Four Times A Charm (Sequel to Blood Moon) #Wattys2016

Chapter Three, Taken

Chapter Three, Taken

Victoria's P.O.V.:

James and I had been following that Artemis's scent for hours after Dumbledore had sent us out. We followed it to a dead end, but what was the strangest thing is even though we could go no further her scent was the most concentrated in this area and it just angered and frustrated us as we knew we only had a limited amount of time to bring her back to the warehouse. "James what're we gonna do. We can't go back empty handed otherwise we'll be ripped to pieces." I said looking to my mate.

Even though we're vampires Dumbledore had made it perfectly clear what would happen to us and that he had spells that could kill us before we could reach him, which he proved by using it on Laurent when he refused to go after Artemis. I'm sad to say he turned to ash quicker then what either of us were expecting. After that James and I swore that we'd be on our guard around Dumbledore from now on and try not to do anything that would warrant us to be in the same situation as Laurent.

"We will stay here and observe what happens so we know how often Artemis is with others that way we'd know when to take her." James said with a devious smirk on his face that I love. Wrapping my arms around his neck I kissed James as passionately as I could smirking as James kissed me back with twice the ferocity. Now all we had to was sit and wait for the right moment to snatch Artemis away from her loved ones and take her to Dumbledore. And when those who cared about her realised she was gone it would be too late. 'Oh what a shame.' I thought smirking deviously as I finally got to put my gift to good use.

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"Artemis here let me take Teddy up to bed for you. You know your not supposed to be carrying him." Arthur told her firmly as he picked up the tired toddler.

"I know I'm sorry Arthur it's habit I guess." Artemis sighed she hated not being able to do things for herself and for Teddy without needing help but she wouldn't change it for the world as she didn't want to do anything that would harm her baby. "I know sweetheart by try to remember that you don't have to do everything by yourself anymore or ever again as there will always be people to help you." Arthur said kissing Artemis's forehead before heading up to Teddy's room and placing him in his cot ready for Artemis to tuck him for his afternoon nap.

"Now I'm going to be working out back in my shed for a bit. Dobby is making the both of us some lunch as we speak and he will bring you up your medicine as well. Why don't you have a little sleep as well as I know you haven't been sleeping well the past couple of days. I've told Dobby to wake you up when lunch and if you need anything just call Dobby and he'll either get it for you or come and fetch me. Don't worry Artemis everything will be fine I promise now get some sleep." Arthur said giving his daughter in all but blood a comforting hug.

"Okay." Artemis said through a yawn as she finished tucking Teddy into bed giving him a kiss to his forehead before waving good bye to Arthur before heading through the adjourning door into her room hoping to get some peaceful sleep for once.

***

There was a bright flash of light and a loud cracking noise causing the already agitated vampires to immediately crouch into a defensive position ready to attack but they immediately straightened up but became more agitated when they saw it was a letter and a package from Dumbledore. "What does the letter say James?" Victoria asked when she felt her mate tense up even more than he already was. Instead of answering he just handed her the letter as he opened the package taking out a large black stone and several smaller ones, which the missive says was a the strongest and darkest ward stone there was and could break down any ward and proceeded to do what he was told to do with it.

Victoria felt her eyes bug out as she re-read the letter Dumbledore had known that there'd be wards and instead of giving them the means to take them down in the first place he'd let then stand here for a couple of days watching who went in and out of the house and now he was giving the means to complete their task but also had the gall to threaten them that if they didn't bring Artemis to him tonight they'd be joining Laurent. "IS HE FOR REAL?! WE HAVE BEEN HERE FOR AGES AND ONLY NOW HE IS GIVING US THIS ROCK TO TAKE DOWN THESE BLOODY WARDS!!" Victoria screamed tearing the letter to shreds.

"Victoria will you be quiet I need to get this right and you don't know if he or that Ron isn't watching us. Now pass me the last one. I need to put it in the centre of the others but it has to be pointing northwest." James ordered stepping back from the arrangement of stones laid out in a circle of complicated Celtic knots all pointing between North and northwest (the large one at the top of the circle with several tiny ward stones surrounding it looking like a planet surrounded by moons. The pattern repeated itself all the way around the circle only differentiating in the number of tiny ward stones around each stone in the circle).

"Now if I've done this right," James said as he placed the last ward stone just ahead if the circle. "The stones should take down all of the wards and you can then use your power to put everyone into a sleep long enough for us to get in and take Artemis." Just has he'd finished the air in front of them shone like a large dome filled with light before it shattered into a million pieces. Smirking James looked over at his mate and smirked signalling it was time to put her power to the test. Stepping foreword with a large malicious grin on her face she let her power seep out of her holding it in place for a good five minutes before releasing it when she felt that everyone in the house would be sleep and wouldn't wake up on their own for a least two to three hours unless they were woken up magically. It was now time to collect what they came for.