So it's been a year, and I am SO sorry but for those of you still reading I appreciate it and here you are.
Chapter 10
Diana Ingleton groaned as she watched her jumpy secretary approach her door though her office window that allowed her to watch the paper pushers underneath her. She hated them every single one of the little kiss ups all hoping to be the next minister of magic. She was the head of the Department of underage magic; of course Diana never had to work for the position because her father was a very well-known wizard and everyone wanted to please him. She was brought out of her little reverie by the timid knocks on her door.
"M-miss Ingleton? There is a message for you, a-apparently someone didn't get there owl." The secretary stuttered through the door.
Diana gritted her teeth and pushed herself away going over to the door and flinging it open causing the secretary to jump back scared. "Honestly Margarine couldn't you open the door before you speak? I can hardly understand your stutters standing next to you but through a door? Think why don't you? "
"It's M-Margret, Miss Ingleton and I am sorry for b-bothering you but there was a message and you told me"
"I know what I told you! I am not a moron! What was the message?"
"Well, a-actually I'm not sure it, it's on my desk ma'am."
"Let's go to your desk than!" Diana shouted ushering the young woman over towards her desk.
"Y-yes ma'am" Margret nodded and hurried over to her desk picking up a piece of paper off of one of the stack. "Here it is! It says- Oh!" She gave a little yelp as the paper was snatched from her hands by her boss.
"I know how to read." Diana grumbled as she looked over the paper. "Ugh! some misfit didn't receive his owl. I hate kids!"
"Oh come on didn't you ever play with magic on your summer vacation?" A certain Pink haired auror joked as she walked over to Diana and leaned up against Margret's desk.
"Unlike you Tonks, I understand that rules are there for a reason." She snapped back at her before turning to her secretary "Why are you standing there like an idiot? Go get me an auror request form!"
"Yes ma'am." Margret nodded as she hurried off.
Tonks rolled her eyes before looking at Diana "You're too hard on her. Besides why do you need an auror request form?"
"Stupid kid can't be gotten ahold of which means he has either locked himself where he can't be reached or he's incapacitated, hopefully the latter." Diana growled out as she slammed the paper down on her secretary's desk.
Tonks sighed as she sneaked a peak at the message. Harry Potter? Sirius's Godson? Her interest peaked she looked back over at Diana. "You know Eldridge and I could swing by and check on it."
Diana eyed her skeptically "You actually want to help me? Since when?"
Tonks shrugged as she thought of what to say. "I'm bored." She told her as Margret walked up to them.
Diana glanced at her secretary briefly before yanking the request papers out of her hands. "Fine." She told her as she balled up the papers and threw them at Margret. "It's all yours."
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Hermione threw herself against the wooden door for the fifth time desperately trying to get out. "PLEASE!" She screamed as her sixth attempt failed "LET ME OUT!" and then her seventh "please…" she sobbed as she slid down the door and turned slightly so she could see out the slats to watch as his chest rose and fell slightly; the only assurance that Harry Potter still lived
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Tonks hurried through the halls until she reached Eldridge's desk. "Hey come on El, we got to go." She told the sandwich-chewing auror.
"Hmah, ihm ehahing!" He mumbled at her around a mouth of ham sandwich.
"Even if I could understand you we would still be going, now move."
"What's with you?" He asked after gulping down his mouthful and catching up to her. "You're not usually this big of an ass."
"Jee thanks, it's a bit of an emergency, I know the kid's Godfather, and from what I've heard this kids a trouble magnet." Tonks glanced over at him as she pushed through the doors to the main area of the Ministry of Magic.
"What's his name?"
"Harry Potter."
"Harry Potter, as in 'the boy who lived' Harry Potter?" Eldridge exclaimed as he followed behind Tonks towards the apparition area.
"That's the one." She told him before grabbing his arm and turning on her heel causing them both to disappear.
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"Please keep breathing. Please keep breathing. Please keep breathing." She repeated the chat over and over hoping that it would actually work. Praying that by some miracle he would make it out of this situation alive. "Please keep breathing. Please keep breathing. Please keep breathing." She knew she wasn't really helping though, because the longer she watched the smaller the rise and fall of his chest became and they kept spreading out.
She sucked in a sharp breath when his chest didn't rise again. She counted to five like she had been doing before but still there was no movement. "Harry?" She whispered quietly starting to stand up. "Harry." She called out to him getting louder. "Harry!" She yelled for him slamming her fists against the wooden door. "Harry! You can't die Harry! HARRY!" She yelled as loud as she could tears leaking from her eyes, her fist banging on the door again and again.
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"Merlin's beard Tonks!" Eldridge shouted as he landed unsteadily on the corner of privet drive. "You could have given me some warning you know! Tonks? Tonks!" He shouted after her as he realized she was already a quarter of the way down the street, and had to run to catch up with her.
"Sorry El No time to goof around with you. Like I said this kid attracts trouble." She told him as he caught up to her side still jogging to keep up with her hurried pace.
"Well the house looks good enough." Eldridge huffed as they approached the front door.
"Yea, but as we have learned before looks can be deceiving." Tonks told him as she raised her hand to knock but paused. "Do you hear that?" She asked him quietly as they leaned in towards the door.
"Harry! Harry! You can't die Harry! HARRY!" A muffled voice called from inside.
Tonks reached for the door knob only to find it locked. "Stand back!" she called out to her partner as she pulled out her wand. "Bombarda!" she shouted right before the door splintered and came off it's hinges. "Hello!" She yelled running into the house her partner on her heals. "Where are you?"
"UP HERE! PLEASE HURRY!" Hermione's panicked voice called out.
"Come on!" Tonks yelled as she raced up the stairs and towards the nursery only to stop dead in her tracks. She opened her mouth to speak but her partner beat her to it.
"Bloody hell…." He muttered just before Tonks ran over to the crumpled form by the window.
"Save him please!" Hermione's muffled voice called out again.
"El! Get her out of the closet I have to get him to Saint Mungo's he isn't breathing." She told him never looking up from the dyeing boy.
"You can't apparate from here." Hermione told her through the door.
"Stand back." Eldridge called to Hermione as he pointed his wand at the door. "Incide baisses." He muttered tracing the door's out line cutting through the sealed wood.
"I need to clear his airway he is suffocating on his blood!" Tonks shouted as she pointed her wand to his throat. "Anapneo! There is so much blood…" she muttered as she watched the spell push the blood from his airway and causing it to seep out the sides of his mouth. "He's breathing again." Tonks told the others as she looked over at Eldridge and the now freed Hermione. "But I need to get him out of here so I can apparate."
"He's still alive…." Hermione sighed softly to herself.
"For now." Tonks muttered as she stood and raised her wand. "Mobilicorpus!" She called before Harry floated up into the air and towards the hall. "El, take her outside and apparate to Saint Mungo's, I'll meet you there."
"All right Tonks be careful." He told her as he ushered Hermione out ahead of Harry and out of the house onto the sidewalk and tuning on his heal taking Hermione with him. Tonks came out with Harry soon after and grabbed ahold of his arm before disappearing with him.
Allrighty hope you liked it. Reviews Are greatly appreciated they are what got me back to writing!