Chapter 7
A.N. This chappie may be a bit sad and sappy. After this chapter there will be a skipping in time. I wanted to do other scenes from other books but I have so many ideas for fanfictions. I have a Dramione planned and I'm thinking of calling it: Dirty Blood. I also have a marauders era idea which will be on both mine and LunasaMarlay556's accounts. I've also agreed to help her with her fanfic, 'The Beast Within Me'. I know that it is in a competition against me but she had writers block and I have loads of ideas for that particular story. I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER! I also do not own any songs I use in these chapters.
This Chapter is dedicated to-
Lilianna breathed in the fresh summers air. Potter, Diggory, Krum and Delacour were currently preparing to enter the maze for the final task. She knew of the plot and she knew her parents would be at the other side of the Portkey but they had Imperiused her at a young age to make an Unbreakable Vow that she would never give away the Dark Lord's plans. Only now looking back at it did she realise that they had been Death Eaters all along. Perhaps they weren't but had been planning it. Or perhaps she was right and that night she saw them, maybe they had done something worse. Tortured a child? No. They had proven that they weren't guilty doing that. Killed someone? That was a more likely option. But they wouldn't worry about Lilianna with that. She remembered what her mother had said.
"What will Lilianna think of us?" Her mother had wailed.
"What she doesn't know won't hurt her." Her father had replied.
Did that imply that perhaps when she found out, she would feel hurt? She had a few suspicions, each as unlikely as the next. She made a mental list of even ones she had discarded.
They killed someone.
They tortured someone (most likely a child)
They made a Vow involving her.
They were told to torture her.
They had hurt one of her friends.
They really had joined the Dark Lord that night.
They had to move away from her.
They had to do work for the Dark Lord abroad.
They were divorced.
She wasn't their child and was adopted.
Her father wasn't really her father.
Her real mother was dead and her father accepted her with his wife.
They had done something else illegal that they would be caught for.
A few were a bit likely in some ways but unlikely in another. To start with, if they had made an unbreakable vow involving her, the wouldn't be allowed to feel guilty otherwise they might die anyway. They couldn't have been told to torture her because she knew that you really had to mean it to hurt someone and she had been driven insane. Her only friend at the time had been Draco and he would have told her about it if they had hurt him. They could have joined the Dark Lord that night but what about that Vow they forced her to do? Them having to move away from her wouldn't make sense. It had to be something she might not notice. 'What she doesn't know won't hurt her.' She would definitely know if they were moving away. The same goes for working away from home and them being divorced. She couldn't be adopted or one of them not be her parents. She had her mother's hair and eyes and her father's nose and pointed face. She rested on them doing something else. Weather it be illegal or not.
She drifted her mind from her thoughts and realised someone had grabbed her by the wieghst. Before she could do anything, the person had apparated. They were in a graveyard and there was a circle of cloaked figures surrounding an area. Lilianna's blood went cold and saw that Harry was there and right next to him, touching his face and obviously causing the boy agony, was Voldemort. The Dark Lord turned to face her and gave and evil and malicious grin.
"Ah, Lilianna. How nice of you to join us." He said with a horrible voice, his snake eyes glued to her.
All of the other Death Eaters made way for her to walk to the Dark Lord. Behind him were her parents. She took a deep breath and walked towards the half-human creature.
"Good day, my Lord." She said and curtseyed.
She looked up to see him still grinning and her parents beaming at her. Then she noticed Harry. Voldemort followed her gaze and looked between the two. She knew that she would have to act and lie to save her life. She smirked at Harry. His mouth dropped and his eyes widened.
"Y-you're one of-one of them?!" He asked horror struck at all angles of his face.
"Sadly not." Voldemort said and turned to look at Lilianna. "You will have to die so that your parents can live. If you turn them into Muggles, not only will they die from being killed due to them having no magic, but you too will be killed for becoming a Mudblood. I'm very sorry."
Lilianna just smiled.
"Don't worry about it my Lord." She said and closed her mind as the snake figure tried to enter it.
"Let me see your mind." He commanded. "Or I will personally kill you myself. Tonight."
Lilianna wanted to be able to explain to Harry later on why she did that so she sectioned off her feelings towards Voldemort so he could not access those thoughts and opened the rest of his mind to him.
He flicked through her first eleven years and her few memories from the asylum and started taking it slower through the memories following that event. Harry was shaking her hand, Draco was hugging her, she was singing to him, she was waving to him before getting onto the train, she was being sorted, Draco was defending her against Pansy, she was yelling at Ron, she was showing the class about Blast-Ended Skrewts, she was in potions class. Then the Dark wizard stopped and smiled a truly evil smile.
She was singing to Draco to help him to sleep, they were playing hide and seek together, he was refusing to play tag, she was crying at the memory of hurting him, he walked up to her and tapped her on the shoulder, 'tag, you're it.' he said before running off, he was singing to her this time and then Voldemort skipped through a few things and found the one she hadn't wanted him to see.
"My father being angry at my choice." Draco said. He left out what the choice was.
Draco closed his mind to her.
"What choice would that be?"She pushed.
Draco looked a bit annoyed that she'd asked but carried on.
"I…" She could tell he was doing some very fast thinking. "I really like this girl but my Dad doesn't like her because of her parentage. I was going to ask her out."
Draco looked at his feet.
She wished he had said who it was.
"Oh." Lilianna said and couldn't help but feel disappointed. She'd actually started to like Draco a lot more since being trapped with him. Even when they fought and argued, she liked his company.
But it can't be me… Lilianna thought.
"So she's not Pureblood?" Lilianna couldn't help asking.
"Well… She is but it's a bit complicated." Draco admitted.
Voldemort's grin grew bigger when he saw Draco kissing her on the cheek. Then he skipped to Draco putting the pink rose in her hair and when he tamed her while she was a wolf.
Then Lilianna remembered and looked up to the sky. She whimpered. Her parents and a few others followed her gaze. Lucius and her parents looked scared but others didn't.
"Your boyfriend's not here to tame you today, Lilianna." The Dark Lord said calmly. "But I can use Imperio on you to make you attack Mr Potter here."
Lilianna looked in Harry's direction. Her eyes were now going yellow and she fell to the floor, growling. As Voldemort raised his wand, Draco landed with a thud with the Portkey in his hand and knocked the evil wizard's wand out of his hand. He caught it and used it to set Harry free.
Got it feels weird using somebody else's wand.
Lilianna felt him think. He grabbed Liliana's hand and hid behind the grave in which Harry had previously been stuck to. They both heard a fight go on behind them but the didn't look back. Draco held on to Lilianna and she cried into his chest. Then Draco saw Harry run with Cedric's body to the Cup and got there just in time with Lilianna to leave with the boy who lived. Draco pulled Lilianna out of the maze by the hand again with Harry and Cedric behind them. They exited the maze and instantly walked off and left Potter to tell everybody about Diggory's death.
Moody passed them with Harry by his side. Lilianna walked along behind them and Draco had no choice but to follow her lead.
"Lilianna, Draco, why don't you two come in here too?" He said she took Harry into his office.
Lilianna glared at Moody.
"Evening, Crouch." She said.
The Dark Arts Professor stared at Lilianna and then at Draco and Harry who looked thoroughly confused. He pulled out his wand on Lilianna and Draco stepped protectively in front of her.
"Awe, how sweet." Moody said before sending Draco flying across the room.
"You can't kill me, Crouch." Lilianna said. "I can't say why in front of these two but you know you can't."
"Oh, I know that, Princess." Moody smiled viciously before his face started to transform into Barty Crouch Jr. "But I'm sure you miss your bed in that asylum. Cruci-"
Draco used Expelliarmus silently with Voldemort's wand.
"You can do silent magic, boy?" Crouch asked curiously.
"Lilianna taught me." He said proudly before he sent a spell knocking everybody out and sending a signal to Dumbledore.
Harry woke with a start in the Hospital wing. By looking around, he saw that people had left sweets for him and Dumbledore was at the foot of his bed, smiling.
"Professor Dumbledore! Moody, he was Crouch Jr! Lilianna knew!" Harry rushed.
"You are correct, Harry. But he has been caught. Mr Malfoy sent the signal just in time. And with Voldemort's wand no less." Dumbledore said with that familiar shimmer in his eye. "I am afraid, nobody quite believes your story of his return, Harry. But I know they will come to their senses. You are the first to wake, Harry. Crouch has been- er -taken care of, by the Ministry shall we say?"
"Sir, are Lilianna and Malfoy alright? I mean, I know it was the full moon tonight but Lilianna didn't fully transform. Will she be alright?" Harry asked, concerned.
"She will be fine, Harry." Said Dumbledore calmly. "But I struggle to see why you are interested in whether Mr Malfoy is ok."
"He saved me in the Graveyard, sir." Harry mumbled. "I need to be able to thank him or repay him somehow."
"Well, I think since he is not currently awake, it is safe to say he definitely needs some help in catching the Snitch against you." Dumbledore chuckled and Harry couldn't help but to join in. "Now then, Harry. Can you tell me exactly what happened in the maze?"
Harry then explained about how he and Cedric had taken the cup together and been transported to the Graveyard. Of Cedric being killed and him being trapped to a grave. Tom Riddle Sr's grave no more. Then when Lilianna had arrived and pretended to be on Voldemort's side to spare her life and then how he had searched her memories. Then how Draco had arrived with the Portkey and hit Voldemort's wand out of his hand and used it to free Harry. Then Draco taking Lilianna by the hand and hiding. He then said in rather a lot of detail about the spirits coming out Harry's wand before he ran and picked up Cedric and raced to the Portkey and Harry, Lilianna and Draco had arrived back in the maze with Cedric's dead body.
Draco let out a small groan as he slowly regained consciousness. He heard Potter and Dumbledore talking so he turned away from them and tried to get some sleep. It appeared to be nightfall. Draco did the first thing that came into his head to get to sleep: sing.
"Hush my babe my little one."
He barely whispered so he was not heard.
"Thy father sails the deep.
But warm thy bed is pretty one,
Lie still my dear and sleep."
Then Draco noticed that his heartbeat was being recorded. He listened to it and realised that Harry and Dumbledore knew he was awake now.
"Why are you taking my heart rate?" He asked Dumbledore when he came to see Draco. "Is it about that potion?"
The Professor nodded and Draco sat up and looked around the Hospital wing for Lilianna. He saw her still asleep in the bed next to him on his right and Potter on the bed on his left.
"She is fine." Dumbledore said before Draco managed to ask any questions "For now."
Draco's eyes widened and he heard Liliana's breathing become a little less even.
"You mean she won't be?" Draco asked and he had an idea where this was going. When the Professor looked solemn he took this as a 'I'm sorry'. "Her heartbeat sounds ok."
His voice was wobbling and he knew it. When the Headmaster sighed and shook his head, a single tear dribbled down Draco's cheek.
"I am terribly sorry, Mr Malfoy." He said and Draco laughed.
He didn't laugh because it was funny. No. It was a bitter, single laugh. A sarcastic threat for him to start weeping. He was going to go mad if Lilianna wasn't wrong about something in her life.
"Why does she always have to be right?" Draco asked.
He didn't know if he was asking himself or Dumbledore.
"She can't have been right about everything." Dumbledore challenged softly.
"She was right in Hagrid's lesson, she was right in Potions about the bubbles not being supposed to be that way, she was right about us waking up on the night of the full moon that time. And now she's right about this." Draco said while smiling.
He was going mad. He wasn't actually happy. He was furious and distraught.
"But was she right about who she guessed you were scared of your father finding out about?" Dumbledore asked.
Draco stared. He must be a Legilimens. Draco just shrugged. He knew that she thought it was her but she hadn't phrased it out loud so he couldn't be sure.
"Have you ever considered how young you two are?" Dumbledore said and Draco knew that he knew Draco's secret that he kept from even himself.
"Lots actually." Draco admitted. "But she sang a song one time and she didn't even know how much I can relate to it."
The words sand in Draco's head.
'We were only eleven, but acting like grown ups. Like we are in the present. Drinking from plastic cups. Singing love is forever and ever. Well I guess that was true'
At that moment, Draco didn't care if everybody in the world could read his thoughts because more than anything he wanted her to wake up.
His wish was granted.
She started coughing black blood and Draco ran over to her bed and Harry and Dumbledore followed. Lilianna's heartbeat was very very slow.
"You can't go." Draco cried quietly. "It can't be you that has to die. Why can't it be me?"
Lilianna smiled.
"I'm sorry Draco." She said between coughs.
"You remember that game of tag?" Draco asked.
Lilianna nodded.
"Always will."
"I met a thing that changed my life for the best. It was everything I ever wanted. I fell in love with this thing despite my age and what my father would say." He said and tapped her shoulder "You're it."
She smiled at his joke and lifted her hand and placed it on top of his.
"I love you, Lilianna." Draco said.
She coughed again and her heart rate dropped dramatically. She only had a few seconds left.
"I promise on everything that I will wait for you up there, Draco." She said before her eyelids fluttered shut and her breathing stopped.
She was dead. She died smiling. With her hand entwined with Draco's. He openly weeped now and Harry was also crying. Even Dumbledore's eyes were glossy.
"Never break that promise." Draco whispered to her lifeless body.
Her heart rate had completely stopped and the only sounds to be heard were sounds of people crying.
He couldn't believe it. The girl who had stayed up with him every night when they were nine. The girl who he snuck out to see most nights at the park to comfort him. The girl who he'd had to secretly give a present every Christmas so his dad wouldn't find out. The girl who he'd visited in the asylum and she had recognised when she remembered nobody else. The girl who he could tame on the full moon. The girl who'd hugged him when he'd first seen her in years. The girl who remembered songs he liked. The clever, clever girl. The girl he'd been trapped in a false dimension with for most of the year. The girl who had been in the Graveyard with him. The girl who he loved, was never coming back.
