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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: Thank you to all my loyal readers who are always commenting and continue to enjoy my story. I hope you all continue to enjoy the story.
Scorpius shifted in his bed and let out a light sigh as he realized something was interrupting his sleep. He felt a small poke to his arm and then a small shake. He soon realized the something that was waking him up was a someone rather. He chose to ignore it until the shaking became more aggressive.
"Scorpius, wake up," Ellie called to him.
Scorpius' eyes snapped open and he turned to look at her and then at the clock that read seven thirty. "Why the hell do you people insist on waking me up at this time?" he whined before burying his face in his pillow again.
"I need to show you something," she said.
After noticing that she wasn't going to be going away anytime soon, he turned over and sat up in his bed.
"What is it that you must show me that you couldn't possibly wait until at least noon for?"
"Ok, don't freak out, though," she warned him before he noticed she was holding a knife in her other hand.
She held out her palm in front of her and lifted the knife over it before she was about to plunge it straight through her hand.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Scorpius shouted as he grabbed her wrist before she thrust it through herself.
She ripped her hand free from his grip. "I told you not to freak out... trust me," she said.
Scorpius just stared at her for a moment before he watched her bring the knife up once more and then stab it through her hand. He let out a relieved sigh when he saw her hand turn to water before the knife could do any damage to her.
"Neat, huh?" she said with a smile.
"That's insane, when exactly have you been practicing?"
"In my room all night." she shrugged.
"You should practice with us out on the field," he suggested.
She didn't say anything.
"What's wrong?"
"I just... I keep thinking about the birthday party... how many people got hurt... how many people almost died. I don't want to hurt any of you guys."
He was quiet for a moment as he listened to her reasoning. "I get it, but you know that practicing will help you better control them and it will definitely help when we finally go break Mum and Dad out of that place. When I attacked Noah... I didn't want to use my powers anymore, I couldn't believe that I was capable of doing something so... evil. After a while, I realized that my powers weren't going away and they were a part of who I am. I just need to learn to control them and understand them and that's what you need to do too."
She finally nodded as his words seemed to make sense. They both turned towards the window at the sound of a giant crack of lightning.
"What the hell was that?" Scorpius asked.
"Oh, that's James and Ember, they got up earlier and are practicing."
Scorpius went to look out the window when a bolt of lightning hit the glass and busted it to pieces.
"Sorry!" James' voice echoed from down below.
"Dammit Potter, what the fuck!" Scorpius yelled as he uncovered his face and Ellie's body with his, letting the pieces of glass that covered them fall to the floor.
"I guess I should let you get back to sleep," Ellie said with a small giggle before she got up and left his room.
"Back to sleep! I'm awake now!"
Eve walked into the lab the next day with nothing but her encounter with Matthew on her mind. She wasn't even sure why she was thinking about it so much, there was no way she would ever be able to leave this place. She wasn't even sure if this Matthew guy was serious about getting her out.
She unlocked Draco's room and walked over to where he was sitting on the couch flipping through a book he had read more times than he could count. He threw it down before he looked up at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Your wrist," she said.
He scooted over so she could take a seat and held his arm out for her. She unwrapped it and studied it for a bit until Draco realized she was lost in her thoughts again.
"You're thinking about that Matthew guy, aren't you?"
She gave a silent scoff before she looked up at him. "I guess you don't need powers for that one, huh?"
"How old are you Eve?"
She sighed. "Nineteen."
"Why haven't you ever tried to escape?" he asked her.
"Escape to what exactly? I have no life outside of here... there is nothing for me out there. I've never even been inside my own home. Well... I guess technically this is my home." she sighed.
"That's horrible." came Ginny's voice from her room.
Eve turned to look at her for a moment. "That Auror... Matthew... I think he knows something about your kids."
"Like what?" Harry asked, his interest spiking when he overheard her comment.
"I don't know, he wasn't thinking about that particular thing, just what he mentally asked me, but I felt it... I felt like he knew more than we know."
She shook her head as she tried to shake the entire thing from her mind.
"Go like this," she said to Draco as she showed him a certain way to move his hand and wrist.
He mimicked her gesture before she took his hand and felt a few different spots on it before she stopped and just held his wrist in her hand. She just stared down at his still slightly bruised skin before a frown formed on her face.
"Eve?"
She looked up at him. "Sorry, my mind is wandering again."
"Eve, hurry up and finish with Mr. Malfoy. I need you for Mrs. Malfoy's procedure." came Crystal's voice as she walked into the room.
Eve quickly bandaged up Draco's hand before she walked back out of his room and locked it. "Procedure?" she asked her sister. "I thought that wasn't until tomorrow?"
"Yes, well the serum will be ready sooner than expected and Father doesn't want the pregnancy to interfere with how she reacts to it." Crystal said as she unlocked Ginny's room.
Ginny backed up against the wall between her and Draco before she turned to look at him. Her face was covered in fear, her eyes spilling silent tears as she thought about the child inside her.
"Please don't do this," Draco begged Crystal as she walked into her room.
"Beg all you want, I may understand, but my father doesn't care," she said grabbing Ginny by the wrist.
"No, please don't." she cried as she pulled her hand back.
Crystal grabbed her again, this time binding her hands so she wouldn't pull away, but Ginny wasn't going without a fight. She pulled back as hard as she could until she was practically on the floor. Her feet were firmly planted on the floor in an attempt to keep Crystal from dragging her.
"Eve, a little help please!" Crystal yelled to her.
Eve was frozen, she didn't want to hurt Ginny or any of them, but she also knew the consequences of not obeying her father.
Crystal's hand and arm turned to solid metal and her grip on Ginny tightened as she gave a hard tug and Ginny slid forward as she dragged her across the room.
"NO! PLEASE DON'T DO THIS! STOP!" Ginny screamed as she continued to be dragged from the room.
"Eve! Give me a sedative!" Crystal yelled before turning back to Ginny.
Ginny's screams echoed throughout the room and Eve was still frozen. She watched everything in slow motion it seemed, Ginny's heartbreaking cries, Draco's desperate pleas to Crystal not to go through with it... and Crystal, screaming at her for help.
"Crystal?" Eve called to her.
"What!" she yelled, turning to her sister.
Eve brought her hands up to each side of Crystal's head, her eyes turning to a deep purple.
Ginny felt Crystal's grip loosen on her until she completely let go of her and she scrambled across the room against the wall to where Draco was.
Eve stopped suddenly and took a few steps back, she had never used her powers on her sister before and she told herself she never would.
Crystal turned back to Ginny and was silent for a moment. "I know this was hard for you... I'm sorry it had to be done," she said before she left the room and locked the door.
Eve watched her leave the lab.
"She thinks she did it already? That she already performed the procedure?" Draco asked her.
Eve turned to them, her eyes glistening with tears before she gave a small nod. The weight of her body seemed to be too much for her legs to hold up right now as she slowly fell to her knees. She covered her mouth to quiet her cries, she betrayed her sister... her father was one thing, but her sister was something different. In her eyes Crystal wasn't a bad person, she just wanted to keep clear from falling victim to being a test subject again. She wanted Eve to stay clear of that life again also which is why she encouraged her to just do what she was told.
"Eve..." Draco wanted to thank her, but he knew how devastated she was by her actions.
She just looked at him once more before she pulled herself up and ran from the room.
"No, no, no, stop... you're flailing your hands way too much," she growled out in frustration, walking over to him and grabbing his hands roughly. "Like this," she said, positioning his hands just right.
"You're not a very nice teacher... quite aggressive," Scorpius said.
Aurora gave a small laugh. "Well, listen the first time."
"It doesn't matter how you position my hands, it all comes out the same way." he let out a heavy breath.
"It does matter, you're too sloppy when you use your powers. You wanted me to show you how to tighten them up, so here I am." She stood beside him and looked across the field at the back porch. "Ok, here we go... look at Rose just sitting there enjoying her book. You see that glass of lemonade next to her on the steps?"
"You want me to hit that?"
"No, I want you to freeze it, if you keep shooting your powers out all barbaric-like then they will destroy everything in its path. If you handle them with a bit of grace, then you should be able to freeze that glass from all the way over here without exploding it into bits and pieces." she snapped.
"Ok, ok, chill," he said as he took his position.
He held one of his hands up and instead of letting the powers flow from his palm he let them trickle from his fingers. The thin stream flowed out just like Aurora showed him as he watched it slowly creep towards the glass on the steps. His eyes glanced over to the kitchen window where he noticed Raven watching him and he lost his focus. The thin stream of ice formed faster and wider and hit the cup beside Rose and caused it to burst into pieces, making lemonade splash all over her and her book.
"WHAT THE HELL YOU GUYS!" she screamed from the porch.
They both busted out laughing as she stormed into the house before Scorpius felt Aurora staring at him.
"You lost focus."
He let out a hard sigh and rubbed his face before he looked back at the window to see Raven walk away. "Yeah... I know," he mumbled before he took a seat in the grass.
"What's going on?" she said, taking a seat beside him.
He just shook his head as he ripped a few pieces of grass from the ground and tossed it aside. "It's nothing."
"Oh, I see... because I'm not Ember I guess you can't tell me anything." she snapped.
"What the hell does that mean?" They locked eyes, Aurora's piercing into his until he finally gave in and shook his head. "Just... shit with Raven and Blaise... Raven thinks I broke up with her last night."
"Did you?"
"No!" he quickly snapped. "Well, I don't think so. I just told her we needed to put things on hold."
"Why? Because of Blaise?"
"Yes, because of Blaise... I mean... it's too much to constantly have to deal with that drama when I'm trying to focus on practicing and developing my powers. I don't want anything distracting me from doing everything I can to save Mum and Dad."
She was quiet for a few moments as she thought about his reasoning. "I get it... but can I ask you something?"
He looked at her.
"Are you sure you're even in love with Raven?"
"What! Of course, I am!" he shouted, sounding offended that she would even ask such a thing.
"Relax, I'm just asking."
"Are you sure you love James?" he asked her back.
"Yes," she answered quickly and confidently, a look of surprise covered her face as she realized she just admitted that in front of him.
"Calm down, it's plain as day so it's hardly a shocker." he teased her.
She gave him a small smile.
"But are you really sure you love him?" he asked her.
"Of course."
"And what makes you so sure?"
"Well, for starters, I wouldn't care and I don't care if Dad likes James or not or wants me dating him. I love who I love and nobody will tell me who that should and shouldn't be," she said firmly. "If you love Raven that much, then Blaise's opinion shouldn't matter and you shouldn't stress over it."
He was quiet as he just took in her words.
"But let me ask you something else," she said as he looked back up at her. "Are you sure that really love her or do you feel obligated to continue loving her because of Blaise and now you're afraid to end things with her?"
He seemed to stiffen up at her question before he ran both hands through his hair and hung his head for a moment.
"Ugh! I really hate you right now," he growled out.
"I'm just saying... I'm sure you love her, you guys have been through a lot together, but what if you're not in love with her still?"
"No, I love her, a lot. I'm crazy about her, honestly... I'm sure of it." he said, his tone decisive.
Aurora raised an eyebrow at him before she gave him a small nod.
Ginny was laying on the couch in her room with her hand on her stomach, her mind still on the events from earlier. She squeezed her eyes shut at how close she was to losing her baby... how it could still end up that way. She sat up and looked over at Draco, who was pacing his room completely lost in his thoughts.
"Draco?" she softly called to him.
Her voice made him look over to her as she approached the wall and took a seat facing him as he joined her.
"Hey... are you ok?"
She nodded. "I need you to try and help me with something," she said as she looked down at her fidgeting hands.
Draco furrowed his eyebrows at her comment. "Of course, but what could I possibly help you with from in here?"
She looked back up at him. "The last test that Crystal had me do... I lost control of my powers."
"Ok, how can I help with that?" he asked, sounding confused.
"It wasn't my fire powers... it was yours," she said quietly looking down at the ground.
"Oh." was all he could manage to say.
"They just took over, I couldn't overpower it with my powers and it kind of scared me. I felt a bit lost without my powers."
He wasn't sure what to say. "You want me to tell you how to control it?"
She smirked at his comment and then scoffed a bit at what she was asking him. "I know... it's impossible. I thought you might have a secret... I'm just not used to them."
He studied the uncertainty on her face. "Believe me, Ginny, I don't think any power you have will truly ever take the place of that blazing inferno that burns within you," he said with a smile. "Fire always wins in the end."
She gave a small laugh before her smile faded. "Crystal said this serum has six different powers."
"Six? That's going to kill you." he softly stated, more to himself than anything.
She looked at him, the fear in her eyes made him want to latch onto her and keep her safe.
"I know." she shrugged before she stood up again.
"Ginny, please don't give up... please." he pleaded with her.
It was like she was accepting her fate and he wouldn't allow it. He knew he couldn't do a damn thing from inside this room, but if he could convince Adwell to use the serum on him instead, then Ginny would be safe.
There was a loud bang from outside of the room suddenly and what sounded like shouting. All three of them jumped when something or someone started banging on the door and was trying to get in.
"What the hell is going on out there?" Harry said.
The door suddenly slammed open and someone fell to the floor but quickly pulled themselves back up and closed it. They pushed the metal cabinet closer to the door to block it before they finally turned to take in their surroundings.
"Mr. Malfoy?" said a voice... a voice filled with fear and panic.
It wasn't until the person came closer that Draco's eyes went wide. "Noah?"
He ran up to the rooms they were all locked up in. His face was still badly bruised and bandaged from the damage Scorpius had done to him. But it wasn't the bruising or bandages that were alarming to Draco, it was the fear and panic that filled Noah. His body was trembling, his skin pale and clammy and his eyes sunken in. He had an IV in his arm that looked like he had pulled out and a large incision on the side his head that was also bandaged.
"Please help me, you have to help me," he begged them as he banged on the glass.
They were all taken aback by the state he was in to even respond, but eventually, they snapped out of it.
"Each room has it's own key card, they are over there near the door." Ginny quickly told him.
Noah quickly turned and ran over to the door even with his injured leg and ripped them all from the wall as he scrambled back over to them. Someone was trying to get into the room as banging and yelling echoed outside in the hall and a loud alarm went off.
Noah's hands were shaking so badly he could barely hold on to the key cards. He suddenly stopped and fell to his knees and just fell into a fit of sobs. He was paralyzed by fear.
"Noah? Focus, come on." Draco said to him as he put aside the history between Ember and him and just saw a young man being experimented on and tortured by his own father.
Noah gave a quick nod as he mustered up some courage and quickly swiped the card to Draco's room and heard the door unlock. Draco wasted no time in grabbing the key cards from Noah and opening Ginny and Harry's room. He barely had time to plan his next move when the door was blasted open, the metal cabinet flying across the room.
"Noah!" Mr. Adwell called out to him as the room filled with Aurors and workers from the lab.
Noah grabbed Draco's shirt tightly. "Please don't let them take me!" he yelled. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry about Ember, I'm sorry for all the stupid shit I did, just please... help me." he choked out as he shook with terror.
Draco couldn't even speak, just like with Ginny he felt completely helpless and had no idea what to say to the young kid before him.
"The three of you... back in your rooms now," Adwell ordered.
Draco wanted to go after him so badly, but without his powers and with how many men were in the room, he would be lucky if he could take one step before being attacked.
Before he could even decide on what move to make, he was already being detained and thrown back into his room along with Ginny and Harry. He watched Noah fight against the men trying to drag him back out until he was being held down on the ground with more force than needed.
"Father, please let me go... please stop," he begged him as Adwell walked over to his son and squatted down beside him.
"You use to be more useful to me, but now... you're just another experiment," he said before he stuck a syringe in Noah's neck that made his entire body relax and almost become paralyzed.
His eyes became dilated and his mind went into a twilight before they finally closed and he fell limp.
Ember stood in the doorway for a moment as she just took in the sleeping form of her baby sister. She offered to put her down for a nap for her grandmother after she could tell she was not herself today. Molly had good days and bad days, but even the good ones were forced half the time. Not only did she lose her husband, but her daughter and two men who were like sons to her were in danger. Then, of course, poor Riley, not knowing if she was alive or dead was something even Ember couldn't think about without tearing up.
She gave one last smile at Ava before she closed the door and made her way down the hall.
"Oh good, Ember, just the person I was looking for," said Rose as she came walking up to her with a bright smile.
"Me? What could you possibly want from me?" Ember asked, leaning against the wall in the hall.
"I was curious, are you and that Jake guy a thing?" she asked, biting her lip.
Ember wasn't sure how to respond. "Uh, why?"
"Well, he's really cute and I was kind of interested."
Ember wasn't sure why she felt enraged at her cousin for asking a simple question, especially when technically, she and Jake weren't officially in a relationship.
"Is something wrong? If you guys are together, then I'm so sorry to have even-"
"We're not!" she snapped.
"Oh, well then do you mind-"
"Don't waste your time, he's gay," she said before she pushed herself off the wall and stormed down the hall.
"Gay?" Rose called after her. "Are you sure?"
Before Ember descended the stairs, she turned back to her and nodded confidently. "Oh, yeah, definitely. That's why it didn't work out, he was more into Scorpius than me."
She saw the disappointed look her cousin had before she walked downstairs with a triumphant grin across her face. She was on her way to the kitchen when she overheard people talking in the living room, making her stop to take a quick listen.
"... I already told you how I feel."
"Well, that's not good enough Scorpius, I want you to choose right now what you want."
"That's not going to happen and why do I have to choose at all?"
"So I don't deserve an answer?"
"I gave you a damn answer the other night, but apparently instead of actually listening to one fuckin thing I said and maybe try to understand the words I was speaking, you chose to hear whatever the fuck your psycho mind decided it wanted to hear and only heard that I want to break up with you. The one thing I specifically told you I wasn't doing, but yet here you are acting as if I did." Scorpius explained, his tone was full of anger and frustration.
"You might as well have." Raven snapped. "I don't know why I'm surprised really, I should have known what to expect with you."
"What the hell does that mean?"
"I never thought I was pregnant, I knew I wasn't. I only told you I might be to see how you would respond to the possibility of me being pregnant."
Scorpius couldn't believe what he was hearing and he was unaware of the shocked expression on Ember's face out in the hall.
"What did you just say?" he asked her again, this time his tone was calm but deadly.
"Yeah, I made it up... by the way, your reaction was total bullshit and cowardly. I guess you do take after your father, at least from what my dad tells me."
It took everything in Ember not to walk up to Raven and deck her in the face. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. She knew Raven was a bit mental sometimes when Scorpius would tell her about some of the arguments they would get into, but this was something she never thought she'd hear from Raven's mouth.
"You made me believe that I almost got you pregnant when you knew full well that you weren't?" he asked her, his tone was full of rage. "You know how scared I was... how scared I thought we both were, but it was just an act?" he asked, his voice dripped with venom.
Tears suddenly came to Raven's eyes when she heard him say it out loud. She felt ashamed and started to cry. "I'm sorry Scorpius... I don't know what I was thinking... I-"
"Don't you dare stand there and fuckin cry. How dare you! Are you insane? What the hell is wrong with you? Why would you do that to me?" he fumed.
He sounded so angry that Ember thought he would hit her, but she knew her brother well enough to know he would never lay a hand on a woman.
"I just wanted to see how committed you were to me. You know how my father is about me dating so I wanted to make sure you would stick by my side through anything."
"If you were pregnant, I would have been." he hissed through clenched teeth.
She took a step towards him, but he took one away from her. "Don't... don't you even try to apologize. I just need to get away from you right now," he said before he quickly left the room, not even noticing Ember standing outside in the hallway.
Raven walked out after him and turned to see Ember looking at her. Ember just shook her head before she took a closer step towards Raven until her face was only a few inches away.
"The last thing that my father and brother are... is a coward. Don't you ever insult my family again or I will literally light a fire under your arse." Ember spat as she gave her a deadly glare.
Ginny swallowed the potion that Eve had given her to help speed up the healing process for the burn on her leg. She watched her in silence as she re-bandaged Ginny's leg.
"Eve?" Draco called to her. "What happened to Noah?" he asked.
She didn't look up, she just kept her head down; Ginny could see the tears welling up in her eyes.
"Thank you... for what you did for us," Ginny said, placing her hand on Eve's.
Eve just looked at her hand on hers for a moment before she looked up at Ginny; she could tell Eve wasn't used to this kind of contact with people... to this sort of kindness.
"Don't thank me, it's only a matter of time before they find out..." she trailed off as she looked away again.
She finished up with Ginny's leg and left her room. She entered some data into one of the computers and tried to ignore Draco's earlier question about Noah. As much as she tried, her tears spilled over and down her face. Noah was a spoiled, self-centered git, but he was still her brother. She didn't have a close relationship with either of her siblings from living her entire life in this lab, but the little bit of a relationship she did have with them meant a great deal.
"I wish your son would have killed my brother... because it would have been better than what my father is doing to him." she choked out as she turned to face them.
Draco had to admit it was hard to see Noah in such a state. He knew what it was like to be raised to follow in your father's footsteps, for a life to be planned out for you already. He wasn't trying to make excuses for him, what he did to Ember and how he treated her was something he would never forget. At the end of the day, though, Noah was just some rich kid who was brought up in all the wrong ways. Even when he looked at Eve his heart hurt for her, she was only a year older than Scorpius and Ember... she was just a kid practically. Hearing her story and seeing the horror both her and Noah have gone through was gut-wrenching.
"Eve!"
Everyone turned to Crystal who came running into the room, panic was set on her face as she ran up to her sister.
"What's wrong?" Eve asked.
"Eve... listen to me," she said, grabbing her shoulders firmly. "I know what you did... I know you stopped me... and Father knows."
Eve felt her stomach drop.
"You need to get out of here now!" Crystal said loudly.
"But-I-how?" Eve stuttered as she tried to take in what her sister was telling her.
She felt the metal bracelet that she wore every day around her ankle come undone and fall to the floor as Crystal mumbled a quick spell to override it.
"Why do I have to leave?" Eve asked, her voice shaky.
Crystal grabbed her face tightly in her hands. "You don't understand, he knows everything... he knows you were the one who sent a tip to Beckett about them," she said nodding to Draco, Ginny, and Harry. "He knows you've been helping them."
Eve's eyes locked with Draco's at the mention of her sending anonymous information to Beckett about the way they were being treated.
"I won't let you end up downstairs... not like all of them."
"What's downstairs?" Harry asked.
Crystal gave him a quick glance before she walked over to the computer and pulled up one of the cameras to a room downstairs. She waved her wand to project the screen so they could see it better. It was a room filled with rows and rows of beds with people in them. They were hooked up to all types of machines and wires, most of them looked disfigured or near death as if they had been wasting away for quite some time.
"This is where my father stores all his test subjects... all his failed experiments... like they're just files... pieces of paper. They are all just constantly sedated and put into a vegetative state until he thinks they might be of use again." Crystal explained. "Some of them have powers that he forced into them but they didn't respond well to having or controlling them and this is where they ended up."
"That's insane, does Beckett know about this?" Draco asked.
Crystal looked at him. "Beckett was found dead this morning in his office."
"What!" they all shouted out.
She turned back to Eve. "This is why you need to get out of here."
"Is Noah down there?" Ginny asked. "Is that where your father sent him?"
"No, not yet, but he will be and so will you if you don't leave," Crystal ordered, looking at Eve. Crystal's eyes traveled over Eve's shoulder over to the monitor behind her."Shit, he's here... I thought he would still be at the Ministry." she said as she watched her father making his way down towards them.
Crystal grabbed the metal bracelet that was around Eve's ankle and stuck it in Eve's pant pocket. "Keep this on you for now. Eve, look at me!" she said as she grabbed her sister firmly again. "Listen to everything I tell you right now."
Eve was terrified, she witnessed some horrid things in this lab and had always hoped she would never endure any of them.
"You will be put under the same twilight state Noah is, but because of your type of powers, you'll be able to snap out of it faster than a normal person. You'll be in a holding room and Noah should be there still. Father keeps you there for at least a day for observation before he'll send you down into a permanent sedative state. You will only have a small window to grab Noah and get the hell out here. Do you understand?"
Eve quickly nodded, tears sliding down her face.
The door flung open and Aurors and guards flooded the room followed by Adwell.
"You!" he hissed, his eyes piercing into Eve's. "You have done nothing but jeopardize my work... everything I have worked so long and hard to achieve!" he yelled, hitting her with the Cruciatus Curse.
Eve fell was brought to her knees as excruciating pain ran through her body. She released this deafening scream that ripped through Draco, Ginny, and Harry's hearts. They were well aware of who Eve was and what her father has done, but they also knew the sad and lonely life she was forced to live. Had she ever felt love? Does she even know what friendship is? Any type of affection had never been shown to her and then to be born with no purpose other than to be an experiment was just heartbreaking.
Seeing anyone endure the Cruciatus curse was always hard for Draco because he knew the pain behind it most of all from his past. Now to see Eve, still, a kid in his eyes going through it made him cringe and filled him with even more hate and anger for Adwell than he ever felt before.
"Stop!" Draco yelled.
The curse was lifted finally as Adwell walked closer to Eve. "You are nothing more than a problem... a very big problem that must come to an end," he said calmly to her, yet his tone deadly. He turned to Draco. "I bet you thought she would get you out of here?" he laughed. "She can barely think for herself so sneaking you all out of here without my knowledge would be a stretch." he laughed louder before he looked back down at his daughter.
He squatted beside her and grabbed her face to look up at him. "You just couldn't keep following orders, could you? You are so much more powerful than you think. There are parts of your powers you haven't even explored yet, which is why it kills me to have to put an end to you," he said with a genuine sigh before he got back up and put her under the Cruciatus curse once more.
This time only a small scream escaped her mouth before she stopped screaming altogether. The walls to the room started to shake around them and then every single item in the room started to lift off the floor and float up.
Eve pulled herself up on shaky legs, her eyes turned to that deep purple Draco had seen a few times. Before her powers could get any stronger Adwell hit her with a disabling charm and a neck device was placed on her. Everything in the room fell to the floor with a hard crash, forcing everyone to shield themselves from anything that might fall on them.
Adwell's men had her pinned to the ground with more force than needed, her eyes traveling over to Draco as she felt them inject her with the same thing they did to Noah.
"I'm sorry I couldn't help y-you," she whispered out before her eyes fell closed and was dragged from the room.
"Knock, knock." Ember said softly as she opened the door to her brother's room.
"I don't want to talk about it." he groaned out.
"Well, what about dinner? Do you want dinner?"
"No." he snapped before he sat up on his bed.
"I wish I knew what to say... I didn't think Raven was like that."
He turned to look at her as she took a seat beside him. "I'm trying to justify her actions in my head so that I can be ok with it. I know she's never gotten over what happened with her mother, maybe that's why she-"
"No." Ember cut him off. "I'm sorry, but that doesn't excuse her actions."
"So what do I do?" he asked her.
"Well, I think you need to stick to what you told her yesterday and put things on hold. Focus on helping Mum and Dad and then come back to your relationship with Raven."
They were interrupted by a hard knock on the opened bedroom door by Jake.
"How come you told your cousin I was gay?" he asked Ember, not caring who was present to hear him.
Ember's eyes went wide and she felt Scorpius' body beside her start to shake with laughter as she elbowed him hard. "I don't know what you're talking about." she lied.
"Really?" he asked, taking a step inside the bedroom. "Because she just gave me advice and it started out with Scorpius being way too good for me and beyond one's depth or whatever, so I need to look elsewhere."
"Aww, how sweet. Remind me to thank Rose for-"
"Shut up Scorpius!" Ember yelled at him through clenched teeth before she got up. "Can we continue this conversation in another room, please?" she said as she led him to her bedroom and closed the door.
"What's going on Ember?"
"I only told her that because she said she kind of like you." she quickly explained.
"Ok, so?"
"So I didn't want her to try anything."
"Why not? We aren't together, remember?" he reminded her, his tone a little angry.
"Because I don't want you to like her back."
"So you don't want to be with me, but I'm not allowed to be with anyone else either?"
"Why? Do you want to be?" she snapped.
"No!" he yelled.
"Well, why not?"
"Because I love you!"
They both fell silent, her eyes completely locked on him.
"I mean... I like you a lot." he corrected himself, the last thing he wanted to do was freak Ember out.
"Is that really what you mean?"
"Maybe," he mumbled. They both fell silent again before he walked over to her. "What are you thinking?" he asked.
She looked up at him, her back against the wall as his body came closer. "I think I might love you too," she said without thinking. "I mean... I think I really like you a lot."
He smirked. "Is that really what you mean?" he asked her, his face only inches from hers.
"Maybe," she whispered before he pushed his lips against hers.
She felt his body firmly against hers as she was pinned to the wall by his lips. She didn't mind it and she didn't care about any feelings she was fighting when it came to her relationship with Jake except for the ones she was feeling right now. She felt the slightest bit more confident than their last intimate encounter together as she let her hands travel under his shirt and slip it off of him. Her fingers traced the numerous scars that covered his back and chest before they slid under his waistband.
All her confidence disappeared when he practically ripped her shirt off and started to unclasp her bra. This was only her second time being intimate with someone and she thought because it was the same person she would feel more relaxed, but she still felt nervous. As if her thoughts were being displayed for Jake to read, he picked up on her hesitation and softened his kisses and brought his hands back up to her face where he gently cupped it.
She felt her heart start to race at his touch, the way he could read her without her even saying a word, drove her crazy and it helped build that confidence again. She reached behind her back and unclasped the rest of her bra before her bare chest was exposed. His lips traveled down from her lips to her jawline, then down towards her breast. She let out a soft moan as her fingers grabbed a handful of his hair tightly. He unbuttoned her pants with one hand and pulled them down before he undid his own. He picked her up, one of his hands firmly gripping her thigh and the other around her waist pulling her closer to him.
He spun her around in his arms and placed her on the bed, his body covering hers in a moment. Their legs and arms were a tangled mess as they explored each other's bodies. The feel of his body on top of hers made her feel safe; the way he touched her made her feel like he would never hurt her. She became more forceful as shockwaves of pleasure ran throughout her body and before she knew it, she flipped him on his back. She stopped suddenly as she looked down at her naked body sitting on top of his, she could feel him beneath begging to feel more of her.
"Ember?" he called to her.
She was the most stunning thing he had ever laid eyes on. The way her body just sat on top of him looking down; her fiery strands laying over her bare chest. Her mercury eyes pierced down into his as she leaned down to kiss him, her copper strands tickling his chest as she pulled back and sat up once more.
"Are you ok?" he asked her.
She gave him a small smile before she nodded and then lowered herself onto his throbbing erection. She took in a sharp breath before she relaxed and let it slowly out, Jake's fingers lacing with hers. Once he was inside her it was as if she lost control over everything and crashed her lips onto his again.
He pulled her down harder onto him and from the way she rocked into it and the sounds she made against his ear he knew she was enjoying it. She picked up her pace as her nails dug into him a bit at how pleasurable it was to have him inside her.
She felt him slow down a bit and looked at him.
"Your body is so hot." he breathed out.
"Oh... thank you," she said.
He gave a small laugh. "No, not that... I mean, yes, you are fucking hot as hell, but I mean your body is literally hot... like burning," he explained.
She looked over at the mirror on her dresser and saw her hair turning into a vibrant, glowing orange as flames were ready to whip through it at any moment. She felt her heart drop and went to climb off of him when he stopped her by grabbing her hand.
"Wait," he said, looking at her.
"I don't want to hurt you," she said as she made to pull back again.
"You won't... come here," he said softly.
She was hesitant, but the feel of his hands on her body relaxed her and she lay beside him while he climbed back on top of her.
"Do you want to continue?" he asked her.
She covered her face with her hands. "I'm so embarrassed." she groaned out.
"Why? You know in a way it's like a compliment to me... it must feel pretty good if I can ignite a fire from you." he lightly joked, making her giggle. "Besides, I like when things get a little heated." he teased.
She smiled at his comment before he leaned down and kissed her again, letting himself slip inside her once more. This time things were a little slower before they intensified again and they soon reached their climax. He kissed her a few more times before he laid beside her with his arms around her. They just held each other for a few minutes in silence, listening to the other catch their breath.
"So do you really think Scorpius is too good for me?" he asked her.
She turned more towards him and just looked at him with a smile before they both started laughing.
All she could hear was water around her, at least that's what she thought as she tried to open her eyes. Something inside her told her she had to wake up, but her eyes wouldn't stay open long enough to know why. Everything was muffled, she soon made out a beeping noise beside her, but again, her body was so weak she just wanted to fall asleep again. Her head slowly turned to the side and she saw her brother.
Eve's eyes snapped open suddenly and she jolted up. She was hooked up to so many different machines and she quickly started pulling things from her body. She ripped her IV out and then felt her head where wires were all stuck to her. She started to freak out a bit and pulled them off a handful at a time before she slid off of her bed and onto the floor. Why were her legs so shaky? Why did she feel so weak? She pulled herself up onto the side of Noah's bed and looked him over.
"N-Noah." she choked out, her voice hoarse.
She shook him roughly. "Noah!" she called louder. "Wake up Noah!" she called again, continuing to shake him.
His eyes cracked open a bit to look at her.
She unhooked him from all the machines around him and pulled him up into a sitting position. "Noah, please wake up, I need you to help me," she begged him.
She heard the door open and she scrambled across the floor and reached up to grab a scalpel off one of the trays. She walked over to the next empty bed and hid behind the drawn curtain as someone approached her bed. Just as the person walked past the curtain she swung her hand out in an attempt to attack them, but they caught her arm and pushed her hard against the wall.
"Eve, stop!" the man yelled to her.
After a moment she realized it was Matthew. "You? What are you doing here? What do you want with me?" She asked, her voice shaking.
"I want to get you out of here."
"Why? Why me? Why us?" she asked.
"If I'm being honest, it wasn't part of the original plan, but after knowing a bit more about you... I want to help."
"You know nothing about me!" she shouted at him, anger filling her voice.
"You're right, I don't, but I know enough and I know you are a good person who doesn't deserve this," he said gesturing to the room they were in.
After a moment to take in what he was saying, she looked over at Noah where Matthew walked over to. He pulled out his wand and mumbled a quick spell that made Noah's eyes snap open and his heart start to race.
"Noah?" Eve called to him as she took a step closer.
He looked at her, he was still a bit dazed and confused about his surroundings and where he was, but he knew enough to know Eve was next to him.
"We need to go now," Matthew ordered before he threw one of Noah's arms around his neck and Eve took the other and they dragged him out of the room with him. "Eve, I need to know where Riley is."
She nodded before she quickly led the way through a few halls. She stopped suddenly when a spell flew at her and she quickly took cover. Matthew quickly took both of the guards down before he waved for Eve to follow him and she quickly punched in the passcode to Riley's room.
"Riley! Riley! Wake up!" she yelled as she ran over to her bed. She stopped for a moment and looked her over. "Riley?" Her heart sank at the sight of her, she almost looked dead with how pale she was.
"Eve?" she whispered out as she turned her head.
"Hey, come on, I need you to come with me."
Riley just nodded before she took Eve's hand and slipped out of bed. She didn't take more than two steps before she collapsed to the floor. Matthew scooped her up as Eve threw Noah's arm around her shoulders again and followed him from the room. A loud alarm filled the halls as they ran towards the elevator.
"There's no way we're getting out of here, its way to secure," Eve warned him.
"I have a Portkey, all we need to do is make it to the second floor and it will work. The floors below are charmed so that a Portkey or apparition won't work." Matthew explained.
Eve nodded before she brought her hand up to her nose where she felt wetness.
"You're bleeding."
She fell back against the wall of the elevator and grabbed her head.
"The implant." Noah choked out. "Behind her ear... it needs to come out or it will kill her."
Matthew looked at the floor numbers as the elevator rose to the surface. He grabbed the scalpel from Eve's hand and grabbed her face before he looked behind her ear.
"Sorry about this," he said before he sliced the skin behind her ear.
She let out a loud scream as he felt around for the small device as the pain grew inside her head. He finally felt it and removed it from her neck and threw it aside.
"Are you ok?" he asked her as he saw blood still dripping from her nose.
After a moment she nodded and let Matthew help her back up.
"Hold on to me, we're almost there," he told them as he wrapped his hand around the pocket watch in his pants.
He saw the second-floor number light up as the elevator stopped and before the doors could open, they all felt their feet leave the ground and a hard tug behind their navel.
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