The Broken Ones

Chapter Six

TW, Sore subjects such as forced abortion, trauma, blood, and death

Mattheo's POV

it's been 3 days since I found Salem in the Owl Tower and finally this morning, she let her mental block down for a split second to let me know we were leaving first thing tomorrow morning. I didn't think she'd let me go with her, but I couldn't let her go alone. I haven't told anyone that we are leaving, so the guys are trying to make plans to go to Hogsmeade tomorrow and I have to pretend I'm going to be here. 

Theo notices I'm staring at Salem "She is a mystery, isn't she?" He throws an arm over my shoulder and looks at Salem in a way that makes me want to punch him in the nose. 

In a way to cover up the fact that I was staring at her listening to her telling me the plan for tomorrow I deflected and said "I'm trying to get into her head to see if I can get some secrets to make her life a living hell" I turn and look away from Salem and go back to eating  

"Why do you two hate each other so much?" Enzo asks from across the table. I don't like how much they've taken a liking to Salem, It's like she could ask them to do anything and they would, no questions asked.

"We have history," I say and hope they'll change the subject. They do, Cassiopeia Walks over, and Blake Zabini's entire mood changes, I saw them dancing at the party the other night. He'll probably just use her and leave like he always does.

Cassiopeia and the guys start talking and I take this as my opportunity to leave before they drag me into the conversation, I leave and head to my potions class.

The Next Morning 

Mattheo's POV

I wait for Salem but it's 10 minutes past when we were supposed to meet, so I go to her dorm and find her still asleep. I look around and her bags are already packed, so I go into her closet and get her an outfit. I get her some black jeans, a Slytherin jumper, and her combat boots.

I go over and try to wake her up "Salem." Nothing. "Salem, Wake up." nothing. Ugh, she's always been hard to wake up. "Salem!" I say a little louder and shake her, next thing I know I have a knife at my throat. She looks so savage and scared. "Salem," I say trying to get her out of her trance, but it doesn't work. fuck. I keep trying to get her to focus and realize but it doesn't work. fuck fuck fuck, I haven't seen her like this in a while and I forgot how hard it was to get her out of it. She starts pressing the knife harder to my neck. Shit. She's crying now. "Salem, It's me." she's stuck in her mind, and her body is in survival mode. So I do the only thing I can think of, I slam into her mind with every ounce of me and I'm able to slip into her mind. I find her in one of her memories. The day our child died. I watch it happen all over again, I see Salem writhing in pain as our child dies inside of her, I see her tears and the blood mixing on the floor. I hear her screams and my father's laughter. I run up to her dream form and look her in the eyes, they're pitch black. "Salem, Mi Estrella, It's me, Look at me" I brush her hair out of her face, her eyes go back to their gorgeous green, and she's back. She looks at me for a second and then I'm being thrown out of her mind.

When we both come back to reality she has pressed the knife so hard to my throat I'm bleeding, when she realizes what is happening she jumps back and drops the knife. "you- I- Wha-" she is panicking. "It's okay" I grab both sides of her face, making her look at me. "I am okay." she relaxes a bit before looking at the clock. We are officially 30 minutes past when we were supposed to leave. "don't worry I grabbed you some clothes already get dressed." she looks like she wants to object to me picking out her clothes, but she looks at the time again and decides not to delay us any further. She goes to get dressed and she walks back out with a first aid kit. She goes to open it, I'm fine, Salem it's not that bad it has basically stopped bleeding already." She gives me a look that tells me I'm not leaving this room until she has doctored up the cut, so I let her. While she's tending to my cut she says "thank you," she says it so softly, I think I imagined it. "for what?" I say trying to figure out what I did to earn her thanks. "for getting me out of that horrible place, back then, and now." she says and then acts like we weren't talking about anything important. She finishes fixing my neck and she puts some sort of goo on it and it instantly feels better. "what was that you put on my neck" 

"Marmite Ink," she says and stands up to grab her bag. "what?! why would you put marmite ink on my neck," She looks utterly bored with this conversation and says "it helps heal and has pain relief abilities" 

"It's not proven to do any of that!" I say and then I remember who her dad is. "it was proven to me, by my dad when I was 5 and he snuck into the manor and helped heal the scars that my mom gave me, and I have used it ever since. If you are going to question my judgment this entire trip then you can stay here." she says and then walks out, reluctantly, I follow her.

We had to walk off of Hogwarts property so they wouldn't get alerted immediately. and then we apparated to her dad's house, I have never been in the room with her father for more than 3 seconds and he always looked like he wanted to kill me. I don't blame him. we walk up to the front door and there's a note that says. "Key under the mat, I'm in the briefcase come on in." Salem gets the key and opens the door, we walk to the briefcase and she opens it, it looks like a normal briefcase. "what does he mean 'in the briefcase?'" I ask and Salem gives me a look like I'm about to lose my mind. she whispers to the briefcase. "Nihil mali volo" and it goes from a normal briefcase to having a staircase going into it. She walks down in and I follow her.

When we get down we are in a shed-looking building. "where are we?" I ask, Salem looks at me, her eyes twinkling. "only the best place on earth" She walks out of the shed, and it is a whole world down here. She walks from habitat to habitat petting creatures that have been determined 'unsafe' by the ministry or magic. I tried petting one and she swatted my hand away "Are you trying to lose a finger?" she said and looked at me like I was crazy. "you just touched it, why can't I?" I say genuinely curious, There are very few things I don't know about and magical creatures are one of them. "They know my scent and I know where to pet them so they don't feel threatened." 

"how do they know your scent? It's been years." I say and look at her, she continues walking, "Time works differently here, 50 years our time is only a couple their time." I go to reply but she screeches and takes off running, it takes me a moment to see who she's running to, but it's her dad and he looks the same as he always has. she hugs him and asks how he's doing he says he has some news and then we hear a female voice "Newt, sweetie who is that?" Salem tenses and the fountains around us freeze in place. It's a short female with short brown hair, but the most noticeable feature is the huge pregnant belly she has. when Salem sees it the water from the fountains turns to flames. The female gasps and backs up reaching for her wand. "This is Tina, My girlfriend." Salem is on high alert, in an attempt to calm her down I reach over and squeeze her hand, it helps a bit but the flames are still where the water used to be. "Newt who is this? why is she in my home threatening me?" Tina says in a bitchy tone, emphasizing the My's in the sentence. "It's not your house it's mine, My home, and my dad, and if I wanted you dead, you'd be dead," Salem says through gritted teeth and the flames turn to ash. "Salem I should have told you I'm sorry for springing this on you, that is my fault." her dad says in a soothing voice and Salem immediately relaxes and smiles up at her dad. "It's okay, It was just a shock." The fountains start working normally again. I let go of her hand.

"just a shock?! You could have killed me!" Tina says and Salem tenses again but quickly relaxes, Clearly trying to keep her emotions even so she doesn't upset her dad. "Tina, don't talk to my daughter that way," Salems' dad says in a stern voice. Tina looks at him shocked and then storms away, He follows after her. I try to lighten the mood and jokingly say "Well that was a shock huh?" and then she explodes "Who does she think she is?! Acting like she didn't infiltrate MY home! The one place I've ever felt safe!" she starts crying and quickly looks away, I let her. Hating her is the only way I can cope with Loki's death. So I look away and ignore the gnawing feeling in my gut, I hate seeing her cry. I went to walk away and she said "You don't know your way around you're going to get lost" She stopped crying. "where are we going to stay?" I ask.

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