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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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The front door swung open as she quickly ran inside. "DAD! DAD!" she screamed throughout the entire house.
"Raven? What's wrong?" Blaise asked as he quickly ran up to her, his wand drawn and ready to attack.
"Dad, I need to show you something," she said, handing him a small pile of papers.
He looked her over real quick to make sure she was ok after the scare she gave him at her alarming entrance before he turned his attention to the papers in his hand.
He scanned it over for a moment before he raised an eyebrow. "Ok, so it's Noah Adwell's medical record, why are you showing me this?" he asked.
"Because of this," she said, turning the page and pointing to the part for him to read.
After a few moments of reading, he had a confused look on his face. "I don't understand, these are discharge papers... but Noah died."
"That's what I'm saying... I've searched for a death record for him or anything from his supposed death, but nothing. He was discharged the morning that Scorpius and James were arrested for his murder. He was released, of course, to his father." Raven explained.
"So Noah's alive?"
"Yes!"
"What the hell is Adwell up to?" Blaise mumbled to himself.
He noticed Raven grab a bag from the hall closet and run into her bedroom and he walked over to her doorway to find her throwing clothes and other things quickly into it.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"Where do you think? To go find Scorpius and the others and tell them what's going on... to help them."
Blaise grabbed the bag from her and threw it across the room. "You're crazy if you think I'm letting you risk your life for these people... for him."
"And you're crazy if you think you can actually stop me." she snapped.
"Raven, stop it, you're staying right here where it's safe!" he demanded, trying to block her from leaving. "There is nothing out there worth dying for!" he yelled.
"I would gladly die for Scorpius!" she yelled back at him.
"You don't know what you're talking about Raven, Scorpius is a fine young man and all, but it's in your best interest to forget about him and focus on moving on."
"Moving on? You said you would help them and do what you can, this is doing what you can?" she snarled at him.
"And I will do what I can, but you are staying put," he demanded once more.
"No, Dad-"
"That's final Raven, I-"
"DAD LISTEN TO ME!" she screamed.
He stopped and looked at her, her eyes filling with tears. "I love him and I can't sit here at home knowing he's out there in trouble. You told me that I was the only thing you had left in this world." she cried. "And if you try to stop me and if you don't help me, then I swear to you... you'll have nothing left... nothing." she cried with anger in her voice as her eyes pierced into his.
He let her words sink in for a moment as he looked at the seriousness in her eyes as she defended her love for Scorpius. He walked over to her bag that was on the floor and picked it up and looked at it for a moment before he handed it over to her.
Her lips trembled with emotion as she took it from him; guilt filling her for threatening her relationship with him like that.
"I'll help... I'll help them," he said before he pulled her into a hug.
Draco woke up in the same spot on the couch he had been sitting since Ginny was knocked unconscious by Crystal. He rubbed his face and glanced over to see Harry asleep in his room before he noticed someone was in Ginny's room sitting on the edge of her bed.
"What are you doing?" he demanded, as he quickly ran over to the wall to get a better look.
"No need to worry, I'm just changing her bandage." the young lady said as she finished covering the large gash Ginny had above her eye. "She's definitely going to feel this when she wakes up, this bruise is intense."
Draco studied the girl, she couldn't be much older than Scorpius or Ember. He hadn't seen her before in the lab and she looked somewhat familiar.
"Who are you?" he asked her.
She glanced over to him before she looked back down at Ginny. "Three or four weeks," she said softly.
"I don't understand."
She looked back up at him. "Your wife, she's about three or four weeks pregnant."
Draco just nodded.
The girl walked out of Ginny's room and then stopped in front of Draco's before opening the small window and slid a small picture through to him.
He looked at her once more before he walked over and picked it up. It was a sonogram of the baby, his and Ginny's child. A smile stretched across his face before he looked back up at her.
"Thanks," he said. "Do I know you, because you look familiar?"
She shook her head.
He was quiet for a moment. "What's your name?"
She gave him a small smile before she looked over at a large dry erase board hanging on the wall. Draco watched one of the markers start to hover and even uncap itself before it started writing on the board to spell out a word.
Draco stepped closer to the wall to get a better look. "Eve? So that's your name? And you have powers also?"
She walked closer to him, the whole time the board in the background was erasing itself. "I am a Half-Blood, who, like Crystal... my sister... was brought here and experimented on."
"And now you both work for Adwell? How could you work for him when you both were his personal lab rats?" Draco said with a sneer, some disgust in tone.
She was right up against the glass now, her eyes locking with his. "Because Jack Adwell is my father," she whispered to him.
"Eve!" They both turned to Crystal who barged into the room. "There you are, I don't want you in here, now get out!" she demanded.
Eve locked eyes with Draco one last time before she turned and quickly left the lab. Draco quickly pocketed the sonogram she had given him in case it was to bring him any trouble for having it.
"Mr. Malfoy, your children were spotted in a Muggle neighborhood a few hours ago."
"What? Are they ok?"
"I don't know and I don't care. The only important thing out of this is that we have an idea of where they are headed to next," she said coldly.
She saw the worried expression on his face and she rolled her eyes at herself for feeling the least bit sorry for him. "The only thing I know is that there were a few dead bodies, but none of them belonged to any of you. There were a lot of bullets and there was a lot of blood, some leading in the direction we think they had went, so more than likely one of them is hurt... badly. I can't be certain."
Draco felt his stomach drop at the news that one of the kids could be hurt or even dead by now.
She pulled out a picture from a file she had in hand. "Jacob Warren, you know him?"
He nodded.
"He was apparently with them. We also went back to Mr. Zabini's to further question him and his daughter and they are nowhere to be found... neither is your sister and brother-in-law Ron and Hermione Weasley. You have any idea where any of these people are or where they could be going?"
Draco wasn't sure what to do with the information she gave him, all he could think about was what the hell was going on outside of this glass box he was in. His mind only on the possibility that one of his kids could be hurt.
After Crystal saw his reaction to her question she could tell he knew nothing of what was going on and turned to leave.
"I'd get some more rest, Mr. Malfoy... you'll need it for later," she said before she left the lab.
The sound of ripping fabric reached his ears and made him jump out of the ten minutes of sleep he had accidentally dozed off for. He crawled out of the tight cave-like area they took shelter in a few hours ago to see it wasn't even morning yet. The sun barely shone on anything in the woods that surrounded them, still leaving everything almost black. Scorpius walked back over towards Ember, as she continued to rip pieces of the shirt she was wearing over her tank top.
"You sleep?" she asked.
"Ten minutes or so, it was an accident really," he said, taking the ripped shirt from her and kneeling down next to Riley. He re-wrapped her wound up the best he could before he just shook his head. "Ember?"
She looked up at him, he could see her steel gray eyes piercing into his even in the dark. "I don't think she's going to make it."
She ignored him before she ripped another piece of her shirt that she had a bit left of and wrapped it around her thigh.
"What happened?" he asked before he crawled over to help her.
"It's just a graze... a mere scratch compared to Riley's," she said as she winced when Scorpius tied the fabric tight around her thigh.
They both just sat there in silence before Scorpius felt Ember's body beside him shake with sobs. She tried to cry as quietly as possible as she covered her mouth with her hands. She could smell the dried blood on her fingers, the wetness from her tears making it smear all about.
"I pr-promised Mum I w-would keep them safe... that I would p-protect them." she cried. "I failed them... I failed them all. They c-can't even t-trust me to keep them out of danger."
Scorpius wiped a few silent tears that spilled down his face as he listened to her. He was angry at the situation, he was mad that they were out here like this with no way to help themselves or especially Riley. He wrapped an arm around her and pulled her to him as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Neither of them said another word, they both eventually dozed off against the tree they were sitting against for about a half hour. It was the sound of the ruffling and crunching of leaves that made Ember and Scorpius wake up again and jump to their feet.
"Mum! Dad!" Riley cried out as the rising sun lit up her pale face.
"Riley, hey, shh!" Ember said as she ran to her side. "Hey, you're with us, remember?" she gently reminded her as she saw panic start to set in on Riley's face.
Riley went to sit up when she seemed to have taken her injury in for the first time and completely lost it. The small movement she did manage to make made her wound bleed even more.
"Stop moving, you're going to make it worse." Scorpius tried to explain to her as calmly as possible as she completely started freaking out.
"Am I going to die?" Riley asked them as she stared up at Ember and Scorpius hovering over her. "I'm going to die... I am." she cried, her breathing rapid.
"No, you are not going to die, you need to calm down," Ember said, stroking her hair to try and soothe her.
She could see how much pain she was in and her heart completely broke to pieces. Her sister's wails of agony filled the woods surrounding them as she thrashed beneath her calming hands. Just as she didn't know what more to do for her, Riley passed out again making her feel for her pulse. She leaned her ear down over her mouth and felt the small bit of warm air hit her.
Ember looked up at Scorpius who was kneeling across from her. The morning sun made them both able to take in how much of their sister's blood they were covered in. Embers lips trembled with emotion before she turned to see everyone was up and watching them... watching Riley, to see if she had taken her last breath.
She didn't know what to say to them, it was the sound of someone in the distance that made her snap her head in the other direction.
"We have to go," Scorpius said as more than one person was visible through the trees in the distance heading right towards them.
He scooped Riley up and started running with the others before making sure everyone was accounted for. It wasn't long before the first spell flew past one of them and then a few more zoomed past and started hitting the trees around them.
"JUST KEEP RUNNING! DO NOT STOP!" Ember yelled to them all.
They were chased for what seemed like forever until they finally stopped to catch their breath, they knew people were still out there, looking for them. They could hear them calling out to them in the distance to surrender.
Scorpius put Riley down for a moment, his shoulders and arms were on fire as he carried her the whole time. He stared down at her, she looked dead; her wound just pouring blood.
"Leave her," Ember suddenly whispered out.
"What?" Scorpius asked her again, unsure of what he heard her say.
She started crying. "She is dying... she will die if we keep dragging her along with us. Let them take her, they will help her. I know that sounds crazy Scorpius, but they want us to experiment on... for our powers. They will save her before they test on her, I'm sure of it. Hopefully, we can figure something out before it comes to that, but right now... she is going to die." she turned to Jake and the others, nobody said anything.
Scorpius just stared at her, his eyes welled with tears before he shook his head. "No, we can't leave her."
They could hear people making their way closer and closer to them.
Ember reached forward and took her brother's hand. "We have to."
He stood up next to her and they both just stared down at their dying sister.
"Ember?" Riley called to her in a small frail voice.
Ember kneeled down beside her. "Hey, you're going to get help... they will take you to Mum and Dad... I promise," she said with a small smile as her tears fell on Riely's cheek.
She got back up and took off running with the others and took cover behind a large boulder as they waited for the men to pass.
"Ember! Scorpius! Come back!" Riley called out in the distance. "Please don't leave me!" her frail voice echoed out.
Ember had both of her hands tightly pressed against her mouth to suppress her sobs. The feeling of guilt ripping her apart as she heard the fear in Riley's voice as she cried and begged for them not to leave her. After a few moments, they heard the pop of a few of the men apparating and Riley's pleas came to a stop.
Once she knew Riley was gone, she fell to her knees and lost it. She cried for everything she was keeping in. All signs of strength seemed to completely fade as she crumbled before them all.
A couple of hours had gone by since Riley was taken and silence was the only thing that surrounded them all. Nobody spoke, nobody hardly even cried since Ember's breakdown earlier, nobody except Ava. Everyone was just in complete shock at this point.
"You found a stream?"
Aurora nodded before she collected some of the water in a small container they had found along the way.
James pulled out a crushed plastic bottle they had found and filled it with some water as well, his eyes falling on Aurora.
"Did I hurt you?" he asked her. "Back there when..."
She didn't even look up at him, she still had tears in her eyes from the events earlier. She shook her head at his question. "No." she choked out. "Just a small burn, but no... you didn't hurt me," she said through her cracking voice.
His eyes were locked on her, he just wanted to grab her and hold her. He finally saw her look up at him, her eyes swollen and red, her face full of scratches and dirt from being in the woods.
"I'm sorry James, I'm sorry I've treated you so horribly these past few days." she cried.
He quickly kneeled down beside her and grabbed her into a hug. Her hair still smelled like he remembered it even though it had twigs and leaves in it. Her body still held the warmth he loved feeling whenever she was near him even though they had been out in the cold and on the run all night. She held him tightly like she never wanted to let go and it made him feel the happiest he had felt in a while.
He pulled back a bit and stared at her, her bright blue eyes glistening through the tears that filled them. He wanted to kiss her just like every other time he looked at her, but he didn't want to take advantage of her emotional state.
He wiped a tear away with his thumb before he placed a soft kiss on her cheek. "Happy Birthday Aurora."
She gave him a small smile before he took the container from her and brought it back to the rest of them. She wiped the rest of her tears off on her sleeve as she watched Scorpius make his way down to the water. Her stomach was in knots at the sight of him as he washed the dried blood from his hands.
She made her way over to him and took a seat as she pulled out a piece of fabric from her pocket. They didn't speak, one thing Aurora has been always jealous of was Ember's relationship with Scorpius, they were the closest out of all her siblings. Her and Scorpius never really had that bond like he and Ember did. Sure, he was the typical big brother, but even though they looked alike, there was nothing special they shared... nothing like what he had with Ember.
"Try using this," she said as she handed him the cloth.
He scrubbed his hands as hard as he could. She watched him become frustrated with the amount of effort it was taking to wash his hands free of his sister's blood. She looked at his bloodstained shirt and saw the look of defeat cover his face as all scrubbing came to a stop.
She leaned over and took his hands and wet the cloth again and started wiping them clean, she could feel his eyes on her.
"Thanks for saving my life back there... at Jordan's," he said.
She shook her head. "What are you talking about, you saved mine," she said, not looking at him.
"No.," he said firmly. "You saved mine."
She looked up at him... he knew.
"I don't know what you're talking about," she said.
She could feel him grow angry by her lack of confession to having powers as he grabbed the rag back from her and went back to scrubbing his hands in the stream. She just sat there in silence for a few more moments before she placed her fingertip on the surface of the water and let it start to ice over.
Scorpius felt the water around his hands turn cold and then watched it start to turn to ice as he pulled his hands out. He turned to look at her as she pulled her finger back and gave him a small smile. Even though he was pretty positive it was Aurora who saved him back there, he wasn't positive, but seeing her powers right here, right now made it certain, which brought a smile to his face.
"So it's true," he said more to himself than to her.
He wanted to ask her so many questions. Did she have a decent handle on them? Was she able to do things he couldn't? Was she scared of them? Was that why she never said anything? As he thought about all of the questions he couldn't help but feel the slightest bit hurt that she never said anything to him of all people.
He decided that there were far more important things to be upset over and knew Aurora must have her reasons so he left it alone.
"How do you feel... about having them?" he asked her.
She smirked at the question. "I feel like... I understand myself more with them... like something was missing this whole time, but now... not so much." she scoffed at her own words. "Does that even make sense?"
"Maybe not to everyone, but to me... yeah, it does."
"James was the first to know about them... he told me to tell Mum and Dad, but everything sort of got hectic after that so I didn't want to make things worse."
"You could have come to me." he snapped with some unintentional anger in his voice.
They locked eyes for a few moments as silence filled the air before she finally nodded.
After a few moments, he threw the rag aside after giving up on trying to get all the dried blood out from under his nails.
"Do you think we made the right decision? Do you think she's alive?" Aurora asked.
"I hope so." he sighed before standing up and holding out his hand for her to take.
She looked at his outstretched hand before she took it and pulled herself up.
"So how does it feel to be seventeen?" he asked her.
She smirked at the question. "Right now... it sucks."
Ginny's eyes fluttered open, her vision blurry for a few moments before she finally could make out the room she was in. She was hopeful for the tiniest of moments that she would wake up in the Manor to the sound of Ava's cooing. She tried to lift her head, but she felt like it weighed a ton and brought her hand up to her head. She felt a bandage and that's when memories of her encounter with Crystal flooded her mind.
"You're finally awake, I was worried sick about you. You've been out for almost a whole day... how do you feel?" Draco asked.
She finally managed to sit up, as she tucked her hair behind her ear, she heard Draco wince at the bruise on her face.
"Is it that bad?" she asked.
He nodded as she stood up and walked over to the mirror. "Fuck," she whispered out.
She looked across at Harry, who had the same painful expression on his face that Draco did as he studied her bruise.
"I know the answer to this already, but any news on the kids? My mother?" she asked as she walked over to meet Draco by the wall.
"Nothing from your mother, but I have a lot to tell you."
He went on to tell her everything Eve told him and what Crystal told him about the last known whereabouts of the kids.
"So one of them is hurt," she said to herself as worry covered her face. "You don't think-"
"They are all alive." Draco cut her off, his tone firm as he looked at the tears welling in her eyes.
"For now." came a voice from the across the room.
Crystal walked over to them as each one of their doors unlocked. "Let's go for a walk."
The three of them walked outside of their rooms, Ginny's first instinct was to run into Draco's arms. She missed his touch so much, she didn't realize how much she longed for his embrace until he was right there in front of her. Before she could reach him, her fingertips almost reaching his, she was pulled away by a guard and had her hands bound in front of her followed by Draco and Harry's.
"Where are you taking us?" Harry asked.
"I think there's something you all should see," she said as she led the way out of the room.
Three guards stood behind each one of them as they followed her out into the hall. They walked down a long hall, each one secured on either end with a padlocked door. She led them into a pair of double doors and into what looked like an operating room. She stopped in front of a large window that looked into another room, but it was covered with blinds. Crystal pulled the blinds up to reveal a current surgery being performed.
"Why are you showing us this?" Draco asked.
She looked at him. "Take a closer look," she said.
Draco exchanged a quick look with Ginny before the three of them stepped closer to the window to get a better view. It wasn't until Ginny saw a few strands of ginger hair that she realized who it was.
"Oh my god, it's Riley!" she cried out turning to Draco.
He just stared at her through the window on that operating table. She didn't even look pale, but more blue and gray, like she was already dead. He couldn't possibly believe that it was his daughter lying there, hooked up to all that tubing and wiring.
"What happened? Is she going to be ok?" he asked, his voice cracking as he watched her continue to be operated on.
Ginny's cries were ringing in his ears, he had never felt so defeated in his life right now. How could things have gotten to this point?
"She was shot, according to the men that picked her up, your children just left her behind. They are smarter than we thought they'd be. They knew we would help her, which we will. We will do everything we can to make sure she survives, but that's only for our benefit. Once she has recovered, she will then undergo an evaluation and the tests and experiments will start." Crystal explained.
"Riley doesn't have powers," Draco growled out through his own emotions.
"We will see... one child down... eight more to go." Crystal said with a small grin.
"How could you do this? Eve told me about what your father did... how he experimented on you too. How do you think any of this ok?" Draco sneered.
Crystal tossed the clipboard in her hand down hard on the metal table, making it echo throughout the room. She straightened out her lab coat before she took a step closer to him.
"My father believes that he can create something amazing and I believe him... I have to. He experimented on my mother until one day it killed her. He wanted to combine every magical power into one person and he attempted it on my mother... and it killed her. He told me my mother would want us to continue our experiments and that she was happy to give her life for something that could be bigger than any of us ever imagined. So when you ask how am able to do this to you? How am I able to help my father carry out his plan? It's because my mother died for something she believed in and I want to help see it through." she finished, the smallest of tears threatened to fall from her eye before she quickly wiped it away.
"Do you hear yourself? You think your mother would want you tearing people's lives apart? I think your father just told you what he had to so that you could just be another pawn in his plan for power." Harry spat.
"What does Adwell plan to do once he successfully combines everything into one person?" Draco asked.
"I don't know, but I trust him and I'm sure it's for something that will benefit everyone," she said confidently.
"Can I see her?" Ginny suddenly asked through her sobs, ignoring the entire conversation as she stared at Riley the entire time. "Can I let her know I'm here?"
Crystal walked over to the blinds, her eyes locked on Ginny's before she pulled them back down. "No.," she said coldly before she motioned for the guards to start taking them back to their rooms.
Once they were all back in their rooms Crystal slowly paced back and forth. "I wanted you to see what your kids are facing out there. They have nowhere to go and they have no way to defend themselves. So if you know anything about where they are or some kind of information on where you think they might be, then now is the time to speak up."
"We have no idea where they are!" Ginny hollered, anger rising in her voice. "And even if we did, we rather have them run and fight than to be another failed experiment. You've been brainwashed with this idea that you are doing good in the world. This isn't good, Jack Adwell is a power hungry psychopath who will gladly put his entire families' lives at stake just to get the smallest of breakthroughs. Even with Noah's death, he rather have us as more victims to experiment on than seek justice for his own son." Ginny hissed.
Crystal just laughed at her words. "Noah isn't dead... he's here, probably another one of Daddy's experiments by now."
"What!" They all seemed to have said at the same time.
"Noah is alive? And your father tried to have our sons rot in Azkaban for murder?" Harry roared with anger.
"So technically we should be free to go since we traded ourselves for our son's freedom, but Noah is alive," Draco stated although he knew full well that wasn't going to happen.
"Yes, technically that is how it would be, but we all know this was just a setup to get you all here," she said, pouting her lips out to mock their helpless situation.
"Does Minister Beckett know everything going on down here in Adwell Labs?" Harry asked.
"He has some idea, but not everything and he will remain oblivious to it. He is all about helping the Ministry and making it stronger and more powerful, so as long as we keep making him believe that's the plan he will continue to support our decisions and experiments. Now... Mr. Malfoy... looks like you are up for some testing this evening." she said with a smile.
"Lucky me." he drawled.
She walked into the little convenience store and paced up and down the aisles for a few moments. There was nobody else inside, maybe one other person just cashing out. Once the customer had left, she could feel the clerk's eyes on her, most likely because she was a dirty mess.
He walked out from behind the counter. "You have money in those torn up pants you're wearing?" he asked.
Harper looked up at him. "Of course I do. Are you judging my financial situation based off of my current attire? I'm a kid, kid's get dirty from playing outside you know." she snapped.
He eyed her once more before he walked back around the counter and kept a close eye on her.
Harper cursed under her breath before she walked back up to the counter. "You have a bathroom in this dump?" she asked.
His face grew angry at her comment before he went to hand her the key and then stopped. "Let me see your hands," he demanded.
Harper rolled her eyes before she held her hands out to see she didn't have anything. She saw him stare at her with a raised eyebrow before she went further and turned out her pockets.
"There... satisfied? Now can I piss before I give you something to clean up?" she snapped.
"You lack manners," he stated coldly.
She swiped the key from him before he could change his mind. "Yeah, I know, you should meet my father." she said with a smirk as she headed out of the door.
He just glared at her. "Out back, behind the building... bring my key back!" he shouted to her as she continued walking.
She made her way towards the bathroom and stopped when she neared the others.
"Well?" Scorpius asked.
"Forget it, he's all over me... I can't snatch shit," she said.
"Language." Ember scolded her.
"Sorry," she mumbled.
They all fell silent at the sound of Ava crying from hunger.
"How about we dine and dash?" Jake suggested.
"Yeah, the only issue being that our faces are all over the place. Being out in the public for that long is too risky." Scorpius said. "Well, I guess since we're wanted people we might as make it worth our while," he said as he walked towards the entrance of the store. "Time for plan B."
"There's a plan B?" Jake asked Ember.
The rest of them exchanged a quick look before they quickly followed him. Scorpius whipped the door open and strode right up to the counter making the man jump in surprise.
"Grab what you need, not what you want," he told others as they piled into the store, his eyes on the man behind the counter.
The man quickly went to move, but Scorpius froze the countertop before he could reach for the panic button. He watched the man's eyes dart to the phone and Scorpius covered that in ice also before he made his way behind the counter. The man held his hands up to show he surrendered.
"Please don't kill me," he begged.
Scorpius froze his feet to the floor so he couldn't move. "Relax, I'm not going to kill you... you'd be dead already. Ah, what's this?" Scorpius asked as he pulled a shotgun out from under the counter. "James, the cameras."
James quickly lifted his hand and soon each camera shorted out and a few lights popped.
"I said the cameras not the damn lights." Scorpius snapped before he iced over the gun in his hand and threw it aside.
"We're really sorry about this," Ember said as she grabbed a few bags from over the counter.
After they grabbed what they needed, they all piled out of the shop.
"And you were worried about me stealing," Harper said to the man behind the counter. "Oh, here's your key," she said with a smirk before she left the shop.
Scorpius walked back around the counter and looked at the man, he felt bad for robbing him. "Here, take this," he said as he unclasped his watch. "Sell it, it's enough to pay for what we took, any damages... it's even enough for a new life if you really want," he said as he placed it down on the counter. "Sorry about this," he said before he left the shop.
"Hey Gin?"
Ginny was pulled from her thoughts by the sound of Draco's voice.
"Can I show you something?" he asked her.
She furrowed her eyebrows at his question. "Of course," she said as she walked over to him.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out the sonogram Eve gave him. He pressed it up against the glass for her to see. "Eve gave this to me... she said you're about a month along."
Her eyes went wide at the sight of the picture he held and the news he shared with her. She brought her fingers up to where the picture was and traced the edge of it.
"This is... this is our baby?" she asked as if she didn't believe it.
"Yep." he smiled at her.
Finally, a smile spread across her face, her eyes traveled over to Harry who gave her a small smirk. She wasn't sure if she could believe that something so wonderful was growing inside of her right now in the middle of all this chaos. Sure she had been pregnant many times, but it was always equally amazing whenever she knew something so precious as a life to be growing within her.
The sound of the door to Draco's room unlocking made them both look over.
"Mr. Malfoy, I assume you're ready for what we have planned for you this evening?" she asked.
Draco glanced over at Ginny before he quickly pocketed the sonogram and walked to the door where Crystal held it open for him with a guard waiting to escort him. She then unlocked Ginny's room and another guard came over to escort her.
"You get to be a part of this one my dear." Crystal said to Ginny with a wide smile.
She waved her wand and the device around Draco's neck unlocked as she walked over and took it off of him.
"You were due for the next dose in another minute or so, so you have about five minutes before your powers kick in again. With that being said... shall we?"
She led the way over to the door before she stopped and looked at Harry. "Don't worry Mr. Potter, your time will come and I can promise you it will be quite... shocking." she with some amusement before she turned and left the room.
They walked down the many secured hallways until they got into an elevator. The silence was deafening.
"How is Riley?" Ginny softly asked; the desperation of knowing if her daughter was ok was very present in her tone.
Crystal looked at her for a moment before she turned back to the elevator doors that opened. "Her surgery went well, she has not woken up yet. We are keeping her as comfortable as possible and are continuing to manage her pain."
Ginny let out this long emotional breath she seemed to have been holding in this whole time once she heard Riley was ok. She looked up at Draco, she could tell how relieved he was to hear the news. Her bound hands reached over to his and she wrapped one of her fingers around one of his. It had been so long since she last felt his touch and even though it was the tiniest bit of contact it was still comforting.
"Before you get any ideas, Mr. Malfoy, this entire floor is charmed to disable any kind of magical powers. Wand magic can still work, but it is limited." she stopped outside of a room. "But this room... this is the only room on the floor where you can use your powers. Let's explore those powers of yours a bit shall we?"
They followed her into this big empty room, a few feet ahead of them the floor stopped and there was a pool of water. Crystal freed both of their hands before the one guard dragged Ginny over to the water and threw her into it.
"What the hell are you doing?" Draco yelled as he made a move to get to Ginny, but stopped when Crystal held her wand up.
"Conjuring your powers has never been a problem, in fact, you're a lot more powerful than you think you are. Today, we are going to see what else you can do," she said as she walked into a small room connected to the one Draco and Ginny were in.
There was a large window that she could observe them through. Before Crystal closed the door, she held her wand up again and the water that Ginny was trying to keep her head afloat in started icing over.
"Ginny!" Draco called to her as he quickly ran to get to her.
"Mr. Malfoy, I want you to save her... absorb the ice, unfreeze the water," she said.
"I can't! I can only form it!" he yelled out.
Ginny started to shiver until she was finally forced to let the water swallow her as the ice tried to slice through her. She could see the layer of ice forming above her as she pounded as hard she could to try and break through.
Draco quickly ran across the ice-covered water to find that mass of red hair he knew to be Ginny. He frantically dug at the few pieces of frost that started forming.
"You have the ability to absorb ice you just haven't done it yet. You have to figure out how to tap into that part of your mind to save your wife." Crystal demanded.
Draco felt his powers surface, but the only thing he was doing was making more ice form. He could see Ginny struggling to hold her breath under the water, her amber eyes piercing into his through the ice, they were filled with fear. He stopped all movement altogether as he tried to concentrate on the ice, his heart was racing as time was ticking.
"I CAN'T DO IT! NOW HELP HER!" he screamed out in anger.
"You can!" Crystal insisted.
Draco closed his eyes. "Come on, come on," he whispered to himself, but nothing happened.
He crawled over to where Ginny tried kicking through the ice, any air she had left was completely gone as she started to panic beneath the surface.
Draco growled out in frustration as he noticed suddenly the ice was becoming thinner and just as he thought he figured it out, it started to ice over again.
"What? No, no, no," he said as he suddenly brought his fist down to try and break through the icy surface.
He could feel the bones in his hand and wrist throb, but he didn't feel any pain, all he felt was fear that he was going to lose Ginny. With that thought in his head, he quickly brought his fist down again and kept hitting the ice. He felt the ice cut his hand, he saw the blood spread across the cracking surface as he kept punching to get through. His fist finally iced over and he brought it down with such force that he finally felt it hit the water and he reached in and grabbed her. He dragged her out, her gasps for air ripped through him as he knew her to be alive.
He pulled her all the way until they were off the ice and onto the floor again.
"Ginny, are you ok? Look at me," he said, grabbing her face in his hands and looking her over.
She was still coughing up water and gasping for air, but nodded to show she was ok. He grabbed her to him tightly, so tight he thought he might break her in half. He just stared at her; he wanted to scream out in pain as the blood ran down his cut-up knuckles and probably broken hand and wrist, but he didn't want to pass up this moment right here with her.
He heard Crystal making her way into the room back over to him, his neck device back in place before he could even think of trying to use his powers on her. He watched Ginny's trembling body before him, her eyes locking with his.
"You sure you're ok?" he asked her again.
"Yes." she breathed out before she felt him grab her face to his.
She felt him kiss her, his icy touch against her skin was the most incredible thing she had felt in a while. It reminded her of their life back at the Manor, before all this happened. His touch took her back eighteen years when he first kissed her in his bedroom; to the day she had to share a compartment with him on the train to Hogwarts. She knew how ridiculous it was that right here in the middle of her near death experience as he held her for the few seconds that Crystal allowed, that she was able to feel all of this. That the quick kiss he was able to give her took her to a completely different place... a place of bliss... a place far from all the pain her and her family had suffered through these past few weeks.
The feeling of the injection in her neck from the device she wore brought her back to reality. She felt the guard grab her roughly by the arm and drag her along as Crystal stayed behind with Draco.
"You failed," she said.
"I saved her," Draco stated with a sneer.
"Barely, and not how I intended. You have control of your powers, but when you feel desperate you get sloppy. You were forming more ice faster than you could absorb it... you need to scale it back."
"Well, maybe if my wife wasn't about to fuckin drown-"
"That's just more excuses. If anything, you should've shined at this moment, you should have adapted and you didn't."
"Why the fuck does it matter?" he snapped. "I'm not your damn puppet so stop sacrificing my family for your stupid tests."
"See, that's where you're wrong... you are our puppet and we will continue to do and use whoever and whatever we want until we get the test results we are waiting for."
She had the other guard grab him and drag him towards the door.
"Also, don't forget Mr. Malfoy... we have your daughter now too. I'd hate to have to hurt her, but I also wouldn't lose any sleep over it," she said, her eyes locking with the deadly glare he gave her.
"Alright, so here is your official birthday cake," Scorpius said with a smug look on his face as he stood back to reveal a small pyramid of chocolate cupcakes he set up.
They all stood back and looked at it before Ellie started laughing. "That's pathetic."
Ember shook her head before she took the top cupcake off and place a tiny twig in it and handed it to Aurora. She waved her hand over it to ignite a tiny flame at the top.
"Make a wish little Sis," she said with a smile.
Aurora looked around at everyone staring at her, the small fire that Ember helped set up danced across their faces. She thought of one of the many Sunday dinners at her grandparents, how everyone was together and happy. She missed her parents... her grandfather... Riley. She looked at the tiny flame and gently blew it out as she wished to relive those days once more.
Everyone clapped and pulled cupcakes from the now unbalanced pyramid before they all fell to the ground. She let out a small laugh before she got up and walked over to a nearby tree and fell into a pool of her own thoughts.
"Why do you look so down? Sorry, was this not the birthday you wanted?" James lightly teased her before he took a seat beside her.
She gave a silent giggle. "Not exactly," she said with a smile as she picked at the frosting on her cupcake. "Do you think it's after midnight yet?"
He looked up at the moon through the trees that surrounded them. "Yeah, I think just about." When he looked back at her she was staring at him. "What?"
She didn't say anything, instead, she just leaned over and gently kissed him before she pulled her lips back a few inches and let her eyes travel up to his. "Happy Birthday James."
He smiled at her. "Happy Birthday Aurora."
His hand gently stroked her cheek before he pulled her lips to his again.
A/N: OK, so there you go. What did you think? We finally got some James and Aurora action again at the end. What do you think about Eve and Crystal? Do you guys agree with Ember's decision on leaving Riley? Reviews are as always much appreciated! Love you guys!
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