Blood Traitor

4.

After a night of little sleep Ana can still remember the voice clearly. An unfamiliar male voice, piercing, scary, determined. Rosie was very worried about Ana who was clearly in shock from what happened. Rosie sat on Ana's bed and stroked her shoulder until she thought Ana was asleep who was actually pretending. Ana wanted to tell everyone who would listen, run to Dumbledore and ask for his protection, send a letter to the ministry but what would she tell? {I heard a voice that no one else heard and I want you to find the culprit that I didn't see....-

Waiting for her confidants Ana stares ahead at the table in the busy library, a busy place gives her a sense of security at the moment and Ana wants anything but to be alone. The book in front of her on the table is anything but something that interests her, Ana has read the book at least four times but that also felt familiar at the moment. Ana orderd Lily and Sebastian to come to the library immediately after their Defense against the Dark Arts lesson from Professor Snape. Snape, who has been chasing the position for years, has finally gotten his way and despite not being the nicest teacher, he is exceptionally good at his job. Ana's last lesson has been canceled, potions from Professor Slughorn. One of Ana's favorite subjects, but the lesson is canceled more often than ever this year, Slughorn's health has deteriorated every year after the Battle of Hogwarts, but his only pleasure is teaching, so Dumbledore grants him the position, despite the fact that his health often prevents lessons from actually being given.

Ana looks at her arms that rest on the table in front of her and sees how goosebumps slowly form, her heart starts to pound and her ears ring. As if a cold winter wind is hitting her body, until a boy enters the library who immediately explains this feeling. Mattheo Riddle enters the library, looking around and lets his eyes glide over the students. Ana tries her best to hide her face behind her hair that hangs straight down her face. Ana knows better than to hope that he is not looking for her, the cold that is increasing confirms her premonition. Ana looks through her hair and sees two black leather shoes.

"Are you coming to torment my thoughts again." The words leave Ana's mouth without her seeming to have control over them, her thoughts left her lips. Shocked she puts her hands over her mouth and looks up at the laughing boy. "It looks like that is not necessary." Ana feels her face turn red, her hands sweat despite the cold that she feels in her entire body. Her hands leave her mouth "Why are you stalking me." Again Ana cannot control the words and they leave her mouth without any approval. Mattheo raises his eyebrow and looks down at Ana who is sitting at the table and tries to explain to herself why she does not seem to have any privacy at the moment, Ana would never dare to talk like that to anyone and certainly not to Mattheo Riddle. "Next time I'll let Filch catch you."

So it was Mattheo who prevented the detention that Patty experiences. "You smell like wood, vanilla and smoke." Ana panics slightly and squeezes her mouth together as a flood of shame washes over her. What is happening......

"Really? Good to know, thanks Longbottom." The boy smiles broadly. He turns his head to the doorway and Ana does the same but there is no one in sight. Ana looks at Mattheo who is focused like a hawk on the door. "Your friends are here, I'll see you soon Longbottom and thanks for being honest." He winks at Ana who is looking at him and then back at the door where Lily and Sebastian actually walk in. Ana looks back to the place where Mattheo was standing earlier who heard her friends approaching from a distance wich is impossible but he has disappeared again like smoke into nothingness.

Sebastian waves to Ana and comes towards her while he pulls Lily along by her arm. They both take a seat at the bench opposite Ana who nervously prepares herself for the words that are about to leave her mouth uncontrollably. "What did you want to tell us?" Lily hangs on Ana's lips who squeezes her eyes shut afraid of what she is going to say but nothing follows, her squeezed eyes are replaced by wide ones and the duo opposite her looks at her as if Ana is not right in the head...

"Are you okay?" Ana clears her throat while nodding her head. "When I said goodbye to you yesterday..." A lump forms in Ana's throat as she thinks back to what happened yesterday. " I heard a voice, the voice got louder and louder while a shadow came towards me that suddenly disappeared because I screamed and Rosie appeared." Sebastian seems a little scared by what Ana confesses, Lily on the other hand looks as if she has just won the jackpot. "So it's about to start." Sebastian nudges her with his elbow, causing Lily to look at him offended and stroke her arm. "What did the voice say?"

"Bloodshed go to bed"

Ana looks at the duo opposite her with tearful eyes, Lily and Sebastian look at each other in shock and then at Ana. "That doesn't mean anything good....." Ana shakes her head after Lily's reaction, who finally seems to take it seriously. "And just now ....

Scorpius and Albus come running into the library towards the trio sitting at the table. "PATTY ......" The trio looks at Albus who is trying to catch his breath to finish his story. "SHE GOT CAUGHT......" Ana wants to kick him to hurry up and finish his story but Lily seems to think the same and moves her hand to hint to Albus that he should hurry up. "Patty got caught stealing certain herbs from Professor Slughorn's cupboard."

So that's the reason the lesson was cancelled it had nothing to do with his health this time but Patty's kleptomania.

"Okay....? And why is that such important information?" Lily rolls her eyes and focuses back on Ana.

"Because they were herbs that can brew a potion that can help someone...... someone who is no longer alive." As if an invisible hand is squeezing Ana's throat she looks at Scorpius who knows how serious this situation is while Sebastian and Lily stare at Ana. "Ana you have to tell them..." Although Lily is right Ana is irritated that she is sharing her secrets with everyone without discussing it first. "What do you have to tell us?"

Ana sighs deeply after which she gestures to the bench where Scorpius and Albus obediently take a seat and just like Sebastian and Lily did earlier hang on her lips every word while she tells what happened and what she experienced last night.

"And just before you all got here Mattheo suddenly stood at my table and......... no matter how hard I tried I couldn't control what I said."

Scorpius clears his throat and looks worried. "Complete control, his father did this to people,he took over their thoughts and actions completely, drove them crazy..... just like...... " Scorpius doesn't dare finish his sentence but Ana knows exactly what he wants to say. Just like her grandparents who were driven completely crazy by Bellatrix and Voldemort, their minds were so torn that they both had to be taken to an institution. Her grandmother even tried to remove her own eyes because she saw things that weren't there. Her grandfather wasn't much better and Ana only knows this because someone told her, her father has never been able to talk about it properly, he suffered from it and still suffers from it. He was raised by his grandmother who Ana never knew and when she died her father was left with no one. He visited his parents once but came home so broken that her mother Katie Bell insisted that he remembers them as they were before the curse destroyed their lives.

"What does Mattheo want from me? I have nothing to offer him." Ana looks hopefully at her friends at the table but no one has an answer and Ana doesn't really want to know either, she wants to be left alone, disappear and never come back but Mattheo would probably find her anyway.

"And now what?"

Albus stands up and straightens his back "You are going to find out what Mattheo wants from you, Me and Scorpius are going to keep an eye on Patty and her friends and Lily and Sebastian are going to find out how you can prevent Mattheo from controlling you." Everyone nods in agreement and Ana is touched by the help of her friends. "Thank you know you don't have to do this."

Everyone scoffs and laughs

"We want to help you and if what we all think is true we need each other, the order of the phoenix is back in all its clory"