Two Lonely Monsters (Marauders fanfic) Book 2

17- Hostage

Sara's life suddenly became very busy. Her days were filled with visiting Harry, baby-sitting John, spending time with her friends and her father, and completing dangerous missions for the Order.
She barely had time to sit down and catch her breath, as she was constantly on her feet.
Despite having her own place with Remus, Sara was hardly ever there. Since her and her friends no longer lived together, she had to physically go out and see them, if she wanted to have a chat with them.
Marlene had recently got married, and Alice had given birth to a boy, around the same time as Lily, so Sara was often at their houses. She also tried to make time to visit Dorcas, Sirius, and Peter, though she often found herself too busy to see them all, every week.

Visiting Mary and John had become a routine, that Sara tried to stick to, choosing to arrive at the same time each day, to help solidify herself, into her son's memory. So that he would remember her, even when she was no longer around.
She knew it was wrong to make her actions too regular, in case she was ever tailed by a Death Eater, as it would make it easy for them to predict her movements. But Sara was tired of being careful, and she just wanted to live a normal life, while she still could.
After one of her visits to see John, she Apparated back home, landing a few metres from her doorstep. When she suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind her.
She turned around, not even bothering to raise her wand, as she just assumed it was Sirius, or one of the other Marauders, who had been waiting for her to return home.

By the time she realised that the people behind her, were not her friends, it was too late.
One of the men in masks flicked his wand, Stunning her, and causing her to fall to the ground. Sara winced as the corner of her head hit the floor, and began to bleed.
Her wand was then confiscated, and a bag was placed over her head, sending her into darkness.
Sara was then roughly pulled to her feet, before being Dissapparated to an unknown location, along with her attackers.
She was then thrown into a wooden chair, and was powerless to stop her kidnappers from binding her arms behind her back. With the Stunning enchantment still on her, Sara couldn't fight back, or even say a single word.

When the bag was finally removed from her head, Sara found herself alone in a large, dark room, that was empty, apart from the chair that she was sitting on.
There was one door in the corner of the room, and there were no windows. The only light in the room, came from an old ceiling light, that had just about enough power to light up the whole room.
Sara sat in the hard chair, alone, for what seemed like hours.
She knew that she might have been able to transform, and break out of the chair, but being a dragon wouldn't help her get her wand back, nor would it help her, once she was outside of the room.

When she eventually heard commotion outside of her room, she sat up straighter in her chair, as the spell had begun to wear off, and awaited the arrival of the enemy.
The door suddenly flew open, and instead of a Death Eater, James ran into the room, looking flustered. He immediately approached Sara, and flicked his wand, removing the Stunning spell, and untying her from the chair.
"James, what the hell are you doing here?" Questioned Sara, happy to be able to speak at last.
"I've come to rescue you. Is that a problem?" Asked James.
"Yes, because you are supposed to be in hiding. You do realise that I am the bait. I was captured to try and lure you out into the open"
"Yeah, I guessed that".

"So you decided to just walk straight into the trap then?" Quizzed Sara, as she threw the ropes onto the floor, and stood up out of the chair.
"What was I supposed to do? Just let them kill you? Because, I wasn't going to let them do that" replied James.
"Please tell me you brought back up at least"
"Of course. Sirius, Peter, Dorcas, and Marlene came with me"
"You didn't tell Remus, did you?"
"No"
"Good. I wouldn't want him to worry. Though I expect he will be very angry, when he finds out, that you left him out of this little rescue- or should I say, suicide mission"
"Yes, I expect he will be. But look, we don't really have time to stop and chat, or talk about how we are going to deal with Remus. The others can only buy us so much time. So first thing's first, are you O.K? Can you still fight? They didn't hurt you did they?".