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Warning: Curse words and violence.
Lucius felt all the blood rush to his head as he stared into Severus Snape's murderous gaze. Everything was going wrong! Lucius felt nauseous and knew he had a concussion, but he didn't care about that right now because he heard a blood curdling scream coming from the third floor. Snape looked upwards and all the anger was replaced with fear.
"I'm coming back for you, you bastard." He growled. "Incarcerous!" He yelled out and ropes immediately jumped out from the ground and bound around him. Lucius was speechless. What could he say, really? All his plans for redemption were being flushed down the loo. Snape ran up the stairs and several aurors who were passing by him kicked him in the sides. Only his pride prevented him from crying out in pain.
Narcissa watched as the aurors infiltrated her home. Her heart felt as though it were lodged in her throat, her poor husband was lying on the ground helpless. It was disgraceful! She ran from her hiding place to Lucius' study. She threw a handful of floo powder into the fireplace. She put in her head into the fireplace.
"Igor!" She shouted, searching for the Russian man. Karkaroff, who had been sitting on his sofa quickly got up and walked to the floo.
"Narcissa?" The Russian man asked bewildered.
"What is the meaning of this?" He asked, his eyes darting around himself and behind her.
"My house is being attacked by aurors. We need as much help as we can get." She said, her voice becoming hysteric.
"No, absolutely not. I barely escaped Azkaban the first time, I am not risking everything for your family." He hissed.
"Karkaroff." She said, her tone becoming icy. "Need I remind you, it was our testimony that helped save you from a life in Azkaban?"
"No, you do not. And I will be forever thankful. But, this is drawing the line. I will not risk my life or my reputation for you. I am sorry." But, he didn't look sorry at all. Narcissa glared at him and ran a frustrated hand through her blond hair.
"Then contact our old allies and get them to come here as soon as possible." Karkaroff looked like he was about to protest but Narcissa cut him off.
"It's the least you can do." She said between clenched teeth.
"Very well." He sighed and cut off the floo connection.
Narcissa continued flooing as many people as she knew that were not in Azkaban. Many were not willing to help her and her family, but some did come and soon she had a small army of Death-Eaters.
"I can't just stay here! I'm going mad!" Lily exclaimed while talking on the phone with her sister.
"I don't know what to say, Lily." Came her sister's muffled voice. She paused. "Why don't you go to that office? Um... the police office, oh, whatever you call them!" Came Petunia's exclamation.
"I did, but no one was there." Lily said in a resigned voice.
"Well... even if there's no one there at least if something happens you'll get news quicker there then waiting at home." There was a pause on both ends of the phone.
"You're completely right, Petunia. I don't know why I didn't think of this!"
"Well, I suppose it might have been the sho-"
"Thanks for everything Petunia, but I've got to go! Bye!" Petunia was left with the annoying noise of the phone beeping.
Lily ran to her floo and whooshed into the Ministry. She ran and took the elevator to the aurors department. She didn't care that the Ministry employees were giving her disapproving looks. When she arrived at the department she was completely out of breath. Lily sat on one of the desks and waited. What seemed like hours were only five minutes and Lily was frustrated with how slowly the clock was ticking away. Had someone enchanted it to make it go slower? Lily jumped in surprise when the door to the aurors office was opened. A tall, lanky man walked into the office, not even noticing her.
"Excuse me, sir." She said. He jumped in surprise.
"What are you doing here?" He asked hastily.
"I'm Lily Potter. You see, it's for my son that all the aurors are gone. He was kidnapped. And staying at home was driving me mad and..."
"Oh, yes." The auror cut her off. "I know all about the Snape boy. I'd forgotten my wand on my desk." He pointed to the desk she had previously been sitting on and sure enough there was a wand lying on the desk.
"They had to leave me behind, but I'm meeting them immediately after I get my wand." He summoned his wand wordlessly.
"I'm in a hurry. We'll do everything we can to get him back." He sprinted out the door. Lily stood rooted to the spot and then decided to run after him.
"Wait!" She said. "Let me come with you."
"I'm sorry Mrs. Potter. It's against regulation. No civilians can come on auror business."
"That's bull!" She shouted, unable to contain her anger.
"The aurors let his father go!"
"That was an exception."
"An exception?!" She asked as they kept walking at a brisk pace.
"Why? What's different? Is it because I'm a woman?"
"Gender has nothing to do with it." The man said quickly. They were almost at the floo network.
"Is it because I'm muggleborn?" She asked angrily. The man paused.
"It is, isn't it?" She asked in shock. She thought the auror department was beyond petty prejudices. The man stopped.
"Look, ma'am. It's not because we believe in all that pureblood prejudice, I'm muggleborn, but the Malfoy's know you are muggleborn and there's more chances of them hurting you then there is for a pureblood or half-blood."
"That is absolute rubbish. If you're going into their manor, wands brandished, they're going to try and hurt you no matter what your blood status is." The man sighed, looking anxiously between her and the floo network.
"Fine, but I wasn't the one who let you come." Lily smiled brightly.
"Thank you." She said.
"We're first flooing to Diagon Alley where you'll side-along with me to a location in Scotland, alright?" Lily nodded.
"Diagon Alley!" She yelled out after he left, and in a green whirl, she was gone.
Lucius glared up at his ceiling. Curse Snape and the day he met the damn wizard! He wiggled and tried to reach the wand in his robe pocket. Just a little more to the left! A scream stopped him from wriggling about. He looked around himself but could not see anyone. The auror that was supposed to guard him had been summoned by Snape's patronus (a freaking doe!) to come and assist them. Lucius finally felt the cool wood in his hand. He vanished the ropes from around him off with a flick of his wand. At that precise moment his main doors opened to reveal a tall, skinny man and a beautiful, petite red-haired woman. It took him half a second to figure out that that was Lily Evans, the mudblood that Snape was in love with. He felt bile rising up in his throat. The skinny man passed by him without even noticing that the binding ropes were gone. He was already out of site by the time the Evans girl was halfway up his stairs. Lucius immediately got up from his position and sprinted to Lily. He grabbed her from behind and stuck his wand against her jugular. He could feel her pulse quicken and her breath hitch. He relished in her fear. Sitting on the cold marble floor he had thought everything was going down the shitter but seeing her had given him the perfect opportunity to actually gain back his power.
"Now, you listen to me you filthy mudblood. You're not going to make a single sound and you're going to walk forward. Walk!" He commanded. She took a shaky step up the next step. They made it all the way up the stairs before he continued talking.
"Keep walking!" He growled. "If you so much as try and escape, I won't hesitate to kill you and your precious little boy. I only wanted Severus to pay for abandoning me! I had given him everything! And he betrayed me for a filthy mudblood!" He pulled on her hair so she could look at him in the face. He relished the fear that he saw in her eyes.
"You were foolish in coming here. None of you are going to make it out of here alive."
Severus followed the sound of the screams. He knew the screams were coming from his son. He would recognise his voice anywhere. When he got to the third floor, he came upon a most disturbing scene. The first thing he saw was a tall dark man looming over his son. Then he realised the man had his wand pointed at the small boy and he was writing on the floor. Severus lunged at the man; his fist was already pummeling the man's face. He registered that he had once known this man but he did not care. Mulciber howled and then blasted Severus off of his chest. The aurors took that opportunity to blast Mulciber into the wall behind him. There was a crunch and then his body crumpled.
"Harry!" Severus yelled out. Harry had blood coming out his mouth, nose and ears. Oh Merlin! How long had Mulciber held the curse on his son? He knew what the curse could do to people. He shakily felt for Harry's pulse and was relieved when he felt it. He cradled Harry in his arms and held him close, tears rolling down his cheeks. He softly wiped the blood from Harry's face and shakily kissed his forehead.
"Harry, dad's here. You're going to be okay. Just hold on."
"Sir?" Someone said hesitantly. Severus turned sharply around.
"What do we do with this boy?" With a jolt he realised Malfoy's son was on the ground and blood was seeping out of the boy's head. What kind of sick man would allow his son to be beaten? His own father had beaten him, but Lucius had never seemed the type to hurt his own child. Evidently, he had been wrong.
"Get him to Saint-Mungo's!" He snapped. He turned to walk out of the room, when he saw Lily being held at wand point by Lucius Malfoy. All color drained from his face. Lily gasped and let out a small sob when she saw her unconscious son. Lucius' eyes blazed in anger and he smiled triumphantly at Severus.
"Let her go." Severus said, his voice sounding odd and tremulous.
"Let her go!" An auror bys his side repeated. Lucius paled. Severus looked to the side and saw an auror holding Draco Malfoy in his arms with his wand pointed at the small boys face.
"Draco." Lucius whispered. His grip on Lily loosened and she took that opportunity to escape. She elbowed him in the stomach and he doubled over in pain. Just when the situation seemed as though it was getting back under control, all hell broke loose.
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