Unspeakable

Chapter 43: Determination

Poppy shot toward Feldcroft on her broom as the alarm bells for Hogsmeade still rang through the air. The night watch had seen the trails of dark wizards and sounded the alarm, but they had continued on toward the southwest. She saw the glow of flames first, surrounding the hill around the house and licking dangerously close to the walls.

The crying was what she heard next, loud sobs sounding into the night.

She jumped from her broom as soon as she was a few feet off the ground, letting it fall before she ran over to the scene and gasped in horror.

"Come on, hang in there moron!" Garreth yelled as he uncorked a second potion and shoved it into Sebastian's mouth, the green glow of essence of dittany surrounding him as he reached for another in panic, tearing Sebastian's shirt open and pouring it onto the burn across the skin on his chest .

Ominis was holding Sebastian against him as he buried his head in his shoulder, crying loudly as he held him tight.

Anne was by his side as well, tears falling from her eyes as she looked down at her twin, seemingly in shock from the sight.

Poppy worked first at putting the fires out with a few shots of glacius, looking around as she noticed someone was missing.

"Where's Diane?" She asked softly.

Ominis' cries grew louder with the question, shuddering in pain against Sebastian.

"She's gone." Anne said quietly as Garreth poured another potion across Sebastian's chest, the burn slowly fading with each potion.

"Gone?" Poppy breathed in horror. "What do you mean gone?"

"Her family took her!" Ominis yelled angrily through his sobs, his pale eyes filled with pain and rage. "They fucking took her! I couldn't stop them!"

"There's nothing you could have done, Ominis. There were too many." Anne said weakly.

"Her family?" Poppy said weakly. Diane had told her about them in 5th year during one of her panic attacks. She knew very well how bad that was.

"They used the imperius curse." Anne looked over to Poppy with tear filled eyes. "She's gone."

Poppy staggered on her feet in horror. Diane... under the imperius curse from such terrible people. People who had abused her, used her and then threw her away.

Garreth shoved a wiggenweld into Sebastian's mouth, another glow surrounding him as he shoved it down his throat.

Sebastian suddenly opened his eyes, letting out a roar of a yell as he threw everyone off him and put up a shield, panting for breath as he sat up, shaking with effort before falling back down.

"Sebastian!" Ominis said in relief, throwing his arms around him and crying again.

"Everything hurts." Sebastian said weakly.

"I would bet." Garreth said, sounding relieved as well as he put the empty vial back into the large bag he'd grabbed before heading here. He'd shoved tons of potions in there, and now he was glad he had. "You took some seriously crazy magic. I've never seen anything like that."

Sebastian felt his breath freeze in his lungs as he realized what had happened. "Diane-" he said in a strained voice. "Where is she?"

"They took her." Anne said solemnly.

Sebastian let out a loud exhale, his eyes wide with pain. "Took her..." he said in a wavering voice. He closed his eyes, gritting his teeth and gripped at the ground, taking a fist full of snow as he tried to keep from getting too emotional. He couldn't stop it though, so he brought his other arm over his eyes as he let out a wavering breath, choking back a sob of pain.