End of Sallow

I'm into you

A/N: This chapter is a combination of 'My troubled heart is a million miles away' and 'We're just lonely hearts looking for melodies' and its still pretty short in comparison to most of the chapters. ._. Fennic kinda took the spotlight of Charlie's POV so. I dunno. Enjoy.

Theo was roughly shaken awake in the middle of the night from his spot on the floor. He squinted, finding Alec above him, eyes wide.

"Come on!"

"A-Alec? Aren't you supposed to be at that school?"

"Snape told me you got yours too, is it true?" He asked in an excited whisper.

"My what..?" He asked, starting to get nervous. Alec's eyes were always a bright blue but the intensity of the excitement in his gaze was something else entirely. He looked mad, in both senses of the word. Crazy and angry.

"Your magic!" He hissed.

Theo shuddered. Yes, ever since his "magic" came in. Podex had been extremely attentive to him and his abilities.

"Yeah.."

"Up," he said, yanking Theo up by the neck of his sleep shirt. "With me. Yer comin' with me."

"Where?!"

"Lower your fuckin' voice, let's go!" He said, dragging Theo out of the room. Theo glanced behind him, where all the kids continued to sleep on their beds – and some on the floor – peacefully. As if Alec wasn't being a bit loud, or as if they couldn't feel this energy that Alec was giving off.

Alec dragged him out of the building and then there was a strange pulling sensation. As if his body were yanking and pushing and pulling from within him. Then there was a rush of wind and a loud 'pop.'

And they stood in some type of catacomb.

"What the..?" Theo squeaked as Alec released him and ran around the catacomb, looking at everything. The tombs, the floors, the walls. He was inhaling deeply and wandering about.

"Oi, c'mere!" Alec shouted from a different room he'd found. Theo followed the sound of his voice, his entire body trembling as he walked through an opening that seemed to be made from human bones. Then there was a bridge made with human bones.

Theo was trembling, the air in this catacomb was... heavy. Dark. It pulsed around him as he finally made it to where Alec was. He stood in front of an area that could have been a shelf where there were tombs, relics, and other unmentionables that Theo would rather not look too hard at.

"He was here..."

"Alec, where are we?"

"Feldcroft!"

Theo gave him an odd look. He'd never heard of that place before "...Where?"

"This is the place he grew up! He was in this catacomb at some point or another, I can feel it."

"Who are we talking about?" Theo asked, rubbing at his eyes. He was usually all for Alec's sneak outs and activities, but this was all far too much to take in.

He was supposed to be at some type of boarding school. But then he was at the orphanage. Talking of magic, of all things, and now they were in feldcroft which was...

"Where are we?!"

"Scotland!"

"Scot- How?!" Theo asked, suddenly alert again.