Okay here's the next chapter, I am done with exams! And will now be able to hopefully, write more quickly.
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Chapter 12- Pain, revelations and misery.
Sirius groaned as he opened his eyes and squinted at the harsh light that penetrated his sensitive eyes. He moved his hand which had blood seeping from his knuckles and moved it to clutch his jaw which he could tell by his own wince that it was badly bruised, most probably from where Olivia's brother had hit him.
Olivia!
Her name was like a soothing balm to him, he forgot his own pain and looked over to where she still laid unconscious from the cruciatus curse. He had fought to get free and protect her but the spell Orion was using was to powerful, but as soon as the spell was gone he attacked Orion with everything he had, until he was also cursed and hit in the face by Orion enough times to render him unconscious.
Sirius got up to his feet, momentarily holding onto the bars of the cell for support attempting to ward away his dizzy head, and then rushed over to Olivia. He knelt down by her side and lifted her up into his arms.
"Liv?"He said gently shaking her. "Liv come on wake up baby, they're not here anymore." Sirius pleaded and stroked her hair away from her face. He watched as Olivia's eyes finally fluttered open and looked up into his own.
"Thank god." Sirius said breathing a sigh of relief and pulled her up even closer to his chest.
"Sirius? Where'd they go?" Olivia mumbled and looked around wincing when she moved her head.
"Hey... Shh. Stop moving baby, you're in a lot of pain. They're not here at the moment, please just try and keep still." Sirius begged and picked her and carried her over to the far corner, so that he could lean against the wall while she sat in his lap.
Olivia looked up, again wincing, and looked at his face which made her gasp.
"Sirius what happened to you!" She exclaimed, lifting her aching hand to lightly touch the darkening bruise on the side of his face.
Sirius winced slightly as she touched the bruise and she drew her hand back almost immediately,
"Sorry" She whispered and the cringed, bringing her hand up to touch her head. Sirius moved his hand to the back of her head and as he pulled back he saw his finger tips dyed red.
"Shit!" He cursed "Liv you're bleeding." He said and held his hand over her wound.
"Probably from hitting the wall." She said "It'll be fine." She said as she struggled to sit up.
"Olivia stop moving." Sirius said sternly, he was worried sick.
"Can you please sit me up, lying down is making me feel sick." Olivia asked holding her stomach. Sirius as gently as he could, picked her up and sat her next to him against the wall. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and held her hand using his free one.
"Do you think they're gonna kill us?" Olivia asked in a small voice and Sirius looked down at her, kissing her forehead.
"I don't know what's happening Liv, but I'm going to protect you as much as I can, I promise." Sirius said to her.
Olivia shivered and Sirius saw that it was because all she had on was her dress still from the ball. Since the back was nonexistent and the straps were rather thin the cold draft of their cell could easily reach her exposed skin.
Sirius shrugged off his suit jacket and wrapped it around her shoulders.
"No." Olivia protested trying to take the jacket off, but Sirius gently stopped her "Sirius you're going to get cold." She continued.
"Rather me than you, besides you have less material on than me." Sirius shrugged. Olivia put her head in the crook of his neck hoping to block out the spinning going on in her own head.
They sat side by side, seeking each other's warmth, comfort and love, for what seemed like an eternity.
Sirius stood up when the iron door outside the cell opened and positioned himself in front of Olivia and his mouth nearly dropped open when he came face to face with his own parents.
Olivia, using the wall as a support managed to get herself standing and moved next to Sirius grabbing his hand, despite his protests of trying to get her behind him.
"Well look what the cat dragged in." Walburga sneered at Sirius, while his father continued to ignore the son he now called scum.
Olivia's parents followed in closely behind and glared at their 'daughter'
"Dumbledore said that there was a binding which meant that we couldn't be hurt before, during or after the ball, what happened to that?" Sirius spat angrily.
"Well of course a blood traitor like you and a goody two shoes like Dumbledore wouldn't know the loopholes to that little decree." His father said, finally addressing him and Olivia gripped his hand harder to comfort him.
"What loophole?" Olivia asked finding her voice.
"Dark magic." Her mother answered with a smirk on her face.
Both Sirius and Olivia's eyes widened and subtly moved closer to each other. Even though with how close they were already it seemed impossible.
"You see if the combination of different dark magic produced by pure magical beings and woven into a spell. As soon as you arrived at your houses the spell covered you and released you from the rules of the ball. Of course though we didn't want to make it obvious that you hadn't turned up, so we waited for the ball to come to a close before taking you." Asterion explained to the two wide eyed teenagers.
"Why?" Olivia asked quietly. "Why would you take the risk?" She continued.
"Tell us about the Order of the Phoenix" Emma snarled as she joined the little party.
"Emma!" Selene scolded, though it didn't seem to be meaningful telling off.
Olivia and Sirius looked at each other confused, which only seemed to annoy the deatheaters more.
Asterion unlocked the cell door and Sirius pressed Olivia against the wall as he came closer. His own father came in just after and pulled Sirius away with a rough grip on his arm and along with Olivia's brother was dragged up the stairs ,fighting all the way, with Olivia just behind, with her father's iron grip on her hair.
They were both thrown to the floor in the middle of the open plan living room. Each of the exits blocked by a deatheater.
Sirius turned to Olivia and stroked her hair "Are you okay?" He asked panicked.
"I'm fine, you?" She whispered. He nodded briefly still looking her over.
"Oh god that's disgusting." Emma commented. "We always knew they would get together didn't we mother." She boasted and Selene nodded.
"You will tell us everything you know about The Order of the Phoenix." Orion ordered.
"We don't know what you're talking about." Sirius said and Olivia nodded in agreement.
"Shame." Emma clicked her tongue and then shouted "Crucio" at the same time Walburga did which resulted in both Olivia and Sirius screaming and shouting in pain.
When the curse was removed they were both panting heavily.
"Tell us!" and "Give us the information!" Were shouted down to the two of them as they were repeatedly cursed.
"For all the times we got into fights and you managed to get a lucky slap bitch!" Emma shouted to her and used a slicing charm to make a deep cut that ran down her rib cage. Olivia screamed with the pain and grabbed her side to stop the blood seeping out, which soon turned her fingers red.
"Enough!" Asterion shouted and grabbed Olivia as Sirius was also grabbed and both were tossed back into the cell. "Until tomorrow." Orion sneered at the two of them.
Sirius couldn't find the strength to pick himself off the floor and Olivia who lay next to him grimaced in pain from the deep gash on her side. Sirius moved his hand over ,slightly wincing at the movement, at the same time Olivia moved hers.
They joined hands in the middle making sure that the other knew that they were not alone.
Lily sat in the sofa at potter mansion in her pyjamas, watching as chaos unfolded. James has called her at around one in the morning explaining about the situation where Olivia had been taken and Sirius had grabbed on to her during aparation and now nobody knew where they were. All that was known was that they were with their parents.
Emma was sitting holding Lily's hand with tears rolling down her cheeks as she thought about her two other children in the hands of those monstrous people. Lily herself had a horrible sick feeling deep in the pit of her stomach, which only intensified as she saw James pacing around the room angrily.
Richard was on the other side of the room surrounded by the team of Aurors shouting orders at each of them and tensely explaining the situation.
Lily sighed deeply and got up and went over to James. She grabbed him gently by the waist, so he was turned to face her. She reached up and grabbed his cheeks in her hand.
"We'll find them, everything will be fine." Lily said her own voice slightly cracking on the word fine. James grabbed her and pulled her tightly into his arms.
"I'm sorry, Lils so sorry." He mumbled into her hair which was now become slightly wet from a few of his escaped tears.
"Hey Shh, You have nothing to be sorry for." Lily comforted him, slightly confused.
"I should have tried harder to get to them, but they went so quick and I didn't move fast enough." James said and Lily realised that he thought it was his fault that they had been taken because he hadn't reached them before they were aparated.
"James look at me." Lily said as she took his face in her hands again. "This isn't your fault. It's no-one's fault except those god awful people and trust me James, they will pay." She continued.
By this time both Richard and Emma had walked over and joined in the hug.
"James I will do everything in my power to bring them home where they belong." Richard promised looking his son in the eyes.
"I know you will Dad." James said back.
Dumbledore came in just as the small family, though missing two people broke apart.
"What the hell happened Albus?" Richard started off.
Dumbledore sighed but that just made James mad.
"You said that they couldn't be hurt, why would you lie about that?" James shouted.
Dumbledore looked at James and calmly spoke "James the binding in the letter does not allow harm to come to the receiver. However I believe now that what has happened is that the Collins and Blacks have joined their powers together and broken that contract binding, which allowed them to take Sirius and Olivia."
"Where are they?" Richard asked through gritted teeth.
"My best bet would be that if they thought nobody had seen them aparate than they could just go straight back to the Collins household, since the house had already been searched in order to arrest them, there would be no reason for anybody to check there." Dumbledore explained.
"I have alerted the order. They will be gathering together here in ten minutes. "He continued.
"What's the order?" James and Lily asked at the same time.
Emma looked at both of them "Sit down while I explain quickly." She instructed.
Both James and Lily listened intently to what Emma was saying.
"So basically the order is a group of people who came together to fight you know who." Lily summarised. James didn't say anything but continued to stare at his mother.
Finally he opened his mouth "I want to join." He said firmly looking at Dumbledore and his father.
James saw Lily open her mouth and thought she would protest but she didn't "Me too" She said to his surprise and grabbed his hand.
"Lily it's dangerous." James argued but Lily being the stubborn women she was did not back down.
"No James, I want to fight in this war. I want it to be over so that our children and grandchildren can live in a safe world. I want to fight so we can help Sirius and Olivia." She said determinedly.
James looked at her, his eyes shining with pride as he looked at his beautiful girlfriend. They had been dating now for 8 months and they had been the best in his life. They had taken their relationship slow not wanting to miss a single minute.
"Okay baby. We'll do this together." He said and kissed her on the lips.
Person by person the members of the Order began to fill up the Potters living room. Dumbledore had told Lily and James that they could join when Sirius and Olivia were back as he suspected that they would want to join too.
Everybody sat around the table listening to the plan of action, including James and Lily who, much to Richard and Emma's protesting, were going along. Their role was to get Sirius and Olivia while the others fought.
The next few hours for Sirius and Olivia were painful as they tried to heal the injuries of the other. Sirius at the moment was sitting facing Olivia's side so he could look at the gash down her rib cage.
Every time he touched it she would moan in pain, but he needed to do something, she was losing too much blood, from both her head and her side.
"I'm sorry baby." Sirius said as she cringed in pain for the thousandth time.
Olivia looked up at him "I'm scared." She whispered to him.
He picked her up as gently as possible and cradled her in his arms "Me too" he admitted.
Another hour or so passed and the two stayed locked in each other's arms when the same iron door opened and the deatheaters stepped in.
"Looks like we're going to have to get this information another way." Olivia's brother sneered and Emma who was standing next to him smirked.
"This is going to be great." She laughed. Olivia was nervous just from the look on Emma's face.
Before she knew it Sirius was pinned to the wall next to her held by magic while he struggled to get free and Olivia pulled at his arms to try and help him.
The iron door opened again and Olivia turned around slowly and came face to face with her very own night mare.
"Liam." She whispered and paled. Sirius started to struggle more and shouted something, but Olivia couldn't hear anything other than her own voice echoing his name in her head.
"Long time no see Olivia. Bloody hell even with all the dirt, bruises and blood you're still gorgeous." He complimented moving closer to the bars of the cell, which in turn had Olivia moving to her back was pressed against Sirius who was whispering words of comfort in her ear.
"Last chance Olivia, tell us about the Order Of The Phoenix." Selene said to her daughter.
Olivia shook her head "I have no idea what you're talking about." And even if I did I wouldn't tell you. A voice in her mind said.
"Fine. Have it your way." Asterion sneered at his daughter and nodded to Liam who moved and opened the cell door.
"No, no no no.!" Olivia whispered under her breath.
"Don't touch her!" Sirius shouted at Liam who was coming closer.
"Come on Olivia I believe you owe me from two years ago." Liam sneered as he grabbed Olivia around the waist, trapping her arms against her side.
"NO! SIRIUS!" Olivia screamed at the top of her lungs, almost having a panic attack when she felt his hands on her.
"GET OFF HER!" Sirius shouted as Olivia was dragged out of the cell. "LIV! NO!" He screamed as they disappeared out of the room and became silent.
He looked at the deatheaters who were all laughing "LET HER GO! PLEASE!" He shouted to them, begging them.
"No, she can learn her lesson and it seems to be just as awful for you, but let's make it worse shall we." Walburga smiled at him and flicked her wand at the door, removing the silencing charm.
A glass shattering scream reached his ears and he paled even further. He barged against the bars until he could no longer feel his shoulder, all the while the screaming never stopped.
"OLIVIA!" He screamed and the deatheaters continues to laugh.
Her screams went on for what seemed like an eternity. When they finally stopped Sirius lifter his head from where he had put them in his arms to hide his tears from his parents.
The door opened and Liam walked in holding a half walking half being dragged Olivia, who was wide eyed and shaking.
Sirius stood up to catch her as she was roughly shoved back in the cell. He looked down at her and wanted to be sick. Blood now covered most of the top of her dress. She had bruises on her cheeks, slices on her neck and red hand marks on her arms which were becoming a dark purple colour.
"The little bitch kept saying she didn't know anything." Liam said through gritted teeth and Sirius clenched his hands into fists.
"Well you obviously didn't beat her hard enough." Emma said to him obviously not impressed.
Olivia looked up into Sirius's eyes "Don't let him touch me." She said in a broken whisper which made Sirius' heart break.
"Never again baby." Sirius kissed her forehead.
"We'll see." Liam sneered and Olivia cringed deeper into Sirius arms as a whimper escaped her lips.
"You're not touching her again." Sirius threatened as he laid Olivia on the floor and stood up.
"I can and I will, you won't be able to do anything, you'll be tied with magic and then I'll make her into a real slut." Liam had been cocky and as he had been speaking he had moved closer to the bars.
Sirius reached through the gap and wrapped his hands around Liam's neck.
"You bastard!" He shouted and squeezed as hard as he could only stopping when a spell hit him and he fell to the floor, letting go of Liam's throat who then took a deep breath and held his bruised neck.
Sirius took a few breaths to get rid of the pain and went to get up again, but Olivia grabbed his arm and pulled him to her. "Don't you'll get hurt." She whispered.
He finally nodded and sat down next to her. Breathing a sigh of relief when the deatheaters left the room.
Olivia's eyes had started to roll around her head. "No Livvy stay with me, I know it hurts but don't fall asleep, you might go into a coma.
Olivia nodded as best she could and gently rubbed her fingers over a cut on his face. He winced slightly and she kissed her finger tips and put them on the cut again.
"All better." She whispered and he chuckled quietly.
"Liv... Did he touch you?" Sirius asked the words cautiously, dreading to hear the answer.
Olivia bit his lip and feared for the worse but breathed a sigh of relief when she shook her head.
"He tried to but I kept hitting back at him, that's why he kept hitting me." She whispered, her voice sounded crack where he had obviously held her throat.
"I'll kill him. I swear to god, next time I see him..." Sirius trailed off and then stopped completely when he heard bangs and shouting come from outside the door. Olivia held onto him tight as her moved them to the furthest part of the cell.
The iron door was blasted of the hinges and Emma, Richard, Lily and James all ran through gasping when they saw Sirius and Olivia.
Richard blasted open the cell door and the four of them hurried inside. Emma knelt down looking at the couple and tears flooded her eyes as she looked at Sirius bruised face and Olivia's bloodied body.
"Can either of you move?" She asked gently trying to remain calm. Sirius nodded slowly but looked down at Olivia.
"She can barely sit up." Sirius said panicked.
"Olivia, why couldn't you use your wand less magic?" Emma asked using it as a topic of conversation so that Olivia would not fall unconscious while she checked her injuries, another of the order healers was checking Sirius.
"Spell on the cell, can't break it." She breathed heavily. Emma stroked her hair.
"Okay darling, we'll be home in a minute, we can get you all fixed up, okay?" She reassured Olivia.
Another guy came in shouting "They've all aparated!" They all turned towards him and Richard nodded.
"Okay get everybody out." He instructed. And turned back to Sirius and helped him up with James on the other side of Sirius also helping.
"Come on mate." James said pulling Sirius' arm over his shoulder to hold his weight.
"Liv." Sirius mumbled as he was slowly losing the will to keep his eyes open.
"She's fine mums' with her, I'll aparate with you and Lily and then Dad will carry Olivia okay." He told Sirius the plan and Lily took Richards spot on the other side of Sirius. They managed to get out of the room and Sirius dizzily looked on the floor and saw it had blotches of red going down it. His eyes widened and vision cleared as he realised it must have been Olivia's. He started to struggle and turn back.
"Sirius come on she's coming." James reassured him as he struggled.
"No I told her I wouldn't leave her alone. She's hurt!" Sirius continued to try and break their hold on him, but he was weak.
"Sirius stop!" Lily shouted at him and he looked at her desperately. "Look, she's there." Lily pointed behind them to where Richard appeared with a barely conscious Olivia in his arms and Emma next to him who was trying to keep Olivia awake.
Sirius let himself be pulled away, outside. James gripped him tighter and his vision blurred as they aparated.
James let Sirius flop down onto the sofa but he bolted up right again when Richard aparated with Olivia, and James had to steady him when he stumbled form getting up so fast.
"Is she okay?" Sirius asked voice broken.
Emma nodded slightly but rushed Richard into Olivia's room, where he laid her on the bed. Emma healed her injuries but seemed to be having trouble with the gash on her side. Finally coming to the conclusion that Olivia was in too much pain and needed to sleep she simply put a small weaving spell on the cut so it would stop blood coming out, until Emma could heal it properly.
Emma gave her a strong sleeping potion and within minutes Olivia was drifting off, "Sirius." She called and Emma smiled at the strong bond they had with each other.
"He's fine darling." Emma said and turned just as James helped Sirius into the bedroom, laying him on the bed next to Olivia, who smiled sleepily.
"I love you." She whispered. Sirius lifted her weak hands to his lips
" I love you too baby, so much." Sirius whispered back and leaned forward slightly, ignoring the pain and kissed her lips gently just as she closed her eyes.
Emma handed Sirius another sleeping potion and kissed his head, which felt slightly better from where he had been healed.
He swallowed the potion and moved as close to Olivia as possible without hurting her. He lay there content, letting the potion do its job as he thought about what they had endured, what the Order Of The Phoenix could be and how no matter what they went through neither of them had been alone.