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Chapter 14

"Why are we in a strip club?" Harry asked.
"Just relax and enjoy it", Malfoy smirked looking around.
"We didn't come here to look at naked women, we came to find our children, remember?" Harry said irritated.
"Okay, okay, calm down. Look, you go ask the barman if he saw anything and we...we just gonna take a look around", Malfoy said and drugging Ron from the arm they walked away before Harry could protest.
Harry sighed. The bar was behind him. The barman was a tall, bald man that didn't look English. Harry walked there and sat in the only empty chair next to a woman who was obviously one of the girls that worked there, since she was missing half of her clothes.
"Are you looking for some company, handsome?" she told him.
"No, thanks, I just want to talk to the barman", Harry responded getting her hand off his shoulder. She raised her eyebrows to his response.
"Hmmmmm....you're gay, huh?"
"No, married", he replied and she laughed.
"Honey, most of the men in here are married!" she said as he waved to the barman.
"Yeah, but I'm happily married...I love my wife", he said making her give up and to his great relief leave. The barman walked in front of him.
"What you want to drink?" the bald man asked.
"Nothing...um...I'm looking for someone", Harry said getting a photograph of Dolohov out of his jacket and showing it to him. He had casted a spell on it so it wouldn't move.
"Haven't seen him", the barman said not even looking at the picture.
"Please look at it again, I need to find him", Harry said and the man stared at him.
"Are you a cop?" he asked aggressively.
"No...not in the way you mean it", Harry reassured him. "I'm...I'm looking for my son...and this man may know where he is. Please take a look at it".
The barman sighed and looked at the photo. He shook his head.
"I don't know him", he said.
"Are you certain? He could be here around midnight", Harry insisted but the barman laughed.
"What would he do here around midnight? Mop the floors?"
"What?" Harry asked confused.
"We hadn't opened yet at midnight. We open after two a.m. at least", the man explained.
"So no one was here then?"
"Well, the boss was", the barman shrugged.
"Can you get him?"
"Okay", the barman nodded. "Stella!" he called out to the nearest stripper. "Go get Monica".
"Who's Monica?" Harry asked confused.
"The boss", the man responded.

"Wait, maybe we shouldn't do it", Scorpius said as James unlocked the chain around his ankle.
"We shouldn't do what?" James asked absentminded as he tested the keys to unlock Scorpius' chain too.
"Maybe we shouldn't get out of the cell", the said and James looked at him incredulously.
"We're imprisoned and we have the keys to get out and you think we shouldn't?"
"Where we will go? Who knows how many Death Eaters are out there and none of us has a wand!" Scorpius pointed out and James fell silent for a while.
"Okay, say we stay here", he said after some consideration. "What are we gonna do when Yaxley realizes I took his keys, genius?"
"Maybe he won't accuse us if we stay here".
"Yeah and maybe we'll manage to get out if we don't stay here!" James said indignantly. Scorpius groaned as the boy unlocked his leg and pulled him up grabbing his arm.
"Have you thought this through?" Scorpius asked as the boy approached the door searching for the right key.
"No", James said and slowly he turned the key in the lock.

A woman came down the stairs after being called from the stripper. Harry turned to look at her. She was dressed a little 'light' herself but she didn't look like a stripper. She wore gold earrings, a heavy necklace and many rings. She had brown hair and brown eyes and she would be pretty if she didn't try so hard to be pretty. She reached the bar and looked around.
"What is it, Jo?" she asked addressing the barman. He gestured at Harry.
She looked rather indifferenlty to where he was pointing but when her eyes fell on Harry her stare froze. Her eyes searched his forehead and Harry realized with a jolt that she was looking for his scar; meaning she knew who he was; meaning she was a witch. She turned and run up the stairs.
"HEY!" Harry yelled following her. "Hey, wait!"
He reached the end of the stairs in time to see her closing the door of the opposite room. He run and opened the door. She was there in the middle of the room, facing him, pointing her wand right to his chest.
"Get out or I'll hex you!"

Scorpius was following James, who walked ahead carefully in an empty hallway. As it turned out they were in some kind of a castle; it wasn't even the half of Hogwarts but still it was big enough for them not to know where to go.
"Remind me to tell you that this was a stupid idea!" Scorpius whispered to James.
"Are you always so pessimistic or are you just doing it to get on my nerves?"
"Both I guess", the boy answered with a smirk, which faded when they heard footsteps approaching.
"Damn it!" James said looking around for a way out.
"That's great, that's really great", Scorpius said shaking his head. James grabbed him and pulled him in the closest room, closing the door behind them. James stuck his ear on the door trying to listen if anyone was coming as Scorpius turned to face the room.
"Oh, my God!"

Harry looked at the wand pointing at him and considered the situation. He couldn't pull his wand out without her hexing him; Ron and Draco were downstairs probably busy with some strippers and they couldn't help him...but he couldn't listen to her and leave; not when she could provide him with information about James.
"Listen to me", he said using his calming voice, but she didn't calm.
"I'm not listening to anything! Get out of here!"
"No", he said shaking his head.
"Get out or..."
"Or what? You're gonna hex me? You know who I am, don't you? I'm an auror and what you're doing right now can cost you about a year in Azkaban".
"I SAID GET OUT!" she screamed.
"NO!" he shouted back. "I'm looking for my son and you're gonna help me find him!"
"I have no idea where your son is...here I helped...now get lost!" she said.
"Please" Harry said changing the tone in his voice. "My son is fifteen...just fifteen...please help me find him. Do you want the blood of an innocent child on your hands?" he said and her lips trembled.
"I...I...", she stammered.
"Please", Harry repeated. "I promise that I'll make sure that no one will hurt you...please tell me where my boy is!"

"What?" James asked turning to look at Scorpius. He expected to see something scary inside the room by the boy's voice but he saw a perfectly normal bedroom. Scorpius was standing in front of a map on the wall. "Is this the first time you're seeing a map?" James asked and the boy turned to look at him. He seemed terrified.
"Look at the map James", he said slowly.
James rolled his eyes and walked next to the boy. He looked at the map. It wasn't a map of England but of one other country.
"I'm looking at it, so what?"
Scorpius grunted and pointed at a big red pinch on the map.
"This means that this castle is here", he said.
"But we are in the castle" James said and Scorpius nodded. "I don't understand".
"Are you always so slow or are you just doing it to get on my nerves?" Scorpius said irritated. James ignored him and looked at the map again. It was a map of some country; the castle was in that country; they were in the castle...
"Oh, my God, we're not in England!" he exclaimed.

"I can't", she said shaking her head, still holding her wand tight.
"Why not?" Harry demanded.
"He's gonna...I'm gonna...I'm gonna lose the club!"
"Why?"
"I owe them money...they're gonna send me in prison!"
"No one is gonna send you in prison if you cooperate!" Harry said and she lowered her wand and Harry sat in a chair nearby. "Do you have anything to do with the Death Eaters?"
She closed her eyes and nodded.
"Dolohov...he used to come here...I thought he was a...a client...we had some problems with the local police...he took care of it...and he took care of some gangs I owed money to..."
"What did he want in exchange?" Harry asked.
"To take some money every now and then...to send letters from here...to send him...some...some girls...you know..."
"Where's my son? You know, don't you?" he asked.
"I know where their Headquarters are, because I send some of my girls there for the Death Eaters, but I cannot guarantee that your son will be there; though I can't see where else he could be", she said.
"It's okay...tell me where their Headquarters are", Harry said feeling his heart beating fast in his chest; he was a breath away from James.
"It's a castle; I don't know who owns it...but..."
"But?"
"It's not in England", she said and Harry's eyes widened. "It's in Austria".
Okay, maybe he was more than a breath away from James.

"What are we gonna do?" Scorpius asked James. "Even if we get out of this place, we'll be in a complete unknown country, with no way of getting to England and..."
"Stop mumbling!" James said as he walked up and down in the room. "Okay, okay, okay, okay..." he said to himself.
"Okay what?"
"I have no idea", James sighed sitting on the bed.
"There must be something we can do!" Scorpius said.
"What?"
"I don't know...you think of something!"
"I took the keys...it's your turn!" James said.
"I figured out that we're not in England, which makes it your turn again!" Scorpius pointed out and James grunted loudly, then he put his head in his hands and closed his eyes. If they couldn't leave, they could at least alert someone about their whereabouts.
"Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna find a way to send a message to my house...let them know we're okay and that we're not in England", he said and he got up.
"How are we gonna do that?" Scorpius asked.
"Well, they must have owls!" the boy said.
"So we're gonna search this whole place for an owl, hoping we won't get caught?"
"You know I live for the day I'm gonna come up with a plan you're gonna like", James said walking to the door.
"Yeah, that's gonna happen!" the boy said ironically, following him.

Harry run down the stairs of the strip club feeling excitement inside him. Finally he knew...he knew where James was and he was going to go and get him no matter what. He looked around. He had to find Ron and Malfoy first. They weren't anywhere close so he walked to the next room.
A young, blonde woman was getting stripped on the stage while dancing to the extremely loud music and a bunch of men were watching and cheering. Harry spotted Ron and Malfoy right in front of the stage. He rolled his eyes and he got into the crowd, trying to get to them. After a lot of pushing and swearing finally he made it next to them.
"I know where the boys are!" he said pulling Ron's sleeve.
"Harry! This place is amazing!" Ron yelled clearly not hearing him from the loud music.
"I just want to say that I love this investigation!" Malfoy yelled too.
"I KNOW WHERE THE KIDS ARE!" Harry shouted.
"I know too!" Ron laughed. "They're home!"
"Not your kids, you idiot!" Harry said shaking his head and then his eyes widened. "Are you drunk?"
"No!" they both exclaimed laughing.
"I can't believe I'm living this", Harry said indignantly. "I let you alone for like one hour and you..." he began but didn't continue as the woman's braw landed on his head and the other two roared with laughter.
"That is so hilarious!" Ron said and Harry narrowed his eyes, taking the braw of him.
"Laugh while you can 'cause I'm so telling Hermione about this!" he said and Ron's face whitened, the smile fading from his face.
"What?" he said frightened.
"Oh, good you're all sober now", Harry said. "Take the blonde loser next to you and follow me outside NOW!"

James was walking carefully with Scorpius following him. They had already come across four Death Eaters and had managed to hide only for some seconds.
"Where the hell are we going?"
"Hello, we're searching for the place they're keeping the owls!"
"Where is it?"
"If I knew we wouldn't be searching for it, would we?" James said impatiently.
"Maybe we should go up", the boy said tiredly and James turned to look at him.
"Up? What do you mean up?"
"The owls always are to the highest part of a castle, like in Hogwarts", Scorpius said and James' mouth fell open.
"Why didn't you say so?"
"I thought you knew", Scorpius said and James rolled his eyes.
"Uh, you're unbelievable!"
"Thank you", the boy smiled and James grunted.
"Well, we passed a staircase that went up. Come on", he said and grabbing his arm, he pulled him back.
They reached the wooden staircase minutes later. James shrugged and walked up. Scorpius groaned to himself and followed him.
"Seriously though this is getting..." Scorpius started but what followed made him forget what he wanted to say.
The step under James' foot broke and his leg got trapped in the hole. James fell back on the wall and let out a scream of pain. Scorpius hurried next to him.
"Are you okay?" he asked him terrified.
"My leg", James said with tears of pain in his eyes. "I can't get my leg out".
Scorpius grabbed James' leg and tried to move it but the boy screamed with pain. Scorpius' hands were full of James' blood. Scorpius tried to pull his leg out more carefully but it was useless; James' leg was stuck. God only knew how much they both wished for their wands at that moment. And like things weren't already bad they heard voices coming from somewhere up. The two boys froze.
"What are we doing now?" Scorpius asked James scared. James looked at him and then at the top of the staircase; the voices were getting closer. He turned back to the boy.
"Go", he told him and the boy's eyes widened. He shook his head.
"They're gonna kill you if they find you here", he said but James put the keys of their cell in his hands.
"Take the keys and go lock yourself back to the cell and hide them somewhere; this way it would seem like I got out and left you there...they won't hurt you for that", James said but Scorpius shook his head once again.
"No", he said. "We're both leaving", he added and tried to free James' leg again. The boy bit his lower lip to hold his scream back, tears of pain and despair running down his face.
"Stop, it's not going to happen!" he said and Scorpius gave up, yet he didn't leave.
"I'm not leaving", he said; he had tears in his eyes too but he wasn't moving from his side. James would never have guessed it of a Slytherin to be so brave or to actually care about him. He shook his head.
"Go...it will be the same for me if they only find me or if they find us both. Go damn it!"
"No!"
"Do not argue with me when I'm in pain!" James said furiously. "Get the hell out of here!"
Now the voices were accompanied from footsteps; they were just around the corner. Scorpius looked at James' wounded trapped leg and then back at him. James widened his eyes and gestured him to go. The boy closed his eyes and with one last look at James he run down and disappeared around the closest corner.
James leaned back on the wall relieved, just as Dolohov appeared on the top of the stairs.

-Angie-