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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: I'm so sorry it took so long to post the new chapter. These past few weeks have just been hectic and I went away for my anniversary. Hope you guys enjoy the chapter!
"Ember?" Jake called through her bedroom door.
He waited another moment and knocked again and finally walked in when she didn't answer at all.
"Hey, didn't you hear me calling you?" he asked.
She was just sitting on the edge of her bed with an angry look on her face.
"Hello? Ember?" he said before he sat down beside her, finally pulling her from her thoughts.
"Oh, hey."
"What happened to you last night? You never came back to bed."
She just shook her head. "I just... found out some awful news is all."
"Like wh-"
"Shh," she quickly said cutting him off as she listened carefully.
She jumped up from her bed and quickly walked out into the hall and saw Raven heading downstairs. She was so angry at her she thought she might set her on fire right then and there.
"Raven!" she yelled out to her, making her stop and turn towards her. "Come here." She demanded.
Raven raised an eyebrow at Ember's anger before she walked up to her. "What's up?"
Ember tried so hard to keep her cool, she wanted to give Raven the chance to tell Scorpius herself, but her blood was literally boiling beneath her skin. She grabbed her tightly by the shirt with both hands and quickly let her go when Luna came walking past them.
"Are you girls alright?"
Ember quickly nodded.
"Well, breakfast is ready so I'll meet you down there."
"Ok, thanks Luna," Ember said sweetly before her eyes fell on Raven's again. "We need to talk."
"About what?" Raven snapped.
Ember walked back over to her room and gestured for her to walk in.
"You're acting like a complete psycho, there's no way I'm going in there with you."
She didn't expect Ember to move so quickly as she grabbed Raven's arm and dragged her across the hall, letting her hand burn her.
"You're hurting me!" she yelled at her.
"Well, then fuckin walk or I'll burn your flesh off." She said through clenched teeth,
Raven quickly ran into her bedroom where Jake still was.
"Jake, get out," Ember ordered.
"I don't know, I think I should st-"
"GET OUT!" Ember shouted.
He just gave her a hard stare before he nodded and left the room.
Ember shut the door and turned to Raven, her eyes burning into hers. "I know what you did... how you betrayed my brother like that... with Noah, who was my boyfriend at the time." She walked right up to her, fire whipping through her hair.
Raven back up against the wall in fear. "Please don't hurt me."
"Hurt you? I want to kill you, I am trying so hard not to burn you alive from the inside out you fuckin lying, attention seeking whore."
"It was a mistake, please, I'm sorry, please don't say anything to your brother." She begged her through her tears.
She grabbed Raven and pinned one of her arms against the wall as she held a ball of fire in her other hand right in front of her face.
"Are you seriously asking me to cover for you?" she asked in disbelief as she brought the burning flame closer to her face, making Raven whimper in pain.
"Stop, it's burning!" she cried out.
Ember quickly grabbed her wand and placed a silencing charm on her room before she turned back to Raven.
"Perfect, now you don't have to worry about how hot it gets because you're free to scream as loud as you want."
"You wouldn't kill me." Raven spat.
Ember grabbed her upper arm, making her scream out in pain as she felt her flesh bubble beneath her palm.
"No, but I'll come real close to it." She said through clenched teeth. "Now get your arse downstairs and you tell my brother yourself what you did to him." She said as she finally backed away from her.
Raven was crying, both from the painful burn on her arm and the fear she felt and then of course from having to come clean to Scorpius.
"Please Ember, I love him so much, I don't want to lose him." She sobbed.
"You love him? YOU LOVE HIM!" she bellowed with rage. "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT LOVE IS! DO YOU KNOW WHAT I WOULD DO FOR MY BROTHER? ANYTHING, I'D DIE FOR HIM!" she screamed before she grabbed Raven around the throat and pinned her to the wall once more. "But even more so... I am more than willing to kill anyone who would bring the smallest amount of pain to him." She hissed, her voice filled with malice and disgust. "Don't you dare tell me you love him." She said more calmly before she released her and stormed from the room.
Draco watched Ginny look at the bookshelf in her room and pull out a book. He watched her furrow her eyebrows in confusion as she tried to make out the words in the book. He was grateful to see Ginny was slowly becoming herself a little bit more than the last time he interacted with her. She acted more human than creation which he was thankful for. He was afraid though that once that neck device came off she would lose all progress she made.
"It's upside down." He said to her.
She looked up at him.
"The book... it's upside down, you have to turn it around." He motioned with his hands for her to turn the book right side up.
She looked down at the book and turned it around before her eyes snapped up to his. "Is that where we met?" she asked him.
Draco was shocked to hear her speak, making a giant smile spread across his face. "What do you mean?"
"This book... you were thinking of us on a train somewhere... did we meet on that train?"
He gave her a small smirk as he continued to think about his and Ginny's encounter on their last train ride to Hogwarts. He laughed at how awkward she was and how she pretended to read her upside-down book.
"No, we knew each other before that."
"I'll remember... eventually." She said to him. "You're worried I won't?"
He nodded.
She frowned and looked down at the floor. "Please don't give up on me." She said in a small voice.
He snapped his eyes up to hers and walked over to the wall between them. "I will never give up on you... ever." He said firmly, making himself tear up a bit.
She nodded.
"Good morning my wonderful creation." Came Jack Adwell's voice from across the room as he and Crystal made their way over to Ginny. "What do you think Mr. Malfoy?"
Draco glared at him. "I think you're a fuckin psychopath."
He just gave a small chuckle at Draco's comment before he turned to Ginny once more. "Today we practice and soon we will have the world at our feet." He stopped and then looked at Harry. "First, there is a matter that must be addressed."
He unlocked Harry's room and took a few steps inside before he pulled out his wand. "On your knees, Mr. Potter."
Harry exchanged a quick look with Draco who had a panicked look on his face before he did as he was told. Adwell walked over and squatted down in front of him. He stared at Harry for a moment before he pulled a knife from his back pocket and held it to his cheek.
"Crystal!" he called to her, his eyes still locked with Harry's, who was giving him a deadly glare.
Crystal walked into the room and stood beside her father. "Yes?" she asked, her voice already cracking.
Adwell stood up and looked at her before he handed her the knife. "Your loyalty is in question... kill him."
"Wait, what?" she asked as she felt her father push the handle of the blade into her loose grasp.
"You heard me... slit his throat. If you're still loyal to me then it shouldn't be a problem. Kill him."
Draco looked at her, he was scared for Harry's life because he knew how faithful Crystal was to her father and how much she feared the consequences if ever she showed she wasn't. Either way, this wasn't going to end well.
"Crystal, don't-"
Draco was cut off when Adwell used the Cruciatus curse on him, bringing him to his knees. It had been so long since he felt this familiar pain, something that at one time was a part of his daily routine. He felt the curse lift before he picked himself up on shaky knees and glanced over to Ginny, who looked as helpless as ever as she took in the scene before her.
"Kill him Crystal and I will never question your loyalty to me again."
"Please Father, I am loyal to you... I've always been."
"Really? Is that why you warned Eve about my intentions for her? And now she and Noah are who knows where. Eve... out there, with those powers?" he shook his head. "You have ten seconds to decide."
Crystal gripped the knife firmly and looked down at Harry in front of her. She grabbed him by the hair and held the knife close to his throat, she could feel how fast his heart was beating just by holding the blade against his pulse.
"Seven... six... five..."
Crystal slowly got to her knees in front of him before her hand fell to her side, the sound of the blade clattering against the floor. Harry locked eyes with her as a look of shock covered her face at the choice she had just made.
"I knew it!" Adwell hissed. "I'll send a guard for you... I'm so disappointed, in you especially," he said before he walked out into the hall to summon a guard.
Harry gently grabbed Crystal's shoulders, making her look up at him, tears falling down her face.
"We're getting out of here... all of us." He told her.
She picked her head up to look at him, her eyes turning to this metallic silver before she reached up and wrapped her hand around his neck device. He watched her arm turn to a solid metal before she snapped it in half and threw it to the floor. She ripped the keycard off from around her neck and tossed it to him before she grabbed a syringe out from one of the medical cabinets.
Harry quickly ran over to Draco and Ginny's rooms to unlock them after he realized Crystal wasn't going down without a fight.
"Inject that into yourself... it will give you a boost." She said to Harry as she tossed him the syringe and ran to the door where two guards made their way inside.
The rest of her body covered in metal before she grabbed one of the guards by the throat and threw him down to the ground, crushing his throat with her hand. The other guard threw spells at her, but the metal covering her body acted as a shield to it all.
Draco ran over to Ginny's room when he saw she didn't make a run towards the door.
"Come on." He said.
She just looked at him, she was unsure.
"Ginny, trust me... I would never hurt you." He said as he held his hand out for her to take.
She looked at his outstretched hand for a second before she took it and felt him give her a small tug to follow him.
Harry quickly stuck the needle into this arm and immediately felt his powers kick in. The feeling was natural and missed as he felt the electricity course through his veins. Adwell came running back into the room and immediately notified the other guards as a loud alarm rang out throughout the room and halls. Harry went straight for Adwell, but he ran before Harry had a chance to get to him as more guards ran into the room.
The adrenaline in the room made everything chaotic as spells flew across the room at all of them. The only thing Draco could make out amongst the electrical waves that filled the room and the constant curses nearly missing his face was Crystal fighting her way through to the door. She savagely beat every guard that came her way as she fought to get into the hall. Harry's powers acted as a defense all around her as they all pushed forward to get down the hall.
Draco's hand was firmly gripped around Ginny's wrist as he dragged her close behind. He was so afraid to let go of her in fear that she might slip away from him forever somehow.
They all quickly piled into the elevator and a guard came running at them as the doors started to close. Harry quickly shot a bolt of lightning at the man, making him fly backward into the wall.
"Alright Potter, stop showing off." Draco snapped sarcastically before he looked at Crystal's face. "You think we're making it out?" he asked her.
She shook her head. "No, but I can get you guys pretty close. Hopefully, you'll have a small chance, but-" she paused when the elevator suddenly stopped and she looked at the floor they were on. "Fuck."
"What is it?"
"This floor... it's the floor that blocks off all magical abilities. Your powers won't work on this floor Harry... and wand magic is limited." She explained as she frantically pushed the buttons to try and get the elevator to go up further. "It's also guarded with Muggle weapons... we are fucked." She said through her frantic attempts to get the elevator to move.
The small ding of the elevator made them all freeze and grow silent as the doors slowly opened. Crystal pulled her wand out as her powers died down and put up a Protego charm as she peeked out from the elevator. Bullets flew past her as soon as she stuck her head out and she quickly took cover behind the wall in the elevator.
"Shit, this floor is secured by armed guards because of the limited magic... I don't know how much further we could get with them shooting at us like this." Crystal said as she started to give up.
"Stop, we need to try, and we need to fight until the very end." Harry reminded her.
Her wand hand trembled in front of her as she put her Protego charm back up and gave a small nod.
"Ok... get behind me." She said as she quickly ran out of the elevator and ran right at the guard.
He was about to reload his weapon and Crystal took her chance to throw a simple binding charm at him. She quickly led the way around one of the corners and was met with another round of bullets before she quickly took cover behind the wall.
Draco glanced down at Ginny, who he had tightly against him as he shielded her body with his. She looked scared, but the tight grasp she had on his shirt told him that she trusted him and that meant everything to him.
They all suddenly looked up at this little red ball of light that hovered above them for a moment before it popped, and a loud siren was heard throughout the hall. They all fell to their knees as it painfully filled their ears.
Draco could hardly keep his eyes opened as the sound ripped through his head. He knew their escape had just come to an end when he could make out the form of Jack Adwell approaching them. It wasn't until Crystal and Harry had a neck device securely around them that the siren came to a stop.
He just shook his head as he looked at Crystal. "You were the one person who I thought would never betray me."
Draco watched her eyes spill tears at his words, he wanted to kill Adwell more than anything. He remembered how heartless his father was and Adwell was no different.
"I hate when you all force me to do things I hate," Adwell said he reached over and grabbed one of the guard's guns and pointed it at Crystal's head.
Before Draco could yell or object or do anything, the sound of the gun going off rang in his ears. His body jumped at the sound and he tightly shut his eyes as he heard Crystal fall to the floor. He could feel a few warm drops of her blood hit his face, his fingers dug into Ginny as she clung to him even tighter at the scene before her.
He opened them after a moment and looked down at Crystal's body. He hated to even think it, but he wondered if this outcome was better for her than being taken downstairs for further experimentation. He looked over to Harry, he looked completely defeated... they both did. The last hope they had of getting out of there had just been shot down before their eyes.
"You can come with me dear," Adwell said as he grabbed Ginny from Draco's grasp.
He pulled her back but when one of the guards held their weapon up to him he backed off.
"It's time you both accept the fact that you're not going anywhere. Nobody in here will help you, your children aren't coming."
"You don't know that." Harry snapped.
"They can't come if they're all dead." Adwell laughed.
"You're lying." Draco spat.
"Am I?"
The room grew silent before Adwell motioned for the guards to bring Harry and Draco back downstairs.
Ember sat on the porch and watched the others practicing on the field, her anger had reached its breaking point. She had given Raven all day to come clean and she still hadn't said a word to her brother. Instead, Ember watched her all day being as affectionate as ever towards Scorpius and it just made her angrier. She had no choice but to watch from the porch because if she had participated she was positive she would have really hurt someone or killed them.
She heard Raven laughing at something Scorpius said to her and watched as she playfully slapped him before reaching up and running her fingers through his hair.
"She's not going to tell him."
Ember turned to look at Eve. "Tell him what?" she asked, unsure if Eve was talking about the same thing she was thinking about.
Eve just gave her a look. "I know you're waiting for her to say something, but I've been waiting for her to say something too... she won't."
"How long have you known?"
"Just a day or two, but it's not my place to say anything."
Ember just stared at her. "Make her tell him."
"What?"
"You can do that, right? Make her tell him what she did." Ember demanded.
Eve shook her head. "No, I won't do something like that."
"Come on you lot, dinner is ready!" Called Molly from the door.
"Great, now I need to sit through dinner with this bitch," Ember mumbled as she made her way inside.
She sat beside Eve as she watched the rest of them pile into the house and take a seat at the table. She locked eyes with Raven for a moment, who seemed to act as if their conversation earlier never happened. Raven had purposely been at Scorpius' side all day to avoid being alone with Ember.
The conversation started up amongst everyone at the table, but Ember could only focus on the fake act Raven put up. She frowned a bit as she thought about her brother and everything he's been through these past few weeks. She didn't want to see him get hurt, but she also didn't want him being lied to by someone she knew he loved.
Eve could feel the heat radiating off Ember, but she feared if she attempted to tell Ember to calm down she might just explode.
"So, Matthew will be back in a day or two hopefully with some info from another inside source. The only thing is, this other source isn't as exposed to Adwell's lab as much as Matthew was so it might not be much info at all. Anyway, once he returns we will probably make a move." Hermione explained. "He was trying to get some details on the actual building, maybe a layout or something. Eve, you said you could help with that? And Noah?"
Eve nodded.
"Speaking of Noah... where is he?" Ember specifically asked Raven.
Raven just looked at her and shrugged. "Why would I know, he's probably upstairs in his room... waiting for you." She mumbled the last part.
"That's it," Ember said through clenched teeth as she launched herself over the table and right on top of Raven making the chair she was sitting in fall backward.
Everything happened so fast that it took everyone a moment to process what was happening as Ember swung her fist down against Raven's face. She went to swing it again but felt someone roughly grab her and pull her back.
"What the fuck is wrong with you Ember?" Scorpius yelled out at her angrily as he helped Raven up from the floor.
"Me? She's the one who's been keeping all these secrets from you. Tell him, Raven! Tell him how you slept with Noah!"
There were a few gasps all around the room at the sudden news.
"Raven?" Blaise said, shock on his face at his daughter's actions.
The look on Scorpius' face made Ember's heart crumble to tiny bits. He literally looked like someone ripped his heart out and stomped on it as he turned back to Raven. The shocked expression on his face suddenly turned to anger.
"Is it true?" he asked her.
Raven didn't say anything, just silently let her tears fall down her face.
He turned to Eve. "Is it true!" he yelled to her, knowing she was well aware of what secrets Raven had been keeping from him.
She slowly nodded.
"Right after she also lied to you about her possibly being pregnant," Ember added as she looked at Raven with disgust.
"Raven, what the hell are they talking about? Please tell me this isn't true?" Blaise said to her.
Scorpius couldn't even look at Raven right now or listen to anything else that was being said, instead, his anger turned to Noah up in his room and he quickly took the steps two at a time to get to him. A crowd of people followed close behind, but Ember was on his heels to keep him from doing something he would regret... again.
Scorpius kicked Noah's bedroom door in so hard, it made a hole in the wall it hit. Noah already knew why Scorpius was on him like this, he knew it was only a matter of time before the truth got out. He held his hands out in an attempt to explain, but there was nothing to say.
Scorpius grabbed him roughly by the shirt and punched him hard in the face making him stagger back against the wall and slide to the floor.
"You're fuckin dead this time," Scorpius growled out through clenched teeth as he advanced on him again.
He pushed Ember back off of him with little effort as she attempted to grab him back. His anger was overpowering him at the moment. Noah picked himself up and used the wall behind him to hold his wobbly body up as Scorpius went to close the distance between them.
Before he could take another step, Eve quickly ran in front of him and filled the space between him and Noah.
"Move." He warned her as he took a step closer.
She held her hand out to stop him, her fingertips barely touching his chest as he tried to walk past her.
"Scorpius, stop." She said calmly.
"Get the fuck out of my way!" he growled as he used his body to shove her aside.
This time she forcefully pushed her palm against his chest and pushed him away. "I said to stop... leave him alone." She warned.
"Move... now." He demanded, his voice deadly as his face moved closer to hers, his eyes turning to ice.
Eve felt his body beneath her hand turn cold as she glared up at him. "No," she said firmly, her eyes turning to a deep purple as she challenged him to come any closer.
"Guys, enough!" Hermione yelled as she pulled her wand out.
Scorpius sneered at Eve as her eyes narrowed a bit, he could feel the tiny bit of space between her hand and his chest turning to this invisible pressure that was ready to push him back. The sound of frost forming and ice cracking filled his ears as his anger continued to rise and his powers started filling the room.
Eve's eyes were locked with his, she swore she could feel his icy pupils piercing into hers as the palm of her hand and fingers started to tremble from how cold his body turned.
"ENOUGH!" Hermione yelled as she pointed her wand to them both. "Back off Scorpius... NOW!"
After neither of them seemed to be letting up on their powers, Hermione hit them both with a disabling charm. Ron took this opportunity to grab Scorpius away from Eve and Noah, but he quickly ripped his arms free from him and stormed out of the room.
He stopped to look at Blaise. "Looks like you win after all... she's all yours." He spat as he glanced at Raven. "And believe me, this one... I'm happy to lose." He hissed before he walked into his bedroom and slammed the door shut.
The sound of a gunshot kept ringing through Draco's head no matter how many times he tried to clear his mind of the events from earlier. He sat up on his bed and rubbed his face roughly before he glanced over at Harry.
"You ok?"
Harry just glanced over at him from the couch he laid back on, staring up at the ceiling deep in thought. "Not really... you?"
"No." he sighed. "I can't get that image out of my head."
Harry sat up to look at him. "I know."
They both turned to the two guards walking into the room with Ginny as they led her back to her room.
"Ginny! Are you ok?" Draco asked as he quickly made his way over to the wall between them.
He could tell something was off, all the progress she seemed to have made with possibly becoming more like herself was completely absent. She just stood there in the middle of her room, staring off into space.
"Ginny! Hey, Ginny!" he called to her as he slammed his hands on the glass to get her attention.
She finally turned to him; her bloodshot eyes were glistening with tears as she looked him over.
"Draco?"
"YES! Yes, it's Draco." He reassured her as he let out a heavy sigh of relief.
She walked closer to him; a bit of fear covered her face. "They did something to me." She whispered to him, her lips trembling and her hands shaking.
"What did they do?"
She carefully pulled her hair back to reveal a small incision behind her ear and down her neck a bit.
"Fuck," Draco growled out.
"What is it?" Harry asked as he tried to get a look at Ginny.
"It has to be that implant... like the one Eve had."
"What does that mean?" she asked in a panic.
He just looked at her, unsure of what to say.
She let out a small whimper before she looked at him again. "I'm sorry I don't remember everything... I will, please believe that. Don't look at me like you've given up... you told me you would never give up on me. Do you still feel that way?" she choked out through her emotional meltdown.
He slowly nodded as his eyes looked her over and took everything in. She was scared and he could tell she felt alone and on her own in all of this. Even with fear on her face and tears in her eyes, he was completely captivated by her. He couldn't look away; she gave him hope even though there was nothing left to have hope for. He wanted to save her... not even himself... just her. He wanted her to get out of here, whether that was with him or not.
She started to cry harder as she brought her trembling hand up to her head. "It hurts so bad... I hear... everything." She choked out before she slid to the floor in a ball of tears and pain.
"Oh, my dear, there, there now." Came Adwell's voice as he walked over to Ginny's room and unlocked it. "It's painful now, but you'll get used to it."
Draco just sneered at him. "You killed your own daughter." He couldn't help the disgust he felt by Adwell's actions.
"She wasn't loyal to me... you have brainwashed both Eve and Crystal to help you and quite frankly I've had enough of it." He said as he pulled Ginny up from the ball of sobs she was in. "She is my creation now, your Ginny died on that table. You think you'll get through to her... but let me show you what your precious Ginny becomes as soon as this device comes off." He said as he went to reach for her neck piece.
"Wait!" Draco yelled out.
Adwell stopped and looked at him with an evil smirk.
"Will it affect her memory again?" he asked as he feared what would happen if Ginny's powers were fully in effect.
"Guess we'll see," Adwell said through a grin as he removed the device.
The device was barely off her neck when her powers completely surfaced. Her eyes immediately turned to those thick milky ones when Draco first saw her come back from the dead. The floor beneath her turned to ice, the air around her was filled with electricity and the veins throughout her body illuminated with silver and gold as metal and fire fought to overpower each other.
Draco backed away from the wall as she turned into something he didn't want to get in the way of. He could feel the static shock all over his body and watched the hairs on his arm stand up before he turned to see the same thing was happening to Harry. He turned back to Adwell when he heard him give a small chuckle.
"See, Ginny won't attack me... not as long as I have this." He said as he pointed to behind his ear where he had a similar implant to Ginny's. "She won't be able to use any of her mind control powers on me as long as I have this. She has one more so to keep her powers from completely getting out of control. You see how powerful she is without the neck device... even with the implant stabilizing them."
He left her room and locked her in.
"Aren't you going to put her neck device back on?" Harry asked with a bit of panic.
"I think I'll let her run free a bit for now... see, she won't hurt me, but you two... " he trailed off before he turned and headed towards the door. "Hopefully you'll be alive when I return!" he called out to them before leaving.
Ginny walked through the wall into Draco's room making him back up all the way into the corner as far from her as possible.
"Ginny, it's me, it's Draco-"
He flinched when she walked up to him and slowly brought her hands up to each side of his head. He could feel her trying to enter his mind as a small swirl of purple started to fill her eyes. He didn't have to see Harry behind him to know he was just as scared as he was right now.
He was surprised when Ginny stepped back and looked at him, some sadness in her eyes before he started to watch the room around them change. It took him a moment to take in what he was looking at, in fact, it was more that he couldn't believe what he was looking at. He was in his room at the Manor before everything... before he was with Ginny. It was a few weeks before he had shared that train ride with her... it was one of the darkest days of his past and he hated that she brought him here.
He watched himself laying on the floor of his room in a puddle of his own blood. He remembered the day like it was yesterday, the way his father would beat him or use the Cruciatus curse on him until he was near death or passed out. He watched his father standing over him just staring down at his beaten form as he tried to sit up from the floor he had collapsed on.
Lucius put his foot on Draco's chest and pushed him back down to the floor before he could get up. "Stay down Boy." He spat before he looked him over once more and shook his head. "To think I put so much faith in you... so much trust. There's nothing left for you at that school Draco. The sooner you realize that the better and then you can start being of proper use to me than wasting away in this room. Do you have any idea how embarrassing it is that my own son isn't out there with me during these raids?"
"I rather die than follow you." Draco choked out through the pain that still ran through his body.
His father just sneered at him before stomping hard on his ribs which he knew already to be cracked or broken from the beating he just received moments ago. He released a painful scream that rang throughout the room and through Draco's ears as he watched the memory before him.
"ENOUGH!" he yelled, as he grabbed Ginny roughly by the arms.
The sudden contact of his hands on her body made her take in a sharp breath in as memories filled her head... memories of her and Draco. She looked up at him, her eyes wide before they turned to a honey brown color.
"Draco?"
He looked at her more closely, disbelief on his face as he hoped it was his Ginny he was seeing.
"Ginny?"
"What is wrong with me? Please don't let me go." She frantically cried as she pulled him closer to her.
He hugged her tightly, the feel of her body against his made the memory he just relived a bit more bearable. He looked back down at her though and her beautiful amber eyes started to fade again as her powers took over once more. He knew he should let her go but he didn't want to. If Ginny was going to hurt him or even kill him, he wanted to at least have her in his arms one last time.
It was Ginny though that pulled away and she seemed a bit scared to be close to him. She just backed away to the corner of his room and kept her distance from him.
"No, no, no, Ginny dear!" came Adwell's voice once more as he walked back into the room and saw Draco was unharmed. "You're supposed to hurt him... kill him even. What's wrong with you?" he spat; a bit angry to see Draco was left unscathed.
He opened Draco's room to retrieve Ginny, who didn't put up a fight when he motioned for her to follow him.
"I think it's time you stay in a different room. Mr. Malfoy, don't get used to your wife going easy on you... I'll fix that. It's time you two were separated for a while."
He dragged Ginny with him out of the lab, the last thing Draco saw was Ginny looking back at him, still a glimmer of amber in her pupils as she was pulled through the doors.
"Scorpius?" Ember called through the cracked doorway as she peeked inside.
He was just laying on his bed with his hands folded behind his head staring up at the ceiling. She walked into his bedroom cautiously, unsure of how riled up he was still from the events earlier.
"What do you want?" he asked her, his tone short.
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry for making a scene like that. It wasn't right, I was just so angry at her." She said as she hung her head.
Scorpius glanced over to her, he could see her apology was genuine, but it wasn't her he was upset with... at all really. He gave a hard sigh before he sat up and looked at her again.
"I miss Mum and Dad." Was all he said.
She met his gaze, her eyes filling with tears at his comment. "Me too... a lot actually." She choked out before she sat down beside him.
She rested her head on his shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her.
"It's fucked up what Raven did, but I feel like I have no time to think about that. I just want to save Mum and Dad... that's it. I can deal with all that stuff later."
"You'll be able to do that? Just suppress it all?"
"Pft, hell no, but I'll try... I just want things back to normal again."
"Were they ever really normal to begin with?" Ember joked.
He gave her a small smirk before there was a small knock on the open door to his room.
"Eve... what do you want?" Scorpius demanded; his tone cold.
His tone didn't faze her in the slightest. "I just wanted to say that I'm very sorry about what happened between you and Raven... it was a horrible thing for someone to do." She took a step into his bedroom and locked eyes with him. "But I am not sorry for keeping you from harming my brother."
They both stared at each other for a few moments, the silence was unbearable and made Ember hold her breath almost the entire time.
Scorpius gave her a slight sneer before it softened a bit. "Fine... fair enough. If there's nothing else then get out."
"Actually, there is one other thing I'd like to share with you both."
Scorpius and Ember exchanged a look before they watched Eve walk over to them. She placed one hand in front of Ember and the other in front of Scorpius before she concentrated on one of her own memories and let it fill the room. Scorpius and Ember watched the room around them change until they were standing in Adwell's lab. The first thing they both noticed was their parents and Harry in their rooms.
"Mum? Dad? What is this?" Ember asked, her watery eyes finally spilling the tears that welled in them.
"This is one of the memories I have of them... I don't have many nice ones because nothing nice ever happened there." She said in a small voice.
They both took in their parents and Harry's condition. Ginny's bruised face, Draco's broken wrist and hand and Harry's exhausted appearance. They were all just pacing their rooms, their mother wiping a few tears every now and again.
"Sometimes I would just watch them... especially your parents, they love each other so much..." Eve trailed off as she watched the memory again.
"Ginny, please stay strong... you have to... for our children... for yourself... for me," Draco told her.
She looked up at him through her tears and gave a small nod. "I'm trying, I just miss them so much... what if we never see them again? What if they're already dead?" she cried a bit harder.
"They are not dead... they're stronger than that," Draco reassured her.
The memory faded from the room and Eve's eyes fell on Scorpius and Ember again. They turned emotional from the memory.
"I don't know a lot... not when it comes to social interaction anyway, but I know that your parents... Harry... they are good people. I wanted you to see this because with everything going on here, I don't want us to lose sight of what the goal is."
They both gave her a tearful nod before she smiled at them and turned to leave. Her hand quickly wiping the blood that was about to fall from her nose.
"Eve."
She looked at Scorpius.
"Thanks."
She gave a small nod before she quickly left his room.
Silence filled the dimly lit room as he stared out the window and watched the moonlight shimmer across the lake out back. Horrible memories constantly filled his head of what he endured in his father's lab. A small knock on the door made him jump as he was lost in his thoughts, making him glance at the clock to see it was a little past two in the morning. The fact that anyone was knocking on his door was a surprise.
He heard the door slowly open and a small voice made him look up. "Noah?" came Riley's voice as she slipped inside his room.
"Riley? What's wrong?" he asked, shocked that she was even speaking to him.
She walked over and took a seat beside him and glanced out the window. He could see the moonlight illuminating her tearstained face. She didn't answer him, and he really didn't need an answer. He knew what probably ran through her head constantly, the same torture he went through. They sat there in silence for a few minutes with an occasional sniffle from Riley.
"They keep asking me what's wrong, but... I just... I can't explain it to them. I could never make them understand what I went through... what I feel inside me right now." She whimpered out.
He gave her a sad look; he didn't think he could feel so much remorse for people.
"I know you feel it too... don't you?" she asked him.
He looked at her for a moment before he nodded. "He tried to force powers into me... they wouldn't take. Something went wrong... something is wrong with me." He said softly.
She wiped a few of her tears. "And they tried to force powers out of me... but something went wrong also... something is wrong, I can feel it."
He locked eyes with her as they turned to a deep black.
"Something is trying to get out." She whispered to him.
Noah felt chills run down his spine at her words before he watched her lean in closer to look at him.
Riley took in his bloodshot eyes and the dark circles under them. His complexion was paler than normal, and he just had a rundown look about him.
"Riley, you should let my sister take a look at you-"
"Why?" she snapped.
"Because she might be able to help with... whatever it is that's wrong with you."
"And what about you?" she looked him over once more.
"Me? There's nothing to help with... I'm fine." He shrugged. "But you need to start letting your family in again. Pushing them away isn't the answer, but you need to talk to someone."
"I'm talking to you." She pointed out as her eyes turned back to their normal color.
"Yeah, I'm the last person you should be talking to, in fact, you should get out of here before your brother or someone sees you in here." He quickly said as he waved for her to leave his room.
"Alright, relax I'm leaving." She said as she got up and walked to the door with him. She wiped the last of her tears from her face as her eyes started to finally dry. "Just one more thing before I leave." She said.
"And what's that?" he snapped impatiently.
She slapped him hard across the face.
"What the fuck was that for?" he growled out in anger.
"That's for hurting my sister and brother." She snarled at him before her face softened a bit. "Night, Noah." She said more sweetly before she walked back to her bedroom.
Another flash went off in front of her, the sound of multiple pictures being snapped filled her ears. She felt someone put their arm around her and pull her closer to pose with them in the picture. The entire Ministry was full of conversation that took place all around her as she watched Jack Adwell shaking hands with a few different people. Some people were congratulating him on his success and other's just introducing themselves as they took a closer look at her.
"This is extraordinary, this is a big accomplishment for you Jack and for the Ministry as well." Said one of the men.
The conversation continued between reporters as Ginny felt someone touch the neck device she was wearing.
"How sure are you that this thing will keep her powers in check?" a man asked.
"I am confident that it will never fail, but as an extra precaution she also has an implant behind her ear that keeps everything balanced," Adwell answered.
"How soon before you can start using her blood for the new serums?"
"I have already started to experiment with it, so hopefully we will be making some progress soon."
"Mrs. Malfoy, how does it feel to be a part of something this big?"
Ginny just looked at the woman who asked her the question.
"Mrs. Malfoy, what does your family have to say about your new powers?"
There were so many different questions being thrown at her and she didn't know how to answer a single one.
"Mrs. Malfoy isn't taking any questions right now. Remember, her body is still getting used to so many different powers, so she is still adjusting mentally, emotionally and physically, of course." Adwell answered with a smile. "Isn't that right, Ginny?"
She looked at him and gave a small forced smile before she nodded to the crowd.
"Mr. Adwell, it's no secret that many people at the Ministry do not support you or your plans to improve the Ministry's defense. I myself do not think this is the answer or hardly a success at all. You have taken Harry Potter, Draco, and Ginny Malfoy to your lab and nobody has seen them for almost two months and then you deliver this to us after all this time? Are we expected to believe that you are aren't doing anything unethical at that lab of yours and are forcing people to stay there against their will?" asked a reporter.
Adwell slightly sneered at the comment before he composed himself. "Let me clarify some things for you. Previous to Minister Beckett's death he was well aware of my plans to up the Ministry's security and defense. Beckett himself has been to Adwell Labs to see what really goes on there and I assure you he was nothing more than impressed with how things are being run there. As for Mr. Potter and Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy, they willingly submitted themselves for evaluation and testing and their current status is confidential."
"What about their children? Nobody has seen them. Should we assume you have them kept there as well?"
"I can assure you that none of the Malfoy or Potter children are in my custody. It is true though that they were trying to be apprehended, but that was for the safety of all of us. Let's not forget the danger they all pose to the Wizarding and Muggle world. It was exhibited several times that there is no control, especially from their children. They chose to run from the Ministry instead, which only proves how dangerous they really can be... with that being said, if anyone does see these individuals, it is imperative that the Ministry is made aware of it." He paused for a moment as he saw the look of uncertainty on some faces. "Shall we go back eighteen years ago and remember how many people were accidentally killed by these uncontrollable powers? It is my only goal to help develop these extraordinary gifts these people have but keep them controlled as well. We could all benefit in the end if the proper precautions and evaluations are done."
"Mr. Adwell, is it true you are seeking the Minister's position?"
"Yes, I worked closely with Minister Beckett and we shared a lot of the same vision of what we thought best for the Ministry. It is my hope that with this new achievement." He stopped and gestured to Ginny. "I can prove that we can make the Ministry as solid as ever."
He put his hand up to stop any more questions as he gestured for Ginny to follow him through the crowd. She followed close behind him until she felt someone grab her upper arm and pull her aside.
"Ginny, it's me... Neville."
She looked at him. "Who?"
"What did they do to you? Where are the children? Are Draco and Harry alive? Tell me everything you can." He berated her with questions as he knew he only had a second to speak to her.
She pulled her arm slowly away from him before she started to walk back over to Mr. Adwell who just seemed to notice she wasn't beside him.
"Ginny, wait." Neville pulled her back to him. "Tell me anything... just something so I know you're ok."
She looked into his eyes before she felt Adwell gently put his arm around her. "Come on dear, can't have you wandering off like that. You're much too valuable to me."
"Can I see Harry and Draco?" Neville asked Adwell him before he could leave.
"I'm afraid they aren't allowed visitors at this time."
"Well, when will they be allowed visitors?" Neville demanded an answer.
Adwell stopped and looked at him. "Neville Longbottom, right?" he asked as he walked closer to him. "You fought alongside them when Lucius was at large, didn't you?" a wide smile spread across his face. "You wouldn't happen to know any special hiding places those children of theirs would be... would you?"
"Like I'd tell you if I did," Neville said through clenched teeth.
Adwell just nodded. "We'll see." He said before he put his arm out for Ginny to walk in front of him.
Neville watched her turn back to look at him one last time as she desperately tried to make sense of the conversation he just had with her.
A/N: Ok, so things are definitely going to pick up in the next chapter or two, especially now that Adwell has brought Ginny into the public eye. I'm sorry if the story seems to be dragging a bit, but I really like to write where it shows character development and so that genuine emotion can be felt through my writing. I like to make sure I cover all loose ends and everything makes sense. I would love some feedback from you all on the new developments this chapter =D
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