Trapped in the Consequence of Time

Curses - Scorpius POV

Al's head hit the floor with a resounding clunk as I instinctively ducked another set of curses, forgetting completely about my shield charm. On the other side of the room Hugo rolled off Lilly and brushed loose plaster off of him, he had a small cut on his cheek but ignored it as he started digging Rose out again. Lilly crawled away slightly, dragging her left foot behind her; she grabbed a wand from under a big pile of rope and span around catching my eye as she did so.

"Sprained." She yelled over and I nodded before looking back at Al. I was terrible at healing magic and didn't have any potions that could heal him. I hesitated for a second and then pointed my wand at Al's ribs.

"Episkey." The blood flow slowed down slightly and I ripped off my jumper and tied it over the wound for somebody else to fix. I glanced up to see Lilly hovering rocks off Rose while she and Hugo dug her out. Rose looked up at me and froze.

"Scorpius!" She screamed and I span around to see that James had come out of his hiding place and was shouting a well-aimed jinx at me. I threw up another shield charm as it tore through my first just in time, James ducked as Lilly sent a jet of blue light at him and I got to my feet removed the shield charm and shot a stunning spell at James before he could retaliate to Lilly's curse.

"Protego." I muttered pointing my wand behind me and then again in Rose's direction. "HEY! James!" I yelled at him and he glanced up as the dummy next to him exploded.

"Levicorpus." He yelled at me and I ducked. What the hell was that spell?

"Stupefy." I yelled back and he sent his own stunner at me. " Locomotor Mortis." He ducked and wisely stayed down as I fired every spell that came to mind at him while slowly edging closer. I was only about a metre away from him when he popped up again and, pointing his wand at me, yelled: "Obruo!" I dived at James as dummies, weapons and rocks rained down on me and tackled him to the ground where we were buried. James shifted beneath me and I closed my eyes, it didn't make any difference if they were open or not, but it was dusty and I liked to preserve them. I fell sideways not letting go of James arms and trying to point my wand in his direction at the same time.

"Lumos." James muttered and I used what I hope was a distraction as his eyes adjusted to the light and snapped: "Stupefy." James grunted and moved again so that more debris rained down on us.

"Avada-" My eyes flew open in surprise and I saw the vague outline of James his face about five inches above my own his wand pointing straight at my chest and my own just missing his head. He's imperiused. I thought and then did the first thing that came to my mind to stop him killing me, I bashed my head forwards and he yelled out in pain as I felt my head connect with his nose and blood poured everywhere. I got my wand straight and tried again.

"Stupefy." The spell missed again and blasted a dummies head to dust. I couldn't beat him in a duel not in this enclosed space where he was happy to kill me. I sighed and looked straight at James' eyes. To win I had to cheat.

"Sorry James." I said through gritted teeth and brought my knee up. Immediately he realised me and his wand fell to the floor with a clatter, I let go of his arms and pointed my wand at his heart, digging it into his chest. "Stupefy." James collapsed on the floor and I felt the tension inside of me vanish and I took a deep calming breath - and choked on the dust. A couple of arrow heads fell from above me and I looked up and stared. A brown eye was staring back at me. "AHH!" I screamed and pointed my wand at the hole where the eye had been a second before.

"Scor won." Lilly said through her laughter.

"Don't do that." I snapped. "And don't call me Scor."

"Whatever Scor." I bit my lip to stop myself giving a scratching remark and contended with an eye roll.

"Move away." I said in what I hoped was a calm voice; I heard somebody scramble up and pointed my hand above me while covering my head with my other. "Bombarda." Everything around me exploded outwards or rolled away leaving me lying on the ground next to an unconscious James. The air was full of dust again and the wall that had buried Rose was complete gone; half the ceiling had come down and there was a giant hole in the ground - half inside, half out - that obviously contained a burst pipe because water was being sprayed up into the air; Rose was kneeling by Al's side and softly murmuring incantations. She glanced up and smiled at me before looking back at Al, Lilly and Hugo both knelt down either side of James and looked at him.

"Imperius curse." I informed them, Lilly glanced up at me.

"How do you know? How did you beat him?"

"He tried to kill me so I cheated."

"You punched him in the nose?" Hugo guessed nodding to his bloody nose.

"More like headed him and kneed him." I added warily. Hugo stared at me and then glanced at James.

"In the..?"

"Yeah." Hugo winced. Lilly looked up at me.

"You kneed him in the nuts?" Lilly sounded really impressed as I nodded slightly. "You broke my brothers nose and kneed him in the nuts?" She looked over at Rose. "Rose?"

"Yeah?"

"You've got a keeper." Rose laughed.

"Hey!" came a voice behind me and we turned to see Amber waving at us from behind the shield charm that blocked the door. I waved my wand and she stepped through the shield charm and walked straight into the one that blocked Al and Rose from me, Lilly and Hugo.

"Make sure he doesn't wake up." I told Lilly, she nodded and I ran around the room first removing all the shield charms and then repairing as much as possible while Rose did some healing magic on Al and Lilly and Hugo kept James in check, not that he needed to be kept in check while he was out cold. I was just finishing repairing the ceiling when Rose gave a very girly, very unRose like squeal.

"You're alive!" She said normally, I was thankful for that, because I couldn't deal with her telling me the obvious while she was squealing.

"Yeah, hey Lilly." I turned around to see Al being squeezed to death by Lilly while he patted her awkwardly on the back and had a silent conversation with Rose.

"How you feeling?" I called over.

"Like I have a giant hole in my side." He called back. "Oh wait I do, my bad."

"You didn't have a very good fight." Came a voice from the doorway as Alexis strode straight in followed by Willow and Orion. "You haven't destroyed anything."

"That's because I've just..." I started when Hugo interrupted me.

"Petrificus totalus." I span around pointing my wand at James who had woken up without us realising and was now frozen on the floor glaring up at his cousin.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Willow directed the question at the room as she knelt down next to James, but everybody looked at me.

"Imperius curse. We had a duel." Four blank faces stared at me while Rose and Hugo rolled their eyes and Lilly and Al glanced at each other.

"The Imperious curse is an unforgivable curse which means that the victim of the curse is controlled by the caster, and a duel is a fight." I explained mentally face palming for forgetting that they weren't wizards and would know this stuff.

"Okay, but how do we get rid of it?" Willow asked.

"We can't." Al and Rose spoke at the same time and then looked at each other surprised.

"We'd have to get the caster to or harm the caster." Lilly continued for them.

"We can get rid of it." Everybody stared at me again. "Granddad Malfoy taught me how, just don't freak." I walked back over to James and pointed my wand at his face and concentrated hard.

"Imperio." After a few minutes James' eyes slid out of focus and I removed the curse.

"What did you make him do?" Al asked, nervously.

"Fight off the original curse." I replied looking at him and he nodded.

"So he's safe now?" Hugo asked.

"Yep you can remove the full body-bind curse." I glanced around the room to see that Rose and Lilly were staring at me with a look of revolution and shock; Orion and Alexis were staring at James while Willow glanced between me and Hugo and James. Al looked at me sideways and I couldn't make out what he was thinking, I just knew that now they would all hate me.

"I'm just going to..." I trailed off gesturing at the door and leaving the hate filled room as fast as possible.

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I don't own anybody, and I don't even know if you can throw off the imperius curse like that but it doesn't say anywhere so I'll assume that Death Eaters knew some trick of the trade like that.