ALWAYS (Hinny)

Chapter 43 : Where Am I?

Pain. Darkness. My eyes shot open, but the pain made me shut them before I could even see anything. Where the hell was I? I decided to open my eyes slower. I was on some cold floor. In a cold place. My stomach was screaming. How long had I been there?

"Hello, Weasley." I heard a raspy voice that gave me shudders call for me.

"Who.. who are you?" I asked, more confused than anything.

"Me?" He smirked.

I didn't respond.

"I'm a bit disappointed. I would have swore that you knew me." He chuckled.

"I don't know what you talking about."

"Oh yeah, my bad. You forgot." He said, emphasizing the last word.

Still got time to make some jokes.
I bit my tongue, not wanting to test his patience too much, seeing that I was tied to the wall, and that he was clearly in a better position than I was.

"I'm going to give you a clue." He smirked. "I might be the last person you saw before forgetting everything."

I furrowed my brows, and then I understood. "You bastard!" I searched for my wand, but couldn't find it. Of course. "Where's my wand?!"

He just laughed at me, and brought his knife to my cheek. A short second later, a hot liquid was running down my face.

"Be nice. Will you?" He grinned evily. "So as I was saying, you forgot everything, and everyone. Even your family, and even him. Little Harry Potter. It hurt him so bad."

I growled. "But you didn't realise that was useless."

"Oh it wasn't supposed to be. But you see... apparently you and Potter's bond is stronger than we thought."

"That doesn't explain why I'm here, or how I ended up here." I said, though I already knew the answer to the first question.

"My bad." He said again. "We have little helps at Hogwarts. I reckon you know them. At least, little Parkinson knew you ." He smirked. "You" he smiled widely, uncovering his grey teeth, "are the most important element of our plan. You see, either Potter is too late and we will kill you, letting him die of sorrow, either he comes in time, and we kill you in front of him, and then we will do him a favour and will kill him too. We will be heroes." He said, beaming, some evil light shining in his dark eyes.

"We don't have the same definition of heroes." I replied, holding back my fear and tears, determined not to show my weakness when it came to Harry. Harry. HARRY. HARRY! I suddenly screamed in my mind. HARRY!!

GINNY?! He seemed completely panicked. How long had I been here? How did he know..?

I sighed in relief, as his voice echoed through my whole body.

Ginny where are you?! Gin!

I don't know ..

Ginny.. I don't hear you clearly.. are you okay?

Yeah.. I think so.. I.. don't hear you that well either..

"WEASLEY? Are you listening to me blood traitor?!"

"Not really." I replied before I knew it.

Gin.. I heard but his voice was fading.

Harry! Don't leave!

I don't know what's happening! Gin please hold on I will come for you! I promise.

I know! I won't die I promise. I'm with death eaters..

That's all I had the time to tell him, before the connection broke, and I realized that the man was standing before me.

"The gates of this manor are protected." He informed me. "You cannot contact him."

I was completely confused. I didn't want him to get hurt, but I knew I couldn't get out of here on my own, and that if I died, he would die too.

"Let's talk a bit."

"Who are you? You didn't answer me."

"Lesomber. Death Eater and one of the Dark Lord spy during last year. But I wanted to talk about you."

I sighed.

"How did you remember Potter?"

"I don't remember anything that happened before you hexed me." I said angrily. He knew it. It was his fault.

"Than how is the bond still here?"

"I knew it. I felt it."

"Be clearer." He snapped.

"I knew I loved him." I said. I decided to explain. That could give me time.

"But the bond-"

"The bond was always there in a way. When I woke up, I saw emerald green. That's the colour of his eyes." I explained, being careful not to look him in the eyes.

"So?" He asked. He wasn't the most clever
man I had met for sure.

"When someone said his name, I felt something, and I knew that "Harry" was someone I knew, while the other namedidn't mean anything to me." I said, ignoring his question. "Then I saw him, and I immediately felt it. He seemed to care about me a bit more than the others. Even more than my own family, and that's saying something. My mum loves us more than anything, she would literally die for us." It seemed a bit boring to him, but I continued. "When he finally talked to me that first evening, I understood I was in love with him. We grew closer during the summer. And now here we are. I'm locked in a cave with some death water who's wasting his time and thinks that he's able to beat Harry Potter, also known as the one who beat Voldemort."

"Oh, but I'm not alone Weasel. We're plenty here."

"And he is so much stronger than you all are. Why do you do that anyway? You follow the rules that some dead snake made up. He wasn't a lord. He was nothing, and he died like you will, like some insignificant human. Like us."

"You don't know what you're talking about. We're going to avenge the Dark Lord."

"He didn't give a shit about you!" I snapped.

Lesomber's reaction was immediate. He slapped me. And I didn't even care.

"You're not going to win. You are already losing."

"What do you mean?" He asked, trying to mask his confusion.

"They're going to come. All of them."

"Yeah, about that. We just sent them a message, like, two minutes ago, while you were telling your little story. Only Potter will be able to step in that manor. "