Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or some characters mentioned in the Harry Potter books. I'm not as talented as J.K Rowling . However, I do own a few characters mentioned and so they are mine and you can't have 'em. Anyhow... enjoy the story!

Aislynn chewed on her thumbnail lightly, staring at the ground distractedly. It had grown dark all ready and it was almost time for her to make her rounds as the security guard near Gryffindor Tower. A long sigh escaped her and her hand fell back down to her side. She wished she could chain up Fudge for all the muggle borns to protect them from the harsh reality that even in this day and age, there was still discrimination. She leaned her head against the wall, lifting her gaze up to the upper corner of the hall... Someday things would be brighter for the future, but right now she feared that Hogwarts was going to become a war-zone. Lupin placed a hand on her shoulder lightly and smiled at her softly,

"Are you okay?"

Aislynn gasped lightly, snapping back to reality again and brought a hand up to her chest to help catch her breath. "You scared me, you bum!"

"Sorry... I thought I'd scare you even if I didn't do anything but stand here." He laughed and exhaled happily. Aislynn took his arm and began to walk with him slowly down the dark halls, lit only by a few candles here and there. She bit her lower lip and gazed up at him, finally letting her curiousity take hold of her.

"What did Dumbledore say?"

"Hmm? Oh. Nothing really... Just explaining something I had asked him about."

"Oh," She glanced back down to the ground. He looked at her and lifted a brow, "why so quiet all of a sudden? You were madder than a chicken that just got it's feathers plucked in there."

"I just... Wish that things could be different. In more ways than one. I wish that those children wouldn't have to go through what they'll be feeling in a few days time. I mean... even their parents will be feeling it as well. Won't someone else fight it? I know Fudge doesn't have authority over parents so... couldn't we just sign a sort of petition? We'll be putting Hogwarts in serious danger with the Death Eaters in full force."

"Everything will be all right. You are a very skilled witch and can stand up to just about anything. I think with all of the teachers here including Dumbledore that things will remain in hand. Just stay positive and keep up your strength, hm?" He smiled softly at her and pet her hand lightly to reassure her. He kept his eyes on her and blinked slowly, as if figuring something out about her and reading her mind. His smile faded and he began to look old again,

"What else did you wish was different, Ais?"

"Well," she blushed furiously. "I... what I meant was... I wish that we could be different. You and me. Instead of meeting every now and then as people in love and then only chatting as if we're merely friends. I feel as if time is ticking against us... always. We're growing older and older and further and further away of what could have been. I always imagined myself growing old with you but perhaps married and with children... Somedays I regret not taking charge and telling you to marry me." Her voice began to tremble as if she were about to cry. His heart fell to the ground and dragged behind him as they walked. In all honesty, he had felt the same way but it must have been a little tougher for her to cope with the light lovers meetings and nothing concrete to fall back on.

"Ais... my condition--"

"Stop it! Stop acting like you're going to fall apart if something remotely nice happened to you! It's not a condition, Remus! It's who you are no matter what you do. You can't stop it and you can't control it! Why do you think I would care about that? I don't understand it. I love you no matter what. I'm not trying to change you! I just want to be with you! Please! I can't stay forever... wondering if we can ever really be and love how we want." Now her whole body was shaking with her voice while tears brimmed her eyes. He always managed to make her cry... he thought. He straightened up quickly. The mental slap that she had given him had made him feel slightly insecure.

He stepped away from her, watched her hand fall to her side and fell back into a shell he had long since forgotten. She watched him grow cold... only seeing it once before in her life and it frightened her terribly to see that look on his face again. It seemed she had pushed him too far and too hard.

"Well then... I guess that's that. Good night." He turned on his heel and walked away from her briskly, leaving her in the darkened hallways. Aislynn stood there, watching after him with a stunned look on her face... a tear streaked down her face and she couldn't be sure but she had a gut feeling that she had just lost the love of her life.

Aislynn awoke the next morning, dreading the day that was coming for her. Everyone seemed to be falling apart on her lately. Remus, Rhiane, Harry, her clock... Even Dumbledore was folding. She got dressed in her most professional robes and braided her long hair, pinned it up and brushed her teeth before going to the mess hall to eat. The enchanted ceiling was gloomy with hard rain falling down that only disapated into nothing midway down... outside the windows, however, rain bands clung to the bars and fell down to the ground. Aislynn sat down next to Snape with a knot in her stomach and her heart in her throat. She took a few bites out of her toast and bacon before deciding that was more than enough.

"Not to worry, Stellar..." Snape spoke quietly. Amazingly enough there was no vendictiveness in his voice at all.

"I'm trying very hard not to." She looked at him for a second and moved her eyes back down to the table. His civility made her feel a little better but the knot was still tight as ever and she thought she might vomit in her cup at any given moment. "I have to go and get my parchments ready for the parents to see... good day, Snape." She got up and pat his shoulder once and was on her way to her classroom. Although she wished to look at Lupin, she couldn't quite gather the courage and she knew that Rhiane wasn't there to comfort her... not that she would ask in her fragile state, poor girl. Aislynn at least had the comfort that Lupin was alive.

A heavy sigh was heaved and she closed the door to her classroom. There were very few times where she felt like running away but today was definately one of them. She took out a few books from her desk and figured out what percentages were for her students, the class overall and the curves involved. Noon rolled around very slowly, she had managed to bite through a few pencils and de-feather some of her writing feathers.. leaving only the very tips of them with their dignity. She opened her door and waited very quietly for parents and students alike to come. To her dismay, Draco Malfoy came in with his esteemed father, looking cocky as ever.

"Ms. Aislynn Stellar... How are you today, Professor? Well, I expect." Malfoy senior spoke, rolling her name off his tongue with pleasure. She winced only slightly and stood up, forcing a smile on her face.

"Mr. Malfoy," she said his name through her teeth. "I'm well, thank you, yes. You look well yourself."

"Indeed... So, I hear your classes seem to be staying afloat. How wonderful."

"Yes, fortunately they found a subject I could teach without conjuring up any ripples with the parents... I'm mainly here for security purposes, actually." She grinned, baring her pearly whites dangerously at him. He cleared his throat and brought his cane closer to his side.

"Draco is doing very well despite his earlier attempts to wiggle out of the class. Let me pull out his grade average for you..." She gave a flick of her wand and grabbed the parchment from where she materialized it. "Right now he's at about eighty-two percent which would be a 'B'." She snickered mentally, the 'b' is for bastard-like attitude. "His attitude in classes are somewhat good.. he has his days like any other person, I guess but a little more effort and he could be making that 'A', no problem."

Lucius seemed mildly intrested in how his son was doing in her class and waved Draco off suddenly. Draco automatically went to go wait in the halls with his friends, naturally.

"Aislynn... it's been ages," he spoke quietly.

"Well yes." She blinked and laughed a little, forgetting his predisposition as a Death Eater and for a moment she saw him only as a man. "You're doing well for yourself, Lucius. You always excelled at what you put your mind to." It felt good to let go for just a while... simply talk...

"The only thing I didn't get in life happened to be you, Aislynn." His leather-gloved hand slipped over hers and she let the parchment slip from her hand. Whether it was her weakened state or his enchanting and charming voice... she didn't know. But he had leaned over the desk and kissed her. Forcefully. Passionately. Like a man that had just crossed a desert and had his first sip of wine but he needed the whole bottle to quinch his undying thirst. She blinked with wide eyes. To her it felt like an ice cube touching her lips on a hot summers day... shocking and intense. Images flashed before her mind.

Horrible images. People screaming and crying in pain, dark shadowy figures, a river of blood flowing and her body falling forever.

His hand let go of his cane and reached around to her head to pull her even closer. She closed her eyes tightly and furrowed her brows, pushing him away with a jerk. He looked at her for only half a second before her hand cocked back and she slapped him with all her might. She was pale and panting, thin eyebrows furrowed and eyes wide... frightened and at the same time angry. He looked up slowly through his platinum blond hair and chuckled quietly.

"That's what I love about you... Whether you like it or not, my dear, I will have you."

She panted and looked at him through angry tears, "how's your wife, Lucius? Send her my highest regards, will you?"

He stared at her with ice blue eyes and smiled at her even more icily. The turned on his heels, grabbed his cane and left. The last thing she saw was his arrogant cape. She collapsed in her chair and swiped at her tears. It felt that she had just been violated so violently... it was just a kiss but... the mental images it had left her with...

"Aislynn Ingrid Stellar!" A happy voice called out to her followed by several different footsteps. They stopped when they saw her, she guessed.

"Are you all right, love?" Molly Weasley came up and touched her arm softly. Aislynn looked up and smiled brightly even though her face was flushed.

"I'm fine. I'm sorry. I was just remembering a sad book I was reading." She stood up and embraced Molly fondly. "You look beautiful. The years have been very kind to you and I mean that with all my heart, Molly." She smiled sincerely.

"Oh, you. Go on, then..." Molly laughed heartily.

"All of your loved ones have been doing very well. My star student is Hermoine, however." She smiled at all three of her favorite group. She materialized their parchements for their averages. "I think that they all have excellent attention spans and keep up with my sparatic lessons very well." Aislynn laughed a little and continued on. "Hermoine has an 'A' and set a curve for the whole class so in retrospect Harry and Ron are really into the game. I'm very proud of them and if they keep it up, they'll have no problems for the finals." She smiled brightly and nodded. "Come see me after you're done with their classes and we'll have a cup of tea?"

Molly nodded and smiled, herding the three out of the classroom.

Aislynn sat back down and smiled a little. Molly could always be counted on to brighten anyone's day... her motherly instinct to make bad thoughts and feelings go away never failed... it's a skill she possessed since childhood. A small yawn escaped her and the lights flickered...

For a second she thought it was just her mind playing games with her from the yawn...

They flickered again and finally everything went black. Aislynn's heart skipped a few beats and her eyes closed slowly... "Oh crap." Her hand went for her wand and she opened her eyes. A flash of lightning cracked through the sky outside and the rain fell even harder, the pelting sound became even more apparent. The storm had grown angrier.

Another crack of lightning sizzled by her window and brightened her classroom enough to see three robed and hooded figures, staring at her. Her senses went berzerk and a loud clap of thunder rolled out, shaking the land. She couldn't tell, though... her heart was beating too hard to pump adrinaline to her veins.

"Looks like a fun poker party... But I don't play with cheaters," she blinked slowly and kept her breathing calm.

"You're only lucky you're a pure-blood, Stellar... We'll only hurt you a lot, which is saving grace compared to some of the things we could do to you." Someone hissed out from the darkness.

"Shove it where the sun don't shine, crap-for-brains." She spat in their direction. "CIANGAIL! TREISIGH!" Ropes shot out from her wand and tied around two of the Death Eaters, reinforcing with a stronger bond with her second incantation spoken. It would only hold them for about three minutes but it was enough to grapple with the third Death Eater.

"Bitch! That's not any spell I've heard of!"

"That's because it's in Gaelic, moron. As an Auror, I'm granted my ancestor's language as well as Latin for speaking and performing spells."

"AVERA KADAVERA!" The third screamed and shot at her. Aislynn managed to duck under her desk but she could feel the hairs on the back of her neck standing straight up just from the sheer closeness of the last spell. Brick peices flew out from where the spell had hit full force. What happened to merely hurting her a lot? She stood up suddenly and grit her teeth... enough of this nonsense.

"TABHAIR!" She hoped with all the luck in her heart that she had aimed correctly for the wand the third one was carrying. She opened her hand and waited only a second before it came flying to her palm. A smile crossed her face.

"Well, well, well... Looks like this bitch has the upper hand. Three against one isn't all that fair now, is it?" Her heart beat hard and she thought it might burst through her chest. "PAIRILIS!" She flicked her wand and watched the sparks fly from the end of it to her opponet, paralyzing them. It would work for ten minutes... She performed the same spell on the other two to hold them for a bit longer until Dumbledore came to aid her.. She took their wands away and shut the door behind her, welding it shut with her wand. Sweat beaded on her forehead when she looked out into the halls. She could hear screaming now that she could concentrate on other things besides losing her own life. Her main concern was finding all of her loved ones right now. Sparks were flying left and right... her preminition had come true. It was a war-zone in the safest place she had known. Dumbledore's voice boomed and echoed throughout the walls of the halls... he was heavy into battle right now. Probably with Voldermort, she winced.

"Rhiane! Remus!?" She screamed. "Molly! Harry! Anyone!!"

"They won't find you, Aislynn..." A familiar voice called out above the panic. "They're all a bit... busy.. at the moment."

"Lucius," she looked around to him. He was standing in his Death Eater robes, cane still in hand. "What have you done?"

"I've done what is absolutely necissary to keep our world sanitary. Our world is saturated with the filth of muggle-borns. And now... the time has come to rid them of their misery." He grinned from under his robes and another flash of lightning made his teeth glisten.

"My God, Lucius! Are you insane?! Your very leader is part muggle!" She tossed the three Death Eater's wands to the floor to show she had done her duties and snapped out her wand threateningly. "Why don't we go and kill him too?" She glared.

"You are on hot water with that blasphimus mouth of yours, my dear..." He lifted his hand up and snapped his fingers. She began to feel dizzy and blinked slowly. What magic was this? Her stomach churned. "Ah yes... you feel that, don't you. Not very pleasant, is it? At this very moment... Harry Potter is being fixed to be sacrificed to make the Dark Lord at his strongest. And then, you'll see it my way, I guarentee it." The dark images from before consumed her every thought now. She closed her eyes tightly and shook her head, trying to break free from it's horrid hold.

She screamed and brought her hands to her head, gripping her hair. Her brain felt like it was leaking from her ears. Aislynn did the only thing left she could think to do... she ran away from Lucius. She ran with all her might to try and find her friends lost in the sea of panic-stricken people.

"Harry! God, please... no!" She stumbled to the mess hall where a huge battle was being fought by Death Eaters, wizards, witches and Dumbledore and Voldermort. Harry was barricaded in by people, including Snape, Lupin, Westwaters and Mrs. Weasley. Her heart ached... where was Hermoine? She ran into the fight, dodging and ducking the dangerous crossfire despite her extreme nausea and images that kept flashing infront of her eyes.

"Where's Hermoine and Ron?!" She yelled. Molly looked at her with frightened eyes and ducked for a moment, "he's out running with her... trying to get away and stay safe." Aislynn wished she could have stopped everything to comfort her but she raised her wand and began her work to try and stop the Death Eaters.

Dumbledore was very agile and quick when he wanted to be, he had dodged behind pretty much everything he could to manuver out of the spells way. There were many screams to be heard throughout the fight that seemed to go on forever. Each blow that came from either Voldermort or Dumbledore's wands another loud clap of thunder rolled out from their very spot. Everyone was fighting hard, putting their all into each spell that was meant to shoot and kill. The problem with incantations and spells is that with everything you say and everything that comes from your wand, it takes more energy from the wizard or witch.

Aislynn was going out fast and in her last few moments she leaned over, covering her mouth only to have blood spill between her fingers. Lucius had poisoned her somehow... She fell to her knees and for a moment, everyone seemed to stop and look as if surprised to see someone go down in flames. It was in this moment that Death Eaters swooped down to try and grab Harry, only Rhiane and Remus stepped forward bravely and they were taken by transportation.

Voldermort sneered and vanished from sight, his followers, taking his hint, left as well. Aislynn blinked in utter disbelief and looked around, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Remus? ... Rhiane?" She looked up at Molly and Severus.

"They... they took them both..." Molly stammered and brought her hands to her face to weep quietly. Aislynn's eyes went wide and she looked at Harry. All he could do was stand there, stunned and horrified. Her stomach churned another time and she dropped her wand to bring both her hands to her mouth to try and stop it... the metal taste of blood filled her mouth and it leaked through her fingers again... How long would it take for her to die and join her friends finally? Dumbledore walked up, relieved to find that Harry was safe but distressed that Voldermort had taken two more hostage... and Aislynn on the brink of darkness. He was right...

A few violent and intense flashes of the horror movie-like moments went through her mind. A wave of blood spilled through her mouth and she fell forward, falling forever.

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