[fifty four]

Molly and Arthur raced towards the direction of their children as soon as the ring of fiendfyre dissipated around their home. Molly could barely keep her tears in as she scanned the faces of her kids, looking for anyone that's missing.

"Hermione—" Molly gasped, the tears brimming her eyes as she held onto Bill for dear life, her expression filled with so much fear as the realization dawned on her. Her children weren't complete

Molly's words were cut off by shock as Harry spun around to hex Celine off her feet "Potter, what the fuck?" Blaise yelled, coming to his cousin's aid.

"You know something." Harry growled, his knuckles white from clenching around his wand tightly "You be in the fucking dark, he's your—"

"We have to get to somewhere safe." Celine winced. Her hand had caught a sharp rock on the ground when she fell. The sight of her blood oozing down her arm made her woozy, but no, she had to focus. Theo trusted her to do her part. "There has to be a place we can go to."

"Nobody's fucking leaving until we figure out what the fuck just happened and ." Draco's voice was laced with so much venom, all of them winced at his words. The embers from the lantern explosion were still falling, dusting them with the ashes.

They were all silent for a moment until someone spoke up "Mum, where's Fleur?" Bill asked worriedly, his eyes scanning the Burrow for any damages.

"I sent them to the cottage. All three of them. Safer away from here." Molly said quietly, before looking at the blood that trickled down the side of Celine's arm "She's right. This isn't a safe place to discuss this. Harry, the old headquarters..."

Harry looked at each of his friends, his hand tightening around Ginny's "We're heading to Grimauld, and once we're there, are coming clean." He snapped at them venomously, his eyes a dangerous glare of emerald green "Grab hands."

"I'm coming." George said, his voice as hard as the expression in his eyes. He just had to celebrate his first birthday without his twin, no way was he going to stay behind and watch them all fight his sister without him.

"George, Angelina needs you." Charlie brought up "She's pregnant, you can't be serious."

Ron looked at his brother "Go take care of her. I'll send a patronus once we know better." George looked like he wanted to refuse, but he knew he had to take care of his mother and child.

"I'll alert the ministry and Minerva." Arthur said, his voice reeking of determination. They were going to find Hermione. They had to.

Celine's head snapped in his direction "Not until we say so." Not yet. Theo said nobody can know.

"Excuse me?"

"We need to get a bigger picture before we do anything rash." Celine said, her eyes defiant "Harry," she called

"We'll let you know, Arthur." Harry nodded "Please secure the Burrow for now."

"I'll help." Charlie assured "These two need to get to their wives." He gestured to Bill and George

Harry shot Charlie Weasley a grateful nod before he offered his hand to Ron, who held onto Elena with his other. They all grabbed arms and in a split second, were twisting and turning through space until they landed on the ground with a loud crack.

Harry didn't waste time getting through the enchantments to enter the old Black residence. Kreacher was there to greet them the minute they entered "Master has returned. Kreacher suspects something is wrong. Master is never home like this."

"Light the fireplace, Kreacher. This is going to be a long night." Harry muttered as he pushed stalked through the halls, desperately trying his best not to set anything on fire like Draco had just done.

"Nobody, , knew ?" Ginny's voice was quiet, but poisonous all the same. Every word dripped with a dangerous warning, that should any of them lie, they'd be facing more than just her hex.

"Zabini knows something." Draco's eyes were hard on Celine's blue pools.

"Did you go through my mind?" Celine demanded, she forced a glare at Draco, trying her best to make it convincing. She had expected this. Theo warned her.

"What the fuck did you expect?" Draco ran a frustrated hand through his hair "Why do they want me?" He demanded.

" What's going on?" Astoria frowned, her hand gripping Viktor's tightly, afraid that even in the comforts of Harry's home, someone would snatch him away "What did you see in Celine's mind, Draco?"

"I said, why the do they want me?" Draco bellowed, shooting one of the antique vases an explosive hex that made it explode into a dozen million splinters. Elena, who was closest to the blast, flinched instinctively.

Ron shot Celine daggers "You do know something! What can we expect? You're his bloody witch!" He snared. Within a minute, Ron had Celine bound with tight ropes against a chair, his wand aimed directly at her throat "Where the fuck is Hermione?"

"Celine? You had something to do with this?" Blaise's eyes were cold when they stared into hers "Why?"

" I didn't have anything to do with this!" Celine exclaimed, , she thought "I didn't know they were going to do this!" .

"Malfoy?" Harry looked at Draco curiously, but the pureblood heir looked as wrecked as he felt. Harry doubted Draco was in the right mind to perform such pristine legilimency "What did you see in her mind?"

"Zabini, tell them or so help me, I will tear you limb from limb." Draco gripped his wand tightly "I have half the mind to leave this place. I'm certain I can find her with the Malfoy bond—"

"No. ." Celine flinched against the tight ropes around her wrists "All I know is that they don't want Hermione. They know that no matter how much torture or legilimency, she wont give them the answer they need. The person that they want is , Draco, because of the spell."

"Spell?" Elena furrowed her brows

"They have a new spell and they want to use it on Draco." Celine said quietly "Hermione's only the bait."

"" Harry echoed from his distant dream "Rodolphus and Lucius spoke about that in my dream." He said quietly, turning to look at Draco "You leave."

"Don't tell me what the fuck to do. My fiancée is . You expect me to keep still and ?" Draco roared "If they want me, they can have me!"

"No, you don't understand." Celine winced as the ropes began to tear through her skin "They're not going to kill you. They will you. Once they—Draco, you just ." She insisted, practically pleaded.