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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: Sorry for the wait, hope you guys enjoy this chapter. Thank you to my reviewers, they mean so much to me =)
He splashed some water on his face and then looked at the small burn mark on his arm and then another on his hand. One was from James and the other from Ember during their earlier practice session. His mind had been on other things and he had trouble focusing which was making him more frustrated. All he wanted to do was to train up enough to get his parents out of that place.
He walked out of the bathroom and was making his way downstairs to dinner when Raven walked alongside him.
"Can we talk?" she asked him.
"No." he quickly said, ignoring her completely, not even glancing her way.
"Scorpius, please?" she begged, grabbing his arm to stop him. "Would you just stop for a minute and let me talk to you?"
He stopped and looked at her. "Ok, what? What do you need to say to me? What could you possibly say to me to justify your actions?" he asked her angrily.
She opened her mouth a few times to try and explain, but nothing would come out.
Scorpius just shook his head and went to walk away again.
"I'm sorry!" she said loudly before reaching for his arm once more and turning him back to look at her. "I'm sorry ok? I screwed up and it was horrible to do. I really love you Scorpius and I don't want to lose you." she said, her eyes starting to tear up.
He looked into her green eyes for a moment and studied them a bit; he could tell her apology was genuine. He reached up and wiped a stray tear from her face before he moved his face closer to hers.
"I don't know what you want me to say... my entire opinion of you has changed," he whispered to her before he turned and walked downstairs.
He took a seat at the table next Ember, who leaned in closer to him. "Are you-"
"I'm fine." he cut her off before his eyes shot up to Raven taking a seat at the table a few seats down.
"I'd like for you all to take part in practice tomorrow," McGonagall said, looking at Ellie.
"What about me? I want to help save Mum and Dad." Harper asked.
"Don't you worry dear, I'm sure there are plenty of things we could have you to do help," Molly reassured her.
"But what about my powers? When will I get them?" she asked.
"You might not even get any," Aurora said.
Harper looked disappointed at her comment.
"Well, in addition to just developing your powers, we really should practice some spells and some physical stuff," Hermione explained. "You can help with that Harper," she said with a smile making her cheer up a bit.
The entire table became quiet when there was a knock on the door, making all of them pull out their wands.
"Who the hell is that?" Blaise asked.
"I'm not sure," Hermione answered, walking over to the front door with her wand tightly gripped.
The knock rang out again. "Hermione, it's Matthew." came a muffled voice from behind the door.
She gave a sigh of relief and pocketed her wand before turning to the rest of them in the dining room and gesturing for them to all calm down.
Matthew poked his head inside and met her in the foyer. "I'm sorry to show up without warning."
"Is everything ok? Did you find out anything?" she asked.
"Actually, I have something for you," he said before he opened the front door again and held out his hand for Riley to take as she walked into the house.
Hermione let out an emotional gasp causing the rest of the room to turn her way.
"Riley?" Ember whispered as she got up and walked closer. "Riley!" she cried out once she knew for certain it was her.
She grabbed her tightly and held her close just crying into her sister's chest. She felt her sister pull away a bit and saw her face covered in pain.
"Are you ok?" she asked her, cupping her sister's face as she looked her over.
Riley just looked at her, silent tears spilled down her face at the question. She couldn't believe she was out of that place and back with all her siblings. Her eyes traveled over Ember's shoulder to the rest of them, she felt weird... she felt weak. Her body had endured so much pain as they tried to force her powers out; the memory of what she went through made her spill fresh tears.
"I... I need to lay down." she choked out; the reunion with her family was too much for her to handle right now, mentally and emotionally.
"Of course, Sweetheart, come on dear," Molly said as she gently wrapped her arm around Riley and led her upstairs.
Scorpius walked over to Ember and wrapped her in a tight hug. "She made it," he whispered to her. "You were right."
She looked at him before she looked up at Riley and took in her condition. "Was I?"
"Matthew, thank you so much, I can never repay you for what you've done... for everything you've done for us," Hermione said.
"Of course Hermione, I've worked with Arthur, Harry, and Draco for a long time... I would never turn my back on them," he said.
"Well, thank you again, why don't you join us for dinner?" she offered, making her way back over to the table.
"Actually... I must ask a favor of you... all of you," he said, making her stop and look back at him.
"Of course, anything," she said.
He looked at her and then at McGonagall. "I have someone else who needs to lay low here for a while," he said, some hesitancy in his voice.
They all exchanged a quick look.
"Ok... who?"
He walked back over to the door and held it open and in walked Eve and Noah. The first person both Scorpius and Ember's eyes shot to was Noah and the mixture of emotions between the two of them exploded.
Scorpius wasn't sure why, but he always thought when he saw Noah again, he would feel remorse for almost killing him. Instead, he grew incredibly angry and went to run at him when Matthew held him back with the help of Ron.
Noah took a few steps back in silence, there was nothing he could say, he was well aware of what he had done and he wouldn't blame Scorpius or any of them for wanting to punch him out right now.
"Calm down, come on," Ron whispered to Scorpius as he led him back over to the dining room.
"Eve... Noah, let me talk to Hermione and the others in private." Matthew said to them.
They both nodded and walked over to the staircase and took a seat. Ember gave them one last look, Noah looked a mess, he looked like he was brought back from the dead. She wasn't sure how to feel, Noah had crossed many lines with her and even destroyed her confidence and self-esteem. She turned to Jake, who gave her wrist a small tug and quietly followed him back into the dining room.
Noah watched the doors close while Matthew filled them in on everything that was going down.
"You should have left me there," Noah said softly.
Eve looked at him. "Why?"
He looked up at her with dark circles under his eyes and his skin pale and clammy. "I deserve the torture that Father put me through for the things I said and did."
"Don't say that. Nobody deserves what he is doing."
"What the hell do you know? Do you even have feelings? Do you even know how to have a conversation with a person? You've lived under a rock your whole life." he snapped.
She looked away from him, he was right; she hardly knew how to act around people.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that... I'm just angry... mostly with myself."
She looked at him again and just gave him a small smile.
"Thanks for saving me," he said.
Eve brought her hand up to the device around her neck and studied it a bit with her fingers. She let out a small hiss from the cut behind her ear where the implant was and looked at the blood that ran down her neck and shoulder.
"Are you sure you want that thing off of you?" he asked her.
"Why wouldn't I?"
He just looked at her, the truth was he and Eve never really spoke that much. He only talked to her when he was at the lab with his father a few times. Even when they were both little, Eve was always being experimented on or studied so he hardly got to experience her as a sister. There was also a lot more Eve didn't know about when it came to her powers.
"That implant that was in your neck was also helping to keep your powers under control."
"I don't understand, I have control over my powers."
"Yeah, you did, until Father tried to make them more powerful."
"What are you talking about?"
He let out a hard sigh before he turned to get a better look at her. "It was a while ago, so you probably don't even remember it, plus your brain was almost fried when it happened. When Father started realizing there was a lot more to your powers than just mind reading and moving things, he started with his tests and shit. It was a similar serum to the one he used on Mrs. Malfoy... but your powers went haywire. You were in a coma for almost a month during which he made a new implant that would stabilize your powers... something with how it communicated with your brain. I don't know specifics, I just know that once that neck device comes off and without that implant, your powers might feel ten times stronger." he explained.
Eve just stared at him with wide eyes, unsure of what to say. Deciding that she didn't want her mind to go to a negative place, she switched the conversation.
"What do you think they are saying behind those doors?"
He scoffed at her question. "I think that we should just wait outside the front door because there's no way they'll let us hide out here."
"So Beckett is dead? You think Adwell killed him?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know if it was him personally, but I know he was behind it. Beckett had ordered Adwell to release Draco, Harry, and Riley because they weren't of any use to him anymore, but of course, Adwell had other plans." Matthew explained.
"How come not Mum?" Ember asked.
"Adwell is planning to use your mother to test out a new serum he created. When administered to her and if successful she'll have not one, two or three different types of powers, but six."
"Six!" Ron said loudly. "That's insane!"
"Hopefully we can get them out of there before that happens. The last time he tested combining three different powers into one person, it killed them... and that was his own wife."
The room grew silent as they all just took in the information Matthew was telling them.
"So tell us more about Eve, she's Adwell's daughter... why did you bring her and Noah here?" McGonagall asked.
Matthew told them all about Eve's past and her life at the lab. He also told them about the numerous experiments both she and Noah had gone through and what their fate would have been had he not brought them here. He told them about her numerous attempts to help Draco and Ginny even though it went against her sister and father.
"After Eve intervened with saving the baby, Adwell flipped out." Matthew finished.
"Baby?" Ember asked.
"Yes, your mother... she's pregnant."
"Bloody hell those two can't stay off of each other," Ron mumbled to Hermione.
Ember and Scorpius exchanged a quick look before a smile spread across both of their faces.
"It better be a boy," Scorpius demanded.
"Oh, I so hope it's a girl just to piss you off." Ember snapped back.
Matthew gave a small chuckle. "Well, no matter what it is the point is that the baby is safe... for now. Adwell wanted to terminate the pregnancy so it wouldn't interfere with the serum, but luckily Eve stepped in. I know this isn't ideal for you all, but nobody deserves what Eve has gone through, not your parents, not Riley... not even Noah. I've seen some horrid things happen there." Matthew said softly.
Silence filled the room before Hermione spoke up. "They can stay here; we owe it to you for helping us and bringing Riley home. If Eve was an ally to Draco and Ginny in there, then we are thankful, no matter whose daughter she is."
After a few moments, the whole table nodded in agreement.
The doors to the dining room opened back up and Noah and Eve both stood up and just looked at Matthew.
"Blaise if you would be so kind as to show Noah up to one of the guest bedrooms," McGonagall said. "And Eve, you can have a seat in the kitchen so we can address your injury." she continued, gesturing towards the kitchen.
Eve watched Noah follow Blaise upstairs before she started walking towards the kitchen; she felt everyone's eyes on her as she made her way past the dining room.
"I need a few minutes." Ember quickly said before she ran upstairs to her bedroom, followed by Jake. Seeing Noah again was a lot to take in.
McGonagall turned to the rest of them and waved her hands for them all to clear out and go to their rooms. "Scorpius, be a dear and fetch some rags and water while I get Molly to assist."
He nodded and made his way into the kitchen, grabbing the supplies and filling up a bowl with warm water. He reached over and turned the faucet off and noticed the silence that filled the room before he turned to look at Eve sitting at the table. She had her head hung deep in thought as he walked over to her and took a seat. She picked her head up a bit to take in the rags and water before she looked down once more.
She felt awkward to be here; she definitely didn't belong and most of all she felt ashamed to have any association with the Adwell name.
"Do you want me to get that thing off of you?" he asked her, nodding to the neck device.
"I don't know how to remove it. There was a spell I knew to override and unlock it, but... it doesn't work on this one." she softly spoke.
"I'm sure I can figure something out," he said confidently as he reached up to the device to grab it. He stopped when Eve quickly leaned back in her seat away from his hand. "What's wrong? You want that off, don't you?" he asked her again with a raised eyebrow.
She finally lifted her head all the way up and let her eyes meet his. She let them linger on his for a moment before she was convinced that he wouldn't hurt her and she gave a small nod.
He reached for the device once more and wrapped his fingers around the tightly fitted necklace. After a few moments Eve felt the metal piece around her neck turn ice cold, the freezing sensation almost felt like it was burning her skin. She heard a loud crack once it was completely frozen and then Scorpius gave it a small tug before it broke in two. He removed the device from her neck and threw it aside before he watched her reach up and rub her neck.
"Thank you." she softly mumbled.
He nodded before silence filled the room. "Your powers... what are they?" he asked her, his curiosity getting the best of him.
She looked at him, a bit surprised at his question. "You want to see them?"
"Well, yeah," he said with a slight smile, he was intrigued to know what they were.
She was unsure at first, but the bit of excitement in his voice made her oblige.
"Ok... your bedroom... back at the Manor? Picture it in your head," she told him.
"Alright," he said with a raised eyebrow.
She let out a shaky breath before she slowly lifted her hands to each side of his head. "Close your eyes." she whispered.
He did what she asked and after a few moments she told him to open them. He slowly peeked them open to see her staring at him before she moved out of his sight.
He looked around him and his eyes went wide when he was standing in the middle of his bedroom. "Wow, are we at the Manor?"
She shook her head. "No, your mind just thinks you are," she said as she looked around the room with him. "I have that book," she said, pointing to one of his favorite ones on the shelf.
Everything around him was an exact replica of his bedroom back home. "This is... incredible," he said with a wide smile before he looked at her again.
The room faded and they were standing in the kitchen again.
"What else can you do?"
She looked at the bowl of water and the rag he had set down on the table. The rag lifted up and submerged itself in the water and then twisted tightly to wring out the excess water. She then held her hand out as the wet cloth floated over to her where she held it up to her neck where her wound was.
"Scorpius?" They both looked across the room to Matthew standing there. "Can I have a word with you please?"
"Sure," he said before giving Eve one last look.
He made his way back into the dining room where Matthew pulled him aside. "I want you to be cautious around Eve," he warned.
"I don't understand, I thought you just said she helped my parents."
"I did say that, but Eve's powers are a lot greater than she thinks. She can read, erase and manipulate any of your minds. She knows nothing of life outside of that lab, just what she's heard and seen from others. It's best you and everyone else keep some distance for now. You understand?"
Scorpius nodded.
"Good," he said, giving him a small pat on the shoulder before he left the room.
Crystal walked into the lab the next day and walked right up to Draco and Ginny's rooms and just looked at them, her eyes watering.
"What's wrong?" Ginny asked.
Crystal let out a small emotional gasp before a smile stretched across her face. "She got out... Eve... she got out."
Draco and Ginny let out a relieved sigh, they didn't want to see Eve be punished in such a way for trying to help them.
"That's great... she needed to get out of here," Draco said.
Crystal nodded. "Matthew got her out... he took Noah and Riley with him too."
Tears stung Ginny's eyes at the relief she felt now that Riley was out of this horrible place. She let a few tears spill as the greatest news she had heard since she'd been here set in.
"Why didn't you go with Matthew?" Draco asked her.
Crystal just shook her head. "I can't... I'm too weak. I've never been able to go against my father, Eve was braver than I am." she said softly. "I'll probably end up dead at the end of all of this," she whispered.
"Don't say that," Ginny said.
Crystal looked at her. "It's true though... I will always do what I'm told... out of fear... and yeah, I know that makes me a terrible person, but it's all I know how to do."
Neither Ginny nor Draco knew what to say, the whole situation with the Adwell family was horrific.
"I should warn you now, my father plans to try the serum out tomorrow on you," she said to Ginny.
"What? I thought there was still a few more days left before it was ready?" Draco asked.
"He doesn't want to wait any longer; he believes it's ready now."
"What about the baby?" Ginny asked.
"He doesn't believe it will interfere with your body reacting to the serum... or rather, doesn't care if it does anymore."
"Can you try to convince your father to use the serum on me first?" Draco pleaded with her.
"What? No." Ginny said angrily turning to him. "I won't let that happen."
"Oh, and I'm supposed to be ok with letting them use you for it?"
"No," she said softly, lowering her head. "But if Adwell thinks I'm the best candidate for it, then maybe I have a chance of surviving it."
"Ginny, if something happens to you... I... I don't know what I would do." he said more to himself than to her.
A life without Ginny in it to Draco would be no life at all. It was she who gave him a reason to live so long ago. All those times he had that blade to his skin, to his throat, wanting to end it all but never succeeding... she was the light through all of it. She made him believe that he deserved happiness and that he could feel love, give love, and be loved by someone in return. Everything he had in his life was because of Ginny... his life was Ginny and that was all it ever would be. Just her and the beautiful family she gave him. Losing Ginny would break him in so many ways, it was a thought he couldn't even fathom.
"I can try to convince my father all I want, but it won't matter, he won't change his mind and if you think he will to try and spare your wife, then you're a fool," she said before she walked over to Ginny's room and looked at her. "By the end of the tomorrow you will either be one of three things... exactly how you are now... the most powerful witch in the world... or dead," she said to Ginny before she walked over to the computer and opened the walls between the three of them. "I'm sure I'll catch some heat for this, but I suppose it's the least I can do before you could potentially lose your wife forever," she said looking at Draco before she left the room.
"Here, these should fit you," Ember said, placing a small stack of clothes on Eve's bed.
Eve just looked at the clothes on the bed and then down at her own before she picked up a pair of jeans and looked at them.
"I know they aren't the greatest selection but-"
"They're fine." Eve quickly said. "I just don't think I've ever worn jeans before."
Ember just gave her a small smile. "Well, my room is a few doors down if you need anything else," she said before she went to leave the room.
"He won't approach you," Eve said suddenly, making Ember stop in the doorway and look at her. "Noah, he has no intentions of bringing up what happened or bothering you about your new relationship with-"
"Don't do that." Ember snapped suddenly. "Don't read my mind."
Eve gave a small nod. "Sorry... I can't help it sometimes," she said softly.
"Let me know if you need anything," Ember mumbled before she closed the door.
She walked across the house to the other hall and gave a soft knock on Riley's door. She had been asleep since she got here.
"Riley?" she called out into the dimly lit room.
She finally spotted her sitting on the bench in front of the window, hugging her knees to her chest. She walked over and took a seat and saw the dried up tears on her sister's face.
"Riley? We should talk about what happened there."
Riley just turned and looked at her with this blank expression before she turned back to the window.
"Riley? Please talk to me."
Riley looked down, her eyes welling with tears again before she buried her face in her knees and started crying. Ember reached forward to hug her, but she shifted her body away from her and cried in a curled up ball in front of the window. After another moment or so she realized Riley had no intentions of talking to her and got up and left the room.
She was on her way back to her own room when she stopped in front of Noah's room and stared at the closed door. She wanted to know what happened to them there in that lab. Her body just stood frozen in place. Was that all she wanted to know? She wanted to yell at Noah, tell him how much he hurt her.
"Ember?"
She heard Jake's voice behind her.
"Should I go in there?" she asked him, not turning around to look at him, her eyes still fixated on the bedroom door a few feet away.
She heard Jake take a few steps towards her from behind. "Do you feel like you have to go in there?" he asked her softly.
She nodded, her eyes watering a bit.
"Then you should go in," he said with a small sigh before he wrapped his arms around her and placed a kiss on her cheek.
Jake's embrace made any feelings of her wanting to confront Noah disappear and she turned towards him before she shook her head. "I don't want to go."
He gave her a small smile before he laced his fingers with hers and pulled her along to their bedrooms.
The knock on Scorpius' door made him want to rip his hair out as he expected it to be Raven again. He was surprised though when he ripped the door open and saw James standing there.
"Oh, hey, come in," he said, holding the door open.
"Just wanted to see how you were holding up."
"You mean since the guy we thought we killed came walking through the front door? Or that my girlfriend lied to me about her potential pregnancy in an attempt to test my commitment to her?"
"See, when you say it out loud, it's not that bad." James teased with a small smirk.
"Honestly though, when I heard Noah wasn't dead I felt relieved, but seeing him again stirred up a lot of anger."
James just nodded in agreement. "What they were doing to him though... his own father? I hate the bloody git, but I don't know if anyone deserves that."
They both fell into deep thought as a silence filled the room, only to be shattered by the sound of Raven knocking on the open door.
"Hey James, mind if I have a word with Scorpius?" she asked.
James turned to Scorpius with a forced smile before he left the room, prompting Raven to walk inside and shut the door.
"Scorpius, I can't do this anymore, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, please... what can I do to show you how sorry I am?" she begged him. "I only did it because-"
"Raven, just stop," he said, holding his hand up to cut her off. "I don't want you to justify why you did it... how about just an apology? I don't care why you did it... the point is that you lied to me. When you're the one who wanted to test loyalty and commitment, yet you're the one who broke all the trust between us. I've always been honest with you, even when I was scared that you almost ended up pregnant, I put my exact feelings out there."
She walked over to him and grabbed his face, her grip on him held desperation for forgiveness.
"You're right... I'm so sorry, I messed up and I don't want to lose you." she sniffled, tears sliding down her face.
He tried with everything in him to not look into her eyes, but the love he had for Raven still made his eyes travel up to her tear-filled ones. Her green eyes lit up through the pool of tears that overflowed down her face and he buckled. He felt her wrap her arms around him and he slowly hugged her back. He was still angry, he was hurt that she would do something so devious to him.
"I think we should turn in for the night," he said, pulling back from the hug.
She gave him a small nod before she took a step back. "What do you think about Noah staying here with us? And his sister, she's kind of creepy."
Scorpius just shrugged. "It is what it is, we'll have to make it work. Eve seems a bit odd, but Matthew trusts her and we should trust him, he's done a lot for us."
Raven nodded in agreement before she placed a soft kiss on his cheek. "Well, Goodnight Scorpius," she said softly.
Scorpius turned over for the tenth time in his bed that night trying to fall asleep. He even reached over to his side table to see if he had any sleeping draught left to help him fall asleep, but soon found nothing but empty vials. He couldn't stop thinking about things with Raven and then of course what his parents must be going through. He missed them a lot and it scared him to think of what kind of experiments and torture they had gone through since they've been there. He saw the condition of Noah and Riley, he knew it was from that place and what was done to them.
He let out a soft growl of frustration and ripped the blankets off himself before he made his way into the hall. He heard someone throwing up in the bathroom and as he approached the door, he realized it was Noah as he took in the opened bedroom door a few feet away. He hated Noah, he hated him for what he did to Ember and just the kind of person he was in general, but he still felt that he didn't deserve the horror his father had put him through.
He descended the stairs and walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water. He walked over to the back door and looked out into the field, his eyes falling on the lake where the moonlight glistened across it. His mind went back to the first time he started having feelings for Raven, it was back when they were partnered up in Potions. He remembered being highly annoyed at her for insisting that the way she cut up the ingredients for the potion they were working on didn't matter. Of course to prove his point he made a separate potion on his own to show her the difference. It was the laugh she let out that pulled him in when her potion came out just as good as his and he gave her a slight sneer.
After a few more encounters with her throughout the year, he had started taking an interest in her, especially how she always liked to question him on everything. So much so, that he was constantly trying to prove her wrong. Eventually, she came clean about pretending to do things the wrong way, just so that he would take the time to show her how to properly do it. He liked that Raven wasn't intimidated by him or his last name like he had found many people throughout his school years to be. It was during one of their many heated debates one night over charms that they finally kissed and then formed a relationship along the way.
He was pulled from his thoughts when he saw movement out of the corner of his eye and realized someone was sitting on the porch swing outside. He opened the door and turned the dim light on before he saw it was Eve and made his way over to her.
"What are you doing out here in the dark in the middle of the night?"
"Sorry... I just can't sleep." she said, her face down looking at her fidgeting hands.
He took a seat beside her before he let out a hard sigh. "Same."
Silence filled the air between them as he looked out at the lake again for a few moments before he felt her eyes on him. He turned back to her as she quickly looked away.
"What?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
She just shook her head.
"What is it?" he asked again, a small smirk forming on his face when he saw her smile at his questioning.
"It's just... you look exactly like your father."
"Ha, yeah... luckily for you, you don't look a damn thing like yours."
She hung her head at his comment and felt ashamed for being related to the man responsible for so much pain.
"It was supposed to be a joke... a really bad joke apparently." he laughed, giving her a light nudge with his arm.
She just gave him a small smile before she held her head in her hands. She started to rub the side of it as she let out a small sigh of discomfort.
"What's wrong? A headache?"
She gave a small scoff at his question. "I wish that's all it was," she mumbled. "Noah mentioned something about the implant I had in my neck might have been acting as a stabilizer as well."
"Implant?"
She looked at the confused look on his face before she explained about the implant her father had put inside her. She told him the information Noah had given her when they arrived here and his concerns about her powers.
"Now I'm just worried that maybe he's right... I've never experienced this kind of discomfort with them. Some of it feels almost new... maybe Noah is right about me starting to lose control of them." she said softly, more to herself than to him.
"If that is the case, then you can practice with the rest of us."
"Practice?"
"That's the plan, to practice and learn to control them so we can break into Adwell labs and save my parents."
Eve lifted her head up at this. "A rescue?"
He nodded before a bright smile stretched across her face at their plan to rescue Ginny, Draco, and Harry.
Scorpius was surprised by her sudden excitement and interest as she shifted her body to face him more.
"Scorpius, I could definitely help you guys. I know almost every single inch of that place and with my powers, I could make it look like the floors of that place and we could really get a proper idea of what to expect," she said quickly as ideas started pooling into her head of how to help.
He smirked at her. This was the most he heard her speak since she'd been here. "That would be brilliant."
"And I know Noah knows a lot more about the secrets inside that place than I do. I mean... I know he's not the most popular person here right now, but my father had big plans for my brother to be his right hand. I thought my sister Crystal knew almost everything, but its Noah... he knows a lot more than I thought he did. Before... everything went down with you guys, my father was showing Noah everything at the lab and honestly... Noah probably knew somewhat of my father's intentions with your family before everything happened."
"You know we're probably going to have to act civil towards each other so all of this information about how much of a scumbag your brother is, isn't helping." he snapped.
"Sorry," she mumbled. "But... yeah, I can help and I want to help."
He wanted to ask her why she was so keen on helping them, but he assumed it was from the horrific life she was born into. Matthew believed she was worth saving and that she would be of use to them, but he seemed concerned about her powers. When Scorpius thought about everything he was told or knew about Eve, it was as if she was built to be a weapon and that thought was a bit unsettling.
A light breeze hit them as silence filled the air again. Scorpius lightly pushed his feet off the floor to let the porch swing they sat on sway a bit.
"You're angry," Eve stated suddenly, turning to look at him as he stared out into the open field.
"Yep." he sighed, as he pushed with a bit more force, letting the swing sway harder.
"With that girl? Raven?"
He turned to look at her, "It's hard to stay angry at someone when you love them. But it's also hard to love them when you're so fuckin angry at them." he said, dragging his feet along the floor to stop the swing from moving.
"She is hiding something from you."
He looked at her again. "Are you asking me that or telling me?"
Eve just looked at him, her eyes went a bit wide before she shook her head and stood up. "I should try to get some sleep.," she said before she went to walk away.
"Hold up, wait a second," he said as he quickly got up and grabbed her wrist to stop her. "You just said she was hiding something, what is it? Because she already told me about her fake pregnancy scare. Is there something else?"
Eve just looked down at his fingers wrapped around her wrist before she looked back up at him. "I don't know, I didn't mean to know the information I already do. Sometimes I can't help the thoughts I hear," she said quietly as she went to turn away again.
"But there is something else?" he asked, giving her wrist another light tug as she turned to him again.
She looked down at his hand around her wrist again and fell silent before she felt him loosen his grip and clear his throat.
"Sorry," he mumbled, letting her wrist go.
She looked down at the floor for a few moments before she lifted her head a bit to meet his gaze. "Goodnight," she whispered before she walked back inside.
Hoping that Eve was wrong about the fact that Raven was hiding something more from him, he made his way into the house and tried to get some sleep too.
Ginny released a small giggle before she laced her fingers tighter with Draco's and then looked at her other hand laced with Harry's, who sat beside her. They just got done sharing a memory of Scorpius and Ember's sixth birthday party.
"I still can't believe she punched him, and pretty hard too for a six-year-old." Harry laughed.
"Ember definitely had a temper." Ginny giggled.
"Had?" Draco corrected her.
She turned to him with a smile, her eyes just piercing into his for a moment before she rested her head on his shoulder. "I miss them... how long has it been? I don't even know what day it is or if it's morning or night."
Draco and Harry shrugged.
"Maybe a month or so?" Harry guessed.
"Maybe it's a Saturday night?" Draco suggested.
Ginny just stared down at her and Draco's interlocked fingers. "Maybe," she whispered.
Crystal walked into the lab and made her way over to them and stopped outside of their rooms. "I need you back in your own rooms now," she said softly rather than in her hard cold tone.
They got up and Draco hugged Ginny tightly in his arms before he grabbed her face and kissed her. The walls separated their rooms once more and that's when Crystal entered Ginny's room, she had a syringe in one hand and her wand gripped tightly in the other.
"I need you to cooperate or I'll be forced to use this," she told her.
Ginny let out a shaky breath before she gave a quick glance at Draco. "What do I have to do?"
Crystal gestured over to the examination bed. "Get on."
Ginny walked over to the wall where Draco met her. He could see how scared she was and once again he was as helpless as ever.
"You're going to be fine... you're strong," he told her as a lump formed in his throat from his own fear.
She nodded at his words. "I love you."
"I love you, too," he said before he watched her walk out of the room and pull herself up onto the bed.
Crystal pocketed her wand and the syringe she had once Ginny didn't put up a fight. She walked over to the table and looked at Ginny.
"Arms down," she said as she locked her wrists down with metal restraints and then did the same to her legs.
Ginny's heart started to race, she suddenly didn't want to cooperate anymore, but it was too late now. Crystal removed her neck device and then tilted the bed a bit upward so that Ginny could see Draco and Harry. She continued to hook Ginny up to a few machines to monitor her vitals and set up an IV before she stopped and gave her a sad look.
"I'll be right back... then we'll get started," she said to Ginny.
Ginny could see the uncertainty in Crystal's face and hear it in her tone. She was sure the last time something like this was attempted was when she witnessed her mother die from it. She watched Crystal leave the room before she looked over at Draco and Harry. She wanted to cry, she wanted to scream that she couldn't do this and that she didn't want to, but she knew there was no way to avoid it now.
She could feel the table beneath her turn hot, the metal restraints around her starting to burn as her powers surfaced. Her heart was beating so fast it was painful and she started to freak out a bit as she attempted to free herself.
"I'm scared. I'm sorry, I'm trying to relax, but I don't want to die. I just want to see the kids again." she cried out.
"Ginny, look at me," Draco said firmly. "You're going to be fine... you are, ok?"
She just stared at him through her watery eyes before she nodded and let out an emotional breath as she tried to steady her breathing. She turned towards the door when Crystal came back in with her father and her uncle Robert Adwell.
"Ah, Mrs. Malfoy, you must be just as thrilled as I am to be a part of something extraordinary." Jack Adwell said to her as he walked up beside her bed.
"Fuck you, psychopath." she spat.
He just smiled at her comment. "You have no idea."
"Let me take her place," Draco begged. "Please."
Adwell didn't even turn to look at him; he instead started filling a syringe with the serum. "Don't worry Mr. Malfoy, if she dies, you'll be my next candidate," he said, glancing over to him before he turned back to Ginny. "Let's hope you survive this because the last person I spent nineteen years creating into my own personal weapon turned on me and escaped."
"If I survive... will you let Draco and Harry go?" she asked him, tears falling down her face.
He stroked her head a few times before he looked down at her. "Of course not. I'll probably end up killing one of them as payback for Eve." he said with an evil grin. "Robert, why don't you go over the aftermath of all of this," he told his brother before he turned to get the other syringe ready.
Robert gave Ginny a sad look before he shook his head a bit. "Ginny, if this is successful there is a number of things that can go wrong afterward. First, you will probably lose control of all your powers, which is why you'll be sedated for the first few days after. When you first wake up the pain is going to be astronomical, but you'll be monitored to try and make you as comfortable as possible. The truth is, this has never successfully been done so we aren't sure what to expect."
"When Eve first got her powers she couldn't speak for the first three hours. Her mind couldn't handle everything at once... eventually, everything came back to her. She was also in an extreme amount of pain when everyone's thoughts hit her at once. That power alone will be the hardest one to control." Crystal explained. "When I first got mine... I couldn't walk for three days, it took a few days for my body to accept my powers and again... eventually everything worked itself out," she explained softly.
Robert leaned down closer to Ginny when he saw his brother walk across the room for something. "Ginny, try not to fight it... if you want any chance of surviving this, let it just consume you for now. You can learn to control it after. That's my advice to you. You might come out of this and not know who you are at first, your memories will be scattered. You might only remember a single person from a random time. You might understand when someone speaks to you, but not be able to talk back... you might..."
Ginny had stopped listening at this point; his words were just a muffled mess as she looked across to Draco. For some reason as she looked at him she suddenly felt peaceful, his mercury eyes piercing into hers calmed her. They brought her to a place of serenity and for some reason, she smiled at him. When he smiled back at her, it made everything ok. She had accepted whatever was about to happen to her. If this killed her, she thought about how much happier Draco made her life. Their children and the family they created made her feel like she had already lived a full life anyway and she was content with that thought.
"Alright, let's get started." Mr. Adwell said as he walked back over. "I've combined two powers in each syringe, the first batch will be the power of intangibility and the same ones that Crystal possesses," he said as he emptied the syringe into her IV.
All eyes were on Ginny as they waited for some kind of change or any result of this actually working. Just as Adwell was about to grow impatient Ginny took in a sharp breath and tried to rip her arms from the restraints. Her fingertips started to turn silver and it ran up her arm into her veins then halfway up her neck. She started to feel some discomfort and then the pain hit her as she let out a loud painful scream.
Adwell took the other syringe and got ready to empty it in next when his brother grabbed his arm to stop him.
"Wait, you don't want to overload her... she might not respond well to it all at once."
"I'll decide what is too much." he snarled as he ripped his arm from his brother's grip.
The pain running through Ginny intensified and she let out an even louder scream as her wrists desperately tried to rip free from the restraints. Her entire body was covered in metal as her screaming continued to echo throughout the room.
Draco didn't realize he had backed away from the scene until he felt his back hit the wall between him and Harry's room. His eyes were wide and his expression blank as he watched her scream out in pain.
"She's going to fight through it," Harry said from behind him as he watched the scene himself. "She will be fine... she has to be," he whispered.
After another round of screaming, she suddenly fell silent and her head slumped to the side.
"She just passed out from the pain," Crystal confirmed for Draco and Harry as she saw their faces turn white when they heard her go quiet.
The metal started to fade away and Ginny stirred a bit as she started to wake up.
"Welcome back Mrs. Malfoy," Adwell said with a smile as he seemed pleased with how Ginny's body was responding to the new powers. He wasted no time injecting the rest of the powers into her. "Now for the real test and probably the most painful... let's see how you do with Eve's powers and a bit of electricity from our dear Mr. Potter," he said with an evil grin.
He tossed the syringe aside and stood back in anticipation. Ginny blinked a few times as she tried to stay awake from the excruciating pain and then she felt the other set of powers hit her. If she thought the pain she felt before was the worst she had ever experienced, she was wrong. She roared out in pain as she threw her head back in agony. Her back arching as she tried to rip her limbs from the metal restraints again. She pulled so hard her wrists and ankles started bleeding. The room around them started shaking and the lights started popping all throughout the lab. A blood-curdling scream filled Draco's ears as she cried out in anguish.
The machines attached to her started beeping off the charts as her blood pressure and heart rate rose. She started violently shaking; her body convulsing as Crystal ran over to read her vitals.
"She's seizing!"
Crystal went to take a step closer to Ginny when an electrical wave whipped across the room and threw them all backward. Draco covered his face in case the walls to his room shattered, but they held up. He ran over to the wall between him and Ginny, her hands and feet, ripping through the metal restraints, her hair floating up like fiery flames, and her veins changing from gold to black to silver.
"GINNY!" Draco screamed out to her as he pounded on the wall.
Mr. Adwell looked worried, he was watching his creation fall apart before him as Ginny lost control and her vitals were all over the place. Everything suddenly stopped and all chaos and screaming came to an end. Ginny slowly lifted her head to look at Draco, blood dripping from her nose before her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she flatlined.
"NO! GINNY!" Draco screamed, his fists continued to slam on the wall before him even though he knew he wasn't breaking through. Even when they became bloody and bruised, he still slammed on the wall until his legs gave out on him and he slid to the floor in tears. "GINNY! GET UP!"
The room was silent; the only sound was the monitor representing Ginny's nonexistent heartbeat.
"Ginny... Ginny, please wake up... please don't do this to me." Draco sobbed to himself as if she would hear him... as if she would come back to him if he begged hard enough.
Mr. Adwell got to his feet, anger apparent on his face as he screamed and yelled at the failed experiment before him. He walked over to Ginny and listened for any sign of life from her and when he felt nothing he stormed from the room. Crystal had her hand over her mouth in disbelief; she was hopeful that Ginny would adapt to the serum. She looked at Draco and Harry, her hatred for herself became overwhelming as she realized she helped her father this entire time only to get to this outcome.
She walked over to Draco and knelt down in front of him where he was completely falling apart.
"I'm so sorry," she whispered.
He picked his head up to look at her, his eyes covered with ice. "Don't you fuckin speak to me. You're dead... as soon as I get a chance... I'm going to kill you... all of you." he choked out as he felt the next dose of serum being injected into his neck and his eyes returned to normal as he fell into another fit of sobs.
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