I think this story should be coming to a close soon. This might just be the last chapter, and if it is, then prepare yourself for a long one! Enjoy (:


Chapter 9: The Rescuing

It was another few months, filled with meager food servings once a day that were less appetizing than what might appear in Azkaban, before Lucius decided to have a proper conversation with Gabrielle again.

"Why is no one coming for you? Have they not noticed you were gone?" he snarled at her.

"Fleur doesn't give a rat's arse about me, and of COURSE they've noticed I'm gone. I'm a Charms professor, remember? You may have grabbed me over holiday but I can assure you a missing teacher doesn't go unnoticed. Now, regarding Fleur, you should have taken that into consideration before kidnapping me, because why in the name of Merlin's saggy left-"

"SILENCE!" Lucius commanded her. Gabrielle bit her tongue and glared at him.

"You're already a small little weakling," Lucius said, pacing around her.

From lack of proper food and sunlight, Gabrielle finished in her head.

"Well I suppose, as you are of no use to us, the only thing for it would be to kill you off." Lucius looked into her eyes and she stared right back. He went to raise his wand, but a scuffling on the stairs interrupted.

"You sure it's this way, Malfoy?" asked a familiar voice.

"Positive," replied another.

"Better be, because if it isn't, I will set Ginny Weasley on you and she will perform a bat bogey hex so powerful you will be afraid of your own nose for the rest of your life" snarled the first voice. Gabrielle's heart leapt. It couldn't be...

The door to the cellar burst open. In walked two men, one heartbreakingly familiar, the other tall and lean, with platinum blonde hair, like Lucius's.

"D- Draco. what are you doing here? You've been disowned!" shouted Lucius indignantly. Draco gave a dark chuckle.

'I'm not here for you, father. This guy, Seamus, needed help on a little rescue mission. And due to the fact that it was against you, I could hardly refuse the plea for help." Draco nodded towards Gabrielle. Seamus ran over to her and helped her off the ground.

"My God... you're so skinny... what did you do to her?" he growled at Lucius. A look of pure contempt crossed over Lucius's face, but he did not answer.

Seamus backed towards the door with Gabrielle in tow. "We're going to take her, and we're going to leave. Never come near her again." Gabrielle beamed up at Seamus. It seemed reasonable to suspect he'd forgiven her.

Lucius, however, had other ideas. He waved his wand and the door behind Gabrielle and Seamus slammed shut. Draco, who had been moving towards the open door as well, took a step back.

"None of you are going anywhere. You think you're brave, crossing the threshold of a death eater's home?" he sneered around the room. "Well I can assure you, that is certainly not the case." Lucius sent a quick body bind curse at Draco, who fell to the cold stone floor, stiff as a board.

Seamus pushed me down next to Draco, and began to duel Lucius. Dodging hex after hex, spell after spell, he shot his own. He seemed to have the upper hand.

All of a sudden, Lucius drew back and pointed his wand straight at Seamus's chest. "Avada-"

Gabrielle gasped and shouted, "NO!"

At the same time, Seamus flung his wand forward and shouted, "Expelliarmus!"

Before Lucius could finish the Unforgivable curse, his wand flew into the air. Gabrielle threw her skinny wrist in the air and grabbed it.

Seamus seemed unable to recognize what had happened for a moment, before throwing a fist in the air and yelling, "Ha! Harry said that spell would come in handy!"

He sent his own body bind curse at Lucius before reviving Draco's.

Brushing off his clothing, Draco nodded curtly to Seamus. Helping Gabrielle up once again, Seamus took her into his arms for a much needed hug.

"I'm so sorry. We should never have fought. All I could think in the months you were kidnapped was how I hadn't told you I loved you," Seamus whispered into her silky blonde hair. "You're just... you're stunningly gorgeous... dizzyingly poised... admirably brave... you're perfect..."

Gabrielle's breath hitched for a moment. This was how she thought of Fleur, exactly.

She muttered into his shoulder sheepishly, "I'm not Fleur."

Holding her out in front of him as though seeing her for the first time again, Seamus's face broke into a grin.

"No, you aren't."

Gabrielle, Seamus, and Draco left Lucius in the cellar as they quickly strode away from the house. Gabrielle thanked Draco profusely before returning to her own home. Seamus came with her, insisting upon staying guard over her that night.

"I'll never let anyone take you again," he promised her.

She smiled and replied, "I love you."

He grinned back at her, the grin she loved so much, the grin she wished to see on his face every day. "I love you too."

In the months that followed, Gabrielle's relationship with Fleur grew much stronger. It turns out, Fleur did care deeply for Gabrielle, however since she hardly ever communicated with her, barely had any idea she was missing!

It was nice, to have a healthy relationship with her sister. Gabrielle was so happy that they could finally talk like good sisters do.

And, not only did she have her sister back, but she had Seamus.

All was well.


Aw I think I'll end this fic here. Thank you dearly to anyone who bothered to read it, have to say for my first real fic, I don't think it turned out that bad! Farewell, my comrades.

-Rachel (: aka, BoundToBeAWeasley