TW: slight mentions of sexual assault and rape
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Natalia was closing up one night when she heard the door open.
"Sorry we're closed," she said while putting something away.
"Can we talk please?" the voice asked. Natalia looked up and her expression changed and her fists clenched.
Three weeks had passed since that night at St. Mungo's and it was like Sabrina had disappeared from the face of the earth. No one had heard from her or seen her since then.
Natalia, to be honest, was extremely happy that she disappeared but there was something off about it. It didn't seem like something she would do especially after threatening Fred and Natalia.
"Get the fuck out of here."
"Natalia-"
"No. You can't just come in here after threatening my life and my child's life. You can't come in here after you threatened my boyfriend."
"I'm sorry. That wasn't me."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"These past few months have been a blur for me. It was like one day I was okay and now it feels like I woke up from a coma. The past three weeks I've slowly been gaining memories back from the last 4ish months," Sabrina claimed.
"Yeah right. Do you really think I'm that fucking gullible?"
"I'm telling the truth," she said, her voice cracking with tears running down her cheeks.
"Sabrina you threatened my life and my baby. How am I just supposed to believe you?"
"I'll do anything. I'll take veritaserum or something but I promise I'm telling you the truth." Natalia didn't say anything but nodded.
"Fred!" she yelled.
"Yeah Nat?" he responded.
"Can you bring the veritaserum?"
"Umm yea sure but why?"
"I'll explain when you get here," Natalia said before looking at Sabrina. She looked genuinely sorry and that's what scared Lia.
Fred walked up and almost dropped the bottle.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" he said angrily while looking at Sabrina.
"Fred-"
"Get behind me Nat."
"What?"
"Get behind me. She might hurt you," he said like it was obvious.
"Give me the goddamn bottle you idiot," she said while snatching the veritaserum from him.
"Open your mouth," Natalia instructed Sabrina. Sabrina did just that, letting the veritaserum soak into her bloodstream.
"Okay. Are you telling the truth right now?" Natalia asked.
"Yes. I am."
"Okay then why did you threaten me and Fred?"
"I think I was put under the imperio curse a few months ago. I remember going to a Gryffindor party and I was having fun before leaving to go to the bathroom. After that it was like I couldn't remember what happened or what I was doing. I had no control over my body."
"Do you know who could have possible done this?" Fred asked, intrigued.
"There is one person who could've done it."
"Who?"
"Do you know a Josh?"
"Josh Williams?" Fred said, sounding like barely a whisper.
"Yea the one who was in Ravenclaw. He's the last person I saw that night before I blacked out."
"Shit," Fred said before leaving the room. Natalia ran after him, walking into the room and seeing him punch the wall.
"Fred."
"What?"
"Did you just punch the fucking wall?" Natalia asked, slightly disappointed.
"Shut up. Also you're sure she's telling the truth?"
"We gave her the serum. There's no way she could be lying."
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Natalia came back out to the front of the store to talk with Sabrina.
"I'm sorry Natalia," she said, her voice breaking.
"It's fine Sabrina."
"No it's not. I threatened you and Fred, that's not me. I'm not that type of person."
"You were under a curse. No one is the same after that happens to them," Natalia said sweetly. Sabrina did fuck up recently but it's not like she had a choice. She was just a girl who was forced to do something she had no say in.
Sabrina just kept crying but Natalia didn't know how to comfort her. She had done this before for Tori and Bella but she didn't know Sabrina well enough to make her feel better.
"There there," Natalia said while stroking her hair, holding her in a hug. She heard shuffling coming from behind her so she turned around and noticed Fred standing there distressed, running his hands through his hair.
"Nat we have to talk," Fred said gruffly.
Natalia nodded before turning to Sabrina. "Sabrina are you okay with being alone for a few minutes?"
"Yeah yeah it's fine," she said, sniffling. Natalia let go of her and walked to the back with Fred.
"What's up?"
"It can't be Josh."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean he's rotting in fucking Azkaban. How the hell is he supposed to control her when he doesn't have any fucking magic or connection to the real world?"
"Shit. I don't think Sabrina's lying though. As much as I hate to admit it, she looks genuine. And plus she got cursed before we sent him to Azkaban, so maybe he originally imperio-ed her and someone took over for him?"
"That's smart. Who could it be?"
"It could be-" and before Natalia got to finish her sentence, she heard a loud scream. Fred and Natalia ran out to see Louis, Natalia's ex-boyfriend, holding his wand to Sabrina's throat.
Fred tried to move to bring out his wand before Louis shouted.
"If you make one move, I'll fucking kill her," he yelled.
"Let her go. You don't want to hurt her Louis."
"The curse wore off. It fucking wore off and now she knows what I did. She told you what I did. I have to do this."
"Natalia get behind me."
"Fred-"
"No. Get the fuck behind me. You're pregnant and he might do something to you."
"He won't do anything-"
"Shut up! Both of you shut the hell up!" Louis shouted. Sabrina was still being held next to him, tears flowing down her face.
"Louis look at me," Natalia said. "Why are you doing this?"
"You got my brother sent off to Azkaban."
"He was a bad person," Natalia said calmly. Stress wasn't good for her right now but she was on the verge of losing it.
"He was my brother! He was the only person who understood me!"
"Louis he hurt a lot of people. He raped me. He sexually assaulted my best friend."
"Tals he's a good person-"
"You don't get to call me that and definitely don't call him a good person."
Sabrina's cries were getting louder and louder which is why Natalia decided to say what she did,
"Take me instead."
"Nat-" Fred said before Natalia interrupted him.
"Let Sabrina go. She's innocent. Take me instead. Hurt me." Louis agreed and let go of Sabrina and pushed her out and Fred caught her before she fell to the ground. After all, he wanted Natalia to himself. That was his whole plan.
"Nat no," Fred cried out.
"I love you Fred," she said before Louis grabbed her. He stuck his wand to her neck so she wouldn't move.
"No no no no no. Nat you're not letting him do anything," Fred begged.
"It's either me or her," she said looking at Sabrina, "and she didn't do anything wrong. He wants me."
Before Fred could say anything, Louis apparated him and Natalia out of the store.
"NO!" Fred yelled. George walked in with Lee to see Fred punching the walls, blood dripping down his hands and Sabrina crying on the floor.
"What the hell happened in here?" George asked, baffled to see his twin brother breaking down.
A/N:
so... that originally was DEFINITELY not part of my plan but when i started writing it kind of just flowed out so um yeah
i'm so sorry for not updating at all this weekend, i was planning to update saturday but then my friends came over and i was too tired to write at night and then sunday's are my homework days but i still wrote even though i shouldn't
- ms. lube
