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: So sorry for the late update, my mother was in the hospital again and things were kind of hectic. I really hope you all enjoy this chapter!
Aurora gave a quick knock on the bedroom door before she poked her head in. "Eve, breakfast is ready."
Eve looked at her for a moment. "Breakfast?"
Aurora gave her an amused smirk. "Ok, I know you've lived in the dark all these years, but surely you know what breakfast is?" she said folding her arms and leaning against the door frame.
"Of course, I just don't understand why you're telling me."
"Because we eat breakfast together," she said slowly as if it was obvious.
Eve was silent as she took in what Aurora told her. "At the table?"
Aurora just gave her a small smile. "Yeah, you know... like a family and all that crap."
"But I'm not your family."
"No... but you tried to help my parents and Harry... and for that, you are always welcome to sit around the table with us."
She was silent.
"So, are you coming?" Aurora asked once more as she stepped back into the hallway.
Eve nodded before she got up and followed her downstairs. As she neared the dining room, she heard a loud conversation between everyone taking place. Aurora pointed to an empty seat she could sit at and she walked over and sat between Ellie and Harper.
"Good morning Eve, dear, here you go." Mrs. Weasley said, walking over and piling pancakes onto her dish followed by some eggs.
Eve just stared down at her plate. "Thank you," she said softly before she turned to Harper and saw she had the same food on her plate.
She looked back at her plate and picked up the pancake with two hands and took a small bite out of it.
"It's better with syrup," Scorpius said, as he leaned forward across from her and placed a bottle of syrup down.
She gave him a small smile before she picked it up and poured some on her pancakes.
"Have you never eaten a pancake before?" Harper teased her.
"Actually... no," she said more to herself than to Harper.
"Well, you might want to try a fork. I mean... unless you've never used one of those either." Harper sarcastically said.
"I've used a fork before," she mumbled, as she picked one up from beside her plate.
"Ignore Harper; she's always a sarcastic smart-ass." Ellie giggled.
Eve gave a small nod before she felt someone's eyes on her. She lifted her head a bit to see Raven staring at her and quickly looked down at her plate. She glanced back up to see if she was still staring and she couldn't help but pick up the whirlpool of thoughts swimming through Raven's head. Most of them were how she wanted Scorpius to forgive her, but there was one particular thought that made Eve's eyes go a bit wide, making her look up and stare right at her. Raven didn't expect her to lock eyes with her and quickly broke the gaze.
A sharp pain in Eve's head made her look back down at her plate as she rubbed the side of it. She noticed her plate starting to lift off the table a bit and quickly slid her thumbs on each side of it to hold it down. She saw Ellie look her way as a small red dot hitting her plate caught her eyes. She felt the blood from her nose dripping down her face and quickly grabbed a napkin and got up from the table before anyone else could notice.
She went into the bathroom and washed her face free of any blood before she looked in the mirror. It started to shake until it cracked and a few pieces fell into the sink. She tried to stay calm and walked out of the bathroom and knocked on Noah's door before she decided to walk into his room before he could answer.
"Noah, get up!" she said loudly as she sat on the side of his bed and gave him one rough shake.
He quickly sat up and looked at her. "What's wrong?"
"I think you were right about my powers... something feels different. It's like I haven't experienced some of what I'm feeling before... it's overwhelming." She said in a panic.
"Ok, relax," he said, grabbing her shoulders and trying to get her to calm down. "You're just not used to them being this strong. Everyone's thoughts are going to hit you at once rather than you tuning into who you'd like. The more you freak out, the more you'll lose control."
She nodded before she closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths as the throbbing in her head started to subside.
After a few moments, she opened them and stared at him. "How could you?" she asked him.
"How could I what?" he looked at her confused.
She just looked at him again, a look of disappointment on her face.
He locked eyes with her for a moment and for some reason he knew exactly what she meant.
She was quiet for a moment before she spoke. "You should say something."
"That's a horrible idea," he said, getting up and pacing the room. "I was a piece of shit then... I still am. It's best to just leave things alone."
"Noah... I know we don't know each other as well as we'd hope for, but I do know what it was like to be in that lab and I know you do too. There is no way you came out of that place the same man you were before." she said softly before she left his room.
Draco watched Ginny run into their bedroom in excitement, a smile stretched across her face.
"I love that woman," she said as she plopped down on the bed beside him.
"Your mother does have a gift when it comes to getting the twins to sleep... especially at the same time," Draco said before he pulled the covers over them.
"Dad said the farmhouse should be ready for them to move into before the wedding," Ginny said as she snuggled up into his arms.
"That soon?" he asked.
"What our wedding or them moving out?" she laughed.
He slid his hand down to her waist and gave it a light squeeze as she laughed from him tickling her. He stopped and just stared down at her before a wide smile spread across his face.
"What?" she asked with a smile.
He shook his head. "I just can't believe I get to marry you."
"And a Weasley no less." She added with a smirk.
"Exactly." He teased, making her laugh harder before he laid back on his pillow. "I also can't believe Scorpius and Ember are nine months old already."
"I know," she said with a bright smile as she lay down facing him. "Um. actually... speaking of nine months," she said as she propped herself up to better look at him. "I need to tell you something."
He just looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Yes?"
"Well, you know how we planned to wait until the twins were at least two before we decided to have another baby?"
He sat back up. "Something tells me that we're horrible planners."
"The worst." she giggled.
He grabbed her face and pulled her to him, the past few months had been emotionally and mentally rough for all of them, especially since he lost his mother. The news of Ginny's pregnancy had a different effect on him this time than the first time she was pregnant. He actually felt happy and excited about the news.
"Your parents are going to have to stay permanently if we keep having kids like this. Who's going to put them to sleep?" he joked.
Ginny gave him a light slap. "Relax; I don't plan on having any more kids for a while after this one." she laughed.
Ginny's laugh filled his ears and then became muffled and the memory Draco was lost in faded from his mind as he opened his eyes and was met with the same glass walls around him. He looked over at the table where Ginny still lay lifeless, a blanket now over her. His eyes staring at her pale hand that hung off the side.
It had been a few hours since he watched Ginny die before his very eyes. His body still sat in a piled mess on the floor against the wall as his tears finally dried up. Every time he didn't think he could cry anymore for her, fresh tears would fill his eyes again.
He finally managed to turn himself around to glance over at Harry. He was sitting on the floor against the walk between their rooms still, his head hung as he cried just as much as Draco did for his friend. Draco pulled himself up and sat down against the wall next to Harry.
Harry just looked up at him and shook his head; he had no idea what to say to him. "Draco... I..." he trailed off when he couldn't find the words.
Draco looked at him through his puffy red eyes, tears still overflowing down his face that he didn't fight anymore. "You know... when Ginny and I first got together, every day I fought it. I just kept thinking I didn't deserve it... I didn't deserve her... love... anything that would make me happy. Even after my father was dead, there were still days I waited for something bad to happen. I thought at any moment I'm going to wake up from this incredible dream with Ginny. I waited for it all to be taken away at any moment because it would be a punishment I well deserved." he looked down at his bloody knuckles and then let out an emotional breath as he started crying again. "And I was right... this is it-"
"Draco, stop it." Harry cut him off.
"This is what I deserve, it's just one big joke and I'm the fool who fell for it."
"Don't do that, don't you fuckin do that," Harry said angrily, turning to look at him. "So this is what Ginny deserved? This is what our children deserve?" Harry yelled at him.
"We're as good as dead." Draco choked out. "We aren't getting out of here, not alive."
Harry wouldn't let Draco sit there and let himself think he deserved to have his wife taken from him or his family to be ripped apart like this because of his past. He knew he was just trying to understand why something so tragic like this would happen to him... to Ginny. As much as he fought Draco on whether he deserved this or not, he couldn't fight him on the reality that they weren't getting out of here. He had finally accepted their fate when Ginny died earlier. It was then he knew they had lost this fight.
Harry looked over at the form of Ginny's body under the sheet across the room. His eyes fell on a piece of her ginger hair that hung off the table. He wished he had something more comforting to say to Draco, but there was nothing that would make anything ok right now.
"Draco, I don't know what to say... I just know that our children are still out there and we need to still fight until the very end." Harry desperately tried to make Draco see things any other way, but he knew how broken he must be.
The last time Draco was even close to being as upset as he was now was when his mother was killed, but this was Ginny. She was his everything and he could only imagine what he must be going through.
"Listen to me Draco-"
Harry's abrupt pause made Draco look up at him and then follow his gaze across the room over to Ginny.
"What?"
Harry quickly stood up and Draco followed.
"What is it?" he asked him again.
"I... I thought I saw..." he trailed off before he rubbed his face.
"You thought you saw what, Potter?" Draco asked him again before he watched Harry's eyes grow wide and then turned around to see what he was looking at.
The first thing Draco noticed, was Ginny's limp, pale hand that hung off the bed was no longer there. It was when he saw her thin white fingers reach up from under the sheet and slowly wrap around the bed rail that made his stomach twist into a knot.
"Please tell me you are seeing this," Harry whispered to him.
Draco couldn't speak; his eyes were only locked on the form of what he knew to be Ginny across the room. All his breath was stuck in his throat forming a giant lump, his heart beating so fast he thought he would drop dead of a heart attack right here. He took a step closer to the other side of the room as he watched her other hand shakily reach up to pull the sheet off of herself.
"G-Ginny?" he choked out, as he wiped the last of his tears from his face and hoped he wasn't hallucinating.
He watched her pull the sheet down from her face before she suddenly jolted up and made a loud gasp for air as if she had just reached the surface of some kind of imaginary body of water she was drowning in. She looked all around the room, unsure of what she was looking for. She was dizzy and confused as she leaned over the side of the bed and lost her balance, making the entire bed fall over and crash to the floor.
Ginny quickly scrambled across the floor against the wall and curled up into a ball. She hugged her knees to her chest tightly as her copper strands fell all around her face. She grabbed her head in agony, her pale fingers digging through her hair and grabbing it with such force it looked like she might rip it from her head.
Draco wasn't sure what to do... what to say. Was she really alive? Was she even Ginny? What she even human anymore? He had no idea what to think. He wanted to glance at Harry, but he couldn't take his eyes off of her. Even in the dark corner she was in, he could tell she was scared... confused. He slowly took a few steps across his room until he was as close to the wall as he could get to her.
He let out a shaky breath. "Ginny?" his voice cut through the silence in the room.
Ginny's painful moans and whimpering suddenly stopped at the sound of his voice. He jumped back and fell to the floor when Ginny suddenly crawled over to the wall he was near. He wasn't ready for her abrupt approach.
His heart was racing as he propped himself up to look at her. She just sat there on the floor outside of his room as he slowly crawled over to her.
"Ginny? Are you... are you there?" he softly asked, placing his hand up against the glass.
Her head still hung and her breathing was still rapid as she continued to fight the pain throughout her body. She slowly brought one of her hands up to the glass and placed it over his. Draco gave a small smile at this, he was hopeful it was a good sign and it made him even tear up.
Ginny lifted her head to look at him, her hair falling out of her face as she stared right at him. Her eyes were these thick milky white color; there was nothing familiar about them at all which made his heart stop. If he looked closely enough, he could see what looked like a tiny electrical cluster of colors in her pupils as her powers fought to overpower one another.
She just stared at him, no emotion, he wasn't sure if she recognized him, he didn't even know if she knew herself, but he swore he could tell she was trying to make sense of it all. He could tell when she looked at him that there was something that felt familiar to her.
She placed her other hand on the glass and stood up and Draco followed.
"Are you in there Ginny?" he whispered out.
Harry heard a buzzing sound above him, making him look up at the lights in the room. The bulbs were shining brighter than normal.
"Draco?" Harry called out to him, but he was too entranced by Ginny and the fact that she pretty much just came back from the dead. "Draco?"
Draco just continued to watch her, he was locked on her. Only moments ago he was shattered completely with grief at losing the most meaningful person in his life and now here she was. He took a step back when she moved her hand forward and it went through the glass wall. He continued to stare at it before he took a step forward again and held his hand up. He slowly reached forward and went to touch her hand when Harry's voice made him pause.
"Draco... don't, she could be dangerous."
The sound of someone walking into the lab made Ginny's head snap over, making her retract her hand. It was Crystal and she jumped back against the wall at the sight of Ginny, her eyes wide.
"Y-You're supposed to be dead." she stuttered for words.
Ginny took a step towards her and she quickly ran from the room calling for her father.
"Ginny, hey, look at me," Draco said as he quickly ran over to the wall and banged on it to get her attention. "The keys, you need to get the room keys and let us out," he said as he pointed across the room.
She didn't even look at him; instead, she brought her hand up to her nose where she started bleeding.
"Ginny! I need you to focus! Look at me!" he yelled to her as he banged harder on the wall for her to face him.
He knew it was of no use, he didn't even know if she understood him, he could only imagine what those powers did to her brain. Before he could try to get her attention again, Crystal came back into the room with her father, Robert Adwell and a few guards.
Jack Adwell's face lit up as a look of awe came over him. He was definitely pleased to see Ginny alive and from the way she was acting, he could tell some, if not all, of the powers he injected into her, were working. He started laughing with glee and in a somewhat demonic tone as he walked over to her.
"It worked... after all this time... you were the one I needed." he walked closer to her.
Ginny took a few steps back, her eyes changing to a darker shade. Once Adwell saw her back away from him he stopped in his tracks.
"You don't have to be afraid, dear," he said with an evil grin before he gestured for the guards to obtain her.
As they made their way towards her, the bed she had been lying dead on only moments ago lifted and flew across the room, hitting two guards with such force and pinning them to the wall until it crushed their bodies. Adwell quickly pulled out his wand and went to hit her with a disabling charm, but before he could even attempt the spell he was disarmed by Ginny's powers.
Ginny's eyes were now that deadly black that always made Draco's heart sink. She took a step towards Adwell, Crystal and Robert as ice covered the entire room, even the walls, floor, and ceiling. Electricity danced across the room in various abstract patterns as the lights popped one by one as Ginny's powers started to emerge. Jagged pieces of ice flew across the room and Adwell grabbed Crystal's wand from her to put up a powerful Protego charm, pushing her aside to protect himself.
The look Crystal gave her father was absolutely heartbreaking as she realized he had no intentions of keeping her safe at this moment. She turned to see Ginny advance on her, and she quickly tucked down into a ball and let her body turn to metal as sharp shards of ice flew at her.
Robert quickly threw a disabling charm at Ginny as he took cover behind one of the metal cabinets. The spell hit her and brought her to her knees as her nose started to bleed again, but just as Robert took the chance to one the neck devices on her, she fought off the disabling charm and locked her eyes on him. He went to throw a spell at her when Jack Adwell blocked him.
"Are you insane!" he yelled. "Do you know how important it is that she remains unharmed?"
"Unharmed? Jack, she is about to release more magical power than either of us ever imagined, how can someone like this go unharmed? You've created a monster!" Robert yelled back.
Ginny made a tray surgical tools lift up and fly across the room at Robert, one of them piercing his shoulder and another in his upper thigh as yelled out in pain. Jack Adwell just watched, almost in excitement, he was overwhelmed with joy at how Ginny's body was reacting to the powers.
"GINNY STOP!" Draco yelled at her, before she did something she would regret.
Again, she didn't even look his way and her eyes were only on Robert as she took a few more steps towards him. Robert grabbed the scalpel from his chest and brought it up to his throat as his eyes filled with fear.
"Ginny don't do this. Jack, stop her!" he yelled out.
"Father, do something." Crystal said through clenched teeth as anger rose in her voice.
Adwell ignored her as he just watched Ginny forced his brother to slit his own throat. He saw his brother's body drop to the floor and just laughed with more excitement.
"She's extraordinary, isn't she?" he said to Crystal before he watched Ginny go after the other guards in the room.
Crystal just shook her head at him before she took cover again from a blast of lightning that lit up the room. She was hurt by how her father didn't care about if she was safe or not and she was angry with herself for thinking he might actually care about her. She ran over to Draco's room as Ginny's powers grew more powerful and hit one of the buttons on the computer that opened the wall between each room. She unlocked his door and quickly slipped inside just as one of the metal cabinets flew across the room and hit the door to the room.
Draco just looked at her as she used his room to keep herself safe.
"These rooms won't hold." She said to him as she looked at the large crack down the glass wall to the room.
A powerful wave of energy traveled through the room, making the glass crack more. Draco, Crystal, and Harry were backed up against the wall at this point hoping that these walls would hold up a bit longer. Crystal could tell Ginny's powers were about to completely explode throughout the room which would surely kill them if it took the walls down. She grabbed Draco and Harry and threw them into the corner behind her before she reached forward and ripped the blanket off one of the beds. She whipped it out in front of her letting it turn to metal along with the rest of her body as she shielded the three of them from the blast that exploded throughout the room.
Draco heard the walls completely shatter and then a painful scream from Ginny. He looked up at Crystal, as her powers died down and could see the tears in her eyes that threatened to fall. She turned her attention to Ginny, who was on her knees and holding her head; blood dripping from her nose.
Draco wanted to run over to her, to see if she was anymore herself than before, but he could already tell there was nothing different. Adwell finally took his chance to slap a neck device on her.
"Oh, you, my dear, are magnificent. Crystal, come." He ordered as he waved her over to help him.
She just stared at him, anger apparent on her face. "You want my help? You let her kill your own brother... she could have killed me!" she yelled.
"Don't be so dramatic, you can take care of yourself... obviously." He gestured to her condition. "Now get over here before I put you downstairs with all the other failed experiments." He threatened.
She wiped the few tears that slid down her face before she went over and helped him get Ginny to her feet. She took one last look at Draco and Harry, glass from the shattered walls still in their hair. She waved her wand letting the walls around their rooms repair themselves before she left the room with her father and Ginny.
He fell to the ground for the hundredth time it seemed as he got to his feet once more. He was hunched over trying to catch his breath as he smoothed his hair back again.
"This is humiliating, I'm getting my arse kicked by a girl." Scorpius breathed out.
"By your aunt, which is worse." Hermione reminded him with a smirk before she punched him in the face making him stagger backward.
"Fuck!" he growled out as he wiped his bloody nose on the back of his hand. "Isn't this considered child abuse?"
"Nah, you're eighteen... it's fine." She said before she leg swiped him and he fell on his back, making an eruption of laughter form from the porch.
"I love watching her kick the shit out people." Ron sighed in admiration as he watched Hermione help Scorpius back up.
Ember and Aurora gave a small giggle before they walked over to McGonagall who was gesturing them over to the middle of the field.
"Mr. Malfoy, why don't you go take a quick break while we practice a bit with our powers." She said, stifling her own laughter as he made his way towards the porch. "Alright, I want everyone to be a part of this practice." She said motioning to everyone on the porch.
The rest of them made their way down to the field. Eve stood there and watched until she felt someone give her shoulder a light push from behind for her to join them. She turned to see Scorpius standing behind her before he gestured with his hand for her to join the group. She looked at the small crowd around McGonagall and then back at him. He nodded for her to go ahead, which for some reason gave her a little more confidence and she made her way down to the field.
"Ahh, Eve, very good. We all could use as much practice as possible. Why don't you all get in teams of two?" McGonagall suggested.
Eve watched them all scramble about and then turned to look at Ellie. "You should be my partner." She said.
Ellie looked at her with some surprise. "Me? Are you sure? My powers... they're a mess."
Eve just smiled at her. "You'll be fine. Show me."
Ellie just stared at her for a few seconds before she looked at the others already practicing around her. "I can't... I don't really have them like I used to anymore. The only thing I've been able to do is this." She said as her entire body slowly started turning to water.
Eve studied her for a few moments before she walked closer to her. "Your powers, they are pretty powerful for this to have happened."
"Pft, yeah right."
"I'm serious. Do you want me to show you that you still possess your other powers?"
"How?"
Eve took a few steps back. "Close your eyes."
Ellie was hesitant but after a moment or so she closed them.
Eve also closed her eyes to focus on Ellie, she gave a small smirk as she took in Ellie's thoughts of uncertainty. When she opened her eyes again her pupils turned to a dark purple as she kept her focus on Ellie still.
"Open them." She told Ellie.
Ellie's eyes slowly opened, and she took in a sharp breath when she saw she was holding a ball of ice in one palm and a burning flame in the other. She looked at them in awe for a moment before a smile crept across her face.
"Whoa." She breathed out before she held her hand with the ice in it out and watched it start to slowly stream across over to where Eve stood.
The ice started forming faster as it glided in two thin strips around Eve and then up towards the sky. It then became more aggressive and crashed down right beside Eve, who didn't flinch. The icy path went into the ground making it start to rumble and make it's way underground closer to Ember and Aurora. Giant shards of ice suddenly emerged from the ground like a wave and went to crash down onto them both when it stopped just above them and instead formed a giant canopy over them.
Eve moved her hands so the ice would follow her instructions and made the icy canopy form into two separate paths of ice once more. She sent them straight at the porch where Scorpius and Raven were watching. The ice covered the stairs, making Raven slip on one of the steps she was standing on and fell on her arse.
Scorpius let out a laugh before he helped her up.
"She's controlling your sister's mind, doesn't that bother you?" Raven said with a bit of a snarl as she ripped her arm from his grasp.
Scorpius just continued to watch the scene before him. "I think it's brilliant."
"Now... for some fire," Eve mumbled to herself as she let the icy powers die off.
She let the flame in Ellie's hand run up Ellie's arm until one whole arm was engulfed in flames.
"I'm going to let you take over." She said to Ellie.
"What? No." she said in a panic.
"You are fine... look at the powers you possess. Come on... show me what you got." She said before she blinked a few times letting her mind disconnect with Ellie's.
Ellie watched the flames grow higher around her arm before she accepted them fully and then felt something she hadn't felt in a long time... confidence. She let the flames engulf her body completely, the burning sensation against her skin made her feel like her old self again, before all of this happened, before the fear. She let the flames travel up to the icy canopy that covered Ember and Aurora and let the coldness from the ice swallow the blazing fire before the canopy started to crack. It started to slowly crumble all around them but before they could hit either of them, Eve let the icy pieces glide across the sky until they got lost in the air, the sun hitting them just right so that they all twinkled.
She left them there as she turned her attention back to Ellie. "That was great."
"Me? That was amazing what you did." Ellie said with a bright smile.
"Please, I didn't control as much as you think. You had more control of that than you think you did. You just need to be more confident; you'll get there."
Scorpius turned to see Noah watching Eve from a few feet away on the porch, unaware of his presence.
"Your sister's powers... they're pretty impressive." He simply said.
Noah looked at him. "Honestly... that's nothing compared to what I know she's capable of. It's almost scary when I think about it."
Scorpius just looked at him and then across the field at Eve.
"Scorpius, come on, we are practicing some more hand to hand combat!" Hermione called him over.
"Yeah, no thanks!" he called back as he watched them all pair up.
"Let's see how your sister does in some physical combat." Raven snapped to Noah before she took off down the steps towards Eve.
"Uh, I don't think that's such a great idea." Noah quickly said.
"It's fine, Raven's pretty decent." Scorpius said.
Noah just shrugged. "Ok... If you say so." He said, taking a few steps back.
Raven strode up to Eve and stepped in front of Ellie. "I'll practice with you, Eve." She said sweetly.
Eve just raised an eyebrow at her. "I'm practicing with Ellie, though."
"Ellie, you mind?" Raven asked.
Ellie just shrugged and stepped back.
Eve locked eyes with Raven. "You seem angry."
"No, I'm just wanting to practice," Raven said casually. "Come on, let me see what's so special about you."
Eve looked taken aback at her comment. "Special?"
Raven just rolled her eyes before she swung her fist at Eve, who moved out of the way. She moved her face again when Raven brought her fist at her once more.
"I don't think we should be partners," Eve said calmly.
"Why? You afraid to get your arse kicked?" she replied as she lifted her leg up to kick her.
Eve blocked both kicks Raven attempted before she went to swing her fist once more. This time Eve grabbed her arm with one hand and lifted her leg up and kicked her in the ribs, making Raven grab her side and let out a growl of pain.
"What are you trying to achieve exactly?" Eve asked her.
"Why don't you just read my mind you freak." Raven snapped as she looked Eve over in disgust.
Eve was surprised to hear those words from Raven, especially since Scorpius had powers also. She saw Raven come at her again, this time she grabbed her arm and twisted it back before she kicked her knee in making her fall to both of them. Raven went to stand back up before Eve hit her in the face with the heel of her palm causing Raven's nose to start pouring blood.
Eve felt extremely guilty for hurting Raven in the first place, but she was only trying to defend herself and stop Raven's advances.
"I'm so sorry Raven, here let me help you." She said holding out her hand.
Raven slapped her hand away. "I don't want your help." She hissed, looking around to make sure nobody could hear her. "I don't want anything from you."
Eve just looked at her, a bit of anger now replacing the guilt she felt a second ago.
She leaned in closer to Raven. "What you do want from me is to keep my mouth shut... isn't it?"
Raven just looked up at her, a sneer covering her face. "Yes." She said through clenched teeth.
Eve just shook her head. "And you look at me in disgust?" she turned to look at Scorpius on the porch watching them. "He seems like a really nice guy... you don't deserve someone like that."
Eve went to take a step away when Raven grabbed her arm firmly. "I swear if you say anything I'll find a way to make sure you live out the rest of your days in that lab like the rat you are."
Eve froze at her comment, her eyes piercing into Raven's with such anger. She swore she would do something she would regret at any moment until she heard Ellie's voice.
"Is everything ok over here?"
Eve ripped her arm from Raven's grip before she looked at Ellie.
"Oh, your nose... it's bleeding," Ellie said.
Eve brought her hand up to her nose and felt the wetness on her fingers before she quickly made her way back up to the house.
"Eve, that was incredible out there with Ellie-"
Eve quickly brushed past Scorpius and cut him off as she went straight to the bathroom to clean her face off. He turned around to see Raven approaching him as she held her side and then had her other hand to her bloody nose. Scorpius couldn't help the smirk that crossed his lips.
"What's so funny about me being hurt?" she snapped.
"You were so confident-and then- she kicked your arse." He started laughing before everyone else around started laughing also.
"I'm glad you find it so funny." She mumbled angrily before she stomped inside.
"Aw, Raven, stop, I was just kidding." He said through his laughter as he followed her inside.
The rest of them got lost in conversation as Mrs. Weasley summoned them all to get ready for dinner and they started piling into the house. Ember reached forward to open the door when someone else grabbed it before she could and opened it for her. She looked at Noah as her breath caught in her throat and her eyes met his for a split second.
"Thanks," she lightly mumbled before she quickly walked the rest of the way inside and as far away from Noah as possible.
Draco opened his eyes and looked up at the same bright light that always filled his room. He let out a defeated sigh as his hope that everything that happened was all a dream faded when he saw the lab room. He looked over at Harry and saw he had fallen asleep on the couch before he finally felt a pair of eyes on him. He turned to Ginny's room and was surprised to see her in there and staring right at him. She was just standing there looking at him, one of her eyes looked a bit more normal, but he could still see the swirl of powers stirring in her pupils.
"Ginny?" he softly called her name as he walked over to the wall between them.
She looked a little more alert and responsive since he saw her only hours ago. She walked up to the glass where he stood and put her hand up to it. He was surprised by the action and his heart filled with hope as he placed his hand where hers was.
"Ginny, is that you? Do you remember anything?"
She just stared at him; her eyes started to glisten with tears as she shook her head.
"No? You don't remember anything? Do you remember me?" he asked, his voice cracking as he feared the answer.
Her lips started to tremble with emotion as she opened her mouth to speak but closed it again. She tried again, but she couldn't get any words to form, making her frustrated as she closed her eyes tightly and tears ran down her face. She pointed to him, her mouth desperately trying to say his name but still nothing, just her making a small sound that somewhat sounded like the letter of his first name.
"Draco?" he asked her.
She covered her mouth with her hand as she let out a small sob and nodded.
"So, you do remember me?"
She shook her head again and pointed to him then gestured to her face and then her head.
Draco let out a sad sigh. "I look familiar, but you don't know why." He said, rather than asked her.
He didn't bother to wait for her to confirm that's what she meant; he could just feel it. He could barely look at her right now, his heart was breaking way too much to see her this way.
He heard her tap on the glass to get his attention and he looked back up at her. She placed a hand on her stomach and tried to say something.
"B... Ba... Bay." She hung her head in frustration.
"It's ok." Draco said, his voice cracking at her inability to speak.
She brought her tearstained face back up again. "Ba... Baby." She finally got out.
He stared at her, his eyes a bit wide at what she said. "The baby... it's ok?"
She nodded and then pointed at him and then to her stomach making him turn emotional.
"Yeah... that's my baby... our baby." He cried before he quickly wiped his tears away. "What about our children? Don't you remember any of them? Scorpius... Ember... Ava?"
She just gave him a sad look.
"Do you remember how much I love you? Do you remember anything about us?" he said through his fresh tears. "Please Ginny, I need you."
Ginny just shook her head before she backed away from the wall and ran her fingers through her hair. She gripped it tightly in frustration and walked across the room away from him. She may not have remembered him but there was something that bothered her to see him upset and she couldn't handle it. It was like her mind couldn't comprehend the relationship that was or is between them.
"Her mind is still jumbled... just give it time." Came Crystal's voice from outside of his room.
Draco just glared at her. "And you're so sure of that?" he snapped.
"No, but I remember when Eve first got her powers... it took some time before everything was set right again."
"Yeah, but Eve didn't have six different powers forced to interact with one another." He shot back. "That device on her neck... if you take it off how soon will her powers come back?"
Crystal just looked over to where Ginny was sitting in a ball on the floor in the corner, hugging her knees to her chest. "Honestly, the neck device is barely keeping them from surfacing. She is... pretty powerful, so we haven't been able to fully suppress them. While she wears the device, they will be very weak, but not totally absent. In the meantime, between the neck device and a disabling charm every hour, she should hardly be a threat." She explained.
"A threat? You know what Crystal, even with how powerful Ginny is, your father is still a bigger threat. He's the problem here and you... you mean nothing to him; don't you get that? What exactly is your father's plan now?"
She gave him a hard look at the mention of her father's lack of love for her. "He'll want Ginny to practice using her new powers and make sure she can control them all. If she can function like a normal person on them... then he will collect a few blood samples and some other things before he starts to inject the same serum into some of his own people... himself even. He wants to take Minister Beckett's place and run the Ministry."
"There are plenty of people at the Ministry who won't stand for that. He just watched your uncle be killed and didn't even care, you think he'll care if you meet the same fate?" He paused when he saw her lips tremble with emotion. "Listen, Crystal... Eve and Noah, they got out of here and you can too, just help us." Draco begged her.
"Stop!" she yelled. "I've seen what happens... I saw what he did to all those people and where they are now... what he did to my brother." She looked at him. "I'm am terrified of what I'll face if I go against my father. I just can't help you... I can't." she said as she shook her head before quickly leaving the lab.
Eve was staring at herself in the mirror for what seemed like hours, she didn't realize how much she had missed out on in life from being in that lab. She questioned everything she knew or thought she knew about the world outside. She thought about how even the way she felt about things if they were the right way to feel. Was it normal to laugh at the things she found funny? Was she right to feel angry earlier at Raven's comments? Now that she was on her own she questioned every movement and every interaction she had with people. It was a lonely feeling, but nowhere as lonely as being in that lab.
She snapped her head over to the door when she heard a knock and walked over to open it.
"Raven? What do you want?"
"Can I talk to you for a moment?" Raven asked; her tone calm.
Eve looked at the bruise on her face from their fight earlier and felt bad for her actions. She nodded before she opened the door to let her in.
"Listen, Eve, I just wanted to apologize about the vile things I said earlier. I'm not that kind of person, I just... I don't want to lose Scorpius; I love him too much."
"If you're worried I'll say something... I won't... it's not my business and I have no place doing so."
Raven nodded.
"If I'm not going to tell him and you're not, then you should have no problem, right?" Eve asked.
"Well, that depends, you tell me?"
Eve furrowed her brows. "I don't understand."
"It's just, you two seem to kind of be getting a little close and I think it's a bit inappropriate."
Eve was taken aback by her comment and felt extremely uncomfortable with this conversation. "Are you jealous that I talk to Scorpius?"
"Well, yeah."
"I only talk to Scorpius when he talks to me and just so I can put your mind at ease... I will never and have never thought about Scorpius in that way. I don't even know him; how could you possibly think there was anything to worry about."
"Yeah, it's not really you I'm worried about."
Eve just looked at her, her eyes a bit wide. "You think he-Raven, look... whatever you think might be happening, isn't, and even if you were worried that Scorpius might feel a certain way, it doesn't matter." She looked down at the floor. "I wasn't created for things like that... you're right, I'm just some lab rat. I barely know how to act around people so something as complex as a relationship or feelings in that way will never happen."
Raven was quiet and unsure of what to say. "Well, thanks for understanding. See you in the morning." She said before she left the room.
Eve let out a light sigh before she walked over to her bedroom door and went to close it. Her eyes fell on Aurora and James who she could see through the cracked door across the hall. She just watched them for a moment, they were laughing about something that seemed to be quite amusing. She watched James wrap his arms tightly around her before he kissed her, even through her continuous laughter. Aurora's laughs finally stopped before she kissed him back.
Eve felt this sinking feeling in her stomach as she closed the door to their display of affection for one another. She wasn't sure why but the realization that she would never know that kind of love was hard to take in suddenly as her eyes filled with tears. She hated feeling so vulnerable to all these new feelings, it was overwhelming.
She wiped away the few tears that fell as the pain in head took the place of the pain in her heart and turned in for the night.
Ember felt Jake give her a light shake as he shifted in the bed next to her. "Ava." He mumbled.
Ember yawned and looked at the clock and saw it was a little past three in the morning before she went to crawl out of the bed.
She felt Jake gently pull her back to him. "Just let Molly grab her." He said so she wouldn't have to leave his embrace.
She gave him a small slap. "No.," she said with a small laugh. "She always gets up for her, I told her I'd get her tonight. Just go back to sleep." She playfully snapped before she peeled his arm from around her waist.
She quietly slipped out of Jake's bedroom and closed the door before she headed across the hall to Ava's room. She froze when she saw Noah coming out Ava's room instead and he stopped to look at her.
"She's fine, she fell asleep again." He said, waving his hand before he went to head back into his room.
Ember quickly walked over to Ava's room and quietly opened the door to peek her head in to check on her. She could see her small body sleeping peacefully before the sound of Noah scoffing made her close it and turn to him.
"What?" she snapped.
"I mean, I get that you don't trust me... but a baby? What am I going to do?"
"I don't know, maybe slip out of here with her and take her to your father as another test subject." She snapped angrily.
She regretted her words immediately and the look on Noah's face made her stomach turn. He just nodded at her words before he walked back into his bedroom. She just stood there again, looking at his closed door and deciding if she should go in there. This time she walked forward and opened the door.
"I'm sorry I said that." She quickly said.
"Don't be... I deserve it after all."
"Don't do that." She snapped suddenly.
"Do what?"
"That!" she said loudly before she realized how loud she was getting and closed the door. "Don't stand there and try and pull the poor me act. You're a piece of shit for what you did to me and I'm glad my brother kicked the shit out you." She went off, unaware of just how much anger she had for him. "Then you show up here after finally realizing what a heartless monster your father is and expect us all to be ok with you being here? Like everything between us is going to go away?" she yelled.
It was when Noah took a step back from her that she realized how in his face she got and took a few steps back herself. She could feel her powers surfacing from how angry she was at him. She was even angrier at the fact that she did feel bad for what he went through at that lab and she hated him more for making her feel that way.
"Ember... I can leave... I will leave if that's what you want."
"Stop it!"
"What am I doing?"
"That! Stop trying to be nice!" she said loudly, her eyes filling with tears. "Don't act like you're someone else now." She said, her voice lowering to nothing more than a loud whisper.
"I'm not trying to act anyway, it's just-" he shook his head as he realized just how much he had hurt her. "I know what I've done to you, how I treated you, I'm a complete asshole for everything and you're right, a real piece of shit. After being in that place and going through all those experiments and all those tests... I'm sorry. That's all I know to say to you... is that I'm fuckin sorry and I know it makes nothing better and nothing right, but that's all I got."
She just stared at him, his voice cracking with emotion and his eyes tearing up at the mention of his time at the lab. Her eyes traveling to the scar on the side of his head where there was a large incision.
"I want to help; I have a lot of information I can share with you guys and I will do anything to destroy my father."
After a few moments, Ember just gave him a small nod at his offer. "Did you ever actually like me, Noah? Or was my last name really the only thing you were after? Because I thought I might love you at one point, but you destroyed my heart... you destroyed my confidence."
Noah didn't think he could feel any more like shit until her last sentence. "You want the truth? Everything?"
She gave him a tearful nod.
"Yes, I really liked you, but after my father knew of your powers... he wanted me to get closer to you and eventually you would have been the one in that lab." He choked the last part out as the vivid memories of what he went through swam through his mind.
Ember had to cover her mouth to quiet the shocked gasp that tried to escape it. Tears sliding down her face as Noah's previous intentions came out.
"I have to go." She said as she quickly turned to leave.
"Wait... there's something else."
She turned back to him, disgust on her face as she looked at him. "What more can there possibly be?" she said through clenched teeth.
Noah rubbed his face roughly before he ran his fingers through his hair as he contemplated his next sentence. "I... I slept with Raven."
"WHAT!" she suddenly roared, anger exploding throughout her body.
"After her and Scorpius' fake pregnancy scare when he told her he needed a break... she was angry, and she came over and... " he trailed off.
Ember slapped him so hard her hand was stinging. "You're a fuckin pig." She snarled before she stormed from his room and slammed the door as hard she possibly could.
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