Mattheo Riddle - Born to die

Chapter 44: Escape

3 days later. There are voices outside. The deatheaters found them. Bellatrix comes into the house and screams, "Little bird come to me." She means Michelle. Michelle and Mattheo try to hide, but Bellatrix found them easily. Mattheo looks at her and feels how his heart skips a beat. Bellatrix looks at them and points her wand towards them. Mattheo looks at her with an expression of surprise and panic. Bellatrix raises her voice and says loudly, "Come out! Or I will start shooting spells in this room!" Mattheo steps out and says,"Bellatrix..what do you want from us?"
"I want the little bird," she glances at Mattheo and grins.
"My little bird... I know you are here somewhere. " she waves her wand and looks around. She finds Michelle hiding behind the couch.
"There you are..." she turns to her and grins."Come here, you little bird. Come over here. "
Mattheo looks at her and tries to stay calm. He steps in front of Michelle, trying to protect her in some way. Michelle walks over to Bellatrix, scared to death. Bellatrix points her wand at Michelle. "So Mattheo, you have two options. Either you come with us. Or I will torture her to death. "
Mattheo stands in front of Michelle, protecting her at all cost
"Why would I go with you? he says with a confident look on his face, but deep down, he knows they are both in a dangerous situation. He doesn't care if he dies as long as he can protect Michelle. He looks at her with a concerned and worried look on his face. "Don't go near her, Bellatrix..." he says, trying to be calm, but his tone sounds like he is about to lose his cool.
"The dark lord wants you, Mattheo. And I will make you come with us. So decide! NOW!" He looks at Michelle and sees how scared she is as she stands completely still and is frozen and silent. He looks back at Bellatrix and stares at her with a serious face. His tone sounds determined as he says
"You can keep dreaming. I am not gonna go with you. And you are not gonna torture her or kill her. I am not gonna let you hurt her... So just leave, Bellatrix!" he says with a stern look in his face
Bellatrix starts to laugh "Crucio" Michelle breaks down, screaming.
Mattheo stares at Bellatrix in shock. His eyes open wide open, and he can't believe what he just saw and heard. His heart is about to beat out of his chest, and his breath comes quickly when Michelle screams. He looks at her and watches her suffering in pain as tears run down her cheeks.
"No... stop it, Bellatrix! You are hurting her!" he yells, but he doesn't seem to notice how angry his voice sounds as he says this. He sounds desperate.
"Then accept to come with us," Michelles screams are getting louder. And Mattheo nods. He accepts the offer. "Please, just.. leave her alone. Don't hurt her. "
Bellatrix laughs but keeps using the Cruciatus Curse on Michelle, just to prove that she is in control. Mattheo gets really pissed because there seems to be no way he can help Michelle.
"Fine..." his tone sounds angry."I will come with you. Now, just please leave her alone!"

Bellatrix stops. Michelle lays on the floor. Kreacher runs over to her, and Mattheo signalises him to escape. Kreacher snaps and teleports away with Michelle. And Mattheo...he goes with Bellatrix. He has to.. Mattheo is in shock. The way he has to leave Michelle makes him feel guilty and ashamed. Bellatrix notices it, but she doesn't really care. Bellatrix smiles and points her wand at Mattheo
"Let's go!" *she says. Bellatrix is still smiling.
Mattheo just stands there, frozen and silent. There is a lot he wants to say, but he doesn't know what to say right now.
He finally turns around, looking at Bellatrix, and reluctantly walks away with her.

Michelle wakes up in a dark corridor of a house. Kreacher is by her side. "Kreacher, what happened?"
"A lot happened," Kreacher says as he kneels down next to Michelle. "We were found, and then Bellatrix used the Cruciatus Curse on you." Kreacher seems stressed, and he puts one hand on her forehead and looks at her with a concerned look on his face.
"Where is Mattheo, Kreacher?" Michelle gets upset and doesn't realise what's going on.
Kreacher gets lost in thoughts as he tries to explain it to Michelle as calmly as possible
"Mattheo... he... well... he couldn't protect you, Michelle. He... he was forced to go with Bellatrix." he crumbles.
"We didn't have a choice... Bellatrix would've killed you if Mattheo didn't go with her." he says in a nervous, sounding voice.
Michelle starts to cry, "and you just left him there, Kreacher? Why did you save me?"
Kreacher pauses for a moment and looks away. He feels bad and ashamed for Mattheo for leaving him there. He doesn't want to hurt Michelle anymore. So he looks at her gently and says, "He... wanted me to save you. It was his choice for me to go back there and get you. He told me to save you... so I did. I did what he said." he says, and there is a nervous look on his face.
She remembers that he is the houseelf of Mattheo, too, since they're married. "It's okay, just where are we?"
"I don't know," Kreacher says and looks around.

The place is dark, there is no furniture, no food, no nothing. It's dark and there are walls on all sides. The only light that comes from small windows on the ground is enough to light the room.
"Do you have any idea where we are?" he says, looking at Michelle."I don't know... I haven't been here before..." he looks around, looking for an exit while panicking. His voice sounds stressed and concerned.
"You teleported us here..but can you bring me to hogwarts, maybe? Searching for Mattheo will be useless. I need help."
"Hogwarts?" Kreacher says with a confused look on his face.
"I... I can't just teleport us at the school, Michelle. They will know we are here." he pauses for a moment."Do you think it's a good idea?"
Kreacher is not sure what to do.
"Voldemort got what he wanted. He has Mattheo. So he has no interest in me. So let's go. " Kreacher sighs and then nods.

He points his wand at the ceiling, and he says "Hogwarts" Michelle notices how he hesitates before saying Hogwarts.
There is a green light, and the two of you teleport to the entrance hall at Hogwarts. It's night, and the castle is completely silent. You can hear Kreacher breathing as he stands in front of the doors and looks at her with a serious look.
"What's the plan?" he says nervously.
"The rest is up to me. Kreacher, you were a good houseelf. And I appreciate that a lot. So I.. give my necklace to you. And you are free now. " She takes her necklace and looks at it for a moment. It's something from the Black Family, but she didn't belong there anyway.
Kreacher stares at Michelle for a few seconds as he processes what she just said. It's really hard for him, but he has to let her go.
"So.. Do you want me to be free?" he says with a serious tone, almost as if he doesn't believe it. "I can finally be free?" he pauses for a moment.
"You really mean this, Michelle?" he seems nervous but also excited at the same time. He can finally be free and he is really grateful to her.
"I mean it. You saved me and brought me back. It's enough now, "
"Thank you... you don't know how much this means for me, Michelle. " he sounds both excited and sad as he says this. He takes the necklace in his hands and looks at it. He turns the necklace in his hands and smiles softly. You notice that he is actually nervous to be free. He has been in the family for so long, and this change is scary for him. But Michelle knows that Kreacher is not the bad and grumpy houseelf, it seemed. All depends on how he gets treated. Kreacher looks at her and says, "Thank you again, my lady."
he bows and smiles sweetly at her.
"I know the Black Family was often cruel. But believe me. This ends now. I am not like them. "
"I know," he says as he smiles at her.
He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. He tries to process how he is about to change his life. He is about to be free.
"Well... now I have to go. I am actually pretty nervous. I always thought that i would be a slave for my whole life. I actually never thought something like this would happen, " he says, and then he looks at her gently.
"Go now. I will be good. "
Kreacher nods, and he takes a deep breath
"Goodbye, my lady," he says, and he bows before you. He teleports away, leaving you alone in front of the doors of Hogwarts.