Voltaic Falling

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Beatrice insides flared in pain. She wanted to tell Bill that she was okay, that she would be fine. She wanted to get his hands and comfort him. She trashed against her own bindings, she couldn't move or tell anyone she was okay. At least, not yet. 

Remus after a week after the battle at the department of mysteries was still a walking mess. He couldn't believe he was reliving the agony of Aurora, but now with the girl he raised as his own. Every time he saw her pale and unmoving body he wanted to cry and pray to whoever heard him to bring Beatrice back unharmed. Tonks was sporting a similar feeling, her insides were rotting in guilt. She could not help to think that maybe Beatrice's power had to remain untapped and that they should have never pushed her that hard. 

Sirius tried to pass by time with his godson, but even they knew that it was not a time to be happy or jolly. Harry saw as the older man had resorted to drinking more and he would blame himself for the damage. He told the story for the order meeting, with much struggle he managed to say;

"I did not even think twice. I had to save my niece. She's like a daughter to me, and the only thing that makes me want to be better because I wasn't for Regulus. When Bellatrix picked up her wand and aimed for Beatrice I just didn't think, and so I placed myself in front of her. I didn't care, I would take a million cruciatus curses for Tris. When I did not feel anything, I opened my eyes to see  Aurora's currents, but this one shined even brighter. Soon, I saw that they belonged to Beatrice who was struggling to hold the curse before it hit me. I saw her growing weaker by the second, her left side was bleeding profusely. I honestly did not think she would be able to destroy the curse, so I decided to take it for her. That's when she just started to scream. I-I could not even see her, I tried to reach out to help her, I saw how she disintegrated the killing curse in a matter of seconds. I saw how she turned death eaters into dust the minute they were swallowed whole by her currents. When I reached for her, her skin was literally burning against mine. She just collapsed. She did not realize what she was doing. She had her eyes closed in the effort and every organ in her was shutting down. Of course, she couldn't see or hear anything. If the curse had hit me, this wouldn't have happened". 

Remus put a comforting hand in his best mate's shoulder in understanding. Kingsley regretfully stood and said, 

"Sirius, you are a free man now. The ministry decided that today, you ought to now. I have come bearing bad news. Cornelius wants Beatrice to be the face of the new ministry. He wants to make her an Auror as soon as possible and wants her on the field for all the missions. He wants her to hunt down Voldemort. They say that as soon as she is out of the hospital Beatrice will be trained by competent Aurors and worse, they fear her power too much, so they want to have her under the imperius curse to do the ministry's biding. 

Because of this information, Beatrice Black shall go into hiding. Her presence shall only be used for mass magnitude missions. We can not risk anything like the department of mysteries happening, or Cornelius getting his hands on her. Either way whether its Cornelius or Rufus Scrimgeour, they all want the same thing- use Beatrice as a weapon".

Suddenly a weary Bill Weasley lashed out, "Isn't that why she was cut from her last year of Hogwarts or forced into training for? Regardless of who had her, the order, the ministry, or hell, even the Voldemort, you've always seen her as a weapon. 

She is so much more than that. It took all this to happen for you to realize that Beatrice is just like us. She feels pain, guilt, and love. She couldn't even mourn Cedric properly because she knew from the start what her training lessons with Snape meant. 

She has gone through a lot of pain that we don't even imagine. Remember that as of right now she's lying in a bed at St. Mungo's feeling bloody guilty for something you can't even fathom teaching her how to control. When she wakes up, of course, she won't be near anything like this again".