The doctors practice was dark and stale. The smell of anesthetic was wearing off overpowered by the strong smell of chloroform. The office had clearly been ransacked, filing cabinets were ripped open the contents strewn across the floor. small splats of blood trialed all around the room, all the computers were on giving the office a weird alien glow, someone inexperienced had tried to hack them.
"This is strange" I say kicking papers around
"Whoever ransacked the place probably didn't find what they were looking for otherwise they wouldn't have taken the Doctor" Harry points out
"Meaning whatever we need is still in here somewhere" Ron adds.
All the nurses personal affects are smashed and broken, desk drawers are broken open and files are strewn everywhere.
"We're are we supposed to look everything been torn apart" I ask, they must have already found it
"It's hidden in plain sight" Draco pipes up staring at something up a small set of stairs.
"I suppose that makes sense" Ron says walking over to a nearly untouched bulletin board.
"Mione come here" Draco calls, I walk over to him concerned by the tone in his voice.
"What's wrong" I ask, squeezing is shoulder.
"I know where it is" Draco says pointing to a wall up stairs. The wall is long and has no doors, it's us covered head to toe in baby pictures.
"The clinic?" I question confused
"No, the baby wall" Draco chided grabbing my hand and pulling me up the stairs.
"A guilty conscious" I laugh, "you genius, do you think he has Ida's picture up there?"
"No. Not Ida, Sirrah" Draco tells me.
"Why her?" I ask confused, "We are looking for Ida?"
"Because, Astoria went to visit him the day she died, I said goodbye, and they left before I went to work. Astoria sent me a few owls saying she'd be late for dinner, some vague updates"
"You think he's guilty about hurting her?" I pester
"Exactly, he needed to get it all off his chest, find her picture find what we need" Draco says proudly
"But there are thousands of pictures, some are small of almost completely covered. Plus the amount of blonde babies" I say dejectedly
"The Malfoy smirk" Harry says coming up behind us.
A small 4x4 inch photos half covered by a little boys first Christmas card. She had curly bleach blonde locks pinned back in a green satin bow. She was sitting up in someone's lap, probably Draco's based on the pants clapping. On the bottom in neat handwriting was "Sirrah Andromeda Malfoy, 03-15-98 - 06-12-98"
"She was perfectly healthy, almost identical to Ida. Then Astoria comes home in tears. Without her just her blanket. She sneezed once" Draco says rubbing his thumb over the picture. He quickly pulls it down, and an envelope falls to the ground.
"A guilty conscious indeed" I say picking up the ridiculously thick envelope.
Dr. Ivenesh Bukhari
June 15th 1998
There comes a time in each mans life when he must draw a line. As a doctor, Life and the gift of life comes before money. On the 12th of June I made a mistake I let my greed rule over the morals of every sane man. I robbed a young girl to fill my own bank....
Fallon stood behind us, hidden in the shadows
"How long have you been there" I ask still recovering from the shock
"Long enough for know that in exactly one minute Mother will come marching up those stairs satisfied with a days work, she will head to her study, and get drunk" Fallon explains, "meaning it's imperative you follow me"
Fallon lead us down the hall a bit and shoved us into a crawl space. He followed us in closing the door.
"We have to wait, the door was a smart but Mother is smarter. She has four guards marching around, when one moves East the West guard takes the North position, then they circle back, North reclaims West. You need to go through the worker tunnel. Adella will be downstairs in the back freezer room cleaning up, you need to avoid her and hide in the coal bin until she leaves. Then feel around the North wall of the box for a latch then follow the tunnel" Fallon finishes and opens the door to the crawl space, "5 seconds, good luck sister"
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The creaking of the door, the click of heels. Another door opening, ice clinking.
"Go, the door should be open still" I say exiting the small room and darting to the door. As we descend farther into the kitchen and Elf quarters, the colder it got. All the workers were asleep and small fire roared in the kitchen stove to warm the chilly air. The large vault like door lead into a huge meat freezer. I lead James silently through the door into the freezing room. Several house elves were strung up frozen, pigs and chickens sat wrapped in muggle cellophane. Jugs of water and muggle sweets sat on a corner shelf covered in yellow sticky notes reading "Oliver". James walked ahead and into the second room. It was bright pink with fluffy cushions and and ugly bed. A shag carpet. A bloody chair was pushed in the corner by a vanity. Just as promised a coal bin sat in the corner covered in cosmetics. I pushed past James looking around for Adella. The room was quiet empty. I looked over at the ugly zebra striped bed to see a lump.
"Sleeping on the job, seems right" I roll my eyes, walking closer to the coal bin, I hear a voice
"Run"
"James?" I whirl around to see Astoria, fluffy cuffed green silk robe, over a black cabaret dress and a martini in hand, she holds James by the arm.
"Hello my dear daughter" She coos