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Chapter 125 (Atlas & Fred's POV)

December 17th

Atlas's POV

"Eat baby, eat" papa begs as I stare at my wall. "I won't eat until I get him back" I stand from my bed. "I don't understand, I don't know Kingsley or Ginny at all I don't know anything about them!" I shout.

If I knew about them maybe I could find a way or place where they would go. I've checked every spot they have been to. Old hangouts. Old hideouts. Everywhere.

"Atlas" my papa begs for my attention. I look to him and sigh. "I'm going to find him! I'm going to find him" I cry out. He nods grabbing my arm. "Come on baby, please let's go to your siblings" he pleads.

"I can't let them see me like this- I have to be strong" I sob into my hands. "Please let them comfort you just this once," he asks rubbing a hand up and down my arm the plate of food still on my bed.

I nodded still crying. He led me across the hall to his room where all my siblings were camped out. I just stood in the doorway all their eyes were on me.

The first was Gray who left EJ's lap to run over and grab my leg. He looked up to me with the biggest eyes in the world. I couldn't take it and picked him up and just sobbed.

Letting myself fall to the floor, Seren was next hugging me tightly. "We're going to find him" she whimpers. And I hug both of them. "Yeah, we are" I chuckle as more arms join the embrace.

They held me tight and I just nodded to everything they told me. There was so much going on, so I just cried. "G-guys" I choke out and they all pull away with worried looks.

"Atlas we're going to help you with anything we can" Emeralds bites her lip holding Lyra in a hug. "I just need to sleep- I need to think, clear my mind" I explain stumbling over to my makeshift bed.

"Sleep on the bed" "yeah none of us are using it" "it- it will be comfy!" The toddler cheers the last part and I nod my thanks to them. Papa stood in the doorway watching us all wiping his tears.

I sat on the bed and put myself under the covers. It didn't last long as the little pitter-patter of feet made me open my eyes. I looked to the side to find Grayson holding his arms up for me.

"Eh!" He cries and I lean over picking him up. He scrambled onto my chest before wiping my tears with his hands. "Gray give your brother a kissy" papa giggles. I look to the baby who pats my lips as if he's wiping them off before kissing me. That just made me cry more. "T-thank you guys"

Fred's POV

I rest against George who had his arm wrapped around me. Draco sat across from us his paperwork from school set aside and a map in front of us. There were big red X's over the spots we had searched.

"I- I just wish we could at least contact them in some way" George sighs and I look up waiting for him to finish. "His meds it's been weeks... if I could talk to them I could at least send him his meds or his herbs... something" He squeezes my shoulder tightly and I nod.

"It's going to be his first Christmas without us" I mutter what I had been thinking all along. "Guys... let's just try to get him back before that, he's smart he's going to fight" Dray looks up to us with hopeful eyes.

He's honestly been so much help with this, they all have. It's really just a struggle having all these kids in the house. You can't just completely ignore them to go find one that's missing because that just makes you lose more.

"Has anything- Uh popped up in the secret advertisement?" George utters and I look to him with wide eyes! "George! No!" I shout pissed he would think that would happen.

We knew how Kingsley was. Him and his underground business. We had many wizards and witches going undercover into that sort of thing or looking into ads for... things. Sirius and Remus came over once a week sometimes with Jax sometimes without.

Every time Jax even set their eyes on us they broke down into tears. They were as heartbroken as the rest of us. Everybody was looking, and as much as I didn't want to admit it Ginny and Kingsley were smart wizards. Not the best at fighting but smart.

"Freddie we would have better luck finding him if he was placed on the market- we could save him" he tries to reason with his idea but I shake my head looking the other way.

"Please... it's Kingsley if anything he would go for the underground nightclub idea... the only way we would find Asher is if somebody tattles for the award money or one of the undercover wizards happened to be in the cavern at the time" Draco explains to us for the hundredth time.

I understood- I just- the odds of that happening. I don't want bubba forced into anything... he's my baby- I want to believe he's okay- I know he's okay! I know nothings going to happen to him. It's all going to be alright. "Pumpkin..." George pulls me out of my thoughts and I look back up to him.

"It's going to be okay- he's going to be fine... he'll be back soon" I cry, still trying to stay focus. Me crying won't help us at all.  I sat back up wiping my tears. "That's right we're going to get the innocent one back" Dray chuckles sadly before spinning the map around on the table to face us.

I chuckle pulling the parchment closer. "Four corners down" "we can just go up and down until we stumble upon them" "or we can start from the center and work our way out?" The both of us attempt to think of some sort of strategy.

"Okay I know you guys are stressing out, but remember the map is small, but that's a few hundred miles and this was just us narrowing it down, we could have messed up our profiling on the two and they might not even be in this area." Dray groans at our stupidity, I just shrug.

"We'll walk across the whole world if it means we can find him" the both of us answer being completely serious. We hadn't been able to joke about anything lately. We were so far behind on work, I just couldn't- we couldn't find the joy in it.

"Well I'm glad you're committed and trust me I am too, but property... trespassing? Ya know that sort of thing. I know we're loaded especially with the teens getting jobs lately, but we're only going to be able to pay for so many lawsuits" he sighs rubbing his temple.

"I hate people" George scowls and I look back over to his frustrated face. Taking his hand I rub my thumb over it gently. His face softens while he looks at me, but he shakes his head and goes back to the map to think.

I wonder what kind of job Asher would have or if he would want to get one at all. Would he do that cute thing where he waits for us to get home, and then beg us to let him get a job? We'd immediately agree to it, but we would never tell him that because we enjoyed the affection and his little pouts.

What was eating at me the most lately was the feeling of him just being out of reach. What if he was hardly out of reach I just wasn't checking the right spot. If we would have just put work down for one damn fucking second!

Okay no fighting myself, I need to focus. George squeezes my hand before bringing it to his lips. I chuckle to myself. I wanted to reassure him, but it seems he's the one doing that now.

"Guys I don't know what to do" I finally speak up again getting worried looks from them. "I want to do something, but all I can think about is crying- I don't want to be useless! I need to help, but I don't know what else to do to help!" I rant frantically looking between the both of them.

"Hey, we're trying. Our blessing is missing- if you don't cry I'm going to think you're insane" he admits as the tears involuntarily fall from my eyes. "He's right Fred, it's okay to cry, hell, when we get Asher back I'd still be crying" Dray adds giving me a sincere smile.

With those words, I nod standing from my spot letting George's hands slide off of me. Putting my pointer finger on the map I nod and go for the pencil putting a small circle on it.

"I'm going to go find my baby"