Chapter Twenty-Four: Destiny

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~Severus Addicted

The smell of blood prickled his nose making him open his eyes. Slowly he sat up and looked around himself; he was still in the blasted dark room but the candle that was once illuminating the stone wall was no longer on fire making the room seem even more darker and horrifying.

"Wh-who are you?" a soft voice echoed from somewhere in the darkened room.

Harry jumped to his feet and looked around himself to see if he could see the owner of the voice, "Harry. How can you see me? Where are you?"

The sound of footsteps coming closer to him made him back up, "Don't come any closer!" He reached for his wand that was supposed to be in his pant pocket but his fingertips did not touch the familiar wood of the wand.

The footsteps stopped, "I didn't mean to scare you…" The girl whispered softly a few feet away from him.

"You didn't scare me." Harry said defiantly with a light blush forming on his cheeks.

This made the girl laugh lightly, "Okay then. My name is Destiny. And to answer your question I have very good night vision."

Harry nodded his head even though he knew she couldn't possibly see the nod (even if she did have good night vision). "So, what did you do to piss off Voldy?"

The girl was silent for a moment or two before she answered quietly, "My father is one of His followers and I refused to join them so they threw me in here. How about you? What did you do to make Him mad?"

Harry snorted and replied smoothly, "I'm alive."

Silence followed his remark until suddenly she asked curiously, "Are you Harry Potter?"

"Unfortunately, yes." Harry replied softly.

"I know how that feels…" The girl said softly as she walked the rest of the way to him, "Anyway, I've been trying to figure a way out of here but from what I have gathered there are no doors."

Harry sighed softly, "Have you checked for trap doors or hidden passages?"

"Not yet, I just finished checking for doors when you woke up." Destiny replied.

"How long have you been trapped in his dark hell?" Harry asked as he started walking around the room to see if he could find anything.

"Not long; maybe two hours, three at the most." Destiny told him as she began to follow him.

"I honestly don't know how long I've been here… I could have been here a month now and I wouldn't know it because I got knocked out when I arrived." Harry told her honestly.

"Yeah, when I got thrown in here I thought you were dead… You weren't moving and you were lying in a puddle of blood. Are you alright by the way?" Destiny asked softly.

Harry shrugged, "Doesn't really matter does it?"

"I don't like that answer, Harry." Destiny snapped furiously.

Harry flinched at her tone, "Sorry?"

"Do you know what was bleeding?" Destiny asked him.

"Probably my head." Harry shrugged, "I don't know."

"You don't seem to care…" Destiny said softly.

"That's because I don't." Harry told her nonchalantly.

"But why not?" Destiny asked with a sad tint to her voice.

"I've had worse." Harry told her softly.

Before Destiny could reply or ask further questions candles suddenly flared up giving them light.

"I kind of thought there was only one candle." Harry said softly as he looked at the candles all around the room. With a shrug, Harry looked around the room more closely.

A scream from Destiny made him jump and turn to see what was wrong, "You okay?" Harry asked her worried.

Destiny pointed a shaky finger towards a skeleton hanging on the wall by his wrists.

Harry sighed as he saw tears rolling down her cheeks, "It's alright, Destiny." He gave her shoulder a light squeeze in an attempt to calm her down.

Destiny quickly turned her head so she didn't have to see the bones that were once a living person. "I don't want to be in here with that thing…" She whispered.

"It can't hurt you, Destiny. It's alright, I won't let anything happen." Harry promised her softly.

"No you don't understand!" Destiny screamed at him.

"Then help me understand…" Harry told her in a calm, patient voice.

"I'm a Necromancer… Do you know what that is?" Destiny whispered as she turned to stare at the skeleton in horror.

Slowly, Harry shook his head, "No… Sorry."

"It means I can see dead people, I can have full out conversations with spirits! I hate it! I don't enjoy waking up in the middle of the night because some dead kid is jumping on my bed!"

"But spirits can't touch you can they?" Harry asked gently.

"It depends what form of spirit they are." Destiny told him knowingly. "If they are a poltergeist then yes… Or if they are demonic."

"Poltergeists are neither spirits nor ghosts…" Harry told her knowingly, "We have a poltergeist in my school, he's a big joker."

Destiny turned to glare at him, "If you hadn't interrupted me I would have said that!"

Harry put his hands up and said, "My bad. Sorry, you may continue madam."

Destiny rolled her eyes at him, "Now as I was saying; some spirits are nice but some are very evil and will do anything to make your life miserable."

"Why don't you like being a Necromancer? You can help lost souls find their way to the light, or help a sad spirit cope with his/her death." Harry asked her.

"Why don't you like being Harry Potter? You can save the entire Wizarding World from a mass murderer who wants to turn the Wizarding World into a burning hell on Earth." Destiny shot right back at him.

"Because I'm not a hero and never will be." Harry told her calmly.

"You have no choice, Harry. Just like I don't have a choice to be a Necromancer!" Destiny said raising her voice an octave.

Harry sighed softly, "I didn't mean to upset you, Destiny."

Destiny nodded her head making her long, wavy brown hair fall in front of her baby blue eyes. Once she removed the hair from her view she said, "I'm just a Drama Queen… Don't worry about it."

Harry smiled softly at her, "You remind me of a friend of mine."

"Oh yeah? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Destiny asked him with a small smile.

Harry chuckled softly, "Both."

Destiny smirked at him, "Well… Thank you then?"

Harry nodded, "Anytime D.Q."

Destiny rolled her eyes at him so Harry stuck his tongue out at her. Destiny smirked and shook her head, "If I were you I wouldn't call me that again or I'll sick some nasty spirits on you."

Harry smirked, "Bring it on."

Destiny sighed as if the idea was torturing her, "You asked for it…"

Albus raised his hand to silence the crowd of ten people sitting around the circle table at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, "SILENCE!" Albus roared when no one became silent.

Suddenly everyone stopped talking and turned to stare at their leader. Everyone was horrified of what happened with Harry and were desperate to try and find out a way to save him.

"Now I know you are all worried about young Harry but we are not going to get any closer to figuring out a way to get him with everyone talking and screaming." He narrowed his eyes at the Order then continued, "Does anyone have any idea where they could be keeping him?"

With a sigh Severus said, "We could try the normal meeting building."

Sirius rolled his eyes, "Like Voldemort would be so stupid to do that. This is the Boy-Who-Lived we are talking about not some muggle child! This is MY godson we are talking about!"

'This is MY son we are talking about… Well sort of.' Severus thought angrily. "And you don't think I realize that, mutt?"

"No! If he wasn't in YOUR care this would never have happened!" Sirius retorted angrily.

Albus stood suddenly and slammed his fists on the table, "If you two do not get your acts together immediately I will be forced to send you upstairs!"

Remus snickered quietly at the threat making Albus snap his head in his direction. Remus quickly looked down at his hands as if they were the most interesting thing in the entire world.

Tonks smirked at him.

Remus rolled his eyes at her and muttered a dark, "Shut up…"

Albus looked around the table and waited for them to give him their attention once again. "Do you want to save Harry? Because if so I'd advise you all to keep your mouths shut unless you have something of importance to say." That shut everyone up immediately. With a satisfied nod he continued, "Does anyone have any ideas?"

Mad-Eye Moody raised his hand, "Why don't we send Severus in and gain the information?"

Albus shook his head, "They know he is a spy, Moody. He is a Wanted man to them."

Everyone was silent for a few moments before Molly said softly, "I have an idea but I'm not sure if it would work."

This gained everyone's attention right away. Albus nodded his head, "Continue Molly."

"What if we make the Polyjuice potion and use a hair sample from one of the Death Eaters. Then Severus could drink the potion and turn into someone then he could enter the building without being questioned?" Molly told them her idea.

Albus stroked his beard for a few moments before saying, "That could work… But we would have to knock one of the Death Eaters out and capture them before he could enter the building."

Severus shook his head, "Do you know how long Polyjuice takes to brew? It takes at least a month or more. By the time it is completely brewed it would be too late!"

"Don't you have any in your storage cabinet?" Minerva asked softly.

Severus shook his head, "No, Minerva, I don't. I have found that it disappears from my cabinet if I ever have it in there. Blasted children!"

"I know someone who has some…" Ron's voice drifted from the doorway.

Everyone turned to stare at him in shock.

"Mr. Weasley you are supposed to be upstairs with your siblings." Albus told him sternly.

Ron ignored him and continued the rest of the way into the room, "I know someone who has some Polyjuice Potion!"

"And who may I ask would that be, Mr. Weasley?" Severus asked in his silky tone of voice.

"Hermione." Ron whispered.

Severus narrowed his eyes at the red head, "Why, may I ask, does she have Polyjuice?"

Ron smirked lightly and shrugged his shoulders, "I have no idea. Do you want it or not?"

Albus clapped his hands and smiled brightly, "Yes, child, get her to bring it here. She is upstairs, am I correct?"

Ron only nodded then disappeared out of the room to get Hermione.

After a few minutes went by Hermione arrived inside the doorway holding a vile filled with a disgusting green liquid, "Here you go, Headmaster." Hermione said quietly as she placed the vile on the table in front of him.

Albus nodded his thanks, "Thank you, Miss. Granger. You may go back upstairs with your friends now."

Hermione turned and walked away as fast as she could so she could escape the twinkling blue eyes.

Once the door closed behind her Albus smiled and said, "Well then, I believe our problem is fixed. Severus, you can drink the Polyjuice Potion and turn into a Death Eater that we catch. Then you can go and save Harry."

Everyone nodded their heads showing that they liked the plan and agreed with it.

Severus inclined his head forward a little and said, "When shall I drink the potion?"

Albus smiled softly, "As soon as we catch a little minion."

"I do believe we should try to capture Mr. Malfoy. The Dark Lord would not think twice about him entering the building and going down to the torture chambers." Mad-Eye told Albus.

Suddenly Molly burst into uncontrollable tears at the thought of Harry being stuck inside a torture chamber.

Arthur threw a glare at Moody then wrapped his arm around his wife to comfort her, "He will be alright, Love. This is Harry we are talking about."

"He's only a baby!" Molly shrieked as she sobbed into her hands.

Minerva nodded her head as she remembered passing the ball back and forth with the baby Harry. A tear leaked from the corner of her eye and she quickly dabbed it away.

"IF HE PUTS A SINGLE FINGER ON THAT BOY I WILL HAVE HIS HEAD ON A PLATTER!" Molly shouted angrily.

Arthur squeezed her shoulder comfortingly, "I know, Love. You would cook him up for Christmas supper." Arthur joked lightly in an attempt to make her smile.

"You're damn right I'll cook him up!" Molly snapped.

Everyone stared at her in utter shock.

Arthur shook his head softly, "Calm down, Mollz. Everything is going to be okay."

Albus stared with wide eyes at her before he turned his attention back to Moody, "As I was about to say Mad-Eye; that is an excellent idea and I will see to getting him to meet me as soon as possible. I'll tell him it's a meeting about his son's school schedule."

Moody nodded his head in agreement, "Then it's all settled. We should have Mr. Potter back in the Light's hands very shortly."

A/N: How do you like Destiny? Is she a keeper or shall I feed her to Nagini? Mawahahahahaha! I do have that power you know… I could do that to ANY character I wanted to ;) hehe

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~Severus Addicted