AN: HEY GUYS SO HERE IS THE NEXT CHAPTER. UPDATES ARE GOINT TO BE A BIT SLOWER AFTER THIS WINTER TERM STARTS TOMORROW AND I ALSO WORK FULL TIME SO MY FREE TIME WILL BE SCARCE. R&R THANKS FOR READING.

CHAPTER 10.

Ginny never thought she'd be here again. At least not in this capacity. She walked into the beige building and the woman at the reception desk was smiling slightly to herself arranging some floral arrangement.

"Katie," Ginny said. "I need to talk to him."

The woman, Katie Bell looked up. "Ginny! Hi how are you?" They'd attended school together and worked for the ministry. Katie was a reception at the Unspeakable offices while Ginny had been an agent.

"Collin Creevey has been released from Azkaban, how do you think I am?"

"Yes, I heard. I'm so sorry Ginny."

"I need to see Mark."

"He's unavailable at the moment, I'll take a message I'm sure he'll contact you as soon as he is able."

"Katie, I wasn't asking." Ginny brushed past the desk and ignored Katie's protest. She burst into Marks office and he was sitting at his desk. Unavailable indeed. Ginny thought.

"What the hell were you thinking releasing Creevey?"

"Hello Gin. How are you?"

"Sick and tired if people asking me that. Why the hell is Creevey released?"

"It wasn't my decision."

"You could've stopped it. You have strings and let's not pretend you dislike pulling them."

"It's not that simple Ginny, he is no longer a threat since your sister is no longer living."

"He will find out about Zoe and he will come after her."

"That's unlikely."

"Look Mark, you know me. I worked for you for years. You know how dedicated I am. Clearly you're not going to help me. But I want you to know, if Creevey comes after Zoe, I will hold you personally accountable for that. You know how, unpleasant I can be about things like this."

"Is that a threat Gin?"

"It's a statement of fact. Take it however you like."

She was gone as quickly as she came.

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Harry was waiting when Ginny came back. He'd wanted to go with her but she said she needed to go alone.

"What did they say?"

"They're going to release him. I can't stop it."

"That's insane."

"I know. Harry I need a favour."

"Anything, Gin."

"Do you have any contacts at Azkaban?"

"Yeah actually. Why?"

"In my dream. Luna said that 'it was him'. I have a suspicion I need to confirm something first. I heard a rumour a few years back. I never gave it much credit but now I think that was a mistake. I heard that a few inmates were sneaking out of Azkaban, planning to escape testing routes, I thought that if they got out once they'd just run and never look back. But I'm wondering if Collin was one of those inmates, if it was true. He could've convinced them that it's in their best interest to go back. That way they could make a solid plan on how not to get caught once they made their final escape. What if he set up the accident to kill Luna and Neville, and then the hole in security was contained before he could get to Zoe."

"Why would he kill Luna? Wouldn't he want to capture her?"

"No he wanted Luna's love. Neville had that and Collin hated them both for it. He confessed under the truth serum that if he couldn't have her no one could. I think killing her is exactly what he would have done."

"How are you going to find out if the accident was staged?"

"I still have the car they were driving. No one really looked closely so no questions were raised because it was so icy out that night. I'm going to check it out. While I do that I want you to find out if the rumour was true and if Collin was one of the escaped inmates."

"Alright Gin. I'll look into it."

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Zoe and Lilly were having a fun day with Ron and Hermione. She had a lot of books with wonderful stories and he played lots of silly games and would take them to fly. They wondered why their parents had left them with the other two as on Fridays they would normally take a trip to the zoo or something like that but they were having too much fun to give it any serious thought.

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When Ginny returned she had a tired look on her face. She waited in the kitchen for Harry sipping a cut of English tea. He appeared after what felt like forever.

"What did you find out?" He asked her.

"The brakes on the car had been cut."

He looked as if he wanted to stop time so he could avoid telling Ginny the heart breaking truth. She knew the answer to her question by the look on his face.

"He was one of the inmate's who'd gotten out." Harry nodded. Ginny felt as if she'd aged a hundred years.

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Collin sipped his beer as he lay in the room at the leaky cauldron. He'd never been happy about the way things had ended with Luna, but she'd had to die. She couldn't see that they were made for each other. She couldn't see that she belonged to him. Zoe however would be raised with that knowledge.

He wouldn't touch her before she reached adulthood of course he wasn't a monster. But she would be his. He dreamed of her face, he wondered if she had her mother's eyes. He looked over that the photo of the little girl he'd managed to take before anyone had seen him. She'd been with her aunt.

Collin hated Ginny. She took him away from Luna if not for her he'd have been able to make her see. The bitch would have to die.

That way he and Zoe could live.