Chapter Twenty Two

I glanced up shakily and saw him, I saw Orion, he was here to save me, I had been tortured for the past hour by Bellatrix, so much for the "no damage to the package", she loved the cruciatus spell quite a bit, and that's all she ever did use on me, I was worried that I was going to turn into Professor Longbottom's parents, I was going to be insane for the rest of my life, I'd be like Gilderoy Lockhart! But when I looked up again, I realized Orion wasn't there, and he wasn't coming, it was all just a delusion that my mind was playing on me, I'd be stuck here forever..
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"Tessa, Tessa, wake up, please." Strange voices shifted in and out of my ears, they sounded alien to me, and I hardly understood the words that were reaching me."Tessa!"

Confused, I brought my hand to my head, which was throbbing like crazy, I didn't understand, why was there red juice all over my hand, who spilled juice on my head?"Whah." I mumbled, getting even more confused by the second.

"Tessa, your alive!" Someone, no idea who, was hugging me tightly, and crying on me as well. I think.

"Why is there juice on my.." I trailed off, realizing that it was not juice."What happened? Who are you?"

"Tess, it's me, Carla, your sister, Carla Grath." The person sounded really worried now.

"Who?" I repeated, trying to push myself up into a sitting position, everything was all hazy and blurry.

"Ohmigosh, get the healer now!" This Carla person cried out, before bursting in to tears all over again.

"What, what's wrong?" Someone in sickly white robes entered, wand drawn.

"She doesn't, remember me!" Carla said, lip trembling.

"Oh no, this isn't good, the last time we came across something like this was, so many years ago." The healer muttered. "I'm sorry love, but this is irreversible, I can't do anything for her.

"You have to! You have to save her!" Carla persisted angrily through her sobs.

"Carla, it's just like my grandparents, Frank and Alice Longbottom, there is nothing we can do." Someone else spoke up.

Then everything began to sift in to place, Bellatrix, Carla, Orion, Alexandra, the Longbottoms. The next thing I knew I was shrieking uncontrollably, shrieking and crying and writhing in pain.

"No, no, no." I began to scream through out all of this, remembering everything all to clearly."ORION!"