(A/N): Welcome to the beginning of the second half of the plot! Yay!

This half has gone through many changes since it was first concieved, but now, it is here! So...

Read on, how about?

CHAPTER TWENTY: MEMORY

And so she was thrown into the back of the black Dragon Order van, with a chloroform-soaked rag covering her mouth and nose.

The last thing she saw before she fell unconscious was her sister's desperate face, screaming.

The last thing she heard was a strangled cry of "NO!"


TWO YEARS LATER


She paced back and forth between two opposite corners of her cell, a small six by six by six -foot room, which, to that day, still gave her an uncomfortable sense of deja vu. When she had first been using Magic in here, she had seen the ghost children, except instead of six, there were seven...

Her name was Coraline. She had a sister. She had to free Harry Potter somehow. She had to escape her own prison.

That much she had held on to, even as her mind and memories rotted away with her sanity, leaving her alone with her nightmares in her six by six by six cell...

Over time, she hadn't even needed to be using Magic to see her nightmares displayed before her eyes in the dark, oh, it was so dark...

And then there was the last time she had seen her sister... It was a nightmare, being taken away from the only family she had ever known...

She felt it coming before it did, and started screaming before the flashback swallowed her whole...

"NO! YOU CAN'T TAKE HER! SHE'S MY SISTER! NO!"

Coraline awoke to her sister's screaming. Looking out her window, she figured it was three or four in the morning.

Then her door burst open, and she was grabbed by a huge man and carried out into the hallway and downstairs hurriedly, barely allowed to breathe.

"NO! YOU CAN'T HAVE HER!"

Her sister screamed in vain as Coraline was carried out the door to a waiting van the same color as the night sky - black, black, black...

A rag was tied around her head and she immediately began to feel drowsy. She was thrown by the big man into the back of the van. She saw her sister's face, heard her scream...

And then the van's rear doors shut, and she fell unconscious...

She found herself sitting hunched over in one of the corners of the room, her cheeks wet and sticky. She couldn't tell whether they were soaked in blood or tears.

She knew sleep was the only option if she wanted to keep her sanity...

...but it was also the way to lose it...

And so she was carried to another empty, blackened realm...

(A/N): I can already hear your questions:

Q: How long has she been in that room?

A: She's been in there since a few weeks after she was captured.

Q: What did she do to get in there?

A: Screaming in her sleep, mainly. It was distracting the guards and the other prisoners. They thought she was insane, and thus put her in the dark chamber, which made her insane. In all reality, she had just had two extremely traumatic experiences which you already know of.

Q: If she's been in there almost two years... how is she still alive?

A: They have a thermal camera installed in the middle of the cieling. When she's asleep, they come in and deliver food and water.

Q: What does she mean by 'using Magic'?

A: It's 'Magic' with quotes. You'll see more of this later.

If you've got any more... ask in a review. Please?