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Chapter Seventeen; Must Get Out

"Oh bother." Alicia cursed softly to herself and as quickly as possible started to run down the hall into the other direction.

It was lucky for her that she was a quick sprinter; the two behind her was also pretty quick. But she was faster, she ran down the hall turned to left the first two times until she ran toward the hall where the storage room she had come into from were. Another two turns more and a few steps down the door came into her vision.

While she were running toward the door she came to think of her luck, it would just be her luck if the door was actually locked or if it was the wrong door.

The two behind her was still chasing her. She reached the door and thankfully it wasn't locked and it was the right door. She opened it and with a quick glance behind her she went in through it.

She still stood at the door when she got a good look inside; the staircases attached to the walls went upstairs for Merlin knew how long. Alicia looked around in the room for something to barricade the door with, trying to win time for her to get up the stairs.

Seeing a pack of chairs at the left of the door, she grabbed one of them and placed it under the handle. Hoping that it would take long time for them to realize that she had done something so simple.

A few bangs came onto the door and the a light came from the outside, which usually meant that they'd thought that she had cast some kind of spell at the door to keep it locked. But Alicia just smiled to herself and started to run up the stairs.

But the luck soon turned as she had gotten up about one third of the way and they had broken in through the door. She was starting to feel a little short of breath, but she still kept on running up, now running faster, as fast as her lags allowed her to go. The next time she came up to a door was when she had come up to the top. But the only problem was that there were two doors there. Only one of them was marked, it had the words "Exit" on it. So she went with that one.

When she had come in through the door it looked like she had come into a basement, not so different of the one in the building where she had lived in before. She went up the stairs and out through the door there. There seemed to be a main entrance, but when Alicia tried to open that door was it locked. And there seemed to be no switch or anything that unlocked the doors.

She felt like collapsing, running up those stairs was pretty much too much for her. But she had to continue, she could hear how they had continued to follow her even into this place. She could hear the door slam shut down stairs, so she continued to move upstairs.

She tried every door she saw on the way she was going, but none of them was open. She continued up to the second floor, now starting to panic a little.

"Where are you?" The voice of one of the Death Eater behind her said who still was on the first floor.

She started to move faster, she knew she was too exhausted to take them on now, but she maybe would be forced to do that if she didn't find a way outside.

On the second floor wasn't there an open door and neither on the thirds or the fourth floor. She came up to the fifth floor which to her big horror was the top floor. She ran over to the first door, hoping that it was open, but she did that in vain. She heard the footsteps coming up the stairs.

It sounded like it was only one pair of footsteps coming up, she guessed that they had split ways earlier; she ran to the end of the floor, looking frantically for something, anything at all. The biggest problem was that she didn't have a wand and the other guy did, last time she didn't have one did she have the element of surprise on her side, this time she didn't.

"Oh Look, there you are, all cornered." The Death Eater said in a pitiful voice when he came up and saw her. The voice was creepy, Alicia actually got even more scared just thinking about that voice.

She pushed herself up to the wall; she didn't know what to do. The Death Eater smiled at the sight of her fright, he lifted his wand and shot a curse at her, she rolled at the wall and the curse missed her. He shot another curse at her and she quickly dodged it by following the wall, letting the curse hit the wall.

She tried to think of what to do, but since she had been on the move for so long and she was very short of breath, it didn't go so well. If she only could get closer to him, but since he was the one with a wand, it was harder for her. All she could do for now was to avoid getting hit by the curses.

Luck didn't seem to have followed her so very much this last day, except for some few times. Like this time. When Alicia turned around to get back, she saw that one of the curses must have hit the lock of one of the doors when it missed her.

The door was just a little open and the Death Eater didn't seem to notice that, but it was enough for Alicia to notice, she got over to the door and opened it so that she could get inside, she also noticed that the lock was completely destroyed by the curse, and she couldn't use it. She must have taken too long for her to open the door and get inside since he had shot another curse which missed her elbow with just half an inch, it ripped up a small part of her jacket, but missed the skin.

The flat wasn't habituated, nobody seemed lived there, but it was all full of furniture, and since the door opened inwards she took the small and heavy dresser that stood out in the hall next to the door and used that to block the door, buying herself some time.

But all of sudden she realized that she actually couldn't get out of the flat. She looked around in the place. While she heard how he tried to get inside the flat, she looked around for something, maybe a weapon of some sort.

But suddenly she saw something, something that put a very risky and crazy idea in her head.

The flat had a balcony, and so did the flat on the other side, since it also was on the top floor, on the other balcony was one of the windows open enough for her to get through. Maybe, just maybe she could make the jump?

She opened the balcony door and looked how far it was between the two balconies. She reckoned that she could make the jump alright if she had a good start run. She went inside again and took one of the chairs there and placed it now so far from the railing on the balcony, the both balconies was made out of stone so she should be able to jump without it breaking on her.

The banging on the door became more louder and when she looked back she saw that he had managed to get it open a bit, she couldn't blame him for the fact that it took a long time, it was pretty heavy.

She looked forward again and took a deep breath, her heart started to pump a little faster, it was a long way down to the street.

"I'm bloody crazy for doing this." She muttered to herself before she took on a sprint, she placed her left foot on the chair and her right one on the railing and then jumped. Jumped through the air and success fully landed on the other balcony on her both feet, but her balance broke and she stumbled forward and smashed through the whole glass door.

She didn't hurt herself really seriously, but she had cut herself at several different places. The most serious one was on her left tight; otherwise she just had some small cuts. She stood up and looked around in the flat, it was people empty, but it was somebody who lived there. She didn't waste any time looking back, she instead moved forward, in the hallway she grabbed a pair of shoes and a baseball cap and a long black autumn coat, and got out of the flat.

The street below was full of people; she quickly got out of the building and mixed herself with the crowd. She didn't actually know exactly where she was. She knew that she had to get to The Leaky Caldron. She looked around and saw a sign that read; 'Chairing Cross Road', and so she knew where to go.

Since lately the Leaky Caldron had been a pretty dangerous place to go to, especially for someone like Alicia. But the manager Tom had made it sure so that his position in all of this was neutral, and they also knew for sure that he wouldn't get into trouble. If he saw her she knew that he wouldn't do anything about it.

The room where she was supposed to go to was on the most upper floor and at the end of the hall. She felt so tired when she walked up the stairs; Leaky Caldron was a little crowded, but not more or less so that she could pass them almost unnoticed. Her legs were tired and on the verge to collapse when she finally reached the top floor.

She was tired and exhausted and she was hurt, she felt a small pain from all those cuts she had gotten from falling through that window. She was crazy thinking that she could make that jump. But she did make that jump, she dreaded a little about what that might have happened if she hadn't made that jump.

When she came up to the top floor she rested a little and leaned back toward the wall. This day had been so long. She felt like she could sleep for a lifetime if she got the chance. She yawned and continued.

She actually had no idea who it was she was supposed to meet in that room. She knocked on the door a few times before she opened the door and saw Remus Lupin wait there inside.

At the sight of her he stood up, the after a while of staring he pointed his wand toward her. "When did you find out that I was a werewolf?" He asked.

"Summer before you started teaching at Hogwarts. Dad didn't think it was fair to lie to me." She answered. Her dad had been the one set to pick Lupin up and drive him to the Hogwarts Express on September first, since he was the only one heading that way anyway.

"What happened?" he asked and lowered his wand.

"I broke the bottle with Polyjuice potion, ran into Harry, got discovered and ran away from them." She said adding it all up.

"But did you..?" He asked.

"Yes." Alicia said and took out the control crystal and showed it to him.

He took it from her, gave it a quite good look before he put it down on the table. "This is probably one of the last of its kind." He said. "It's actually hard to believe that such a small thing can do so much damage."

"I think that we should destroy it." Alicia said.

He kept his eyes locked to it before breaking free and looking up at Alicia. "Are you alright, did you get hurt?"

"Just some cuts, nothing to worry about." She answered and sat down on the bed. "Merlin, I'm tired." She said and let herself fall back onto the mattress.

"Did you say that you ran into Harry?" Lupin asked.

"Yeah, I don't know why he was there, but he was there undercover." Alicia told him.

"Undercover as whom?"

"Runcorn, which is a pretty good cover. And I would guess that one of them, Hermione probably, is undercover as Mafalda Hopkirk, she was acting a little strange this morning." She continued and closed her eyes.

"What were they doing there?" Lupin asked.

"I don't know, we said that it was best if we didn't share that information with each other." She continued. "He's alright, all three of them. He said that they have stuff in motion and not to worry for them."

"I'll go tell the others that you are here." Lupin said. "You get some sleep."

"Great." Alicia muttered and heard him leave the room.

It felt so good to be lying down again. Her legs were going all numb and if she tried to stand up now she probably would fall down. This day's events slowly fell out of her mid and a tired and exhausted Alicia Spinnet slowly fell asleep.


Me Note; this was supposed to be up last year but, I'm sorry, I had some trouble writing. I think that the reason that I have had trouble with these last chapters is because "action-writing" isn't really my thing. I'm more of a "relation and talking" writing person.

This chapter is named after one of my favourite Maroon 5 Songs; "Must get out" from the album "Songs about Jane"

Thanks to my Lovely and Devoted reviewers; THEWORLDOFHPEXISTSNOMATTERWHAT, RemusheartsTonks (I like that name, I have always thought that they are perfect for each other) andSilver Chaos-Light

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