Prompt: Bait
WC: 623
Harry had warned Albus and Scorpius about the possibility of it happening. He had warned him about it, and yet the two of them still were as gullible as ever and fell for the obvious bait.
"So, what do we do now?" Albus whispered to his friend, his voice barely even louder than their breathing. Their arms were pinned to their bodies with tight rope, and their legs were shackled both together and to the wall directly behind them. The room was pitch-black, and neither of them could see three inches in front of their face. It didn't help that they had taken Albus's glasses, too. In the room next to them, a few people chatted in low, ominous voices.
Less than an hour ago, they were about to board the Hogwarts Express and return home after the school year. Although they didn't know it at the time, somebody had Polyjuiced themselves into James, Albus's brother, as bait, and had led them to a deserted corner of the station. Before they could begin to question his behavior, he blacked them out and brought them to the room.
Sure, Albus had been hoping for more time with Scorpius before they parted ways, but he hadn't expected it would happen like this.
Scorpius made a sound somewhat like a laugh, but he ended it quickly in case their captors heard them. "We were kidnapped, and you ask me what we're going to do next?"
"Well, we don't exactly have a starting point, yet. Plus, you're the smarter one in our friendship," Albus said. It was true; Scorpius consistently made almost all of the better decisions.
Scorpius seemed to consider this for a few seconds. "Look, neither of us have been kidnapped before this, so I'm just as inexperienced and clueless in this situation as you are, Albus."
"You're ever inexperienced and clueless, Scorpius. That's me you're describing." Before Scorpius could cut in again, Albus continued. "Look, can you just give us some ideas to start off of? Please?"
Albus swore he could practically see the cute pout on Scorpius's face. "Well, we need to find a way to escape this room. In order to do that, we'll have to first find a way out of the ropes and shackles. It would be nice to learn who kidnapped us but that's not as important as getting out. Oh! And we also need to grab our wands on the way out."
Albus nodded in response. "Okay," he replied. Experimentally, Albus contorted his body and wiggled around a little bit. Almost too easily, the ropes slid down his body and fell to his ankles.
"Hey, Scorpius! The ropes are really easy to get out of!" he exclaimed to his friend, before clapping a hand over his mouth. The murmuring from the other room paused briefly, but then continued on as if nothing had happened. Hopefully, it was a coincidence.
There was a minute of silence in their own room, in which Albus assumed Scorpius was wriggling his way out of the ropes.
"Wow. How about the shackles?" Scorpius asked. "I tried briefly to get them off myself, and it didn't work, but I think if somebody else does it it'll come off more easily."
Albus fumbled around in the dark for a few second before his hands made contact with the cool metal linking Scorpius's legs together. He removed them quickly, and Scorpius did the same with Albus's.
The two of them tip-toed away from the wall, hoping to find a door, when all of a sudden, Albus felt his body freeze.
"Where do you two kiddos think you're going? Now, now, it would be rude to run away from your new home, wouldn't it?"