wheezing and coughing as well. Harry watches everyone with annoyance, they should be looking for George right now. It isn't a big surprise that Harry is the first to yell "lumos," and instantly giving him light what he sees surprises him.
"What the hell?" Harry whispers as he looks around the small room that they are standing in. The room is tiny and has at least five desks, all still stuffed with information on meats, injury lists, tracking devices to measure how many animals come in each day. The chairs have all been pushed to the side of the room with no desks, ropes still hanging off every chair giving an eerie indication why they closed this factory.
"This is the office of the factory." Louis replied nervously, he never wanted to come back here, and now that he is here he would happily throw himself into the fire outside then stay in here for another minute..
"Why are all the chairs pushed against this wall?" Fred asked bending down next to one and touching one of the ropes. Fred frowns when he sees dried blood on the side of the rope. He immediately drops the rope and stands back rubbing his hands against his sides automatically as if trying to clean the invisible blood off his hands.
"Fred, what's wrong?" Hermione asked still sitting beside Ron on the floor. Fred turns around his face slightly paler than regular.
"Nothing, just a rat." He answers with the cheesiest of smiles as he looks around again.
"You jumping at a rat?" Ron asked with a hint of humor.
"Ron there is a spider right above you." Fred replies instantly and suddenly Ron jumps from the floor screaming and batting his head. Hermione shoots an angry look at Fred before standing up and grabbing onto Ron holding in still, "Ron there is no spider."
Ron stops all movement and just glares at Fred and opened his mouth to say something in return but Louis beats him to it, "Come on we had enough of a break. Let's start searching." The others all looked at Louis as he takes out his wand, "there shouldn't be any electricity so everyone should light their wands."
The group is silent as they all take out their wands, and simultaneously they yelled "Lumos," at the same time watching as the room becomes fully lit. Louis leads them out of the room and into the floor of the factory or the so called 'death zone' of the factory where they kill the poor animals. Fred lets everyone else pass him as he turns his wand to the wall with the chairs is and pales even more seeing the blood stains on the wall. Turning away he follows the group hearing Hermione and Louis talking about something and just before he left he would have sworn he heard something. He spins around and looks at the darkness around him and only then did he realize he is alone, he split from the group, he made himself vulnerable. He starts to turn back around when he hears it…
The turning of the knob…
He freezes as he watches the door which is lit from the fire outside starts to move. Shaking a little he looks back to the door the group went though barely seeing the lights from the wand before turning back to the burning door. The knob starts to turn again, faster this time. He walks quickly over to the door for some unknown reason and locks the door. He stands on his tip toes and looks out the tiny window and would have sworn he saw someone standing there right outside the door. He stands straight again before kneeling by the door as he shakes and wonders who just stands in the middle of a fire. He hears the turning of the knob again and looks at the knob which was by the side of his head. He reaches as it twists and spins, twist and spins. He can feel his breathing pausing as he hears boots hitting the wood of the stairs.
The door knob turns again…
"Fred, what the hell are you doing?" Fred jumped ten feet in the air.
"Fred, jesus Fred I didn't mean to scare you." Ron blurts out looking at his brother in concern.
"There is someone out there," Fred says looking at Ron with fear, "why would someone just stand in the middle of fire."
"There is someone out there Fred?" Ron asked his nerves shot way high. Fred nods and Ron pushes his brother away from the door. Fred looks at Ron in confusion as he watches Ron turn the lock.
"No Ron don't open that door, Ron something bad will happen." Fred pleads but all Ron does is just stare back at his brother. He has never seen his brother like this before, this isn't like Fred; this is more the reaction that George would have. Not Fred, not his brave brother who wasn't even frightened of Voldemort. Ron ignores Fred as he opens the front door. Fred immediately closes his eyes before opening them two minutes later finding nothing, nothing but the burning wheat surrounding the factory.
"See Fred nothing is here. When did you become so wimpy?" Ron asks as he shuts the door again and starts to walk again, "god are you that scared of finding George that you are causing yourself to turn into a huge mess."
"I am not afraid of finding him." Fred shots back as he locks the front door again making Ron raise an eyebrow at him.
"Come on everybody is waiting for us in the next room." Ron said choosing to ignore his brother's action which is to Fred's liking. Fred frowns at Ron but followed him anyway looking back at the front door as they left the room, the doorknob is turning again.
Harry watches as Ron and Fred approaches, Ron giving a strange look to Fred. Harry keeps his eyes on Ron who is looking around the large room with blood all over the marble floor. The room is completely empty of anything and is very huge.
"This is the room they killed all the animals in." Harry answered Ron's unasked question. He waited for any kind of response from Ron but none came. He turned to Fred seeing him walking around the room. Sometimes they lost track of Fred like when he passed by the butcher block or by the gates but he will always come back into focus.
"He isn't in this room." Fred yells with frustration kicking a bucket across the room. Harry just sighs as he looked at Louis who was standing a little bit away, holding something up to the light. Louis suddenly walks back to the group holding the thing in his hand, something loose, something that danced as he walked. He shows everyone the object which happens to be a black shirt. A shirt has been whipped to shreds, with fingerlike scratches going vertical.
Hermione takes the shirt and holds it up, "Its Georges. He was wearing this the day he was kidnapped."
"Are you sure?" Fred questioned grabbing the shirt from Hermione not caring when it ripped. His eyes watered as he looks at the shirt, George's favorite shirt, and holds it to him. 'This cant be happening.'
"Look at the shirt, it is almost completely ruined." Hermione adds looking as scared as Fred is feeling. If this is how his shirt looks how does he look?
As if he was a mind reader Louis shouts, "hey it doesn't matter, it doesn't mean anything. He is going to be okay, I promise." Even he wonders to himself what will they find at the end? He can only guess and that guess is nothing good. Still he tries to stay positive, he tries to think they will find George alive, but nothing that comes into this factory ever comes out alive. This factory is like death, everything that comes in has to die, and even its faithful workers have all perished in this building. He wonders if they will die too in here, how long to they have before the factory catches on fire? What the hell was outside? He remembers the workers warnings, "that creature is the sign of evil, sign of death. You need to close this factory down and save everyone's lives."
Fifteen years ago the factory suffered a massacre.
Fifteen years ago the factory suffered a massacre killing six hundred of the thousand workers.
Starting from sixteen years ago factory workers started seeing a strange creature in the wheat fields. Everyone who saw the creature would get hurt, not seriously, but still enough to cause pain. Everyday the creature would be seen walking in the wheat, hanging with the soon to be slaughter animals. Until the day of the massacre the creature was seen, but at night of the massacre it completely disappeared. Guess how many people saw the creature? Six hundred and thirty of them. The night before the massacre thirty people quit their jobs saying that the creature was a zombie, the bastard Devil, or Death himself.
The day after the massacre Louis, Lee, and their dad walks into the factory, the sons horrified, the dad smiling at the deformed corpses of his coworkers. The females in the front office has all been raped and gutted. The guys have been beheaded. On the killing floor all of the workers had their heads hammered to a giant wooden cross. Up on the cutting floor the workers have been put though the grinder, shredded humans remains is everywhere making the room smell and look like hell. Louis puts a hand over Lee's eyes as he glares at his smiling dad. Ryan smiled at his sons as he picks up some shredded remains and brings them over to his sons to see.
"Look sons, look at all of this. I told you about what happens when people are weak, didn't I? They turn into meat." Ryan says with a crazed smile as he drops the shredded remains.
"Why did you bring us here?" Louis asks, his ten years old brain trying to block out the awful factory with its bodies and its blood. His hold on his brother tightened as his father started to laugh.
"To show you what Death thinks of weaklings?" His father yells again before leading them on. Louis doesn't want to move didn't want to witness anymore destruction of humanity but Lee moved therefore Louis has to go forward.
"Where are we going?" Louis bravely asked grabbing his seven years old brother's wrist as they continued to move.
"I want you to see one last thing, just one last thing." His father calmly says as he stands next to a door, a door all the way in the back of the factory. Louis looks up at his father and holds his little brother tight, is it all over? Is their father going to kill them? Ryan's crazed smile was the only thing Louis can see as his father pushes the door open, the door rattles and bangs against the wall behind the door making both boys jump. Lee hooks his arms tighter against Louis's back and presses his head into the shirt, whispering over and over, "I'm scared. Louis I'm scared." Louis just hugs his little brother tighter.
"It's okay Lee. I'm not going to let anything happen to you, I promise." Louis whispers back not once keeping his eyes off his father who is just waiting patiently for the pair of them to move.
"Do you mean it?" Lee asks his older brother, soon his brother will be the only one he can ever count on.
"Of course, I'll never let anything happen to you forever." Louis whispers again before he felt someone grab his arm and drag him toward the room. He looks up at his father and then at Lee nervously. He freezes the second he walks inside the room. There inside is their mother, tied up by a rope above a grinder.
"If you look at the history of Earth, if you look at the evolution of life it will teach you one thing: the weak dies out so the strong can live. The history of men taught us that to be strong you have to take away everything that can make them weak." Ryan says loudly tears in his eyes as he stares at his wife.
"She made me weak," Ryan cries as he touches the only part of her body he can reach the legs, "women make men weak. But women aren't everything. Kids make everyone weak; it makes dad weak, makes moms weak, it even makes strangers weak. You kids are the cause of weakness for everyone. If I had any wish for you kids it is to never have kids, they ruin lives, and they ruin the want to live." Ryan turns the switch for the grinder on and suddenly everyone was forced to hear the sharp turning of the blades inside the grinder. When the grinder turned on their mother stated to struggle and Louis covered Lee's ears so he wouldn't hear his mom screaming or pleading their dad to stop.
"Please don't do this. I love you Ryan, goddamn it I love you." She screams, her voice so hurt that it sounded like a deer that has been shot. Ryan just turns back to the kids and he speaks again, his voice breaking, emotional, "and finally I hope you never fall in love kids. Love is the most evil thing in this world. It blinds you from the evil of the world, makes you vulnerable. Love will be the death of you one day kids, love will be the death of everyone." And with that he cuts the rope holding their mother up.
"No, mom." Louis screams and falls to his knees looking up at the killing floor. He blinks as he realizes that there are no shredded bodies in this room and he finds himself blushing as he finds that everyone is staring at him strangely.
"Louis are you…" Hermione starts but Louis cuts her off.
"I'm fine. Come on lets keep looking."
"Why did you say that?" Ron asked and Louis chose to ignore him as he started walking around and trying to find the door that leads to the cutting room.
"Hey, I asked you a question." Ron growls as he grabbed Louis's arm immediately stilling the shorter boy.
"Some questions are better without answers." Louis hisses back as he begins to walk faster to the door. 'Find George and get out of here,' his mind reminds him as if it is a simple task at hand. He knows that when or if they find George it is not going to be a pleasant sight not after four months of captivity.
And the question still suffocates him, why here, why bring George here?
And in a form of an answer he whispers to himself "some questions are better off without answers."
"Where do you think George is?" Ron asked with so a sorrowful fear, one that makes him sound like a child. Louis stared at Ron for a minute. Louis already knows where George is at; he knew it from the second he walked into the factory, but why?
No one noticed him stopping suddenly, his eyes larger than an owl, as he stares off into space. 'No way, Lee wouldn't do that to someone!' Still he knows in his gut what Lee had been planning, why he was planning to burn down the factory. He couldn't help but hear a ticking sound like a bomb but instead of a bomb the ticking is actually George's life fading away.
Louis knows that time is running out and so he tried to walk faster wishing he had taken his broom, the factory is so large and he isn't in great shape anymore, and he is slower than he wanted to be.
"Come on we need to speed up lets go." He screams back at the group, the factory's life is going to end really soon with or without them in it. He yanks the door open and gestured for everyone to walk though it and head into the cutting room. He waits by the door while everyone passes. The only one left in the room is Fred and him and Louis noticed how Fred' attention seemed to be drawn to something. Louis turns slightly so he can look but all he sees is complete darkness.
"Fred come on." Louis says slowly as he continues to scan the long room for anything that is suspicious.
"I saw something moving." Fred nearly whispers as he too scans the room.
"It is probably just a rat or something." Louis says again looking around at the too large room. With no animals here anymore the room is large enough where any kind of creepy thing can be lurking in the darkness waiting for the weakling in the group to kill. Louis will be damned if he let anybody die here.
"It looked tall, tall enough to be a human." Fred whispered again and Louis felt his stomach tightening as he looks in the darkness again. It is only when he looks around for the tenth time that he thinks he sees something in a corner of the room tiptoeing around the wall, taking large steps as it stalks closer to them.
"You see it too don't you?" Fred asked as he watches the figure approaching trying not to be frightened.
"Fred we have to keep walking." Louis whispers again as he takes Fred's arm and leads him to the door.
"What is going on Louis?" Fred asked nervously. Louis lets out a nervous chuckle.
"I don't know but I think whatever it is isn't good."
"What should we do?"
"Pray that we can find your brother."
"And after that?"
"Pray that we can find a way to get out."
"What do you think it is?"
"I don't know."
"Do you think it is Lee?" Louis pauses for a minute as he thinks on that possibility but then shakes the idea out of his head; he is still locked away in his shed.
"I don't think so. Come on Fred just get in the room."
"Do you think it wants to kill us?"
"Fuck Fred I don't know and I don't want to find out so come on get in the room." Louis says as he backs away from the approaching shadow. When Fred doesn't move Louis pushes Fred though the door before throwing himself into the room shutting the door on the figure. He looks around at the rest of the group feeling numb and scared shitless. Shit how are they going to make it out of here.
"George, George are you in here." Ron shouts as he starts to move about the move.
"Ron stop moving just stay in one place. Everyone stop." Louis is suddenly screaming making everyone pause and stare at him.
"We have a problem here." Louis explains as he lowers his voice as he listens to the scratching that is happening on the other side of the door.
"What, what is wrong." Hermione asks loudly making Louis jump slightly. The scratching on the other side of the door is scaring him. It seems like he is writing something on the door, like he is carving.
"Listen! I need everyone to listen to me very carefully. Stay away from the sides of the room, stay as close together as possible, and be as quiet as possible." Louis speaks slowly as the carving continues.
"Why, what is wrong?" Harry asks looking at Louis with weary eyes, he knows something is wrong.
Don't ask me that right now."
"Why?" Hermione whispered and Louis pales as the scratches became more frantic.
"Guys we don't have any time, there is a door at the end of the room I need everyone to get into that room as fast as possible. Do not stop, do not look around, and do not split up from the group." Louis says as his eyes catch figures pacing in the darkness of the room choosing to stay close to the wall but the minute they start to run he knows the figures will be all over the room. Following Louis's Fred stares too at the corners of the room. If anyone else looked around no one spoke about it.
"On the count of three. One, two," Fred pales at Louis shaking his head a little but Louis didn't care as he tries to remember what spell could help them, "Three, run." Louis yells before he starts to run looking around at everyone else who is also keeping pace with him. Louis expected the door to bust open, expected the figures to charge at them but nothing happened. Absolutely nothing. And when he opens the door and lets everyone inside the next room and looks around for the figures just to find nothing. Feeling embarrassed he has to remind himself that the dark plays tricks on your eyes.
The first thing he noticed about the room was the grinder, the killer grinder with the taste for human blood. He can still hear the sound of his mother screaming as their dad cut the rope making her fall to her death in the grinder. He can still remember her blood as it squatted on his shirt. Now the grinder is covered in dust, its metal parts rusted and ruined. It hasn't been used in years. He at least feels a little relief that Lee didn't grind up George that has been his fear since the second he found out where Lee has taken him.
Seventeen years ago something happened in this room which never got reported.
Seventeen years ago something happened in this room which never got reported, all the workers in this room just vanished, with no clues. No bodies ever found. They just vanished. Sixteen years ago three people fell into the blinder losing their lives, thinking it was cow they packaged the remains up and gave it to local stores to sell. After that everyone wanted the factory's meat. Upon finding out what happened the factory owners started to hire illegal immergence to come and work in this room just to throw them into the grinder. Fifteen years ago there was so much humans lodged up in the grinder that the surviving workers had to push the bodies down into the grinder. This grinder has the lust for human blood, and luckily today it is still hungry.
He turns from the grinder and counts his steps carefully trying to find the light switch. You see since the factory is only supposed to be open during the days where enough natural light can come in, the owners didn't want to waste more electivity on lights. But after the twentieth person died from not seeing what they were doing around the grinder the health department demanded a light switch for the room. Louis finds the switch and flipped it back surprised when a bright light blinded him. He almost laughed. Ten years this factory has been closed down, ten whole years, yet the lights still work. How could the electric company let that happen? Is someone paying for electricity?
Feeling a sense of being watched he looks at the lit room feeling relief for Edison making lights. The room doesn't look scary with lights on, shadows is not playing on his nerves, everything looks that more familiar. He prays that George is somewhere in this room if not that they will have to go upstairs and that is too dangerous for his likings. Upstairs the floorboards are falling so they are holes in the floor and there are no lights and no doors. The workers used to call the second door death row. If George isn't in this room there is no way he is going on the second floor, fuck he will probably just wait in this room. He doesn't care what the rest wants to do, if they want to walk up there that is their choice, but he isn't going to die for some man. He looks at the rest with a little bit of annoyance as they just stand there waiting for him to do something. Why would they wait for him, don't they understand that he is not their friend; they mean absolutely nothing to him. The only reason he decided to help him is because George seemed to be a nice person and doesn't deserve to die…
But he isn't willing to put himself in any more harm than he is already in so of it came to it he wouldn't hesitant to leave George here to his fate after all humans are made to die. He looked at Fred silently questioning his motive for being here he didn't seem to be helping at all. In fact Fred is more or less reliability than help. He took a couple of steps and than stops as he stares into the lit room.
The room was pretty much empty except for the grinder and a life size puppet. Louis blinks at the puppet for a minute before shivering. He takes a step closer and stops grasping and trembling. He can see the puppet perfectly from here. Orange hair which lost its shine long ago, abused and thrown away, the face….He hears a grasp behind him and he turns finding Hermione, her eyes drenched with tears.
"Is that him?" She whispers brokenly. Louis just stares with dry eyes as he whispers unemotionally "We are too late." They both turned to Fred who was at the other end of the room by the grinder, circling it as if George was in there. Both Hermione and Louis lower their heads as they fought the despair.
"Maybe…maybe he isn't dead." Hermione whispers again, they both wanted to keep their voices low as they didn't want Fred to come over. They have no idea what will happen when Fred finds out. Maybe they can lie and say they didn't find him, maybe not. What should they do?
"What is with this grinder, it's huge." Fred asked with amazement, he is like a ten years old boy amazed with everything. He had a smile on his face as he touched the grinder looking at the sharp blades. He looks so carefree at the moment. Both Louis and Hermione turned away from him as Hermione sobs a little as they eyes travel back to George. They couldn't believe the damage done to him, his arm is gone, both his legs are swollen; there are cuts all up and down his body. And what the hell did Lee do to his face? His mouth was sowed shut with a thick thread; his eyes are sowed too only with buttons sowing into his eyes. There are lines of blood under each eye and the mouth making a disturbing image that no one would want to ever see. There is a cut along the jaw line that looks infected, fingers are missing, toes are burnt, throat has a great circular bruise that probably came from strangulation. On his chest is a large burn which at first glance isn't anything special but if you study it more you will notice something weird about the burn. Then Louis realizes that it isn't a burn it is a brand, Lee branded him.
Harry looks away from the grinder and sees that Hermione and Louis are looking at something in the corner. Feeling curious he walks over and suddenly he stops dead and has to bite his lips from making any noise. Silently he turns back to Ron and Fred and shivered, holy shit what they are going to do?
If it isn't for Harry's horrified expression Ron wouldn't have thought that something was up. If it wasn't for Louis and Hermione staring at something Ron would have probably stayed near Fred but he did notice the others' expression and already started walking over. Harry eyes widened and he shakes his head at Ron begging him not to come over to stay where he is. Ron ignored Harry's desperate looks and stops beside Hermione trying to see what they see. As soon as he sees the body he started going crazy.
"George? Oh shit." Ron cries out when he sees the damages on his brother. He screams again rushing to George but Hermione and Harry holds him back. Still Ron is buckling and biting as he tries to get to his brother. Louis doesn't try to help Harry and Hermione who is both struggling to hold Ron back, his attention is on Fred. Fred is frozen by the grinder his face as white as a ghost.
"Fred don't come over here." Louis warns but Fred starts to move faster than Ron did as he passes the screaming Ron and then he sees it. He nearly falls to the ground with misery, George, his brother, is dead? He couldn't hold back the scream. Everyone stopped to turn to him, his horror filled scream echoing in the room as he looks at his broken brother.
"George." He yells as he dodges toward George but Louis holds him back. Crying and screaming he tries to kick himself out of Louis's hands but Louis doesn't move. Fred tries to kick and bite Louis but soon gives up falling to his knees as he sobs. Hermione kneels down beside Fred and puts a friendly hand on his shoulder.
"At least his suffering is over." She whispers as she once again looks at the figure, her eyes full of tears.
"What do we do?" Fred asks misery in his voice as he grieves for his brother.
"We bring the cops here to get the body." Louis says and Hermione glares at Louis while Fred and Ron starts crying.
"I'm not leaving my brother." Ron hisses though his tears as he sits next to Fred and hugs him, an unfamiliar sight.
"How do we know he is really died? Has anyone checked his pulse?" Fred screams looking from person to person.
"No." Louis admits after a minute but just by looking at George there could be no way that he can still be alive.
"Then he can still be alive right?" Fred asks with need, he won't admit his brother is dead until he has to.
"Fred look at him, there is no way he can still be alive." Hermione whispers her voice coated with sorrow as she looks at the figure in the corner, never did she expect to find this, it is just awful.
"No, no he has to be alive." Fred whispers standing up and taking a step toward the figure. No one stopped him. Everyone else just stood back watching Fred with throbbing hearts. There is nothing they could do to make this situation any better, everyone is just falling apart. Ron looks up at Hermione before standing up, tears in his eyes, before walking up to George too. Everyone watches the brothers approach George and bend down beside him; everyone closed their eyes allowing the brothers a minute of solitude.
Fred carefully squats down making sure not to touch the handless arm. His mind is spinning as he looks at the arm, his body shaking with rage. He can see Ron looking at the other arm where three fingers are missing; Ron's whole body is shaking with angry despair. Fred puts two fingers shakily to the neck to feel for a pulse, he prays he finds one.
Ron watches his brother with determination while looking at the arm with disgust. He looks at the missing fingers and cringes before holding George's hand regardless how bloody and cold it is. He can hear himself whispering to himself as he squeezes George's hands, his whispers are one of desperation, of pleading. He watches Fred face, seeing his hard set face, Ron has never seen Fred look so serious in his life. Fred did not look happy, Ron squeezed the hand again, and the rest just stood solemnly a few feet away, Hermione's face hidden in Harry's shoulder. Ron tried to stop the tears from falling as he starts to let go of his hand only to feel the hand squeeze his. Ron opens his eyes and stares at the hand his heart feels sick with despair. He looks up to Fred to see his face soften in disbelief.
"He's alive." Fred screams to everyone than repeating it over again softy as his face turns from despair to horror. He pushes his head in George's shoulder as he cries with both relief and fear. He hugs the figure as he kisses his neck, a kiss that is innocent, a kiss out of relief.
Ron watches with disbelief looking down at the abused hand holding his, George's hand looks so pale in comparison to his. He gently rubs the hand that seems to be holding his hand in a death squeeze. He didn't stop the tears from falling. 'How can he still be alive?' The hand squeezes his again and he cries even harder as he tries to pull the handcuffs off. He can hear Fred trying to do the same.
"Its okay George, its okay, I'm here, everything is going to be okay." Fred says softy brushing the oily hair out of his face. He feels movement beside him and he turns around seeing the handless arm reaching for him. With a sob he grabs the arm and holds it firmly trying not to look at the blackened ends of where his arm now ends. He continues to talk to George but stops with a sob when George turned his head trying to locate him.
"I'm right here George, I'm right here." Fred almost whispers as he collapses against George and cries, still holding his arm tight. George let go of Ron and brought his arm up to his eye poking at the buttons. Fred groans with agony as he reaches for the closest button and tries to pull it off. He is feverish as he tried to pull the buttons off hearing the chorus of "no" from everyone else but he doesn't care he wants to see George's eyes again. He feels something brush beside him and he turns to Ron who is struggling to pull the stitches away from George's mouth. But not a mere second later both Fred and Ron are forced to stop as Hermione, Ron, and Louis held them back.
"Don't be that stupid; if you pull those stitches it can do serious damage, definitely the stitches around the eyes." Hermione hisses holding Ron's hands in her hands and trying to make him see how serious this is.
"She is right, if you manage to pull the stitches away from his eyes there is always the chance that Lee stitched his retina as well, if you would have ripped the stitches up you could make him go blind." Louis hisses as well, his eyes a deep pool of fear. He wasn't expecting this; he thought he would find a dead body or a sick George, but this never.
"He wants to see me." Fred says brokenly and everyone noticed how young he sounded, like a little kid begging for his parents to save a dying cat. Fred looks from Louis to George and gives up sliding down beside George and pulling him to him whispering comforting words to George who keeps touching his eye with his hand. Fred starts to cry again as he rests his head back onto his twin's shoulder. If you looked closely at George's face he can see him crying as well although his tears came out red. George tries to rest his head on his brother and ended up crying even more when he couldn't. His crying did nothing more than to make it hard for him to breath and soon he was turning blue from not getting enough oxygen. He moves his hand away from his eye and starts scratching at the stitches around his mouth. Fred watched with horror as George tries to scratch at his stitches, he thought he just wanted it off. Only Harry seemed to notice that something was wrong and searched though his pockets finding his army knife. He pushes Fred away from George as he opens the knife.
"Harry want are you doing?" Hermione asks as he tries to take the knife away from him but before she could reach the knife he already slipped the blade in George's mouth and cut off the stitches, making George's lips bleed terribly. Not mere seconds after Harry did that George starts to cough as he gasps for breathes.
"He couldn't breathe." Harry answers before anyone can ask as he pats George on the back. The coughing didn't stop and is tiny, it sounded like a squeak. Harry pats him on the back carefully as he tries to break the restraints. Fred is beside him his head on George's ear as he whispers sweet nothings into his ear as he tries to keep him calm. George is full out crying now, sending more blood down his face which makes both Harry and Fred close their eyes. George is groaning or croaking, either way he sounded like a dying animal. He is too cold, his naked body is shivering.
"Frd." George whispers, his words barely edible as he searches for his brother again.
"I'm right here George, we are going to get you out of here, don't worry." Fred says strongly kissing the side of his brother's face.
"I…nt…die." George manages to say again.
"What, what did you say?" Fred asks again looking at George with determination.
"I…not…die." George tries again and Fred can tell he is trying to force himself to stay awake. Fred shakes George harshly when his hand goes limp trying to stimulate him back to consciousness. George does not come back.
Fred keeps holding his brother as he stares at everyone, "why are you guys waiting for, go find the fucking keys." He screams and everyone immediately runs off searching for keys as Fred hugs his naked brother to him.
"Everything is going to be fine. Don't worry about your fingers and your hand I'm sure St. Mugals can make you another. We are going to get you out of here; everything is going to be fine." George's croaking is the only reply he received.
It seemed to take forever to find the keys, in reality it only took ten minutes, but everyone thought it took much longer. It was Ron who found the key hidden within the grinder and when he cries out he found it everyone was relieved.
Running back to George and Fred he couldn't help but ask, "how is he doing?" He looked down to see Fred's tear filled face.
"He is still breathing." Fred replies as he goes back to brushing his fingers though George's hair and whispering sweet nothing to the unconscious boy. Ron bent down to put the key in the chains, Hermione and Harry bends down to look at George closer.
"Stay back, don't come close to him." Fred screams at his friends nearly hissing at him as he allowed his brother to unlock the locks, his eyes frozen to Harry and Hermione.
"We just want to make sure he is okay." Hermione says before leaning down toward George again but Fred wouldn't have any of it.
"Get the fuck away from him." Fred screams out glaring at Harry and Hermione as if they are his killers. He kneels in front of George as a form of protection and growls at anyone who gets close. Ron unlocks the locks and watches as the chains stumbled to the floor and if it wasn't for Fred George would have fallen to the ground. Fred unbuttons his long coat and throws it around George before lifting him up; his coat almost immediately is covered in blood. He looks at the group with need, "come on we need to get him to a hospital."
The group heads for the door and opens it without thinking. No one looked around, all they cared about it getting to the front door. All of them had the same question though, outside is a fiery pit, how are they going to reach the car, is the car on fire? No one chose to say these thoughts aloud. As they walked thought the cutting floor Ron would at times remind Fred to be careful with George, that he should support his neck, that he shouldn't move as rapid as he is. Fred is getting really agitated with Ron and seeing this Hermione covers Ron's mouth with her hand and tells him to be quiet. The rest of the walk is in silence except for George's croaking. When the get to the office room they frowned. The door isn't there. Fred could feel George steering up again and he subconsciously hugs him closer. George pushes an arm out to find Fred again when he noticed something, the chains never let his arm reach so much.
"No, no, no." He whispers so low that Fred almost missed it.
"What is wrong baby?"
"Yu…die." He manages feeling lightheaded. He could feel the temporary healing spell beginning to wear out. Lee told him the minute someone releases him from the chain the spell will wear off and he will die. He also told them that everyone else will be dead as well.
"What?"
"Rn." He tries as the pain sets in again and he feels the pull of death coming again. He tries to warn everyone but he knows it is already too late, everyone is dead.
"What is Rn?" Fred asks George who is struggling to stay conscious, he doesn't want to pass out because he is afraid once he does he will never wake up again. Damn Lee's spell!
"Run." Hermione says looking at the windows, her eyes wide with fear. Fred turns around and stares at the window before shivering holding George even tighter.
"What the fuck?"
"What do we do?" Harry asks and George opens his mouth again only to throw up blood getting blood all over Fred's body. Fred watches George with horrified eyes. George is starting to lose consciousness again as he struggles to find his voice, "run." He manages before blacking out again. Fred hears scratches coming from behind him and he turns around and pales.
"I think we should go back to the slaughter floor." Louis says looking horrified as he turns to the door.
"What if they are there as well?" Hermione asks not taking her eyes off of the windows.
"They are going to break in here pretty soon." He says as one pushes themselves against the window. Screaming out Hermione runs to the door and flings it open and everyone runs into the slaughter room without a second wasted. Louis locks the door as soon as everyone is in the room and looks around only to meet complete darkness.
"Light your wands." Hermione ordered but was stopped by Louis "no are you crazy. They will know where we are if we use lights."
"There know we are here anyways." Ron reminded everyone staying close to his brothers with his wand held high, his other hand pushing Hermione close to him so he can protect everyone he loves. He couldn't see where Harry is but he hopes he is near. He would hate it if anything happened to any of them.
"Then should we light the wands?" Harry asks from somewhere near Louis as he struggled to stay calm, he remembers these guys, remembering how he nearly died because of them years ago.
Without warning Ron screams "lucio" and bright light burns from his wand. What everyone sees make them tremble and step closer to each other until everyone is crammed into a corner. In front of them, behind them, on the sides of them, are hundreds of controlled Inferi. Harry groans as his childhood experience flashed though his mind, how he forgot the spell, and if it wasn't for Dumbledore he would have died. He can't remember the spell now, he is too scared, and luckily Louis did.
"Incendio" Louis screams standing in front of the others in a way of protection as he waited for fire to erupt. He would be waiting forever. After a minute of blinking he tries it again and than again and again but there but no fire came.
"Incendio." Harry tries only to get the same response making him shiver, 'oh shit.' Ron and Hermione tried it too only to get the same conclusion, the spell simply doesn't work.
"God damn Lee." Louis all of a sudden screams watching the approaching Inferi with fear, hearing their bones twisting as they limped toward them; this doesn't look good for them at all. The others just stare between the undead and Louis as they started to shift toward the stairs.
"Why don't the spells work?" Hermione asks as one starts to charge at them making Fred shoot back against the wall, Ron, Harry, and Hermione as well but Louis stayed exactly where he was watching the Inferi coming closer to them so he could smell its rotting corpse, could hear the bugs eating away at the flesh. Behind him he could hear everyone screaming as they start heading for the stairs but Louis stops them, "don't make any movement."
"Impervius," Louis finally screams and everyone watches at the Inferi jumps to attack Louis only to fall down a second later as it crashes into an invisible wall.
"Great thinking Louis," Hermione says as she watches the inferi hit the wall over and over again hissing at them as they smash their bodies into the wall. Everyone gives a sigh of relief as they listened to the grunts of the undead and the wheezing from George.
"Lee must have bewitched the area so we couldn't use the spell."
"Where did they come from? Were they always there?"
"I think one or two as always been here, following us, but the rest must have came for some other reason. Why didn't the two attack us from the very beginning?" Louis asks calmly looking at the Inferi hitting the wall without a trace of fear. As long as the wall is there they will be fine, just going to have to wait until morning and the Inferi will fall asleep again. He waited for anyone to come up with a reason for this odd event but when nobody did he speaks again this time his voice raising as he walked along the wall watching the zombies trying to get at him from beyond the wall, the intention is to hurt, to kill, but he wouldn't think about that possibility right now.
"That isn't the only thing that bugged me. How come George, as hurt has he is, was able to be awake when we found him? How come he wasn't wheezing like he is now? Truth be told he shouldn't even be alive now, he lost so much blood already, he is freezing cold, and he probably has a fever over 106. There is no way possible he should have been awake when we found him but he was. Why didn't the Inferi attack him? He has been here over four months you would have thought the Inferi would have attacked him by now."
The group is silent as they think it over when suddenly Hermione grasps and looks at the wall with horror, "I should have seen this coming. Everything fits, tricky Lee…"
"Hermione want to clue us in?" Ron asked cutting her off looking not at the wall like everyone else but at George.
Hermione glares at Ron for a second before she speaks her voice low and steady with a hint of terror, "It was a trap. Of course he would want George to be awake when we found him; if George was died his plan wouldn't have worked. He must have used a short term healing spell that was weak enough not to stick but strong enough so when we find him he will be alert. I have a feeling the healing spell started to work once we opened the front door. The Inferi must have been in cages that are activated somehow and somehow we opened the cages."
"When we unchained George." Louis speaks looking back at George, "that is why he wanted him awake so we will hurry to unchain him.
"I saw one before that was at the back at the killing floor." Fred speaks looking at the wall with anger as he tightened his hold on George; he never felt fear like this before, the intensity of the fear is strangling him.
"I thought I saw one too but it wasn't possible. I thought I saw one standing in fire but that doesn't make sense, they hate fire." Louis says with a very bad feeling.
"If you guys saw some where does that fit in?"
"When we opened the front door, it must have unlocked the first cage."
"Louis you saw someone outside standing in fire?" Fred asked looking at Louis with fear. Something isn't right here.
"Why not attack George?" Louis says to himself thinking but he already knows the answer, Lee wouldn't have wanted George to be killed from the zombies that will be too quick of a death. He would have wanted George to really suffer.
"How long do you think this wall will hold?" Hermione asked Louis staring at the thousands of zombies on the other side of the wall.
"The old stories were right, this land is cursed." Louis whispers staring at the zombies his mind miles away.
"What do you mean?"
"Ten years ago this factory was attacked and everyone inside was massacred. When reports started coming in from worried spouses four days later the police finally came to the factory but all they found was blood, the bodies never found. Every since then weird stuff started happening around the 'factory burial road' people started going missing, some were found gutted, laying in the middle of the grass. Some was found decapitated with body parts missing, others simply vanished. People started getting scared to come to work, factories started to close down but more and more people started to go missing only to be found with missing body parts or in the grinder of this factory. The last factory, the orange factory, closed down five years ago. Ever since then this whole valley became deserted, the zipcode and the name even vanished on maps. Everyone living in the valley was forced out of their homes. I remember how rushed the officers were when they were driving Lee and me out of the valley. We wanted to wait a little bit later but they said there is no way there are going to be in the valley in the nighttime."
"Is that why you didn't want to come here today?"
"This isn't a valley to be in when it is dark. When I lived here as a child my parents told us never to turn on the lights after it gets dark. They would say if the sun is setting run to the nearest house and stay there the night, don't turn on lights, don't answer any door if someone after sunset is pounding on your door, don't talk, just stay away from doors and windows and hide underneath a solid object. They would say if they spot you than there is no saving you." Louis stats as he starts walking brushing his hand against the glass, the zombies followed him.
"Where are you going?" Hermione asks.
"We can't just stay here can we?" Louis snaps as he walks to the stairs watching the zombies without turning away. The rest slowly followed suit staying three inches behind him to make sure that if anything happens they can make a new wall and save themselves.
"I have a question; if Lee made it so we can make a fire spell how come we can light our wands and make this wall?" Ron asks keeping his wand up high so he can use it in a heartbeat if he has to.
"I'm sure there is a time limit." Louis says as he takes a step only to notice the wall isn't there anymore feeling shaky he looks at the zombies and realizes that he is at the stairs and the wall is two inches away from it. Feeling relief he smiles at the others, "come on its safe."
The minute he touches the first step he knows something bad is going to happen, he can feel the magic energy on this staircase and slowly he turns to the wall, "come on guys move your asses."
The others start to run as they too turned to the wall as they watched a zombie run at the wall. They all wanted to see the zombie hit the wall but it ran though the wall. Louis starts running up the steps everyone else right behind him as they climb the twenty stairs that led to the second floor.
"Keep going, don't stop." Louis screams back as he jogs up, he only made it half-way up when he heard a scream. Spinning around he sees Ron crumpled on the stairs making Hermione, Harry, and Fred stop as well.
"I'm stuck, I'm stuck, I'm stuck." Ron keeps screaming as he tries to get his leg out of a hole in the stair. Harry and Hermione jump immediately grab his arms and starts pulling looking at the thousands of zombies coming toward them.
"Don't leave me here." Ron begs looking at a zombie which is getting too close to his liking. Right before the zombie attacks him he screams, "Flipendo" managing to knock the zombie down and making it slide down the staircase taking down forty more but there are hundreds more climbing the staircase.
"Impedimenta," Fred says and the zombies are slowed down giving Harry and Hermione enough time to pull Ron out of the hole, but no one was expecting for one zombie to grab Ron's leg and start to slide him down the staircase, Harry and Hermione pulling on his hands trying to save him leaving them open for attack.
"Petrificus Totalus," Louis says and watches as the zombie closest to Hermione crumples and falls down the stairs taking out ten more.
Fred points at one, making George slip from his grip a little as he screams, "Reducto" making the zombie holding Ron fly up from the stairs and get thrown to a far away wall. Fred quickly put his wand away before grabbing George's legs again running the rest of the way up the stairs. Harry and Hermione continue to drag the frightened Ron all the way up the stairs the zombies right behind them. Right after they cross the last step Louis screams, "Impervius." Once again the Inferi hits the invisible wall making them lose balance and fall all the way down the stairs.
Harry and Hermione let go of Ron and kneeled beside him as the three tries to catch their breathes. Fred leaned against the wall trying to fight the urge to fall to his knees. Everyone jumps every time they hear an Inferi hit the glass, their eyes glued to the glass.
"How long will this hold?" Ron asks after a tiring breath looking at the wall with loathing, those monsters behind it kept trying to get at them.
"Not long enough." Harry commented looking around only Louis seems to think of the impossibility of escaping. They are on the second floor, even if they climb though the only window on this floor they will have to jump to escape and if they don't die in the crash then they will die when they run though the fire all around them. He didn't want to admit it to anyone but they are fucked.
Everyone stepped back when the banging started getting rapider, making the whole factory echo with each pound. In the midst of fear no one noticed the lack of a particular noise. All everyone cares about is finding an exit. An Inferi throws himself against the wall again making the group jump even more as they looked around nervously. It is Hermione who notices the circular window and points at it to the group who nods in reply their eyes half-glued to the wall. They know it is just a matter of time before the wall disappears and with the disappearance the Inferi will come by hundreds. When the pounding stops they turn to see the zombies just staring at the group from behind the wall patiently. Their rotting faces mentally attacking the young group. Even in the now silent factory no one notices the silence which shouldn't be there.
"We need to break that window." Louis replies slowly not liking how every Inferi just froze. This is not how Inferi work unless….
Suddenly something bangs against the wall again, something more massive and way worse than the Inferi and Louis backs away shaking his head, "no, no, no…" The rest stares at him for a minute and then back to the wall, their faces unreadable.
Louis covers his eyes with his hands as he continues to walk backwards but that didn't work, he can still see its deformed head, the massive teeth, the puny hands. He can hear it growling as it slams its massive form against the glass, its snake-like tongue licking the glass as it tries to taste him. It wants him and only him and he knows it too. The worst thing is no matter where he runs it will catch him and whip him to shreds.
The rest didn't seem to see the monster or if they did they didn't think it as harmful as Louis did. All they seem to care about is finding a way to escape. It isn't until they heard something shattering did they turn around to see Louis standing beside the now broken window, a stern look on his face, as he looks at them again. He stares at the wall again but the monster is gone and in its wake is twenty more zombies.
"Guys come on the wall isn't going to be there much longer." Louis yells as he looks down from the window, the drop is big, bigger than he expected. There has to be another way! What makes matter worse there is probably at least another thousand Inferi surrounding the factory and beyond the Inferi the fire in the wheat fields is still burning bright. He looks back at the wall and walks over to the balcony and leaning over it seeing the whole bottom floor covered with the creatures. He shivers as he realizes that he is trapped.
Hermione and Ron blinks at Louis with a blank stare, their little mind too overwhelmed with fear to take anything else in. Harry is doing everything Louis was doing, trying to find the percentage of survival and frowns when he discovers he does not like the answer. Fred, though, is walking to the window with wide steps not caring if anyone else is coming or not, he is going to escape. Of course once he looked down he frowns and walks away from the window with fear. His voice is shaky as he says quietly, "they are climbing up the building." Louis looks at Fred before looking at the wall as he steps closer to the group. By the time the wall disappears the group is in a tight circle, wands out, as they stare at the approaching monsters. The broken window is too being overrun by creatures, and in seconds the small group is surrounded by the dead.
His wand is shaking so much that it is vibrating in his hand as Louis tries desperately to find an escape route for his friends and him but there isn't any. He hates to admit it but he knows deep down that this is it. He knows that in a second they are going to be dead, six more deaths the factory will consume. He looks at the group with their wands shaking as much as his own; there is no escaping tonight, no escaping forever.
The group waited for the attack, each one closed their eyes so they wouldn't have to see their doom except for Fred who stares at creatures stubbornly, as he squeezed George tighter against him. "I promise you won't die tonight." Not a second after he finished his statement the zombies attacked from all sides. All Fred can hear is screams and cries. No Inferi attacked him; they stared at him for a long time, circled him for a minute or so, but moved on to someone else. Fred yells spells as he tries to save everyone else but the minute he jinxes one Inferi another would take its place. It is like playing a game you know you can't defeat, trying is useless but you have no other option.
Just when everything seems hopeless a large ray of light is shot from the window and hitting a pile of zombies leaving only Harry kneeling there, bloody and scared. Another ray of light blasts though another pile of zombies revealing Ron, another revels Louis. Fred watches in surprise turning around surprised to see sixty minister workers still blasting the zombies around. Soon the zombies fled down the stairs, some ministry workers following. One of the ministry workers looked at the frightened bloody young adults shaking and bloody on the floor before signaling with his wand that the floor is clear. Suddenly twenty more ministry workers showed up, one of them being Arthur.
Arthur first notices Ron kneeling on the floor and immediately runs over to him checking to see how much damage is done. After careful looking he declares that other than a bite in the arm and scratches Ron is not hurt. Suddenly he pulled his son into his arms and holds his youngest son close. Fred standing in a corner battled with himself if he should go over there or not. He decided on the first. Walking over to his dad seems to take forever, with the weight of his brother, and the weight of his own fear.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Arthur yelled at his son still looking at his injured child with fear.
"We found George." Fred whispered stepping out of the shadows. Arthur turns around and stares at his older son, no not son, sons. He looks at his sons with shock before standing up and coming over to Fred and George. Looking at the youngest twin he feels nausea. Without a second he throws his arms around Fred in a brief hug but left a grip so he wouldn't put pressure on George.
Ron watches his family with content before turning to Harry who is already on his feet. Harry has a strange expression on his face as he looks around before turning to Ron. Ron stares back at Harry's terrified face feeling a strange of dread. Standing up he looks around, Louis is standing up near the window with a big piece of his arm bitten off and his face scratched badly, Fred and George is with their dad oddly unhurt, Harry is ok, Hermione…suddenly Ron's eyes get huge as he tries to find Hermione. He couldn't find her anywhere.
"Hermione?" He yelled turning around and around trying to find her when she didn't answer he tries again screaming as loud as he could master, "Hermione," still nothing. He could feel Harry calling for Hermione as well and Ron turned around again finding Louis staring at him with sad eyes. Shaking his head Ron turns around again to find Arthur and Fred looking horrified.
"Hermione," he yells again feeling his stomach drop when he couldn't find her anywhere. He turns to the ministry workers trying to calm himself down as he pleads, "please you have to find her."
Arthur instantly takes out his wand again and saying a quick word to Fred starts looking around the floor, seven ministry workers went with him. Harry and Ron starts to go but the remaining ministry workers holds them back, "it is too dangerous." Another asks about injuries, another says that they should be taken to St. Mugals and started to make arrangements.
One of ministry workers runs over to Fred and George and tries to check over George but Fred, not wanting to let go of his brother, refuses to let anyone touch George. Somehow everyone is silent upon the floor; no one seems to want to talk, for different reasons. The young group is too unnerved and too tired to even get the urge up to talk, the ministry workers is too shocked to speak. The only noise that can be heard is the groaning of zombies and Fred arguing with the ministry worker who is trying to take his brother.
Two minutes later Arthur and the ministry workers come back empty handed, shaking their heads at Ron. Arthur stares at his son with sadness as he looks down at the first floor. Turning back to his son he puts a comforting hand on his back before saying as clearly as he could, "okay, she is not on this floor. I am going to down to the first floor and look. Ron look at me, she is going to be fine, I promise." Arthur then turns to the ministry workers who are waiting for his command, "okay I want five to stay here with the kids, the rest follow me."
"Let me come with you." Ron says grabbing onto his dad's arm stopping him in his tracks. Arthur stares at his son, "it is too dangerous. Stay here with your brothers, they need you right now." Arthur replies looking at Fred and George with painful eyes.
"Please dad?" Ron tries again but Arthur shakes his head before looking at Harry, "make sure Ron doesn't try to go down the stairs." Arthur then twists his arm away from Ron's hands before running down the stairs with ministry workers following him in suit. As soon as Harry could he runs over to Ron and puts a comforting arm around Ron, "she is going to be okay, probably will just be scratched like the rest of us."
"Let me see your injuries?" A ministry worker says coming up to Ron and Harry. They both sigh as they stand up so they are more into the lights of the ministry worker's wand. The ministry worker is silent as he looks over the boys, only speaking when he wanted them to lift up their shirts so they can see if they have any injuries. The worker hisses when he sees the bite on Ron' chest, it is large and deep, definitely will need medical assistance. Harry too has a deep bite on his arm, which is probably why Harry isn't lifting the arm at all. The ministry worker signals another one over to show Harry's bite which is so bad you can see the bone.
"Yeah, I know. The other boy isn't that much better," the second worker says pointing at Louis who is kneeling down again, "he has a bite on his leg that is really bad."
"When is the emergency team coming?" The first one asks again looking at all the injured.
"They should be here in less than five minutes." The second one replies not looking at Ron or Harry at all. He seems less caring than the first one is.
"Have you checked the twins?" The first one asks again and the second one laughs.
"No, the standing one won't let me touch the injured one," The second one replies with a shrug before turning to the boys.
"This boy is their brother; maybe he can convince him to let us see the brother." The first one replies again.
"We have a name. I'm Ron, the injured one is George, and the other is Fred." Ron replies with anger.
"Okay Ron than convince Fred to let us see your brother." Ron looks stubbornly at the workers before strolling up to Fred the ministry workers right behind him. Standing in front of his brother he gently puts a hand though George's hair before looking up at his brother.
"Fred, I know this is hard but you need to let the ministry workers check George. Please, they can help him, and you can't." Ron tries, trying to make his voice sound as pleading as possible.
"No…I don't…."Fred says in a broken voice holding his brother even tighter. Ron looks up at his brother seeing tears in his eyes. Ron sighs as he leans down accidently touching George's hand and he freezes and looks down at his brother. He touches his brother's hand once again, it is freezing. Looking back up at his brother he whispers, "he needs help Fred. Let them see him." Fred looks like he is on the edge of a breakdown as Fred looks between his brother and the ministry workers. Finally Fred gives up and hands his brother over to the ministry workers as he tries not to cry. Ron just takes his brother into his arms as he tries to stop his own tears, George stopped wheezing, he is ice cold.
Harry too ends up hugging the two Weasleys, the three if them trying to pull strength from each other. Louis stands alone watching the destruction of tonight as he calms his breathing. He is still shaking from the fear, still sick from the smell of rotten flesh. He just rests his head on a wall and closes his eyes feeling more tired then he has ever been in his life. He wonders if the Inferi are like the muggle zombies are in the movies. In those movies if they get bit they turn into zombies. Is Inferi the same way?
"No you are not going to turn into an Inferi." The ministry worker closest to him says. Louis blinks; did he say that out loud?
"Huh?"
"Inferi are dead bodies controlled by someone therefore the worst they can do is kill you. Nothing dead can turn you into a zombie just by a bite." The ministry worker says again with a laugh before checking his injury again.
"If we died would we turn into zombies?" Louis asks again looking at the worker with dread.
"Only if someone raises you." Louis nods as he looks at the ministry workers working on George.
"Is he going to be okay?" He asked softy looking up at the ministry worker with concern. The ministry worker sighs as he shakes his head, "no, he is really doing bad. We need to get him to the hospital as soon as possible."
"But he is breathing right?" Louis asked again looking at the ministry worker and waiting for a answer but the worker didn't answer.
"He is…"
"Oh my god, Hermione." Ron screams stopping Louis in his tracks as he looks at the stairs. Arthur is walking up with minor injuries and in his arms is the bloody form of Hermione.
"Help, she isn't breathing." Arthur screams at the ministry workers and every ministry workers minus the two working on George runs over to Arthur and takes the girl out of his arms.
"What do you mean she isn't breathing?" Ron screams trying to run over to Hermione but Harry and Fred keeps him still.
"Don't let her die." Ron screams loudly, banging his head against Harry's trying to break the holds on his arms.
"Let them do their jobs." Harry says sternly refusing to look at her torn up arms.
"We have to get these two to the hospital now." One of the two workers who are working on George yelled looking at the rest.
"The emergency team will be here…"
"We have no time I am going to take this one myself." The one who is working on Hermione says picking her up again and running to the window, in a second they are gone.
"I am going to do the same with this one." The nicer of the workers says picking George up and running to the window too.
"You are not taking my brother anywhere." Fred screams at the ministry worker but Arthur just walks up to Fred and puts a comforting hand on his shoulder. Looking at the ministry worker Arthur calmly says, "take him," making Fred glare at his father as he tries to get to his father. Pushing his father off of him he runs to the window but by the time he gets there the ministry worker and George is gone. Fred collapses to the ground feeling sorrow once again, his brother isn't with him, he lost his brother again. Still looking out the window he feels someone lifting him back to his feet.
"It's okay Fred, its okay." Arthur says to his child as he hugs him again. Arthur soon feels someone else wrapping his arms around him. He gives a sigh of relief his children are safe, his children are alive.
"Michael how much longer until the emergency team gets here?" Arthur asks his friend The younger ministry worker sighs as he makes another call to the emergency team, "two minutes."
"Good, I want to get my children out of this hell." Arthur says again as Harry joined in on the group hug. Arthur and Michael stare at each other before turning back to the kids.
"Never do something like this again, got me? Contract the ministry immediately but never go by yourself." Arthur tells his children and Harry glaring at them all, "you have no idea how I was feeling when I found out where you guys are."
"How did you know where we are?" Louis asks still kneeling on the group unable to get up.
"Someone called me at the office and told me, she said that I have to hurry and to bring backup." Arthur replies and Louis smiles to himself, 'Oh thank god for Kelly.'
"Are Hermione and George going to be okay?" Ron asks his dad and Arthur pauses for a long time before answering, "I don't know. I really don't know." Arthur is about to say something else when he sees more the familiar lights of the emergency team.
"Thank god kids, the team finally arrived. Lets get all of you to the hospital."
End of chapter, finally I am at my half-way part of my story yay! Okay I am drained of energy now. Review please. Try to have next chapter up by two weeks probably will be shorter than this chapter. I am mad I pictured the scene where they first found George to be a lot different then it ended up being but oh well such is life.