By Tuesday Minister Fudge had narrowly lost a vote of No Confidence due to the attack on the Ministry. A new minister would be voted in and we wondered if he would be any more useful?

In Potions class Luna and I stared at Severus Snape. Somehow he and his vile master have escaped from the explosion. Well, more appropriately they hadn't been on the scene. Was it possible they had made last minute changes in their plans? It sure seemed like they had.

That night we pulled out our third video camera. It had been tested now and maybe the same trick would work a second time? The next morning in the great hall we levitated the miniature device on to Snape. Moments later it unshrank and fell to the ground in a pile of plastic and filthy smoke. Snape looked around the hall, but his gaze didn't seem to light on anyone as the culprit. Still, it was annoying that the man was actually more intelligent than he looked.

Later that night Luna and I were busy making polyjuice potion using the left over bits of Bellatrix Lestrange. We also taught a D.A. class and worked with Fred and George that week. An owl delivery to Fluer sent her one of a pair of linked mirrors and we were able to communicate.

"I've made the polyjuice, but how will you know if any item in her vault is a Horcrux?"

Fluer shrugged, "I do not know? Maybe a Horcrux detector?"

Hmm it wasn't quite the same as a dark mark, but "Okay let me think about that. Maybe we can make you one."

"Okay and we will meet in Hogsmeade?"

"Harry and Hermione have offered to chaperone for us." We chuckled at that. "So we'll have to be good."

"Luna you should just take your N.E.W.T exams, be done with the charade and do what you wish."

"Tempting Fluer, very tempting, let me think about that too."

"Okay Luna, I love you and goodnight."

"Love you too Fluer, and goodnight." We shut the mirror and thought more about it. At this point Hogwarts was hindering our fight. Hermione and Harry were together and I wasn't staying here just to be with her anymore.

Speaking of Hermione she took time to pull us aside the next morning, "I wanted to thank you again for telling me about Harry. I don't think either of us would have realized without you."

Great let's add matchmaker to our skill list shall we? Perhaps not. "It's not a problem Hermione and I should thank the two of you for agreeing to chaperone for Fluer and I this year."

Hermione chuckled, "You two are just as much chaperone's for Harry and I. Sometimes I just want to snog him silly. Those lovely green eyes and his cute messed up brown hair."

Wow is that what we sound like when we talk about Fluer? It would be almost enough to make someone ill. "Well you didn't just drag me off to chat about our respective significant other did you?"

She shook her head, "No, I was thinking maybe we ought to shut down the D.A. now that fewer and fewer people are coming. We could just go back to our normal study sessions?"

"That's probably a good idea. The school year is winding down and the Defense against the Dark Arts class seems to be going well. Do you have any plans for summer?" It was nice to talk with Hermione now as just friends. No more pain or heartache, just two friends with one who was perhaps attracted to the other a bit.

"My parents want to go to Australia again." She shook her head, "I was thinking that now that Minister Scrimgeour pardoned Sirius I might stay in the Black Manor."

Luna spoke up there and said, "You do know the anti-fertility charm right Hermione?"

She turned an extraordinarily bright red color. "Luna!"

It was a good point actually Hermione and Harry were sixteen and clearly besotted with each other. Harry's godfather Sirius certainly didn't seem like the sort who would chaperone them all that much. "I don't mean to embarrass you Hermione, but it is somewhat important with you and Harry unlike Fluer and myself."

"You've?" She gaped at us almost stunned.

It seemed it was our turn to blush, "Just in fantasies, but I expect we'll manage something this summer."

Maybe when we weren't trying to track down Voldemort and those last two damned Horcruxes that is.

Hermione said, "Well in any case I know it and we'd best get to our next class."

Maybe it was time to talk with Fred and George about our shop. We wandered over to find the two boys and started saying, "I think we need a corner shop."

"We were thinking that exact same thing. This will probably be our last year here. Even with Umbridge gone this isn't what we want to do anymore and we've got tons from our Owl orders. We can open up Lovegood and Weasley's in Diagon Alley." We nodded to them at that.

More and more it seemed like taking an early graduation was the best thing to do. In the meantime though, Luna and I needed to work on some sort of Horcrux finder. We still had a vial of our own virgin's blood though so taking a shortcut with a blood ritual wasn't exactly a bad idea. We went to the room of Requirement thinking about Horcruxes and wouldn't you know that stupid Diadem was still sitting on the floor.

It was somewhat broken and busted from the killing curse, but looking at it now with a clearer mind it seemed to be something very important once. In fact there was writing etched into it, "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."

Suddenly Luna and I realized that it wasn't just a random item and neither was the locket. This was Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem and the necklace must have been Salazar Slytherin's. Did that mean Helga Hufflepuff's cup was out there somewhere? Then again the last Horcrux couldn't be Gryffindor's sword since we'd seen Harry use that on the Basilisk. So did that mean Voldemort found the cup or not?

Honestly Luna and I weren't sure, but this diadem was suddenly a lot more powerful. If we could figure out how it worked that is. The biggest problem in doing that though was the fact that it was mostly destroyed.

The idea Luna and I had later came in a dream, or maybe it was a bit of insanity. What we ended up doing was bringing the Diadem to our house on Sunday after the Hogsmeade weekend. Professor McGonagall gave us permission to use her Floo to 'pick up important items from our father' and we picked up the Resurrection stone. With that in hand we took the diadem and the vial of our blood to the Room of Requirement and resurrected it. Well, not exactly, but even if the crown didn't give the wearer wisdom it would give the wearer knowledge. More specifically knowledge about where anything they thought of was located.

We waited until the next Hogsmeade weekend to hand the diadem off to Fluer along with the polyjuice potions. She left to Gringotts and Luna and I sat with Harry and Hermione. "Do you think she'll be okay?"

"What is she doing Luna?" Harry asked.

Oh right we hadn't clued them in. "Something important for The Order. She couldn't say since I'm too young to know."

"Well I guess they are just trying to keep us safe." That was Hermione. She was entirely right except it wasn't The Order trying to keep her and Harry safe right now.

"I know I just worry about her." Was she okay, would the goblins figure it out? Maybe we should have gone with her.

The conversation between the three of us proceeded along the same lines until we excused ourselves to give Harry and Hermione some time to themselves. Mostly we sat nearby and stared off in the direction of Gringotts while the two of them acted like love sick teenagers, which was basically okay because that's what they were.

The day ended and we sat in our dorm room sitting on our bed staring at our paired mirror in a vain attempt to make the damned thing sound. By the time it did sound we dropped it in surprise. Picking it up again we hesitantly opened it and looked at the person using it. It was Fluer! "Fluer! Oh thank everything that you're all right!"

Well we certainly sounded much like a fool in love. Fluer smiled back from her side of the mirror and said, "It was actually very easy. We arrived as Bellatrix and asked to see our vault. The goblin took us down and when we went through the magic cancelling area the Polyjuice went away. For a second the goblin blinked and looked at us in the muggle makeup and such then turned aside. I sipped another drink of Polyjuice and with the near discovery behind us we went into the vault.

"Inside I used the diadem you gave us and found a golden cup. One killing curse later and I have destroyed it. So, after that, I exited the vault, told the goblin that everything is order, and then went back up to the main Gringott's level. Once outside the bank I used a portkey and was at my apartment."

We breathed a deep sigh of relief. That could have gone wrong in so many ways, but with some makeup and knowledge Fluer was able to go in, destroy the item, and leave without anyone the wiser. The best part of all would be that even if anything was detected later Fluer hadn't stolen a thing and I was willing to bet the goblins wouldn't want it known that they had been holding onto such a dark artifact. "That's wonderful Fluer!"

She giggled adorably then spoke saying, "Well if anyone ever asks I can say I love you so much I would kill for you."

I certainly hoped she wouldn't say it, but the look on her face was quite serious and powerful. Plus, what she had said was true she literally had killed for us. We swallowed deep as the impact hit us and she smiled on the other side of the mirror. "My love does that disturb you?"

"No, no it's just . . . I . . . we've never had anyone feel that way about us. I mean I know you've said it, but . . ." Well weren't we once again filled with communications skill.

Fluer giggled again and we so wanted to put our lips to hers and kiss her right then. "I had best let you get to bed Luna, but first something to remember when you sleep yes?"

She set her mirror on something and stepped back. Slowly more and more of her came into view and she was completely and utterly naked! I can't really say what it would have been liked if I were male, I left that part of myself back in 1942 and even then had never had what could be termed sexual thoughts. For Luna and for being a female though seeing her was like a pulse right between our legs a deep ache even as our nipples became hard and almost painful. She bent over to give us a view of her breasts swaying and blew us a kiss, "Goodnight Luna, goodnight Tom my loves. Think of me yes?"

She was gone, but the memory of her was imprinted on the back of our eyelids. There was no relief from that image except for our own fingers in the dark of the night and even then, even after we had done what needed to be done with ourselves there was still the lingering image that no amount of personal touching could relieve.

By the morning we were feeling better, but in so many ways the school year could not end fast enough. In fact we were determined to schedule ourselves for N.E.W.T. exams at the ministry and go ahead into business with Fred and George once it was done.

The school year seemed to drag along and our weekends with Fluer, Harry, and Hermione were an exercise in restrained teenage hormones. That is until Snape held us up in potions class again, "Miss Lovegood a word with you."

We stopped and he gestured towards his office. We went in and sat down, "I was thinking I would go to the headmaster with this when it happened, but then I started watching you."

He gestured at the broken video camera and we looked at him rather innocently. "Don't bother with the gazes of indifference. I am not a stupid man and I have looked into you and your past Miss Lovegood. There is not another student in this institution's history that was as capable as you were in your second year. Your skill improved more than a hundredfold from summer into the school year did you know that?"

"Honestly I hadn't taken the time to examine it sir. I did a lot of studying that summer." It was a poor excuse indeed and he knew it.

"Don't play games Lovegood. I know Harry Potter destroyed a Horcrux, I know that someone destroyed a Horcrux in Salazar Slytherin's locket and it wasn't Rubeus Black. Someone also went to the hall of prophecies and killed twelve death eaters did it in one gigantic explosion. Do you see what I'm getting at?"

He sneered at us, but we didn't flinch or react. "No sir."

"Come now Miss Lovegood. I knew about that attack, the Dark Lord knew, the Deatheaters knew, and Harry Potter knew. You know who is missing from that list? You are Miss Lovegood. You and this camera or one much like it."

Well he was quite intelligent even if he was an utter arse wipe wasn't he? "I believe you may have been attacked by Heliopaths sir. That sort of story is one they would enjoy planting since it is full of things that are utterly unprovable."

Even as we gave him our distinctive airy smile he shouted, "Merlin girl you'd almost have me believe that! I suspect if I were to read your mind that's exactly what I would see. But I know better, I know you are Voldemort reborn just as much as my master is. The thing I don't understand is why?"

"I'm sure I don't understand you sir." He rolled his eyes.

The he clasped the bridge of his nose with his fingers. "Why didn't you summon them? Why are you killing them? What is your plan?"

"Well sir I can't imagine what the Dark Lord's plan is, but my own plan is to take my N.E. at the end of this year and open a shop with Fred and George Weasley. Lovegood and Weasley's is what we're calling it now." Even if he did think he knew anything there was no reason to let him be entirely sure now was there?

"Oh just get out Lovegood."

We departed although we would be in that office again soon afterward. This time Snape looked at us and said,"Harry's scar is faded from when he first arrived at school. In fact it was brighter red in his second year and at the end of that year it faded. The Dark Lord was never in contact with Harry Potter was he?"

"I'm sure I couldn't say sir. I'm just a student not a genius on what the Dark Lord does and does not do." We smiled at him and batted our eyes innocently. He turned a nice shade of angry red.

"You planted a camera on me. I know it for sure now. Harry Potter must have been a Horcrux and you destroyed that and the Locket when you visited the Black Manor. How many are left? Where are they?"

I do believe he was rather pissed off right now, but I wasn't going to tell him anything. "I tried to tell The Dark Lord about you, but he scoffed. He said the prophecy didn't mention you at all. Then again maybe the second part did hmm? None of us knows what it said and you conveniently blew it up didn't you?"

I almost admired him for his paranoia. "Maybe Dumbledore did sir? I certainly couldn't have done anything like that."

"No the man abhors such straight up violence. The only person dark enough to wipe our twelve people in one explosion would be the Dark Lord himself or someone just like him." He stared at us perhaps judging our countenance.

We looked back and then gave a light little sneeze into our elbow. "Feathery fillyflies today they really bring out my allergy to paranoid delusions."

"Don't joke with me! Do you even realize how angry he is? What he has planned? You foolish foolish girl you've turned everything upside down and didn't even think what that would mean." We look at him and yawn a bit.

"Oh just get out of my sight!"

We left Snape's office and went on to other things. More work on muggle things along with plans for sellable items in the shop. Weeks had gone by and it was almost the very end of the year when the wards around our bed were assaulted. We woke up and tossed a stunner one wizard went down, but the other nine continued to attack.

Another stunner hit a shield, but our transfiguration of the floor beneath a wizard into sulfuric acid worked well enough. The wards around our bed fell entirely and we tried to do an internal Hogwarts apparition only to hit an anti-apparition ward. Eight spells came our way and we dodged, and shielded, but there wasn't much room.

So the bed exploded as we hit it with a blasting curse and the debris caught the rest of the stunners. We immediately ran through the crashing pieces of our own bed and slid under a witch's robe. The group turned and started casting again even as we pulled out our Mirror. Fluer answered it even as we were concentrating on a transfiguration spell to turn the floor into Nitrous Oxide.

Some of them were smart enough to pull up bubblehead charms even as they were casting stunners. Honestly I hadn't expected to be attacked by that many people in the confines of Hogwarts itself and it was late at night. Perhaps it was foolish or just not paranoid enough on my part. Either way there were still six of them, but that didn't seem like it would be a problem as we cast a cutting curse, transfigured the ground again, and dodged at the same time.

Make that five of them left as one is now busy closing the wound in their carotid artery. I smile seeing victory at hand even as Cho Chang comes back from the bathroom and one of them summons her in front of the group even as the rest continue firing stunners at me. A wand is to her throat and a voice says, "Stop!"

Luna and I pause looking at the woman I think she's a Carrow, but I can't recall her first name. She's holding Cho Chang right at the tip of her wand and looking at us. "Drop your wand or I blow her head off. I can do it before you hit me with a disarm girl."

Five of them left with the other five beginning to recover. So let's do a little misdirection yes? We transfigure our bra into a stick and toss it on the ground even as I shove our wand into our pajama pants. "It's dropped, now let her go."

She summons the 'wand' and I'm almost amazed that the spell works, but then I remember it's all about intention. If she thinks the stick is a wand and uses the Acio then she'll get the stick. Even as the fake wand is being summoned she casts a blasting hex behind us. They'd been using stunners before, so I wasn't expecting that.

We're tossed forward by the explosion, but we're already drawing our wand and blocking stunners even as we're flying in the air. We try to land on our feet, but there's no way to do it. We land in something very sticky even as we're tossing our own blasting hex into the group of wizards. They go flying, but we can't move out of the way as a last stunner comes in from the Carrow woman.

I don't hear or see anything that happens after that until we start coming around. Even as we woke up I resolved to quit Hogwarts for sure after that and live under my own wards. Well if I ever got out of this alive. That was the thought that hit me even as we slammed into the floor. That was quite painful. We looked up at the person who had done it and recognized Gregory Goyle Junior. "That was for me da!"

We attempted to look through our robe, but realized we were in fact in our underclothes. That would be white cotton panties sans bra due to the stick transfiguration earlier. Clearly the panties did not have a single item we might use to defend ourselves. Yet another personal note for the future: add pockets to our underwear and include defensive items in there.

A rather large beefy arm picked us up and flung us to the floor again. Then the solid weight of a male sat on us as hands began to choke us. Stars filled our vision and our thoughts went to Fluer even as we heard, "Kill . . . you . . . bitch."

Those were the last words we heard and there was darkness. Then a splash of freezing water hit us and we were looking at Snape. "I thought we might have this conversation here. You see plans changed radically after so many deatheaters were killed. I was ordered to help get some people into Hogwarts and they would capture Harry Potter and bring him here."

Well crap Harry was here too. The boy was actually my friend now and how was I supposed to rescue him when I was basically naked here? I didn't have an answer for that question. Snape must have seen fear because he smirked, "It didn't quite work out you know. Somehow the Gryffindor's were ready for the attack and twelve Deatheaters were captured."

We stared at the man now wondering what the hell he wanted. "Yes, I told the Order about the attempt on Harry. I didn't mention you though and I didn't tell the Dark Lord yet either. I told ten others that the dark lord wanted you though. Some of them were students with reason to hate you and others were just easily led."

"Why?" We looked at him and asked that question wanting to know the answer.

"Well you never answered my questions did you? Now don't worry about mistreatment I had to memory erase everyone who went to get you? I went through a lot of trouble for this girl, so you'd best answer my questions." Well this was somewhat unexpected.

"Okay, what do you want to know sir?" Yes I was scared. He was a Deatheater and he could kill us at any time. Best thing to do now though was keep him talking so we could think.

"Why? Why didn't you summon the deatheaters after taking over the girl?"

"I didn't want to really. You see I met Draco Malfoy first thing when I was in her. His pleasing personality made me rethink what it was to be a Pureblood." That's how we started.

He stared at us and said, "Come now that's no better than your other lies. You don't expect me to believe that Draco Malfoy's poor behavior changed you?"

We shrugged and I really wished we had just one rocket, an exploding extendable eye, hell even Bertie Bott's every flavor bean would be better than nothing. "That and Luna Lovegood she was my friend."

He laughed, "Friend, the Dark Lord has no friends. You killed her the moment you left the diary. Killed her and tricked everyone into thinking Harry Potter killed you. In the meantime you stayed as Luna Lovegood. Why? For what purpose?"

For a brief moment I wondered once again if Luna was just a figment of my mind. The moment was short lived, but Snape had made me doubt. He was staring at us now with his beady eyes and ugly hook of a nose. "Tell me!"

Well at least he had decent mouth hygiene. There was a minor plus as he yelled into our face. "If you won't believe the truth and you don't believe a lie just what should I say?"

He paced back and forth looking at us angrily as he did. "I can't keep you secret forever girl. Sooner or later the Dark Lord will find out and then he'll come down here and kill you himself or have his familiar come down here and eat you. Is that what you want?"

"Why did you become a double agent?" It might seem a strange question to ask, but this man was clearly Deatheater material. What made him switch sides?

He slapped us across the face, "Don't pretend you don't know! Don't pretend that you didn't kill her? I begged you to spare her life and you refused. I had to switch sides in a forlorn hope that somehow I could save Lilly damn you!"

Lilly? Where had we heard that name before? Oh yes Lilly Potter the wife of James Potter and mother of Harry. By the very gods we were living in some warped Greek tragedy here. Snape was an extra piece on the board and he's on Voldemort's side. Did Albus need a turn coat? Could that old bastard have been as capable as I am imagining? Maybe he could. "You know it was Albus' fault don't you?"

Whatever extra rage filled rant he might have wanted to vent slid out of him in an exhaled breath, "What?"

"You want the truth, then fine. The truth is that I'm pretty sure Albus trained Lilly Potter in the blood ritual that saved her son. The truth is that Albus planned the entire thing just to kill Voldemort and gain him some extra pawns." We stared at him as we finished.

"That can't be . . ." he stops himself. "No, no it could be true. But, what does it have to do with you and Luna Lovegood."

Well now for the convincing lie, "He stopped me with a child when I was an adult. There was no strategy for winning without getting rid of Dumbledore and the man is one of the most powerful wizards in Britain."

Snape stared at us and maybe he believed it. "So why haven't you killed him yet? It's been four years? What have you been waiting for?"

"My other soul piece had other plans. It decided to reactivate the Deatheaters and repeat the past. I need to kill it first." He pondered that response.

He slapped us across the face. It was quite painful then his expression became amazingly cruel. "I don't need you girl and I've always wanted to do this. Crucio!"

Pain fired in all of my nerve endings, pain like I had never experienced before. It was a torrent of unimaginable pain. Then it stopped we were on the ground curled in a small ball. "How far the mighty Dark Lord has fallen."

He spat on us and then the pain was back. We begged and pleaded with him I think. We went our underpants it was so bad and it just kept coming. After an unknown time it ended again. Snape looked no more worn out than when we had begun. Luna's hair was wet in our eyes dangling stringily as we slowly knelt up and looked at the man. We were weaker than a kitten, but a bitter dark loathing for the man was held close to our heart. "How many Horcruxes are there?"

We shook our head and he pointed the wand. "You want to tell me Miss Lovegood or there will be more. You don't want more do you?"

No, I didn't. Luna wasn't even with me now lost to unconsciousness or worse it was just me staring at him and desperately hoping he wouldn't torture me again. "One just one left. I don't know what it is in."

He nodded almost politely. "One plus yourself and the other that gained life making a total of three pieces of soul still left to destroy?"

I nodded trying to fix Luna's hair some and dragging our body away from the pool of urine I had been laying in. Every movement was agony and yet moving to a cleaner spot on the floor felt nice, like somehow I was protecting Luna's dignity and my own. "Well the weekend is over and I have to get back to classes, but I think I'll leave you here with someone to watch over you."

I blinked our eyes, "Thought you said you erased their memories. You said I'd be safe if I answered you?"

"Did I? Well perhaps I did at that, but you know Amycus Carrow has a fondness for young girls. Did you know that? Well you must since you recruited him. Well in any case he'll be here with you as a little reward from the Dark Lord. Now as horrible as it all might be you might not want to run anywhere since the other Dark Lord is still here. Then again, maybe by the time Amycus is through with you you'll be begging for death?" He smirked and departed the room.

I went through all that torture and all those answers for nothing? He was leaving us in here. I shivered how long had we been down here? Snape had said it was the end of the weekend what day was it when we had gone to bed? I couldn't remember anymore and Luna was far, far away. I didn't begrudge her that, she didn't deserve this torture and I hoped she could keep herself safe there in a corner of our mind.

The door opened and Amycus Carrow stepped through. Gods he was huge with a face like a troll and a short tuft of black hair on his head. Fear trilled through me as he spoke providing a sudden wash of adrenaline based energy. "Snape's not suh a bad guy letting me 'ave you. Imperio!"

Really? The idiot was using the Imperius didn't Snape tell him anything? Well I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth and the spell wafted over us and showed us what he wanted us to do. This was, I think, my one chance to escape. He had a wand on him, so all I needed to do was get it from him. I licked our lips and smiled as best I could while covering our naked breasts with one arm. "Oh my . . . you caught me changing. . ."

I allow the spell to give us the blush he's looking for and put a hand over the white panties and curl up some as if attempting to prevent him from seeing me. He laughs a stupid sort of laugh, "You knowin ya want it girly."

I curl up more into the corner, "Oh please sir, I'm just an innocent schoolgirl."

He removes his robe and pulls down his pants. I can't even describe the stench that wafts from him or the crooked shaft of pulsing meat he has below his waist. "Lookee here girly."

The Imperius guides me as I look at him and try not to retch. "Oh wow you're so big! I've never seen one like that before."

"Yeah you know you're wantin it missy." He grins big and ugly.

I almost roll my eyes at him, "Oh you. I've just been dreaming of such a big man to find me like this." I mentally roll my eyes and take my arm away from our naked breasts for him to see. His eyes get wide even as we move to him, taking our panties and shimmying them down our legs.

I move right to him and he's just grinning like a stupid idiot. Once I am directly in front of him I pull out of the Imperious with hardly an extra thought. Then I kick him as hard as I can right between his legs. "Oof!"

He bent down to clutch at that sensitive part of his anatomy and I grabbed his wand. With a wand in my hand I hit him with two cutting curses directed at that same part of his anatomy I kicked and then one to his throat. This giant pile of scum wouldn't ever do anything to another girl again.

I would have apparated, but the place was full of wards against it and portkeys. Since that wasn't an option I disillusioned myself and went to the door. Went rather slowly, that is, since my body was telling me it was still in immense pain from the torture Snape had provided. Once at the door I opened it and peeked outside. There was nothing magical except some incredibly powerful wards.

I wandered around for a long time lost in a maze of endless hall. If my mind hadn't been so tired I might have recognized it as a magical effect, but I didn't. I just walked and walked with my left hand always on a wall. I tripped on my feet and the wall was gone.

Now I was in some sort of underground throne room. There on the throne was the creature. Voldemort himself and he was looking right at me. "Who are you?"

He was talking and talking was very good. I silently began to transfigure the ground under the chair into trinitopropane commonly known as Nitroglycerin. I had to be slow and use a bare trickle of magic though so conversation was good. "Luna Lovegood."

He chuckled, "A mere slip of a girl and a naked one at that. How could you possibly challenge the likes of me?"

Well he certainly had arrogance down to a science didn't he? "I can't sir. I was trapped here by Snape."

"Thought he could get in good by capturing you did he." The thing rubbed its chin and gestured to us. "Come closer child and tell me why I should let you live."

I moved closer to him and felt the utter horror descend on me. Diseased, twisted, he was missing a nose and looked like a snake now, but even worse was the sense of utter wrongness. Like he was alien to life itself an anathema to anything I might begin to enjoy. He spoke as we approached, "I feel something though. Do you feel it too Lovegood?"

I look at him and say, "Do you want to know what I feel? Truly?"

He smiles thinking that the way I shiver is due to fear of him and not my attempt at concentrating on the spell. "Yes, little girl tell me how you feel."

"I feel ashamed; every minute that you exist I feel shame that I might have become you. I feel disgust, disgust that any part of me could possibly enjoy what you enjoy. I feel fear, fear that somehow I might actually become you. You disgusting loathsome pile of shit!" He looks aghast as if no one has ever spoken to him like this before. He is so surprised by my words that he can't even curse me.

Then he sits up tall and stares down at us. "You dare! You dare to insult Lord Voldemort!"

"I was sixteen and stupid damn it. It was almost like a lark. Set the basilisk free then put it back away. Live forever by murdering a muggle cow. Merlin, how could it all turn into this? Turn into you?" I shouted back at him. How I hated him, how I hated what he became and what some piece of my soul was.

"Who are you? Tell me who you are?" Yeah few people know that sort of thing do they?

I look into his slitted snake eyes, "I'm Tom Marvolo Riddle and you. You're just a disgusting piece of filth that never deserved to live."

He stood to cast, but a single flame from my wand wafted under his throne. I shielded as best I could, but the explosion was incredible. It hurled me up through the air and back across the chamber. I felt the crunch of pain as my shoulder slammed into something and then there was another sort of crack and pain shot through my leg. I lost consciousness again there.

I woke again still on my own. I was bleeding from my leg and the white of the bone was showing. Somehow I found some reserves to stop the bleeding. Then I slowly crawled to a wall and used it to get myself on my feet. The throne room was a mess or rubble with the remains of Voldemort strewn across it like a bloody sort of final signature with his head making a sort of period at the end.

I would like to say I tested the wards, but in all honesty I entirely forgot. I just wanted to go and there was a nice set of stairs beyond the throne. I thought of trying to transfigure a stick and cloth to wrap my leg, and then forgot about the idea. I just moved to the stairs and crawled up them it must have been a truly pathetic sight indeed, but there I was making my way up like a half dead muggle.

Wherever I was it was dark, warm and dark. That was nice and I was soo sleepy. I closed my eyes and sleep took over. I woke up some indeterminate time later to a voice speaking parsel tongue, "Feel like master, but smell wrong."

I opened my eyes, no we opened our eyes. Luna was back now, but it was pitch black. We added some light and saw a huge snake staring at us in the dark. Also, under the lingering pain, I felt that sick nauseous feeling in my gut. "Who are you that feellssss like master in Nagini'sss lair?"

I had no energy for this; we pointed our wand and couldn't even think of a spell. Clearly I wanted to cast the killing curse or a blasting hex, but it all fell out of my head. The giant snake saw our move as an attack anyway though and she struck.

There was a new rip of pain in our shoulder and poison began to course through our system. The large snake curls around us and we can't move. A voice whispers to me, "Join me, join your true self. Come with me."

The Horcrux it must be the Horcrux singing its foul song of death and mayhem. Too late for that though because I think we're going to die here. Fuzzy stars come to our vision and blackness then there is a strange rumbling explosion perhaps a blasting hex. The pressure releases and then a green killing curse slams into the snake just past where we are.

The last Horcrux dies and I can't even hear what it said or maybe I don't remember. It doesn't matter because Fluer is holding us in her arms. It's too late though I know it for sure; the poison courses through us and our eyes are so terribly heavy. "Luna! No! Please don't go. Please my angel stay with me."

I reach out to her, my hand touches her face and I smile. "I beat him Fluer and I'm not him. Whatever part of my soul that was him is gone. I think its okay now it's okay . . . "

I feel her tears on my fingers and then her lips pressed against my own and that is the end. There can't possibly be more and yet somehow there is.

Luna and I sit next to each other at a bus depot. It's a bit strange because I'm back in my old body and we're not right in each other's heads hearing each other's thoughts. There are other people here with us too. Luna's mother sits next to her and gently kisses her cheek, "You did so well Luna. I am soo very proud of you. Never forget that my dear. I love you with all of my heart and soul."

She steps away and a mousy sort of witch nervously looks over. I wave to her and she comes close. I recognize her when she takes my hand. "Tom, my little Tom oh how you have grown. I was so worried about you Tom. What you did to yourself it was so horrible and it was my entire fault. I'm so sorry my boy."

I pull her close and hug her to me. "It's okay mother, I had my own part in everything too. It can't be your entire fault and I'm sorry too. Sorry that I could never love you until now."

My mother steps away and stands with Luna's mother. The two ladies smile at each other and then look back at us. A friendly man in a bus conductor's outfit comes over to us now. "Tickets?"

I hold up half of a ticket and Luna the other half. He shakes his head and says, "Looks like you two have a choice here that few ever get. A half ticket and you can ride with me or I can send you back home. Next time you come though you'll each have a whole ticket you hear?"

Luna smiles at him, "I think I understand sir. We'll have to stay together though if we go back home right?"

He shrugs and says, "You two look a might inseparable to me anyhow. Your choice though and best make it quick I've got more stops to make tonight you know."

We don't even have to confer between us. We just look at him and say, "Take us back home please."

There is no sound and no darkness just a sudden jarring. Then we hear, "She's dead child. I'm so sorry, I never imagined such a young girl would put herself against the Dark Lord and win."

Fluer screams, "Your fault Dumbledore! You let it happen! She was taken in your school and fought her way to the Dark Lord after she was captured. Damn it! I won't let her go. I won't! She can't be . . . oh please god!"

A voice near me calls out, "She moved! Nurse Pomphrey! Come take a look quickly!"

Hermione, she was a good friend and sharp as a tack. The nurse comes, "I don't see how Hermione she was dead and I mean really dead. . ." she gasps and I feel someone near me doing a diagnostic with their wand.

"Alive? She can't be, but it's true." The nurse sounds confused and there is the sound of rushing feet.

Softness presses into us and lips kiss our cheeks. "Oh Luna, angel thank you oh thank you for coming back to me."

We manage to crack an eye open and give Fluer a half smile. "Love you Fluer."

"Oh Luna, I love you too." She squeals and hugs us and then we fall asleep. It is a long, peaceful sleep without dreams.

When we wake we are much more refreshed and we are in a bedroom of the Black Manor. Sitting in a chair reading is Dumbledore himself. He tries to give us a grandfatherly smile and I wish he would just die. "Well young lady, you had quite the adventure."

I look at him and sigh, "I'm taking my N.E.W.T this summer. I don't think I want to see Hogwarts ever again."

"Oh yes, understandable quite understandable my dear girl. I wonder though how did you destroy all of his Horcruxes?" He doesn't even bother with Legillimency.

"I don't know what you're talking about." We say even as I think about making sure he has a deadly accident this summer.

"No I suppose you wouldn't at that. I mean who could possibly know where all seven were and fix Harry's scar? I would think only Voldemort himself could do that and he's dead. Also, not quite in his nature is it?" I really wanted to strangle him right now. Just choke the life out of his old throat and watch him gasp for air.

"I guess it wouldn't be sir. I'm not exactly an expert now." Yeah he totally didn't believe that anymore did he?

He stood and smiled at us, "Well who knows, maybe there's a second chance for him somewhere. A second chance to live for the 'greater good'" That was the last thing he said as he exited. I was so very determined to have him killed now. Of course, there was one other person who was a bit higher on my list and he didn't visit.

Fluer, on the other hand, did visit. She helped us up and out of bed and then helped us to our own home. She stayed with Xenophilius and I helping out and nursing Luna and I back to health. Once we were healthy and well we paid a visit to Snape's house, sadly he wasn't home though. Dumbledore, of course, remained behind at Hogwarts during the summer. That was okay sooner or later one of them would be in a position where we could arrange an accident.

In the meantime we did take our N.E. and received Exceeds Expectations in Transfiguration, Potions, Charms, Defense against the Dark Arts, Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, and Herbology.

We continued working on our articles for the Quibbler and in the shop with Fred and George even as Fluer basically moved into our home. She quit her job at Gringotts and helped out at the shop too.

Living with Fluer was very easy to do. We found out exactly what it was that our body needed and together with Fluer we accomplished orgasm. A single word that really just doesn't have enough meaning behind it, pleasure, bliss, amazing none of these words can describe how it feels to be in your lover's arms and achieve that perfect moment. To find it again and again until you fall asleep in each other's arms exhausted.

Hermione and Harry continued their correspondence and friendship with us and went into careers with the Ministry. Harry is an Auror and Hermione works with the unspeakables. We didn't keep touch with most of the others, but Hermione and Harry do talk about them sometimes. Ron married someone who we can't recall and Ginny is a beater on the Hollyhead Harpies Quidditch team.

Hermione and Harry were married, but Fluer and I missed the ceremony since we were busy working at Cape Canaveral in Florida at the time. We've been working with the muggle space agency called NASA and plan to see my ideas come into play. Even if the magic involved has to be passed off as "Top Secret" technology. The Thom Riddle Lunar module will be ready to launch in 1998 and it will be a self-sustaining habitat for humans. On that habitat they will be building a ship capable of going to Mars.

Dumbledore and Snape died in mysterious circumstances along with the last remaining Deatheaters. There are few leads in the investigation, but Harry does tell us sometimes that he has a lead. None of them ever seem to pan out though.

Fred and George married the Patil twins and they continue to work in our shop. These days young wizards and witches can talk to each other on a mirror/phone or watch something on their mirror/television just the same as muggles might. A revolution of new gimmicks and fads was spawned by fascinating shows that we basically just recorded from the muggles. It drove the remaining pure blood families crazy. Then we started working on recreating muggle gaming systems and computers. The wizarding world will never be the same.

I may die for real this time around, but with our work Luna, Fluer, and I will be immortalized in both the Muggle world and the Wizarding world. Although, every now and again I wonder what did that prophecy say anyway? Well it was probably pure dreck anyway. Who could possibly live their life worrying about a single prophecy when they have an entire universe to explore?

-The End -

…..Neither can live while the other survives….

. . . Well maybe it's the end . . .

Author's Notes: My apologies for any errors. If you let me know about something I'll fix it. As it stands though this work is currently finished although I do have some other works planned for the future now that I'm back and writing again.

I don't think I'll go back to my older works, but who knows they are still there and someday the characters may call to me.