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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: First let me just start with apologizing for how long it took to post this new chapter. I don't have any intentions of it taking this long for the next. There has just been so much going on with my home/work life. I really hope you guys enjoy this one.
Draco's fists were tightly clenched and covered in ice as he stared Adwell down from across the room. "Where's Ginny and Riley?"
Adwell just smirked before he waved his hand to someone and after a moment Jake walked out with Riley, his hand tightly gripped around her upper arm. Everybody's powers seemed to surface at the sight of Jake as the betrayal to them all was devastating.
Draco held his arm out to stop Scorpius as he went to take a step towards him as his eyes narrowed with rage at what he did to Ember.
"Dad!" Riley yelled out as she attempted to run to him, but Jake's firm hold on her kept her put.
She looked a wreck and it broke Draco's heart to see her in such a state. He didn't think he could grow any angrier, but he did.
"And Ginny," Draco demanded.
Adwell's smirk only grew wider at his request. "As you wish." He said as he watched Jade drag Ginny out.
Ginny's eyes fell on Jake and his grip on Riley before she looked him up and down and a look of disgust covered her face. "I knew nothing good could ever come from a man like Peter Warren." She spat as she took in his betrayal.
"Mum?" Ellie called from across the room.
Ginny snapped her head over to the sound of Ellie's voice and her breath caught in her throat. She ripped her arm from Jade's grasp and bolted towards her family.
Jade went to go after her but Adwell put his hand up to stop her.
Ginny ran as fast as she could, afraid that she would be yanked back and not get a chance to hug her family. Her arms couldn't wrap themselves around her children fast enough as she finally reached them. She could hardly stand up straight from the emotion that shook her body and she swore at any moment her legs would give out on her. She felt Scorpius grab her tightly to him, his hold on her helped keep her standing as she sobbed into his chest.
She hardly settled into the embrace of her children before she ran to Draco where he stood over Ember's limp body.
"Ember?" she choked out as Draco caught her falling body as her shaky legs finally gave up on her. "Ember!" she cried out as she crawled to her side. "Is she-"
"No... not yet," Draco said softly before he knelt beside Ginny.
He watched her for a moment as she stroked Ember's hair and helplessly looked over her bleeding form. Every tear that fell down her face tore his heart apart. He gently took her hand in his and his touch made Ginny stop and look up at him.
She could see in his eyes... in his face what this place has done to him. What being separated from her and his kids for so long has done to him. She suddenly felt all eyes on her, and she quickly lowered her head. She could only imagine what sort of sight she must be to them all. Although she looked like most of her normal self, her two different colored pupils and distinctive black veins that ran sporadically throughout her body were unnerving. She felt ashamed of what she was and what ran through her body.
She felt Draco's hand caress her cheek before he lifted her face up to look at him again. He looked at her with so much love in his eyes, nothing in his expression showed uncertainty or fear... just love. If anything, his love for her felt stronger than ever in just the way his hand cupped her face.
She watched his eyes fall on her neck device, it was different than the one they normally wore, this one bigger and tighter around her neck. He reached up to try and take it off her when she quickly pulled away from him.
She shook her head at his attempt to free her from it. "No.," she said in a shaky voice.
"It's ok, I trust you," he said confidently as he went to reach for it once more.
She gently grabbed his hand from her neck and held it between hers. "And I love you for that." She said with a small smile before she lowered her gaze. "But I don't trust myself." Her eyes traveled over his shoulder to Eve and Noah. "He has them... the same powers..." she trailed off before lowering her gaze once more.
Eve kneeled beside Draco and looked at her. "Ginny, you're probably the only person here that has a chance at stopping my father. To do that you're going to have to take that off." She said softly, gesturing to her neck device.
"Eve! Noah!" Adwell called out across the room. "I'll give you both one last chance to stand by my side and help bring our vision to fruition." He offered them.
"Our? There is no our... this is all you... it's always been just you!" Eve shouted back, her voice cracking with anger and emotion.
Adwell just shook his head in disappointment. "Then I'm afraid you will suffer the same fate as the rest of them." He said before his eyes fell on Noah. "And you... my Son?"
The question made Noah's stomach turn and the rage within him build to an almost uncontainable level. He felt Eve grab his arm and yank him back as he unknowingly took a menacing step towards his father.
"Very well... have it your way." He said with a smirk before narrowing his eyes a bit as they fell on Ellie.
She took in a sharp breath and grabbed her head in pain before her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fell to the floor. Her body starting violently convulsing as Adwell invaded her mind. Before anyone could run to her side the convulsing abruptly stopped and her body laid still for a moment before she sat up with a jolt. She pulled herself back up on shaky legs, her fists clenched tightly as she tried to block Adwell out.
Her eyes were squeezed shut as she felt her father run to her side.
"Ellie, look at me... you can fight it." He reassured her as he grabbed her face to look at him.
She opened her eyes to look at him and a pair of solid black ones stared back. She shoved him hard backward as the same pain she relived those few months ago came back. She released a painful scream as a wave of fire and ice whipped across the room.
Adwell just stood there with an amused look on his face as a small chuckle filled the air. He released his hold on Ellie shortly after in hopes he had made a point with his powers and that they would now back down.
"Take it off," Ginny said through clenched teeth; anger raged within her as she brought her hand up to her neck device. "If I can destroy that implant in his neck, then I have a better chance of taking him down." She looked at Draco. "Promise me you won't let me hurt anyone... no matter what that means for me."
His silver eyes pierced into hers as he let her words sink in. He gave a quick glance at his children and then to Ember's limp body before his eyes fell on her again. His eyes traveled down to the slightest of bumps where he knew their baby to be growing inside her. He felt himself start to get choked up and quickly glanced back up to meet her gaze before he gave a small nod. "I promise."
"Don't be stupid Ginny... you know your family is as good as dead if you take that off and if that implant inside you was to come out..." Adwell trailed off.
She tried to ignore his words but when she the sound of her neck device unlocking it made her stomach turn as she slowly pulled it off. Within seconds her powers surfaced, and she felt her heart start to race. The floor beneath them and the walls around them started to shake as she zoned in on Adwell. The floor started to break apart and large shards of metal and ice shot up out of the ground.
Adwell released a wave of energy that blasted the huge walls of ice and metal apart causing small glass-like pieces to fly back at them all. Eve quickly used her powers to slow the pieces down as Draco and Scorpius shielded them with a wall of ice. Just as the pieces hit the wall, Adwell quickly blasted that apart too.
Everyone's eyes fell on the crowd of woman and men that had joined Adwell's side. The only thing was that they were far from human, maybe once they were, but most of them were more creature than anything. Most of them were deformed and had little to no knowledge of what had become of them. It was heartbreaking to know these were once innocent people that fell victim to Adwell's experimentation.
"Kill them all... I got what I wanted already." Adwell said over his shoulder to them before they ran straight towards Ginny and the others.
The entire first floor of Adwell labs was nothing but complete chaos. Draco lost sight of Ginny as soon he had no choice but to turn his attention to the army of creatures coming at him. The first one he took down with little to no effort with a ball of ice, but the next one was a bit terrifying to even be in the presence of. It was what Draco assumed to be once a man, but he stood at least eight feet tall and had numerous growths all over his body. His face hardly looked like a human face at all as he took a closer look at it. One of his arms looked like it was made of stone and was a lot larger than the other one.
Draco quickly covered his arm in solid ice as the creature swung his rock covered arm at him. The force of the blow was harder than Draco expected and wasted no time forming a large shard of ice to pierce through the man's stomach as he quickly pushed him back and put some distance between the two of them. He could see there was still some fight left in him and he was about to brace himself for another impact when a bolt of lightning hit him in the back and made him fall to the floor.
"Thanks, kid, I owe you one," Draco said to James.
"How about you just let me date your daughter and we call it even?" James suggested.
"I rather have taken the hit." Draco drawled as he put up a shield of ice in front of him and James from debris that came flying at them from a blasting spell. "There, now we're even." He said with a small smirk before taking off towards Hermione, who was struggling with one of Adwell's experiments.
"You know you love me!" James shouted out to him before his eyes fell on Aurora across the way as he quickly ran to her side to help her.
An all-out battle raged on around them, Ginny's attention on Adwell and his on her as their powers continued to clash. Eve made her way over to Scorpius as she knew he was headed straight for Jake. She felt a disabling charm suddenly hit her that was so hard it made her fly back onto the ground. She felt like the wind had been knocked out of her as she coughed a few times before picking herself up on wobbly legs.
"Well, it seems a family reunion is in order." Came Jade's voice as she pocketed her wand and pulled out two daggers.
"You're Jade," Eve stated, her eyes wide before she looked over at Noah across the way who was caught up in a fight of his own. "How could you follow our father after all the horrifying things he's done? Not just to our family... our mother, but all these people?" she spat.
Jade ran straight towards her without any hesitation as she swung her blades violently through the air. Jade's combat skills were just as flawless as Eve's, if not better as Eve felt one of the blades cut her upper arm.
"Emotions and family mean nothing to me so save your breath." She snorted.
Eve narrowed her eyes a bit as she took a closer look into Jade's eyes. There was something unsettling in them. "You're a clone?" she stated more than asked. "Where is my sister?"
"She's dead, I'm your sister now." She declared with a smirk before she swiped both blades through the air again.
Her movements were swift and deadly as Eve realized she was out for blood. She tried to keep up with every move Jade made, but she hardly had time to block any of them as she felt another blade graze her cheek. She touched the cut across her face and looked at the fresh blood on her fingertips. She heard Jade snicker before she lunged at her again so fast that Eve was unable to block her attacks. She felt her back hit the floor and then released a painful scream as Jade's blade pierced through her shoulder.
Jade climbed on top of Eve and straddled her; her knees pinning down both of Eve's arms as she stared down at her. "I guess you're nothing without your powers." She teased as she brought the tip of her other blade to Eve's throat. She used the blade to lift the necklace up that was laying around Eve's neck that Scorpius gave her. She watched Eve's eyes glance across the way where Scorpius was. "A little gift from your new boyfriend?" Jade smirked before she cut the necklace off from around her neck and tossed it aside. "Now... let's see how long it'll take you to bleed out." She said with a sadistic smile before pushing her knife firmly against her neck again.
Scorpius made his way through the crowded battle with nothing but tunnel vision. The only person his eyes were locked on now was Jake, who he had a personal vendetta with. His entire body from the inside out turned ice cold with every step he took towards him, the only thing on his mind was the anger he felt.
"You're a dead man." Scorpius snarled, his nostrils flaring as he watched Jake fling Riley aside like a ragdoll.
"Let's see what you got pretty boy." He dared as the metal beneath his skin surfaced and covered him head to toe.
If Scorpius wasn't so filled with rage he'd been a bit taken aback by Jake's powers, but he knew that nothing right now was going to stop him from killing the man before him. Jake's transformation didn't make Scorpius slow his pace or back down in the slightest as he ran at him full force with an ice-covered fist. He swung it as hard as he could as his only mission was to make him pay for what he did. Jake blocked the blow with his own metal arm and kicked Scorpius hard in the chest causing him to stumble backward. Scorpius quickly skidded to a stop on a trail of ice beneath him and then went at him again, this time jagged pieces lined his body. Tall shards of ice erupted from the floor making a path towards Jake, one of them grazing the side of his leg.
They were both filled with anger and for similar reasons as they fought for vengeance. Scorpius took a few hard hits and returned some right back, but none of them slowed him down in the slightest. He went at Jake like a beast, he could hardly feel any pain from any of the bone-crushing hits Jake threw at him. He felt a random disabling charm him in the back from the battle that raged on around them and soon felt his powers completely disappear. He watched the smirk on Jake's face grow wider as he took advantage of Scorpius' position and punched him with his metal fist.
The force behind Jake's punch knocked Scorpius to the ground. He tasted the blood on his tongue and spit out a mouthful of it. He hardly had time to recover from the first hit when Jake brought his fist down again towards him. This time Scorpius blocked it, but just barely as he felt the power behind Jake's jabs become almost unbearable to withstand. Every bit of concentration went in to not letting Jake overpower him.
Just as Scorpius thought he had Jake's constant blows under control, he snapped his head across the way when he heard Eve scream out in pain. His eyes taking in Jade's blade stuck in her shoulder. He suddenly felt Jake kick him hard in his ribs and was sure they must have been broken as he fell to the floor again. He didn't think he was getting back up after the critical hit he took, but after catching sight of Ember's dying body across the room he felt a wave of adrenaline kick in. He welcomed the ice-cold feeling that ran through him again and watched as Jake was ready to deliver a fatal blow to his head. He quickly brought his hands up to block him and felt Jake's metal fist hit the shield of ice he had formed over himself.
He watched Jake slam his arm down against the icy barrier he had between them and continued to block his throws. He could hear the ice starting to crack as Jake continued to savagely pound down on it to get to him. Scorpius could see nothing but spells flying above him and used his powers to push the shield of ice he had formed forward causing Jake to fly backward. Another random disabling charm had hit Jake just as he fell to the ground letting Scorpius finally get his chance at revenge.
He was on top of Jake in an instant as all pain from his ribs became numb and his powers took over. One of his icy fists grabbing Jake and the other colliding with his face. He punched him again, this time blood freely flowed from Jake's nose and mouth. Scorpius thought back to when he almost killed Noah and how he felt when he thought he had killed him. He couldn't help the anger inside him though and even though Jake was still barely breathing after Scorpius' punches, he still wanted Jake dead. He lifted his fist again to end his life; all clarity of what was right and what was wrong was gone from his mind. As he went to throw his final punch he felt someone grab his arm to stop him.
He snapped his head around to see his father firmly holding his arm back; his grip forceful as he wasn't sure if Scorpius would try to fight him on it. Draco just shook his head at him to back down and for some reason, Scorpius became angrier at his father's actions. Why didn't he want him to kill him? After the way Jake betrayed them and what he did to Ember. He turned back to look down at Jake's bloody face and again thought back to his encounter with Noah. His fist was still clenched and ready to hit him and then he felt his father loosen his grip on him. He just kept looking back and forth between them both, unsure of what he wanted to do. After one last look at his father, he put his arm down and stood up over Jake.
Draco looked down at the young man before him, a disgusted sneer etched on his face. "If my daughter dies... I'm coming back for you... and I'll kill you myself."
When Eve felt the necklace around her neck break, she could feel the difference immediately. It was like all control she thought she had mastered over all these years was completely gone. She had no implant to help stabilize them and no neck device or soothing stone to stop them from growing... and that scared her.
She felt the tip of the blade pierce the skin of her neck and as quick as the pain came it went. She opened her tightly shut eyes to reveal two bright purple pupils as she stared up at Jade. She watched her try to push the blade into her neck, but her powers took control of Jade's actions.
Jade struggled to try and push the blade deeper, but she soon realized Eve was stopping her. She was suddenly flung backward off her and landed hard on her back. Her eyes fell on the blade that had slid across the floor between her and Eve and she quickly scrambled over to grab it. She was so close to grabbing it when it lifted off the floor and flew at her before she could reach it.
Jade stopped in her tracks; frozen in shock as she looked down to the knife plunged into the middle of her stomach. Her eyes traveled up to meet Eve's who walked closer to her. She couldn't help the sadness in her eyes as she looked at Jade and what she had done to her. Knowing that Jade was the clone of her sister... a sister she had never met... a sister that lived a lonely life as she had inside the walls of this hellhole... it tore her up inside.
"I'm sorry," Eve whispered out through an emotional sigh before she pulled the blade from Jade's body.
She felt Jade grab onto her as her legs gave out and slid down to the floor. She just held onto her until Jade took her last few breaths and then died in her arms.
She quickly regained herself and glanced across the way to make sure Scorpius was alright. Her eyes then shifted over to the fight between her father and Ginny. There was no way either of them would out power the other as long as Ginny and Adwell had those implants in their necks. Ginny's powers would prove to be far more powerful if only she didn't have the implant holding her back. The fear was she would completely lose control and sense of herself without it, but if her father was to be stopped then they needed to take the risk.
The raging battle came to a stop when a large electrical spark spread across the room when Ginny and Adwell's powers crashed into each other. It was powerful enough to bring everyone in the room to their knees, even Adwell and Ginny. The look in Adwell's eyes was deadly as he glared at Ginny and the others. He glanced around at all his failed experiments, most of which were killed by the others. An angry sneer crossed his face as he stood back up and looked across the room at Blaise. He didn't say anything, he just waited for Blaise to walk over to him... and he did.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Raven asked as she grabbed his arm to stop him.
Blaise ignored her, his eyes were glossy as he just kept walking towards Adwell, unable to break the hold that he had on him.
"Dad, stop, please stop," Raven begged him as she roughly pulled him back.
Blaise quickly threw a spell at her that sent her flying across the room and slamming into Ron. She scrambled to get back up but stopped when she saw her father was only a few feet from Adwell.
"Remember, you only have yourselves to blame for this," Adwell stated before his arm started to cover in metal and form a sharp blade that he thrust right into Blaise's stomach.
"NO! DAD!" Raven screamed as she went to run to him, but Ron grabbed her to hold her back.
Ginny's eyes naturally found Draco's; both held a look of shock in them at what just happened. Her gaze was broken when she felt Eve skid to a halt beside her and grab her shoulders.
"Ginny, that implant needs to come out... now." She urged her.
Ginny quickly shook her head before Eve grabbed it firmly and looked at her.
"You have no choice; you've played host to these powers first. You're the reason my father was even able to handle that serum in the first place. Your body was able to handle each one of these powers on their own... you are much stronger than him, but only if you let go of all leverage."
"No, I can't, I'll kill you all." She choked out through her cracking voice.
Eve wanted to reassure her that she wouldn't, but the truth was she didn't know exactly how powerful Ginny really was. She only knew that Ginny could easily overpower her father if all restraints were removed.
"You just need to trust that when it comes to the love you have for your family... that you'll make the right decision. You have a very protective instinct... you wouldn't let any of them die." Eve tried to make her see the control she knew she could have over her powers, even if she was doubtful herself.
Ginny's eyes fell on Blaise's body across the room; Raven's cries of grief ringing in her ears. She then looked at Ember, fear that she lost her made her turn angry. She finally nodded in agreement. "I'll do it, but Adwell's implant-"
"Leave that to us." Harry cut her off before he looked at Draco. "We'll try to get to it, if not then it will at least be enough of a distraction so you can get to him."
Ginny's eyes locked with Adwell's across the way as she let Harry's words set in. The amount of hate and anger she had for him was overwhelming and she knew without anything holding her powers back she was bound to lose control. She held her hand up and watched abstract streams of electricity dance around her fingers before she went to place it up to the implant behind her ear.
"STOP!" Adwell yelled out. "Mrs. Malfoy... you don't want to do that. You will end up killing your family, surely you don't want to let them meet such a tragic fate?"
Ginny narrowed her eyes at his words and his tone. "I think you're just scared of what I'll do to you once I get my hands on you." She said through clenched teeth.
He grinned at her words. "You are confident that you will maintain control... but you're foolish for thinking that."
Ginny's lips trembled a bit as her emotions started to take over again when she thought about the possibility of hurting one of her children. She was angry at what he had made her, what she had turned into and she wanted him dead for it. She finally decided this was her best chance at overpowering him and without another thought she touched her fingertip to the implant behind her ear and let electricity course through her skin and damage the implant. She released a painful yelp as the electrical shock brought her to the floor, her body squirming a bit as the chip inside her was destroyed.
The entire room seemed to have gone silent as Ginny lay there for a good moment completely still, just her heavy breathing could be heard as she placed her forehead against the cold floor. She could feel the effects of her powers almost instantly and immediately regretted her decision.
"Ginny?" Draco softly called out as he took a step towards her.
She pushed herself up onto all fours, her copper strands blocked his view of her face, but he could tell she was in pain. It wasn't long before Draco could see the difference in her body, her veins turning black and gold. She grabbed her head in excruciating pain as her mind started to race.
"I- I can't do this." She choked out through the pain in her head.
Draco knelt in front of her and grabbed her arms tightly. "You can, look at me Ginny."
She picked her head up and opened her eyes and two black orbs stared back at him. "I can't," she whispered before Draco felt himself being thrown backward.
Draco quickly jumped back to his feet as Ginny's powers grew more out of control and it killed him to see her this way. His mind went back to the first day she got her powers and how he watched her die on that lab table. He thought of how her memories were completely jumbled from the ordeal and he was scared he might lose her again.
Ice and electricity whipped across the room and Draco felt the floor beneath him start to shake and the walls around them rumbled as he watched Ginny try to hold on to any last bit of control she could. He suddenly grabbed his head in pain as it brought him to his knees, and he saw that everyone else was experiencing the same thing. He glanced over at Aurora who was a few feet from him and could see the glimmer of purple in her eyes as Ginny was messing with all their minds. He could see from the pain in Ginny's face that it wasn't intentional, but more of her not being able to control the massive amount of power running through her.
Ginny somehow managed to get to her feet; her appearance almost unrecognizable as her pale skin turned to an almost gray color and her veins shimmered with bits of black and gold. Her eyes were nothing more than two white orbs, two orbs that no matter how hard Draco tried to look into them, he could find nothing familiar.
"We need to get to Adwell now, as long as he still has that chip in we are going to be Ginny's main target!" Harry shouted over to Draco.
Draco finally managed to rip his gaze from Ginny and nodded at Harry's words before he joined him in a sprint towards Adwell. His mad dash towards the man he hated the most in his entire life right now was cut short when large shards of metal, glass, and ice were randomly shooting up through the ground. He dodged them as best as he could all while pieces of the walls and ceiling came crumbling down around them. He knew if he didn't get to Adwell soon his new mission would have to be getting his family out of this place alive before it collapsed on top of them all.
As they neared Adwell, Draco felt the hairs on his body stand up as the form of Harry beside him disappeared into a bolt of lightning. He could feel the ice beneath his skin take over as he got closer and went at Adwell with full force. He swung his icy fists at him but Adwell was quick to avoid it. Draco was quick to deliver his next hit and was pleased when he felt a shard of ice impale the side of Adwell's leg. The growl of pain that came from Adwell only fueled Draco further as he used the shard still impaled inside Adwell to start turning his whole leg to ice causing Adwell to let out another growl of pain.
Before Draco could make his next move he felt his whole body go stiff and start to back away from Adwell. He knew something didn't feel right and he could tell Adwell was trying to take over his mind, but something was wrong. He turned to Eve, her eyes as purple as he had ever seen them before as she tried to also enter Draco's mind in an attempt to force her father out of it.
All focus was broken when a bolt of lightning hit Adwell right in the chest and sent his flying backward. Adwell quickly recovered and quickly covered in metal to keep Harry from trying to get to the implant in his neck. Harry tried to penetrate the metal shield around his body, but it was no use. Harry gathered a large ball of electrical energy in his hands and threw it up into the air. As the abstract waves of lightning danced across the room, Scorpius and Aurora turned it to ice until it almost encased Adwell into this solid ball of ice. It wasn't long before Adwell burst out of the shell of ice around him.
The look of anger on Adwell's face made them all take a step back as he waved his hands and sharp pieces of metal went flying at all of them. Scorpius was able to shield himself and Harry with a barrier of ice and he glanced over to Aurora to make sure she had done the same. As soon as Aurora's shield was taken down, part of the ground had opened from Ginny's powers and a piece of metal pierced the side of her leg. Scorpius quickly went to run to her side when he and Harry stopped short from a large crack in the ground that split apart. Adwell made his way over to Aurora, ice forming over her ankles so she couldn't get away. She struggled with everything in her to pull herself free, to absorb the ice, but the fear of death approaching her made her stop thinking clearly.
She had finally looked up to see Adwell standing just a few feet from her, his arm turned to metal as she was about to meet the same fate as Blaise.
"You're expendable, it's your mother who is most valuable to me." He smirked as he looked down at her.
Scorpius and Harry watched helplessly from where they were unable to get to her in time when a flicker of electricity flew past them.
"JAMES, NO!" Harry screamed.
The electrical form of James slammed right into Adwell making them both hit the ground hard. James felt himself slide across the floor before quickly trying to get up as Adwell was coming right at him. It was so fast James had nowhere to run and felt himself get slammed right into the wall and pinned there by Adwell's metal form.
James felt the metal shard pierce his side and released a painful scream.
As soon as Draco finally freed Aurora she went to run to James, but Draco snatched her in his arms to stop her from getting herself killed.
"You're a fool boy, you're no match for someone like me," Adwell said to James as he watched the blood drip from James' mouth.
James just looked up at him, his eyes meeting Aurora's over Adwell's shoulder across the room before he quickly reached up and sent an electrical shock into Adwell's neck.
Adwell grabbed his neck and disbelief crossed his face as he felt his implant start to fail him. Before he could finish off James he turned to Ginny, who was completely lost in her powers at this point.
"Kill them, they think you're a monster." He said to her.
Ginny just looked at him, unsure of what to think, not that she was capable of making sense of anything that anybody told her right now. Her powers were destructive and Draco noticed there was not one flame within her. Every other power was present but all signs of that fire that burned within Ginny was completely burned out and that scared him.
The building was starting to cave in as Hermione and Ron grabbed Ellie and Riley and took cover under the shield of ice that Scorpius formed over them. Eve was trying to outrun the floor from collapsing beneath her and tried to dodge all debris that came dropping all around her. She fell to the floor as the ground became uneven and rolled out of the way of a large piece of the ceiling falling beside her. She went to form a barrier around herself but put one over James across the way as his bleeding body laid there helplessly. She tried to form one above her as well, but she could feel the blood dripping from her nose as she struggled to control her powers.
Noah ran as fast as he could to get to his sister, but his legs wouldn't go as fast as he pushed himself. He saw the beam falling from the ceiling right for Eve and he felt himself just let go and give in to the monster within him. A loud howl filled the building and bounced off the walls around them as he grabbed Eve just in time.
Eve turned around to see him over her, this large protective form of a werewolf covered her from anymore falling debris. His yellow eyes piercing into hers as she dug her fingers into his fur and clung to him for safety.
Ginny's focus had finally fallen on Adwell as he attempted to hit her with his powers while her back was turned. She was completely in control of him and he was on his knees in front of her. The sound of his bones snapping one by one as she narrowed her eyes at him. Adwell hit her with a bolt of lightning in an attempt to have her back off and she hit one of the walls hard. She was hardly affected by the critical hit and instead just turned angrier as the earth beneath them shook.
Draco ran towards Ginny, he was determined to get her back, but as he approached her he could feel her keeping him away from her. His nose started dripping blood from all her powers affecting him.
"Ginny! Stop! It's me Draco!" he yelled to her.
She looked at him, a heartbreaking wail of pain and sadness filled the room as she was so lost right now. He didn't care, he had to get to her, and he pushed through all the pain until he was able to grab her face in his hands.
"Ginny... don't do this. Our children... our family. You'll kill us all." He said; tears in his eyes as he could see there was nothing left of her, nothing familiar about her that gave him any kind of hope.
She grabbed his hand from her face, and she furrowed her eyebrows. He could see there was this build-up of energy and power that she needed to release, and he knew they were all as good as dead if she did. She gently pressed a finger to his temple, and he felt this excruciating pain fill his head. He felt like he had been hit in the head with a hammer as his vision blurred and he became so dizzy he fell to the floor. He watched her make her way towards Aurora and James and he tried to get up but there was no way he was going to make it. He wasn't sure he was even able to stay conscious much longer from the amount of pain he felt.
It wasn't long before he heard screaming and something hard hit him, but he didn't know what. All he remembered seeing was a bright white light that blinded him, and he swore he watched almost everyone in the room drop. He could tell there were more people there suddenly, but he didn't know who. Surely more of Adwell's men and he knew he had lost; he knew his whole family would now be nothing more than Adwell's experiments.
Something bright was shining on his face and his stomach sank as he remembered the bright light that constantly shined down on him in that lab room. He almost wished he was dead than have to live another day in this hellhole. He couldn't even begin to start to make sense of how he got back to this room again and what kind of condition his family was in. Were they even still alive? Was he even alive?
"Draco?"
His eyes snapped open at the sound of his name and he was met by a bright light. He squinted his eyes and realized his room was a bit different than he remembered.
"How are you feeling?"
He blinked a few more times as the voice started to sound more familiar and then turned to look at the man sitting in the chair across the room. It wasn't until the man walked over to him that he realized who it was.
"Neville?"
"Ah, first name, I should feel so honored." Neville lightly joked.
"Adwell got you too?"
Neville was quiet for a moment. "No."
Draco looked at him again and then sat up.
"Draco, you're in St. Mungo's."
Draco just stared at him with wide eyes. "Wh-what? You mean, I'm out of the lab? How?"
"The Ministry... let's just say McGonagall I made a good argument about them intervening in Adwell's experiments. Especially after he publicly showed off Ginny and went after minors. The Potter, Malfoy, Weasley, and Granger names around here are well established and a lot of us had your backs. It wasn't easy and I've been trying to get to you guys sooner. There was a lot of debate on Adwell becoming the new Minister of Magic and-"
"Ginny? Where is she? Is she alive? What about my kids? Where are they?" Draco frantically asked as he tried to get out of bed and then realized he was in more pain than he thought.
"Draco, calm down. Everyone is ok... well most everyone, some of them aren't out of the woods yet."
Draco took notice of Neville's softened tone as he lowered his head. He looked around for his clothes and then noticed them neatly folded and cleaned laying on the chair beside him. He grabbed them and hesitated for a moment as he realized they were the same ones he wore in the lab. Fighting through the mental trauma that he decided to push aside for now, he slipped them on and made his way out of the room.
"Draco, wait, you need to rest." Neville tried to reason with him.
Draco ripped the door open and almost slammed into someone. It took him a moment to realize it was an Auror from the Ministry.
"Good Afternoon Mr. Malfoy how are you feeling today?" he asked.
Draco just ignored him before he looked at the large crowd of Aurors down the hall. They were all standing around another room, one that was heavily guarded and magically sealed to keep anyone from going in or out of it.
"What's going on down there?" he asked.
He saw Matthew walk up to him, he was a wreck himself but nothing major. "It's Adwell, he's alive still."
Draco hardly let him finish the sentence before he made a move to go in there and kill the bastard himself.
"Draco, don't." Neville urged as he grabbed his arm.
Draco ripped his arm from Neville's grasp as anger took over. "What the hell do you mean don't? Do you have any idea what that man has done? Do you have any idea what we've been through!" Draco yelled.
He went to give Neville a warning with his powers to back off when he realized he couldn't conjure them. That's when he finally noticed the thin metal bracelet on his wrist.
"What the fuck is this?" he asked, every bit of him grew frantic and angry as nothing was making sense.
He went to try and walk towards Adwell again when Matthew blocked him and the other Auror grabbed him back. Draco was ready to put up a fight just to get to him, but he felt very dizzy and slowly dropped to his knees. He grabbed his head in pain and that's when he felt some sort of bandage on the side of his head.
Neville could see he was overwhelmed, and a mixture of emotions was apparent on his face. "Draco, let me take you to Ember." He gently offered.
Ember's name made Draco stop all movement and forget about any pain or questions he had. "Ember?"
Neville nodded before he helped Draco to his feet and gave Matthew a small nod that he'd be alright to handle Draco.
Not much was said between the two men as they made their way to Ember's room, mostly because Neville could see the millions of questions and concerns on Draco's face and knew he didn't know where to even begin. He wasn't sure Draco even knew how to feel at this very moment. As they neared Ember's room he saw another Auror outside of her room guarding it.
"Mr. Malfoy," the man nodded before stepping aside to let him and Neville in.
Draco just stood in the doorway for a moment as his eyes fell on his oldest daughter.
"The healers have done everything they can... the rest is up to her," Neville said softly before he turned to leave. "I'll be in the hall."
Draco walked over to the chair beside Ember's bed and tried to swallow the lump that had formed in his throat. She was in a coma, her face almost unrecognizable from all the swelling and bruising. He noticed she had one of the bracelets on as well and his mind went back to trying to remember what happened before he blacked out.
He took her hand in his and ran his thumb across the top of hers. Her skin was ice cold and he couldn't help but grow emotional at this. He wanted her to be warm, he wanted her to be safe and comfortable. His mind started to wander, and he was going back to thinking that maybe this was all a dream. Maybe he was going to wake up in that lab room after all.
"Draco?"
He was pulled back to reality when he heard Hermione's voice. He looked up at her when she came up beside and squatted down to his level.
"Hermione?" he choked out as the lump in his throat grew painful. "Where are-"
"They're all at the Ministry and have been questioned numerous times about the entire ordeal." She quickly grabbed one of his arms and firmly pulled him back down as he went to take off at the news. "They are all safe... even Ginny." She finished and eased up her firm grip on him when she felt him sit all the way back down again.
"Ginny?"
"I haven't seen her, but Kingsley has and Matthew. She is being held somewhere else in the Ministry. I only know that she is safe, but we have to get back there soon."
"And James?"
"He is here... in St. Mungos. He's in and out right now, but he should make a full recovery," she said with a small smile before she looked at Ember. "She's strong, she'll pull through." She said before she looked back at Draco.
Her heart hurt for him, she could see the emotions in his eyes that he was hiding.
"Draco, talk to me."
His glossy eyes locked with hers for a moment before he finally swallowed the lump that had been forming. She thought he'd break down right there in front of her but instead he placed a soft kiss on Ember's hand and got up.
"Let's get to the Ministry." He said, his tone cold and any cracking in his voice had disappeared.
Silence was the only thing that filled the room around them. Shock and uncertainty was the only thing that was on their minds as they waited for one of their parents to walk through those doors. Scorpius looked down at Aurora's rested head on his shoulder, he could still see the tracks of her tears on her pale cheeks. She feared for her family still and whether her parents and sister were ok. She thought of James and how he risked his life for her; fresh tears spilled down her face and she felt Scorpius hold her a bit tighter.
Scorpius turned to Ellie, who was on the other side of him, her arm wrapped around Riley beside her. His eyes took in the burn marks on Riley's hands and up her arms and he felt the sting of tears behind his eyes. He suddenly felt like a scared little boy and all he wanted was his parents.
This dark and depressing presence just seemed to loom over all of them and the silence and them getting lost in their own thoughts only made it worse.
"Hey."
Scorpius snapped his head up at the sound of his father's voice. "Dad?"
He was barely on his feet when Draco grabbed him into a hug. Scorpius didn't care about holding back his emotions, maybe that meant he wasn't as strong as his father was, but he couldn't help it. He felt the pile of his sisters join in on the embrace and it was everything he needed to feel right now. He could feel how tightly his father was holding onto them, he didn't think he would ever let go of them again and right now that was alright with him... with all of them.
How was it that only a few months ago the only thing that troubled him was what he wanted to do with his life and now here he was. Waiting minute by minute, hour by hour if his sister would live... if his mother was ok... or just wondering when they would all be able to go home and be a family again.
After a while, Draco went to pull back but he felt Scorpius' hands clenched tightly around him. "You're ok, Son. I have you now." Draco whispered to him as he held his face in his hands.
Scorpius stared at him for a moment before he finally released this emotional breath and nodded at his words. The feeling of relief to have his father here with him again was overwhelming. The fact that even though their plan didn't go accordingly, they still succeeded. His parents were out of that place and although he knew the condition of his mother and sister were unknown, he was happy they were free from Adwell.
"Dad, where's Mum? How's Ember? What about James?" Aurora asked.
"I haven't seen Mum yet. Ember is still critical and as for James, he'll be back to pissing me off in no time." Draco told her before he gave her a tight hug. "What happened? At the lab?"
Scorpius and Aurora exchanged a quick look before they turned back to their father.
"I thought Mum was going to kill me." Aurora choked out. "But Adwell got a hold of me first and almost did it himself." She explained as she pulled back her hair and revealed a long cut to the side of her neck. "Mum... saved me."
"She was normal?" Draco asked as hope filled his heart.
"No... I mean, I don't know. She didn't look normal... or act normal. She just killed him... with her powers."
Draco closed his eyes tightly to keep any emotion from showing. "He's still alive."
"What!" the whole room said in unison.
"He's at St. Mungo's..." he trailed off.
"No, I saw Mum kill him... I mean... I thought I did. Everything went white, I definitely saw him drop. If Mum didn't kill him then she hurt him pretty bad." Aurora explained.
"We need to get to St. Mungo's and finish the job," Scorpius said as he went to lead the way, the rest of his sisters in agreement as they went to follow him.
Draco grabbed his arm to stop him. "Stop, I've already attempted that. The whole room is guarded by Aurors and sealed with magic. It's not happening today." Draco saw the disappointed look on their faces and the fear that Adwell would escape and be a threat to them again. "They've questioned you all?"
They all nodded.
He took note of the bracelets on all their wrists. "Where's Eve and Noah?"
"We don't know," Ellie answered.
"They're downstairs in a holding cell." Came Harry's voice from the doorway.
Draco just stared at him, their eyes locked, and he could see everything he was feeling in Harry's eyes. He knew Harry, like him, was holding back all the emotional, mental and physical trauma they have been through. Right now, they had to be strong for their kids and it wasn't the time to fall apart.
"Why are they in a holding cell?" Scorpius asked, his concern for Eve growing.
"They probably just haven't been questioned yet, so they aren't cleared to leave. Let Harry and I talk to Matthew or Kingsley and get some more answers." Draco explained. "Wait here."
Draco and Harry made their way to their office and closed the door. The two of them just stood there in silence, unsure of what to say.
Draco looked at Harry's bandaged shoulder and then his mind went to James. "How's James? I heard he's going to pull through?" Draco asked.
Harry lowered his head before nodding and couldn't bring himself to meet Draco's gaze again. "Ember?" he managed to choke out as his voice broke.
Draco was quiet for a few moments. "She's hanging in there."
It was quiet again and Draco swore at any moment Harry would crumble to pieces and he knew he wouldn't be able to keep it together if he did.
"Don't," Draco said suddenly. "Not now... please." He practically begged Harry.
Harry still hung his head but nodded.
"Have you seen Ginny?" Draco asked.
Harry, finally managing to hold back his tears, looked up at the blond again and shook his head. "No, but Hermione was working on finding out something."
Draco just nodded. "Adwell is still alive." He stated, his tone turning colder.
"Yeah, I saw."
"That's a problem," Draco said looking at Harry again. "We need to change that."
Eve and Noah sat on the floor of the holding cell beside each other. Hours had gone by and they hadn't heard a thing about the others. They both knew why they were here and what very well may happen to them. Neither of them said a word, a mixture of emotions just seemed to consume them both.
Noah heard Eve give a small wince of pain as she adjusted herself a bit. "How's your shoulder?" he asked as his eyes fell on the sling around her arm.
"Surprisingly... it's not the thing that hurts the most right now." She said in a small voice.
He watched a small tear fall from her eye and he knew she was thinking about a lot of the same things he was, but he had a feeling Scorpius must've been her main thought. "I'm sure everyone is... ok." He tried to reassure her, but his own thoughts fell on Ember and whether she was dead or not.
"You think we'll see any of them again?" she asked in a soft voice.
Noah wasn't really sure what to say to that. They could very well be on their way to Azkaban, Eve more than him. She was the one working alongside their father all these years and although Noah knew it to be the only way of life she knew; the Ministry might not see it that way. As for him, he may not have been working in the lab yet with his father, but he helped him by feeding him information about Ember and her family. He felt like a piece of shit and he wouldn't even put up a fight if he ended up behind bars.
"I don't know." Was all he could say.
He watched a silent tear slide down her cheek at his words.
"I don't want to go back." She whispered.
"Back where? The lab? You won't have to because-"
"No, not there." She cut him off, her voice rising a bit before she lifted her head to look at him. "I don't want to go back to... to how I use to feel... alone and unwanted." She choked out. "It was nice feeling like a real person for once and they genuinely needed my help and... it was... it was just nice." She said wiping her tears away.
Noah gave her a sad look; he would never fully understand the kind of life his sisters lived. He only knew of Lucy and Crystal and as for Eve, he had never really met her except once or twice. He was at least thankful that Eve was out of that lab, but he knew she had a lot to work through. He could see the growth she made just these past few weeks being out of that place and interacting with people her own age. His mind went to Scorpius again and the bond he and Eve had.
"He looked at me differently... not as a monster... I just feel like I'm able to overcome all the horror in my life when I see him and now... I may never get that feeling again and it hurts so much." She cried. "Why does it hurt so much?" she sobbed, turning to look at him.
He didn't realize his eyes had filled with tears when he heard Eve's words. "Love... it's called love, Eve." He said softly before he put his arm around her and pulled her closer to him. He laced his fingers with hers and gave her hand a light squeeze. "And you're not alone... not anymore."
"I want to see Ginny," Draco demanded as Kingsley walked into the room with Matthew and Neville.
"Mr. Malfoy I know how anxious you are to see her, but honestly right now it would be too risky," Matthew explained.
"I don't care, I want to see her, take me to her now!" he shouted, getting up from his seat.
"Draco, calm down, I'll take you to see her, but we need to talk first," Kingsley said, his tone softer.
Draco looked at Neville who gave a small nod of agreement before he finally sat back down. "What's going on? Is she ok?"
"She is, but..." Neville trailed off.
"But what!" Draco demanded answers.
"The only reason the Ministry finally backed me up was because of how much I stressed that you guys were not a danger. That Adwell was the one with ill intentions and with your powers he would be the biggest threat. Now, as they may believe me when it comes to you, Harry and the kids... they don't see it that way when it comes to Ginny." Neville explained.
Draco wished he could tell them how ridiculous that sounded and wanted to hex them all into oblivion, but his mind went back to when Ginny first got her powers. The way she practically came back from the dead and killed those men and Adwell's brother. How she would have killed him and Harry if she had the chance.
"Ginny isn't what you think." He said, his tone softening a bit. "I just want to take her home with me and my kids... I just want my family back." He quietly said as he tried to hold back his tears at the memory of what his family used to be and wondered if they would ever be complete again. "She can control them; I know she can... she just needs help. What about Eve, she can help Ginny. I know she can, she's studied Ginny for the past couple of months and-"
"Eve is not going to be an option right now. The Ministry wants her and Noah to be questioned and most likely serve some time in Azkaban." Matthew explained.
"That's absurd." Draco snarled, his voice rising again. "Eve was a prisoner forced into doing her father's bidding... and honestly... so was Noah. Kingsley, you know how much they've helped get you guys into that lab and they are still being looked at as guilty?"
"I do know Draco. I believe until we find our next Minister of Magic I will temporarily take the position back. I'm hoping with that I will have more pull on the situation, so, for now, I can't ok that. In the meantime, Ginny will be kept here at the Ministry in one of our more secured holding rooms."
"Before you completely put your trust in Eve and Noah, have you ever thought that Eve only helped them break into the lab as a way to bring them to her father?" Matthew suggested. "She read my mind that day when I came to see you. She knew I would offer her protection and she knew I'd take her to your children."
"If you thought that then why did you even offer her an escape out of there?" Draco snapped.
"Because I truly did believe she was a victim and she still very well may be. All I'm saying is that Adwell is the only family that she's known. Her want and need to please her father could have made her turn against us. Turning over all of your kids to her father would be most redeeming for her and she would win her father over again."
"They had a chance to join Adwell again if they wanted to." Draco snapped again as he tried to defend them. After a few moments of silence, he just shook his head. "You're wrong."
"Most likely yes, but I'm just saying after everything you all have been through, I wouldn't trust her and Noah so easily." Matthew finished.
The room grew quiet again as Draco thought of the possibility of Matthew's accusations being true. He only grew angrier as he wasn't sure what to believe. Right now his thoughts were only on his children and Ginny and getting them all home.
"Ginny will be safe here Draco," Neville reassured him as he broke the silence.
"And Adwell? What happens when he escapes that hospital room?"
"That won't happen. Adwell is worse off than you think." Matthew said.
"I don't care, I won't let my guard down for a moment. Now I want to see Ginny... Now!" he demanded once more, this time his tone held more of a threat to it.
"I'll take you to her, but you must understand... she's a bit off right now," Kingsley told Draco as he gave him a sad look.
It killed Draco every time he saw Ginny look at him as a stranger. He hoped these powers hadn't completely destroyed her and all the memories they shared. He saw what they were doing to her, how much harm they must have caused her. He let out a shaky breath before he nodded at Kingsley's words and followed him downstairs to where Ginny was.
As Draco approached the room he saw one of the Ministry's MediWizards leaving it and she turned to him with a small smile. "Just to prepare you, she is on a light sedative potion to keep her calm. The baby is doing great, nice strong heartbeat and she's growing beautifully."
"She?" Draco asked.
"Oops, sorry were we wanting it to be a surprise?" The lady whispered giving him an apologetic look.
"No... no, it's... it's ok." Draco said softly as he couldn't help the small smile that tugged at his lips.
He watched Kingsley unlock the secured door before he closed it behind Draco to give him some privacy. Draco walked into the room where he saw the small form of Ginny laying on a bed in the middle of the room with her back to him. He made his way over to her where she was curled up into a ball and her long fiery strands covered her face. He took a seat on the chair beside the bed, unsure if she was asleep.
"Ginny?"
He was surprised when she sat up a little bit and looked at him. She had no expression, she just stared at him. She looked a little confused and furrowed her eyebrows a bit before she slowly rubbed her head.
"Are you ok?" he asked her, it looked like she was having some discomfort. He could see the dried blood around her nostrils and her pale complexion had a gray tint to it. Her once vibrant hair looked dull and had random colored strands running throughout it.
She locked eyes with him at the question. "Draco?"
He nodded, happy that she remembered him. His small smile soon faded when he saw her starting to go into a panic. Her breathing became more rapid and her eyes started spilling tears.
"Hey, it's ok." He tried to reassure her as he took a seat on the bed beside her.
He felt her body go rigid beside him, but he still wrapped one of his arms around her and tried to calm her down.
"Ginny, look at me." He said firmly.
She did what he asked, her eyes still weren't the same color. They would both change to a random color as he could see the powers still trying to overpower one another inside her. He searched her eyes for any signs of familiarity and found nothing. His heart sank when she pushed him away from her and just kept shaking her head at him.
"Please go... please leave me alone." She cried.
"No, don't say that Ginny, please. Just look at me." He begged her.
She looked at him again, but even though she was staring right at him, he could see an emptiness in her eyes. She was looking right past him, nothing from their lives over the past eighteen years was present in them. He couldn't help the few tears that escaped and ran down his face before he quickly wiped them away. He watched her eyes droop a bit and slowly started to slip further into delirium.
"Come on, lay down... you just need some rest." He told her but it was more to himself as he hoped she was just exhausted from the ordeal. He just couldn't accept that this is what was left of his wife.
Ginny didn't respond or move, she let Draco lay her back in bed and cover her with the blankets before he placed a kiss on her forehead.
"My father... he's ok?" she asked in barely a whisper as she started to doze off.
Draco just stared down at her before he ran the tips of his fingers through the top of her hair and then gently caressed her cheek with his thumb. "Yeah... he's ok now." He choked out.
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