The Death Eater Lair
The Death Eater Lair.
As soon as they got outside the magical hotel the were staying in, called The Mooncalf Arms, they decided to do side along apparition instead of taking the BAU vehicles. it was much quicker. Each magical person took a member of the BAU in side along apparition. Ginny took JJ's arm, and spun on her heel. They appeared outside a dark, lonely mansion. The wind was howling, blowing up dead leaves and their was a sudden chill in the air. The mansion was surrounded by a huge forest, making the howling of the wind even louder. One by one, the rest of the team started appearing, looking around and shivering. Ginny walked forwards, knocking on the large Hippogriff shaped knocker attached to the imposing front doors. They were heaved open, and in the doorway stood a tall, broad shouldered man. He glared at her in distaste. Behind him stood a cruel looking blonde women, with sharp cheekbones and cruel silver eyes. Her hand was clenched painfully on the shoulder of a small girl. The girl had dark, curly hair, and a fine boned face. One of her eyes was a beautiful purple, and the other was a deep gold. She had painful looking, claw shaped scars running up one side of her face and showing on her collarbone. Her curly hair was tied with a ribbon and she was wearing a set of black robes, but she looked absolutely miserable.
"Are you Mr and Mrs Clegg," Harry asked politely.
Ginny tore her gaze away from the small girl to look at the adults. The man was broad shouldered, with straight black hair tied at the nape of his neck. His cruel grey eyes stared at Harry, looking at him as though he were a cockroach he wanted to stomp under his boot. The women's hand had tightened even more on the girls shoulder, and she was glaring at them as if she was about to attack. Ginny reached for her wand, unnerved by the evil looking couple.
"What's it to you," The man, Aciano, asked.
"We are from the British Ministry of Magic. We have some questions for you," Blaise answered, fixing his blue eyes on Aciano.
"We will not be answering them," The women, Dahlia, replied stiffly, her lips curling in distaste.
"I am afraid you have no choice," Ginny spoke through gritted teeth.
Dahlia pulled out her wand, and everyone else reacted instantly. Immediately, their guns or wands were pointing at the couple framed in the doorway. Aciano was also pointing his wand, but not at them. He had pulled the girl roughly to him and was now pressing his wand against her throat. The girl was crying silently, her scared face contorted with fear. Ginny boiled with anger. She cast a quick and silent stupefy and Aciano fell to the ground, letting go of the girl. His wife looked at his crumpled form with loathing and then dragged the girl, using her body as a shield. Ginny couldn't get a clear shot. There was a bang, and the Dahlia fell to the ground with a shout of agony. David Rossi had managed to get a clear shot. He had put a bullet through her leg. Harry put magical manacles on the couples wrists and apperated away with Draco in tow. Ginny stepped forward cautiously, watching the young girl. The last thing she wanted to do was scare her. There was another pop of apparition and Luna appeared with Penelope. Luna ran up to Ginny kissing her. She then turned to the girl, taking in her features. She whispered to Ginny that the girl's name was "Aislinn" and she was 7.
Aislinn was scared. One minutes, her father had been crucioing her because she had talked over him by accident, and the next the doorbell had rung and these random people had appeared and taken her parents. She knew her parents were bad people, she had known that the moment they had willingly let the werewolf Fenrir Greyback bit her to prove their loyalty to Voldemort. Before that, her eyes had been the same colour as her mothers, but something had happened and now they were different colours. She had been punished for that as well, and marking her "Noble Face," as her parents called it. She stared at the fiery ginger women and the blonde one, who were slowly walking closer. Their faces reflected an emotion she had never seen on her parents, but she had seen on her older brother before he had mysteriously disappeared after marrying a muggle. She had heard her parents talking about using the "Avada Kedavra" on him, but she wasn't sure what that was. She knew her parents were bad people, but she didn't know quite how awful they were.
"My name is Ginny, this is my girlfriend Luna, we want to help you alright. We won't hurt you," The redhead coaxed gently.
Aislinn wasn't sure whether or not to believe her. That was what Mr. Greyback had said, but then he turned into the big grey wolf and bit her! That had hurt her, alot. And every full moon she would turn into a wolf too. She had scratched down her face, which had been so painful. And then her parents had blamed her for it, and punished her with a crucio. They had locked her in the dark basement with no food until the Perry's had come. She edged away from the stranger, but tripped over a step. She landed spread eagled on the floor, and gasped in pain. Not only did her entire body felt bruised thanks to the curse, but last week had been a full moon and her mother refused to heal and cuts she made. She sat up and stared in fear at the women, expecting her to pounce on her and hurt her like her mother did when she fell, but the women, reached her hand forward as an offer to pull her up. Very slowly, Aislinn accepted the hand, and the redhead pulled her up. Aislinn flinched backwards, expecting a slap, but none came. She opened her eyes slowly. The women was staring at her in horror, and a slight tinge of curiosity. The blonde women, Luna, stepped forward and smiled soothingly at the young girl.
"Don't worry, we won't hurt you. Your parents can't hurt you now either. Would you like to come back with the rest of our team until we can get you a place to stay?" Luna had a calming Irish lilt in her voice, and her silvery eyes, completely different to Aislinn's mothers hard, cold one, gleamed with warmth and kindness. Aislinn noticed that she had slight laughter lines around her eyes, as did the ginger one, Ginny. She decided they probably wouldn't hurt her, and nodded timidly.
"Do you know what apparating is?" Ginny asked soothingly.
"Yes," replied the young werewolf, watching the two women.
They nodded at her, and the blond one gestured for Aislinn to take her arm. She did, and with a crack, the dark, eerie mansion was deserted. The leaves continued to blow around, and the vacant windows watched the spot were the two women and the young girl had vanished.