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Unhinged 2: Til the Flame Burns Out	By : nikki13088 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Ginny Views: 3348 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: Here it is finally! Sorry its taking me longer to update, please don't hate me! This chapter took me a while to write, wanted everything to be conveyed the right way. Its another long one so hope you don't mind.
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Ember woke up to the sun shining on her face, the realization that it was morning already made her jump out of bed. She didn't mean to sleep this long and was concerned people from the Ministry or one of the many people working for Jack Adwell would come looking for them here.
She got up and threw her shoes on before running her fingers through her hair in an attempt to make it look decent. When she went to leave the bedroom, she jumped when she saw Jake was asleep on the couch across the way. She gave a small smile at the memory of being with him last night. She quietly opened the door and backed out of it as she was careful not to wake him, closing the door as gently as possible.
"Good Morning."
She jumped and gasped loudly at the sound of Scorpius' voice as he leaned against the wall outside of the bedroom with his arms folded.
"You scared the shit out of me," she said, slapping him.
"Sorry," he laughed. "So how did you sleep?" he asked her as they walked down the hall.
She gave him a quick side glance, a wide smile was planted on his face. "Uh, fine," she mumbled.
"Mmhmm."
"What?" she asked him.
"Nothing." he shrugged, his smile growing even wider.
She just looked at him. "I hate you. Why are you able to pick up on these things?" she growled out in frustration as she quickened her pace.
"Listen, it's not my fault that as your twin brother I have the ability to pick up on your feelings... or other things."
"Other things?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yep, like when you've done something you regretted, or when you have a secret and you can't say... or when you get laid."
"Ew, gross how did you know that?" she snapped.
"I didn't, but you just confirmed it," he said with a smug smile.
"Dammit Scorpius, I swear you're a bloody asshole sometimes," she said as she slapped him a few more times.
He just laughed at her. "Sorry, it was just so obvious. Jake went to go talk to you, he didn't come back to sleep in our room, you were missing for a while... he was missing for a while-"
"Ok, I get it." she snapped before stopping in the hallway and leaning up against the wall.
She rubbed her face and then ran her hands through her hair before sighing.
"What's wrong? Not everything you thought it would be?" he teased her further.
She just gave him this deadly glare before he stared back at her with a smirk causing her to bite her lip from laughing.
"You're such an arse, I swear." she laughed. "And the only thing I didn't imagine happening when that time came was it happening in the bathroom of the Zabini Estate," she mumbled before they both started laughing harder.
They walked into the kitchen to see most of everyone awake already.
"Mr. Zabini, I'm so sorry I overslept, you should have woken me up when Ava got up," Ember said as she walked over to where Blaise had Ava sitting beside him eating some eggs.
"It's not a problem; your sisters did it all, I only supplied the eggs," he said, handing Ava her sippy cup. "Sit and eat, I'm sure it won't be long before there's a knock on the door from the Ministry... or someone else. You're taking a big risk staying as long as you have."
"I know, I'm sorry, we will be out of here as soon as possible," she said.
He just looked at her and then at Scorpius, the two of them hadn't really spoken since the news of him being sent off to Azkaban.
"I don't care how long you stay, but the longer you do the bigger risk you take of being found here. Just keep that in mind."
They both nodded before he got up at the sound of an owl tapping on the window with the latest copy of the Daily Prophet.
"How come you didn't wake me up?" Ember quietly growled out through clenched teeth to Aurora.
"I've taken care of Ava before I didn't think I had to wake you for that." she shrugged.
"Yeah, but we should have been out of here hours ago." she sighed. "Just hurry up and finish eating so we can leave."
"And where are we going exactly?" James asked.
"I don't know, anywhere but someplace they would look." she snapped.
"So we're going to blindly travel to nowhere and then what?" Ellie asked.
"What's with all the damn questions? We just need to survive and not get caught, that's all. I don't know where we're going, just... just trust me." she said, her tone dismissive.
She saw Jake give her a small smile as he took a seat across from her. "I don't mean to overstep Ember but... I know someone not too far from here that we might be able to stop at for a few hours until the next plan." he offered.
"That's perfect." Scorpius chimed in.
"Like a friend's house?" she asked.
"Well, sort of, but it's worth a shot. They are Muggles; maybe it would be better to lay low in a Muggle town?"
"Maybe, it's worth a shot. We don't have any other solutions right now." She agreed.
"Ok, well, I should warn you then... we can't stay there long like I said, a couple of hours, tops. It's not the nicest place to lay low."
"Well, anything is better than traveling the streets," James said.
"Alright, well, we should really get moving so finish up and be ready in fifteen minutes," Ember ordered. "Mr. Zabini, thank you so much for letting us stay here for a few hours."
Ember looked over at Blaise when he didn't answer and was focused on something in the paper. "Mr. Zabini?"
"Dad?" Raven called out to him before he turned to face them. She saw the look on her father's face and knew something was wrong. "What is it, Dad?"
He looked at Ember and Scorpius before he looked down at the paper again.
"What's wrong?" Ember asked, her stomach dropping at the grave expression he gave them.
"It's your grandfather... Arthur Weasley... he passed away last night," he said handing her the paper.
Ember just stared at him for a few moments, her eyes wide as the words sank in. She finally looked down at the paper he held out to her and saw a picture of her grandfather. She felt like her body and mind were unable to understand what she was being told, even with the cries from her sisters ringing in her ears she still couldn't take it in. She looked over at Scorpius, who seemed to have the same expression she did, neither of them shedding a tear, only the look of pure shock on their faces.
Ember immediately attended to her sisters who were overwhelmed by the news. Her eyes locked with her brothers once more as he hugged Riley and Harper. He could pick up on Ember's thoughts and knew she couldn't break down right now in front of the girls, and so he did the same. He would hold it together for the sake of his sisters and to support Ember in their efforts to keep everyone sane and strong at this time.
So many things ran through Ember's head, first that she wanted to go to her grandmother and be there for her, but she knew that wasn't possible right now. The second was that her parents had no clue about it, or so she thought. She was also worried about Riley and Harper, but mostly Riley. She could tell she wasn't dealing with everything too well to begin with and now that their grandfather died she knew it would rip Riley apart. They all were close to their grandparents, but Riley and Harper were much closer with their grandfather than the rest of them were, especially Riley.
"I know how hard this is guys, but Grandpa was very sick-" Ember stopped talking when Riley ran from the kitchen followed by Harper.
"I'll go talk to her," Ellie said as she wiped her face and followed her sisters.
Aurora took in Ember's blank expression. "Ember?"
"Go get whatever you have and be ready to leave in five minutes," Ember said before she excused herself and walked down the hall into one of the guest bedrooms.
She paced the room as her emotions threatened to spill until her brother's entrance made her stop and look at him. She turned away from him, she was slipping and it wasn't until she felt Scorpius walk up behind her and wrap his arms around her that she fell apart. She turned to face him, his eyes welled with tears also as she began sobbing. She shook her head to try and rid herself of the breakdown she was about to have and quickly stopped crying.
"We can't do this right now... we just can't Scorpius, they need us. They need to see we have it together because they need to feel protected," she said through the tears she was quickly drying up on her sleeve.
He nodded in agreement as he wiped his face too and looked at her.
"I can't believe he's gone," she said in barely a whisper as the lump of emotions in the back of her throat made it hard for her to speak.
He gently grabbed her shoulders and looked at her. "I know, but as you said, we have to grieve later, right now we need to keep moving. Are you going to be ok?"
She nodded before they both wiped their eyes once more and made sure they looked a little less puffy eyed before joining their sisters in the hallway.
"Ember... Scorpius?"
They both turned to Blaise, who handed them a piece of paper with an address on it.
"The house at that address belonged to my great-grandparents, it was more of a vacation home. I have no clue if its even still standing, but if it is, it might be a good place to lay low for a bit until we figure things out," he said.
"We?" Scorpius asked.
"Yes, although I'm not the greatest of friends with your parents or was of your father's, I've known them a long time and I know they are better people than I ever thought them to be. I don't want to see any of you... or them get hurt. I will do what I can. It will take you a few days to get to that address, by then they will have already questioned me, but they might get that location out of me. Luckily, I am quite gifted at resisting Veritaserum, but just be careful once you get to that area."
"Thank you Mr. Zabini," Ember said.
"Blaise is fine," he said before his eyes fell on Raven as she led Scorpius to the side hall.
"I should come with you," she said.
"Are you crazy? No, way. You need to stay here."
She wiped her tears that freely fell from her green eyes. "Please be careful, I don't want to lose you."
He gently grabbed her face and kissed her, he could taste the salt from her tears on her lips. He took in the feel of her body against his and the smell of her hair as she hugged him tightly. His love for her growing more than it ever had. As he held her he realized he didn't want to let her go, he didn't want to leave her. He could feel her love for him in just the way she would place her hand on his chest or run her fingers through his hair. It was almost as if he was seeing her for the first time suddenly as she looked up into his eyes.
"I love you, Raven."
"I love you too," she said through her trembling lips as she softly cried.
"Alright, let's get going," Ember said as the hallway was filled with quiet sobs from her sisters.
They all froze when there was a hard knock at the door.
"Open up, Ministry business!" a man called through the door.
"Shit!" Ember mumbled as they all quickly ran towards the back door. "Let's go, stay quiet," she ordered.
"As soon as you get out back, go left and head that way, take all the back alleys," Blaise told them. "And good luck."
Ember nodded before they all slipped out of the back door and took off down the side streets.
She sat there with her head hanging as she wiped her face free of the tears that continued to spill. She watched Hermione place a cup of tea down in front of her before she took a seat across from her.
"We'll find them, Luna, I promise," Hermione said as she placed a comforting hand on hers.
Luna didn't say anything she just let out an emotional sigh.
Hermione gave her a sad smile before she turned to Ron, who was making his way downstairs. "How's Mum?"
He just shook his head before he sat beside her, his eyes red and puffy from the news of his father's passing. Hermione laced her fingers with his and gave his hand a light squeeze.
"What is our move here? They summoned you for questioning again after the kids went missing, which means they don't know where they are." Ron said. "They've questioned me, the kids, Luna, George... should I go on? Have you heard back from Kingsley yet?"
"No, nothing. I need to try and get in to see Ginny and Draco, they might know where they are."
"And if they question you again?"
"They don't have to tell me where the kids are, just as long as we know they are somewhere safe. That would at least be a big help, but I think that Ginny and Draco would have mentioned a safe house of some sort at some point over the years." Hermione said more to herself as she contemplated a few different things. "Ron we can't help them if we're constantly being questioned, maybe we should go into hiding ourselves for now?"
"But if we do that we are going to look like we're hiding something and I don't want to put the kids in danger like that, maybe we can leave them with Luna and you and I can go try and find some answers?" Ron suggested.
"No way, I am coming to help," Luna demanded.
"But Luna, I don't think Molly can handle all of this right now by herself. We need you to stay here with her." Hermione gently explained.
"I can't, I can't just sit here and do nothing. All I can think about is what they are doing to Harry in there or if my children are lying dead in the street somewhere. Maybe they've already captured them and they are being experimented on as we speak?" She went off on a rant before she started sobbing again.
"Luna, you have to calm down, look at me," Hermione said before Luna looked up at her through her teary eyes. "Do you remember whose kids are out there? They are Potters, Malfoys, and Weasleys... there is no way they are lying dead anywhere. They will fight and we will find them... I promise, you have to believe that."
She let Hermione's words sink in before she finally nodded.
She spit out the last bit of bile from her mouth in the toilet before she rested her elbows on the rim of the bowl and held her head in her hands.
"You ok?" she heard Draco call to her.
"Yeah!" she called out from the small bathroom to him before she pulled herself up and rinsed her mouth out.
She walked out into the open room and glanced over at him, his eyes holding concern for her and his unborn child's current health status.
"I'm fine, it's nothing that they've done if that's what you're thinking. After seven children I can tell what morning sickness is." she sighed before she walked over to the wall to meet him.
He studied her expression for a moment before she felt his eyes on her and looked back up at him. Their chances of escaping grew smaller and smaller with each passing day and they wondered just how much longer it would be before they took the experimentations too far.
They broke eye contact when the sound of the lab door opened and Jack Adwell walked in with his brother and Crystal. They hadn't seen Jack Adwell all that much since they had been here, only the day that Ember and Scorpius came with Hermione to see them.
"Good to see you three again." Mr. Adwell said as he approached the glass rooms. "I wanted to personally come by and congratulate you all on getting one over on me. I don't know how you did it, but I'll figure it out," he said.
The three of them exchanged a look of confusion. "What the hell are you talking about?" Draco asked.
"Where are they? You might as well start talking because either way, the Veritaserum will make you spill your darkest secrets." Mr. Adwell went on.
"What are you talking about?" Harry asked.
"Your kids, where are they?"
"What do you mean?" Ginny asked.
Mr. Adwell rubbed the side of his head in frustration. "They are missing, they are gone, not a trace except one of my men left dead in your home. Now tell me... where are they? Where have you sent them?" he asked, his tone angry.
Ginny's eyes went wide as she looked at Draco, tears welling in them. Mr. Adwell took note of this before the corners of his mouth turned up into an evil grin.
"So you don't know where they are?" he said with amusement. "Hermione Weasley was questioned earlier and she too did not know where they went. Blaise and Raven Zabini were also questioned this morning and they did indeed mention that they were there but had taken off again. Any idea of where they might be heading?"
"James and Bella too?" Harry asked.
"Oh yes, Mr. Potter, every last one of your offsprings that might have some sort of magical powers... gone."
"You sent people to our home to collect our children for your fuckin experiments?" Draco growled out in anger, slamming his hands on the glass.
"Don't seem so surprised Mr. Malfoy, I think you all knew my true intentions."
"Yes, to test on us, but on our children? They are innocent in all of this, they didn't ask for their powers." Ginny snapped, wiping the tears from her face.
"Be that as it may, they are now up for grabs and I will do everything to find them. They won't get far, half their wands were left behind so most of them are out there defenseless. The only thing they have are those powers that they can barely control so they'll either get themselves killed or kill each other with how inexperienced they are with them." he said. "Until then, I will hunt them... and when I find them... well, I'll see which ones are worth keeping alive still." he laughed before he headed towards the door.
Ginny shed tears of anger and fear, she was scared for her children and what might happen to them or what could've already happened to them.
"Oh, and by the way Ginny." Mr. Adwell called out to her from the doorway. "Your father passed away this morning... sorry for your loss," he said before he left the lab and locked the door.
The words hit Ginny's ears, but they hadn't reached her enough to comprehend what he had said. She walked over to the glass wall and placed her hand on it as if he might come back and tell her he was lying. When she realized he wasn't returning, she lifted her hand to cover her mouth to muffle the emotional gasp that escaped.
"No... no," she choked out.
Her body trembled as she leaned her forehead against the glass and felt her legs start to give out. Her hands sliding down the wall until she was in a full fit of sobs, her breath hitting the glass forming a small patch of fog. She watched it slowly start to disappear from her view, her heart breaking as she thought of her father... her mother.
"Dad?" she whispered out as if he might actually answer her. "Oh Dad, I'm so sorry I wasn't there with you." she cried out softly.
She turned to Draco, his tear-filled eyes on her the whole time as he got down to her level. She crawled over to the wall where he was and leaned her forehead against where his was.
"He's gone... I... " she trailed off, her eyes locking with Harry's across the room, he was just as broken as she was. Her father was like a dad to both Harry and Draco all these years.
After seeing Harry breakdown and her not being able to comfort him or Draco, but just watch the agony fill them made her sob harder. Her thoughts went to her mother and how she wanted to be with her so badly right now to comfort her.
After a few moments of her balling her eyes out, she wiped her face and looked at Draco once more. "Where are they? Where are our children? Please tell me they are ok... please." she begged him, her body shaking with emotion.
He nodded. "Yes... they are ok." he choked out, his voice cracking.
She gave him a small tearful smile before she fell into another fit of sobs.
"How much further?" Ember asked.
"Just around the corner here," Jake said, leading the way.
They followed him through a few back alleys to keep off the main street so they wouldn't be spotted by the wrong person. They all walked in silence, still the occasional sniffle from one of the girls, especially Riley. After a few more minutes they found themselves in a rather rundown part of town. A lot of people walking the streets or hanging around outside on the doorsteps. They could tell it was a very Muggle town from the sounds of the conversation and music that was heard playing in the distance.
"You've taken us to the ghetto?" Scorpius said with a slight sneer, tightening the watch on his hand to the next clasp.
"Relax, I know it's not the nicest area, but my buddy Reggie will be more than willing to help you guys out."
Jake knocked on Reggie's door and waited for a few moments for someone to answer. He knocked again. "Reggie! It's Jake!" he called out. He leaned over the hand railing to get a peek into the house. "Reggie? Open up!" he yelled once more.
"Yo, Jake, you looking for Regg?" asked a younger man walking over.
"Hey Jordan, yeah, do you know where he is?"
Jordan started shaking his head. "He's done, Andre came around."
"What do you mean he's done?" Jake asked, walking up to him.
"A bullet... right here," Jordan said, pointing to the space between his eyes.
Jake just stared at him before he quickly turned around and started walking away. "Let's go, we need to come up with a new plan," he said to Ember and Scorpius.
"You in some kind of trouble? You need to lay low or some shit for a bit?" Jordan called out.
"Yes." Ember quickly answered.
"No!" Jake called out. "Listen to me Ember, coming here was ok when I thought Reggie was still around, but this is not the place to lay low for a few hours. Let's just keep moving," he said as he gave Scorpius a look that pleaded with him to take his side on this.
"I'm with Jake, we don't need to be walking into trouble. We don't know these people and he barely does too... let's keep moving." Scorpius said.
"Well, can I at least use the bathroom before we continue on?" Harper whined.
They all looked at her.
"What? I have to go."
"Fine, Jordan can we intrude for just a few minutes?" Jake asked.
"For you Jake, anything," he said, leading the way to his small home a few houses down.
Scorpius grabbed the back of Jake's shirt and held him back a bit so he walked behind the rest of the group with him and Ember. "So tell me, Jacob, why it is you don't seem too surprised about your boy Reggie being... what's the correct phrase? Clipped?" he drawled.
"How did you meet these people?" Ember chimed in.
"Listen, I know it's a rough part of town, I get that and I have no intention of putting you guys in any more danger. A couple of years ago when I was desperate for money and a place to stay, Reggie helped me out and I stayed with him for a bit. Long story short, I got mixed up in some... not so legal things in order to survive and that's pretty much it. Andre is the one everyone around here answers to, but I've repaid all my debt to him and got the hell out of this area as soon as I could. I'm not surprised about Reggie because... as great of a friend he was to me... he pushed his luck with Andre and was constantly doing shady shit." Jake explained.
Scorpius and Ember exchanged a quick look before they nodded at his explanation.
"Well, let's get this over with and get out of here." Scorpius drawled once more as he walked ahead.
Jake turned to Ember, who was quiet. "I'm sorry."
"For what?"
He shrugged. "I don't know... for being more and more of a disappointment... a piece of-"
"Stop that." she cut him off, her tone angry. "I don't think that at all, in fact, what I was thinking was how I don't know as much about you as I would like. You're a great guy Jake and I love that you want to help us," she said before she leaned over and placed a soft kiss on his cheek.
They walked into the rundown house and was greeted by the smell of weed and cigarettes.
"Ew, it smells weird in here," Harper said, pinching her nose.
"Just go use the bathroom." Scorpius snapped before nodding for Aurora to go with her.
There was a crowd of people sitting on the couch and hanging out in the kitchen where Jordan led them to.
"This is my girl Kayla, that's my buddy Jerry over there, then you have..."
Scorpius stopped listening as Jordan went on to introduce the rest of everyone and turned to Jake and Ember. "You should try to ask your homedog or whatever you call him for some cash for us. If we're going to be traveling through Muggle towns, then we'll need Muggle money. From the looks of the drugs flowing from the house, I'm sure it shouldn't be an issue." he simply said.
"I rather not, I don't want to get involved like that," Jake said.
"Hey, what the hell are you doing?!" Scorpius shouted, grabbing a cup out of Ellie's hands.
"I was thirsty."
"I don't care, don't you drink anything from this place," he said, pouring the drink out in the sink.
"It was just juice." she snapped.
"You're too trusting Ellie. It may seem like juice, but then you find yourself face down on-"
"Scorpius!" Ember called to him.
He looked at the expression she gave him before he turned back to Ellie. "Just don't drink anything," he said firmly.
"You guys hungry? I don't know how long you're sticking around, but we got some burgers going out back." Jordan offered.
"Hell, yeah, I'm starving," James said following Jordan out back.
"James? Are you nuts?" Ember asked.
"I don't care, we don't even know when we'll get a chance to eat again after this so I'll take my chances." he shrugged before he disappeared out of the back door with Bella beside him.
Ava started crying and Riley handed her over to Ember before she followed James outside.
"She's probably hungry too." Ember sighed as she looked at Scorpius and bit her lip.
He shook his head in defeat. "I'll go cut up a burger for her I guess," he smirked before he went outside.
"It's good that he's hesitant," Jake said. "For the most part Jordan and these guys are cool, it's when Andre comes around that you don't want to be here for."
"How did you meet Reggie?" Ember asked as she gestured to the yard when Aurora and Harper were looking for the others and watched them make their way outside.
"It was when I was home one summer from Hogwarts and I was trying to make some money to get out of my mum's place. I went down to the corner store to try and pick up a job and Reggie actually mugged me."
"What!" She said out loud, a small laugh escaping her mouth.
"Yeah, after he realized I had nothing he just suddenly came out with an offer I couldn't refuse... the rest... well..." he trailed off.
"That's quite amusing." she giggled.
"I know, despite his intentions to rob me he really was a good guy. It's scary to see what lengths people will go to in times of desperation."
She nodded at his words. "Yeah... it is."
Draco walked over to the wall connected to Ginny's room and squatted down to the spot she had been sitting in for hours.
"Gin?"
Her back was to him as her head hung, her copper strands falling all around her face. "Hm?"
"We really need to start thinking of a way out of here."
She was quiet for a few moments before she finally turned towards him. "Do you remember the Ferris Wheel?" she asked softly, her eyes gazing up to meet his.
He looked into her red puffy eyes, the dried tear tracks he saw on her cheeks broke his heart. "Of course," he said with a small smile.
"I remember feeling such peace at that moment... up there with you... looking down and seeing all those lights."
He smiled at the memory. "Me too."
"That was the night I thought I might be pregnant." she sighed as she thought back to that night so long ago, a small smile stretching across her face before it faded again. "I miss them so much Draco." she choked out, fresh tears spilling down her face.
Draco just listened to her cry, he felt so helpless. He turned to Harry, who watched Ginny's breakdown.
"I don't even know what to say anymore," Draco said to him as he walked across the room over to Harry. "I have no clue where to even begin to try and get out of here."
"Yeah, and say we did make it out of these damn boxes, we have no idea what kind of security the rest of this place has. We don't even know where we're at." Harry said as he looked around the lab as if some sort of answer would come to him.
They all turned their attention to the door opening and one of the lab workers came in and made her way over to them.
"We just need to get some more blood from you, Ginny," she said as she grabbed the supplies she needed to take a few samples and placed them on a tray that she wheeled over with her.
"What else is new?" Ginny mumbled as she stood up and wiped her face.
The lady unlocked her room and walked inside over to the chair Ginny took a seat in. They were used to being poked and prodded by now, they came for blood samples multiple times a day so it became routine. Draco walked over like he always did to make sure they didn't do anything else to her. It's not like he could do much to stop them, but just being able to keep an eye on her gave him a small amount of comfort.
Ginny glanced up at Draco, locking eyes with him for a moment before her gaze fell on the needle sitting on the table in front of her. She looked back at Draco again, she was unsure if he could read her intentions.
Ginny watched the lady's eyes leave the table in front of them as she grabbed something else off of her tray on the side. Ginny quickly grabbed the needle off of the table as her head was turned.
"You must be tired of getting blood taken by now." the lady said as she tied the tourniquet around Ginny's arm.
She wiped it clean with a little alcohol wipe and turned to grab the needle when she realized it was gone. She turned to the tray beside her and when it wasn't there she turned and looked directly at Ginny.
Before she could say or do anything Ginny plunged the needle right into her eye.
"Holy shit!" Draco yelled at the scene that took place before him. The woman's screams filling the room. "Ginny, the door!" he shouted to her as she seemed to be shocked by her own actions.
After she snapped out of her state of shock, she quickly grabbed the key card from around the woman's neck despite her attempts at trying to stop Ginny. She took one last look at the lady screaming on the ground before she ran out of the room. She ran over to Draco's room and tried swiping the card, her hands trembling the whole time.
"Fuck, it's not working. There must be a different card for each room," she said.
"Over there, near the door, there are other ones hanging up," Harry said, pointing across the room.
She quickly went running over when they heard the door unlocking as someone else was about to walk in. Ginny frantically looked around the room for some sort of weapon. She saw there was a small surgical area with different tools on a tray and she grabbed a scalpel off of it and ran over to the door. She leaned up against the wall as the door opened up and swung her hand out at the person, who quickly jumped out of the way.
She realized it was Crystal and she swung her arm again at her, the scalpel firmly grasped in her hand.
"It's in your best interest to give up and get back in your room." Crystal said as she dodged another one of Ginny's attempts to wound her.
"Yeah, I bet," Ginny said through clenched teeth as she threw herself forward at Crystal.
Crystal was a lot quicker than Ginny thought she would be as she felt the back of her hand collide with her face, making Ginny stumble back a bit before she ran at her again. This time Crystal lifted her foot and kicked Ginny right in the chest so hard she flew backward across the room.
"Ginny!" Draco yelled out, pounding on the glass in an attempt to break through.
Ginny felt the small blade fall from her hand and desperately tried to find it again as Crystal neared her. She grabbed her chest as she winced in pain and finally she felt the edge of the sharp instrument and snatched it just as Crystal approached her. She went to plunge it right into her chest when she heard it hit something hard, like metal, she could feel the painful vibrations run down her wrist making her drop the scalpel. Her eyes went wide when she saw Crystal 's skin completely turn to metal.
"What? How?... " she couldn't find words to express the shock she felt.
"I told you it was in your best interest to give up," she said before she swung her metal covered fist at Ginny's face and everything went black.
"If you do it that way, you'll see more of a profit and you need to keep better track of who you front because you're losing a lot of business," he said, pointing to the notes that Jordan took down.
"Scorpius!" Ember called over to him. "Can I please talk to you for a moment," she said with a forced smile.
"Sure," he simply said before he got up from the couch and made his way through the crowd of people that had formed around him and Jordan. "What's up?"
"What's up? We should have been out of here hours ago, but instead, you're sitting in there giving them drug selling advice-"
"Business advice." he cut her off.
"It's drugs!" she exclaimed as loud as she could without anyone hearing her.
"It's still business, though."
"Ok, anyway, everyone is getting a little too comfortable. Ava is sleeping in that girl Kayla's lap, some other girl is braiding Ellie's hair, Bella is... I don't even know where." she said as she looked around real quick for her. "You're in here, giving them business tips and I'm pretty sure James and Aurora aren't passing the joint anymore, but rather hitting it now, so can you please help me collect them all and be on our way?" she pleaded with him.
Scorpius started laughing at her rant.
"It's not funny!" she said, slapping him before a small smile formed on her face and she let out a giggle or two.
"Ok, let's go get them. Fuck, if Mum and Dad knew what we were doing-"
"Honestly, Dad would probably be angrier at the fact that we left James alone with Aurora." Ember laughed.
"And Mum would probably just laugh at the entire thing," he said with a smirk.
Both of their laughter died down and they both fell silent, the only sound was the Muggle TV in the background and the conversation that filled the house.
"I miss them," Ember said. "I miss us all being together."
Scorpius put his arm around her and pulled in into a one-armed hug. "Me too, let's go get the clan together."
"Uh, guys we need to go... like now," Jake said suddenly.
"Why, what's wrong?" Ember asked; she could see the panic in his eyes.
"Two things, one... that guy Andre just pulled up and two, the bigger problem, is that," he said, pointing to the Muggle TV on the kitchen counter.
They both turned to see pictures of all of them on the news with a generous award being offered to anyone who had information on their whereabouts.
"Are you fuckin kidding me? They went as far as carrying this over into the Muggle World?" Scorpius spat.
Scorpius ran outside where James and Aurora were, he snatched Ava up off Kayla's lap and kept walking over to them. "We need to go, now. So pull yourselves together because our faces are all over the bloody news," he whispered to them.
James and Aurora jumped up from their seats and James grabbed Bella from the lawn chair she had fallen asleep on outside. They met back up with Ember and Jake, who rounded up everyone else and headed towards the door.
"Jake, you leaving already? Don't you want to say hi to Andre before you go?" Jordan asked as he noticed his quick exit.
"Listen, thanks for letting us stay here for a few hours Jordan, but we need to leave now and I would rather it be before Andre sees us here," Jake said, his eyes traveling over to the TV set behind Jordan again.
He saw Andre make his way into the front door and he cursed under his breath before he quickly turned around and grabbed Ember's arm to start leading them out of the back instead.
"So it's true!" Andre called out, making them all stop in their tracks. "Jacob... it's good to see you again," he said as he walked closer to them.
"Hello Andre, we were just leaving," he said as he turned to leave. A few of Andre's guys blocked the back door before they could exit. "What do you want Andre? I don't have any unfinished business with you."
"It's not you I'm interested in... it's them," he said, nodding to the others. "See, Jordan gave me a head's up when he first saw their faces all over the news earlier this morning."
"What the fuck Jordan?" Jake growled out, making a move to attack him when Ember grabbed his arm.
"I'm sorry Jake, it's just, I owed Andre from some other shit and I had to come up with some way to repay him. They're offering a hefty reward for that lot behind you." Jordan tried to explain.
"Some homie you have you there," Scorpius mumbled to Jake.
"I'm sorry Jake, I didn't want to end up like Reggie," Jordan said.
"Ah yes, poor Reggie, he too tried to fix things last minute with me," Andre said, looking at Jordan. "But it didn't matter in the end, he still owed me, just like you do," he said before he brought his gun up and shot Jordan in the head, blood splattering all over the wall behind him.
There were screams that filled the house and people attempted to run.
"Nobody move!" Andre yelled, making them all stop.
Scorpius handed Ava over to Ember before he made his way towards Andre. He tried to push the image of Jordan getting his brains blown out in front of him aside.
"Listen, Andy-"
"Andre"
"Whatever, we are leaving here now, so is there something we could work out here to let the rest of this end peacefully?" Scorpius suggested.
Andre took a step closer to him and looked him over. He motioned for his men to check the others for any weapons. After a few moments, they only brought over the few items they did manage to find in their pockets, which were just the few wands they had left from their quick escape from the Manor.
Andre laughed. "Wands... so you lot are from the freak land?"
"Freak land?" Scorpius asked with a raised eyebrow looking at Jake.
"His terminology for the Wizarding World."
"Ah, well, that's not very nice Andy." Scorpius sarcastically drawled.
Andre just gave a small chuckle before he took the wands that were found on them and snapped them all in half. "The news said that you all were supposed to be dangerous... well, now that you don't have your magic wands I guess you're not so dangerous anymore are you?" he grinned.
"Is that what the news is saying?" Scorpius asked. "Hm, interesting. So I take it you're going to try to turn us in and collect the reward?"
"Exactly."
"That's a great idea, I would probably do the same thing honestly if I were a dashing young man like yourself. The only issue is that we actually have a different plan and it includes us walking out of that door before anyone else gets hurt."
"That's up to you," Andre said as he nodded to one of his men who grabbed Aurora and dragged her over to him.
James instinctively ran forward, but the sound of Andre firing his gun into the air a few times made him stop in his tracks.
"Don't be stupid," he said, as he pointed the gun at Aurora.
She let out a small hiss when the tip of his gun was pressed against her cheek as the heat from the barrel burned her.
The sound of his sister's whimper as she feared for her life made any attempt to end this in a peaceful way completely diminish. Ember could feel the coldness start to surround her as she saw Scorpius' powers start to surface.
"Be careful, one wrong move and he could kill her," she whispered in his ear before he did something he'd regret.
He nodded, but it wasn't his powers they should've been worried about, it was James'.
"James... "
James heard Scorpius quietly call his name, but his attention was only on Aurora. If there was ever a time he wished he had control of his powers, it was now. He could feel his heart racing as fear filled him with the possibility of Aurora getting hurt.
His eyes locked with Aurora's, she knew his intentions and she could see the uncertainty on his face. The lights flickered for a moment before each one started popping and an electrical current danced across the ceiling of the house and shot down right at Andre, making him jump back in surprise.
As soon as Aurora felt the electricity hit her, she threw herself forward to avoid any harm that would come to her from either Andre or James' powers. She felt Scorpius pull her over to him as everyone started scrambling to get out of the house. Andre grabbed his gun off the ground that he had dropped and went running towards them when Scorpius froze his legs in place making him fall to the ground, his gun going off as it hit the floor.
Scorpius heard it go off and he quickly pulled Aurora aside as he threw himself in front of her, his fingers digging into her arms as he awaited the bullet to hit him. When it didn't, he opened his eyes to see it frozen half an inch away from his face. He let out a hard breath before he turned to Aurora and gave her a confused look, her eyes wide with surprise. They were both pulled from their close call by the sounds of other gunshots going off in the house and everyone pushing past them to get out of the house.
They all went running out the back door and out of the side fence. Ember had Ava clutched to her body tightly as she ran as fast as her legs would carry her. She kept looking over her shoulder to make sure all her sisters were right behind her.
James was dragging Bella with him, the tingling sensation still running through his fingers making her want to pull her hand away from his, but he held her tightly and forced her to hold on. They all went running towards the small wooded area coming up in the back of another house down the street, the sun was almost completely set as darkness filled their path ahead.
The sound of gunshots filled the air again and the sound of someone's painful scream rang out, causing them all to turn around.
Their eyes fell on Riley as she fell to her knees.
"Riley? RILEY!" Ember went to run back to her, but Scorpius pushed her back and ran towards her.
"GO ON! WE'RE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!" he yelled back to her before he scooped Riley up in his arms and started running back towards the woods.
They were still being followed, shots were still being fired as they ran deeper and deeper into the woods. They could barely tell where to run or what path was clear as sharp tree branches clawed at their faces as they kept running.
"Fuck this," Scorpius said as he stopped and placed Riley down against a tree.
He turned back to one of Andre's men that was close behind them and formed a thick wall of ice right in his path, making him run right into it before falling to the ground. Before he could scramble to get back up, Scorpius let the heavy wall of ice fall on top of him. There were three more guys running at him and the ground beneath them turned to ice making them slip. One of them fell on his back and slid right in front of Scorpius' feet.
Scorpius saw him begin to shake with fear. "Please don't kill me," he begged.
"Why the hell not? You tried to kill us." he sneered at the man.
He looked at Riley slumped against the tree nearby and then back at the man. He looked away from him as he held his hand out and iced his head over before he brought his foot up and slammed it down on his head. He looked up at the other two men who retreated after seeing their friend killed and took off running.
Scorpius turned back to the rest of them, none of them saying a word at his actions as he picked Riley back up and they kept moving forward. They ran for a few more minutes before they were sure nobody else was following them.
Scorpius dropped to his knees and laid Riley down. "I can't see fuckin shit, Ember get over here!" he yelled to her.
She ran over and ignited a small flame in her hand to give them some light. She looked up at Riley's face, she wasn't making any noise, she was just staring back at her.
"It's her right shoulder, I can't find where the bullet is," Scorpius said, as he frantically searched for anything around of use. "Does anyone have a fuckin wand?"
"We don't have anything." Ellie cried.
"Is she going to die?" Harper asked.
Scorpius ignored the question, the sound of Bella and Ava crying was ringing in his ears. "James, get them the fuck away from here now!" he yelled to him. "They don't need to see this." he continued, his tone calmer when he saw the scared looks on all of their faces.
James and Aurora quickly gathered the girls around and walked ahead a bit.
Ember and Jake knelt down beside Riley and Scorpius and she watched him just stop all of a sudden. She could tell he wasn't sure what to do. "Scorpius?" she whispered to him, tears falling down her face.
He looked up at her, his own tears threatening to fall. She watched him quickly wipe his face on his sleeve before grabbing Riley up into a sitting position, her eyes finally rolling to the back of her head as she passed out.
"Ok, ok... let me see if I can feel where... " he trailed off as he slowly stuck one of his fingers in where the wound was and felt around for the bullet.
Ember made her flame grow brighter as she could see he needed more light.
He cursed under his breath when blood just kept pouring from the hole in her shoulder. He pulled his hand back and let it hover above her shoulder for a moment as a light frost covered the wound so he could slide his finger in and hopefully better feel around for the bullet.
"Be careful, you don't want to cause more harm to her." Jake gently offered his advice as feelings of guilt filled him for putting them in that situation.
Scorpius just nodded at his words before he finally pulled his hand back with a tiny piece of metal between his fingers.
"Shit," he said, throwing the piece of metal across the woods with such anger before he screamed out in frustration.
"What? What is it?" Ember asked.
"It shattered, there are bullet fragments scattered about, I can't do anything, not without magic or getting her to a hospital." he choked out, trying to refrain from completely losing it.
"A hospital, but we'll be captured for sure if we go there," Ember said.
"I know... I know." he was quiet for a moment before he looked at the burning flame in her hand and then at Riley's bleeding wound. "You need to cauterize it," he said suddenly. "We need to try something, I'm not a fuckin doctor or a healer, but I know enough about attempting to stop a wound from bleeding," he explained once he saw the look Ember gave him.
"You want me to use my powers to... to..."
"Yes!" Scorpius and Jake both said together.
Her hands trembled as she held the other hand close to her sisters wound. She let out a shaky breath before she released a steady stream of heat against her skin. Riley's eyes snapped open as the burning sensation sent her body into a complete panic.
"It's taking too long, forget about being gentle and just do it," Scorpius said; his tone firm.
Riley tried to squirm away, but Scorpius held her still. "Hey, it's ok, everything is going to be fine... ok?"
She opened her mouth to speak, but instead, a scream escaped her lips as Ember took the ball of fire that had been burning brightly and let it dance around her fingers before she stuck two of them inside the wound. Scorpius covered Riley's mouth to quiet her screams in fear of drawing attention to them.
He leaned his forehead against hers. "I'm sorry Riley, it's almost over," he whispered to her.
The heels of her shoes dug into the dirt as she tried to scramble away from the pain, her hands clawing at the grass beneath them as Jake held her still. Finally, all movement stopped, all the muffled screams beneath Scorpius' hands silenced and her head fell to the side as she passed out again.
A/N: Ok, so I really would love some feedback on this chapter. I know not everyone is a reviewer, but some kind of feedback would be amazing. How did you enjoy it? What are your thoughts on the scene with Ginny and Crystal? How about our poor Riley? Please review!
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