We’d gone maybe half a dozen steps before the sounds started. There were shouts, as well as some muffled explosions. Bright lights of various colours flashed from that top row of tower windows – enough to tell me there was a full scale duel happening up there. It ended with a loud bang that left my ears ringing as the top of the tower disappeared in multicoloured fireball. I stumbled and would have fallen if Bulstrode hadn’t turned and grabbed my arm with surprising strength.
“Move, damn you!” she sobbed. It took a moment for it to hit me. This was for real. I was escaping.
While most of my mind tried to wrap itself around that thoroughly foreign concept, a small corner was curious about the girl’s reactions. I had a sinking suspicion I didn’t really want to know right now. We’d gone maybe a hundred steps when I started hoping we were near the edge of the wards, and that Bulstrode’s plan included a port-key as well. My physical reserves were flagging and I wasn’t how much farther I could walk without a break.
As if in answer to that thought, a detestably familiar voice broke in. “Not another step, both of you,” came the smug voice of Lucius Malfoy.
uh oh…
That’s it? More more. When are you going to post this on ff.net?
This is likely to be just done here for now. Sort of an off-the-cuff experiment with little beta-work done on it.
Previous installments are in the archives here.
Thats a pity, well as always I look forward to more.
Nice little addition. So, the H/MB contest is still under way?