Chapter 4

Blood Traitor

A week had passed, it was going to be tonight. Draco had fixed the vanishing cabinet and it was only a matter of minutes before it was going to start. I had racked my brain the last week contemplating on if I was choosing the right side or not. I wasn't sure, but I knew that my side was chosen and I would just have to deal with the repercussions later. I ran frantically through the halls looking for the person I was seeking out.

"Hermione! Ron!" I ran as fast as I possibly could to them. "They're coming, they're coming here!" I was out of breath. I knew that I had to tell them before everything started.

"What? Who's coming here?" Hermione asked calmly.

I took a deep breath. "The death eaters. I found out...Draco was fixing a vanishing cabinet in the room of requirements...it is linked to one in Borgin and Burkes." I looked at them. "He is bringing Death Eaters here any minute now."

Hermione grabbed my wrist. "Come with me!" They were running to the Gryffindor common room. Ron went in and got Ginny and Neville. Hermione pulled something out of her pocket. I recognized it as the liquid luck that Draco had tried to win earlier in the year. "

"Not yet, Hermione. We have to find Luna first!" With that we all ran trying to find her, we finally found her in the library reading a Quibbler magazine. When she saw all of us she stared curiously at us, I assume it was because we were all out of breath.

Hermione was the first to speak. "Luna, death eaters are going to attack Hogwarts tonight. I can't explain in detail, but it is going to happen. We all need to take a sip of this to help us fight tonight."

Hermione took a sip of the liquid luck and then passed it around. I took a slight sip and as soon as it touched my lips I felt like there was nothing in this world that could possibly touch me. We heard a scream come from down the hall. "Lets go!" Ginny yelled.

We ran towards the screams. I saw my mother and father casting random spells trying to destroy the hall they were standing in. "I'll take care of one of them." I said. Ginny followed me.

"Mary, I don't-" Hermione began.

"They're my problem, not yours. Besides this is the only way I will ever be able to prove my allegiance to you and the order!" I screamed. With that the rest of them went another way. Ginny and I stayed behind. I took a deep breath.

"Mother...father...stop!" I screamed.

My mother looked at me with her crazy smile she constantly wore. She glanced at my father in confusion. "Rodolphus...did the Dark Lord mention this to you?"

"No, he did not. Is it possible that somewhere along the way our daughter has lost her way?"

They glanced at me, and I couldn't look at them. I knew that I was betraying them. They knew it too, I guess they were hoping it was an act on my part. But I think that deep down, they knew it wasn't. They knew where my loyalty lied and it wasn't with them.

"I didn't lose my way...I just decided to go on the right path." I spat out, they looked at me and I saw hatred flare through their eyes. "Expelliarmus!" I yelled. My mother's wand flew out of her hands. I knew that she was filled with more hatred. She was not my blood and for that I feared she would be more brutal than my father.

I saw Ginny start to battle Roldolphus. I saw at least four killing curses miss her just by inches, and I was confident that we would be able to win this battle, or at least survive it. I felt a spell hit me from behind. I turned around to see my Uncle Rabastan sneering at me. I felt like someone had literally stabbed me in the back.

"Mary!" I heard Ginny yell.

"Ginny! Run, go catch up with everyone else!" Ginny bolted, they shot killing curses at her but one after the other, they missed.

"Well, do you think you chose the right side now?" I heard my mother say. She stomped on my hand, I screamed in pain. She grabbed my wand out of my hand.

"Bellatrix, she is our daughter." I heard my dad say.

"No! She is your daughter, she is a blood traitor, just like her mother! She betrayed us, US Roldolphus for a Weasley." She was pacing. Rabastan and my father had their wands on me. "The Dark Lord will punish us if we do not punish her."

I saw my father look down, he knew she was right. They would be severely punished if they were to show me any pity. "Shall we make it quick then?" I knew my father didn't take any interest in killing his own daughter.

"NO!" I heard Bellatrix scream. "She needs to be punished. She betrayed us, she betrayed the Dark Lord! She must pay!" She looked at me for a second. She pulled a dagger out of her pocket. "You two go on, he will be very angry if all three of us stand around and there are casualties."

My father looked at me with sad eyes. "Bellatrix..." He reasoned.

"GO!" With that I saw my father and uncle run. She pulled my arm out and lifted my room. "After everything...how, how could you betray me? I took you in as my own when your filthy mother left you." I felt the dagger tip be pressed deep in my arm. I screamed, hoping someone would hear me. "The Dark Lord doubted you, but I thought no, no, no...no daughter of mine..."I felt the dagger go deeper.

"AHHHHHHHHHH" I screamed. I could feel the blood gushing out of my arm. I felt the pain with every etch she put into my arm. She was spelling out something on my arm.

"I told him no daughter of mine, his most loyal follower would betray him. I was WROOOOONG!" She screamed in my ear.

I felt tears boring down my face. She didn't say anything else. She focused on what she was doing, she wasn't gentle and etched several letters into my arm. Finally after a few minutes she was done. The pain was so great, I could barely move. She stood up and circled me with her wand pointing directly at my heart. "CRUCIO!" She screamed.

My body twisted and contorted, it burned as if it was on fire. I clamped my mouth shut. I didn't want to give this bitch anymore satisfaction. I didn't want to show any pain, I knew that I was going to die and I wanted to do it with as much dignity as possibly. It felt like an eternity, she didn't let it go. I finally couldn't hold it in anymore. I let a scream out.

All of the sudden it stopped, I saw Bellatrix running away from me. I saw Professor McGonagall next to me. "My dear, are you okay?" She looked over me.

I finally got the energy to move. "I'm okay. I need my wand." She glanced around and handed it to me.

"Look, why don't you-"

"Professor, my parents did this to me, I want revenge." I finally looked at my arm. I saw two words etched in my right arm. Blood traitor. She didn't argue with me, she led the way out the the Hogwarts grounds where their were several fights going on.

I saw my father battling two students. I ran up to him. "Conjunctivitus!" I screamed at him. He grabbed his eyes in pain. "Leave us!" I screamed to the two students. I walked up to him. "You left me with that woman. You were going to let her kill me!"

"Mary...I didn't have a choice. She was right, the Dark Lord would kill us." He was still grabbing his eyes.

"She tortured me..." I glared at him, for once I felt pure hatred for someone. I screamed curse after curse at him. Had there not been so many people around I would have used an unforgivable curse on him. I saw Bellatrix running passed me with Draco and Snape. "Draco!" I called he looked at me, he had fear in his eyes.

"Mary." He smiled.

I pulled out my wand. I held it up to him. His smile faded. "Draco, you will always be my best friend. I'm sorry I had to betray you, but the side I chose was the right one. If you can write me...sneak it out. Let me know, you and your parents are okay. I will write you, I trust Severus. I know I can trust him, give them to him. I will send mine to him as well."

He pulled his wand out. "I love you. I hope that I will get to see you again. I will take your word and trust Severus as well. I wish I could hug you, I'm sorry about what I said."

"Jinx me..." I said. I braced myself.

He murmured something and I felt my body go back several feet. I stayed down, I knew that the battle was wearing down and truth be told, my body was exhausted. I knew that I had to of endured at least three to five minutes of the cruciatus. I felt someone helping me up. I saw Ginny and she helped me up. "Lets get you to the hospital wing."

When I got there Ginny sat near me. I saw Bill over on another bed. She hesitated for a moment. "How did you escape?"

As if summoned McGonagall walked up to us. "Thank you, professor. You saved my life. Bellatrix would have killed me."

"How long were you in the cruciatus curse, my dear?" she asked. I saw Ginny's eyes get wide.

"It seemed like an eternity, but it had to be at least three minutes. Five max..."

"Well Madam Pomfrey will be over here when she can be." She smiled.

"What happened?" Ginny asked me. I knew that she thought at first my mother had let me go because I was still on Voldemort's side.

I remember everything. I closed my eyes. "Ginny, I know you doubted me. I know that is why you asked. When Rabastan hit me from behind, I knew that it was a matter of time before all three of them ganged up on you. I couldn't bare for your family to deal with that. So I told you to run. I had a lingering hope in my mind that they would show me mercy." I paused for a second.

"My father, Rodolphus wanted to show me mercy...but my...I mean Bellatrix wanted to make me suffer. She wanted to cause me pain. She knew that if I was shown mercy that you-know-who would kill all of them. She told Roldolphus and Rabastan to go ahead, that she would deal with me..." Harry, Ron and Hermione were coming up to us. I continued to look at Ginny. "When they left, she stomped on hand and took my wand...she carved this in my arm." I showed them all my right arm.

Hermione gasped and put her hands to her mouth. I tried to ignore it. "Bellatrix told me I chose the wrong side and that she couldn't believe her family was betraying you-know-who. After that she put me under the cruciatus spell. I tried not to scream, I didn't want her to have anymore satisfaction that she already had. About that time McGonagall showed up and when she saw McGonagall she ran."

Harry and the others hadn't heard everything. Ginny on the other hand came up and hugged me. "You did chose the right side. I know that you had to give up your family and best friend, but George will be your family. We will be your family." I smiled at her. Since my row with Draco, Ginny and I had talked and become pretty close.

"What happened to Bill?" I asked. I didn't want George to have any type of heartbreak of losing a family member.

"Greyback bit him, we are hoping that since he wasn't changed he won't be a werewolf."

I looked down. "Thank you for finding us...we were able to inform the Order in time." Ron said with an encouraging smile.

Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, along with Fluer came to see Bill after they sat with him, Ginny and Ron talked to them and Mrs. Weasley came up to and hugged me. She grabbed my right arm and looked at it. "Oh my dear!" She hugged me again. "I have you to thank. Thanks to you, the Order was here before any serious damage was done. Ginny told me how you saved her life when you were surrounded and down. I don't know how I could ever repay you."

"You don't have anything to repay. Ginny is my family, I've told you guys. I love George, and I would never betray you or your family."

"George will be here shortly. With word of Bill we didn't think to fire call him until we were here."

Several minutes passed and finally George was running through the doors. He ran straight to me. I knew that I looked a mess. My entire body ached and I had refused to let Madam Pomfrey heal my arm. I wanted to remember what the other side did to me. I wanted to remember the hatred I felt. I wanted that to be my fuel. When George was finally next to me, he took me in his arms. He grabbed my face with both of his hands and kissed my forehead.

"Oh babe, you look horrible."

"My knight and shining armor...rushes in, embraces and tells me how horrible I look." I chuckled at him. He kissed me again.

"What happened?" He sat next to me and I started explaining all over again. By the end he was holding me as I told him. When I was finally done he grabbed my arm. "Why haven't they healed you?" He asked.

"I refuse to let them. I want to remember this, I want to remember whenever I doubt my decision that it was the right one."

He smiled at me. He kissed my arm where she had cut it and then kissed my forehead again. "We all know now that Hogwarts is no longer safe against Voldemort..." He said. I looked down. "You are in danger here now, we have to go to McGonagall and get you to a safe house. We can make our house one of them."

I looked down. I knew what he was saying was right. Hogwarts was not safe without Dumbledore. "Maybe I could leave tonight?"

"The sooner the better."

George found McGonagall and everything was explained to her. "You need to go, I will fire call the minister so that we can get some ministry help with George's house. I will also send Remus and Tonks with George to set up some of our own. You go pack all of your things and meet me here."

"Professor, do you think that wise?" George asked.

"Tonks, would you mind accompanying Ms. Lestrange to the dormitory."

Regret filled me, my last name. I had the last name of my torturer and at that moment I hated the fact that I changed it. "Lestrange..."

I looked at her. "It won't be Lestrange long. I am going to press for a wedding soon. I turned seventeen a few days ago and I won't bare this last name any longer then I have to."

I quickly packed all my things. When I walked in every Slytherin eye was on me. They didn't really like the fact that Tonk's had followed me in too. We went straight to the dormitory. Pansy was sitting there. "Why is that blood traitor in here?" She shrieked.

I was not in the mood. I pulled out my wand. "Listen, Parkinson, I have dealt with your constant whining and put downs for six years now. No more! You will not call Tonk's that. You will sit down and shut up. If you don't, shut your mouth, I will personally show you a curse that Voldemort himself taught me." I saw the fear in her eyes.

Tonk's helped me get together all of my things. I threw everything in my trunk. I had put an extendable charm on my trunk. "Just throw everything of mine in there. It will all fit." She nodded. It took fifteen minutes before we were done. We were going back out to the common room. "You-know-who didn't really teach me a charm. I just got tired of her after all these years."

She laughed. "I figured, there are always that one girl in each year." We were back in the common room. Christian and Miles stood in front of me.

"What is going on?" Miles asked.

"Haven't you heard what I am?" The both shook their heads. I held up my arm. "Courtesy of my mum."

"Are you okay?" They both asked in unison.

"I'm fine. Look, I'll write you both. I need to leave, I'm in danger here."

The both moved aside. "We're still here for you." Miles assured. I nodded and walked out the door.

"Is that Thomas Brennan's boy?" I nodded. "The Brennan's don't belong in Slytherin. Give any letters to me and I will have him send them."

"Thank you."

That night was immediately sent to George's house. In a matter of a half hour, several charms had been put over the house. As soon as I got there, Fred hugged me. "I'm glad that you weren't lying to us. I don't think I could have taken George's crying again."

I chuckled. I saw Fred's eyes on my arm. "You know being a blood traitor isn't that bad." He grinned.

"I know. I would rather be known as a blood traitor then a murderer." They smiled at me. I went to the bedroom and George followed me. "George..."

"Yes, dear?"

"I want to get married as soon as school is out and all your family can be there?"

"We agreed..."

"I can't go back to school. And I don't want to bare this last name anymore..."

He looked down. "School is out in a week. We will be married the following Saturday, we can let my family know tomorrow."

I nodded. The following morning we apparated to the burrows. Mrs. Weasley was sitting in her chair knitting. "Mum?" George asked.

"Oh what is it George?"

"Mary and I are to be married a week from Saturday..."

Mrs. Weasley looked at all of us. "Why the rush? I mean, she still has a year of school."

"Mrs. Weasley, I can't go back to school. It is no longer safe, Voldemort will take it as his own and we all know that." I composed myself again. "Molly...what is my last name?"

She looked down. I knew that she didn't want to answer that. "But dear, you are nothing like-"

"Nothing like them?" I raised my robes to show the dark mark. "I am more like them than I want to be. I can't lose their last name any other way other than marriage. I love George, he loves me. We were going to wait til after school, but why wait? I'm not going back. Not next year at least."

She sat down as if what I had said had winded her. "I will invite the order. It will be a small wedding, we can have it here."

And with that she went to go write owls to several people. I looked at George and smiled. In eight days I would be Mrs. Weasley.

End Chapter 4

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