Summer of Change (GxG) - A Hermione Fanfic

Chapter 16

I was back.

Back in this endless bloody void.

I thought...

I thought I had escaped this place, but I seemed to have come right back.

I was floating weightlessly.

My frustration was building until I tried screaming. I screamed and screamed, but nothing came out of my mouth. It was dead silent. No noise entered this space, and none went out.

I decided to switch tactics and decided to see if I remembered anything.

Maybe it would help figure out why I'm here because I'm not too keen on this place.

I closed my eyes...

And tried to remember.

Remember what, exactly? I wasn't sure.

But I tried to remember anyway.

I went back into my mind and tried to pick out the last memory I had before I ended up here. I needed to trace my steps. I needed to have something to work on.

I needed to remember.

Remember.

Remember...

REMEMBER!

I... I...

Bits and pieces flickered through my mind. I saw flashes of me apparating to Andy's. I saw her comforting me. I saw myself comforting her. I brought up... I brought up that I had found my soulmate and something in the air changed. I remember telling Andy that it didn't change anything, that I still loved Dora, but...

I saw the anger in Andy's eyes.

It swirled like a raging tempest.

And there was nothing I could do to stop it.

The next thing I knew...

The next thing I knew, Andy was leveling her want at me.

Hellfire, she really pointed it at me!

I remember being so scared. Andy looked exactly like Bellatrix, then. I feared the older witch I had come to love, like my own mother, turned into the very thing that hurt me so.

I remember the word her mouth formed.

Crucio...

Then I remember everything going black.

So why am I here again?

Did my mind fracture because of the curse?

Did I survive torture and war to only be broken by yet another Black sister?

I-

I was about to go deeper into my impending madness until I saw silvery-white light off into the distance. I couldn't make out what it was, but it was getting closer and closer to where I was at. The closer it got, the clearer its shape became. When it was about halfway to me, I could tell it was a Patronus.

My Patronus.

An otter.

It was swimming to me. Doing flips and spins as it made its way to me. I was enchanted by the creature made of light. It shone brightly in the darkness. I hadn't realized, but when it was swimming to me, it was also making a path in the void.