Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter, J.K Rowling
Author's note – I love Dobby and couldn't bear that he died.
Sorry, one shot only.
Set during the clean up after the final battle.
Meanwhile back at Shell Cottage a mound of earth was trembling in the garden. Then all of a sudden a small hand shot out of the ground, this was soon followed by another and a long nose which gasped in the air. Then Dobby burst free of the ground! After he had gained his breath back Dobby looked around while brushing dirt off of his filthy pillowcase and his eyes landed on the pure white stone with the messy carving that Harry had done marking Dobby's bravery and his existence. The stone was the only clean and pure thing left in this world. He went shakily towards Shell Cottage and in search of knowledge of Harry Potter and the war but of course Shell Cottage was empty as everyone was away at Hogwarts fighting against Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Dobby decided to go and find Winky at Hogwarts. He had always had a soft spot for her and felt sorry for her after the way she had been miss treated. He disappeared with a loud crack.
At Hogwarts everyone was leaving after the clean up of Hogwarts and were taking their loved ones home to be buried. As the last few people were leaving Dobby appeared in the kitchens of Hogwarts. He found the door open and all the house elves were wandering back and forth nursing injuries and retuning huge cleavers and knives. He couldn't see Winky anywhere and heard a few of the others asking her whereabouts he knew she couldn't be in the kitchen. It then occurred to him that she might be in the room of requirement where he used to hide her away when she was drunk. He decided to walk and see the damage that had been caused and what was actually happening. As he tiptoed out of the kitchen he first went towards the great hall where most of the noise was coming from. He saw all of the people he knew and were kind to him all the time he had known them, but they were mourning the losses of their friends and loved ones. He knew now wasn't the right time to go up to them. He kept on his path to the room of requirement and where he hoped Winky was, as apposed to lying in the hall with all the brave people and elves and other magical creatures that had lost their lives to save all of wizard kind and the rest of their species.
Once at the correct corridor he hesitated, not sure if Winky would have heard that he had died or even wanted to see him. When he plucked up the courage to enter he found he had guessed correctly and Winky was indeed in here and in the exact same room as he had hidden her. At his footsteps Winky turned around and her eyes bugged with shock when she saw him. She flew into his arms sobbing. After the fighting but before he had arrived Hermione had tactfully broken the news to Winky that Dobby had died at Bellatrix's hand. After Dobby had explained how he had come to be alive, he had fainted from blood loss but once the wound had healed(which was done by Hermione before Dobby was buried) he had slipped into a mild coma of which he had slowly come out of and come around. Dobby and Winky sneaked out of the room of requirement and down to the broom shed where they found the door had been blasted off. They picked the littlest broom and joined the back of a group setting off for home and they flew on their, stolen, broomoff into the sunset.