Chapter Twenty Four

"Tess, let's get out of here." Orion muttered as he pulled himself up.

"Wait," I stopped him as he began to lead me out. "I still have unfinished business with Michael."

"Tessa, you can leave them here, call in the aurors." Orion persisted, giving the other two occupants of the room disgusted looks.

"Orion, the aurors will be to easy on him." I shot back.

"What do you mean by that, all he's done is help Bellatrix." Orion gave me a confused look.

"All he's ever done is help, but he helped Lucius kill my brother in front of Carla and I." I said, my body began to shake again from tears that wanted out.

"Tessa, he'll go to Azkaban, there's not much else you can do." Orion had taken a deep breath before responding.

"He doesn't deserve Azaban, he deserves so much worse! He doesn't deserve to live!" I cried, feeling like a child and wanting to stomp my foot, Orion then put his arms around me and pulled me closer to him, he kissed my forehead.

"Tessa, a lot of people don't deserve to live, but there's nothing we can do about that. I know what your thinking, I know you want to go over there and kill Turner, but I don't want you to leave me ever again, I don't want you to go to Azkaban, I don't want you to have the guilt of killing someone on your conscience." Orion whispered in to my ear as he held me, I just cried harder, knowing what he was saying was true. "Now, let's get out of here."

"Okay," I mumbled in to his shoulder, he then let go of me for the briefest second then wrapped one of his arms around my waist and we began to exit, that's when I caught sight of the horrendous traitor.

"Chris, what are you doing here?" Orion exclaimed, confused.

"He's probably waiting around for Bellatrix, he's the one that brought me here." I spat scathingly, glaring at Christopher.

"Your probably just confused Tessa, Chris wouldn't..." Orion began then trailed off.

"I'm not lying or having hallucinations Orion, believe me." I softly looked up at him, I knew it would be hard for him to believe his best friend was evil, I didn't even want to imagine what I'd do to him if he told me that Sydney was trying to kill me.

"No, you don't understand! I'm your mate Orion, I told you not to go! I didn't want any of this to happen." Christopher pleaded.

"Why did you do this?" Orion's tone was extremely choked.

"I, I was jealous, alright? I wanted Tessa." That made me shrink closer to Orion. "I didn't know what to do, Michael came and told me that Bellatrix would like me to work for her, and then, she promised me Tessa."

"You think I would ever want to be with you after what you did to me, to Orion?" My eyes had grown larger in disbelief and disgust. I would have continued, I would have cursed and hexed Christopher, I would have sent him to the moon, but just then, the door was blown open and there were several auror's there.

"What's going on here?" One with vivid read hair walked over, I remembered him to be Ron Weasley. "Wait, kids?"

"Bellatrix Black and Michael Turner are downstairs." Orion turned towards him.

"And take this one too, he helped them." I put in.

"How do we know we can trust you?" An auror snarled at me. "How do we know you didn't help them too?"

"I'm a freaking muggleborn, can you see me and Bellatrix being best buddies? And Michael, he murdered my brother, obviously were the greatest chums! And Christopher," I paused and glowered at him. "Clearly it's my greatest desire for this creep to kill my boyfriend and try and take me for himself, yep." I rolled my eyes at them.

"We are still going to take you into the Ministry of Magic to confirm all of this, names please." Another, nicer, auror stepped forward.

"I'm Orion Malfoy and this is Tessa Grath." I saw all the aurors look at him skeptically, great, now they thought he was evil...