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Summary: New alliances are drawn when Draco decides to safe Dumbledore's life at the battle of the tower. Harry's curse is more than what they had first feared and now Malfoy walks among the living. Drarry
A/N: So I've been going on in a Harry Potter mania and this came to mind. If you see mistakes I'd appreciate knowing and will try my very best to fix them. Thanx
Infinite Death – Prologue
"I wish things would have been different." He gasped with blood streaming down his mouth. "I'm sorry."
"Draco no stay with me!" Dumbledore pleaded to his sixteen year old student. "Don't give up please don't give up!"
"It's too late headmaster," Draco gasped as his eyes shifted from the wise blue ocean to the deepest of black standing behind the headmaster.
"Dr…" Severus gagged, "you weren't supposed to…"
"Tell mother that I love her," Draco said as his face wrinkled with pain and tears, "Tell father I forgive him."
"Draco!" Dumbledore called out trying his best to look around for an obvious wound feeling useless without his wand and all of his strength that had been taken away from drinking the potion at the cave.
The other death eaters stood in complete shock at the sight in front of them.
Their wands stood next to them instead of in front of them.
Dumbledore cradle the sixteen as if he were six and rocked him in his arms at the floor of the astronomy tower. Draco twitched impulsively in obvious pain as he screamed filling the tower with his cries. Dumbledore cradled him tighter until finally the young Malfoy's screams had come to a halt leaving a ring of inaudible echo at his limb body. From somewhere deep in his lungs he let out a wail feeling what he had felt for his sister so many years ago. He never once thought that he would ever feel this way again and here he was almost at his end and Ariana's face came to mind for the second time that night.
He knew that Harry had witnessed everything that had happened and was glad that his other student was at least safe at the moment. Yet he felt his life slipping away from him, and Draco's sacrifice would have been in vain. The Carrow twins pointed their wands at Severus.
"Help Dumbledore!" Alecto the female twin said harshly.
"What?" Severus asked probably as numb as he felt.
"Save him!" Amycus the male twin snarled.
"What are you saying?" Severus asked as Dumbledore began to raise his head slightly feeling that he was about to pass out while still holding Draco's dead body.
"We all know that you are loyal to Dumbledore." He said, "Now save him."
"The Dark Lord…" Severus began but he was cut off.
"Sent a boy to do something he couldn't do himself." Alecto said, "We watched Malfoy struggled this year and we all witnessed what he did today. I rather die like this boy did then keep following a half-breed lunatic."
"Watch your tongue!" Yaxley said pointing his wand at her.
"Do it now Snape!" Amycus threaten making Yaxley weary.
With a whoosh of his wand Severus put Yaxley and a dumbfounded Greyback into a full body binding curse before rushing to Dumbledore.
Dumbledore couldn't even speak or protest as his breathing had become so tired as tired as his eyes were.
He felt a warm blanket cover him and fill him whole. It was soothing and he forgot everything. He wondered for a second who he was and he liked that sensation until something cold came out of nowhere and grabbed a hold of him. He was shaking uncontrollably before he felt the sick sensation to gag. Green liquid came rushing out of his mouth leaving behind the burn sensation of firewhiskey. But he didn't stop there he continued retching until he felt like passing out in his own vomit.
Then everything was clear and he was fine. He felt weak but he was fine. Realization came rushing as he involuntarily shifted his eyes to the pale Malfoy boy next to him.
"Severus," he said weakly that for a second he didn't recognize his voice.
"I'm right here," Severus said placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Is Draco…" Dumbledore began but trailed off when he saw the look in Severus' face.
"What do we do with this two?" asked Amycus pointing at Yaxley and Greyback.
With the help of Severus and Alecto he was on his feet.
"You have a choice," he told them, "the same choice I gave Draco. Join with us."
"Never!" Yaxley growled, "The Dark Lord will know I didn't betray him."
Dumbledore nodded and turned to Greyback.
"He will give me a place in his ranks!" Greyback said, "My pack will follow my brother if I die. Werewolves will never join you Dumbledore."
"My wand." Dumbledore said and Amycus retrieved it for him. "Aevitas Velum Surdus Achanum"
"What did you do to them?" asked Alecto as the bounded death eaters moved their faces frantically around at a complete loss.
"He made them blind, deaf, and mute." Severus answered.
The two ex-death eaters looked between Severus and Dumbledore.
"Harry." Dumbledore said. "You can come out now."
Within seconds Harry took off his invisibility cloak making the three ex-Voldermont followers almost trip with shock.
"Potter was here the whole time!" the Carrow twins gagged.
"Professor!" Harry whispered hoarsely.
"Are you okay?" Dumbledore asked already getting a steady foot with his strength hoping with all of his might that Harry was unhurt.
"Malfoy…" Harry said looking between Dumbledore and the body Dumbledore refused to look at the moment.
"I'm so-sorry Harry," Dumbledore began but Harry cut him off.
"Professor," Harry said taking a step forward leaving his invisibility cloak forgotten at his feet.
"I didn't expect him to do that," Dumbledore continued but he was finding it hard to speak.
"He's alive," Harry said taking yet another step forward. "Why aren't you helping him?"
"Potter…" Severus interfered before Dumbledore could say anything.
"He's alive," Harry said with a little more confidence.
"I know this is hard Harry," Dumbledore shook his head, "But Mr. Malfoy is dead."
"He's not!" Harry shook his head looking outrageous reminding Dumbledore of last year when he had locked Harry into his office after the events of the Chambers of Mysteries.
"He was hit by the Avada Kedavra curse," Severus interfered again, "Lucius' boy is dead."
"Look at him!" Harry yelled at them pointing at Draco's lifeless form on the ground.
This time Dumbledore didn't look away and stared at Draco's body. He had seen many dead bodies in his lifetime and he knew for sure by Draco's stiffness that he was dead.
Harry passed by him kneeling next to Draco's body.
"Hang on Malfoy" Harry said taking a hold of Draco's dead hand.
"Harry," Dumbledore said softly going to James and Lily's son.
"Professor!" Harry turned to him, "you have to help him or he'll die!"
"Potter step away from him," Severus said, "he's dead."
Dumbledore looked at Harry's pleading eyes and he saw the truth behind them.
"What do you see Harry?" He asked instead.
"Malfoy," Harry said looking confused and frustrated, "He's dying professor!"
"Dumbledore," Alecto said standing closer to her brother, "The boy is mad."
Dumbledore looked at the Carrow twins and he saw how spooked they both looked.
"Do you see him?" Severus asked equally spooked.
"He's hurting" Harry glared at Severus.
"Dumbledore…" Severus whispered nervously.
"Malfoy you git you can't die a martyr now!" Harry called shaking the dead corpse.
Dumbledore hurried to his students calling out incantations over Draco's cadaver.
"Harry I'm going to need some of your blood." Dumbledore said and with Harry's stretched arm he regretfully cut the flesh open.
He put Harry's wounded arm to Draco's blue lips letting the blood pour over them. He quickly instructed Harry to cover his wound as Severus moved to his side waving his wand in similar incantations moving his lips quickly going over the words like water droplets. Dumbledore began to counter act his and together they sounded like a pair of sirens singing out in the ocean's depths.
Dumbledore almost jumped when Draco's hand grabbed his wand hand into an iron grip.
His eyes looked mental and angry.
"Ayn sof mah-vet," he muttered hoarsely sending several cold shivers down his spine. The room felt empty but hot or cold whichever it was it was burning and then Draco Malfoy passed out taking the darkness with him.
"I told you he was alive." Harry said unharmed by the severity of what had just happened.
TBC
A/N: So do tell me what you think! Ayn sof