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ooc: This is part of a plot being written with sayshisname, amycus_carrow, bigbadpadfoot, hufflechamp, and r_moony. All characters used with muns permission. Warning: This ficlette contains violence.
It was by luck and luck alone that Luna caught the glimpse of Harry rushing out of Remus' office. She had tried to call out to him but she was too far away and by the time she reached the office he was gone.
So she finds herself in an empty office that seems to be in order all save the pensieve that is still swirling. Curious she steps over and within a matter a seconds she's descending down into the memory.
She watches the events unfold and tries to call out as Cedric is taken.
"NO! SOMEONE HELP HIM! CEDRIC!"
The scenes only get worse and her stomach churns as the first bit of blood is spilled. By the time he screams and the potion is forced into his mouth she's screaming for him, shaking a little, and wanting it to end. Almost as if someone hears her plea, she's thrown out of the pensieve and back into reality.
She immediately knows where Harry went and although she's still shaking she runs through the halls and across the grounds. She doesn't quite know if it's fear or anger that is pushing her through the dark but either way she has to get to Cedric...she has to help Harry.
“Merlin please let them be okay...”
Gulping hard, she passes over the spot where she can apparate and disappears.
When she opens her eyes she’s in front of the house from the pensieve memory and she slowly draws her wand from behind her ear. There is no time for second guessing herself as she approaches the door. She knew before she set foot outside of the castle that this had trap written all over it, but that didn’t matter when her brain kept sending flashes of Cedric bound to the chair through her. The images of Cedric are enough to cloud her mind and cause her to make her first mistake.
The cloaked figure moves fast and she barely gets a look at the mask before she’s hit from behind with the Cruciatus curse.
“CRUCIO, CRUCIO! That‘s it dance for me princess.”
Falling forward she cries out in pain. It’s in this moment Luna realizes that NOTHING they could possibly teach her or she could read could ever describe the searing pain the curse caused. Wincing and gasping for breath she shakily raises her wand and calls out, “STUPEFY.” Thankful that the red light hits her target dead on, she quickly crawls behind a large piece of furniture. The laugh her attacker gives sends a chill down her spine.
“You’re feisty aren’t you. Oh but tsk tsk I can hear you breathing blondie...”
He begins to overturn things in the room looking for her and the first noise makes her jump.
“It was noble of you to come, shall I tell the boy of your failure before Carrow slits his throat?”
That’s all it takes to cause the anger to overcome her fear. It rises up in her quickly and faster than the Death Eater can blink he’s disarmed.
“Incarcerous!“ She stares at him as the ropes wrap around his body rendering him unable of much movement. Breathing hard and practically raging with anger by this point she lifts one of the larger objects in the room with her wand and brings it down quickly causing it to topple onto him with a sickeningly loud THUD.
Not caring if she had knocked him out or not, and forgetting about the pain she was in she rushes into the basement, bounding down the stairs her stomach churning again at the scene in front of her. Sirius and Harry are both still fighting, so they weren’t too late and Cedric...her eyes fall on him and her eyebrows lower. Without thinking she calls out, “STUPEFY“ once more and watches as the light hits the man near Cedric. It buys her enough time to reach him, grab the chair as Harry tells her too, and for him to perform the necessary spell to portkey them into the infirmary.
Luna barely registers Poppy’s scream or the others as they rush in to help Cedric. If Harry’s arms weren’t around her she wouldn’t know he was there either. She doesn’t say a word as her blue eyes stare widely at Cedric silently willing him to be alright.
It was by luck and luck alone that Luna caught the glimpse of Harry rushing out of Remus' office. She had tried to call out to him but she was too far away and by the time she reached the office he was gone.
So she finds herself in an empty office that seems to be in order all save the pensieve that is still swirling. Curious she steps over and within a matter a seconds she's descending down into the memory.
She watches the events unfold and tries to call out as Cedric is taken.
"NO! SOMEONE HELP HIM! CEDRIC!"
The scenes only get worse and her stomach churns as the first bit of blood is spilled. By the time he screams and the potion is forced into his mouth she's screaming for him, shaking a little, and wanting it to end. Almost as if someone hears her plea, she's thrown out of the pensieve and back into reality.
She immediately knows where Harry went and although she's still shaking she runs through the halls and across the grounds. She doesn't quite know if it's fear or anger that is pushing her through the dark but either way she has to get to Cedric...she has to help Harry.
“Merlin please let them be okay...”
Gulping hard, she passes over the spot where she can apparate and disappears.
When she opens her eyes she’s in front of the house from the pensieve memory and she slowly draws her wand from behind her ear. There is no time for second guessing herself as she approaches the door. She knew before she set foot outside of the castle that this had trap written all over it, but that didn’t matter when her brain kept sending flashes of Cedric bound to the chair through her. The images of Cedric are enough to cloud her mind and cause her to make her first mistake.
The cloaked figure moves fast and she barely gets a look at the mask before she’s hit from behind with the Cruciatus curse.
“CRUCIO, CRUCIO! That‘s it dance for me princess.”
Falling forward she cries out in pain. It’s in this moment Luna realizes that NOTHING they could possibly teach her or she could read could ever describe the searing pain the curse caused. Wincing and gasping for breath she shakily raises her wand and calls out, “STUPEFY.” Thankful that the red light hits her target dead on, she quickly crawls behind a large piece of furniture. The laugh her attacker gives sends a chill down her spine.
“You’re feisty aren’t you. Oh but tsk tsk I can hear you breathing blondie...”
He begins to overturn things in the room looking for her and the first noise makes her jump.
“It was noble of you to come, shall I tell the boy of your failure before Carrow slits his throat?”
That’s all it takes to cause the anger to overcome her fear. It rises up in her quickly and faster than the Death Eater can blink he’s disarmed.
“Incarcerous!“ She stares at him as the ropes wrap around his body rendering him unable of much movement. Breathing hard and practically raging with anger by this point she lifts one of the larger objects in the room with her wand and brings it down quickly causing it to topple onto him with a sickeningly loud THUD.
Not caring if she had knocked him out or not, and forgetting about the pain she was in she rushes into the basement, bounding down the stairs her stomach churning again at the scene in front of her. Sirius and Harry are both still fighting, so they weren’t too late and Cedric...her eyes fall on him and her eyebrows lower. Without thinking she calls out, “STUPEFY“ once more and watches as the light hits the man near Cedric. It buys her enough time to reach him, grab the chair as Harry tells her too, and for him to perform the necessary spell to portkey them into the infirmary.
Luna barely registers Poppy’s scream or the others as they rush in to help Cedric. If Harry’s arms weren’t around her she wouldn’t know he was there either. She doesn’t say a word as her blue eyes stare widely at Cedric silently willing him to be alright.