Safe House

Forty Seven

"Keira! We need to get out of here now!" Theo demanded, letting go of the embrace and instead holding my hand tightly, pulling me through the crowd, I pulled my wand out of the pocket of the dress that I had made when putting it on.

The place had turned into chaos within seconds, guests were running in all directions, some apparating on the spot, shouts for loved ones and close relatives, spells cast by panic shooting around.

"Protego!" I cast over me and Theo as he continued to charge through everyone.

He manged to get us out of the tent.

"Don't panic" He said, bringing me in close to him.

Everything went black, I felt like I was being squeezed into a small space, the only other thing I could feel was Theo, he had Apparated us somewhere.

I opened my eyes once I could tell everything had stopped spinning, the first thing I saw was Theo's face looking down at me, examining my own.

"Are you okay?" He asked, cupping my face gently.

"Mhm" I nodded, "are you?"

"Come on" He said quickly, letting go of my face, and once again taking hold of my hand.

I checked my surroundings, we were in a dark ally, the only light coming from a nearby cafe.

"Where are we?" I asked him

"Somewhere in Bournemouth." He answered, also checking about, I'm assuming to see if anyone was watching.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

He ignored me, walking fast along the street.

"Theodore! Where are we going?" I repeated. stopping in my tracks.

"Don't say my name in public! You don't know who could be listening" He hissed, also stopping and turned back at me. "Now come on, we're nearly there"

He pulled me along once more, picking up the pace.

Neither of us had said anything, until he stopped still after a while.

It had started pouring it down only a few moments ago, so by the time we got to the building complex, I was shivering, our heads dripping with rain.

"In here" He said, walking towards the old looking door of the grey building, the dark clouds and the night sky wasn't giving much of an idea of what the building actually looked like, except the obvious colour and the rectangleness of it, it wasn't that tall either.

I followed Theo in to the building, walking up the set of stairs, each creaking with every step.

The hum of televisions could be heard from every other flat we passed.

"This one" Theo said, we had climbed up all the stairs, only two doors on the last floor, facing opposite each other.

He turned on me, placing his hands on my shoulders,  looking at my eyes for a few seconds before speaking. "Before we go in, do not freak out, I promise I will explain everything, but give me a second, and, no, I didn't lie to you, I did go to my house, but that wasn't the only thing I did. The plan, remember the plan? Well this" He pointed at the dark wood door. "Is part of it, okay? Just... just don't freak out" He said "Promise?"

I nodded my head "Promise" I said.

"Good, that's.... that's good, good, okay then" He muttered, more to himself, letting go of me and facing the door again.

I shook my head lightly, droplets of water flinging everywhere, why had it rained so much in bloody August?

"Alohamora" Theo cast on the door, opening it for the both of us to step through.